husband and wife

Chapter 116

From the morning of New Year's Eve, the women of the Song family have been busy in the kitchen. Not only Mother Song, but also Grandma Song also participated in it. The run disappeared in an instant, and I asked a group of friends to run around the village.The weather is also good. There was a heavy snowfall in the middle of the twelfth lunar month, and then it has been sunny until now. The New Year's Eve is a good day with bright sunshine.

The atmosphere of the New Year is very strong, and everyone, big and small, is beaming. Although I don't know what they are happy about, it does not prevent Su Wan from feeling this atmosphere. Her parents divorced, and because she couldn't bring her by her side, she followed her grandparents since she was a child. Afterwards, they each had a new lover and child. For their daughter who was married for the first time, both of them felt indebted and tried their best to make up for it. She didn't want to see her, and when her grandparents passed away one after another, she started to drift north alone.

Ever since she entered the show business circle, Su Wan has no concept of celebrating the new year. She was a group performer at first, but later she wanted to build a good relationship with a few assistant directors, so she was able to take on some cannon fodder roles, such as the heroine, classmates and colleagues. Showing a few faces, showing a sense of presence, and once taking on the role of a female third character with a lot of character, she was picked up by a brokerage company to sign a contract. In those years, she was in the crew all year round. Well, there is no time to celebrate the New Year at all, and when I get out, I don’t know who to celebrate the New Year with.

Even when Su Wan was with her grandparents when she was a child, she had never seen such a strong atmosphere of the New Year. She followed the old man in the small county town of her hometown. Her father worked in Beijing. He was so busy with work that he came back every two years. Later, he married a new wife. His wife gave birth to another child, and even moved her household registration to Beijing, making it even more inconvenient to go back to her hometown for the New Year. In Su Wan's impression, the number of times her father brought his wife and children back for the New Year did not exceed twice. She and her grandparents, the old people don't have much in mind, even though they buy her new clothes and stuff them with New Year's money, and the New Year's Eve dinner is also full of chicken, duck and fish, and the table is sumptuous. From the New Year's Eve until the relatives come to eat, but with Song Compared with celebrating the New Year at home, it is a bit like playing a house.

Su Wan likes this kind of atmosphere, it's lively and lively. In her opinion, all the preparations made a year ago are fresh. For example, Song's mother carried a knife all over the yard to catch chickens to kill, and the older girl and the second girl took home-made paper-cut stickers On the window, the Song Ziheng brothers moved a ladder to stick Spring Festival couplets and hang lanterns at the gate of the courtyard, and there was a small half bowl of thick paste in the bowl next to it. Su Wan saw Mrs. Zhang boiling this in the pot early in the morning. No glue, just paste.

Lunch is not a big deal, although there are also chicken, duck and fish, but these days they eat it continuously, even the children don't care about it anymore, and finish the meal in a hurry.After cooking, the stove did not turn off the fire, and a large pot of water was boiled and waited there. After the meal, one by one lined up, began to take a bath, wash their hair and change new clothes. This is the festival that the bear children look forward to the most. In previous years Their so-called new clothes, except for the first two elders, the others are too big to wear and passed on to the younger ones. Although they are new clothes to the younger ones, they have been worn after all. As for the adults, they just took a bath and changed. Clean clothes are enough, but this year's Chinese New Year everyone has new cotton clothes, and they spent a lot of cotton. Fortunately, they grew some at home, so they didn't spend money to buy them.

It took an entire hour for the whole family to take a bath, and then they did the laundry. Mrs. Zhang and the others washed it first, and they had already picked up a bucket of clothes to go to the river. Su Wan went with them once, and then she didn't I refused to go, the water in the river was freezing to death, my hands were numb from the cold, how could I wash my clothes?Fortunately, she only had clothes for two of them, and it didn't take much to wash them in the well water at home. The Song family turned a blind eye and closed their eyes. Compared with the river water, the well water is warmer, at least not as cold as the bone. When they were not around, Song Ziheng would quietly boil some hot water for her to wash, but this Chinese New Year, Song Ziheng generously boiled a small pot of hot water for Su Wan.

Song's mother knew that her son was good at obedience and disobedience, and his thoughts could not be seen by others, but he couldn't hide it from his old mother. She didn't even feel like complaining, and rolled her eyes at him.But thinking about the body of the youngest daughter-in-law, I really dare not ask her to wash clothes by the river. There is no news until now, and it will be even worse if she catches a cold.

After the family was busy, they chatted around the brazier and ate peanuts. The peanuts were fried by Song's mother. A small pot of sand was poured into the big iron pan, and then the shelled peanuts were poured into it and stir-fried slowly. The fried shells were a little black , looked dirty, peeled off the shell, but the peanuts are extra crispy, if no one stops, Su Wan can eat half a bowl at a time, but it's easy to get angry, Song Ziheng won't let her eat more.

In addition to peanuts, there are also fried pumpkin seeds. The meat of pumpkin seeds is small and tasteless at first, but the more you eat, the more delicious it becomes.The children like those deep-fried ones, mahua twists, sweet potato balls, tofu balls, they are full of oil, and it is more delicious to eat meat with each other.

When it was Shenshi, it was getting dark, and the women began to organize the New Year's Eve dinner, because Jiangzhou has the habit of keeping watch at night, unlike modern times, who can go to sleep after watching the Spring Festival Gala and setting off firecrackers. Sleep, so the New Year's Eve dinner should be cooked slowly, and eaten slowly, even when it is time to eat.

Song's mother was not stingy, she lit two oil lamps, one for the main room and the other for the kitchen. At this moment, another person came to the yard, it was Song Ziheng's old uncle's family. Two sons and two daughters, the sons are married, the youngest daughter and the second sister are not yet married, and now they dragged their families over, bringing pots and pans, some meat and vegetables, and crowded the whole room.

Xu knew that Su Wan was curious, so Song Ziheng explained in a low voice in her ear: "The house we live in is the ancestral house, we invite our ancestors for the New Year's Eve dinner, and we have to pay respects to our ancestors in the morning, so the old uncle stays with us every year to watch the new year. "Su Wan was not surprised when she heard this. Grandma Song is still alive. Although Father Song and his brothers have separated, they are still close. The old uncle will hunt some game. Whenever he gets game, his family must send a copy to Mr. Song. Father, of course, Father Song is no exception. There is no need for Grandma Song to nagging, and I often send a copy of some of my own to my younger brother. Even raising fish and lotus root is done by the two brothers together.

The brotherhood in ancient times was much closer than in modern times, and it was not just about visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year.

(End of this chapter)