Chapter 94 Visiting Relatives at the Liang Family
On the first day of the new year, Li Long got up early.
It’s terrible to get used to this thing. Even though he no longer needs to get up early to hitch the carriage, for the past ten or twenty days, he has been getting up before dawn every day. Now even if he doesn’t have to work, his biological clock has automatically Mark him and wake him up when the time comes.
It’s impossible to sleep in even if you want.
There were no firecrackers heard outside, so Li Long got dressed and went to the West Room. Here Liang Yuemei has set up the stove and is making dumplings.
"Xiaolong, go prepare the firecrackers. After a while, your sister-in-law calls for dumplings here, and you will light the firecrackers over there."
Li Long responded, went to the fire wall to get a thousand-ring electro-optical cannon, and went Take it apart from the outside.
Li Juan and Li Qiang, who were wearing new clothes, had also climbed up. When they saw Li Long going out, they immediately followed him.
Li Long tied the firecrackers to a long pole with thin wire, and then lifted it high.
“Qiangqiang, do you dare to order it?”
"Don't dare." Looking at the size of the electro-optical cannon, Li Qiang really didn't dare to click it - he knew that this was different from the second kick last night, and his uncle let it go.
"Haha, that guy is holding the pole with his feet here." Li Long leaned the pole against the courtyard wall and let the firecrackers fall outside the courtyard wall. All he needed was someone to hold the pole.
"Okay."
Li Long took out his kerosene lighter, walked outside the courtyard wall and grabbed the head of the firecracker.
When Liang Yuemei opened the door and shouted, Li Long lit firecrackers here.
The loud sound made my ears hurt. I have to say that the quality of the firecrackers at this time was really good!
After setting off the firecrackers, Li Qiang immediately ran out and picked up the dumb firecrackers outside the courtyard wall. Li Juan also picked it up - Li Long remembered that he had done similar things when he was a child.
After breakfast it’s time to pay New Year greetings. Li Long gave Li Juan and Li Qiang a New Year's gift of ten yuan each. Although Liang Yuemei thought it was too much, Li Long felt that it should be given.
The next step is to pay New Year greetings in the village. Normally, New Year's greetings are from east to west. There is no need to bring gifts, just say happy new year. Unless we have a particularly good relationship with each other, we usually go to each other’s houses for lunch.
Li Jianguo generally doesn’t have any requirements about whose home he goes to, but the Gu family must go. The relationship between the two families is very good. It is not appropriate for Li Juan to take Li Qiang to celebrate the New Year at this time. However, children like them also have their own way of celebrating the New Year. They often go from house to house in groups, and they also want to see and compare whose family’s. Candy tastes good, peanuts taste good, etc.
Li Long went to Gu's house and was very pleased to see that Gu Xiaoxia was still studying. After leaving Gu's house, he visited Tao Daqiang's house and then returned to the east room. He used to like lively things, but now he feels like it's good to just sit quietly and read.
Xu Haijun came over to play with Li Long in the afternoon, but Li Long declined. He felt that he was already twenty and running around like a child, which was a bit childish.
Early the next morning, Li Long went to the horse number to hitch a carriage and bring it back - today was the second day of the lunar new year and he was going to Liang's house.
In the past, Li Long would not go - he wanted to save face. He felt that the Liang family was a relative of his brother and sister-in-law's family and had nothing to do with him, so he would stay at home. But his brother and sister-in-law couldn't resist him, and he couldn't cook, so Liang Yuemei usually prepared meals for him in advance.
When Liang Yuemei mentioned this matter last night, Li Long agreed without hesitation - go ahead.
In fact, he knew in his last life that the Liang family took more care of him than his parents. For the sake of eldest brother Li Jianguo, Li Long would often bring a share of the things the Liang family brought when taking care of this place. Mr. Liang really regarded Li Long as a junior.
It’s just that in the previous life, Li Long failed to live up to this care because of his hypocritical self-esteem.
Liang Yuemei was very happy to know that Li Long was going. Li Long took the initiative to propose a carriage to go there - the whole family would go, and they would also need to bring some meat, fish and other things, which was naturally inconvenient to carry.
At this time, the carriages in the team are really free. After all, not everyone is willing to pay one dollar and sixty cents to rent a carriage to visit relatives. If you can walk, you can walk.
While driving the carriage out, Mrs. Lu from across the door happened to meet her when she was out and asked in surprise:
"Mom Juanjuan, what are you doing?" "Go back to your parents' home." Liang Yuemei said with a smile, "Today is not the second day of junior high school. Let's go back to our parents' home."
"Oh, then Xiaolong..." Sister-in-law Lu remembered that Li Long never went there in previous years, and she was even more surprised to see Li Long sitting in the car.
"I'll go too. I haven't seen Uncle Liang and Auntie Liang for a long time. I'm going to pay them New Year's greetings." Li Long also said with a smile.
Li Jianguo raised his whip and the carriage drove along the road. Sister Lu looked at the carriage and murmured, this Li Long has really changed.
When the carriage arrived at the Liang family five kilometers away, Liang Wenyu was still mumbling that her eldest sister was coming soon.
Second sister Liang Xingmei’s house is relatively close and she has already arrived. Liang Xingmei is married to Du Haihua, a farmer from the neighboring team. The two production teams are less than one kilometer apart. These two teams belong to Qianjin Commune and are adjacent to Hongqi Commune where Li Long and others are located.
"Uncle, uncle!" Li Qiang saw Liang Wenyu from a distance and shouted loudly.
Liang Wenyu was a little surprised, and then quickly rushed over and picked up Li Qiang from the car:
"Qiang Qiang is here! Let uncle see, it is so heavy. A big kid! ”
Then he looked at Li Juan: "Juan is here too, she has grown taller!"
After Liang Wenyu greeted Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei, she looked at Li Long.
Before Li Long didn't come, Liang Wenyu thought he was pretentious, but now that he is here, he feels a little awkward.
Liang Wenyu is half a year older than Li Long, but Li Long always greets him by his first name.
"Brother Wenyu, Happy New Year!" Li Long took the lead in saying hello, which made Liang Wenyu stunned for a moment before he said: "Happy New Year! I heard that you worked hard a few times last year, how was it?"
"It's not bad. Anyway, there is no shortage of meat at home now." Li Long said with a smile, "No, there are still some filial piety to the uncle and aunt."
Looking at the half fan of wild boar meat loaded on the car, two pieces With a leg of lamb and a bag of fish, Liang Wenyu couldn't help but say:
"Is this... too much?"
"Not too much, not too much, there are quite a few at home." Li Jianguo laughed. Said.
In the past, because of Li Long's burden and the miscellaneous things in the production team, Li Jianguo frequently accepted financial aid from his father-in-law, which made Du Haihua, his burden-bearer, very angry when he saw him.
I brought back so many things this time, let’s see what the man named Du said!
When Cao Cao arrived, Du Haihua and Liang Xingmei walked out of the house when they heard the noise outside, and then saw the carriage.
It is still rare these days to visit relatives and drive a carriage. After seeing Li Jianguo, Du Haihua half-joked and half-ridiculed:
"Hey, the eldest brother-in-law is quite a fool. He only built a carriage after traveling only a few kilometers. This is because the formation is not big enough."< br>
“It’s not that the battle is too big, but it’s just that I can’t hold anything.” Li Jianguo pretended not to hear Du Haihua’s sarcasm, and directly took the bag of fish from the car and put it on Du Haihua’s shoulders:
"You're here, just in time to help, take this fish to your parents' house."
After Du Haihua finished speaking, he actually saw the things on the carriage and was stunned for a moment, otherwise he wouldn't have been directly attacked by Li Jianguo. calculated".
The fish was already on his shoulders, and it was not suitable for him to put it down anymore, so he had to carry it back into the house.
At this time Liang Yuemei's father Liang Donglou and mother Chen Xiuzhu came out of the house and happily greeted their daughter, son-in-law and grandson - including Li Long.
In their eyes, Li Long is also a junior like a relative.
(End of this chapter)