Chapter 19 New Year's Greetings

Su Qingtong entered the space at night and counted the money from selling vegetables during this time, she didn't know if she didn't know it, she was shocked when she counted it, she actually had a deposit of tens of thousands of yuan, and the unity of ten yuan was tied up by her, and then counted it over and over again, she counted it with relish, and she was not annoyed at all.

The happiest thing in life is counting banknotes, and counting a lot of banknotes, Su Qingtong is deeply touched.

$10,000 is definitely a lot of money in this day and age.

In the early 80's, the 10,000-yuan households that were most publicized in the newspapers represented the success of reform and opening up and belonged to the group of wealthy people who became rich first.

However, in Su Qingtong's subconscious, 10,000 yuan is really nothing, decades later, it will be her monthly salary, and her biggest wish is to build a luxurious villa for her family, although 10,000 yuan is a lot, but it is far from enough to build a villa in Su Qingtong's mind, so she has to save more money.

Four years later, in the summer, the family's pig barn will collapse, and she plans to use that opportunity to start building a house for her family.

In the previous life, because there was no money, she still used adobe bricks to build two pig pens, and then demolished the bedroom where she lives with her sister now and built a small bedroom, but this row of houses did not last long, and it began to leak in the second year, Su Qingtong felt that she could no longer build a house like that, if she could call the shots, she would build a magnificent farm.

Su Qingtong specially inquired about the market for building a new house now, in fact, as long as 3,000 yuan, you can build a red brick house with two bedrooms and a living room with a kitchen, Su Qingtong naturally doesn't look down on the kind of old-fashioned houses that will soon be outdated, she wants to build that kind of European-style villa, so she has to save more money.

Fortunately, my father's school divided ten catties of meat, and the production team netted fish, which was enough for the family to have a happy New Year.

The Su family's New Year's dinner has always been simple, it is already very good to have fish and meat, when the conditions are good, they will kill a chicken, and then buy two pig's feet or something, but this year, the situation at home is not good, there is only fish and meat, fortunately, Su Qingtong bought mushrooms and cloud fungus before, and stewed vermicelli, and made up six dishes, which looks quite magnificent.

Uncle Su didn't go out, he said that every family has a year, so he has to keep the New Year at home.

Uncle Su is at home, his son and daughter-in-law must have a New Year's dinner with their father, Uncle Su did not refuse, during the meal, he gave the three grandsons a dollar of New Year's money, which was taken away by Su Xiuqian after the meal and replaced with a dime per person.

Su Qingtong had a feeling that if this dime was not spent quickly, it would still be requisitioned by his father, which had happened before.

My sister Su Zitong also has this kind of worry, so I called her to go to the store to buy snacks to eat, and only spending it was the best way to stay.

Su Qingtong didn't want to go out, but now that she has money, she really doesn't care about a dime, and she doesn't look down on the cheap goods in the consignment store, but she thinks it's good to walk around, so she followed her sister to the consignment store of the Zhou family.

Su Zitong thought about it for a long time in front of the counter, and finally bought five cents of spiced melon seeds, and he was reluctant to use the five cents, while Su Qingtong bought a dime of peanut candy.

The proprietress of the consignment store said with a smile: "It's still a young girl, and she knows how to eat well, just like your mother, she is also a person who eats up and uses up her health." ”

Su Qingtong couldn't hear this in his last life, and he couldn't hear her derogatory and ridicule in this life, and he didn't pay attention to her, so he took eight peanut candy and left.

Behind him, I heard the voice of the proprietress of the consignment store talking to herself: "This kid is quite proud." ”

Su Qingtong thought to herself, if I wasn't young, I wouldn't be proud, but scolding, don't think that now that I can open a store and have a few dollars, I can arrange my mother casually, what's wrong with her extravagance? and did not eat yours, but used yours.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Su Xiuqian and Wang Xuelian got up late, and they watched the Spring Festival Gala too late last night.

Su Qingtong had actually woken up, and had been staying in the space to be busy with her affairs, and when she heard the sound of her grandfather opening the door, she went out of the space, it was really cold outside, she coveted the warmth of the space, and hated that she had to go out.

Uncle Su originally thought that his son and daughter-in-law would get up very late and planned to cook some noodles to eat first, but he didn't expect that his eldest granddaughter was already busy in the stove house.

Su Qingtong cooked the rice, heated up the dishes that he hadn't eaten yesterday, and fried two bowls of green vegetables.

While eating, the brothers of the Zhou family next door came to pay New Year's greetings, and saw that the old people and children were eating, and Su Xiuqian and his wife were still lying on the bed, and left without sitting.

Su Xiuqian and Wang Xuelian had to get up, and it was not good to fall asleep again.

The husband and wife were still eating, and the people from the production team came over one after another to pay New Year's greetings.

Su Qingtong's hands and feet were neat, making tea and filling cigarettes, taking sugar particles and placing melon seeds and peanuts, and entertaining the guests who came to the door quite thoughtfully.

The local custom is that children who come to visit the New Year on the first day of the first lunar month should give sugar particles, adults should entertain tobacco, alcohol and sesame bean tea, and women should eat melon seeds and snacks.

In previous years, Wang Xuelian was troublesome and never made sesame bean tea.

But this year, Su Qingtong did it, and also bought the white Phnom Penh Camellia Potbelly Teacup, with the color of red, yellow and white, and the fragrance of ginger, red dates and sesame seeds was very attractive when you took a sip.

This year, there has been a significant increase in the number of children who come to the Su family to pay New Year's greetings, and even a few children have already come once, and they have followed other children to worship again.

Su Qingtong raised her eyebrows and looked at the children who stretched out their hands to ask her for sugar particles, and finally gave them to them, these children are very good, knowing that the Su family's sugar particles are delicious, they all think of ways to ask for a few more times.

Wang Xuelian actually bought cheap sugar particles, but Su Qingtong always likes to give children high-end sugar, and it is not good to scold her on the first day of the new year, so she has to let her squander, and the things develop to the back, and the children of the production team next door to the left and right all come over to pay New Year's greetings, and the five catties of caramel bought at home are quickly scattered three catties.

Wang Xuelian's heart hurts, and she is no longer allowed to send high-grade sugar in the afternoon.

The first day of the Lunar New Year passed in such a lively way, and on this day of the second day of the Lunar New Year, it was the day when the married daughter returned to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings.

Aunt Ji Man was busy in front of the stove, stir-frying and chopping vegetables, while talking to her daughter beside her: "Aunt Qi's daughter gave twenty yuan and two bottles of Wuliangye, as well as three catties of pork and four packets of sugar seals, which is much more polite than in previous years, and I don't know where I made a fortune." ”

Wang Xuelian looked at the braised pork in the pot expressionlessly, and said for a long time: "It's just that I married a mason, what is there to show off, my Su Xiuqian is a teacher, and when he gets old in the future, he will have a pension, and he can let the child take over and continue to eat the national food." ”

Aunt Ji Man glanced at her daughter with disdain on her face when she heard this, and suddenly broke out: "It's true that your Su Xiuqian is an iron rice bowl, but you are not as good as a rural craftsman, look at how much debt your family owes." ”

Wang Xuelian was a little impatient: "What can I do, where am I not taking care of my family?" I have three children and I have to farm and grow vegetables, feed pigs and chickens, and the women in the neighborhood don't do all these things? ”

"Yes, you are diligent, the house is so dirty that you can't insert your feet, so much vegetable soil is not enough for the family to eat, you are usually used to being lavish, and you have to eat up a little money......... In short, it's all my sin, I found your father, and the children I gave birth to are all like him. ”

Ji Manye, who was sitting by the hearth and was shot, took a hard puff of hookah and didn't speak, and his wife didn't say anything good about him, he was used to it for a long time.

Wang Xuelian replied: "My daughter is like a father, isn't that what you said?" ”

Aunt Ji Man suddenly choked: "You are a good fate, but I am not good at all as your father, I raised you so big, I didn't get any better than you, and I suffered a lot for you."

Wang Xuelian was also not easy to interject and joke, and retorted: "When my children are growing up, how can they grow taller if they don't give them good food, how can they grow taller, just like when we were children, you are reluctant to give our sisters and brothers good food, except for Wang Biwen's high point, the three of us have grown into dwarf winter melons." ”

Aunt Ji Man was also annoyed: "You mean that I treated you badly in your mother's house?" ”

Wang Xuelian said: "If I ate well when I was a child, how can I owe it now? I remember when I was twelve years old, I saw the stewed chicken soup next door to drink, my eyes were so red, I went home and clamored for you to kill the chickens to eat, you were good, I raised more than a dozen chickens and I was reluctant to give one to our brothers and sisters, what happened in the end, it was not stolen, you said that you are not worth it to be so stingy, the chickens and ducks that you have worked hard to raise would rather be stolen than give us a few children to eat, and you also said that you do not treat us badly. ”

Aunt Ji Man gritted her teeth with regret when she mentioned this past, and now her daughter is still going to lift this old scar, and she is so angry that she throws the spatula into the iron pot: "You say in good conscience, although I don't have big fish and meat for you to eat, when did I cut off your meals?" You don't know that the production team starved to death at that time, and the four of you sisters and brothers were able to grow up, and it wasn't that I usually hid to save your lives at critical junctures, and you people who have no conscience are now complaining about me. ”

Wang Xuelian saw that her mother was angry, and she didn't dare to say any more bastard words that irritated her mother, so she hurriedly said: "I didn't complain about you, you weren't rich in that era, you are good at being careful, but I can't bear that my children are not wrong to covet other people's things like I did when I was a child, I understand that taste, it's too uncomfortable." ”,

Aunt Ji Man glanced at her daughter, and stopped saying anything to poke her daughter's heart, after all, she was her only daughter, from the raising of a careful liver baby to her growth, where was she willing to really sweep her face.

Wang Biguang, who was burning the fire behind the stove, didn't like it, and said in a weird way: "You have no opinion on giving your child fragrant and spicy food, but you can't drag your mother's family to help you, don't go back to your mother's house to carry the grain, don't borrow money from your mother, you just eat dragon tendon and dragon meat, we won't say anything about you." ”

Wang Xuelian was squeezed by her mother, but now that she was accused by her younger brother, she stopped doing it, and looked aggrievedly at Ji Manye, who was sitting by the stove and smoking hookah, and complained: "Dad, you see Si Yan talking about me like this, let me, as a sister, have any face to run to my mother's house?" ”

Ji Manye has always felt sorry for his daughter, just now his wife and daughter pinched him, and now it is not good for his son to scold his daughter, so he glared at Wang Biguang fiercely and said: "Your sister's affairs are not your turn to talk nonsense, you can't get used to your sister going home to borrow money from grain, you just get out of here, otherwise shut your mouth." ”

Wang Biguang said angrily: "You just stick to her, it's just a daughter who got married, and I don't want to think that I am twenty-five or sixteen years old and not married, and my family has been emptied by the Su family, what should I marry?" The more Wang Biguang spoke, the more angry he became: "Why don't I go to someone else's house to be a son-in-law." ”

"You can go if you want, we didn't stop you." Ji Manye is famous for loving his daughter, and when his daughter made a mistake, he insisted on leaving the life of the child in his daughter's womb, otherwise, Aunt Ji Man's three bowls of abortion pills couldn't beat a fetus.

Su Xiuqian, who came back from the New Year's greeting next door, felt that the atmosphere in the room was a little stagnant as soon as he walked into the kitchen, and he took back everything he wanted to say.