Chapter 7: A Family Reunion

1．

Chun's father, Chun Shuli, has four brothers, more than a dozen uncles and brothers in his own family, plus his nephews who have separated from each other, and the Lao Chun family accounts for almost one-third of the gateway in Shimengouzi Village, which is a standard big family.

Chun Shuli's eldest brother Chun Shuwen died of illness last year, and there are two sons and three daughters in the family, who have already married and lived independently.

In 1983, when the government began to call on self-employed people to work alone, he resigned from the town food station and used his expertise to start a business of selling cattle, sheep and pigs and slaughtering, becoming the first self-employed person in Hushan Town. In recent years, Chun Shuwu has made a lot of money, and he is the richest man in Shimengouzi Village, and it is estimated that he can also be ranked famous in the entire Hushan Town. There are two sons in the family, one is in high school and is called Chunlin, and the other is also in the third year of junior high school in Hushan Middle School, which is the same grade as Chunyu and is called Chunming.

Chun Shuli is the third in line, he was the village team leader and team accountant when he was young, and he was a good hand at doing the work of the banker inside and out, and he was also a capable person in the village. The two sons are also very competitive in their studies. In recent years, the life of the family has gradually improved.

Chun Shuli's younger brother Chun Shujia was a soldier when he was young, and he didn't become a volunteer soldier after mixing in the army for several years, and he couldn't get promoted, so he had to be demobilized and go home. After returning home, the Chunshu family used the demobilization money to open a small shop in the village, specializing in selling some daily necessities and chemical fertilizers and pesticides for the villagers, and the business was not bad. It's a pity that he is in his early forties and has not started a family, and he has seen a lot of women, and he has not succeeded in high or low, and I don't know what he thinks in his heart.

2．

Spring and his father were gossiping in the hall, and Chunshu Wu walked in from the gate with a big grin.

"Xiaotian is back?" As soon as Chunshu Martial Man entered the courtyard, a hearty laugh came into the house, and Spring quickly got up and went out of the house to greet him.

Chun Shuwu carried a piece of pork belly in his right hand and a "red cloud" cigarette in his left hand. Seeing that the spring walked out of the house, he casually handed over the pork in his hand, "Let your mother stew, treat you well, look at this child's skinny..."

Spring stretched out his hand to take the pork, said a few polite words, and was scolded by Chun Shuwu with a smile.

Chun Shuwu entered the hall and threw the cigarette to Chun Shuli: "Cigarettes are for children, and they are about to participate in work, and they always have to bring two boxes of good cigarettes when they go out to run errands." ”

"Second brother, you don't have to get used to him all the time, look at this has cost you a lot more..." Chunshu said uneasily.

"It's for the child, it's not for you, what's the word?" Chun Shuwu glared, "Xiaotian, this kid is angry, and he is the first college student in our Lao Chun family, so he should get used to it." Besides, as the old saying goes, 'you can't eat and drink poorly, and you won't be poor until you don't plan', the second brother has a business and a way to make money, and this money is nothing. ”

While the two of them were talking, the old Sichun calligrapher broke in.

"Brother, what about Xiaotian?" Chunshu looked around the hall and didn't see the shadow of spring.

"The pork brought by the second brother has been sent to the kitchen by Xiaotian, you sit first. Chunshuli greeted Chunshu.

It happened that Spring walked in, and when he saw the fourth uncle coming, he hurriedly said hello. The spring calligrapher took Spring's hand and sat down affectionately.

3．

The four of them sat around the square table in the hall, and in the spring they were busy handing cigarettes and pouring water to the three elders. The four of them were drinking water and smoking cigarettes while gossiping.

Spring told them about his graduation assignment and reporting to the town education committee.

"What? Went back to our Hushan Town? Didn't you stay in the county seat?" Chun Shujia's eyes widened when he heard this, and he interjected angrily, "Isn't your major very popular now? Why will you go back to our Hushan?"

"Fourth uncle, I was assigned to stay in the county seat to find a way to give gifts, our family doesn't even have a relative in the county, let alone know any big people, and the family has no money to give it." But it's good that this way, it's good that I didn't send it to Banshan Township. Spring grinned.

"Yes, with our family's economic situation, it would be good if your father could provide for you to finish college. Man, let him be content. When I was a soldier, I also suffered a loss of no one and no money, or where can I go back to this poor ravine where rabbits don't and suffer this foreign sin?" Chun Shujia said a few words, and then reached out and touched the top of Chun's head, "However, it will be fine in the future, your father will be liberated when you come back to work, and Xiaotian can help your father earn money to support the family." ”

"Come back, come back, there's nothing wrong with going back to Toyama. Being close to home and being familiar with people are all advantages. After all, Chun Shuwu was out every day, and when he spoke, he said, "Besides, teachers are all paid dead salaries allocated by the government, so why is it not the same?"

"What the second brother said is," Chun Shuwu said and Chun Shuli nodded again and again, "It's not bad for Xiaotian to come back, it's best to be assigned to the town middle school, and take care of Chunyu and Chunming." ”

"That's right," Chun Shuwu slapped his thigh and laughed, "Why did I forget about this stubble? ”

"What's the matter? The town education committee still doesn't know how to distribute it. Spring was a little depressed and learned what Feng Shu said when he reported in the morning.

"Do you have to give gifts when you distribute them at the doorstep? What kind of society is this?" Chunshu is angry, but he still retains the uprightness and kindness of a soldier.

"Why don't I talk to Feng Shu's father? He lives in a tun, he won't help with this little help, right? Let Feng Shu's father find the director of the education committee to transfer something for us, and I heard that the people in the village say that they are relatives." Chun Shuli cautiously made a suggestion, but in fact, he didn't know the bottom in his heart.

"No! No gifts, no need to ask for help, no matter where he goes, anyway, he can't do without one acre and three points of land in our Hushan Town, and it's the same wherever he goes. Spring knew that his father had never begged anyone in his life, and he didn't want his father to open his mouth to someone in a low voice because of his work.

"The director of the town education committee is Liu Wenhua?" Chun Shuwu thought for a long time and suddenly asked.

"Yes, he was the principal when I was in middle school, and I don't know what year I went to the Education Commission. Spring looked at Chun Shuwu with eagerness and expectation, he knew that Chun Shuwu knew a lot of people, and maybe there would be a way to find Liu Wenhua.

"I know this person, he often buys meat at my stall, and he buys a lot of meat every time, and it is estimated that the family has a large population," Chun Shuwu paused, and then continued, "When I met him one day, I told him that it was a big deal to send him half a pig." ”

"What is this, I want the second brother to break the fee... I'll pay for the half-pulled pigs..." Chun Shuli looked at Chun Shuwu and held back for a long time, but he couldn't say a complete sentence in front of the wealthy second brother.

"Third brother, you don't care, the second brother has money, what is half a pig? Chun Shujia took over Chun Shuli's words and looked at Chun Shuwu with a smile.

"Just your mouth!" Chun Shuwu glared at Chun Shujia.

"Why don't I get some money and ask the second brother to send it to Liu Wenhua?" Chun Shuli tentatively put forward his idea.

"Let's talk about it then, there will be at least half a month for the allocation, don't rush. "In the spring, I was busy adding water to the elders.

Spring knew that if he sent money to Liu Wenhua, he would not be able to take three heads and five hundred, at least eight hundred yuan, and less would not necessarily solve the problem.

However, 1,000 yuan is the income of several acres of land, and it is not easy for my father to save a few dollars, and he doesn't want to add an extra burden to the family when he graduates in the spring.

"Gotta get it, count me too much," Chun Shujia glanced at Chun Shuwu, took out a stack of money from his pocket, and handed it to Chun, "Xiaotian, this is eight hundred yuan, given by the fourth uncle." Go to the county seat to buy a light bicycle, and buy a few clothes, shoes or something, our family is a person who eats national food, and he can't be too shabby to be looked down upon. ”

"How can I ask for the fourth uncle's money? Besides, I will pay my salary soon, and I will take care of some things slowly after the salary is paid. "Spring shirked, knowing that it was not easy for the Spring Scholar to save some money, 800 yuan was worth three or four months' salary for an ordinary teacher.

"Fourth, don't you dare to be so used to him!" Chun Shuli also hurriedly stopped, "Besides, don't you have a bicycle at home? ”

"Just your old car with the broken 'Golden Deer'?" you can get it," Chunshu smirked, "If you go to town, you have to drop the chain on the road several times, so that Xiaotian can ride out and be embarrassed?"

4．

Chun Shuwu saw that Chun Shujia took out eight hundred yuan at once, and his face was a little unbearable.

After all, after Chun Shuwen's death, even if Chun Shuwu was the eldest in this family, he was also the richest master of the Chun family.

Since 1983, he has been self-employed, and in recent years, Chun Shuwu has quietly accumulated more than 100,000 yuan. Sometimes it was a little scary for him to think about it secretly, and the money was worth the total income of the whole village in a year. But in front of people, Chun Shuwu never showed his wealth, and sometimes deliberately pretended to be poor, no one in the village knew how much money he had, and he didn't even tell his wife. His money is never deposited in the bank, it is all placed in hidden places such as grain hoards, ceiling roofs, and under the bed, and every once in a while he finds a place when no one is at home and takes it out to look through, looking at a large number of red, green, and green banknotes in his hand, Chun Shuwu will feel a kind of steadfastness in his heart.

Chun Shuwu didn't expect Chun Shujia to be so generous this time, and he was a little depressed in his heart. In fact, it's not that I don't want to help these brothers, but I'm afraid that the tree will make a big splash. Besides, every once in a while, I rushed to the market to sell the remaining pigs, cattle and sheep into the water or something, didn't they all give it to the brothers?

But Chunshu's approach still made Chunshuwu feel a little embarrassed.

"Okay, Xiao Tian just take it, a little bit of your fourth uncle's heart," Chun Shuwu said and glanced at Chun Shujia, "It seems that the fourth child's shop has a lot of money." ”

Chunshujia glanced at Chunshuwu, but there was no squeak.

Spring knew that he couldn't get rid of it, so he had to reach out and take it.

"That's right, when the time comes, you can earn more money and buy more wine for the fourth uncle. Chunshu laughed.

"You can't drink enough of the wine jar in the store every day!" Chun Shuwu joked with Chun Shujia seriously.

"Go, go, can it taste the same? That's Xiao Tian's filial piety to me, there is a smell of family affection in the wine, right?" Chun Shujia smiled and winked at Spring, making Spring smile.

5．

As she spoke, Zhang Xiuli had already packed up the wine and food and brought them to the hall, where the family sat around drinking and eating food and gossiping.

Chun Shuli was in a good mood, and touched a few cups with Chun Shuwu and Chun Shujia one after another.

Chun Shuwu vigorously persuaded Spring to drink, but Spring couldn't refuse, so he drank a few glasses.

"This is like a man," Chun Shuwu laughed, "Men have to socialize outside, how can they go into society without smoking and drinking? ”

"The second brother has a lot of crooked reasoning," Chun Shujia joked with Chun Shuwu, "Don't teach Xiaotian badly." ”

"You know what?" Chun Shuwu drank a lot, and his tongue was a little straight, "These are all wise sayings that break through the society, Xiaotian will understand it in the future......"

This reunion family feast did not end until the sun set in the west.

Spring and Chunyu sent Chunshuwu and Chunshujia home home separately.

When he returned home in the spring, he was so drunk that he was lying on the bed and fell asleep, with a satisfied smile on his face.