Chapter 810: Human Relations
This year, because my father-in-law and my sister and brother-in-law were all there, the family discussed it and decided that my grandfather's family and my uncle's family would not cook, and all of them would come to Yang's family to eat.
The whole family was sitting in the hall, and only the child in my uncle's family seemed a little lonely. So during the meal, Yang's mother kept looking at Zhou Ya, and Zhou Ya blushed and dared not look up.
Then Yang's mother glared at her son fiercely. She should blame her son for this matter. He had said a few years ago that he would get married earlier, but his son refused to agree and kept dragging it on until now, causing him to not have a grandson until now. Who should he blame for his disobedience?
Yang Dongxu was very discerning and lowered his head to eat. He never interrupted and continued cautiously until the end of the New Year's Eve dinner. When everyone was watching TV together, he found that everyone's attention was attracted by the Spring Festival Gala. He was slightly relieved, and then blinked at Zhou Ya, who rolled his eyes at him.
Not long after the New Year's Eve dinner, Xiaowu called him to play cards. Not only did he call him, but Yang's father also called him. Playing cards at the end of the year has become more and more common in recent years.
There are also many people playing cards on the street when there is nothing to do, but the atmosphere in Yangjia Village is not bad. In addition, the methods used by the Yang family against Mahjong and Waizi before. Although Yangjia Village has become wealthy, no one has the courage to open a casino or something.
The game on the night of New Year's Eve is a bit big, but those who can be the banker have some money in their pockets, so the result of winning or losing is that they will be scratched by their wives when they go home.
If you dare to lose the family's capital like before, the family will not be able to make a living. Such people will be despised in Yangjia Village. In the future, they will not call such people when playing cards. It is shameful to play cards with such people.
Playing cards is originally a project to entertain and kill time. If you can win, you will be happy. If you lose, you will think you are unlucky. Then everyone will continue to play happily.
It's fun to play occasionally when you have nothing to do throughout the year. You may win or lose, but it's just entertainment. Everyone understands that you want to win big right from the start. It's New Year's Eve, so everyone can let go. Winning money can also be a good start for the New Year. If you're lucky, people will at most say a few words of envy when you win.
But if you take out all your family's savings to win money, it's not just a matter of luck, it's obviously a gambler. Such people will be directly classified as scoundrels. Who would want to get involved with scoundrels?
This will not only make people gossip, but it will also affect your reputation. When your children are getting married in the future, when others ask, oh, it's the family that often plays cards with scoundrels? Will the other party be willing to marry their daughter? Or will they marry the daughter of such a person after hearing about it?
It is precisely because of this bottom line that everyone is quite sensible when playing cards on New Year's Eve. In addition, no one came to make trouble. The winners would be asked to treat the next day, and the losers would be teased for having stinky hands and their wives not washing their hands before going to the card table. In short, the atmosphere was mostly joyful.
Yang Dongxu occasionally played cards in recent years, and even played the banker when playing Pai Gow. But basically, they were just small fights, and he didn't use the tricks he learned from Old Man Xuan. He just had fun with both losses and wins.
He said hello to Zhou Ya and asked her to watch TV here. He would come back early at 12 o'clock to welcome the New Year, and then eat New Year's dumplings.
If they were bored watching TV, the women could also play mahjong and landlords together, which was a reserved program for the family during the New Year. Adults played with children, and the 50 cents and 1 yuan were considered pocket money for the children.
Sometimes the adults were so lucky that they won all the children's money, and then the children started to cheat and snatch back the lost money. The family had a lot of fun on New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, there are no children at home now. My sister and I are married, and Dandan will also get married next year, so this reserved program cannot be performed.
When I came to the granary, it was already crowded. Not only were there people from Yangjia Village, but people from neighboring villages who wanted to play a few rounds also came here.
Looking at the smoky air in the granary. Yang Dongxu couldn't help but have an idea in his mind, "If I call the police station to report it at this time, how many people here will spend the first day of the new year in the board house?"
As soon as this idea came up, he looked at the people in the card field in front of him, and shook his head to drive the idea out of his head. If they were really reported, they probably wouldn't be able to escape.
Uncle Shengli came much earlier than him, and now he has taken off his coat and rolled up his sleeves. After Yang's father came, he didn't go anywhere else. The audience watching and cheering behind the uncle took the initiative to give him a seat.
In recent years, when Shengli plays cards on New Year's Eve, he likes to ask his elder brother Yangba to help him, which means that the two of them are partners in the banker. He said that he wanted to borrow his elder brother's wealth, but in fact he was afraid that his wallet would be a little tight due to the tight control of his wife. His elder brother has money in his pocket and he is confident.
Those who can win money at the card table are confident, and there is a little metaphysics in it. Of course, those who lose everything are also confident. The poor people who have no money want to break a coin into two petals, and they don't have the courage to join the card table.
A group of older people, he and a group of young people like Xiaowu, formed the two largest places in the granary. If someone really reports this, they can definitely bring down the whole pot in Yangjia Village.
When they play until about 11:30, they will go home to set off the opening and closing cannons to welcome the New Year. Because they are getting married this year, Yangba asked for 100 kilograms of incense to burn in the new house.
The tributes are first placed in the main room, courtyard and kitchen. In addition to the tributes, incense is also burned in these three places. The incense burned in the main room is dedicated to the god who protects the family. This god may be a legendary dragon or other gods. , in short, every family believes that it has a patron saint.
Therefore, after everyone has worked hard for a year, they must have delicious food and drink for New Year's Eve. I hope that in the coming year, my protector will continue to work hard and continue to keep the whole family healthy and safe.
The people in the yard naturally respect God. In Chinese people's minds, the gods in heaven will visit the world on New Year's Eve, so they put out tributes and incense so that these gods who patrol the world can have something to eat and rest when they pass by their house. .
The kitchen is prepared for the Stove Lord, but the treatment for the Stove Lord is a bit low. Although there are incense sticks, they are all in small sizes, and the tributes are also very few. Generally, it is just a bowl of dumplings just out of the pot and a steamed bun. . It is not as rich as the tributes prepared for the patron saint in the hall and the gods in the yard.
Because there are two houses now, it is natural to go to both places when placing offerings. Mother Yang has prepared the tributes and placed them in the new house, so just put them on a plate and place them directly on the table.
Then start lighting incense and setting off cannons. When the cannon sounds, the dumplings begin to be laid. Then the dumplings that are cooked first are also placed on the offering table. The chopsticks should be placed on the main seat in the north with the chopsticks facing away.
Whether it is the God who protects the family or God, they are senior to me, so there is no problem in sitting at the main seat to eat. On the altar tables in the main room and courtyard are two bowls of dumplings, two steamed buns, and two glasses of wine.
My patron saint is not one but a couple. God must be a couple, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother. As for the Stove Lord, well, a bachelor who has been single for ten thousand years only has a bowl of dumplings and a steamed bun.
There is also a kitchen in the new house. Although there is no fire unless the house is divided, there was a fire on New Year's Eve. There was no floor pot but a gas stove. This made Yang Ma 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 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 two people in the new house today, Yang Dongxu and Zhou Ya. Yang Dongxu was busy moving tables, setting out offerings and burning incense, while Zhou Ya was putting dumplings into the boiling pot when the cannon sounded.
Then after preparing the portions for the God of Protection, Heaven and the Stove Lord, what is left is the first dumpling meal for the two of them in the New Year. As for the steamed buns, it is customary to take one bite to signify 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 take a look at the house on the street. They went over to show their faces and say hello, and then they returned to their new house together. The incense was burning here and it was inseparable from people.
Zhou Ya yawned nonstop and went to the bedroom to sleep. Yang Dongxu looked at the incense inside and outside the house. He was not afraid of being robbed. Who dares to compete with the gods for incense? Isn't this because he is impatient?
The main thing is to prevent the incense from burning down my home. There are countless fires caused by burning incense every New Year's Eve, so it's better to be more prepared. After all, although the main building materials in the house are stones and bricks, the furniture is all made of solid wood. If this thing burns, the flame temperature will be comparable to that of firewood for cooking a pot. Much more powerful.
As for staying up late on New Year's Eve is very important in the eyes of the older generation, in the eyes of the younger generation, if they don't want to look at the fragrance, most of them will probably choose to go to bed.
I stayed up until after two o'clock at night, and I saw that the incense was only half burned, especially the incense in the main room filled the whole room with smoke, making it feel like a fairyland.
Yang Dongxu moved the incense in the main room to the yard, and also moved the incense in the kitchen. It doesn’t matter whether the Bao family god and the Kitchen God are willing to give more than half of their incense to God.
It would be much safer if Xiang moved to the open space in the yard. After all, there was not even a blade of grass around, and there was no wind or anything like that tonight. However, to be on the safe side, Yang Dongxu surrounded the place where the incense was burned with bricks, and then went back to the house to take a shower and sleep. As for staying up late to see if he could last longer next year.
At dawn the next day, Yang Dongxu was woken up by Yang's father in his sleep. Women can continue to sleep, provided that no one of your generation comes to visit to pay New Year's greetings.
First, he went to his grandparents' house to wait. Seeing that his uncle Shengli was not there, Yang Dongxu went to the house to shout again. Then his two sons and two grandsons first paid New Year's greetings to their grandparents. He was already old and had no red envelopes in his pocket, so he was hit hard by his grandma. A few handfuls of fried peanuts and melon seeds.
Then they gathered on the street, and a large group of people, sorted by age, plus a group of children, began to celebrate the New Year one by one.