Tian Qingqing: "Eighteen inches." This is the biggest right now. I've heard that there will be bigger ones in the future, like small movie screens. I tried, but I couldn't get a signal in the space, but if I could, I'd give you one in a room.

"That's it, after the New Year, I sent it to the family hall, and the TV moved outside. You can come here every day and watch TV. Or like tonight, I'll connect the space to the hall outside, and you can move freely in the hall outside. ”

Hao Fujian said happily: "That's good." I love watching Peking Opera the most, so I can sit on the sofa and watch the whole show. ”

"Qingqing, your grandfather and I are not dead yet, why do you have a family hall at home?" Tian Lushi heard Tian Qingqing talk about the family hall, which attracted her attention and asked curiously.

It turns out that there is such a custom here: as long as there are elderly people in the family, they will ask for a family hall on the old man's side. No matter how many daughters-in-law there are, please don't invite them. Once the old man dies, he has to be invited by the family.

Tian Lu thought he was still alive, and when he saw that his third son's family had invited a family hall, he felt strange.

Tian Qingqing explained with a smile: "You and your grandfather are not at home for the New Year, so you still have to invite the family hall." At the beginning, when my mother and the four of them discussed, the second aunt advocated taking turns to invite, starting with the eldest aunt's house.

"They were in this house, and I was there at the time. I said: If the elders in the courtyard come to visit the family hall (Note 1), they have to ask who the family hall is first.

"It's better to invite everyone, and the elders are willing to go to whomever house. It's just a matter of worship, but it's a thought. They thought they could, so they invited everyone to get up. ”

In fact, Tian Qingqing's intention was to ask them to invite everyone, because the old man had passed away, but they didn't know it. In this way, as soon as you talk and point out, you will follow the folk customs.

"It's a good idea. It's just that in this way, we are regarded as deceased people? Tian Lushi said with a smile.

Tian Qingqing expressed Xiàn's seriousness: "No? Didn't you see a seat reserved for you at the dinner table! The food of the deceased grandfather and grandmother is fragrant on the table, and putting your food on the table means that you are still alive, and you can't do it in time to come back for the New Year. ”

Hao Fujian also said: "There is indeed this saying in our area, as long as the living people can't come back." Just prepare a pair of chopsticks for him at the dinner table. Prove that there is still this person in this family. Especially on the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, which is a day for family reunion, it is even more important. ”

Tian Lushi nodded and said, "You said it, I also remembered it." There is indeed such a thing. Put it this way. The sons and daughters didn't treat us like dead. ”

Tian Qingqing deliberately rolled the whites of her eyes. smiled: "You are originally a big living person!" Pinch your flesh. Xuan Teng or not? Does it hurt? ”

When the four old men heard this, they all laughed "haha".

"Qingqing, let's take a look elsewhere. Otherwise, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will pass. ”

When the six plates of dishes were at the bottom, Hao Fujian said with a full burp.

"Okay." Tian Qingqing agreed, saying, "Let's go to my uncle's house first, and then come back to see my uncle, second uncle, and aunt's house." ”

All four of them said, "Good! ”

Tian Qingqing's mind moved, and the four of them didn't even blink their eyes, and came to Hao Lancheng's house.

In the northeast corner of the hall is also a family hall, on which are placed four kinds of fruits and four kinds of sweets, incense is burned, and candles are lit. But there was no one quietly.

Tian Qingqing led the four old men to the east room.

There is a strip-shaped dining table on the big kang in the east room, and there are eight vegetable plates on the table, chicken, fish, braised pork, Sixi meatballs, all the folk dishes that must be made in these years, and the others are stir-fried dishes.

Hao Lancheng sat alone in the kang, eating and drinking the wine that Tian Qingqing gave him years ago.

Lan Caiye and Hao Xuanxuan sat on the edge of the kang on both sides of the dining table, eating vegetables and drinking peach juice sold in the commissary.

None of the three of them spoke (as can be seen from the shape of their mouths), and each ate and drank with their heads down.

There are three pairs of dishes and chopsticks on the table, one in front of one person, and there is no surplus.

Hao Xu snorted from his nose and said, "I know that she can't get along with her daughter-in-law in the two rooms, and no one else will come to make up." Not to mention letting her honor the elderly, she herself has lived a merciless life! Qingqing, let's go, see if they are not enough to add to the blockage! ”

As he spoke, he walked out in a huff.

Three others followed.

Hao Fujian is a man after all, and he loves his family. The parents who solemnly passed away in front of the family hall kowtowed twice.

Seeing this, Hao Xu also hurriedly turned around and knocked two, and said babblingly: "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, forgive your son and daughter-in-law for not coming back to offer incense, some things are really hard to say." We must pray for you in the space, and bless you with peace and security over there, without disasters and troubles. ”

Tian Jinhe and Tian Lu glanced at each other, their faces sneered, regretting how they had ignored this.

"Let's go back, Qingqing, don't look at it."

After kowtowing, Hao Xu said to Tian Qingqing.

Tian Qingqing came to the house of the eldest uncle Tian Dashu according to the size.

Tian Dashu's family also ate in the hall.

In the northeast corner of the hall is the family hall, and in the middle is a large table of eight immortals, and more than a dozen plates of delicacies are placed.

Tian Dashu's family is now a family of seven: the eldest son Tian Youjun, the eldest daughter-in-law Chen Ximei and their love crystallization - five-year-old daughter Tian Chunyan; Then there are the brothers Tian Youbing and Tian Youhu.

Tian Yuanyuan and Tian Cuicui are both married, and they are going to celebrate the New Year at their in-laws' house.

There were no empty seats on the edge of the table, but there were two pairs of chopsticks on the north side, and there were some dishes in the bowls, which seemed to be made for Tian Jinhe and his wife.

"Where are we going to sit without a stool?" Tian Lushi muttered critically.

"That's pretty good." Hao Xu said enviously: "We didn't even put the deputy dishes and chopsticks, and people don't have our number in their hearts!" ”

Tian Lushi: "Isn't there still a second family?" Maybe the chairs and stools are all set up there, and the food is also distributed, just waiting for you to eat? ”

Hao Xu waved his hand: "Actually, we don't have anything here?" What's not better than theirs? Besides, we can't eat a bite of cloth. It's their hearts that they want. Bunny lambs, conscience is enough to eat. ”

Hao Fujian persuaded: "Under the New Year, let's not talk about this, and we won't be angry, I didn't go to see it." ”

Tian Jinhe looked around the table, and saw that everyone was talking and laughing, eating happily, and his face was happy. said to Tian Qingqing: "That's it here, let's go to your second uncle's house and have a look." ”

Tian Qingqing saw that as soon as her mind moved, a group of people came to Tian Dasen's house again.

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(Note 1: Local customs: The elders do not pay New Year's greetings to the younger generations, but the family hall is to worship.) (To be continued......)