Early in the morning, Li Liang woke up very early, he knew that his grandparents had a problem with the bed, no matter where they lived, they would definitely not sleep well in the first few nights. Before his parents returned, he went to the living room and brought the brazier to the yard, chopped some small pieces of wood with a kitchen knife and lit it with a match, and added some charcoal to ignite the brazier.

The weather is cold, and the grandparents are slow to move in their hands and feet, so they burn the brazier in advance and put it in the living room, so that it will not be so cold when the grandparents get up.

As soon as the brazier was lit, the grandparents got up, and as Li Liang expected, they had the problem of recognizing the bed, and they had been sleeping not very steadily, and they got up when they heard movement in the yard.

Li Shuangzhu and his family woke up very early, and when they came out of the small courtyard of their brother-in-law Wang Fagen, Wang Xiulan was busy going home to make breakfast. When they got home, they saw the old couple sitting by the brazier in the living room, and their son Li Liang was also by their side, so they couldn't help asking, "Liangzi, is it the brazier you got up to make?"

Li Liang nodded.

The grandfather on the side boasted: "Liangzi knows that we are both afraid of the cold, so he got up early and made a brazier for us, he is a good boy!"

Li Shuangzhu is very happy, his son has made some money for the family in the past half a year, which is nothing. But the love for his family and friendliness that his son has always shown are what he values most as a father.

When Wang Xiulan made breakfast, the brother-in-law and his wife also accompanied their grandmother and aunt to the house.

After breakfast, Li Liang and Wang Fagen came to Zhang Meng's house with two bottles of wine.

Zhang Qingxiang and his family were not at home, Chenchen and Zhang Junjie were watching TV at home, and when they saw Li Liang and Wang Fagen coming, Chenchen hurriedly poured two cups of hot tea for the two.

"Chenchen, where is your brother?" asked Li Liang.

"Brother Lei Lei came to look for him early in the morning, and they went out together!" Chenchen said, she knew Wang Fagen, and knew that it was Li Liang's brother-in-law, so she asked, "Liangzi, do you have something to do with my brother?"

"It's something to discuss with Brother Meng!" Li Liang said.

"I heard Brother Lei Lei say that they seem to have a high school reunion today, and they seem to be at Lei Lei's house, why don't you go to his house to find it?" Chenchen said.

"Okay!"

Lei Lei's family Li Liang is very familiar with it, and it is in the family compound of the County Forestry Bureau. Lei Lei's parents are both employees of the secondary forest farm 'Alpine Forest Farm' of Wushan Reclamation Farm under the Hek County Forestry Bureau, and the two of them used to work in the forest farm 40 or 50 kilometers away from the county seat for a long time, and it was inconvenient for Lei Lei and his brother Lei Xin to go to school, so the Forestry Bureau allocated two family rooms for the couple in the bureau's tube building.

The family courtyard of the Forestry Bureau is not far from here, in fact, because the county town of Hek at this time is small and pitiful, it is not far to go to the Forestry Bureau from any place in the county.

Wang Fagenti's two bottles of wine were left at Zhang's house, and now the two of them are empty-handed.

Li Liang said: "Uncle, have you brought any money, lend me a little first." Let's go find the sales department of a supply and marketing cooperative, and I'll buy two bottles of wine and a cigarette! Zhang Meng and Lei Lei are my iron buddies, and I can't come to the door empty-handed. ”

Although Li Liang and his brother-in-law Wang Fagen made some money, they were kept in the hands of his mother Wang Xiulan, but his mother gave her more pocket money.

Wang Fagen nodded and said, "Bring it!"

The two went to the supply and marketing cooperative, bought two bottles of Zhanggongwang and a Hongtashan, and brought a box of Gangshan beer. Gangshan Beer was first produced in 1975, and the annual output of products was expanded from 300 tons to 10,000 tons. Looking at the province and even the whole country, Gangshan beer is a niche low-end beer, but people in this area love to drink it, mainly because it is cheap.

When you arrive at the Forestry Bureau, you will pass through the three-story office building of the Forestry Bureau, and behind it is the family home of the Forestry Bureau. Hek County belongs to the hilly landform of Jiangxi Province, with a large forest coverage area, and the Forestry Bureau at this time belongs to a relatively high status bureau in the county, and their family homes are also the earliest.

However, at this time, the family courtyard was different from that of later generations, and the basic pattern was the commonly known tube building, which was also called the barracks-style building, with a long corridor connecting many single rooms. Because the two ends of the long corridor are ventilated and shaped like a tube, it is called the tube building.

This kind of tube building does not have a separate bathroom and kitchen, and generally the people who live in it use the corridor as a kitchen. When it's time to cook, the whole corridor is crowded with housewives who are cooking and cooking, and if anyone cooks a good dish, basically everyone in the whole building upstairs and downstairs can smell it. If anyone wants to pass through, they have to be careful to avoid being splashed with oil.

As soon as he turned the corner of the Forestry Bureau's office building, Li Liang saw a large group of people sitting on the ground downstairs, as if they were playing games or cards.

Li Liang was carrying cigarettes and alcohol, and his brother-in-law Wang Fagen walked closer with a box of beer, and was seen by Zhang Meng and Lei Lei, who were playing games, and hurriedly surrounded him.

"Liangzi, uncle, why are you here?" asked Zhang Meng.

"Brother Meng, let's pay New Year's greetings to Brother Erlei!" Li Liang said with a smile, and then said to Lei Lei who came over, "Brother Erlei, help my brother-in-law bring the beer, we are almost tired after moving so far!"

"Okay! Thank you, uncle!" Lei Lei thanked him, and then happily turned back to the students sitting on the ground and said, "Students, we have another case of beer and two bottles of Zhanggong Wang!"

"Great!"

"It's time to let go of the drink today!"

Most of Zhang Meng and Lei Lei's group of high school classmates were not admitted to college, and a small number of parents like Lei Lei were employees of the unit, replacing their parents' classes, with an income of more than 20 yuan a month, and they had to pay food expenses to their families, and their lives were tight. More students are still unemployed at home, relying on their parents for help, and their money is tighter.

Today's class reunion was organized by Zhang Meng, Lei Lei and a few others who had more money to pool their money, and chose to organize it at Lei Lei's house, but they didn't have much money to save some money. They also bought a case of beer, but it wasn't enough for so many people. Now that there is an extra case of beer and two bottles of liquor, the male students should be able to drink to their heart's content, except for the female students who don't drink.

Lei Lei opened two packs of Hongtashan and distributed them to the classmates who could smoke, Zhang Meng pulled Li Liang aside and asked in a low voice, "Liangzi, is there something to do with me?"

"Brother Meng, we originally wanted to find you today to take us to Brother Monkey, the matter of the construction engineering team that I talked about last time, my brother-in-law and I wanted to meet his uncle first. ”

"Oh, I see, the monkey came to my house to pay New Year's greetings, and went to your house, but you were not at home. He also has this plan, and invites us to go to his house the day after tomorrow to discuss this matter in detail!" Zhang Meng said.

"That's good, since the monkey also has this plan, then we will go over together the day after tomorrow!By the way, Brother Meng, where is the monkey's house?" asked Li Liang.