"Go back to your parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year". This is the custom here. Early in the morning, we prepare New Year's gifts. In addition, we also prepare some things for visiting the mountains to pay New Year's greetings - "dry plates" and "vegetarian meals".

You should also bring scented wax paper, money, firecrackers, etc.

I happily went to my father-in-law’s house to pay New Year greetings with my things.

After arriving at the father-in-law's house, the uncle's family slowly arrived at the father-in-law's house. In fact, their two families were only a hundred meters apart. My uncle was more sensible today and had already prepared their "dry dishes".

A group of us, except for my father-in-law, came together to my mother-in-law’s grave on the mountain to pay New Year’s greetings.

My father and my uncle walked around my mother-in-law's grave in a serious manner, while my mother and my aunt cleared away the dry weeds in front of my mother-in-law's grave, exposing the tomb platform.

We helped bring out the "dry plates". Pork liver, pork onion mouth, pig tongue, pig ears, bacon, sausage, chicken, salted duck eggs, yellow fried gray tofu, steamed glutinous rice sausage, fried dried potato slices, crispy cakes

Peanuts, fruits, liquor, drinks, water, vegetarian meals, and chopsticks were placed neatly and orderly on my mother-in-law's grave.

My father, uncle, and uncle lit the fragrant wax respectively, knelt down and put it in front of my mother-in-law's grave. Then, they distributed some fragrant wax to other graves. Those were also relatives, but we didn't figure out which relatives they were.

's grave.

Mother began to "report" to her mother-in-law about the year's situation with tears and snot in her nose. Life at home began to get better, the food was full, and meat was affordable... She talked for a long time.

Heap. Then I missed my mother-in-law and my second aunt. After a while, I blamed my second aunt for being very stingy and couldn't bear to think about it and left. It was all over, leaving two very pitiful children... I talked a lot. I also talked about my uncle's family.

Life has gotten better. Thanks to the blessing of my mother-in-law, my uncle also has a pair of sons. My uncle and aunt are also doing small business, and they can live a good life. My aunt is beside my mother and agrees with her.

After a while, the cliché was mentioned again. My uncle has a high vision. He has played with countless friends and brought back countless friends, but he has not married yet. Then he scolded his uncle again. He broke his heart for his sake...

The fragrant wax was almost burnt. Everyone started to burn paper money in the open space in front of the mother-in-law's grave. While burning, they chanted something. The adults chanted: This is mother's, this is the second sister's. We chanted: This is mother-in-law, this

It belongs to the second aunt. What my father read is: This belongs to his mother-in-law, and this belongs to his second aunt. In addition to burning it for their two closest relatives, he also burned some for other relatives.

After burning the paper, they lit a few strings of firecrackers hanging on the apple tree. After a burst of "cracking", everyone sat or squatted around the "dry plate" and started eating from the "dry plate". We all ate almost the same.

Put things away. Check the burned scented wax paper money carefully to make sure they are all extinguished. And pour the remaining water on the ashes to prevent accidental wildfires.

I packed up and returned to my father-in-law's house. My father-in-law had already gone down to play. He probably went to play with my little mother-in-law.

The "New Year greetings" at the father-in-law's house are almost like this every year. Sometimes the relationship between the superiors and the subordinates has eased, and everyone may sit and eat together. If the relationship between the superiors and the subordinates is tense, then they cannot sit down and eat together.

My mother was keenly aware of the problem and asked my aunt if she had any conflict with my mother-in-law.

The eldest aunt implicitly admitted that she had discovered the conflict, and the two sides even quarreled. I thought that when we were harvesting the millet, everyone came to help me harvest the millet in a friendly manner. How could it be that only a few months later, the relationship between us was so tense again?

Woolen cloth?

My mother and my eldest aunt started to enjoy the family life. The three of us brothers and our two little cousins ​​went up the mountain to play with radishes. My father and our two uncles called a neighbor and they played "Fourteen Dou".

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Soon it was noon time. Mother and aunt had already made glutinous rice balls. Everyone ate glutinous rice balls. Those who played cards continued to play cards, while those who did not play cards continued to have fun with each other. We idle children just watched the fun or climbed the trees.

My mother asked my eldest aunt: "Are his aunt Longzhong's two little boys coming to get food this year?"

When the eldest aunt heard her mother mention this matter, her expression suddenly changed. She said with a dark face: "What kind of food are you going to get? His family's fields have been washed away by the flood. The fields are gone, so what kind of food do you need?"

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Mother: "What about the land on the mountain?"

Auntie: "No one has planted the land on the mountain, and weeds have grown all over it. I asked them to plant it themselves, but they didn't do it."

We heard it. What the eldest aunt meant was that not a grain of grain was given to the two cousins ​​in Longzhong this year. I was shocked. Isn't the eldest aunt too heavy-hearted? Since I am sensible, we will help the second aunt.

I help my father-in-law with planting rice seedlings, threshing millet, planting and harvesting rice, planting rapeseed, and harvesting rapeseed. What kind of farm work have you not done? I have never heard that the second aunt’s field is by the river. The fields by the river are huge.

Uncle, why did the second aunt's field run to the river by itself?

Sigh. My dear second aunt, if you are alive in heaven, how can you bear to see your two sons without food? How can you accept that your eldest aunt and uncle have taken over your land?

Suddenly I felt like my lips were dead and my teeth were cold. Suddenly I thought, if it was not my second aunt who died, but my mother, then the lives of the two cousins ​​in Long Zhong would be the lives of the three of us brothers. This is not a joke.

Just for fun.

My second aunt took sleeping pills and committed suicide before I graduated from elementary school. She left behind two little cousins. I didn’t believe the fact that my second aunt was dead at all. Although I attended her funeral. Although she

I can also find her grave. It is in the ground below the mountain village not far above Guanyin Water. However, I cannot accept the fact that she is dead. But today, I really feel that my second aunt has already died.

died.

I suddenly felt disgusted with this eldest aunt. I felt that she was too greedy. She even tried to monopolize my nephew's food rations. She was really cruel. But since this is a matter between adults, I couldn't express it.

What point of view? I can only silently sympathize with the two little cousins ​​in poor Long Zhong. I don’t know how they are living now. Because since the death of my second aunt, we have had less contact. At most, it is just the two of them.

When they came to my house to play, my mother cooked a meal for them. Because we were very poor at that time. However, they came less and less later. I don’t know what they look like now.

The New Year's meal was not fresh rice, it was all leftover food from New Year's Eve. I simply heated up a large table and ate it home.

On the way, Brother Jun started to complain: "What kind of New Year greetings? I won't come next year. It's not fun at all. The 'New Year's money' is not even a penny. And you still bring so many things to say New Year greetings."

Father scolded Brother Jun: "Third brother, if you keep mumbling, you will see if I don't punish you when I get back."

Brother Jun said aggrievedly: "You know how to deal with us. You heard just now that they occupied the second aunt's land."

Mother: "You little children are not allowed to talk nonsense about your affairs."
Chapter completed!