The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 110

Drinking Moutai and smoking Zhonghua, Wang Fumin's New Year's Day drink is enough for the scene.

Wu Youguang took the number one position, followed by Wang Fumin's number two, followed by Ma Zhentang, Su Yulong, Liu Yujiang, He Jiaqing, He Jiaxiang, and He Fakui.

Wang Shaodong and his group of juniors were not idle either. Several of them of similar age gathered together at Zheng Hui's house, and Wang Shaodong was persuaded to be the top leader.

This year, the Wang family's scenery in Taohualing Village is boundless.

Everyone was happy during the Chinese New Year, and then at the wine shop at noon, Wang Shaodong and the others drank until 01:30 in the afternoon.

After drinking, Wang Shaodong and the others started to play poker again, and they continued to make trouble until 09:30 in the evening, and Wang Shaodong didn't go home.

People who celebrate the New Year, old and young, are all playing around with flowers, and don't care about any taboos.Children love to play, and adults let them make trouble.

Played for a day on the first day of the new year, and continued on the second day of the new year.

In some places, Chinese New Year is celebrated on the first day of the new year, and relatives start to visit in the second day of the new year.The customs here in Taohualing Village are different. There are three days of New Year's Eve here, the [-]th is a busy year, and New Year's greetings on the first and second day of the new year. The so-called New Year's greetings are actually just fun.

Every household has prepared rich food, melon seeds, fried peanuts, fried beans and raisins, candies, etc. are essential, and then there are precious pistachios, pine nuts, cashews, etc. dried fruit.

On the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year, when the shadows are on at about five o'clock, it is time to send home hall.

The table in the family hall enshrines the tablet of the ancestors. The ancestors invited over on the morning of the New Year's Eve have been at the children and grandchildren's house for two and a half days, and then they have to go back where they should go.

Inviting the ancestors only used a stick of incense, a cup of wine and a bowl of tea, but when sending them to the ancestors, they had to ask for a pile of yellow paper, a lot of firecrackers and salutes.As the saying goes, it’s easier to ask God than it is to send God away. The ancestors are all gods. If you stay here in Sun’s house and don’t leave, it will be troublesome.

The Wang family was lively on the first day of the new year, but on the second day of the new year, it became deserted, especially when it was time to send the family hall, it seemed even more lonely.

The Wang family has been passed down for several generations, and Wang Shaodong's generation is already No. 13.

It is also a strange story, thirteen generations of a single biography, but the roots have not been broken, it can be regarded as the ancestors have accumulated virtue.

Wang Shaodong's ancestors fled famine and came to Taohualing Village, and then married a girl surnamed He from Taohualing Village's local family. Later, they had a son, and they continued to reproduce to Wang Shaodong's generation.

Wang Fumin still couldn't forget to mention the rules set down by his ancestors back then to Wang Shaodong, that is, when Wang Shaodong grows up to find a wife, he must not look for someone with the surname He.

Later, Wang Shaodong thought about this rule and found it a little strange.In the consciousness of the older generation, it is a good thing for the uncle and cousin to get married, so why did the ancestors decide not to marry a girl from the He family?
Wang Shaodong guessed, probably this is the possibility.

Since it is said that this rule was set by the ancestors surnamed Wang, it must be that the people surnamed He treated him badly and hated him so much that they made such an unreasonable rule just now.

Moreover, there is a saying in Taohualing Village called "He Yan Mojiao, the Sun family is even worse".It is said that the villagers surnamed He and Yan in Taohualing Village cannot communicate with each other, and the family surnamed Sun has even worse conduct.

Of course, this kind of statement is definitely one-sided and inaccurate, but there are such statements around Taohualing Village, and even all the way to Dazhai Village.

From this point of view, coupled with the rules set by the old ancestor back then, it can be seen that the old ancestor was not angry with the He family.

Even Wang Shaodong sometimes wondered that the thirteen generations of their family were single-passed, as if they had been cursed. Was it also related to that strange rule?
Looking at the lonely figures of himself and his father when they were sent to the family hall, and looking at the enviable team of the Wu family and the He family, Wang Shaodong secretly thought in his heart, the next step is to have more sons.

On the second day of the new year, I finished sending off to the house, and on the third day of the new year, it was time to return to my mother's house.

The customs around Taohualing Village are slightly different from those in other places. In many places across the country, people go back to their natal homes on the second day of the lunar new year, while those around Taohualing Village go back to their natal homes on the third day of the new year.

As for the customs of inviting family halls, setting up family halls and sending family halls, there are no such customs in many places.Leaving aside the distance, let’s just say that Li Hong, who is less than two hundred miles away from Taohualing Village, has the habit of visiting the graves of his parents, grandparents during Chinese New Year, but he does not have the habit of enshrining ancestral tablets in his family hall.

In many places, the tablets of the ancestors are enshrined in the ancestral halls, and the whole family goes to the ancestral halls to worship the ancestors during festivals.

In some places, instead of worshiping ancestors on the first day of the new year, people go to temples to worship gods and pray for blessings.

Anyway, in different places, the customs of Chinese New Year are still very different.

It is a fixed custom to go back to her mother's house on the third day of the new year, and from the fourth day onwards until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is a day to visit relatives and friends.In the past, when everyone’s economic awareness was still very weak, no one said that they had the idea of ​​working one day earlier to make more money. At that time, there were many relatives of the seven aunts and eight aunts, and they had to leave one by one. Maybe it would be the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It's not over yet.

But in 2002, the custom of seeing all relatives, big and small, far and near, became weaker and weaker, and it became only the relatives who were closer, and then the rest of the relatives stopped walking.

Many people start work on the sixth day of the first lunar month, so there is no time to visit relatives.

Wang Shaodong's grandparents passed away when Wang Shaodong was in elementary school, and then his grandfather also passed away when he was in the first grade of junior high school. Now among the relatives of his ancestors, he still has only one grandma.

My grandma was in very good health. Until 2017, when she was 83 years old, she was still very healthy and lived alone.

In 2002, Wang Shaodong's grandmother was 68 years old.

At eight o'clock in the morning on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Shaodong drove his family's second-hand era light truck, went west along the dirt road at the head of the village, first arrived at Luohanyu Village, and then went south from Luohanyu Village , turned over a hill, and then turned to the road leading to Qingquanling Village along the side road pressed by the Lasha cart.

Qingquanling Village is much bigger than Taohualing Village, and Wang Shaodong's grandma's house is at the vegetable garden at the northernmost end of the village.It was a vegetable garden of tens of mu of land, and each household was allocated one or two portions of land. When he was a child, Wang Shaodong often picked radishes from the vegetable garden and washed them in a low well in the middle of the vegetable garden.The well was nearly level with the ground and never seemed to dry up.

The light truck was parked in the open space in front of grandma's house. When Wang Shaodong got out of the car, he saw grandma and uncle standing at the door waiting with a smile on their faces.

(End of this chapter)