The next day was the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Before dawn, I heard the crackling sound of firecrackers, which rumbled into a circle, which was on the other side of the river.

The most important thing they pay to the Chinese New Year's Eve is the meal in the morning, which starts at four or five o'clock in the morning, when it is not yet dawn.

The emphasis here is on the noon meal, and it's not yet time to perform.

After getting up in the morning and having dinner, it was past eight o'clock, and then the family began to work.

Prepare that meal at noon on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The two old ones went to the kitchen to sort out the ingredients.

Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling's task is to paste the couplet and hang up the word Fu.

I also bought two big red lanterns, both of which were hung at the gate.

Even the chicken coop was pasted with a spring couplet of six animals thriving.

After doing this, and then taking a few more pictures, they went to the kitchen to help.

Washing vegetables for washing vegetables, cutting vegetables for chopping vegetables, and burning for fires.

Yan Xin personally cooked a few dishes, and Wu Xiuhong made the rest.

All of them were served, and there were a total of twelve dishes, basically all of which were hard dishes, and they looked quite hearty.

Yan's father couldn't help but sigh, this life is too good.

Now that the four of them are celebrating the New Year together, it is a lot more lively, and a family finally has the appearance of a family.

It's just that there is such an embarrassing thing.

According to the custom, before eating the New Year's dinner, the ancestors should be worshipped first, so that the deceased can use it first.

Here they served three bowls of rice to the dead, and on each bowl were put fast seeds, and a glass of wine was placed next to it.

It's Yan Xin's grandparents and his mother.

And now the statue on the shrine is Yan Xin's mother.

It's okay to just offer food, but before the meal, you have to bow down to the statue.

- This has always been the way it has always been, and it's normal for them to do it today.

However, it is not only the Yan family father and son who are here for the New Year this year, but also Wu Xiuhong and her daughter.

And these two new members have nothing to do with Yan Xin's.

It's strange to be involved in this ritual.

But if you don't participate in this ritual, you will appear to be an outsider.

At first, the father and son of the Yan family didn't think of this, so they just did it according to the habits of previous years.

When both father and son finished worshipping, they were a little embarrassed to see the mother and daughter there, and then they thought of this.

They are a combination of families.

It was also the first time they had formed a family, and they had no relevant experience and didn't know what to do in such a situation.

After hesitating, Wu Xiuhong still pushed her daughter:

"Xiaoling, you can also go over and pay a respect."

Bai Xiaoling looked at the statue offered in the shrine, then at her mother, and then at the Yan family's father and son.

In the end, he knelt down and kowtowed to the statue a few times.

I thought to myself, "Just kowtow to your future mother-in-law, this is also the way it should be......

Thinking about it this way, my heart is a little smoother.

It's just that when I think of her mother's situation, I still feel a little unjust in my heart - "Women are so embarrassed, they don't have their own ancestors, so they can only worship other people's ancestors."

[In view of the general environment,

Wu Xiuhong's move shows that she understands the general situation, doesn't care about those empty reputations, and doesn't fight with the dead, so that the Yan family's father and son have some feelings for her.

Firecrackers were set off, and then the New Year's dinner was eaten.

The weather on this day is okay, according to the practice of previous years, as long as it is not raining, the Chinese New Year's Eve is to go to the grave after eating the New Year's dinner.

The Yan family went to Yan Xin's grave for the past few years.

However, now the father and son of the Yan family are embarrassed to make this request.

Of course, the two of them will have no problem going, but this pair of mothers remains

The female identity is embarrassing, should she go or not?

People have already given in before, and they still have to make such a request, which seems to be a little too deceitful.

- Although they don't mean to bully people subjectively.

It was Wu Xiuhong who took the initiative to mention this matter and asked them to go up the mountain to worship after eating.

As for her, of course, she stayed to clean up the dishes quickly, so she didn't go with her.

also asked whether Bai Xiaoling would stay to help her wash the dishes or follow them to the grave.

It's a chance to give her a chance to call the shots.

As for her deceased husband, who is Bai Xiaoling's father, then don't think about it.

has come to this house, and still wants to worship her ex-husband, which is somewhat unreasonable.

It's not that you can't do this, but doing so is obviously not giving face to the current husband's family.

It's only been a month or two since she got married, and what she needs to do is to make this combined family more harmonious, not more divided.

The Chinese New Year can't be like this, and the Qingming can't be like this.

On the deceased husband's side, he could only let the brothers of the Bai family worship.

- Who told them to take away their fields and houses? Logically speaking, it should be their business.

Wu Xiuhong thought so.

Bai Xiaoling thought for a while, and said with a smile, "I'd better go with our father and brother."

She thought that this would bring Yan Xin and her closer to each other, so it would be good to go out, although she was worshipping someone she didn't know and had nothing to do with her, but it could make their relationship more harmonious, so why not do it?

Wu Xiuhong smiled and said, "That's fine, it's also good to go out for a walk, and you can also help."

After eating, the Yan family's father and son and Bai Xiaoling went out with firecrackers, incense, candles, paper money, and other things.

And Wu Xiuhong stayed at home alone and cleaned up the dishes.

After they all left, Wu Xiuhong looked at the fucking statue of Yan Xin in the shrine, looked at it for a long time, and finally sighed and whispered:

"I really envy you for raising a good son."

By the time they returned from the grave, it was only two o'clock in the afternoon.

At this time, Wu Xiuhong was chatting with her neighbors outside.

Now the Yan family has four people together for the New Year, which is much more lively than in previous years.

But the neighbor's sons who went out to work have all gone home, and the older two have their wives and children, who are also at home for the New Year, and there are more than a dozen people together, which is even more lively.

Wu Xiuhong envied the liveliness of the neighbor's house, but the neighbor said:

"Your family is good, your children can do it, there are not many people now, in a few years, your sons and daughters will be married, and if you add children, it will be lively."

Wu Xiuhong smiled, but thought in her heart:

"When my daughter grows up and gets married, she will be someone else's daughter-in-law, and she will only spend the New Year in someone else's house, even if she gives birth to a child, she will only be lively in someone else's house."

Thinking like this, I feel a little bit hard to get over in my heart.

It's a combined family.

Although Yan Xin is a good child and doesn't treat her as an outsider, he is not her biological son after all.

Later, Yan Xin married a daughter-in-law and gave birth to a child, which had nothing to do with her.

But she, as a stepmother, wants to be a good stepmother, she has to seriously help her stepson take care of the children, and even serve her daughter-in-law in confinement.

The people who work hard are people who are not related to them by blood.

And her own daughter, her daughter's child, and the person who is related to her by blood, are people she can't take care of.

The closest person wants to go to the edge of the world, but he can only be in this home like an outsider.

It doesn't make sense, but that's the truth.

In order to better integrate into this family, she even thought about whether to have another one.

It's not out of the question, she's only in her forties now.

can give birth to a child for the Yan family, that can be regarded as a real integration.

But then I learned that it was too risky to have a child at her age.

And if it's not a son, but a daughter, isn't that about the same?

After all, he still has to get married, and he can't be regarded as a member of the Yan family.

After a hundred years, she still can't run away as an outsider.

When I think about it, it's really sad.

There was inevitably such a delusion in my heart-"If Xiaoling could be with Yan Xin, wouldn't it be great?"

If this is the case, the daughter does not have to marry outside, she is both her daughter and her daughter-in-law.

The child she gave birth to was both her grandson and her grandson.

is also related to her.

This is the real family!

But it's a pity, Yan Xin already has an object.

It made her depressed.

- I don't have so much sentimentality on weekdays, but during the Chinese New Year, because of a worship problem, I suddenly felt that I was an outsider, and I had these thoughts.

Combining a family is just that embarrassing.

However, in order to avoid those embarrassments, it is too difficult to choose to carry it alone and face the harsh reality.

She knows very well how difficult it has been all these years, and let her go again, she doesn't have the courage anymore.

After getting married, the living conditions have indeed improved a lot, and I don't have to worry so much about my daughter's problems.

She doesn't know what kind of situation she'll be in as an outsider after Yan's father is gone.

But at least Dad Yan is still here, she can live well, be taken care of, and be respected.

And that's worth it.

It's better than carrying it alone.

She worries her daughter the most.

But she really couldn't help her daughter.

Like Yan's father, although she is still living in this era, she is already a laggard in this era.

At most, I can guarantee that my daughter will not starve to death at home, and there is no other way to guarantee it.

took her daughter to marry into the Yan family, and with Yan Xin's help, her daughter immediately found a good job, and she earned more money in more than a month than she earned in a year.

It was just a matter of one sentence to Yan Xin, and her daughter's fate was changed.

This confirms that she is the right choice to marry.

The Yan family came to rescue her and her daughter.

She has nothing to complain about about it.

If you have to complain, you can only complain that your life is not good, you didn't meet such a good person in your first marriage, you only met a short-lived man.

She didn't do anything wrong.

The Yan family didn't do anything against her.

Now the identity is a little embarrassing, it is purely the arrangement of fate, and no one can be blamed.

There is a little resentment in my heart, but I don't show it.

Seeing that Yan's father came back with the two little ones, she smiled again and asked them:

"Why did you come back so soon? Good work."

She noticed that Bai Xiaoling and Yan Xin were still holding hands, and the smile on their faces became even stronger.

- Even if these two little ones can't get together, but the brother and sister have a good relationship, that's a good thing.

has such a capable brother, and her daughter will not be able to suffer losses in the future.

Even if you suffer a loss, there are people who help you get back to the field.

That's what reassures her the most.

Bai Xiaoling replied with a smile: "It's not very hard, it's just that the road up the mountain is quite tiring, and I almost can't climb up."

Actually, the mountain is not high, and it is not very tiring to climb up, but she has to say so.

Because when she went up the mountain, she excused herself to be tired, panting and saying that she couldn't climb anymore, and then she took this opportunity to let Yan Xinla

She succeeded in holding hands.

With this precedent, it is natural to go down the mountain and hold hands with Yan Xin later.

- Actually, Yan Xin wanted to refuse, he felt that this was not very good, and it was not good for others to see it.

However, during the Chinese New Year, such a sister who is not related to her own family by blood, put her father's grave and did not worship, and came to his mother's grave, and she was so tired that she couldn't take a step, so she asked him to pull it, and she really couldn't refuse at this time.

To refuse would be very inhuman.

Since there is such a time, and the next step is to hold hands, there is no such rejection.

- In fact, it is impossible for him to shake off other people's hands when Bai Xiaoling grabbed his hand and held hands with him.

That would hurt my self-esteem.

If it spreads, it will even cause the split of this combined family.

So he can only continue to accept it.

There was actually a little uneasiness in his heart - he was worried that Wu Xiuhong would be angry when she saw it, and he would think that he was going to kidnap her daughter.

But luckily, nothing like that happened.

Wu Xiuhong saw them holding hands, still with a smile on her face, and did not show any blame.

In addition to being relieved, I was ashamed, thinking, "I'm still too dirty, always thinking about what I don't have. Normal siblings should be like this, they treat me as a family, so they think it's normal, and I think it's not good, it's my own fault, I treat them as outsiders. Alas, ashamed!"

When they got home, the brother and sister didn't have to hold hands anymore.

There are no other activities in the afternoon, and dinner is just to eat the leftovers of lunch, just cook a little food, and there is nothing to be busy.

So the four of them did nothing else in the afternoon, but set up a small round table in the hall on the first floor, and a coal stove was placed underneath, and then a blanket was spread on the table, and the four of them sat around the table and played a hundred points.

This place has such a habit, and during the Spring Festival, every household plays cards.

Most of them play cards in their own families, and they win or lose in their own homes, which is called fertilizer and water do not flow into outsiders' fields.

It's more about entertainment.

There are also a small number of people who play cards with other people's families, and this nature becomes a little different.

But in the back, such customs and habits are gradually gone, and there are fewer people who get together to play cards, and a large family is playing with mobile phones at home, or chatting.

Those who are addicted to cards will go to the chess and card room to play cards, and the boss will pump water, but will also provide them with food, and everyone will take what they need.

Now mobile phones are not so fun, and there are not so many people who even have mobile phones, and there is no good TV to watch on the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, so playing cards is the mainstream.

The Yan family used to be like that.

Yan Xin learned to play cards when he was a few years old.

It's just that only the father and son are left in the latter family, and the relationship was not very good at that time, so there was no such tradition.

Now a family of four, happy and happy, just picking up the old tradition.

It was fought until about six o'clock in the evening.

In more than three hours, Yan Xin lost more than 1,000 yuan.

If he doesn't fight much, he loses alone.

The remaining three all won.

The one who won the most was Bai Xiaoling.

Playing cards is such a thing, when a person wants to win, he may not be able to win, but when he wants to lose, he can definitely lose.

Yan Xin didn't want the people in his family to be in a bad mood because of losing money, which would affect the mood of the New Year.

So he loses a lot of the time on purpose.

More than 1,000 yuan, most of which were won by Bai Xiaoling.

This is not Yan Xin's directional loss to her, the main thing is that her skills are indeed higher.

Young people's brains are meant to be more active.

If it weren't for Yan Xin deliberately releasing water, Bai Xiaoling might have won, but the two old ones would definitely lose, and they would have lost a lot.

After dinner in the evening, it was only seven o'clock, and the Spring Festival Gala had not yet started, and it was already dark.

There are fireworks outside, although there are not many fireworks in each house, but after this one and that again, the crackling sound has not been broken, and the night sky is lit up again and again.

Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling also took some fireworks salutes and went out.

I bought more than 1,000 yuan of fireworks and firecrackers, which were used in this Spring Festival.

If you don't let it go in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, then there is no need to put it at another time.

A few fireworks were set off, photos and videos were taken, and then it went inside.

The family was watching TV in the master bedroom on the first floor, the small table was moved, and the coal stove was also placed underneath.

On the table were two fruit bowls with a variety of food, as well as orange juice and cola.

You can eat if you want, and you can drink if you want.

That night, they played cards until about one o'clock in the morning, and then the game ended.

At zero o'clock, Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling also went out to set off firecrackers.

It's called the Sealed Wealth Gate, so you have to put it at this point.

When they went out, there was a rumbling outside, and every household was setting off firecrackers at this point, and it had become a sea of firecrackers.

On this night, the time spent playing cards was longer, and Yan Xin lost more, losing more than 2,000 yuan.

Most of it went into Bai Xiaoling's pocket again, making her so happy that she didn't want to.

Although Yan Xin lost the money, his family was happy, and he was naturally happy, even happier than he was when he won the money.

What programs were shown on the Spring Festival Gala this year, they didn't have much impression.

But in their impression, this year's Chinese New Year's Eve is the most lively Chinese New Year's Eve in recent years, and it is also the only Chinese New Year's Eve in recent years.

In the past few years, every year of the Chinese New Year was deserted.

It's not just the Yan family that's like this, the Bai family is also like this.

Two unhappy families, to this day, finally have a happy appearance.