Chapter 2668 New Year
In the evening, they worshipped their ancestors, and then the family sat together to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. If they couldn't play cards, they naturally sat together to watch the Spring Festival Gala. The content of the Spring Festival Gala these days was actually quite good, at least the family was quite interesting to watch, but Yang Dongxu, who had been bombarded by short video platforms, thought it was just so-so.
So when Xiaowu and a few others came, he left the house. Because he had to barbecue, he could only do it in the yard. As a result, the yard was still very cold. In addition, they had just eaten the New Year's Eve dinner and were not hungry at all, so they threw the barbecue stove in the yard and didn't cook it.
When she came to the living room, Zhou Ya took out some dry pot dishes and cakes. The beer was too cold, and the white wine was only peanuts and fried broad beans, which was a bit monotonous, so she took out the Huadiao wine, put the small electric stove on the table, ate some dried fruits and peanuts and drank some Huadiao. She felt that the Huadiao wine was not palatable, and there was also tea brewing next to it.
So several people sat on the sofa in the middle room with the air conditioner on and started smoking and bragging. They first talked about the embarrassing things they did when they were young, then the strange things they encountered in daily life, and unconsciously began to shift to national and international events.
The children of several families didn't mind the cold. They ran around with Yang Wenchen in the yard with the lights on, and occasionally threw a few firecrackers to embellish their parents' bragging.
After a while, Yang Dongjie came home after eating the New Year's Eve dinner and brought Dong Yao to the door. Yang Dongxu teased the little guy. The living room smelled too much smoke, so Dong Yao took the child upstairs to find Zhou Ya. Zhuo Qing'er pulled Zhou Ya to talk about the problem of spring clothing design after the New Year. Just when Dong Yao went there, the three of them teased the children while discussing clothing design and material selection.
Yang Dongjie came to the discussion of international events and stopped for a while. The topic came to Yang Dongjie's opening of a vermicelli factory. Although this matter has just started, Yang Dongjie has no factory or workers, and even the raw material sweet potatoes are not determined whether to build a planting base by himself or directly purchase from the rural market.
In short, the eight characters are only half-written at most. The little aunt has already spread the news, and she said it with details. I didn’t know that it was a well-known local enterprise.
The topic was about Yang Dongjie, mainly because Yang Dongxu mentioned it, and Xiaowu and others instantly understood what he meant. Although Yang Dongjie is eyeing the name of the Yang family, he will be successful in everything he does.
But the devil is easy to see, and the little ghost is difficult to deal with. In addition, to run a business, especially in a rural area, it is not enough to have people, you must also know how to do things.
After all, some people may not be able to help you, but when it comes to bad things, they are all powerful. Although they dare not do it openly because of the power of the Yang family, they will definitely use some tricks to dig a pit behind the scenes.
It is not worth it to slap such people, because with their abilities, it would be like using a butcher knife to kill a chicken for Yang Dongxu. In layman's terms, it is not enough to pay for the gas money to run back and forth to deal with these people.
In addition, Yang Dongxu is often not at home. Even if he comes back or makes some investments in his hometown, he will talk to senior officials, and the city leaders can only sit by and accompany him.
So facing this kind of little devil who is not worth it and feels disgusting if he doesn't take action, it is more appropriate for Xiaowu and his friends to come forward.
Xiaowu and Daliang and his friends not only have stores on the street in Yangjia Village, but Xiaowu's transportation company is also famous in the city, so they have dealings with all kinds of people.
He helps to look after Yang Dongjie, and with the power of the Yang family, basically all big and small things can be solved, so that Yang Dongjie's entrepreneurship is stable.
After chatting, drinking tea and talking about things, time passed quickly and it was twelve o'clock in the morning. So everyone started to disperse and go home to fire the opening and closing cannons to prepare for the New Year.
At this time, in addition to being busy with the New Year, many people are also busy replying to WeChat or making phone calls. Since WeChat came out, it has gradually replaced YY, and unknowingly even replaced mobile phone text messages, and even encroached on some of the functions of the phone.
Especially today when the national broadband is advancing rapidly in villages, WIFI has also entered thousands of households. Many people are now starting to make fewer and fewer calls. Most of the time, they either send a voice message or send a video chat directly.
The phone has gradually become a call to ordinary friends who don’t have WeChat friends, or something that is only called when there is something urgent.
Yang Dongxu didn’t send a text message of New Year’s greetings. Zhou Yiren had to go back after the New Year’s Eve dinner, saying that it was quiet over there at the reservoir and he didn’t want to receive the New Year and slept until dawn.
So when welcoming the New Year, he opened a video on his phone. In the video, the heads of Bai Xi and several others squeezed in. Wenwu shouted and wished his grandparents, father and mother a happy New Year and good health.
In the midst of the noise, Wenwu looked at his brother Wenchen setting off cannons and fireworks and was very envious. He said that he would play when he came back.
In this way, the footsteps of the new year quietly arrived in the sound of cannons and fireworks.
In Yangjia Village, there is a high sense of ritual in welcoming the New Year. For example, when making dumplings, setting off cannons and fireworks, setting up offerings and burning incense, etc.
But the meal for welcoming the New Year is not as rich as the New Year's Eve dinner. To welcome the New Year, you eat dumplings, and then a bite of round steamed buns is considered to be eaten because you are not very hungry in the middle of the night. The rest is the leftovers of the New Year's Eve dinner. Basically, a large table of seaweed is not specially prepared to welcome the New Year.
So more time is spent on burning incense and setting up offerings during the meal before the New Year. As for eating, just eat something consciously, after all, you are not hungry.
Then those who are in good spirits will choose to stay up all night, while those who don't want to stay up all night will set off the closing firecrackers, leave the lights at the gate of the yard on all night, and turn off the lights in the bedroom and go to bed.
Yang Dongxu chose to sleep instead of playing cards. He is also a man who is about to turn 40, so he still needs to pay attention to health preservation. It is indeed more comfortable to sleep with his sweet wife in his arms after a busy day than to inhale second-hand smoke all night in the card field.
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Yang Dongxu was awakened by Zhou Ya when the sky was just getting light. After washing up, the sky outside was basically bright, and then he set off the opening firecrackers and began to prepare for the New Year's greetings.
The rules of New Year's greetings in Yangjia Village are very simple, that is, to visit the door, and the elders will put some candies, melon seeds and peanuts in the pockets of the younger generations. No red envelopes are given, just say a few words of blessing and smoke a cigarette.
In this way, the younger generation took the children to visit the homes of the elders in the whole village, and then it was time to visit the graves and worship the ancestors. Just like last night, they held firecrackers, paper money, and fireworks, and took care of the graves of all the elders with the same surname.
Even for those who have no family, although the graves are no longer found because no one has added graves all year round and the fields are plowed and planted every year, they will throw a few pieces of paper money and set off fireworks at the approximate location to show their respect. Even if many people don’t know the name of this elder who has no family, they will burn some paper money and set off fireworks every Spring Festival to notify the other party to get up and pick up the money, so as not to live too hard over there.
After visiting the graves, the New Year is basically over. What’s left is to carry large and small bags to visit relatives starting from the second day of the New Year, and then the cows and horses who work around the fifth and sixth days of the New Year will hurry to work in the city. There may be holidays for the Lantern Festival, but basically there is no way to go home for it. After all, the time to go back and forth in the car is not enough with a day’s holiday.