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Chapter 619 A Different Beginning of the Year

It's the happiest time for children to celebrate the new year. Zhuang Zhuang, who couldn't bear the sleepiness last night, didn't need Xu Xiaojuan to wake him up, he got up early before dawn.

Xu Xiaojuan was still thinking in her heart on New Year's Eve that her uncle's house was either Jiu Gu or Shi Lao, and to put it bluntly, they were not blessed elders guarding her.

Seeing that the father-in-law and mother-in-law are not taboo, she wants her son to bring his younger sister to their third uncle and three aunt's house to pay their respects early this morning.

It is good to say that it is auspicious and festive, and the door is opened to welcome the children, which is lively and lively.The mother-in-law didn't expect that she, as the sister-in-law, had to arrange one or two secretly.

Shen Weimin didn't know that he had so many sisters-in-law. Here he used a wooden stick to carry a bunch of firecrackers out, and there was a burst of crackling sound.

A row of little radish heads rushed towards the door of his house, and when the eldest nephew Zhuang Zhuang happily yelled happy new year and had a baby early, they all joined in.

Make him happy.

Shen Weimin hurriedly took out candies, pastries, melon seeds and peanuts, grabbed a handful and put them into the bags that each child was carrying.

That's all right?
No!

Hearing a few innocent words from the children, Shen Weimin stretched out his hand again to a basket containing [-]fen (coins) and small red envelopes.

Now the children were even more joyful, and the most honest among them also learned a series of pleasant congratulatory words from the sweet-talking friends around them.

The pockets and bags of this group of children were almost full, and they got the red envelopes again, and went out cheering, and a group of screaming children rushed in from the door.

These days, every household has no fewer than two years old children, and basically every family has several children, and some children even Shen Weimin does not know whose family they belong to.

It's not surprising that some people call him third brother and third uncle, but there are still people who call him third grandpa. It's embarrassing for him to give a child a red envelope of a few cents in this generation.

When Shen Xiaosi rushed to his third brother's house, the place was so lively that he almost couldn't squeeze in.After finally squeezing into the room, his third brother and third sister-in-law were busy dividing things.

He knew that even he heard a child on the road yelling to go to the house of the third uncle and aunt of the college student, and there were so few children in the village rushing here.

No, the basketfuls of snacks prepared last night were not enough, and his third brother took snacks out of several big bags right now.

"Brother, leave this to me. You and my sister-in-law go to pay our grandma a New Year greeting. Our parents and Grandpa (Shi) are already over there, just waiting for you to pass."

Hearing Xiaosi's shout, Shen Weimin, who didn't know when Shi Lao had left the house, looked at the time and it was past eight o'clock, and it was really not good to delay any longer.

After handing over the task of distributing snacks here to Shen Xiaosi, and asking his younger brother to take care of his nephew and niece, Shen Weimin took Xu Changqing out with two new coats.

At this time, Shen Mingqiang, the eldest son of the Shen family, was no less lively than Shen Weimin's, the difference was that there were almost all old men here.

Old Shi is considered very young among them, and the oldest person sitting on the Kang in the East Room is an 90-[-] years old white-haired and white-bearded old man who is not very agile.

To change to the first day of the first month of the previous year, these few people must be waiting for the younger generation to come to pay New Year's greetings at their home, but this year because Shi is old, they have to come in person.

When Xu Changqing arrived with Shen Weimin, there were a group of "family" people who came here to pay New Year's greetings on the ground in front of the kang in the east room, happily wanting to kowtow to the old men.

There are so many people, and the excitement is really lively.

After paying New Year's greetings to the old men here, I have to rush to pay New Year's greetings to the old ladies, and then there are uncles, aunts and aunts.The last is to go to the shrine.

On this day, the old Shen's family still had an old practice that did not exist in the old Xu's and Lao Bai's families - they started having dinner in the ancestral hall at one o'clock in the afternoon on the first day of the first lunar month.

This kind of gathering is not about raising money from the clan to hold a joint feast, but about bringing dishes and staple food from each household at noon on this day, and no matter what you like, you can eat and drink here.

This old rule was the most rumored in the early years, when even the ancestral hall had to be converted into a cafeteria, the old Shen's family never stopped having dinner for a year.

Xu Changqing clearly remembered her old (little) grandfather telling a joke that there was a famine one year, and it was better for them to rely on the mountains of Baizigou.

The old Shen’s family in Shangwafang Village was very cold, and everyone was so hungry that they couldn’t walk. I still don’t forget that the whole family gathered in the ancestral hall on the first day of the first lunar month to drink a pot of porridge made from tree leaves.

Of course, according to Shen Weimin, this statement is not porridge made from tree leaves at all. The actual situation is that he heard the older generation talk about a pot of herbal medicine and a pot of porridge.

One is to drink health soup to drive away cold and evil spirits on the first day of the first lunar month; the other is porridge made with a hundred rice, which is like Laba porridge to make a good sign for the new year.

Next to the ancestral hall, it was not yet twelve o'clock at noon, but the tables and chairs had already been set up, and the women who were most present were leading their daughter-in-law to serve their own dishes.

Xu Changqing's aunt Xu Chunxi, whom Xu Changqing hadn't seen since getting up this morning, brought a few sisters-in-law to set up cold dishes here, and was putting sticky bean buns on the campfire to heat up.

The weather was really cold, so in addition to the existing stove at the Shen family's old ancestral hall, bonfires were set up in four directions in the yard, and large iron pots were set up to prepare for eating hot dishes later.

When Xu Chunxi saw his niece coming, he was afraid that what he had said before was not detailed enough, so he said it again.For example, women are not allowed to go to the table this afternoon. Don't look back and sit down whoever pulls you.

She wasn't worried that her niece didn't understand, but she was worried that her niece would be raised as a kid, and she would often be taken to the table as a boy in her natal family, and she would forget about it if she didn't pay attention.

Xu Changqing really wanted to say that she used to sit at the banquet of the old Shen family's ancestral hall for several years. Of course, it was impossible to say that, and no one would believe it.

After Xu Chunxi finished talking about a few points for attention, thinking that there was nothing missing, he reminded his niece not to rush back in the afternoon, and to go back to her natal home with her tomorrow.

Because the women in charge of each family have to come forward to clean up after eating here. There are many women in the old Shen family, and they are not busy, let alone tired, but it is very bad if they are not present.

Even if you just pick up a plate and collect the chopsticks, it means that you admit that you are the daughter-in-law of the Shen family, and the old Shen family will treat you as a legitimate Shen family.

It's not a matter of getting a marriage certificate or not, it's just that as long as they are engaged and have contacts, any girls who come out to help each other on this day will be welcomed by the old Shen's family.

Your second sister-in-law (Yang) Xiaolin didn't understand this before, but several aunts in the clan talked about it for a long time, saying that girls from the city are different.

Originally, last year, my aunt wanted you to come this day, but she didn't mention it when she saw that you were very busy at home. This year is not possible, and the sixth grandmother even asked you to come to her house for a sit-down.

correct!

You just went to your sixth wife's place, right?

Xu Changqing seriously doubted that if she didn't interrupt her aunt, her aunt would definitely be able to hold her and chatter until the meeting started.Hearing this, she nodded hastily.

Why didn't you go?
Your husband's nephew, Shen Weimin, immediately took me to the Sixth Grandmother's place to find his milk when he came out of the big house, so that he could enjoy the blessing of the Sixth Grandmother, who is a blessed person.

(End of this chapter)