33, two families

Qingfeng and his parents and sister arrived at the door of the hotel at a little more than 10 o'clock, and the four people got off the bus, and the minibus drove away.

At the door of the hotel, a few huge kumquat potted plants are hung on the potted plants, which are full of red red envelopes, which are all kinds of auspicious words, a few Buddha belly beads, reflecting the golden brilliance of kumquats, and a few tall loose tail sunflowers, reflected in the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel, forming a beautiful picture frame in the pattern, especially with a variety of shapes woven with rich bamboo, there are vases, columns, and flower baskets, which are also full of a lot of red red envelopes, and all kinds of auspicious wishes are contained in it. Surrounded by flowers and greenery, several beautiful peach blossoms bloom with deep pink flowers, like plum blossoms blooming in the wind. Guangzhou is the ocean of flowers, the Spring Festival flowers are particularly exquisite, kumquat, rich bamboo, and peach blossoms are a must, because they represent different meanings, kumquat represents the gold and silver full of hall, auspicious and wishful meaning, and the rich bamboo represents, that is, noble and rich, literary and elegant, family peace, peach blossoms are in Guangdong special exquisite, home peach blossoms are to avoid evil, now do not say this, but compare it to a kind of peach charm, that is, the new peach for the old charm, a kind of wishes, wish everyone a happy New Year, Good luck! It is a particularly joyful and peaceful atmosphere, which makes people look comfortable and generous, and it is lively and warm, creating a strong atmosphere of the Spring Festival.

After Qingfeng got out of the car, he was really a little relaxed and happy to look at so many flowers at the door, but he didn't have time to think about the meaning of these flowers, but he just experienced the grand atmosphere of the New Year and the thriving New Year. His mobile phone dialed Mr. Zhang's mobile phone, and he told Mr. Zhang that he had arrived at the door, and Mr. Zhang said that you wait for a while, and we will pick you up outside the gate in a few minutes, because we are waiting for you in the Chinese restaurant on the first floor.

In about four or five minutes, with the revolving door of the hotel, Li Xiangqian, Teacher Zhang and Li Yimeng's family appeared in front of Qingfeng. Except for Qingfeng's mother and sister, everyone is already familiar with it, and Teacher Zhang ran directly to Dai Xiaofeng, two middle-aged women, holding each other tightly. Li Qianqian walked towards Li Chunsheng, and the two of them also exchanged pleasantries. Li Yimeng ran to Qingfeng, stretched out his hand to pull Li Xiaojuan, and the two girls chattered. After greetings, the two families entered the lobby of the hotel through the revolving door, the flowers in the hall were more magnificent, the main color was pink phalaenopsis, and in the middle of the hall was a fountain, with the sound of music, the water column of the fountain was scurrying up and down, it was a water movement.

The two families soon reached the 12th floor and came to room 1211, where they sat around on the sofa in the large living room. Everyone sat together, Mr. Zhang made tea for everyone, Dai Xiaofeng opened the strawberries he brought, and used the fruit plate of the restaurant to fill a plate full of strawberries and put them on the coffee table.

On both sides of the sofa, there are Mr. Zhang and Li Xiangqian, on the other side are Li Chunsheng and Dai Xiaofeng, Li Yimeng and Liu Xiaojuan are crowded on a big sofa, opposite is the breeze, Mr. Zhang has poured water for everyone, Dai Xiaofeng took a toothpick, inserted a big strawberry, and put it in Mr. Zhang's hand.

Dai Xiaofeng, "Hurry up and try it, this is the strawberry we grew ourselves, just picked in the morning, you can taste it delicious, especially fresh." ”

Teacher Zhang's family did not shirk, they all missed a strawberry, and talked while eating.

Li Xiangqian, "This season strawberries can come down, but they are really fresh enough, if you spend money to buy them, it looks like the price is not expensive, Chunsheng brother, you have been guarding strawberries for more than ten years, no wonder you can't go home on New Year's Day and New Year's Day, this season is the time of your harvest, the boss can't let you go home on vacation, New Year's Day and Spring Festival is the time to make money, and it is also the time to lack people, so I understand your distress, but to speak, your son is good enough, as a left-behind youth in the mountains." , Of course, it turned out to be left-behind children, and now it has become a concern of the whole society, and it has been more than ten years with grandparents, and last year the high school entrance examination was a champion in the province, which is really amazing. ”

Li Chunsheng, "The two of us didn't expect it, more than ten years to throw the child to the grandparents, both of us can't go back to the Spring Festival, or when he was 5 years old, with his sister, we originally wanted to take him to Guangzhou, just went back to his hometown, you know the back and forth to more than 1,000 yuan, we are really reluctant, like us have no culture, no knowledge, and no technology, can only rely on strength to eat, tired and tired all day can not earn a few dollars, the money saved is sent to his grandparents, In this way, the life of the family is not very good, of course, it is better than all of us together, in the mountains, but we owe too much to the children, and we don't feel good in our hearts. ”

Teacher Zhang, "Don't say that, many areas of our country are in difficulty now, like you, don't increase the burden on the country, go to the city to dedicate your youth, otherwise how can this city be so beautiful?" The vast number of migrant workers have made great contributions, and we all understand this. We are the same age, but the job is different, we have a city hukou, you don't, you dedicate your youth and strength to the city, on the other hand, you have to be discriminated against by some people, especially the work you do, most of them are hard and tired, we all know in our hearts, we have a gratitude in our hearts, we are in such a good era, you can come out of the mountains, look at your daughter, let you raise how beautiful, this is our hope, hope to their generation, Everyone is equal, and if there is no gap between urban and rural areas, or if the gap between urban and rural areas is narrowed, there will be no day when children are suffering. ”

Li Chunsheng, "In addition to our strength, there is also a kindness, we have nothing to do in the city to work, can send some money back to the family every year to make the family's life more comfortable, and we will be satisfied, our money, it is enough to support the family, you don't know, now for a student to go to school, especially in a city like Guangzhou, everywhere has to spend money, our children have gone through the borrowing procedures here, the school will also charge us a high borrowing fee, if it is not for the boss to help some, We can't go to school here, so we have to be grateful to the boss and do our best to do this job well, and people must be grateful. ”

Mother Dai Xiaofeng, "We are all parents, throw our own son at home, leave it to his grandparents, the two of us work thousands of miles away, I don't know what his father thinks, anyway, I, a mother, don't worry about my son all the time, although I know that he follows his grandparents, can't stand the hardships, but we have suffered from our hometown, although we can still send some money home every year, with the situation of our family, the child must have suffered a lot, suffered a lot, This morning he went to pick strawberries with us, and we were used to it, but he did it better than anyone else, and I knew that he was working for his grandparents at home, and I felt a little sad when I thought of this. ”

Li Xiangqian, "You two should be happy, the poor man's child is in charge of the house, he has long known that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, you look at those pampered children, give them such good conditions, the books have to be read well, and people are not talented, they abound, so you gave him a difficult environment, just exercised his will, cultivated his indomitable spirit, and because of him, dare to forge ahead, in order to get such good results, Guiyang No. 1 Middle School is not everyone can go to it, Isn't it the best thing for your son to be able to enter the best high school in the province and receive the best education with the first place in the province? Today we took him 1,000 miles away to see you, isn't it the best New Year's gift for you? Isn't it worth the joy of both of us? So we have to be happy and talk about it today, don't mention so many sad things. ”

Time flies so fast, it's almost 11:30 in a blink of an eye, Li Xiangqian, proposed that everyone go to the restaurant and continue to talk, the two families stood up and walked to the restaurant together, talking and laughing with each other, two pairs of parents talked and laughed, Li Yimeng and Liu Xiaojuan, one of them pulled a breezy arm, holding him and walking behind, the laughter of the three people, echoing in the corridor.

When they arrived at the restaurant, the two men began to drink, these are two Guizhou men, the amount of alcohol can be imagined, three glasses of wine, they became brothers, and they talked about everything.

Li Xiangqian, "Brother Chunsheng, we are a generation, and our family is also in the mountains, because we are rich in medicinal herbs, our village is slightly richer than other villages. There are a few educated youths in our village, and the primary and secondary schools in Anqing, our village, and children from several neighboring villages come to our village to go to school. First of all, I would like to thank the educated youth of Shanghai, they are armed with knowledge, we children in the mountains, although their level is also limited, but at that time our education was still very backward, so, I have been studying until high school, in 1984 to take the college entrance examination, when we were in high school, our school had a Shanghai intellectual youth, everyone went back to the city, because he married the local young woman, did not return to Shanghai, it just so happened that our school has recruitment indicators, he became a substitute teacher, At that time, because my studies were very good, I should be outstanding in our grade, so he gave me make-up classes every day, from relatives in Shanghai, found a lot of college entrance examination papers, let me do it repeatedly, and then he explained to us in detail, my college entrance examination results were also good at that time, I was admitted to Beijing, in Beijing University of Political Science and Law, for 4 years, just catching up with our province, I graduated with more people, I was assigned to work in the provincial government agency, and later transferred to our bureau, so we are all rural children, It was knowledge that changed my fate, the two of us looked at Li Yufeng, as if we saw our back then, this child really has a momentum that other children don't have, and we like him from the bottom of our hearts. ”

Li Chunsheng, "You are two years older than me, so I will call you big brother." I'm not as lucky as you, our village is relatively small, and there are only one or two educated youths in the village who are assigned to us, and the children in our village must walk five miles to go to school, which is a big mountain, and I can't go to high school anymore, because junior high school can only go to the county seat. Do you know that our children in the mountains can't even eat enough, where can they afford to go to the county to study? I was only thirteen or fourteen years old when I first started working, and I worked as an adult, and after a day of work, the tired thief died, and the centimeters in the production team were not worth anything at all, and I couldn't pay back the money for selling grain all year round. There are three brothers in our family, and I am the eldest, working day and night every day, and in the end I still owe a lot of money to the production team. The most difficult thing is that everyone does not have enough to eat, and our village has little land, so the food we produce is simply not enough to eat, and we have to eat the state's relief grain every year. ”

Li Xiangqian, "The situation you mentioned is common in our mountains, it is common to not have enough to eat, and it is rare to have enough to eat, I can know how difficult it was for you at that time." ”

Li Chunsheng, "In 1982, the production team was disbanded, the implementation of the joint production contract responsibility system, hard work for a year, that is, to be able to eat enough, than before, of course, much stronger, that year I just I was just 15 years old, my two younger brothers they were just eleven or twelve years old, as the saying goes, the half-old boy eats the poor old man, there is food or the two younger brothers to eat, in order to save some food, I went out to work with others at the age of 16, in the construction site, I did all the hard work, and finally saved some moneyIn 1990, I was 22 years old, our co-workers who worked together, that is, his mother Dai Xiaofeng, saw that I was very capable, the two of us appeared together, and when we came to our house, there was nothing, she did not dislike me, we both got a marriage certificate to get married, and we had children in the second year, the family was too poor, and the two of us decided to come to Guangzhou to work, at least to be able to eat enough, save food for the family of two people, the money earned by the two of us working, helped the two younger brothers marry their daughters-in-law and become a family, That's why it's hard for the child. ”

Li Xiangqian, "I know as soon as you say this, your parents help you pull the child, you two come out to work, and help your parents, help your brother, help them marry a daughter-in-law and start a family, so the money in the past few years has been contributed to your big family, which is also the sorrow of our countryside, and your two brothers will also remember your brother and sister-in-law from the heart." ”

Li Chunsheng, "Later, we found this job of planting strawberries, both of us are rural people, willing to work hard, and real." At the beginning, I worked for a unit in Beijing, and a professor came from Beijing to help them grow strawberries in Shenzhen, three or four years down, you learned the technology of planting strawberries, because this work is hard and tiring, and the Spring Festival can not go home, so many people run away halfway through, I am now the first batch of workers to plant strawberries, the boss in Beijing saw that I was very real, and followed them every year, and I went to do odd jobs in the summer when they began to pick strawberries in August and September every year, I helped them recruit workers, help them manage, and earn a few more hard-earned money. ”

Li Xiangqian, "It seems that you are very serious in everything you do, at first glance you are a real person, and the simplicity of our rural people is manifested in you." ”

Li Chunsheng, "As soon as this thing is done, I am interested, because he is no different from the farm work at home, as long as the seedlings are planted according to the agricultural time, and the management of several processes is done, especially to do a good job of hygiene, mainly by laying mulch, and then prevent and control pests and diseases, and fertilize on schedule, then I will wait to pick strawberries to make money, the cycle is very short, the yield of strawberries per acre is very high, you can earn a year's money in half a year, and the remaining half a year is earned by doing some odd jobs." The time of strawberry planting, I can't leave, when I do odd jobs, because the money is calculated by the day, I am even more reluctant to have time, the two old people are still relying on us to earn money at home, plus two children, so we can only grit our teeth and go on. ”

Li Xiangqian, "This is the simplicity of our farmers, the loyalty of our farmers, so the boss can rest assured that you can manage it boldly, if he sends a person, the cost will be much higher." ”

Li Chunsheng, "In the first few years, the boss came to manage it in person, and also sent technicians, a season of strawberries planted, 7 deductions and 8 deductions, the profit was greatly discounted, since I mastered these techniques, the boss no longer sent people over, sometimes he himself came to see in person, but also ran the market, to understand the market, and he didn't care about the rest." A few years ago, he transferred the base to Guangzhou, rented 150 acres of land in Fangcao District, because the temperature in Guangzhou is one or two degrees lower than that of Shenzhen in winter, so it must be a plastic greenhouse to grow strawberries here, the boss let me stare at the monitoring here, 150 acres of land, 100 greenhouses, plus the office workshop in the yard, the warehouse, are all I stared at him together, the boss is also willing to invest, it turns out that we grow strawberries are simple asbestos tile houses, in the end are leaked days, a year a cover, a year a throw, This time we built a serious bungalow, once and for all, the conditions have been greatly improved. Now we are planting strawberries for half a year, cultivating flower seedlings for half a year, half of the strawberries are sold to Beijing, and all the flower seedlings are shipped to Beijing, this boss is very shrewd, because of the perennial part-time work, than half a year to recruit workers, the salary is a lot more cost-effective, and the 150 acres of land, producing two things, its profit is considerable. ”

Li Xiangqian, "This boss also has a pair of discerning eyes, and he will hand over all this place to you, and he can make other money himself, which not only saves costs, but also opens up new sources of income." ”

Li Chunsheng, "The boss is good to me, in order to make me feel at ease, he paid half of his daughter's borrowing fee, and the school was also negotiated by him, if you want to rely on me, it will be difficult, we don't know anyone here, so we have to repay others, as the saying goes, take people's money to eliminate disasters for people, and now the people have paid so high wages, and give us such good treatment, we have no reason, it's not good to do it for others." Look at it, even if I'm doing this bit of, where do you want to go around in Guangzhou? Have a good holiday. ”

Li Xiangqian, "I've been to Guangzhou a few times, and I've come and gone in a hurry, Brother Chunsheng, what's so fun here during the Chinese New Year?" You can take the kids for a spin. ”

Li Chunsheng, "Although I have been in Guangzhou for more than ten years, I have never been leisurely to play, although many places have been to such and such attractions, let me say that the best thing to see during the Chinese New Year in Guangzhou is the flower market, especially this afternoon's studio, which can be delayed until the early morning of tomorrow, because these flowers are another price after the Spring Festival, so you should go to today's flower market to take a good turn, beautiful can not be said again, and a lot of flowers are very cheap because they can't be sold today, These years are not worth much, so tonight those florists will do their best to sell their flowers to you and sell them at a good price, and some will sell them to you very cheaply for the sake of Tujili. ”

Li Yimeng, "Mom and Dad, then let's go to the flower market this afternoon, there must be a lot of flowers in Guangzhou, and they are also very beautiful, the flower market is a scene in Guangzhou, we must go in the afternoon." ”

This New Year's meal, two Guizhou villagers, in a four-star hotel in Guangzhou, ate particularly pleasantly.