Chapter 1349 We are a family (fifth update)
In the yard of her parents’ house next door, when Yang Ruoqing brought Spring Festival couplets over, Yang Huazhong was sweeping the yard.
Daan was helping to tidy up the tables and chairs in the main room, and Mrs. Sun was busy preparing the dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner in the backyard.
Seeing Yang Ruoqing coming in with Spring Festival couplets, Yang Huazhong was very happy and quickly put down the broom in his hand and came over to take the Spring Festival couplets.
"Qing'er, are you really not coming over for New Year's Eve dinner tonight?" Yang Huazhong asked again.
Mr. Sun has asked this question several times in the past few days.
Yang Ruoqing smiled and shook her head: "This is the first year that Tang Yazi and I get married, and I plan to cook the New Year's Eve dinner myself."
"And for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner, I will also invite Luo Uncle and the others came over to eat together.”
Yang Huazhong continued. Nodding: "Well, we really should bring uncle Tangyazi and aunt over to celebrate the New Year together, we are a family!"
Yang Ruoqing continued: "I discussed it with my mother yesterday. The New Year’s Eve dinner will be eaten slightly earlier than here.”
"After I've finished eating there, Tang Yazi and I will come over to wish you a happy New Year."
"When the time comes, if we sit down and have a few bites together, it will be equivalent to being with my parents and brothers. It’s Chinese New Year!” she said.
Yang Huazhong was very happy after hearing this, "Okay, okay, this arrangement is the best!"
"Dad, since I'm here, let's put up the Spring Festival couplets together. "Okay." Yang Ruoqing suggested.
Yang Huazhong said ‘Okay’.
"Then I'll go to the backyard and get some rice cereal from my mother."
Backyard, kitchen.
Sun is very busy.
Cut various vegetables, prepare various ingredients, wash what should be washed, soak what should be soaked, simmer what should be simmered, steam what should be steamed...
Seeing Yang Ruoqing come in, Mrs. Sun Very happy.
"Qing'er, how are the dishes prepared over there?" she asked.
Yang Ruoqing smiled and reported the menu of the New Year's Eve dinner to Mrs. Sun.
Sun said: "Ah, there are so many kinds of vegetables. It's really rich. My daughter will be in trouble."
Yang Ruoqing pursed her lips and smiled, and made some rice noodles. Rice cereal, and then brought it to the front yard.
Yang Huazhong is tall and burly, and he does not need to step on a ladder to post Spring Festival couplets.
Yang Ruoqing stood on the side holding a basin of rice cereal, and Daan was on the side handing out Spring Festival couplets.
The father and son worked together and quickly put up the Spring Festival couplets.
As soon as the bright red color was pasted on the wall, the New Year atmosphere suddenly came out.
When Yang Ruoqing returned to her home with rice cereal and planned to post Spring Festival couplets, she found that Luo Fengtang was already pasting the last one on the study door.
“Hey, why did you post the Spring Festival couplets alone? Didn’t we agree to post them together!”
Yang Ruoqing said.
Luo Fengtang smiled and said: "I've posted it, so you don't have to bother."
"Hehe..."
Yang Ruoqing smiled and left. Go over and help him smooth out the corner of the last Spring Festival couplet.
In previous years, Spring Festival couplets were put up in the afternoon, but this year they were put up early.
Next, it’s time to go to the mountains to burn incense.
The custom in this area is that on the day of the Chinese New Year, people go to their ancestors’ tombs on the mountain in the morning to burn incense and kowtow.
After returning to the village in the afternoon, you have to go to the Tutu Temple at the south end of the village to burn incense.
Before the New Year’s Eve dinner, every household must burn incense to the ancestral tablets enshrined at home.
Watch the New Year's Eve at night and get up in the early morning to 'open the door'.
Then before dawn, you have to go to the Earth Temple to burn incense and set off firecrackers. This is called "Crossing the Sky".
The young couple finished the Spring Festival couplets, and then Yang Ruoqing went to the kitchen and brought a bamboo basket, which contained offerings for burning incense.
“Let’s go, let’s go into the village to find our uncle, he is probably already waiting for us.”
Yang Ruoqing said.
"Are you going too?" Luo Fengtang asked.
Yang Ruoqing gave him a roll of her eyes: "This is not nonsense. I am the new wife of your old Luo family. I must go to burn incense in the first year!"
Luo Fengtang was very happy and reached out to take her hand. He was carrying the basket in his hand and held her hand with the other hand. After exchanging words with Tuoba Xian and Yan Huai'an, they left the house and went to the village together.
The old Luo family. Aunt Wang Cuilian also prepared the offerings, and Blacksmith Luo was changing shoes.
Blacksmith Luo was secretly happy to see the young couple coming hand in hand.
"Uncle, Qing'er is also going up the mountain with us to burn incense." Luo Fengtang said as soon as he entered the door.
Tiejiang Luo said: "Okay, okay, let the ancestors see the new daughter-in-law of our old Luo family, and let them be happy too."
Yang Ruoqing smiled sheepishly.
Blacksmith Luo looked at Wang Cuilian on the side: "Cuilian, you also entered this year, please change your shoes and come with us."
Wang Cuilian was a little flattered.
"Then...I won't go. Qing'er is the serious wife of the old Luo family..." the woman said.
When Blacksmith Luo heard this, he immediately became angry.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“Qing’er is Tang Yazi’s wife, you are my wife, and you are the wives of two generations of our old Luo family. ..."
Wang Cuilian was still very embarrassed, "I am a remarried widow, so I still won’t go..."
The words of inferiority clearly reached the ears of the three people beside him.
Blacksmith Luo corrected Wang Cuilian very seriously: "What's wrong with the widow? A widow is not a human being?"
"Remember, you are the daughter-in-law of Blacksmith Luo, Ming Matchmaker. She used to be a widow, but now , you have a man, you have a husband’s family!”
“Listen to my arrangement, hurry up, change your shoes and let’s go to the mountains to burn incense together!”
……
A family of four went up to the back mountain to burn incense.
Blacksmith Luo led the way with his hands behind his back.
Luo Fengtang followed closely behind with a bamboo basket in each hand.
Yang Ruoqing held Wang Cuilian's arm and walked behind the team.
The weather is good in the twelfth lunar month of this year.
Except for the first few days when it snowed, it has been sunny since the snow stopped.
During the twelfth lunar month, the sun is good, so you can dry salted meat and fish in the sun.
The mountain road at our feet, as well as all the trees and grass in the mountains, are also very dry in the sun.
Yang Ruoqing absolutely believed that as long as a match was thrown, most of the mountain would be set on fire.
“Tangyaozi, be careful when you burn incense later. It’s dry and dry, so don’t burn the mountain.”
She couldn't help but yell at Luo Fengtang's back.
Luo Fengtang turned to her and smiled: "Well, I will be careful."
The four of them came to the ancestral grave of the old Luo family, burned incense and paid homage.
Then while crossing a mountain ridge, they encountered a large army of the old Yang family.
Old Yangtou leads the team, and brothers Yang Huaan, Yang Huazhong, Yang Huaming and Yang Huazhou are all there.
Among the sons, except Yang Hualin who stayed in the county town in anger and never came back, all of them came.
As for the grandchildren, except for Yang Yongzhi and Kang Xiaozi, the rest are also here.
Two groups of people met on the ridge and sat together smoking for a while.
At this moment, I met several groups of people from the village one after another.
Among them, there is also the group of people from Lao Wang’s family.
In the mountains, the sound of firecrackers came one after another, and it was really lively.
After resting enough, everyone went their separate ways again to burn incense.
Here, Yang Ruoqing, Luo Fengtang and others came to Luo Laoer's grave.
Luo Fengtang knelt down in front of the grave, and Yang Ruoqing followed, kneeling with him.
Although the person buried in the grave in front of him is not Tang Yazi’s biological father.
However, Yang Ruoqing kowtowed three times very devoutly.
If Luo Lao'er hadn't been on the road at night and tried his best to bring Luo Fengtang back to Changping Village, he would have been brutally murdered as an infant.
So, this kindness is greater than the sky!
(End of this chapter)