The men were in the main room checking things for the last time before departure.
Cao Bamei and Zhao Liuer entered the yard together.
As soon as she entered the door, Cao Bamei greeted everyone: "Come back after burning incense at noon, everyone counts, and you can all go to our second room for dinner."
"I have discussed it with Third Aunt and Mrs. Mo before. Today's lunch banquet will be placed in our second room,"
"Tomorrow's banquet will be held in the third room. The Mo family will wait until next year's Qingming Festival to hold the banquet!"
"Everyone remember to come, including Qing'er and the whole family!"
Everyone smiled and nodded in agreement.
During the Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family in the village visits their graves together.
Then each clan with a surname will recommend someone to hold a banquet.
To hold a banquet, you only need to meet one condition.
The condition is that the new heirs of this family in the past two years need to be "surrounded" and registered in the family tree, so a banquet is held to express love to the clan relatives.
Basically, they are all for boys, but girls are not included.
Because boys will stay at home to marry and have children to continue their family life, while girls will marry off to have children and expand their husband's family.
As for the "Weitou" banquet, men from each family are usually invited to sit down and enjoy the banquet.
The women will also go, but they will not have a formal meal. They have to wait for the men to finish eating, and the women will deal with the leftovers under the stove.
This rule has been passed down from generation to generation in Changping Village and even Shiliba Village.
But when it comes to Lao Yang's house, the rules have changed slightly.
That is, men do eat first at the main banquet.
Because women are busy serving and cooking, or taking care of the children first, even if you arrange a formal banquet for them, they won’t be able to take care of it!
However, when the men and children have finished the banquet and it is the woman's turn, she will not dig in the leftovers taken off the table by the men.
The women's portions will be prepared in advance in the kitchen and placed neatly on the table. The women can sit down easily and enjoy the fruits of their labor comfortably.
This change in rules was proposed by Yang Ruoqing a long time ago, and it was also the first to implement this rule in the Sanfang and Luo families.
There is only one reason for this, and that is power, status, and the ability to clear the way!
Today, other clan members in Changping Village still inherit the old rules of male superiority and female inferiority.
But in the old Yang clan, men and women are equal. At least when it comes to banquets, women can sit at the table with dignity.
When everyone set off, Yang Ruoqing paid special attention.
Everyone was in a good mood and did not feel sad because today was Qingming Festival.
After all, time is like an eraser. No matter how unforgettable your pain was at the beginning, as time goes by, the eraser will erase it lightly.
There is remembrance and mourning for the deceased, but the bone-cutting pain at the beginning has been repaired bit by bit with the passage of time.
However, there is still a sad face in the crowd today.
That person was none other than Old Yangtou.
Old Yang changed the smile on his face a while ago. Today, he seemed to have returned to the moment when Yang Yongxian's body was brought back on the fourth day of the first lunar month.
The sadness of a white-haired man sending a message to a black-haired man spread across his haggard old face...
This formed a very strange and contradictory contrast with the chasing and laughter of the children.
In this regard, no one deliberately stopped the children from chasing and playing.
Because the children are relatively young and at an age where they are ignorant, if you deliberately correct them, it will arouse their constant questioning.
At that time, some topics about death will be brought up again, and Old Yang will hear it, which is equivalent to peeling back his newly scabbed wound, revealing the flesh that has not yet grown inside...
But later in the mountains and in front of the grave, the adults of each family will definitely restrain their children to be serious, serious and pious for a short time.
Because the next step is tomb-sweeping, which is a time to mourn our ancestors. We can no longer play around. That would be a kind of disrespect for our ancestors.
As for the old man, everyone deliberately did not say anything to comfort him.
There are some things, the more you comfort them, the worse they will become.
Just let it be, let nature take its course, and wait until you come back from sweeping the tomb.
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A group of people ran around several hills and swept most of the tombs that needed to be swept.
Tuan Yuan sat on Xiao An's shoulders, and Yuan Yuan walked by herself.
"Sister, the physical ability of the two of them can be seen immediately, haha!" Xiao An said with a smile.
"In the future, Tuan Tuan will be a student, and Yuanyuan will let me take her to dance with swords and sticks!" Xiao An added.
He Lian'er was holding Yuanyuan beside her. When she heard this, she jumped in front of Yang Ruoqing and said with a smile: "Brother-in-law himself is the general. Even if Yuanyuan wants to practice, he must be brought there by her brother-in-law. Then she will be a little girl." General."
Xiao An said: "You don't understand this. Even if my brother-in-law is the general who protects the country, we Yuanyuan will have to practice for a year and a half before joining the army!"
"If you want to be a young general, you can't do it without some experience. However, after training, it would be good to let him be a vanguard!"
Yang Ruoqing walked on the other side of Xiao An, holding up Tuantuan's back with one hand from behind, for fear that he would fall off his uncle's shoulder.
Hearing the dispute between Xiao An and He Lian'er, Yang Ruoqing smiled in her eyes and said, "Stop fighting over each other. Yuanyuan said herself that when she grows up, she will learn to kill pigs from her uncle and grandma!"
Forehead……
The people nearby who heard this were all happy and burst into laughter.
If the son of the general who protects the country and the youngest son of Marquis Zhongyong goes to work as a butcher, he will probably be the only one in Da Liao, let alone Da Qi.
It is estimated that the storytellers in the teahouse will elaborate on this matter by then.
When the tomb sweeping was coming to an end, everyone took a rest on a platform on the top of the mountain.
I met many villagers from Changping Village and Lijia Village.
Everyone comes to visit graves in the mountains, and this platform is like a transit station.
Then, Yang Ruoqing heard someone approaching to say hello to Blacksmith Luo.
At first glance, they were the three brothers of the Li family from Lijia Village.
"Uncle Luo, come and smoke my cigarette."
Boss Li sat with Blacksmith Luo and took out the shredded tobacco from his cigarette bag to greet Blacksmith Luo.
Blacksmith Luo smiled and nodded, and the two of them smoked and chatted together.
Li Lao Er and Li Lao San were also nearby, squatting and sitting with a smile on their faces, greeting the rest of Lao Yang's family.
Because they built a four-bedroom house last time, the three brothers of the Li family became familiar with the Yang family and the Luo family. They all worked on the same homestead for more than two months in a row and often ate together, so they met each other now. When we arrive, we will definitely chat together.
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