Maybe in the hearts of my grandparents, they want to be good to me, and this is the only way. Give me a proper name, even if we don't register, so decided, we will have a name in the countryside. The grandparents are all old people in the village, maybe they don't say anything good, they just use their way to be good to me and to the children.

I didn't hesitate to put this red envelope in my bag, ready to take it to my parents when I returned to my house after dinner. This kind of money must be collected, and if you accept it, you will agree to it. If you go back pretentiously, the old man will be sad.

After dinner at Zong Sheng's house, my grandmother only smiled at me all the time and didn't mention the red envelope. After eating, you always have to go back to my house and sit down. It is not appropriate for those from the same village to come back and not go home to sit down.

Zong Sheng and I walked slowly towards my house. The night breeze at night was particularly cold. He used his phone as a flashlight to light me on the road. In fact, his eyes can see at night, and he doesn't need a flashlight at all. The flashlight was entirely for me. Since it was for me, he was brave enough to carry it myself, but he carried it for me, so that I could put both hands in my coat pocket.

On the way, I told Zong Sheng about my grandmother's red envelope. And Zong Sheng's red envelope has become a secret in our hearts, our commitment to each other, we don't need to say it, everyone is so sure.

Zong Sheng said: "Yes, let your father also go and talk to the people in the village, or other people will think that you have a big belly and follow me with nothing." ”

"This time, the company seems to have suffered a lot of losses."

"Well, it's basically all in the blue. After the Chinese New Year, the red envelopes were distributed, and the finance side almost cried with me. You don't have to worry about this, if I have a big life and can survive the Lantern Festival, there will naturally be a way. The bank's loan should also be put down after the New Year. As long as it lasts until June and July, when the excellent product is completed and a large number of existing houses are launched, we will be able to slow down, and even after the New Year, the progress of the project will be brought to the bank as required, and we will be able to receive the full payment for the sale of the house. ”

I nodded, and I didn't care if he said it was to comfort me, or whatever. Anyway, now I also know that all the company's business is on Youpin. If Youpin wins, Zong An will still have a chance to turn over. If Youpin fails, Zong'an may have to declare bankruptcy. Even the purchase money that has been received from customers will become a rope that drags us down.

When we walked to my house, we both tacitly agreed not to say this again, but changed to face my parents with a smile.

When I took out the red envelope and handed it to my dad, my dad's eyes lit up, and while counting the money, he said: "This money, I can cover all the mountains of our family, plant trees, plant pine trees, and plant for more than ten years, and when your children are older, I will pay for high school and college." ”

My mom pulled me and explained, "Your dad cleared the fish pond a few days ago and made a lot of money. After the New Year, dig lotus roots to sell. Zong Sheng, we have a fish pond at home, and life is better. Don't talk to your grandmother about the house when you go back. We also know that your family is strapped for money right now. ”

Zong Sheng still has that cold face, and he won't change it at all. I smiled at my mom and nodded.

The days of the New Year are always beautiful. At least on the surface.

In the countryside, firecrackers are set off in every house, and the land is red. On the evening of the thirtieth, we had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at three o'clock in the afternoon at my parents' house, and a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at Zong Sheng's house at six o'clock in the evening.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the ancestral hall is opened, the ancestors are worshipped, and the genealogy is invited. Asking for a genealogy is actually to record the children of the clan who were born during the year. Those one-year-old children also entered the ancestral hall for the first time, and were held by adults to worship their ancestors with incense.

For a while, there were really a lot of people. I rarely worship my ancestors like this, and when I come, my parents didn't pay attention to it in the past and won't take me to worship. Second, I'm a girl, and I'm going to get married sooner or later. If the ancestors of his own family worship or not, the relatives in the clan will not say anything. But the daughter-in-law will definitely worship, and she will enter this house. It's not that girls don't have to worship their ancestors, but that's how the custom is. The status of a daughter-in-law is always higher than that of an aunt.

I followed Zong Sheng and stood outside the ancestral hall to watch the excitement. Watching the old people of those tribes go to sacrifice with chickens, ducks, pigs and so on, these sacrifices were prepared the night before. Looking at the children who have just turned one year old this year, they are ceremoniously hugged into the family tree.

After watching the excitement of the day, in the afternoon, I was also tired and went back to take a nap. This little nap made me so noisy that I couldn't sleep at night.

At nine o'clock in the evening, I lay in bed, patted my stomach, and muttered to the child that my mother couldn't sleep.

Zong Sheng came out of the bathroom, looked at me like this, and said, "Get up!" Let's go out for a while. ”

I was stunned and quickly asked, "Where are you going?" "On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, our custom here is not to go to the door, but to go, it is also the second day of the new year.

"Rise up and get up! Get dressed, it's cold outside. "Although I don't understand what Zong Sheng is going to do, I hurry up when he says this. Get dressed and follow me out.

It's just that what I didn't expect was that he also ran inside and out for a while, prepared a lot of things, and didn't know what he wanted to do.

A few minutes later, we went downstairs and drove towards the old village. Finally, the car stopped in the corner of the open space in front of the ancestral hall.

"What are you doing in the ancestral hall?" I asked as I got out of the car.

Because it was the first day of the new year, the door of the ancestral hall was still open, the lanterns were still on, and there were very thick incense candles lit inside. The tributes were not removed, and these were all incense for three days. It is the implication of a person's exuberance.

Zong Sheng didn't say a word, and pulled me to the ancestral hall. He stood still in the center of the ancestral hall and let go of my hand: "Stand here and don't move!" ”

I just stood stupidly, looked at him, walked to the offering table with the basket I had brought out of the house, and took out from the basket the ceramic statues of two children, both of whom were cute, round, chubby, both wearing belly pockets, and the boy showed his little cock. Girls have green belly pockets and boys have red belly pockets.

Zong Sheng arranged the two children on the left and right, and then took out the red cloth from the drawer under the offering table, and he didn't know how he tied it, but in a few clicks, he could tie out two big red flowers that had fallen, and pressed them on both sides of the table with wine glasses.

Then he stood beside me, pulled out the red line, pinched the red line with a strange gesture, and said: "The ancestors and the ancestors are above, and the descendants are Zongsheng, I hereby ask you to be a witness." I, Zong Sheng, would like to be together for a hundred years and tie the knot together. ”

I looked at him in amazement, and respectfully held the red thread and kowtowed to the ancestral tablet. Then he pulled me to my knees and tied the red thread around my wrist. I was speechless and couldn't resist.

He was satisfied with the red thread around my wrist, and in the end, I don't know what he did, and the red thread just went into my skin and disappeared. I didn't feel a bit of strangulation in my wrist. I couldn't see the red thread, but I could feel it just against the skin of my wrist.

I was amazed: "Gone!" ”

"Don't talk." Zong Sheng pinched the incense, lit it, and then handed me three sticks, and said, "Follow me and kowtow." ”

I took the incense and looked nervously at the tablets on it. Zong Sheng had already leaned down, and I quickly followed suit.

After the three kowtows, he didn't get up, pinched the incense, knelt straight, and continued: "The ancestors and the ancestors are above, and the descendants of Zongsheng already have children. Please also ask my ancestors to bless my children and grow up healthy. After saying this, he pulled me to my feet, walked to the big incense burner together, put incense on it, then turned to look at me, and said, "Now you are the daughter-in-law of this family." The ancestors have recognized you. Also acknowledged the child in your belly. In the future, even if I can't bring my child here to enter his family tree, I think there will always be an ancestor who remembers, tonight, I told them, I married you, and you conceived my child. ”

I bit my lip and didn't want myself to cry. In order to protect me and my children from the impact of the company's bankruptcy, Zong Sheng transferred the money to me. In order to make me and my children have a place in the village, their family officially merged and made up their minds. He knew that on the night of the Lantern Festival, he might not really be able to come back, and he couldn't give me a wedding, so he would use this instead. Tell your fathers that he has married me. In order to allow our children to enter the family tree without their father, he also told the children to their ancestors.

"Don't cry, it's ugly if you cry." As he spoke, he reached out to wipe away the uncontrollable tears on my face.

I couldn't hold it anymore and cried and hugged him. He also hugged me, grabbed my wrist, put it to his lips, and pecked me lightly. I could feel his lips and the red thread. He said: "Blood pact, let our fates be entangled, at the time of your full moon, in the records of the judges, you will be my wife." And this red line is to allow us to be tied together and find each other. If I really can't come back on the night of the Lantern Festival, my ghost will also rely on the power of the red thread to let me appear by your side. Youxuan, I'm sorry, I was selfish. I'm going to die, and I'm going to come back to you. So, whether you live or die, wait for me to come back. Don't remarry, don't look at other men. Maybe one day, I'll be behind you and watching you. ”

"I know, I know." I cried and said, "You're going to be fine, you're going to be fine." ”