Chapter 262: It's over the New Year
The first day of the Lunar New Year is mainly for New Year's greetings, and the younger ones are led by their parents, and the older ones can go to the New Year's greetings by themselves.
During the Chinese New Year, there are many local customs in many places, but in the past, large families liked to pay attention to it. For the real New Year, for children, New Year's greetings are secondary, and receiving New Year's money is the happiest.
And in the second year of junior high school, it is time to go back to her parents' house, and the soldier wants to go back to her mother's house in Qinling with her daughter-in-law. This is the daughter of Luo Cheng's family who has not yet married, otherwise he would have to entertain his son-in-law. Because there was no need to entertain people, my parents went directly to my uncle's house.
In the third year of junior high school, everyone stopped for a day, and they didn't know what to pay attention to.
On the fourth day of junior high school, he began to be a real guest, and many wedding banquets in later generations were also arranged from the fourth day of junior high school. But in this year, to be honest, the real New Year is the first and second days of the new year, and the first day of the new year is to pay a New Year's greeting to relatives, drink a bowl of sugar water and come back. I have a good meal at home, and when my daughter who marries outside the second year of junior high school comes back, my mother's family entertains me with a good meal.
That's it, most people haven't had much to entertain these days. Not to mention inviting relatives to eat on the fourth day of junior high school, in later generations, basically eat this one today and that one tomorrow, and sometimes you have to eat at both ends, but you can't eat it. And after eating, it is basically a game of cards, and people who have other activities leave after eating.
Speaking of lively, the New Year will also be lively in later generations, but it always feels like there is something missing atmosphere. Maybe it's because I'm used to eating big fish and meat, and this New Year's meal has become a social occasion rather than an expectation.
Like people in the 80s, children are still looking forward to eating, and there is a beer in glass bottles, five cents a bottle. When going to eat during the Chinese New Year, the child must share a bottle. Adults eat canned food and drink alcohol, even in the eighties and nineties, everyone is actually looking forward to eating well during the New Year.
At that time, the children also had more New Year's money, and the boys' New Year's money was basically given to the game hall.
But now it's the sixties, and it's a few years of famine, not to mention the New Year's banquet, and marriage may not be done. Therefore, Luo Cheng's family invited guests to dinner, those aunts and uncles, uncles and aunts, Luo Cheng didn't have to think about going to their house for dinner. I went to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of junior high school, which is considered to be the number of rituals.
Today's happiest thing is to go to Luo Cheng's house and give Luo Cheng's grandmother a New Year's greeting, and there is New Year's money. Luo Cheng's generation has it, and the children of his great-grandson's generation have to call Luo Cheng's grandmother grandma. Children, kowtow and shout grandma, mother's side, give a few cents. And on the Luo family's side, grandma is also divided, grandpa went early, but grandpa is also Luo Wen's father's side, there are still a lot of Luo family brothers, this is to pay New Year's greetings, grandma sees the boy, at least a dime, and the girl is a few cents.
And the child born to the uncle's eldest son belongs to his own grandson, and he is directly given five cents. Even if it's a granddaughter, it's a dime. Luo Cheng and his cousins gave their grandmother New Year's greetings, except for Luo Cheng and Bingzi who received a dollar, everyone else was a few cents.
But no matter how much, in this year of famine, the relatives of the Luo family have also received New Year's money on Luo Cheng's grandmother's side this year. Children are happy even if they have a penny. In the town's supply and marketing cooperatives, at least someone takes care of the bulk firecrackers.
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, it was Luo Cheng's family who entertained his father's relatives and held a three-table dinner. On the fifth day of the new year, there were also three tables for relatives on my mother's side. The table was borrowed by the uncle and the second uncle.
When the guests arrived, when they were about to eat, they also played a hexagram firecracker. One is festive, and the other is that according to the traditional saying, the New Year beast is greedy, and if you don't offer it, you will eat it yourself, and you will steal it from the children present. Gotta get some firecrackers to get here.
And this firecracker is big, not only the relatives and children called by Luo Cheng's family, but also the children of the neighbors heard the sound, and they all ran over to find the firecrackers that had not been set off, and kept them to play with themselves.
I thought that this year would be over. Unexpectedly, the matter of the uncle's second son Luo Qiang still came to pass. After all, if Luo Qiang has a job, he will be very good in the town. The Liu family still agreed, but other girls can't marry for nothing, your Luo family is not a cow, and your nephews are all factory directors in the city. I ask you to set up a few tables, set up clothes for their daughters, a dresser, and marry them.
The Liu family didn't ask for a bride price, and the Liu family was also from Longjin Town, and they married a daughter, just to have a style and face. The main reason is that people's daughters are not bad, which is not too much to ask.
And the uncle's family, thinking that the two sons will have jobs next year, also has confidence in their hearts. It's as if your Liu family wants to save face, and the Luo family doesn't want it. Yes, it must be done.
Of course, the food of the uncle's family is actually relieved by his father Rowan. No, although when they went to work, Rowan arranged for them to nail nails, but at most let the uncle's family eat coarse grains. There are still some relief points. And the request made by the Liu family, in fact, the uncle can't do any of them.
This not only has to borrow food and vegetables for a banquet, but also asks Luo Cheng to borrow cloth tickets for clothes. As for the dresser, I promised to find a carpenter in the town to customize one after the year. After all, if you get married immediately, you don't have time to prepare.
The cloth ticket was given by Luo Cheng, but it took money to buy cloth, and the uncle asked his father to borrow it. The marriage is scheduled for the sixth day of the new year, and the Liu family agreed to it on the fourth day of the new year, which is too hasty, but the marriage pays attention to good things in pairs, either the sixth or eighth day of the first month. But the eighth automobile factory started in the first month. Luo Cheng and the others actually had to drive to Nghe An on the afternoon of the seventh day of the new year.
On the sixth day of the new year, Luo Cheng simply drove a car to pick up his relatives, didn't the Liu family want to save face. This face is enough, after seeing the girl of the Liu family, Luo Cheng was disappointed, and thought how beautiful he was. The uncle and aunt all said that it was good, and Luo Qiang still remembered it. Luo Cheng feels very ordinary, with a braid, an authentic rural girl.
The size and figure are stronger than those of his cousin Luo Qiang, and he may indeed be stronger than those skinny girls in terms of birth and rearing. Green vegetables and radishes have their own advantages, and my cousin likes them, and people like strong ones, so it's not good to say much.
After the cousin got married, he entered the cave room that night. Luo Cheng also sighed, like his younger brother Bingzi, he is a couple of people who get married and have sex before they fall in love.
Whether this era is open or closed, let's say closed, think about the blind date marriage of Bingzi and Qiangzi, which is the mainstream in this year, and free love is rare. I haven't met a few times in total, maybe I haven't held my hand, and I can live together, can this be called a closed mind?
And in the city, it's much better, and there are fast, but there are still a lot of people who are introduced, and they will be in one place. Although it will be settled soon, at least occasionally you can have a romantic relationship before marriage.
Luo Cheng felt that his object Dai Qianqian seemed to be a person who was both conservative and open-minded, because after dealing with other people, Luo Cheng actually didn't mention anything. Dai Qianqian seems to have taken the initiative to arrange the rest of the process, that is to say, Luo Cheng doesn't have to think about anything, according to that side, he will definitely be able to sleep with Dai Qianqian in a short time.
During this period, Luo Cheng didn't have to think about dating, romanticizing, and pleasing like later generations. On the eighth day of the first month, Luo Cheng went to the automobile factory to say hello to others, and the production process was able to move first, and then he took a leave of absence and went to SH to find Dai Qianqian.
Like Director Zhao's military factory workshop, Team Leader Jiang and them, as well as the forklift factory who will come to report this year. I didn't come over so quickly, and I couldn't do a lot of work, so just after the New Year, everyone slowed down and slowly re-adapted to the rhythm of work.
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, everyone sat in the business car and started to go to their home in Nghe Ann City. In the car, everyone was very happy, but Zheng Xue was the only one, because she knew that Luo Chengcheng was going to find his partner in a few days, and she herself really had to keep her distance from Luo Cheng in the future.
I don't know where it started, and I always teach people to break their liver and intestines. Looking at the receding scenery outside the car window, Zheng Xue always wanted to chant a poem to express her inner feelings, to hate the tricks of the sky. I want to be a daughter, three years old literate, five years old ~~~.
Well, the talented woman's literary and youthful illness has been committed again, and she has created an image of her own hard life in her heart.
For Luo Cheng, as long as Zheng Xue doesn't live without him, even if he understands her thoughts, he will not provoke her. Wen Qing, it's normal to be sentimental, and it's possible to be martyred for love, so it's not the kind of sincerity, don't provoke a woman with such a character. Because their hearts are not as fragile as you think, they actually belong to people who can comfort themselves, for example, Zheng Xue blames God for not walking with Luo Cheng, which is actually a manifestation of self-comfort. It's God's fault, not her and Luo Cheng's.
Even after she knew that Luo Cheng had a partner, her first thought was that her grandfather also had a little daughter-in-law. I'm going to put myself in another role right away.
It can be said that even if Luo Cheng is with her, there will be infidelity in the future. Zheng Xue will still find reasons to comfort herself, and she will still not separate.
But you must not think that such a character is good, everyone has a limit, when you think she will tolerate everything, it is easy to constantly challenge her bottom line, and when it reaches a critical value, her heart really collapses. Once such a woman turns black, you will have no chance to beg for mercy.
So when you meet someone like Zheng Xue, don't provoke if you don't really want to, once you turn black, boil a pot of soup with a smile, and everyone drinks it all.
Back in the yard room, the sky has not completely darkened, what should be cleaned up, what should be cleaned up. And the door of this compound was not open for a while, and many neighbors who knew that Luo Cheng was back came to greet Luo Cheng for the New Year. Although the New Year is almost over, according to custom, in fact, the Lantern Festival has not passed, and it is considered a new year, and this Luo Cheng will go to the factory tomorrow and have to say a good New Year to many people.
After making a noodle and eating it in the evening, Luo Chengcheng sent Gao Ru back to the staff dormitory. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, in fact, the kitchen staff of the automobile factory have already begun to work, cleaning the stove and preparing the ingredients for tomorrow's factory.
And what Luo Cheng didn't know was that just because the security department and the ambulance clinic were on duty during the Chinese New Year, these days, several nurses and people from the security department hooked up~~, this year I can't say that I hooked up, I should say that I was on the subject, after all, the object of the department is to get married.
During the Chinese New Year, the security department patrolled and ran to the staff outpatient clinic. The clinic is newly built, not far from the factory, with only one floor of brick houses, but it is enough to open the clinic. After all, the outpatient clinic does not need a ward, and the most important thing is to see a doctor with injections and medicines.
And the construction is outside, in fact, it is also to see a doctor outside. It's just that the employees of the automobile factory do not spend money to see a doctor, and there is a reimbursement ratio for buying medicine, and they have to spend money to see a doctor normally if they are not from the automobile factory.
Finally, the New Year is over, and everyone wants to have a New Year's holiday before the New Year, and this New Year, everyone is thinking about going to work and missing the food in the factory. I miss the days when I talked and laughed with my colleagues.
Some of the older students who are still on vacation are still thinking about the ice rink that the car factory is open to the public. They haven't started school yet, but there are few places to play, and skating is quite expensive, but stylish and fun.
"Gao Ru, forget it, forgive them."
"Forgive them? Who to forgive? ”
"Your family and parents, after all, they gave birth to you and raised you for so many years, and they can still spend money to let you go to school, in fact, they should love you. But it's just that I can't accept the fingers of outsiders, and I may not have seen it for a while. We are young people, the future is ours, we can have new ideas and new concepts, but they can have them. Look at my cousin Wang Yue, the family affairs are directly gone, even if she follows me here now, her job and the money she earns may be for her younger brother. You are a daughter, and sometimes some things are not your fault, they may be the fault of this era. You should try to understand. ”
"Luo Cheng, are you also lying to me, you are also patriarchal. They treated me like that, why should I forgive. ”
"Hey, these days at my house for the New Year, everyone can see that you should be missing your family. It's the fault of this era, you are a college student, you have to look at the problem objectively. And what I said before did not lie to you, the current national situation in our country is like this, and there is a general preference for sons over women. But sooner or later, China will become international, and your little thing will really not be a problem when the time comes. In this way, this year, I will arrange for you to go to Sijiu City and go to the agricultural university there to study the greenhouse planting I mentioned earlier. There are a lot of international friends over there, and when the time comes, we will get some products to be exported and displayed, so that you can get in touch with the minds of foreigners, and you will know whether I am right or wrong. ”
"To Sijiu City, the capital?"
"Well, although there is also an agricultural university in Changcheng, if you are not exposed to the wider world, your heart will never be opened. What's more, there are many experts and professors in Sijiu City, and the scientific research task this time is actually quite heavy, and you are not a student of agriculture. So you have to be tough, this winter, I want to eat my own vegetables in Nghe An. ”
In fact, the cycle of agricultural planting and scientific research is more difficult than that of industry. The main thing is that the product has to wait, and when it grows and matures, it may be necessary to deliberately control the indoor and outdoor temperature. Even if the research is done, large-scale planting still needs to be planned and built in advance. In this way, the time for scientific research may be about half a year.
Within half a year, I have to talk to the school there, set up a project, discuss the direction, and try the variety requirements. It is not possible to grow just one vegetable, and experimental planting records are required. This is not with the study of machinery and equipment, with the drawings immediately process a sample to see, OK, no, no, industrial research is the drawing design time is spontaneous, the results are very fast. Agricultural research, on the other hand, has a long cycle.
After sending Gao Ru to the staff building and coming back, Luo Cheng also simply washed up and prepared to sleep, and her cousin Wang Yue's arrangement was very simple, let her follow Xiaoyu and them to the cinema to work, do hygiene, and help keep an eye on the point when selling tickets.
At night, Luo Cheng was also thinking about a question before going to sleep, that is, how to get to SH. The automobile factory has its own transportation team, so Luo Cheng also understands why transportation is so slow in this era, and freight drivers are popular, but it is indeed hard work.
Now there are no highways in China, not even national highways, often from one city to another, the diameter distance may be 100 kilometers, but if you really drive, more than 50% of the distance is normal. Moreover, many roads only have boundary markings, no road signs.
In these years, I ran long distances, relying on myself to memorize the route, and I could only keep asking for directions in unfamiliar places. To be honest, Luo Cheng didn't want to drive to SH City, but he thought about the things he got by signing in the system, so he could give gifts. During the Chinese New Year, Luo Cheng also went to the mountains every day to sign in, there was a lot of game, and there were a few snakes for him to sign in.
It's convenient to go by train, but I feel like I'll have to drive for the sake of gifts.
(End of chapter)