Chapter 162: The beginning of the year
The beginning of the year is the second day of the new year, and this day is also the day when the married woman takes her husband and children back to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings.
Returning to her parents' house on this day also starts from the generation, except for the second day of the first Lunar New Year when Ma Shan enters the door, the Liu family will take Gu Erzhu and her children back to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings.
Zhou Banxia entered the door last year, and this year Ma Shan is pregnant and has not yet been three months old.
She first asked her two sons to accompany her daughter-in-law back to her parents' house today, and when she turned around, the two brothers would take time to go to a foreign house to pay a New Year's greeting like their son.
is not like Gu Erzhu, when the two sons, daughter-in-law and eldest grandson go out, they immediately took their daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law to the carriage to go to Yue's house to pay New Year's greetings.
said that he didn't hold a grudge against his father-in-law, how could it be, so humiliating, and then in order to find his daughter, he also endured humiliation and went to the door, which turned out to be even more hurtful.
If it weren't for the fact that the uncle of the world broke the rules, and the children would still need their uncle to attend the table when they got married, he didn't want his two sons to go to the New Year.
The second year of junior high school this year has an excuse not to go.
The first year of his family's three marriages, his aunt came to pay New Year's greetings, not to mention, this year he also has more aunts, second aunts and eldest sisters and younger sisters, and said that they will go to his parents' house to visit the New Year today.
In previous years, Zhou Daya was not the first year of marriage, even if she didn't go on Thursday, every year on the second day of the new year, the Li family would take her son back to her parents' house and rush back to entertain her aunt and grandson before noon.
When Li pulled Dajiang to give his mother's New Year's gift a year ago, he said that he would not even be able to leave on the second day of the Lunar New Year, so he didn't want to go early to receive his aunt.
Li used to think that she was too unreasonable, and when she was busy after the New Year, she asked her to go back to her parents' house today, and she didn't bother to make a trip.
It's not that there is no mule cart, walking back and forth on two legs, but even if the family is separated before the restep, it is not so busy in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
Like the "leftovers" prepared a year ago, at most prepare an extra table of tables, and keep it for entertaining the eldest daughter and aunt to bring the children to visit the New Year.
Even this year, although the child's grandfather (Zhou Xiucai) and his family have said that they have prepared a lot of things to entertain their aunts and grandmothers, how can they have nothing to prepare.
Don't look at the child's father, who is eager to break a penny in half on weekdays, this year he is willing to let her burn and stew the pigs, sheep, chickens and fish sent by the two daughters.
There is also ancestor worship, and in previous years, she had to be together with that litter of people, which was really annoying, but she was not the eldest daughter-in-law, but she didn't see much work to be busy with.
This year, I don't have to worry about being remembered by that nest of people, but she's busy, so busy that she doesn't have time to catch up with the market, and she has to be busy with things outside the home.
It's rare to be able to go to the kang last night to rest early, and it's going to get up again before dawn in the morning, but fortunately, the child's aunt also sent a cook to give her a hand.
Speaking of which, she really envies her mother-in-law.
Since the eldest daughter-in-law of her in-laws bought a house, her third girl didn't want to buy two people for her two people to serve, but the child's father didn't agree.
There are only a few people in the family, how much work can be busy, and it is suspected that it costs money to buy people, and there are more people who need to provide food and clothing for monthly money.
It makes sense to say that a thousand ways and 10,000 are used to picking the door, and after buying a hundred acres of land, she is still reluctant to spend an extra half a copper plate to make her more relaxed.
The worst of all!
On the twenty-seventh day of the year, the third girl of her family felt sorry for her as a mother, and was tired, so she secretly stuffed her with the usual money, and asked her to go to the market the next day and spend it.
I was caught by this bad guy again, not to mention, even more excessively, I didn't even give her a copper plate!
Thursday laughed out loud.
Who said it was sneaky?
He didn't say that he knew what his daughter was doing when it was almost dark alone, thinking that he wasn't giving broken silver, and he didn't know that there were always copper coins hidden in the basket.
In the laughter, Gu Wenxuan accompanied Zhou Banxia to arrive.
It was quite early, far before nine o'clock.
Inevitably let his brother-in-law bump into him, Gu Wenxuan also brought his mother-in-law a rubber silver hairpin inlaid with fine broken gems, and a silver bracelet inlaid with broken gems of the same style.
Compared to Gu Erzhu who bought a silver hairpin for Mrs. Gu, his new aunt was generous.
The New Year's gift prepared for Liu in the Chinese New Year's Eve was a gold and silver hairpin bracelet earring, which almost made Gu Erzhu and Liu make an exception to beat their children during the New Year.
Or Zhou Banxia said that the fine gems are not valuable, and they are too small for fear of losing them before looking for the Zhao family silver building custom, and Liu asked clearly if it was prepared for his mother-in-law before accepting it.
At least to say that there is preparation, but why is there a lack of Li's gold earrings and gold hairpins and gold bracelets today, this is to be said to be Zhou Banxia's "differential treatment".
Mother-in-law is not a mother-in-law after all.
If she really prepares the same amount of New Year's gifts for her mother, she is not a sage, and she should muttered in her heart that her daughter-in-law loves her mother's family after the days are long.
She would rather give her father a piece of gold leaf in private, than be complained by her mother-in-law one day that when my old son still relied on her, she didn't see her treat me better than her own mother.
Besides, her mother loves to show off too much.
If it weren't for the fact that she had to accompany her father to the city for a banquet or two in the first month, and her bare head was not good-looking, she wouldn't even want to give this silver hairpin and bracelet.
No, her father gave her two New Year's money, and when her aunt went out, she made the first move.
"Get up, don't put it on at home. Do you think, our family has just purchased a hundred acres of land, and you put it on again, and there must be thieves coming to the door overnight. ”
Seeing that the third aunt had already left the upper room with his two sons to go to the study in the east wing, only the three girls of his family were there, and Zhou Shun hurriedly scared his daughter-in-law.
Lee's daughter.
Zhou Banxia smiled and nodded.
"Hey, I don't believe you're in charge, why don't you discuss with me first. Put it away first, and when you go to the city as a guest, you can put whatever you want. ”
It seems that this is the case, the owner can still get the idea, otherwise she wouldn't have secretly saved up the old family without even knowing it.
Li hesitated, "Then I'll put it away first, can't you wait for Sanya and Uncle to go back and hide my things again, I can't find them?" ”
Thursday nodded his daughter-in-law with his finger in the air, and smiled dumbly, "Your mother is out of breath, and she knows that she has to ask her father to promise her in front of you." ”
"Then promise, my mother can't cheapen outsiders if she has good things. Dad, will we not be able to sit down at two tables today? Zhou Banxia diverted the topic.
"I can't sit down. Your grandfather has brought the dishes over this morning, and I guess there will be two more tables. Dad looked, there are also two tables on the kang in the east house and the west house. ”
"Then there are more children who come to visit the New Year today, and it is the first time that our family has come to visit the New Year, and we have to wrap a lot of red envelopes."
"No, dad has already counted it, just like your cousin, uncle, cousin, cousin, and each of them will bring a child to each family." On Thursday, "It's not a lot for one person to pack two articles"
"Really two things?"
"Didn't you take my usual money?" Li couldn't bear to complain to his daughter, "Your father has already calculated, the money you give your mother has always been, and he said that he would use it to wrap a red envelope." ”