Parenting is a word I learned in TV series. Refers to the newlyweds returning to their parents' home. It is by no means "a chicken in the left hand, a duck in the right hand and a fat doll in the arms" sung by the northeast people. Go back to your mother's house.
On the third day of Xinyang people's wedding, it is a happy day for the woman to take the man and return to her family with four gifts.
Xinyang people have a saying, "the gift is high, and you can't afford it after eating it."
We got married according to custom, not according to custom, and accomplished the great events we like in life. The next day, I saved the day and visited the "World Architecture Expo" in Jigongshan. Returning from the third grade is also a happy event, which is naturally realized according to one's own wishes.
? At about 9: 30 in the morning, Xu Zhi asked me to put on her wedding dress, which she washed with a brush last night and scalded with boiling water in an enamel jar. She also took my most valuable Shanghai brand all-steel watch from her wrist and put it on my left wrist. She used wood? Comb my young head in the shape of an airplane that I trimmed with poker before marriage from front to back.
? Xu Zhi said politely to her mother-in-law: "Mom, we went back to our parents' house. "
? My mother nodded, which means I know.
We left the old willow tree in front of the door according to the road map designed by our mother-in-law before marriage.
Xu Zhi is in the Wangs' compound in cherry orchard. Before getting married, she gave my cousin a fixed name, which should be called "Sister".
I called her Shi before I confirmed my relationship. After I got the marriage certificate, I called her Xu Zhi according to her maiden name.
Xu Zhi and I left Daliushu and headed for Jiefang Road. At that time, the east of my home was not occupied by No.13 primary school, but a huge square facing Taiping Gang Hutong. On the east side of the square, along the south side of Jiefang Road, there is a coal yard, a small courtyard selling wonton, a design institute of the Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau, and a middle school for children of Xinyang cadres, just at the crossroads named Grade Four archway.
? The intersection is now the intersection of Jiefang Road and Shengli Road.
There is a nine-story blue brick pagoda in the northwest corner of the intersection. I used to play hide-and-seek in Guttari. According to the old man, there is a deep well under the ancient pagoda. There is an evil cockroach in the well, and the tower presses the well to prevent the evil cockroach from coming out and hurting people.
The tower brick is engraved with the word "Sui", so it is called built in the Sui Dynasty. Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, inscribed the Monument to the Valley God. Unfortunately, in the past few years, the ancient pagodas and monuments were all broken into "four old".
? Zhao Hui, a stupa, is one of the old eight scenic spots in Xinyang. State official Zhang Yue left a five-character poem as evidence: "When you left the ancient pagoda, you didn't remember the floor. Lush and harmonious, the dawn is condensed. /Yushu wind is amazing, and the golden stem can bear it. In this state, there are colorful pens everywhere, and it is interesting to watch them fly around.
? The northeast corner of the intersection is the barber shop of the state-owned service company.
? Barber shops are places where business is booming at intersections. You have to get the number and line up from morning till night. After hearing that your number has decreased, you can go into the store and sit on the orange to continue queuing. There are six barber shop seats in the store, which open at eight in the morning and don't close at noon. Barbers take turns eating. After the barber cuts his hair and asks whose turn it is, the person sitting at the end of the queue will automatically stand up and walk to the barber's professional chair with a vacancy.
? It has become a habit to queue up for a haircut and a bath. It is rare to see the phenomenon of jumping the queue.
There is no air conditioning in the barber shop. In summer, the waiter sitting at the door pulls a brown rope with both hands. The palm rope passes through the pulley and is connected to the linen curtain hanging on the roof beam. As the waiter pulls up and down, the lower end of the curtain will move back and forth, producing the same wind as the temperature in the store.
? In winter, there is a thick and warm curtain hanging on the gate, coal briquettes or briquettes are burning on the coal stove in the shop, and a white tin kettle is hung on the open flame. The white gas, the gas from the fire and the kettle make the store turn from winter to spring.
The other two corners of the intersection are grocery stores and food stores, either public-private or state-owned.
? To the south of the food store is a boiled water shop.
? At that time, burning coal was very expensive, and no one would boil coal and water because of boiling water in a thermos for 20 cents.
The distance between the Wang Family Courtyard and the boiling water shop in Xiaonanmen, the boiling water shop in Grade 4 archway and the boiling water shop in Wooden archway is almost equal.
? But I didn't buy boiled water from a boiled water shop.
? My family buried a crock in the return air furnace. The residual temperature in the stacking furnace keeps the pot warm all year round, and there will be boiling water when cooking and cooking.
? Further south is the Wuyi electric wire factory run by the street. Opposite the factory is Duanjia Hutong. Duanjia Hutong extends from east to west. The first door into the hutong facing north is the happy home of today's provincial relatives-Xu Zhi's maiden.
As soon as we turned into Duanjia Hutong, we heard Xu Zhi's three little sisters shout happily: Mom, Mom, my second sister and Zhao Ge are back!
Xu Zhi sisters * * * eight. These three people are the eldest brother Jin Ming, the second brother Jin Ding and the third brother Jin Cheng. The five women are sister Xu Lan, second sister Xu Zhi, third sister Xu Lin, fourth sister Xu Ai and fifth sister Xu Qin.
Elder sister graduated from Henan No.1 Technical School and was assigned to Luoyang No.1 Tractor Factory for metrological inspection. She married Li of our factory and gave birth to a boy and a girl.
? Although it is a happy event for my sister to get married, she is not allowed to take a vacation. My sister wrote to congratulate her on her marriage.
? Big brother Shi, a sheet metal fitter in the upstream machinery factory, has outstanding skills. 1969, I married my daughter-in-law Xia Changqing, and my eldest sister-in-law worked in Xinyang bristle factory. Big brother has a certain interest in food.
I think it might be Big Brother cooking at noon today.
Big Brother Jinding, tall and strong, pulls rickshaws in Xinyang Handling Company. Hundreds of pounds of salt packets, one in both hands and one on the shoulder, follow the salt pile on the pick board, and the wind blows under your feet.
? Big sister, big brother and second sister are all married. Xu Zhi's two younger brothers have become the pillars and laborers of their family.
? My younger brother Jincheng began to pull rickshaws like my second brother. After hard work, I introduced him to the upstream sinking team. When he was about 50 years old and his drilling career was going downhill, I was affiliated with Yu Zi Construction Engineering Supervision Co., Ltd. He was hired as a supervision engineer because of his experience in geological judgment.
Surrounded by three younger sisters born in the 1960s, we stepped into Xu Zhijia's yard.
This is a very strange yard. To be precise, it is the backyard where servants of a large house work and live. Several quadrangles in the main room were used as family residences by Xinyang Opera Troupe, Xinyang Industrial and Commercial Bank and other units.
? There are ten rooms in the courtyard, and Xinyang Housing Management Bureau has arranged six poor households. There are five on the east side and three on the west side of the courtyard gate.
? Xu Zhi's family has a large population, and the Housing Authority gave her parents the rent for three tile houses in the west of our hospital.
? To the south of the courtyard is the back wall of the tall main room. The yard is only three meters wide, with a leafy old tung tree in the middle. Xu Zhimo's family can only see the light of the sun at sunrise and sunset.
? Xu Zhi's maiden is two social classes higher than her husband's.
When we enter the courtyard and turn west, we must pass the shoemaker's door. Li Shu Mary smiled and said, "Come back?"
? We greeted each other with smiles, answered with one voice, and came back.
? I met Xu Zhi from 1965 to 10. For four and a half years, I was a frequent visitor to Xu Zhijia's house.
? The wedding room for Big Brother's wedding was built by me and two workmates who have a good relationship with Xu Zhi. On Sunday, in an open space sandwiched between gables and back walls at the western end of the yard, bricks are laid, purlins are placed, tiles are laid and paints are painted.
? I am in the first construction team of a construction company, and I have few junior high school graduates. Several foremen were the sons of contractors before liberation. Technically speaking, it's ancestral, culturally speaking, it's only a few days since we met. After the public-private partnership established the construction union, they were the best in the construction team.
? The foundation of my excellent grades in junior high school, coupled with my studious spirit on the technical level, and my drawings, budget and construction methods have been honed for ten years, and the old foreman thinks that I have surpassed them.
? The leaders directly under the construction team lifted me to the position of foreman many times, and the company's political cadres also quietly moved the bench from behind my ass at different times or in special projects.
? Reuse my older generation of foremen, and I am their assistant on the surface. In fact, they let me boldly let go of my hands and feet and gain some real power.
? My father-in-law opened a "Youwen Bookstore" on the north side of Ouyang Sitang in the middle section of Zhongshan Road 1949. He is a manager and a shop assistant. He only hired a big brother named Shi as a shop assistant. He entered primary and secondary school textbooks in Hankou Zhongnan Bookstore. He is 1.7 meters tall, with a straight back and a handsome face.
? My parents-in-law often praised him to us: "When my eldest son-in-law was young, he wore a gown, just like the photo of Chairman Mao going to Anyuan. He handled things neatly and thoughtfully." Although he has never called me in his life, I just like him. "
? When I first arrived at Xu Zhi's house, the attitude of the whole family changed from ordinary to enthusiastic, and soon warmed up to welcome. After coming back from Gushi construction site, it comes almost once a week.
? When Xu Zhi's father knew that we had fallen in love, his welcome fell to the lowest point. Sometimes I call him and he says he knows.
? Of course, I have hope for today's happy event. My attitude towards Xu Zhi's father is understanding and happy. His old man's house has not publicly opposed it. This is one of the main reasons for my happiness. As parents, who wants to see their daughter jump into the fire pit without asking? I should understand him!
In a blink of an eye, the five of us walked to the door of Xu Zhi's three rental houses.
My father and Xu Zhi's two younger brothers live in the east of the house. In the house on the west, my mother and Xu Zhi's three sisters live. There is a wall with poles in the middle of the house, and only one bed can be put in the wall, which is Xu Zhi's boudoir before her marriage.
When Xu Zhi got married, the three brothers tore down the straw wall, carried the bed into their mother's house, and whitewashed the wall with limewater, which became a brand-new hall. In current parlance, you should use the word "living room".
A square table with a square meter has been set up in the middle of the living room, surrounded by four long wooden oranges that can seat two people. Sitting on the table is my father-in-law's best friend, Professor Guo Deyue, an expert from Xinyang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Professor Guo is accompanying my mother-in-law to pull her parents. On the west seat, Xu Zhi's uncle and uncle chatted while drinking boiled water.
When Xu Zhi and I walked into the living room, we all bowed respectfully to the four elders. We shouted "Dr. Guo, mom, my second uncle, uncle", and then whispered "We are back."
? The little uncle said unwittingly, "Elder sister, the son-in-law changed her name to mom, and she changed her name to take out a red envelope."
? I quickly cleared the way: "Uncle, we have known each other for almost three years. I always call you little uncle. Where's your red envelope? "
? The little uncle said awkwardly, "Everything is simple, everything is simple."
? Dr. Guo solemnly said to us, "Today is the day when you two return to China. Today is a good day. Simply can't break the routine. " He and his mother-in-law stood up from the throne, pointed to the throne and continued: "Xu Zhi, Zhao Ren, this is your position. You must sit down. "
? Dr. Guo said to my second and third uncles, "Two brothers, today I was entrusted by Zhuo Ru to accompany us two newcomers. You must eat and drink honestly. "
? Everyone is seated according to Dr. Guo's instructions.
? Big brother and second brother gave Xu Zhiduan and me two cups of boiled water respectively. I want to declare here that Xinyang Maojian green tea is a tribute that won the international Panama Gold Award, and it is difficult for ordinary people to take a look.
? It was after the Tea Festival in Xinyang that Xinyang Maojian was dug up again. Everyone in Xinyang can drink different grades of Maojian tea, which is also after the victory of precision poverty alleviation in the city.
? At that time, this cup of boiling water, how warm my heart!
? Professor Guo Deyue was a guest of the Shi family and later became a guest of the Zhao family. We all habitually call him "Dr. Guo"
? Dr Guo was born in Shandong and studied in a military medical university. After graduation, he is catching up with advocating the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine and worshiping a famous Chinese medicine teacher in Beijing.
? Dr. Guo was sent to Xinyang Upstream Hospital as the dean and lived in the Chinese medicine processing factory of the hospital. The gate of this yard is opposite to Duan Hutong, where Xu Zhi lives. The straight line distance between Shi Guo and his home is at most 30 meters.
? Shi Zhuoru, the old father-in-law, made a living by opening a bookstore when he was young and loved reading. After middle age, he bought many classics of traditional Chinese medicine, often relying on medical books as companions. There is not much age difference between Shiguo and Shiguo. Over time, Chinese medicine paved the way for them to become close friends.
? Dr. Guo was quickly transferred to Xinyang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital as the director of the emergency department and an ancient Chinese medicine teacher in Xinyang Health School. I like to study the Book of Changes after retirement.
? In the mid-1980s, I suddenly had a heart attack with symptoms of high blood pressure and slow heart rate. When the director of the hospital of Dijian Company was helpless at my bedside, Xu Zhi asked Dr. Guo to come to cherry orchard to guide her to rescue me. Watch over me for more than four hours.
? Professor Guo's medical ethics and professionalism have made Xu Zhi and I unforgettable all our lives.
? My second uncle is a company commander of military vehicles and transferred to Xinyang long-distance bus station.
? Xu Zhi's sister-in-law is my high school classmate. She is in Class Four. I'm in Class Three. The classroom is door to door.
? Xiaojie's father is the driver of Xinyang Grain Bureau's motorcade. He is four years older than me. Our temper and personality hit it off.
? Xu Zhi's parents and I are the older of their brothers and sisters. When it's our turn, peers will become our elders.
? But when it comes to seniority, we never cross the line.
? It's time for Chinese food, and my mother-in-law quietly left the table. Big brother and little brother served eight buckle bowls.
? Xu Zhi and I used boiled water instead of wine, and invited the elders in turn.
Big brother and little uncle are wrestling to guess one for wine.
? At about four o'clock in the afternoon, we said goodbye to our mother-in-law and elders.
? I have a hunch that Xu Zhi will bring me happiness.
? If you want to know what happiness is, please see the next "Formal Dating".