My village can't be like this

Chapter 270
The next morning is usually the day when guests come.

Most of the neighbors or relatives who are not very far away in the village will come to the door on this day, and only some distant relatives who are far away will come on the third day.

Of course, most of the people in the village are well-connected or relatives of the main family, and they will come to help when they are busy preparing for work on the first day.

There are not many relatives in Zhou Yang's family, because their family moved in from other provinces decades ago, so there are not many relatives in the local family.

But after decades of getting along, in Changqing or nearby villages, everyone got married, so there are many relatives.

Moreover, there were not many guests in Zhou Yang's house today. Although Zhou's family was not many, there were quite a few relatives from Zhou Yang's mother's family.

The rest of the guests are basically neighbors from the village or nearby villages.

In the past, there would never have been so many guests at Zhou Yang's house.

Because in the previous life, when Zhou Yang got married, Zhang An was there, and the number of visitors at that time was less than one-third of the current number.

But seeing so many people now, in fact, everyone is not surprised, and they know the reason in their hearts.

On the one hand, it is because the conditions of Zhou Yang's family have been getting better and better in the past two years, and it can be said that they are the better ones in the village.

On the other hand, it is because of Zhou Yang himself, because he is now a cook.

There are not many cooks in the village who can handle a big pot, Zhang Jianzhong is one, and Zhou Yang is one.

Zhou Yang was not at home before, so he couldn't help others. Now that Zhou Yang is back, if anyone in the village has any big or small problems, Zhou Yang and Zhang An and other young people like to come to help.

Even in a few nearby villages, people would come to ask Zhou Yang for help when they held banquets.

It's not that there are no cooks in the village, but most cooks cook big pot dishes with seasonings and stir-fry them.

All the dishes have the same taste in the mouth, that is the taste of the seasoning.

There are not many cooks who are really skilled. Zhang Jianzhong is one of the few nearby villages.

Now that Zhou Yang came back, after all, he had studied systematically in school, and Zhou Yang himself put his heart into it, and he had real kung fu in his hands.

When they first came back, everyone felt that Zhou Yang was young, and even if he could play a few hands, he should not have many hands.

But for cooking, it is the most straightforward to detect it.

After a few incidents, everyone knew that although Zhou Yang was young, his skills were real.

So in the end, more and more people came to ask him to be the chef.

Zhou Yang is also a straightforward young man. If someone in the village has something to do, they don't need others to come to the door to call, and they will come to the door by themselves.

And in the nearby stockade, if others came to the door, even if Zhou Yang had something to do, he would refuse to help first.

So in the past two years, their family has helped people everywhere, and all they left behind were big favors.

Now that Zhou Yang is married, everyone knows that this is happening, and everyone rushes to the door to help.

Therefore, Zhou Yang's family had many guests, and no one was surprised.

Another one, in this day and age, whether it is relatives or neighbors in the village, there is a strong sense of human affection.

Unlike later generations, the human touch is getting weaker and weaker.

Zhang An has seen it with his own eyes, decades later, when some people are doing business, the table is arranged, and the food is served, but no one comes to the door.

The family that Zhang An impressed the most was from Changqing Village. Because the older and younger sons were able to study well, they were admitted to university and ended up working outside.

Since they have not returned to the village for a long time, their family has never come to help anyone in the village.

In the end, the old man of their family died, and no one came to help.

At that time, the two sons who were working outside were in a panic. If this continued, I am afraid that no one would help send their old father to the mountain on the day when the spirit came out.

At that time, the two brothers went door-to-door inviting people with cigarettes and alcohol all night, and they went to apologize one by one.

Even so, not many people came to help the next day.

From then on, the two brothers of their family, no matter who had something to do in the village or nearby, would always come to help if they asked for leave.

For such a thing, this is definitely not an example, no matter where it is, it must be there.

So in the village, the word "reciprocity" is well said, which means that there must be reciprocity.

There will be troubles in everyone's head. If you don't help others, when you have troubles, others will watch you.

At noon, when the banquet was about to start, Huang Ming, who was in charge of pouring wine for everyone, came to find Zhang An with a bitter face.

"Brother An Zi, all the wine in the barrel has been poured out, and there are still a few tables left unfilled, what should I do?"

The work of pouring wine is not troublesome, on the contrary it is a little easy.

You just need to hold the barrel and pour wine for everyone at the table.

But now, Huang Ming felt that this errand was not easy to handle.

Because the host gave him all the wine, and now there are still many guests who have not poured it.

If it affected other people's impression of Zhou Yang's family because of this matter, then it can be said that he did not handle the matter well.

But Zhang An was a little confused when he heard it. Zhou Yang's family prepared more than 100 catties of liquor yesterday.

Even if I poured out some yesterday, I didn't pour out much. Why is it that it's only noon today? It's not enough.

When he married Su Ying last time, he used up a hundred catties of liquor in one meal.

"Have you finished the three barrels of wine?"

Zhang An thought that Huang Ming hadn't found the wine barrel, so he asked.

"There are more than three barrels, three and a half barrels have been poured out"

After listening to Huang Ming's explanation, Zhang An probably understood what was going on.

It turned out that when Zhang An's family held a banquet last time, because it was the busy farming season, everyone stopped after tasting a little, and didn't let go of drinking.

But now, in the season of the twelfth lunar month, there is not much work to do in the fields, and everyone is sitting idle at home.

In addition, it is a bit cold in winter, drinking some at this time can also keep out the cold.

And in the Changqing area, men, women and children can drink more or less.

So when Huang Ming went to pour wine, no matter whether it was men, women, old or young, everyone put up bowls and poured some.

Some of them drank a lot, and now they had nothing to do, so they opened their mouths to drink.

And now there is only loose white on the wine table, and there is no beer or anything, so the consumption of this wine has increased.

So basically when Huang Ming walked to that table, he poured out a lot of wine.

In the end, before he finished walking around, Huang Ming found out why the wine barrel was empty, so he hurried over to find Zhang An to find a solution.

In fact, Huang Ming was not to blame for this matter. After all, everyone at the table put out their bowls, so he couldn't just pour a little, or say that he didn't pour it for others.

This matter is considered an oolong, Zhou Yang's family prepared it based on the wine that Zhang An used up when he got married last time.

This time I prepared a little more, but I didn't expect that there would be more people drinking.

In fact, before this, no matter who hosted the banquet, there was a table of two catties of loose whites on the wine table, and then the table was divided by itself, and if it was gone, it would be gone.

But the last time Zhang An got married, he just opened it up for everyone to drink, but it was busy at that time, so everyone didn't let go.

And this time, Zhou Yang and his son calculated that Zhang An's family didn't use up much alcohol, and the family couldn't afford it.

So just like Zhang An's family, let people open their mouths and drink.

At this time, Zhou Shuanglin just came out of the house, and Zhang An went up to talk about it.

When Zhou Shuanglin heard so much wine, he didn't even turn over a meal, and he was a little dazed.

However, he quickly realized that the most important thing now is to find some more casual things to come back.

After all, the food is about to be served, so you can't pour out part of the wine and don't give the rest. In this way, some people will feel that the host looks down on you.

Soon, Zhou Shuanglin found Wang Xinhua who roasted wine in the village.

If you want to buy wine now, it is the most time-saving to get it from their house.

Wang Xinhua was on the table preparing to punch someone, but when he heard that there was not enough wine, he got up and took Huang Ming and Zhang An home to get some wine.

But there are not many drinks left in their family, because in the winter season, everyone likes to visit relatives when they are free.

Now there are two most popular gifts for visiting relatives, one is pork and the other is liquor.

Because there are too many people buying, Zhou Yang's family's wine was also taken at their house yesterday, so now they don't have much in stock at home.

And the rice wine or corn wine that their family has just roasted in the past two days, although it can be drunk, is very easy to get drunk.

And because it has not been blended, the taste will be particularly bad, so that kind of wine cannot be used to entertain guests.

However, Zhou Shuanglin and Zhang An didn't think too much about it, and it was enough to have the loose wine left in Wang Xinhua's house for emergencies.

If you need wine in the evening or tomorrow, at worst, let Zhang An go to the town to get it directly in the afternoon.

It's just that according to the rhythm at noon today, it may take five or six hundred catties of loose white to set up the table for two days.

After all, it is open for others to drink at noon. In the evening or tomorrow, I can't give people a table and a small jug, which is unreasonable.

However, the conditions of Zhou Yang's family have improved a lot now. This amount of wine money is not a small burden in other families, but it is not a big deal in Zhou Yang's family.

In fact, this is now, and everyone can drink it. In 30 or [-] years, after a few days of doing something at home, you may not be able to use two hundred catties of loose white.

But for now, no matter who hosts the banquet, the meat dishes can be slightly less and no one will say anything, after all, everyone's conditions are similar.

But if the wine arrangement is not in place, many people will tell others behind their backs that the master's work is not good.

But Zhang An changed his mind a little bit, and he was able to figure it out.

Now when holding banquets, what everyone cares about is wine. Many people like wine, especially in the village area. There are quite a few people who can drink and can drink, so wine has become a must for banquets.

But after 30 or [-] years, although the wine will not be used much, but at that time, the cigarette is also a big burden.

At that time, a normal family held a banquet, not to mention how long it took, and it took three days before and after, and the money for cigarettes alone would have to be several thousand or even tens of thousands.

After lunch, everyone took a break, and the ladies and sisters-in-law of the village started looking for someone.

At about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the wedding team will start to head for the woman's home.

Today's dinner will also be eaten there, so it needs to be prepared in advance.

There is no need to prepare anything, after all, most of the things have already been delivered when the horoscope is issued.

This time, I had to bring a table for offerings and a pork leg. It was enough to bring some tobacco, wine and sugar.

For going to Miao's house to pick up a new daughter-in-law, there are generally two types of people in the welcoming team.

One is specialized in singing barricades, usually ladies and sisters-in-law who are particularly good at singing folk songs in the village.

There is another person who specializes in dealing with door-blocking wine. Miao's door-blocking wine is not just talking.

Although what they put on display are all flower wines brewed by themselves, the alcohol content is not very high.

But this thing is something that the more you drink, the better it is, and the amount is very large.

Generally, the women's family is smaller, and the bar wine may not be placed too far away.

If it's a woman's family with a big family, it's not easy to solve the problem of blocking the door.

Everything was ready, and after the old man yelled, the wedding party started to set off.

This time, because it was not far away, Zhou Yang found the carriage of the village chief's uncle's house, and specially hung red cloths on the horse's forehead and the carriage.

And Zhang Ping will act as Zhou Yang's driver this time.

Along the way, Zhang Ping reined in and told the horse to go as slowly as possible.

Because everyone behind is on foot, they must not run forward with a carriage.

An hour later, the large army arrived at the entrance of Chen Wenwen's home village.

Sure enough, as soon as he entered the village, the whole road was blocked by a long pillar.

This is the door-blocking, and what we have to pass now is the door-blocking song at the woman's house.

On the other side of the pillar, many aunts in "vomiting (vomiting)" had already started blocking the road.

Seeing this, several ladies in the village straightened their clothes before walking forward.

At this time, the relatives at the woman's house began to sing.

After you sing, I will appear on the stage. When they are over, the aunts Zhou Yang's family has found have no fear at all. Instead, they talk to each other about the folk song with excitement.

For them, this is one of the few hobbies, and they usually shout twice when they are idle or working.

Now that there is an opponent, and it is a happy day, it is natural to let go of singing.

In this way, you came and I sang duet for about [-] minutes, and the aunts on the woman's side left the stage with happy smiles.

This can be regarded as the man's side making him happy, and he has passed the barrier of door-blocking songs.

If you meet people from certain places, it will take an hour for this level alone. After the female sings the male singing, you will not be allowed to easily pick up the Miao family's daughter.

Then several young men from Maomaoqing came over immediately, lifted the pillars blocking the road, and let the welcoming team enter the village.

On the way to the door of the woman's house, I can see benches placed in two rows from the road to the door of the house.

And the benches are full of porcelain bowls, which are filled with wine, which is the bar wine.

Regarding the local wine bar, Zhang An felt that it was simply a custom of hurting the enemy one thousand and self-damaging eight hundred.

Because when the man's side is drinking, the woman's side has to be accompanied by someone.

When others have a drink, they have to accompany them.

This is also the reason why there are two rows of stools in Banmen Wine and Medicine.

After the main family drank, the people in the village had already invited the people who had come to drink at the door, and began to walk forward.

In the past, I used to drink bar wine, no matter if it was uncle or uncle, or brother or brother.

But now, the people who drink bar wine are basically the younger generation.

Zhang An was not in a hurry to go up, and let other people in the village enjoy themselves first.

No matter how much is left in the end, Zhang An will take care of it.

Now Zhang An's drinking capacity is increasing, and he can drink three or four catties when drinking Sanbai.

For these flower wines that are not very strong, it is no problem. The only worry is that the stomach will not fit.

But Zhang An is not afraid at all, he has space, he is like a normal person drinking a few barrels by himself, but there is no need to show the limelight.

(End of this chapter)