The ancient life of a master craftsman

Yunli and the others' first stop was, of course, Old Man Yun's house. It stands to reason that they should come back tomorrow, the second day of the Lunar New Year, back to their mother's house.But Li Enbai didn't care about going back to her mother's house or not, and usually went to Yun's house with Yunli, and the first person to pay New Year's greetings naturally chose Yun's house.

When Li Enbai and the others arrived, the whole family except Xiao Man was still asleep, and everyone else woke up, looking forward to it, seeing the two of them coming, the joy on their faces was obvious.

"Brother, brother-in-law, you are here." Yunhe also had a rare smile on his face, and he led Yunli and the others to go inside, "Your sister-in-law said that the two of you will definitely come to celebrate the New Year today, but my father still doesn't believe it. I only came here in the second year of junior high school."

"I'll come back tomorrow. It's a custom to go back to my mother's house on the second day of the new year. I will definitely go back. Today we are here to pay New Year's greetings." Li Enbai explained.

"Hey, I got it, I will definitely prepare a table of delicious food for my brother-in-law tomorrow!" Yun He bared his big white teeth not afraid of the cold, and he breathed in vain when he spoke.

He pretended to whisper and approached Yunli and the others and said, "My father said that you two would not be here today, but he woke up early in the morning, put on new clothes, and walked to the door several times."

Yunli let out a chuckle, he could imagine his father's look of anticipation, and immediately wanted to laugh even more.

"Understood brother, Xiaoman is still awake?" Yunli glanced at the main room, and didn't rush to go there, his father was sitting inside waiting.

"It's early, and I haven't woken up yet." Yunhe also felt a headache when he mentioned his precious son, "I don't know who the child is with, Xiaoman. He is not energetic at night, and he fell asleep for nothing."

Yunli was also deeply touched by this point. Xiaoman started to feel refreshed when the sun was westward in the afternoon, making a lot of noise, and sleeping soundly in the morning.

It was as if the two brothers were whispering outside, Li Enbai wanted to go and talk to old man Yun first, but Yunli grabbed his arm and refused to let him go.

The old man Yun waited and waited, he almost smoked a rod of shredded tobacco and went out, he couldn't help but go out, seeing Yun Li and Yun He chatting happily, his face just showed a little joy, and the New Year's Eve saw that Menzi's youngest son feels very different from usual.

Seeing his son-in-law again, the old man Yun restrained his joy and coughed a few times. The brothers Yunli and Yunhe looked at each other, and they both saw the smile in each other's eyes. Their father was still so impatient.

Li Enbai saw the expressions of these two brothers, what else did he not know, co-authors, these are also two older bear children, and the older ones want to tease the old man, so he can only pinch his fingers when he releases Yunli as punishment up.

"Father, Lizi and I are here to wish you New Year's greetings." Li Enbai walked towards Old Man Yun with a friendly tone.

The old man Yun happily responded, "Hey, Linfeng, Lizi, come and sit in the room, it's cold outside."

When Yunli and Li Enbai entered the main room together, Mu Xiaolian brought tea, and twisted Yunhe's ears as soon as they went out, "You're not learning well with your younger brother!"

Yun He pretended to be in great pain from being twisted, "No, no, I just feel uncomfortable seeing Dad, let him calm down for a while."

Of course Mu Xiaolian knew how much effort she had put in, and she was also amused to see him grinning in pain. She now felt that the atmosphere at home was very good, not as depressing as a pool of stagnant water in the past. The two brothers seem to have become a lot smaller.

Let go of your hand and pat him, "Okay, don't play tricks. It's Chinese New Year today, don't let dad take the opportunity to scold you. There are many people in our family who come to pay New Year's greetings. If people see you, you will have no face for a year." gone."

Naturally, Yunhe also knew how to measure, so he responded happily, "Got it."

Inside, Li Enbai and Yunli were kowtowing to old man Yun. There is a custom of kowtowing here, but it is not compulsory. Most of them are young children kowtowing to the elderly at home, and then receive a big red envelope.

But Li Enbai didn't know, he only knew that there was a custom of kowtowing to his parents and elders during the Chinese New Year, and saying auspicious words while kowtowing was the greatest blessing to the elders, so he took Yun Li to kneel down and kowtow to old man Yun.

"Father, Happy New Year. In the new year, I wish you a long and healthy life!" Although Li Enbai didn't quite understand why there is a custom of kowtowing during the Chinese New Year, but in line with the mentality of 'do as the Romans do in the country' and 'do everything that should be done during the New Year', He still respectfully kowtowed to Old Man Yun.

The old man Yun's excited hands began to shake. There are really too few sons-in-law who are willing to kowtow to their father-in-law during the Chinese New Year. This shows that Li Enbai respects his father-in-law very much and is very filial.

Looking at the kowtowing son-in-law and youngest son, Old Man Yun couldn't help but wipe away his tears quietly. His family's Lizi has come a long way, married a good man, and he doesn't have to worry about it for the rest of his life.

"Get up, get up, daddy knows what you two are thinking, happy new year, take it, this is the red envelope daddy prepared for you." Old man Yun's eyes were still red, revealing the excitement in his heart.

Li Enbai found that things seemed to be different from what he thought, but looking at the old man Yun's moved face, he seemed to have done nothing wrong, so he stood up according to the old man Yun's words, not forgetting to help Yunli up, and took it with both hands. The red envelope from the old man Guoyun, "Thank you dad."

Because they still had to go to other people's homes to pay New Year's greetings, old man Yun couldn't keep them any longer, so he reluctantly let them go. This time, the object of his reluctance was his good son-in-law.

After leaving Yun's house, Yunli suddenly hugged Li Enbai, "Thank you, Brother En."

Li Enbai accepted this proactive hug, but he could only swallow the questions in his mouth. He thought, it seems that kowtowing is not just casually, it seems to be a very important ceremony.

Thinking about it this way, Li Enbai didn't kowtow next, but bowed respectfully. In his mind, he couldn't kowtow, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with bowing, right?

But just like this, it is enough for the old people to be excited. You must know that Li Enbai is a scholar in their village now. Judging by his demeanor, he must have been the son of a wealthy family in the past, but bowing to them now means that Li Enbai respects them. These old guys?

I feel that I have gained strength all of a sudden, and the elderly have a good year happily.

Old man Yun is the most envied among them, he has a good son-in-law!Old man Yun sent Yun Li and the others away, and before anyone else came to pay New Year's greetings, he ran to Mr. Mu's house under the pretense of going to the elder brother's house to pay New Year's greetings, talked about it, and finally kowtowed Li Enbai to him. It's over.

Boss Mu only had a son and no brother, so he just said flatly, "Xiao Liu, you have a good son-in-law, very good." He didn't mean to be envious at all.

Old man Yun went to his second brother's house again, and did the same thing. Mu's second brother's family only had Mu Huaishan as a son. The number of people was small, and he had a peaceful personality, so he naturally didn't envy him.

Old man Yun was not affected either, but ran to Mu Laosan's house and said the same thing, the two brothers have the best relationship, and the family is also the same, a younger brother and a man, but the younger brother of Mu Laosan's family married Far away, I can't come back easily, after hearing what old man Yun said, Mu Laosan was really envious.

The two brothers picked up the plane and had a drink together. Old man Yun didn't forget to show off after drinking too much. Now it's great. Everyone who came to Mu Laosan's house to pay New Year's greetings knew that Old Man Yun's son-in-law kowtowed during New Year's greetings.

Those men who married younger brothers, especially those who married younger brothers from the same village, suddenly sweated on their faces, and they would probably be cleaned up by their uncles and father-in-law tomorrow.

On the second day of the new year, I went back to my natal home.

The little buddies in the village who had gone out all happily returned to their natal home with their things, accompanied by a bitter-faced husband-in-law. They knew that it was either that they had a problem with their natal family, or they were just out of fright, and ignored them. Gu Zi hurried back home.

The man knew he couldn't hide, no matter how hard he looked on his face, he should be disgusted by his father-in-law. He rubbed his face and caught up with his wife with a smile on his face.Smart, as soon as you enter the old man's house, make up the head that you didn't kowtow yesterday, and say a few more obedient words, and you will be greeted by the old man's smiling face.

Those who are stupid, or who don't know what happened yesterday, will be miserable. They will be stared at by their father-in-law the whole time, and they will spend the whole day trembling.

For example, Mu Xiaozhu and his wife who didn't come to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year, when they returned home, they saw Mu Laosi looking satisfied with Yunhe, wishing to give him all the dishes on the table, and when they arrived at the elder son-in-law's place , then there is only one cold snort.

It was the first time for Hu Fulang to see his father give Xianggong a face, and he felt a little strange, but he didn't help him with good words, but quietly pulled his sister to talk in private.

Hu Zhicheng was embarrassed, he looked at the gloomy face of the father-in-law, carefully served the father-in-law, toasted, and said a lot of good things, all of which were useless, the fourth Mu still looked upset when he saw him.

Seeing his husband's trembling look, Mu Xiaozhu almost laughed, pulled Mu Xiaolian and asked, "What's wrong with dad? What's wrong with Zhicheng?"

Mu Xiaolian also had a funny face, it was also the first time she saw her brother-in-law look so cautious, she smiled and revealed her father's truth, "Where, I don't know if you didn't come back yesterday, Lizi, his man brought Lizi back home I kowtowed to my father-in-law in New Year greetings, no, my family Dahe kowtowed to our father when he came back, but my brother-in-law didn’t come back, what do you think dad is thinking?"

How did Mu Xiaozhu know that such a thing would happen, thinking about it, his father must be unhappy, he is a son-in-law, Linfeng didn't take Yunli to live in the town, and he was very filial to Uncle Yun.Thinking about Zhicheng again, his father definitely didn't like this comparison.

Mu Laosi heard his younger brother and daughter muttering, and Hu Zhicheng heard it too. He hurriedly stood up and wanted to kowtow to his father-in-law, but Mu Laosi stopped him, "Eat well."

Hu Zhicheng could only sit down obediently and eat honestly. A big man, he tried to reduce his sense of existence, as if he was wronged like a little daughter-in-law.

After a meal, Mu Xiaozhu asked his husband and Yunhe to go around the village, and he talked to his father himself.Naturally, Hu Zhicheng had no objection, and Yunhe hurried away with his brother-in-law.

Only Mu Xiaozhu's family was left, and Mu Laosi picked up the dry cigarette and smoked, waiting for his elder son who had a strong idea to speak.

Mu Xiaozhu poured a glass for his father and said, "Father, don't be unhappy when it's Chinese New Year, let's talk about something happy."

He touched his stomach with his hand and said to his father, "Dad, you are going to be a grandpa again."

Mu Lao Si dropped all the cigarette sticks on the ground, looked at the eldest son, "Really?"

Mu Xiaozhu nodded vigorously, "Well, really, I have it."

At this moment, the uncomfortable feeling in Mu Laosi's heart was forgotten, and he laughed loudly, "This is a great happy event for our family! If I knew it, I wouldn't have let you run home. It would be nice if we went to see you."

Here, Mu Xiaozhu's good news made his parents smile, and Hu Zhicheng also told Yunhe about it, and Yunhe was also very excited, congratulating him repeatedly.

Mu Xiaozhu and Hu Zhicheng have been married for three or four years, and they have never had children. Mu Laosi and the others are naturally worried, but the younger brother is not as good as a woman, and it is acceptable to have no news for more than three years. , That's why Mu Laosi took the opportunity to beat Hu Zhicheng, saying that Mu Xiaozhu's natal family is not afraid of him.

I didn't expect to get such good news.

Hu Zhicheng's face was also full of smiles, he didn't expect this child to come by such a coincidence, just as his mother found an excuse to stuff him, and Xiao Zhu was born, which shows that this child is spiritual.

He didn't tell his brother-in-law about his mother's plan to put people in his house, and Xiaozhu wouldn't tell his husband and them. The husband and wife handled this matter well.

Yunhe knew that his brother-in-law was a fast catcher in the county town, and he was doing well in the county town, but brother Xiaozhu had been living in the town, so there was obviously something wrong, but he asked Xiaolian, and Xiaolian didn't know too well what happened.

"Brother, you haven't met my brother-in-law, have you? Let's go to my brother's house for a while?" Yunhe asked his opinion and led him to Li Enbai's house.

Li Enbai and Yunli have already returned from old man Yun's house, it's not that they don't want to stay anymore, but old man Yun is going out, so they can only go home and stay.

Hu Zhicheng only met Li Enbai once or twice in the town. He and Yunli were not married at that time, but now they are brothers-in-law, so naturally they should get close.

The Chinese New Year is full of excitement, and Li Enbai's house is no exception. Seeing Yunhe and Hu Zhicheng, they greet Yunli to bring wine and vegetables, and the three of them sit together drinking and chatting.

It was quite lively, seeing the three of them having fun by themselves, Yunli took a basket of eggs and ran to Mu Laosi's house, and soon after she found out that Mu Xiaozhu was pregnant with a baby, she was so happy that she almost jumped up and surrounded her Mu Xiaozhu looked left and right, "That's great! Brother Xiaozhu!"

When he came home at night, Li Enbai was smelling of alcohol, sitting at the door of the bedroom waiting for him, dozing off with his arms propped up, he dragged the dazed Li Enbai to wash up, and then lay on the bed together.

"Brother Enbai, did you know that Brother Xiao Zhu is pregnant with a baby! I'm going to be an uncle!" He nestled in Li Enbai's arms, not letting him sleep, pinching his cheek, "I'm going to be an uncle, and you too Uncle!"

Li Enbai drank a lot of wine, his reaction was a little slow now, but the strength in his hand was still very light, and he also pinched Yunli's cheek. His cheek had almost no flesh, and it took a lot of effort to pinch it, "So happy ? I don’t think you were so excited when you became an uncle.”

Because Yunli had no flesh on her face, her cheeks were pinched, and she couldn't speak fluently, "What's the matter? Sister-in-law is a woman, women are easy to conceive, but younger brothers are not easy. Brother Zhu got pregnant in three years." It's already very good, some younger brothers only get pregnant in four or five years, and even longer, once the husband's family can't wait, there are also some who divorce their husbands and remarry."

When he said this, he was obviously disappointed. It is difficult for the younger brothers to have children. Even if the pregnancy moles are bright red, it will take a while for them to work. In addition, they are not as capable of physical work as men, so they are always despised by women and men do not take them seriously.

Li Enbai was a little confused, he kissed Yunli's forehead without any other meaning, just felt that Yunli was a little depressed, so he comforted him, "We two will be together for a long time."

Yunli smiled, and put his arms around Li Enbai, "Well, go to sleep."

"Ah."

A good night's sleep, the Chinese New Year is still going on.On the third day of the Lunar New Year, this day is also called the Red Dog Day. According to legend, it is easy to have quarrels with people or various misfortunes on this day. red note.

And you can’t go to New Year’s greetings on this day. Every household must open the door, which means a lot of wealth and treasures, and protects the family from disputes or disasters in the new year.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, you can visit, but you cannot kill animals, whether it is chicken, duck, fish, cattle, sheep or pigs.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the God of Wealth is welcomed. On this day, doors and windows are opened, firecrackers are set off in front of the gate, and a statue of the God of Wealth is enshrined at home, implying that the God of Wealth is welcome to enter the door.

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, send off the poor ghosts. On this day, every household will find some rags and old things from their homes and throw them out, implying that the poor ghosts will be driven away, and the new year will not be poor.

Yunli and Li Enbai have also followed the custom these days, completing each piece. On the third day of junior high school, they got up before dawn to paste the red paper, and on the fourth day of junior high school, they went to a friend's house to liven up the atmosphere.

Li Enbai also saw a group of little brothers grabbing melon seeds and eating them while chatting one after another.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Li Enbai lit a thousand red paper firecrackers at the gate, and they crackled for a long time. The villagers said that the Li family would definitely welcome the God of Wealth this year. The sound of the firecrackers was the loudest in the village. Long-term.

Sending off poor ghosts on the sixth day of the lunar new year is difficult for Yunli and Li Enbai. They are a newly renovated house, and the rags that should be thrown away are thrown away when the house is being repaired. The current ones are all good, so let Yunli throw them away. He really felt a little distressed.

In the end, Li Enbai made up his mind and threw away the rough cloth clothes he bought at the beginning. Li Enbai only wore the clothes for more than a month, and then he stopped wearing them. Yunli felt that it was a waste, and wanted to change it. into his clothes.

But it was too big, and some leftovers were thrown away, and then Li Enbai went to Qianxiu Pavilion every month to make at least one new dress for Yunli, and the rough cloth was useless, and it was piled up in the corner to eat ashes.

Now he couldn't bear it and had no other choice, only this was the cheapest, Yunli could only take apart the clothes and throw them out.

The villagers saw that the old clothes thrown out by the Li family were the cheapest and most worn rough cloth clothes, and they lost interest immediately, thinking that the Li family made money last year, so they could throw out some good things during the Chinese New Year, but they ended up with two Torn clothes.

Immediately, the pink eye patient calmed down, and the atmosphere in the village became more joyful and harmonious.

On the morning of the seventh day, the whole village will gather in the ancestral hall. On this day, the elders of the Tian clan, Mu Boss and Mu Laoer, will open the ancestral hall and let everyone pay New Year's greetings to their ancestors, indicating that the Chinese New Year is over.Because Li Enbai came here alone, he could only follow the old man Yun's family to pay New Year's greetings to the ancestors of the Yun family.

The time for each family to visit the ancestral hall is arranged according to the order of arrival at the ancestral hall. It is not a swarm of bees to squeeze in, but a family to come out and go in again. However, because the people in the village are all relatives, it is actually quite fast. There were also many people who went in for the first time. Mu Huaishan and Mu Zeshan, the eldest brother of the uncle's family, arranged the order outside, while Mu Boss and Mu Lao Er watched people worship the ancestors inside.

This is the case every year, and everyone is used to it.It’s just that every year, the first opportunity to worship the ancestors will be robbed. In order to grab the first place, some people come before dawn, and they are frozen outside until the sun rises and the ancestral hall opens. .

This is a way of filial piety to the ancestors. Most people think that this can remind the ancestors to remember to protect themselves, so the competition for this day becomes more and more fierce every year.When Yunli told Li Enbai about these things, he couldn't help sighing, feudal superstition is bad.

It's just that he only dared to think in his heart and dared not speak out. After all, the general environment here is like this, and he cannot be said to be wrong.In Li Enbai's view, this is a special spiritual sustenance, a power similar to faith.It's not a complete dross, so there's no need to talk about it.

After the seventh day, the year is over, and on the eighth day, those who should go to work will go to work.Only the pencil factory in Huaimu Village is still resting. Those who are used to working on the eighth day of the eighth day spontaneously ran around the factory, thinking that they might start work earlier so that they could get their wages earlier.

After the fat year, everyone has little money in their hands, and they look forward to starting work earlier so that they can get their wages earlier.

But no matter how they turned or how anxious they were, the factory closed its doors quietly.Under the urging of the villagers, Yunhe, Mu Yunshan and others had no choice but to find Li Enbai and explain the situation.

Li Enbai is reading a book. Now he has to finish all the homework assigned by Liu Chuncheng. He has to read a lot of books every day. When he hears them asking when they can start work, he is surprised, "Didn't we already say it before the New Year? The sixteenth day of the first month start."

Mu Yunshan carefully pushed aside the books he had spread out, fearing that he would accidentally drop them, "Isn't it because everyone is in a hurry to get to work, just wondering if they can start work sooner?"

Li Enbai understood that he was worried that after the new year, the factory was built and they changed their minds not to use the villagers as workers. He also told the truth, "There are still a few days, so be patient. Boss Liu will not be back until sixteen , we can only wait until the sixteenth to start work."

It's not that Li Enbai doesn't want to start work earlier and produce products earlier, so he can start making profits earlier.When he asked Yunhe and the others to help him make pencils, the system gave me a little bit of experience points, which was ten times worse than the ones he made by himself. Get more experience points.

So he is also anxious, but now there is no factory, and there is no material.Clay can be bought in villages that sell porcelain, but graphite is not produced nearby, so they can only be purchased from faraway places and shipped over.

Li Enbai was also waiting for news from Liu Mingxi, "Just wait patiently, there is no rush." ​​This sentence was not only for Mu Yunshan and the others, but also for himself and Yunli.