Xianyuan Farm

Chapter 316 Return to the village to worship ancestors (please subscribe)

[Limited time sale] 2015 sun protection clothing for women, long sleeves, three-quarter short sleeves

[Limited time sale] Toe transparent ultra-thin invisible transparent pantyhose (99 free shipping, give it to your "girlfriend", hehe)!

Support the development of the website, go here to shop on Taobao, go!!!

It was not easy to get through until dinner time, and Gu Hongyu was able to get away. He didn't want to face everyone looking at him with strange expressions. Only the younger brother was not satisfied. He revealed everything he knew, as if he knew everything. ,

However, only Gu Hongyu and Mei Ning knew the most. Some of what Gu Hongchen said had become old news, not to mention that he only knew a little about vegetables, and the specific benefits were far from what he revealed.

On the night of New Year's Eve, every family would stay up at home, and everyone who came after dinner would leave.

When they left, Gu Hongyu packed a lot of fruits and vegetables for each family, so that everyone would be grateful after knowing it.

After talking about the New Year, Gu Hongyu and his family sent all the relatives to the square not far downstairs, and watched them walk away before returning home.

When the family returned home, the Spring Festival Gala had already begun. These did not attract Gu Hongyu. He suggested that the family play mahjong, commonly known as family partnership, to see who has the best luck during the New Year. Anyway, it is a good thing to keep the money within the family. His parents agreed today.

Although he did not watch the gala, the TV was still on this program, and there was no way to jump to other channels with the same program.

Gu Hongyu remembered a joke about this. A foreigner came to China on a business trip and stayed in a hotel to watch a show at night. But after a while, he pulled the hotel waiter into the room and said that the TV was broken. The hotel waiter laughed when he saw the content on TV. The news broadcast was playing on TV. The foreigner came to him to say that the TV was infected with a virus. How do you explain this to the foreigner!

Mei Ning didn't know how to play Mahjong in Shancheng, but this was very simple. Gu Hongyu taught her in no time and went out to buy fireworks and firecrackers. He thought that Mei Ning would accompany her family to play cards, even if she didn't have good skills, it didn't matter if she paid some tuition.

Who knew that when Gu Hongyu came home, Mei Ning actually won dozens of yuan. To borrow the dialect of Shancheng, it was "Yellow stick hand hard", and she almost won a "three families return to the cave".

It was not until eleven o'clock in the evening that my mother started to prepare to cook glutinous rice balls, and the mahjong game ended. In the end, Mei Ning still poured some out, and in total, no one won or lost.

At half past eleven, my mother had already walked to the dining table with steaming glutinous rice balls.

Gu Hongyu didn't like to eat small glutinous rice balls, and he usually ate four large glutinous rice balls at most, but today my mother cooked a lot, and basically everyone had six or eight. In terms of the literal meaning, the elderly believe in superstition very much. Six is ​​naturally a six-six big luck, and eight is a fortune!

There are large glutinous rice balls. There were also many small dumplings in the bowl. Mother said as she served them: "Big dumplings symbolize reunion, small dumplings symbolize peace and prosperity. Everyone has to finish eating the dumplings today, or I'll make you suffer."

"Mom, are there any coins in the dumplings?" the younger brother asked as he served a bowl.

Mother smiled and said: "We have them every year, and we have two more this year. See if you are lucky enough to get one?"

The custom of putting copper coins in dumplings should be common throughout the country. However, many families now have one, two, or five cent coins instead of copper coins, but the meaning still exists.

Mei Ning's luck was really good. Of the dumplings that were wrapped with five copper coins, Mei Ning actually ate three in one bowl, and Gu Hongyu and Gu Hongchen each had one of the remaining dumplings. Looking at his mother's smiling face, Gu Hongyu felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

The copper coins must have been tampered with by his mother, there is no doubt that Mei Ning must be treated well when she comes to her house for the first time. Gu Hongyu and Gu Hongchen are the hope of the family. The idea of ​​hoping that their sons and daughters will become successful has been transformed into many unintentional actions and integrated into their lives. The parents have really been paying for their children without asking for anything in return.

After eating this warm New Year's Eve dinner, the family waited for the countdown to the New Year's bell on the TV. As the New Year's bell rang inside. Gu Hongyu and his family walked out of the house and walked straight to the square.

Now the square is full of people. Whether they know each other or not, they are greeting each other and saying auspicious New Year's blessings. Gu Hongyu, Gu Hongchen and his father moved fireworks and firecrackers to the square and found a relatively far position from other people. The younger brother was busy lighting the salute.

Generally speaking, the weather today is good. The moon is bright and the stars are sparse without cold wind. The lights of the town are set off against the calm river surface. Such scenery is accompanied by the colors of salutes from time to time in the sky, creating colorful ripples.

Gu Hongyu bought a lot of fireworks, one after another for 20 minutes almost without interruption. Now there are more people setting off fireworks during the New Year, and it seems that more people have made money. Anyway, the sound of fireworks in the square is continuous.

People who go out at night are usually families. Adults keep a close eye on their children, fearing that they will run around and kick the fireworks that are being set off, which may cause a big accident.

The traffic police on the streets did not rest today, especially in the square, where they can be seen everywhere. These civil servants are still quite competent.

Gu Hongchen was addicted to setting off fireworks. He didn't feel tired after lighting them for half an hour. He pestered Gu Hongyu to bring more money. This kid had a lot of money but didn't take it out on the pretext of excuses. He looked at his brother taking out money with a look of success.

But at this time, Gu Hongyu ignored these things. Today should be lively. He had money on him. As long as he was happy, he didn't care too much.

It was almost one o'clock. Gu Hongyu called Gu Hongchen, who had had enough fun, to go home. He had to go back to the countryside to worship his ancestors tomorrow, so this matter could not be delayed.

Watching Gu Hongyu and his family walk away, some people in the square pointed at them.

"You know, the Gu family has become rich this year. I heard that they made a lot of money outside and drove a luxury car worth millions when they came back."

"I've seen that car. It's much better looking than ordinary cars on the street."

"I noticed the fireworks his family set off today. The total amount must be more than 10,000 yuan, but the eldest child of the Gu family didn't even blink when he took the money. It seems that he really made a fortune!"

"Is this true? The fruit that the eldest child gave me that day when he came back tasted so good. I still remember the taste now."

"..."

It was late at night, and the sound of firecrackers became sparse. In this environment, Gu Hongyu fell asleep.

Gu Hongyu's ancestors lived in the local countryside. If you trace back to the origin, they migrated from other places.

Now Sichuan really has a small local population. It is said that it was mainly because Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan in the late Ming Dynasty to carry out massacres, making Sichuan smoky and desolate. Later, there was a saying that Huguang filled Sichuan.

However, only my uncle's family is really living in the countryside now. Grandpa***'s grave is buried next to the beautiful mountains and waters of my hometown.

It is a family tradition to visit the graves and worship ancestors on the first day of the new year. As long as there are male members in the family, they must come back to worship on this day no matter what happens.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Gu Hongyu had dinner at home and his family sat in Dacheroki. They wanted to go to their hometown not far from the town.

At ten o'clock, everyone agreed to arrive at their hometown in half an hour with incense, candles, paper money and firecrackers.

Gu Hongyu's family originally had a homestead in the countryside of their hometown, but his father had not taken care of the rural house since he was assigned a house in the unit. After decades of wind and rain, it has long been in ruins. Now all that can be seen are ruins.

When the time waited until ten o'clock, the big family members who reunited at Gu Hongyu's house yesterday basically gathered next to Grandpa***'s grave.

There are more and more people working outside the countryside now, and even the people who return to the village during the New Year have become scarce. The atmosphere of the New Year is becoming less and less in the village.

Walking on the cement road in the village, everyone would greet other villagers who were visiting the graves. It was said that people in the same village were all relatives.

Grandpa***'s grave was very ordinary, just a grave covered with weeds, but the worship team of more than 30 people on the grave still made other villagers envious. Many villagers said that the feng shui of the ancestors was good, otherwise there would not be so many descendants, let alone make their descendants rich.

I heard that each family planned to pay a sum of money to repair Grandpa***'s grave this year, that is, to cut it with a large bluestone, and build a grave platform in front of the grave so that descendants have a place to kneel and worship.

This matter has always been negotiated by my father and the two uncles, and as for the two aunts, they don't have to pay.

Light up incense, candles, money and paper, and then take turns to kowtow and bow to the deceased ancestors, and then the next generation, and the next generation, the family with a large population has 5 or 6 generations living together.

After all this was done, they set off firecrackers. Because there were so many people, the firecrackers surrounded the graves, and many of them had to overlap. As my cousin lit the fuse with a cigarette butt, bursts of firecrackers and children's screams mixed together.

I remember when I was a child, Gu Hongyu was full of expectations for the annual worship, because at that time, after the firecrackers were set off, he could find some duds from them, and then put them together. There were also those with fuses to blow up other people's vegetables and crops. Anyway, everything was very troublesome.

But picking up duds was still full of dangers. I remember when I was a child, a child of the same clan had his palms blown up, and he could see the deep scars when he grew up.

After worshiping the ancestors, the first meal of the New Year was solved at the uncle's house. Now he is the oldest in the family.

The meals are basically what they produce themselves, vegetables without chemical fertilizers, wild poultry, native pigs fed with pure grains, and rice field fish raised in a winter paddy field next to the house. All of these are rare delicacies in big cities.

Even if you are used to eating food from space, occasionally eating these real farm dishes can still make people recall a different childhood.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like