Qi Jingtao Xian turned his face and came to the kitchen with a bottle of Wuliangye in his hand, and Qi Lin was giggling to help her mother serve the food. The family is still the old rule, and on weekends, Qi Jingtao and Qi Lin's brothers and sisters will add more dishes when they come home. Today there is a stewed pork rib with peanuts, and the rest are seasonal vegetables from the field, and of course, there are also pickles that are submerged at home. Although the dishes are simple, they are full of color, flavor and flavor under the skillful hands of my mother, and people can't help but have an appetite when they look at it.

"Mom, I'm back. ”

"Sit down and eat, and you'll be ready. Mother Chen Huifen smiled and turned back to tell her son who had returned home.

Qi Zhengming cut the roast duck and brought it to the table and sat down, when he saw the Wuliangye on the table, a trace of remembrance flashed, he picked up the wine bottle and looked at it and asked, "Where did Wuliangye come from?"

"Brother bought it today, I bought two bottles. Qi Lin brought the roast duck ingredients and put them on the table, and sat next to his father to say goodbye.

"I want you to talk more, give, eat duck thighs. Qi Jingtao glared at his sister, and put a roast duck leg in her bowl.

"Don't. Duck wings are delicious. Qi Lin picked up the roast duck thigh and put it in his father's bowl, reached out and took a roast duck wing, dipped it in the sweet sauce and took a bite.

"Linlin, bring wine glasses for your father and your brother. Grandma smiled and instructed her granddaughter, also came to sit down at the table, looked at her grandson and asked with a smile: "Xiaotao, how much is a bottle of this wine?"

"Grandma, it's not too expensive, a dozen dollars a bottle. This wine is very fragrant, can you taste it too? Linlin, bring one more glass. ”

"Just taste it, don't buy it later. Qi Zhengming looked at the grandmother and grandson, this kid couldn't even tell a lie, "By the way, didn't you say that you were going to the county?

"It's good, I drank it last time I went to Longquan, and the sorghum wine in Dalongkou is more mellow. I'll start training next month, and when the time comes, I'll ask my colleagues from the local tobacco company to go to the distillery warehouse and buy their real stock of 10-year-old wine. ”

Qi Jingtao's father usually likes to drink wine, basically drinking grain wine brewed in the small wine house in the village. Economical and tasteless, it is not very good, but it is guaranteed to be made from pure grain and will not be adulterated. Every year after selling flue-cured tobacco and having cash, Qi Zhengming will go to the wine room to buy a 50-kilogram large tank of wine, which is cheaper than the scattered ones, and when he buys it, he will store it in his own crockpot and drink it slowly. Several wine tanks are used in turns, and the wine tastes better after a long time.

The family of five was reunited again and finished dinner happily. Among them, Qi Lin proudly told her grandmother that her brother had won a big prize of 5,000 yuan and spent lavishly at the farmers' market. is indispensable, Qi Jingtao was criticized again, and he didn't know how to save a little money.

After the meal, it was almost dark. Grandma and Mother were busy in the house preparing the sacrifices to be used for tomorrow's tomb sweeping, mainly some paper money, tomb labels, incense and other sacrificial supplies. Qi Lin consciously went upstairs to read books and do homework, and senior high school students always have endless books and homework to do. Qi Zhengming habitually sat in the courtyard with a hookah and smoked a hookah.

Qi Jingtao continued to pack up the items he brought home, in fact, there was nothing special, the dried meat and eggs that he bought home were all gathered in the kitchen, and grandma should be able to see it when she was cooking at home, right?

Those nutritional products are put in the main house, these are the objects that Lao Qi put in the public space, Qi Jingtao is not polite, with the help of the volume of the big satchel, lotus root, oatmeal, toffee, calcium-added milk powder, Telunsu milk, the packaging and other signs on it have been processed by Lao Qi, Lao Qi has a heart.

Many things, only when they are lost, they know how to cherish them, and the pain of wanting to raise them but not waiting for them is an unforgettable pain for Lao Qi. Lao Qi's "history", like most people who participated in the work before and after, failed to resist the temptation to live in a new welfare house, and in order to catch up with the distribution of welfare housing, he will marry Chen Xuefei, a middle school teacher introduced to him by his third aunt this year.

Marriage, renting a house, buying a house, house decoration, birth of a child...... A series of life events faced by a series of peers, especially college students of the same age from rural areas, followed one after another in more than a year, and the short-term concentrated high consumption caused the Qi family's economy, which had little source of income, to fall into a state of fiscal deficit.

He thought about helping his family reduce the burden, and he thought about doing his filial piety as soon as possible. I thought about getting my sister out of the predicament he had when he was in school. But the reality is the opposite, the family does everything for his personal affairs. His parents and grandmother continued to do the heavy farm work at home, and after the birth of the child, his mother had to take a leave of absence to go to the city to help them take care of the child; although he had cash every month to pay for his sister's living expenses, his sensible sister had to give up the opportunity to go to a prestigious school and choose a tuition-free normal university. This also laid the groundwork for his father's death due to illness a year later and his grandmother's depression five years later, which is the eternal pain in Lao Qi's heart.

These, in the final analysis, are all about money, money is really not omnipotent, but there are 10,000 things that cannot be done without money.

It is impossible for Lao Qi to tell Xiao Qi that now, money will not be a problem for Xiao Qi, and none of this will happen.

Qi Jingtao sent some fruit snacks and milk to Qi Lin, who was concentrating on studying, "Linlin, eat some snacks to relieve your hunger when you are sleepy." ”

"Brother, don't take out good things early, slam the door!" Qi Lin saw a bunch of fruit snacks upstairs with her brother hugging her, and rushed up in surprise to rummage through her favorite food. In fact, she loves to eat these fruit snacks, but there are so many at once, which makes her have more trouble with choices.

Qi Jingtao helped her sister open a can of milk, plugged in a straw and handed it to her, "Eat slowly, read a book for a while, go downstairs by yourself, don't stay upstairs." I went to talk to my parents. ”

Qi Lin drank a bag of milk and looked at her brother with a look of surprise, "Well, brother, this milk is really delicious, much better than the milk powder brought by the little tweezers in the dormitory." Is there any, let grandma and parents try it too?"

"Yes, these things are available in the city market, and I will bring them back often in the future. You should also strengthen nutrition at school, and I will send some nutritional products to the school regularly. Also, there is no need to save on food in the future. Qi Jingtao pretended to warn her sister seriously.

"I don't have to save money, I eat one meat dish a day, which is much more than when you were in school. Qi Lin didn't think that her food at school was poor, at least, it was much better than when her brother was studying, and she was very satisfied with her sensible.

"Less, starting next week, you must add one or two meat dishes to every meal, otherwise the nutrition will not keep up with the study efficiency, and you will regret not being admitted to a prestigious university. Remember, don't save it, your brother's current salary is very high, and your brother will add living expenses to you. After Qi Jingtao finished speaking, he patted his sister on the shoulder and went downstairs.

Qi Lin had milk in her mouth, and looked at the back of her brother who was still wearing a work uniform and going downstairs when she came home, and her nose couldn't help but be sour.

In the downstairs side room, my grandmother and mother were making gold and silver items for rituals out of tin foil bought on the street. These paper items are the common necessities of the Chinese people's sacrifices, and the rural areas are basically made by themselves, which is economical.

The mother, who was talking to her grandmother, saw her son and said with a smile, "Xiaotao, everything is packed?"

Grandma turned to the side, skillfully folding the paper, and said, "Xiaotao, I was talking to your mother about you just now." That time, your mother went to the city and saw that girl was your partner? Sit here and talk to your grandmother. ”