"Sangou, what are you doing there? Let's go, drink and go. ”

The defenders of the city enthusiastically came over and put their arms around the shoulders of the three dogs and said:

Sangou came back to his senses, quickly smiled unnaturally at the city, and went to the table together.

Returning to the house (housewarming) is to set up a banquet; After returning to the house, you must first light up the lights in the living room and all rooms of the new house to indicate that the life is prosperous, and this lamp is usually a big red candle given by relatives and friends.

The hall is dedicated to the Bodhisattva and the ancestors, and they must first worship with incense and insert three incense; There is an offering to the god of the stove on the stove, just insert an incense; The pig pen and sheep pen at the back of the house are also inserted with incense.

Fill the water tank in the kitchen of the new house with water, which means that it is full of water; Boil a pot of boiling water, which represents the rolling of wealth, and those who come to congratulate him use this fresh boiling water to make tea and entertain them, which means to be rich and clean (healthy and disease-free).

In the center of the dining table in the hall is a plate of grains and six kinds of fruits. (The five grains are rice, sorghum, wheat, buckwheat, and millet; The six kinds of fruits are: dried longan, dried lychee, peanuts, red dates, lotus seeds, red eggs), which means that the five grains are abundant, and the children are prosperous.

On the day of returning to the new house, you can't beat and scold the children, and everyone in the family must speak auspicious words, and you can't quarrel. If you want to go to bed before dawn and can't lie down and go to sleep, you have to lie down for about 15 minutes, get up and walk and go back to sleep.

After the homecoming ceremony is completed, they begin to eat homecoming wine to increase the popularity and yang energy of the new house; Relatives and friends will come to congratulate the neighbors, some give congratulatory gifts, some give gifts, and several uncles who guard the city set up a table at the door, one specially receives the congratulatory gifts, and reports them to the other to write them down.

Generally, for such happy events, seniors in the village or clan who are familiar with the process will be invited to help in advance, and how many people will come in advance will be borrowed in the village, such as large round tables and long and short stools, plates, chopsticks, spoons, spoons, wine glasses, bowls and other items.

The name of the owner is written with a brush on the back of the wooden table and stool, and the name of the owner is also chiseled in an inconspicuous place on the back of the wooden table and stool, and the name of the owner is usually chiseled in an inconspicuous place.

In addition to borrowing things, people who do things should also be hired in advance, such as cooks (part-time village people), kitchen helpers (washing and cutting vegetables), wine halls (similar to people who run the hall and serve dishes), and chores (procurement, transportation, and inviting people to eat).

Depending on the amount of gifts, there will be clear instructions on how many people to invite to each house to eat which meal before the meal. Sangou and Mingcheng are friends who defend the city to help, so they have been eating with the stone carpenter master and the small worker during this time, and today's banquet is naturally also to eat.

It's just that today's master stone carpenter is at a separate table, and there is a special person to accompany the wine. The chair of the hall (a table in the middle) invited the most respected old-timers in the village to sit, as well as close relatives (such as grandfathers, uncles, uncles, etc.), and the father who guarded the city came to accompany the wine. Sangou Mingcheng and Shoucheng sat at a table in the corner with a group of Hou Shengnong (young men) of about the same age in the village.

A table is generally 10-12 people, there are adults who don't care about other people's eyes, will bring an extra child, of course, do not occupy a seat, stand next to the adult to eat. The child was full quickly, and after eating a few dishes, he was full, and then walked away to play. The proprietor usually pretends not to see it and will not say anything.

Around the table before the guests enter the table, has been placed cold vegetables, fruits, peanuts and melon seeds and other plates, guests will begin to self-serve melons, fruits, peanuts and melon seeds, polite owners will have paper cigarettes distribution, generally a table of a pack of two packs, their own self-service distribution.

There are also liquor, generally a table is one or two bottles of liquor, the liquor is hung out by the farmer himself (distilled and brewed), there are pure sorghum, rice, and sorghum rice mixture, all of which are highly pure liquor, fragrant and spicy, and the liquor is strong.

Some men will deliberately sit on the table where there are many women, and when it is time to smoke, they will open the paper cigarettes on the table and pretend to distribute them to the women on the table.

Some women didn't like it, so they deliberately picked up the cigarettes and said, I don't smoke, I'll give our men to smoke, and the other women will understand and get a few cigarettes together, so that this man's wishful thinking is in vain.

There is also drinking, women must not drink too much wine, so the wine on this table belongs to this man, and some women are not happy with it, so they will take away a bottle and return it to the owner, saying, we have less wine here, put away a bottle, don't waste it.

Of course, these phenomena were only in the very poor era, and they are certainly much less now; At that time, there were banquets, depending on how many people were on the table, and the meat was counted according to the number of heads, and there was a large piece of pork for one person, and there was not much; Many people are reluctant to eat it, so they wrap it up and take it home.

The defenders of the city have money, and everyone can eat with a free stomach; Each person in this banquet has a set of chopsticks, wine glasses, and spoons (spoons), and everyone can pour wine when they are ready; This is called the standard "spoon wine", there is a spoon (spoon), which means to eat hot dishes with soup and good dishes, and only when there is wine is called a banquet, and there is no wine to make a banquet.

Next is the flowing water seat, one after another hot dishes begin to serve, rich and polite owners, will slaughter pigs and buy fish, so the hard dishes on the table are big oil and meat, such as large pieces of braised pork, large bowls of pig's feet, braised fish pieces, etc., interspersed with several ordinary dishes.

The staple food is generally white sugar glutinous rice, broth rice noodles, noodles, etc., all of which are served in a large basin.

Normally, women and children who don't drink will sit separately from the men who drink, and many of those who don't drink will say hello and leave the table when the food is finished. And the men who are good at wine at this time are a rare good time of the year, everyone fights for wine, and shouts for three (drawing wine orders).

A few uncles in the city are very happy with their friends in the village, Baolai (on behalf of 0, fist signing), must be high, two good, three-star photo, four seasons, five kui, six six shun, seven qiao, eight blessings, nine fast horses, ten perfect......

The two generally have to shout together at the beginning of the game "two are good", and then start to fight wits and courage, such as shouting out of the mouth is the five leaders, and their fingers are stretched out less than five, maybe two, if the other party shouts something else, and the fingers just extend out three, then the person who shouts the five leaders wins.

For example, if you shout Sijifa, your fingers stretch out five, and the two of them can't add up to the four fingers of Sijifa anyway, that is, shouting the wrong or stretching the wrong fingers, under the eyes of the "referee" next to you, you naturally can't escape, and you have to be punished.

There are also people who play tricks, who don't recognize life or death, and the arbiters are blushing, and they can't catch him for drinking, so they have to give up, but in this way, not only affects everyone's wine and the owner's fortune, but also when drinking in the future, everyone is not willing to shout with him for three fights.

There are also people who are particularly good at drinking, and their families are reluctant to take so much grain to make wine, and they don't have much alcohol to drink, so they have to have a good time when they seize the opportunity to drink; I deliberately lost a lot when I yelled at the three, and I was able to drink anyway, so it didn't matter if I lost.

Some of the masters of yelling can control the situation of winning and losing, such as each time is generally a game of six times, these masters and juniors will win a 4:2, and seniors, guests of the owner, etc., will lose 2:4, and peers, often will play a 3:3 draw, and then under the shouting of everyone, another game, and finally use the real skills, may brush people a 6:0, proud.

With the help of wine, the masters will be particularly excited because of the chess opponent, the voice is getting higher and higher, the faster the shot, the others are staring at the fingers of the two, listening to the wine order, quickly calculating who will win or lose or who is wrong, and the wrong person will also be punished for drinking.

The children were so dazzled that they couldn't keep up with the calculations, and they were so frightened that they forgot their mother's call to go home and go to sleep.

Sangou Mingcheng guards the city, their table is some half-old students, some of them also learned that adults began to smoke and drink, most of them can't, the family is poor, and there is no opportunity to learn.

Seeing these half-grown juniors, regardless of men, women and children, they are afraid to sit at the same table with them, why? Because these descendants are growing their bodies, they eat a huge amount of food and move very quickly.

Grab some food at the same table with them, but it takes a lot of effort, basically every bowl of dishes just on the table, only to see the chopsticks and spoons flying up and down, and the bowl bottoms out in less than two clicks, and the table is empty bowls.

These descendants who were at the same table with Sangou, with a guest like Sangou Mingcheng, were still reluctant to restrain and take care of them, and they didn't use all their strength to grab food.

However, because they grew up wearing open crotch pants with Shoucheng, these descendants are not big or small in their mouths, and they keep making fun of the fact that the Shoucheng family built a new house because they wanted to marry the little lady (girl) from the next township.

Although the defenders of the city warned many times not to joke about this matter, others basically took his words as wind in their ears, and regarded them as normal shyness and shyness.

Shoucheng had to apologize to Ming Cheng with an embarrassed smile, because Ming Cheng was Mingyue's brother after all, but fortunately it was at the wedding banquet that others didn't know and was at the Shoucheng family, otherwise he would have had a big fight.

If there is a conflict between the people in the village, it doesn't matter how bad the scolding is, but they just can't insult the other party's family, especially the female family like the mother and sister.