Jean Love

The Spring Festival in 03, the same festival, the same hometown, and the same relatives gave me a different feeling. When the firecrackers went off, children were one year older, adults were one year older, young men and women reached the age of marriage, relatives I started to pay attention, matchmakers started to come to my door, and my mother was very happy to talk about it. This is the only way in life, like the only rule of life continuation.

"When are you going to go down after the New Year?" Mother asked.

"Let Chen Wu go down first, I'm two days late." I said.

"Are you going to your eldest sister's place?"

"Go ahead. I called a few times after the year and asked me to go play. I have already agreed with my eldest brother-in-law to come and pick me up tomorrow morning."

"Oh, okay, do you want to buy something? Or should you bring something home?" The mother was very happy, her thin body turned around, and after busy work, she remembered and said, "You don't need to buy anything. You, why don't you just give me some money and tell your sister to buy whatever she wants, they are close to the market, which is convenient. What's more, their children are getting older, and the things you buy may not be suitable."

"That's okay, it's easy to do." I said.

That is my eldest cousin, very hospitable, married to a village more than 20 kilometers away from us, her cousin's husband teaches, and there are several pigs at home, several batches a year, capable of both literature and martial arts, especially cooking Seeing us coming, he was very happy, as if unfolding his works of art, introducing them one by one, this one is pickled pork with pickled vegetables, this one is sweetened beef, this one is... so many treasures, almost every family has it The dishes in his house are a little different, and the taste is a bit different when you put a piece in the mouth. I used to only know that it was delicious, but later I learned how to cook. I know that the reason why the taste is better is because the cooks are more attentive.

Yesterday my eldest brother-in-law called me and asked me to come over, saying that they invited the New Year’s dinner, I said I would not go for the New Year’s dinner, there are so many people, I am ashamed to be laughed at by him.Then he said, let’s do it tomorrow, I said I don’t know how to drive a motorcycle, I walk so far, I don’t want to go, he accused me of being too lazy.I admit it: I'm just lazy and shy.

He had nothing to do with me, he paused for two seconds and said, "I'll come pick you up, how about it?"

"Of course that's fine, haha."

My sister's home is right at the entrance of the primary school, and there is a stone-stairway with potholes. There is a big iron gate in front of it, and Longwu Primary School is written on the crossbrow at the top of the door frame.Outside the school gate, on the left hand side is a vegetable garden, surrounded by dead branches and thorns, in which are planted green leafy vegetables of various colors, as well as garlic sprouts, a tall and straight wintersweet has passed its flowering period, and a low and uneven loquat is The new buds are revealed, and there is an upward spring in the garden.

On the right hand side is a row of two low earth tile houses, the outer room is used to raise pigs, smell a pungent pig smell, see the black pig urine oozing from the bottom of the wall, and hear the sound of hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. The low railing wooden door was rattled by those beasts, and kept shaking.

Bah!With the sound of the horn, the eldest brother-in-law parked the motorcycle at the door of the earthen house in front, walked over and kicked the door of the pigsty: "Dead of starvation? The house was demolished, and I received a thousand knives." Scolding the naughty children, a few half-sized pigs flapped their wide ears, shook their heads, and kept turning their tiny tails, showing a cute appearance of bowing their heads and pleading guilty.

The elder sister in the upper room heard the movement and hurried out, wearing a red dress and an apron, stretched out her hands, and posed for a hug from a distance.I lit a hanging firecracker, shook it vigorously, turned my face away, covered my ears, there was a burst of crackling, and a puff of gunpowder smoke rose.

My sister took a few steps forward, and I took a few steps forward, our eyes met, and we greeted each other with a smile. My sister didn't think it was enough, so she raised her hands and covered my ears with both palms. The foreheads of the siblings touched each other, and they pushed a few times. Drilled a few times, like two vindictive calves, and then patted one side of my face with one hand, showing extreme intimacy and enthusiasm.

"This kind of person, the older you get, the less you want to kiss him. You have to invite him several times." My sister pretended to complain, pointing at me and giggling.

"Isn't this here?" I also laughed.

"Come, come, come in and sit down, do you want to drink red wine or rice wine?"

"I don't drink before meals. I don't have a good capacity for alcohol, so just drink tea."

"Go to you, drink some red wine, Xiao Lin bought it back, good stuff, I saved some for you." My sister mischievously swears, revealing her kind and domineering nature, and replaces it with a giggle .

"Where's Kobayashi?" I asked.

"I left yesterday afternoon. I went to Shaoguan first, and then I went to work. This year I started work earlier."

"Oh, what about...Xiaoying?" I rolled my eyes and searched around.

"Going out, to a classmate's house."

Xiaoying is the elder sister’s eldest daughter, Xiao Lin is the elder sister’s second son, the elder sister and brother-in-law have raised a pair of children, Xiao Lin has been out of the society since finishing middle school, Xiao Ying is still in college and will graduate soon, the children are very sensible and very Peace of mind.

"What's the matter? Is it your old man's turn to cook the Chinese New Year this year?" I tugged on my sister's apron.

"Where is it? It's my turn. I'm just playing the role. I only have to wash and chop vegetables and peel onions and garlic." The elder sister glanced at the brother-in-law who came in, her eyes were pitiful, and she pouted: " People won't let me cook, they say I can't, and ruined his things." She patted her brother-in-law's plump buttocks, and bent over with a flash of laughter, she was like a coquettish and cute little woman.

"Come on, come on, I'll help you light the fire today." The brother-in-law answered, with a chuckle, and put the motorcycle keys into the cabinet next to the TV.

"This table is full of dishes, do you still want to cook?" I looked at the wooden round table painted in pork liver red, which was full of dishes, and they were all [-] to [-]% full.Some have a layer of frost, which is the color of frozen lard.

"Just cook one dish, a piece of dog meat left over from yesterday, soon, you sit and drink first." The brother-in-law took off the apron from his sister, wrapped it around her round waist, and entered the kitchen.

"Sit for a while, it will be soon." My sister peeled off a peanut, rubbed off the reddish skin, put it in her mouth, turned around, and walked into the kitchen.Immediately, he trotted out again: "I'll turn on the TV for you." Then he went into the kitchen and said loudly, "Master Ye, I'm here, I'm here as an apprentice."

Compared with A Ying, my sister, she is even better, and she is a happy living treasure. When a man meets such a woman, it is estimated that he is close to death, but he should die very happy, very happy, right? !

I stood up, and there was not much space to accommodate the rich things that my sister and brother-in-law had worked hard over the years.

The big bed next to the TV was in a mess, and there were piles of clothes that had just been brought in, and the hangers hadn't been removed yet.An old-fashioned corduroy quilt cover, printed with blooming peony flowers, covered a thick cotton wool, twisted into a ball randomly.Get close to the wall.A one-piece red double pillow is next to the bed frame on one side, with a slender figure lying quietly.

There is a backgammon DVD player on the TV, [-]% new.A red telephone on the left is housed in a special off-white tin box with a cover and a lock, but it is only open.There is a piece of thick glass on the table, and some past photos are pressed under it. Most of them belong to my brother-in-law’s family. Several photos belong to my cousin who works in Shenzhen. Another photo was taken when I was studying in Beijing. The photo has been spotted and yellowed.

There are also some things hanging on the wall, piled here and there, and an iron wire or a rope hangs from the roof, hanging on a basket made of bamboo strips, hanging in the air, looking up, it looks like a small round Umbrellas, most of which contain food to prevent house mice from stealing food.

This is the main hall, a room next to the kitchen that is smaller than the hall, and behind the main hall is a bedroom that is smaller than the room, rectangular, slender and narrow, with a bed inside, and pots and pots along the wall outside.

"Mao Ya, you are sitting and drinking." My sister saw me pacing and looking around, and came over: "Oh, my sister is lazy, look, there are messes everywhere."

"It's a space problem, not your laziness. Building a house will solve everything."

"That's right, I'm going to get up soon. Haha" My sister patted my face lightly again: "I will help you then, I am lucky to have you brothers, all of you are so dedicated to help."

Hearing this sentence, I suddenly felt a little guilty, because I haven't helped them with any money or effort so far, but they have helped me a lot in the past.

"Come on, it's time to eat." The brother-in-law came back and forth from the kitchen, carrying bowls of steaming dishes and putting them on the round table, yelling like a happy cook, taking off his apron and lifting the wine bottle .

I walked over quickly: "If not, if not, I will get drunk."

"Red wine is not intoxicating." Brother-in-law, like Brother Chen Hui, does not drink alcohol.I saw him insisting on raising the bottom of the black bottle, filling a cup, putting the cork on it, taking a step back, moving out a stool, and laughing loudly.