On the first day of the first lunar month, I got up at 7 a.m. to cook as usual.
Although I didn't go to bed until half past eleven last night, the sixth didn't open the bedroom door until eight twenty o'clock.
"No one set off firecrackers last night, so I slept so comfortably," he said.
I cooked a flatbread and two cakes and put them in the electric baking pan to heat, Lao Liu went to the bedroom of Xiao Liu and knocked on the door, the temperature rose yesterday, Xiao Liu moved back to the bedroom to the north to sleep, "Xiao Liu, get up and eat."
I brought out the millet porridge, "Hurry up, start the meal in 10 minutes." ”
The sixth sat at the dining table, "You have been boiling porridge quite well recently, just try it, I want to drink two bowls, one bowl for each of you." ”
Xiaoliu also came over and sandwiched a sugar cake, "I only need half a bowl of porridge." ”
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and after breakfast, I took the initiative to wash the dishes.
The sixth asked, "Have you been to the bathroom?" Xiao Liu stood sideways by the kitchen door and asked me, "Mom, do you want to go to the bathroom?" ”
Don't go. "The sixth said that if you don't go, I'll go.
Xiaoliu smiled and said, "I'd better ask my mother, just in case I go in later, and he kicks me out again." ”
Yesterday, Xiaoliu just entered the bathroom, and my stomach suddenly hurt unbearably, so I called Xiaoliu out.
The sixth said, "Forget it, you two go, I'll go to the public toilet downstairs." ”
I looked at the time, it was almost 9 o'clock, "If you go to the dormitory, don't climb the 7th floor, go directly to the bus station and take the bus back to your hometown." ”
The sixth glanced at me, and just wanted to quarrel a few words, but after thinking about the time and distance, "Then I won't get up."
Let's go back to my hometown with me. ”
Xiaoliu said that he was motion sick and resolutely did not go.
I said, "You tell the second brother and sister-in-law that we really faint from that kind of tram, and they will come to the city after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and we will go to their store to pay New Year's greetings when the time comes." ”
The sixth child changed into a new dress, dressed up in the mirror, and tidied up a little, "The weather is good today, you two go out for a walk." ”
I asked Xiaoliu to boil the water, the highest temperature today was 15 degrees, I was lying on the balcony on the 7th floor with my back to the sun and playing with my mobile phone, and the neighbors downstairs were already in groups to pay New Year's greetings at each house.
Although they all live in buildings now, the custom of visiting the New Year on the first day of the new year has not changed.
The snow in the courtyard is bright and slippery, and each house sits for a maximum of three to five minutes.
Some of them stood outside the door when the owner just opened the door and said with a smile: "I haven't been in for half a year, so as not to get your intention to mop the floor." ”
At 10 o'clock, the first batch of neighbors settled down, and the rest went out to visit relatives.
I called Xiaoliu to take a break and go to the balcony to bask in the sun and watch the firecrackers set off by the children downstairs.
I grabbed Xiaoliu's shoulders and said, "It's still okay for the two of us to be at home, and your dad is either urging us to sleep, or getting up, or going out to the supermarket." ”
I patted Xiaoliu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Usually we are at home, and on weekends I will drive him out to find someone to play cards or ball." ”
The two of us were lying on the balcony basking in the sun and chatting.
The snow on the eastern hill has melted, and the pond below the hillside has thawed.
The two wild ducks became four at some point, swimming around in the pond, and from time to time diving into the water with their feet up and down their heads, probably touching snails or catching small fish to eat.
Suddenly, my ** rang, and I picked it up and showed it to Xiaoliu: "What is your dad doing with **?" Hasn't he found a place to ride yet? ”
After connecting the **, I heard all kinds of talking and fighting sounds on the other end of the **, and I could also hear the voice of the second sister-in-law.
The sixth smiled and said, "I've already arrived at my hometown." ”
It can't be, how can it be so fast. ”
Xiaoliu said, my dad is quite reliable today, and he found the station home all of a sudden.
Lao Liu said: "Today's shuttle bus is particularly smooth. ”
The second sister-in-law smiled at the end of the ** and said, "Liumaoer, why don't you and Xiaoliu come?" I made a lot of delicious food, you see the fresh shrimp I just bought in the morning, more than 70 yuan a catty. ”
The sixth child also shouted in **: "I just arrived at the second sister-in-law's house, and the second sister-in-law and the second brother criticized me, saying that I didn't bring you two here, and they still didn't believe it." ”
I was so angry that I gritted my teeth, this sixth brother, save me some face in front of his brother and sister-in-law.
The second sister-in-law smiled and said, "Why don't you two come?" Xiaoliu and I have been looking forward to it for more than a year. ”
I hurriedly smiled and said: "Second sister-in-law, Xiaoliu and I are both motion sickness, and now the shuttle bus back to the county has been changed to a tram, we are even more dizzy, and when you come to the city on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I will go to you to pay New Year's greetings." ”
The sixth took the ** again and said: "Then let's say so, let's go when their store opens." ”
I said okay, I want to hang ** quickly, but the sixth child is still reluctant to show off his family status in front of his brother and sister-in-law.
After hanging up**, the sixth child sent me more than a dozen delicacies made by my second sister-in-law**: There are a lot of precious fruits, you haven't seen them. ”
I replied to Lao Liu in WeChat: "I really envy you, I'm blessed, who made me and Xiaoliu motion sickness." ”
I asked the sixth child if he would come back after lunch? The sixth said, "I haven't gone to the fourth brother's house yet." ”
I said, "It's still early before lunch, you can go to pay New Year's greetings to the fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law first, just sit for a while, there is no need to have a meal, and there is no car to come back in the evening." ”
The sixth said, "Since I came, I will have a meal at every house, if not, I will stay for one night and go back tomorrow morning." ”
Xiaoliu smiled and said, "Why does my dad like to go to relatives so much, when he goes back to some of my uncles' houses, he also wants to have a meal at each family and stay for one night." ”
I asked Xiaoliu to pour me a glass of boiling water and add a few red dates and mulberries to it, "Your dad and his brothers really have a deep relationship."
Normally, I should have gone back with him today, but I went back with your dad once last year on National Day and was a bit disappointed. ”
Xiaoliu asked me what was going on.
Last year, when the sixth day of the National Day was closed, we also returned to our hometown in the countryside and stayed on the 7th floor for a few days.
One day at noon, we were about to go to the park, and halfway to the road, Lao Liu suddenly said, "When Xiao Liu went to college, those uncles gave 1,000 yuan, and we haven't invited them to dinner, or we will go back tomorrow, while they are all at home, call them out to entertain a meal, and dozens of people in a big family will also have a lively National Day." ”
I stopped, turned and walked back, "No more tomorrow, let's go back today." ”
The sixth said happily, "Really, then I'll call my second uncle right now."
That day, we arrived at my husband's hometown, and it was already past 1 o'clock, so we found a random place to eat a bowl of ramen, and then went to my second uncle's house.
The second aunt has already played mahjong, the second uncle played ** for her, the sixth and the little sister-in-law are here, they want to invite us to dinner in the evening, you come back quickly. ”
The second aunt said, "I just sat down and can't go." ”
The second uncle called his eldest son who came back from out of town for vacation, your mother and sister-in-law are here, and they will eat together in the evening, don't make other arrangements. ”
My sixth brother and I sat in the second uncle's small courtyard, drinking tea and eating melon seeds, and waited until 6 o'clock in the evening to start eating, and the second aunt's mahjong was over, and they went directly to the hotel.
The second uncle called the fourth brother **, and the two of them were less than 3 miles away, and the fourth brother rushed over immediately with his 4-year-old grandson.
I quickly stood up and asked the fourth brother, "Where is the fourth sister-in-law?" "She had to play mahjong every afternoon, and I told her to go straight to the hotel for dinner in the evening. ”
The fourth brother smiled awkwardly.
The sixth brother poured a cup of tea for the fourth brother, handed him a cigarette, and then gave his little grandson 200 yuan, "Xiaowang's family is back, right?" Xiaowang is the eldest son of the fourth brother, usually the two of them work in Beijing, the fourth brother also works in other places, and the fourth sister-in-law takes her grandson to kindergarten at home.
The fourth brother said that they were back.
The sixth said, "You call him ** and say that I invite everyone to dinner together in the evening." ”
The fourth brother held a cigarette, "They went to his wife's maiden house yesterday and won't come back today." ”
Xiao Wang, the last time I saw him was on his 12th birthday, and now his children are in kindergarten, and when we go home for the New Year, the nephews and nieces of those elders either go out to play with their classmates, or have their own arrangements, and do not participate in the party of the six brothers at all.
I arrived at the hotel at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the second brother and the hotel owner knew each other and had already ordered food.
The sixth was worried that a few nephews and nieces might come over in the evening, so he added five or six extra hard dishes.
It was originally planned to be a gathering of three families, but it turned out to be only the second couple, the fourth couple and their granddaughter, and me and the sixth child.
At that meal, Lao Liu and his two brothers chatted passionately and drank two bottles of liquor.
My second and fourth sisters-in-law and I don't see each other once a year, so I don't have much to say, and in the ten years that my mother-in-law was still alive, I never went back to my hometown.
On the contrary, after the death of my mother-in-law, the relationship between siblings seems to have become more united.
Last year, I took Xiaoliu to Lao Liu's hometown, and the three sisters-in-law were very enthusiastic about us and gave Xiaoliu red envelopes.
I had no choice but to give the second sister-in-law's red envelope to the third sister-in-law's child, the third sister-in-law's red envelope to the fourth sister-in-law's child, and the fourth sister-in-law's red envelope to the second sister-in-law's grandson.
The second sister-in-law kindly let us stay at her house for the night, and in the morning we discussed going to the eldest sister's house to pay New Year's greetings.
Because the eldest sister's husband passed away, according to the normal situation, the eldest sister will come to our side to pay New Year's greetings first, and we are returning to the New Year.
But last year was a special situation, and we should have gone first.
At this time, the fourth sister-in-law suddenly said: "We can't take the children there, lest the eldest sister give them red envelopes." ”
I took a look and found that except for me and Xiaoliu that day, they all sent the children home.
I had to say embarrassedly: "Xiaoliu and I will go home directly, you can go."
Say hello to my eldest sister on my behalf. ”
I don't like to go back to the sixth child's hometown, mainly because my in-laws are gone, and I don't have any feelings for those brothers and sisters, I usually have no contact, and our WeChat was also added at the funeral of my in-laws, and we haven't played each other.
And their hometown is very particular about etiquette, there are many rules, and even older children have to give red envelopes when they go.
Even if a relative visits, you have to give red envelopes to the children of the relatives.
I think it's very troublesome and boring to give red envelopes to children, especially when parents just exchange red envelopes with each other.