When Han Li returned home, He Mi and Qi Zhaodi had already cleaned up the hairtail, and looking at their appearance, there were also large casseroles (Luo pot, gong pot) around them, which were about to stew the hairtail.

Although Han Li wanted to eat the hairtail that had been fried to a golden brown, he thought about the way his mother scolded him for being a loser after she came back, and persuaded himself in his heart that it was not cost-effective to be scolded for eating in one bite during the Chinese New Year, so it was a big deal to buy more when he left, and let them make it for himself when he arrived in Shanghe Village.

I don't know what the situation of this kind of thing is in other places, but it is not rare in the realm of Sijiu City, because when Han Li was very young, most of the government agencies and factories in Sijiu City would have it in the New Year's goods sent out during the Chinese New Year.

At this time, there are many hairtails in everyone's hands, and there are many hairtails in the market and stores, and the number of hairtails on the black market will naturally not be less, and you can easily buy a lot of them back with a trip.

"I'm back."

"Brother Han."

"Well, this is going to be cooked?"

"Now everyone can eat it by noon."

After the two of them put the hairtail fish in the pot, they put the pots and pans, steamers, chopping boards, and grates at home. All of them were moved to the water faucet and started scrubbing.

Han Li moved over a stool and sat in the courtyard, holding an enamel cup in his hand and chatting with the two of them.

It didn't take long for Han Xiaomei to come back early, put down the things she bought, rolled up her sleeves and joined in.

After a while, the Yun family sisters also came over in advance, and the number of the washing army at home not only expanded, but they also increased the types of items that needed to be washed a lot, such as tables, chairs, benches, teapots, teacups, bicycles, and finally even the crow's bird food jar and the rice bowl of the two dogs were brought over by them and began to wash.

There were more and more things to put and dry in the courtyard, and in the end, even the place where Han Li was sitting was forced to move to the corner.

Han Li couldn't intervene here, and he felt a little bored and went to the alley to watch those masters play chess.

The places where these masters often play chess are very good, not only leeward but also basking in the sun, the fly in the ointment is that Han Li's chess skills are not very good, he is disliked after a few blind commands on the side.

These chess addicted uncles don't care how talented the Han family kids are, how many things they can bring home every year, they became vice presidents at a young age, and they are still disgusted and sarcastic when they disturb their chess game.

"The Han family kid, please don't command blindly with your stinky chess basket, your shouting has disrupted the chess path I originally thought of."

"Little Han Li, you really should practice your chess skills well, this level is tsk."

Han Li didn't care about these words at all, and he just passed with these masters, and watching chess was just fun for Han Li, not only would he not get angry, but he would not be discouraged, and he was not ambiguous at all when he should point out the rivers and mountains on the chessboard.

However, Han Li intentionally or unintentionally encouraged an old man to repent of his chess during this period, and successfully made the old two quarrel, he and the others watched happily beside him, and added fire from time to time, until Yun Yingying came over and called him to eat, then he went back with a cup and regret that he didn't see them finish arguing.

After lunch, those who should go to work go to work, and those who don't go to work and those who don't have to go to work still pack up those scraps of housework.

Han Li didn't want to go out in the afternoon, so he chatted with He Mi and the others at home, during which he wrote out the couplets he needed for tomorrow.

In the evening, all the family returned, and maybe tomorrow would be the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Yun Jingjing stayed again today.

When he went to bed at night, Han Li also knew the news that his eldest brother had returned to Sijiu City today, but when he wanted to meet, he could only wait until the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Bingchen year. Ren Yinyue. Yisi day, the thirtieth day of the lunar month, the seventeenth day of the second month of the solar calendar.

Today, Han's father and second sister Han still have to go to work normally, and Han's mother, Han Xiaomei, and Yun Jingjing have to go to the unit for a walk before they can come back, but when they come back, Yun Jingjing will become Yun Yingying.

Han Li had just finished pasting his pair and stopped, because the two crows he had left in the north courtyard to monitor landed on the courtyard wall, turned around and waved at the two crows and landed on his arm.

After the descriptions of these two crows, that Aunt Liu went over there just now, and when she left, she took away the travel bag that Han Li had left in the North House, and the two little guys couldn't describe any more content.

Han Li picked up the couplet and the paste and came to the edge of Haizi, pasted the couplet and went home.

He Mi and Qi Zhaodi chopped meat, noodles, and stuffing at home, and Han Ma, Han Xiaomei, and Yun Yingying had already come back before they were done, and everyone started to prepare dumplings together.

By noon, there were sporadic firecrackers in Sijiu City, and it didn't take long for Han's father and Han's second sister to return home one after another.

Han Li went to Master's side with his things in the afternoon, he sat in the house and chatted and drank tea with Master, Second Sister Han, Han Xiaomei, Yun Yingying, He Mi, Qi Zhaodi and a few of them cleaned the house and outside the courtyard, and helped wrap the dumplings before leaving.

After eating in the evening, Han Li originally planned to listen to the radio, play cards, and chat with his family, but as soon as he put down his job, he was dragged away by Yu Daqiang and a few people in the alley who had a good relationship to drink and chat.

DING Sinian. Ren Yinyue. Bingwu Day, the first day of the first lunar month, the 18th day of the second month of the solar calendar.

Just after the wee hours of the morning, the sound of firecrackers outside began to sound, and Han Li's family began to get busy.

After boiling dumplings, setting off cannons and kowtowing to my parents, then I went to the master's house to kowtow, and when I came back, I went to Xishan with my father to place tributes on my grandfather's grave, lit firecrackers, kowtowed, and chattered, and then left here in a hurry.

After returning from the grave, it is the New Year's greetings of the small family and the neighborhood, and some people will be companions at this time, but there are many places where everyone has to move around today, and even if they meet, they will make an appointment to meet again another day.

When Han Li returned home after turning around, Han's father, Han's mother, second sister, and little sister all went out to pay New Year's greetings, Yun Yingying, He Mi. Qi Zhaodi sat together listening to the radio and playing cards.

"Stop playing cards, change your shoes, put on your coat and let's go out for a walk."

"What do you say?"

"Brother Han and Sister He, I have already shopped all the places I should have visited last year, and I don't want to go outside to crowd with so many people."

"Brother Li, none of us want to move during the Chinese New Year, and besides, there is nothing fun on the street this year, and there are no new movies, most of our family has food and drink, how good it is for us to stay at home."

To be honest, the annual meeting of the Four Nine Cities in the past few years was indeed not tempting for Han Li and the people of the old capital, and for the three of them who didn't want to go out, Han Li naturally couldn't ask for it.

Han Li sat down on the empty seat at the table, took the teacup that Yun Yingying had just brewed and said.

"Then play cards and add me one."

"We are playing 5, 10, and K, if the four of us continue or change the way of playing?"

"Go ahead."

When Han Li was playing cards at home, Li Xiaoyuan and Tian Xiaoxia, two female classmates who had borrowed money from him last year, actually came together while shopping.

The two girls looked at each other, and they were all surprised by the changes in each other over the years, Tian Xiaoxia's eyes Li Xiaoyuan's height has increased a lot, and even the size of her granary is a little seriously exceeded.

Although the skin on Tian Xiaoxia's face in Li Xiaoyuan's eyes has darkened, her facial features have become more coordinated and delicate than before, especially those round eyes that seem to be able to speak.

"Li Xiaoyuan?"

"Tian Xiaoxia?"

"Hahaha, it's really you, we haven't seen each other for two or three years, right?"

"It's been almost four years, we jumped in line in the same year, I didn't come back when I first came back, and when I came back next year, I was a little out of touch with my classmates, what about you? How are you? ”

"I don't want to mention it, although the place where I cut the queue is closer to home, but the situation there is not good at all, and there is rarely a rest time throughout the year unless it rains.

The key point is that most of the area where I cut the queue is saline-alkali land, and the water there has a very bitter smell, and if you wash your face with the water that has just come out of the well, a white layer of salt will soon appear on your body, and you will reach out and fall down with a bang.

Because of the saline-alkali land, the crop yield there is not high, the material is poor, to put it mildly, there is even a shortage of crop straw for cooking there, and even if you see a small handful on the road, you have to pick it up and take it back.

Last year, there was also a special situation, everyone received a pitiful amount of rations, if Han Li hadn't lent me some money, let alone a full meal, I wouldn't have had the money to buy a ticket back for the Chinese New Year this year. ”

Tian Xiaoxia didn't say anything when she heard Li Xiaoyuan say that her days in the queue were more difficult, because her own situation in northern Shaanxi was not very good, but when she heard Li Xiaoyuan talk about Han Li's borrowing money, she couldn't help but be surprised.

"What? Han Li also lent you money? ”

"Yes, my mother added a younger sister to me last year, and my parents couldn't take care of me, and I couldn't live last year, so I tried to open my mouth with Han Li, but I didn't expect to talk to him when I was in school, and he really lent me the communication after cutting the queue, but what was Xiaoxialing's reaction just now?"

Tian Xiaoxia was already complaining about why her mouth was so fast at this time, but she couldn't take it back now, so she said with an embarrassed smile.

"Hehe., it's nothing, I also borrowed some money from Han Li this year."

"You also borrowed money from Han Li? His family is so good to him, he can have so much spare money in his hands, but it's right, Han Li's family's conditions are left on the table, his father, mother, sister, and sister all go to work, and everyone makes money for him to spend alone, and his days in line must be very comfortable. ”

When Tian Xiaoxia heard Li Xiaoyuan's rhetoric when she was still in school, she immediately guessed that even though she usually had a letter contact with Han Li, the relationship should be very ordinary, at least not as good as herself, otherwise she wouldn't even know that Han Li had become the vice president.

Tian Xiaoxia didn't know why she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but then she thought that Han Li had already married and burst into a wry smile, but she still planned to tell the other party about Han Li getting the establishment to become the vice dean, because even if she didn't say anything about Li Xiaoyuan, she would hear it from other classmates.

"Xiao Yuan, this news you said is a bit too backward, Han Li passed the exam in the first year of going to the countryside to join the team and became a hygienist of the brigade, and with his own efforts, he won the establishment of a doctor in the second year.

Last year, when that major event happened in the northern porcelain capital, Han Li won the collective third-class merit and individual third-class merit, and now he has been unusually promoted to the vice president of the county hospital and a cadre at the deputy department level.

Han Li's current monthly salary was more than fifty yuan, and even more if he counted other subsidies, so he didn't need to spend the family's money at all now. ”

"Isn't it? Han Li was so powerful? ”

"Can I tease you with this outsight? You can find out if you ask the students who know the news, and if you can find the newspaper at the time, you can also know. ”

"Han Li is so powerful, not only is he tall and good-looking, but he can also make such an achievement in a foreign place where he is not familiar with life, this ability is also too great, and his current salary is higher than that of my father and my mother, if they reach their age, they will not be able to receive hundreds of yuan?

I don't know if Han Li is still that cold look? Also, will his sister Han Chunying protect her brother from giving us a chance to get close like she did when she was in school? Why don't we find a time to invite him out for a get-together? ”

When Tian Xiaoxia heard Li Xiaoyuan say this, she quickly guessed her plan, this person was thinking the same as Lin Jiahui, Jiao Yuhong, and Ruan Dajuan at the beginning, didn't she just want to get close to and marry Han Li.

However, Li Xiaoyuan's news is really not very well-informed, many classmates know about Han Licheng's marriage, but she doesn't know? Could it be that she didn't usually communicate with other classmates? Didn't you get together with your classmates when you went home in previous years?

But Tian Xiaoxia was happy to see someone as disappointed as herself, so she said unhurriedly beside her.

"It is estimated that there is no problem in finding Han Li to come out and get together, and Han Chunying will not protect her brother anymore, because Han Li has already married in the second year of joining the team."

"What? Han Li got married? Doesn't he want to go back to the city for work? ”

"Han Li's object is also from our Sijiu City, so he won't delay returning to the city to work at all, and his object has already returned to work last year, so I guess the day when he will return to the city to work will not be too far away."

When Tian Xiaoxia said this, Li Xiaoyuan's face showed a very obvious look of disappointment, and he subconsciously continued.

"Yes, Han Li's parents will never let their only son in the family stay out of town for a long time, as long as they have a suitable job, they can definitely afford it based on their family's situation.

Moreover, Han Li's own ability is not small, now that he still has a position, the chance of coming back has increased a lot, compared to him, we really can't see the end.

After Li Xiaoyuan said this, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind, his family couldn't count on it, but if Han Li could reach out and pull him after he returned to the city to work...

But then it occurred to her mind that even a very ordinary job was worth a lot of money now, so why did Han Li want to pull himself? Classmates? She felt powerless when she said that.

After a while, Tian Xiaoxia didn't hear Li Xiaoyuan speak, and when she cast her gaze, she found that the other party's face changed very quickly, and happiness, expectation, and distress appeared one after another, thinking that Li Xiaoyuan should have some illness, right? ——

Han Li's dinner today was very sumptuous, and Qi Zhaodi made a lot of dishes, even a large yellow croaker was steamed.

During the meal, Han Li and his father drank a little more, and the others were happy and casual.

If you don't drink, there is the Arctic Ocean soda that Han Li specially bought in the afternoon, in short, the first day of the new year is all about having a happy heart

(End of chapter)