Reborn since 2005

Chapter 413

The next day is New Year's Eve.

Before dawn, I heard the sound of crackling firecrackers, rumbling into one piece, it was Tuannian on the other side of the river.

The most important thing they pay attention to on New Year's Eve is the morning meal, which starts at four or five in the morning, before dawn at that time.

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

After getting up and eating in the morning, it was past eight o'clock, and then the family started working.

Prepare the meal at noon on New Year's Eve.

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

The task of Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling is to put up the couplets and hang up the blessings.

I also bought two red lanterns and hung them at the gate.

Even the chicken coops are pasted with a Spring Festival couplet saying that the animals are thriving.

After that was done and a few more photos were taken, they went to help in the kitchen.

The one who washes the vegetables washes the vegetables, the one who chops the vegetables cuts the vegetables, and the one who burns the fire burns the fire.

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

Serve them all, there are a total of twelve dishes, basically hard dishes, and they look very rich.

Dad Yan couldn't help feeling that this life is a little better.

Now the four of us celebrate the New Year together, it is much more lively, and a family finally looks like a family.

Just one embarrassing thing.

According to the usual practice, before eating the New Year's meal, the ancestors should be worshiped first, so that the dead can use it first.

Here they set out three bowls of rice for the deceased, with chopsticks on each bowl and a glass of wine next to each.

Those who offered were Yan Xin's grandparents and his mother.

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

It's fine to just offer food, but before the meal, you have to kneel down to the portrait.

——The custom here has always been like this, and of course it is normal for them to do so today.

However, not only the father and son of the Yan family, but also Wu Xiuhong and her daughter are celebrating the New Year here this year.

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

Participating in this ceremony is a bit strange.

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

At the beginning, the father and son of the Yan family didn't think of this, they just followed the habit of previous years.

I didn't think of this until the father and son finished worshiping and saw that mother and daughter were a little embarrassed there.

They are combined families.

It is also the first time for them to form a family. They have no relevant experience and don't know what to do in such a situation.

After hesitating for a while, Wu Xiuhong still pushed her daughter:
"Xiaoling, you go over and pay your respects too."

Bai Xiaoling looked at the portraits enshrined in the shrine, then at her mother, then at the Yan family father and son.

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

I thought to myself: "Just treat it as a kowtow to the future mother-in-law, this is what it should be..."

Thinking about it this way, I felt a little better.

Just thinking about her mother's situation, I still feel a little bit unjust in my heart-"Women are too embarrassed, they don't have their own ancestors, so they can only worship other people's ancestors."

This move by Wu Xiuhong shows that she is aware of the general situation, does not care about those vain statuses, does not compete with the dead, and makes both Yan's father and son have some gratitude for her.

Set off firecrackers, and then eat New Year's dinner.

The weather on this day is not bad. According to the practice of previous years, as long as it is not raining, they will go to the grave after eating the New Year's Eve meal on New Year's Eve.

In the past few years, the Yan family went to visit Yan Xin's mother's grave.

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

Of course it's okay for the two of them to go, but the status of the remaining mother and daughter is embarrassing, should they go or not?
They have already made a concession before, and they still want to make such a request, which seems to be a little deceptive.

——Although they subjectively did not mean to bully others.

Wu Xiuhong, on the other hand, 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, so she didn't go with her.

He also asked if Bai Xiaoling would stay and help her wash the dishes or follow the father and son to the grave.

This is an opportunity for her to call the shots.

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

I have already come to this family, but I still want to pay homage to my ex-husband, which is somewhat unreasonable.

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

Having only been married for a month or two, what she needs to do is to make the combined family more harmonious, not to make the family more divided.

This cannot be the case during the Chinese New Year, nor can it be the case during the Qingming Festival.

On the side of the deceased husband, the brothers of the Bai family can only go to worship.

—Who told them to take away the fields and the house?Logically speaking, it should be their business.

Wu Xiuhong thought so.

Bai Xiaoling thought for a while, then smiled and said, "I'd better go with my father and brother."

What she thought was that this could bring Yan Xin closer to her, so it would be good to go out for a visit. Although the worshiper was someone she didn't know and had nothing to do with her, it could make their relationship more harmonious. Why not?

Wu Xiuhong smiled and said: "That's good, it's good to go out for a walk, and I can help you a little bit."

After eating, the Yan family father and son and Bai Xiaoling went out with firecrackers, incense, candles, paper money and so on.

And Wu Xiuhong stayed at home alone to clean up the dishes.

After they all left, Wu Xiuhong looked at the portrait of Yan Xin's mother in the shrine for a long time, and finally sighed and said in a low voice:
"I really envy you for raising a good son."

When they came back from the grave, it was only after two o'clock in the afternoon.

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

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

But the sons of the neighbors who went out to work have all returned home, and the two older ones, wives and children, are also at home for the New Year. There are about ten people together, which makes it 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 all get married. 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 the daughter-in-law of someone else's family. She will only celebrate the new year at other people's homes. Even if she has a child, she will only have fun at other people's homes."

Thinking of it this way, I feel somewhat uncomfortable.

This is a combination home.

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

After Yan Xin married a wife and gave birth to a child, it had nothing to do with her.

But as a stepmother, if she 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 during confinement.

Those who work hard to serve are people who have no blood relationship with themselves.

But her own daughter, her daughter's child, and those who are related to her by blood are people she cannot take care of.

The closest relatives are going far away, but I can only stay 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.

This kind of possibility is not impossible, she is only in her 40s now.

To give birth to a child for the Yan family is to truly blend in.

But later I learned that it was too risky to have a baby at her age.

And if the one born is not a son, but a daughter, wouldn't that be the same?
After all, she still has to marry out, so she can't be regarded as a member of the Yan family.

After a hundred years, she still couldn't escape the identity of an outsider.

Thinking about it this way, it's really quite sad.

Inevitably, there was such a delusion in my heart-"If Xiaoling could be with Yan Xin, how great would it be?"

If this is the case, the daughter does not need to marry out, as she is both her daughter and her daughter-in-law.

The child born is her grandson and her grandson.

She is also related by blood.

This is the real family!
But it's a pity, Yan Xin already has a partner.

This made her very depressed.

——I don’t feel so sentimental on weekdays, but it’s just during Chinese New Year, because of a worship issue, I suddenly feel that I am an outsider, and I have these thoughts.

Combining families is just so embarrassing.

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

She is very clear about how difficult it is to walk all these years. If she is asked to walk again, she doesn't have the courage.

After getting married, the living conditions have indeed been greatly improved, and I don't have to worry so much about my daughter.

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

But at least Papa Yan is still there, so she can live a good life, be cared for and respected.

It's worth it.

It's better than carrying it hard alone.

She is most worried about her daughter.

But she really can't help her daughter.

Like Dad Yan, although she is still living in this era, she is already a laggard in this era.

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

With Yan Xin's help, her daughter found a good job right away, earning more money in just over a month than she could earn in a year.

It was only a matter of saying to Yan Xin, and her daughter's fate was changed.

This further confirmed that it was a correct choice for her to marry.

The Yan family came to rescue her and her daughter.

She had nothing to complain about.

If you must complain, you can only complain about your bad life. In your first marriage, you didn't meet such a good family, but only met a short-lived man.

She did nothing wrong.

The Yan family didn't do anything to offend her.

Now the identity is a little awkward, it's purely an arrangement of fate, no one can blame it.

There was a little resentment in my heart, but I didn't show it.

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

"Why did you come back so soon? Thank you for your hard work."

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

——Even if the two little ones can't get together, but the relationship between brother and sister is good, that's a good thing.

With such a capable brother, her daughter will not suffer in the future.

Even if you suffer a loss, there are people who will help you get back.

This is what reassures her the most.

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

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

Because when going up the mountain, she used the excuse that she was tired, panting that she couldn't climb anymore, and then took this opportunity to ask Yan Xin to pull her and successfully held hands.

With this precedent, it seemed natural to hold hands with Yan Xin when going down the mountain later.

——In fact, Yan Xin wanted to refuse very much. He thought it was not good, and it was not good for others to see it.

However, in the New Year's Eve, such a younger sister who has no blood relationship with her family, put her father's grave instead of worshiping, and came to visit his mother's grave, and she was too tired to walk, so she asked him to pull it. Time really can't refuse.

It would be too inhuman to refuse.

Now that there is such a time, and the next time we have to hold hands, it is not so repulsive.

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

That would hurt your ego.

Diffusion, and even cause the split of the combined family.

So he can only continue to accept.

In fact, there was a little anxiety in his heart-he was worried that Wu Xiuhong would be angry when he saw it, and would think that he was going to abduct her daughter.

But luckily, nothing like that happened.

When Wu Xiuhong saw them holding hands, she still had a smile on her face, without showing any trace of blame.

In addition to being relieved, I was ashamed, thinking: "I am still too dirty, thinking about what is there and what is not. This should be like this between normal brothers and sisters. They treat me as a family, so they feel that this is quite good. It's normal, but I think it's not good, it's my fault, I treat them as outsiders. Alas, ashamed!"

When they got home, the siblings didn't have to hold hands anymore.

There are no other activities in the afternoon, and dinner is just eating the leftovers at noon, just cook a little rice, and there is nothing to be busy about.

So the four of them did nothing else in the afternoon, and set up a small round table in the main room on the first floor, with a coal stove under it, and then spread a blanket on the table, and the four sat around the table Hit the percentage.

This place has such a habit. During the Spring Festival, every family plays cards.

Most of the cards are played by their own family members, and the winners and losers are all at home, which means that the fat water does not flow to outsiders.

It's more about entertainment.

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

But later on, this kind of custom gradually disappeared. Few of my family got together to play cards. When the whole family was at home, they just played with their mobile phones, or just chatted.

Those who are addicted to cards go to the chess and card room to play cards. The boss will draw water, but will also provide them with food. Everyone gets what they need.

Mobile phones are not so fun now, not many people even have mobile phones, and there is no good TV to watch on the afternoon of 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 there are only father and son left in the latter family, and the relationship was not very good at that time, so there is no such tradition.

Now the family of four is enjoying themselves happily, just picking up the old tradition.

It went on until about six o'clock in the evening.

In more than three hours, Yan Xin lost more than 1000 yuan.

It was not a big fight, but he lost alone.

The remaining three all won.

The one who won the most was Bai Xiaoling.

In card games, one may not be able to win when one wants to win, but one can definitely lose when one wants to lose.

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

So he often loses on purpose.

More than half of the 1000 yuan was won by Bai Xiaoling.

It's not that Yan Xin lost to her in a targeted manner, the main reason is that her skills are indeed higher.

Young people's minds should be more flexible.

If it wasn't for Yan Xin's deliberate release of water, Bai Xiaoling might win, but the two old ones would definitely lose, and they would lose a lot.

After dinner in the evening, it was only after seven o'clock. The Spring Festival Gala hadn't started yet, and it was already dark.

Fireworks were being set off outside. Although there were not many fireworks in each house, the crackling sound never stopped, and the night sky was lit up again and again.

Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling also took some fireworks and saluted out to set off.

I bought more than 1000 yuan of fireworks and firecrackers, which was used for this Spring Festival.

If you don't release it on New Year's Eve, then there is no need to release it at other times.

A few fireworks were set off, photos and videos were taken, and then we went in.

The whole family watched TV in the master bedroom on the first floor. The small table was moved over and the coal stove was placed under it. At Bai Xiaoling's suggestion, they continued playing cards while turning on the TV.

There are also two fruit plates on the table, which contain all kinds of food, as well as orange juice and cola.

If you want to eat, you can eat, if you want to drink, you can drink.

This night, they played cards until after one o'clock in the morning before it ended.

At midnight, Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling went out to set off firecrackers.

That is called Fengcaimen, so it has to be released at this point.

When they went out, there was a rumble outside, and every household set off firecrackers at this point, and it became a sea of ​​firecrackers.

This night, the playing time was longer, and Yan Xin lost more, and lost more than 2000 yuan.

Most of it went into Bai Xiaoling's pocket again, making her extremely happy.

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

They didn't have much memory of what programs were shown in the Spring Festival Gala this year.

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

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

Not only the Yan family is like this, but also the Bai family.

Two unfortunate families, until this day, finally have a happy appearance.

(End of this chapter)