This is not the first time that Sun Zhi has come to Yangjiacun to celebrate the New Year. Since marrying Sanyin, he has basically spent the Spring Festival here. After all, his family members are all abroad, and there is no domestic holiday atmosphere outside.
In addition, his current focus of work has always been at home. In the past two years, his import and export trade business in Zhoushan has been booming.
At the end of the year, I don’t want to go abroad to celebrate the New Year, so coming to Sanyin’s home to celebrate the New Year has become the best choice.
However, although I come to Yangjiacun for the Spring Festival more than once or twice, I usually come back with Sanyin to stay for a few days at other times. But as a foreign son-in-law, he always felt like he couldn't integrate into Yangjiacun.
It's not that the people in Yangjiacun are xenophobic, but Sun Zhi's eyes look as gentle as a scholar who came out of school.
When rural people chat with each other, they laugh and curse, "Fuck you, get out of here" and other vulgar words. With Sun Zhi's image and temperament, you always feel like you are very incompetent when you swear in front of him.
In addition, although the country has implemented nine-year compulsory education, most people have low academic qualifications. Even junior high school students like Xiaowu and Dajiang went out into society to make money.
People with such academic qualifications seem to instinctively reject people like Sun Zhi, who look like elite gold-collar workers, and they always feel that they are not from the same world.
Unlike Yang Dongxu, who was originally born in Yangjia Village, he comes back every year to brag and spank with Xiaowu and others, smoke, drink and drink mutton soup.
You can put on a suit and be a domineering president, or you can take off your suit and wrap yourself in a military coat that is very popular in rural areas and sit on the roadside eating stinky tofu and drinking spicy soup.
Although the Yang family didn't have any objections to Sun Zhi, their out-of-town son-in-law, they greeted him warmly when they met and invited him to have a casual meal at home or something.
But most of this enthusiasm comes from the first time we meet, just like when you go out to work for a year and return to the village, you are happy and in a good mood with everyone you meet a few days ago, and everyone is very enthusiastic when you meet.
But after you have lived in the village for a while, the warm and fresh feeling of seeing the price disappears.
So when everyone met Sun Zhi, everyone was very enthusiastic and polite, and they seemed friendly. However, if they wanted to have in-depth exchanges, they always felt that they couldn't go in depth. The two parties were not in the same circle at all.
"Wen Chen ran away with a gun and disappeared." Yang Dongxu said.
"It's normal for children to be a little naughty. I remember when you were a kid, you took Xiaowu and a few of you to the river over there to catch fish on the ice. At that time, you were often beaten by Grandpa and the others." Sanyin laughed. As he said this, Yang Dongxu's embarrassing childhood memories came to mind.
This made Sun Zhi who was following her couldn't help but look at Yang Dongxu in surprise. After all, with Yang Dongxu's current identity and status, he always felt that he should have received an elite education and attended an aristocratic school when he was a child.
It feels like when I was a kid, my nose was so cold that my nose was sniffing, and I couldn't stand the kids who were disgusted by all kinds of cats and dogs.
"Am I just a fool? I just want to use my intelligence to make a living." Yang Dongxu retorted, very much like an ordinary person who was exposed and retorted in a short voice.
"Yes, yes, everything you said is right." Sanyin said a little funny, "Where are Zhou Ya and the others?"
In terms of generation, San Yin is Yang Dongxu’s elder and his brother-in-law. After all, although Grandpa San is not young, San Yin was born late, so Lai Lai Dezi is about ten years older than her brother Yin Shan. Woolen cloth.
"I just caught a big goose from my uncle's house. I should be boiling water and plucking the feathers now." Yang Dongxu said.
Although Zhang Jing and others were trying to catch big geese in a novel way just now, Zhou Ya did not participate. After all, this was a common thing for her and there was nothing new about it.
However, when killing a goose or plucking its feathers, Zhou Ya will definitely be there to help. If there is no novelty, there is no novelty.
After all, Zhang Jing and Du Weiwei are guests. As the host, you can't stand by and let the guests do their work, right?
"Is Qing'er here too?"
"Here we are, she was the main force in catching the goose just now."
"Well, I'll go find them. You can play with him. This used to be the child king of our village. You will definitely not be bored by following him."
The first sentence was obviously addressed to Yang Dongxu, while the latter sentence was addressed to Sun Zhi.
Although every time he came back, he felt that his man was a bit awkward and uncooperative, but the more times Sanyin thought it was because of Sun Zhi's personality, he got used to it.
Now that I have something to do, I decisively leave my husband behind and run away first.
"Have you had breakfast? Let's eat some together?" Yang Dongxu looked at Sun Zhi and asked.
"I've eaten, I've eaten. You can go about your business and don't listen to Sanyin's nonsense." Sun Zhi smiled a little embarrassed. He didn't know whether it was because of the embarrassment of what Sanyin said or because of being left alone.
"It's okay. You are considered a guest when you come to Yangjiacun, and I should accompany you. I happen to have nothing to do, so let's go for a walk together to pass the time."
Yang Dongxu said to Sun Zhi, and walked two steps to a stall, "Uncle, roll two fried dough sticks, add 2 eggs and add more minced garlic."
Originally he wanted to make a bowl of soup and a basket of steamed buns, but now that Sun Zhi is here, he can't eat by himself while Sun Zhi watches and waits for him.
So a thousand-sheet deep-fried dough sticks and a cup of rice-treasure porridge go together.
"Okay!" The man running the stall responded with a smile, and quickly helped Yang Dongxu roll the dough sticks.
Yang Dongxu dug into his coat pocket and took out a 5-yuan coin and placed it on the stall table.
Thousand-roll fried dough sticks cost two yuan, eggs cost one yuan or two and two yuan each, and eight-treasure porridge costs one yuan. Five yuan is just right.
The man who set up the stall knew Yang Dongxu and knew the temper of this awesome man. He did not refuse to accept the money and said politely, "This seems unkind!"
"As I said, it is only natural to give money for meals. If you still have a dime, give me another 1 yuan of sesame cakes." Yang Dongxu said with a smile, and handed over one yuan of the five yuan he took out. Gave him two more sesame seed cakes.
Looking at the sesame biscuits in his hand that were not much bigger than before, he vaguely remembered that a few years ago such big sesame biscuits cost one yuan and five, but now within a few years they cost one yuan and two.
In a few years, the biscuits would become bigger and cost two yuan each.
The domestic economy is indeed developing rapidly, but the price surge is also incredibly fast. This is just the price increase for the most common sesame seed cakes. You can imagine the price increases for other products.
In a few years, the only thing that will be strong is probably mineral water. Now it costs one yuan a bottle, but it will still cost one yuan in the future.
I didn't let the uncle do anything after taking the sesame cakes. I took the bean paste next to it and brushed it with a layer of it, and also added a little chili oil. Then put the two sesame seed cakes together and eat it in one bite, which is very satisfying.
"How is business this year? The subprime mortgage crisis has not affected you much, right?" After buying his own breakfast, Yang Dongxu did not ignore Sun Zhi next to him.
"The impact is still there, but the domestic economy is growing rapidly and exports have been rising year after year, so the business is pretty good," Sun Zhi said.
This wasn't the first time he saw Yang Dongxu looking so imageless.
But even so, he was still full of a sense of dissonance. He always felt that it was difficult for the guy in front of him who wanted to have an image but not an image, to wear clothes or not, to be one with the giant at the top of the pyramid that his organization was trying so hard to penetrate. one.
