Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, with the sound of firecrackers and bells in the new year, the new year is about to come in a burst of laughter.

Yan Qing and his younger brother got up early in the morning, put on new clothes and pants, and were excited in front of their mother. The day before the Chinese New Year, my grandmother was taken home by my uncle and aunt, so this year was still the same as many years ago, only the mother and son were together.

At dawn, my mother chopped the leek meat filling, took out the dumpling wrappers she bought the day before, tied an apron and made dumplings in the living room. The firecrackers outside crackled endlessly, Hao Hao was so frightened that he hid in the corner of the house, Yan Qing looked outside, washed his hands and came to help.

"Wishing you prosperity and Happy New Year." As soon as the firecrackers stopped, the younger brother shouted all over the house in a childish voice.

When Yan Qing heard this, he immediately smiled and asked, "Haohao, who did you say this Wishing you prosperity to?"

The younger brother covered his face and blinked his eyes and immediately returned: "I said to you and my mother, I wish my sister and my mother all the best in the new year, all the best, health and happiness, good luck, more than every year, and a lot of money."

Yan Qing pursed her lips and glanced at her mother, and found that there was nothing unusual on her mother's face, so she turned her head and asked, "Haohao, who told you this."

Hao Hao's eyes were confused, he thought about it, and said weakly, "I thought about it myself." ”

"Don't lie to me, you want to get the last sentence at most, who taught you the idioms in the front?"

Mom also interjected and laughed: "You still want to lie to your sister, you grew up watching her."

Hao Hao immediately lowered his head, "It was the big brother who taught me." ”

With a bang, the meat filling on the dumpling skin in Yanqing's hand fell to the ground and rolled to his mother's feet. She thought that Haohao's words were taught by her grandmother, but she didn't expect it to be lofty, her mother had already made it clear, and now her younger brother mentioned him from time to time, and she became more and more empty-hearted.

"Why was it so careless?" Mother asked reproachfully.

"I ...... I didn't hold it steady. Yan Qing hurriedly changed a dumpling wrapper and re-engaged in making dumplings, while her younger brother looked at her without turning his eyes, holding back a smile, and Yan Qing glared at her fiercely.

Mom turned her head, "Haohao, leave these words on the dinner table at night to say to your aunt and grandmother." ”

"Are we going to my grandmother's house for the reunion dinner this year to celebrate the New Year with my uncle?" Yan Qing hurriedly asked.

My mother put down a wrapped dumpling and said in a daze: "I know that you and my brother don't want to go, and I have repeatedly refused, but this is what your grandmother meant, she said that she is almost eighty years old this year, and it will not be a few years, and I hope to see our family reunited."

Yan Qing choked his breath and said, "I'm not going."

Hao Hao also learned to speak clearly, and said, "I won't go either."

"Although my aunt is mean and unsympathetic to our family, but what my uncle and grandmother have treated you since childhood, you don't need me to say more, you also know that since your father left, it was not your uncle and grandmother, our family doesn't know what it is like now, but I'm afraid it's ten times worse than now."

"However, you used to be very good to your uncle, and even gave him the opportunity to go to school."

The younger brother looked at her inexplicably, and Yan Qing felt that the atmosphere was a little awkward

, probably aroused her mother's sadness, she took Hao Hao to relieve the siege and said: "Hao Hao, don't come to help my mother make dumplings."

Mom turned to look at her and said, "My brother is still ignorant, do you think you are still as old as him?" You used to be an adult, you have to have your own ideas when you talk and do things, you can't just rely on your own preferences, you look at our family's accident, your father's relatives and friends who lent a hand, and only your uncle helped us. So be a human being, don't forget the good of others. ”

I don't know if it's because my mother saw Gao Yuan that day, and since that day, my mother has been a lot long-winded, and my mother can also talk about some sesame big things for a long time.

Yan Qing was a little displeased, and also remembered the situation back then, lowered his head and said, "I know, I will treat my uncle and aunt well in the future, and when I make money, I will definitely repay them for their kindness." ”

The mother nodded with satisfaction, looked at Hao Hao and asked, "What about you?" ”

Hao Hao replied a little confused: "I listen to my sister."

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the mother and son arrived at their uncle's house.

The big four-bedroom and luxuriously decorated house of my uncle's house was too strong compared to the shabby of Yan Qing's family, and Yan Qing caused extreme discomfort as soon as he entered the door. Just like that day at Gao Yuan's house, she couldn't sit still. My grandmother and aunt were busy in the kitchen, and the two children were playing games in the room. Yan Qing and his uncle sat in the living room, but they couldn't find a common topic, she answered when her uncle asked, Yan Qing never took the initiative to speak, more polite than a stranger. She doesn't know why there is such a change, she used to talk to her uncle when she was a child, and she was as close as a good friend, but now she is very close.

Under the busyness of several people, the New Year's dinner was finally completed.

A big table full of chicken, duck, fish, seafood, and vegetarian dishes make people drool.

"Come, come, come and eat." Aunt greeted politely, Hao Hao looked at the dishes on the table with glowing eyes, and Yan Qing knew that he was only drooling.

When everyone was seated, my uncle said, "Open dinner." Everyone raised their wine glasses and shouted happy new year, good luck and other blessings. Then sit down, pick up chopsticks, and get ready to go.

Knowing that Haohao loves to eat fish, Yan Qing specially stood up and sandwiched a piece of fish meat opposite to his younger brother, knowing that his mother loves seafood, he sandwiched a big lobster for his mother, and finally sandwiched a piece of chicken in front of him and put it in a bowl.

Seeing Yan Qing's care, my aunt smiled and said, "It's better to raise a daughter, I know that it hurts, I still want to have another daughter, it's ......"

"What's it?" Mom asked without thinking.

"It's just that your brother's little salary every month is not enough to support two children, and now the pressure is so great, and he has a mortgage and car loan, and his children go to kindergarten, how can he raise another child."

Grandma and mother looked at each other, and my uncle bowed his head and said nothing, thinking that you are still crying poor, you are so rich.

The adults at the dinner table fell silent, except for the sound of two children frolicking.

My aunt glanced at Yan Qing with interest and said, "I heard my mother say that Yan Qing is a child who has gone to work for the summer vacation during the winter vacation, no."

I know how much money I made. ”

Yan Qing immediately swallowed the food in his mouth and replied: "I have only been working for more than ten days, and I haven't gotten my salary yet, and I won't get my salary until I finish it after the year."

The uncle interjected: "The student's salary is not high, why go out and suffer that sin?" If you don't have money, just say no to your uncle. ”

My aunt immediately glared at my uncle with extremely dissatisfied eyes, and my uncle added the New Year for the sake of family harmony, and without saying much, he grabbed a few chopsticks and ate hard.

"Yanqing, don't listen to your uncle's nonsense, our family is poor now, he just loves to be able to do it."

Yan Qing said: "I know that my uncle is reluctant to let me suffer, and I have grown up and it is right to do something to reduce the burden on the family." Mom put down her chopsticks and squeezed her little hand under the dining table, and she saw a relieved smile in Mom's eyes.

"Then ......," the aunt looked at her grandmother and uncle.

"That's what, that's what, just say it, it's all your own people." Uncle snorted impatiently.

"I'm really happy to see that Yanqing is so old, now that Yanqing is sensible and can make money, I just don't know what to pay back that money."

With a 'bang', my grandmother dropped her chopsticks to express her dissatisfaction. "It's falling into the eyes of money."

When my uncle heard this, he also glared at his aunt fiercely, and his mother and Yan Qing put down their chopsticks one after another.

Uncle turned pale, "Today's New Year, you have to ......"

"Brother-in-law, don't worry." Before my uncle finished speaking, my mother rushed to say: "As soon as Yanqing graduates and finds a job, I will pay back the money immediately." After speaking, he stood up and wanted to leave the table.

Yan Qing took Haohao's hand and stood up.

"Sister, don't be angry, don't be angry, let's finally have such a reunion dinner, you must not leave halfway." Uncle immediately stopped.

Grandma also ran over in a hurry, "Daughter, you must not leave, this old saying is a reunion dinner, a reunion dinner, what is the name of the reunion dinner when you leave halfway." I'm afraid that our family will not go well next year, even if it doesn't look at your brother's face, I still have an old face here. ”

The uncle blamed her aunt, and she also softened her voice and said, "Sister, I really didn't mean it, I just watched Yanqing grow up and be happy, didn't this remind me of the past?" You must not be angry with me, or I will become a sinner in our family. ”

After some persuasion from several people, my mother's heart softened again, and she sat down on the table again with Yanqing and Haohao.

My aunt knew that she had just said something that she shouldn't have said, and she was suddenly very enthusiastic at this moment, and kept serving Yanqing and Haohao, but no one said a word to her except politely.

It was probably boring for a person to sing in a one-man show, so she scooped up a spoonful of soup and asked with a smile, "Yanqing, you should have twenty today." ”

He replied politely and politely: "It's the nineteenth year of the Chinese New Year."

"Hey, it's going to be twenty soon, I have to hurry up and find a partner, and after a year or two, it's twenty-two or twenty-three, and the girl's youth is only a few years, so I have to hurry up and seize the opportunity to find my in-law."

"Auntie, I'm still reading

What about books. ”

"What's wrong with studying, you have to find a partner when you study, and you have to get married. You, you have to listen to your aunt to find some partners. ”

Yan Qing smiled awkwardly, thinking to himself why I was introduced to people everywhere I went, I had just entered college.

She continued: "My aunt has a son of a distant relative who is very good, but he is a little older, and he is also a college student like you, I think you are quite suitable, and my aunt will introduce you to you another day."

The uncle looked at her and asked, "But the eldest son of your cousin's family?"

"Yes, yes, it's the son of my cousin's family, he is honest and diligent, and he accompanies Yan Qing very much, except for being a little older."

The uncle said with a gloomy face: "Shut up for me, your cousin's son is at least thirty-two years old this year, and he is still in the countryside."

Yan Qing was stunned when she heard this, although she knew that her family conditions were not good and she was not worthy of any rich children, but she didn't expect that others would classify her to the countryside like this. She put down her chopsticks and couldn't eat a bite......

(End of chapter)