The leisurely life of rebirth

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, tofu is grinded to make a paste in some places, but there is ready-made tofu in the store. Grandma can just fry it. Nowadays, most people don’t need to make a paste, but grandma bought some flowers and pasted them with the word "Fu" on them.

Dad, Mom went to the city yesterday and didn't come back. When Fang Monan came back from the city today, she felt that the atmosphere between the two of them was strange, as if they were quarreling.

Fang Monan stepped forward and pulled his mother's hand, "Mom, what's wrong?"

My mother's face was so grim, and my father was obviously standing next to him with a fawning look on his face, but he didn't see his mother's face getting any better.

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

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

"I have something else to ask your dad." Mom explained, stepping on the stone steps, and entered the house angrily.

The father looked at his daughter who was blinking and waiting for the answer, and smiled stupidly, "Haha... I went to grandpa's house yesterday. My aunt looked good and wanted to... leave." His voice was hoarse, his throat was swollen and sore, he was sniffing clear water and running nose, and he used a handkerchief from time to time.

Scratch.

"Dad, you have a cold." Fang Monan thought and guessed what was going on. Huh! The whole family feeds unfamiliar dogs, so only the father is so stupid and filial.

After my grandfather moved from the countryside to the city, he disliked the rural grandmother for being uneducated, uneducated, and unworthy of his background as a commercial bureau cadre. He left his grandmother at home, who was about to give birth, and his mother came forward to claim divorce. In fact,

Just take a break.

At that time, we agreed to provide the child with living expenses every month, but in that era of scarcity, she could not have enough to eat, not to mention that my grandfather married a wife and had children, so of course it was just an empty promise. Grandma just took the child to high school by herself, until she graduated from high school.

When my body couldn't support it anymore, I told my father about my grandfather and asked him to find his father, hoping that for the sake of his children, he would stay in the city. Not long after, my grandmother passed away.

My father, who lives with his grandfather, is naturally a thorn in others' eyes and a thorn in their flesh. He always reminds the subsequent hostess that she is a second marriage. Since my father has graduated from high school and is an adult, he can go out to work and get paid. It's not that cheap.

, when you go out to work, you have to pay monthly living expenses to your family.

A simple and poor boy from the countryside has just seen the colorful world in the city and has a 'rich and powerful' father. His thoughts and senses are impacted. The most important thing is that the missing father's love has been filled.

You can imagine how grateful you are when your rural registered permanent residence was converted to urban registered permanent residence. Even when you were bullied, you still endured it silently and suffered.

"Dad, you also have a family. You are now the bread and butter of our family." Fang Monan took out a bottle of medicine and gave it to him, "Put it in your mouth." Then she left. She had to comfort the old man.

Mom went.

"What do you mean?" Dad took the medicine bottle, opened it, and swallowed a pill. It was cold and cold, and his throat suddenly felt much better, and his body felt much lighter.

"It means that when your wife and children are bullied, you have to stand up and protect them. Silly boy." Mr. Lin came over and said. "Let's go! Tell me what happened when you go into the house. You will be happy when you come back.

His face is as straight as 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 my mother entered the house, she began to complain about the experience of her husband's family, "They think there are too few vegetables and they are not enough to fill the gap between teeth. Do you have to be sincere in giving them? The snacks are leftovers picked by others and given to the beggars. He doesn't

Help me to speak! She also nodded and said yes."

Grandma was glad that she didn't tell her daughter about her granddaughter's bankbook. If she had known about it, her son-in-law would have known about it, and they might have given it to her as a memorial.

"Okay, Dayan, don't be angry. Stepmothers are like this, so don't be picky. The etiquette is in place and you just need to have a clear conscience." Grandma handed her a cup of hot water and warmed her hands. "When I got married, I didn't know

There will be today, why are you still angry?"

"I'm angry at his inaction. I didn't grow up with them. He went back after he became independent. How can the relationship be so deep? As for being so soft-hearted? In a filial family, people can't treat him as a family member. He

Why don't you understand that if you have a stepmother, you have a stepfather?" My mother said angrily.

"What happened to your clothes?" Grandma asked.

"Don't mention the clothes. I should have known they were in tatters. I went there wearing new clothes, and my sister-in-law saw it and told me that it looked good and wanted to try it. But I put it on, went to the big yard to show off, and came back with a few dirty fingerprints.

He said he would keep it for a while and give it to me next time we go there." My mother's hands trembled angrily, "This is a meat bun that beats a dog and never comes back. I don't want to take it back again. His dad was stunned.

He didn't even fart. The two of us just came out. We were shivering in the cold in the winter. He gave me his coat to wear. He got cold and sick. He deserves it. Let's see who feels sorry for him."

"Okay, Mom, we're making a new one, it's better-looking than that one." When Fang Monan came in, he heard his mother's loyal and cruel words, "They don't feel bad, but we still feel bad! They don't regard their father as a father.

As a member of our own family, can we also throw dad out? This matter needs to be considered in the long run."[

"Let's work together to figure out how to change dad's thinking and treat the disease from the root." Fang Monan said, otherwise the things in the previous life will continue to happen, and we will have to dig deep and hard, and in the end we will not be able to let go. It is better to live a prosperous life.

Mentally he is still a dwarf.

The three of them, two older and one younger, worked together to change their father. In Mr. Lin's room, his father also complained about his grievances.

"No matter what, he is still an elder, and he is also my father. It is the father's fault that the son does not speak up." Dad said in a hoarse voice.

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

Dad looked at him, worried, "Yeah!" and nodded.

"You feel that since you came from the countryside, you feel inferior to them, don't you? Farmers are very embarrassed, right? You have been fascinated by the colorful world in the city. You look down on your own origin. Even your own mother is ashamed of you.

Mention it, or even look down upon it. Or maybe you hope to grow up in the city." Mr. Lin did not directly criticize his elders, but directly talked about his inferiority complex deep in his heart.

"I didn't, that was my dad." Dad's argument was weak and vulnerable.

"You just said that it's the father's fault if the son doesn't speak up. Then you've also heard that it's the father's fault if he doesn't teach him. Think about it carefully." Mr. Lin said seriously: "I regard Nannan as my own granddaughter.

, so I treat you as one of my own. I say some words that you don’t like to hear, even harsh words. The grudges of their previous generation can be put aside after death and don’t care about it. Just live a good life. Your mother didn’t let you

To resent them. But you should not lose your backbone as a person. Your mother had the backbone to raise you independently. You should not feel inferior and cowardly in front of them. The children she raised should not be so bad or so easy.

Be tempted."

"What's wrong with farmers' sons? If you go back a few generations, everyone is born as a farmer." Mr. Lin said with a smile.

"You are also married and 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 Dad and Mom was over. I don’t know if Mr. Lin’s persuasion had any effect. Anyway, Dad tried his best to please Mom. Fang Monan didn’t see if Mom was really not angry anymore.

We can only wait for time to test it.

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Liang Zi closed the store door and hurried to Fang Monan's house.

Fang Monan gave Liang Zi three large cardboard boxes, "These belong to you, Skinny Monkey, and Fatty. It's Chinese New Year, so I'll give you some New Year's goods, but they're not much, so don't dislike them!"

After Liang Zi opened a box, there was a chicken, a duck, a fish, two pounds of meat, tomatoes, spinach, beans, leeks, etc. It was estimated that the other two boxes were the same.

"How can we want this Nan Nan?" Liang Zi's eyes were red, he was so moved that he didn't know what to say, and he secretly decided to do it well.

"There's nothing I can't ask for, but some food! Don't big state-owned factories also give out welfare during the Chinese New Year!"

Fang Monan's box, "Take it away, don't act like a girl." She added: "Don't open the store tomorrow, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, I'm very tired these days, take a good rest and recharge your batteries.

We’ll have a big fight next year.”

"No, my mother will buy the New Year's goods at home! I guess Shouhou and Fatty don't want to go out of business and want to sell more before the New Year." Liang Zi declined, "I can buy more goods when I go to Yangcheng next year."

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

Liang Zi held three big boxes, feeling filled with emotion and thinking a lot. If he hadn't met her, his eyes would still be gloomy.

Fang Monan didn't think as much as he did, he just felt that there were too many animals in the space to consume, so it was better than this.[

On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the New Year's meat is cut and people start buying New Year's goods from this day. In rural areas, this day is the big market day. People from the villages around the market go to the market to buy New Year's goods, cigarettes, wine, fish, meat, etc.

Firecrackers and gifts for visiting relatives are also indispensable, and the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger.

Their new year's meat had not yet been cut, so when Dachengzi came to get the seedlings, he brought a pig that he had fed at home. After killing it, he got a hind leg, which weighed more than thirty kilograms. The meat alone was probably not enough to eat.

, the whole family is a meat tiger.

Before Dachengzi left, Fang Monan told him that if the corn stalks were gone, they would probably rot in the wind and sun during the winter. Just use meadow seeds or straw mats. After hearing this, he didn't even bother to eat.

, and left. When I returned home, I replaced the rotten corn stalks with straw mats, tidied up the vegetable plot, and applied farmyard manure to make the vegetables grow better. People in the village followed suit and wanted to increase their income.

He didn't hide anything. The family was busy inside and outside. The men were busy planting vegetables, while the women took on the responsibility of buying new year's goods. They had no time to waste time. Their village was now so busy that they couldn't even touch the ground.

Dachengzi brought the meat, and grandma led the family to separate the meat and began to chop the dumpling fillings. The extra meat began to fry meatballs, shredded radish vegetarian balls, and steamed jujube steamed buns.

The remaining large bones and meat were not shaved off, so they were chopped into sections and stir-fried in hot water to wash away the blood in a steamed bun pot at home. Then put in cold water and add onions, ginger, garlic, pepper, star anise, and astragalus.

, wolfberry, jujube, salt, cook over high heat.

After it was cooked, they held the big bones in their hands and chewed them until Fang Menan and the others had their mouths full of oil. It was so fragrant!

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

"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 hesitant and hesitant, so he rarely interrupted. "The more children like this, the harder it is to educate them. They are precocious, sophisticated, and even...

Perseverance. With this kind of quality, she will have great power in whichever direction she goes. But only she can decide her direction. Dayan, I see that every time you come here, Nannan always surrounds you secretly, with eyes full of

It's attachment, you should stay with her whenever you have nothing to do!" Mr. Lin said.

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

According to traditional folk customs, people should bathe and do laundry intensively during these two days to get rid of the bad luck of the year and prepare for the coming New Year. There is a proverb in Beijing that "wash away guilt at twenty-seven and wash away sloppiness at twenty-eight." Bathing takes place on the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.

To "wash fortune and fortune".

In the past two days, Fang Monan put the hot spring water in the space into a large tank in the kitchen, allowing the family to wash themselves. In fact, they usually use hot spring water to bathe. However, they wash less often, and this time the water

More is enough.

Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster (slaughter the stove chicken); twenty-eight, make the noodles; twenty-nine, steam the steamed buns; Fang Monan, a powerful kitchen, was here, so grandma had a lot of leisure and worked continuously for several months.

Let’s take a break during the Chinese New Year. Grandma and Fang Monan are busy making food in the kitchen. In fact, sometimes the Chinese New Year is more tiring than working, but everyone is still looking forward to the Chinese New Year and reunion.

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