The Luo family's birthday banquet is not over after eating. The banquet is prepared by Luo Haojiang's five brothers and sisters, and the brothers and sisters of Luo Jiang's generation can't focus on participating in it! Luo Jiang's cousins and cousins are more than 20, and everyone has already discussed in the WeChat group, the banquet will be sung, and after the banquet is over, they will start to set up a stage to sing the flower drum opera, and sing until dinner.

A play is 8,800 yuan, and the average talent per person is less than 400, and the more people are better. The cousin of the third aunt's family said that more than 400 is only enough for one meal, why don't we put on another movie? Everyone has responded to the call, put, must be put!

In the countryside at night, it is a good memory to play a movie in the Dadi Ping, and it is even better to sit down and drink a glass of boiling water and drink some melon seeds. Now that there are televisions and computers, there have been no movies in the village for more than ten years, and the students' annual patriotic education has also changed from showing movies on the grassland to putting on discs in the classrooms.

As soon as the old village chief announced that there was a movie to watch at night, everyone was so excited that they slapped their palms red, and the guests who lived far away could only leave with a regretful face, and it would be dark if they didn't go home after listening to the play!

At ten o'clock in the evening, the movie ended, the villagers with flashlights went home in pairs with ponies, and the relatives of the Luo family carried big brooms from upstairs to downstairs.

Grandma Luo is old, and she is tired and panicked after a day of trouble, so she took a few great-grandsons and great-grandsons with high tables to sleep first, Luo Jiang and Wu Fang carried two vacuum cleaners to clean up the eight rooms, Luo Qing took Rosie to drag the first time with a mop in the back, and the cousin dragged a second time with a dry mop. Zhou Wuqing, his sister-in-law, and his sisters waited for the ground to be dry, and then spread a few large bunks, the women slept on the beds, and the men laid the floor.

The young people are energetic, Luo Haojiang's generation has already fallen asleep, and Luo Jiang is still giggling with his cousins who rarely see each other, and it gradually quieted down after twelve o'clock.

Early the next morning, Luo Jiang and Wu Fang led a few cousins to get up and prepare breakfast first. My family is not so particular, and there are still a lot of wine and dishes left on the banquet, of course, these have not been served. The Luo family has prepared sixty-six tables, and the kitchen usually prepares seventy tables or even more, after all, anyone can borrow a table if there are fewer tables, and it will be a shame to lose a fortune if there are fewer dishes.

The dish is solved, the rice is a big problem, not everyone will cook a big pot of rice, and the leftovers removed from the banquet yesterday were given to the pig-raising people at home.

Luo Jiang washed half a basket of rice with a large basket and poured it into the cauldron on the stove, Wu Fang added enough firewood, boiled the water in the rice pot over the fire, scooped off the excess water, and covered the pot with the remaining two centimeters of water, removed a few firewood and boiled it over medium heat. After the rice grains were full of water and Wu Fang tasted the raw rice, Luo Jiang helped move the firewood to another stove and slowly simmered it with the burned fire seeds.

Breakfast is the real banquet for everyone, and yesterday was too busy, and everyone didn't eat much. Today's wine and food are besieged by chopsticks of men, women and children as soon as they are served, Luo Jiang has been boarding since elementary school, and he uses spoons to eat at school, how can the kung fu on chopsticks compare to them? After a while, he was defeated, and ran to the children's pile to eat with his rice bowl.

The older generation saluted each other (served vegetables for others), and the younger generation desperately grabbed the vegetables, but fortunately everyone did it separately, otherwise they would inevitably be hit in the head by chopsticks.

Of course, if there are leftovers in the back, then score points and send tasks. Luo Jiang's combat effectiveness is too weak, so he can only get the job of writing the names of dishes with pen and paper, and the rest of the people draw lots to decide which dishes to eat, and Luo Jiang and the children decide who to help according to their mood.

Even if everyone gets the same dish, the dishes on the four big tables add up to a lot, and soon Luo Jiang and the children will become fragrant and sweet. Help with the food, yes! We can't eat in vain, let's send red envelopes first, don't eat if you have less money!

Luo Qing caught the braised pork, no matter how delicious it was, it was greasy in four bowls, and the meat was already oily. Luo Qing hatefully slapped ten yuan on the hands of his brothers and sisters, and said cruel words in his mouth: You wait for me during the New Year, my sister's wife Gao Ma may eat it, and you will have to return the money to me when the time comes!

There is one more important thing to do after eating, and that is to take pictures. Grandma Luo is 90 years old, whether it is going to school, going to work, or being a soldier, they all come back from the army on leave.

Grandma Luo has five children, Aunt Luo has three sons and three daughters, the second aunt has four Jinhua, the third aunt has a pair of children, Luo Wujiang has two sons, and Luo Haojiang has both children. Among the grandchildren, only Rosie and Luo Jiang are not married and have no children, so taking pictures together is the same as taking graduation photos. The children squatted at the front or were held by their grandparents, Grandma Luo and her sons sat in the first row, the grandchildren's ladies stood in the second row, and the men stood on the steps in the third row, which allowed the camera to put this big family down.

Then there is a group photo between generations and a family, which is almost an hour away. The preparation for the birthday gift takes the most time, most people come back several days in advance, and only the children who go to school do not need to ask for leave, because yesterday was a Saturday. Now that the birthday ceremony is a complete success, those who go to work and study in other places have to go home to pack their bags and prepare to return to their habitat.

Luo Jiang invited home for five days, and went directly to the night shift on the sixth day, so he could stay one more day. The cousin in Shanghai came back by car, and originally wanted to take Luo Jiang over, but was politely rejected by Luo's father. It was still hard to take the car for more than ten hours, and Luo Qing and his wife also had to drive back to the station, and it would only take forty minutes to send Luo Jiang to the nearest high-speed rail station, and there would be four and a half hours of high-speed rail to Hangzhou, so why bother others?

Luo Jiang booked the ticket and there was nothing wrong, Luo Qing called Jin Hengsheng to make an appointment for the pick-up time, Zhou Wuqing explained on the phone how to eat the potted braised pork, and the three Luo Qi sisters even promised to go to Inner Mongolia to learn to ride a horse next summer. Of course, none of them contacted Jin Hengsheng through Luo Jiang's channels, Luo Qing is phone, Luo's mother is WeChat, and the three Luo Qi sisters share a penguin number.

There are more luggage, and the small backpack that Luo Jiang brought back is completely an ornament, and it can't be stuffed with anything else except for documents and snacks. There is also one more suitcase, if it weren't for Luo Jiang's case on the 24th, it couldn't be carried directly on the plane, and it was not convenient to get on and off the car, maybe Luo's mother could stuff a few more big bags of snacks.

Luo Jiang felt that it was unfair, why did she and Lao Hu and Fat Dahai only have one box, and Jin Hengsheng alone had one box! also played a trick and said that if he didn't explain it clearly, he wouldn't take it, and Luo's mother raised her hand to be a chestnut, which then attracted the attention of Grandma Luo and Luo's father.

"You kid, how much can you three girls eat? Xiao Jin still has to give it away, so I don't have enough of it. I said when did you get the book, and if you drive yourself, you can bring a trunk of things. Luo's mother rubbed Luo Jiang's head again, and successfully destroyed Luo Jiang's hairstyle that had been lost for half a morning.

Luo Jiang looked at his eldest brother's car and didn't speak, the newly harvested peanuts and newly beaten rice in the autumn were packed in a big bag, if it weren't for the fact that peanut oil was a flammable and explosive substance, my mother estimated that she could put a bucket on it.

"Hello? Hengsheng, we're ready to go...... When the time comes, send Jiangjiang into the station...... Well, I bought a platform ticket...... You'll pick her up at the station at about two o'clock...... I don't think she will eat lunch, the food in the car is too unpalatable...... There are snacks and a big bag...... When the time comes, I will pack her a piece of marinated powder, which can be heated for more than an hour on the warm baby...... Good. After Luo Qing finished calling, the three of them went to the hall to kowtow to their ancestors and say goodbye before leaving.

When driving, Grandma Luo and Luo's mother held on to the car window, and repeatedly told Luo Qing to drive carefully, and Luo Jiang should pay attention to safety in the car. Luo Jiang's ears were still slandering in her heart: Obviously, her family never sent her when she started school, and the tuition fees of thousands of yuan were directly in her pocket, and now she has brought dozens of catties of raw meat, cooked meat, who is rare!

But these words can't be said and are not in the mood to say, because everyone cried as soon as the car drove onto the road.