Chapter 39: The New Year
The New Year of '97 will come a little earlier than in previous years, and the New Year's Day will be almost a few days away. This year's Chinese New Year is spent with my uncle's family, and the location is Zhao Qi's new home.
On the morning of the 29th lunar month, my brother-in-law's family had already come. Zhao Qi's brother-in-law can be regarded as the most promising one of the old Song family. In this, I also want to talk about some of the situation on Zhao Qi's mother's side.
Song Xia has a total of 4 brothers and sisters in her family. The eldest is Song Xia, who is the same as Zhao Mu, the eldest in the family. Song Xia has a total of 3 younger brothers. It's Zhao Qi's uncle, second uncle, and brother-in-law. Needless to say, Zhao Qi's uncle once took Zhao Qi to borrow money from his uncle because of the purchase of a house.
Zhao Qi's second uncle has seen him no more than ten times since Zhao Qi can remember, not because the relationship is not good, but because the second uncle has not studied well since he was a child, he worked outside with his second aunt after he got married. I rarely go home, and basically I can only see each other during the New Year, and when Zhao Qihui celebrates the New Year at my grandmother's house.
Although he didn't see his second uncle often, his second uncle's son, who was less than a year older than Zhao Qi's cousin, played well with Zhao Qi. Except for the son of the eldest uncle, he is the best cousin.
The youngest is naturally the uncle, the youngest uncle Song Jun is the youngest, and he is also the most hard-working person, he had excellent grades when he was a child, and later was admitted to the forestry school, and is now the deputy director of the Forestry Bureau. can become the deputy director of the Forestry Bureau at the age of about 30, you can imagine how capable the uncle is.
And in addition to his main job, the uncle also runs his own business, buying trees from the countryside, and then transporting them out of the county seat to the provincial capital. In recent years, I have also made a lot of money.
In the previous life, Zhao Qi's family went through several twists and turns, and every time it came to the most difficult moment, the brother-in-law always reached out to help the Zhao Qi family, and a large part of the money to buy this house in the previous life was borrowed from the brother-in-law Song Jun. So for his uncle's family, Zhao Qi sincerely thanked them.
My uncle's family has only one daughter who is 5 years younger than Zhao Qi, who is just 2 years old this year, and her name is Song Jie, who is very cute. Zhao Qi in his previous life also liked this sister the most.
After a day of playing with my sister, the family finally sat down to celebrate the last day of 96 years together.
There are local customs, and in some places, the New Year's dinner is eaten at noon, and some even eat it in the morning. And Zhao Qi's family's New Year's dinner is eaten at night.
Zhao Qi's family of four, plus the uncle's family of three, a total of seven people sat at the table.
96 is a very commemorative year for Zhao Mu and Song Xia. In this year, thanks to the blessing of his son, the old Zhao family bought a house in the county. The school he founded himself has made great progress. And his son also went to school, and his academic performance is also very good. The most important thing is that Lao Zhao's son with high hopes is very sensible. I won't do some naughty things, except for bullying a few classmates at the beginning of school......
After Zhao Ranran was born, Zhao Mu and Song Xia both spent all their efforts on their daughter, but unfortunately, due to Zhao Ranran's poor health and the substandard medical conditions at that time, Zhao Ranran's acquired surname was deaf and dumb. Zhao Mu and Song Xia were heartbroken because of this, and they never had the idea of having another one, so they had to run to major hospitals across the country in order to see their daughter. But in fact, there is no cure for this disease, and there are at least 100,000 cases of such deaf and mute children in the country.
It wasn't until six years later that Zhao Qi was born. In order for their eldest daughter to have a good life in the future, Zhao Mu and Song Xia also regarded cultivating Zhao Qi as their top priority. Only if Zhao Qi has a future and the two elders can no longer work in the future, Zhao Ranran can live a better life. Although it is a bit one-sided to look at life at the age of three, Zhao Qi's excellent performance naturally made the old couple happy.
At the dinner table, Zhao Mu, as the head of the family, is also the most eloquent elder. First of all, I made a small summary of last year's life, and then I made a new expectation for next year's new life. Then it's time for the cheerful Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the two families of seven watched the Spring Festival Gala of 97 together. Zhao Qi didn't run out bored anymore, hugged the 2-year-old Song Jie and honestly sat on the sofa and watched TV.
The Spring Festival Gala is the largest in the country and the most watched program that only happens once a year.
There is no lip-to-singing, I haven't seen the Spring Festival Gala, and there are not so many advertising elements, Zhao Qi is also watching with relish.
Uncle Benshan's sketch "Red Sorghum Model Team", what made Zhao Qi smile was that he leaned forward and closed, and after watching it so many times, Zhao Qi still never got tired of watching it.
At twelve o'clock in the evening, the noisy outside was lively again. The sound of firecrackers one after another made Song Jie in Zhao Qi's arms almost cry. Zhao Qi hurriedly comforted him, so he didn't cry.
After watching the Spring Festival Gala, it was already one or two o'clock in the night. But at this time, no one said to sleep, except for Song Jie, who was only two years old.
The four adults began to play mahjong, and Zhao Qi and Zhao Ranran also sat on the side and watched several adults play cards.
Zhao Qi's brother-in-law Song Jun and Zhao Qi's great-uncle Jiang Xian have a common hobby, that is, gambling. They both love to play three cards, and they both like to play big. The only difference is that Zhao Qi's brother-in-law has basically never lost, according to Zhao Qi's uncle, half of his family is now won back by gambling, which can be imagined Song Jun's "skill" is deep.
In this way, the four of them played for the whole night. It didn't end until the morning of the next day, the first day of the first lunar month. After the end, the five people (Zhao Ranran couldn't stand it anymore and went to sleep) didn't sleep, and directly started the work of the first year of junior high school.
First, Comrade Lao Zhao went out to set off firecrackers, and then the family cooked noodles for breakfast.
The name of the noodles is "longevity noodles", and the meaning is self-evident. Then I have to prepare the paper and money printed with the copper coin imprint, and I want to give some money to the ancestors of the old Zhao family.
Zhao Qi, who didn't want to participate in these things, was pulled by Zhao Mu and was not allowed to run, and reluctantly finished everything.
Holding Song Jie, who had woken up, the brother and sister had already gone out to the street.
"Jiejie, tell my brother what you want, my brother has money, not bad money, not bad money!" Zhao Qi, who had at least a thousand yuan in his pocket, said to Song Jie, who was only two years old. The nouveau riche look like he lost was happily kissed by Song Jie.
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