Chapter 81: Returning Home for the New Year (4)
Before dawn on the morning of the first day of the new year, firecrackers sounded one after another in the mountain village until dawn.
Yang Qianfeng has not yet gotten up and the people in the village come to visit the New Year, this is the habit of the village, every year on the first day of the village people are like a marquee to visit the New Year, they go to the house every time they go to the house to say some words of blessing and leave, because they know that Yang Qianfeng is back, some people sit still and want to talk to him.
Yang Yanzu was entertaining the visitors, Yang Qianfeng hurriedly got up, greeted Yang Lishou, the captain sitting in the hall, and Yang Zhengrong, who Lan Mei hated the most, and his eldest son Yang Liang and others, and went to wash his face and came back and said: The family is really good, don't worry about going to the police immediately if something happens, and you can sleep for a while.
Yang Lishou smoked a cigarette and said: It's not easy to do your job, there are many things in the city, and I am even more busy, so I will rest for a few more days when I come back.
No, I'll go back in the morning of the third year of junior high school.
I'll leave in the morning of the third year of junior high school! Then at noon, we will have dinner at my house, and we will have a good talk. Take me to educate and educate my disobedient second son.
Yang Qianfeng hadn't promised the captain yet, and Yang Zhengrong, who had been smiling all the time, hurriedly said: Come to my house for dinner that night.
Yang Liang followed and said: Yes, yes, come to my house for dinner in the evening, and I will accompany you to have a few drinks.
Yang Qianfeng was about to speak, Lan Mei said with a smile: I will eat at the captain's house at noon, but it has been arranged in the evening, and I want to eat at my second brother's house.
Yang Zhengrong said: Your second brother's house will go tomorrow! It's at my house tonight.
Lan Mei said firmly: No, it's all already done.
Yang Zhengrong took a step back and said: Is it really not set at noon tomorrow?
No, tomorrow we have to go to the homes of grandparents, aunts, and aunts to pay New Year's greetings. Lan Mei squeezed her eyes at Yang Qianfeng and said.
Yang Qianfeng hurriedly said: I have received your wishes, I haven't been home for the New Year for seven years, what do these elders say, I have to go and pay New Year's greetings to them.
Yang Zhengrong said disappointedly: It seems that I can't invite you.
Don't be so polite, it's all a Murakami, and I'll invite you to dinner next time I come back.
How dare you, you are a nobleman, and you are also the most promising person in our village, and it is our honor to invite you to dinner at home. Yang Zhengrong smoked a cigarette and continued: We have heard all the big things you did in the city, and the one in the village does not admire.
Lan Mei shook her head when she heard this, and thought, a few years ago, when she said in Murakami, what can Yang Qianfeng do as a soldier? After being discharged from the army, he was not a farmer. In fact, Lan Mei did not say that it was bad to be a farmer, but the occasion and tone of Yang Zhengrong's speech were to ridicule Yang Qianfeng for being unproductive.
Yang Qianfeng said: What do you admire? I am a police officer, and what I do is what a police officer should do.
Yang Zhengrong was about to speak seriously, but Yang Liang hurriedly said: You can't say that, last time I saw you arresting people in front of the cinema, how many people applauded you, you are different from them. I also heard that the order and cleanliness of the urban area is now so good and clean is your doctrine, and the county leaders have praised you at the meeting, which is really amazing.
Yang Zhengrong continued: When I was a child, I saw that you were promising, so I often talked back-to-back to stimulate you, and sure enough, now you are promising.
Lan Mei couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and walked out of the door while shaking her head, thinking that there was such a shameless person.
Yang Lishou is also not used to Yang Zhengrong's personality, he has always thought that he is great, people are lower than him, he looks down on people is small, and often laughs at others, when people are really strong, he is abnormal, bowing his head to people, obviously in the past he laughed at others, but now it is a way to stimulate and encourage others. He looked at Yang Zhengrong, who was very disappointed, and said: The striker was upright when he was a child, and when he heard that Yang was coming, he ran away in fright, and he never dared to come to our village to make trouble, let alone bully the cattle herding baby in our village. Although I didn't pass the college entrance examination that year, I was also the best among the people who participated in the college entrance examination in the township. Will there be higher praise from leaders in the future?
Yang Qianfeng said embarrassedly: It's serious, it's serious, I can't imagine that the people in the village are so good to me!
Seek truth from facts! Yang Zhengrong said back to business: There is another matter to trouble you today, I have a distant old cousin who said that his son Zhang Biao will obey you, and he also came here for this matter, and asked me to tell you no matter what, and ask you to help take care of him.
Yang Qianfeng said happily: Okay, I'll help you with this.
Yang Zhengrong didn't expect Yang Qianfeng to agree, and said happily: It's really happy, if my distant old cousin hears it, don't mention how happy I am, thank you!
was talking about the old militia battalion commander, the current village secretary Yang Ji'an came, Yang Qianfeng warmly shook hands with him and said hello, Yang Zhengrong father and son said: The former guest let the back guest, you and the secretary chatted slowly, and said happily left.
Yang Lishou said to the secretary: Originally, I was going to go to your house to call you, but I happened to come, and I came to my house at noon to accompany the striker to drink.
I can't drink enough to accompany the striker, and it's almost the same to sit with him.
Yang Qianfeng said: I can drink so much?
I don't remember, one night before you joined the army, you were at Hu Yongan's house, and you drank a pound of liquor by yourself.
I remember that I drank too much that time and forgot about it the next day after filling out the registration form.
Then the people in the family changed shift after shift......
Before going to Yang Lishou's house for dinner, Yang Qianfeng specially said to his mother: In the evening, he called Hu Yongan, Xie Xiaogen, Yang Xiaorong, Wu Xiaocai, and other people to have a meal, and his mother happily agreed, and asked him to come back from the second child's house early. Later, Yang Qianfeng asked Lan Mei to inform the above people.
In the second year of Yang Qianfeng's army, the second brother Yang Ganfeng went to the Wang family, which was three miles away from home, to recruit relatives, the old couple of the Wang family had a daughter, and the family had long taken a fancy to Yang Ganfeng, who had skills, but he had to insert the door upside down, the second brother didn't care, Yang Yanzu began to disagree and dragged on for a while, but the second brother was determined to go, and finally Yang Yanzu had to agree.
In the second year, the second brother and sister-in-law gave birth to a son, surnamed Wang with his mother's surname Wang Xuejun, and in the fourth year, he gave birth to a daughter, surnamed Yang Xiaoying with his father's surname, and the family's small life was very comfortable.
After having lunch at Yang Lishou's house at noon, he went to the second brother Yang Jinfeng's house with his brothers and sisters, Yang Qianfeng gave each of his two little nephews fifty yuan of New Year's money, because he wanted to invite someone to dinner, Yang Qianfeng originally wanted to leave early, but Yang Jinfeng insisted that they have an early dinner before they could go home.
Dinner at Yang Lishou's house at noon, everyone is mainly talking about their hearts, Yang Qianfeng originally wanted to have a few more drinks with his old colleagues in the evening, and also invited Yang Lishou and Yang Ji'an to participate, so he excused himself from drinking, Yang Lishou and Yang Ji'an had promised others not to participate in the evening, but they said that the New Year's Day would not come to two glasses and not be lively, and they must drink, in order not to sweep everyone's fun, Yang Qianfeng drank more than two taels of wine, but this little wine was not available on the way to the second brother's house.
The second brother wants to stay for dinner, he will definitely not be happy if he doesn't drink some wine, Yang Qianfeng happily took the initiative to drink a few glasses when he was drinking, and sure enough, the second brother laughed happily and said: The third brother will drink so much, you will go first if you have some food, there are still many people waiting for you at home! Others eat and drink slowly.
Yang Qianfeng's stomach was in excellent condition at this time, and on the way back, he thought: In the past seven years, his colleagues have not fully realized their personal wishes as they imagined, and they still insist on their position as private teachers. The biggest change is that they are all married, have children and become parents: Xie Xiaogen married his classmate in junior high school, a worker of the township cement factory; Yang Xiaorong married the sales section chief of the Township Stone Powder Factory; Hu Yongan married the oldest student in his class when he was a substitute teacher in his first year, and he only graduated from elementary school at the age of 16.
When Yang Qianfeng walked into the courtyard of his house, it was just getting dark, the door of the hall was wide open, the house was brightly lit, and the four of them were playing red five-star (a way to play poker), and several people were watching on the side.
Yang Qianfeng entered the door and hugged his fist and said: Teachers and students, I wish you good health, smooth work, happy family and all the best in the New Year!
Everyone said almost at the same time, the same, the same. Xie Xiaogen didn't draw the cards well, and immediately took Yang Xiaorong's cards and mixed them with his own cards and shouted: Auntie is serving.
Hu Yongan drew a good hand, but unfortunately said: I wasted a good hand, can't I play this handful? He reluctantly put the cards down.
Yang Xiaorong and Xie Xiaogen faced each other, so they said with a smile: Striker, you came back just right, otherwise we will have to drink five glasses of wine if we lose this hand.
The original principal was transferred to the township central primary school as the principal, Wu Xiaocai is the current primary school principal of Baiguo Village, he pushed down his glasses and said with a smile: The first day of the Lunar New Year is like this, do you take me as the principal in your eyes?
Xie Xiaogen said with a smile: Don't you often say that you should pay attention to your image as a teacher in front of the school and students, and you can play regardless of age and position?
It's you who cheat, and you'll be fined three glasses of wine. Wu Xiaocai pretended to be angry and said: Don't help serve the food yet.
Because everyone else went to Yang Kangfeng's house, his parents and sister-in-law were at home, Yang Qianfeng asked them to eat together, but they refused, Yang Yanzu said: Leave us alone, you can have a good chat together.
Let's do it together, and the meal will start in a while.
After three rounds of drinking, Xu Erfu said: Being a teacher is actually a very good profession, and there are two vacations a year, that is, the salary of a private teacher is too small, and it would be good to become a regular.
Xie Xiaogen picked up the wine glass and said: Then it is good for you to be a blacksmith master, take care of yourself, you have free money and earn a lot, and let us all turn into formal teachers with your auspicious words, and I will give you a glass.
Yang Xiaorong put down his chopsticks and said: To tell you from the bottom of my heart, I like the profession of a teacher very much, if I don't like it, I would have left a long time ago.
Hu Yongan said: I am a disabled person, I can't do physical work, I can only teach wholeheartedly, and I look forward to turning into a regular one day.
Wu Xiaocai returned Yang Qianfeng with a glass of wine and said: Anyway, you walked out of our school, and it is also the glory of our school, and now we often use you to educate and guide students in the classroom! You're good now, and you're getting ahead. As he spoke, he pointed to Xie Xiaogen and the other three and said: They are all good teachers and teach wholeheartedly, but they don't know when they can give them a fair treatment.
Yang Qianfeng said: The country now attaches so much importance to education, the team of teachers must grow, and the country is too late to cultivate, I think as long as you work hard, there will definitely be a chance to become a regular, but then the possibility of selecting the best to become a regular is high, and it is impossible to transfer them all, so in addition to work, you have to read more books.
Wu Xiaocai nodded and said: When it comes to the point, if you hear it, you still have to prepare more, otherwise you will regret it if you can't seize the opportunity.
Around the topics of education, public security, the past, present and the future, everyone talked a lot, and drank bottle after bottle of wine until everyone was almost drunk.
In the second year of junior high school, Yang Qianfeng and his brothers and sisters went to relatives to pay respects to the New Year, as if they had returned to the feeling of the New Year before they became soldiers.
Wanyan declined the dinner of many people in the village, and returned to the county seat on the morning of the third year of junior high school.