On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, as soon as the sky was bright, everyone in Zhulin Village got up early and lit a string of artillery to celebrate the beginning of the new year.

Ai Xiaoyu was woken up by the deafening sound of artillery in front of the door, and couldn't sleep, got dressed and got up, standing on the second floor overlooking the entire village, every household was lighting the artillery one after another, and the continuous sound sounded the overture of the New Year.

"Xiaoxiao, are you up?"

Xu Wenhui, who was up late, also walked out of the door next door and asked.

"Yes, auntie."

"Then let's go in together and wake up your little brother Jie, if he sees you get up, he will definitely not lie in bed."

"Okay, I see that breakfast is ready, let's call Xiaojie, let's go down quickly, otherwise they will come up and call someone."

Breakfast is a bowl of mash dumplings for one person, Ai Xiaoyu doesn't like to eat sweet, so he only ate two, and the dumplings must be eaten in even numbers, so auspicious.

As for the chicken soup, the grandmother also ordered noodles for everyone, which means that for a long time, Ai Xiaoyu prefers chicken soup noodles to rice balls, and eats a big bowl happily.

"Looks like Xiaoxiao likes noodles?" The mother-in-law Cao Shuangxi was very happy with Ai's laughter.

"Auntie, this chicken soup noodles are fragrant and strong, and they are delicious."

Ai's mother said on the side: "Auntie, Xiaoxiao, this child is a picky eater, and he is at the age of teething, so he is not good at eating sweets now." And she must have eaten so many noodles because she thought your stewed chicken soup was delicious, otherwise she wouldn't have such a good appetite. ”

"Good, good. Children have to have a good appetite and good health! ”

Cao Shuangxi's favorite thing is the child who can eat. It's a blessing to be able to eat.

A quarter of an hour later, a string of people carried artillery. The incense, candles, money, and paper went up the mountain. The ancestral grave of the family is on the back mountain, not far from home.

The tombs in the countryside are all one in the east and one in the west, and if the economy develops to this area in the future, maybe the graves will be moved, which is really bad for the ancestors.

In the morning, there are strings of villagers walking back and forth on the various hillsides of Zhulin Village, and the smell of incense and candles is smelled. Throughout the village, the sound of artillery was endless.

It was almost noon, and the group returned to the master's house, Ai Xiaoyu and Ai Jie, two children, ran all morning, very hungry, and ate two bowls of rice fiercely.

"Wanlin, don't you have to go back to your eldest brother's house for the New Year? I saw your eldest brother Wanshu and his family coming back in the morning, how can there be an overnight feud between father and son! ”

Aaron still hopes that the eldest brother's family can be harmonious. There is some momentum of elders between the words, but Ai Dad has been honing outside this year, and he doesn't eat this set at all.

Before. If you don't get out of the road, you don't know the way, and you have to talk about a love and a reason in everything. Otherwise, even if they are elders, there is no family affection at all. There is no reason to talk about it, and there is no need to bother with it.

between father and son. The relationship between relatives is not blindly submissive, this is just harming others and yourself, of course, this person who harms others must be someone who cares about you and loves you.

"Dad, don't persuade me, the problem between us and our parents, I know that our family is going back now, and I can't say that we have to be kicked out by someone, so I don't want to take my wife and daughter to be uncomfortable. I'll go back alone in the late afternoon and hand over the alimony to the two old people this year! ”

Ai Dad now only has unfulfilled responsibilities to his parents, and there is not much family affection to speak of, and he also knows that his parents don't need his affection at all, as long as they give more alimony, they will be happy.

"Well, that's fine. However, yesterday you had a conflict with your parents and siblings over pork, so I think you should be generous today and give more money to your eldest brother. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I want a joy and a joy. And I think that the current conditions of your family are better, and you should also let your parents enjoy the happiness of their children and grandchildren. ”

Ai Long grew up in the countryside, and it is common for parents to beat their children, but in the countryside it is still patriarchal, and what parents say and do is the holy decree and authority.

Although he has some opinions about his eldest brother, he doesn't realize that it is now a society governed by the rule of law, and in the city, there is no patriarchal system for a long time, and the elders should have the appearance of elders, otherwise who can always respect an elder who is not self-respecting?

"Dad, I have my own plans for this matter, so you don't have to worry about it."

Ai Dad also plans to take more money out, he is also afraid that he will take less, the old man in the family will talk about yesterday's pork, of course, the most important thing is that he is afraid that he will not be happy this New Year, which may affect the luck of the year.

In the afternoon, Ai's father took out a few hundred yuan from Ai's mother, and planned to go to his parents alone, Ai Xiaoyu saw it and said: "Dad, it's okay if you don't take your mother over, after all, her surname is Bai, bring me with you, my surname is Ai, if you don't bring me, someone will talk nonsense again." ”

Ai Xiaoyu herself is not afraid of people saying, but in the countryside, respecting the elderly is a very important thing, and she doesn't want her parents to say that they are uneducated and ignorant because of her disrespect for the elderly.

"That's okay, you can just play with Xiaoyan from your fifth father's family, I remember that you used to have a good relationship with her."

Ai Xiaoyan mentioned by Ai's father is Ai Xiaoyu's cousin, she remembers that Ai Xiaoyan's life was very happy in the previous life, she got married and had children not long after graduating from college, her husband was a doctor, and the other party's parents were a township-level cadre.

However, Ai Xiaoyu was reborn, and many things have changed, so I don't know if this cousin of Lu Dao can still find happiness in her previous life.

"That's okay, there is something delicious on me, I'll share it with her later, by the way, and Xiao Lun, I don't know if they miss me."

Ai Xiaolun is the son of Ai Xiaoyu's sixth father, and he is also the treasure of the old man of the Ai family. However, Ai Xiaoyu's sixth aunt Guan Shuhui is smart, she teaches her children well, and she has not lost her sense of proportion because of the other party's wealth when she grows up, and she has a good relationship with her brothers and sisters.

Ai Dad and his daughter were talking as they took her little hand and walked next door. Every time Ai Xiaoyu walks on the small stone road in front of her hometown, she is very interesting, she does not lean on the left and right, just like walking on the balance beam.

When I was a child, I liked to walk around this small stone road, I remember that I fell several times, and every time I chose to jump into the small canal on the right when I was unsteady on my feet, and it was better to get covered in mud and water than to fall into the paddy field on the left, which was too high, and I remember several children who broke their legs because they fell underneath.

After walking for two minutes, it was there, Ai Xiaoyu felt that this section of the road seemed to be so long, although the life in the previous life was hard, but her family still had a house and a home here, and in this life because of her rebirth, there was an additional officer uncle, but he came out.

Fortunately, her family's new home has also been built, and when the time comes to return to Zhulin Village for the New Year, their family will no longer have to send people away.

Ai Dad pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard.

At this time, the people inside heard the sound and looked at the father and daughter of the Ai family in unison.

"Yo, isn't this the fourth brother? Do you still know how to come to your parents' New Year's greetings? ”

The person who spoke was the third aunt Ai Wanju, who was in Zhulin Village at the time, and called her aunt, usually called Lao Tzu. Ai Xiaoyu didn't feel like this when she was a child, but when she grew up, she always had a lot of opinions about this title, and it felt too uncomfortable, especially when many people scolded people, they would unconsciously bring Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu.

Now I add, Ai Xiaoyu has read a lot of books later, "Lao Tzu", and Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" or something, it is the holy book of the Taoist school, and she is even more reluctant to call her two aunts Lao Tzu.

Ai's father didn't pay attention to the three sisters' troubles, and directly greeted his parents and siblings, and chatted about the recent situation, of course, he was usually listening, and others were talking.

Ai Dad found that with his parents, as well as these brothers and sisters who have been in a small place all their lives, they are becoming more and more unable to find a topic, and the distance between them is not only separated by money, but also by the spiritual level.

Ai Dad has loss, joy, and regret at this moment.

He found himself at last dominant among his siblings, the one who had been the most despised before, and now he could look down on them.

But after talking for a while, Ai's father felt bored, they generally said trivial things, and he couldn't interject at all, and he didn't want to interject.

Ai Dad knew that they wanted to isolate themselves, and he might have cared about it before, but now that he walked in and saw it, the little tricks his brothers and sisters used against him were completely insignificant.

Ai Dad barely stayed for an hour, and then he couldn't sit still, although he was related to these people by blood, he was not as close as the friends he had made, and one or two of them were selfish people, and they were all inquiring about their family's situation in Jiangjin.

And his parents seem to have discussed with them today, and they have always ignored him, and they don't say anything, but Ai Hu's eyes have been staring at him like cow eyes, and Ai Dad is sitting on pins and needles.

"Fourth, I heard that you bought a house in Jiangjin? And opened a garment factory? Your second sister's family and other brothers and sisters are still in the subsistence class, but you have embarked on the road of capitalism alone, this is not right, you should also help us, let us all get rich together! ”

The person who spoke was the second uncle Tan Liang, who was a cultural speaker in their village, and he wrote well, and his favorite thing to do was to show off his culture.

"That's right, the fourth brother, the third sister's family is poor, your nephew is about to enter junior high school, it's time to spend money, you, who are uncles, can't die without saving!

Big brother, you are the boss, you have to help us educate the fourth child well, lest he forget that he is still surnamed Ai instead of Bai, and now he thinks about the Bai family in everything. ”

The third aunt Ai Wanju is very spicy, she dares to do anything, and she dares to say anything. (To be continued......)