Chapter 4 Qingming
When Han heard her husband's words, his face fell off, "What's wrong? The child has never eaten such a dish. What's wrong with me picking some meat for him to eat? I can't let the child be hungry, right?" He put the chopsticks on the table with great effort.
Chen was really angry after seeing this. He thought that today was a reunion day and it was really hard to get angry. He smiled and said, "The fourth brother, it's nothing. Children, you eat well, you must not get used to it when you go home. Let the fourth wife get some meat and feed them. The children can't be hungry." As he said that, he picked up a few pieces of meat and put them in Wenxing's bowl.
"Mom, we won't stay here. I want to go home, I miss my grandmother." Wen Xing twisted his body, just not eating, and said he wanted to leave.
Now, the old man is really popular. "The fourth brother, this is your good son. You live in the town all year round, so it would be fine if you don't come back. You can't get rid of your school, and I don't blame you. I don't recognize you when I don't get married to us when I come back. Who told us not to help see the child for a day? But he is the leader of our Xu family. If you were to be with his grandmother, why didn't you go down and get into the door?" The old man was so angry that he threw the chopsticks and went upstairs.
"Old man, why are you angry if you're fine? Wenxing is still young. When he gets older, he will naturally know that he is from the Xu family. Why is his surname Xu? Look at you, come and have a meal quickly." Chen naturally had to persuade his husband. When the fourth brother came to the town, the old man disagreed. But the fourth brother was optimistic about Han, and the Xu family had no choice but to agree. "The fourth brother, what is it that my mother said? When you were studying, our family also saved money to support you. Finally, you got into a scholar and became a relative and lived in the town. Our family was incompetent and could not afford to run a school for you, but we didn't lose anything to you in the past years. Every time we came back, we also brought you some things back. After all, this child has the surname Xu, so you have to take care of him. Will you still not recognize your ancestors in the future?" Chen said these words.
"Dad, mom, don't be angry. Wenxing has such a little child, but he will kiss anyone who looks at him? It will be better if he grows up in a few years. It's not easy for the fourth brother. We can't help anything, so don't pick these." The eldest brother spoke. "Fourth brother wife, hurry up and coax the child to have dinner. It's rare to come back. There's nothing good for our family. You girls just order it."
Han nodded, hugged the two children, fed them, and then ate a little by himself, and then got off the table, "Dad, mom, we are full, you eat slowly." After that, he took the children out. She had never served her parents-in-law since she got married, which was a bit of a loss.
The old lady and the eldest brother both advised the old man, and the old man ate some, "Do you think this dish is bad? The fourth brother, what do you eat in the town on weekdays? I see that they all choose very well." The old man picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth and chewed it.
"Dad, it's not that I'm not very good at eating. I have taught about twenty students, and I don't have much slaughter in a month. The main reason is that the two children often go to their grandmother's place. If they can eat some good food, they will be accustomed to it." The fourth child said quickly.
Jinghan and the others sat on the table on the ground and all ate silently. Just kidding, there is no such good food on weekdays. If you don’t quickly scratch it into your stomach, what are you waiting for? So the children were eating there without saying a word. After hearing the fourth uncle’s words, Jinghan felt that the moisture inside was quite large. A child in the town probably wouldn’t be missing. In addition, there are gifts for New Year’s Day, so they should be able to make some money this year. With more sons, they are all careful.
Jinghan looked at the people at home and could actually see that the Fourth Uncle's family was really good. The clothes were all new. Aunt San's family was still in the county town, but Aunt San's clothes had patches, and Jingwan and Jingxian's clothes were also available. However, the clothes were washed very clean and the patches were fine, which showed that Aunt San was a clean and neat person. In this era, there were very few people who did not have a patch on her body.
After lunch, everyone cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks together. The old man said, "Tomorrow is Qingming Festival, all the men go to the grave to worship their ancestors, and the women are at home. Old woman, cook some eggs tomorrow morning." Chen agreed there.
The next morning, Chen did cook eggs. She cooked them according to the head, one for each person. When the children saw the eggs, they were naturally very happy and held them in their hands and couldn't bear to eat them. Xue put the eggs up and kept them for Wenxuan to eat. Zhixin was the same, so he didn't want to eat them at all, so he kept them for the children.
Wei didn't care about those, and finished the eggs in just a few ounces, then picked up the bowl and drank the porridge. Wencheng was older and knew that he loved his younger brother, so he kept the eggs and put them in front of his younger brother Wenchang. "Brother, keep them for food, brother won't eat." Wenchang refused to ask, and pushed them back to his brother, "Brother, you eat, I have it."
Wei was watching his two sons push me and give it to me, and said, "Hurry up and eat, give it to me if you don't eat it." Then the two children ate the eggs.
Wen Han was the same, leaving the egg to Jinghan, "Little sister, you are just sick, so keep it for replenishment." Jinghan didn't want it. He gave his younger brother Wenxuan again, and Wenxuan shook his head and said, "Sister, you should keep it for eating."
When Xue saw it, she smiled and said, "Eat it all, you can eat eggs in Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival in a year. You can eat your own eggs, and you don't have to give up." So the children all ate their eggs.
After breakfast, the old man led the man to the grave. The Xu family's ancestral tomb was on the Nanshan Mountain, and you could see it after climbing a mountain. At this time, the snow on the shady place on the mountain had not been completely purified, and the morning was quite cold, and the ground was still a little frozen, so it was still easy to walk. Everyone walked up the mountain with burning paper and incense and candles.
When we arrived at the Xu family's grave, the old man took the lead in cleaning up the dead grass around us, then put in incense and candles, and lit the paper. Everyone knelt in front of the grave and kowtowed, and then the old man poured the wine in front of the grave to pay tribute. Then everyone cleaned up, waited for the paper to burn completely, pulled it apart with a stick, cooled the ash, and then went down the mountain.
When he got home, the fourth brother said he wanted to go back to the town. The third brother also said that he had taken two days off from the pharmacy and had to go back quickly. Yesterday, he had to go back and told someone to pull back and that he would go back today.
Chen no longer tried to keep them, and brought some dried vegetables, beans, and some dry food for the two families. It took more than three hours to get to the county town, bring some dry food and cushions on the road. Zhu took the things and said, "Mom, the family is not well-off, so you don't have to bring it to us. Now the third family has made a lot of money, so our lives are not that tight. But at home, there is still a fifth brother who doesn't say his wife and the younger sister is not married, so it's all about it."
"It's okay, it's not a good thing. In summer, your sister-in-law and I have nothing to do, so I just keep it for you to eat at this time. You have to buy a bite of food in the county town. You can save some money if you can. Seeing that Jingwan is getting older, you have to plan early." Chen never gave Zhu a face to give birth to a girl for his wife, and he still treated her the same.
"Okay, I'll take it." Zhu took his pocket, led his daughter, and left with the third brother. Seeing that his wife was not very excited with her pocket, the third brother took it over, carried it on her shoulders, turned around and waved to her parents, "Dad, mom, go back."
The third brother left, and the fourth brother was packing up and leaving. Chen gave the things to Han. Han glanced and gently tilted his mouth, then said, "Mom, we don't want this thing, keep it for home to eat. The children don't like it." After that, he led the child away. The fourth brother quickly said to his mother, "Mom, we'll leave first, we don't want the things. Let Wenhan and Wen Chengdu go to my place to study." After that, he left hurriedly.
Chen looked at his son's back and felt a little sad, "You said, raising children, what's the use of raising such sons? They were all not by your side. When you come back, you would hurry back like a fire. Oh, it's better for the boss, just use it in front of you." After that, he turned around and went back to the house.
The old man discussed some things about doing the shed with Zhixin. Jinghan was interested in knowing more about the world, so he listened with Wenhan.
"Boss, this year, it will take several days to build a shed. By the way, are there enough sticks? Do you have to make some more? When I started sticks last year, I saw that some of the boards were rotten." The old man asked.
"Dad, I have to change some boards. It's okay, there are a lot of wood cut down last year next to our ginseng field. My fifth brother and I took a saw and broke some boards tomorrow. Anyway, I've smashed the pillar feet on last year, so it's faster to build a shed." Zhixin looked at his younger brother Zhixiang, "Fifth brother, I've been tired for a few days."
The fifth brother Xu Zhixiang smiled, "Brother, what are you saying? If you hadn't been for me to study in the past few years, I wouldn't have been today. It's just a small job, nothing, I've done it in the past. If I could pass this year, our family would have been better in the future. It would be meaningless if this stick is planted or not. I have to pay so many sticks every year, and I can only leave three or five pounds in the last 1 meter, but I can't sell it for a good price."
Chapter completed!