#秋日生活打卡季#
Author: Li Fujiang (Yao nationality)
"Dad, your sixtieth birthday this year, my brother and I are going to make a birthday banquet for you to show us to celebrate our birthday with filial piety."
I am only fifty-nine years old this year, but according to the custom of our Yao family here, "before the man does it, and after the woman does it", this year should be my birthday, and I want to feast the guests to drink birthday wine to celebrate.
I don't have any special thoughts about my initial "big life" age: a mountain farmer who lives in the mountains and is accompanied by loess fruit trees all day long. And now that the children have grown up and become a family with grandchildren, due to the middle-aged and elderly people, physical and various conditions are limited, the formation of less activity and reluctance to toss, every day is just "one by one, one fruit and one family" This monotonous life is the base, if there is another fixed daily thing, that is, every day to ride a bicycle to pick up grandchildren to and from school!
I don't feel like I'm going to be an old man at the age of 60, and I'm also disgusted by the mundane preparations for the "60th birthday banquet". The so-called sixty years old, it is nothing more than a person from the beginning of the middle-aged person to the elderly, from one age to the age of the other, life is not from a dull day to the next dull day, from a dull month to a year, into the next year of a month and a year; Breathe and breathe, and never stop!
I don't agree with my children giving me a birthday feast.
"Dad, if you don't let us make you a birthday party, we are also in trouble. Uncle next door in the same village and the same age as you, his family has held a big birthday banquet before, and our family doesn't do it, so how will our sisters and brothers face the villagers in the village in the future? ”
There are many men in Murakami who have entered the age of 59 this year, and before me, the second brother next door, his son has made a banquet for his 60th birthday, and more than 20 tables have been set up. Before, the second brother was also strongly opposed to his son holding a birthday banquet for him. After all, the overall economy of the mountain village has not yet been developed, in order to have a good learning environment for the grandchildren and have the advantage of starting from the same time as others, the second brother's son has purchased a school district house in the county seat before, entered the urban household registration, and let his children study in the school in the county seat. It is said that the pressure of repaying the mortgage every month is still quite high. Holding a birthday party, which is a dispensable money-consuming mundane thing, should be avoided.
My second brother's family knew that this year was also my birthday, so he came to my house to visit our family beforehand. I said no, but the children did not say anything about it, because their hearts were still complicated.
The second brother's son can't find out what our family is talking about. Later, when the second brother's birthday came, their family still organized more than 20 tables of birthday banquets. I guess the second brother's son's thoughts: If his family didn't do it before, but our family did, then what will his face be in the future?
Now it's our family's turn to be the problem. I don't agree with it, but the children have seen their previous peers in the same village to do it, and if our family doesn't do it, then there is a suspicion that "the children are not filial, have no economic strength, and are not social".
I was overwhelmed by my children's analysis. Our family is in the village, far from the richest man, but it is still achievable at a medium economic level. Not to mention that the family economy can support the birthday banquet, it is a loan operation, and it should be done without hesitation for the sake of this face-saving project......
On my birthday, the season has just entered autumn, and the sky in early autumn is still scorching with a high temperature of 36 or 7 degrees. Although there are many electric fans around the kitchen, the chefs who make the banquet are still sweating profusely, and the towels they put on their shoulders can already carry out water!
The relatives and friends invited by the red post phone came as scheduled, and the sound of fireworks came one after another, and the noisy sound of the guests and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke after the bombing of the happy artillery made up a special "symphony......
About author:Li Fujiang, Yao nationality (online pen name Yao Lao Li), member of the county writers' association. He has published his works in "Shenzhen Literature", "Gongcheng Literature and Art", "Guangxi Daily", "Nanguo Morning Post", "Guangxi Nationalities Daily" and other newspapers in and abroad.