Chapter Twenty-Three: Exchanges of Courtesy, Visiting Relatives and Friends

The most valuable gifts contain the essence of warm human relationships, and if the worldly value of money and wealth is mixed in, the essence of the gift will fade. - [Han] Kim Dae-jung

Seeing that the New Year was approaching, my mother took me to the street to buy New Year's goods, and taught me the importance of courtesy and etiquette and precautions. Tell me to remember what others like, observe what others lack, and never walk around less during the New Year's holidays, and remember that people can't use and pay now, otherwise they won't be able to do anything in the future, and no one will want to help me or anything like that. At that time, I didn't know about their many backdoor moves, so she nodded yes to everything she told me and kept it in mind.

My mother bought a big bag and a small package that I was familiar with, and my father and I moved it to the trunk in the back, sending it to my grandmother, sending it to my aunt, sending it to my second aunt, and sending it to my third aunt...... Later, the trunk couldn't fit and even the back seat was full, so my mother gave up, hugged me and sat in the co-pilot, shouting: "Let's go!" ”

The car drove to the third aunt's house closer to the commercial street, the third aunt and the third aunt were all teachers, at that time the teacher's treatment was not as good as now, if anyone did not run a cram school at home after class to supplement the family, it was most likely a solid family, or sooner or later they would starve to death, the third aunt and the third aunt obviously did not want to be starved to death. The eldest aunt's family is only superficial, and it can't bring substantial help to several children, and the third aunt's family is farming in the countryside, and the two have no family support soon after they joined the company, so they always have to find another way to make a living.

This is the first time I have come to their house, and I used to see that the third aunt and the third aunt were at the dinner table of the eldest aunt's house, and there were many people at that time, and they didn't care to say a few words to me, so I felt quite fresh this time. At the suggestion of my mother, I tiptoed and pressed the doorbell, the door of the third aunt's house was obviously not as good as the sound insulation of my soft package, and the sound of "popping" slippers could be faintly heard at the door from far and near.

The third aunt who came out to see the door: "Oh, Mr. Wang, come over and swallow them soon." He shouted at the back room, and the third aunt in the back room opened the door ajar, stretched out her head and said to us, "I still have ten minutes left in this class, you can sit down for a while." Without waiting for us to answer, he closed the door. The third aunt was embarrassed, took the gift from us, thanked us repeatedly, and led us into their study and bedroom. They sat on the bed and asked for warmth, I didn't bother to join, and after an early year, I went to the half of the room on the big bookshelf to play.

The shelves are full of various ancient books, such as "Shishuo Xinyu" and "Analects Translation Notes", as well as popular literature such as "Dream of the Red Mansion" and "Yu Chu Xinzhi", and there are also many English books that I don't know during the period, presumably those are the third aunt who teaches English, I flipped through it casually, whether it was Chinese or English, I didn't understand a word anyway. So I returned to my place and sat down on the sofa in the half of the bedroom, and the third aunt just now saw it in his eyes and squinted and smiled at me.

At this time, the students of the third aunt also got out of class, and left the third aunt's house one after another, and after a period of noise, the third aunt came to our house, I quickly got up to say goodbye, and said goodbye to the early years, the third aunt put her arm around me and sat next to me, praised me for being a good child, and then asked my mother: "How is the final exam for the child?" My mother was overjoyed, and recently she was most willing to answer this question from others: "Double hundred, first, I was a small class president at school." The third aunt laughed, as if I had also given her a long face, and turned her head and praised: "My eldest nephew is decent, how can he still adapt to school?" When you become a squad leader, you also join the team, right? ”

"Well, I was a little homesick when I first started school, and then I got used to it." Our class cadres were the first to join the Young Pioneers, and as a class teacher, she naturally knew the school's process. After that, the adults asked me to repeat the process of how to be a class leader, and I just said what I had done, but I didn't say what I was thinking, after all, it couldn't affect my good image of "good boy, excellent in character and learning".

finally said goodbye to the third aunt's house, and the next stop was the second aunt's house, which was also in the T area. The second aunt is pregnant, so she is mostly responding to other people's concerns, and I just chatted a little bit about the interesting story of her dispute with her mother when I changed my name, the second aunt is a big car driver, although he often runs outside, but now his daughter-in-law has a big belly, he rarely pulls live, sits on the stool for everyone to cut the fruit we just sent, and after sending them one by one, I have to let me give him "a chicken to eat" (1), this sentence is the deepest impression he left in my memory, every time I think of this second aunt, first he lost his index finger due to injury, And then there's the phrase, and the label is really chic. Although it's a little obscene.,But it's also a kind of love that he's a funny and informal Northeast gentleman expressed to me.,Every time he says this, I say no.,But I still come up and wait for him to dig it out.。。

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