Chapter 39: The New Year
When Zhong Zijing had a long night and had no intention of sleeping, Wang Li was still tossing and turning in bed.
The New Year in the countryside is still very lively in this era.
In this era, in many villages, only the village branch pulled a wire, and in addition to something that needed to be conveyed in the loudspeaker to open the electric switch, the electric gate was usually pulled down and no electricity was given.
As for ordinary people, they don't even pull a wire, and they are lighting kerosene lamps every day, not to mention that there is a TV at home to watch, big guys, at night, there is nothing to do, in order to save some kerosene, they generally wash up early and rest.
Chinese New Year's Eve is naturally different.
After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, except for the housewives who would stay at home and wait to entertain their relatives and friends who came to pay New Year's greetings, the rest of the family went out to pay their respects to the New Year after seeing the time.
The adults each held the enamel jar, soaked the thick tea, and went to the homes of each acquaintance, and the children lit lanterns, beckoned the friends who played together, and took out the New Year's fireworks prepared by each family.
After the comparison, we started to put it together.
Most people buy two kicks, and they are reluctant to buy more, so two or three meanings are enough, and the children have more small whips in their hands that they find on the ground after the whip is released.
From time to time, the whole room heard the rapid and loud shouts of the second kicker as it rose into the air, the crackling of the whip when it was lit, and the cheers and laughter of the children, and it seemed that the whole room was in a noisy.
After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Wang Lao Shuo took the enamel jar and went out, and Wang Mei also disappeared early.
Wang Li and other younger siblings helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen, and kicked them out to play: "Chinese New Year's Eve, what do the children do if they don't go out to play, these second sisters come to clean up, you all go out to play, don't worry, when the second sister cleans up, I will find you." ”
So the three little ones ran out with joy.
Far away, you can still hear patriotic bragging: "My second kick is very good, it only exploded into the sky when people ran away." ”
Wang Li laughed silently.
When I bought two kicks for my son, she squatted on the side and covered her ears, and her son ran to light the fuse, and then quickly ran back, squatting beside her to watch the two kicks screaming and flying into the sky, and the ground mouse, lit, there were sparks on the back of her buttocks, sneering around on the ground, always scared her to shrink on the stool and dare not come down.
She is gone, when her son celebrates the New Year, will he spend it with his grandparents, or will he be alone? Who else accompanies him to set off fireworks?
"Ali, have you washed it? After washing, you quickly wash a few more dishes, I can put melon seeds and peanuts! In the hall, Lin Guizhi's voice came, interrupting Wang Li's memories.
Wang Li wiped her face with the back of her hand, sped up the speed of her hand, and cleaned up the kitchen.
She took two shallow dishes from the cupboard, scrubbed them clean, and took out the table boxes that had been washed long ago and took them to the hall together.
Now that you have decided not to continue the old path of your previous life, you can't continue to think about the past. She believes that her son will live well in another world, and in the future, he will find his beloved, form a new family, and have a big fat boy in the future, a family of three, and be happy.
And here, she also has to live well, and when she becomes an adult in two or three years, she will find a reliable man she likes to marry, and take advantage of the fact that the family planning has not yet been implemented, and quickly have a few more children. Whether it's a boy or a girl, in short, it is necessary to have a few more, so as not to have a child who is lonely, once the parents and elders are gone, even a sibling is gone.
In the following time, Wang Li went out, watched the children set off fireworks and firecrackers for a while, and then went to the half-grown girls to chat for a while, followed to the house of a few acquaintances to pay New Year's greetings, and finally, when it was almost midnight, the crowd dispersed and went home.
It was almost twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, she cooked, cooked a large pot of noodles, and when her father put the whip down at twelve o'clock, she brought the noodles to the table, and the family of seven happily ate the noodles, accepted the red envelopes issued by Lin Guizhi, and finally couldn't resist the sleepy insects, and went to rest.
Wang Li cleaned up the pots and bowls, and the last one went to bed. When she lay on the bed, there was silence outside, and she listened to the slight breathing of her sisters, and suddenly she couldn't sleep.
In the early part of a month after coming back, she was busy every day, worrying about this and that, and she didn't even have a day to calm down and think about it.
Looking back on the past month or so, she realizes that a lot of things have changed. First of all, Aiguo doesn't have to be an apprentice, so that the family will be saved from being in debt for the next three or five years, of course, she has to prevent her mother from finding such an expensive and useless apprentice for Aiguo, she has to convince her father as soon as possible to let Aiguo go back to school.
The reasons are all ready-made, state support! Otherwise, how could there be a literacy class?
The two younger sisters are not so easy to say, after all, they still have to do a lot of work for the family every day, they can't say it, they can only take the work down by themselves, anyway, as long as there is someone to do the work, her mother should not object.
In the second half of the year, there was an incident of handing over blank papers at the Workers' Peasants' and Soldiers' University, and the overall atmosphere in society was not good.
As long as Patriot can continue to go to school, and the university will resume enrollment in the future, as long as Patriot can still go up, his father will definitely support him to continue studying. At home, because of the grandfather's loss of the foundation, my father didn't have to study, which was a lifelong regret for my father, if he could love the country, how could his father support him.
The two younger sisters can't help it, they can read as much as they want, it is impossible for their mother to support them to read too much, read to fifteen or sixteen, if they can be admitted to the secondary school.
If things can develop according to this expectation, in the future, the three small ones will probably not have to worry about their lives, they can't be rich and expensive, at least they can ensure that they don't have to worry about food and clothing, which is enough.
Finally, I thought of Wang Mei.
So far, Wang Li still can't figure out how Sister Xiaomei was caught meeting her and Zhao Bingcheng alone? She is such a cautious person, in her previous life, there were no rumors about them in the Wang Family Cottage, what went wrong?
When she gossiped with her little sisters in the evening, there were already rumors that Xiaomei was not good, even if the branch secretary went to the dog's house in the afternoon and made such a fuss, so as to save some reputation, but where is this kind of peachy news that can be completely covered up.
Of course, after all, this is to make several versions of the whole thing rumored, but after all, there are still some smears on Sister Xiaomei.
In May, Sister Xiaomei recruited workers to the county, and I don't know if this rumor will follow. I still hope not, she obviously had such a glorious future in her previous life, so it's a pity to ruin it like this.
It's Wang Mei, who doesn't seem to care about Sister Xiaomei and Zhao Bingcheng's news, is she really not caring, or is she hiding it from letting people know? How did they hook up in their last life? When did you hook up?
At this time, she hoped that her family could have that way, and she would recruit Wang Mei when recruiting workers in the county textile factory. Leaving Zhao Bingcheng far away, Wang Mei shouldn't hook up with Zhao Bingcheng again, right?
Looking back on the past month or so, Wang Li feels that she is still doing a good job, at least, she saved Pan Baomei, isn't it, Buddhism said, saving a life is like building a seven-level floating slaughter, there is a great merit, even if she is not the one who saved Pan Baomei, there is always a merit of her, I hope this merit can bless her son with a safe life.
Well, there is also the eldest brother Zhong who saves people, I hope this merit can also bless him and be safe.