I feel that no one in my family likes to eat meat anymore. After the New Year, everyone went to work, and the two local chickens that my father bought a year ago were still lying in the refrigerator, and the family of 7 did not eliminate the 2 local chickens for 10 days.
Today, while my sisters, brothers, and daughters-in-law have all gone back to work, the children go to school, and my father is alone at home sorting out the refrigerator.
After sending my daughter back to kindergarten, I took the time to go back to my parents' house, and in front of the refrigerator in the kitchen, my father was silent. Most of the two local chickens and some pork and vegetables that the old man had prepared with great care a few years ago were lying in the refrigerator intact.
This year, the New Year in my mother's family is indeed tasteless. From Chinese New Year's Eve to the eighth day of the new year, the younger brother and sister-in-law spent most of their time at home, either going back to their sister-in-law's maiden home or going out to play. In total, they ate at home no more than three times throughout the year.
Originally, my father wanted to let the two divorced sisters celebrate the New Year at home, but because of the customs of the hometown, married daughters cannot stay at home for the New Year, and the sisters have rented a house nearby early and do not plan to go back to their parents' house for the New Year.
This year, most of the time my father was home alone. Fireworks were constantly in the nearby square not far from home, but the home was deserted. Except for the couplet at the door of the house and the blessing word posted in the living room at home, always reminding my father that it is still the New Year, there is no change from the past. Even because of such a festive festival, the desertion at home makes the elderly feel sad and lonely.
Therefore, so many chickens, ducks and goose meat prepared by my father did not come in handy.
Since my mother left, the house has become very deserted, even during the New Year's holidays, there is no longer the flavor of the past.
In the past 20 years, every New Year, as the mother of Zhangtuo people, will always be busy at home killing chickens and geese, making dumplings, kneading rice balls, the family is very lively, and our sisters and brothers will also get up early to help, once there are sisters and brothers dare to sleep lazy, will be bombarded by my dear family.
Every Chinese New Year's Eve, we will all be very busy, help paste couplets, wrap red envelopes, kill chickens and geese, help pluck feathers, etc., the whole scene looks lively and warm, Chinese New Year's Eve is a festival we look forward to most throughout the year.
Now, it's all changed.
Mom is not at home, and Dad is old and can't manage so much. My brother and sister-in-law don't care about anything, they just enjoy themselves, my sisters have left home, and I have married and pampered my in-laws.
When my father was tidying up the refrigerator, he took out two local chickens from the refrigerator, and he asked me if I wanted to take one back to my mother-in-law's house to eat, after all, he couldn't eat two chickens by himself.
In order not to disappoint my dad too much, when I came home, I packed a local chicken and left.