Chapter 20 Return to your hometown for the New Year

The Spring Festival is the highest sense of ritual for Chinese.

The beginning of the Chinese lunar year is called the Spring Festival.

It is a unique day once a year to remove the old and cloth the new, and it is a traditional festival exclusive to Chinese.

"New Year's flavor" is the most important ritual sense in the Spring Festival.

And this strong flavor of the New Year can only be found in my hometown.

On the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, his father Li Jianjun took Li Tianran and his mother Zhao Yue on the bus back to his hometown.

The grandparents' family lived in the village next to the town center of Chenzhuang Town.

The small village is simple and beautiful, and there is a lake in the village.

Dad Li Jianjun's good swimming skills were trained from this lake.

I heard my dad say that when they were young, they used to fish in the lake with their friends and sell them for money.

A family of three walked into the yard, and Li Tianran shouted "Grandma, we're back"

Hearing the sound, many people ran out, grandma, aunt, and Li Tianran's cousins.

The aunt helped Li Tianran take away the gifts in her hand, and the family entered the house with a smile and a smile.

The grandparents gave birth to a total of 3 children, uncle Li Jianguo, aunt Li Jianhong, and father Li Jianjun.

Uncle Li Jianguo gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, a boy and a girl, Li Tianze and Li Tianjing.

The family lives in a courtyard in the village, not far from their grandmother's house.

The eldest aunt Li Jianhong gave birth to a son, Li Tianle, who is also Li Tianran's second cousin, and their family lives in the village next door, which is also very close.

Father Li Jianjun is the youngest son, and the custom in the village is that the old people live with the younger son.

So when the uncle got married, it was the grandfather who re-chose a homestead for the uncle's family to build a house.

When his father Li Jianjun got married, he just demolished the original house and built the current brick house on the original site, with his parents living in 3 rooms and his grandparents living in 2 rooms.

Later, his father Li Jianjun went to work in the city, and through his own efforts, he was promoted from a seasonal worker in the oil field to a regular worker.

Later, he was promoted to the current captain, divided the house, and changed the household registration from the countryside to the city......

Mother and Li Tianran naturally followed their father all the time, so Li Tianran only lived in the village until he was 3 years old.

There is land in my hometown, there are familiar relatives and friends, and my grandparents can't leave, and Li Tianran's house is also small, so it's a bit crowded if my grandparents come......

So although his father Li Jianjun invited him, his grandparents still chose to live in the village they were used to.

I knew that Li Jianjun's family was coming, so everyone gathered at my grandmother's house for lunch today.

The old stove is used at home, the stove is against the wall, and on the other side of the wall is the bedroom, and there are holes in the stove, connected to the chimney, and connected to the kang.

When cooking on this side of the stove, the kang on the other side of the wall will be hot, and it will be very warm when you sleep at night, especially if your feet are against the stove.

Aunts, aunts, mothers and grandmothers all went to the room to cook and cooperate.

There are those who wash vegetables and those who cut vegetables, stewed chicken, fried fish, fried meatballs, and fried some home-cooked dishes.

Li Tianran and his brothers and sisters are like little rats, from time to time they go into the room to steal food, gnaw on this, taste that, and from time to time run to the yard to set off firecrackers to play.

Li Tianran smelled greedily, the smell of grandma's food, the smell of flowers and trees in the village, and the smell of fireworks from the cannonball.

Feel the beauty of being free and carefree.

Men drink, women and children drink juice, and the family sits and laughs and eats.

Dad was even naughty like grandma, and grandma also enjoyed Dad's intimacy with her, smiled, and gave Dad meat.

Yes! In the eyes of children, the tall and mighty father is the heaven of the family and the pillar of the family.

But in the eyes of grandma, he is just her favorite little son, the picky eater who often falls asleep without a quilt.

This is family affection, the most beautiful emotion in the world.

After the meal, after cleaning the table, the uncle, the aunt, the aunt, the uncle, the father, and the mother played in the hall.

The grandparents went to the second grandfather's house next door to play cards, and the second grandfather was the grandfather's younger brother.

Li Tianran is very familiar with playing cards, and it can be said that he has played from childhood to adulthood.

Playing cards is a good thing, as a pastime in people's daily lives, playing poker when bored, and an afternoon passes quickly.

Not only is it fun, but it can also exercise brain power, which is a leisure activity that everyone loves.

Women and children of all ages love it, it brings people together.

Talking and laughing, fighting wits and courage, relaxing and entertaining, people can temporarily forget all kinds of troubles and pressures in life.

It is also a particularly important common memory for Li Tianran and his cousins to play together.

When I grew up, I went home for the New Year, and everyone was also playing cards and chatting about family life.

Mom and Dad played cards in the hall, and Li Tianran brother and sister, because there were only four people, they played upgrades on the kang in the inner house.

In Li Tianrenhui's poker game, "playing upgrades" can be regarded as a difficult way to play.

It requires luck and courage, teamwork, and skill and attention.

Playing upgrade generally requires two decks of cards, divided into two sides, the opposite two for one side, the purpose of the game is to do the banker, and then "upgrade", generally to the first to rise to the A side as the winner.

If you can't cooperate with your teammates and understand each other's card routines, you will fall into a situation of fighting alone.

You may even lure your teammates into making mistakes if you don't want to, so that your opponents can take advantage of them.

At the beginning of the game, Li Tianran and his cousin Li Tianjing's family, everyone let the youngest Li Tianran draw the cards first.

After touching the cards for a while, my cousin Li Tianjing showed a pair of Xiao Wang, deducted a pair, and called Zhuang.

"You touched a pair of kings so quickly, it can't stand you, and it's hard to stick," Li Tianze said in frustration.

Soon, except for the four bottoms, they were all touched.

"Do you have anything to stick, you can touch it without me?" Li Tianran asked.

"No, you can touch it" Li Tianze and Li Tianle shook their heads one after another.

Li Tianran touched the card, the card is good, although there is no king.

But the plum blossom has a slip of rain, the square has a pair of kings, spades have a king, a pair of 4s, and hearts almost have only 4 cards, which are J, 10, 8, 4, and the main is also good to have a pair of 5s, two pairs of 2s, and 1 ace.

Because of her cousin Li Tianjing, she was called Zhuang very early, so it is difficult for her main card to be more or less, and then it is impossible to judge what suit she is called.

After thinking about it, Li Tianran put 4 red hearts on the table, let's put one door first.

Li Tianjing showed his cards, a pair of Queens of spades, and one was not picked up.

Li Tianran came out first, a pair of K, Li Tianjing made a Q, a J, Li Tianze made a pair of 6, it was Li Tianle's turn, he wailed, "My pair of 10s...... Crying chirp ....."

All 40 points of the square slice are in hand.

Li Tianran followed excitedly and threw out his plum blossoms to slip through the rain, shouting, "7 pieces of rain!" Sister, you can put all your points up" and laughed proudly.

Li Tianjing plum blossoms are not much, after the plum blossoms, and put all the points of their deck cards, Li Tianze, Li Tianle is also depressed, put their own cards.

This slippery rain scored 60 points at once.

Li Tianran came out of the main pair again, a pair of 4, and Li Tianjing's pair of kings took over the cards.

……

Li Tianran made a pair of 2 and revealed the bottom, "Haha, you scored -10 points, we upgraded to play 4 directly" Cousin Li Tianjing laughed happily.

The two cousins only scored 10 points, and after being double-deducted, it became -10 points.