There is Room for Rebirth in the 1950’s

Compared with the capital, the weather in Zhangjia Village in the northeast of Zhangjia Village, thousands of miles away, is even more severe. At night, there is no ghost shadow on the road, let alone the small New Year’s Eve that night when the houses are closed to worship the Kitchen God.

According to legend, the Kitchen Lord was originally a star in the sky. Because of a mistake, he was demoted to the world by the Jade Emperor and became the "East Kitchen Commander".

Sitting in the kitchen stoves of various households, he recorded how people lived and behaved. Every year on the twenty-fourth of the twelfth lunar month, the stove prince would go to heaven to report the good and evil of the family to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor would reward and punish him.Therefore, people will worship the stove on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month to send the kitchen god to heaven.

Zhangjiacun is located in the north of China. It is different from the south where the twenty-fourth of the twelfth lunar month is the new year's eve.

The custom of "men do not worship the moon and women do not worship the stove", so offering sacrifices to the stove king is limited to men.

In the kitchen, Father Zhang drove away the women and children, took out a statue of the Stove Lord from his underwear pocket, and put it respectfully on the front of the stove, saying no wonder.

On a table set in front of the stove, four kinds of candy, water, beans, and moss were placed on the table, and another toffee melted with fire and stuck to the mouth of the stove king.

Originally, a few years ago, Guandongtang was still used to stick the mouth of the Stove Lord, so that it would not speak bad words from the Jade Emperor, but also deliberately to make Stove King’s mouth sweet and just speak good things.

But Father Zhang thinks that gods are also humans, and he likes toffee more than Guandongtang.Since Lord Stove can be sweet, you must use the best.

I didn't see that since Zhang's family started using toffee, the better this day is.For this, he has privately told the two old brothers since last year that they must use toffee.

Whether Uncle Zhang believes them or not, most people are still unwilling to tell!

Father Zhang led the two brothers Zhang Guofu to kneel on the ground and knocked three times. He stood up and took off the statue of Lord Stove and set it alight together with the grass horse, and kowtow in prayer while burning.

After completing the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god, Zhang father motioned his wife to bring his daughter-in-laws in and clean up the mess.Even if each family tacitly secretly worships, it may not be conspicuous in front of outsiders, it is better to have less trouble.

In the hall, Father Zhang sat cross-legged on the kang, took out the long pipe, took out the tobacco leaf from the basket, lighted it and took a deep breath, half-squinted his eyes and slowly spit out.

"Father, comfortable?"

Zhang Guofu smiled with joy as he watched his second brother winking and punching his father on the back.

"Yes, you'll keep beating tonight."

Hearing this, Zhang Guofu couldn't help laughing anymore.

"Father, in the next year, your two elders are really going to the capital? Still don't go, my eldest brother and I are both in the county seat, and I can discuss things with you and my mother if I have something. Far away, our brothers can only catch blindly."

Zhang Guofu shook his head in disapproval: "You can't go, Jiaojiao is happy, no one in our house is there, it's not good-looking. Dad, you will come back after staying with your mother for a few days."

"Big brother, do you think this time is the same as last time, you can come back after staying for a week? Our family wrote to ask if there was any shortage of food, how is my father and mother's body, and how good is the capital? I see. , This time there hasn’t been two or three years in the past, and I will not be able to return home."

Father Zhang remembered what the old son said in his letter to himself that the hutong yard could see the palace in the room, and what little grandson would be unkind without him, and grinned.

"Father, don't worry about laughing. Do you think about what's in the capital? We still have your old brother in the village, and you have a bunch of old friends in the county. What do you have to go to the capital?"

Zhang Guofu heard that his parents are going to live permanently, that's not okay!He was silent for a while and looked at Father Zhang blankly: "Father, you still don't go, let my mother go, take a look at Jiaojiao and come back."

Father Zhang gave him a blank look.

"Hey, let the second younger siblings go with my mother."

"No. She's almost the same as the sister-in-law. Don't go mother, father, go! Then you will say that you are worried about your mother. As long as your mother does not go to the capital, Xiao Wu dare not keep you."

Father Zhang was worried that the two daughters-in-law would hear it, and stared at him: "What nonsense! We have discussed it. After the first month, your mother will bring your daughter-in-law, and the three of them will come to Beijing. Wait for Jiaojiao to have a baby soon,

Zhang Lao Er frowned.What are you doing here?There is no lock on his mouth, and he will talk nonsense when he comes back.And his sister-in-law, although it seems to have changed now, no one can guarantee it.

Daddy Zhang is so mature, how can he not see that the two sons disagree.But what Jiaojiao said is reasonable, she should show some muscles for others to show, and she can't hide it.

The first two daughter-in-laws have a temperament, as I know it.It happened to be brought over for Jiaojiao to train a few hands, to see the sperm of those people in the capital, so as not to be implicated in her son.

"Father, I'll see if the eldest sister can invite her to the holiday and let her accompany my mother."

Father Zhang blanked his second son and said, "Let Old Zhang take care of the house? Your eldest sister can't leave. She must take care of the house. Your brother-in-law is good, but she doesn't advocate."

"Where is the second sister?"

Father Zhang shook his head: "The married girl throws out the water. She has her little family and the child is still young."

The two brothers Zhang Guofu looked at Father Zhang in surprise.You must know that his father treats their five siblings equally, but there is no patriarchal thought.

Father Zhang hesitantly knocked on the long pipe and whispered: "I plan to let your mother take your daughter-in-law to meet the world. Only when this person sees more danger and knowledge, can she not dare to live with her temper."

The two brothers Zhang Guofu looked at each other.

"Looking back when I wrote a letter to Xiaowu, he understood what I meant. In addition to a man, a family must be able to stand up, but must also have a wife who is sensible and knows how to score. Only in this way can the days become more prosperous."

When Father Zhang finished speaking, he closed his mouth and said nothing.Some things can only be realized by them, and it is useless to say too much.

At night, Mother Zhang blew the light in the main bedroom, and she was lying on the kang beside her wife, thinking of the surprise and happy faces of the two daughters-in-law, feeling a little uneasy.

"Daddy, do you want to discuss this idea with Xiaowu first?"

Dad Zhang heard the words and smiled: "No, your old son will be able to guess his plan with his heart as long as he learns that you are taking his two sister-in-laws."

"Then Jiaojiao, do you want to say hello to her first? I'm worried that this child is stupidly ignorant of the possession of his family and will dig out everything."

"No. Except for our couple, she can't trust outsiders."

"Yes. I'm just worried that these two will raise moths."

"Some time ago, Brother Aguang told me that the wind would rise again. I am not worried about the children we have, but worry about these two daughter-in-laws. In the past, you asked Jiaojiao to suppress the thoughts of these two people for me, especially the old people. ."

"The more you talk, the more mysterious you are. You should go together. I'm worried about it."

Father Zhang patted his wife, "I can't walk away in the first month. The village has been busy for a long time. Seeing it is almost over, I have to keep an eye on what happens next. This matter is your old son secretly leading the village. , I have to watch don’t let him get involved.

And you also asked Xiao Wu this time in the past, what should the school do after having a child?It's really not possible. We might have to go and take care of our little grandson. No matter how careful the servants are, it can be compared to looking at the children ourselves."

Seeing her wife say so, Zhang's mother did not persuade her.My wife has an account in her heart. As for what the account is, she doesn't understand it, just let him arrange it.