No regrets ninety-two

Chapter 44

Cubs in the first year of junior high school, Erlang in the second year of junior high school, worshiping the Quartet in the third and fourth year of junior high school...

This proverb refers to the rules and order of visiting relatives in the countryside for New Year greetings, which cannot be messed up.

The so-called first day of junior high school refers to the day of the first day of the new year, when the sons bring their wives and children to pay New Year's greetings to their parents' elders. If you extend it a little bit, you can visit the elders of the man's family.

As for Chu Erlang, it means that the son-in-law can visit his father-in-law and his mother-in-law, and by extension, grandchildren and granddaughters can visit their grandparents.

You can't mess around these two days, and you can do whatever you want in the third and fourth grades.

Wu Xiaozheng was happy to be at leisure.

Firstly, there are not many relatives in the Wu family, and secondly, Wu Xiaozheng is still a child in terms of age, so he doesn't pay much attention to it.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Wu Xiaozheng got a little drunk again, but he was in a good mood and didn't cause any embarrassment. After dinner, he took Wu Xiaoli to set off fireworks for a while before going to bed.

Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, he got up, opened the door of the main room, and lit the [-]-ring red earth red letter first. This is called a good start, and it also has a meaning.

Wu Xiaozheng knows that setting off fireworks and firecrackers will pollute the environment, but in order to be full of flavor for this year, he doesn't care about so much.

After setting off the firecrackers, Wu Xiaozheng grabbed Wu Xiaoli from the bed.

This is what the little girl asked herself the first night, because she was still thinking about praying for the "Year of Sugar Cake".

Worshiping the "Sugar Cake Year" is also a custom handed down from the countryside.

In the early years, it was not easy for children to eat a piece of candy, so during the Chinese New Year, every household would buy some paper-wrapped candies, or make some snacks such as glutinous rice cakes.In the early morning of the first day of the lunar new year, children from the same village will go door to door to pay New Year's greetings. The main family distributes paper-wrapped candies and glutinous rice cakes to the children, so it is called "Sugar Baba New Year".

Wu Xiaozheng has done this before.

In the beginning, because of poverty, every household only gave out one or two paper-wrapped candies to the children who paid New Year’s greetings. Later, when the conditions improved, each family would be more generous, with three, four, four or five candies each time.

Children never get tired of it, because the candy they received on the first day of junior high school is enough for them to eat for many days.

Wu Xiaoli happily delivered the new clothes and went out, but not long after, she ran back disappointed.

"Brother, the candies given by others are not tasty, so I won't go."

That's it!

Wu Xiaozheng couldn't help laughing out loud.

It turned out that Wu Xiaoli found out that other pies were all hard fruit candies. Although there were a lot of them, they were not as delicious as her own. How could Wu Xiaoli, who was used to good candies these days, be satisfied!
Wu Xiaozheng knows that this is one of the reasons why the taste of the year is slowly fading.

In a few years, the conditions of every household will be improved, and the children will have no shortage of candy to eat, so they will no longer worship the "Sugar Cake Year", and this beautiful scenery full of the flavor of the New Year will gradually disappear.

There are quite a few children who come to Wu's house to worship the "Year of Sugar Cake".

This is because the children who pay homage to the "Year of Sugar Cake" will also send messages to each other: the candy given by the Wu family is delicious and plentiful!
Now it's all right, Wu Xiaoli took Wu Xiaozheng's place, and proudly assumed the duty of sugar dispatcher.

The little girl is not stingy, as soon as a child comes to the door, she grabs a lot of good sugar pies mixed together and gives them to him.But the little girl is also secretive, and when she meets someone who is more familiar and has a better relationship, her little hand grabbing candy will open a little wider.

Then Wu Xiaozheng saw a very interesting scene.

Before leaving the Wu family, the children who came with them would compare each other.

"I have seven."

"I have eight."

"I only have six..." The kid who said this was a little bit unwilling.

Then the children ran away happily.

This is the flavor of the year.

When the sky is bright and every family has finished their breakfast, the people who worship the "Sugar Baba Year" gradually disappear. At this time, the village starts to be noisy with gongs and drums. This is the beginning of the dragon dance team organized by the village.

Playing lions and dancing dragons to worship the New Year is also one of the most New Year's activities during the Spring Festival.

Regrettably, this very old-fashioned event gradually disappeared later.

This is indeed a very lively event in the countryside. Amidst the sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers, a dragon dance team of about [-] people will go door to door to pay New Year's greetings. The family will do their best to seal a big red envelope, and then use firecrackers to send the dragon dance team away.

In this year, the reason why the dragon dance team is willing to dispatch is because the income of this day can make each person share tens of dollars, which is enough to cover the usual income of a week or so.Later, this activity was gradually replaced by mahjong playing cards.

When the dragon dance team in his village came to the door, Wu Xiaozheng sealed a big red envelope of 20 yuan. In this year, this red envelope should be regarded as very generous.

Seeing the satisfied smile on the face of the gift plate, Wu Xiaozheng was a little proud.

Well, Wu Xiaozheng admitted that he was losing face again.

This is also something that can't be helped, the Wu family is about to do something big, and the action can't be too shabby, otherwise it will be embarrassing.

After the dragon dance team left, it was time for family members to move around.

Walking between relatives is relatively simple. Carry a bottle of wine, a bag of sugar, or some canned fruit in your hand, go to the door, sit down and drink a cup of tea, eat some peanuts and melon seeds candy, etc. It is enough to express the meaning of closeness.

The Wu family doesn't have many relatives, but Wu Changhe does have two cousins, but they don't usually get along very close.Fortunately, today, all the juniors of his cousin's family came to pay New Year's greetings to Wu Changhe.

It seems that the old saying is still true: poor in the busy city, no one asks, rich in the mountains have distant relatives.

Wu Changhe was very happy. He warmly entertained the juniors who came to visit, and then sent Wu Xiaozheng and Wu Xiaozheng to return the gift to the two uncles.

Wu Xiaozheng was a little bit reluctant, but he still took his things and went for a walk.

No way, this is called reciprocity.

Next is the second day of the Lunar New Year. If Wu Xiaozheng's mother is here, he should follow his mother to his grandmother's house in a neighboring county.

Fortunately, before my mother came back, there was no need to go to my grandmother's house for the time being, because after my mother was arrested, the two uncles brought people to the house to make trouble, and asked the Wu family to compensate, and the relationship between the two families was very tense.

Wu Xiaozheng didn't care too much about it.

The relationship between closeness and distance is to come out. If you walk frequently, the relationship will naturally become closer, and if you walk away sparsely, the family relationship will fade away.Because the grandmother's family is relatively far away, the two families did not travel very often, and the Wu Xiaozheng brothers and sisters did not have too much affection for the grandmother's family.

Next, as soon as the third day of junior high school is over, it will be the fourth day of the first lunar month, the day for the scheduled reunion of classmates.

　Let's have another chapter of warmth and transition, and then enter a new plot.Thank you to all the book friends who have voted for a long time, and continue to ask for recommendation votes!
　　


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