my daughter my hometown

Chapter 15
The two chatted for a while, and didn't hang up until Wen Lan arrived at the destination music studio.

"Remember to take more late night videos, I will watch them every day."

Before hanging up the phone, Wen Lan urged her repeatedly.

Su Wu agreed, and then swept the big yard of his own house, just in time to hear Su Xue's call, and then led Su Wan and turned into the next yard.

The layout of the two houses is similar, and there are also some differences.

At least there are not those large water tanks in the yard of Su Xue's house.On the contrary, there is a small wooden house built next to Su Xue's small boudoir.

That is the nest of rice balls.

Farm daughters have always been nimble, and so is Su Xue. A delicious dinner has been prepared here.

"Brother, can I have rice tonight?" She placed the bowls and chopsticks, "Do you want to get her some hot water for milk powder?"

"No need. She is almost two years old, so of course she can eat." Su Wu washed his daughter's little hands cleanly, and carried her to the stool. "When you were two years old, let alone rice, you could bargain with me with your neck bent."

The brothers and sisters were joking, and a loud human voice came from outside the yard.

"Is Xiao Wu at Xiao Xue's house? My aunt has come in."

Most of the farm yards do not have doorbells, and the villagers are not used to knocking on the door politely.They all shouted like this, pushed the door open and entered.

The one who came in was Su Wu's good brother Su Hai's mother, Aunt Ma.

The yard of Su Hai's house is also next door, not far away.Several families can hear each other clearly without going out.

"It's Aunt, long time no see. Sit down and have dinner together."

Su Wu was a little embarrassed.

In the past, he often went to Su Hai's house to eat and drink, and he almost regarded Su Hai's house as his own.This time when he returned to the village, as a junior, he hadn't visited yet, but Aunt Ma came over in person.

"There's a fire at home, just come here for a while."

Aunt Ma rejected Su Wu's bowl and chopsticks, and handed Su Xue the verdant vegetables in her hand.

"Just after I came back from the field, I heard the news about your return, Xiaowu. I didn't believe it at first, but I didn't expect it to be true."

Su Wu smiled, "I want to give you a surprise."

"Surprise, what a surprise."

The smiling Aunt Ma bent down and pinched Su Wan's delicate face.

"This is your daughter. The little girl is so beautiful. Come, grandma, give me a hug."

Maybe it was because her father and the wild goose rice balls were by her side. Su Wan, who felt more secure, grabbed the chopsticks and sat quietly the whole time, letting Aunt Ma pick her up and kiss her again and again.

Su Xue, who had put away the dishes, watched with eager eyes.

"It's not fair. Why does my aunt twist and turn like a loach when she hugs her. But my aunt is so quiet when you hug her."

Aunt Ma, who was holding Su Wan, laughed happily.

She proudly said: "What's so unfair, my aunt has held more children than Xiaoxue, you have eaten more salt."

Su Xue turned her face away, and muttered: "Since my aunt likes children so much, hurry up and urge Brother Heizi to find a wife. Don't come to snatch our family."

Aunt Ma's smile suddenly subsided, and she stared at the little girl in her arms, looking thoughtful.

Su Wu knew it was going to be bad at a glance, and immediately lit a stick of incense for Su Hai, who was still far away in the hospital to recover from his injuries.

It is estimated that when he comes back from recovery this time, he will have to meet his mother's rounds of blind dates before he recovers.

Several people chatted about Su Hai's condition, and Aunt Ma suddenly spoke.

"Tomorrow, Xiaowu, are you going to confess the child?"

Acknowledgment is actually acknowledgment of ancestors.It is probably to write the child's name into the genealogy, and to pray to the ancestors that the family has added more people.From then on, the child enjoys the protection of ancestors and clansmen and bears corresponding responsibilities.

This ceremony is almost no longer seen in urban 421-style families, but it is still common in rural areas where some clans live together.

"Okay." Su Wu nodded, "It's just that Wanwan is almost two years old, so it's not too late to recognize and return to the ancestors?"

Like many young people, he is not very interested in the so-called recognition of ancestors.But it is said that when you go to the country, you do as the Romans do. Since Aunt Ma mentioned it, he followed the trend.

Anyway, the ceremony wasn't too troublesome, and there were quite a few of them who would give Su Wan some meat, so Su Wu didn't care.

"Nonsense." Aunt Ma was very happy.

"It's never too late to recognize our ancestors and return to our clan. As long as it's our Yangxingu's flesh and blood, it's never too late to recognize our ancestors."

Su Wu nodded.

For Aunt Ma and her generation, they have always believed in such things as having more children, more blessings, more wealth, more people, more strength.

He is a junior, so he can do what their elders want.

"Then after dinner, I'll help Xiao Wu make arrangements for you."

Su Wu subconsciously glanced at his cousin next to him.

Generally speaking, the recognition of ancestors and return to the clan is mostly guided by the elders of the immediate relatives.However, the wildfire more than ten years ago almost destroyed Su Wu's family, but there are still elders in the immediate family.

Su Ping, his uncle is also Su Xue's father, the only elder in the family.

It is up to him to help with these matters.However, Su Ping people are now working in other places, which will definitely not help.

"Okay." Su Wu thanked endlessly, "Then I will trouble you, Auntie."

Aunt Ma didn't care.

"What's the trouble with this? It's a good thing, my aunt can't wait to have such trouble every day!"

The three of them chatted for a few more words, Aunt Ma kissed the little girl on the cheek, and then happily went out and returned home.

There was nothing to say all night, Su Wu's house had no place to stay, Su Xue's house had a lot of clean vacant rooms, the father and daughter had a good sleep after bringing their luggage over.

Before six o'clock in the morning, Aunt Ma's loud voice rang out outside the courtyard of Su Xue's house.

"Xiao Wu, are you awake? Get up and fetch water for your girl to wash."

Su Wu has the habit of jogging in the morning.He was putting on his shoes at this moment, and when he heard this, he suddenly came back to his senses.

Looking back at the villain sleeping soundly on the bed.

Well, today is the day for this little guy to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, so don't even think about running in the morning.

In this Valley of Mental Cultivation, one of the most important ceremonies for children to recognize their ancestors and even introduce their new daughter-in-law is to drink water from the well in the village.

As the saying goes, one side feeds the other side.

The "water" refers to the well water in the village.

When you are willing to be a member of this village, you must drink a mouthful of well water dug from the well by yourself or your elders.

For the nearby villages, the village well is sacred, and the water in the well is even more sacred.

People who are not from the same village go to the wells of other villages to fetch water without authorization, that is a big taboo, and they will be beaten to death.

Even if people from the same village dig a well to fetch water without authorization, that is a big taboo and they will be expelled from the family.

It is said that some hard-fated women are called "Hundred Waters". She beat her parents when she was a child, her brothers when she grew up, and her husband after marriage...

The only way to save this "hundred-water" woman is to drink the well water from a hundred wells.It is equivalent to marrying a person a hundred times, subduing a hundred clans, and life will soften.

One hundred is an imaginary number, the more the better.Therefore, whenever the villagers saw a strange woman running to fetch water from the village, they would know her identity and beat her away regardless of the reason.

There is only one well in the entire Yangxin Valley.

In the past, villagers could be seen carrying water in an endless stream every morning.Now many families have bought water pumps, and only need to connect a water pipe to the well, so there are fewer people carrying water.

Aunt Ma said last night that she would help Zhang Luo, but she was really not just perfunctory.

After dinner, she visited the house and asked the villagers not to carry water or turn on the water pump in the morning, and wait for Su Wu to fetch water for Su Wan.

(End of this chapter)