His father, Wu Lixing, did not return to Wu County until the 27th day of the lunar month.

At present, the layout of the entire Yixian area is almost the same. Of course, if a person gains the Tao and ascends to heaven, the officials of Wu County are the fastest promoted in the Yixian area.

Wu Shan himself did not have any political experience, but from his father's layout, he found that Wu Lixing was quite old-fashioned. Those supporters of reform below the original second-in-command in Wuxian County have been reassigned to other counties to serve as the top leaders, and reform activists in many departments have been promoted to other counties to hold important positions.

The top leaders of other counties were able to mention that the regional revolutionary committees were edified, and the dazzling methods made Wushan, a political layman, also amazed.

Every morning, the morning bus from Yixian to Wuxian would deliver the day's newspaper, and Wushan would learn about his father's operation from above, and it felt like a foreign position in Chinese politics a few years later.

It seems that my father's political wisdom is extremely mature, and what he lacks is only a direction for governance and a platform. Of course, for historical reasons, the reform cannot be made public at present.

January 23, the 12th day of the lunar month, is my grandfather's seventy-fourth birthday.

As the saying goes: Life is rare for seventy years, and grandpa is a relatively old man among the people around him.

This is not unrelated to the experience of the elderly, when he was a child, he had a superior life, and later his grandfather was seriously ill and dropped out of school and went home, and he stayed in Wuxian until liberation.

The family did not decline with the death of the old man, but developed better under the leadership of the grandfather. After all, grandpa was a highly educated person during the May Fourth period, and he had seen the outside world, and his courage and direction in doing things were incomparable to grandpa.

Everything was going in a good direction, the grandfather sympathized with the revolution, distributed the land to the peasants, and the family switched to business.

After the mountain city was used as the accompanying capital, the economy of Bashu flourished, and the old Wu family also transformed from a landlord to a businessman. Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived. Inflation in the KMT territory is simply too high.

When liberation was approaching, Wu Tianming's family had little land, and in business, there were a few baskets of fiat currency left. These fiat currencies can't be used, and even buying an egg requires a large stack. Wushan once took out a large bundle when he was playing at his grandfather's house, and his grandfather was sad when he saw it. It was these fiat currencies that made their business plummet. Of course, Seon lost his horse and knew that it was not a blessing, and at the time of liberation, the fixed ingredients were actually small producers.

All in all, grandpa has not suffered much, and his health is very healthy. The imprisonment of Cui Daniu and his gang made Wuxian clear. People who once didn't dare to come and go also came on Grandpa's birthday. There were six tables in the courtyard.

Of course, there are also some people who come to celebrate their birthdays. The eldest son is the director of the regional revolutionary committee, and the second daughter and the youngest son are celebrities in the troops of the Huacheng Military Region.

What the? You don't believe it? Who did Wushan bring back those things?

In short, the birthday banquet was quite pompous. The kelp brought back from Wushan made these turtles in Wuxian know that in addition to mountain goods, there are also seafood.

When the grandfather was at the beginning of the birthday banquet, his eyes kept looking at the door, but unfortunately his eldest son was still in Rongcheng, and the second daughter and youngest son were not in the mainland.

Things in the world are not perfect in themselves, and when children are promising, parents are happy. It's a pity that when I grow up, I go my separate ways, and it's rare to see each other in ten or eight years.

If the child is unproductive, his heart is in a panic, and he sees that other people's children will get a certificate today, and tomorrow they will send money and mail from other places. At the very least, such children can be by their side at any time, and they can also be sent to the end when they die.

In the end, none of the three children rushed back, and the old man's eyes were a little gloomy.

Grandpa, who usually doesn't drink, actually drank two glasses of five-dollar liquor.

After the big daddy Wu Licui was busy there, Ruan Xiuyuan was protected as a national treasure and not allowed to work.

Zhang Dechun vigorously operated it, went to the suburbs to buy two pigs, and set up the highest nine plates and twelve bowls in Wu County. There are mountain delicacies, roe deer muntjac hare meat; There is seafood, and the kelp with fish and cuttlefish brought back from Wushan.

Wu Shan is also busy there, he will be fifteen years old in the future, he is already more than 1.7 meters, everyone who comes in will ask first: Is it the boss of Director Wu's family?

Wuxian gave a 60-year-old birthday star a birthday celebration, which is exquisite. The younger generations have to kowtow in front of the birthday star, and say auspicious birthday words in their mouths. At that time, the birthday star sat under the statue of Taizu in the middle of the hall, spread a blanket in front of him, and kowtowed one by one. However, Grandpa obviously didn't like this set.

Every family's red and white ceremonies has a host, and Wuxian calls this person the manager. The steward is usually a well-spoken person, who arranges the feast and the ceremonial procedures. The manager this time is a distant family of the Wu family, whose name is Wu Lilong, and he has also seen it in Wushan in the past.

The ranking of the Wu family is "great goodness and righteousness", and Wushan is generally correct according to the ranking of the family. When the name was first given, Wu Zhengshan was originally going to be called, but as soon as the grandfather made the final decision, it was called Wushan.

It is said that Wu Lilong drank a sip of warm liquor, cleared his throat, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "The guests upstairs, the guests downstairs, now listen to me to handle the handover." Thank you relatives and friends, climb the hill and come to Wufu to celebrate the 74th birthday of my eldest father, Wu Tianming. First of all, I would like to thank you on behalf of the host family. My eldest father, Wu Tianming, was born on December 12, 1901, and went through the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and finally ushered in the birth of the People's Republic of China. Since liberation, he has been conscientiously working in the cause of education. Now, let's wish Mr. Wu Tianming a happy birthday and let off the firecrackers. ”

The firecrackers outside crackled, and then, he shouted loudly: "The relatives and relatives who helped, move the big table under the statue of Taizu, put a chair on it, and spread a blanket in front of it." Nieces and nephews, filial sons and grandchildren, come forward to celebrate their birthdays. ”

Everyone was placed one by one, and Grandpa was helped to the chair and sat down with a red face.

Wu Lilong is almost sixty years old, and he is ready to be the first to step forward and kneel.

Grandpa immediately stopped: "Kowtowing is a custom before liberation. In the new era and new customs, we will change the kowtow to bow today. ”

Speaking of this kowtow, Wushan is also a little worried. Especially in front of the tombs of the ancestors, every time the Spring Festival is in the middle of the death month, they have to light the tung oil lamp in front of their graves, for fear that the ancestors will not be able to see the road when they go out to play and come home. Before lighting the grave lamp, make three bows, then kowtow three heads, and make three bows at the end. muttering his name to his ancestors, let them walk slowly on the road. When kowtowing, if it's a sunny day, it's fine, but on a rainy day, it's troublesome, and the tombs are generally in the wild, and when you kneel down, the knees are all wet.

Of course, children also have to kowtow when they greet their elders, but that's for ^_^ red envelopes

Grandpa's words were echoed by everyone. So, all the juniors stepped forward to congratulate their grandfather on his birthday, and when it was the turn of Wushan's generation, more than half an hour had passed.

This night, tossing until midnight, no way, who made him the only grandchild of his grandfather, he can't watch his aunt and his family busy working, right?

Grandma watched happily all the time and helped from time to time. In nine days, Grandma's birthday has arrived.

On grandma's birthday, it was also very lively.

Wushan actually saw two aunts and grandmothers in Shancheng bring a few of their grandchildren who are older than Wushan to celebrate grandma's birthday. I really don't know why they came, maybe they are really poor in the downtown and no one asks, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.

After all, it is a foregone conclusion that Wu Lixing will become the director of the regional revolutionary committee. Shancheng had not yet become a municipality at this time, but it was also a sub-provincial city, and it was not surprising that the news reached there.

Wu Shan shouted in his heart that the world was hot and cold, even among relatives.

Wu Lixing has not returned home, and the new director of the county revolutionary committee has already taken office, which is the Wu Licheng who appeared above.

There is no way, the people with a little level in the county seat of Wuxian County are almost empty, just like Wu Lixing rose on a rocket, Wu Licheng in the third district also rose so quickly.

In other districts, the county bureau has changed, or promoted in other counties, or promoted in this county.

All of a sudden, Wu Li pedestrian left here, but the power was even more than before.

For the beverage factory and food factory at home, Wushan went to take a look. Workers and managers may have been forced to work here at first as a last resort or to support their families. Now, their income is two or three times that of state-owned enterprises, so naturally they will not be bothered to get a job.

These people are bent on building a better business. Otherwise, if the company fails, they will have no income, and their hearts will be bright.

The eldest uncle made it very clear that whoever revealed the income and the specific situation of the company would have a job.

At first, some people didn't take it seriously, and as a result, he just fired four or five such people.

When Wushan went, he was in the workshop, just to observe the sanitary conditions of the workshop.

At this time, people are very simple, comparing their hearts to their hearts, and they themselves are not happy about poor sanitary conditions.

Later, a short meeting was held in each of the two companies, and at the meeting, the specific responsibilities of the company were put into practice for everyone.

At first, many people were unimpressed. However, when it comes to implementation, the efficiency has increased greatly, and these people are shocked. Some positions have also been fine-tuned, trying to make the best use of talents.

And some advice on sales, office management, and finances, they were immediately amazed. The experience of leading the past few decades is that dozens of streets of the most advanced management model have been thrown off in Hong Kong Island and other countries, not to mention the mountains and villages where business is basically zero.

Wushan doesn't want to put too much energy here, so in the future, he can send people from the company on Hong Kong Island, and the people here will go to Hong Kong Island and cross-rotate.

After all, a person's energy is limited, and if he wants to completely reverse the status of this nation in the world, only when he pours a certain height, can his voice be more powerful.

The only way to achieve this goal is to go into politics. After all, in a country, the economic base is at the service of the superstructure. Don't you see, some second-generation officials will collapse an enterprise at every turn? Therefore, only if you have certain rights can you protect your business.

For family businesses, he just gives a direction at the right time. And to use the strength of enterprises to confront the state apparatus is purely looking for death. Wushan couldn't have done such a thing.

What's more, at present, he is barely a second-generation official. Moreover, getting acquainted with so many big names can make me take fewer detours in officialdom and suffer less unfair treatment. There is no real fairness, even in the United States that advertises equality, it is just an empty word.

Yanhuang is essentially a family business. The most taboo thing about a family business is that everyone in the family is pointing fingers in it. After all, in the family, there are only a few or even no outstanding people. In that case, why should the family be involved in the management of the company?

After going to the company for a day or two, I quickly cut through the mess and brushed a few times to straighten out the messy company.

The lunar year has arrived, and Wuxian County does not pay much attention to the small year.

In fact, from the beginning of the wax month, as long as the conditions allow, there will be a New Year's flavor.

Wu County's income this year is good, and agricultural and sideline products are abundant. At this time, there was no urban management, only the municipal management committee.

Wushan once suggested to his father that the city management committee should stop confiscating other people's goods everywhere as before, and do something to cut the tail of capitalism. They're just going to keep the market in order.

The municipal management committee, as the name suggests, is the market management committee, which manages the market, so it must be reasonable and reasonable. Each booth charges a certain management fee according to the quantity of the goods. Wuxian County is missing the black sheep, and the market is in order. Occasionally, there were some pickpockets, and the police station of the Municipal Management Committee joined forces to arrest another batch.

Wushan later went to several other markets to wander around, and each one looked good. Neither the hawkers nor the bargainers are as happy as the later generations. Wushan saw that many people were very funny, and when they went to ask the price, the people who sold things felt very embarrassed. Everything is developing in the direction of good, and Wushan is very pleased.

Mother didn't prepare New Year's goods, and Wushan even doubted whether she would.

On the first day of the lunar month, when Wushan just returned home, his grandmother was already giving birth to bean sprouts. First prepare a bamboo basket woven with strips, then put the washed straw on it, and spread the soaked soybeans on the straw. The bamboo basket rests on a wooden barrel and is drenched with warm water from time to time. The barrel was in the kitchen, and the grandmother said that the temperature here was a little higher. In the southern winter, the temperature inside and outside the house is about the same, and there is no doubt that the temperature is a little higher when there is a fire in the kitchen.

Wushan has always liked to eat bean sprouts, but only soybean sprouts. Watching the bean sprouts rise day by day, Wushan's greedy look, grandma saw it in her eyes, and grabbed a handful to make bean sprout soup for Wushan every day.

On my grandfather's birthday, I bought bean sprouts for a few dollars outside. As soon as Grandpa's birthday passed, Grandma began to give birth to bean sprouts again. She still bought a few bucks outside for her own birthday.

Wu Shan suddenly thought, if she stayed at home all the time, would her grandmother always prepare bean sprouts for her eldest grandson?

Then it's time to beat the tofu. There are two stone mills under the eaves, the large stone mill is used to grind corn, and the small stone mill is used to grind tofu and glue.

Grandma said that before liberation, there was a long-term worker in charge of grinding at home. Later, his family was not good and he couldn't afford to hire long-term workers. It may be that the Wu family is very good to him, and they come to the house every day to push the mill before leaving. Of course, no matter how downtrod the Wu family is, they can still afford a meal.

After liberation, his adult father was responsible for grinding the family. Later, the big daddy and they gradually grew up, and the father got married again, and the work of grinding naturally fell to them.

It was impossible for Wushan to let the grandparents push the grinding, so the grandmother took a soup spoon and poured the soaked soybeans and water into the grinding hole, and Wushan kept pushing.

Grandma is a year younger than grandpa, also seventy-three years old. However, her movements are quite agile, and she quickly pours the spoon into the grinding eye every time she feeds the mill. Sometimes I see soybeans grinding outside, and I fly out of the spoon and quickly pull them into the grinding eye.

White raw soy milk slowly flows out from between the two flour mills. Everything grandma made had to prepare a copy for the big dad and the Wushan family, so the soybeans for beating tofu were filled with almost half of the porcelain pots.

From time to time, the water in the porcelain basin ran out, and my grandmother had to go to the house to add some water and soybeans to continue feeding and grinding. It took more than an hour to finish the work, and Wushan's body that often exercised was tired enough. It seems that exercising and working are not the same thing at all.

Under the guidance of his grandmother, Wushan found the burden, filtered out the okara in the raw soybean milk, and poured the pure soybean milk into a large iron pot and boiled it into bean curd. Grandma took out the gypsum powder and sprinkled it inside, and the tofu slowly solidified.

This is not enough, and the brine in the tofu is filtered out with a burden, and it becomes edible tofu. Otherwise, people often say that if the brine points to the tofu, the tofu will have to be scattered into a bean curd shape. The tofu was divided into pieces with a knife, and when Wushan and his mother came home that night, they carried more than ten pieces.

Wushan once couldn't help but ask his mother: "Mom, will you prepare these New Year's goods?" The beautiful mother gave him a big look: "Why can't your mother?" ”

"Then why don't we do it?"

"Little fool, that's a lot of trouble. Besides, the Chinese New Year is almost always eaten at your grandfather's house, and there is not much fire at home. ”

Although his mother was sure, Wu Shan's heart was still full of doubts.

Grandma soaked two pots of rice, one pot was full of glutinous rice, and grandma said that it was for snacks; The other pot was mixed with about one-third of the edible rice, which my grandmother said was used to make rice balls. Because the glutinous rice balls have to be put in bowls, all glutinous rice will be paralyzed, and all rice rice will not be sticky.

Naturally, it is Wushan that pushes and grinds. After the two pots of rice were finished, Wushan was almost tired and lay down. The grandfather who was reading an idle book there hurriedly brought hot tea, and Wushan couldn't help but slander: No wonder grandpa has a good life, he doesn't have to stretch his hands for anything.

Of course, it's just a matter of thinking about it, and it's not up to a grandfather in his seventies to grind.

To make rice milk for rice balls, the water inside should be filtered out with a wrapper, so the rice milk is poured into the wrapper, hung there, and a large wooden basin is placed below to catch the dripping water droplets.

Grandma said that it usually takes two or three days for almost all the water in the glue to seep out.

After the rice milk has solidified, it is broken into small pieces by hand and dried in a dustpan and sieve.

When making the rice balls, add warm water and rub them constantly. In fact, it's the same as when making dumplings at home in the north, flour is kneaded with water. The difference is that the dumplings are rolled into small pieces with a knife, and the rice balls are rolled into small lumps by hand. Just like making a nest head, poke an eye with the thumb of your right hand, put your thumb inside, hold it with your left hand, and rotate the other four fingers of your right hand constantly. Seeing that it is smooth inside and out, I put some of the stuffing in with chopsticks and seal it. Then he kept rubbing his hands into a smooth round ball, and the balls were placed there, and when they were almost enough for a meal, they were put into the water to boil.

The glutinous rice ball stuffing eaten by the northerners is sweet, and there are meat fillings here in Wuxian County, and Wushan likes to eat meat fillings.

Grandma makes food very exquisitely. When making sugar filling, the contents are walnuts, a specialty of Wuxian County. The night before, the walnuts were smashed out one by one with a mace, and then put them in a pot to dry and grind into fine grains. I also used the peel of one or two oranges, chopped into powder, and added minced meat and sugar.

Grandma said that when she was a girl in the past, the sugar stuffed rice balls at home had more than a dozen ingredients in them, including sesame oil and the like. When she said this, there was a trace of loneliness in her grandmother's eyes. The meat dumplings are similar to the dumplings in the north, but the meat fillings here are usually filled with some chili peppers. Bashu people, spicy, you know.

This year's snacks are much richer than last year's, at least last year there was no rice milk. Wu Shan remembers that last year, his grandmother fried potato chips and sweet potato fries with fine river sand calcined in tung oil. The other day, I bought two sheets of lard in the butcher's shop.

On the evening of the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, my father had just returned to Wu County. After dinner, Big Daddy and Mom went to the kitchen to help fry snacks. Grandma kicked her mother out and said that it was better for the pregnant woman to rest.

During the day, my grandmother cooked the glutinous rice milk and spread it on the table. A few of them are dipped in some edible red and green pigments, wrapped in a roll while hot, pressed firmly, and then cut into small thin slices, which are shrimp chips with red and green colors. Others are cut into small pieces or strips with scissors. Some are cut into several circles called equal difference sequences, and connected in the middle with needles and threads, which my grandmother said was lotus leaves.

It seems that grandma is extremely excited this year, and it should be how many years since she had the conditions to do these things.

The fly in the ointment is that the oil used to fry things is not vegetable oil. Grandma cut the lard into small pieces and boiled it in a pot to make liquid lard.

Put the same snacks in oil and start frying. Big dad and mom shouldn't have had the experience of frying things before, although grandma repeatedly asked her mother to come out, she still relied on it to learn, and dad opened his eyes wide, watching grandma operate. One by one, the lotus leaves are skewered together, and one is fried.

While wearing lotus leaves, grandma took a colander to take out the fried things and put them in the porcelain basin next to them. Throwing it into the pot and taking it out again, grandma's hands kept moving, and her face was covered with fine beads of sweat. Wu Shan hurriedly went out and brought his grandmother's handkerchief to wipe her sweat, these actions that can usually be praised, but the three ladies in the kitchen today didn't pay attention to it at all, they were engrossed in exploding, watching, and learning.

Grandma also brought the fried things outside for the three men to taste. Grandpa's teeth are not good, and Dad Zhang eats them like a child. His father was very reserved, so his grandmother handed it to his mouth, and he opened his mouth to bite it. Wushan not only thought that no matter men or women, he was still a child in front of his mother at the age of 100. Fortunately, Jianjun would have fallen asleep a long time ago, otherwise I don't know what would have happened to the road.

Reform is far more difficult than keeping it done. The changes in Wuxian County in the past year are gratifying, but in the eyes of Wushan, a later person, such changes are still very slow. Wushan watched it for a while, and then went out to join the men's circle.

Wu Lixing looked tired and discussed the current problems with everyone in a low voice. Decades later, what seemed like a simple thing was too much for him to do.

At first, Wushan was in the kitchen, and he didn't know that his father was actually worried about the abundance of materials in the Wuxian market this year.

He was worried that all kinds of materials would not be sold, and he was even more anxious that the price of goods would decline with the quantity. At the same time, what to do with state-run grain stores, butcher shops, and vegetable shops.

This is the situation at this time, in the era of pure planning economy, everything depends on tickets, meat to meat tickets, cloth to cloth tickets. Now that the production has been contracted to the households, the enterprises have been reformed, the peasants have something in their hands, and the urban population has money in their hands, in fact, they have slowly transitioned to the era of market economy.

Wushan didn't know what the great man said in the early days of the reform of the Dao, so he could only tell his father what he knew.

"Dad, when I was on Hong Kong Island and abroad, everything there was in charge of the market. Of course, our political systems are different, and the government plays a leading role in them. For each item, according to the market situation, set a guide price. ”

"Otherwise, the material will become more and more abundant, and the price will be lower and lower, and the farmers will lose interest in farming. Conversely, workers are the same, the more they produce, the more efficient they are, and if the price of the product falls, it will affect their income. Similarly, industrial products must also be set a guide price. ”

After all, it is not easy to tell what you saw in your previous life in theory: "And, Dad, don't you think that our material is too poor?" Slowly strip some peasants from the land and set up collective-owned enterprises to produce what we can do. There are so many things we need. Let's take the fried stuff tonight, we don't have vegetable oil, where does it come from? Oil crops such as rape and peanuts are needed. The limited oil mill can't solve the problem at all, and the grandparents used up all the oil tickets when they fried crispy meat on their birthdays. When I went to the oil mill today, there was no one in it. Of course, this is just a small example, and there are many, many more things that we scarce. For example, we use bicycles for transportation, sewing machines for clothes, and of course, we can also set up garment factories in the future. What does the market need? Will we be able to produce? Isn't it often said: if there are conditions, you must go up, and if you don't have conditions, you must create conditions. ”

"You kid have so many crooked reasoning!" Father's face relaxed, and he turned to his grandfather and said, "Dad, I'm sorry, I don't have time to go home for your birthday." The people around Director Liu have recommended me a lot of people who do practical things, and I talked about them one by one. Ni Shuchun and the others also recommended a lot, and I also had to appoint them. All in all, Wuxian County has promoted the most this time, because I am familiar with this place, and I know exactly who can do what. Those who have been referred have yet to be examined. Liu Yongcan is a person trusted by Director Liu, we work together very well, and he has introduced many people. The reshuffle of the team is far from over. ”

Grandpa waved his hand in understanding: "Your work is the most important, after all, you have suddenly become the leader of such a large area, and there are thousands of problems." is still the same sentence, do things in a down-to-earth manner, and be worthy of the people. ”

Grandma heard it in the house, twisted her little feet and came out: "Okay, you are our eldest son, and you have always been our pride." Do your job with peace of mind, you don't know how we are treated when we go out, and we don't charge us money to buy things anywhere. Your dad understands you, and your mom and I aren't the kind of people who don't understand reason. The old lady lovingly touched her son's tired face, and hurried in to get to work.

When Wushan heard his grandmother call his father "okay", he wanted to laugh and tried to hold back. You say that grandma is called Ma Xiu, and she is called Big Daddy Cui, which is pleasing to the ear. Okay, it seems to be answering other people's questions.

The fried things were put in a dustpan, and my grandmother said to drain the oil and put it in a drawer with a newspaper.

After the thing was fried, grandma began to fry melon seeds again. The melon seeds were sent by relatives and friends in the countryside when the old couple celebrated their birthdays.

At this time, the mother was kicked out again, and the grandmother said that the friction of the shovel and the pot was not good for the heart, and the pregnant person itself was overloaded. My mother was really different from the past, she was easily sleepy and tired, so she washed up and went to sleep in the side room.

The second father's bed is vacant, and there are two rooms in the house. It seems that in the past few days, a whole family, including Big Daddy, is going to live here. The eldest uncle said that he gave his parents a thousand yuan and let them buy whatever they wanted.

He also knew that the things he made in his own home were definitely not as good as those made by his grandmother, and anyway, he spent the New Year at his father-in-law's house anyway. However, Zhang's father had already said hello and said that he would take everyone to his father's place for dinner on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Wushan really doesn't know what Grandma Lu Dao can't do. A few days ago, I boiled syrup with red roots, and yesterday I went with Wushan to make three glass silk bags of popcorn, one is rice, one is corn, and one is millet. Grandma scooped a few tablespoons of syrup into the pot to heat, put the popcorn in the pot and stirred, and then put it in the basin, let Wushan use the board to pat it hard, and finally cut it into triangular and square sugar cubes with a knife.

She then made a pot until all the popcorn was done. Wushan felt strange, yesterday grandma finished popcorn, only let him grab a handful to eat, saying that he wanted to make fragrant things.

In the previous life, how could Wuxian have such abundant food to toss today, and it is estimated that the mother at that time would not do it. Anyway, he has only eaten fried potato chips and dried red potatoes since he was a child.

That night, it was almost a little past before I rested. Wushan slept in. His family was very indulgent to Wushan, and when he was sleeping, no one would wake him up unless he woke up himself.

After waking up, Wushan looked at the alarm clock in the lower hall, and it was past twelve o'clock. He washed hastily and drove to the kitchen to uncover the lid of the cauldron. Sure enough, there was a bowl of bean sprout soup and a bowl of tamales in the small coal flames. Wu Shan went out with a bowl and saw his father and Zhang's father wearing straw hats, holding long bamboo poles in their hands, and brooms tied to the top, cleaning up the dust under the eaves.

Dad Zhang greeted him: "Up?" We're afraid we'll wake you up, so let's clean up the outside first. ”

The two of them were cleaning up, and Big Daddy took a broom to sweep the dust into a pile and dumped it in the trash. The family was outside, the mother was there smiling and watching them work, the grandfather moved a chair and sat there, and Jianjun held the hand of the grandmother. One

Seeing Wushan coming out with a bowl, the little heel immediately ran over with a shout of "Duoduo", and grandma kept saying in the back: "Slow down, don't fall." ”

Wu Shan took the little cousin to the kitchen, took out his special porcelain bowl, pulled some food for him, and the little guy ate happily.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the family washed clothes and sheets. It is said that you can't wash things during the New Year.

Four big men play poker in the house, which is the game of Wuxian, called Thirteen Cards. Except for the fifty-two cards of the king, only cards of the same suit can be played, and each hand is the one who draws the three of spades. If you don't have that suit, you have to pad a card into it. A is the largest, and so on. Whoever is the biggest will win that round, and the winning poker will be held in front of him, and one less than thirteen will lose a dime, and one more will win a dime. Of course, everyone will put their longest and biggest door out first as soon as they get started. Wu Shan's mind turned very fast, and he remembered the cards very clearly, and he won nearly twenty yuan in a short time.

Grandpa lost the most, and his face was a little unbearable, and his father also won a little. Wushan Ha Lu smiled, and pushed all the money he won to his grandfather and stopped playing.

Grandpa took his father to play chess, and Wushan and Zhang's father went to the yard to help Daddy wash clothes.

There was no way, my mother wanted to do it, but the two ladies didn't let me. Grandma still held her grandson's hand and laid hands on the side. There is a large wooden basin in front of the big daddy, and the washboard is leaning in it, scrubbing the things to be washed on the washboard.

He remembered that there was also a washboard in his second father's room, so he found it and leaned on the other side of the basin to help wash it. Hehe, in fact, it's not a help, the parents of the quilt and mosquito net at home seem to have brought it over early in the morning, and Wushan saw his own quilt.

Wushan brought an eiderdown duvet from Hong Kong Island, and it is estimated that everyone will have to change it tonight.

After washing for more than two hours, Wushan's hands were sore. Everyone wrung out the washed ones and put them on the bench, the eldest father took Dad Zhang and Wushan to the Daning River to get dressed, and the grandmother and mother took Jianjun to serve the two men playing chess at home.

When we arrived at the Daning River, ho, there were people everywhere washing it. The clothes were piled on the gravel by the river, and one end of the bench was put into the water, and the washing rod was taken out and washed vigorously. Wuxian is relatively small, and those who don't know each other come to say hello, Dad Zhang stood there and handed a cigarette to the man who came to talk and said something, and Daddy and Wushan responded to it over and over again.

In the evening, the big daddy took a few pieces of bacon to the fire, burned the remaining pig hair, and put the burned meat in a large pot to scrub it clean.

On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, Wushan still got up late.

The grandfather instructed his son and uncle to make a lot of fires, and he didn't notice that one of the ears of the furry hat fell off, and his mouth was saying: "The fire must be strong on the thirtieth day, and the lamp must be lit on the fifteenth day of the first month, so that everything will go smoothly in the year." ”

Father used a small hoe to add some clay to the coal in the coal pit, scooped some water into it and kept stirring, Zhang Dad lit the dry coal, used a coal knife to apply the wet coal around the dry coal block into an arc-shaped cone on the top, and then used the coal knife to draw a cross, and took the tongs to poke a hole on the top.

Over there, several ladies cooked the pork, put it on a porcelain plate, and inserted chopsticks, saying that it was a sacrifice to the god of the stove. Suddenly, Wu Lixing slapped his thigh: "Oh, Wushan, you remember, Zhong Xiaofa from Kai County, he said it was your friend." When I was passing by when I was going to Rongcheng, he not only invited me to dinner, but also forced me to give me a muntjac leg. I was in Director Liu in Rongcheng, and I gave him some tea. ”

"No," said the grandmother, "yes, you don't know the way, there are three or four muntjac gifts from others in the family." We don't accept what ordinary people give, and some people really can't refuse and accept it. ”

"Oh?" Wu Shan was very surprised: "By the way, Dad Zhang, after the New Year, Zhong Xiaofa is coming." I want him to come to you and be in charge of the sales part, so you let him do it first. ”

"That kid sells stuff, it's really that piece of material." Father was there to help.

"No problem," Dad Zhang also has some arrogance and domineering now: "As long as we have the ability, we need it." ”

"Dad," Wu Shan was curious: "Old Man Liu also accepted your gift?" ”

"The conversation was very speculative," said the father, "and he talked about one time when he ate muntjac meat, I thought he liked it very much, but there was no one in Rongcheng, so I gave it to him." ”

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner pays attention to having a pig's head and pig's tail, and this year it is finally satisfied. In fact, although Wu Lixing was not as eye-catching as it is now, it was still not a problem to buy pig heads and tails.

It's just that he has always been very low-key in Wuxian County, and he doesn't do this. Someone sent a freshly beaten baby fish, but grandma didn't make hairtail, anyway, there was more than every year.

At eight o'clock in the evening, everyone let off firecrackers: the Year of the Regiment. Wu Shan opened the red wine he brought back and poured a glass for his grandfather first.

Grandpa looked at Raffi and thought that he had drunk it.

After Wushan poured all the wine, Grandpa raised his glass: "A bumper harvest year, come, let's toast together, I wish every year is better and better!" ”