On the day of moving to the new house, Xiao Ding's family prepared more than 20 banquets.

It's not that Tian Dabao has many relatives and friends, but there are fifty or sixty workers working in Xiaoding's house, and it is the slack season at this time, and when people in the village hear that someone is holding a banquet, almost the whole family will come to eat the banquet.

Living in the same village, Tian Dabao is honest and has no hatred with the villagers, so no matter how close or close he is with Tian Dabao's family, the people in the village will come to cheer him.

This is also the custom of the people in the village, no matter who does the business, whether it is a happy event or a funeral, the host family hopes that someone will come to cheer. The more people came, the happier the host's family became.

So on the ninth day of October, early in the morning, people from the village took the initiative to come to help. The main work they have to help with is to go to the village to borrow tables, chairs, benches, tableware, chopsticks, etc., for the purpose of setting up the banquet. When the banquet was over, the men helped to return the borrowed items.

Anything borrowed from someone is marked for easy return.

According to custom, the ceremony of moving to a new house is also performed in the morning or morning.

Generally, the shrine and ancestral hall must be moved first, but Tian Dabao's family did not worship any gods, and the ancestral hall was also worshiped in the house of Tian Caishen. Therefore, the first step of Tian Dabao's family can be omitted.

The second step is to move the fire and set up the stove and worship the god of the stove.

Shifting the fire to the stove is to make a pot of rice in the original place of residence, and then bring the pot with rice and carry the fire to the stove of the new house, use the fire brought to light the stove of the new house, and then symbolically steam the rice for a while, and everyone eats together, that is, it means that the life is endless, the fireworks continue, and the generations do not worry about eating and drinking, and the days are more and more prosperous.

At the same time, after lighting the stove in the new home, some offerings are placed on the pot table and the god of the stove is worshipped. People in this era are more superstitious, believing that the king of the stove can "say good things in the heavens and keep peace in the lower world".

The third step is to relocate and set off firecrackers.

When moving, the small door of the new house should be posted with couplets and firecrackers to receive auspicious luck. Those who move should not enter the new house empty-handed, but must hold their belongings in their hands and use the new house to attract wealth and treasure.

Usually the head of the household walks in front, holding a ladder, and walks into the new house amid the sound of firecrackers, symbolizing the step by step; Other members of the family held porridge bowls, kitchen knives, tongs, etc., symbolizing auspicious prosperity; Relatives and friends can take pots and pans and other daily necessities and send them later.

According to custom, there are six types of daily necessities to prepare before moving: 1. Rice: Fill eight points of rice in a rice bucket, which contains copper coins, tea leaves and red envelopes containing 9 copper coins; 2. Water: Fill a bucket with seven full water, and the water should be taken from the old residence; 3. Bowls and chopsticks: Prepare a new set of bowls and chopsticks for each person in the family, and the even number is auspicious; Fourth, a pair of dustpans and brooms, with red cloth or red rope tied to them; 5. Prepare a new set of underwear, pillows and bed sheets for each person in the family; 6. Old stoves, pots, fans, etc.

When you move, you need to move these items into the kitchen of your new home, and then you can move other items into your new home.

The last step is to have a banquet for the guests. Everyone has a good drink, the more lively the better. The host's family is not afraid that you can eat and drink this day, but hopes that you will eat and drink more. The main thing is to create a festive atmosphere.

Xiao Ding didn't know anything about these folk customs, he just watched the Li family and the others busy with their work. Even Zhao Hu and the five of them knew more than Xiao Ding, and after following Zhao Laixi's side, they seemed to regard themselves as the Tian family.

Finally finished the relocation ceremony. By this time, many of the guests had already arrived. Village Chief He was directing the villagers who came to help, and all the borrowed tables, chairs and benches were placed in the open space in front of the new house.

Tian Dabao, Li, Zhao Laixi, and Zhao Hu were all busy beckoning the guests to sit down and bring hot tea.

Fan Sanpang has become the head chef of the back kitchen today, he is busy on the stove in his new home, and there is a group of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law from the village who come to help him around him.

These daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law are all from the past, and they are not as reserved as the ladies in the city, so they often speak openly, and from time to time they make fun of Fan Sanfat, and the topic is always inseparable from the little things between men and women, which makes Fan Sanpang extremely embarrassed. For this kind of meat joke, Fan San was annoyed and annoyed, and he couldn't say it. He was tricked by these middle-aged daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law to blushing and thick-necked, and he didn't dare to reply a word, so he had to stir-fry with his head bored.

Xiaoya, Xiao'e, Erniu and several village daughters-in-law are on the stove on the side of the old house, and they are also busy cooking. After all, with so many people's meals, Fan Sanpang can't be busy alone.

Because Fan Sanpang entered the kitchen today, Tian Xiaofu and Ou Muyun took the little wolf Gray Ash to the side of the hill to take care of the horses. In order to prevent the horses from coming down the mountain and being frightened and injuring everyone.

Ou Mulin and Xiao Zhu'er are young, and they just run around and play around.

Xiao Ding takes a look at this, looks at that, everyone has their own things to do, but they have become idlers.

Entertain the guests, he hardly knows the people who come; Let's bring tea and water, someone is already doing it......

Xiao Ding stood there stupidly, and after a long time, some guests began to point and talk about Xiao Ding.

"See, Tian Fool is sick again......"

"Yes, I didn't expect that he could fight wolves and bears, but he was a ...... with a bad brain."

"Hey, don't look at him often making stupid diseases, he is smart when he doesn't get sick......"

"Yes, yes, you see the greenhouse built over there, that's how he came up with the way to grow vegetables on the wasteland......"

"Such a good way, we normal people can't think of it......"

"Hey, it's a pity that such a smart person has this stupid disease......"

Xiao Ding didn't pay attention at first, but when he heard everyone's discussions, he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart.

Suddenly, Xiao Ding saw a large group of men and women such as grandfather Tian Caishen and grandmother Zhou, as well as a few children, all sitting in the banquet, everyone drinking tea and chatting.

Xiao Ding could guess that this group of people must be his relatives, but what he knew, in addition to his grandparents, was the two uncles Tian Erbao and Tian Sanbao who had been beaten by him, as well as the two cousins Tian Xiaojin and Tian Xiaoyin.

Xiao Ding heard Zhao Laixi say that in addition to the second and third uncles, he also has a fourth uncle named Tian Sibao, it is said that Tian Sibao is only slightly older than him, and his figure is not as strong as his three elder brothers. He studied when he was a teenager and took the boys' examination several times, but failed once. Then he was idle all day long, hanging out with a group of gangsters in the town, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and being cheated and abducted.

Tian Caishen originally pinned great hopes on Tian Sibao, thinking that he would be able to gain a reputation and glorify his ancestors. Unexpectedly, he became a gangster in the town, so in a fit of anger, he drove Tian Sibao out of the house and never let him go home again.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ding suddenly remembered the three ruffians that the Mei sisters had taught when they had eaten at the snack shop in the town last time. In addition to the Xue Beast at the head, there was a thin young man who was black and did not slip in autumn and once recognized himself as Tian Fool, could it be that the thin man who was black and not in autumn was his fourth uncle Tian Sibao?

Thinking back to the person's face, and then looking at grandma Zhou, it is indeed somewhat similar!

Looks like it should be! Xiao Ding secretly concluded.

He was thinking about it when he suddenly heard someone call him: "Fool Tian, come here!" ”