Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 306 7. Kneel!A question about the soul of the New Year's Eve dinner

"Daddy."

Li Fu approached, talked to Li Xuedong first, then greeted Li Xuebin, Lao Li, Li Xueming, and Li Jun in order of seniority, and finally looked at Li An and greeted him cordially.

Li An called Li Fu last night, and he was not too unfamiliar at this time, so he politely called Third Brother again.

Although he really couldn't remember what Lao Li told him yesterday that Li Fu took him to play during the Chinese New Year when he was a child.

"You are afraid that the old ancestor was drunk."

Li Xuedong stared at the Wuliangye in Li Fu's hand and said, then turned his gaze to the few people following behind Li Fu.

Li Fu smiled and didn't answer, and talked to Li Xueming who was beside him, asking Ruizi why he didn't come to burn the paper.

From the corner of Li An's eyes, Li Xuebin turned around and gave Li Xuedong a glance, plus what Li Xuedong said to Li Fu just now.

Is this a holiday?

Then his eyes moved to Li Xuedong, only to see that the other party's hands were back up again.

"Grandpa."

The crowd came, and this time it was a young man with a refined temperament who greeted Li Xuedong first, and then a middle-aged man with a square face behind the young man came up, "Daddy."

At this time Li Xuebin also stood up, looking at the middle-aged man in a police uniform beside Guozilian, "Why didn't you even change your clothes?"

During the time when the two families were greeting each other, Li An was cordially called fourth uncle by three peers. He bit the bullet and dealt with it, while remembering this other group of Li family members.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the original owner. The original owner also grew up in the city. After growing up, he would go home and live for two days every year during the Chinese New Year. He really couldn’t remember the collateral relatives in the village, and he didn’t move around at all. Especially the seniority.

After a circle of greetings, he can be regarded as thoroughly understanding everyone.

The face with Chinese characters is Li Fu's elder brother, Li Hua, the person who helps Ann's mother with social security payment.

The police uniform is that of Li Fu's second brother, Li Xing, who in my impression is a policeman.

That elegant young man was Li Hua's eldest son, and judging from his accent, he probably came back to his hometown from another place to celebrate the New Year.

The other two young people are Li Hua's youngest son and Li Xing's eldest son.

"Where's your father?" Li Xuedong asked Li Hua.

Li Hua smiled and said, "It's fine if I come."

Li Xuedong also laughed: "Now you are the master of your father."

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right again, Li Xuebin hurriedly came out to interrupt.

Maybe it was because of the urgency, President Li forgot to say in Mandarin, "Hurry up and burn away, don't let the old ancestors starve to death."

Everyone laughed, Li An felt much more comfortable listening to these words.

Not to mention staying in this village for so long, he has already begun to like the smell of talking here.

Li Hua finally greeted Lao Li, then smiled at Li An, and continued walking up the mountain with his family.

This time, any fool can see that there must be something wrong with it.

Li An planned to ask Li Jun for a while. Today, the three Li Hua brothers gave him a good feeling, and they helped his family.

"kneel."

After the sacrifices were placed, Li Xuedong knelt down first, facing the grave.

Then I saw Principal Li, Lao Li, and Li Xiaopai lined up behind Li Xuedong and knelt down on both knees.

The dirt road on the mountainside was full of gravel, and Li An was worried about Lao Li's legs.

But in this atmosphere, he couldn't allow him to ask anything. Seeing that he had to kneel, he followed Li Jun and squatted down slowly.

He knelt on one knee on the yellow ground.

Li Xuedong ignited the pile of papers, and the one in front of the grave first caught fire, and gradually the fire became bigger and bigger.

Looking from a distance, the fires all over the mountains and plains will make the afterglow of the setting sun more beautiful.

A gust of mountain wind blew out, and the beam of fire in front of the grave swished up. Amidst the raging fire, the air above the grave seemed to be distorted. Three sides away, Li An only felt that his face was roasted like a hair Had a high fever of forty degrees.

"Grandpa picked up the money, grandma picked up the money—"

After a while, there were sounds everywhere on the mountain.

Li An also moved his mouth in the same way, and no one knew what he said.

"kowtow."

All the kneeling men of Old Li's family bent down.

The paper dust all over the sky fluttered with the wind, and the entire mountainside was blown everywhere. According to Li Xuedong, this is all blessing dust.

Getting up and picking up the highland barley wine at his feet, Li Xuedong unscrewed the lid and poured tons and tons of it in front of the grave.

Li Xuebin poured the prepared meals on the plate into the circle that Li Jun had drawn before.

Sprinkling wine and tribute is the last step of burning paper.

Li An understood, it's New Year's Eve, let the old ancestors eat, just looking at Li Xuebin's pious appearance at the moment, a thought popped into his mind, is the school cadres allowed to participate in this kind of activity.

He thought he might be thinking too much.

On the way down the mountain, Li An quietly asked Li Jun and his family what happened.

Another point is that when Li Hua took people away just now, he was surprised. It is said that Li Hua's father is the nephew of the original owner's grandfather, so if you count up, isn't it in a gourd?

Since it is burning paper for the ancestors, why not burn it together?In the memory of the original owner, the two families burned paper on a hill last year.

Hearing Li An's question, Li Jun was stunned for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Didn't the third father tell you?"

No.

Li An searched in his mind, and his steps also slowed down, "What's the matter?"

After Li Jun finished speaking, Li An understood in his heart, but, hey, "It's not like that."

Li Jun also sighed: "What do you say about this matter? According to the old customs in the village, it really shouldn't be, but now I don't talk about it much, and my father, you know, has a very stubborn temper."

What's the matter.

In other words, it is to move the grave.

Three years ago, Brother Li Hua and Li Xing personally found Li An's grandfather with his belongings, and proposed to move the grave of their own grandfather, that is, Li An's grandfather's elder brother's grave.

Li An's grandfather knew that this would happen sooner or later. Li Hua's father had mentioned this matter a few years ago, but Li An still didn't know what a piano was.

So I agreed.

But when Li Xuedong found out about this, he was furious. It was clear that he didn't take his family seriously.

Xin said that this business is getting bigger and bigger, and I even forgot about it.

In his opinion, can the grave be moved casually?
As the saying goes, ten moves and nine defeats, is it your family's business to move the grave and break the ground?You want to accommodate?
Li Xuedong came to the door himself and made a big fuss. No matter what others said, he just had the same attitude, no.

In the end, the grave was not moved, but the relationship between the two families is not what it used to be.

Until Li Fu's mother died in March last year, the Li Hua brothers raised the matter of moving the grave, and this time the family is also determined to bring the grave out.

Begging from door to door, if you grind hard.

In fact, except for Li Xuedong, the other old Li brothers didn't have any big opinions on this. After all, they just wanted to move out their grandfather, not their ancestors.

They can understand, besides, the family has been separated long ago, so there is really no need to talk about it now.

So this time, the brothers, together with Li Hua and the three brothers, will work for Li Xuedong, so don't affect the relationship between your children and grandchildren because of a little death.

In the end, it was Li An's grandfather who finally persuaded Li Xuedong.

The grave was moved away, so there was the scene Li An saw today. At that time, Li An wondered why Li Xuedong had such a bad attitude towards the three Li Hua brothers.

As an elder, how can you ridicule the younger generation with such a thing as burning paper?

Now he understands.

"Anzi, what do you say?"

Li An sighed, what could he say, and he didn't understand the funeral rules in the countryside. If you let him say it, in short, he didn't want to leave so many conflicts in his family after his death.

To put it bluntly, that is to say, this remote mountain top, if you change it to another place, the government may have planned it for you, and return your family to mine. Is it clear that they are all state-owned.

But think about it again, the older generation is superstitious, but the new generation is not superstitious.

From the in-depth study of the constellation theory to the forwarding of various koi in Weibo circle of friends, it is not that young people are not superstitious, but compared with the traditional superstitious methods of the older generation, young people have innovated and formed a pragmatic superstition that is out of ignorance view.

He didn't believe either of them anyway, but he paused when the words came to his lips.

"Eat your own food, keep your own sweat, and do your own things."

This sentence is very familiar to Li Jun, it is clearly the adverbial word hanging in the grandfather's main room.

It just came out of Li An's mouth, and Li Jun felt that there was something else in the words. I couldn't say what they meant, but it felt quite different.

Probably this is for art.
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A group of men came back from burning paper, and there were a few more people in the main room.

Li An's grandma really kissed his grandson.

As soon as the old lady saw Li An enter the door, she stubbed out the cigarette butt and put the cigarette butt out without saying a word, walked over in small steps, hugged Li An's arm and asked how she was so thin.

At this time the door was pushed open again.

"Fourth Brother!"

The first person to enter the door was a little girl in a red down jacket, she was still a high school girl at a glance, followed by a young man with acne on his face, wearing black-rimmed glasses, and a slightly wretched smile.

Li Yan and Li Rui, the two children of Xiaopai's family.

As soon as Li Rui entered the door, he saw Li An, then raised his arms as if he was playing the piano, squatted halfway, then raised his head sideways, frowning like he was constipated.

It made the aunts who were picking vegetables on the sofa laugh out loud.

Isn't this the emoticon pack of Li An's popular family.

Li An smiled helplessly when he saw this, and the imitation was indeed. It was somewhat lifelike, as expected of a family.

"Fourth Brother!"

In the next second, Li An was surrounded by the pair of cousins.

Looking at this lively pair of younger siblings, Li An really felt like an older brother.

Don't look at the fact that many people around the unit and school call him Brother An, it feels different.

Li Anyuan has no younger siblings, and he is the youngest of both parents.

Bringing his two younger brothers and sisters to the Kang, Li An thought for a while and asked Li Yan how he did in this year's final exam.

I didn't know that I committed a big taboo as soon as I opened my mouth.

"Fourth Brother~"

Li Yan said coquettishly, "For the New Year's Eve, please forgive me."

The aunt on the side said displeasedly: "Your brother asked you."

Li Xueming, who was playing cards on the kang, also turned his head, "Anzi, take care of them during the Chinese New Year this year, and they will only know how to play with their phones all day long."

Li Rui wondered why he was also involved, and immediately chose to stand in line, and said in a serious tone: "Fourth brother, you really have to educate her well, a big kid doesn't know what to do with a mobile phone all day long."

Li Yan rolled her eyes and immediately fought back, "Who asked me to borrow it yesterday." Before she could say anything, Li Rui's eyes were already wide open, but his voice was only as loud as a mosquito screaming after gnashing his teeth. wrong."

Li Yan smiled triumphantly, and said unforgivingly, "Garbage."

Li An, caught between the two, couldn't laugh or cry, how could this be different from the brothers and sisters he imagined.

"OK OK."

Li An didn't know why Li Yan was holding onto Li Rui. Now that his parents had spoken, he chatted with them.

Especially Li Yan, it's time for the college entrance examination next year.

As the only undergraduate student in Lao Li's family, he, the elder brother, should also have something to say to his sister at this time.

It's just that he is an art student, and he doesn't have much learning experience, but he can still give the other party some advice on how to make a study plan.

After a brief understanding of Li Yan's current learning status, Lailao thinks that the other party lacks at least one effective learning plan.

Learning and practicing the piano still have similarities in some places, and everything is forewarned.
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Time flies, and as the New Year's Eve dinner is served, the family sits around a large round table with delicious food, and the familiar opening of the Spring Festival Gala is played on the TV.

In the not-so-bright main room, it was illuminated by the laughter of the family.

Li An was drinking, feeling this familiar yet completely unfamiliar atmosphere, he seemed to be in it, but also seemed to be out of it.

For a few moments, he felt a sense of strangeness when he looked at the faces of his parents, and he felt melancholy.

Fortunately, the conversations of his father and aunt were interesting, and he could always draw his attention back to his eyes. Although they were all trivial and trivial things in life, coming out of these mouths was as interesting and amusing as listening to a story.

Of course, it's not always happy, and every family has its own troubles.

For example, my father is worried about Li Rui, who is graduating next year, and about his child's job, and my aunt is also worried about Li Yan's unstable grades. Both of them are farmers who have not left Zhuangzi.

For example, my aunt is worried about the boss who is far away in Outer Mongolia. The income from drilling in the mountains is high. It can be equivalent to RMB [-] a month. Two years now.

In the past two years of economic downturn, money has become harder to earn than ever.

For example, Daddy also sighed about where Li Jun would go to work in the next year. He wanted to be strong all his life, but now his two sons have not made any appearances.

"Anzi, work hard."

Li Xuedong raised his glass to pay Li An a single respect, and said with high hopes, "Our family will see you from now on."

Li An didn't like this kind of bondage. The second brother was just out of work for the time being, and his younger siblings were still in school. Li Xuedong's words seemed inappropriate to him.

Who knows what will happen next.

But he has to drink this glass of wine, "Thank you Daddy."

After drinking, he sat down and patted Li Jun's leg. If he were Li Jun, it would definitely be unpleasant to hear such words on this occasion.

"Oh, Bie Anzi still needs you to talk here." Li Xuebin interjected.

Li Xuedong frowned, "Where's your wife? Principal Li, where's your wife?"

The whole family laughed as soon as this remark came out, and even the original owner had this part in his memory. Basically, the second aunt took the child to celebrate the New Year at her mother's house on the evening of New Year's Eve every year.

In fact, in Li An's opinion, this is nothing, it's so old, it's really not worth making fun of the second father, probably it's like this in the village here.

Li An followed suit with a smile, then took out the vibrating cell phone in his pocket, and looked down, it was Lin Youyou's New Year's greeting text message.

He has received countless "Happy New Year" messages from the afternoon until now, and he plans to reply specifically after the New Year's Eve dinner.

"Fourth brother, who is this, your girlfriend?"

The sharp-eyed Li Yan saw Teacher Xiaomi on the desktop of Li An's mobile phone at a glance.

With this question, the whole family fell silent.

All eyes were fixed on Li An's face.

Li An paused, then smiled and replied to Li Yan, "You are the only one who is smart."

"It's a girlfriend."

As he said that, he looked at his parents generously, and introduced him with a little pride, "My name is Chen Xuan, my colleague."
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In the courtyard not far from the foot of the mountain, the New Year's Eve dinner for Li Fu's family was not bad.

The three brothers brought Li Zheng to visit Grandpa Li An's house for New Year's greetings.

Even though they knew that Li Xuedong must be there at this time, and they had to go to eat their noses first, but there was no way, they had to go.

Moving the grave back to the grave, no matter what, Grandpa Li An is the oldest old man in their old Li family.

What's more, this year is the most critical year for Li Zheng's art examination. Besides Li An, they really don't know who else to ask.

Li Hua loves this little nephew the most, no matter how much money it costs, he has to send Li Zheng away, the farther away from home the better.

(End of this chapter)