Hearing that his wife agreed to take the car, Li Shuangzhu went to the gate of the bus station and called a man pushing a cart, the price was very cheap, from the bus station to Li Liang's house, a total of about 2 kilometers of distance 3 cents.

The cart that Li Shuangzhu called was very clean, and it was covered with a thick layer of clean dry straw.

After Wang Xiulan and Li Meng sat on the straw in the car, and put away a few bags of local products, the man carried the rope tied to the front of the car, pulled up the cart and left.

"Master, this is the New Year, how is your business?"

Li Shuangzhu and Li Liang did not take the car, but walked with the car. Li Shuangzhu handed a cigarette to the master who pulled the car, and the master took it and saw that it was a Hongta Mountain, with a smile on his face.

He is generally reluctant to spend money on Hongta Mountain, and smokes cheaper red plums and other inferior cigarettes.

"It's okay, there are more people willing to hire a car for the Chinese New Year, we can't stay idle at home, so we can come out and make some quick money!" explained the master as he pulled the car.

According to the official statistics of this era, the per capita annual income of Hek County is more than 100 yuan. In reality, however, the per capita income of peasants falls far short of this figure. Li Shuangzhu and his family have been working in the textile factory for more than ten years, and their monthly salary adds up to 80 yuan, which is still due to the fact that the two of them have worked for more than ten years. Generally, the wages of workers who have just entered the factory are only more than 20 yuan.

According to such a section of the road, after removing the negligible labor and the loss of the board car, the car puller master will make a net profit of 3 cents. If you can have three or five jobs a day, your income will be able to catch up with that of ordinary workers in a month.

It's just that many people can't pull down their face now and are unwilling to do such hard work. Just like many educated youths who return to the city nowadays, many of them would rather wait at home for the organization and work on the street than work as self-employed.

Therefore, in later generations, people concluded that the first group of people who became rich in the reform and opening up were either self-employed people who dared to do business with a cheeky face, which is not false at all.

Back home, the little earth dog Heizi, who had not seen him for a few days, enthusiastically scurried around Li Liang, and his mother Wang Xiulan prepared food in its food bowl for several days when she left a few days ago, but fortunately, the weather was cold, and the food was not easy to spoil, so that the cute puppy Heizi was alone at home for a few days.

It seemed to have been wronged, for fear that the family would leave for several days again, and circled around several people in the Li family all day long, not stopping for a moment, which made Li Liang laugh for a while.

In a blink of an eye, Li Liang's grandparents, second uncle, uncle, two aunts, and several uncles and families all gathered in the small courtyard in Li Liangcheng, and the spacious home in the past suddenly seemed much smaller.

The living room couldn't sit down, and the tables and benches were not enough, so Li Shuangzhu went to Zhang Qingxiang's house to borrow a table and bench. Fortunately, the weather in the past few days of this year's New Year is not bad, and the table is comfortable in the courtyard to bask in the sun, and when it is cloudy and rainy, I can only put the borrowed table and bench in Li Meng's room.

The conditions at home are good, and Wang Xiulan has prepared a lot of hospitality snacks, not only melon seeds, peanuts, oranges, grapefruits, sweet potatoes, frozen rice sugar, sugarcane and other common things, but also prepared toffee, raisins, sesame cakes, dates, apples, longan, fragrant pears and other snacks that are not easy for rural children to eat.

When several children from uncles, uncles, aunts, and second aunts came to Li Liang's house, they not only received red envelopes from Li Shuangzhu and Wang Xiulan, but they were all very happy to see so many delicious snacks on the table in the living room.

The dishes prepared by the Li family are also very rich, not only braised pork, button meat, goose neck, and meat balls are all commonly eaten by farmers, but also the preserved wild boar meat sent by Lei Lei last time, Wang Xiulan's self-made sausage and other cured meat, as well as fresh fish head, soft-shelled turtle, eel and other fresh food, and Wang Xiulan's marinated pork knuckle, pig ears, large intestine and other marinated meat.

It is said that soft-shelled turtle and eel were a common dish at banquets in later generations, but in these years, soft-shelled turtle and eel were relatively few people to eat, why? The reason is that rural people are now short of oil and water in their stomachs, and they love to buy thick fatty slices of meat, not even lean meat, let alone pork ribs, tube bones, and other meatless things. Soft-shelled turtle and eel just belong to the meat is not much and oil-consuming ingredients, to make these two dishes, you must have green onions, ginger and garlic, but also put more oil and stir-fry on high heat, so that the braised soft-shelled turtle and shredded eel are delicious.

Li Liang happens to belong to such a qualified family, since the family has earned money, Wang Xiulan has never been stingy with oil in stir-frying. A table full of good dishes is full of oil.

Cousin Li Hao muttered while stuffing braised pork into his mouth: "Brother, the food made by my aunt is so delicious, I have grown so big, I haven't eaten so many delicious foods at the same time!"

Li Liang is very close to this cousin, and every time he goes back to his grandfather's house during the winter and summer vacations, he mixes with Li Hao and Li Yin, and catches rabbits in the later world, goes to the rice fields to fish for frogs, and goes to the wild rivers and ponds to fish, as long as it is something that rural children love to play, they will try it every time.

Hearing what his cousin said, he smiled and said, "If you want to eat, you can stay at my house for a few more days and let my mother cook it for you every day!"

"Really?" Li Hao was overjoyed.

Li Liang's house is not big and there are not many rooms, so every time Li Hao follows his parents or grandparents to the uncle's house in the city, he rarely stays at the uncle's house, and goes home with the adults after lunch.

"Then can it be fake?" Li Liang said with a smile.

"Oh yes, that's great!" Li Hao shouted happily.

Li Yin, the cousin on the side, heard it and asked enviously: "Big brother, can I also play with my brother at your house for a few days?"

Li Liang looked at his cousin's expectant eyes and said with a smile: "No problem!"

"Big brother is so good!" Li Yin praised happily.

The two children of the uncle's family, cousin Wang Chong and cousin Wang Mei, who were eating at the same table, were several years older than Li Liang and did not say anything. The two younger cousins of the second uncle's family, Wang Chao and Wang Long, showed envious eyes at the same time, but the children were small and young, and they all knew that their aunt's family could not accommodate so many people.

The children of Li Liang's two aunts are still young, and they usually have less contact with Li Liang's family, and they don't have much contact with Li Meng and Li Liang's brothers and sisters, but they are happily eating under the greeting of their mothers, and they don't make direct requests like Li Hao and Li Yin.

The dinner of this day starts at 3:30 o'clock, and the reason why it is so early is that it is convenient for relatives living in the countryside to finish their meals early and go to the bus station to catch the latest shuttle home.

After the meal, several uncles, second uncles, and aunts went to the bus station to catch the bus with some gifts prepared by Li Liang's mother Wang Xiulan, while the two brothers-in-law, grandmother, aunt, and Li Liang's grandparents all stayed.

The brother-in-law rented a small courtyard in the city, and there were also three rooms, in addition to their own two children, the grandmother and the aunt had one room, and Li Liang's parents would go to live in one. The master bedroom of Li Shuangzhu and his wife is left to live with his grandparents, Li Yin lives in one with his cousin Li Meng, and Li Hao naturally lives in his cottage with Li Liang.