Chapter 807 New Generation
Children feel very happy at the end of the year, and adults can have a rare rest, and then everyone is decadent together. Every day, there is no need to think about work or supporting the family. Just think about what to eat next and what to buy at the market.
There are several billiard tables in front of almost every house on the street, but basically not many children in Yangjia Village play with them. Because these things belong to their own family, they have been tired of playing with them when they have nothing to do. If they play at the market and delay the family from making money, they will be beaten up.
I don’t know when the card field at the granary started again. Yesterday was the day when Zhou Ya returned home for three days. She didn’t go back to Yanjing, but went to the city to meet Zhou Yiren, who was visiting an old friend’s house and should now be called father-in-law.
Then she took Zhou Yiren back to the village to celebrate the New Year. The granary accompanied Zhou Yiren for countless desperate days and months, so naturally she had to come and see him after she came back.
The current Yangjia Village is almost completely different from when he left. Although the granary and threshing ground are still there, the threshing ground has been built into a cement floor, and the granary has been repaired several times.
And now the granary no longer stores the public grain that each household needs to hand in every year, as well as farm tools and so on. After all, these things have been divided up long ago after the household contract responsibility system was implemented.
Now the granary has become a card game, which looks a bit smoky. However, seeing that the village has developed very well, for many years, not only has it opened a storefront to do business, but it also has its own truck for transportation.
Zhou Yiren is very happy. In this era, there is no need to worry too much about details. As long as the general direction is correct, people's lives will get better and better.
After seeing where he used to live, the old people in the village gathered and started chatting when they heard that he was back. Last month, my grandfather was seriously ill. Although he was treated in time and was no longer in danger of death, his body collapsed and he could only sit in a wheelchair.
Holding Zhou Yiren's hand, he was a little out of breath after speaking a few words. The second grandfather and the third grandfather were fine. After all, they were a few years younger. In addition, although the rural people had overdrawn their bodies after years of hard work, they had made up for it completely in recent years in Yangjia Village. Therefore, the two old men were still strong.
A group of old people sat together for a tea party. After helping to serve tea and put out some soft candies, Yang Dongxu had nothing to do. He was called out by Xiaoliang who was looking around and waving at the door.
Almost all children in the countryside have been beaten by their parents or grandfathers, and girls are better. Although rural people want to have a son to inherit the incense, even if they feel a little pity or depressed when a daughter is born, they will never be ambiguous when raising her, and the treatment is not comparable to that of sons.
So although they are all young men now, if their father glares at them, or their grandfather gets angry, these young people will still be half cold and lower their heads to prepare for a beating.
"My brother will have a party at home tonight and call you over for a drink." Xiaoliang said.
The atmosphere in Yangjia Village has been good in the past two years. Even at the market, there has been no petty theft or bullying. I don’t know since when, it has become a tradition for brothers from the same village to get together at the end of the year or occasionally.
However, in the past few years, this tradition still belonged to the generation of Yang’s father, and had nothing to do with these little brats. In the past two years, some married people’s childhood friends have started to treat each other.
Now it is very common to separate after marriage in rural areas. If you don’t want to build a small western-style building in the future, the whole family will live together, because they work outside all year round, and they will probably leave again after living for less than a month when they come back, and the house needs the help of the mother-in-law and father-in-law.
Now after marriage, they live together, because they live at home all year round, and their teeth occasionally bite their lips, and conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are inevitable.
So separation has become a common thing. In this way, they are divided into two families, each with its own door and yard, and there will be less friction. Daliang and Xiaowu separated not long after they got married. Now they have a child and are considered the head of the family.
So naturally they have the power to initiate such a gathering at the end of the year. Yang Dongxu got married this year, and it is estimated that he will have a child in a few years, so such a gathering will also be initiated.
Although he often invites his childhood friends to dinner every year, it is different to invite them to dinner when they are married or not, and when they have children or not.
However, Yang Dongxu will obviously not separate from his family, because both of them are the kind of people who can't stay at home for more than a month throughout the year, so it is naturally impossible for them to separate and live alone.
So when such a dinner is initiated, it is estimated that Yang's father will first invite a group of old brothers to have a meal at home, and then Yang Dongxu will be in line.
"I know, by the way, the wine I brought back includes Huadiao, which is yellow wine. Do you want to drink it? If you want to drink it, I will bring you a jar." They are all brothers, so there is no need to be polite when talking, and they are all straightforward.
"Okay, why don't you bring two bottles of Wuliangye? This wine tastes good, but it's too expensive and hard to buy." Xiaoliang said with a smile. He knew that Yang Dongxu didn't lack this little thing, and he also knew that he wouldn't care, so he said with a smile.
"Okay." Yang Dongxu nodded with a smile.
The current liquor market is very hot, but the supply is scarce. There is no way. In order to control grain reserves, the country has put several shackles on large grain consumers such as winemakers.
As a result, these winemakers have to risk losing money if they want to make wine, and the price of liquor in the market can be said to be rising all the way.
The best liquors on the market are Kongfujiajiu, Kongfuyanjiu, Wuliangye, Gujinggong and so on. Moutai is not ranked yet.
During this period, Moutai was beaten by the above-mentioned liquors in various ways. Although it was aggrieved to be beaten, it had to be said that it had escaped a disaster.
After all, when the country strictly controlled the output of liquor, the greater the market share, the greater the pressure. Therefore, the more famous the liquor in China was, the more difficult it was to survive. On the contrary, the life of the mediocre liquor like Moutai was much better.
When the country felt that the grain reserves were safe and began to open up the domestic liquor market. The previously dominant liquor industry had been exhausted, so Moutai took advantage of the situation and directly put the words "national liquor" in front of its name, and then it became the boss of the domestic liquor industry.
So sometimes business strength and opportunities are important, and whether the country gives face is equally important. If you lack one of the three, you can't expect to grow big.
I went to the new house on the old house first. The family usually stayed in the street house, and the other half was in the new house. This is when Zhou Ya and Yang Ma were both in the new house. When I went over to get the wine, I shouted and told them that I would not be at home for dinner in the evening.
After the wedding, the new house seemed a little deserted. Apart from the family, the women in the village didn't come here much. Only those who had a good relationship with the family for several years came here.
The reason for this phenomenon is not that the Yang family has become rich in the village and is jealous, but mainly because the new house is decorated too well, with tile floors. Rural people who often watch TV now always feel that coming to the new house is like entering a wealthy family in the city. Do you need to wear slippers or pay attention to other things?
Women are happy to sit together and chat. They are a little restrained here and naturally don't want to come more often. However, this phenomenon will basically be solved after the spring, if the greening around the house is done well.
When the weather is hot, especially in the summer vacation, there will definitely be children running here, because in addition to the greening, Yang Ye built a few table tennis tables and a basketball court.
It's a bit unaffordable to build a football field. After all, the new house is located in the middle of the old house. The space around it is enough to build a basketball court, but there is obviously not enough space for a football field.
With these things, there are also swings and horizontal bars. When there are big trees in summer, many children will help a rocking bed between two big trees to play. It will definitely be more lively here, and it will add a lot of popularity even if no one is at home.
The furniture in the new house was a bit messy on the wedding day, but now Yang's father called a few old brothers, and then Yang Dongxu called Xiaowu and a few others to help move the positions and put them in place.
Now Yang's mother is cleaning the room with her elder sister and Zhou Ya, as well as her younger aunt's family women. At the end of the year, every household needs a big cleaning. The new house is too big and there are too many rooms, so it needs to be done a few days in advance, otherwise there will be no time when the pig farms on the street are busy in a few years.
"I want to sleep here, I don't want to sleep on the street." As the youngest child in the family, although Dandan has not won over Yang's father and mother in marriage, she is obviously the most favored one in the family.
Although it has been agreed that they will get married next year, their personality is still a bit like a child. Seeing that the new house was so comfortable and had a toilet, she didn't have to go to the dry toilet behind the house in the cold wind to go to the toilet at night. She wanted to sleep here.
"There are many rooms here, and there are new quilts. You can choose a room and clean it up and live here. Big sister should live here too. Why are there three of us sleeping tonight? Xuzi will definitely be drunk when he comes back from drinking. Let him sleep in the house on the other side of the street." Zhou Ya said with a smile.
Although it was a bit awkward to stay with her family at first, after all, a newlywed daughter-in-law and a girlfriend are two different concepts, but she has adjusted to it in the past few days. According to rural customs, although she is older, because she married Yang Dongxu, she has to call Hongying the eldest sister, which is getting more and more comfortable.
"How can you ruin the new quilt? Let her go back and bring the quilt on her bed." Yang's mother glanced at her little daughter.
"Bring it if you want." Dandan pouted and snorted and ran downstairs to get the quilt.
"Drink less." After teaching her daughter a lesson, Yang Dongxu kept holding a jar of Wuliangye in his arms and two bottles of Wuliangye in his other hand, and Yang's mother began to scold her son again.
After having a daughter-in-law, the eldest daughter in the family who had not yet married, and the son who looked pleasing to the eye, were now upset.
At this time, the next generation was needed to resist the firepower. For example, if the elder sister had a child now, or Zhou Ya was pregnant, Yang's mother would definitely not be in this temper now, and the smile on her face would be at least twice as bright as it is now.
"I know, just drink a little with Daliang and Xiaowu. Everyone knows that tall people can't drink much. By the way, where is my brother-in-law? He is bored at home alone, call him to drink together, Daliang and his brothers-in-law also know him." Because of his wedding, and Yang's mother was worried about his elder sister Hongying's pregnancy, so they will spend the New Year here this year.
"Working here in the pig farm, do you think everyone is as lazy as you and does nothing." Yang's mother glared at her son angrily.
Yang Dongxu quickly shut up and left to avoid being scolded.
When a son-in-law goes to his mother-in-law's house, his mother-in-law has to prepare wine and food to serve him, but the son-in-law also needs to show his hardworking side, right?
Isn't it unkind of a person for his own son to snatch the opportunity for his brother-in-law to show off?
Well, in fact, he also found that he seemed to be a bit lazy. When he was not at home, he often called his parents to take care of their health and not to overwork.
He could still help with the work a few days before he came back, but now he basically just ran away, was bored and dazed, played games, and didn't want to work in the pig farm.
In fact, there was no hard work in the pig farm. After all, there were six regular workers in the pig farm, all of whom were strong laborers. Feeding pigs and cleaning didn't require other people to intervene.
That is, they would occasionally help when selling pigs, if they were really busy. Yang's mother and Xiaoshen would not be so idle to come to the new house to help sweep the floor now. After all, the furniture and everything in the new house had been arranged, and it had been cleaned once before the wedding. If it was too busy, it would be okay not to clean it a second time.