Everyone was seated. The three children were not crowded in the corner this time. They were also assigned seats. They sat together like three squirrels.
Bai Jianping opened the Big Bear wine that Zhang Tan brought and said, "Everyone, drink some, so you can sleep well."
He poured it for Teacher Jiang first. Xiaobai, who was sitting next to him, quickly said that grandma doesn’t drink. She came to help grandma drink and raised her own small bowl.
Everyone laughed. Bai Jianping pushed down her small bowl and said, "Who said grandma doesn't drink? Grandma used to be a good drinker. She brewed rice wine at home every year and was the best in the village. Is that right, Teacher Jiang?"
Grandma Jiang smiled and said nothing, comforting the worried Xiaobai.
Bai Jianping continued: "I remember that every year at the beginning of winter and spring, everyone would always go to Teacher Jiang to beg for a bowl of rice wine."
Zhang Tan asked: "Why is this?"
Bai Jianping: "Hey, it's just that habit has become a custom. In the past, it was because the rice wine brewed by Teacher Jiang was delicious, so everyone would find various excuses to ask for wine. Later, it gradually became a habit, and the habit became a custom. Everyone said,
Drinking a bowl of Teacher Jiang’s wine at the beginning of spring and winter will make you feel full of energy this year. I grew up drinking Teacher Jiang’s wine.”
Everyone praised Teacher Jiang's craftsmanship, and Teacher Jiang smiled and said that she had not made wine for many years.
Zhang Tan answered: "Why don't you brew wine anymore? Such a good craftsmanship should be passed down."
Malanhua smiled and said, "Yes, Zhang Tan is right."
After the prevarication was over, Shi Xuan asked Bai Jianping not to stop, "Hurry up and pour wine for everyone. Where are you staying? You're all waiting for dinner."
Zhang Tan realized that Ma Lanhua intentionally interrupted his question, and that Teacher Jiang really had no intention of explaining.
In the past, her son Jiang Ping was always the first to taste the wine brewed by Teacher Jiang and give her various suggestions. Jiang Ping was very talented in wine making, but unfortunately he failed in high school and was not admitted to college, so he followed his peers in the village.
Working outside, her craft of making wine fell behind. Later Jiang Ping died, and no one gave Teacher Jiang advice. When a firewood was lit at night, no one sat with her in front of the brazier to warm up the wine and drink.
People accompany her all over the world to chat.
Malanhua said: "The wine has been warmed, and it will warm your stomach when you drink it."
She said this to Tan Jin'er, but after hearing this, Teacher Jiang picked up the wine glass and took a sip. It was indeed warm.
Bai Jianping poured wine for all the adults. Everyone clinked their glasses first and then ate their food.
"hiahiahia, it's so delicious~~~Grandma, the food you cook is so delicious~~" Xi'er was the biggest cheerleader. She danced after eating two small green vegetables and praised Teacher Jiang for her good cooking.
Zhang Tan told her: "This was not done by Grandma Jiang, but by Aunt Ma."
Xi'er was stunned. As long as she was not embarrassed, others would be embarrassed, so she continued hiahiahia with a normal expression on her face, saying: "I praised the wrong person, hiahiahia, the food cooked by my aunt is so delicious~~ It's delicious.
Eat~”
Xiaobai gave Dunzi and her a piece of bangbang chicken, and reminded her that it was her who knocked it.
After three drinks, the atmosphere was lively. The children were already full and were watching TV, playing with dolls, and running around in the living room.
Zhang Tan put down the empty wine glass, picked up the Big Bear wine, poured some more for Teacher Jiang, and said: "There is a TV series, and I won a role for Xiaobai. I think she is very talented in acting, and I like it too. I can do it in the future."
Cultivating it as a hobby is very good for training people. Do you think it’s okay? It might delay some kindergarten studies.”
Just as Bai Jianping was about to speak, Ma Lanhua stepped on him under the table and immediately shut his mouth knowingly.
He and Malanhua absolutely supported it, and Zhang Tan knew this, so this question was actually not about them, but about Teacher Jiang.
Teacher Jiang said: "You must be doing it for her own good. Just think about it. I don't have any objection."
Seeing that she agreed, Bai Jianping secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He now works on the crew and supports Xiaobai's participation in acting. All three of their family have acted before, and she is still the number one supporting actress.
Malanhua picked up her wine glass, clinked it with Teacher Jiang, and said with some sigh: "Xiao Bai has suffered a lot with us. I worry all the time that she will be uneducated in the future, causing her to be like me and Lao Bai, living in a big city.
Live as an illiterate and do jobs that others don’t want to do.”
Teacher Jiang took over and said: "It's not easy for you. It's nothing for Xiaobai to suffer a little with you. At least there are people who love and take care of you..."
When Zhang Tan heard this topic, he didn't know what to say. He only felt heavy and guilty.
Dunzi's mother raised her glass and said, "Oh, if we don't talk about such a heavy topic, the hard days are all in the past. Now isn't the end of all the hardships easy? Life is sweet and sweet, Sister Ma, everyone in the village envy you."
"What do you envy me for?"
"You have become a grandma. Xiaoqiang has the ability to get married and settle in a big city. From now on, he will be a city dweller, which is very enviable. And Xiaobai, both appeared on TV. The whole village gathered together to watch your TV series that day.
, the Chinese New Year is not so lively. Look, isn’t this life sweet? You should sing a cheerful song for everyone to hear."
Malanhua waved her hands sheepishly and said she couldn't sing.
"Don't be embarrassed. Teacher Jiang, tell me, did Sister Ma sing very well when she was young?"
When she was young, Malanhua was a good girl from ten miles and eight villages near Baijia Village. She was beautiful, with long and strong legs. She was cheerful and generous. She was a hard-working person who took care of all the work at home and in the fields.
She also has another talent: she is gifted with a loud voice and can sing folk songs loudly and beautifully, which others cannot sing.
Teacher Jiang said: "One time, the leaders of the county education bureau went to the countryside to collect music. He heard her singing and brought her to the county. She sang in the courtyard and recorded her singing. I saved a copy of the tape.
It's just that many places have been demagnetized and cannot be broadcast, which is a pity."
Malanhua said with a smile: "What a pity, the singing is just like that. If it was really good, they wouldn't give me 100 yuan to go back."
When she was young, most of the time she never thought that she could become famous through singing. For her, singing was just a hobby, a ray of light and a splash of color in her ordinary life.
But that time, it was the first and only time that she felt that her dream was so close to her, as if she could reach out and pull it off with a little effort and bring it from the dream to reality.
But, in the end, dreams are just dreams.
She still remembered the afternoon when she left the county town that year, and when she walked home, the sky was full of stars, as if countless pairs of eyes were looking at her.
In the days to come, she often thought of what the old female leader said. She told her that the county originally wanted to recommend her to join the song and dance troupe, but there were already more people and there was no shortage. There was no quota, so she was asked to go back first.
Let her know when there are vacancies in the future.
She waited for two years without any news. She couldn't wait any longer, so she once secretly went to the county seat and guarded the female leader. She cried all the way home that day.
Suddenly a childish singing voice sounded in the house:
"Malanhua~~Malanhua~~~are not afraid of wind and rain, please bloom now~~~"
Malanhua followed the sound and saw Xiaobai standing on the sofa, singing loudly with his hands raised in the air, and couldn't help but said angrily: "Gua Wa Zi, you sing like a hammer!!! I will open your ass!!! You melon
Baby, silly boy!!!"
"Run quickly~ Auntie is so fierce~~"
Xiaobai was afraid of being beaten, so he laughed and ran into the bedroom. Xi'er and Dunzi followed him laughing with their dolls in their arms.
Being disturbed like this, Malanhua immediately stopped thinking about the bad things in the past. She picked up the wine glass on the table and drank a full glass in one sip. After drinking, she kept coughing and her face turned red. She calmed down and said angrily.
: "Hammer! Bai Jianping! When did you fill it up for me???"