When it was close to noon, Li Liang's two married aunts, Li Xiumei and Li Xiuli, also returned to their parents' homes with their husbands and children.

Li Liang's family stayed at his grandfather's house for a few days, and then took time to go to his grandmother's village to pay New Year's greetings to several uncles. After Li Liang's eldest and second uncles got married, they found another address in the village and built a few bungalows, and did not live with his grandmother, uncle, and aunt.

Unlike the happy and lively scene of Li Liang's family at his grandparents' house, Li Liang's grandmother and brother-in-law were not very comfortable during this time.

When she came back a year ago, Liu Juying moved the color TV she bought in the city back to the village. This news is undoubtedly more shocking than the black and white TV of Li Liang's grandfather's house. The people in the village then knew that Wang Fagen and his family had made a lot of money in the city in the past few months, and there was an endless stream of borrowers, which made Wang Fagen and his family very annoyed.

Especially Liu Juying's two eldest brothers, which made Liu Juying even more headache. Liu Juying's maiden parents have a soft personality, and when she got married, the bride price given by Wang Fagen was controlled by Liu Juying's two elder brothers. On the day she got married, the two brothers and sisters-in-law only prepared a set of quilts for her as a dowry, which almost made her a joke in ten miles and eight villages. Fortunately, although the mother-in-law and her husband are poor, they don't care about these, and the life of the two is peaceful and beautiful.

It's just that every time Liu Juying goes back to her parents' house, not only will the things she bring to her parents be looted by the two brothers and sisters-in-law, but when she leaves, she is also guarded by the two sisters-in-law like thieves, for fear that she will leave with something good from her parents' house. Compared with Wang Fagen's sister Wang Xiulan's family, it is simply one in the sky and one in the ground, so after more than a year of marriage, Liu Juying has already given up on her two brothers and sisters-in-law.

This time I went home for the New Year, after the news of my family buying a color TV spread, the two brothers and sisters-in-law licked their faces and came to borrow money, and they opened their mouths to say that Liu Juying couldn't forget her mother's family when she was developed, and her mother's family could also support her if there was anything in the future. Liu Juying, who was unwilling to borrow money, had no choice but to move her husband out as an excuse, under the pretext that her husband Wang Fagen was in charge of the family's money, and she had no money in her hands.

This kind of disguised refusal made her two brothers and sisters-in-law angry, and began to spread some rumors in the surrounding villages that Wang Fagen and his family were mean and slow to treat their parents' brothers, which reached Liu Juying's ears, and she almost died of anger.

When Li Liang's family came to his grandmother's house, it was the fourth day of the first lunar month, and as soon as they entered the house, they heard their grandmother sighing in the room.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Wang Xiulan put down the cigarettes and alcohol she had brought over and asked with concern.

"Hey, it's not that you have a root for the two of them!" Li Liang's grandmother sighed, and told her eldest daughter and son-in-law about the fact that relatives and friends came to borrow money during this time, and then continued to sigh, "It doesn't matter to the others, it's just that the two brothers and sisters-in-law of Ju Ying's family are too disagreeable, and now the reputation of the two of them is about to be ruined by them." ”

"What about Fa Gen and Ju Ying, as well as Xiuyan, why aren't they at home?" Wang Xiulan felt a little strange, her younger brother and sister were not at home for the New Year.

"They feel sulking at home, and they go to the land that Fagen bought early this morning!" replied Li Liang's grandmother, and as she spoke, she was going to the kitchen to prepare for lunch.

"Mom, you rest first, I'll cook later!" Wang Xiulan pressed her mother and asked, "What are you doing there now? It's cold now, why won't the construction start until the first lunar month?"

Wang Fagen's intention to build a house in the village in the spring has long been known to Wang Xiulan and his family. The piece of land that he bought in the family courtyard of the food factory stimulated Wang Fagen's nerves and made him build a house for a while.

Twenty-eight years ago, when Wang Xiulan and Li Shuangzhu bought a lot of New Year's goods and came back to see their parents, they went back to their parents. At that time, Wang Fagen told his sister and brother-in-law that he had bought a piece of land on the east side of the polder.

"It's not Xiuyan's child, yesterday she saw that the two of them were depressed, so she deliberately said that the little brother should make at least three floors of the house, and she and I should leave one floor!" Li Liang's grandmother answered her daughter's question, "And like in the city, upstairs and downstairs, TV and telephone, and said that she would buy a set of big sofas, which is the kind sold in department stores, soft!"

"Their brother and sister are talking, and they went there early this morning to see how to design the layout!"

Hearing this, Li Liang couldn't help but laugh. The slogan of 'upstairs and downstairs, TV and telephone' has been put forward for many years, and it is not clear who mentioned it, Li Liang is not clear, it is said that it was put forward when the People's Liberation Army advanced into the Northeast in 46 years, and the propaganda at that time was that the Northeast was occupied by RB people for 14 years, and the infrastructure was good, and there were upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones.

However, so many years have passed since the liberation, and only a very small number of people in China have achieved such a life. TV is okay to say, in the past few years, as long as there is money, it can still be bought. It's hard to make a phone call, it's not something that can be done with money.

Today is a rare good weather, the sun rises early, no wonder Wang Xiuyan and Wang Fagen brother and sister set off early in the morning.

Mother Wang Xiulan and sister Li Meng were talking to their grandmother in the house, Li Liang was a little bored, so he couldn't stare at the TV stupidly. Besides, the color TV is in the house of Wang Fagen's two people, and they are not at home, so it is not good for them to run in rashly.

"Dad, let's go and pay New Year's greetings to my uncle and second uncle!" Li Liang looked at his father, who was also bored on the side, and proposed.

"Okay, just invite them here for dinner!"

The tradition of the Wang family is generally to wait for Wang Xiulan's family in the city to arrive and come to Li Liang's grandmother for dinner.

Hearing that her husband and son were going to the eldest brother and second brother's house to pay New Year's greetings, Wang Xiulan hurriedly said to her daughter Li Meng: "Mengmeng, you also go with your father and younger brother, remember to have a week!"

"Mom, don't worry, how old am I!" Li Meng agreed.

Li Liang's eldest uncle is two years older than his mother Wang Xiulan, and his second uncle is two years younger than his mother. I went to my uncle's house first, my uncle Wang Maogen happened to be at home, and my aunt Ouyang Zhen returned to her parents' house with a few children. The second uncle Wang Shenggen's family was at home, so after a simple New Year's greeting, the two families came to his younger brother Wang Fagen.

"Happy New Year, Auntie!" The children of the second uncle's family are two boys, named Wang Long and Wang Chao, both of whom are younger than Li Liang. These two cousins have very sweet mouths, and as soon as they enter the door, they enthusiastically greet Wang Xiulan for the New Year.

Wang Xiulan took out two red envelopes from her pocket and stuffed them into her two nephews, and asked with a smile, "What about your brother Wang Chong and sister Wang Mei?"

Wang Chong and Wang Mei are both the children of Uncle Li Liang, and they are older than Li Meng.

"Thank you, auntie, brother and sister have gone to their grandmother's house!" replied the fast-talking Wang Lung.