The things to be done today are really not small, nothing else, the second grandfather's 80th birthday!
This matter was still the news that Yang Jing got only the day before yesterday.As soon as he got off the plane the day before yesterday, he received a call from his grandmother, who told Yang Jing the news and told him that the second generation of the old Li family would go.This is no small matter.It is a great thing for a family to have an elderly person who celebrates his 80th birthday.As the old saying goes, life is rare for seventy years, and old for eighty.In ancient times, an eighty-year-old man was an absolute old birthday star, and he could not worship the emperor when he saw him, and the emperor had to pay tribute to you.In ancient times, people with a long life must have great blessings, so even the emperor Lao'er is willing to touch this blessing.Now, with the continuous improvement of living conditions and medical conditions, there are more and more people in their eighties.But in any case, there is an old man in the family who celebrates his 80th birthday, not to mention that family, as long as the whole family has the conditions, they have to come to celebrate their birthday.No, when Yang Jing called his mother, his mother told her the details.Yang Jing's grandfather has four brothers and sisters, and his grandfather is the third, but he is the eldest son in the family, because above him are two sisters.My grandfather's eldest sister died twenty years ago, and now there are three of them left.Grandpa's second sister, that is, Yang Jing's second aunt and grandmother, is also ninety years old this year, she is ten years older than Yang Jing's second grandfather, but her birthday is later, in September, so this year not only to give the second grandfather 80th birthday, but also to the second aunt and grandmother 90th birthday.When the elderly in the family celebrate their birthdays, they all pass a year in advance, that is, they pass the virtual age.So this year, there are two old people in the Li family who have celebrated their 80th and 90th birthdays respectively.This is a great joy for the entire family of the old Li family.So this time the second grandfather celebrates his 80th birthday, Yang Jing's family of three, Yang Jing's aunt's family of five, Yang Jing's aunt's family of three, and Yang Jing's uncle will all come, Li Yinuo can't come because he needs to go to school, otherwise the girl will have to come.It's just that Yang Jing didn't know the birthday of the second grandfather, nor did he know the birthday of the second aunt, so he didn't have any preparations in advance.But since my mother explained the situation, Yang Jing had to prepare a gift.Needless to say, the whole family has treasures here, and it is more than enough to pick out a few pieces to use as birthday gifts.Yang Jing knew that because of his parents and parents, they didn't have to give birthday gifts to the old people alone, and the second generation of the old Li family all represented them.Of course, if Yang Jing wants to give it, there is no problem, but the value of the gift must not exceed the gifts given by the elders, otherwise it will be out of order.In other words, Yang Jing needs to prepare four gifts for his mother, and he also needs to prepare a gift for his grandparents.Later, Yang Jing asked her eldest cousin again and asked her if she was going to give a birthday gift.The eldest cousin said that if you get married and start a family, don't give it if you don't get married and start a family, so Yang Jing prepared two more sets of gifts.He and his eldest cousin have already started a family, and they also have to give birthday gifts to their second grandfather.So Yang Jing prepared a total of seven gifts.It would not be easy for others to prepare these seven sets of gifts in a hurry, but for Yang Jing, it was nothing at all.There are still a lot of treasures in the basement of the courtyard.Those treasures are not qualified to be exhibited in the Grand Canal Museum, but they are also extremely precious antique works of art for ordinary people.Especially Lao Na really collected a lot of miscellaneous treasures back then, such as the lion's head walnut in the Qing Dynasty, the birdcage made of gold and silver inlaid with rosewood, and the ivory carvings of the Qing Dynasty, so Yang Jing just walked around the basement and prepared the birthday gift to be prepared.However, when preparing the gift, Gege suddenly said: "Yang Jing, I suddenly remembered that my grandmother is going to celebrate her 80th birthday this year!"
”"Huh?
Your grandmother is also a horse?
”"Well, it's a horse, it's seventy-nine weeks old this year, and it's eighty years old.But my grandma won't have her birthday until the end of the year. ”"Lady, don't say anything, choose a good gift for your husband and wife."
Gege laughed, "That's not what I meant.I just suddenly remembered what happened a few years ago.I still remember that when you just came back that year, the two of us went to Uncle Jiang to choose a birthday gift for Grandma, and you gave Grandma a bracelet carved from Hetian white jade, my grandma liked it, and she was reluctant to take it off until now. ”"Hey, lady, that's how you fooled your wife with such a bracelet back then" "Go, what nonsense!
”Ge Jiaojiao punched Yang Jing angrily, "I didn't follow you for the sake of your treasures, when you were a poor boy, I fell in love with you, but a certain fool was afraid of this and that, and I was stunned for several years!"
Hmph, now you are embarrassed to say it" Yang Jing was moved in his heart, grabbed his daughter-in-law's hand and said: "Daughter-in-law, how can we see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain!"
Our relationship has also gone through many tests, and our relationship in the future is definitely stronger than pure gold, solid as gold!
We will definitely go through the whole life together!
I'll treat you well for the rest of my life," the two of them wanted to get tired of in the basement for a while, but the phone rang out at an inopportune time.Yang Jing picked up the phone, and sure enough, it was his mother."
We have already passed Cangzhou, and we will be able to reach Yanjing South Station in about forty minutes, you can hurry up and pick us up!"
Hanging up the phone, Yang Jing shook his head helplessly and sighed, making Gege laugh."
Hurry up, don't delay the time, otherwise your parents will bear you again."
In this way, the two drove with gifts, and Morris and Clark drove a rented Coaster minibus to the exit of Yanjing South Station to wait.After waiting for a short time at the South Station, I saw a large group of people walking out of the station.The Toyota Coaster minibus rented by Yang Jing is for a family, and this big family is also a family of thirteen or fourteen."
Xiaojing, how are the gifts you prepared?"
As soon as she got in the car, Yang's mother asked her son.Originally, according to the meaning of grandparents, aunts and uncles, this birthday gift is prepared by the family, where are the elders to celebrate their birthdays, and the gifts of several families are prepared by a junior?
That doesn't make sense.It was Mama Yang who vetoed this statement, in Mama Yang's words, her son is not bad at these things now, let him prepare a birthday gift, it will definitely look very lofty, isn't this also a fight for our father and our mother?
Yang Jing's grandfather is the third oldest in the family, but he is an out-and-out eldest son, his second brother has a 80th birthday, and he can't be too shabby as a big brother, but it is not a very simple thing to prepare a birthday gift for the elderly, so Yang's mother simply handed it all over to her son.Everyone in the family knew that the nephew had a lot of good things, and he was not short of money, so he agreed to Yang's mother's proposal.Now that Yang's mother has seen her son, of course she cares about this issue.If her son can't come up with something good, it will be a loss of face for her Li Ping.Is it okay for a family to talk about face?"
Hehe, who dares to disobey the decree of your Empress Dowager Lafayette?
Don't worry, Mom, I have already prepared my second grandfather's birthday gift. ”As he spoke, Yang Jing took out the birthday gifts from the trunk of the car from his pocket."
Well, this is a gift from my grandfather and my grandmother, is it appropriate for you to see a few staff officers?"
As he spoke, Yang Jing took out a scroll, and after opening it, although everyone couldn't understand what was written, the momentum of this calligraphy could be clearly felt, so everyone couldn't help but nod in unison.Only after reading it carefully, the old uncle asked with some surprise: "Xiaojing, is this Zheng Banqiao's character?"
”"Well, that's right, this painting is indeed a "Turtle Although Shou" written by Zheng Banqiao, one of the eight monsters in Yangzhou.""
Yo, then the value of this painting is great."
The old uncle snorted his teeth."
Hehe, you don't know, uncle, right?
There are several "Turtle Although Shou" in the basement of my yard, and Lao Zheng's one can only be regarded as average. ”"Huh?
Why do you still have it?
”"Well, for example, Dong Qichang's, for example, Tang Bohu's, for example, Xu Wei's" The uncle was speechless after hearing this.There is really no way about this, who made the song "Turtle Although Shou" written by a generation of heroes Cao Cao too famous?
In particular, the sentence "Lao Ji is in the bush, and his ambition is thousands of miles" has become a quatrain for the ages.So since Cao Cao, how many calligraphers have more or less written this poem, or a certain sentence in this poem.At the beginning, the old man didn't draw a lot of good things at home, including these calligraphy and paintings.Among them, "Turtle Although Shou" alone received four or five paintings that year.It's like hanging a painting of "Turtle Although Shou" written by Huang Tingjian himself in the Grand Canal Museum, and whether it is Dong Qichang, Tang Bohu or Xu Wei, it seems that he is not as good as Huang Tingjian in calligraphy, after all, Huang Tingjian is one of the four famous calligraphers of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Huang Tingjian is earlier.Therefore, in the end, Yang Jing chose to choose and hung Huang Tingjian's "Turtle Although Shou" to the Grand Canal Museum for exhibition, as for the rest of the works, except for Tang Bohu's "Turtle Although Shou" was hung in the wing, the others were in the basement.This time, I just took it out as a birthday gift."
Uncle, what do you think of this painting as a congratulatory gift from my grandfather and grandmother?"
Yang Jing asked.The old uncle shook his head helplessly and sighed: "You kid took out Zheng Banqiao's words as a birthday gift, what else can I say?"
This must be possible. ”"Hey, that's it.Come on, let's take a look at the gifts I have selected for you, and see if you like them."