There are two kang tables on the big kang. Pork bones stewed with sauerkraut, pork skin jelly dipped in garlic sauce, braised large carp, home-cooked cold vegetables, boiled peanuts, fried sauerkraut with pork belly, and finally braised pork.

Every Chinese New Year, no matter how difficult it is, they will do their best to clean up such a decent meal. A bit of a connection between the previous and the next, the Cheng dù of this table of hard dishes represents whether last year was rich or not, and also indicates that next year will be higher than last year.

If you want to talk about the dish of braised pork, according to her grandmother in the summer, there is an allusion in the village. It is said that there used to be a rich family surnamed Sun in the village, who usually worked hard like a donkey to save money, and did not do anything good to eat and drink. People give nicknames: "Sun Xiaoxuan." "But except for one day, that is, the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every day, Sun Xiaoxiao's family will make enough braised pork, and the taste of meat is far away."

He was not in a hurry to eat, he was satisfied with his hands behind his back, but he wandered around the village. Walk specifically to the vicinity of the village's dilapidated settlement. If he runs into that family, he still drags people to talk about how the braised pork is full of meat, how unkind you say this person is. After a long time, everyone also knew who he was, and then somehow, a mantra became popular in the village: "Who doesn't eat braised pork during the New Year." "Then every family, everyone with similar conditions will also make this dish on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve."

In the summer, she sat at a table with her grandparents, uncle, her father, and her two older brothers. Don't say that this braised pork is really fragrant, just see that her grandfather doesn't move this dish, her grandmother has a piece of the bowl for everyone on the table, but she is reluctant to eat it, you should know how difficult it is to eat meat at this time.

In the summer, her nose was a little sore, and she sandwiched the only three pieces left on the plate into her grandparents' bowls. This is the old man, who doesn't eat and watches the juniors eat, and they are also happy and satisfied.

There is an unwritten rule in the Xia family that the eldest uncle, as the recognized leader of the old Xia family, will speak at this meal on the afternoon of the thirtieth day, and the grandfather will make a concluding speech when he eats dumplings in the evening.

Uncle Xia coughed twice: "Everyone put down the chopsticks and listen to me." It's about to be a new year, and according to my father's request, I checked the sum of our Xia family's centimeters yesterday, and estimated the situation of other households in the village. Our old Xia family ranks sixth, and my dad is quite satisfied with this ranking, right, Dad? As he spoke, he looked at Old Man Xia.

Old man Xia nodded.

"I don't talk so much nonsense, just fight for fifth next year, keep sixth, okay, it's all in the wine." After speaking, he picked up the wine glass and tilted his head to dry.

Summer snapped and took the lead in applauding. Well, it's abrupt, just she's slapped on her own. Summer wondered: After the leader finishes speaking, everyone must not applaud? The grandfather couldn't see the embarrassment of the little granddaughter, and said: "Come, let's stop and give the boss a few chirps to encourage and encourage." There was a lot of uproar, and the applause was uneven.

Zhang Qiao, the lobby sister-in-law at the table, was very envious when she saw the white little face in summer. To be honest, she loves to look at it, not to mention the half-sized children in the village. She didn't have any bad intentions, she was just curious about what kind of person she could marry in the summer, so she was sick again, and asked Su Meili with a debt: "Auntie, is it necessary to deal with the person who wrote a letter to the summer?" I've heard that Jiang Shan is now a worker after returning to the city, hey, his conditions are good enough. ”

Su Meili is angry, you said that you can't stop your mouth when you eat such a good meal for the New Year. Which pot is not opened, which pot is mentioned. It's easy for you to affect my daughter, you know? The old man and the old lady heard that this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner would become a criticism meeting to transform my daughter.

Sure enough, the old lady asked, "Who?" Who writes to Tiantian? ”

Su Meimei: "Mother, the original educated youth in our village wrote a letter to Tiantian not long ago. Tiantian is not rare to see, Dongzi tore it, this has nothing to do with our Tiantian. Who knows which tendon of that person is wrong and remembers to write a letter to Tiantian? You said that this makes people know, it's good to say, it's not good, this doesn't ruin our sweet reputation. ”

Old man Xia: "Tiantian, you make a statement." ”

"Oh my god! Grandfather. You can't doubt me, I really didn't read the letter, and I didn't have that mind. Let's just put it this way, I will treat that man as a donkey dung egg from now on, although I can't see him, but I can go as far as I can if I touch his side. ”

Old man Xia made a final decision: "Did you hear it?" Don't talk about it again, eat! ”

Brother Xia Wen in the lobby: "Zhang Qiao, when you are full, go back to the house to coax the child to sleep." ”

Zhang Qiao felt aggrieved: Why did I provoke you again? I'm just kind enough to ask.

In the summer, everyone at this table drank frequently, and after drinking a lot, everyone talked more, even Xia and Autumn were no exception.

The old lady also pulled the summer to drink a few glasses of fruit wine, and the summer face was crimson and dizzy. That's it, the old lady still dislikes the fruit wine and complains that she can't drink a small cup of liquor with her in the summer and regrets.

Summer's eyes were misty, and her little face was like a peach blossom, and her expression was full of stern expression, and she assured the old lady: "Grandma, next year, you wait for your little granddaughter to practice, and Tiantian steps on the liquor box to drink with you, and we will try to compete when we arrive." ”

The old lady listened to the summer bragging and replied with disdain: "You are like this, stepping on the roof is in vain." ”

Oops, summer is helpless. In later generations, I have never seen an old man who persuaded the younger generations to drink, especially the girl who persuaded the girl to be a big wine bag, this old lady is really not an ordinary person.

The old lady's following words puzzled her: "The current Northeast girls have learned from the past Miss Pie, and they are not happy at all." It turned out to be a smooth description of our northeast Gada, and I changed one of the sentences. ”

Summer was curious: "What slipped away?" Which sentence? ”

The old lady patted her wrinkled little hands, looked at the summer with eyes full of life wisdom, and began to chant: "The window paper is pasted outside, the big girl holds a cigarette pouch, the big vat and the small vat of sauerkraut are stained, the adobe house is fenced, and the head is facing outward when you go to bed at night." ”

Summer slapped the little slap to the beat of the old lady. After the old lady finished singing, Summer put her arms around her grandmother's neck and praised sincerely: "Grandma, it's not a change of a sentence, you should add a sentence, Grandma Xia is so cute." After speaking, I kissed her grandmother with the strength of wine, and the old lady who kissed her flashed, how old do you say this child is? is also playing cheap. But I am really happy in my heart, what it is like to be kissed when I am old.

The room burst into laughter. Xia Ling looked at Xia and lowered her head to think: "No wonder grandparents love her, I'm embarrassed to say this, that dead girl is really annoying." Xia Ling suddenly had a feeling of both Yu and Liang.

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, Summer was woken up by the sound of firecrackers outside. After eating, she fell headlong into her uncle's kang, this fruit wine is too stamina! Su Meili entered the house and shouted to her daughter to eat dumplings, and when she saw that her daughter was staring at the roof of the shed with two big eyes that had just woken up, she was stunned, and hurriedly slapped her. After a while, I have to eat dumplings and kowtow to the old man and the old lady, you look at her finished appearance, even an old lady in her sixties can't drink it: "Hurry up and eat dumplings, people are so young, and they have drunk several cups of fruit wine, and they have run several laps with your brother inside and outside the house." You're fine, you didn't get up after getting off the table! ”

Summer complained: I'm out of luck, what can you do with me! Playing scoundrels.

Eating dumplings is eating big ingots, and setting off firecrackers symbolizes bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. In the middle of the night, there must be fish and pig or chicken feet. Fish is surplus every year, and pig feet or chicken feet represent the meaning of making money next year with a pair of hands holding money rakes. The Northeast dumplings stuffed with pork and sauerkraut, the taste, in the words of Brother Biao in a TV series in later generations, is "That's really Gangokachi." ”

This time I didn't arrange for the summer to go to the main table, uh, it's grandpa's table. The eldest aunt sat in her original position, which meant that the housewife wanted to sit down.

Grandpa mentioned yì Everyone raised a glass together, and in summer, his little face was wrinkled like a bitter cauliflower. Yes? Still drinking? I'm really going to be deflated if I drink it again. However, he still picked up the fruit wine. Just like the slogan painted on the wall in this era: grasp the outline to govern the country, take food as the key link, there is also a slogan in the summer's heart: grasp the grandmother to govern the family, and take the grandfather as the foundation, which deeply affects her rational judgment.

Xia Mutou and Old Man Xia delivered a speech, everyone learned wisely, and they rushed to be the first to clap and applaud: "Love China and patriotism, remember, twist into a rope." There is great strength in numbers, women live well, and men work hard. ”

Summer whispered a few words to Xia Dong, and this time she changed her tricks again.

Summer: "Is Grandpa good?" ”

Xia Dong roared loudly: "Okay! ”

"Grandpa, do you want another one?"

Xia Dong knocked on the table: "Yes!" ”

The old lady almost didn't laugh. It's not laughing at the two children, it's laughing at the face of the old man. At this time, Old Man Xia was excited and helpless, he was not fully prepared, these words were all from last night when he couldn't sleep and was thinking about it, what do you want to say again? Everyone waited for a long time thinking that the old man wouldn't say anything more, so they didn't start to coax the seedlings, but what happened?

Old man Xia held back for a long time: "The children grow up healthily!" ”

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the old man Xia and the old lady sat at the kang table respectively, waiting for everyone to kowtow to the New Year.

First, the eldest uncle and aunt knelt down and kowtowed, and Old Man Xia said a few words: "Okay, good!" A few good words in a row expressed his satisfaction with his son and daughter-in-law.

The old lady only said: "The eldest daughter-in-law has worked hard." ”

Seeing her aunt a little excited in the summer, I really feel that although the old lady is uneducated, she has a lot of life wisdom. No matter how bad the eldest daughter-in-law is, even if there are many shortcomings, the old man has lived with them, more or less, there must be something for her to worry about. So this sentence is to tell everyone, and also to tell uncle, everyone can see your hard work.

In the summer, when the generation knelt down to pay New Year's greetings, the lobby brother Xia Wen, as the eldest grandson, said to the old man and the old lady on behalf of the junior: "I wish my grandparents good health and a long life." ”

In the summer, I saw Zhang Qiao hugging his sleeping eldest nephew Xia Jun over to greet the New Year together.

The old man looked at the grandson and his brother and daughter who were kneeling on the ground for half a house, and he didn't know whether he felt that the Xia family's population was too thin and the number was too small, so he said: "We must start a family early and have more children!" ”

Summer...... This is thanks to her Sister Lingzi's pungent and hearty personality, and she herself is thick-skinned enough, otherwise she would have to be ashamed. Just look at kneeling in front of her, her brother's neck, red and red.

Old lady: "Let's all disperse, see you on the morning of the first day of the new year!" ”

Summer felt that the amount of alcohol in her milk was not as good as she said, because she was ready to go back to bed after saying this, which showed that she was a little drunk.

In the next few decades, whenever it was the New Year, all the Xia family members continued the habit of kowtowing to the old man and the old lady Xia. First in front of them, then in front of the big black and white photos, of course, this also includes the future husband of the summer - Ye Boxuan!