Chapter 109: Late New Year's Money
In the countryside in this era, life is outrageously monotonous, there is no TV set to watch any programs on weekdays, let alone other entertainment activities, and during the New Year, except for people with a little money to set off strings of firecrackers before eating, no one has spare money to buy fireworks to set off on Chinese New Year's Eve.
There is no custom of keeping the New Year's Eve here, in the second half of the New Year's dinner, Yu Tianzhou and Yu Zhiqing were almost drunk, Yu Tianzhou went back to the house directly and took the radio that he treated as a baby, adjusted the station and played it.
"Your big eyes, bright and shining, like the stars in the sky, the brightest one, you are like that fire, the flame warms me, you are like that fire"
This is Fei Xiang's "A Fire in Winter"?
Hearing the dynamic man's singing voice on the radio, Yu Mingyue was startled, and the mood she had suppressed earlier suddenly improved, and she pricked up her ears to play this very familiar 'old song'.
"Hehe, Satsuki likes this song, doesn't she?"
Seeing that her daughter had changed her preoccupied appearance just now, and her eyes suddenly became bright staring at the radio, Kong Mingyu's heart was light, and she smiled happily, and rubbed the top of Yu Mingyue's head lovingly as she spoke, dispelling the idea of carrying Yu Mingyue back to the room to sleep early.
"Hmm." Yu Mingyue didn't doubt it, nodded along with the words, and said with a smile: "It's so good, I like it." ”
If everyone has one or two idols or a few idols, then Fei Xiang was her first idol in childhood, although I heard in my previous life that the original singer of this song was not Fei Xiang, but when I heard it for the first time, I still liked this song and remembered this person.
When Yu Tianzhou heard this, he frowned disapprenorantly, and saw that Kong Mingying was also staring at the radio with a new face, and pouted and said to Yu Mingyue: "Hey, you kid, what's so good about this, when grandpa is free tomorrow, I will take you to the village office to watch the old people in our village rehearse the lantern play, then it is called beautiful and good." ”
"You dead old man, you think about the lantern all day long, that old thing, what is there to look at." Kong Mingying's eyes widened, turned his head and choked: "It's really useless, if you don't have to go into the city to sell vegetables the next day, are you also going to participate in the lantern sister in the village, let me tell you, it's okay if you hum a few words on the radio on weekdays, but the lantern group run by Tang Fugui, don't go in to participate." ”
"Alas, you old woman, when did I say I was going to join in." Yu Tianzhou's face sank, and he took a sip of a small wine glass with some boring taste, and then said to Yu Zhiqing: "By the way, Zhiqing, I told those old guys in the community earlier that our family went to the city to sell vegetables in the second year of junior high school. ”
Kong Mingying's eyes widened in disbelief and said urgently: "Ouch, you dead old man, tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, no one kills, you can't make it taboo, and what wild things do you go up the mountain to pick up?" Don't go, tomorrow I will go to the field to boil green bean water. ”
Yu Tianzhou was also annoyed, and choked back: "Taboo, what's there to taboo, if you don't kill animals, starving people to death won't be considered fate?" One sentence of a dead old man and another sentence of a dead old man all day long, what taboo do you have? ”
"You" Kong Ming was angry, but he still changed his tone and scolded: "You are picking bones in eggs, and after entering the city a few times, you can't look down on me, an old woman, right?" You're this"
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Yu Mingyue rolled her eyes a little helplessly, grandma is really, she is used to bickering on weekdays, and she is not taboo during the New Year, and she will change the topic without saying anything, today is endless.
"Grandpa, grandma, didn't you say that you can't quarrel in the New Year, otherwise you will have to quarrel every day in the future, and it will be unpleasant."
"If it's a big New Year, you can't speak." Kong Xiaoyu covered Yu Mingyue's mouth, frightened.
Kong Mingying, who was arguing with Yu Tianzhou, was sitting opposite, and when he heard Yu Mingyue's words, he was frightened, and at this time, he saw Kong Xiaoyu cleverly covering Yu Mingyue's mouth and stopping Yu Mingyue's remaining unlucky words, which was a great relief.
Kong Mingying gave Kong Xiaoyu a satisfied look, only to glare at Yu Tianzhou fiercely, and said: "It's all your old thing, look at what the children have been taught, it's really out of tune." ”
Yu Tianzhou was speechless, and after replying to the eyes that he didn't bother to pay attention to, he lowered his head and began to fight with the wine and food on the table.
Alas, grandma is just domineering. Yu Mingyue sighed lightly in her heart, and she couldn't cry or laugh, when the atmosphere in the hall became a little dull, Fei Xiang's song was also sung, and the host on the radio began to introduce the next program.
"The following is the cross talk "Reverie in the Tiger's Mouth", and the performers Jiang Kun and Tang Jiezhong are invited to the stage"
Jiang Kun? Yu Mingyue was happy, picked up the radio on the table and laughed loudly: "Hehe, cross talk, it must be very good." ”
No matter how lonely he is, but he lived to be 32 years old in his previous life, Jiang Kun's name Yu Mingyue still knows, that is a big name in cross talk, his works, the funny energy is not low, just to ease the atmosphere at home at this time.
Who Jiang Kun is, no one in the Yu family knows now, seeing Yu Mingyue happy like this, the four adults just smiled faintly, and did not stop Yu Mingyue from changing the radio, but after a while, listening to those hilarious words coming from the radio, combined with imagining the plots in the performance, the four adults were all laughing happily.
After listening to "Reverie in the Tiger's Mouth", followed by the cross talk "Five Senses Fighting", the family couldn't laugh anymore, when listening to the host announcing the curtain and saying that the next song was the song "Hometown Clouds", Yu Tianzhou, who was holding the radio, had already hugged Yu Tianzhou, who was holding the radio, and rubbed the top of Yu Mingyue's head.
Suddenly, he said with emotion: "Alas, as soon as this year passes, in September, our Xiaoyue is also a child who can go to school, this little guy, before following into the city, she listened to the Mandarin spoken by the people in the city There is no obstacle at all, and it will be reassuring to go to school then." ”
"Poof~ cough cough cough" Kong Mingying just drank a mouthful of wine into his mouth and squirted out, coughed and then retired, and then quipped: "You old man is upside down?" Which teacher in the village do you see teaching in Mandarin from the city? What kind of heart do you put in it? It's a big deal. ”
After Kong Mingying finished complaining, he was suddenly stunned, staring at Yu Mingyue who was holding the radio, seeing that Yu Mingyue became a little stunned for a moment, he stretched his hand and patted Yu Mingyue's little face, and said with concern: "Xiaoyue, what's wrong, are you sleepy?" "This kid was happy just now, but this miscellaneous looks like he's lost his mind?
Yu Mingyue was so frightened that she was hurrying to make excuses for being able to understand Mandarin, and before she could reply, Kong Xiaoyu was already laughing next to her.
"Hehe, Mom, Xiaoyue, this little thing has been smart since she was a child, and she likes to listen to the broadcast of the big radio in the village occasionally on weekdays, and she got to know Aunt Chen and the three of them when she entered the city, and several aunts often teach Xiaoyue some things, this little thing is very clever, if you can't even understand this Mandarin, then what's it called."
"Uh-huh, uh-huh." Yu Mingyue nodded her head vigorously and said, "That's it, that's it, Grandma Chen and Brother Yi Shi didn't teach me a lot of things to learn, and they taught me a lot of Mandarin. ”
This excuse is logical, Yu Zhiqing, who was a little drunk, also joked about Yu Mingyue's presence in the city, Kong Mingying was not very confused about this matter, but at this time he believed it, Yu Mingyue looked at the faces of several adults and there was no abnormality, which was a big sigh of relief.
Yu Tianzhou was a little more proud at this time, he always felt that his granddaughter was the smartest, and at this time he didn't forget to show off, squinted his eyes and said: "Our Yu family has never produced a simple person, our little guy Xiaoyue can be regarded as the smartest one in several generations, I think that when the educated youth went to the countryside and came to the village, many of the educated youths spoke Mandarin, and few people in the village could understand it, and few of those educated youths could understand the words of our locals. But that's me and the fourth brother and He Zhiqing, his big daddy. ”
Accidentally, Yu Tianxiang was mentioned, the expression on Yu Tianzhou's face became a little unnatural, Kong Mingying lightly looked at Yu Zhiqing, whose face was also frozen, and then frowned and interrupted: "Okay, okay, you old man, don't talk about those old yellow calendars, it's not early, go to bed early, tomorrow you don't go into the city, help me and Xiaoyu water the green beans in the big bend field to water the four seasons beans in the city, and everyone will have to put it on the shelf, now the vegetables are brought into the city by their own families to sell, manage it well, and sell it at a good price, After the first month, before the rain came down, it was good to flip the room below. ”
Kong Mingying was relieved, and the other three had no opinion, and even Yu Tianzhou, who said earlier that he wanted to go up the mountain on the first day of the new year, nodded in response.
Building a house, Yu Mingyue is not in favor, she knows too well where to use the money next year, but she knows too well that preventing Yu Weiran is what she wanted to do most in her previous life, she can get such an opportunity in this life, and she knows in advance that she may be released, of course she has to prepare early and keep guarding.
But she also knew that this time was not the time to refute, not to mention that she was a big child, and she really couldn't directly raise her hand to oppose such a big thing as building a house, so she had to sigh lightly in her heart, and was obediently taken back to the room by Yu Zhiqing.
Yu Zhiqing was drunk high today, and he didn't ask Yu Mingyue what he meant at all, so he hugged Yu Mingyue on the big bed between him and Kong Xiaoyu.
In this regard, Yu Mingyue did not make a sound to remind her, the Chinese New Year, to be able to sleep with her parents for one night, Yu Mingyue was happy, she took off her clothes and pants, and slipped into the quilt with a big red flower face wearing only autumn clothes and pants, and took the initiative to sleep in the middle of the bed.
Yu Zhiqing really drank a lot, and he didn't tease Yu Mingyue when he got on the bed, so he fell asleep, leaving only Yu Mingyue and Kong Xiaoyu talking softly.
"Satsuki, Satsuki, have you slept?"
The mother and daughter were talking, and Kong Mingying's voice shouted softly outside the door.
"Grandma?"
Yu Mingyue sat up with a twist, could it be that the two old men were arguing again?
Thinking about her thoughts, she didn't dare to delay, Yu Mingyue slipped out of bed quickly, opened the door, and Kong Xiaoyu also followed in autumn clothes and pants.
Before the mother and daughter could ask, Kong Mingying grinned, and directly handed Yu Mingyue a red envelope, and said with a smile: "Xiaoyue, collect it quickly, this is the New Year's money for you this year." ”
"Ah, New Year's money?" Yu Mingyue stared at the red envelope glued with red paper, a little unable to come back to her senses, more than five years, this is the first time she has received New Year's money, joy, emotion and so on welled up in her heart, Mu Mu stood on the spot and couldn't move.
"Yo, look at this little money fan, this is so fond of it." Kong Xiaoyu quipped and pushed Yu Mingyue's small back.
"Hehe, thank you grandma, and thank you grandpa." Yu Mingyue came back to her senses, and immediately instinctively showed a big sweet smile, took the red envelope, and held it tightly in her hand.
Kong Mingying saw Yu Mingyue's next New Year's money, and saw that the mother and daughter were both wearing autumn clothes and pants, for fear of making the two of them cold, and she didn't dare to say anything, so she urged the two to close the door and go back to the house to sleep, only to go back to the house with a grin.
In this era, the countryside was very poor, but ordinary people, during the Chinese New Year, would still be wrapped in red paper by the elders of the year, and a few dimes would be used as New Year's money, which is a traditional custom in China for thousands of years.
But in the previous life, after his parents were struck by lightning and died, Yu Mingyue's family was unable to take care of this custom, and later became an orphan, and lived at his grandfather Yu Tianxiang's house, Yu Tianxiang was a particular person, even if it was very difficult and poor at the time, sometimes so poor that he couldn't even afford to buy a box of matches for 5 cents, but in the three years that Yu Mingyue lived there, he also gave three times 2 jiao of New Year's money.
Later, Yu Mingyue went to live at her grandfather's house, because of Luo Zhengfen's prevention, she never confiscated the New Year's money again, and then Yu Mingyue got bigger and bigger, even if her grandmother Luo Zhengfen's attitude towards her changed, but it was the period when Yu Mingyue needed the most money to go to school, Yu Mingyue had no face to collect the New Year's money, and Kong Mingfu, who was not very particular about this aspect, really had no spare money to give the New Year's money.
It can be said that Yu Mingyue lived for 32 years in her previous life, and she received a total of 6 dimes of New Year's money three times, and she was reborn in this life, and her lucky parents were still alive, but because she owed too many debts, her family was so poor that she couldn't even take care of this oldest custom, and she didn't have the heart to take care of it, this is the first time in more than five years that she has received New Year's money.
Yu Mingyue understands all this, so even if she really wants to receive the New Year's money from her parents once after being reborn, she has never received it once in these years, she just pressed this wish deeply in her heart, and she has never come out, let alone asked.
When she returned to bed, Kong Xiaoyu playfully asked Yu Mingyue to see how big the red envelope she had received, Yu Mingyue came back from the unavoidable memory, forced back the tears in her eyes, and cautiously opened the sealed red envelope.
"Yo, Mom, look, that's a lot of money."
In fact, no matter how much or less, Yu Mingyue is happy about this New Year's money with heavy symbolic meaning, but when she looks at the brand-new 50 yuan bill in the small red envelope, Yu Mingyue likes it even more.
It's not that she's obsessed with money, but this symbolizes that her family has gotten rid of poverty and become rich, and has begun to become well-off, and in the countryside of this era, her family's economy has been ahead of everyone.
Put the money back into the little red envelope, Yu Mingyue cautiously pressed the red envelope under the pillow, and then lay down on the bed, and when Kong Xiaoyu pulled the lamp, she closed her eyes and habitually gently stroked Kong Xiaoyu's already very large abdomen, while feeling the faint fetal movement coming from her abdomen, while thinking about her heart.
50 yuan is also a lot of money for the family, and about 10 yuan is the most suitable amount given by the family now.
Little brother, come out obediently in a few months, and at the end of the year, my sister will definitely prepare the New Year's money for you early.
"Hehehehe"
After Yu Mingyue chuckled half-asleep and half-awakened, she fell asleep deeply, but she didn't know that Kong Xiaoyu opened her eyes in the dark at this time, stared at the top of the bed without focus for a long time, and sighed softly.
"Alas, this little Pony Daha, always a child, I don't know what I have in my heart, I am often in a daze like this, when is it a head"
Gently stroked Yu Mingyue's hot and humid head, and accurately touched the red mark the size of a coin left under Yu Mingyue's forehead, but there was no protrusion, some were afraid, some sighed, and said as if guaranteed: "Obediently, my mother will protect you, and I will not let you be in danger again, and I will not let you be hurt at all." ”R1152