The leisurely life of rebirth.

Tofu is ground on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. In some places, there are households, but there are ready-made tofu in the tofu space.But now most people don’t need to make ends meet, but grandma bought some flowers and posted them with the word “Fu”.

Mom and Dad went to the city yesterday and didn't come back. When Fang Monan came back from the city today, he felt that the atmosphere between the two of them seemed to be arguing in a strange way.

Fang Monan stepped forward to grab his mother's hand, "Mom, what's wrong."

Mom's face was stretched, and Dad stood beside him with a flattering face, but Mom's face didn't change for the better.

"It's okay." Mom said with a smile that was uglier than crying. [

"Hey, where's your new overcoat!" Fang Monan asked when he noticed that his mother was wearing half-worn clothes. "Didn't you leave yesterday wearing a new overcoat?"

"I still have something to do, ask your father." My mother explained, stepped on the stone steps, and entered the room angrily.

The father looked at his daughter who was blinking and waiting for the answer, and smiled smirkingly, "Hehe...I went to grandpa's house yesterday, and my aunt looked so good that I was going...to go." His voice was hoarse, his throat was swollen and sore, he sucked clear water and his nose, and used a handkerchief from time to time. wipe.

"Dad, you have a cold." Fang Monan guessed what was going on, hum!The family feeds unfamiliar dogs, and the father is so foolish and filial.

After my grandfather came to the city from the countryside, he disliked the rural grandma for being uneducated and ignorant. She was unworthy of him as a business bureau cadre, so he left the grandma who was about to give birth at home, and his mother came forward and said it was a divorce. Just rest.

At that time, it was agreed to give the child living expenses every month, but in that era when supplies were scarce, I couldn't have enough to eat, not to mention that my grandfather married a wife and had children, of course it was empty talk.The grandma insisted on taking the child to graduate from high school by herself, and she didn't tell the father about the grandpa's matter until she could no longer support herself. She asked him to find his father, hoping to stay in the city for the sake of the child. died.

Dad who lives with grandpa is naturally a thorn in the eyes of others, a thorn in his flesh.Always remind the later hostess that she is a second marriage.Now that Dad graduated from high school, he should go out to work when he is an adult, and send him out.There is no such thing as cheap. If you go out to work, you have to pay the living expenses for your family every month.

A simple poor boy from the countryside, just saw the glamorous world in the city, and has a "rich and powerful" father, his thoughts and senses were shocked.The most important thing is that the missing father's love has been filled. Looking at the change from rural household registration to urban household registration, one can imagine the gratitude.Even being bullied, I silently endured and endured it.

"Dad, you also have a family. You are the sky and the pillar of our family now." Fang Monan took out a bottle of medicine for him, "Keep it in your mouth." She left, she had to comfort the old man. Mom is gone.

"What do you mean!" Dad took the medicine bottle, opened it, and swallowed a pill.It was icy and cold, and I immediately felt a lot more comfortable in my throat and a lot lighter in my body.

"It means that when your wife and children are being bullied, you have to stand up and protect them. Silly boy." Mr. Lin came over and said. "Let's go! Come in with me and tell me what's wrong. When you go back, you will be happy, and when you come back, you will look like Changbai Mountain."

Dad also felt aggrieved, and followed Mr. Lin into the house. The old man handed him a cup of hot tea and waited for him to complain.

After the mother entered the house, she began to complain about what happened to her in-laws, "They think there are too few vegetables to fit between their teeth, so they have to be sincere if they want to give them! Snacks are left over by others and sent to them for beggars. He doesn't Let’s help to talk! I also nodded and said yes.”

The grandma is glad that she didn't tell her daughter about her granddaughter's passbook. If she knew, her son-in-law would know about it too, and maybe she would send it over there for a confession.

"Okay, Dayan, don't be angry. Stepmothers are like this, so don't be picky. The etiquette is here, as long as you feel guilty." Grandma handed her a cup of hot water to warm her hands, "When you got married, you knew There will be today, so why be angry."

"I'm angry at his inaction, and he didn't grow up with them since he was a child. He only went back when he became independent. How can his feelings be so deep! As for such soft bones? In a filial family, it is impossible for them to treat him as a family. Why don't you understand, where there is a stepmother, there is also a stepfather." Mom said angrily.

"What's the matter with your clothes?" Grandma asked.

"Don't mention the clothes, I knew they were worn out. I went wearing new clothes. My sister-in-law saw it and praised how beautiful she wanted to try it on. After putting it on, she went to the big yard to show off and came back with some dirty handprints. Said to stay and wash it, and give it to me when we go next time." The old mother trembled angrily, "This is a meat bun and a dog. If I go away, I don't want to get it back. His father was stunned. We didn’t even fart. We both came out like this, shivering in the cold in the winter, he gave me his coat to wear, and he got sick from the cold, he deserved it, let’s see who loves him.”

"Okay, Mom, we're making a new one, which looks better than that one." When Fang Monan came in, he heard his mother's ruthless words, "They don't feel bad, but we do! They don't treat Dad as Our own people, can we still throw Dad out? This matter has to be discussed in the long run. "[

"Let's figure it out, how to change Dad's thinking, and treat the disease from the root." Fang Monan said, otherwise the things in the previous life would have to continue to happen.Even if you are rich in life, you are still a dwarf in spirit.

Two older and one younger, the three of them worked together to change Dad.And in Mr. Lin's house, his father also complained about his grievances.

"Anyway, that's the elder, and that's my father. If the son doesn't say anything, it's the father's fault." Dad said in a hoarse voice.

"Father Nannan, do you want to tell the truth?" Mr. Lin looked at him seriously and said.

Dad looked at him, feeling apprehensive, "Yeah!" He nodded.

"You feel that when you come out of the countryside, you feel inferior to them, don't you? Farmers are embarrassing, don't you? You are fascinated by the colorful world in the city. You look down on your origin, and even your own mother, you are ashamed Mention it, or even look down on it. Or maybe you want to grow up in the city." Mr. Lin didn't directly say anything wrong with the elders, but directly said the inferiority complex deep in his heart.

"I didn't, that's my dad." Dad's refutation was pale, so vulnerable.

"You just said that it is the father's fault if the son does not speak. Then you have heard that it is the father's fault if he does not raise him. You should think about it carefully." Mr. Lin said earnestly: "I treat Nan Nan as my own granddaughter. , so I also treat you as my own. I say some things you don’t like to hear, even harsh words. The grievances and grievances of their previous generation can be put aside after death, don’t worry about it, as long as you live well, your mother didn’t let you To resent them. But you shouldn’t lose your backbone. Your mother raised you up independently with backbone. You shouldn’t feel inferior and cowardly in front of them. The children she raised shouldn’t be so bad and so easy Be tempted."

"What's wrong with the peasant's son? For several generations, everyone was born as a peasant." Mr. Lin said with a smile.

"You've got a family too, and you have a daughter. It's time to think about how to live in the future." Mr. Lin patted his father on the shoulder and said.

The quarrel between father and mother has been exposed. I don't know if Mr. Lin's persuasion has worked. Anyway, father tried his best to please mother.Fang Monan didn't see whether his mother was really not angry anymore, this can only be tested with time.

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Liang Zi closed the store and rushed to Fang Monan's house in a hurry.

Fang Monan gave Liang Zi three big cardboard boxes, "These belong to you, the thin monkey, and the fat man. It's Chinese New Year, and I'll add some new year goods for you, but the quantity is not much, so don't dislike it!"

After Liangzi opened a box, there were a chicken, a duck, a fish, two catties of meat, tomatoes, spinach, beans, leeks and so on.Presumably the same goes for the other two boxes.

"This Nannan, how can we want it?" Liang Zi's eyes were red, he was so moved that he didn't know what to say, and secretly decided in his heart that he must do a good job.

"Is there anything you can't ask for, isn't it just some food! Doesn't the big state-owned factory also give benefits during the Chinese New Year!"

Fang Monan box, "Take it away, don't act like a woman." She said again: "Don't open the store again tomorrow, Chinese New Year is coming soon, I'm tired these days, take a good rest, recharge your batteries, Next year we're going to have a big fight."

"No, my mother bought the new year's goods at home! I guess the thin monkey and the fat man don't want to go out of business, and want to sell more before the end of the year." Liang Zi politely declined, "I can buy more when I go to Yangcheng next year."

"Alright then! You decide for yourself." Fang Monan gave up.

Liang Zi was holding three big boxes, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart, thinking about it.If he hadn't met her, his eyes would still be gloomy.

Fang Monan didn't think as much as he did, but felt that there were too many animals in the space to consume, so it was better than nothing. [

From this day on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, you will start buying new year's goods.In villages all over the country, this day is the day of the big market. People from all the villages around the market go to the market to buy new year's goods. Tobacco, wine, fish, meat, firecrackers and gifts for visiting relatives are also indispensable. The taste of the year is getting stronger. up.

Their new year's meat hadn't been cut yet. When Da Chengzi came to pick up the seedlings, he sent a pig he fed at home. After killing it, he got a hind leg, which weighed more than 30 catties.This meat is probably not enough to eat, the whole family is a meat tiger.

When Da Chengzi was about to leave, Fang Monan told him that if the corn stalks were gone, they would probably rot in the wind and sun all winter.You can just use meadow seeds and grass felts. After hearing this, he didn't even bother to eat, so he left.At home, he replaced the rotten corn stalks with grass felt, tidied up the vegetable field, and added farmyard manure to make the vegetables look better. The villagers followed suit and wanted to increase their income. He did not hide anything .The house is busy inside and out. The men are busy growing vegetables, and the women are responsible for buying new year's goods. There is no time to dawdle. Their village is so busy now.

Dachengzi brought the meat, and grandma led the family to separate the meat and began to chop the dumpling stuffing. The extra meat was fried into meatballs, vegetarian meatballs with shredded radish, and steamed jujube buns.

The remaining big bones and meat were not shaved clean, so they were chopped into sections, and then fried in hot water in the steamed bun pot at home to wash off the blood.Then put in cold water, add green onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, star anise, astragalus, wolfberry, jujube, salt, and cook on high heat.

After cooking, holding a big bone in your hand, Fang Monan and the others gnawed until their mouths were full of oil, so delicious!

In the past two days since I came back, although my mother accepted the child's precocity, she still felt a little awkward, but she always looked at Fang Monan with strange eyes, which made her feel scared.

"This child..." The mother looked at her daughter who was designing a coat for herself.

"Nannan is very good, sensible and obedient. Dayan." Mr. Lin said, he saw that his mother was hesitating and hesitant, so he interjected rarely. "The more such a child is, the more difficult it is to educate. He is precocious, sophisticated, and even persevering. With such a quality, he will have great power in any direction. But only she can decide her own direction. Dayan, I think every The last time you came, Nan Nan always surrounded you secretly, her eyes were full of nostalgia, you should spend more time with her if you have nothing to do!" Mr. Lin said.

"Really!" The mother was very happy in her heart. Her daughter's dependence on them made her relieved and let go of the hesitation in her heart.

According to traditional folk customs, bathing and laundry should be concentrated on these two days to get rid of the bad luck of the year and prepare for the new year in the coming year. There is a proverb in Beijing that "clean up the sickness on 27, and wash the sloppy on 28".Bathing on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month is "washing Fulu".

In the past two days, Fang Monan put the hot spring water in the space into the big tank in the kitchen, and asked the family to wash it well. In fact, they usually use hot spring water for bathing.It's just that they wash less often, this time there is more water, enough.

27. Slaughtering a rooster (killing stove chicken); 28. Making noodles; 29. ​​Steaming steamed buns; there is a powerful kitchen like Fang Monan, so grandma is very leisurely, working for several months in a row, taking advantage of the New Year Take a good rest.Grandma and Fang Monan are all in the 'kitchen' cooking up food.In fact, sometimes, the Chinese New Year is more tiring than going to work, but everyone is still looking forward to the Chinese New Year, the reunion year.