The years seem to pass very quickly, and everyone who has committed this year has grown a year older.

Zhou Xiaoyun sighed a little, and unconsciously four years had passed. She is ten years old this year. Standing in front of the dressing mirror and looking at yourself, it seems that after a year, people have grown taller, and their childish faces have begun to have the feeling of a little 'girl'.

Zhao 'Yu' Zhen and Zhou Guoqiang discussed the matter of celebrating Zhou Xiaoyun's tenth birthday.

In rural areas, the sixth birthday is usually the most important birthday for boys. Zhou Xiaoyun couldn't figure out why he was specific, he remembered that when his younger brother Xiaobao was six years old, there were six or seven tables of banquets at home, and the good villagers and neighbors at home came with relatives and friends.

When Xiaobao was young, he left a small handful of hair on the top of his head, and the long braided hemp 'flower' was hung down at the back of his head.

On the day of his sixth birthday, there is an important ritual: shaving his head.

Zhou Guoqiang specially invited a shaver, and in the sound of a long string of firecrackers, the shaver picked up the braid on the top of Xiaobao's head so "click" that Xiaobao had grown for several years and cut off the long braid that Xiaobao had grown for several years.

The cut hair was put into a smiling red bag and hung from the beams of the house, and it is said that in this way he grew taller.

Compared with the cautiousness of boys' birthdays, 'girl' children are much more casual. However, it was only on the first 10th birthday that I invited my friends and relatives to have a meal.

However, Zhou Guoqiang was unwilling to treat the 'girl' badly, and wanted to '' it well.

Zhao 'Yu' Zhen has a similar idea, which will inevitably wronged the child when the family was poor in the past. I can miss home

The situation is getting better and better, and I don't care about 'spending' so much money. No matter what, I have to 'operate' the banquet to make Zhou Xiaoyun's tenth birthday more beautiful.

The couple spent a night in the house researching and preliminary the list of visitors.

Zhou Guoqiang's two brothers and a younger sister, Zhao 'Yu'zhen's two sisters and a younger brother, needless to say, must be invited, and the old people at both ends have to be brought over. Then there is the fact that everyone who has a relationship on weekdays must be invited one by one.

This banquet is asked by the university, if an oversight misses someone, it will be complained about. is the so-called "saving money for others and being resented", if you have money or not, you can't pick up the number of courtesies on the scene. Borrowing money also has to be a gift, which is the characteristic 'nature' of rural people.

The next thing is to go to the east and west to inform everyone of the specific date.

Zhou Guoqiang spent the whole afternoon running 'errands', fortunately, some families have phones, and they can also call to inform them. Like Zhou Guomin's family in the city and Zhou Fang's family in the neighboring village, a phone call can solve the problem and be convenient. It's better to install a phone!

The farthest is Zhao 'Yu' Zhen's two sisters' house, they married farther away, and there was no phone at home, so Zhao 'Yu' Zhen had to go out on a bicycle to his sister's house to say something.

Zhou Guoqiang has known a lot of people in business in the past two years, and he actually invited nearly eight tables of people. This is not a small amount, who is not even a big and small family to give gifts, and they have to buy some vegetables to prepare.

I'm done with the treat

I have to be busy buying vegetables, and I don't need to go to the big vegetable market in the county, so I can find a few familiar vegetable stalls in the prosperous vegetable market and ask the boss to bring more vegetables back for him.

Of course, the 'meat' category is indispensable, and the pig 'meat' occupies the leading role, Zhou Guoqiang specially killed two pigs, what braised 'meat' croquettes, pig's trotter soup, roasted hooves and the like, and then killed eight or nine 'chickens' that had been raised at home for more than a year, and eight or nine fish, and it took two or three days to finish it.

Coincidentally, the day of Zhou Xiaoyun's lunar birthday happened to be Sunday.

Zhou Guoqiang and Zhao 'Yu' Zhen got up early in the morning to get busy.

A few round tables were borrowed from various families in the village, two side houses in the hall house, three in one courtyard, and the last two were put in Zhou Guofu's house next door because they couldn't be placed.

Shen Huafeng and Zhou Guofu both came to help, and Zhou Fang and Wu Youde also brought these two children early.

Zhou Guoqiang and Zhou Guofu were busy carrying the table and taking the bench, and Wu Youde also followed behind to help.

A few 'women' got together to take care of the dishes and wash the vegetables, and they were also very busy.

Where did the protagonist Zhou Xiaoyun go?

Hehe, don't look for it! I'm helping to wash the vegetables on the side!

Fortunately, the children are all older and can help with things.

Wu Mei had already accompanied Zhou Xiaoyun to wash the vegetables together, Zhou Xiaoxia usually never did anything at home, but now seeing that everyone is not idle, she is embarrassed to be lazy next to her and pretend to take care of the dishes.

Dabao, Zhou Zhihai, and Wu Lei are three boys

The older ones took turns to dig small wells, and continuously supplied water to Zhou Xiaoyun and them for washing vegetables.

After a while, Wang Jingjing, Zhou Qianqian, and Sun Min came. The adults didn't come until lunchtime, and they couldn't hold back and came to play early.

When I came here and saw that Zhou Xiaoyun was busy, Wang Jingjing shook her arms and shouted: Zhou Xiaoyun, I'm here! If there is anything I command, I will go to the soup and fight the fire!

was scolded by Zhou Xiaoyun with a smile: "It's like a war, you guys stay on the side to play, it's enough to have me and Xiaomei here." ”

I haven't seen Wang Jingjing use idioms so smoothly in Chinese class!

The three of them came to find Zhou Xiaoyun, who was willing to go to the side to play, but they all squeezed next to the big red plastic bucket to help wash the vegetables.

Sun Min didn't pay attention to throwing the water on Zhou Zhihai, Zhou Zhihai grinned and wanted revenge, but several 'girl' children squatting by the bucket suffered.

Wang Jingjing was the first to jump up and didn't let her, and she started to fight with Zhou Zhihai. Coupled with the coaxing Dabao and Wu Lei, Zhou Qianqian, who is getting more and more helped, how can the word 'chaos' be the first time this time!

Zhou Xiaoyunle laughed, today she is the one in the best mood, no matter how you look at it, it is pleasant!

She remembered that she was ten years old in her previous life, and she ordered a bowl of noodles in the morning and called her uncle, third uncle and aunt to come to dinner at noon, which was considered her birthday.

In this life, Zhou Xiaoyun was both moved and happy that his parents attached so much importance to his birthday, which was all a piece of love from his parents!

No, two weeks before his birthday, Zhao 'Yu'

Jane took Zhou Xiaoyun to the county mall to buy beautiful new clothes, and bought Zhou Xiaoyun a pair of leather shoes for the first time.

Zhou Xiaoyun didn't object to Ren Zhao 'Yu' Zhen for the first time, and picked out a big red 'color' coat for herself!

Put on the infrared suit and look in the mirror and find that I was wearing a red 'color' and 'quite good', hehe!

The chef who cooks the dishes is Shi Yongshou of this village, who is the second uncle of Shi. He often cooks for the people who hold the banquet, and the dishes are bought by the host himself, and some wages are paid for Shi Yongshou to provide another meal.

Shi Yongnian wrote a good fountain pen hand, this week Guoqiang invited him to be a bookkeeper, and let Wu Youde be responsible for collecting money and sending sugar, and the two moved a table and sat at the mouth of the 'door' talking and laughing.

Shi Yong came to Shi Yong early, and he was very happy to run inside and outside Dabao.