Zhenhua rolled his eyes: "I'm giving your mother a New Year's greeting, not a New Year's greeting to you." Forget about eating, I'm too lazy to run, it's the same if you eat at my house. ”

"If you are told to eat, you will go, where is there so much nonsense?" Qi Lei couldn't help but say, pulling Zhenhua and leaving.

Zhenhua also felt bored at home, and followed Qi Lei half-push and half-on-the-spot.

Zhao Chenghai chased out of the door and shouted at his son: "Drink less wine, don't gamble!"

"Got it. Zhenhua turned around and responded.

When I came to Qi Lei's house again, it was already time to eat.

Qi Lei's mother, Lan Yuzhi, hurriedly beckoned Zhenhua to sit down and began to prepare the dishes.

During the Chinese New Year, no matter how poor the family is, they can also serve a table of dishes.

Lan Yuzhi prepared a plate of salted chicken and a plate of salted duck, and a large pot full of fish jelly, accompanied by two hot stir-fries, plus dried noodles and meat balls, that is, a table of dishes.

Qi Lei's two younger brothers and seven or eight-year-old sister also came to the table, and the whole family accompanied Zhenhua to dinner.

Zhenhua picked up his wine glass and stood up to toast Qi Lei's mother.

Lan Yuzhi took a sip of liquor and said to Zhenhua: "Zhenhua, you and Qi Lei's classmates are much more promising than Qi Lei. The two of you are as good as brothers, and in the future, you will have to help Qi Lei more. ”

Zhenhua smiled modestly: "Auntie is joking, I'm not as good as Qi Lei, how can I have the ability to help him? ”

Qi Lei looked at Zhenhua and nodded: "You are still a little self-aware." ”

Lan Yuzhi glared at her son, sighed at Zhenhua again, and said:

"Zhenhua will build a house soon, and the object will be negotiated, he will still be a tailor in the town, and his life will get better day by day. My family Qi Lei, poor and white, I am a woman, and I have no ability to build a house for him in this life. Alas...... There are two younger brothers under Qi Lei, and I am afraid that the three of them will become monks in the future......"

As she spoke, Lan Yuzhi's eyes were slightly red, and she was almost about to cry.

Lan Yuzhi was only forty-five or sixteen years old, but she looked older than a sixty-year-old, thin and withered. It seems that the past forty years have exhausted her energy, and all that remains is a look of exhaustion and despair.

Zhenhua also felt sad, but he didn't know how to comfort him.

In the eyes of the villagers in Dongwan Village, a family like Qi Lei is hopeless.

A widowed mother with four children can live a life, so that the children are hungry and frozen, which is already a great ability. It is a fool's dream to build a big tiled house for all three sons and marry them.

Qi Lei also has a second uncle who lives with Qi Lei's grandmother.

The second uncle's family is as poor, and it is impossible to help Qi Lei.

Qi Lei was very dissatisfied with his mother, the wine glass was heavily rested on the table, and he frowned:

"What are you talking about during the Chinese New Year, Mom? I've grown up, a man who stands up to the sky, building a house to beg for a wife, do you have to worry about it? There are also younger brothers and sisters, it's all on me, you live a good life at home, you can eat and drink when you should eat. In less than three or five years, I will let you be an old lady, you don't have to do anything, you just enjoy Qingfu!"

Lan Yuzhi turned her back, secretly wiped a handful of tears, turned back to her son and smiled: "You, don't do a solid job, you still like to brag! Your grandmother is still alive, what am I doing as an old lady?"

Qi Lei shook his head, had another drink with Zhenhua, and said to his mother: "I never brag, I will get married this year, and I will let you take your grandson to be a grandmother next year!"

Lan Yuzhi smiled even more happily, and rolled her eyes at her son: "Don't blush when you talk big, if you have Zhenhua's ability and talk to someone yourself, I will kowtow to the west!"

Qi Lei glanced at Zhenhua and said, "As long as Zhenhua has an object, I don't have an object?" The girls in the world are all contracted by him Zhao Zhenhua?"

Lan Yuzhi was a little surprised, looked at her son and asked, "So, you have also talked about a good partner?"

Qi Lei raised his eyes and looked at the roof: "It's from the city, and you don't know you when I told you." ”

Lan Yuzhi naturally didn't believe it, looked at Zhenhua and asked, "Zhenhua, is what Qi Lei said true?"

Zhenhua also coaxed Qi Lei's mother to be happy, and said with a smile: "It's true, Qi Lei has a partner outside, maybe he can really get married this year." ”

Lan Yuzhi was naturally happy, but also a little skeptical, and frowned: "Is it really fake?

Zhenhua glanced at Qi Lei and said with a smile: "People who fall in love with Qi Lei don't care about the poor and rich." ”

Qi Lei didn't blush at all, and even had a look of arrogance: "That's it, money is earned by people, I'm poor now, do I have to be poor for a lifetime?"

Lan Yuzhi thought about it, shook her head and smiled: "Anyway, I still don't believe it, if you bring someone girl's girl home, I will believe you!"

Qi Lei waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, okay, in the summer, I'll bring someone back to show you." ”

Lan Yuzhi smiled, got up and left the table, letting Qi Lei and Zhenhua continue to drink and chat.

After the meal, Qi Lei wanted to take Zhenhua to gamble again.

Zhenhua resolutely refused, and waved his hand again and again: "I won't go, I won't go, I was beaten by Zhao Wenle, the second old man of the fourth group, this morning, and my father didn't let me gamble." ”

Qi Lei had no choice but to slip around the village by himself, looking for a casino.

Zhenhua went home and hid in the bedroom to sleep.

He was very worried that Zhao Wenle would come to trouble him again, but fortunately, that night was safe and sound, and he didn't see Zhao Wenle's people.

The next day is the second day of the Lunar New Year, and Zhenhua is going to pay New Year's greetings to his uncle and second uncle.

My mother's maiden home was on the other side of the reservoir, seven or eight miles away.

After breakfast, Zhenhua took gifts and set off with his sister Chunlan to cross the river by boat at the ferry.

The ferries in East Bay Village are public, free of charge, and do not have dedicated drivers.

An arm-thick cable crosses the surface of the river, connecting the two sides of the river. Those who want to cross the river get on the boat themselves, pull the cable and pull the ferry, and cross the river in the oldest way.

When Zhenhua took Chunlan on the boat, there were already seven or eight people on the boat, all of whom crossed the river to pay New Year's greetings.

Everyone pulled the cable together, and the ferry broke the waves, and arrived at the opposite shore in ten minutes.

Before he got off the boat, Zhenhua saw his eldest sister Zhao Zhenxia and brother-in-law Chen Daogang, waiting by the river with their two children.

The eldest sister Zhenxia is three years older than Zhenhua, and she married on the other side of the river, and her mother's uncle's village, one after the other. The couple came to Dongwan Village to pay New Year's greetings to their parents.

"Eldest sister, Brother Chen. Zhenhua jumped off the ferry and greeted his sister and brother-in-law.

"Zhenhua, Chunlan!" The eldest sister was naturally happy and took Chunlan's hand: "You went to my uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings?" Zhenhua, on the second day of the Lunar New Year this year, didn't you go to the little tailor's house to greet the old man's father-in-law?"

At the end of the year, the eldest sister also went back to her parents' house twice, so she naturally knew about Zhenhua and Zhang Kexiang.

Zhenhua rolled his eyes: "What kind of old man and little father-in-law? I am a classmate with others, how can I go to pay New Year's greetings?"

Zhenxia frowned: "Haven't you asked Momiji to come to the door to talk about this? What are your parents busy at home all day?

There were a lot of people at the ferry, Zhenhua didn't want to say more, and waved his hand: "Okay, okay, eldest sister, you and Brother Chen hurry up and get on the boat, I'll take Chunlan to my uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings." I'll come back after dinner, and I'll talk about it when I come back. ”

Brother-in-law Chen Daogang is an honest man, he laughed hehe, and got on the boat with the child in his arms.