Chapter 36: Spring Festival

At this time, Yang Qianxun suddenly remembered the bracelet he bought in Qianling, Shaanxi, and said to everyone with a smile: "Seeing that everyone is only happy, on the way back, I bought a few small gifts in Xi'an, and I forgot to take them out. As he spoke, he took out the jade bracelet in his bag, "It's very cheap to buy locally, a little meaning, Yan Fang, Zhao Na, Zhao Jing, you come and pick one each, Dai Yu pays attention to fate, and looks at the one that has an eye relationship with him, which belongs to him." ”

Several female classmates were very surprised when they saw that there was a gift or a bracelet, and they came to Yang Qianxun's side and surrounded her to pick up the bracelet and compare. At this time, Zhang Hongliang on the side resisted loudly: "This is too unfair, why is there no ours?" Give me one too! ”

Niu Yuqiang also protested: "Yes, I want it too!" ”

Yang Qianxun took a look, even if they each took one, there were still two left, so he smiled and said, "Okay, lady first, wait for our girls to finish picking, and then give it to you." ”

Yan Fang took a bracelet and put it on her hand, and said: "It's okay, Zhang Hongliang, I've seen your girlfriend, gentle and beautiful, but you're too stingy, I won't bring it today, show it to my classmates." Niu Yuqiang said: "Do you want to take it back to your wife?" This is Chihiro's gift! ”

Yang Qianxun heard what she said, and hurriedly picked up a bracelet and interrupted her: "Yan Fang, I think it should be appropriate for you to wear this, try it." ”

Xu Qian next to him smiled and said, "Look at these women, when you see something, you can't pull out your eyes!" ”

finally finished dividing the bracelet, but Xu Qian didn't ask for it, saying that it was enough for Zhao Na to have it. Yang Qianxun put away the remaining three bracelets and continued to eat. At this time, Li Hao stood up and said: "I am very happy and honored to meet all of you Qianxun's old classmates today, and they all say that the most sincere friendship in the world is classmate love and comradeship, I am happy that Yang Qianxun has such a good old classmate and old friend, and I also feel lucky and happy to have such a good girlfriend as Yang Qianxun, rest assured, everyone, I will be good to our family Qianxun." At the same time, I also sincerely invite, next year if you have time, together to Qinghai to travel, to get there, I and Chihiro to accompany the whole service, do your best to make friends, but also a good drink with everyone, now, can only replace wine with water, to everyone! ”

As soon as Li Hao's words fell, all the students responded collectively, and Yang Qianxun secretly glanced at Niu Yuqiang, seeing that there was no abnormal reaction, and he was also relieved.

After a whole afternoon, I walked out of the door of the hotel, and it was already dark in winter. Yang Haoran drank a little too much, and was still pulling Niu Yuqiang, looking at the intimate appearance, he didn't know what he was talking about. Li Hao reversed the car, Yang Qianxun said goodbye to his classmates, went over to pull Yang Haoran, and got into the car together. At this time, Niu Yuqiang stopped her: "Hey, Chihiro, I haven't said anything about raising a car, don't forget to notify her in advance when the time comes!" ”

Yang Qianxun's sister and brother turned around and promised him as they walked: "Don't worry, I will notify you immediately if I have quasi-news after the Chinese New Year." ”

After getting into the car, Yang Qianxun rolled down the window glass, looked at the male classmates standing at the door of the hotel, and the female classmates with a smile on their faces, and said loudly: "Goodbye, I'll be free next year, let's go to Qinghai together!" ”

The three of them stretched out their hands and waved goodbye to the people standing at the door of the hotel.

Yang Qianxun sat in the passenger seat, Yang Haoran was already lying in the back seat, and after a while, he let out a whirring snoring sound. Li Hao drove the car smoothly and walked on the way home without speaking. Yang Qianxun turned his head to look at him a few times, not knowing what he was thinking, and finally couldn't help but say, "What's wrong with you?" Why don't you speak? Let's put on some music, shall we? ”

Li Hao was silent for a moment and said, "Look at that Niu Yuqiang, the eyes look at you differently!" ”

Yang Qianxun smiled: "Everyone has children, what are you jealous of?" ”

At this time, Yang Haoran didn't know whether he was really asleep or not sleeping at all, and suddenly interjected: "He also wrote love letters to my sister before!" ”

Yang Qianxun pretended to be surprised and said, "When was it before, what did you little kid know?" How did I not know? ”

Yang Haoran grinned: "Of course you don't know, our dad brought it home from school, and he put it on the table after reading it, and I read it too." ”

Yang Qianxun got up from his seat and pretended to lie behind fiercely: "Say it again, see if I don't beat you!" ”

Li Hao said again at this time: "Do you still say it's nothing? It seems that it is still a little! ”

Yang Qianxun had no choice but to explain: "He wrote to me before, but I haven't received it, and I don't know what's going on. Patting his hand holding the steering wheel: "Don't worry, I only have one boyfriend for you, and the rest are floating clouds." ”

Li Hao turned cloudy to sunny at this time, "Hmph, you just want to split your legs and have no chance, we are in Qinghai, he is in Shandong, I will go back with you when you come back in the future, look at you!" ”

Yang Haoran smacked his lips and said, "Sour, sour, really sour!" ”

Yang Qianxun was about to hit him again, but Yang Haoran put his hand on top of his head to block his head: "Sister, I'm a sophomore, don't do this to me anymore, okay?" Brother, my sister is so fierce, aren't you afraid? ”

Li Hao said with a smile: "I can subdue demons and subdue demons, I am more powerful than your sister, what is there to be afraid of!" ”

Yang Haoran muttered in the back: "When the two of us used to be, she always beat me to the ground!" ”

Yang Qianxun said angrily and funny: "Don't insult the idiom!" ”

On the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, after the family finished eating, they sat in the room together to watch the gala, and after watching it for a long time, Yang Qianxun noticed that his father did not know when he went out, so he asked his mother, and his mother pointed to another room and said, "Your father is in that room." ”

Yang Qianxun opened the door and went out, walked to another room to see, through the glass on the door, saw two dim candles placed on the table of the eight immortals in the room facing the door, there were two tablets placed on the table, in the incense burner in front of the tablet, three incense sticks were emitting wisps of light smoke, and my father sat on a small stool in front of the table, silently looking at the tablets on the table. Yang Qianxun opened the door and walked in, squatted beside his father, looking at the tablet of his grandparents, and then his father found Chihiro beside him, patted her head and asked, "Why don't you watch TV?" ”

Yang Qianxun said: "I will also accompany my grandparents with you." "Since the death of my grandparents, every year on the thirtieth night, my father has been like this, sitting quietly in a room and accompanying my grandparents for a long time. Yang Qianxun asked, "Dad, what did you say to your grandparents?" ”

The father looked at her lovingly and said, "Talk about you, talk about your brother, and talk about some of the things that happened in our family this year." ”

"Oh!" Yang Qianxun was silent, and a silver-haired grandmother appeared in front of her, touching her hair while saying, "Qianxun, when will you go to your mother-in-law's house?" ”

This is a sentence that grandma often asked her before her death, as if she was very worried about this granddaughter's marriage. After Grandma left, this sentence often appeared in her dreams, along with Grandma's kind smile and reckless love for their siblings and unjustified affection. After squatting for a long time, his feet were a little numb, Yang Qianxun stood up, there was no seat in the room except for the two chairs leaning on both sides of the Eight Immortals table, Yang Qianxun just walked over, and his father immediately stopped: "You can't sit here tonight, your grandparents are sitting!" ”

Yang Qianxun retreated in understanding. The father said, "Go back to the room and watch TV, and I'll sit there for a while." ”

In fact, many times, it is not superstition, but people use this way to place their thoughts and condolences on their deceased relatives, in ancient times there was a filial piety saying "death is like life", this Chinese New Year's Eve night, the father who is not superstitious at all, really hopes that grandparents can sit here and see all the people and things in their family. Yang Qianxun understands his father's intentions, so he has the same wish as his father: their hearts, grandparents under Jiuquan, can really be heard.

In another room, bursts of laughter erupted from a humorous sketch on TV. Yang Qianxun looked back at the room where his father was, because it was quiet, he could communicate with another world. Many times, things are contradictory, no matter whether they return happily or leave with difficulty, whether they are happy or sad, the sun will still rise tomorrow. Yang Qianxun pushed open the door and joined in the joy of his family.

The bell rang at twelve o'clock, and the New Year's bell was counting down to the gala on TV, and my mother fished out a few eggs from the pot as she did every year in the past, and gave them one each, Li Hao looked at Yang Qianxun and Yang Haoran suspiciously, and had to say to her mother: "Auntie, I'm not hungry at all!" ”

The mother smiled kindly and said: "This is our local custom, eat an egg on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, you will not get sick for a year, and you will be healthy." ”

Yang Qianxun explained on the side: "This is a good wish, you can eat it, you can't eat it!" Li Hao took the egg, peeled the shell, and ate it in two bites.

The father took out the firecrackers and called Yang Haoran: "Ran Ran, take your brother out to set off firecrackers together." ”

Yang Haoran took the firecrackers, and Li Hao and Yang Qianxun walked out of the house with him and set off firecrackers in the yard. The crackling of firecrackers in their own homes merges into the flood of sounds that rise and fall on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the new year begins.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the local custom is to visit the neighbors and elders to pay New Year's greetings, Yang Qianxun used to visit the elders of the same clan, this year due to the arrival of Li Hao, did not go out, his younger brother Yang Haoran finished breakfast, with a few hairy boys who came to him to ask him, went out to pay New Year's greetings.

The two watched TV at home, one morning to visit the New Year, one after another, the parents also went out to pay New Year's greetings, no way, Yang Qianxun and Li Hao can only be the hosts, keep receiving visitors, come to a group of people to make tea, wash the teacups, keep taking out the melon seeds and peanuts and candies prepared at home and distribute them to the children, politely let the guests who sit down to taste the New Year. It wasn't until his parents came home that Li Hao breathed a sigh of relief and secretly said to Yang Qianxun: "I didn't expect it to be so hard to send this usher!" Oops, I didn't expect your family to be so popular! ”

After dinner in the evening and sending the last group of New Year's greetings out of the house, Yang Qianxun began to discuss with his parents that he would set off with Li Hao and go to Jiangxi tomorrow. The mother objected: "Now the only elder in the family is your grandma, what do you say, you have to go to see your grandma before you can leave, right?" ”

Yang Qianxun thought that what his mother said was reasonable, so he discussed with Li Hao: "Or, let's leave the day after tomorrow?" Li Hao nodded and said yes. On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, under the instructions of the family, Li Hao and Yang Qianxun pulled their luggage and a cart of gifts from their parents in the car and headed for Jiangxi. The highway is still free, Li Hao said with a smile: "At this time, there is still a cheap way to pick up!" ”

There were not many cars along the way, a thousand kilometers away, and by seven o'clock in the evening, they had arrived at Li Hao's home.

After visiting relatives at home for two days, Li Hao discussed with his father whether he could find a few people who knew and had raised cars to work as managers in the mine. My father smiled and said, "I can go!" ”

Yang Qianxun said: "Uncle can't go, the conditions there are too difficult, you haven't been there, it's not what you can imagine, besides, you left, there are only aunts and grandparents at home, Li Hao and I are not at ease." In fact, she has another idea in her heart, if Li Hao's father goes, he is Li Hao's father and their elders, and it will be difficult to talk in the future.

Li Hao also said: "Yes, in fact, I also want you to help me, but you still can't go, those places are not for people, and you are old, more than 4,000 meters of plateau, you can't stand it." ”

Li Hao's mother also objected, and his father was against him going to Qinghai at first glance, so he didn't insist anymore, thought about it and said: "The eldest brother of your second uncle's family, he has also driven a big car before, and I don't see that he has not gone out much in recent years, so he should be able to go with you." ”

Li Hao immediately pulled up his father: "What are you waiting for?" Let's go and find him. ”