There is a lot of strength in numbers, and the work in the kitchen is done in a while.

Li Jianjun turned on the black and white TV in the hall, tuned to the central station, and waited to watch the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala.

There are not many families in the village who have a TV, but only three families have it, in addition to the village chief's house, there are also the Li family and a rich family in the village.

The Li family is still second-hand, Li Dawei bought a TV in the town, and the second elder came to the city to see it, and kept saying that it would be good if there was one in his hometown.

Li Dawei gritted his teeth, bought the second-hand TV set that was replaced by his colleague's home, and sent it back to his hometown, fulfilling the wish of the second elder.

Although he got the name of filial piety, when he returned home, the husband and wife had a big quarrel about it.

This time the quarrel was fierce, Wang Xiaojuan went directly to her parents' house.

It is not easy for the husband and wife to save some money, they have to raise three children, and they are all in school, Wang Xiaojuan was ruthless and did not come back that time.

In the end, Li Dawei personally went to his uncle's house and promised that he would never secretly make up for his hometown in the future, so he coaxed his daughter-in-law back.

Now that two years have passed since this incident, Wang Xiaojuan is happy to watch the news broadcast on the TV, as if everything has faded with time.

There are three charcoal basins burning in the house, and everyone is around one in twos and threes, forming a half circle and waiting for the Spring Festival Gala to start.

Li Jianjun didn't know where to get a few decks of cards, and Li Manjun's sisters and brothers fought the landlord while watching TV, and drank water if they lost.

Li Jianjun kept losing and drinking, and the toilet ran several times.

Li Xiaoniu can't afford to lose, lose too much, and the elders of the New Year like to be lively, so they tease him to play, It's rare that there is no bias, so that the game of fighting the landlord can continue.

Li Manjun and his wife won the most, and the younger brothers and sisters quarreled that their husband and wife were unfair, so Li Manjun put down the cards and left Zhao Yong on his side, and she went behind the younger brothers and sisters to guide.

They were laughing happily, and the elders watched the Spring Festival Gala, laughing from time to time with the sketches on TV.

The Li family at this moment is exceptionally harmonious and beautiful.

At midnight, the New Year's bell rings, the small mountain village comes alive, and clusters of fireworks are lit and bloom in the night sky.

"Let's go and set off fireworks!" Li Xiaoniu took out the small fireworks he had bought, dragged his brothers and sisters out.

Li Manjun and his wife followed behind, watching them release these strange little fireworks, and the colorful fireworks were unreal in the night.

In later generations, for the sake of environmental protection, fireworks were banned in the city, and Li Manjun had not felt such a New Year's flavor for a long time.

The winter nights are cold, but people's hearts are warm.

Zhao Yong held her to his chest and shielded her from the wind, her back rested against his hot chest, and the two watched the fireworks burn out before returning to the house.

Li Dawei and the brothers insisted on keeping vigil, Wang Xiaojuan burned a prosperous brazier for them, and heated two plates of snacks, and everyone fell asleep.

There are not many rooms in the Li family, and the son-in-law and daughter who are married abroad can't sleep in the same room, Zhao Yong follows Li Jianjun and Li Xiaoniu to sleep in one room, and Li Manjun and the three sisters sleep together in Li Lanfang's room.

At night, the three sisters talked for a long time, Li Lanfang worked in a textile factory, and she would take a break every week, and when she had time, she would also go out to play with her fellow workers in the dormitory and go to the beach to watch the sea.

Li Lanfang told Li Lijun that the sea is very big and blue, and the winter there is not cold at all, as long as you wear a jacket, it is enough to survive the winter.

Li Lijun was envious and yearning, and Li Lanfang told her again that if she can study, she should study hard, and working in a factory is not fun at all, it is very hard.

"Our factory is in two shifts, one day shift and one night shift, and people can't stand it for a long time."

"The electronics factory in the town next door is even more tired, working in three shifts, day and night, and many people can't bear it."

"There are also female workers who find a boyfriend in the local area and quit."

"Most of them are still like me, they send money home every month after they get paid, and they don't keep much in their hands, and sometimes they don't have more than a cent to buy medicine when they get sick, so it's better to study."

Li Lanfang turned her head to look at Li Lijun, who was sleeping on her left, very envious, "I thought you wouldn't be able to pass the exam, and I thought that when the time came, I would persuade you to find a way to go to a junior college and not come to work." ”

"My sister encouraged me." Li Lijun's feet in the bed stretched out and hooked Li Manjun, which made Li Manjun shiver and smiled angrily: "Li Lijun, don't suffer Lao Tzu!" ”

Li Lanfang put down the leg that was lying on her body, next to the warm Li Manjun, and the two separated Li Lijun's popsicle.

Li Lijun didn't do it, she had to be next to her two sisters, and the three sisters immediately laughed.

The wooden floor of the old house is not soundproof, the three sisters are laughing upstairs, and Li Jianjun and Zhao Yong downstairs heard the movement, knocked on the wooden board at the head of the bed, and called them to be quieter.

So, upstairs and downstairs chatted like this, until the sky was white, and then I fell asleep.

Qian Shufen got up very early, heated up the pot stove to heat up the dishes that cooled down last night, and made breakfast for the whole family.

Wang Xiaojuan and Ren Juan followed, and the three of them were light-hearted, accustomed to their children sleeping until noon.

On the first day of the new year, the family chatted at home by themselves, and spent the first day of the new year.

When I returned to my parents' house on the second day of the Lunar New Year, several families prepared their own, but the car could not sit in Li Manjun's family, and Li Jianjun was left in his hometown to accompany the second elder.

Li Xiaoniu was also disgusted by Qian Shufen for being young and unable to walk on mountain roads, so he stayed at home.

Li Manjun and Zhao Yong took their parents and sister back to Shinan Town first, prepared at home, brought New Year's gifts, and went to Xin'an Town, where Wang's family is located.

The aunt and aunt have arrived a long time ago, and they took their husbands back to their parents' homes to accompany the old people for the New Year this year, which was very lively.

Li Manjun's aunt didn't have time at the wedding, but this time she saw Zhao Yong and gave her a red envelope, which made Zhao Yong embarrassed.

Fortunately, he and Li Manjun also prepared many New Year's gifts and brought them over, a cigarette and a bottle of wine for each family, plus a hundred red envelopes, auntie, aunt, uncle, uncle, one for each family.

The year before, Wang Hanwen renovated his old house, built two new rooms next to the old house, and opened up with the old house to create a house similar to the style of a courtyard house, with a very spacious courtyard in the middle.

Zhao Yong's car can be driven in and parked in the yard.

The village where the Wang family is located is not as rich as Hongxing Village, but Wang Hanwen's brothers and sisters are all promising, and they have built the old house better than the whole village.

After the crossing, this was the first time Li Manjun saw his grandparents and grandmother, the second elder was very tough, and compared with the second elder of the Li family, he was much more open-minded.

In the past two days at her grandmother's house, Li Manjun felt very comfortable, and her cousin and cousin took her and Zhao Yong to walk around the nearby hillside, and several people dug up two sacks of winter bamboo shoots, and the family divided a little bit and took them home.

On the fourth day of junior high school, everyone left after breakfast together, and Li Manjun and his wife returned to Shinan Town for another night.

On the afternoon of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, when they returned to Rongcheng and opened the door, the two sat on the sofa and sighed in unison: "It's finally over this year." ”

(End of chapter)