The ancients often said that ten years old do not worry, twenty do not regret, thirty and stand, forty do not confuse, fifty know the destiny of heaven, sixty ears are smooth, seventy ancient rare, eighty or ninety years old, one hundred years old, the world has always attached great importance to the whole year. However, there are few young people celebrating their birthdays, probably because they are afraid that they will be detained by ghosts when they hold birthday gifts at a young age. In the past, there were not many people living long lives due to poor material conditions, and every whole year was something worth celebrating.

There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure. Most of the long-lived elderly are well taken care of at home, the younger generation is filial, the family is harmonious and well-off, and the health of the elderly can be guaranteed, so that they can live to the next full age.

Grandma Luo was born in the late Qing Dynasty, and her children and grandchildren between the ages of 50 and 70 were under tight economic conditions, so they could not hold a big feast, and at the age of 80, they just got together with relatives and friends to have fun, and at the age of 90, they had to do it in a big way anyway.

Unless it is a funeral, the day of the wine needs to be set a month or even half a year in advance.

The birthday ceremony is different from other banquets, according to the customs of the hometown, the venue and the banquet are handled by the son, but the daughter has to prepare a gift for each guest, and each daughter gives each guest a copy, which is nothing more than food such as birthday cakes, longevity noodles, and longevity peaches. The things are not expensive, but they have to prepare many servings, because the villagers think that it is a good sign that children can live a long life if they eat something like a longevity peach, so there are more guests for the birthday ceremony than for other banquets.

Families without daughters rarely hold birthday gifts, and if the daughter's family has average economic conditions, the elders may not be willing to hold birthday gifts in order to save money. Even if you have a daughter, you still need to get married, Luo's mother was very depressed when she was 50 years old, because Luo Jiang didn't even have a partner, so the birthday gift naturally couldn't be done, so she could only have a meal among relatives.

Grandma Luo gave birth to six children, except for the youngest daughter, who died of illness, the others grew up safely and healthy, which is a great credit. For example, the third daughter was born with less than three catties, which was difficult to support during the war years, and now the third daughter is also a grandmother-level figure. For example, after Luo Haojiang was born, Grandma Luo has no milk, and the family has used rice paste and egg custard to feed him, other people's families don't even have sweet potatoes, but the Luo family has white rice and eggs to feed the children.

Now that Grandma Luo is ninety years old, the children must want to have a good time. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Luo Haojiang and Luo Wujiang sent the invitation out, the red invitation was very beautiful, and every word in it was neatly written by Luo Haojiang's five sisters and brothers with a brush. When I went out to deliver invitations, many people joked that this kind of thing is enough to send children, is Luo Jiang going to get married? Otherwise, how could the third young master and the fifth young master personally come to the door to deliver the wedding card?

Sending birthday posts is generally sent by the juniors in the family, so it seems that people are thriving, Luo Ying and Luo Qi are now in charge, and it is not impossible for Luo Haojiang to lead the delivery of posts.

However, the guests who are invited need to be relatives who are related to Grandma Luo's grandparents and grandparents, fortunately, Grandma Luo and Grandpa Luo are close cousins and brothers, and the relatives on both sides overlap, otherwise there can be thousands of relatives and friends who participate in the birthday ceremony.

Luo Haojiang's two brothers went through the family tree to determine who needed to be invited, and many relatives have now cut off contact, and no one knows who you are when they come to the door, let alone come to give gifts and eat banquets. Therefore, relatives who are more than five blessed do not need to give gifts when they come to eat and drink, otherwise who would want to come? The birthday banquet was originally meant to be lively, and money was secondary.

The government stipulates that gatherings of more than 100 people must be reported in advance, which is not a big problem. Luo Haojiang signed a letter of safety responsibility, Luo Wujiang couldn't resist his wife after his second marriage, and he has been living in his father-in-law's village. The banquet was held at Luo Jiang's house, and Luo Wujiang was no longer qualified to sign.

Luo Haojiang roughly calculated that there would be about sixty tables for distant relatives plus the relatives and friends of their five sisters, which was still calculated at ten people per table. The guests may also bring their families small, so they should prepare a few more tables, Luo Haojiang made up an auspicious number and set the number of sixty-six tables.

As the day of the wine is approaching, many things have to be prepared, such as 66 tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans. Originally, these things were borrowed from the neighbor's house, and when they were returned, it was said that these things were stained with the blessings of the Lord's family, and as long as they were borrowed for wedding wine, no one would refuse.

But the Luo family has too many things to borrow this time, and it is estimated that a village can't make it up, Luo Haojiang and the eldest brother will simply spend some money to rent it, and they will send it directly to their home, which can save a lot of things.

Three days before the start of the banquet, all dishes and refreshments must be purchased. Several juniors of the Luo family drove the big east wind to the wholesale market and pulled two truckloads of dry goods back. Fresh vegetables, fish and meat will be slaughtered and delivered to Luo's house the day before the banquet.

For such a grand banquet, the personnel arrangement is a big problem, and a respected elder is needed to serve as the chief manager, the old village chief is more than ten years younger than Grandma Luo, and he has received the favor of Luo Jiang back then, and this time he offered to be the chief manager.

The countdown to the banquet was two days, and the old village chief drew up a personnel schedule full of a large piece of paper. Before the banquet, the host family wanted to invite all the blind dates who came to help to eat, and the old village chief took the tweeter and read it for half an hour before finishing it. Every time a name arrives, the person concerned will step forward to receive a red envelope from Grandma Luo's hand, which is a blessing bag, and the wages for helping will be delivered to the door by Luo Haojiang's five sisters and brothers after the banquet.

Only when the division of labor is clear is it easy to work, and the things of tea, washing vegetables, and washing dishes are handled by the women's army, and the manual work of serving food, serving refreshments, and setting tables and chairs is all men. The work of welcoming guests needs relatives to complete, Luo Haojiang and Luo Wujiang are responsible for delivering cigarettes and picking up customers, and Luo Qing takes two cousins to help set off firecrackers. It is written in the safety responsibility book that firecrackers should be lit uniformly to avoid fire!

The day after Luo Jiang returned home, the Luo family killed the pig. Luo Jiang's family and uncle's family each produced a pig, and the pig killer worked for a long time to clean up nearly 400 catties of meat. The village party secretary and his two sons who are chefs serve as chefs, and when the pork is cleaned up, they will quickly make braised pork, and the meat skin and lean meat must be prepared in advance, and the steamer can be directly put on the day of the banquet.

The banquet counts down to the day, Luo Jiang's house is full of people, and the table for eating must be set up in advance. The sixty-six chapters of the table are set up one by one, covering a huge area, and Luo's mother has cleaned up the house, whether it is the bedroom or the living room. The elders ate and drank in the house, and the other tables were set up on the large floor in front of the house, and there were also about 20 tables on the roof of the building.

The main road in front of the house is the main road, and Luo Jiang and his cousins have been sprinkling water to sweep the road for the past two days to avoid the dust raised by vehicles passing by on the day of the birthday ceremony.

Luo Jiang's second brother-in-law was a calligrapher, who belonged to the provincial calligraphy and painting association, and all the couplets were written by him himself. As for the big Shou character on the wall of the main hall, it is said that it was written by the president of the Calligraphy Association, and it was also stamped with a seal.

My cousin and cousin, who work in a bank, brought a large safe, and according to the habit of money in rural areas, the money collected for this birthday gift may exceed six figures, so it is better to bring a safe to insure.

Jin Hengsheng has been in a state of nervousness since the video with Luo Jiang's relatives and friends, no one answered when he called Luo Jiang several times, and he didn't see Luo Jiang squeak when Alipay transferred 10,000 yuan, didn't he even have the qualifications to give gifts? Jin Hengsheng was melancholy.

Luo Jiang didn't see Alipay's transfer reminder until after ten o'clock in the evening, she was so busy that she didn't even have time to look at her mobile phone in the past two days, where did she have time to check the account? Seeing Jin Hengsheng's transfer, Luo Jiang couldn't make up his mind, 10,000 yuan was too much, and the money that his aunt and uncle agreed to write in the gift book tomorrow was only 8888, and Luo Jiang's generation was married to 5,000, and Jin Hengsheng gave too much.

Luo Jiang thought about it, but secretly lifted the quilt and prepared to go upstairs to ask Luo's father, who knew that Grandma Luo was not asleep yet, and as soon as Luo Jiang moved, Grandma Luo spoke.

"Jiangjiang, where are you going?" Grandma Luo sat up and felt the switch, turned on the bedside lamp, and a small bright light shone on the ground.

Luo Jiang wanted to say that he wanted to go to the toilet, but he didn't dare to say it.

"What's there to be embarrassed about, your parents are busy now, and it's the same if you have something to tell me." Grandma Luo wore a black scarf, and it seemed that she was going to talk for a while.

Luo Jiang can't help it, it's cold at night in the mountains, if Grandma Luo doesn't hear her tell the truth, she doesn't plan to sleep, but don't catch a cold.

"That, Grandma. My boyfriend, you remember that Jin Hengsheng. Luo Jiang sat up and told the truth.

"How can you not remember, grandma is not old and confused, how can my granddaughter's boyfriend forget." Grandma Luo patted the quilt, she had a good impression of Jin Hengsheng, and their Luo family's vision has always been very good. Luo Jiang's three aunts are all in free love, and now one is the wife of the deputy director of the Electric Power Bureau, the other is the wife of a calligrapher, and the other is the wife of the township chief, and now they are all enjoying Qingfu.

"He called me 10,000 yuan and said he was celebrating your birthday. I thought that my brother and cousin had only given 5,000, and it was not good for him to give 10,000, so I wanted to discuss it with my father. "Luo Jiang is not entangled in the problem of money, but she and Jin Hengsheng are now nameless and inseparable, and Jin Hengsheng can't go to the gift book even if he also gives five thousand.

"Well, then...... Who is it! Grandma Luo didn't find a solution, and wanted Luo Jiang to ask her father, but Luo Haojiang had already knocked on the door.

"Mom, did you sleep?" Luo Haojiang was waiting at the door with the gift book, he came on behalf of his brothers and sisters.

"Come in, don't you have the key?" Grandma Luo's door is unlocked, and Luo Haojiang will go to see it several times a night, for fear that the old man will fall under the bed or get up at night to fall.

"Then I'm in. Jiangjiang hasn't slept yet, so you can get up and listen. Luo Haojiang saw that the old lady was already dressed and sat up, so he simply let the brothers and sisters in the main hall come in, and it would be good to discuss things together.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Grandma Luo tightened the woolen scarf on her shoulders, but Luo Jiang took a cotton coat and put it on.

"Mom, doesn't my eldest son have a partner, the girl said that people can't come and should arrive, so she brought a thousand yuan over. The two of them plan to get engaged at the end of this year, do you think they can write this thousand dollars in the gift book? Luo Wujiang was coerced and lured by his wife to come, and the old five families have been pressing them, and this time the future daughter-in-law has raised their faces, so they naturally want to take it out.

"Yes, yes. Jiang Jiang just said that her boyfriend also sent money over, so she wrote 1,000 yuan per person to the gift book, and returned more of it, and said that I received it. Grandma Luo's last sentence was to look at Luo Jiang and say, she didn't know what the eldest daughter-in-law was like, and the reason why she agreed to her son going to her father-in-law's village to repair the house was completely out of sight.

"Jiangjiang has a boyfriend? It's so good, I don't know how much he gave. The eldest aunt's smiling face froze, and her mother-in-law said this, Luo Jiang's boyfriend obviously gave more than a thousand, but I don't know if it was really given, or Luo Jiang posted it upside down.

"I think 10,000 is too much, just so you said that your daughter-in-law gave 1,000, and I also think 1,000 is enough." Grandma Luo is most annoyed that her eldest daughter-in-law can't compare and get to the bottom of it, since she is not interesting, don't blame her for not giving affection.

"Grandma, Juanjuan can't come to greet you in person, I want to say hello to you on the phone." Rosie stopped her mother's words, smiled and handed the phone to Grandma Luo, the girl in the video had a sweet mouth, and knelt on the ground to kowtow to Grandma Luo's birthday seriously.

"Good boy, get up, your grandmother sees it, it's cold on the ground, get up quickly." Grandma Luo rubbed under the pillow as she spoke, Luo Jiang hurriedly took out the red envelope from Grandma Luo's jacket pocket, and Grandma Luo gave it to Rosie.

The red envelopes are very thick, if they are all red, there are at least hundreds, and the eldest aunt pinched it and stopped talking.

"Jiangjiang, send a video to your object, brother, I brought a projector, let's watch it on our mobile phones, hahaha!" The third aunt's son and Luo Jiang were the most affectionate, and they took out the computer and connected it to the projector, and even the camera was ready.

The eldest aunt's face turned black again, why didn't her daughter-in-law have this treatment just now, and she wanted to rush out and was stopped by Rosie. It's not right for them to do this suddenly, and it's rude to quarrel any more.

Luo Jiang only prayed now that Jin Hengsheng was not taking a bath and not sleeping, otherwise she would be embarrassed and lose her hair.

Jin Hengsheng obviously won't embarrass Luo Jiang, he was wearing sportswear and holding Luo Xiaoqi in the living room to watch a movie, before eleven o'clock, without waiting for Luo Jiang's news, Jin Hengsheng would not sleep.

"Haha! Luo Xiaoqi, your mother sent me a video! The mobile phone sang happily on the coffee table, and the computer also showed that Luo Jiang sent a video, Jin Hengsheng quickly turned off the movie, turned on the chandelier to ensure that the light was sufficient, and then the video was connected.

"Good evening...... Hello! Jin Hengsheng was in a good mood to say hello, and the next second he saw that the computer screen was densely packed with people, Jin Hengsheng tried to keep smiling, but he was crying in his heart, why didn't Luo Jiang say hello every time. So many people obviously connected to the camera video, and Luo Jiang didn't tell him!