The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

This year's Chinese New Year, because the old man, sister and brother-in-law are all here, so the family discussed it, and the grandfather's house and the uncle's house are not cooking, and they all come to Yang's house for dinner.

The whole family was full, and only one child from my uncle's family seemed a little deserted. So during the meal, Yang's mother kept looking at Zhou Ya, which made Zhou Ya blushed a little and didn't dare to look up.

Then Yang Ma gave her son a hard look, whether she should blame her son for this matter. A few years ago, he said to get married early and get married early, but his son refused to agree with it and dragged it on until now, causing him to fail to embrace his grandson. Who is he to blame for his misbehavior?

Yang Dongxu bowed his head to eat winkingly, never interjected much, and continued cautiously until the end of the New Year's Eve dinner. When everyone watched TV together, he found that everyone's attention was attracted by the Spring Festival Gala, and he was slightly relieved. , and then blinked at Zhou Ya, who rolled her eyes at him.

Not long after the New Year's Eve dinner, Xiao Wu called him to play cards, not only calling him, but also Dad Yang. It can be said that playing cards at the end of the year has become more and more common in recent years.

Usually, there are quite a few small games on the street when there is nothing to do, but the atmosphere of Yangjia Village is not bad. In addition, the methods used by the Yang family against Maliu and Waizi before. Although Yangjia Village has become richer, no one has the guts to set up a casino or something.

It's a bit big to play on New Year's Eve, but I have some money in my pocket to be able to sit in the bank, so winning or losing is the result of being scratched by my wife a few times when I go home.

If they dared to lose the family's capital to the sky like before, the family would not even be able to survive. Such a person would be despised in Yangjia Village, and he would never call such a person when playing poker in the future, and it would be embarrassing to play cards with such a person.

Originally, playing cards is an entertainment to pass the time. If you win, you will be happy. If you lose, MMP thinks you are unlucky and unlucky. Then it's okay, everyone is continuing to play happily.

I have nothing to do all year round and occasionally play, there are losses and wins, in short, it is not bad, it is entertainment. Everyone understands that you want to win big when you first come up. You can let go of the 30th year. If you win money, you can also win a lottery in the New Year. If you are lucky, you will win and others will say a few envious words.

But in order to win money, take out all the people who live at home, this is not gambling on luck, this is obviously a gambler. Such a person will be directly classified as a bastard. Who in a good family wants to have a relationship with a bastard?

This will not only make people gossip, but it may also affect their reputation. In the future, when their children talk about their relationship, when others inquire, oh, is that the family who often gambles with bastards? Will the other party be willing to marry their daughter? Or if it is said that such a family's daughter will be married?

It is precisely because of this bottom line that everyone plays poker on New Year's Eve with a sense of proportion. In addition, no one with a heart came to make trouble. Those who won the next day would be called out to treat them, and those who lost would be ridiculed for having bad hands and their own mother-in-law went to the poker table without washing their hands after finishing their work.

Yang Dongxu has occasionally played poker over the years, and even played as the banker when pushing Pai Gow. But basically it's all small fights, and I don't use the methods I learned from old man Xuan, so I can enjoy myself if I win or lose.

He said hello to Zhou Ya and asked her to watch TV here. He will come back early to pick up the New Year at twelve o'clock, and then eat New Year's dumplings.

If watching TV is boring, their girls can join a table to play mahjong and fight the landlord or something. This is a family repertoire for Chinese New Year. When an adult brings a child to play, the fifty cents is considered an allowance for the child.

Occasionally, the adults are so lucky that they win all the money from the children, and then the children start all kinds of cheating to get back the money they lost. My sister is already married, and Dandan is going to get married next year, so this repertoire can't be staged.

When they came to the granary, it was already overcrowded, not only people from Yangjia Village, but also people from neighboring villages who wanted to play a few games ran over.

Watching the miasma in the granary. Yang Dongxu couldn't help thinking, "If you call the police station to report at this time, how many people here will spend the New Year's Day in the board room?"

As soon as this thought popped up, he looked at the people in the poker field in front of him, and he shook his head to drive the thought out of his head. If they were really reported, their uncle probably wouldn't be able to run away if nothing else.

Uncle Shengli came much earlier than him, and now he has taken off his coat and rolled up his sleeves. After Father Yang came, he didn't go anywhere else. The audience behind my uncle offered to give him a seat.

In the past few years, when Shengli played cards, he liked to drag his elder brother, Father Yang, to help him chase, which meant that the two of them joined forces, and they said they borrowed money from their elder brother, but in fact, they were afraid that they would be controlled by their daughter-in-law. The tight pockets are a bit rough, and my elder brother has money in his pocket and is full of confidence.

And those who can win money at the poker table are confident, with a little bit of metaphysics in it. Of course, the losers who lost all their pants were all confident people. Poor people with no money can't wait to break a coin into two flowers, and they don't have the guts to make money in the poker field.

The older group, he and the younger group like Xiao Wu formed the two largest groups in the granary. If someone really reports this, they can definitely give Yangjiacun a lot of trouble

When I played until about 11:30, I went home and let go of the door cannon, and closed the door cannon to prepare for the New Year. Because I got married this year, Dad Yang invited a hundred catties of incense to burn in the new house.

First place the tribute, the main room, the yard and the kitchen. In addition to the tribute, the three places also need to burn incense. In the main room, the incense is burned to worship the god of Baojia. This god may be the legendary dragon or other gods. In short, every family thinks they have a patron saint.

Therefore, after a year of hard work, people must have delicious food and drink for the New Year's Eve. I hope that the patron saint of the family will continue to work hard in the coming year, and continue to keep the whole family healthy and safe.

The nature in the yard is to respect God. In the hearts of Chinese people, the gods in the sky will visit the world on New Year's Eve, so they put out tributes and incense, and let these gods who patrol the world have something to eat and rest when they pass by their house. .

The ones in the kitchen are prepared for the Stove Lord, but the treatment of the Stove Lord is a bit low. Although there are incenses, they are all small, and there are very few tributes. Usually, it is a bowl of dumplings just out of the pot and a steamed bun. up. It's not as rich as the protection gods in the main room and the tributes prepared for the gods in the yard.

Because there are two houses now, it is natural to go to two places together when offering offerings. Mama Yang has already prepared the offerings and put them on the side of the new house, so it is fine to put them on a plate and put them on the table directly.

Then start to light incense, fire the cannon, and the dumplings will start to be served when the cannon sounds. Then the dumplings that come out of the pan are also placed on the table. The chopsticks should be placed on the north main seat, and the chopsticks should be outside.

Whether it is the god who protects the family or God, they are all higher than themselves, so there is no problem in sitting on the main seat for dinner. There are two bowls of dumplings, two steamed buns, and two glasses of wine on the altar table in the main room and in the courtyard.

My own guardian god is not one but a couple. God must also be a couple of the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother. As for the Stove Lord, well, the bachelor of Wannian only has a bowl of dumplings and a steamed bun.

There is also a kitchen on the side of the new house. Although there is no separation, the fire is usually not turned on, but on New Year's Eve, there is a fire. There is no ground pot but a gas stove. This made Yang's mother very dissatisfied when it was originally designed.

But after the house was built and decorated, seeing such a high-end place, it was really inappropriate to build a ground pot and dig a hole in the house to build a chimney, so Yang Dongxu was not taught a lesson.

Although there is no separation, there are only Yang Dongxu and Zhou Ya in the new house today. Yang Dongxu was busy moving the table, laying out offerings and burning incense, while Zhou Ya was pouring dumplings into the boiling pot when the cannon sounded.

Then, after preparing the portion for Baojiashen, God and Stove Lord, what is left is the first dumpling for the two of them in the New Year. As for the steamed buns, as usual, one bite means eating. It has only been a few hours since the New Year's Eve dinner, and everyone actually doesn't have much appetite now.

After dinner, Yang Dongxu and Zhou Ya went to the house on the street to have a look, and then went to show their faces to say hello, and then the two of them went back to the new house together, burning incense here is inseparable from people.

Zhou Ya yawned and went to the bedroom to sleep, while Yang Dongxu looked at the incense sticks inside and outside the house, not afraid of being robbed by others, who dares to compete with gods for incense sticks, isn't this getting impatient?

The main reason is to watch these incense sticks so that no accidents happen to burn down my home. Every New Year's Eve, there are countless fires caused by burning incense, so it's better to be more prepared. After all, although the main building materials in the house are stone and bricks, the furniture is all solid wood. Much better.

As for keeping the year old, it is very important in the eyes of the older generation. In the eyes of the younger generation, if it is not for looking good, most of them will choose to go to sleep.

After staying up until two o'clock at night, the incense is only half burnt, especially the incense in the main room makes the whole room full of smoke, which makes it feel like a fairyland.

Yang Dongxu moved the incense from the main room to the yard, and at the same time moved the incense from the kitchen. I don't ask if Baojiashen and Stove Lord would like to share more than half of their incense with God.

It would be much safer for Xiang to move to the open space in the yard. After all, there is not even a grass around, and there is no wind or anything tonight. However, just to be on the safe side, Yang Dongxu took bricks to surround the place where the incense was burned, and then went back to the house to take a bath and sleep. As for keeping up with the old age, let's see if he can last longer next year.

The next day, just after dawn, Yang Dongxu was called up by Yang's father in his sleep. Women can continue to sleep, provided that no one of your generation comes to visit for New Year greetings.

First go to grandparents' house and wait to see if uncle Shengli is not there. Yang Dongxu goes home and shouts again. Then the two sons and two grandsons first pay New Year's greetings to grandparents. A few handfuls of fried peanuts and melon seeds.

Then gather on the street, sort a large group of people according to age plus a group of children to start the New Year greetings one by one.