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Chapter 45 Reunion Dinner

Old man Luo raised his finger, wiped away his tears, and while burning the paper money, he was still babbling:

"Ancestor, these are your two grandsons. Thanks to the blessing of our ancestors, both of them have passed the examination of scholar, and they will go to the examination of Juren next year."

"I don't know what you need down here, so I can only burn more money for you, and buy what you need, don't worry about it. If you have any embarrassing things, entrust me with a dream at night."

In the wilderness, there is still a cemetery, which always makes people feel eerie. From time to time, a gust of wind blows by, and there is a continuous "woo woo".Luo Tian felt creepy when he heard old man Luo talking to the ancients in a serious manner, so he unconsciously leaned towards Luo Baisu.

Fortunately, old man Luo only muttered for a while, kowtowed three more times to the grave, and got up.Then it was Luo Baisu's and Luo Baihan's Luo Tiandu's turn to nibble their heads one by one, and burn the paper money again.

Luo Tian followed the gourds and put on a stick of incense, thinking to himself: Ancestor, I didn't intend to occupy the body of your granddaughter, you have a lot of adults, don't worry about me, a lonely ghost, next year I will I must burn a lot of paper money for you so that you can live comfortably underground, but don't come to me in your dreams.

Luo Tiandu read it silently for three times, then opened his eyes and kowtowed again, then got up and followed Luo Baisu home.

Because the old man Luo repeatedly emphasized a few days ago that this year's reunion dinner of the two families will still be eaten together, so Fang came over early in the morning to help Yao's reunion dinner.When I got home, the meals were all ready, and I was just waiting for their masters to come back and set the table for dinner.

Luo Baining was wearing new clothes, a pink jacket, and a gold hairpin on his head.Luo Tian took a closer look, and felt that the jacket looked very familiar, wasn't it the one that Ying Er wore when she first came to Luo's house?It seems that Yao shi buttoned up the clothes and left them for his daughter to wear. Don't think about the gold hairpin on her head, it must belong to Yinger.

Old man Luo also saw Luo Baining's attire, and frowned, feeling dissatisfied in his heart, but after all, he was thirty years old, so he couldn't argue with Yao Shi in front of the children, so he just lowered the noise and said to Yao Shi: " What are you doing? Why do you want Ningning to wear other people's clothes? Hurry up and tell Ningning to change the clothes and return them to others."

Yao said disapprovingly: "She eats my family, lives in my house, and doesn't do any work. How can our family have that kind of food to support the idlers? This clothes are just for the New Year to let Ning Ning wear them fresh. When the New Year opens, she will get them." Going to the pawnshop to exchange some money can help the family to some extent."

The old man Luo couldn't make sense to her, so he asked Luo Baining to change clothes, Luo Baining was so spoiled by the Yao family, how could he listen to the old man Luo, he just "hummed", turned around and ran out to order the Fang family to work .

Old man Luo looked at Luo Baisu's family who followed into the house, endured and endured, but finally said nothing, and only asked Yao family to hold a reunion dinner.

The Luo family has just killed a pig, and the reunion dinner is also more abundant than in previous years. There are three kinds of dumplings, including mushroom filling, meat filling, and leek filling. A large pot is full; a small pot of potato stew is simmering on the small stove , There is another large pot of stewed radishes in bone soup, a plate of croquettes, and a few side dishes, which fill a large table.

The steam on the stove and the fragrance floating in the air dilute the sadness of going to the grave just now, and a smile gradually appeared on Old Luo's face.

The dining table in the Luo family is a large square table with a long bench placed on each side. The seats are the same as in previous years. Old man Luo and Mrs. Yao sit at the top, while Luo Baihan and Luo Baisu sit at the bottom of Mr. Luo and Mrs. Yao respectively, next to Luo Baisu. Seated by Fang, next to Luo Baihan sat Luo Baining, and next to her were Yinger and Luo Tiandu.Ying'er is thin, and Luo Mingdu and Luo Tiandu are still young, so the three of them sitting on the same bench don't seem particularly crowded.In order to take care of Luo Mingdu, Luo Tiandu purposely sat in the middle and asked Luo Mingdu to sit on the right, so that he wouldn't get in the way when picking up vegetables.

The arrangement of the dishes was also deliberately arranged by Mrs. Yao. The ones near the upper table and Luo Baihan and Luo Baining were deliciously stewed meat. pickles.The table is wide, and if you don't stand up, you will never be able to catch the dishes on the opposite side.

Luo Tiandu secretly rolled his eyes, Yao shi is still playing such childish tricks all the time at his age, it's really wasted so many years.

After all, it was such a festive day of the Chinese New Year, and she didn't want to get into a fight with Mrs. Yao because of it, so she had to endure it and ate a bowl of porridge with the vegetables in front of her.

Fang had long since given up on reasoning with Yao. At this time, he just ate in silence, occasionally giving Luo Mingdu and Luo Tiandu a wink at the table, which meant to persuade them. Today, I have to bear it no matter what, otherwise the family will quarrel again at the age of thirty, and everyone will feel uncomfortable.She wasn't too worried about Luo Mingdu, because that child could bear it, even if he was unhappy, he would just be bored in his heart, but Luo Tiandu was different, he had a violent temper and would not take advantage easily.But today, the child was a little too calm, and didn't even say a word, so Fang was relieved.

Luo Baihan is a caring person. Although he likes Yinger, Yinger is just a girl after all, and he is not dissatisfied with the arrangement of the seats. He even picks up vegetables for Yinger at the dinner table from time to time, which makes Yao's face darken again. He shot straight at Ying Er.

Yao's eyes were like knives, Luo Tian was sitting next to Ying Er, being glanced at from time to time, he was a little uncomfortable, holding a bowl was hard to swallow.Yinger seemed to be unaware, holding the bowl and eating slowly, but when Luo Baihan put a large piece of fatty meat into her bowl, she frowned and put the meat back In Robbham's bowl.The chopsticks that had been stained with pieces of meat also smelled of lard at the moment. After taking a bite of the dish, Yinger suddenly put it on the bowl and chopsticks, and ran out of the house quickly, holding the big tree in the yard and retching uncomfortably.

The people in the room looked at each other, Yao Shi's face was ashen, and the chopsticks in her hand were almost broken by her.

Luo Baihan looked at his old lady's face as dark as the bottom of a pot. Although he also felt that Yinger's behavior was a little rude, he had no choice but to find a reason to excuse Yinger at this time: "Perhaps he followed me outside these few days and caught the cold. If it's in the way, I'll go find Li Langzhong and grab two doses of medicine and drink it."

With a bang, Yao finally couldn't help but slammed his chopsticks on the table, and said, "She dislikes the food I cook, doesn't she? I don't even look at who I am, a maid is really serious I am a rich lady, well, our family can't afford this big Buddha, so go where you came from tomorrow!"

"Mother, why does she dislike the bad food you cook? She is cold, so please calm down. My son begs you."

Yao shi still saves Luo Baihan's face very much. Hearing Luo Baihan's words of begging her, he was angry at him for playing against her mother-in-law because of a wild woman, but he didn't want to embarrass him in front of Luo Baisu's family. He cursed Yinger hundreds of times in his heart, and made up his mind to find a reason to drive Yinger out after the Chinese New Year.

Such a girl who doesn't know how to work, but only picks up her son and fights against her, staying at home is also a disaster.

Seeing that Yao Shi could not control his temper again and was about to lose his temper, Luo Baisu and Fang Shi hurriedly put down the bowls and chopsticks, presuming that they were full, and took the two children back to the east room.

Yao Shi was in a fit of anger, and said after hearing this: "Leave after eating, who is waiting to clean up the table full of bowls and chopsticks?"

Fang had no choice but to let Luo Baisu go back first, and stay here to help wash the dishes and tidy up the kitchen, and only went back to the house after lighting the lamps.

A reunion dinner ended up being unhappy.

"Where's dad?" Luo Baisu asked.

Fang shook her head: "I just sat on the kang and didn't speak. I don't want to stay there for a long time, so I'll come over when I'm done."

Originally, after the reunion dinner, the whole family should sit around to watch the new year. Yao Shi and Ying Er had such a quarrel, Fang Shi thought it was just a few members of his own family who kept vigil in the east room.Several other members of the family nodded in agreement, no one was willing to join Yao Shi at such a festive time, so as not to cause a lot of unhappiness.

Mrs. Fang went to set up a small table with fried hazelnuts, chestnuts and other dried fruits on the table, and went to the outside to boil a pot of boiling water and make tea. Then she began to vigil in earnest, waiting for the new year. year comes.

Luo Tian guessed that the whole family didn't have much to eat, so he climbed down the kang, took a pot of vegetarian dumplings made by Fang's head, boiled a pot of boiling water, and brought them in.

Fang now has no temper for her self-assertion, and helps Luo Tiandu set the dishes together.

"When did you go back to your mother's house?" Luo Baisu thought of something and asked Fang again.

Fang's hand holding the bowl paused for a moment, and then said nonchalantly, "I won't go back, my family doesn't have much money, and I'm going to plant crops in the spring, and there are many places to spend money, so save as much as you can." She was really heartbroken by her natal family.

Brother Fang has been helping out at the butcher shop of his father-in-law's house. For so many years, he has never given her half-star meat. Just like the Yao family, he killed a pig and still remembered to leave a large piece of meat for his daughter. After stewing the meat, she was reluctant to serve it to her two little girls.There is a comparison in everything to know whether it is good or bad.No matter how generous she is, she really feels that her natal family has gone too far.

Is the girl not a human being?Who is not a mother who gave birth to a mother?Which mother is not a daughter of her mother's family, how can she be so cruel to her own daughter.

She now understands that it is good to have a son, but the son must be upright and sensible, otherwise, if you give birth to someone like Luo Baihan, you will really be a debt collector, and the whole family will be troubled, so it would be better to have a daughter!
Luo Tian turned his head and glanced at Fang, then lowered his head and sipped the dumpling soup silently.

She wholeheartedly agrees with Fang's practice of severing ties with her natal family.She was not a native of the ancients, and she didn't have much sense of belonging to either the Luo family or the Fang family, and she couldn't understand the deep-rooted sense of family mission of the ancients.In her mind, it took all her energy to take care of the few members of her family who were fed, clothed and warm. For those relatives who were of the highest blood, it was really impossible to give birth to much affection, and with the virtue of Fang's family, Fang There is actually not much difference between having a natal family and not having a natal family.If one day their family was in trouble, the Fang family, let alone helping them, would be kind to them if they didn't take the opportunity to step on them.

(End of this chapter)