Chapter 321: An Unexpected Red Envelope
Early in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zheng Si heard the voices of the old man Jiao and the old lady, the old people are always used to getting up early, and they are even more diligent during the New Year.
No one slept lazy today, Xiaoyuzi and Jiao Yuan also got up quickly, there are still many tasks today, and there will be New Year's guests at home. However, when Xiaoyuzi and Jiao Yuan woke up, their vision was still blurred and they were not very sober, and they were yawning when they smelled the smell of braised pork.
Usually breakfast is lighter, so the two children thought, is it possible that today's breakfast has been changed to braised pork? When I was dressing, I found that there was a red envelope at the head of the bed.
When I picked it up, the red envelope was significantly thicker than the one I usually received, and on the back, a greasy cat's paw print with the smell of braised pork was there, so you don't have to think much to know who it belongs to.
And what surprised Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyuzi even more was the five hundred yuan in the red envelope.
Zheng Si has a lot of private money, this Jiao Yuan and Xiao Yuzi have long known that Jiao Yuan has also borrowed money from Zheng Si, but borrowing money is one thing, receiving the "New Year's money" red envelope is another, Jiao Yuan and Xiao Yuzi's mood is quite peculiar and complicated, after all, in their opinion, Zheng Si's cat age is much younger than them, and there are five hundred yuan in it! For students, that's quite a lot of money.
Jiao Yuan looked at the red envelope in his hand with a tangled face, he actually wanted to shout "" loudly to alleviate the impact of the red envelope, but obviously not, if he really shouted out, he would definitely be criticized by the four elders in the family, and he didn't want to be trained on the first day of the new year.
The old man and the old lady saw Jiao Yuan and Xiao Yuzi coming out of their respective rooms, and their eyes narrowed with laughter. Before the two children could say anything, they quickly took out their pockets and handed over the prepared New Year's bag.
As Zheng Si expected, the old man gave a hundred yuan, just look at the thickness. Zheng Si couldn't help but be proud next to him, not as much as I gave.
"Ah, Black Carbon, and yours."
The old man and the old lady took it out again, and it was the same as in previous years, one of Zheng Si's red envelopes was filled with dried pork, and the other was filled with dried fish fillets, but. This year, the old man and the old lady gave more. In previous years, there was only one bag in a red envelope, but now there are two bags, which is doubled.
There is also a reason why Zheng Si's red envelope has doubled, and the biggest credit for the incident the day before yesterday is Zheng Si. Although in the eyes of many people, the credit goes to Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyuzi. But the old man and the old lady knew that the key role in this was Zheng Si. And because of this incident, several cadres in the village also came to thank Mr. Jiao, and even two officials from the town came to talk to Mr. Jiao. This makes Old Man Jiao have more face, when he used to talk to Old Man Gu on Jiao's mother's side, Old Man Gu was often embarrassed, he had a big face, and he relied on brushing his face in everything, and now Old Man Jiao felt that he would be able to show off more when he saw Old Man Gu next time.
Jiao Yuan and Xiao Yuzi didn't tell the two old men about Zheng Si's "huge" red envelopes for them, for fear of scaring the old man. Jiao Yuan took advantage of Jiao's father's free time to pull people into the room, and with an expression of "lying in a big groove", he told Jiao's father about Zheng Si's red envelopes for them.
Dad Jiao pondered for a while, and then said, "Then take it." According to the conversion of the age of cats and people, black charcoal is already middle-aged, you are only a teenager, and it is estimated that it will treat you as a junior. ”
Jiao Yuan: "...... Don't do that. ”
"This is also the intention of black charcoal, besides, black charcoal is now considered a high-paid class who has worked for a few years, you are still only a middle school student, and his monthly salary is worth half a year's living expenses. Oh, and it paid more for documentaries at the end of the year. ”
Jiao Yuan: "......" is so shocking.
There are many examples of other cats giving gifts, such as dead mice, incomplete grasshoppers or other "gadgets", etc., but the experience of being given New Year's money by their own cats is probably only Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyuzi, and only they can experience that complex and tangled feeling.
In the morning, when he went out to the grave and came back, Zheng Si found that there was a person sitting in the old house, it was the one named Song Ting, the old man Jiao smiled with chrysanthemums on his face, and called "Song expert" eagerly.
Compared to when he was tied up, Song Ting looks much better now, and the bruises at the corners of his eyes have faded a lot, but fortunately, those robbers did not directly strip off their down jackets, otherwise, they may not be able to wait for rescue safely. Song Ting was not negative because of what he experienced that day, the whole person looked quite energetic, and his face was much healthier.
When Song Ting came, Jiao's father took Jiao Yuan and they just left, because the old man Jiao said that it would not be too long, Song Ting has been sitting here and waiting, seeing Jiao's father and his party coming back, the smile in Song Ting's eyes flashed, and his eyes first fell on Zheng Si who was wearing a vest, then Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyuzi, and then looked at Jiao's father and Jiao's mother in the back.
After the New Year's greetings were finished, Song Ting took out his pocket.
Zheng Si sighed inexplicably in his heart, and always felt a bad premonition.
Sure enough, the next moment, I saw Song Ting take out two big red envelopes from his pocket that were twice as large as Zheng Si's one with more exquisite workmanship, and the red envelopes were still very thick.
Father Jiao and Old Man Jiao couldn't sit still immediately when they saw it, got up and wanted to block back, but in the end they couldn't stand Song Ting's insistence, so they nodded and let the two children accept it.
"Alas, Expert Song, you are too polite!" Old man Jiao felt a little pressured, and their village had not yet given a thousand New Year's money.
After Jiao Yuan received the red envelope just now, he went back to the room to look at it, and then secretly gestured to Jiao's father and old man Jiao, telling them how much was in the red envelope, so that the two of them had a bottom in their hearts.
In fact, many relatives of the Song Court give more red envelopes to their children, 1,2000 are common, as if they are given less shares, but this is also a process of replacement, how much you give to his children, he will give your children at that time, red envelopes will be sent to each other, and if you can't send the New Year's money, the red envelopes will be recorded in other things, and then they will be added to the money and returned.
Song Ting didn't like to get those so-called "courtesy exchanges", which were all prepared by his wife before, but now after his wife went abroad to study for a doctorate, the old man was not around and couldn't give advice, and finally decided to follow the method of sending between relatives before. gave a big red envelope to each of the two children for 1,000.
Song Ting wanted to pack more, he was really grateful to these two children, it was the first time he encountered this kind of thing in so many years, fortunately the two children and the cat helped, otherwise the consequences were really unpredictable, and the red envelopes were more, but in the end, a few friends from Song Ting's side pressed it down, and the general village put too much pressure on the people, so I want to be grateful. Other ways will work as well. So. This thousand yuan is still the result of Song Ting's reduction under the persuasion of his friends.
And Zheng Si's side, when Jiao Yuan went back to the room to look at the red envelope, he hurriedly followed, and after seeing it, countless words of "" in his heart galloped with the alpaca, and Song Ting's sight was not very good. I was going to give the highest red envelope this year. The results didn't last two hours. was broken.
Zheng sighed so depressed that he wanted to flip the table. At the same time, I am also thinking about saving more cash next year and sending it away! When the time comes, the whole larger workmanship is more delicate and beautiful red envelopes!
Someone over there came to find Mr. Jiao, and the old man asked Dad Jiao to stay here and talk to Expert Song more. After Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyuzi were called away by Jiao's mother, only Jiao's father and Song Ting were left here. Both of them are professors of similar age, although they are engaged in different directions, but they are not completely unintersecting, and they can talk about common topics, and Zheng Si wants to sleep when he hears the profound things in academics.
When Zheng Si woke up after a short squint, the topic of Jiao's father and Song Ting turned to the loss of the fruit forest after the snow disaster, and they also said that they were going to donate.
Zheng Si has always been heartless, he has no intention of donating such a thing, and he doesn't feel that the money he earns should be given to people he doesn't know, and he doesn't need to make a name for himself by donating money, he would rather give more to the people of the Jiao family and the friends he knows, so when Jiao's father talked to Song Ting about donations, Zheng Si ran out and planned to walk outside.
This year, the festive atmosphere of the New Year in the village is not so strong, because of this snow disaster, many people who live on the land are very sad, and the people who plant and breed are in the same situation, they are not optimistic, and they only want to try their best to recover some losses.
There are also a lot fewer children playing with firecrackers outside, and they all help the family, and the family's income is directly linked to their future schooling and marrying their daughters-in-law, so they give up the time to play with firecrackers to work.
Zheng Si squatted on a large rock next to the dirt road, looking at the villagers who were scurrying nearby.
The two old men walked on the dirt road in front of them, talking, and did not notice Zheng Si.
Listening to their conversation, it seems to be about everyone working together to donate money to a family, that family's family conditions are not very good, the tile house has a lot of problems, unreliable, a snow disaster down half collapsed, fortunately people are fine, Chinese New Year's Eve is also barely passed with the help of some people, otherwise they will have to freeze and starve. Some people in the village thought of pooling money to help them repair their houses first, otherwise there would be no place to live.
Listening to the two old men, the conditions of their own families are not very good, but they are passable, and the sons and daughters-in-law of the family do not agree to donate money, but the old man thinks that he should do some good deeds and accumulate some virtue for his son and grandson, so that he can go with peace of mind in the future.
Many people, as they get older, believe more and more in some mysterious things, do good deeds and accumulate virtues.
It is said that good people have good rewards, and wicked people are punished by God, Zheng Si used to be very disdainful of this, because all kinds of people in society are abducted, cheated, murdered, and stolen, living in luxury houses, driving luxury cars, and soaking in high-quality girls, and they live better than anyone else, but some good people live miserably.
The dereliction of duty in education, the increasingly heavy pressure of life, and the growing gap between the rich and the poor are overwhelming. No, they are becoming more and more convinced of the supremacy of money, and as for the good or bad of the process, what does that matter?
However, Zheng Si suddenly began to be confused again, he once thought, is it because he lacks virtue and does too much, so he suddenly becomes a cat?
There was a vegetable garden across the dirt road, some of which had frozen to death, but some of the vegetables near a fence were still alive, and the sprouts with small yellow flowers were standing tall and swaying slightly in the wind, adding some life and expectation.
Zheng Si watched the cabbage over there gradually become obsessed, until, a donkey face suddenly appeared, accompanied by a rather sudden donkey bark, which was so startled that Zheng Si almost jumped up. But the donkey twisted his head, flicked his tail and followed the "fifth grandfather".
Seeing the man and the donkey walking away, Zheng Si stretched his waist and ran towards the old mansion.
Jiao's father went into the house to drink water after sending Song Ting away, and as soon as he entered, he found Zheng Si squatting on the table and hanging his head in a "contemplative" manner, stepping on a bank card under the cat's paws. (To be continued.) )
ps: Came back at night and slept overly, sorry just came out.
A new month has begun.,August will usher in the big seal push in the station.,Statements are also as much as possible.,I don't dare to say that it's double every day.,But the update will definitely be better than July.。 I'll go to bed today. Good night everybody.