Chapter 271: New Year's Greetings 2
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it was nearly ten o'clock that Ye Liangchen was woken up by Ye's mother for breakfast. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info [x.]
After breakfast, carrying the snacks and canned fruits that had been prepared, I took Ye Meijing to pay New Year's greetings to my eldest uncle and second uncle.
There are three brothers in Kang'an Town, and another sister and a brother are far away in Ludong, and their parents died in the late 60s, and the three brothers fled from Ludong to the Northeast and settled in Kang'an Town, when Ye's father was just thirteen years old. The eldest uncle fully embodied the eldest brother as the father, and successively funded the second uncle and Ye's father to start a family, helped them marry wives and build houses, and after they all had their own families, the eldest uncle went to Frost City alone to start his long journey of part-time work, and did not return to the town until the year before last.
At this time, the eldest uncle was 56 years old and had been single, and the land he had previously allocated had been planted by the second uncle for all these years, so he lived in the second uncle's house after he came back.
The second uncle's family has four children, two boys and two girls, plus Ye Liangchen's brothers and sisters, a total of 6 children, but everyone can see that the eldest uncle's favorite is Ye Liangchen, from childhood to adulthood, he has bought countless delicious and fun things for Ye Liangchen.
Ye Liangchen's most vivid memory is the years when he was in elementary school and junior high school, when his uncle worked in an ironworks in Frost City, responsible for keeping vigil.
The ironworks were near Sun Yingying's house, in a compound with Frost City No. 7 Middle School.
Ye Liangchen spends at least half a month in a scrapped unknown car arranged by the ironworks for his uncle and his partner during the winter and summer vacations every year, and many workers in the ironworks, including the factory director, know Ye Liangchen.
In the summer, school is closed, but the ironworks are in full swing. Ye Liangchen ate the big pot of rice made in the canteen of the factory like the workers in the factory, and watched curiously as they burned the high stove similar to the one used for torture cannon branding in the "Fengshen List", and then the golden molten iron flowed out, poured into various pre-prepared pouring molds, and finally cast into steel pipes.
There is a commissary in the compound, which is a place that Ye Liangchen must go to every day, where there are fried golden peanuts and small yellow croaker, noodle fish, bread, instant noodles, ham sausages, popsicles, soda, small naughty candy cubes, big bubble gum, good-looking star stickers, trendy ones, etc., where almost all the wishes of the little Ye Liangchen's childhood can be satisfied.
Where is it, Ye Liangchen also has a group of playmates of the same age, among them are the children of workers, there are also children who live nearby, and he even had a crush on the factory director's sister Bai Fumei, who was two years older than him, for a while, in his memory, it was the first girl he had ever seen to wear a sundress.
In short, the place where the eldest uncle works in Frost City has Ye Liangchen's best childhood memories.
If Ye Liangchen had a younger brother instead of a younger sister, it was likely that Ye Liangchen would have passed on to his eldest uncle as a son, and there is no doubt that Ye Liangchen and his eldest uncle have a deep relationship.
Ye Liangchen didn't come back during the summer vacation before, and the eldest uncle kept inquiring about his news, but in the last two days of the summer vacation, Ye Liangchen came and went in a hurry, and he didn't bother to go up to see the eldest uncle. During the eleventh holiday, the eldest uncle heard that Ye Liangchen was back, and as before, he bought a few catties of moon cakes and sent a big live carp to Ye's house.
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The wind was very strong, and along the way, Ye Meijing hid behind Ye Liangchen, she found that her brother had grown taller, and at this time last year, she and her brother were almost as tall as they were, hiding behind him, and she needed to bend her waist to avoid the oncoming cold wind.
When passing by the town commune, Ye Meijing suddenly came out from behind Ye Liangchen and ran to the door of the commune, where there were full of firecrackers that had been set off.
It took a long time to find out that Ye Liangchen was still standing in place, Ye Liangchen was much faster than her in the past, Ye Meijing looked at her brother curiously, and waved at him vigorously.
Ye Liangchen thought about it, and finally walked over, bent down, and searched for it decently.
A few minutes later, the brother and sister were back on the road, each with a dozen more firecrackers in their pockets that had escaped but not escaped their fate.
came to the second uncle's house, and paid a New Year's greeting to the eldest uncle, the second uncle, the second aunt and the four brothers and sisters of the second uncle's family one by one, and received the New Year's red envelopes from the eldest uncle and the second uncle.
The eldest uncle still loves Ye Liangchen as much as ever, and soon after sitting down, he stuffed sugar cubes into his hands and picked oranges for him with his own hands, Ye Liangchen could feel that strong love.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, after having dinner at the second uncle's house, the Ye Liangchen brothers and sisters left, and when they separated, the eldest uncle stood at the door until they couldn't see their figures before going back.
The brother and sister walked all the way, and they had already reached the street where the Ye family lived, but Ye Meijing pulled her brother to the cross street.
Ye Liangchen knew her careful thoughts, although there were already a lot of delicious food at home during the Spring Festival, but the habit of coming to the commissary to "luxury" after the New Year's greetings still did not change, after buying two bags of cakes and two bottles of canned fruit, Ye Meijing was satisfied and pulled her brother home.
These are regular gifts for relatives to move around during the Spring Festival, and the Ye family also receives a lot every year, but there are very few that can be eaten, basically sent by the owner, and then sent to the west family, even if the relatives are done walking around in the end, the rest will be given to good neighbors, such as Aunt Luo, Aunt Ma, and Zhang Erniang's house.
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Since the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, this small township has been covered with a strong style of card playing, and almost every household, men, women and children, will participate.
Small gambling pleasure, big gambling to make a fortune.
In the early years, the rural police station specialized in catching gambling in the New Year, and in recent years, it has been much better, and occasionally catch those who play pai gow and gamble very big, such as the Ye family, no one cares at all, so everyone is also let go.
Frozen dumplings and a series of other frozen goods play a big role at this time, saving adults a lot of cooking time, unless you come to visit relatives, it is difficult to have a big stove like Chinese New Year's Eve, this is not a question of laziness, but a matter of whether it fits in with the group, everyone does this, you can't let the other three people wait for you one.
When the brother and sister arrived home, Ye's father had already started fighting, and Ye's mother was snorting melon seeds and waiting for someone with Aunt Ma.
Yu Delong is here again, and Ye Liangchen feels like he reappeared yesterday......
It's just that he can still walk side by side with Dong Xiaoyan as happily as he did yesterday?