Chapter 286: Years Ago
Under the persuasion of Yang's mother, Yang's father gave up the idea of getting up early to go to the city to pull vegetables, it is true that you can't drive on the road, there is snow everywhere, not to mention skidding, the snow in the ditch is as high as the road, and it is easy to drive into the ditch.
When there are no vegetables, Yang Dongxu is as lively as in front of the door, and fireworks and red candy are moved out one by one. This inventory is relatively large, and Dad Yang prepared a lot of inventory a few days ago.
Yang Dongxu was also shouted to keep accounts and count money for a morning, and when there were not many people in the noon set, the big lady next door, that is, the mother of the general who had come to play with Yang Dongxu after Xiao Wu for the past two days, came to the store, and said a few words to Yang Ma mysteriously, and then Yang Ma called her daughter Hongying.
"I'm not going. Rainbow Shadow looked a little embarrassed, resisting and being a little shy at the same time.
Don't ask the eldest lady to come over and say the matchmaker to the old lady, the people who say the matchmaker in the countryside used to have a professional matchmaker, and now they are basically introduced by relatives and friends.
For example, the eldest mother knows that the rainbow shadow next door is old enough to go on a blind date, and if she meets a boy of the same age when she goes to another village to visit relatives, she will first see that it feels okay and will mention it.
This mention is not just to say a word to Yang's mother, but to bring people over to Yang Dongxu's family to see. Generally, this look is either for parents and children to see together, or for the two children to meet first at the entrance of the village or elsewhere, if the child feels okay, then the parents will take a look again, and there is no problem to discuss the matter of the next engagement.
"What are you talking about?" Mama Yang glared at her daughter, "Let's go and see it first?"
"That's it, that's it, this boy has been working a lot of money in the past two years, and he is half a head taller than Xuzi. "The eldest lady is also helping by the side.
At this time, the blind date is beautiful and ugly, in fact, you can look at it, and what is more important is whether a person is tall enough or not to be strong. After all, rural children need to farm and do farm work, and if you go on a blind date with a thin and short person, it will make people feel that they will not have a good life in the future.
Hongying pouted, and finally followed the eldest lady towards the entrance of the village, the boy was waiting there, falling in love is still a very strange thing for rural girls in this era.
Take Hongying as an example, in addition to the classmates she met when she was in school, her communication range is only Yangjia Village, or a few little sisters who play better at her grandfather's house, and she also yearns for love, but she always feels that it is very far away.
Now the main tone of marriage is still blind date, and under the introduction of relatives, friends or the same village, I meet a strange boy. If the first impression is good, and the parents are satisfied after they meet, then it is an engagement, and then it will not be long before you start getting married, and cultivating feelings is something that needs to be done after marriage.
Yang Dongxu is actually against his sister's blind date, not to mention that the object of the blind date is definitely not the brother-in-law in the previous life, but the age of the eldest sister is only eighteen years old this year, and she is still too young after graduating from junior high school for less than a year.
The seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl is in the prime of life, and now the Yang family does not worry about food and clothing, he feels that his sister can find something she likes to do for a few years, or fall in love, it is much better than setting a lifelong event early to start a family.
But he has no say in the matter of his sister's marriage, even if his parents can listen to him as he grows older, but it does not include the matter of his sister's blind date.
At the same time, Yang Dongxu still had some apprehensions in his heart, according to the trajectory of his previous life, the Yang family at this time was still very poor, so Yang's father had to go out to work, Hongying also went out to work after graduating from junior high school, and then met his brother-in-law while working.
If his sister really succeeds in the blind date at home, will all the life trajectories change, and his lovely niece and naughty nephew will be gone? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little flustered.
"Mom, if my sister doesn't find a suitable one this year, let her and me go to Yanjing after the New Year?" Yang Dongxu, bowing his head to help clean up the things on the stall, said.
"What are you doing in Yanjing?" Mother Yang turned her head to look at her son, her brows furrowed, and when she talked about Yanjing, the first thing she thought of was whether she would trouble Zhou Yiren.
"Didn't I say that I was doing business in Yanjing? I was my sister Zhou Ya's daughter on my grandfather's side, and she was still busy with her own affairs and had no time to help me, so I wanted my sister to help me, and my own business must be watched by someone who is at ease, isn't it?" Yang Dongxu was a little weak-hearted.
The reason for letting the elder sister go to Yanjing is naturally not to help him take care of his business, but to want the elder sister to go out for a long time, and at the same time, she can have her own opinions if she has more experience. If the elder sister is really as capable as her aunt Ran Feifei, then it is okay to open a store or a company for the elder sister in the future.
In short, he has his own ideals and ambitions, and he also wants his family to live happily and have his own pursuits. Instead of copying his own life again in the footsteps of the previous generation.
"This ......" Yang's mother hesitated, her daughter has never left her side since she was a child. Although it is not helpless to go to Yanjing to have his own son here, his son is still a child after all, and it is not good to always trouble Zhou Yiren.
"Now the boys who are seventeen or eighteen years old and about the same age as my sister all go out to work, and most of them come back after the Chinese New Year. Even if my sister stays at home and waits for the New Year's job, all of them are gone, there are not many people to choose. Why don't you go to Wu Yanjing with my sister to see the world and learn more things, right?"
"She won't go to Yanjing and won't come back, right?" Mother Yang showed a vigilant look on her face, and at this time she suddenly thought of her uncle's daughter, Ran Feifei.
"What about that. Yang Dongxu's heart suddenly burst out, and he felt that his mother's eyes were extremely sharp at this time, and she seemed to see through the thoughts in his heart, "Can my sister be the same as my aunt?
"Yes. Hearing Yang Dongxu say this, Mother Yang nodded, although there is no college student trained in terms of children's education, but the tutor must not have said anything.
Mother Yang also knows what her daughter's temperament is, although she sometimes has a little temper, she never dares to show her parents her face or babble like other children.
"So you agreed?" Seeing his mother nodding, Yang Dongxu's eyes lit up.
"What is agreed, I will think about this matter first, don't tell your sister yet. ”
"Oh. Yang Dongxu couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart.
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After the snow, it has always been a sunny day, except for the cold when the snow melted two days ago, it was so cold that people didn't dare to stretch out their hands, and the temperature began to rise slowly after the snow melted, so the Yang family began to be completely busy.
I didn't look for outsiders anymore when I entered the food, Yang Dongxu and his grandfather plus my uncle were barely enough for four male laborers. So I first sold vegetables again in Yangjiaji, and then Ran Temple and Wuli...... A day to run a market, the farthest place actually ran to more than 30 kilometers away from the horse shop, basically two days three carts of vegetables.
I have to get up at two or three o'clock in the morning every day, and I can't come back until dark, so I have to deal with breakfast and lunch in the market, and wait until I come back in the evening to have a good meal, and then drink a little wine to relieve my fatigue.
At the beginning, Yang Dongxu was also as excited as chicken blood, and he felt a sense of accomplishment when he watched the bundles of vegetables that he loaded into the car with his own hands sell, but after selling them for a few days in a row, his father, grandfather and uncle were still in a state of chicken blood, but he was a little listless.
It's not that he sleeps less, but he is really tired, even if he is a little successful in martial arts, but practicing martial arts and manual labor are two different things. Growing up so big and not having spent so much labor at once in the previous life, this is more tiring than the summer harvest.
"Why don't you go tomorrow, I'll go with your dad, and you stay at home and watch the store." Seeing her son's tired face, Yang's mother was very distressed, and on the first day, she came back to see her son trembling with chopsticks in his hand, she almost didn't quarrel with Yang's father, how could she do this, and her father's own son was called as an animal.
"I won't go tomorrow, I'll rest for two days, I've run through several markets nearby, and only half a cart of vegetables has been sold today, and I'll wait until the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of the lunar month to see if it's better." "Naturally, he is also very distressed about his son Yang's father.
But the expression of father's love and mother's love is obviously different, so he also feels distressed when he sees his son so tired, and many times he only lets Yang Dongxu keep accounts next to him and does not let him move things. However, he felt that he was seventeen or eighteen and a half years old, and it was nothing to grind a few blisters on his hands and get a little calloused, and it would be better for the boy to be stronger.
Mother Yang glanced at Dad Yang, looking like she knew each other, and then thought of something and said, "How much money is appropriate for Da (Dad) and joining the army?"
The family is now separated after all, so some things can't always be done without giving returns. If you ask outsiders to pay for your salary, if you can't help your relatives, you feel like you should be a dime.
"The big side doesn't want money, I said several times that he just doesn't want it. ”
"Mother agrees?" Mama Yang snorted lightly.
For her mother-in-law, Mother Yang, it is clear that helping her eldest son's family is a benefit, and if she helps her younger son's family, she may be able to post a little.
"My mother didn't say anything. Dad Yang took a bite of food and said, but this sentence was not so confident.
In the past few days, I didn't come back until dark because of the matter of eating and selling vegetables, so I ate at Yang Dongxu's house. Today, because the business is not very good, I came back early, and when I got home, I went back to my own house, and when I was ready to go to the back house to call my grandfather and join the army to eat, I didn't call after eating there.
So Dad Yang said casually to let grandpa come over and drink two cups, don't eat food for the past two days, slow down, and calculate the profit after eating.
As a result, Grandpa Yang Dongxu directly said that he didn't need to forget it, and asked for money to help his son, isn't this a slap in the face, and reprimanded Yang's father a few words. Grandma Yang Dongxu pouted beside her, and several times she wanted to open her mouth to speak, but her grandfather glared back.