Go back to 1980 and enjoy it

For the Bobaike family, the second day of the Lunar New Year is really a particularly important day.

This day is not only a day to visit relatives, but also a day for the new uncle who got married the first year to return home.

Even if they don't get married in the first year, generally speaking, daughters who get married will choose to take their husbands back to their parents' homes to visit relatives on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

After breakfast, Deng Shirong took out two cornucopias and tied them to the back seats of his two bicycles at home.

Before tying the corn radish, I tied two square wooden sticks first so that the corn radish would be more stable and would not fall off no matter how hard I shake it.

After it is firmly tied, put the meat under one of the gourds, then cover it with oil paper, put a layer of newspaper on top, and then put packages of candies, biscuits, dried fruit preserves, melon seed pastries and other New Year products in it. The whole gourd is basically ready. full.

In the other corn radish, there are big and gray water squirrels at the bottom, and hairy squirrels on top. This stack is also half full.

Of course, there is also the essential garlic.

Garlic and fortune have the same pronunciation. In the eyes of the Hakka people in Bobai, bringing a handful of garlic when visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year represents good fortune, which is a good fortune.

Precisely because this garlic is indispensable for visiting relatives during the New Year, the price of garlic soared to twenty or thirty yuan a pound one year in later generations, and it was more expensive than meat.

In addition, there is a large cloth bag tied to the crossbar of the old bicycle, which contains Deng Yuntai and Zhang Xiuping's laundry, towels, toothbrushes, etc. They will have to stay at least two or three days when they return home this time. The genius will come back, and he must bring all these with him.

After tying up the things, Deng Shirong said: "Okay, it's getting late, you guys should set off quickly!"

Zhang Xiuping held the bicycle, nodded and said, "Okay, let's set off!"

Deng Shirong warned: "Mei Aping, you should be careful when riding. If you see that the slope is too high and you may not be able to ride up it, get off the car and ask Yuntai to push the bike up for you. Don't be brave, you know? Yuntai, you Watch your wife, it doesn’t matter if you slow down, safety first.”

Zhang Xiuping hummed and said, "I understand, Dad."

Deng Yuntai also nodded to express his understanding.

Immediately, the couple said hello to the other brothers and sisters, and rode their bicycles towards Poxin Village.

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At Deng Yunqiang's house, the couple also prepared a full load of gifts for their eldest son Deng Changfu and their eldest daughter-in-law Guan Yongying, including several pieces of pork, candies and biscuits, as well as gray water jackals, big jackals, hair jackals and rice heart jackals. , and the essential pesto.

After preparing all the gifts, the couple gave some instructions, and Deng Changfu carried the burden and walked with his wife to her natal home.

At the same time, Deng Changwang also carried a load of gifts similar to those of Deng Changfu's family, and walked to his natal home with his wife Dai Fanglan.

Last year, only three of them, Deng Yuntai, Deng Changfu and Deng Changwang, got married in Naye Village. As the new uncle came home, he naturally brought a lot of gifts.

The other young daughters-in-law who were not married to Naye Village last year also take their husbands back to their parents' homes to visit relatives. The gifts they bring are basically pork, various kinds of jackals and garlic, but the quantity is much smaller.

The young daughters-in-law in Naye Village all take their husbands back to their natal homes to visit relatives, and the aunts and sisters who married from Naye Village will naturally take their husbands back to their natal homes to visit relatives.

In short, on this day, basically every household in the entire Bobai County is visiting relatives, either coming from relatives or going to relatives' homes.

In this era, when relatives came over, the host would first boil a pot of tea, and then fry a few dishes of greywater zhi, big zhi, hair zhi, etc. for the relatives to eat and drink tea, and then the host would start killing the chickens and cooking. meal.

We Chinese are actually the most face-conscious people. When relatives and friends come to visit us, no matter what our situation is, we must do our best to entertain them.

Even families that are reluctant to kill chickens to eat on New Year's Eve will kill a chicken to entertain relatives when relatives come on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Therefore, there is another saying in Bobai County: Chickens are afraid of the second day of the Lunar New Year, and ducks are afraid of July 14th.

Relatives came to Deng Shirong's family today. The third sister's family, including her married niece Bu Dafang, also came with her husband. The two wives and brothers also came with their families. In addition to bringing all kinds of jackals, they also came with them. I brought some chickens and ducks over.

As for the pork, I won’t bring it.

After all, Deng Shirong gave them the pork for the Chinese New Year. If they keep it and bring it back, there is really no need.

So, they all caught chickens and ducks.

"Mr. Q (which means uncle in Hakka), happy New Year!" As soon as the third sister's children arrived, they all greeted Deng Shirong one after another.

"Da Guchang (the Hakka people call the father's brother-in-law Guchang, preceded by rank, and the brother-in-law in charge of the father are called uncle, preceded by the same rank), Happy New Year!" This is the greeting from the children of the two brothers-in-law. Deng Shirong said hello.

Deng Shirong's children also greeted their elders one after another.

Jiang Dehu and Bu Dafang have been married for more than three years. They have met Mr. Q, his wife, several times, but this is the first time he and his wife came to Mr. Q's house. He saw the large brick house with tiles that his wife had mentioned in front of him countless times. Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked.

In front of today's all-white mud-brick houses, this row of brand-new blue-brick houses with large tiles is really outstanding.

I don’t know how many years it will take for their family to live in such a beautiful house.

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On the way to Poxin Village.

Zhang Xiuping and Deng Yuntai rode bicycles one behind the other.

Seeing that his wife was driving a little too fast, Deng Yuntai, who was following behind, immediately reminded: "Mei Ping, ride slower!"

Zhang Xiuping glanced back at him with a smile on her face: "How fast is this speed? When you rode with me before, you rode much faster than you do now."

Deng Yuntai chuckled and said, "Isn't that just to let you hold me? Otherwise, I wouldn't ride so fast!"

"Humph, I know you don't have good intentions."

"How can I be uneasy and kind-hearted? You held me quite comfortably at that time, didn't you?"

"Bah, you are so shameless!"

The couple bickered and bickered, and unknowingly arrived at Poxin Village.

Seeing the place where she grew up, Zhang Xiuping couldn't help but feel refreshed. She rode a brand-new Phoenix bicycle and passed through the village entrance with her husband who was riding a Forever bicycle in high spirits. She didn't forget to say hello when she saw acquaintances. , and say happy New Year.

Today, all the married aunts and sisters in the village took their children and husbands back to their parents' homes to visit relatives. Zhang Xiuping and her husband rode a bicycle back to her parents' home, which naturally caused a huge sensation along the way.

After all, in this day and age, most of the time when visiting relatives, we have to walk. There are very few people riding bicycles, let alone riding two bicycles, and they are the highest-end bicycles such as Phoenix brand and Forever brand. It is simply ridiculous. The wind was at its peak.