The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and Song Qiu is busy preparing Mid-Autumn Festival gifts for each family.
Not many people want to give gifts.
Just the Yuan and Hu families, the Li family, and other families in the village, as well as Song Wenzhi.
It’s an old rule for every family in the village. Your family will give you mooncakes, his family will give you persimmons, and my family will give you pomegranates. It’s a small gift but a heavy affection, and that’s what it means.
The Song family's life in the village is now the best. Song Qiu plans to give the same holiday gifts to every family in the village this year, two packages of moon cakes and a basket of persimmons.
Don't give too heavy a gift, so as not to put pressure on others to reciprocate. Reciprocity is the only way to maintain lasting affection.
The Yuan family, the Hu family and the Lihua family, as well as Song Wenzhi's family, all have the same six gifts, moon cakes, osmanthus wine, tea, persimmons, bean paste and red oil.
Zhuangzi went up to the top of the mountain and there were many persimmon trees. He harvested so many persimmons that he couldn't even give them away as gifts. Song and Qiu planned to make the rest into persimmon cakes and save them for future festivals to give as gifts.
The return gifts from several families were similar. One of them was Song Wenzhi, who actually sent a basket of big crabs.
When Song Qiu received the gift, he couldn't help drooling. Eating crabs during the Mid-Autumn Festival was the perfect occasion, but it was a pity that ordinary people couldn't get such big crabs here.
After finally getting a basket, Song Qiu couldn't wait to eat it.
Both the workshop and the village had a day off and everyone was asked to go home for the holiday.
The inn is not closed, and it welcomes guests when there are guests. Even if there are no guests, you can enjoy the festival lively.
As for Shunzi and Huang Qi, they also asked them all to go back to Zhuangzi and gather together to celebrate the festival. Perhaps this will be the last time they all celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together in a lively manner. By this time next year, they will probably have dispersed.
It is difficult to gather people from all over the place in a short period of time.
They themselves knew it, so as soon as Song Qiu shouted, they gathered happily and returned to Zhuangzi.
Mid-Autumn Festival brings reunion and joy to the whole family.
Early in the morning, Songshan Village was bustling with activity. Every household was busy celebrating the festival. This year, life has been mostly easy. I won’t talk about it in normal times. It’s rare to celebrate a festival, but we have to organize it well.
This family killed chickens, that family killed ducks, his family killed rabbits, and my family cut pork. It was very noisy.
The Li family also returned to the village to celebrate the festival.
The yard of the Zhang family was still occupied. When Zhang Hugua and his family came back, they naturally went directly to the Li family. Today they spent the festival with Li Donggua and the others at the Li family. After all, the old mother was there.
Not only them, because the Li and Song families have become in-laws, and you won’t marry me, they agreed that the two families will become one family, and it will be more lively to spend New Years and holidays together. Although they have not officially gotten married this year, they have decided to do so.
Dear, just think of it as adapting in advance. Besides, you are not an outsider, but a close neighbor for decades.
So Song Qiu and the others had already agreed on their birthdays. They would celebrate the festival at Li's house at noon and at Song's house in the evening. After dinner, they could eat moon cakes and admire the moon together in the big garden, which was also convenient.
Therefore, in the big kitchen at noon today, we only have to prepare meals for Aunt Song and the servants. Old Yuan and Aling from Song Qiu are going to the Li family for dinner.
Li family.
The two sisters-in-law, Chen and Miao, were busy in the kitchen, with Lihua and Zaohua also helping out.
The Li family is now living a prosperous life, no worse than the Song family in Songshan Village. This is a rare Mid-Autumn Festival, and the three families are spending it together, so they are naturally well prepared.
Although the cooking skills of Chen and Miao are not as good as those of Song and Qiu, they are still good at preparing meals among ordinary women.
I was willing to add oil and seasonings, and also used bean paste and red oil. The dishes on the table were also extremely rich.
As early as after the two families got engaged, Li Donggua thought that there would be less time for so many people to eat in the future, so he deliberately followed Song Qiu's suggestion and built a large round table with his own hands.
The round table is so big that it can easily seat more than a dozen people in a circle.
Li Yang, Li Donggua and Zhang Hugua wanted to drink osmanthus wine. Old Yuan and Old Deng knew how to drink it and joined in the fun, while the others drank fruit wine that was not intoxicating.
Let's all raise a glass and have a drink, and celebrate the festival happily.
Then he moved his chopsticks and started eating.
I don’t know whether the wine is too intoxicating, or people just want to get drunk. After a few glasses of wine, Zhang Hugua opened his mouth. After a while, he hugged Li Donggua and grinned and talked about how wonderful the good life is now, and then said with red eyes how he used to be.
They are such different things. I cry for my unkind father, and I cry for my unkind pumpkins and sweet potatoes. The good family members have become separated into different parts of the world today.
After a while, he pulled Li Yang and cried non-stop: "Uncle, I'm sorry for you! I used to hear that... I bought rat poison and wanted to poison you! My uncle is just a bastard. It's a shame that you don't care about me.
Running around for our family of four saved our family from being exiled, and we can now sit here neatly and celebrate the festival!"
"My uncle owes you, my second brother and my second sister-in-law all my life. Don't worry, my uncle will work hard to earn money, live a down-to-earth life, and will never do that bastard thing again."
, there is no use for my uncle, just tell him to go east, he will never go west!"
By the end of the talk, the people who were rambling on seemed confused and didn't know what they were talking about. In short, they were crying so hard that they couldn't even watch.
In the end, everyone had almost eaten, but he still held Li Donggua in his arms and refused to let him go, insisting that he and his second brother get drunk before they could stop.
Everyone who listened and saw clearly shook their heads and laughed.
Miao's eyes were red in the process, and she held a glass of wine to honor old Deng and then Yuan. She also thanked Chen, Li Yang and Song Qiu.
After eating the meal for more than an hour, the food on the table was already cold.
Everyone was filled with emotion after eating this meal.
After one year, there have been earth-shaking changes.
Fortunately, it is getting better and better, and it will be even better in the future.
It's just that Old Deng thought about her incompetent eldest son, third son, and grandchildren. I wonder if they have reached the place of exile alive? Are they living well?
Also a little sad.
This person just can't take the wrong path. He will make a wrong step and make a mistake every step of the way. If he makes a mistake to the end, he can't look back!
It's a pity that we can't look back on the past. All we can do is cherish the people in front of us.
Old Mrs. Deng looked at the snot and tears that had accumulated in his eyes from crying like a child. He couldn't help but curl his lips in disgust, but there was a smile in his eyes.
What she is most fortunate about now is that she decided to give her youngest son another chance at that time. It would be best if he could win over him, but he would still die if he could not.
Fortunately, it was overturned.
So now, she can have one more son by her side.
Old Yuan, who was sitting next to her, put his hand on hers and patted her gently.
Old Mrs. Deng turned to look at her, "Every gain must come with a loss. People should be content. This is great."
Mr. Yuan nodded, "We are all blessed when we are content with what we have. We should take good care of ourselves and strive to live a few more years. When our great-grandson calls us grandma!"
"This is a good thing, I'll wait for you! Relax, let's all live a good life and live like an old goblin!"
Old Mrs. Deng suddenly burst out laughing. Two old ladies, you hold me tightly and I hold you tightly. They have gone through many ups and downs for more than 30 years. They are not sisters, but they have become more than relatives.