Chapter Ninety-Three: New Year's Greetings
Chinese New Year's Eve used to be the time when the Spring Festival came and went to pay New Year's greetings, and their custom here was that on the first day, only the juniors could greet the elders, and the elders could not go to the juniors.
So Li Haobai's parents took Li Xin, Li Haobai and Mingyun out to pay New Year's greetings to their grandparents.
Li Haobai's father has long been interested in Li Haobai's Daben, so Li Haobai let him open.
Li Haobai's grandparents used to live in the mountains, and after they were too tired and old, they were both seriously hunchbacked, but they still kept working, herding cattle, growing vegetables and raising chickens.
Houses have been built in the village under the mountain, and they still often like to run up the mountain, the hill is Li Haobai's grandfather's house, a concave mouth, there is a stream in it, there are fish, shrimp and crabs in the stream, digging a fish pond and planting vegetables to raise chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and cattle, this should be the environment that some literary and artistic young people dream of, right?
There is no network, the signal is intermittent, there is no electricity, the oil lamp and candle are used, a wooden house, a few purebred Chinese pastoral dogs, the kind that will catch hares and pheasants by themselves, and will go to see if the wild boar clamp is clamped with wild boars, and will run back to drag his grandfather over to see, Li Haobai saw with his own eyes, the oldest one has been nine years, just three three generations, all good dogs.
It takes more than an hour to walk up the mountain, and if you can't get into the car, you can only walk, which shows the persistence of his grandparents......
In two or three degrees of weather, if there is no snow outside, it will not necessarily freeze, but it will only melt after a while after the frost in the morning, and the mountains will freeze, and the branches and leaves will form ice crystals.
As soon as I entered the mountain pass, I heard a dog barking, two yellow, one black and one yellow, and three dogs came running, looking at them, as if they recognized them, and turned around and ran back, and a yellow dog took the lead.
The three dogs are not mother and son, but the relationship between grandfather and father and son, all of them are male, this is his grandfather's habit, every time he breeds with other people's dogs, others promise him to leave the strongest male dog for him.
The innermost wooden house against a bamboo forest, where Li Haobai's grandmother waved to greet them.
Li Xin is the most afraid of this kind of place, a girl who grew up in the city, afraid of insects, afraid of dogs, afraid of cow, sheep, chickens, ducks, and goose, and she is cautious when she settles down.
Li Haobai is the third fucking oldest, two uncles above, three aunts and one uncle below, and there are many rural people in the old era, even if there are those damn guys who catch superbirths.
It's not that family planning is wrong, but that their approach is too inhumane, and if you catch it, it doesn't matter how old the child in your belly is, and you have to take it out before it is born in September, what is the difference between that and murder? Some men who can't bear it and the law enforcement team are desperately caught in prison, and the women who have just been hit are crazy again, and there are also many suicides, and what about other children? How can you feed without men? (I hope not because of this harmony, alas!)
Far away, this era is the most beautiful era, and what we need to do now is to greet the New Year happily and let the elderly celebrate the New Year happily.
I heard my grandmother say that my grandfather went to see the sheep, but he knew that his daughter and son-in-law came today with his granddaughter and granddaughter-in-law, and promised his grandmother that he would come back early.
Li Haobai's eldest uncle and aunt are also there, and the second uncle is a sheep raiser and sell sheep, and now many people come to buy whole sheep and go back to kill and eat them during the Chinese New Year, and they have to go to the town to sell them, which are more expensive than usual, so they are not here.
The younger uncle is here, his son is playing with the eldest uncle's son, and the younger uncle and his grandfather went to help.
Li Haobai came to pay New Year's greetings, knowing his current situation, he naturally had to praise him, and Li Haobai was calloused.
His uncle is in sales, and he pulled Li Haobai to ask this and that.
Grandma had been talking to Mingyun, and when she heard her son talking about work, she knocked him on the head with a stick: "Haobai came to pay New Year's greetings, you talked to him about work, did you give the red envelope?"
Li Haobai smiled: "This is for grandma!"
Li Haobai took out a thick red envelope and handed it to his grandmother.
Grandma was stunned and refused: "I'm talking about giving you red envelopes, and it's not time for you to give me red envelopes." ”
"I'm twenty years old, why can't I give you a red envelope?" Li Haobai said.
"Twenty years old...... That's right, you're twenty years old, this daughter-in-law has been found, look at my brain, unconsciously Haobai is so big, then okay, I'll accept it. Grandma took it, touched it, and asked, "Why is it so thick?
Li Haobai shook his head: "This is a secret! ”
Grandma rubbed the red envelope back and forth and said, "I know, I want to say that you don't have to give me too much money, and I don't need any money to stay on this mountain every day." ”
Li Haobai thought that he still had a hundred healing pills, which he could give to his grandmother, but unfortunately there was only one, it was impossible to persuade his grandmother and grandfather to go down the mountain, his parents and aunts had done it many times, and it was useless.
His grandmother had already taken the pill that added two hundred years of life, and her health was better than that of many middle-aged people.
Li Haobai took out the wooden box from his backpack, handed it to his grandmother and said: "This is an elixir refined with very good medicinal materials, the effect is very good when eaten, and it has a miraculous effect on your rheumatism, you can ask my parents to know, how healthy my grandmother is now, just eat this thing, but the medicinal materials are too difficult to find, only this one." ”
"Is it really as good as you say?" said Grandma, disbelieving.
Not only did my grandmother not believe it, but my uncle didn't believe it either: "This medicine is in the stomach, can it cure rheumatism?"
Li Haobai didn't want to say more, and said with a smile: "Just try it, can I still hurt my grandmother?"
Grandma looked at the wooden box and thought about it, shook her head and said, "It's better to leave it to your grandfather, he has to go out to do things every day......"
Li Haobai didn't want to say anything, so he nodded and said, "Whatever you want!"
In the afternoon, my aunt and mother went to get food, and my grandmother pulled Mingyun to talk about something.
Grandpa had already come back, pulled Li Haobai aside and asked secretly, "The pill you gave can be soaked in water, right?"
Li Haobai nodded: "Yes, what's wrong?"
Grandpa complained: "It's not your grandmother yet, I don't want to eat it, I want to give her a secret." ”
Li Haobai ate a very delicious dog food and said with a smile: "Yes, you can get it without worry, I will try to find a way to get another one for you." ”
Grandpa patted him on the shoulder and smiled, "It's good to have a heart." ”
In the afternoon, Li Haobai and his parents left the mountain after giving each of the uncle's sons a red envelope.
After they left, the little cousins opened the red envelope, took out the money, and shouted, "Wow! Cousin Haobai gave a lot of 100." ”
The eldest aunt came over and blamed: "How can you take it apart as soon as your cousin Haobai leaves?"
"One, two, three...... Nine hundred. "Aunt counted.
When my grandmother heard this, she took out her one, this one was bigger and thicker, handed it to her grandfather and said, "You can tear it down!"
Grandpa said angrily: "Just you talk about the rules......, I don't talk about the rules?"
“…… Three thousand three!"
If it weren't for the fact that the red envelope could hold so much at most, he might have put more, and as for putting cards or something, it would be too pretending.
Descend home.
His aunt and they have already finished worshipping the New Year and left, but it is estimated that his little uncle and aunt will come over in two days, they are not very harmonious with the relatives on the uncle's side, this side is lively, the aunt used to live in the town, and the uncle went out to work.
The reason why Mingyun went with Li Haobai instead of Bai Le'er was because she had to go to Bai Le'er's house to pay New Year's greetings, and it was impossible for her son-in-law to go with another wife, right?
As soon as Li Haobai came back, he took a helicopter and prepared to go to Lou City to pay New Year's greetings to Bai Leer's parents.
Hua Jun has returned to normal, and he is going to go with him, and he will pay New Year's greetings to his aunt and uncle.
As soon as I got off the plane, I saw Bai Dad, Bai Ma and Bai Yu flying over to greet them.
"Happy New Year, uncle and aunt!" As a future son-in-law, Li Haobai is of course the first to shout a happy New Year.
Hua Jun also smiled: "Happy New Year to my aunt and uncle." ”
"Eh, Happy New Year! It just so happens that you are here, and we are going to your grandfather's house to pay New Year's greetings. Bai Ma smiled.
Bai Le'er shook her head: "I'm not going, last time my brother was arrested by the Long family, he didn't say anything about his grandfather, and he didn't take us seriously at all." ”
Bai Yufei was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "That's right, I won't go either." ”
Bai Ma shook her head and said: "I'll explain to you first, it's not that your grandfather is indifferent and doesn't take us seriously, but he doesn't want to make a big move, the second child of the Long family is a stunned person, but he is not stupid, the Hua family doesn't want to make enemies against the Long family, the Long family is even more so, Long Er doesn't dare to go too far, you ask Yu Fei if he was beaten?"
Bai Yufei shook his head: "It's true." ”
Bai Ma nodded and continued: "Later, your grandfather also went out to the Long family to seek justice...... However, the father and son were more seriously injured than the other, so they let them go. ”