Chapter 154 151: Chores
While talking, Zhang Yufeng sighed, "Look, your child is about to be full moon, and the three aunts are not at home except for the heartless one on the kang, so no one will save face for the baby."
No conscience is a colloquial term, but it actually means that you can't stand up to things.
According to the custom here, when celebrating the full moon wine, aunts and uncles will give their children red envelopes.
Now the child's three uncles are all there, but one of the three aunts is out of town, one is missing, and the other is young, so Zhang Yufeng is a little regretful.
Wang Tianxiao said with a smile that it’s all right, just let Xiaozhu symbolically represent it when the time comes.
Big sister Wang Xiaomei is in Lancheng, four to five hundred kilometers away from Qingcheng, and it will take a whole day by car.
Because the roads are almost all mountain roads, they are very dangerous, especially after snow falls in winter, traffic accidents are prone to occur, and there are many accidents where vehicles fall into the valley every year.
So in winter, there are very few buses from Lancheng to Qingcheng.
What's more, after he was reborn, he hasn't seen his eldest sister yet.
In this era, there are no telephones and internet, and communication with distant places is mainly by writing letters. Wang Xiaolan doesn't know about the birth of her child, so naturally she can't go home.
Second sister Wang Xiaolan is another problem.
When mentioning this younger sister, Wang Tianxiao also had a headache.
Wang Xiaolan is the kind of girl who has been deeply poisoned by 80 years of literary thought. She feels that it is a kind of humiliation to her life to be married by her current partner at home and to repeat her parents' stories all her life.
So, she left her hometown at the age of sixteen and went out alone to make a living.
From then on, except for a few letters sent back every year, the family did not know where she was at all.
Wang Tianxiao naturally didn't know about it in her previous life, and it was only later that she found out that she is now working in the south.
Later, Wang Xiaolan didn't look like a fool. She was in her forties and was still alone. I heard that she was a freelance writer.
But Wang Tianxiao doesn't know what kind of work he wrote.
At this stage, no one else knows Wang Xiaolan's whereabouts, but Wang Tianxiao knows that she will definitely not come back.
Thinking of this, Wang Tianxiao felt sad for his mother again.
She still doesn't know that after she passed away, Wang Xiaolan didn't come back in time to attend her funeral. When she came back later, it would be half a year later.
Life is full of regrets.
Fortunately, she had already returned to the Heavenly Mansion at that time, so she didn't have to worry about it anymore.
Wang Tianxiao felt that the time was almost up, so he left the pit yard and returned to the mountain.
Being able to talk to his mother to this extent was something he had never thought of before, so it was a windfall.
He has already invited some people to do the work, and he is not familiar with some others. He plans to bring Wang Tianxin with him tomorrow. Although Tianxin is young, he is very familiar with the team, at least he knows every family.
In fact, this kind of experience in the countryside is a kind of courtesy.
If my family has something to do, your family will come over to do some chores. If your family has something to do, our family will go to work for your family.
Those who do the work on behalf of them do not need to give gift money.
If it is a family with poor popularity, it will be very embarrassing, and there are not many people who can do it for you.
Also, because the running water banquet needs a lot of tables, stools, dishes, and chopsticks, all of these need to be brought from the agent's home.
Wang Tianxiao doesn't have to worry too much about this.
There are dozens of people within the five generations of the Wang family, and you can get all the people who do the work for you.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of full moon thing is to invite people within five generations of the husband's family and within three generations of the wife's family, plus some good neighbors, acquainted friends, classmates, etc.
Small families usually have a hundred people, and large families often have two or three hundred people.
If you don’t do it, it’s fine. If you want to do it, you have to invite people from all sides. If you miss that side, you will be criticized for a long time, and you will often accumulate resentment.
Not long after Wang Tianxiao left, Wang Tianyi came back from the town and told Zhang Yufeng that he had told the fifth child, and he would persuade the second child to let the family handle it together and not let others see the joke.
Zhang Yufeng told him that Wang Tianxiao had come, roughly explained what he said that night to Wang Tianyi, and told Wang Tianyi not to talk nonsense at the banquet and cause unnecessary conflicts.
After thinking about it for a while, he asked Wang Tianyi to tell Wang Tianren to take good care of his daughter-in-law. Others would be fine with it, but he was most afraid that the hanged ghost would not know what to do.
Wang Tianyi knew that some words were inappropriate to say from his mother's mouth, so he agreed.
Out of the cave, I knocked on the door of the third child's house.
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In the evening, Wang Tianxiao and Li Yali roughly discussed who they wanted to invite from their natal family.
Many people are actually not familiar to him, but according to the rules, the most honored guests are those from the wife’s natal family. Here it is customary to call it "treat", which means invited guests.
People such as the child's aunt are called "big guests".
Don’t look at the difference between a treat and a big guest, but the location of the seat is completely different.
There are rules for running water seats.
Usually there are five tables.
Each table is not counted as infants and toddlers. It should be full of twelve people, that is, sixty people in one round.
Then, when placing the table, a table will be placed in the middle of the table first, which is called the upper position, and only people with high morals and prestige can sit on this position.
Generally, it is the child’s grandma, grandpa, and uncle. If there is no room for one table, they will be arranged in the second round of treats. The second round of treats includes the child’s aunts, uncles, aunts, and cousins. Uncle wait.
In addition to the treat seat in the middle, there will also be a "big guest" seat on the right, where some relatives related to the child's father will be seated, but uncles will not be included.
Uncle, in the child's full moon ceremony, there is no place, it is equivalent to being the master.
In addition to the main two tables, the other three tables are accompanying tables, so sit some neighbors, fellow villagers, friends, classmates and other idlers.
Generally, the first two rounds will finish the treats and big guests, and the third round will be free to sit, and there will be no more particularity.
The older generation has many rules.
So often at the beginning of the banquet, because of the seating problem, I will be polite for a long time.
Troublesome, but also lively.
Wang Tianxiao didn't know as much about these rules as his wife and Li Guanping did, so the three of them discussed for half the night and summed up some precautions.
We don't rest until midnight.
Woke up in the morning, Wang Tianxiao took the time to look at the progress of the bird net, but there was nothing to gain yet.
Not sure what went wrong.
But he has no time to pay attention to the bird issue right now, the full moon ceremony the day after tomorrow is the big deal.
For the time being, the matter of planting the seeds was handed over to Wu Wenhua's family, and Liu Yuan was also asked to take care of a few small animals.
Wang Tianxiao's child's full moon is also a big happy event for everyone. Naturally, everyone is very happy. Wang Tianxiao told everyone that they will have a holiday the day after tomorrow and go to a banquet together.
The big guys are naturally happy to hear and see.
After a month or so of getting along, everyone at the station is familiar with each other now, and because there is no interest relationship, they get along quite harmoniously.
Wang Tianxiao also doesn’t believe in the principle of being kind but not in charge of soldiers. He eats and works with everyone on weekdays, and doesn’t pretend to be serious. Everyone gradually no longer regards him as an outsider.
Then it's a busy day.
From morning to noon, he took Wang Tianxin and called out all the brothers and sisters in the village who needed to be invited, and those who were married or temporarily absent, also asked their brothers and sisters to convey.
There are two types of hiring. If you are doing it for you, you need a pack of cigarettes.
If you are invited to a banquet, then you don’t need to do anything, just give out a cigarette and say hello.
I was busy until the afternoon, and I basically finished walking.
Among these people, 100% of those who act as substitutes will participate, either one or two.
Generally, 70% to 80% of the people who invite the banquet come, and the rest will give something or one or two yuan, which is regarded as the etiquette.
In the afternoon, Wang Tianxiao went to Wang Dabao again to inquire about the Caitiaobu. The information he got was that it was settled, but he had to pay a deposit of 100 yuan. Wang Tianxiao gave the deposit to Wang Dabao and told him to let the Caitiaobu set up the tent Come here early tomorrow to set up the tent, and if there is a mistake in the process, it can be remedied.
Then communicate and confirm some details again.
After the work was over, it was after nine o'clock in the evening. When he came out of Wang Dabao's house, he was exhausted. Although it was freezing cold, his heart was hot, his face was hot, and even his palms were hot as hell.
He didn't go back directly to the mountains, but rode to the hospital by bike, and chatted with Wang Tiancheng for a long time.
Listening to Wang Tiancheng's persuasion, he should not have too much trouble with his family over the full moon wine.
He told Wang Tiancheng and his mother that they had initially reached a consensus, and Wang Tiancheng was also very happy.
The young man is recovering very well, and it looks like he will be discharged from the hospital in half a month.
He regretted not being able to participate in his nephew's full moon wine, but Wang Tianxiao comforted him with a smile, saying that these rules were originally false, for outsiders to see, as long as there is true love, it doesn't matter whether they exist or not.
Both of them tacitly did not mention Mi Xiaoqing.
Wang Tianxiao knew that the young man still couldn't let go of the girl he liked in a short time, but time would eventually dilute everything.
When the next spring begins, he will go to the army as planned, and he will see a bigger world, and Mi Xiaoqing will become a passer-by in his life.
(end of this chapter)