Motherhood 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.

The third day of Xinyang people's wedding is a festive day. The woman leads the man and returns to her family with four kinds of gifts.

Xinyang people have a saying: "the gift is high, but you can't afford it after eating it."

We got married according to the custom instead of the custom, and accomplished the important events of our own 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 our own wishes.

? At about 9: 30 in the morning, Xu Zhi asked me to put on her wedding dress which was 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 airplane head 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 Shi".

I called her Shi Xuzhi before I decided to have a relationship. After receiving 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 side of my home was not occupied by the thirteenth primary school, but a huge square facing Taiping Gang Hutong. On the east side of the square, on 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 4 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 once played 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, a few years ago, the ancient pagodas and monuments were completely 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 morning light condenses. /Yushu wind is amazing, and the golden stem can withstand it. This state is full of colored pens, and it is very interesting to watch flying around.

? The northeast corner of the intersection is the barber shop of the state-owned service company.

? Barber shop is a place where business is booming at the crossroads. You must take the number and line up from morning till night. After hearing that your number has been reduced, you can enter the store and sit on a wooden orange to continue queuing. There are six barber seats in the shop, which open at eight in the morning and don't close at noon. Barbers take turns eating. After the barber cuts his hair, he will ask whose turn it is. The person sitting at the back of the queue will automatically stand up and walk to the barber's professional chair with a vacancy.

? Waiting in line for a haircut and a bath has become a habit. 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 palm rope with both hands. The palm rope passes through the pulley and is connected to the linen curtain hanging on the roof beam. When the waiter pulls the curtain up and down, the lower end of the curtain will move back and forth, generating wind with the same temperature as that in the store.

? In winter, there is a thick and warm curtain hanging on the gate, coal briquettes or briquettes are burned on the coal stove in the shop, and a white tin kettle is hung on the open flame. The white gas, flame and gas from the kettle make the store turn from winter to spring.

The other two corners of the intersection are grocery stores and grocery stores, which are 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 open the coal to boil water because the boiling water in the thermos was two cents.

The distance between Wang Family Courtyard and Xiaonanmen Boiling Water Store, Grade 4 Pailou Boiling Water Store and Mupailou Boiling Water Store 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 upward inclined stove makes the pot warm like spring 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 runs from east to west. The first entrance into the hutong facing north is the happy destination 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 shouting happily, "Mom, mom, my second sister and Zhao Ge are back!" "

Xu Zhi has eight sisters. These three people are the eldest brother Jin Ming, the second brother Jin Ding and the third brother Jin Cheng. The five women are elder 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 my sister's marriage is a happy event, no leave is allowed. My sister wrote to congratulate her on her marriage.

? Big brother Shi works as a sheet metal fitter in the upstream machinery factory, and his skills are outstanding. 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 may be the big brother who cooked at noon today.

Big Brother Jinding is tall and strong, pulling rickshaws in Xinyang Handling Company. Hundreds of pounds of salt packets, one in your hands and the other on your shoulders, 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 became 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, his drilling career was going downhill. At that time, I belonged to Yu Zi Construction Engineering Supervision Co., Ltd., and he was hired as a supervision engineer because of his experience in geological judgment.

Surrounded by our three 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 large families 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 Authority 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 on the west side of our hospital.

? On the south side of the courtyard is the back wall of the tall main house. The courtyard is only three meters wide, with a leafy old tung tree in the middle. Xu Zhi's house can only see sunshine 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, "Back?"

? We greeted each other with a smile, answered in unison, and then 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 where eldest brother got married was made by me and two workmates who had a good relationship with Xu Zhi. On Sunday, people lay bricks, purlins, tiles and paints on the open space sandwiched by gables and back walls at the western end of the courtyard.

? I am in the first construction team of a construction company, and there are few junior high school graduates. Before liberation, several foremen were the sons of contractors. Technically, they are ancestors. Culturally, they have known each other for several days. After the public-private partnership established the construction union, they were the best in the construction team.

? Based on my excellent grades in junior high school and my studious spirit on the technical level, I have honed my drawings, budget and construction methods for ten years, and the old foremen all think that I have surpassed them.

? The leaders directly under the construction team carried me to the foreman position many times, and the company's political cadres quietly moved the bench from behind my ass at different times or in special projects.

? Reuse my older foreman, and I am their assistant on the surface. In fact, they let me boldly let go of my hands and feet and have 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: "My eldest son-in-law wore a gown when he was young, just like the photo of Chairman Mao going to Anyuan, and 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 became enthusiastic. After coming back from Gushi construction site, I come almost once a week.

? When Xu Zhi's father knew that we were in love, his welcome fell below enthusiasm. 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 happiness. His old man's house did not openly object. This is one of the main reasons for my happiness. As parents, who wants to see their daughter jump into a fire pit without asking? I should understand him!

In the 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. The house on the west side is home to mother and Xu Zhi's three sisters. 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 demolished the straw wall, moved the bed into their mother's house, and whitewashed the wall to become a brand-new hall. In current parlance, you should use the word "living room".

In the middle of the living room, a square table of one square meter has been set, 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 Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 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 and uncle," and then whispered, "We are back."

? The little uncle said unwittingly, "Sister, the son-in-law changed his surname to mother, and he changed his surname to get 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 rules. " He and his mother-in-law stood up from the throne and pointed to the throne and continued: "Xu Zhi and Zhao Ren, this is your position. You must sit down. "

? Dr. Guo said to my second uncle and my second uncle, "Two brothers, I was entrusted by Zhuo Ru to accompany us two newcomers today. You must eat and drink honestly. "

? Everyone is seated according to Dr. Guo's instructions.

? Big Brother and Second Brother poured two cups of boiled water for Xu Zhi and me respectively. Here, I want to declare that Xinyang Maojian green tea is a tribute that won the international Panama Gold Award, and it is hard for ordinary people to take a look.

? It was after the Tea Festival in Xinyang that Xinyang Maojian was excavated again. Everyone in Xinyang can drink different grades of Maojian tea, which is also the result of the victory of precision poverty alleviation in our 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 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 as a teacher.

? 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 the quadrangle faces the section of hutong where Xu Zhi lives. The straight line distance between Shi Guo and his home is at most 30 meters.

? When my father-in-law Shi Zhuoru was young, he made a living by opening a bookstore and loved reading. After middle age, he bought a lot of Chinese medicine classics, often accompanied by medical books. There is little difference in age 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 the ancient Chinese medicine teacher of Xinyang Health School. I like studying the Book of Changes after retirement.

? In the mid-1980s, I suddenly suffered from a heart attack, the symptoms of which were 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. Watched me for more than four hours.

? Professor Guo's medical ethics and professionalism make Xu Zhi and I unforgettable all our lives.

? My second uncle is the company commander of the army car 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. Classrooms go 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, our peers will become our elders.

? But as far as qualifications are concerned, 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 brought 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 for wine. Guess one.

? 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 read the next article "Formal Dating".