Chapter 29: New Year's Flavor

The clothes are good-looking, and the people are better-looking.

The baseball shirt, which was popular a few years later, was only used as a kind of sportswear at this time, and the simple color composition was not only refreshing and generous, but also showed the vitality of young people, Li Qiumei decided to buy this one immediately.

The three of them walked around Binyang City for a whole day, and when they went, they were empty-handed, but when they came back, they had big bags and small bags.

Zhou Jiayi never thought that her mother, who is usually used to saving, is simply full of firepower for the New Year, and even the couplets have to be brought back from the provincial capital, saying that the characters in the provincial capital are well written.

Seeing that the New Year is coming, but the situation of short days and long nights has not changed, and when the mother and daughter and Lu Jun arrived home, it was already dark.

Zhou Jianping was watching TV in the living room in a car, with a stainless steel bowl in front of him, in which were broken steamed buns soaked in water, and a plate of pickles was placed next to it.

Zhou Jiayi, who was tired and paralyzed on the sofa, saw this scene and said with a wry smile: "How hard our family's life is, it's almost the New Year, and my dad is still boiling water here to soak buns and pickles!"

After a busy day, Li Qiumei was also tired enough, and said while changing her shoes without raising her head: "Your father is surprisingly lazy, there are vegetables in the refrigerator, and eggs, he is reluctant to do it himself, he loves to eat pickles for him to eat, and one day he will have to get tired of eating." ”

That being said, Li Qiumei, who had changed into slippers, still put on her apron and went to the kitchen resignedly.

Zhou Jianping happily watched the mother and daughter sing and harmonize, and didn't take it to heart at all, and asked Lu Junyuan, who didn't speak next to him, "Xiaoyuan, what have you bought after a day of shopping?"

Lu Junyuan said one by one, and took out a piece of clothing from the bag beside him, "This is porridge and porridge for you, can you try it?"

Just as Zhou Jianping was trying on clothes, Li Qiumei had already scrambled eggs and heated steamed buns, "Yiyi, bring the dishes out." ”

The footsteps of the New Year are quietly approaching in the process of the Zhou family's busy buying New Year's goods, the shops in the small county town will be closed every New Year, and they will not continue to operate until after the fifth day of the first lunar month, Li Qiumei is afraid that she will miss something or buy less things than enough, and she can't buy it when she uses it, and she is not stingy when she buys, and the living room of the Zhou family is full of piles, and even a box of liquor is placed under Zhou Jiayi's single bed.

When Lu Junyuan packed his luggage and said that he was leaving, Zhou Jiayi was indeed a little unresponsive, "I forgot your ticket today, what time will you fly, do you need my dad to send you to the airport?"

Lu Junyuan shook his head, almost Chinese New Year's Eve these two days, many people returned to Jiangping County for the New Year, Zhou Jianping went out every day until midnight to come back, hard work is to make money to support the family, if you specially send him to the airport, it will take at least half a day to go back and forth, "It's not the first time I'm going back, don't worry, the sixteenth day of the first month starts, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up, I bought a ticket for the morning of the Lantern Festival." ”

Zhou Jiayi laughed when she heard this, "Cheng, then when you come back, let's spend the Lantern Festival together, I will ask my mother to make rice balls and meat filling." ”

The Lantern Festival in the north is big and round, and the fillings are basically red beans, sesame seeds, roses, red dates, etc., in the final analysis, they are all sweets that Lu Junyuan does not like, and the dietary differences between the north and the south make him rarely eat zongzi, moon cakes and other foods during the festival, and the rice balls are also one of them.

Lu Junyuan nodded, carrying a trolley box downstairs, Zhou Jiayi helped take a taxi downstairs, "I'll send you to the station, you have luggage, it is probably inconvenient to buy a ticket." ”

In this year, the chengguan did not have the prestige of later generations, and there were many stalls occupying the road in the streets and alleys, and there were countless in the first few years of the Chinese New Year, and even the cyclists on the main roads had to get down and push, let alone taxis.

The driver took the two people around for a long time to arrive at the county bus station, Zhou Jiayi looked at the luggage and asked him to buy a ticket, and then sent him to the car, until the vehicle started slowly and waved to the young man in the window seat with a smile, and then turned to leave.

Lu Junyuan, who was sitting in the car, pinched a thin ticket in his hand, and smiled helplessly, he originally wanted to take a taxi directly to the airport, but now it's good, first take the car to Pinyang City, and then transfer from Pinyang to the airport, I don't know if I can catch the plane.

Zhou Jiayi didn't know that she had done something bad with good intentions, and was walking home happily while shopping.

The people on the street rubbed shoulders, the stalls are roughly divided into two kinds, one is to sell fireworks, and the other is to sell paintings, what calligraphy, paintings, maps, the content is dazzling, Zhou Jiayi remembers that the map of China hanging in her living room was bought at such a stall during the Chinese New Year one year, and her cognition of the outside world when she was a child all came from the dense place names on the map.

It's a pity that this New Year's flavor gradually dissipated, and even fewer and fewer people even sold New Year's paintings.

Squeezed in the crowd and cut the price for a long time, Zhou Jiayi successfully spent five yuan to buy two "Blessing Boys", when she got home, Li Qiumei had already packed a few bags and beckoned her, "Hurry up and take a hand, bring this downstairs, your father will come back later, let's go back together." ”

Even if the Zhou family lives in the city, they always have to go back to the village to celebrate the New Year when it comes to the New Year.

said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, Zhou Jianping sent off the last wave of guests, collected the car, and happened to meet his daughter-in-law and daughter going downstairs with things, especially the box of liquor pulled out from under Zhou Jiayi's bed, which was held by her, and her face was blocked.

Zhou Jianping took the box of wine from his daughter's arms, stuffed it into the trunk, and asked: "Is there anything else at home that I haven't taken?"

"I've taken them all." Li Qiumei opened the co-pilot and took the lead in it, urging: "Hurry up, our mother has called several times, there are so many people at home, how can she and the eldest sister be busy!"

Zhou Jiayi suddenly turned around and ran upstairs, "Mom, I forgot something at home, go get it now, and come down in three minutes." "She had just helped with her things, and forgot the two paintings she had bought.

Seeing that her daughter ran away, Li Qiumei had no choice but to count a sentence and lose three or four.

The day before Chinese New Year's Eve, the weather was exceptionally strong, accompanied by warm sunshine, Zhou Jiayi's family of three returned from the city to their home in the countryside.

Grandpa Zhou was in high spirits chopping chickens in the patio, and Grandma Zhou sat on a small bench on the side to wash the hairtail, and when she saw her son's family coming back, she put down the work in her hand and got up and said, "There is still hot rice in the pot, you haven't eaten it, ask your sister to heat it for you." As he spoke, his eyes fell on Zhou Jiayi, "Why do I look at Yiyi as if she has lost weight?"

Seeing that grandma's hand that washed the fish rubbed twice on her clothes and was about to reach out to touch her face, Zhou Jiayi hurriedly squatted down, "Grandpa, the water in this basin has to be changed, I'll help you scoop it, where is our basin?"

Grandpa Zhou didn't raise his head, "It's in the house, look for it yourself." ”

Zhou Jiayi was born to catch up with family planning, ruining Grandpa Zhou's idea of wanting a grandson to inherit the lineage, the old man originally wanted to give Zhou Jiayi away, but fortunately Zhou Jianping and his wife did not agree, and it was precisely because of this that the family of three later moved from the countryside to the county seat.

Maybe there is such a saying that it is far fragrant and smelly, Zhou Jiayi has been studying and working outside for many years in her previous life, and she gets along with her grandfather on the few days she goes home every year, and she suddenly suffers such a cold reception, and it took a long time to react, she smiled, according to the way she got along with the old man who was angry with the old man every day when she was a child, and then the old man pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, now it's good to just throw a cold face, right?

As soon as Li Qiumei got home, she rolled up her sleeves and went to the kitchen to help, Zhou Jianping was assigned to paste couplets and move objects that occupied space in the yard, and Zhou Jiayi helped her grandmother, who was not very good-eyed, to clean up the hairtail.

When everything was almost processed, Zhou Jianping's mobile phone rang, he looked at the caller ID on the phone screen, and picked it up with a smile.

"Xiaoyuan, I'm home, oh, okay, you wait!" Zhou Jianping, who was sitting in the living room, said a few words to Lu Junyuan, stood up and shouted outside, "Yiyi, Xiaoyuan's brother wants to talk to you." ”

Zhou Jiayi was stealing her grandmother's fried peanuts in the kitchen, and when she heard Zhou Jianping calling her, she quickly grabbed a few and threw them into her mouth, trotted out of the kitchen, wiped her hands clean, and took the phone.

"Hey, little two?" During the winter vacation, Zhou Jiayi often used Lu Junyuan's mobile phone to talk to Lu Mingyuan, and gradually used the title of one glance at him.

Unexpectedly, a more familiar voice came from the other side of the phone, "Porridge, it's me." ”

Zhou Jiayi was stunned for a moment and then became happy, teasing him, "Your plane is not very good, it is almost dark before you get home, you have to complain next time, then again, is your house much colder than Jiangping?"

Lu Jun didn't mention that he almost missed the plane because of the shuttle, and laughed, "It's quite cold, the snow here is quite heavy, Xiao Er has never seen it, and he shouted to go out to build a snowman." ”

At this time, Zhou Jiayi vaguely remembered that in the spring of 08, she still saw a lot of disaster relief pictures on TV, and she entered the construction of Lu Junyuan's website during this year's winter vacation, but she forgot about it.

"Did you bring a down jacket back? Don't wear the new coat you bought for the New Year, you don't have heating there, don't freeze. Zhou Jiayi always felt that she was an adult in her heart, and Lu Junyuan was still a child who had not grown up, so she would always tell him like a little housekeeper.

In fact, in terms of the situation of Lu Junyuan's family, Zhou Jiayi's worries were superfluous, but the young man did not say anything, but patiently listened to her about the busyness of her family.

"I'm going to learn a few hard dishes from my grandma!" The girl sitting by the fire was full of interest, after all, she was a person who had lived independently outside, and she also had a few good home cooking, but when it came to the chicken, duck and fish meat that greeted guests in the village, she really didn't know where to start.

Grandpa Zhou, who was sitting on the side, listened for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say, "I didn't see that your mother, your aunt and your grandmother are making dumplings in the kitchen, when will the phone call not work, we have a lot of families, if you don't help wrap the dumplings early, you will have to eat this afternoon until the evening!"