Chapter 8 The first year of reunion of Cao'er, and it is time for spring ploughing
In this big year, the eldest granddaughter was added to the family, well-behaved and sensible, and there was another Yun Ling, helping her mother to get in and out of the kitchen, not to mention how happy Yun Bride was.
Firecrackers rang out, and the family sat around the round table to have a reunion dinner together, and they were happy. The village was also full of festivities.
New Year's Day.
Early in the morning, Yun Yi and Yun Xiu rushed to pay New Year's greetings to the elders in the family to press the New Year's money. The Ming and Qing dynasties also gave everyone New Year's greetings with the grass, and the laughter overflowed out of the door, from the head of the village to the end of the village.
This is also the first time in Yun Xin's life to be a father, and his happiness can finally be vented through the New Year, and the men in the team take turns to drink at each house.
It is rare for the family to have to do any work one day, not even the floor full of melon seed shells at home. This is a custom, and it is said that sweeping is sweeping wealth. So everyone's fun has become hugging grass and being amused.
Yun Yi's greatest pleasure is that he can eat melon seeds to his heart's content and play with Yun Xiu to his heart's content.
The Yun family has always been popular, and usually the neighbors are willing to come to the door, not to mention that the family is idle on the first day of the Lunar New Year, as soon as I heard that the Yun family has added a granddaughter, but also added a second Yun Ling, the second child of the Yun family, they all came to the Yun family after breakfast. After a while, there were many people sitting in the living room of the Yun family.
The Yun family is hospitable, and they are very grateful for the help of their neighbors, and they also warmed the rice wine in the morning, chopped the duck and sausage, and warmed it in the pot after steaming. On the table, like other houses, melon seeds, peanuts, fried peanut cakes, and bean cakes were placed on the table.
What is conspicuous is that next to the New Year's goods that ordinary people have, there is also a small plate of shiny candy that is rare in other families. This candy was sent by the eldest sister and younger brother in Yun Bride City for the New Year, and now it has become a favorite of the children.
After the neighbors came to the house, Yun Bride brought warm home-brewed rice wine, preserved duck pieces and sausage slices to the table, and asked Yun Gang and Yun Jin brothers to drink and eat meat with the young people.
The old people chatted with the old Yuntou and the cloud bride and talked about the New Year.
Ming Qing hugged Xiaocao'er, sat with Yun Ling, surrounded by a group of young girls in the village, they had known Yun Ling for a long time, and they chatted together when they usually worked next to the field, this will see Yun Ling come back, and the girl has another companion in the pile, not to mention how happy.
Yun Yi, Yun Xiu and the playmates in the village took the grass as a small doll toy that could move, and they were laughing and laughing.
The second day of the Lunar New Year.
Yunxin took Ming Qing and Cao'er back to her mother's house in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Cao'er's grandmother's house with her on a bicycle. Naturally, it is also a joyous New Year's celebration.
This New Year, the Ming and Qing dynasties hugged the grass and followed Yunxin to visit friends, and the bicycle at home also became Yunxin's special.
The Spring Festival of 1981 was the most reunion of the Yun family, and it was also the happiest Spring Festival that the Yun family had come to since childhood.
It's the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.
In the whole country, the year is over after the seventh day of the new year, but in the small village of Cao'er, the eighth day of the new year is the last day of the Spring Festival. It is said that one of the ancestors of this place passed away on the eighth day of the new year, and the descendants postponed the last day of the new year to the eighth day of the new year in order to commemorate him.
Therefore, spring ploughing begins after the eighth day of the lunar calendar.
Spring is still a little cold, Yun Ling followed Yun Gang and Yunjin brothers to raise seedlings, pick them home, and prepare to plow the paddy field to plant seedlings, Yun Yi and Yun Xiu also followed, but because they had to go into the water, Ming and Qing still stayed at home, helping Yun Bride do housework and take care of the grass.
Ming Qing and Yun Ling soon became good friends who talked about everything, taught Yun Ling how to get along with her in-laws in the future, and also told Yun Ling what to do before and after pregnancy. Yun Ling began to pay attention to maintenance.
Yun Ling, who has a straightforward and stubborn personality, although she gets along well with her sister-in-law and brothers when she goes home, she has a verbal dispute with her mother.
Yun Bride always felt that Yun Ling was a big girl, and when she came back from work with her brothers, she should also help with housework.
Yun Lingjue was very unhappy about this. The brothers are strong men, they can rest at home when they come back from work, and they are women, and they work the same as their brothers, and their physical strength is not as good as that of their two brothers, and they have to do housework when they come back, which is very unfair.
At the beginning, Yun Ling picked up the housework that her mother explained, but every day when she came back from work, there was work waiting for her, she was busy, the brothers were sitting and resting, and their hearts began to be unbalanced, and the next day when they came to work, they were later than the two brothers.
The brothers usually pick up their hoes and go to the paddy fields at 8 a.m.
Yun Ling didn't get up until eight o'clock in the morning to wash up and have breakfast, and after eating breakfast, she changed into her clothes for work, and it was already half past nine. Spring ploughing is seasonal, and Yun Bride was angry when she saw Yun Ling grinding until she was working on this day, so she couldn't help but start talking with thorns.
Yun Ling was originally angry, one was that she had been away from home for so many years, and when the family was too busy during the period, she always came to help her family after finishing the work of the Qin family. Now that she is going home, she is not treated fairly, and Yun Ling is unhappy.
Yun Bride feels that as a girl, she goes out to work during the day and comes back to do housework at night.
To say that when Bride Yun was a child daughter-in-law of someone else's family, she not only had to do the work inside and out, but also had to be blamed by the elders in the family, and even beaten and scolded and punished by kneeling. Many times, after kneeling for a day, I can't get up at all, so I have to kneel and move my knees to serve food, wash dishes, and do housework for the adults in the family.
Now I just asked Yun Ling to help with some housework such as cooking dinner and washing dishes, and I made such a big opinion, for Yun Bride, who is used to her children listening to her, it is difficult to accept Yun Ling's temper, otherwise, how can Yun Bride feel that she will continue to manage this family in the future? ! Besides, this will also be helpful to Yun Ling, who will marry into someone's house in the future, and she will know how to manage family affairs after marriage in the future.
In less than a month, the dispute between Yun Ling and her mother about housework has escalated from a thorny conversation to a noisy level. Every morning at half past nine, Yun Ling walked out of the back door of the living room with a hoe, and her mother came out and stood at the door and scolded loudly. Yun Ling turned her head and said two sentences, ignored her mother, and went to work in a negative mood.
Blood ties are the most wonderful relationships in the world. Although the two of them quarreled hotly, it seemed that there had never been a conflict in good times. The Ming and Qing dynasties persuaded on both sides of the middle, and Yun Xin, Yun Gang, and Yun Jin also joined the mediation, but later found out that the two of them just didn't care after arguing, so they didn't mix.
Gradually, the two of them stopped arguing, and each other figured out each other's temperament, and knew how to take a step back when the other party had a temper. The family began to enter a state of harmony again, and the dispute between Bride Yun and her eldest daughter Yun Ling was just a bump in the pots and pans, just like the words that Bride Yun often said:
The teeth are so close to the tongue, and there are times when they bite. Family, where is there no quarrel? Noisy and closer.
Cao'er was always obedient in the arms of Ming and Qing, listening to the quarrels and reconciliations between her grandmother and aunt, and there was no emotional impact.