vines and melons

Chapter 69

The next day, Guoxiangniang summoned her five men and two women, and Jianjun knelt in front of his elders to repent and swear.

Guoxiang Niang rubbed Guizhi's hand and said: Man, which one is not a cat that steals fish!After speaking, feeling uncomfortable, he said to Jianjun: Xiao Wu, listen up!Your mother will spare you this time, if there is another time, I will break your leg with a walking stick!Believe it or not!As she spoke, she tapped the ground twice with a walking stick.

To show loyalty, Jianjun took a needle awl and stabbed the character "loyalty" on his left arm.

The Dong family was afraid that Dongmei's family would come to them, so they asked Jianjun to take the train to XJ that afternoon to join distant relatives.

When Fang Jie went to the obstetric examination and rubbed shoulders with the mother-to-be accompanied by her husband, she would cast envious glances, and sometimes she would watch the young couple far away.Every time at this time, the mother who accompanied her gave a lot of examples to her daughter, saying that the man from such and such family ran away with which woman, and after running away for several years, they came back again, and they still married as a couple!The rebuilt home has two pieces of skin, don't stick it!

Conceived in October and gave birth once.Fang Jie, who was tortured by childbirth, heard that it was a boy, and instantly felt that she was treated kindly by fate!Life has to rely on!She looked at the baby in the swaddle and asked grandma, "Grandma, look at how dark this child is! How ugly!"

"It's not black, it's red, black, white, ugly and handsome! As long as it's a (boy) with a handle!" Guo Xiangniang said with a walnut smile, "It's the same as Xiao Wu when he was a child!"

Tears flashed in Fang Jie's eyes when he mentioned Jianjun. Where is the company of Jianjun who was pregnant in October? !Where was Jianjun when she gave birth to a child with heart-piercing pain? !
Guizhi came in with a bowl of poached eggs in brown sugar water. Fang Jie quickly touched her face. Guizhi looked at the tearful daughter and said, "Don't dare to be angry during confinement. If you are angry, the child will have no milk! Jianjun I went out to work." Jianjun found a job driving a truck in XJ, and sent money to Fang Jie on time every month.

Guo Xiangniang, who looked down at her great-grandson, hurriedly said, "If you get angry, you will be worse!"

Fang Jie stretched her neck to swallow back the tears that flowed down her throat.

It's been almost a year, and Dongmei hasn't come to look for her at the door. I guess it's all right, Jianjun came back in the twelfth lunar month.

Guoxiang has a lot of New Year's goods, chicken, duck, fish, meat... everything is available and plentiful.

Guizhi said that Guoxiang was as happy as a fool!

Guoxiang supported his grandson Gaosheng with both hands, and said to his grandson's face: Not many!Is it Xiaoshengsheng? !Eat slowly, grandpa is happy...

The happy family deduces the customs of the traditional year.

When the night of the New Year's Eve was dark, Guoxiang's family began to act.

Guoxiang opened the lanterns outside the gate, all the lights in the courtyard and the house; put a large round table in the center of the courtyard, and put an incense burner on the table to worship God; put a small round table between the screen wall and the gate, and put a An incense burner dedicated to the Lord of the Land; an incense burner on the kitchen board dedicated to the Old Kitchen God; an incense burner in the Xiaosi Hall in the living room dedicated to the ancestors; finally, red candles were inserted in the round holes of each incense burner.This order is not random, it is arranged in order from largest to smallest.

Guizhi held the seven burning incense sticks, and inserted one into each incense burner in order, then inserted one into the drain hole and the coal pile, and lit the red candle on the incense burner with the remaining one.Finally, kowtow in order.

Guoxiang took a cannon, took the stick of incense in Guizhi's hand, and blew two puffs on the top of the incense stick, pointed at the cannon, and there was a crisp bang, please God, everyone is not allowed to walk back and forth in the courtyard .

This night, the lights outside the gate and in the courtyard are always burning; there is no collection of incense in the courtyard, and it will be used again tomorrow morning.

At 5 a.m. on the first day of the new year, Guoxiang and Guizhi got up on time, washed up, and worshiped the gods.

Guoxiang is still doing the preparations before burning incense: open the windshield on each door; a fish plate and two discs on the table of God; a disc on the table of Lord Land; Put on a round plate; on Xiaositang's table, there are five cooked dishes without salt, five pairs of chopsticks, one fish plate, and two discs.

Guizhi put two hedgehogs on each windshield. This one is very particular. On the first day of the first lunar month, the hedgehogs’ mouths face into the house, which means that the money earned in a year will be taken home at the end of the year. It's time to go out and earn money; God's fish plate has a deep-fried fish, a plate of cooked fried pork cubes, and a plate of mixed dishes (one pot bottom, two fruits, one jujube bun); One mixed dish; Old Stove Lord, one mixed dish; Xiaositang, a smaller fried fish, one mixed dish, one hand touch, and several people in the family put a few hand buns, and then burn incense and burn money.

Guizhi kowtowed devoutly next to her, and said silently in her heart: bless my family is safe and sound, let Jianjun and Fang Jie live a good life, let both daughters go to college, let Xiaoshengsheng be healthy... ··

The army set off firecrackers. This year, there are 5000 whips, which is a change from the previous rule of 2000.

After the firecrackers are set off, the cypress branches are set on fire, and the family warms their hands around the fire, so that they can live a long life.

Guizhi wrapped Xiaosheng tightly, and Guoxiang hugged him around the pile of cypress branches three times.

(End of this chapter)