Chapter Ninety-Seven: Now Is Not What It Used To Be
"You all have to make a fortune in the New Year!
"I wish my parents good health and all the best in the New Year!"
It was already twelve o'clock in the evening at this time on TV, and when they heard the sound of firecrackers around them, Zhang Chu's family worshiped each other for a year.
Then Zhang Chu, Zhang's father, father and son immediately got up, washed their hands and faces, took out the firecrackers and fireworks they had prepared earlier, and set them off in the yard outside the door.
After setting off the firecrackers, the three of them washed their hands and went back to their rooms to sleep. For them, there is still a lot to do tomorrow morning, to wake up very early.
On the morning of the first day of the new year, you can't eat meat in Zhang Chu's hometown. Therefore, they usually eat some glutinous rice dumplings fried with vegetable oil and sugar, or they just steam the previously fried sweet potato fries and meatballs and mix them with sugar to eat some.
Then the whole family goes to the ancestral hall in the village to worship the gods and ancestors, which must be done. The next step is to pay New Year's greetings to the villagers, starting with the oldest family's house.
However, in Zhang Chu's house, he had to start with his uncles' houses, although they usually didn't have any contact with each other, they would move around during the Spring Festival.
Zhang's father is the fourth brother, and he ranks third. The customs here are the cubs of the first year of junior high school, the lang of the second year of junior high school, and the third and fourth days of junior high school. Zhang Chu's grandparents are not there, so they have to start with blood relatives.
After paying homage to the uncles, he will follow Zhang's father to pay New Year's greetings to the people in the village, which is done every year. In the past, Zhang Chu's grandparents were there, so they had to go to their grandparents' house first.
Zhang Chu's uncles are living a much better life than Zhang Chu's family, but they don't seem to be very willing to help Zhang Chu's family, and the blood relationship is very weak.
This is also the reason why although their family has several brothers, their status in the village is not very high. If your own brothers are not united, how can others look at it?
Now the situation is reversed, and the worst of the days have become the best. This made Zhang Chu's uncles a little embarrassed, the brothers they looked down on before were better than them in a blink of an eye, how can they talk about this?
There was no way to continue chatting! Originally, there was still a chance to ease, when Zhang Chu's family moved the fire. It's just that I don't know what Zhang Chu's uncles think, a few of them turned out to be just like the people in the village.
For Zhang Chuma, this is almost no different from humiliation. You have to know what happy events their family does, and the Zhang Chu family has not been less, which means that there will not be much contact between the relationship here in the future, so let's go their own way.
Zhang Chu can't help this situation, he doesn't know what resentment the older generation has, and the relationship is so stiff that brothers can't communicate with each other.
In fact, Zhang Chu's uncles in the previous life also cheated Zhang Chu's family, and it has not happened in this life, Zhang Chu originally wanted to expose this matter. But when Zhang Chu's family moved the fire, they went too far again.
Even if they don't help, when they join the group, they must be higher than the people in the village because of their blood relatives. It's not about hating the poor and loving the rich, it's about the rules.
Zhang Chu's mother likes to care about this kind of thing the most, and even Zhang Chu's father is very unhappy with this, so after all, this relationship is not Zhang Chu can be reconciled, and each of them depends on creation.
During the New Year's greetings, this embarrassing scene became even more embarrassing. Zhang Chu's cousins, sisters, and siblings didn't have much to do with Zhang Chu, so when the three Zhang Chu brothers and sisters followed Zhang Chu's father over to pay New Year's greetings, they just drank a sip of water and left.
Zhang Chu's family didn't ask them when they were poor before, and naturally they won't beg them in the future, and they naturally don't want to count on Zhang Chu to help them.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, there was a temple fair in the village, and Zhang Chu and his family would not go to visit their relatives in the morning, and they would only go to the houses of several aunts after the temple fair.
Among Zhang Chu's aunts, only the relationship between the aunt's family is the best, and although the relationship between the others is much better than that of Zhang Chu's father, it is just like that.
There will be contacts during the New Year, and that's usually the case. Zhang Chu's aunt and second aunt's family are deeper in the city and won't say anything, but those cousins and cousins are different, they used to ridicule Zhang Chu's family, and Zhang Chu's aunt's family is the same.
This led to the fact that Zhang Chu and Zhang Chu's cousins and cousins were not interested in the eldest aunt's and second aunt's family at all.
At that time, after a one-night stay, Zhang Chu and his cousin hated resting at the house of the eldest aunt and the second aunt the most. Now with a car, it's a lot faster and more convenient, and you don't have to stay overnight.
Zhang Chu's sister-in-law and cousin first came to Zhang Chu's house to pay New Year's greetings, and then took a car together to walk around the two big families, and finished the New Year in one day.
The two aunts and second aunts wanted them to stay for one night, and by the way, they played cards and contacted their feelings. It's just that it's a young man's world now, and Zhang Chu's cousin is the first to be unwilling.
"Zhang Chu, you have classmates at home! There are several girls!"
When Zhang Chu came back from a relative's house to pay New Year's greetings, he met a few children in the village, and these little guys grimaced one by one to tell Zhang Chu that his family had a guest.
This is roughly one of the things that the children will do at this time, and in the next few years, these children will start to be kept in captivity. Basically, they stay at home, and they rarely go out of the village except for studying.
"Happy New Year!"
I saw a few people sitting in my house, all of them were my classmates. Zhang Chu greeted them with a smile and said some auspicious words for the New Year.
It is also at this time to go to the same school during the Chinese New Year. In a few years, young people will no longer have this hobby, and many things will be slowly eliminated by the times.
The people who came were all Zhang Chu's junior high school classmates, He Hongwu, plus Zhang Xiaomao and Zhang Wenhu, and the rest were all girls. Liu Limei, Liu Camellia, and Zheng Xue are all there.
This is the first time that so many classmates from Zhang Chu's family have come to play, and there have been before, but it is Zhang Xiaomao and Zhang Wenhu. No one else came, especially girls, and Zhang Chu's family didn't have a female classmate.
Zhang Chu's mother was very enthusiastic about entertaining these classmates of Zhang Chu, and the eyes of several female classmates were particularly enthusiastic, as if she was thinking about how good it would be to be her daughter-in-law.
Seeing that Zhang Chu was back, Zhang Chu's mother went to do other things and handed over the scene to Zhang Chu. Let a group of young people talk about it by themselves, as for whether there will be a story in the future, this is Zhang Chu's business.
"When will Zhang Chu go to the south?"
"I went up on the tenth day of the junior high school, my brother got engaged on the sixth day of the junior high school, Xu Liang got married on the eighth day of the junior high school, and I went up after I was busy with the major events of his two lives, what about you?
A group of people chatting is basically asking about where they work and how their work is. The last class reunion was not a good opportunity to chat.
At this time, classmates visit each other, and that's roughly it. By the way, see if there are any good job opportunities, and then run to get close to a classmate and change jobs for yourself.
Zhang Chu's work, Liu Camellia, told other classmates that Zhang Chu often went to her brother-in-law's place. Everyone else works in the factory, in what factory.
A few classmates who are still in college did not come to walk around, no matter what the previous relationship was, as some things changed, some things eventually began to fade slowly.
Those who are in college have a lot less in common with those who are now going out to work, and there are very few things to talk about, so it would be nice to sit and chat together at class reunions.
A group of people chatted for a while, and Zhang Chu's mother was about to cook some rice noodles for them to eat, and several of them stopped sitting. Next, I have to go to another classmate for a walk, and the time is relatively rushed.
"My brother-in-law came to my house for the New Year this year, and he originally wanted to come to your house to sit. It's just that the child won't let you go, do you want to go to my house and sit down?"
The next one is Liu Camellia's house, this girl didn't say anything polite to Zhang Chu, and invited Zhang Chu to go with them with a smile. Even walking was saved, and they took Zhang Chu's car together.
"Okay, I'm just going to sit down with you. ”
After hearing this, Zhang Chu replied with a smile, his car can squeeze all these guys into it, and there is no overload in the countryside at this time.
It's still early, so it's better to go to your classmate's house and sit down. Staying at home, it is estimated that the young people in the village will call to play mahjong together, Zhang Chu is not interested in these things now.
Liu Camellia's brother-in-law opened relatively early, and it will open for business on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and it will go up on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. The group also drove back, and Liu Camellia's brother-in-law made another profit last year by flipping memory sticks and bought a small car.
"Happy New Year to Xiao Chu!"
Seeing Zhang Chu and a group of classmates coming over, Liu Camellia's brother-in-law, who was accompanying the children to set off firecrackers at the door, greeted Zhang Chu with a smile.
He is not from Zhang Chu's province, he is from the south, but he just came here this year for the New Year. In the future, he will probably settle down in Yangcheng, after all, he bought two houses there.
The New Year's habits in the south are different from those on Zhang Chu's side, and among the people they are familiar with, unmarried people will have red envelopes for married New Year's greetings.
But Zhang Chu's side is different, this side will only give red envelopes for children, or the children of relatives and friends. After the age of sixteen, I basically don't talk about it.
After Liu Camellia's brother-in-law arrived here, he followed the habits of this side and did not tell Zhang Chu about this. He is a guest, so naturally he doesn't need to send red envelopes himself.