Twenty-ninth of the lunar month.

Xu Ning and Fa Xiao took a walk around the village.

And then

Even Murakami's dog knew he was back.

In the countryside, it's a sense of ritual.

Every year before the Chinese New Year, migrant workers who come back from outside will go out to the village for a walk, meet with their uncles, brothers and sisters, and announce that they are back.

At this time, the aunts began to gossip together, who came back...... Whoever talked about the object, who who paid more than 1,000.

Xu Ning hadn't heard others talk about him with his own ears, but in the past two days, he often heard his aunts talk about other people who had just come back.

Not to mention, it sounds interesting, I heard a lot of small information from them that I didn't know before.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve that a cousin walked into the village carrying a large bag of luggage, and all the migrant workers in Laogou Village returned.

In the evening of the same day,

Heavy snow fell in the sky, adding a lot of flavor to the Spring Festival in 2002.

As a baby in the north, Xu Ning always felt that it was not interesting to not snow during the New Year, and it was only called the New Year when it snowed.

This is a joy that many people in the South do not experience.

Soon after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, people with spare money will take out the prepared fireworks and set them off for a while.

Brilliant fireworks burst into the snow-covered sky.

Very beautiful.

And Xu Ning's family belongs to those who have spare money.

Yesterday, he gave 500 yuan for his father Xu Jianguo to buy a car of fireworks from the town, ready to have a good time.

In this era, there are still too few families who can afford fireworks, and most families buy a few firecrackers to listen to the sound.

Therefore, when fireworks rang out at the door of Lao Xu's house, many villagers stood in front of the house to watch.

The children were cheerful, running to the courtyard of Xu Ning's house with toy guns one by one, and after each firework, these children would take the initiative to help light the other one.

It's a do-it-yourself effort.

It took more than 20 minutes to finish a car of fireworks, and the air was filled with a thick smell of fireworks.

"The old Xu family is really out of the way now."

"Xu Ning, this kid heard that he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in half a year in BJ, and I have never seen so much money in my life."

"I don't know if he has a partner, my niece is handsome, I'll ask Chen Meijuan tomorrow."

“……”

There are a total of 100 households in the village, and almost every family is discussing Xu Ning, this era is like this, if it is promising, it will become the object of heated discussion among the villagers.

After eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and watching the Spring Festival Gala for a while, Xu Ning was called by the children to play cards, Xu Jianguo saw his son gone, and couldn't sit still, and it didn't take long for him to go out to play cards with his peers.

A group of more than a dozen people came to my cousin's house to play cards under the heavy snow, everyone gathered around the small table, and there was a circle of people standing behind, and the scene was very lively.

This side of northern Jiangsu is called "two eight bars", that is, each person draws two cards and the dealer to compare the size, pairs, 2 and 8, 10, the size of the king...... This special hand doubles the winnings.

It was not until three o'clock in the evening that everyone returned home and agreed to continue the fight tomorrow.

Xu Ning was lucky tonight, he won 200 yuan, and the most one lost more than 1,000, but he won this money to his eldest sister Xu Xiuyan.

The girl couldn't stay at home, so she ran over to watch and play cards, and on the way she got her newly bought down jacket dirty, and the two hundred yuan was just enough to compensate her.

New Year's Day.

After the New Year's greetings, the men of the village gathered together according to their age level.

Playing cards in the morning,

Playing cards in the afternoon,

Play cards at night

……

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, continue, play cards.

In this era, there were so few entertainments, and it snowed heavily, playing cards seemed to be the only entertainment.

Men play poker, women play mahjong, and children play snowmen, toy guns, and firecrackers.

There was almost a tacit understanding.

It wasn't until the third day of the Lunar New Year that the snow stopped, and Xu Ning was dragged by his parents to his uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings to his grandparents.

Xu Ning has four aunts and two uncles.

There were seven or eight younger cousins than him.

Mother Chen Meijuan is a proper big family.

Seven families gathered together, more than 40 people, and even the meals were divided into five tables.

Fortunately, many of the younger generations have not married and had children, otherwise they would not be able to sit at the five tables.

At the dinner table, everyone talked about study and work.

Most of the parents have no education, and the best one is the eldest uncle, who studied a secondary school and now teaches high school Chinese in the county middle school.

The richest one belongs to the second uncle, who worked as a contractor in Jinling, specializing in exterior wall insulation, and Xu Ning followed his second uncle to work on the Jinling construction site when he returned from Beipiao in his previous life.

I remember that seven or eight years later, my second uncle's worth has exceeded 20 million, and there are several houses, and Mercedes-Benz S BMW 7 Series is replaced.

At today's dinner table, if it weren't for Xu Ning's success, then the poorest person would still be the old Xu family.

Every time he had a New Year's party in his previous life, Xu Jianguo didn't want to go because he had no face.

Now when Xu Jianguo heard that he was going to leave his relatives, he definitely rushed to be the first, and he was hard to speak at the wine table.

Before Xu Ning came, he told his parents not to tell his relatives that he was filming in BJ, because now the TV series he acted in has not been released in the mainland, and his relatives will not believe it.

It's better not to say it, save the trouble when the time comes.

If a relative asked, he said that he was a trainee in a company and needed to practice for two and a half years before he could make his debut.

In this way, the relatives will have a balance in their hearts, otherwise they will know that Xu Ning has made a lot of money filming, and their hearts will definitely be sour.

After three rounds of drinking,

Xu Ning got up and prepared to go to the toilet, the toilets in the countryside in this era were generally at the back of the house, and they needed to go around in a big circle.

He didn't bring a mobile phone, Nokia was playing snake for his cousin Zhou Xiaochong, this kid is in the second year of junior high school this year, and he is usually very playful, and he didn't move a word about his winter vacation homework.

What Xu Ning didn't know was that when Zhou Xiaochong was playing with snakes, he accidentally hung up the phone.

On the other end of the phone, Jiang Qinqin sat in front of the TV and watched TV with her parents: "Stinky boy, don't answer my phone now, hum." ”

A few minutes later,

She edited another text message and sent it over.

At this time, Zhou Xiaochong had already been brought over by his uncle for dinner, and suddenly a message was sent, and Zhou Xiaochong looked at it curiously.

The sender is Jiang Qinqin, alas, Jiang Qinqin said...... Qiong Yao decided to let her cousin play Yongqi in "Huanzhu Gege". ”

What?

The relatives here have all watched "Huanzhu Gege", which is popular all over the country, and they all know the beautiful star Jiang Qinqin.

So when they heard the content of the text message, they didn't react a little, "Let Xiao Ning play Yongqi?" The person texting can't be a scammer, right? ”

A room full of relatives are all natives of the countryside, and they never thought that filming a TV series would fall on them.

The reaction at this moment is normal.

however

Before everyone could react, the mobile phone rang again, and the caller ID was still Jiang Qinqin.