Chapter 37: 20 Days (Don't Just Add a Change)

January 20, 1990, 11 a.m

"Bought it, sold out, sold it, sold it, my chicken-eggs, sold out!" (rhythm bath song prelude)" Jia Lei hummed a song while bouncing home with an empty egg basket.

Now this basket no longer contains eggs! It is used to hold RMB!!

Jia Lei's things for selling tea eggs moved to the hall of the railway station early this morning, you must know that because there were too many tea eggs sold a few days ago, Jia Lei had bought three one-meter-high cylindrical soup pots to transport tea eggs every day.

During the Spring Festival, the business of the railway station was booming, and Jia Lei actually sold out 1,500 tea eggs in only half a day. Because most of the workers on the construction site were going home for the New Year, only 500 were sold there, and the rest were moved by Jia Lei to the station hall and sold out.

The waiting hall of the railway station is worthy of a diamond-level gold booth!

Jia Lei's joy is about to fly! Only a song can express joy.

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"Hey, why aren't there any people watching TV in the house today?" Jia Lei pushed open the door and asked curiously as he looked at the empty living room.

You must know that since the installation of a color TV in his home, the living room is full of people every night before 12 o'clock.

"Xiao Lei, you shouldn't have forgotten what day it is, right?" asked Sanni nervously.

"What day? Isn't it January 20 - No. ......" Jia Lei just said, and then he saw the altar placed in the center of the living room, and Jia Aiguo's portrait was placed on it.

"Today is my cousin's Sanqi! Aunt Zhou was afraid that the two of us would not understand this, so she had lunch in advance and came to help us prepare for the ceremony. The neighbors who came to watch the TV also went home to make room for the eldest lady to set up the table. If you don't come back, I'll be looking for you at the train station!" said Sanni.

Jia Lei hammered his head vigorously! He has been busy with the stalls at the railway station in the past two days, and he would forget such an important matter.

Jia Lei didn't say a word, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Jia Aiguo three times in a row, one louder than the other.

After all, Jia Aiguo has been dead for more than 20 years in his previous life, and Jia Lei only remembers the day of his death, and he doesn't remember the days of these ceremonies at all.

"I remember that after the three-seven, it will be five-seven, right? When is that?" Jia Lei asked after kowtowing and holding his red forehead.

"Five-seven is the eighth day of the first month. Grandma Zhou replied on the side.

"Now that Xiao Lei is back, let's start the ceremony soon! The ceremony of burning Sanqi must not be done after noon!" Master Zhou urged.

"Sanni, are the offerings ready?" asked Master Zhou.

"Ready! Incense, candles, paper money, and drinks are ready. Sanni said.

"Erguotou, how is the wine Erguotou? I remember that Jia Lei didn't prepare a bottle of Moutai?" Master Zhou asked, looking at the tribute.

"That Moutai wine is too expensive, so I'll let Sanni change it to Erguotou! I remember that when I was alive, I liked to drink Red Star Erguotou the most, and if it didn't work, I would take Moutai immediately. After Grandma Zhou finished speaking, she went to get the Moutai that was placed in front of the statue in the morning.

Master Zhou frowned when he heard this, although Moutai is expensive, it is not necessarily that the second pot is popular with Jia Aiguo, and he hesitated to use which suitable Jia Lei spoke.

"Uncle Zhou Jun, you help me go and take out the box I brought back from the mayor's house yesterday. Jia Lei said that Jia Aiguo is his father! If you want to use it, you can use the best!

Under Jia Lei's command, Zhou Jun took out the box from the innermost place under the bed in his room.

"What's all here?" Zhou Jun asked.

"It's some of the New Year's benefits sent above, tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea. Jia Lei simply summarized that he took out one of the only two bottles of wine.

"Didn't you give this wine to the mayor, why did you get it back?" asked Master Zhou, looking at the wine.

"No, old man! This wine is not the bottle that Xiao Lei gave to the mayor, you see that the packaging boxes of the two wines are different. "Grandma Zhou came back with wine from the kitchen cupboard.

Everyone saw that the packaging of the two bottles of wine was indeed different, and Jia Lei's looked simpler and calmer.

"Isn't my dad a hero, the state has raised his pension standard to the level of Mayor Jiang! My family treatment is hanging in my godfather's office in the capital, and I will have all the benefits that the mayor will have in the future. Jia Lei said very flatly, thinking that these things were exchanged for Jia Aiguo's life, Jia Lei couldn't say anything.

"Beijing! Then this wine is drunk by the leaders of the country!" Grandma Zhou exclaimed, knowing who Jia Lei's godfather was.

"Let me see what is the difference between this wine and ordinary people's drinking?" Zhou Jun immediately squeezed in front of the wine to take a closer look, although Master Zhou didn't come, his eyes were also staring at the wine.

Jia Lei ignored them, directly opened the box, took out the wine, and threw the box to Zhou Jun.

"Special supply of the logistics department in xxxxxx!" "In the end, the girl is careful, Sanni was the first to find a line of small words on the bottom section of the wine box, this line of words is too small, almost the size of a grain of rice!

"This is definitely a good thing for wine tasting, patriotism is always to enjoy the blessings of children and grandchildren!" Master Zhou sighed with emotion, and then twisted the lid of the wine bottle with a force, and a strange aroma of wine spread.

Master Zhou subconsciously put the wine bottle to his mouth and took a sip, and only a small sip let the aroma of the wine sink into his heart and lungs!

The smell of wine slowly spread, and everyone who smelled it was deeply attracted!

It's so fragrant!

"This is the real national liquor Moutai!" After two minutes, Master Zhou said from the aftertaste of Moutai.

Everyone else agrees with this point of view in their hearts, after all, there is no word other than the word national wine that can match this mellow and fragrant aroma.

After Master Zhou finished speaking, he raised the wine bottle and wanted to take another sip, but was snatched down by Grandma Zhou.

"You know how to drink in one day! You have to rob the dead man's things, and you still have to be ashamed?" Grandma Zhou said angrily.

Master Zhou touched his nose awkwardly, he was really tempted to forget about this stubble just now.

Grandma Zhou closed the lid of the wine bottle and asked Jia Lei and them to start the ceremony quickly, so as not to waste time and delay the hour.

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The rituals in ordinary people's homes are simple and not complicated at all, but everyone who comes to participate is sincere.

Jia Lei, as his son, was the first to incense Jia Aiguo, and then burned a lot of ingots, paper money, and paper products, eager to burn the house to Jia Aiguo, but Master Zhou stopped him, and after he burned it for a while, the others didn't have to burn it.

Jia Lei kowtowed Jia Aiguo nine times on the ground with smoke and tears on his face, and knocked to the ground with a sound, and when he lifted it, his head was marked with blood on the cement floor. Even if it is stained with a thick layer of dust, it can't be stopped, and it comes out.

"Hey, how can you be so honest this kid! When you kowtow, as long as your head touches the ground, you don't need to use your strength to kowtow! How painful it hurts to knock your head when your head is broken!" Grandma Zhou said while helping Jia Lei wipe his forehead, and Master Zhou poured a glass of wine and handed it to Jia Lei.

"Dad......!......" Jia Lei couldn't say anything anymore after he said the word Dad, he really didn't know what to say, and finally Jia Lei wiped his face with his sleeve.

"I will definitely live well, and I will not let the incense of the Jia family be broken on me again! You can rest in peace underground!" Jia Lei slowly sprinkled the wine on the ground after speaking.

At this moment, Jia Lei always said his last thoughts in his previous life.

The moment Jia Lei fell down in his previous life, he realized what kind of money he was floating in the air! Get rich! Revenge is all bullshit, nothing is important to be alive! If there is a next life, he must find a wife and have a child, so that he can be worthy of the ancestors of the Jia family and himself!!

"Hey! Unfilial piety is great! What you say is reasonable. After Master Zhou finished speaking, he handed him another glass of wine.

Sanni had already knelt on the mat at this time, she kowtowed to Jia Aiguo and began to burn paper money! She threw too much and didn't burn the flames, and there was a lot of black smoke, Zhou Jun hurriedly opened half of the door of Jia Lei's house and let it smoke.

"Cousin, I remember that you were the best to me when I was a child! Every time I went back to my grandmother's house with my mother, you would take me to play, buy me delicious food, and take me to climb trees, catch fish, and pick fruits to eat. My own brother is not as good to me as you are! Even when you die, you are still bless me, and I would have ...... without you Is...... Married to a cripple!" Sanni couldn't help but cry when she said this.

"Don't worry, cousin, I will definitely take good care of my little nephew! Raise him, let him go to college, marry a good daughter-in-law and give you a grandson. Otherwise, when I die, I will go to the eighteenth layer of hell!

"Hey, Sannigu, don't swear, I may not be able to be admitted to university in the future!" Jia Lei said anxiously.

You must know that in his previous life, he relied on the local household registration in the capital and the extra points of the military martyrs in the college entrance examination and was not admitted to the university, and later it was Grandpa Wang who paid a large amount of borrowing fees through the back door to get him into a normal university, and he died before he could report to his grandfather.

"If you can't pass the exam, you will repeat it until you pass the exam. Sanni said angrily, and even spilled a toast to Jia Aiguo.

"You two stop arguing, get out of the way. It's my turn!" Zhou Jun separated the two of them, he didn't kowtow, he simply burned a few pieces of paper, put a pillar of incense on Jia Aiguo, and then began to recall his friendship with Jia Aiguo.

He was so verbose that Master Zhou couldn't wait, so he stepped forward and kicked him away, he hit the table next to him, and a box of cigarettes fell out of his pocket, and his face immediately turned white with fright, and Master Zhou picked up the cigarette when he felt that something was wrong.

"Little panda, what kind of cigarette is this, why haven't I heard of it?" said Master Zhou, looking at the words on the cigarette case.

Zhou Jun glanced behind him with a weak heart, and Master Zhou followed his gaze!

Jia Lei's cardboard box with benefits opened half of the lid, and when he opened it, he saw that a cigarette was opened and a box was missing.

"How can you take people's things casually?" Master Zhou raised his hand angrily and went to hit him.

"Isn't I used to it, I used to smoke patriotic cigarettes. If he drinks, you will toast, then you forget that he also smokes, I just want to learn from Chow Yun-fat and light three cigarettes for his patriotic brothers. Zhou Jun said while hiding.

Jia Lei nodded straight on the side, he didn't think there was anything wrong!

When he was in college, what boy didn't use his classmates' things? He didn't take the cigarettes of his dormitory brothers as his own, and several brothers in the dormitory did so! Everyone was short of money, especially in the last few days of the month, when everyone paid attention to sharingism, and ate together! Smoke cigarettes together! Just wait until the beginning of the month or when you have money to return it.

"Is this an ordinary thing? This is a good thing that the factory director can't get! How can you take it casually!" Master Zhou said angrily.

"It's because it's not an ordinary thing, otherwise there's nothing to show off. Zhou Jun whispered.

"Grandpa Zhou, it's time for you to toast!" Jia Lei stepped forward to stop Master Zhou, who still wanted to beat someone, and put a wine glass in his hand.

Master Zhou can only come back to toast Jia Aiguo!

"Hey, don't pour it!" An old man suddenly ran in from the outdoors, snatched half a glass of wine that Master Zhou had poured halfway into his hand, and drank it in one gulp.

"Bookworm white, you drunkard, what are you going to do, don't look at what kind of occasion this is?" Master Zhou said angrily.

Bookworm Bai saw the mourning hall and brazier in the house at this time, and rubbed his hands in embarrassment.

"I didn't notice this when I was attracted by the smell of alcohol just now, I'm sorry!" Bookworm Bai, the drunkard, apologized to Jia Lei.

Master Zhou ignored him and turned around to complete the ceremony.

Grandma Zhou and Sanni began to pack up their things, which could not be put after twelve o'clock.

"I drank Moutai just now, right?" asked the drunkard Bai with a snort, and he looked around at the empty wine box that he saw on the side.

"Special for Moutai, it's actually a special wine for Da Nei!" The drunkard is still a learned bookworm, and he actually knows what the representative of the xxxxxx logistics department means.

This wine is too fragrant, Jia Lei is the master and divides a cup of wine for everyone in the house, and even Sanni, a big girl who can't drink, drank it.

Master Zhou couldn't help but hold the bottle of the remaining quarter of the wine and put it behind him, but he didn't escape the bookworm's four eyes, and he was dragged to the restaurant to eat.

Master Zhou kept an eye on it, and every time he poured the wine, he did it himself, and quietly left a glass of wine.

However, Master Zhou still didn't drink this wine, the aroma of Jia Lei's wine wafted all over the 100-meter radius, many people inquired about this wine with Master Zhou, and Master Zhou had to wait for a long time to open the bottle cap and let everyone smell it and immediately cover it!

If he dared to drink the wine, a dozen old brothers would break up with him.

ps: Reader bookworm drinking, I opened a single chapter for you!