The next day was the 46th birthday of his uncle Fang Junxiong, the whole family had a dinner, after returning from Li Yi's make-up class, Lin Ming wrote his summer vacation homework at home, and at more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon, he was dragged out by his parents to prepare for the banquet.

The venue of the banquet was set at Yudong Building, one of the three top restaurants in Cloud City, located on Chenwen Street in the center of the city. Passat was parked in the parking lot and happened to see my aunt's family getting out of a taxi.

Brother-in-law Gong Zhiguo's spirit was not very good, and when he got out of the taxi and saw the Lin family, he barely had a smile on his face.

"Sister, brother-in-law."

The aunt and the brother-in-law said hello to their parents, and behind them, cousin Gong Jie and cousin Gong Fangfang were grimacing at him.

Lin Changqing nodded very implicitly, and Fang Lan said, "Let's go in, everyone is waiting." ”

Fang Junxiong's private room is in Dabao on the fourth floor of Yudong Building, with two tables and can accommodate more than 30 people. As the first elder in the family to buy a villa, many family dinners in later generations, including the Chinese New Year, were held in the villa of Fang Junxiong's family. However, in 02, my uncle's own set of more than 200 square meters, the high-end residential building Wang Mansion that I will live in for 10 years in the future, has not even been renovated, and is under construction, and will not be completed until the end of this year. Not to mention the big villas that I didn't buy until 2013. So the family is still nested in an old house in the city center, and the venue for this dinner is set in Yudong Building, because the family really can't accommodate so many people, so they chose to go outside.

However, there is a little advantage that eating in the Yudong Building, a high-end restaurant in Yuncheng, at least the meals inside must be much more hearty than eating home-cooked food at home.

Lin Ming's family and his aunt's family came a little late, and when they arrived at the place, everyone except for the little uncle came. The eldest uncle, the second uncle, and the third uncle sat together, and a place was reserved for Lin Ming's father, Lin Changqing. At that time, the grandmother had four boys, three girls and seven children, the mother ranked fifth, and the aunt ranked sixth.

The eldest uncle sat in the center of the round table, accompanied by two other uncles. Today's birthday, I am very happy to pull my second uncle to talk. The second uncle's name is Fang Junhu, one and a half years younger than the eldest uncle, although they are brothers, they look very different. The uncle followed his grandfather, dry and thin, and his hair was already gray when he was just 46 years old, so he simply shaved his head into a small flat head, and usually wore a hat to hide it. The second uncle has big ears and a wide mouth and nose. According to the old saying, it is the blessing of heaven and wealth. The fact seems to be right, the second uncle dared to fight, in the early 80s, he was an apprentice at the gate of Yuncheng Station to repair tires, and later became familiar with the people in the station, so he went to work as a flight attendant and saved a sum of money in his hand. In the 90s, the bus station was restructured, and private individuals could contract line sports cars. The second uncle took out all his savings to contract a long-distance bus, and because he was bold and careful, he had a flexible mind, and he quickly made a career. not only made a fortune, but also took his third uncle to do it together. Now there are three lines in hand, 12 cars, worth tens of millions, which is second only to the uncle's net worth.

At the end of this year, my aunt and my sister-in-law will also get started on the road of passenger transport with the help of their second uncle. By the time he was 18 years old, the second uncle had a net worth of more than 100 million, and his aunt and brother-in-law were also doing well, and the whole family was brought to a rich life by the second uncle.

The third in line is Lin Ming's aunt Fang Yinglan, and I don't know who gave her name, and the three sisters in the family all have a blue character. Uncle Jiang Ping now runs a restaurant outside the long-distance bus station and works as a chef himself. In the future, family dinners will be either in the villa of the eldest uncle's house or in the villa of the second uncle's house, and he is generally in charge.

The third uncle's name is Fang Junqing, and he also inherited his grandmother. I have to say that my grandmother's genes are indeed strong, in addition to the eldest uncle and younger uncle, Lin Ming's other two uncles are carved out of a mold, with big ears, and they are like Buddhas in the next life. Fortunately, the three sisters are not so exaggerated, except for some charm in their eyebrows and eyes, the three sisters are very beautiful.

As for the old Qifang Junlong, he is only 27 this year, 19 years younger than his uncle. Lin Ming's grandmother and grandfather belonged to early marriage and early childbearing. At that time, my grandmother married my grandfather at the age of 16, gave birth to Fang Junxiong at the age of 17, and gave birth to Xia Junlong at the age of 36. If it weren't for my grandmother's physical discomfort, she might have continued to give birth.

The younger generation may not have an impression of that era, but at that time, the social environment was in a period of development and construction, the population was the main labor force of the family, the people generally believed that more people were powerful, and the state also advocated more children. Therefore, at that time, the rural people were relatively able to give birth, with as few as three or four as many as a dozen, and the population grew dramatically.

Later, when my grandmother was old and unwell, she couldn't have children. Fang Junlong became the youngest, he was relatively small at that time, and he developed an arrogant personality of his uncle, and he was even late for his eldest brother's birthday party, and he didn't know if he would come over, so he had a lot of personality. However, he is very good, and he is very good to the younger generations, especially with Lin Ming's eldest cousin Fang Luoyang and second cousin Jiang Wei, who have a good relationship with him as if he wears a pair of pants. Rural people get married early, the eldest uncle married the eldest aunt at the age of 20, and gave birth to the eldest cousin Fang Luoyang at the age of 21. The eldest aunt married her eldest aunt at the age of 17 and gave birth to Jiang Wei at the age of 18. So among the younger generations and elders of the entire family, Fang Junlong is the same age as them, Fang Luoyang is 2 years younger than him, and Jiang Wei is 3 years younger. When I was a child, my uncle came to Yuncheng very early to work and put the two children in my grandmother's house for foster care. At that time, although the second uncle begged for a wife, he did not give birth to children, and worked as an apprentice in Yuncheng to repair the fetus. The eldest aunt Fang Yinglan also followed her uncle to work in other places and brought Jiang Wei to her grandmother. The third uncle is a bachelor who left home to work as a bricklayer in a brickyard in a foreign country.

My grandmother and grandfather lived in the countryside on the outskirts of Yuncheng, and after the eldest uncle, second uncle, eldest aunt and third uncle left home one after another, Lin Ming's mother Fang Lan, aunt Fang Xiaolan and uncle Fang Junlong stayed at my grandmother's house.

Fang Lan is the oldest, since she was 10 years old, she and 8-year-old Fang Xiaolan began to help her grandmother do farm work, take care of housework, cut pigweed to feed pigs, and take care of her 2-year-old brother. Later, Fang Luoyang was born, Fang Lan and Fang Xiaolan took Fang Luoyang again, and they dragged their nephew with a handful of and urine. When Fang Lan was 15 years old, Fang Junlong was 7 years old. In the countryside, other people's 7.8-year-old children have to help their parents work, but grandparents treat Fang Junlong as a baby, and they don't have to do anything. Every day, he takes 5-year-old Fang Luoyang and 4-year-old Jiang Wei up the mountains and down the river to run around, which is very happy. At that time, Fang Junxiong gave birth to a second daughter, Fang Luodan, who was just 2 years old, and sent it to his grandmother's house, but Fang Lan took it.

So when he was a child, Fang Junlong was closest to his two sisters and two nephews, and his relationship with his eldest brother Fang Junxiong was a bit of the same thing.

Lin Ming's family entered the private room, and the parents, aunts, and sister-in-law walked to the uncle's side, and Lin Ming followed behind them, wanting to go over and say hello politely. Gong Jie and Gong Fangfang didn't follow them, they ran to the side of the sofa and sat down, without the slightest intention of going over to say hello.

Don't look at the age of children, in fact, they are the most sensitive. The uncle is a typical representative of the traditional patriarchal system, and when the younger siblings are not promising, they will be counted in public and mercilessly, which is very embarrassing.

In the family, the younger uncle and the younger brother-in-law are the objects of the uncle's frequent reprimand. Especially the brother-in-law was deceived into a pyramid scheme that time, and when he came back, he was ridiculed by his uncle in public, and he was embarrassed.

made Gong Jie and Gong Fangfang unable to get close to their uncle's family, and when they saw him, they would not be embarrassed to say hello at most, and they didn't even say a word.

For children, this emotion is a little more real.

"Evergreen, come and sit."

The uncle cordially beckoned Lin Changqing to come and sit down, but he didn't even look at the aunt's family. Don't look at Lin Changqing working in the Qingshui Yamen Statistics Bureau, but in terms of official positions, he is also a department-level cadre. Maybe one day he will be transferred to a powerful yamen to be the number one, so several maternal uncles are still quite polite to Lin Changqing, the second brother-in-law.

The aunt and the brother-in-law laughed awkwardly, the two said hello and said happy birthday to the eldest brother, but Fang Junxiong didn't even look at it, let them sit or stand, the aunt wanted to turn around and leave with an ugly face, but Fang Lan quietly pulled the two of them to sit down beside her.

The adults sit at one table, and the juniors sit at the other table. My mother's family is huge, with a family of seven and a son and two daughters. Fang Luoyang, Fang Luodan and Fang Luoping are three brothers and sisters. Fang Luoyang got married and had children last year, courted a wife, and gave birth to a daughter, so there are seven members of the uncle's family. The second uncle, the third uncle, the eldest aunt, and the younger aunt each have two children, and they are all a boy and a girl. Counting the only son Lin Ming, there are 12 children, 1 daughter-in-law, and 1 grandchild. Coupled with 13 elders, the total number of people has reached a huge family of 27 people, and by 2018, the number of this family is still soaring, breaking through the 50 mark, with many sons and many blessings, and four generations in the same house.

Such a large family is also close to each other. For example, Lin Ming has a good relationship with Gong Jie, and Gong Fangfang has a good relationship with Fang Xiaoyan, the daughter of the third uncle's family. The relationship between the eldest cousin Fang Luoyang and Jiang Wei is a little closer than that of his own sisters. Fang Lan, Fang Xiaolan, and Fang Junlong are better, and the second uncle, third uncle, and aunt usually get closer.

The younger generations are much simpler, and they are generally close in age, so they can play together. But the elders are complicated, in addition to the relationship between relatives and relatives, there are also some entanglements of interests. A few years ago, the eldest uncle and the second uncle had a quarrel because of some things, and the two had a big quarrel. In the end, it evolved to the fact that the two families were strangers for most of the year, and when they met, the nose was not the nose and the eyes were not the eyes, if it were not for the New Year, the grandparents rushed to Yuncheng from the countryside to celebrate the New Year, and the uncle secretly made a small report to the grandparents, and the grandmother took the rattan in anger, and on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, let the two sons kneel on the ground and admit their mistakes, and severely whipped them a few times before the two brothers reconciled.

Lin Ming and Gong Jie found a secluded corner and sat down, leaning against the window, and the evening breeze came. On his left is Fang Zirui, the son of the third uncle, who is in the second year of high school, although he is one and a half years older than Lin Ming, Fang Zirui has not been able to play with Lin Ming and Gong Jie since he was a child, saying that they are outsiders, not their Fang family.

However, Fang Zirui's sister Fang Xiaoyan can play together with Lin Ming, Gong Jie and Gong Fangfang, Fang Xiaoyan is one year younger than Gong Jie, eight months older than Gong Fangfang, the four of them played together every day when they were young, and they are closer when they grow up.

"Brother Xiao Ming, how to fight this level." The 12-year-old looks very cute and cute, and is playing tank battles with a black and white game console, and Gong Fangfang is drooling next to her to watch her play.

It seemed that there was a level that couldn't be beaten, so she ran over to Lin Ming for help, Lin Ming smiled and helped her play for a while, and quickly cleared the level.

In later generations, the four brothers and sisters were still the closest, and Lin Ming also liked his little cousin very much. In the future, Fang Xiaoyan came back from studying abroad and opened a study abroad agency in Yuncheng, Gong Jie went to other provinces to serve as a soldier, or Lin Ming and Gong Fangfang were busy and helped her around.