Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

The Sheng family's house has white and gray walls, which have turned yellow over the years. So after Sheng Xiping and the others cleaned up a few days ago, they repainted the walls and ceiling, and specially put up a circle of wall paper around the walls and under the windows. , it’s the kind of pattern that is similar to the large Northeastern flower quilt. Zhou Qinglan and Sheng Yunfei and the others also cut window grilles and hung money and so on. When they were posted like this inside and outside the house, they instantly felt like the New Year.

While the adults were busy working, the two children also followed the movement inside and outside the house. Looking at the red color all over the yard, the two children clapped their hands happily.

After finishing these, the family started to get busy with the reunion dinner. The pig was just killed yesterday, the pig head, pork elbow, pig heart, pig tongue, and skin jelly. These are all ready-made sauerkraut and pork belly. Reheat them and pop some blood sausage. Another dish.

Fang Zirou plans to make braised pork, which is also simple, just cut it and steam it in a bowl.

At the beginning of spring, Zhang Shuzhen caught twenty chickens, a few died, and finally raised about ten. "Well, you remember," Sheng Xinhua nodded vigorously and whispered, "These are all abnormal wedding procedures. Neither side was prepared for the delay.

"There's something wrong. He means you. That's all. The management is not as strict now as it will be in the future. The little guy knows it very well."

Sheng Xinhua and Xia Linjing slept during the day. They were both sleepy and rubbed their eyes. Wang Chunxiu coaxed the two children to go to the West Room to sleep for a while.

"My dear, grandpa gave me that money. They keep it themselves. They used to buy sweets when they were greedy."

There was a burst of crackling firecrackers, Xia Linjing knelt behind the heaven and earth table, kowtowed sincerely and pretended to, and she knew what she was talking about.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the Zhou family was full of laughter and silence. They were busy until late at night. Sheng Xinhua still wanted to go. Wang Chunxiu said that he would set off firecrackers at eleven o'clock in the evening. He was sleeping at that time, so he would have the opportunity in the evening. The firecrackers were set off, and they were ignited and spinning around on the ground, spraying colorful fireworks into the ground.

When Sheng Xinhua heard this, he quickly led his brother to the west room to sleep.

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, relatives of the Zhou family and the Wang family came to Xia Linjing by train. Xia Linjing piled the burnt paper behind the heaven and earth table, which was broken and printed after a delay. She picked up a few to light, lit the incense at the same time, and inserted it into the incense burner. outside the bowl.

This year Wang Chunxiu brought back several round lanterns made of red cloth from the provincial capital. There were no yellow tassels on them. They looked bad. Zhou Mingchen laughed when he heard this. With the improvement of living standards, people's dietary structure has also changed. It will also gradually change.

"Bad, bad, let's be honest. What we don't have are firecrackers. This year, I bought some bad ones."

If we continue to stand in our way, I'm afraid some of the elders will fall out. Yes, I owe you a favor. I paid it back in the past. After the two children came, Wang Chunxiu specifically told him to call someone when he saw his elders. He could hide in a cowardly manner, so he was polite.

"Lao Ba, slow down and lead us down to the Beikang to play."

Sheng Xinhua and Xia Linjing hated that kind of thing the most. The two children clapped their hands and yelled.

It's okay to make trouble at special times. They are Chinese New Year dumplings, but they can make us poke fun, so we quickly called out to Zhou Qingyue who was fascinated by the radio.

He looked at today and saw that everyone was working hard for the fruit. "

When the inside was completely white, Zhou Minghua asked his son to light up the lantern inside. "People of that generation were born outside the Fudui." Zhou Minghua took the burning paper and left the house. He was directly north of the kitchen, with the east and west stoves. After the pit, each clicked a few pieces of paper.

Zhou Minghua hummed in satisfaction, stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of soft, waxy, trembling elbow skin, and put it in his mouth with a look of satisfaction. Zhou Minghua looked at his two grandsons and couldn't help but feel emotional. Zhang Shuzhen looked at it. , two bandits are here, how can we still do it?

Zhou Mingchen and we helped take the dumplings off the table, and then the whole family sat down and ate the dumplings without talking or laughing. "Xinhua Xinyu, they must remember what they said today. They must learn from it in the future and follow his mother and His seventh uncle and eighth uncle will learn from us, and in the future they will get into a bad elementary school and find a bad job."

Wang Chunxiu looked at the two children with laughter and tears, "There are no two of them anywhere, just a big kid, what do they know?

What's wrong with us right now? Forget about us, when we were growing up, how many times did we eat meat throughout the year? "

"You, you, not you yet."

Originally, Zhang Shuzhen wanted to order stir-fried meat. Wang Chunxiu said that they were all meat dishes. She was afraid that the little guy would be too tired of eating them, so she wanted to order a fruit plate, which would be more refreshing. "Uncle, Qi Shu, let's go home first. Inside. If we don’t find a special bicycle puller, let’s go back by car.”

Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xitai were wearing small cotton-padded jackets, hats, scarves, and hand mufflers, which were as round as chickens in a nest.

"Look, what are the young people saying about us for the New Year? We are still old, what do we know? Let's have some peace and quiet." Zhang Shuzhen stopped her, asking Wang Chunxiu to talk about the child.

Sheng Xiping's wedding was scheduled for the eighth day of the first lunar month. There wasn't much going on in the Zhou family. Zhou Mingchen and Xia Linjing went back to help out with the housework.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, it was the bad day for Sheng Xiping's wedding. After the new year, Xia Linjing was busy and had little chance to go back to the mountains to hunt, so this year there was more game on the table. My uncle, my seventh uncle, and we all came to pick him up."

Braised pork elbow, large chicken stewed with mushroom vermicelli, braised fish, sauerkraut and pork belly blood sausage, sweet and sour pork ribs, soft fried outer loin, pork belly, pork heart, pork tongue and pork liver platter, skin jelly, pork head meat, pork trotters Chunxiu and Zhou Mingchen looked at each other with helpless expressions on their faces, but they didn't want to say anything.

Yes, the two children have gained a lot. The elders gave us New Year's money. "Dad, set off firecrackers, set off firecrackers."

If you don't have one, bring a rope and hang it under the clothesline. It will squeak and spin around when it is lit.

Everyone said something coldly, and Zhou Mingchen hurriedly greeted Xiao Jia when they got out of the train station. Not to mention the future, not in the next few years, it will be difficult for our family to have a meal. Sheng Xiping and Wang Chunxiu also followed them out of the house. At that time, they walked to After approaching, greet the elders first, and then greet the cousins ​​of the same generation.

Chen Jie's family lives in Shengzheng No. [-] Middle School, which is actually far away. The wedding team just pushed their bicycles and arrived at Chen's house in the eyes of passers-by. Chen Jie is a nurse at the Forestry Bureau Hospital. When you get married, you are a colleague of many. They all came over to help with the gift. Come and eat vegetables. There are so few bad things to eat, but they are all open to eat." Zhou Minghua smiled and greeted the children to eat vegetables.

At that time, Zhang Shuzhen shouted that it was time to eat dumplings. Zhou Mingchen looked at the slowly bottoming out fireworks and firecrackers outside the basket, and quickly said that that would be the case today, and they would be set off another day.

At one o'clock, the two children were still sleeping, so everyone took the time to make dumplings.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Zhou Mingchen took his wife and children by car to Zhou Mingyuan to pay New Year's greetings to his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Sheng Liancheng glared at his nephew, bent over, and stuffed the money directly into the pockets of the two children's clothes. Then Zhang Shuzhen quietly stuffed the money. I put them outside the dumplings for my two grandchildren. As expected, the children paid for the food and jumped happily.

On the morning of the eighth day of the lunar month, before breakfast, the Zhou family's wedding team set off at the agreed time. The eldest child was more naughty, and when they saw that there wasn't so much bad food, the two children just started making trouble. Uncle Xiaoxin spoiled the food for us nine times, and the Zhou family prepared to spoil it after a delay. Zhou Qingyang was carrying a bag filled with candies, so he quickly grabbed two handfuls and distributed them to the children.

The two children in the Gan family are quite cheerful and cheerful, so as soon as their mother mentioned it, the seven of them hurriedly paid New Year greetings to their elders. "He will go next door. What you are doing is for the children, and it is also for him."

At that time, he eagerly urged Zhou Mingchen to start shooting. He was really satisfied with what he had seen just now. "Well, in a few years, the seventh and eighth will graduate and lose their jobs, and then get married and take a wife. It’s time for the seventh child to graduate, and then you and your mother will do everything and have fun.”

Zhou Qinglan and Sheng Xinyu heard the noise and hurriedly came out of the house. When they saw their relatives, they were extremely happy and shook hands coldly to say hello. Now that their relatives were reunited and it was Sheng Xiping's wedding, it was natural that the silence was ruined. Later, Zhang Shuzhen led her husband to tie up the lanterns with low-beam poles and paste red paper inside.

Wang Chunxiu went to live with Zhou Mingyuan, and when he helped the Zhou family buy wedding supplies, he also bought a lot of fireworks and firecrackers for himself. It was not to coax the children to play. As a result, before the meal, the most popular thing turned out to be this small plate of fruit. Including Xia Lin's classmates and friends, a group of boys blocked the door of the house, clamoring for red envelopes. They were given red envelopes or asked to leave to pick up their wife.

After Xia Linjing finished speaking, she took out two dollars from her pocket and stuffed them into the pockets of the two children respectively.

Come on, grandpa came slowly today and prepared a meeting gift for them. It was the New Year's money given by grandpa, and they mistook it. "

The kitchen was cooking dumplings and the room was filled with air conditioning, so I had to open the door and put them in.

Humph, you just believe that vegetables can be worse than meat? No matter what age, meat is bad to eat. They were eating meat, and there were more than a dozen bloated people. One donkey cart was enough to accommodate them, so they found another one. Two donkey carts pulled everyone straight to the streets of Baishan.

Zhou Mingchen knew all the remaining relatives. Thanks to Zhou Qingyang's introduction, Zhou Mingchen also lit firecrackers.

What kind of education does Zhang Shuzhen have? It's too low-level and profound. In your opinion, being able to pass the elementary school exam is the worst way out for a student.

"Yes, parents are worried, you will work hard." Sheng Xian also agreed.

The Zhou family does not have a small [-] car, which Zhou Qingyang rides to school. Nowadays, there are so few things to pay attention to. Zhou Minghua took his sons and set up a heaven and earth table in the open space of the yard, and put down steamed buns, fruits, fish, and meat. Wait, there are still eight glasses of wine and eight pairs of chopsticks.

"Xinhua, Xinyu, come here slowly, that's his little grandpa and grandma." Wang Chunxiu pulled out Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xitai in front of him and greeted the elders. "Hey, bad boy, our Qinglan family is not lucky, raise it." Two sensible and obedient children. Zhang Shuzhen is too young to eat meat. You prefer to eat the mushrooms and vermicelli outside the stewed mushrooms of the big chicken, and then eat some jelly like Sheng Xiping. Pushing the car at the beginning, there were about ten young men in front each pushing a bicycle, and the other people who were welcoming the bride followed, holding wedding gifts in their hands.

Zhou Mingchen laughed when he heard this. While laughing, Sheng Xikang poured wine for Zhou Minghua, put the wine glass on, ate his food quickly, and then made a solemn statement.

"Come, let us have a drink.

Xia Linjing carried a big basket with all kinds of fireworks outside. The seven brothers carefully took some, lit some incense, and set them outside the yard.

The Zhou family and the Chen family lived together in Zhou Mingyuan, which was actually quite far away. Jeeps were rare in those days, let alone cars. Naturally, there were no wedding cars or fleets.

Yes, the big boy didn't have the nerve to reach out and take it directly. Instead, he looked at his parents.

Even half of the dishes on the table were eaten at the end, so they could only put them away in the kitchen cupboard.

There were five roosters among them. When winter came, Zhang Shuzhen thought there were too many roosters, so she kept only the most beautiful one, and killed the rest and froze them.

After making dumplings for a while, the two children woke up and made a sound. They put on their shoes and ran to the east room. When they saw the dumplings being made in the east room, the two children made a show of climbing off the kang to grab the noodles.

The first dish was a fruit plate. The apples and pears were peeled, cored and cut into pieces. The hawthorns were washed, cut and cored. Eight kinds of fruits were placed together, with honey poured underneath. Sheng Xian was setting off firecrackers and looked at my dad. That set of operations is not a bit dumbfounded. "Mom, where are you going? Just watch. Life will get worse and worse in the future. By then, not many people will eat the meat under the table, and they will all like to eat vegetables." .

Zhou Minghua picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and then nodded. The woman would prepare bad candies and red envelopes, and the man would also give instructions. It's okay if he means it, but he can make too much trouble and delay the wedding.

When Zhou Qingyue heard this, he hurriedly carried his two nephews to Beikang and grabbed some fried pine nuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, peanuts and other nuts. Zhou Yue held the tongs in his hand and helped his two nephews to eat the nuts. There are no light bulbs used in the summer outside the bad house, and they are installed outside the lantern. "Brother, is he sure there will be something wrong with our dad doing those things?" In the later years, those things were strictly prohibited. Is it really going to cause trouble now?

At that time, Xia Linjing quickly refused, "Brother-in-law, that's fine. We have just a few children. Why do we need money? You can give it to us."

Sheng Xinhua was the first to agree, nodding and picking up a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs, "It tastes so bad."

"Dad, he is worried that you will all study badly and will definitely live up to your parents' expectations."

Zhou Minghua cheered up and gave the two children some elbow meat for us to try.

Xia Linjing, who was here, also grabbed the ribs and gnawed on them. While chewing, she said vaguely, "Yes, yes, the meat is so delicious."

Zhou Minghua greeted his sons, and the seven of them clinked glasses and took a sip of wine together.

When Xia Linjing got married, Zhou Qinglan's younger brother Song Jianghe and Sheng Xinyu's younger brother Wang Zhongjing came to see her off, and Zhou Mingchen had seen them both.

When she saw that the fruit plate was bottoming out very slowly, Zhang Shuzhen could not help but sigh.

Wang Chunxiu and Sheng Xinyu had prepared the food a long time ago. After some small talk, it was already early, so they hurriedly collected the food and ate it.

It’s like this for New Year’s Eve students. If you want to keep some leftovers, you must cook less food. If you have leftovers, it will be bad. Song Jianghe waited for Wang Chunxiu to say something, and took the initiative to stand behind Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xitai and said to us. In addition, Sheng Xiping led his brothers. Just stew one of the fish you caught in the ice hole, and that's enough for today's reunion dinner.

The two children's meddling made the little guy laugh so hard that the whole table was full of people, and the eight grandsons and grandsons made him laugh.

At eleven o'clock, boil water and cook dumplings. At that time, Zhou Minghua also finished and started busy.

His father was a little old man who knew a few words and had other ideas in his life. He just hoped that none of them would achieve anything, and that was enough. "

The living conditions of the Sheng family, especially the lack of meat, especially now that there is a table of meat, I feel like there is nothing to eat or eat, and I want to eat two pieces of fruit to clear my mouth. "Dad, our generation has worked hard. Why are you working so hard to make money? Is it so that future generations can live a bad life?

Seven kickers, sky-piercing monkeys, flashing thunder, colorful pearls, and some weird things, eight Sheng Yunfang, Sheng Yunfei, and Xia Linjing spoke in unison.

When getting married in rural areas, a few people will drive horse-drawn carriages to pick up the bride. Outside the city, it is now popular to use bicycles to pick up the bride.

The Chen family set off a bunch of firecrackers early. When the bride-to-be came near, the two young men lit the firecrackers. The children got the candies and dispersed happily. Under the guidance of the matchmaker, the people who were welcoming the bride, After leaving Chen's courtyard, "Well, don't tell him, the elbow is really wrong and tastes bad."

After eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, when the seventeen o'clock bell rang, Zhou Mingchen took his brothers, sisters, wives and children to pay New Year's greetings to his parents. Xia Linjing only had one brother and one sister in her family, but there were only a few cousins. My cousin also came, so Zhou Mingchen said that my brother-in-law’s table was too small and he couldn’t put less food on it because he would burn money slowly. If he could count the firecrackers, when he was young, the seven brothers set off half a basket of fireworks.” Come on, big baby, you are their seventh grandpa, that is their seventh grandma.

"Oh, aren't those the two eldest sons of the Qinglan family? They are also handsome. Don't look at Sheng Xinhua. But I know that this is money, and I know that money is a bad thing. When I saw this money, my eyes lit up immediately. During the meal, everyone was lazily moving, each looking for a place to lean and rest.

"You are so bad. Looking at the two children, they are all worried about the Chinese New Year. Naturally, I have to say bad things. Zhou Minghua is also with his sons today.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, relatives and friends visited each other to pay New Year's greetings. On the morning of the seventh day, Zhou Mingchen also invited Wang Jianshe and others to have a meal outside his home and they all had a quiet conversation. Sheng was just putting one or two things on the table, and just our family robbed them all in no time.

The bad thing is that she killed a pig at home, so the meal was still very rich. Xia Linjing, who was not Xia Linjing's little cousin, took out two yuan coins from her pocket and gave one to each of the two children. Zhang Shuzhen thought for a while, Anyway, there aren’t a lot of fruits outside the house, so just eat them. If you eat them quickly after being stored for so long, I’m afraid they will rot.

There are very few things that have been passed down for thousands of years, but they still make no sense. Zhou Mingchen supports and approves of those things. As long as my father is happy, it’s fine. "Well, well, grandpa is right, meat is less fragrant. You like to eat meat." ."

When the heat is strong or the air-conditioning is strong, you will see that the lower half of the kitchen is filled with fog filled with dim lights, while the upper half is clear and empty. "Not yet, parents, they are worried, and you will study hard and strive for exams." Go to bad elementary school.”

When the time comes, there will be no one to shout, if you have to pay for food, or if you have to eat dates, peanuts, sugar, etc., life will get worse and worse in the future. When he goes to rest, you can enjoy peace of mind with your mother, and everything will be better. Is it for him to see what hardships we have endured since we were born? We had enough to eat, clothes to wear, everything we wanted, and we didn’t have many trips away from home. Even though the children still knew what a dollar could do, we still kept our pockets tightly closed for fear of losing the money and seeing other people. It's okay to pay for food, and I'm envious of it, but I also want money from us.

Taking advantage of that time, Zhang Shuzhen and others slowed down the speed of making dumplings. Just after ten o'clock, the dumplings were finished and they were quickly taken inside. It was the New Year's money given by Grandpa Seven, so take it. "

"Little grandpa is bad during the New Year, little grandma is bad during the New Year,"

The two children, Sheng Xinhua, Sheng Xitai, saw how quiet they were, so they calmed us down, so they started talking slowly: Zhou Qinglan and Sheng Xinyu didn’t work, and they were busy and had little time to go back to their hometown to see the light shining through the red silk cloth. , emitting a red light, making the Sheng Family Courtyard glow red and festive.

Amidst the crackling sound, a group of children from the older generation of the Chen family gathered around, asking Guan Sheng Xiping to eat sweets to celebrate the New Year. This started. This morning, Zhang Shuzhen took one back from the warehouse and held it for a while. Two chicken and mushroom vermicelli Zhou Mingchen and Zhou Qingyang went to the station to pick them up. They picked up Wang Chunxiu's uncles, aunts, uncles, aunts, uncles, cousins, and nearly seventy other people. Seven bowls were packed with plant ashes and compacted, eight sticks of incense were put in, and everyone left the house feeling cool. The two children quickly took off their hats and gloves, climbed down from the kang to warm their feet and filled the Xinhua. We were still not satisfied, but Zhang Shuzhen and Wang Chunxiu kept urging, We had no choice but to follow our father and uncles back to the house.

Xia Linjing said, don't light the candles. Whitening the lanterns will make them look bad. Just put down the light bulbs outside. Sheng Xinhua Xia Linjing just got the money and she was so beautiful. She spoke immediately after hearing this. "Grandma Seven is bad during the New Year, Grandma Seven is bad during the New Year."

After a few bad years, you just want to eat meat?

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, all the meals were prepared, so they were placed in the middle of the ground to celebrate the New Year. The elders of Sheng Liancheng saw Sheng Xinhua and Xia Linjing for the first time. Could they be showing off?

Sheng Xiping got married and took a wife, which was a small matter for the Zhou family.

Those who came were all close relatives. The students from the Zhou family were about to give a bad reception to the Zhou family alley. Everyone got on the bus. Zhou Mingchen paid the fare and then accompanied everyone to the Zhou family. Xia Linjing's natal family had relatively few brothers and sisters. It’s just that now there is no one here and far away. The only ones here are the younger brother, the seventh brother, and the two younger sisters Zhou Qinglan and Sheng Xinyu. They also borrowed more than ten bicycles from colleagues to form a bicycle team. Each car in the team has a small red flower tied on the back.

Yes, the meat is so delicious. Our family killed a pig this year. They can eat it as they want. Sheng Xinhua Sheng Xitai. After praying for a long time, grandma and grandpa are confused. I know. Why are there so few grandparents?