Farmhouse Chronicle [Farming]

Chapter 79

The end of the year is coming soon, and New Year's Eve is here in the blink of an eye.Yang Tianlin had arranged things in the town in advance. On New Year's Eve, he, Mantou, and Dr. Xin went to Wan's house early in the morning.

Most people will start preparing things for the New Year before the [-]th day, but when it really comes to the [-]th day, there are still things that can't be finished.

All the people got up early in the morning, except for those who were busy in the kitchen, the uncles and uncles of Mantou were also busy collecting paper money for their families and villagers to go to the grave.Yang Tianlin doesn't know how to make paper money, and Mantou himself is not good at those things in the kitchen, so the two of them followed Maizi to the outside of the house to burn the sundries that had been piled up in the field by the door.

According to the rules of Wanjiaba, on the [-]th day, in the morning, all the unnecessary things at home, as well as the sundries and weeds that have been taken care of inside, should be burned to indicate the bad things of the year. All gone, next year is a new beginning.

There is a vegetable field under the gate of Wanjia. After all the cabbages and radishes in it were put into the cellar, it became vacant.

"Maizi, there's nothing clean here. What are you burning? Let's go to the back of the house. There are a lot of weeds and fallen leaves. Just harvest it and it will burn all morning."

"It was here in the past years, and no family in the village actually burned it behind their house. They all burned it in front of their own house. Why don't we find a basket to collect all the fallen leaves from the field above."

"Row."

Compared with previous years, this year's winter is not very cold. The ditch in front of Wanjiamen has not yet had ice ridges this year. If it was this time in previous years, icicles would have hung in the ditch long ago.Because of the good weather, Yang Tianlin was unaware that the frostbite he had developed for many years did not develop this year.

He didn't suffer from chilblains when he was a child, but after he was six or seven years old, he was always nested in a small bed with only a broken quilt, and he developed chilblains on the places where his feet and hands were prone to cold.Later, after he left the Yang family, although he never suffered from the cold in winter, although it was not as severe as in previous years, his hands would be red and cracked, but they still grew, unlike this year, neither a pair nor a frostbite developed.

There has always been a saying among the elders that if the beginning of winter is not cold and the coming year will be unstable, and when the weather is abnormal, the elders will worry about unforeseen disasters in the coming year.Yang Tianlin can't remember what the weather will be like in the beginning of winter this year, but he is really worried. The mulberry seedlings in his field will be transplanted in the spring of next year. What if there is a severe drought after the spring?

When Yang Tianlin was worried about the weather in the coming year, he was even more worried when he saw the steamed bun walking in front of him.At this time in the past, Mantou always wore a fox fur cloak when going out, which kept him warm and protected from the cold, but this year, the cloak he made for Mantou in advance was pressed to the bottom of the box, and Mantou hadn't been worn for a day.

"Brother Lin, don't go, you just wait here, Maizi and I will go, you can pack up all the dried vegetables and leaves in the field here, and Maizi and I will come soon."

"Well, you guys go, I'll clean up here." Yang Tianlin had done this before, and he liked doing it at that time, because when the fire was burning, he could cook food in it, and wait until the open fire went out. After cooking, throw the sweet potatoes in it, and then take it out and eat it later.

Thinking that today is New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve should not be boring, so Yang Tianlin simply put aside the troubles in his heart just now, anyway, everything is his own guess, maybe next year will not only not have any troubles, but also a good harvest year. .

Because he will go out with Mantou next year, Yang Tianlin will inevitably worry about family affairs a little more. He has arranged the basic things in advance. He just hopes that the weather will be better next year, so that he can rest assured.

After finishing their family affairs in the morning, they were about to go to the graveyard after lunch, but when they were going out, Mantou was held back by Yang Tianlin, and he realized that he couldn't go up the mountain now because he was married and married out Yes, according to the rules of Wanjiaba, girls and younger brothers who go out are not allowed to visit the graves of relatives who have passed away in their natal family when they are in their [-]s. They can only burn some paper money for relatives in their own homes in the middle of July.

"Father, is it really not possible?" From the time I could remember, Mantou went to the graveyard with me every year, Maizi saw that Mantou also wanted to go, so he asked his father again with a pleading tone.

Wan Jiayong was also in a dilemma. He never thought that one day this would happen to Mantou. All along, he never regarded Mantou as a younger brother.

"Forget it, Uncle Maizi, go quickly. I understand the rules. Brother Lin and I are helping Grandma and the others at home. Go quickly, and you can come back sooner." Mantou said so, and everyone agreed. He just left, but seeing Mantou's unhappy look, Yang Tianlin suddenly thought, Wan's family can't go, they can go to Yang's Village.Although the Yang family broke up with him, Mantou is his uncle's grandson, so it's okay for them to visit his father instead of Uncle Yang Sheng.

As soon as he thought about it, Yang Tianlin immediately expressed his thoughts. He talked to Mantou, and Mantou agreed, so the two immediately went to the kitchen to get some food for the sacrifice, and before going home to take it, He drove to Yangjia Village in a carriage.

"Brother Lin, if the Yang family troubles you later, don't be afraid. Anyway, I'm not the Yang family and I won't be afraid. I won't let them bully you again!" In Mantou's impression, the Yang family is tantamount to trouble, and now they are going to In Yangjia Village, and he was going to visit his grandfather's grave, the first possibility he could think of was that the Yang family would definitely make trouble for them.

In fact, since meeting Wang Guihua last time, Yang Tianlin has already felt some changes in the Yang family. He feels that the family is not himself, but only wants to get benefits from others. Now they know that not only can they not get it from themselves. The good thing is that as long as they are provoked, they will suffer a lot. They probably don't dare to rely on them anymore.

"Don't worry, Mantou, even if we go to visit your grandfather's grave, we won't go to the Yang family. Besides, it doesn't matter if they see us. My father broke up with the uncle Yang's family at that time, not the Yang family." Dear, my father is different from me after all. It is really not suitable for me to go to the Yang family’s ancestral grave after I broke up with my family. But you are different. It doesn't matter if my dear father is gone, in fact, you can come back to grandpa's grave in a fair manner."

"Yeah, the little brother who goes out really can't go to the grave of his natal family to sacrifice, but if his natal family loses his brother, he can still go back. My father is in this situation now. He has nothing to do with Mr. Yang's family. Grandpa is the only one." Son, so of course my father can come back." Every month and a half, my father will burn paper money for grandpa at home, and when he is thirty, he will go to Yangjiacun by himself, but every time he is careful, try to avoid it. Meet the Yang family.Mantou thought that the reason why Father did that was not because he was afraid of the Yang family, but because he was too lazy to cause trouble. It would be fine if he could go to the grandfather's grave, and whether he was upright or quiet was not that important.

The two came in a carriage, and it was already past breakfast when they came. At this time, most people in the village were going out to the cemetery, so they bumped into many people as they should.When the two came to Yangjia Village a few days ago, the matter of asking the village chief had already been done. Many people in the village had already received wages from Yang Tianlin, and there were also many people who were interested in Yang Tianlin's mulberry tree. Whether they can make money or not is nothing to them.

Mantou has been coming to Yangjiacun since he was a child. Due to his status, every time Mantou came to Yangjiacun, the people here were polite to him. As for Yang Tianlin, the attitude of the villagers towards him, when he came to Yangjiacun the last few times, Already feel the earth-shaking changes compared with before.

"Master Wan, it's Chinese New Year, what are you doing here in the village?" Someone on the side of the road spoke up, and Mantou answered truthfully, they came to visit the grave.The man looked puzzled when he heard about going to the grave, and Mantou didn't want to explain to others. After parking the carriage at Huzi's place, the two went to the graveyard together.

When the two of them were walking towards the cemetery, they also met some people who were going to the cemetery with them. As they walked along the way, Mantou felt that although those people were polite to Brother Lin, they seemed to have a strange attitude. What happened, those people seemed to be a little too polite to Brother Lin.

Although Mantou was feeling strange, he also knew that now was not the time to talk about these things, so he gradually stopped talking to those people, and just dragged Yang Tianlin to walk faster, as long as they walked in front of those people and did not talk to them Just talk.

In the village, according to the rules passed down from generation to generation by the old people, things from the cemetery cannot be taken back. The two people put all the things on it, kowtowed and lit the incense, and after burning all the paper money, they went to the village. Start eating those sacrificial things.

"Brother Lin, I don't know if Grandpa likes the things we brought. When we come next year, we will ask Father first, and then come again."

"Father comes here by himself every year, and he probably won't stay at home next year. He will come with us."

"Well, next year we will come with Father. In fact, we have come here before, but Father is not allowed, he is not even allowed to follow Father. Every time we come here by ourselves."

"Father probably doesn't want to get into trouble because there are too many people." After all, it's Chinese New Year, so it would be bad if we got into trouble with the Yang family here.

"Who are you? Hey, why are you putting incense on that dead man's head?" The two of them were talking, when suddenly a child appeared from the sill, and the child rolled up from the sill below, and then Standing in front of the two of them, he pointed at the grave of Grandpa Mantou and said disrespectful words.

Mantou naturally didn't know this child, but Yang Tianlin knew who he was, regardless of the child's appearance, and just said what he just said, he also guessed that this person was Yang Tong's youngest son, right? Thinking about how old he is, he was still a milk baby before, but... no matter how old he is, it's the same, because just based on the few words just now, he probably knows that this is another Yang Tong!

When Mantou was young, he often fought with children in the village and children who were older than him, but he never fought against a child who was half his age, so even if he was very angry because of that child's words, For a while, he didn't know what to do, if the opposite person was a person as big as him, he would go over and fight with him!

Snapped!When a loud sound reached his ears, Mantou thought it was his hallucination, but brother Lin actually hit someone?Still such a child?

"Don't you know what it means to be dead? Besides, the people inside are your elders!" Whether it's his own brother, a stranger, or a steamed bun man, Yang Tianlin feels that he should teach this child a lesson.

"You must be that bastard! That shameless bastard who wants to get rich and don't want the family!" The child covered his face and said such words with red eyes. Yang Tianlin thought that the child had never seen himself before, so he should He didn't know himself. He should have heard what the villagers along the way said. After all, the Yang family was on the side of the road up the mountain. It was understandable for them to know him.

At first, Yang Tianlin thought that after the child scolded him, he would continue to scold him, but he turned around and ran away after scolding him. Seeing the figure of the child running away, Yang Tianlin just shook his head slightly, and then motioned for Mantou to stand up. gone.