Siheyuan starts to eat the old man

Chapter 241 Chapter 240

This year because Sha Zhu married a wife, the deaf old lady did not come to Yi Zhonghai's house for the New Year's Eve dinner, but accepted Sha Zhu's invitation and chose to have the New Year's Eve dinner at Sha Zhu's house.

Hearing that the deaf old lady went to Shazhu's house, Li Pingan sighed in his heart. In the old lady's heart, it was her good grandson Shazhu. It seemed that the old lady was ready to leave the house in the backyard to Shazhu. He began to gradually disentangle his relationship with Yi Zhonghai's family.

That house doesn't matter to Li Pingan. After the redevelopment, he can't get what kind of house he wants. A house doesn't matter to him. Nothing, nothing to do.

Yi Zhonghai obviously thought of this, and felt uncomfortable, but because today is the New Year's Eve, he couldn't get angry, so he could only suppress his unhappiness, put a smile on his face, and eat with his family Have a reunion dinner.

This year’s reunion dinner was really well prepared, and the whole family didn’t eat much. Li Pingan looked at the remaining dishes and sighed inwardly, “It’s probably all these 16 dishes during the Spring Festival holiday. up'

Today is the New Year's Eve, and it is said that there is a custom of keeping the year old. Of course, you can't sleep now, even if you sleep now, you can't sleep. The sound of firecrackers is everywhere outside, which makes Li Pingan's brain hurt.

Li Pingan and his wife stayed in Yi Zhonghai's house to watch the new year. Yi Zhonghai unknowingly turned out a deck of poker from there, and the family of four started playing poker.

The other families in the courtyard were basically in the same situation. Except for the children who went out to set off cannons on the street, the adults stayed at home, talking and chatting with the family members.

Since he got up early in the morning, Li Pingan was still playing poker, and couldn't keep his eyes open. After finally staying up until twelve o'clock, Li Pingan went out and set off another set of firecrackers, just like the stupid Zhu who came out to set off firecrackers next door. After saying Happy New Year to each other, they took Ding Qiunan and Yi Zhonghai and his wife to say goodbye, and hurried back to the room to sleep.

Early the next morning, before dawn, Li Pingan was woken up by Ding Qiunan.

"It's only after six o'clock, and it's not even seven o'clock. Why did you call me so early?" Li Pingan, who was sleepy, heard Ding Qiunan waking him up. He said angrily, turned around and wrapped himself up again. Turned over under the tight quilt, ready to sleep.

Ding Qiunan looked at the man who likes to sleep late, and he didn't get angry. He patted Li Ping angrily, and said: "Get up quickly, someone has come to pay New Year's greetings. When relatives and friends come over, you Still lying on the bed, isn't that a joke?"

Hearing what Ding Qiunan said, Li Pingan realized that last night Yi Zhonghai said that his apprentices and neighbors in the courtyard would come to pay New Year's greetings.

After thinking about it, the sleepiness disappeared without a trace in an instant, turned over and got up from the bed, took the new clothes handed over by Ding Qiunan, put them on quickly, and after a simple wash, took out the prepared New Year's gift, took Ding Qiunan Come to Yi Zhonghai's room, and first pay New Year's greetings to the old couple.

Before the social education movement started in 64, the custom of kowtowing to parents and elders continued during the Spring Festival. After the social education movement, except for children, kowtow was changed to bowing to the elders, but the bowing to the elders did not last long.

After the beginning of the special period, because of the revolution of the Spring Festival, the previous customs will disappear. In the special period, it is not the elders who pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year, but the "quotations" held high, facing the portrait of the great man, and the family sings in chorus "Sailing the sea depends on the helmsman" and other quotations or songs, and finally wish the great leader a long life.

At this time, Yi Zhonghai and his wife had already cleaned up. A plate was placed on the dining table, which was filled with snacks such as peanuts and sunflower seeds. The old couple sat on the grand master's chair in the main room, waiting solemnly for Li Pingan and his wife to come in to pay New Year's greetings.

"Comrade Uncle, Comrade Aunt, Happy Chinese New Year." As soon as he entered the house, the first thing Li Pingan did was to lead Ding Qiunan to bow to the old couple and say the standard New Year greetings for this year.

Seeing Li Pingan’s old man greeting him, Yi Zhonghai’s old couple’s tears came out. The aunt wiped the tears with her hands, and the old couple smiled and quickly took out the red envelopes they had prepared in advance from the pockets of their new clothes, laughing Handed over.

For the New Year's red envelope, Li Pingan had no reason to refuse. He happily accepted two big red envelopes, and then respectfully sent up the prepared New Year's greetings gift.

The preparation of New Year's greeting gifts is very simple. In addition to the necessary pastries, there is also a New Year's picture of the great leader. Everything is a gift advocated by the street, and people can't fault it.

Yi Zhonghai stood up respectfully, took Li Pingan's New Year gift with both hands, put the cake aside, respectfully unfolded the portrait, and carefully pasted the portrait on the wall of the main room.

After finishing everything, the family stood facing the portrait in the main room, bowed deeply, and sent the most sincere Spring Festival blessings to the great man.

After this set of procedures, this New Year greeting is over.

Of course, this is the process for family members to pay New Year's greetings. There are not so many rules when neighbors or relatives come to pay New Year's greetings. They don't need to bring any gifts, as long as they come.

"Ping An, Qiu Nan, the dumplings are ready, hurry up and eat dumplings, after the neighbors in the courtyard come to pay New Year's greetings, these dumplings will not be eaten." After the New Year's greetings, the first mother hurriedly urged Li Ping's young couple to eat dumplings.

Now some neighbors in the courtyard have started to walk around with each other. When people come to pay New Year's greetings later, it is really inappropriate for people to see you eating dumplings.

When the young couple came back after eating dumplings in the kitchen, a neighbor had already come to pay New Year's greetings to Yi Zhonghai and his wife. After Li Pingan and the visitor said "Happy New Year" to each other, the neighbor simply sat down for a while and ate some peanuts and melon seeds After that, he bid farewell to Yi Zhonghai and went to the next one to pay New Year's greetings.

This family's New Year greetings seemed to send a signal. After the family left, people from Yi Zhonghai's family began to visit for New Year's greetings in an endless stream. The peanuts and melon seeds on the table were refilled three times, which meant that Yi Zhonghai's family had a big business. When people come to pay New Year's greetings, they can't even supply the peanuts and melon seeds.

People who come to pay New Year's greetings know the rules, and none of them brought their children. Life is difficult now. Some people are rich and can afford the New Year's money, while some are poor and cannot afford the New Year's money.

Considering this, the neighbors in the courtyard who paid New Year's greetings tacitly chose to let their children go out to play instead of bringing them out for New Year's greetings, so that there would be no extra expenditure of New Year's money.

Like in the TV series, Sha Zhu instigates the three brothers and sisters to ask for lucky money on the first day of the new year. , gave your child, what about the other children in the yard?
What's more, the New Year's money is about coming and going. How much New Year's money I gave your child, you have to pay back the same amount. Good guy, this guy is like a meat bun beating a dog. He never returns. It's strange to be angry.

Therefore, in the TV series, Yi Zhonghai would throw his sleeves and leave angrily, and would be too lazy to say a word to Shazhu.

Leaving Yi Zhonghai and his wife at home to entertain neighbors who wished New Year, Li Pingan took Ding Qiunan out and started going door-to-door to celebrate the New Year.

After the neighbors in the courtyard finished visiting, Li Pingan went home and rolled out his bicycle, took out the prepared gifts, greeted Yi Zhonghai, and took Ding Qiunan out of the courtyard to pay New Year's greetings elsewhere.

I won’t mention some colleagues who are going to pay New Year’s greetings this year. For example, Chen Youfu, Li Huaide, and Wang Yangzhi must go to their homes. If you don’t go, you are ignorant.

When walking out of the alley, whenever he meets acquaintances, Li Pingan will stop his bicycle and say happy new year to each other.

He stopped and stopped all the way, and finally finished today's New Year's greetings work before morning. Chen Youfu, Li Huaide, and Wang Yangzhi can all be called high-ranking and powerful people. There are quite a lot of people who went to other people's homes to pay New Year's greetings today. Li Ping'an Went over with Ding Qiunan, didn't say a word, just said a few auspicious words, left a gift, and left.

The last family was at Mr. Wang's home. When Li Pingan went to pay New Year's greetings today, in addition to several brothers and his family, he also met Mr. Wang's son's family who worked in other places.

Teacher Wang's son is engaged in research work in a confidential unit in other places, and his work is very busy. Sometimes he can't go home once a year. This year, he finally had a holiday. He only arrived in Sijiu City last night.

Originally, Li Pingan planned to stay at Mr. Wang's house at noon today, and accompany Mr. Wang and his wife for lunch, but since his son came back, Li Pingan did not disturb the rare reunion at Mr. Wang's house, and declined Mr. Wang's stay at noon. After receiving an invitation to eat, I left Teacher Wang's house with a few seniors.

Back in the courtyard, Yi Zhonghai and his wife were eating the leftovers from last night. When they saw Li Pingan and his wife coming back, they asked curiously, "Why did you two come back? Didn't you say that you will have dinner at your teacher's house at noon?"

"My teacher and his son came back last night, so I won't disturb the family reunion at noon, so I brought Qiu Nan back." Taking a steamed bun, he answered Yi Zhonghai's question while eating.

Hearing what Li Pingan said, Yi Zhonghai nodded, expressing his understanding: "You are right, that's the reason. It's really inappropriate for people to come back after a long time. It's really inappropriate to disturb their reunion." Speaking of this, Yi Zhonghai paused for a while, and then He said again: "Don't forget to go back to burn paper for your parents and grandpa in the afternoon, this matter must not be forgotten"

"How can I forget this matter? I just talked about it with Qiu Nan on the way back. The journey is a bit far away. I will leave after dinner. I should be able to arrive at night."

Lijia Village is indeed a bit far from Sijiu City. It's okay if you drive, but you can't get there in less than five hours by bicycle.The small jeeps in the factory cannot be driven out during the Chinese New Year. There is no other way but to ride a bicycle.

After eating at noon, Li Pingan and Ding Qiunan packed up the things for going to the grave, bid farewell to Yi Zhonghai and his wife, and rode bicycles to Li Pingan's hometown.

Fortunately, the bus did not stop running today. Li Pingan could take the bus to the suburbs and then ride a bicycle. If he rode all the way to Lijia Village, then Li Pingan would not need his legs.

Getting off the bus at the suburban terminal, Li Pingan took Ding Qiunan along the dirt road and rode panting in the direction of Lijia Village.

After riding for about three hours, I finally arrived at the entrance of Lijia Village before dark.

Li Pingan did not choose to go home directly, but rode a bicycle to the home of his third uncle Li Shanhe. There is dinner prepared in Ping An, let's go and pay New Year's greetings to the third master and third wife first.

It was meal time at this time, and the smell of rabbit meat wafted all over the village. After riding a bicycle all afternoon, Li Pingan was so hungry that his chest was sticking to his back, and his saliva was about to flow out from the smell of meat.

When I came to Li Shanhe's home, the Li Shanhe family was busy preparing for tonight. Since people in Lijia Village started selling rabbits, life in the village has become much better than in previous years. Each family has at least a dozen or so children a year. The extra income of 20 yuan is not a small amount of money for rural people. People with less labor force can almost catch up with a year's centimeter income.

"Third Uncle and Third Aunt, Happy New Year!" The courtyard door of the house was not closed, and Li Pingan was not polite, and walked in directly pushing his bicycle.

Li Shanhe, who was busy, heard his nephew's voice, and quickly turned his head to look at the gate of the courtyard. When he saw his nephew and nephew's wife, he quickly put down the man in his hand and greeted him very happily: "My nephew and his wife My nephew and daughter-in-law are back, you are exhausted from cycling, hurry up, come in and sit down."

"Is the third master and third wife in the house? I'll kowtow to you." Li Pingan parked his bicycle, took down the gift hanging from the car, and asked Li Shanhe.

Li Shanhe quickly took the bag from Li Pingan, led Li Pingan to the back room, and said with a smile as he walked: "I am here, your third master and third wife were just talking about when you will come back."

After entering the house, Li Pingan's original grandfather's younger brother, that is, Li Pingan's third grandfather and his wife, were wearing new clothes at this time, standing by the window and looking outside to see who was coming.

"Third master, third mistress, happy new year, I wish you two elders a long life and be free from disasters and pains." After entering the room, Li Pingan did not hesitate, and directly took Ding Qiunan to kneel down and kowtowed three times in a proper manner.

It is said that kowtowing is not allowed now, but that is in the city, and it has not yet reached a special period. In the countryside, this is not strictly enforced, especially when the grandchildren kowtow to the grandfather, no one cares.

Besides, people of the older generation don't recognize your bowing. If you really bow in New Year's greetings and don't kowtow, maybe the big crutch will come to you.

The third grandpa and the third grandma saw that it was Li Pingan and his wife who had come back. They couldn't close their mouths from ear to ear with a smile.

Looking at the red envelope handed over, Ding Qiunan didn't know whether to accept it, and turned to look at Li Pingan.

"Go on, the new daughter-in-law will have a red envelope for the first time during the New Year, but next year she won't have this kind of treatment." Li Pingan looked at Ding Qiunan and said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)