Liu Yi's entrepreneurial road came to an end, and Liu Ma's noodle restaurant also became a memory. Liu Yi is back in the ranks of the unemployed, and he is really ready to do other things, after experiencing a series of realistic blows in the noodle restaurant, Liu Yi is also a little disheartened.

It just so happens that tomorrow is Uncle Liu Yi's 70th birthday, anyway, Liu Yi has nothing to do now, and he hasn't returned to his hometown for a long time, so he should go back to relax.

Liu Yi's father has four sons and sisters and three brothers. His father, Liu Huanzhong, was the youngest of several but died first because of cancer, and now the eldest uncle Liu Huanfu, the second uncle Liu Huangui and the aunt Liu Huanxiang are all alive. Uncle still lives in the countryside where Liu Yi's ancestors lived, and it wasn't that my father entrusted the production captain to him when he went out to do business, and he was just an ordinary toiling public.

He and his aunt Wu Bangfen have four children, namely the eldest sister Liu Mei, the second brother Liu An, the third sister Liu Qin, and the fourth brother Liu Yong. The second uncle was the richest of the family, and when he was young, he took over his grandfather's factory and joined the Shancheng Iron and Steel Factory, where his grandfather worked, as a worker.

Due to the reform and opening up of China, most of the state-owned enterprises are either economic depression or bankruptcy and bankruptcy, the second uncle took the lead in the wind of reform to go to the sea, after his painstaking management has really developed, the beginning is to do the insulation products produced in the factory, and now the outside business is getting bigger and bigger to extend its tentacles to the real estate industry. and the second aunt have only one child, that is, Liu Yi's cousin Liu Kun.

My aunt's marriage is not far away, just ten miles away, but Liu Yi's hometown belongs to Jiangzhou District, and his uncle Zhou Juren's family belongs to Chengnan District. Their two children are both male, namely the eldest cousin Zhou Xiaobo and the second cousin Zhou Xiaotao. If nothing else, tomorrow Uncle's birthday these close relatives should all be there.

Early the next morning, Liu Yi's dress was still a little tidy, after all, many relatives and elders gathered together, and they still had to leave a good influence. From the town to the hometown every once in a while, there are buses, Luoshi Town to the hometown is not far away, only eight or nine miles away. I remember that the conditions at home were not good when I was a child, in order to provide for my sister Liu Li and Liu Yi to go to school, a lot of crops were planted in the family, and every time the harvest was completed, only a little was left at home, and most of them were carried on their shoulders and carried to the town market to sell.

I still remember one time, Liu Yi was still in the fourth grade of primary school at that time, and the taro harvest in the family that year was very good, and my parents were very happy. The family can't eat so much, so they plan to sell it at the market the next day to subsidize the family.

As a result, Liu Yi was sad, because there were poultry and livestock at home, and his mother had to take care of it, and there were more taro, and Liu Yi's father couldn't bear it alone, so he had to call Liu Yi to go with his father, find a back basket, and put forty catties into the back basket to finish.

When he set off, the sky was still dark, Liu Yi walked in front, and his father flashlight in the back to show him the way and illuminate, at that time in the early nineties, Liu Yi's hometown did not build a road, in that eight or nine miles of journey, maybe forty pounds of taro on his back is still quite heavy, Liu Yi, who has not experienced this kind of thing, shouted before the taro journey was halfway on.

Without saying much, his father picked up some of his burdens, and walked a little further, and picked up some more for his father. Until he arrived at the destination town market, when a vendor came to buy Liu Yi's taro, he weighed that the taro on his back was less than 30 catties, and his father's burden was 200 catties (at that time, people's strength was really not comparable to us living in the city now).

Liu Yi remembered that at that time, taro was still sold at a good price, two cents a catty, and looked at his sweaty father and counted the forty yuan in his hand with a smile, and he was indescribably proud in his heart. At that time, people were not big, and they could not understand the sweat and hardships that parents paid for their children. Until his father died, he was often very sad to recall, and he would quietly cry.

In the mid-nineties, specifically in the ninety-four years, Liu Yi's village and team began to build roads. How can there be no need to give out anything now, and you have to compensate for the loss of land occupied. As long as the land is less or dissatisfied, they will petition everywhere, so that everyone in the neighborhood will know that the chickens and dogs will jump, and they will not stop until they meet the minimum requirements in their hearts. Retracting his sigh, the minibus immediately arrived near Liu Yi's hometown, asked the driver to stop aside, stepped out of the car, and a wave of autumn residual heat came to his face.

Yamashiro is famous for its furnaces, especially in early autumn, when autumn tigers are also quite powerful. It was cold in other places, and only the mountain city was still warm under the tiger power of the autumn tiger.

Liu Yi's hometown is not on the side of the road, but it is not far from the highway, that is, he has to cross a ravine and walk on a sidewalk about 2 or 3 miles wide with cement paved 1.2 meters wide.

The road is the town at that time to engage in the project of benefiting the people, in order to solve the problem of difficult travel in rural rainy days and convenient access of motorcycles, do not underestimate this project, for the people, it is indeed of great help, just say that people far away from the highway pull some fertilizer, before the road is not repaired, all rely on manpower to get it back, now it is good to sell fertilizer can be directly delivered to the home, convenient and fast!

After a while, Liu Yi returned to his hometown in the countryside, and when he arrived home, the sun dam was already full of tables and stools, and some of his relatives arrived early.

Those who are really living in the countryside now are the middle-aged and elderly people and preschool children, and the young and strong ones are either studying or working outside the home. Now it's a little better, the mountain city itself is developing rapidly, and migrant workers are gradually returning. No, many of the older brothers and sisters who used to work in the developed coastal areas are working in the Luoshi Town Industrial Park next to the town, and they often go back to their hometowns when they are free.

"When did the second uncle, aunt, and eldest sister arrive?" Liu Yi saw the relatives of the Liu family coming here from a distance.

"I just came back, Liu Yi, your uncle has a big birthday, and you didn't come back to help sooner" My aunt took his hand affectionately when she saw Liu Yi.

In fact, my aunt is just talking, Liu Yi's hometown is usually called a dragon when it comes to a red and white wedding now, and the same is true of the uncle's family, and it will be like that when you come back sooner or later, it doesn't matter at all.

Liu Yi talked to them for a few words and continued to walk towards the houses by the dam. Liu Yi's ancestral house was built on the mountain, and there were originally only three rooms, but later when the family was divided, it was divided into the uncle's family on the one hand, and Liu Yi's family on the other. Because the second uncle inherited his grandfather's position, his household registration was also transferred to the work unit at that time, so the rural family did not have the second uncle's share.

After the separation, because of the increase in family members, each of them built a lot on the side of the house, forming a large yard, and a large dam was left in the middle of the yard. There are trees planted all around the yard, behind the mountain is a large bamboo forest, and on the left and right sides are the fruit trees planted by each family. So there are only some flowers and vegetable patches that I planted when I was a child.

As the clock ticked, noon was approaching. Liu Yi's uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters are almost there, Liu Yi keeps greeting them, asking each other about their recent life and work, and chatting about the things around them and new things that everyone cares about recently.

Because there are more relatives in the family, plus the uncle's 70th birthday, the scale of this banquet is still relatively large, listen to the second brother of the uncle's family, Liu An, said that this time a total of 50 tables, if all the three relatives and four relatives outside come, these 50 tables can not be arranged.

Liu Yi is almost twenty-eight years old this year, but Liu Yi is the youngest among the brothers and sisters in the family, and he is the only one who has not yet married and started a family. So when I come back this time, every elder and brother and sister will be concerned about the words "Liu Yi, when will you bring your girlfriend back to see, when will you get married" and so on.

Often at that time, it's not easy to say anything, and it's generally perfunctory, "It's almost over, and if you get married, I will definitely notify you." ”

There are also good sisters-in-law and relatives who have a good relationship to introduce girlfriends to Liu Yi directly, and sometimes they can't resist and can only run away. However, feeling their genuine concern, Liu Yi's heart has always been warm.

As the chef makes a delicious meal, the time for birthday celebration has come, and there are customs for birthday celebrations in Liu Yi's hometown, which is generally on the birthday of the old birthday star (men are nine and women are ten, that is, men are fifty-nine and sixty-nine and women are fifty and sixty-nine, and they are also full of ten, and other birthdays are scattered, and most people do not do it in a big way), the descendants of the old birthday star kowtow to the birthday star together before the meal, and the descendants of the brothers who have deep feelings or do not have much contradiction should also be the same. The old birthday star has to prepare red envelopes in advance and distribute them to his descendants, daughters, nephews, daughters-in-law and grandchildren who wish him a birthday.

At this time, it was the seventieth birthday of the eldest uncle, and as the eldest uncle and nephew, he must have the responsibility to come forward to congratulate him on his birthday, and his brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces also stepped forward one after another, looking at no less than 20 people, (in order to avoid the suspicion that the author has made up the number of words, I will not explain them one by one.) The crowd was surging, and the momentum was quite good, and the other relatives and guests around him kept loudly telling about the good fortune of Da Bo Liu's wealth.

In the past of the grand birthday celebration, the uncle also invited a well-known local vernacular gentleman at the birthday banquet, which is unique in the mountain city. Liu Yi's hometown has a unique dialect, speaking vernacular is one, some of them have to be invited to talk before the banquet begins, and some of them don't, and the original old rules have declined. In the vernacular, it means to express the hospitality of the host's family, welcoming guests, eating and drinking at their own convenience, and forgiving places that cannot be entertained.

In fact, the banquets in rural areas are still very rich, such as the traditional eight things: sweet roasted white, salty roasted white, sandy meat, crispy meat, steamed elbow, whole chicken, whole duck, whole fish, and tamale. Now it adds high-end dishes such as shrimp, crab, and soft-shelled turtle, as well as a few stir-fried dishes, cold dishes, and soup dishes. The table basically forms three layers up and down, eat so that the corners of everyone's mouth are oily, the sound of boxing and guessing comes and goes, endlessly, until three o'clock in the afternoon, a table that is good at drinking is still fighting, the people who finish eating here will have fun by themselves, and the countryside does not call out to play cards and chess, drink tea and chat, and wait for the start of the dinner.

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