Dumplings in the first year of junior high school, noodles in the second year of junior high school.

After eating the dumplings, the noodles of the second year of junior high school were brought out from a small bowl of Zhang Guoqing's aunt's hand.

The thin noodles made Zhang Guoqing can't help but glance at everyone.

The taciturn uncle, the gentle and cheerful uncle, the two uncles with smiles on their faces, and the kind cousins in a room. This is his foreign family and his relatives.

They entertained the old Zhang family with the best food, and warmed the cold room with simple words.

The Zhang family, especially Zhang's father, knows his father-in-law too well.

He smiled and told the children to eat quickly. With this trip every year, he has learned to accept it calmly and not be as uneasy as the next generation. Eating the noodles in the bowl, he recalled his father-in-law.

It was not only Dad Zhang who fell into the memory, but Zhou Jiao was the one who felt the deepest.

With the foil of the family in front of them, the Lin family has become not even as good as scum. After all, character education and status and learning have nothing to do with it, and the most simple and sincere are the common people who step on the land.

Determining the date of return, the Zhang family threw away their gifts and hurried home as if fleeing for their lives. Halfway through, the two uncles could no longer be seen, and the family looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

It's really rare to give gifts to the Zhang family so embarrassed.

The first year of junior high school worships the ancestors, the second junior high school worships the aunt, the third junior high school "sweeps away the poor ghosts", and the fourth junior high school marries a girl to go to her mother's house.

Every year on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, it is the day when the old Zhang family gets together in the three rooms, and this day is also the day when the daughter of the Zhang family returns to her parents' home. This rule has become a tradition of the old Zhang family since Grandpa Zhang was alive.

The daughters-in-law of the old Zhang family want to go back to their parents' home, and they will have to be on the sixth day of junior high school at the earliest. According to Zhang's mother, the old man once said that no matter what happened in the fourth year of junior high school, he had to put it down and attend the family reunion.

Therefore, on the fourth day of the new year, everyone rushed to Uncle Zhang's house. Fortunately, the courtyard of the eldest Zhang Qingshan's house is large, and it is not yet noon, and the hall and the east and west wings are full of people.

In previous years, how hard the days were, this day was the family gathering of the old Zhang family, and the ability to combine three rooms can also make up a few tables of wine and food, especially when Grandpa Zhang was alive, no matter how there was a lack of staple food on the table, there was no shortage of flying dragon soup, roasted venison, and stewed wild boar. But now Uncle Zhang can only smile bitterly.

He is the vice-captain and takes the lead in smashing the pot first. If the old Zhang family all go to the cafeteria, it is estimated that the rest of the team will be emptied at one meal.

If it weren't for outsiders, how could they say that the son of the old Zhang family is good? Zhang Qingshan, the eldest son, led the younger brothers to start acting separately. After a while, several families gathered game, dried vegetables and other foods and began to bury the pot to make rice.

An ingenious family reunion was perfectly improved by the young characters of the old Zhang family. The two big stoves in the courtyard were cooing, and the fragrance seduced everyone to swallow their saliva.

Early in the morning, Zhang Meimei's four cousins accompanied her husband with a bag of candy, and the children returned to their parents' house one after another.

Today, the four uncles are interested in bringing sorghum roast together, which makes the Zhang family man laugh happily. The candy brought by the four sisters of Zhang Meili was also distributed by Zhang's mother and three concubines to the elders and neighbors of the clan. The children were also happy to get the New Year's money and started playing with firecrackers around.

It wasn't until the third pole of the day that the old Zhang family finally looked forward to the old Zhang family's aunt Zhang Dani and Liu Dazhuang, and the couple came over with their two grandchildren.

Four tables were set up in the main room, and as the stew was served, the sound of firecrackers rang out outside. Everyone didn't need to say hello, as soon as the men took their seats, the women and children began to find a place to sit down and wait for Uncle Zhang to speak.

On the front table in front of the kang in the hall sat the three brothers of Zhang's father, the old aunt Liu Dazhuang, the four aunts, and the grandson of the old Zhang family who was in charge of pouring the wine, Zhang Qingshan.

In Lao Zhang's family, the old three-room party, the status of the eldest son and eldest grandson is very special. For example, Daddy Zhang and Uncle Zhang never had the opportunity to speak first. For example, no matter how good Zhang Guoqing is better than Zhang Qingshan, he has no right to cross the eldest grandson, and he can replace the eldest grandson to worship the first ancestor. The father died and the children died, and Zhang Qingshan was a well-deserved boss in the old Zhang family.

As Uncle Zhang picked up the chopsticks, there was a "start", and the sound of the bowl and chopsticks hitting quickly sounded. The adults looked at it and smiled.

Zhang Guoqing has enough brothers in this generation of Qingzi, but there are more in the next generation of Mingzi. Two tables full of grandchildren and grandchildren of the old Zhang family plus grandchildren were crowded together. This guy is really prosperous!

Uncle Zhang saw that a group of radish heads were uneasy and stopped, and quickly smiled: "Eat if you want, eat and go out to play." ”

The children looked at their parents' faces and happily stood up to pick up the vegetables.

From this moment it is easy to see the character of the children, as well as the education of the parents for their children.

On the lively occasion of a bunch of children, Xizi and Ziwen took care of their younger brothers and sisters very steadily, showing their brotherly demeanor. The younger brothers and sisters below are also very well-behaved and do not participate in the grabbing, and sit quietly in their positions and eat the food in front of them.

Uncle Zhang looked at it enviously, but he couldn't blame his grandchildren. He is well aware that children are educated differently depending on their family background.

Many people have paid attention to this scene, and their thoughts must be different. But in the New Year, no one is willing to say a few words to their children.

The children were happy, the adults were happy, and soon moved on to home. The honest and loyal Liu Dazhuang, the old aunt, was warmly entertained by more than a dozen nephews and nieces, and finally collapsed from alcohol.

After half of the wine, the children were full of food and drink, and began to run out with their New Year's money in their hands.

Ping An couldn't control it anymore in Zhang Guoqing's arms, grabbed his father's arm, smiled flatteringly, and pointed to the group of brothers and sisters who left.

Seeing this, Zhang Guoqing hurriedly hugged his son, slipped out of the yard, and called a group of children to go home. He bought a lot of firecrackers and fireworks, just to take his son to play. Now it's time to seize the opportunity.

An older child is holding a milk doll and playing with firecrackers with a group of small children. Such a grand occasion made the children of the village flock to it. It finally ended after the eldest kid accidentally blew up his barrel with Jiro's leg.

After the family banquet, it ushered in the breaking five.

In the early morning of the fifth day, Zhang Guoqing and Zhou Jiao began to clean up the garbage, light firecrackers, and eat "broken" dumplings. From this day on, Zhou Jiao does not have to worry about the taboo of the New Year.

The constant flow of guests to the door made the family seriously deprived of sleep.

She didn't care about her mother-in-law's words to let her move the needlework first, and she didn't care about paying attention to others. The door was closed, and the family lay on the kang and fell asleep.

When I woke up again, it was already the sixth day of the first month. Early in the morning, the family of three began to rush to the provincial capital with luggage and gifts again.

In the provincial capital, there are Zhao Chuanguang and four uncles, the Huang family and the Zhao family. They were rushing to the morning dinner, eating the dinner dinner, and going back and forth from house to house non-stop.

Two days later, a family of three returned to the county seat with a bag full of red envelopes. I didn't have time to take a breath, and then I visited the elders and units everywhere.

I haven't experienced the holiday yet, and I'm going to work. This busy Spring Festival is nearing the end for Zhang Guoqing, and for Zhou Jiao and Ping'an, every day is the Spring Festival.

Clansmen gather and friends gather. In the sound of firecrackers and laughter, time passed every day, and the Spring Festival of 59 years left quietly.