Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 175 What to eat? Dad will eat you first

"Can you be a little more ambitious? Have you never eaten meat in your entire life?"

"They are all hungry...pigs are reincarnated!"

"Slow down... run?! Don't rush!"

During the Chinese New Year, we must say auspicious words, and we cannot talk about death, ghosts, etc.

So, even though Wu Xiuqin was scolding the child, she still changed "starving ghost" to "hungry pig" and "slow down and you will die" to "slow down and you will run"...

"Mom, stop talking! Come over and eat, aren't all kids like this? When my brother and I were kids and visited relatives, we fought even harder than they did!"

Chen Weidong and Chen Weihai quickly pulled Wu Xiuqin to the table.

"Weidong, I'm not saying anything bad about your mother, but it's New Year's Day and she can't stop eating so many dishes." Chen Guangtian said.

I have to say, I don't know what happened to my dad today. Maybe he relied on his son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and granddaughters being here.
He wants to rise up. Just as people say the worse you are, the more you like to play. Now he even dares to provoke his mother.

You know, when my mother is powerful, she can spray three or five at a time without losing out.

"If I can't shut my mouth, how can I shut yours? Didn't I work so hard to make this dish?"

"You have a mouth, and you only know how to eat. I don't see you helping!"

"..."

Sure enough, when Wu Xiuqin heard what Chen Guangtian said, she immediately became unhappy.

"Dad, you really are too!"

It was New Year's Day, so Chen Weidong said a few words to comfort his father, so the two did not quarrel. However, Chen Weidong knew that his father would definitely have a hard time that night!
What happened on Chen Weidong's table did not affect the children's voracious eating.

Only Dani was much more gentle. It was not because she couldn't win the fight, but because she was more sensible, and there was meat to eat every day at home during this period!
The other little girls didn't care about that, especially Si Ni, whose little mouth was already full and she still put some food into her own bowl.

"Look at Dani, how well behaved she is! That's how she looks like when she's eating!"

"Da Fei, Xiao Fei, you are the older brothers, give way to your younger sisters!"

After seeing this, Yang Xuehua started talking to Dafei and Xiaofei.

"Sister-in-law, let's not talk about the children. They can't eat anything. Let's eat!"

Chen Weidong said.

"it is good."

At Chen Weidong's table, except for Liu Xueting who was holding Xiaoliu, Wu Xiuqin and Yang Xuehua were all drinking. Everyone toasted him, and the atmosphere gradually became lively.

The meal took about two or three hours to finish.

Then, we chatted. There was no TV or cell phones at this time.

Everyone was sitting around the fire in the kitchen, chatting! The kids finished their meal early in the morning and went out to play!

Chen Weidong drank a lot of wine and hardly slept yesterday. He said goodbye to his family, went home and fell asleep on the bed.

I slept until it was almost dark, and was woken up by Wu Ni's little butt!
"Dad, Mommy asked what you want to eat in the evening?" Seeing Chen Weidong wake up, the little kid asked with a smile.

"What do you want to eat? Daddy will eat you first. If you dare to sit on daddy again next time, I will beat your butt to pieces!" Chen Weidong arched his head hard on Wu Ni's body.

"Giggle..."

The little girl smiled.

"Do you still dare?"

"I don't dare anymore~ Haha! Dad~"

"Dad, I want to play too!"

Si Ni came over at this time, saw this scene, and also wanted to join in.

~

"Weidong still has some dumplings left at home, why don't we cook them for dinner?"

Seeing Chen Weidong coming in holding two little girls, Liu Xueting asked.

"Forget it, let's save it for the fifth day! It saves us from having to mix stuffing and make dumplings on the fifth day."

Chen Weidong said.

He had really eaten two meals of dumplings in a row, and since he had been eating dumplings frequently recently, Chen Weidong didn't want to eat dumplings anymore.

"Okay! Then let's stew the crispy pork?" Liu Xueting nodded and asked.

"Okay! You should take a rest too! I'll do it!" Chen Weidong said softly.

"No, I'm not tired." Liu Xueting said.

"Okay, let's cook together. I'll light the fire and you cook. Dani, take your sisters to play in the main room!"

Chen Weidong greeted.

After the two people finished cooking and the family was about to eat, snowflakes started falling from the sky again.

Snowflakes as big as goose feathers fell from the dark night sky.

It's snowing again.

Today's snow looks like it won't be too light.

After dinner, we cleaned up the dishes together.

Then they fed the dog and the donkey at home, and the whole family lay down on the kang again.

Because he had slept yesterday afternoon, when Chen Weidong woke up, it was just dawn, around five or six o'clock.

This year is the second day of the Lunar New Year. As the saying goes, "The first day is for the son, the second day is for the man." However, Chen Weidong does not need to visit anyone today because his father-in-law is in the south.

It has been a while since Chen Weidong sent Liu Xueting's letter, and he has not received a reply.

After Liu Xueting died in his previous life, Chen Weidong was too ashamed to face his father-in-law and mother-in-law, so he didn't take the children to find their grandparents!
Therefore, I don't know much about Liu Xueting's family situation, nor do I know what will happen to her parents, brothers and sisters in the future.
Thinking of this, Chen Weidong sighed. These days, life in the south is harder than in the north. He just hopes they all live well!

It's no wonder Chen Weidong thought too much, he knew how difficult life was these days. Seeing Liu Xueting sleeping beside him, Chen Weidong reached out and held her in his arms.

"What are you doing? You can't even sleep properly." Liu Xueting opened her eyes in a daze.

"Wife, subconsciously! Subconsciously!"

Chen Weidong smiled awkwardly. He didn't expect to wake Liu Xueting up.

After a while, Chen Weidong and Liu Xueting got up early as it had been snowing heavily all night.

When I woke up in the morning, the snow covered the entire mountain again, and accumulated more than fifty centimeters in the yard.

After the two of them cleared the snow in the yard, they also cleared the snow at the door.

I just got home and started cooking, and soon the little girls woke up one after another.

After breakfast, Sanni, Sini and Wuni ran out happily.

After a while, the three of them came back happily.

"Didn't you three go out to play? Why are you back so soon?"

Chen Weidong asked with a smile.

"Sister Xiaohua, Goudan, and Niudan have all gone to grandpa's house! We can't find anyone to play with!"

Si Ni asked in a baby voice.

"Today is the second day of the Chinese New Year, so of course they have to go to their grandparents' house to pay New Year's greetings!"

"Dad, what are grandpa and grandma?" Wu Ni asked curiously with her big blinking eyes.

"Grandpa is mom's dad, and grandma is mom's mom! Dad is mine, right?"

Si Ni said in a baby voice with a smug look on her face.

"Yes! Si Ni is really smart."

Chen Weidong praised.

"Hehe! Third sister, did you hear daddy say I'm smart?"

"Humph! I know that too."

Sanni was dissatisfied.

"Fourth sister, you are so awesome," Wu Ni said admiringly.

"hey-hey."

"Fourth sister, why don't we go to grandma and grandpa's house?" "Have you ever seen grandma and grandpa?
"Don't they like Wu Ni?"

Wu Ni asked a hundred thousand questions, which made Si Ni so confused that she almost had no idea where she had seen her grandparents.

"I have no idea!"

Si Ni said in a baby voice.

"I know! Mom told me that grandma and grandpa live in a very far away place, and it's so beautiful there!" Sanni said in a baby voice at this time.

"Really?"

"Really? I lied to you that you were a puppy."

"Third sister, you are amazing!"

Chen Weidong listened to the innocent conversation of the little girls. He thought they were cute, but at the same time, he felt sad.
Liu Xueting hasn't been home for seven or eight years. That daughter doesn't miss her parents or her hometown, but Liu Xueting never said...

"Sanni, Sini, Wuni, don't ask mom about grandma and grandpa, okay?"

Chen Weidong reminded.

"Why?"

The three little kids raised their little heads and looked at Chen Weidong curiously.

"Because mom hasn't seen grandpa and grandma for a long time!"

"Mom, why doesn't she see grandma and grandpa?"

"Didn't your third sister say that? Grandma and grandpa live too far away!"

"Why do grandma and grandpa live so far away? Don't they miss mom?"

"Uh……"

"Dad, grandma and grandpa, do you like Si Ni?"

"dad……"

"Okay, whoever says that will get spanked!"

……

It was almost noon when Sun Tianjun and Chen Xiuxiu brought their children to pay New Year's greetings. After the New Year's greetings, they had dinner at their father's house.
Big brother Chen Weihai and Yang Xuehua went to visit someone, so Chen Weidong naturally had to go and drink with them!
After three rounds of drinking, Chen Weidong and Chen Guangtian talked about Dani and Erni going to school.

There is no school in Jiuqutun. There is only one primary school among so many villages in Yushugou. The school is located where the brigade is located. To go to school, one has to walk two miles.

Chen Weidong remembers that the school had only three classrooms and three teachers. There was no kindergarten at that time, only grades one to five.

Moreover, it is a combined class, and the combined teaching is implemented.

The so-called double-class teaching means that the first and third grade students sit in the same classroom.

In the first half of the Chinese class, the teacher first assigned some homework to the third graders, such as copying words, and then gave a lesson to the first graders.

The first graders finished their lesson and the teacher assigned some homework, such as copying pinyin.

I went to teach the third graders. Before teaching, I would check the homework I had just assigned.

The reason why Chen Weidong told Chen Guangtian was, of course, because Chen Guangtian knew the principal of the elementary school, Li Guomin.
Let me say hello first. After all, most children start school in the fall. If Da Ni and Er Ni go there, it will be considered as transferring to the same class!

Especially after the Chinese New Year, Dani was eight years old. Although children started school late in this era, most of them started at the age of six or seven. Dani was considered to be late.

But Dani is so smart that she can go directly to the second grade in the second half of the semester.

"Okay, I'll talk to your Uncle Li in a couple of days!" Chen Guangtian said with a smile.

"By the way, your eldest uncle and second uncle have already said hello to me! Don't forget to go with your eldest brother tomorrow! Let's go and have a look at your and their place! We are all relatives, and the past is the past!"

Chen Guangtian thought about it and explained.

"Row!"

Chen Weidong hesitated for a moment and nodded slowly. The relationship between Chen Weidong and his two uncles used to be good, but Chen Weidong remembered that he had a quarrel with his eldest uncle and second uncle the year before and he did not go there last year.

You have to know that Chen Weidong has six daughters and his family is poor. Every time Chen Weidong goes to pay New Year's greetings, he brings a mouth. If his uncle doesn't say anything, then his aunt will definitely say a few words.

Although he didn't like his six daughters at the time, he also didn't like others saying that, especially saying that he couldn't support the children. Although this was true, the man was willing to listen. Chen Weidong also had a hot temper, so they started arguing and their relationship gradually became cold.

After eating and drinking, Chen Weidong returned home!
"Xue Ting, Dad asked me to go to my eldest and second uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings. Tomorrow our whole family will go!"

"Ah! Let's all go! Isn't it too crowded?"

Liu Xueting asked in embarrassment.

"They invited us!"

As Chen Weidong spoke, he took Xiaoliu from Liu Xueting's arms and kissed her on the face.

Xiaoliu grinned and saliva flowed out from the corners of his mouth.

"Oh, you drooling kid, you are drooling again!" Chen Weidong pinched her little face.

"You're drooling, and you're still pinching me! As a father, you're such a worry!"

Liu Xueting quickly wiped Xiaoliu's saliva.

"Ha ha!"

Afterwards, the couple sat around the fire, chatting and talking about their daily lives.

The children were talking and laughing nearby, and the scene was both cozy and warm.

The next day, Chen Weidong, Liu Xueting took their children and their elder brother and sister-in-law to visit their eldest and second uncles to wish them a happy new year.

My uncle and his family live in Xigoutun, which is more than ten miles away from Jiuqutun by mountain road.

Xigoutun is even more remote than Jiuqutun.

The mountains are high and the ridges are vast.

Transportation was inconvenient! Even donkey carts were not easy to use! Therefore, Chen Weidong and his group could only walk.

We had to walk the mountain road for more than ten miles, and it was very difficult to walk on the snowy day. The journey that was supposed to take more than two hours took almost four hours to arrive.

From afar, you can see Xigoutun located between two big mountains. Dozens of households are hidden among the trees. It looks very quiet and has the simplicity unique to rural areas.

"Dad, aren't you here yet?"

The children were tired from walking.

Chen Weidong held Liu Ni and Sini in his arms, panting and saying, "We're almost there, we'll be there once we get over this slope.

Brother and sister-in-law, let's find a dry place here and take a rest. "

"it is good!"

Chen Weihai said with a smile while carrying Wu Ni and San Ni on his back.

After resting, I walked for a while.

"Dad, how long will it take?"

Another little guy couldn't help but ask.

"We're almost there, just go over this slope." Yang Xuehua said.

As soon as they heard that they were almost there, Xiaosan, Xiaosi and Xiaowu, who were in Chen Weidong and Chen Weihai's arms, got down and walked. Chen Weidong and Chen Weihai felt a lot more relaxed.

The children cried out and chased each other, and soon reached the top of the hill. Chen Weidong repeatedly told them to slow down, but it was of no use.

The group first came to their uncle's house.

"Weidong and Weihai are here!"

"Xue Ting and Xue Hua are here too!"

When they saw Chen Weidong, Chen Weihai and their group, my uncle and aunt were very enthusiastic, as if the previous conflicts had disappeared with the passage of time.

"Happy New Year, Uncle!"

"Happy New Year, Auntie!"

"..."

Chen Weidong and the other three were also greeting them, and the little ones were also greeting them. Liu Xueting had taught them before they came, so they knew what to say.

The group first paid New Year's greetings at the eldest uncle's house, then went to the second uncle's house, and stayed at the eldest uncle's house for lunch.

(End of this chapter)