The time of winter vacation is rushed, like a white horse passing by, and it is gone forever.

In this year, Fang Ning's size couldn't stop running up like a sapling, turning over and over, and he had surpassed his grandfather's height.

Even among boys of the same age, they belong to the upper middle range.

Of course, compared with Yu Xiaole, it is a small thing.

It stands to reason that his body has been opened, and his bones are almost fixed, but after this year, he has turned his head again.

The two-meter-high door beam is only not much more than him.

So much so that you usually have to bend over when you enter the door.

Fang Ning's body has grown, and his clothes in previous years have become much smaller, and his body has more flesh, which also looks crowded.

So, the time to buy new clothes has also come.

There were two snowfalls in Pinghai City, one after a heavy snowfall, one before it melted, and the other light snow, which only wet the ground, disappeared.

The end of the year also came in these heavy snowfalls.

The Spring Festival is destined to be crowded, the streets and alleys are crowded with people, and the returnees are like arrows, all looking forward to going back to have a lively year.

Fang's father and mother came back early this year, and they came back a week before the New Year, taking a bus, carrying large bags and small bags.

Fang Ning's family waited at the new bus station to welcome them home.

"It's still a little cold here in our lake!" said Dad Fang, rubbing his face that was a little stiff from the cold.

As soon as he got out of the car, his legs were a little shivering, and he came from there, not wearing autumn pants, and when he arrived in Pinghai County, he naturally couldn't stand such a climate.

"Well, there were two heavy snowfalls last week, and the impact of the first snow was too great, and the temperature has not yet risen due to the cold wave. ”

"Cold weather also has the benefit of cold weather, at least we will have a lot less pest and disease disasters in the south next year. ”

"The insects and diseases are all frozen to death!"

Fang Ning's house is full of lights, and there are red lanterns hanging on the corridor, which is full of light.

Under Fang Ning's careful management, the whole family also has another charm, and it is no longer clichéd.

So Fang's father couldn't help but praise a few times, and asked about the situation at home, the spicy shrimp pot shop run by his grandfather was booming in business, and it was very popular, and even Fang's father was thinking about whether to go out and continue driving next year.

After all, his semi-trailer truck has been scrapped for six years, and it has been scrapped for nine years, and it can be sold as a second-hand car while it has not been scrapped now, and it can recover some losses.

The couple are busy all year round, earning money, but they can't save it.

For example, the toll fee costs tens of thousands of dollars a month, and the parts of the truck are somewhat aging, and there are problems at every turn, and it will cost thousands or even tens of thousands to repair the car.

"You'd better open it first, watch it for another year, and when I'm too busy here, you can come back." "Grandpa is still in good spirits now, and the management of the store is okay, but if he waits a few more years, it is estimated that his energy will not be as good as before.

Fang's father asked Fang Ning about the study of the two siblings, which was what he valued the most.

Since they are away from home all year round, their children's education can only rely on teachers and parents.

Fortunately, Fang Ning's brother and sister are quite sensible and obedient, and they don't have to worry too much.

Fang Ning's grades in the class are basically in the top ten, and Fang Wei is also at the middle and upper reaches of the class, especially this little daughter, who will take the high school entrance examination next year, so she will pay special attention to it and ask her to be on par with Fang Ning, the elder brother.

At night, the door was closed, and Fang's father and his wife chatted for most of the night.

The main thing is what to do next year, whether to continue to drive long distances to Shenzhen, or stay at home to help my father do business, which is related to the fate of the family.

Fang's mother took the account book sent by her grandfather and said: "I just took a look at the profit in the second half of this year, the net profit is 100,000, this is only three months, and we are afraid that we will not be able to earn so much money after a year of hard work, husband, we may have to change our minds." ”

When my father wanted to open a store, Fang's father and Fang's mother were all holding a bystander attitude, and gave him twenty or thirty thousand yuan to toss by himself, after all, how can it be so easy to open a store, even if it fails, it is only twenty or thirty thousand, and it can withstand the toss, but his sister sent 200,000 yuan to his father, who is more concerned and quite supportive.

As a result, three months later, Dad's store should have opened a second branch, and this cold reality was not only a slap in the face, but it also brought out their attitude of being a bystander.

The money is as easy as pie falling from the sky!

"Let's see, my car will last a few years. Dad Fang sighed and hesitated.

"Your car often has to be repaired, and most of the money we transfer goes into the car repair shop, bits and pieces, tolls, fuel costs, annual inspection fees, insurance premiums, which one is not money?" Fang's mother has made up her mind, she wants to live a stable life in her hometown, she has drifted north outside for so long, and she has not made a name for herself, and she has achieved nothing, which is shameful enough.

At least at home, she can rest, take care of the children, and take care of education.

"I'll think about ...... again"

Early in the morning of another day, Fang Ning, who was still lazy, was pulled up by his parents.

"Your hair is a little long, it's almost the New Year, go cut it. Fang's father sat on the sofa.

Fang's mother said, "You're not a girl, why do you have such long hair, don't you care about school?"

Fang Ning felt a little headache and hurriedly went out to cut his hair.

ate a bowl of hot noodle soup at the old noodle restaurant on the street, and called Yu Xiaole, who also said that they would go out to cut their hair together and meet in the alley opposite No. 1 Middle School.

Little Red Barbershop.

The master who cut people's hair was a middle-aged woman with a gentle personality, and she brought her seven-year-old son and got up early in the morning to get busy.

"This master has good skills, I used to cut my hair here when I was a child, and the price was not expensive. Yu Xiaole walked in first.

Fang Ning glanced at it, Aunt Hong was giving a middle-aged uncle a haircut, and an electric head shaving shaved him into a bare head in a few clicks, Cheng Liang Cheng Liang.

Fang Ning was embarrassed, "You mean her shaved head?"

Yu Xiaole was embarrassed, "How do I know this......"

Fortunately, when Aunt Hong gave Fang Ning a haircut, according to his requirements, she cut it short and thinned a lot, the part that covered her eyebrows and eyes was exposed, and her ears were also exposed.

"Oh my God, I really can't stand it!" Yu Xiaole looked disgusted.

The two walked out of the store after getting a haircut, made an appointment to go to Longmen Bookstore, and went home for dinner at noon.

Fang Wei was greedy for ink from the few books he bought, and took them back to the room as a pastime for snacking.

Fang Ning didn't say anything, this time was winter vacation, and he was always a little free.

Fang's father and mother pulled the two to buy new clothes, the old street is not generally crowded, the streets are congested with vehicles, most people are here to buy New Year's goods, and a small number of people are here to sell New Year's goods.

The result of the afternoon battle was that Fang Ning and Fang Wei had purchased thousands of clothes.

Fang Ning had more, eight new clothes and two new pairs of shoes.

It's not that parents are partial to Fang Ning and prefer their children to their daughters.

It's that he has to live in the second year of high school, and boys are more likely to sweat, so they change more clothes in school, so they just buy more.

Eventually, they went to a Bosideng store and bought them two more down jackets.

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The New Year came unhurriedly.

Fang Ning and Fang's father pasted Spring Festival couplets on the eaves, and red lanterns were hung everywhere, beaming with joy.

Grandpa took grandma from her hometown, this is an old ancestor, her body is quite strong, her speech is clear, and her thinking is clear, anyway, when Fang Ning heard grandpa say that when she found grandma, she was still carrying a bamboo basket and resisting a hoe to dig winter bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest...... It's not worrying at all.

This year's New Year, Da Mao and Xiao Mao's two children will not follow, and the little grandfather and little grandmother will also celebrate the New Year.

Moreover, as the two children grow up, their minds have become different, people's hearts will change, they have been close to their uncle's family since they were children, and now they are faintly estranged, and there must be the 'teaching' of the master and the grandmother here.

Fang Ning doesn't care, now that he is estranged, he just learned from the adults, and when he grows up in the future, he will still be indispensable to the support of Fang Ning's family, and when they grow up, they will still choose to be close to their family.

After all, for these children in the mountains, they have no background and no education, and if they want to get ahead, they don't have to rely on the uncle's family.

Grandma lived in the warmest and most comfortable room, and grandpa was afraid that the heating was not warm enough, so he lit a charcoal fire and opened the window on one side to ventilate, so he was not afraid of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Grandma was lying comfortably on a custom-made chair, with grapes bought in the supermarket on the table next to her, washed clean, her teeth were already soft, she couldn't eat anything too hard, like those apples or something, she couldn't bite it, only these could she eat.

Whenever a neighbor in the community came to the door, she would say to her eldest son, "Filial piety!"

Fang Ning went out with his hands behind his back and a smile, this is what he wanted.

When others look at it, Lao Xie is so filial, your character is definitely not bad, and it is a good thing to be with people with good conduct, and in the long run, there are more benefits, but they are not revealed for the time being.

The elders of the family gather around the large table, where you can bake a fire, and it is the grandfather and parents who discuss the major affairs of the family.

Grandma usually doesn't ask about the family's major affairs, and she doesn't control the family's money, and sometimes she doesn't even bother to cook the family's meals, so she directly asks her grandfather to cook and wash the dishes.

Grandpa's brows were so furrowed that he could kill a fly, because his children objected to going to Guzhang's hometown in Xiangxi this year to worship their ancestors.

"Dad, at the beginning of this year, our family's affairs were a bit heavy, you have to be busy with relatives, we are busy going to relatives, and our mother's family also has to move around, how can you have time to go to your hometown over there. Dad Fang sighed and smoked a cigarette, which was full of smoke.

"Yes, Dad, what Lao Ling said makes sense, besides, there is only one of your aunts and grandmothers left over there, and the rest of the people are almost dead, whether they are willing to let us recognize our ancestors and return to our ancestors is not necessarily!"

Grandpa suddenly looked displeased, sank his face, slapped the table hard, and said in a deep voice, "Our ancestor has only one, that is the surname Fang, the ancestral hall is in the Yunzhe Mountain, you can't talk nonsense in the future!"

Grandpa's grandfather, that is, his wife's grandfather, his old home is Guzhang County in the mountains of Xiangxi, his surname is Kong, not Fang.

In the generation of Grandpa Tai, because of the forced conscription of the Republic of China, he fled to the area of Yueyang in the south of Hu, and got into the mountains of Pinghai.

From then on, Fang Ning's ancestors no longer had the surname Kong, but the surname Fang, so that the ancestor in the ancestral hall here, Fang Ruoshui, was the ancestral surname.

Regarding his grandfather's thoughts, Fang Ning probably had a bottom in his heart.

His grandfather's grandfather fled from Xiangxi to Yueyang, left his hometown, and changed his name and surname, which was originally a shameless thing, somewhat guilty and repentant, this was a piece of his heart, thinking that he could return to his hometown when he was old, but this wish failed to come true because of various willingness, and died of illness.

This incident more or less had some impact on the young grandfather, who thought that Guzhang County was the second hometown, so when he was young, he went to hunt birds in other places, and sometimes passed through Xiangxi, and he would also go over to inquire about the situation.

However, Xiangxi has been closed since ancient times, and the news is not communicated with the outside world, especially in the mountains, and it is difficult to enter it by walking on two legs.

Now that the times are developed, I have also been to Guzhang County twice, respectively in 09 and 10, but unfortunately I don't know if it is because of the age, or the descendants of the Confucian family have moved away, and they have not found their roots.

In the first half of this year, my grandfather asked a related person to inquire again, and the news he got made him a little surprised, that is, his aunt and grandmother are still in the world, not only that, but the younger generation of the Confucian family has also taken root in the mountains of Guzhang County, and survived tenaciously, and there is even a young girl who walked out of the mountains through the university entrance examination and is now living in Guangzhou.

So this time, the grandfather, who had been thinking about it for a long time, told his son and daughter-in-law about the idea of going to Guzhang County to find his roots, but who knew that he was strongly opposed by the two.

So there was a divergence of opinion here, and it became more and more intense, and there seems to be a tendency to quarrel.

Fang Ning and his sister hurriedly came over to reconcile and ease the atmosphere.

After all, they are all a family, and in the end, they each gave in and reached the following opinions.

Fang's mother's maiden house still has to leave, and her mother is very strong at this point, and in previous years, she also took Fang Ning's brothers and sisters to see her grandmother.

In order to go to Guzhang County, Xiangxi, the grandfather simply bought a car a year ago, and he paid for the money himself, and he didn't need his children to pay for it.

Then there is the distribution of Fang Ning and Fang Wei.

Fang Ning followed his grandparents to Xiangxi to find his roots, Fang Wei followed his parents to Yueyang to see his grandmother, and finally came back and finished his grandmother's maiden house.

When things were agreed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

And Fang Ning also found one thing on this, why did his parents take a step back, the first is that the children are filial to the old man and don't want to quarrel anymore, and the second is that the shop opened by his grandfather is really profitable, and he has his own independent economic resources, and he doesn't need his children to support him.

With this money, even the tone of his speech has become tough, as if he is still the head of the house.

At this point, the father who has no money can only pinch his nose and admit it.