It is difficult for the farmer's sister

Chapter 42 Storytelling (Sixth day of the first lunar month)

On the first day of the new year, you have to go out to pay New Year's greetings, and New Year's greetings can't be empty words, so the custom in Sujia Village is to eat something sweet as soon as you wake up, which means that if your mouth has eaten something, it is not a vernacular, but auspicious. talk...

Brothers and sisters bless each other.

"I wish, eldest sister, a long life and good luck.

"I wish, brother and sister are safe and well, and have a good life."

Su Rui and his younger siblings laughed at each other.

They had steamed stuffed buns for breakfast, and after eating, Su Rui put on new clothes and hats made of rabbits for his siblings.

The whole family went out to pay New Year's greetings.

Because there are no elders in the family, no one will come to pay New Year's greetings. At most, they will come from the same generation as Su Rui's sister and brother, but it will be the end, and they will come back when the time comes...

The first home for Su Rui and his brother to pay New Year's greetings is naturally to go to the old house first. Uncle Su and Uncle Su are not there, so it seems that they are going to pay New Year's greetings.

Sister Su Rui kowtowed to Mrs. Su and Mrs. Su, and said in unison, "I wish you, grandpa and grandma, a long and healthy life."

Grandpa Su: "Get up."

Mrs. Su gave a small red envelope by herself, and Su Rui touched it for a penny...

Seeing that my aunt brought several bowls of red date syrup, Su Rui refused with a smile: "We just drank it at home, so we won't drink it."

In Su Rui's memory, every New Year's Day in the old house, a big pot of red date syrup would be boiled. Everyone would get a big bowl, but who hasn't eaten at home?
What's more, New Year's greetings are not about paying homage to one family. Each family drinks a little, which leads to it.Then the people in the old house poured it back into the pot. Su Rui felt sick when she thought about it. She can eat leftovers, but she must not drink saliva tea.

After leaving the old house, Su Rui, sister and brother went to the third uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings, that is, Su Changying's father.

Again, the siblings knelt down and kowtowed together and said, "I wish, Uncle and Uncle, a happy and healthy life."

Su Lu smiled and gave each of them a red envelope.

Mrs. Liu warmly pulled up Su Rui and the others, and said affectionately, "Girl Rui, get up quickly."

"I wish, uncle, aunt, everything goes well."

Yang and Lin said with a smile: "I also wish you good health."

Su Rui saw that Su Changyong's daughter-in-law, Yang Shi, always put brown sugar and poured boiled red dates into boiling water, not boiled red date soup. Su Rui motioned for her siblings to take it and drank half of it.

In ancient Chinese New Year's Day, when you go to someone's house to pay New Year's greetings, if you drink up the brown sugar water, it means that you don't want others to have extra money this year, so generally, when you go to someone else's house to pay New Year's greetings, you will leave half of it, which means that everyone has extra money...

After drinking the sugar water, Su Rui and the others went to Su Changle's house again, said blessings to each other, drank jujube tea, and it was over.

Su Rui carried Su Chennan home, opened the door, and waited for her peers to come. Su Ying, Su Qiao and Su Chenrui took Su Wan to continue their New Year greetings.

When Su Chenrui and the others come back, the four children of Aunt Hua's family, the seven grandchildren of the uncle's family, plus Su Qiang and Lin Lijun will come to visit each other's New Year...

Su Qiao cooked 38 brown sugar water sweet dumplings for [-] people according to the number of people, and each person ate two.

Don't say stingy, but they are not small, one is the size of two or three in modern times, and two is five or six. After eating breakfast and drinking red date syrup, if you can finish it, you will have a good appetite. that's it.

It wasn't until noon that the New Year's greetings were really over...

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I went back to my natal home.

There is no one in Su Rui's grandmother's house, and the younger siblings are still young, so there is no question of whether to go back to her mother's house or not.

The third day of the Lunar New Year, commonly known as the Sleeping Day, means that after a busy day on the [-]th night and the first and second day of the Lunar New Year, you can sleep until you wake up naturally on this day.

The third day of the Lunar New Year is also called Xiaonian Dynasty, no sweeping the floor, no begging for fire, no drawing of water, the same as the old year.

It probably means that on this day, you cannot sweep the floor or carry water...

So Su Rui and the sisters slept at home until the sun was up. After eating, Su Chenrui took Su Qiao to play backgammon. Although they made some progress, it was another day of being tortured and killed.

The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the Day of the Goat. As the saying goes, three goats (yang) are in luck, which is a symbol of auspiciousness.

On this day, the family will eat Zheluo together.Someone asked, what is a zheluo?It's very simple, zheluo is a hodgepodge of leftover meals from the previous few days.From the [-]th to the fourth day of the lunar new year, the family usually prepares a lot of hearty dishes, and there are endless dishes. At this time, they will be made into a hodgepodge on the fourth day of the new year, that is, Zheluo, and then the family gathers together to eat Zheluo.That is to clean up the New Year's goods.

Today, everyone will throw away poverty. What is throwing away poverty?It is to throw out all the garbage and dirty things in the house, throw away the garbage, and the house is clean and cool, and naturally good luck and wealth will come.

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year, commonly known as Po Wu.

On this day, the first thing to do when the door is opened is for the male at home to light the cannon, and then all taboos can be broken.

What's more, women are not allowed to go out on this day, they are not allowed to cook raw rice, they must eat dumplings, etc...

As for the following days, it is not so particular.

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, after breakfast, Su Rui took four gifts and went to the village chief's house with Su Chenrui.

"Uncle, happy new year."

When Su Changsheng saw Su Rui's sister and brother coming to the door, he hurriedly asked his daughter to pour tea.

"Miss Rui, why are you looking for me?"

Su Rui smiled and pushed Su Chenrui to the front and said: "My younger brother Chen Rui should have gone to a private school last year, but because there were too many things at home last year, there was no way to send him there. I want to send him to a private school this year."

Su Changsheng understands Su Rui's meaning, and he is also in favor of more scholars in the tribe. If someone becomes a scholar, it will be the glory of Sujia Village.

She nodded and said, "Yes, if you sign up on the eighth day, just let Chen Rui go. You should know the place, right?"

Su Chenrui quickly replied: "Uncle, I know the place."

Seeing that the time to go to private school has been agreed, Su Rui didn't plan to stay any longer, and said goodbye to Su Changsheng: "Then don't bother Uncle, let's go first."

Su Changsheng nodded to show he understood.

"it is good"

Seeing that it was still early, Su Chenrui was going to look for Su Chenyuan, Su Rui was free and had nothing to do, Xiao Chennan was watched by Su Qiao, she was not in a hurry to go back, so they went to Su Changle's house together.

Seeing everyone in the main room, Su Rui hurriedly said hello: "Hello, Uncle, Aunt Yang, and Aunt Lin. Hello, Sister Fang. Happy New Year, brothers and sisters."

"Sister Rui, happy new year."

"Sister Rui, happy new year."

Lin took Su Rui's hand, sat down and asked, "Why are you free today?"

Su Rui pointed to the younger brother who was playing with Su Chenyuan in the yard and said: "Today, I will go to the village head's house and tell Chen Rui about going to a private school."

"How about it?"

"The village head asked Chuba to sign up."

Lin was a little worried, and said, "Uncle Chang Le also wants Chen Yuan to go, but I'm afraid he won't be able to learn."

Su Rui thought for a while, the last time Uncle Song told a story about what Meng's mother was called in the current dynasty, and then said: "Auntie, as the saying goes, what kind of people you can learn from."

"There is a little story, I wonder if you have heard it?"

Uncle Liu asked very interestedly, "What's the story? Su Yatou tell it quickly."

Su Rui smiled, "Then I'll say it."

"Come on."

"Once upon a time, there was a very famous person. Three things happened to him when he was a child. The thing was that he moved three times. Why? When Lu Zi was young, their family lived near the cemetery, and Lu Zi would follow the example of adults. Worship and funeral. Luzi's mother frowned and took Luzi to live next to the market when she saw it. When they arrived at the market, Luzi began to learn how a businessman did business again, so they moved again. This time, they moved near the private school, and Lu Zi became orderly, polite, and fond of reading. Lu Zi’s mother nodded with satisfaction and said, “This is where children should live. "

After Su Rui finished speaking, seeing uncle Liu, Yang and Lin became quiet.

(End of this chapter)