Chapter 1348 [1347] Qingming Farming (2000)

Every year around Qingming Festival, it is a time when everyone expresses their nostalgia for their deceased relatives. Although grandparents are gone and the two aunts don’t come back normally, they always come to their eldest son Ding Zhenlong’s house on the day of visiting the grave, and then pack up the tributes for sacrifices, and then go to the grave together.

My aunt is better in terms of conditions. Every time she comes back, she brings four kinds of fruits (chicken cake, date cake, rice cake, and glutinous rice noodles) as tributes. Relatively speaking, the second aunt has no such good conditions, but she still prepares her own fried candy, leek meatballs, vegetable steamed buns, and steamed buns. They are all four kinds of gifts. Although the second aunt is not as valuable as my aunt brings, she has done her best because it is made by herself.

As the eldest son and daughter-in-law, their father and mother would not neglect this. It was even rare for mothers to make a book, fried leaves, mozzarella, bought apples, steamed bean paste buns that grandparents liked to eat during their lifetime, and tofu and vermicelli. Finally, they also brought some white wine. Grandpa would take a sip when he was alive. After doing so, there were six gifts.

Uncle Er wrapped dumplings with leeks and eggs, pancakes with locust flowers and vermicelli, and cold-smoked vegetables and vermicelli and green onions that he loved to eat during his lifetime.

Uncle San’s house made leek boxes, tung flower tofu buns, shallots mixed with tofu, and egg soup.

Look, the eldest son brought six gifts, and the others were four gifts, including fruits, staple food, side dishes, egg soup, and wine, which was enough for the grandparents to have a rich festival.

Of course, these gifts will be brought to their house afterwards, and several families will sit together to eat them, because the tribute has blessings and blessings from the deceased relatives. Eating such blessings into the stomach is more effective than any blessing.

The sacrifice chose Sunday. The aunts and uncles took the children here, and they kowtowed and burned paper money at the time of the grandparents' burial together. They said their thoughts. The daughter-in-law also cleaned the cemetery and cleaned it up before saying goodbye.

Such a family can’t even get together for the New Year all year round, but no one is vague about the major issues of parents, so everyone attaches great importance to such opportunities. Although the children are very happy, they dare not show it. They only know that they can eat good food at this time of year. Even a boat and these brother-in-law are rarely a drink.

Fortunately, their yard is big enough, so four tables were set up before they could open up. Because everyone knows that there are many people in this world, so what they brought here is only part of the work. Once they get home, the two sisters-in-law will go home to serve the pot and basin, and put the prepared rice here to heat it. After making do with the three families, they can finally get full.

In this comparison, the things my daughters brought are really not enough to get stuck in their teeth. Since their parents passed away, this has been the case every year. It cannot be said that they took advantage of it. After all, there are several families in the family. It can only be said that they don’t care about their relatives at their parents’ home. Unlike Zhao Qingqing, who uses her sister-in-law’s tolerance, she will only be like this one day a year. For the sake of her parents, she will not care too much.

After dinner, the sisters and the family patted their butts and left, leaving a mess in the yard, and there was no need for the three sisters-in-law to speak. The children consciously helped. On the contrary, the men were drunk and couldn't help at all, and they had to take time to take care of them.

My father didn't wake up until the evening. My mother poured him a glass of water. When she saw him finish drinking, she took out a bag for him to show him.

"Speaking of this, my aunt is quite generous this year. She has been holding our daughter this morning and brought Vivi such a large package of old clothes for her daughter. It looks pretty good, without patches. To be honest, I was quite surprised. That's right, she spoke high and gave her an attitude like giving, and how good she said about her things, which made me feel uncomfortable, making it as if we took advantage of them at this time of year."

Dad also knew what his sister looked like, so he could only comfort his wife not to be hearted. As his mother said, she carried the bag of clothes out of the door, found a large basin, poured the ash in it, and then soaked the clothes in. Mom took the opportunity to see the size of these clothes, but it just fit her until she was four or five years old.

So my second aunt's daughter couldn't wear it anymore, so my eldest aunt gave her a few suitable items.

My eldest sister and my younger sister have a good relationship, and they are more close to them than to be close to them. My eldest sister and two daughters, and my second sister's family has three sons, so they are all given boys' clothes.

This was what she heard from their words, and the mother and the others didn't know, because they met more frequently than they did, so they naturally gave it to them at that time.

Perhaps because their parents have gone and are not close to their sister-in-law here, the two sisters don’t like to visit each other after a long time. Of course, there is another reason, which shows that they are both good at their husband’s family and are not bullied. They need to stand up for their parents, otherwise they would not have treated their parents like this.

When my mother was with two sisters-in-law, she never said bad things about these two sisters. This is her bottom line. She is not a slander, but also someone else's sister-in-law. So she felt that these two sisters had no principled mistakes. They were not close to them, and they never paid attention to their parents' affairs. Not getting involved was the greatest respect for them. She felt satisfied with this.

On Ding Wei's first birthday, her mother used her skillful hands to steam her the braised noodles.

The meat from the braised noodles was specially requested by my father for another brigade to repair the tractor (I originally wanted to treat him to a meal, but only one pound of meat was given).

Although I only bought a pound of meat, my mother could pull out thin and round pure white noodles without a machine, and used this noodles to make her authentic Henan-style braised noodles with garlic sprouts and meat, and also made egg soup. The richness made the brothers say it was enjoyable. It was a happy taste!

I have to say that the pork now is really delicious, soft and glutinous. My mother didn't want to put a pound, so she only put half a pound. The remaining half pound was marinated with salt and kept for everyone to make dumplings in a few days to improve the food. The leeks in spring are the most suitable for making dumplings.

Although life is hard, because of her hard work, her father is capable, and her brothers are very sensible and give in to her and hold her. Ding Wei really doesn't think this will be a poor era, but instead feels the hard-won family affection.

The production team not only grows grain crops, but also grows vegetables, fruits and melons. Generally, spring plowing begins at the end of March and early April of the Gregorian calendar. The vegetable fields idle in winter, sprinkling farm fertilizer, plowing land, and dams are the main tasks of the entire production team.

If it doesn’t rain, it still has to carry water. This is a big project. In the era when there is no electricity, no pump, and no canal construction, farming is really hard. Every night, parents will massage each other’s shoulders, which is red and swollen, which makes people feel distressed.
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