Father Yang, Mother Yang, Wen Nuan and Shi Wan's two sisters-in-law, and two little girls Chun Ya Mengyue were staying at home.
Father Yang and Mother Yang are responsible for receiving the waves of juniors who come to their home to pay New Year's greetings.
Originally, the third sister-in-law Shi Wanya was pregnant, and Yang's mother did not arrange any tasks for her, but she couldn't stay idle, so she went to the kitchen to work on the lunch meal.
The warmth didn't go away. She felt that given her situation, it would be better if she didn't help.
Besides, if you can rest, why do you have to work to earn performance?
What if she performs well and the job becomes hers from now on?
So the three of her and Chunya Mengyue were just making do with each other, sitting on the kang at the side out of anyone's way, eating melon seeds.
Chunya and Mengyue are already 11-year-old girls, and they also know how to be beautiful and ugly.
Look at the bright red clothes of my little aunt, and then look at the cotton-padded jacket with many patches, I am so envious.
Especially Chunya, she is different from her cousin Mengyue. Mengyue is the eldest and elder sister of their small family. There are no old clothes from her elder brother and sister, so Zhou Jie basically makes new clothes for her daughter Mengyue.
Although the quality of the fabric at this time was poor and the life was not rich, there were inevitably patches, but it was still much better than Chunya's clothes.
Chunya basically had no new clothes. All her clothes were inherited from the unsightly rags that her two brothers had ruined. Her mother had to mend them and they were hers.
If she wears winter clothes, the best she can do is stuff some cotton covers into them.
As for whether the clothes look good or not, it doesn't matter at all.
"Auntie, do you think I can wear such nice clothes when I get married?" Chun Ya asked.
Look at the little girl in front of you. Is this child so precocious now? You're only 11 years old and you're already thinking about getting married?
"You are still young, your task now is to study hard!" Nuan Nuan gave Chun Ya a sip of chicken soup.
"But, little aunt, you have graduated from high school and are also an educated person. Why don't you still marry a rough guy like my brother-in-law? There is no use studying at all. Sooner or later, you will have to find someone to marry!" Chun Ya began to soul. Ask questions.
Wen Nuan was choked for some reason. How could she explain it to the girl in front of her before she could understand? Knowledge is priceless!
I can only ask: "Chunya, who told you this?"
Chunya didn't hide it either: "My mother said it!"
Oh, what Li Dani said, then this is understandable. Li Dani is a very realistic person, and she will never do anything that is not beneficial.
Nowadays, they can no longer take the college entrance examination. Even if they graduate from high school, most of them will go home to work in the fields. Li Dani definitely doesn’t want to spend more on tuition, so she instilled this concept in her daughter.
Nuan Nuan thought of this and said nothing more. She would not go beyond other people's parents and dictate other people's lives.
Just as the atmosphere became a little stagnant, someone else came from outside: "Uncle Five, Aunt Five, we are here to celebrate the New Year!"
"Fifth Grandpa, Fifth Grandma, I wish you a happy New Year! Happy New Year!"
Yang's father is ranked fifth in the family tree, so the younger generations of the same clan will call him Fifth Uncle or Fifth Grandpa. Of course, some also call him Uncle Captain or Grandpa Captain.
A group of people from Wuyang Wuyang came in and kneeled on the ground.
Naturally, Father Yang and Mother Yang also shouted happily, bringing them something to eat, whether it was melon seeds, peanuts or whatever.
One of them, a man in his thirties with dark skin, knelt down and knelt down to the warmth of eating melon seeds on the edge of the kang. He also said, "Auntie, happy New Year, I kowtow to you!"
This shocked Wen Nuan to death. The man opposite her was much older than her. How could she sit on the kang safely? Besides, she was not particularly used to these etiquettes.
Suddenly, his hands were in a hurry, and he shouted anxiously: "Isn't this, this, this, this not appropriate?"
She wanted to touch the penny that Yang Rui had prepared for her in her pocket. She was a little embarrassed. It wasn't appropriate to give someone a penny, right? After all, he is not a child anymore!
So I hurriedly put the food next to this man and asked him to eat.
This scene made everyone in the room laugh.
Mother Yang was able to rescue her daughter-in-law: "Nuan, it's okay. Jun Zi's family is young, so I should call you aunt!"
Then he gave the man named Junzi a slight look: "Junzi, you too, your aunt is young. Good guy, you gave her such a big gift, didn't you surprise her?"
Jun Zi smiled naively: "It should! It should!"
After chatting and joking for a while, this group of people left to visit the next family.
This morning, Wen Nuan stayed here in the old house. Except for kneeling down to Father Yang and Mother Yang at the beginning, others kowtowed to her!
She also went from being shocked and confused at the beginning to becoming calm on her face. She could also greet people with a smile and give them a small one-cent New Year's money.
The change that Yang Rui prepared for her was scattered all over.
Only then did Nuan Nuan understand what Yang Rui meant when he said he was senior and needed to prepare more change!
Near noon, Yang Rui and others who went out to pay New Year greetings also came back.
Nuan Nuan looked at their pants, emmmmm, as expected, they visited many people and kowtowed a lot before they came back.
Nuan Nuan quickly handed over the tea vat of water that he had just poured and was still hot.
Yang Rui took it directly and didn't mind that it was a warm drink. He took a few sips slowly and finished a tea jar of hot water. Only then did he feel comfortable!
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Off-topic: I checked some information about the rural areas of Northeast China at that time. In the villages, even if someone was young but had seniority, the younger generation had to kowtow to them in New Year greetings.
As a modern person, I am definitely not used to the warmth, so there is a process of adaptation here.
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It's snowed heavily these past two days, and it seems like the school won't have a holiday, because I don't know if it's possible to pass the national highway or something like that, but the buses have stopped anyway.
The day teachers have all stayed at home, so they can take two days off. Our dormitory teachers have also been given extra tasks!
Looking forward to the holiday~~
