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Most of the New Year goods that Xu Tongdao brought back were for food.

Before he came back today, although he didn't ask what food he bought at home, based on his understanding of his mother, he concluded that his mother's frugal temperament must have been bought for the New Year.

With his current income, it doesn't matter if he eats or drinks during the New Year. It's just a drop in the bucket.

No, he bought three kinds of melon seeds in the car today, pistachios, raisins, candied fruit, etc., each of which was bought by the catty.

I also bought a pork leg, a lamb leg, and ten kilos of beef.

I also bought a bunch of other dry goods.

In addition, I bought a new set of clothes and shoes for each of my mother, younger brother, and younger sister.

Anyway, he bought everything he could think of.

As a result, seeing the things he brought back from the car, his whole family felt that they had bought too much.

Xu Tonglu, who came to help move things, saw the pile in the car and was stunned.

Ge Yuzhu came to help move things, and saw a lot of things in the car, and said in surprise: "Brother, why do you buy so much? How can we finish eating so much? Mom bought Chinese New Year dishes."

When Ge Xiaozhu came out of the kitchen, seeing so many things Xu Tongdao had bought back, he couldn't help complaining that he was spending money and buying too much.

Xu Tongdao just laughed, just said: "Not much! Not much!"

He thinks that the meaning of making money is to make the whole family happy.

Otherwise, why do you desperately make money?

If you can’t buy more things during the holidays, when should you buy them?

It is the wish of many people to live a fat year. He feels that the New Year will be a fruitful and can make the whole family feel happy, or at least satisfied.

And this kind of happiness and satisfaction can change the mental state of everyone in the family.

It will make them feel that this home has finally gotten up.

It can give them hope for the future.

It was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon.

If it's normal, it's not too late after three o'clock in the afternoon.

But today is New Year’s Eve, at around three o’clock, some people’s New Year’s Eve dinner may be almost finished. This is not an exaggeration. In Xu Tongdao’s impression, every New Year’s Eve, at more than three in the afternoon, some people always finish the New Year’s Eve dinner early. , And then...play mahjong.

Especially those people who have the habit of gambling money, they always eat early every year's New Year's Eve dinner, in order to finish it early and go out early to find a poker table to start work.

Just now Xu Tongdao drove into the village, and saw that many people's doors were closed tightly, all of them were eating New Year's Eve dinner.

Therefore, when he and his younger brother and younger sister just moved home the new year goods in the car, his mother Ge Xiaozhu urged him to sacrifice to his ancestors.

The ancestor worship is over before the New Year's Eve dinner can be held.

Xu Tongdao is very familiar with the ancestor worship process.

Because before he was reborn, he had been responsible for ancestor worship for many years. Since his father disappeared, he has been responsible for ancestor worship in the family every year.

Lift the table of the Eight Immortals in the main room to the middle of the main room, and put the dishes for ancestor worship on the table of the Eight Immortals with mother, younger brother, and sister, and put tableware and wine glasses on the table...

Fill each wine glass with wine, put a little dish in each bowl, and chant a word, greet the ancestors to go home for dinner and drink.

Then he knocked his head, he took the lead and finished, his brother followed, and finally his sister.

After gnawing his head, go out to set off firecrackers, burn paper money...

Light incense.

This set of procedures is repeated three times before the ancestor worship this year has been completed.

These are what he learned from his father's ears and ears since he was a child.

The cooked one cannot be cooked again.

But it was precisely because he was so familiar with this set that when the three brothers and sisters came to burn the paper money outside the gate, Xu Tonglu and Ge Yuzhu both raised questions.

Ge Yuzhu: "Brother, this is your first ancestor worship! Why are you so skilled?"

Xu Tonglu: "When I sacrificed my ancestors last year, I forgot to light incense, and my mother said it all night. Why do you remember everything?"

"Because you are careless!"

Xu Tongdao casually went over.

...

When the family ate the New Year's Eve dinner together, the dishes on the table were not what Xu Tongdao expected. Although there were a lot of dishes, there were not many hard dishes.

Mother's frugality was evident at the New Year's Eve dinner.

The most valuable dish is a pot of chicken soup.

Followed by braised pork ribs.

It's a braised fish again.

Moreover, according to the local custom, the braised fish on the New Year's table is not allowed to move the chopsticks after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Xu Tongdao frowned, but he was the son of the New Year's Eve, and he couldn't be called the mother.

He smiled and poured alcohol for his younger brother, and asked his sister to pour a drink for his mother, asking everyone to eat and drink more.

This was his first reunion year with his family after he was reborn. He didn't rush back for the New Year's Eve last year.

So this year's New Year's Eve dinner, he has a mixed taste.

There is emotion, satisfaction, and more happiness.

The smile on her sister Ge Yuzhu's face is the most tonight. Although the light shines on her dark skin, her brilliant smile makes Xu Tongdao feel that she is beautiful tonight.

In fact, he always thinks that his sister is very beautiful, except for the darker skin, there are no other shortcomings.

The younger brother Xu Tonglu also had a faint smile on his face tonight. Although he still didn't talk much, the hostility between his eyebrows was obviously weakened.

This kid has been rebellious since he was a child. Since his father disappeared, the hostility between his eyebrows has always followed him, but tonight, the hostility on his face seems to be the least.

Mother also has a small smile on her face tonight.

She didn't eat much, and she would pick him up with vegetables for a while, and then for Xu Tonglu and Ge Yuzhu. She looked at the three children on the table, and she seemed a little dazed.

I don't know what she is thinking.

Xu Tongdao had many eyes and noticed the abnormality of his mother. He also noticed that his mother's eyes glanced at the vacant side of the Eight Immortal Table from time to time.

The table is fine, not broken.

What is vacant is that there are no people sitting on that side.

Xu Tongdao knew why she would look at the side where no one was sitting from time to time.

Their family was originally a family of four. Every year during the Chinese New Year, the Eight Immortals table sits on all four sides, one on each side, neatly arranged, and very complete.

But his father was missing, and this table of Eight Immortals was dissatisfied.

He wanted to say a few words to his mother. When the words came to his lips, he swallowed it back~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Today is New Year's Eve after all, so I can't talk about unhappy topics.

He held it back, but when everyone was about to eat well, his mother Ge Xiaozhu did not hold it back. She sighed, looked at the vacant side, and said softly: "It's a pity! Xiaodao can make money now, what if... How great!"

She was unclear about what she said, but Xu Tongdao, Xu Tonglu, and Ge Yuzhu all understood.

The expressions of the three of them were different, and the chopsticks in their hands stopped.

"Mom, do you miss dad?"

Ge Yuzhu asked softly, feeling a little depressed.

After asking, he looked at Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglu worriedly.

The smile on Xu Tongdao's face disappeared, and his brows frowned slightly.

The one who reacted the most was Xu Tonglu. The kid raised his eyes to his mother Ge Xiaozhu, then looked at him coldly for a few seconds, then suddenly slapped his chopsticks on the table, and said angrily: "Mom! Why are you mentioning him? What's wrong with our family now? He did that kind of ugly thing, do you still miss him? Do you have any blood?"