Chapter Seventy-One: The Feast

The day before Chinese New Year's Eve, Fang Renzheng replaced the black and white TV at home with a seventeen-inch color TV, and his younger siblings were overjoyed.

Go to the township radio station to install cable TV, you can watch a lot of programs, and it turns out, it is the kind of outdoor antenna, not only do you receive a few TV programs, and the picture is not clear, every time you want to watch the program, you have to adjust the posture of the antenna, and the trouble is dead.

Although the house is still relatively dilapidated, it has changed a lot in other aspects. My younger siblings no longer wear clothes with patches, and the family's New Year's goods are no longer as shabby as they were in previous years.

On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the family sat happily in front of the new color TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala. The 1997 Spring Festival Gala will certainly highlight the element of Hong Kong's return to the motherland.

The first program is the reunion, at this time, I don't know how, the taste of the New Year is very strong, in the future, although the living conditions are good, but the taste of the New Year is gone, except for looking forward to a few days off for the New Year, there is nothing else to look forward to.

Watching the Spring Festival Gala has become a thing that every Chinese person can't do during the Spring Festival. The younger siblings sat in front of the TV, watching the sketch songs without blinking, and they could see midnight until the end of the Spring Festival Gala!

Fang Renzheng also sat in front of the TV and watched the show, while his parents were wrapping dumplings next to him, and eating dumplings is a must-have food for the Spring Festival. At the end of the year, it is at this time that you can eat a little good.

This dumpling filling is divided into vegetarian filling, meat filling, my mother told them when I was a child, they can only eat vegetarian stuffing in the first and second years of junior high school, and they can only eat meat-filled dumplings in the third year of junior high school. And he and his younger siblings don't like to eat vegetarian stuffing, but they have no choice, so they have to wait until the third day of junior high school for their mother to let them eat meat dumplings.

I don't know what the situation is in other people's homes, anyway, he thinks that it must be because his family is poor and can't afford to eat meat-filled dumplings, so he has to let them wait until the third day of junior high school to eat meat-filled dumplings, otherwise they can't afford to eat meat-filled dumplings for three days in a row.

Sitting there, he turned his head to look at his parents and found that they were making vegetarian dumplings, so he said, "Mom, are you still making vegetarian dumplings?"

My mother raised her head and said, "If you don't have a vegetarian filling, what kind of stuffing is you?"

"My younger siblings like to eat minced meat, so you can wrap it. "Fang Ren is right.

As soon as Fang Renzheng said this, his younger brothers and sisters hurriedly turned their heads and said, "I want to eat meat-filled dumplings." ”

"What meat dumplings to eat, wait until the third day of the Lunar New Year to eat. "Mom reprimanded my younger siblings.

Seeing that his mother did not agree to eat meat-stuffed dumplings, Fang Renzheng sighed in his heart, although the family has money, but the frugal style cannot be changed for a while, and it is impossible to let his parents spend money indiscriminately.

There is no way, Fang Renzheng turned his head and continued to watch the Spring Festival Gala, at this time, there was no smartphone, there was no bowing family, he was reborn and came back, and he couldn't find other entertainment methods, so he could only watch the Spring Festival Gala.

At this time, suddenly a song entered his eardrums, and when he looked up, he saw that it was 1997 A.D. sung by Sun Guoqing and others!

"A hundred years ago, I watched you leave, a hundred years later I look forward to you coming back to me, the vicissitudes of the sea can't erase my thoughts of you, call you again and again, my 1997 ......"

When Fang Renzheng heard this song again, he couldn't help but burst into tears, although he was poor before he was reborn, but this did not hinder his love for the country, and his failure to achieve personal success was completely the result of his own wrong choice, if he had taken that step bravely a long time ago, to go into business and start a business, he would definitely not have fallen into that step.

The Spring Festival Gala didn't end until the early hours of the morning, and after the younger brothers and sisters watched the Spring Festival Gala, it was already the first day of the Lunar New Year. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, every household has the custom of setting off firecrackers.

And their family is used to setting off firecrackers to welcome the Spring Festival after watching the Spring Festival Gala. Dad brought the firecrackers bought, and the younger brother went to help, Fang Renzheng saw it, so he smiled, although the family was poor, but the hope for the New Year was sincere, whoever put the firecrackers first, could bring good luck to whom.

The firecrackers crackled, and there was no need to worry about disturbing the people, and during the Spring Festival, who wouldn't set off firecrackers, even if they woke up in their sleep, there was nothing to be annoyed about.

After the firecrackers were set off, the family went to bed.

At seven o'clock in the morning, Fang Renzheng got up, and after getting up, he wanted to go out to pay New Year's greetings, go to the elders' houses, and kowtow to the elders, which is a custom that has been passed down from ancient times to the present.

When he went out to pay New Year's greetings, as soon as others saw him, they asked him what he was doing now, and where did he go to work? Fang Renzheng smiled and told them that he had gone to work at the grain station, and when others heard this, they were immediately in awe, but if he said that he had gone out to do business, then others would not take him seriously.

In the eyes of rural people, eating public meals and going to work in public units is a matter of saving face, otherwise even if he makes a lot of money outside and returns to the village, everyone will not take him seriously, and this situation will not change until the market economy is thoroughly established.

At this time, Fang Renzheng's face was full of confident smiles, and this confident smile did not come from the fact that he went to work in the grain center, which he regretted for a lifetime, but from his grasp of the future and the complete change in the current family's economic conditions.

If you have food in your hands, you don't panic in your heart, even if you have eaten a public meal, if you don't have any money in your hand, then what's the point? Of course, everyone has their own aspirations, and some people may like to eat public food, and they can't get rich because of drought and flood, but they can't go hungry, and their lives are also very good.

For a few days, Fang Renzheng stayed at home, occasionally going out for a walk and chatting with other young people. However, after chatting for a long time, there is really nothing to talk about, the content of their conversation is too vulgar, it is not interesting, he was high and low before he was reborn, and now he is reborn, and it is still the case, this temperament is a little impossible to change.

At this time, there were many young people in the village, and at this time, there were more people who introduced them. Mom also wanted someone to introduce him to someone.

But as soon as he told him about it, he immediately refused, he didn't have this idea now, he didn't have this interest, he was reborn and came back, not to get married so early, he wanted to start his career, and then talk about the relationship between men and women.

Seeing that he was unwilling to let others introduce him, his mother thought about it and didn't urge him anymore, his son is now also a member of the public family, if he wants to find a partner, he must also find a person who eats public food, how can he find a rural daughter-in-law casually?