Chapter 527: Celebrity Years

In Lianquan Village, there is a similar custom.

In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people would pay New Year's greetings. In the past, most relatives lived in the same village or neighboring villages. In the morning, people would go to their relatives' homes to pay New Year's greetings. As the area of ​​residence expanded, the custom was preserved, but there were no so many relatives in the village. What should we do?

Go to the homes of elders in the same village to pay New Year's greetings. If you meet those long-lived elders over 90 years old, many people like Chen Yuanping will bow to them. If they are related, they will kneel down and kowtow.

The earlier your chimney smokes, the earlier you go to pay New Year's greetings. You are advertising to the neighbors in the surrounding villages that your family is diligent and starts to make fire and cook so early to go out to pay New Year's greetings.

The custom was originally a kind of visit between people after dawn. As time went by, the time became earlier and earlier, and gradually there was a meaning of comparison, who is the earliest and who is the latest.

You have become an elder, and when you go out to pay New Year's greetings, someone will come to pay New Year's greetings to you. What if you miss it? For people of Chen Yuanping's age, Qiao Xinmei can stay at home when he goes out. For people of Ma Defu and Chen Xue's age, the whole family can go out.

Chen Hao went home at the right time, at four o'clock, the car entered Lianquan Village. The second-hand car market on the roadside at the entrance of the village was dark, with only two big red lanterns hanging high. Now there are lift doors, and the nearby residents are all employees of the market. On such holidays, everyone can look after each other.

There are cars from the bonded area and second-hand cars collected from all over the country. Haozi's second-hand car market is doing very well. Now it has become a second-hand car distribution center within a radius of dozens of kilometers in Meicheng with the original second-hand car market. Regarding many specific things about this market, the financial staff will visit Chen Hao's home to pay New Year's greetings in the next two days and talk about specific things.

When the car entered the village, smoke came out of many chimneys. This year, the villagers of Lianquan Village have generally improved their lives, and the New Year is also lively and festive. The village is also particularly lively in the early morning of the first day of the new year.

The village has not yet built street lights. At this time, the light depends entirely on the lights of each household and the flashlights in the hands of people going out. In winter, villages like Lianquan Village have almost no people walking around. After the establishment of the second-hand car trading center, it is better. The emergence of several small restaurants nearby has made people more popular, but the road turning inside is still very quiet. Only in the early morning of the first day of the new year, you will see people walking around in the dim light. If you don’t understand the customs here, the scene is actually quite scary when you come here suddenly at this time. The moonlight from the sky, coupled with the light of the big red lanterns, and the people rushing to each household one by one, without making any sound, are really creepy.

Driving the "Prado" all the way back from Yanjing, the villagers saw the car, but they didn't expect it to be Haozi. They had never seen this car before, and they didn't dare to think that he, who was performing on the Spring Festival Gala stage a few hours ago, would return to the village at this moment.

When the car arrived at the door, Chen Yuanping, who was wearing clothes, was about to go out. People from the old Chen family who came to pay New Year's greetings would deliberately delay for a while, waiting for Chen Yuanping to come back after paying New Year's greetings. As the village director, everyone wanted to come over and chat a little more. Yuanping's family is living a good life now. It's better to eat some high-end fruits, drink some high-end tea, sit down and smoke a good cigarette.

"Dad, happy New Year to you."

Chen Hao knelt down without any hesitation and kowtowed to his father.

Chen Yuanping's subconscious reaction was to step forward to stop him, but when he saw his son kneeling down, he didn't move again, and accepted such a New Year's gift.

"Mom, I wish you a happy new year."

"Grandpa and grandma, I kowtow to you and wish you good health."

"Grandma and grandpa, I kowtow to you and wish you good health."

Chen Hao didn't take off or change his clothes. When he saw the four elderly people who were already sitting and his mother who was making a fire, he knelt down and kowtowed. If it was last year or before, no one would think anything of his New Year greetings. Children in the countryside still follow the old etiquette and have been taught this way since childhood. But today, Chen Hao's behavior makes all the relatives around him nod secretly. This child, no wonder he has a great future. Just for this, few children of the old Chen family and the old Qiao family can do it. Xiao Hao's aunt married to another place. She has always been the best among the relatives before she lived there. Look at her two children, they are precious. When she came to the countryside to celebrate the New Year, she did nothing but pick and choose. How could she have any respect for the elders?

The reason for everyone's admiration is very simple. The change of identity brings a different value to this kneeling.

Most of the people played all night, pushing cards, poker, and two mahjong machines allowed the ladies to play all night. The four old people went to bed at ten o'clock and got up at three o'clock. No matter whether they won or lost, they stopped playing, cleaned up inside and outside, and lit all the lights in the house, and the searchlights in the yard. Yuanping was the village director, and there must be many people coming to pay New Year's greetings early this morning. Everyone couldn't be shy and had to sleep. After breakfast, they went to sleep in the side rooms.

Chen Hao's return made the atmosphere of the whole family lively. The four old people, including Chen Yuanping and his wife, were all dressed in clean and festive new clothes today, and they had prepared a lot of New Year's money in their pockets.

"Child, don't complain about it."

Grandpa and grandma took out a brand new red note of 100 yuan, and seemed to feel a little embarrassed that it was too little to give to their grandson, but Chen Hao took it with joy. He could understand that there were so many younger children, and the old people usually gave 50 yuan a lot, usually 20 yuan.

The same is true for grandma and grandpa. Both families have the fourth generation, so how can they not give money when they come to pay New Year's greetings? They have to give New Year's money even if they kneel down and kowtow. They basically don't have any expenses in their pockets, so the amount of money they give can only be more of a thought than a practical meaning.

Chen Yuanping and Qiao Xinmei each gave Chen Hao a red envelope of 1,000 yuan. This year, the children in the family all received this amount, and the little grandson received 10,000 yuan. The relatives and younger generations from outside who came to pay New Year's greetings all received 200 yuan. Having money in their waists makes you feel strong.

"Gangzi, drive the car away. Brother Kang, go to my room and move some gifts. Tell my aunt Dongmei that I'll go to her to wish her a happy new year when I'm free."

Chen Gang nodded without being polite. After wishing the old people a happy new year, this was just a face-to-face greeting. There would definitely be a formal process of coming to wish his mother a happy new year, and the scale of this New Year's greeting could not be small.

"Second sister, Brother Kang is in your hands. Introduce him to the family."

Chen Hao pushed Kang Yan to his second sister Chen Yu. Now the whole family knew what was going on. They became interested in this silent man who had no sense of existence. They surrounded him. First, Chen Hao's grandparents pulled him to the big kang in the east room, holding his hand enthusiastically and asking about his well-being.

Chen Hao followed Chen Yuanping and started to pay New Year's greetings. Every time he went to a house, he was received with the highest standard of hospitality. Those who had one or two boxes of good cigarettes hidden at home also took them out to entertain. One was the village director, and the other was a great philanthropist and a leader in the village. The song "Go Home Often to Visit" from the Spring Festival Gala last night touched everyone's heart, and made everyone more willing to pat their chests and brag to outsiders. I have watched the big star Chen Hao grow up since I was a child.

There are two centenarians in the village. The father and son went to them and bowed deeply to congratulate the elderly on their longevity. This is also a metaphor. The more respect you have for the elderly, the more blessings you will receive, and you will also borrow the blessings of others.

The news that the big star had returned soon spread throughout the village. On the way to pay New Year's greetings, they met many acquaintances in the village. It took them 20 to 30 minutes to say hello and chat. When they arrived at each house, they were asked to sit down. Not sitting down seemed to be a lack of face. When they returned home, it was already 6:30 and the sky was already dawning. Chen Yuanping's coat pockets were filled with cigarettes. He handed one to everyone he saw. Apart from other things, he drank dozens of kinds of tea along the way. If someone poured you a cup, you had to take a sip.

The old Chen family is now the undisputed largest family in Lianquan Village. Even in the nearby villages and the suburbs of Meicheng, they are a family that makes people give thumbs up. When they pay New Year's greetings in the village, they are naturally received with the highest courtesy. If it is not suitable to pay New Year's greetings and eat at this time, they would not want to come back. Every family has to invite them to dinner.

Chen Hao was even busier on this journey, and was photographed countless times. No matter whose house he went to, those young people who were usually driven out by their parents on the morning of the first day of the new year now didn't have to. They were more active than anyone else, holding their phones high to take pictures of Chen Hao, and even on this journey to pay New Year's greetings, more and more people followed them.

Chen Hao didn't think of himself as a star. There were too many people here who were too familiar to him. People of the same age who had played with him since childhood, those who were three to six or seven years younger and ran after him and others, including those who were three or four years older and had fought with his peers more than once, now all greeted him with smiles on their faces, followed him on the village road, and talked about how things were in the past, who had fought with whom, etc. Chen Hao didn't act at all, and just invited everyone to come to him to play and drink together these few days.

There was no need to listen to whether he was sincere or not. This invitation alone was enough to warm everyone's heart. Who was this? Was it his childhood playmate? Or was it not? He was now a big star who could sing on the Spring Festival Gala stage. He could even take a cigarette from me and invite me to his home. That was enough. I had the capital to brag to others. Don't say I was bragging. Did you see that I had a photo of Haozi and me on my phone?

As soon as Chen Hao got home, villagers came to visit him one after another. Soon, he found that it was not only villagers, but also many people from nearby villages and even the city. The reception room converted from the gym at home was constantly crowded with people. The four old people in the east room were also constantly visiting him. Soon, cars appeared in the village. Some young people uploaded photos and videos taken in the village early in the morning. Now everyone knew that Haozi had returned home. Fans who lived in Meicheng and nearby within 20 to 30 kilometers and had the conditions to drive came as soon as possible...