It is said that after Laba is the New Year, that refers to the busyness of adults for the New Year's preparations, waiting for relatives to return home to carefully cook and arrange the New Year's flavor, young children will not understand the round and harmonious desire behind this New Year's Festival, just yearn for a lively and lively family, especially in the family environment that is not materially rich.

Unable to study, having fun and absent-minded, Hua Lonely ushered in the Chinese New Year's Eve with a high-profile melancholy style of "idleness", hanging lanterns, paste, to paste Spring Festival couplets, eat reunion dinner, and look forward to the Spring Festival Gala......

Grandfather Xu Xianqing originally prepared the brand new and festive Spring Festival couplets bought at the market, but for some reason, he canceled the plan and called Hua Pingjin and Hua Lin to the study.

Under the instructions of his grandfather, Hua Pingjin bought a thick stack of red paper from the shop at the head of the village, cleaned up a tall bamboo square table, spread out pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then began to grind.

"Little flowers, this year's Spring Festival couplets, you will write them." Grandpa's tone was very soft, but with an unquestionable aura.

These words made Hua Lonely confused, she thought she had heard it wrong, and her grandfather was afraid that she had some wrong understanding?

I still know how many pounds and taels I have, when I first came, my grandfather asked her to write a "thank you letter" to the Ministry of Health of the village committee, just a letter, just a few days, and grandpa clearly said that the picture is the true feelings under the immature penmanship, of course, she is not complacent enough to think that she really has this level.

Spring Festival couplets are different, for the New Year, how can the sacred Spring Festival couplets be fooled by her three-legged cat's kung fu? When the time comes, it will be pasted on the ancestral house and the new house, and the grandfather is a respected elder in the clan, and when it comes to the first month, there are not a few people who come and go to pay New Year's greetings to the grandfather, and everyone looks at it with long eyes.

Hua Lonely, who was full of doubts, looked at her father again, hoping that her father could help her grandfather say a few words, no matter what, she had to find a professional person to write it.

But when Hua Lin saw his father's expression, he vaguely found that his father was still a little excited.

In Hua Pingjin's eyes, it is certainly not a trivial matter to write Spring Festival couplets with Hua Lonely.

- This is an honor that has never been done before!

He couldn't be happy, how could he understand Hua Lone's face and round her up?

Hua Pingjin only needs to think of the two children of the eldest Xu Anjin, the eldest son, the eldest grandson and the eldest granddaughter - Xu Menghua and Xu Feiru, who has been so valued by their old man and has this treatment of writing Spring Festival couplets?

What if it's well written?

Hua Pingjin thought, Hua Lin really hasn't practiced, this child asked her to practice back then, this thing is to blame Yuan Pingqing, it's useless to talk about money at every turn, it's useless to talk about calligraphy, waste ink and waste rice paper, if it weren't for her lack of emotion, Hua Lin would really practice how proud and value her more?

He thought again, anyway, no one has ever said that she has practiced, even if it is crooked, you can see that it is the baby's handwriting at a glance, and someone will always ask, when the time comes, it is said that it is written by Hua Lone, who dares to say that he is not from this family, who dares to say that we are from a foreign surname?

From Hua Lone's point of view, she saw that her father's eyebrows and eyes were bent, and she almost laughed, she felt that she couldn't count on him, and then looked at her grandfather, and there was an earnest gaze, "Hua'er, come, write, don't get in the way, write." ”

Since grandpa thinks so, and his dad looks desperate, then, then......

You're not afraid that I'm writing ugly, but what am I afraid of? Hua Lin thought silently in her heart.

Don't twist and pinch anymore, I mentioned the brush that is one size bigger than the previous thank you letter, and the full pen seems to be eager for intimate contact with the red paper, but, after all, it is the Spring Festival couplet, and the psychological quality also needs to be improved.

Grandpa said that you can start with small objects, such as some "Fu" characters posted on each door, "Harvest of Five Grains" pasted on the granary, and "Six Animals Peace" pasted on the chicken pen......

Horizontal and vertical skimming, some of the strokes that Hua Lonely is not very satisfied with, Hua Lonely guiltily wants to rewrite, except for the red paper that must be replaced by ink droplets, other words, but grandpa said yes.

Wait for Hua Lonely to get used to the big brush a little bit, and then solemnly start to write the Spring Festival couplets.

Suddenly, I heard someone's hometown dialect of "Second brother, borrow some paste", which was the voice of Xiao Taro's mother, and then the door was pushed open, and Xiao Taro followed her in a regular manner, and as soon as she entered the house, she stood directly behind Hua Lone, and Hua Lone shouted to her, "Auntie." ”

Most of the houses in Yuanxu Village are old houses, and the paste used to paste the Spring Festival couplets is boiled out of rice milk at home.

Xiao Taro's rice milk is estimated to not have been boiled enough, so I came here to ask for some.

Hua Pingjin smiled and said that their hands and feet are really fast, and their own family has not started to post it yet.

At this time, Xiao Taro's mother found out that Hua Lin was writing Spring Festival couplets, she first sighed, and then flipped through a few of Hua Lone's written words, and saw that Hua Lone's heart was empty.

"Dad, didn't I buy Spring Festival couplets before I saw you?" Little Taro's mother stays by her grandfather's side in Yuanxu Village all the year round in the name of repaying her kindness, so she calls Grandpa Hua Lone's father.

Grandpa sorted out the red paper with one hand and said, "It's good to write at home, and I'm not a scholar." ”

"But what's so good about this writing, it's not as good as our little book."

Xiao Shuyue is Xiao Tao's cousin, the child of Xu Xianqing's grandfather's younger brother, Hua Lin knows, but she hasn't seen her all year round, and Hua Lin doesn't know that her sister can write calligraphy, she has never seen it.

It's just that my aunt said this, and Hua Lone's face was white and red, but Grandpa didn't say to stop, Hua Lin didn't dare to stop, she kept telling herself to write well, don't shake, but still couldn't satisfy herself, she felt guilty, felt that she had lost her grandfather, and was annoyed that she didn't insist on practicing soft pen calligraphy when she was a child.

Grandpa said, "As long as it's written by the baby, it's all fine - why are you here?" Let's find the paste in the kitchen. ”

My aunt answered, took the little taro with her, and glanced at Hua Lonely again before leaving.

When my aunt left, Hua Lin hung her pen and stopped, wanting to say something.

I only listened to my grandfather's blessing to my father: "Pingjin'er, go and post it, don't have a personal family that is about to be posted, let's start pasting it too." ”

Seeing what he wrote, he was admitted by his grandfather that he really wanted to post it, and Hua Lin swallowed what he wanted to say back into his stomach.

She lowered her head and carefully finished the remaining words.

Her dad climbed the stairs and went to the door to brush the paste, Hua Lin guarded the Spring Festival couplets below, or helped her dad look at the symmetry of height and height, and watched his calligraphy that did not look like calligraphy being pasted on the ancestral house, Hua Lin had mixed feelings in her heart.

Not long after, the eldest aunt appeared around the corner and walked towards them.

Regardless of whether the relationship is good or not, etiquette is indispensable, Hua Lin shouted in the direction of the visitor.

The eldest aunt's face looks quite like a man, more sassy than the eldest uncle Xu Anjin, I saw a frown of thick black eyebrows, and raised her eyes in the direction of the Spring Festival couplets of Huaping allowance, obviously aimed at the words written by Hua Lone, it can be seen that her eyes are on the Spring Festival couplets on the doorpost, and the red letters on the ground have swept back and forth a few times, and casually asked if grandma is not there, Hua Lin shook her head, and the eldest aunt nodded, and she didn't even enter the door, so she went back.

Hua Lone's heart is also like a mirror, the eldest aunt must have heard some rumors and deliberately came to see it.

I guess it was my aunt who told her.

Hua Lin thought, in the past, my mother always guarded against my aunt and their entire family, and my father always blamed my mother for sowing discord, but where should I not prevent it? No one else knew about such a trivial matter in advance, and the aunt came as an uninvited guest, and it was only a few minutes later, and the eldest aunt came to find out, can't it explain the problem?

Besides, it's not incomprehensible, my aunt originally lived in Yuanxu Village, and she was close to her aunt's family, so it was natural to have a care, but what were they doing in their hearts to guard against their family?

I'm just a daughter's family, what kind of climate can I become?

Dad also often said that his surname was Hua but not Xu, why didn't they believe it, but looked at them more and more in the eyes of outsiders.

After pasting the Spring Festival, the word Fu, Grandma Hua Lin and her mother came back from the vegetable field, and ate a casual meal at noon, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in Yuanxu Village was in the evening, and they began to kill chickens and ducks, and they were in full swing to prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Shuhuai nested in his grandfather's room watching TV, and Hua Lin was busy washing his hair and cleaning up, in the end, it was the New Year, and he welcomed the new year cleanly.

Winter nights come very quickly, and the reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve comes even faster, one after another, you can hear that other houses have begun to set off firecrackers, one after another.

There are more than one plate of food on the table, steaming, Xu Hejin does not play mahjong, sometimes standing in the kitchen poking his hands, sometimes entering his grandfather's room to tease his books, it seems that the father and son have a deep relationship.

Grandpa walked out slowly, and when he saw Hua Pingjin chopping wood, he called Xu Hejin out, "Mi'er, you go and call your eldest brother's family to our reunion." ”

There is one thing that is not said, Xu Anjin's eldest son Xu Menghua has always been working in a big city outside, in Yuan Pingqing's words, Xu Menghua is not stupid at all, how can a fool know to please a wife? And the ability is so big that he didn't even have a certificate, so he gave birth to a baby girl, and it was less than a year old.

Hearing his grandfather shouting to Hejin to call someone to come to dinner, Hua Pingjin's face sank a lot, he didn't raise his head, he didn't listen to his hand, and said, "Dad, don't go, I've actually been there." ”

"Have you been? What did the big brother say? ”

"No, he said his own family is fine."

This is a heart-wrenching statement.

But Hua Lin absolutely believed that it was not made up by her father.

Since she and Shuhuai returned to their grandfather's house, this uncle has also appeared once, and he didn't eat at his grandfather's house at all.

Grandpa is still alive, and his body is refreshing, but although the uncle's move is not in the name of separation, it has already been separated.

But if you really want to talk about the separation of the family, grandpa has never treated them badly.

Yuan Pingqing said before that Xu Menghua and Xu Feiru, as the eldest son and eldest grandson and eldest granddaughter, were born early, and fully enjoyed the benefits of their grandfather or cadre having connections and face in the city, and gave them money.

If you want to say that you don't enjoy it, there is only Hua Pingjin's family, and there is no benefit.

In the past few years, I have begun to go back to the countryside for the New Year to save some festival fees.

Besides, no matter where this child came from, the grandfather recognized her as the descendant of the Xu family, calculate, for the grandparents, such a big family eating together for the New Year and celebrating the New Year is four generations in the same house, how rare it is.

Xu Hejin listened to Hua Pingjin's words, and didn't know whether to go or not for a while, at this time the old man beat Xu Hejin with his crutch and said, "Go and shout again." ”

Hua Lin saw her grandfather's expression, which was more serious.

After a while, Xu Hejin pushed the door in, and it was not surprising that he was alone, and the news he brought was "Don't come." ”

Unfilial son.

Hua Lin scolded her grandfather in her heart.

Grandpa was silent, turned around, and went back to his room.

Hua Lonely sat aside, with the lonely back of her grandfather in her eyes, and she was really sad in her heart.

In the past few days that she has been with her grandfather, she greedily thought about whether if she could live with her grandfather, whether she could get a lot of guidance from her grandfather, maybe it would make her more connotative;

But she also knows that her grandfather's expectations are very likely to be Xu Menghua or Xu Feiru by her side.

How many people have the opportunity to live in the same house for four generations?

There was a crackle outside the house, and the Xu family was crowded, but it seemed very quiet.

When all the meals were on the table, Yuan Pingqing said, "Eat Chinese New Year's Eve!" "Breaking the loneliness.

Xu Hejin obediently asked Shuhuai to take his grandfather's hand from the back room to the dining hall, as if he had taught his son how good he was and how filial he was.

But at least, it's a consolation.

After everyone sat down, they didn't move their chopsticks, waiting for grandpa to speak.

After being silent for a while, Grandpa looked at the food and said, "Pingjin'er, go shout again." I told him that I don't care about normal times, today is the New Year. ”

Yuan Pingqing and Hua Lian's mother and daughter have a special tacit understanding, and when they heard this, they both looked away.

Hua Lin understands that her mother has the same thoughts as her, that is, "disdain" and "distress".

I don't think that the eldest son is so disappointed by his father and deserves to be the eldest brother, and he feels sorry for an old man who can't even enjoy the harmony in front of him, what kind of sin has been created, so discordant.

Another few minutes of silence.

Hua Pingjin returned alone, which has explained everything.

Grandpa called Shuhuai to his side, hugged him and sat on his lap, barely squeezing out a smile, "Pingjin'er, light firecrackers for the New Year." ”

Then the lively sound of firecrackers masked the low pressure under the old house.

Looking at the thoughtful appearance of his grandfather holding Shuhuai, it is obviously four generations, but it seems that he has only reached this generation of Shuhuai.

Hua Lone's eyes turned red, she lowered her head and took a sip of Coke, pretending to be choked by Coke, silently wiped off the fog in her eyes, took a few deep breaths, and adjusted her mood.

Although it is a family banquet, there are still some fixed processes to go, just to see who walks attentively.

After eating a few rounds, Hua Lin picked up the coke and respectfully gave the grandparents a "blessing wine", she sincerely hoped that the grandparents would be healthy and healthy, as blessed as the East China Sea, and hoped that they could live a long life until they graduated from college, found a job, could make their own money, and the money they earned could be honored to them.

Grandma touched Hua Lone's head with a calloused hand, full of praise, praising Hua Lone's good handwriting, obedience, and good reading, Hua Lone was ashamed, Grandma still remembered the highlight moment when she was a child, but she was no longer their pride.

After Hua Lin finished toasting, Xu Hejin immediately called Shuhuai to follow suit, Shuhuai shook his head shyly, coquettish, not daring.

Hua Lin understands, she feels that Xu Hejin is also compared with her, as if she wants to compare the limelight of the eldest son and grandson, and then compare Hua Lian, a person with a foreign surname, but Shuhuai is too young, where can he understand this.

Seeing that Xu Hejin was about to lose his temper, Hua Lin poured a little pity for Shuhuai and encouraged him: "Go and write blessings to grandpa, and say that Shuhuai will grow up obediently and study hard." ”

Shuhuai held a Coke in his arms, like a parrot, like an emotionless robot, and repeated what Hua Lin said.

At his age, and there is a lack of people to guide him, it is already good to be able to finish speaking.

The grandparents were also very happy.

The uncle's family could not be invited after thousands of urgings, this matter may not be understood by Shuhuai, everyone at the dinner table has their own weight in their hearts, but no one mentions it on the surface, trying to make this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner warm and happy.

In fact, the dishes on this table are really fragrant.

Those New Year's flavors that are specially made because of the Chinese New Year, except for grandma, no one has this craftsmanship.

But those who taste can't devote themselves to it.

Soon, everyone put down their chopsticks one after another.

But at this time, the people who couldn't be invited to come actually lined up and came by themselves.

The aunt led Xu Menghua, Xu Menghua hugged the little cutie, followed by her sister Xu Feiru, they swaggered in, and when they saw the Hua family, they didn't shout, and went straight to the grandparents' room, shouting "New Year's greetings!" ”

So a very funny scene appeared in front of Hua Lone's eyes:

Grandpa took the New Year's red envelopes prepared in advance and handed them out to the people in line one by one, only to exchange for a sentence "Happy New Year, grandpa." ”

After queuing to receive it, there was a swagger back.

Only Xu Feiru consciously turned her head and looked at the different Spring Festival couplets and a number of blessing characters posted in the big room and small room, showing disdain on her delicate and good-looking face.

At this time, Hua Lin was not embarrassed, and she didn't look down on their behavior here at all.

Isn't that what it's all about?

She felt that she was a giant hundreds of times taller than them in the spiritual world, and she was not balanced at all by the beauty and ugliness of her writing.

Since he gave them a red envelope, grandpa took the opportunity to call Hua Lin and Shuhuai over, "New Year's red envelopes, the babies will give you the New Year's Eve, remember to put them under the pillow." ”

"Thank you, grandparents."

"Thank you, grandparents." The sea of books followed behind to learn.

Hua Lin did not stay in the grandfather's room for more, grandparents are people who want to go to bed early, after she said hello, came out of the ancestral house, in the new house where they lived, knocking on the melon seeds specially prepared for them by grandma, grandma always said "Pingqing is good for this bite", her mother is really like to eat melon seeds.

This time, Shuhuai didn't follow Hua Lone, he was caught by his father in his grandfather's room and didn't let him go.

Mother Hua Lin washed her face, carried a bucket of charcoal, came in, and added fire to the brazier at Hua Lin's feet.

"That's how they come to ask for money." Yuan Pingqing finally couldn't help but say what was in her heart.

"I don't know." It's not that Hua Lin doesn't know what her mother means, Hua Lin doesn't know how to describe and understand, and she doesn't even know why they are so greedy, and they don't even want to give grandpa a little emotional return.

"Your grandfather is probably very sad, and he can't invite anyone to dinner today."

"Of course, it was supposed to be four generations in the same house."

"Yes, I didn't expect that four generations would live in the same house."

Hua Lin stared at the TV and sighed.

"What do you sigh for? The New Year's Eve is about you. ”

yes, what's the matter with yourself?

"Our surname is Hua, and we don't have the surname Xu."

"Mom-" Hua Lin actually didn't like it very much, and her mother herself said so.

"Where did I say it wrong, the house we live in now does not have our share in itself."

"I'm grandgranddaughter after all."

"Do you look at others when you are?"

"Then people don't treat Dad as Grandpa's son."

"Yes." Yuan Pingqing replied very simply.

Hua Lin lowered her head, and heard the sound of fireworks in Yuanxu Village, and a cluster of beautiful flowers bloomed in her mind, she wanted to open the back door of the house to take a look, but she had no motivation.

Just because, she has deeply realized that Hua Pingjin, her terrible and hateful father, has never had a sense of belonging, and how humble and sensitive she is in this family.