The contentment of rebirth

The husband and wife have never been separated for more than ten years of marriage, so the feeling of suddenly losing a backbone is really uncomfortable for a while.Looking at the back of her father leaving, Chen Jiayin felt a little uneasy, but she also knew that she would support the family with her mother in the future.

Chen Weijun also stood at the door and watched his father go away. Just now, his father said to him: After I leave, you will be the biggest man. You must protect your mother and sister, as well as your younger brother and younger sister. Others bully.

Chen Weiwen didn't have many sentimental emotions, and it wasn't that he didn't have a conscience. First, he knew that his father's trip would not be dangerous. As long as he didn't do that, his life would be more difficult and he would be more busy; The relationship is not deep, whether it is in the previous life or in this life, whether it is when he was a child or when he grew up, he may not necessarily say a few words to his father a day, and one of the words he will say every day is to see Dad Chen when he goes home and shout: Dad .

Chen Weiwen's family is a model of a strict father and a loving mother. His father was in Chen Weiwen's heart since he was a child, and he was not close.He is used to getting along with his father like this. If one day he suddenly changes the mode and becomes a situation where the father is kind and the son is filial, he can't imagine the warm and sweet scene.

Being not close to his father does not mean that Chen Weiwen does not love or be filial to his father in his heart. Some feelings are buried deep in his heart and need to be acted upon.

Emotionally, Chen Weiwen is closer to his mother. In fact, all the children in their family are the same. Whether they are older sisters or younger siblings, they are closer to Lu's mother. Even though Lu's mother beats and scolds them the most, in his heart, he is still his mother. The most reliable and the closest.

When it comes to beating and scolding, Chen Weiwen grew up surrounded by his mother's scolding in his previous life. Of course, twin brothers and sisters are the same, and it's even worse, and typing is added.However, since he was reborn, Chen Weiwen hasn't heard his mother scolding him for more than half a year. Under Chen Weiwen's supervision, the siblings have also improved, but there are still some, but the frequency has decreased.

When he was a child, Chen Weiwen would be scolded by his mother for nothing more than bullying his younger siblings, or leading his younger siblings to play in places that may be dangerous outside. Now Chen Weiwen not only does not do these things, but also prevents Chen Weijun and Chen Jiaxin from doing them. Mother Lu wants He looked for an opportunity to scold him, but he couldn't find an opportunity or a reason.

Twin siblings were not used to the absence of their father at home at first, and would pester their mother, brothers and sisters to ask about their father?After that, they gradually got used to it. Knowing that Dad went out to do business to make money, they didn't quite understand what it meant, but knowing that they would have delicious food to eat after making money, they all understood.

After Chen's father left, the life of the family did not change much. Although the family's cash was taken away by Chen's father, but because the wages of Chen Weiwen's three brothers and sisters were settled every ten days and once a month, the family's food and drink It didn't become a more miserable situation in the previous life.

The winter vacation is only a few days away, and the Chinese New Year is coming soon.

On December 25, Lu's mother took her eldest daughter's half a month's salary to the streets to prepare for the New Year.

On December 26, the merchants of the plastic flowers assembled by Chen Weiwen were going to have a holiday for the Chinese New Year. Chen Weiwen returned the last batch of plastic flowers, took the money home, and officially announced the Chinese New Year holiday.

18 Worship

On December 26, Mother Lu began to prepare the pastry that every family must have during the Chinese New Year in her hometown. She said that the pastry is not actually a pastry, but it is made of flour, etc. for the dough, filled with stuffing, and then pressed into patterns with beautiful patterns. finished product.

One of Chen Weiwen’s favorites. The dough is made of sweet potatoes and flour. The stuffing inside is generally sweet. White beans, red beans, sesame seeds and sugar are mixed. They are pressed with molds and placed on lotus leaves. Cut out its shape according to its lines, some are one, some are two, and the shapes of the two are connected end to end like a diagram of the Eight Diagrams.

When this kind of pasta is just steamed, the outside is soft, waxy and slightly sweet with the aroma of sweet potatoes, and the inside is rich in the aroma of beans mixed with white sugar. You can't smell the strong aroma of lotus leaves, but there is a fragrance that blends in freely. The whole pasta in it.

They usually make a lot of these noodles in their hometown, because the weather is cold and they will not go bad.Like the pasta that Chen Weiwen likes to eat, if you eat it the next day, steam it a little, steam it soft first, then drop a little oil in the pan, fry it for a while, the texture of the skin will change from soft and waxy It is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and when you bite into it, it is crispy, soft and sweet, full of bean fragrance.

On December 27th, Chen Weijun and Lu's mother went to pay New Year's greetings to grandma's house. Grandma lived in the house of the eldest uncle. If she went to one house, it would be considered two visits. The younger uncle was doing business in other places and would not come back.Chen Weiwen and his sister are in charge of going to the homes of the eldest aunt, second aunt and other aunts to pay New Year's greetings.Chen Weiwen's mother has six sisters and two brothers, but only the eldest aunt and the younger aunt frequented her. The other aunts were just going through the motions and giving gifts during New Years and holidays.

On Father Chen's side, two brothers, Chen Weiwen and Chen Weijun, are in charge of New Year's greetings. Father Chen has five brothers, and he is the fourth. Two sisters and two aunts are married out of town. There is no need to come to visit for New Year's greetings. The uncle is also out of town, so the actual New Year's greetings There are only the second uncle, the third uncle and the younger uncle. On the 28th, Chen Weiwen and his brothers were busy with this.

January 1998, 1, the 27th day of the Lunar New Year, New Year's Eve.

In the morning, Chen Weiwen's family got up early and began to clean the house. Everyone worked together, some were responsible for sweeping and mopping the floor, some were responsible for cleaning the tables and chairs, and even twin siblings helped to deliver the goods. stuff, run errands.

After the cleaning was finished, Chen Weiwen and Chen Weijun brought a ladder and prepared to paste Spring Festival couplets.The two first spread the Spring Festival couplets on the ground, and pasted rice paste on the back of the Spring Festival couplets. Then one person took the top, the other supported the bottom, and the two cooperated to paste the Spring Festival couplets.

Not long after lunch, the children took a bath early, put on new clothes, and queued up to receive the New Year's money from their mother. The three older children received ten yuan each, and the two younger children received five yuan each.

Although not much, this is the only time in a year that the children of the Chen family can get money from their parents, and they have complete control over the money.This is a rare opportunity and all the kids are very happy.

Chen Weiwen held a brand new ten yuan in his hand, but he didn't feel much joy. The only happy thing was that he was one year older and finally eight years old.However, looking at myself in bright red, like a red envelope, I feel a little embarrassing and embarrassing. The new clothes that Lu's mother bought for them for the New Year are all bright red. It looks very festive, but it is just a joy to wear.

The eldest sister, Chen Jiayin, was responsible for washing all the family’s changed clothes. The two brothers, Chen Weiwen, went to help their mother wash vegetables and cut meat, because they had to prepare for the first major event of the new year, worshiping ancestors on New Year’s Eve.

Worshiping ancestors is a custom here. They have to worship once on the evening of New Year's Eve and the morning of the first day of the new year. The things to be worshiped are particular about what kind of dishes are needed, how to arrange the dishes, how many bowls and chopsticks are needed, and they need to be sacrificed first. Worshiping that incense burner represents a kind of respect for ancestors.

In fact, it is evening, that is, worship in the afternoon, because they are going to worship in the ancestral hall, so they must prepare all kinds of dishes in advance and bring them there.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, my mother cooked all the dishes for worship, plated the plates, and bagged the bags that needed to be covered. All four bicycles in the family were dispatched. Lu's mother and Chen Weiwen's siblings each had one, and Chen Jiayin and Chen Jiayin Chen Weijun also took care of carrying twin siblings.The back seats of Mother Chen's car and Chen Weiwen's car are all kinds of things for worship.

When we arrived at the ancestral hall, many relatives had already arrived. Many of Chen Weiwen's three younger children didn't know each other, so he had to follow his elder sister and elder brother to call for help one by one.

After the dishes are placed on the table according to the rules of the custom, the whole family lights incense one by one, kneels down, kowtows, worships the ancestors, and then inserts/puts the incense in the incense burner.

Lu's mother knelt in front of the ancestor's incense burner, chanting words. Chen Weiwen knew that the mother was praying for the ancestors to bless the father's safety and success outside, and then the mother would ask the ancestors to bless their children, safe and sound, study smoothly, and everything goes well.

This is a common problem here. Speaking of it, people in their hometown are actually quite superstitious, because they have many gods to worship in a year. Just worshiping their ancestors, Chen Weiwen's family has to worship more than ten times a year. For example, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, July [-]th, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Winter Solstice are all major festivals that require ancestor worship.There are also many festivals, such as the birthday of a certain god, such as the God of Wealth, Mazu, Buddha, Guan Erge, etc. There are temples for these gods in the villages and towns. I can't squeeze it out.

And Chen Weiwen's family is relatively good, because Chen's father and Lu mother have been to Hainan for several years, and they have forgotten some seasons, and they have accepted some ideas outside, and they are not so particular.Sometimes I see other people worshiping, and I don’t know what’s going on, or I just remember that it’s so-and-so today.

Some people are very superstitious and pay special attention to this. In total, it is almost three days a small prayer, five days a big prayer.

When he was a child in his previous life, Chen Weiwen liked these festivals that required worship, because there were delicious things to eat, but he only liked