Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

The New Year is coming, and the cold winter can't stop the enthusiasm of the villagers in Yangjia Village. Many villagers will go to the market town or the county town to purchase New Year's goods, or visit relatives and friends to give New Year's gifts.

Yang Zhengshan is no exception. This time he went to the county town to purchase New Year's goods in addition to taking Yang Mingcheng and others to study.

A whole ox cart of New Year's goods, including cloth, fur, tea, meat, etc., cost Yang Zhengshan more than 20 taels of silver.

After returning home, Yang Zhengshan immediately put the New Year's goods in order.

Some are for his own use, and some are New Year's gifts for visiting relatives and friends.

The next day, the Yang family began to send New Year's gifts. The eldest son Yang Mingcheng accompanied Wang to her mother's home, the second son Yang Mingzhi accompanied Li to her mother's home, and Yang Zhengshan took Yang Minghao to visit the village. He would give a New Year's gift to those who were older than him and older than him.

In line with the principle that more gifts are better than less, Yang Zhengshan never skimps on gifts. Of course, he will not pretend to be rich and do as much as he can with the money he has.

Giving pork and cotton cloth to each household is practical and not too cheap. In fact, Yang Zhengshan only spent three taels of silver on the gifts he gave in Yangjia Village, and the patriarch Yang Zhengxiang took the lion's share.

Of course, Yang Zhengshan must not miss his father-in-law Lu Songhe when giving New Year gifts.

The original wife is gone, so the task of visiting Lu Songhe falls on Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan personally took Yang Mingcheng, Yang Minghao and Yang Yunxue to the Lu family in Qinghe Town.

Perhaps because of Yang Zhengshan's changes during this period, perhaps because the father-in-law's knot has been untied, or perhaps both, the Lu family's attitude towards Yang Zhengshan has become more and more enthusiastic.

It happened that Lu Zhaoqi was also at home. Yang Zhengshan drank a lot of wine with the two brothers Lu Zhaoqi and Lu Zhaoran, and they all went home lying on the ox cart.

Time passed quickly, and it was New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye.

This was Yang Zhengshan's first Spring Festival since he came to this world, and the meaning was naturally different.

Speaking of which, he didn't like to celebrate festivals in his original world, because he had been celebrating the Spring Festival alone since his grandparents passed away.

Although his parents would always invite him to their home for the festival, he found himself like a superfluous person after going there, and he couldn't fit in no matter whose home it was.

Therefore, after graduating from college, he began to celebrate the Spring Festival alone, sitting alone in front of the window, watching the fireworks blooming in the night sky, looking at the children playing downstairs, recalling the beauty of childhood, and feeling the loneliness brought by the Spring Festival.

And now he looked at the whole family lively, and the loneliness in his heart suddenly disappeared.

"Dad, it's time to invite the family hall!" Yang Mingcheng came to Yang Zhengshan and said.

"Invite the family hall!" Yang Zhengshan was slightly stunned, and then reacted.

According to the customs of Yangjia Village, on New Year's Eve, the family hall axis should be set up, various kinds of wine and food should be set up, incense and paper should be burned, and the ancestors should be invited home for the New Year.

Yangjia Village is dominated by the Yang family, so every year, most of the village will join together to invite the family hall.

"Are you ready?" Yang Zhengshan looked back at the incense, candles, wine and food set out by Wang and Li.

"Yes, everything is ready. There are already many people waiting behind the village!" Yang Mingcheng said.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, stepped out of the main hall, and walked towards the back of the village.

"Uncle Zhengshan!"

"Grandpa Zhengshan!"

As soon as he arrived at the back of the village, many villagers greeted him.

Yang Zhengxiang had also arrived. Seeing Yang Zhengshan coming, he hurried forward and pulled him up the mountain.

Yangjia Village invites the family hall to the cemetery in the back mountain, where the ancestors of the Yang family are buried.

Looking back on the past, although the original body also followed the invitation of the family hall every year, he always followed behind the villagers, but now Yang Zhengxiang took him to the front.

This is also a reflection of his change in status in the Yang family.

There is no need to say more about burning incense and paper. Yang Zhengshan didn't know how many times he kowtowed before the family ceremony was over.

When he got home, his knees were already covered with a thick layer of mud.

For the New Year's Eve dinner, Wang and Li prepared a large table of food. This time it was a really large table, not just a pot of pork and cabbage.

There were chickens, fish, eggs and meat, and the quantity was large enough to fill you up.

The family had a great meal.

Wang ate with tears in her eyes, picking up food for the child while eating.

Li was the same, picking fresh and tender fish meat for the child.

"Da Ya, this is delicious!"

Yang Yunxue would never forget to take care of Wang Daya. Maybe she now regarded Wang Daya as her own sister.

Wang Daya was no longer as timid as before. Although her temperament was still a little soft, she was much more lively than before.

Yang Zhengshan sipped his wine and looked at the family with a smile. The loneliness was still there, but with so many people accompanying him, the loneliness was suppressed in his heart.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yang Zhengshan got up early and took out the red envelopes he had prepared long ago.

After breakfast, Yang Zhengshan sat in the main hall, watching the families coming to pay New Year's greetings one by one.

Starting with Yang Mingcheng, Wang held Yang Qingwan in one hand and held Yang Chengye in the other.

"Happy New Year to Dad, I wish him good health and all the best!"

"Okay, okay!" Yang Zhengshan took out the red envelopes with a smile on his face and gave one to each person.

There was not much money in the red envelopes, only one penny of silver.

But Yang Zhengshan specially prepared a silver lock for his granddaughter and put the silver lock on the little girl. The little girl grabbed the silver lock, her cute big eyes were full of curiosity, and she opened her mouth to bite it.

"Thank you, Dad!" Wang smiled with her eyes curved, and all kinds of auspicious words came out of her mouth, "I wish Dad good luck, longevity, health, and peace every year..."

After a month of study, Wang learned a lot. Although she didn't recognize all the characters, she said auspicious words fluently. I don't know if Yang Mingcheng taught her secretly.

Next was the second son Yang Mingzhi's family. Compared with Wang, Li's temperament was more gentle. She never fought or competed, and it was easy to be ignored.

But Yang Zhengshan knew that this second daughter-in-law was much smarter than the eldest daughter-in-law.

Not fighting or competing does not mean that you will suffer. The original body has always been fair and just in managing the family. What the first room has, the second room will not lack.

After Yang Zhengshan came, it was the same.

Since the head of the family can be fair, why should Li, as a daughter-in-law, fight?

This is where Li is smart. She sees clearly and thinks clearly.

Then came Yang Minghao, Yang Yunxue, Lin Zhan, and finally Wang Daya.

Wang Daya held her brother in her arms, kneeling on the ground and kowtowed hard, and the bang startled Yang Zhengshan.

"What are you doing, girl?" Yang Zhengshan quickly reached out to help her.

You can kowtow when you wish a happy new year, but why do you kowtow so hard? If you knock a hole in the ground, you have to fill it up.

When Yang Zhengshan helped her up, he found that her eyes were full of tears.

"Thank you, Master!"

Yang Zhengshan knew that she was upset, and he understood her gratitude even more.

"Okay, okay, it's New Year's Day, don't cry!"

He put the red envelope and a silver lock in Daya's arms and in the swaddling clothes.

Although Wang Daya's brother had nothing to do with him, he still treated them equally. What his granddaughter had, this little baby also had.

"I'm happy today, Master will give you a name!" Yang Zhengshan suddenly thought of Wang Daya's name.

Wang Daya is different from Lin Zhan. Lin Zhan had a father who was a scholar, so he had his own name, but Wang Daya was born in an ordinary farmer's family, and her family was not as well off as the former Yang family. Just because she was the eldest daughter, she was always called Daya Daya.

Wang Daya raised her head and said expectantly: "Master, can you help my brother choose a name?"

This girl values ​​her brother more than herself.

"All!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

He thought for a while and said: "You will be called Wang Yunqiao in the future, and this little guy will be called Wang Mingzhe."

Daya was his disciple, and should be of the same generation as Yang Yunxue, so he directly gave Daya the word "Yun". As for the word "Qiao", it was because Daya had very clever hands and was very good at sewing.

And the name Mingzhe was given after the three brothers Yang Mingcheng.

"Thank you, Master!"

Wang Daya, no, now it's Wang Yunqiao. She cried with joy and kowtowed to Yang Zhengshan again.

"Okay, okay, no more kowtows, your forehead is red!"

"Yunxue, help her up!"

Yang Zhengshan was a little helpless.

He couldn't stand this habit of kowtows all the time.