Chapter 37: Gift-giving
The next day, it finally snowed in Liujia Village today, and you could see snowflakes falling in the sky when you came out of the house.
At this time, the temperature is getting colder.
"Mother, do you want to go to my uncle's house early this year?"
"It's just starting to snow, and when it snows heavily, it's going to be inconvenient to go out, and the weather will be even colder."
"When the snow closes the mountain, you can't come back, and people stay outside, so you have to freeze stupid."
Meng Ran frowned, remembering that last year, a couple in the village returned to their parents' house after the Chinese New Year, and encountered super heavy snow on the way there, although they could recognize the direction in the vast white snow.
But when Nai's luck was bad, the heavy snow suddenly sealed the mountain, and people couldn't get out, couldn't go forward, and couldn't go back.
In the end, they froze to death on the road, and it was not until the snow stopped and people went to clear the snow on the road that they found the two couples.
Both of them were frozen and bruised, unable to breathe, and legend has it that the whole person was hard, and the person was frozen alive.
"This year's New Year, not in accordance with the customs of previous years, let's go to the outside house in advance to visit relatives, and pick a day before the year, otherwise wait until the two or three days of the New Year, and the time after the year, when the snow is heavy."
"It's so unsafe."
"And this year's snow is definitely heavier than in previous years, so not only do you go to your uncle's house to give New Year's gifts in advance, but you brothers also remind each other."
"Take your daughter-in-law back to your parents' house early, go back to your father-in-law's house to give gifts, come to the door early, and don't delay until the New Year!"
Seeing that his mother agreed, Boss Liu couldn't help but say, "Then, mother, will I go to my uncle's house this year?" Are you going? ”
Meng Ran waved his hand, "I only went there the year before last, and the older I have been in the past two years, I don't want to move, and you can go for me, and it almost means it!" ”
"It's not that you don't know your aunt's temperament, it's best if we don't go back, just send the gift!"
"I have a normal relationship with your aunt, it's not very good, and there's nothing to say when I go back and walk around!"
"You go for your mother and see how your uncle is doing! Just come back and tell me about your uncle's condition! ”
Liu Daniu nodded and agreed, but his aunt had a conflict with his mother, so his mother rarely went back to her home, and she was unwilling to move.
He also knew the situation, "That mother, I'll just go there alone this year!" ”
"You take a brother with you, the two of you will take care of it! And this year, our family is better, and we must give more gifts than last year, so that two people can bring things! ”
Meng Ran is a native of Shangyang Village, and there is still an eldest brother left in the family, and three younger sisters, all of whom married to other villages.
The relationship between the eldest brother and the sister-in-law is not very good, the two are equivalent to their own lives, and the sister-in-law often scolds the eldest brother at every turn, and drives him to work in the fields all day long.
Throughout the year, the eldest brother has not had to rest for a few days, just like a diligent old scalper, even more diligent than a cow.
However, in the village, the cattle are all treasures, and they are well served, fed and sheltered, and the farmers will also take a break so that they will not be tired.
As for the eldest brother in his memory, Meng Ran had to sigh: "Honest and honest people, hard work, but there is no meat on his body!" ”
In my memory, the eldest brother is quite tall, just very noodles, a handful of strength, but when he works, the bones on his body are particularly obvious, and at first glance, he doesn't eat well at home.
But it's all the fault of poverty!
"Your uncle's house is too difficult! Your uncle's family is four cousins, and the father and son all work in the fields, and they have nothing else to make a living, and they didn't think about getting in front of your aunt before. ”
"I haven't been to see your uncle for a long time, so you should care more about your uncle for your mother!"
"Mother, don't worry, I will definitely take care of my uncle more, see what the situation is, and I'll talk to you when I come back."
Meng Ran prepared two cured chickens, four salted fish, two bottles of mushroom sauce, two bottles of dried bamboo shoot sauce, and some braised pork that was only made yesterday.
The point is to let the boss carry a big bag of cornmeal, which is almost thirty pounds.
There is also a small bag of brown sugar, a bag of red dates, a small bag of white flour and rice.
made two big bags of gifts, "You send these things to the door, it is estimated that your aunt will laugh so much that she can't close her mouth, and she will leave you for lunch before leaving!" ”
Liu Daniu said embarrassedly: "That aunt, sometimes, is still very generous!" ”
Meng Ran rolled her eyes, she knew very well who the sister-in-law was.
"Alright, you should go early! Go early and come back early! ”
"Remember to tell your uncle to work less and work less, he is a lot older!"
"Got it!"
Seeing her eldest son go to her own home to give gifts, Meng Ran couldn't help but beat her old waist, she was also going to rest.
Turning things upside down, rummaging around, I picked out two large bags, and then took them over.
With so many things in the village, gift-giving is already decent.
No matter how much, it will pierce people's eyes, and I don't know how much food can end up in the stomach of the eldest brother.
It's really the poorer and poorer, the whole four sons, like her, it's already painful enough to pull out the eldest child, and you have to bring grandchildren and raise babies for them!
…………
Liu's second daughter-in-law took the clothes that needed to be mended, took the needle and thread and ran to find the sister-in-law.
Squeezed her eyebrows, "My mother-in-law sent so many things back to her own home, but I don't know what Gongzhong will buy for us this year, bring it back, do you know my mother's thoughts?" ”
Liu Li was not interested in this topic, and said indifferently: "Mother-in-law can give as much as she wants, and we as daughters-in-law can't control our mother-in-law." ”
"Look at what you said!"
"There are a lot of these things, isn't it more face-saving to take them home?"
"It's better than being miserable and taking two eggs back and scrambling eggs!"
"And I dragged my family back, and I took fewer things, and I was a little shorter in front of my mother's family!"
"I'm going to fight this year anyway! Mother out some things, I also added some myself! ”
Liu Li was a little surprised by this brother and daughter-in-law, "You have a good idea, you can do it!" Anyway, you can't use the money of the public school to buy it, no one cares about you! ”
"However, the conditions at home are much better this year, and my mother-in-law should give us more things to bring back!"
"Mother-in-law has a lot of charity, didn't we occasionally send two bottles of sauce back to my parents' house before?"
"I made a lot of money back then! Gift-giving, it's almost done! ”
"Sister-in-law, that's for you! Mother-in-law is so kind! Liu's second daughter-in-law said sourly.
In the past, only the fourth daughter-in-law was pleasing her mother-in-law, but somehow, this sister-in-law was also a scheming person, and her mother-in-law reused her more and more.
The daughter-in-law in the middle is the most unfavorable, the eldest son, the younger son, are the lifeblood of the mother-in-law!
The baby in the middle, no one hurts.
But she is not stupid about this, Liu Lao and her second daughter-in-law did not say it in front of her sister-in-law.