Playing cards and drinking. On New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year, people go to the graves to worship their ancestors, and then continue playing cards and drinking.
On the second day of the new year, I visit relatives, play cards, and drink.
Relatives come to visit, play cards and drink.
In the past, I felt that there were too few entertainment items, so everyone could only play cards.
Now I realize that no matter how many other entertainments there are, playing cards still seems to be the core entertainment item during the New Year.
For example, before television, people liked to play cards during the Chinese New Year. After television became available, people still like to play cards.
Now we not only have TVs, but also computers and smartphones to play various games.
But the kids had a lot of fun playing with them, and the adults still seemed to enjoy playing cards. And when those children who originally liked playing games grew up, they seemed to like playing cards instead of games.
Therefore, the Spring Festival life in rural areas seems to have entered a strange circle. As soon as the time comes, you can sit at the card table when you are old enough.
Life at the end of that year was basically drinking and playing cards. Playing cards, drinking...
"My little grandpa really can't drink anymore. If I go back with my dad, he'll have to deal with me again. Ever since I came back from the Chinese New Year, there hasn't been a day when I haven't drunk myself unconscious. So we have to stop drinking. Otherwise, not only my father will deal with me, but also my father." My little grandma will definitely deal with me too."
Yang Dongxu, who was blushing at the dinner table, reached out to cover his wine glass. When he saw his little grandfather reaching for the wine bottle to pour him wine himself, he quickly took off the quilt and put it behind him.
"Stop drinking. You'll stink after drinking." Xiao Wenchen shouted from the side.
The little grandpa who was about to get angry when he saw Yang Dongxu hiding the wine glass behind his back, heard the words of his little Wenchen, and the dark clouds on his face suddenly dispersed and the sky cleared up.
At this time, the wife's persuasion is not effective, but the child's words are effective. So the wine barbs were over, everyone started to remove the plates and bowls from the table, and the gentlemen started drinking tea and chatting.
Yang Dongxu, who was a little confused, regretted letting his little grandpa know that Zhou Ya could drive. Otherwise, he could have excused himself by saying that he drove here and didn't drink. Now this excuse is obviously gone.
The content of chats between men is different from that of women. Women’s chats are all about family affairs. Whose boy got married this year, whose daughter-in-law ran away, whose family had a baby this year, and whose family got a girl this year.
The chats between men are basically all kinds of nonsense, and in the end they basically turn to bragging. And it’s all autobiographical bragging.
For example, my little grandpa is now talking about his deeds when he drove a car to the south, and also went to the northwest to pull coal. That's right, the hero of the world.
It was as if he was not driving a large truck, but was holding a three-foot green sword and riding a snow-riding horse underneath him. There are all kinds of people who block roads and rob disk numbers, and all kinds of people who have similar odors and kill chicken heads to become sworn brothers.
Basically, every story ends with me not giving in, some of the other parties being scared, and some being sensible and not taking action.
Although the story is exciting, there is no plot where a white knife enters and a red knife comes out. It's quite a bit like everyone is just a show person.
Of course, it is also possible that there are no scars on the body. You are talking eloquently about how you held the knife and fought three times in and three out, while the man with the machete only had a few stab wounds.
Then you lift up your clothes and let people see the stab wounds on your body. This is the perfect way to brag.
If you say that you held a knife and fought three times in and three out, but the result was unscathed, it is all your relatives who don't know each other, this is undoubtedly going a bit too far.
We have dinner at twelve o'clock at noon. We can eat a little more than a little while eating all kinds of food and drinks at the dinner table, and then we go away and chat until three or four o'clock.
Then, with a cigarette in his mouth, the man would call up the children who were running around and playing wildly in the village, and carry the yellow paper and firecrackers placed in the window or on the pile of firewood next to him to go to the ground to visit the grave.
Although Yang Dongxu is the mainstay of the family, he can only be regarded as following Yang's father.
Because this was a visit to the grave of Yang's mother's grandparents, Yang Dongxu had never met these two, Yang Dongxu's great-grandfather and great-grandmother.
A group of people went to the field.
You don’t need to look at anything else to see whether a person’s family is prosperous or not. You can tell by visiting the graves of deceased elders when visiting relatives at the end of the year.
A group of people huffing and puffing must have more brothers or more sisters.
It’s almost five o’clock in the afternoon when I get back from the fields, and it gets dark earlier in winter. So basically the sun is almost setting at this time.
So she declined to stay the night and continued to drink in the evening to persuade her to stay. Zhou Ya drove her family and waved goodbye to the elders who were sent to the entrance of the village and started to go home.
"Grandpa and grandma are not as strong as they were in the past two years." Zhou Ya couldn't help but say.
"There's nothing you can do about your age here. I buy all kinds of supplements. But at this age, old people can't absorb too many supplements even if they eat too much." Yang's mother said helplessly.
In the past, I was at home all year round, and I would come to Qianzhuang every now and then to see my parents, but I didn't feel too much.
This time I came back from staying in Yanjing for a while, and when I came to see my parents again, I suddenly felt that my parents were much older. It was as if a large portion of the body's bones had decayed all of a sudden.
"If the weather is nice during the summer vacation, I can take my grandpa and grandma out for fun. We are already so old. Not to mention going abroad, we definitely need to see more of the great rivers and mountains of our motherland."
Yang Dongxu said.
"Go, I must go this year, even if they are shirk- ing , bring your grandparents with you. Bring your father-in-law with you, even if he doesn't know whether he agrees or not.
By the way, didn’t the rural tourism company in our village say that there are some elderly tour groups now?
If you are too busy and have no time at that time, your mother and I will pay for a group tour and take the old man around. "Dad Yang clapped his hands and decided the matter.
Compared with being able to make decisions for grandparents and grandparents, Yang Dongxu's father-in-law is his in-laws. Father Yang still felt a little guilty.
This feeling of weakness is not because I have treated Zhou Ya badly or done anything wrong.
This is mainly an ordinary person's admiration for a person with his own personality.
After all, Father Yang only attended junior high school, and he dropped out of school before finishing the first year of junior high school. And my in-law Zhou Yiren is a well-educated scholar.
Not only did he work as a teacher at Yenching University, but he also served as a senior official. At that time, he was a member of the brain trust for the chief. It can be said that he is the best among the Chinese people.
For such an existence, no matter who stood in front of him, he would probably feel a little weak.
So when it comes to arranging things, he must be the one arranging things for other people. It was impossible for Father Yang to arrange things for him.
"If my dad doesn't go, then he won't go. It's just a good time to stay at home with Mr. Xuan and look after the house." Zhou Ya said with a smile.
When Zhou Yiren was working as a think tank, he didn't mean to read and study all kinds of materials submitted and then talk on paper.
Many policies require extensive social research and regional practice before they are finally promoted nationwide.
Therefore, as one of the think tanks, Zhou Yiren traveled extensively in order to seek truth from facts for the motherland. So you’ve pretty much seen everything you need to see.
For the modern development of the motherland, there is no need to look at the prosperity of first-tier cities. He could tell just by looking at the farmers around him that their lives were getting better day by day.
In addition, he has been here in Yangjiacun for a long time, and the city and provincial leaders are used to it being relatively peaceful.
If you go out, a team of health doctors is a must. After all, his status is here after retirement, and he usually studies social affairs. During the National Day, there will be many people who go to Yanjing to watch the ceremony.
This minimum standard configuration is still required. As a team, if the local leaders don’t know when they go to other places, it’s okay. They will definitely receive them after they find out. This is the most basic etiquette.
So there is nothing I want to see. If I go out and there are a lot of people around me, I might as well not go out.
As for Mr. Xuan, he couldn't get out even if he wanted to.
The stubborn old man before has now begun to use a cane. He used to be very harsh to Xiao Wenchen, but now he smiles kindly when Xiao Wenchen is lazy. This stubborn old man is really old now.
Therefore, although he is more than ten years older than Yang Dongxu's grandparents and his body looks better, Mr. Xuan is not willing to go out and hang out.
What he thinks about most now is to train Xiao Wenchen. The sapling must grow well and not be as shaky as his father.
Then when the time comes, just lie down in the coffin.
He had chosen the cemetery for himself, right on the riverside in front of Yangjiacun.
Now his biggest hobby is fishing, but by building a grave next to the reservoir, he is afraid of ruining the beautiful place of his younger sister Dandan's home.
It was suitable to be buried by the river, because the Yang family happened to have land there. This kid Yang Dongxu, the only reason he grew so strong when he was a child was mostly because of the meat he gave him.
So he buried it in the Yang family's land. The smelly piece of land was just the smelly piece of land. Yang Dongxu owed it to him, so he had to deal with it even if he didn't like it.
"By the way, what do you think about my uncle's plan to open a large supermarket in the village?" Yang Dongxu asked.
Compared to Xiaowu and others who want to get a country bus, they want to open a driving school.
My brother-in-law has been a bit restless in recent years and wants to tinker with something, but he doesn’t understand anything and even loses some money.
However, compared to the past messy times, when the whole family suffered after losing money, the Yang family is now rich enough. My brother-in-law is now a father. He no longer cares about things, but he still has some control.
So when I lose money, I just have a quarrel with my aunt, and nothing else. The vegetable greenhouse at home, medicinal materials in the fields, plus Yang Dongxu’s other convenient help. Yangjiacun can still live a small life.
During this time, everyone else in the village wanted to supplement their rural tourism, so my uncle asked Father Yang to figure out whether he could do something to increase his income.
Father Yang is definitely not willing, not because his brother is unreliable, but because the pig farm is really busy and he has no time to take care of other things.
After Zhou Ya learned about this, she gave her uncle an idea. Let him get a piece of land in the village to open a larger comprehensive supermarket.
In the past, the customer flow of such a large supermarket might have been a problem, but now there are more tourists, and in the past two years, people who have gone out to work have begun to come back. Such a large supermarket will undoubtedly have customer traffic, so it will make a lot of money after one year.
More importantly, supermarket logistics can be completely linked to Millennium Supermarket. You can just make a list of the goods you need, and there is no need to worry about procurement and transportation.
And it uses the logistics and transportation of Millennium Supermarket, because Millennium Supermarket purchases goods in large quantities, and the goods are good at low prices and the profits are higher.
"The procedures were sent to the town. There was no problem there, but we had to go back to the city again. It was said that Yangjia Village is a key planned village for rural tourism, so the land approval must be agreed upon by the higher authorities.
But it shouldn't be a big problem. Your brother-in-law is contacting sand and gravel and building materials these days. He will build a house when the soil thaws. Zhou Ya means to lay the foundation and build the iron greenhouse on top. This is convenient and fast.
Your brother-in-law felt that it would be embarrassing, so he planned to build a three-story building. Initially, he was going to build a five-story building. If he wanted to build it, he would build it as big as possible, and he would also install an escalator inside.
Let him fiddle with it. I will make up for the shortfall by the time the time comes, and you don't have to pay. Anyway, if you do it right under your nose, you won't lose much even if you lose money in the end. "Dad Yang said.
Father Yang agrees with the idea of opening a large supermarket. After all, he is a person who travels frequently and has seen the world, so he still has some business acumen.
But his brother insisted on building a three-story building. Originally, he even wanted to build a five-story building, saying that it would be as grand as building a large shopping mall like the one in the city.
They built an escalator and a children's playground on the first floor. They completely copied the appearance of a large comprehensive supermarket in the city. Father Yang rolled his eyes and scolded him.
The aunt was a little unconvinced at first. She felt that since she was doing something, she wanted to be the best, and this idea was definitely made by Zhou Ya. Since it was making money, wouldn't it make more money if it was bigger and more luxurious?
In the end, Zhou Ya could easily do some calculations, and it would cost at least several million to get such a place. This does not include land, decoration, or other miscellaneous things, it is just the money for the main building.
10 million is a small amount to get it all done, and it is still small, really large, with at least five floors and ten acres of land like my uncle's, but it still requires hundreds of millions of funds.
In an instant, the aunt began to scold the uncle for not knowing his last name just after he had two dollars.
Therefore, the building land currently being applied for is only two acres, and not all of it is built on. There is also enough open space at the door for a parking lot or something.
At the same time, forget about the so-called children's playground on the first floor. Let's turn it all into shelves selling various agricultural products. You can draw an area to build water tanks and buy some seafood.
This is a rare item for local business, and tourists cannot go inland to eat seafood.
Chengwang City Millennium Supermarket has such an area, the business is quite good, and it is also convenient to get goods from there.
Clothing is on the second floor, and some brand shops are on the third floor, such as watches or gold shops.
With the reputation of the Yang family here as a guarantee, everyone must believe that the product is authentic, so even though the place is small, as long as people believe it is genuine, don't try to trick people with fakes.
Basically, this supermarket makes a profit for a year, which is enough for my uncle to be ranked in Yangjiacun.
"I asked people to tell my uncle about some things about the goods in the supermarket, as well as management and other aspects of snow pattern, so that he can learn from it. Dad, you should also learn from it. Although the supermarket belongs to my uncle's house, you don't want to Intervene.
But my brother-in-law will definitely go to heaven if there is no one to take care of him. So you should also learn a little bit, not to say you are proficient but at least understand a little bit. When the time comes when your brother-in-law doesn't do anything right, you will know how to scold him. Yang Dongxu said with a smile.
"Just do it this way, and I'll follow suit."
