Five days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the tenth day of the eighth month, is the 60th birthday of Old Man Tan.

In previous years, when he was an old man's birthday, he just had a low-key family meal together, and the children and grandchildren said some words of blessing, and it was over.

This year, the conditions at home are better, and it is a whole year old, which is a big event, and Tan Dejin has the heart to hold a big event for his father to show his filial piety.

He knew that his father was a person who wanted to save face, and when he saw other families in the village holding birthday banquets on weekdays, although he didn't say anything, his expression was obviously a little lonely.

In recent years, the life of the Tan family has not been as good as a year, and the places that can be saved will never dare to be spent at will.

Tan Dejin talked about his thoughts at home, and Xu and Qiduo also agreed, cooking at home and entertaining, it really didn't cost too much money.

Vegetables and fruits are available in their own fields, and chickens, ducks and fish are also available in their own ponds, which saves money, as long as you buy some meat and wine.

The birthday banquet was held in the Qiduo family's new house, which was more spacious, the kitchen was twice as large as the Tan family's kitchen, and her family's various condiments and cooking utensils were very complete and easy to operate.

Old Man Tan was very happy, his eyes were almost narrowed into a slit with a smile, and he specially asked Tan Decai to go to the house of his eldest son and second daughter, and invited the two in-laws to come over to participate in the birthday banquet, so as to show off in front of his in-laws.

When he went to his in-laws' birthday banquet before, he was always asked when his in-laws would come to his birthday banquet, and he just covered it up every time.

Today, the eldest son is doing it for him, how can he not invite his in-laws to take a look at such a beautiful and decent thing, and see whose son is more filial.

Every family in the village invited one person to come over for dinner.

The old man just loves face!

When Qiduo and Tan Dejin went to the county seat to prepare for the troupe. was known by Wen Xiuyi and Xu Youxuan. They took on the job of inviting the troupe. said that it was a birthday gift they gave to Old Man Tan.

On the day of his birthday, Qiduo's family got up and started busy before the rooster crowed.

The juju hall is located in the main hall, and it is a place where everyone will pay their birthday worship later.

In the middle of the main hall, there are eight immortal tables, Taishi chairs and long tables, and the chairs arranged neatly on both sides are covered with red silk cloth, red chair cushions, and red carpets are spread on the ground.

The whole room was red and full of joy.

On the wall facing the gate, there is a big longevity character hanging high, which is in the central position.

The left and right sides of the word Dou Da Shou and below are 100 blessing characters of different shapes. It means that Baifu Fengshou, Fushou Shuangquan, I hope that Old Man Tan is as blessed as the East China Sea, and his longevity is better than Nanshan, which has a profound meaning.

These longevity characters were written with the help of Shen Huairen, who is the most famous in the village, and the words are vigorous and powerful, with a sense of high-end atmosphere and grade.

In order to write these longevity words, Shen Huairen took some effort.

In addition to Baishou, there are also several Shou paintings hanging on the walls on both sides of the main hall. There are three stars of heavenly official blessing and blessing, Lu and longevity, anyway, the theme of the entire main hall is mainly to celebrate birthday. Meaning auspicious.

"Let's take a closer look, but we must not be negligent." Tan Dejin took several brothers to check Shoutang again to see if there were any mistakes or omissions.

After everything was ready, the men hurried to the empty drying field in front of the sauce shop and prepared to set up a stage.

At this time, there was almost no entertainment life in the countryside, and if you want to listen to singing, you can only go to the town or county town during the Chinese New Year, and then there will be opera troupes to sing in the open air, and it is almost impossible to listen to opera on weekdays.

So when the villagers learned that the Qiduo family had invited a troupe to sing today, the whole village was boiling, and almost all of them went to call friends and invite them to listen to the play.

It is estimated that there will be a lot of people at that time, so this stage is set up on the drying field, and there are many people here.

Old Man Tan learned that there was still an opera troupe singing, and he was so excited that he didn't sleep for a few nights, not to mention that such a birthday banquet was in Tanjiazhuang, even if it was from ten miles and eight towns, it was also a first-class high-end.

Except, of course, the landlord's house.

Some landlords have money, so they simply raise their own opera troupe, and they can listen to the drama at any time if they want to.

The men were busy with these rough jobs, while the Xu, Wu, and Yang families were busy in the kitchen with the seven three sisters, the four jujubes, Zhang Chunyu, and Tan Guihua.

The Yang family rushed back yesterday.

Shou peach and shou cake are steamed with noodles by themselves, and Shou peach is made into the shape of peaches with noodles.

Qiduo originally wanted to make a birthday cake, but after thinking about it, it was better not to be too high-profile and eye-catching, and it was better to pay attention to traditional customs, so I followed the crowd and saw with my own eyes how the Xu family made longevity peach cakes.

Shou noodles are simple, take the wheat to the noodle shop, and ask someone to process it into dried noodles.

This kind of somen noodles taste a little salty, as thin as a hair, and is particularly long, so the meaning of noodles is long, and eating longevity noodles has the meaning of prolonging life.

The tradition of eating longevity noodles has continued to this day, Qiduo still remembers that in the previous life, every time the family celebrates their birthday, their mother will get up early, cook a pot of noodles, and the birthday star adds two poached eggs, and the family gathers around the table, smiling and eating, and they are happy.

Poached egg longevity noodles sprinkled with chives, that is the most beautiful food, forever in the memory of Qiduo.

Shou Tao Shou Noodle Shou Cake is an indispensable three kinds of birthday celebrations.

The weather gradually brightened, and relatives at home rushed over one after another.

Old Man Tan's eldest daughter and second daughter also brought their husbands and children over, and Tan Damei and Wang Honglei also brought Wang Tianci.

Although Kang Jin and Er Xia are not married, but Old Man Tan celebrates his birthday, he must come.

Not only him, but Mrs. Kang and Master Kang also came over together, prepared generous gifts, and congratulated the old man on his birthday.

Fortunately, the Qiduo family is big enough now, otherwise there would be more of these people all of a sudden, and the family would really not be able to fit it.

"Huh!" Old Man Tan was wearing a new Baifutuan cocoon silk robe and sat on the Taishi chair in the middle of the hall, his face was red by the big red flower on his chest, and the corners of his mouth almost grinned behind his ears.

Although Zhao is not a birthday star, he is also dressed in a brand-new purple peony dark pattern armor, with a red gold bluestone hairpin inserted in his hair, and his hands are clasped on his knees, just revealing the jade bracelet on his wrist. Like a dignified noble woman. With a gentle and kind smile on his face.

The clothes and head jewelry of the two old men. They were all purchased for them by the Qiduo family.

When the Qiduo family moved before, the Wu family played in front of the Zhao family, saying that the Qiduo family's house was big and magnificent, and it was many times better than the Tan family's compound, and they didn't let the Zhao family and the old man Tan move over to enjoy the blessings.

Not only the Wu family, but when Tan Lotus and Tan Meihua returned to their parents' home, they also pouted and counted the unfilial piety of Tan Dejin and his wife.

After listening to the cool words of his daughter-in-law and daughters, Zhao had grass growing in his heart at that time. The grass grows wildly in my heart.

Just when she was about to go to Qiduo's house to find fault, Tan Dejin and the Xu family came to the Tan family's compound to discuss the birthday banquet of Old Man Tan.

After listening to the beautiful and decent birthday banquet arrangement, Old Man Tan's eyes were red, and his voice was choked.

And Zhao learned that he could also get new clothes and jewelry, and at the same time, there was a promise from Tan Dejin and his wife that when she celebrated her sixtieth birthday, she would do it more decently.

The son and daughter-in-law thought so thoroughly, in the face of full filial piety, the Zhao family finally had some conscience. swallowed the mean words, and instead told his son and daughter-in-law to be careful and calculating. If you can spend less, you can spend less, and the money is not easy to come by, don't be extravagant and wasteful, and say that you have clothes to wear, and you don't need to make new clothes, etc.

Faced with Zhao's reasonableness, Xu was also stunned in his heart.

But regardless of whether Zhao had new clothes or not, Xu still asked a tailor to measure the size of the two elders, made two sets of autumn clothes each, and added jewelry to Zhao.

As a result, Zhao's mouth was tightly gagged.

"Mother, the eldest brother and sister-in-law are so rich in the family now, you and your father are following behind to enjoy the blessings. Mother, I want to open a small shop in the town, but I have some capital, you go and tell the eldest brother, let him lend me some silver first, and pay her back when I make money. "When the Zhao family went to the Qiduo family, Tan Meihua came up with the idea of the Qiduo family.

Tan Lotus followed behind, "Yes, mother, I see that the yard where you live is also dilapidated, let the eldest brother and sister-in-law contribute some money another day and build a new one." And also...... And I want Lin Er to go to the county to study, mother, let the eldest brother help. ”

She is not far behind.

Zhao immediately glared at the two daughters with a solemn face, "Shut up for me, your eldest brother and sister-in-law can have a good life today, it is their hard-earned money, don't talk about it on the sidelines." You don't know how much they suffered at the beginning, don't learn from other people's shallow eyes. ”

Tan Meihua and Tan Lotus looked at each other, once upon a time, my mother began to come to the eldest brother and sister-in-law?

When they were about to say something, a pair of sharp eyes like knives in their mother's eyes suddenly shut up.

The birthday boy sat upright in the hall, everything was ready, and began to bow down.

The whole birthday ceremony was presided over by the oldest old man in the village, Tan Jizu, who originally wanted to invite Shen Huairen, but he said that he was not old enough to take on this important responsibility, so he suggested that the old man Tan Jizu should take on it.

The earth-shattering firecrackers sounded, and Tan Dejin lit the birthday lantern.

After lighting the birthday lantern, the old man Tan Jizu said some words of blessing, and then Tan Dejin and his wife saluted the old man Tan with the birthday wine.

Old Man Tan left his seat with a wine glass, and went to the front of the hall to salute the sky and the earth.

When he had done all this, he went back to doing it, and then everyone bowed down to him in order of seniority.

Old Man Tan also prepared some red envelopes and distributed them to each junior who knelt down and bowed.

After everyone knelt down, Tan Dejin and his wife led everyone to the side hall to eat longevity noodles.

After eating the longevity noodles, Xu took everyone to prepare for the noon banquet.

Xu Youxuan and Wen Xiuyi brought the troupe over, and the scene suddenly became lively, but the real drama didn't start until lunch.

The guests arrived one after another, and Mr. Tan accompanied everyone to laugh.

If you have a quick mouth, you will ask why you haven't seen the three peach couple.

Old Man Tan suddenly looked a little embarrassed, and said that Santao was pregnant, and it was inconvenient to travel, so he asked his uncle to send a congratulatory gift.

Han Hecheng did send someone to send longevity noodles and birthday gifts. He also knew that the Tan family didn't like him, so he never had to be bored and sent by his personal servant.

Hearing that Santao was pregnant, everyone smiled and said hello to Old Man Tan.

Old Man Tan and Tan Deyin's faces were a little confused.

are all thinking, if Santao marries Xiang Guangyang and becomes pregnant, what an exciting thing it will be!

Alas!

Just as Old Man Tan and the others were sighing, Tan Deyou suddenly ran into the house in a hurry and whispered a few words in Old Man Tan's ear.

Old Man Tan's face suddenly became very difficult to look at, and he hurriedly smiled and confessed to the guests, and then glanced at Tan Deyin, and several people walked out of the main hall.

Before a few people could get down the steps, they saw the bright and shining five apricots and Xiang Guangyang coming together.

(Note: The transition chapter may be a little boring, please forgive me!) (To be continued......)