When you are poor in the busy city, no one cares about you; when you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives.
As someone who has experienced this and has seen the future, Zhang Yixing deeply agrees with this statement.
Zhang Yixing used to like to visit relatives when he was a child, because he could eat delicious meals and get lucky money.
Zhang Guangzong basically only takes one child with him every time he visits relatives, and Zhang Yixing and Zhang Xiuxiu take turns.
It's not nice to go with two kids.
The only time she takes two children with her is when Li Hongyu goes to her parents' home.
Brother Zhang and his sister also like to go to their uncle's house the most because their uncle cooks delicious food and gives them the most New Year's money.
This year is strange. Zhang and his party, who always clamored to visit relatives in the past, did not want to visit relatives at all this year, so they gave the opportunity to their younger sister Zhang Xiuxiu.
This year, Zhang and his party didn’t want to go to anyone except grandma’s house.
Zhang Guangzong couldn't figure out the reason, and he didn't force his son to go.
"Dad, don't drink when visiting relatives, you'll fall down if you do!"
Watching his father go out, Zhang Yixin reminded him from behind.
But he knew it was useless to remind him. These relatives were so good at persuading people to drink that if they didn't drink, it would be like looking down on others.
Every time Zhang Guangzong went home after visiting relatives, he always followed a straight line like a snake while riding his bicycle. He even once found a straw pile and fell asleep halfway on the road. Only a passing neighbor called him home to pull him away. Come back.
Zhang Guangzong visits more than a dozen relatives every year. When the brothers separated, Zhang Xiandong and Mrs. Guo used the excuse that it was inconvenient for their second son to work out of town and left all their relatives to Zhang Guangzong.
Just visiting relatives and waiting for them to eat and drink each year is a big expense.
It was only when Zhang Yixing grew up that he finally realized that relatives were the group that most disliked the poor and loved the rich.
He knew that when visiting relatives, some relatives would keep the new lean meat from his family and bring back the smelly fat meat;
He knew that his father would go to a nearby relative's house to take shelter on a rainy night, but the relative would not open the door for him;
He knew that many times in the future when he needed to borrow money, no relatives except his uncle and aunt's family would help;
He knew that these relatives all fawned over his second uncle, a worker, and looked down on his cowardly and honest father.
Li Hongyu could see these things, but due to reason, the relatives who should leave still had to leave.
However, after many years, these relatives will take the initiative to stop interacting with each other one after another, and they will only show up once when there are important events.
It wasn't until Zhang Yixing bought two houses in the provincial capital on his own after graduating from college that these relatives somehow added Zhang Guangzong's WeChat account and the number of greetings increased.
Because there were too many relatives, Zhang Guangzong had not finished visiting relatives until the Lantern Festival, and had to visit two more after the festival.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Hongyu weighed two kilograms of bulk dumplings filled with black sesame seeds and white sugar from the village canteen.
At night, small red candles were lit on the windowsill at the door.
At this time, the children in the village will go out one after another to steal candles from the gates of other people's houses.
Instead of stealing the ones that were just lit, more than half of the candles were burned, and the candle oil that was extinguished after burning was also stolen.
These candles and candle oil are favorite toys for children.
Find a small bowl or bottle cap, melt all the candle oil, and add a paper wick inside to create a "super large oil pan"!
After eating the Lantern Festival, Zhang Xiuxiu clung to Zhang Yixing again and begged him to take her to steal candles.
Zhang and his party were tired of being harassed, so they had to lead her out.
Along the way, I saw a lot of sneaky children, who didn't bother each other and just stole what they wanted.
Unfortunately, there were too many children, so I visited five gates in a row before stealing two candle ends.
Zhang Xiuxiu was in high spirits, but Zhang Yixing felt a little bored.
"Okay, brother!"
As soon as they walked out of an aisle, three children walked towards them. The leader was Zhang Yong, who was two years younger than Zhang and his party.
"Brother Xingxing, how many candles have you stolen?"
Zhang Yong leaned over and asked expectantly.
Zhang Yixing waved his hand, "Just two!"
"Hehehe, not as much as me!"
Zhang Yong showed off his bulging pockets, looking very proud.
Zhang Yixing thought for a while and said to Zhang Yong: "Do you want a glass ball?"
"Ah?" Zhang Yong was stunned and quickly replied: "Yes, yes, do you want to give it?"
Zhang Yixing nodded, "Well, two candle ends are exchanged for a glass ball. If you want to exchange it, just come to my house and find me later!"
"I'll change!" "I'll change too!" "Okay, brother, I'll change too!"
The three children immediately started shouting and began to take out the candle stubs in their pockets impatiently.
"I'll go to my house to change it later. I didn't bring the glass ball with me. You go and steal more. If you save more, we can change it together!"
Hearing that Zhang and his party were not changing now, the three children were a little disappointed, but they cheered up and ran to find the candle holder.
Zhang and his party dragged their sister home.
Anyway, there are plenty of colored glaze balls, so if you don’t have any, try to win some more.
More than half an hour after returning home, Zhang Yong's voice rang outside the door.
"Okay, brother, okay, brother!"
Zhang and his party quickly let the three children into the house and took out a few colored glaze balls from the drawer.
The three children took out their candle ends and piled three hills on the ground.
"One, two, three..."
Zhang Yong began to count his loot.
The other two children couldn't count yet, so Zhang and his party helped them count.
After a final count, Zhang Yong had a total of seventeen candle ends and nine glass balls.
The other two children had five for one and three for the other.
Seeing the three children leaving happily, Zhang and his party would also smile.
Everyone takes what they need, it’s good for you and me!
Ten minutes later, there was another shout outside.
Zhang and his party walked to the gate in confusion and saw six or seven children standing at the door. When they saw him coming out, they all shouted:
"Are you playing with the candle head? I want to change the glass ball too!"
"I'll change too, I have five candle ends!"
"And I……"
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After sending away three waves of children one after another, there was already a large mountain of candles on the ground in the house.
Zhang Xiuxiu happily brought several cream bottles, wine cups, and bottle caps and started making her "super big oil pan"!
Then seven candle flames lit up on the ground, and the room became bright.
Li Hongyu took a look and simply pulled the light cord. Turned off the light bulb.
The seven candlelights kept beating, and the room was full of people.
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