"It's very suitable. Retro style and nostalgic style are popular now. Su Qingzhu will definitely like it." Chen Shaorong said.
"That girl likes you right away. Why don't you fall in love with me? What a good girl." Mother Chen said.
"You want to be a grandma, right? Then I'll ask her to give you a few more grandchildren. She definitely won't have time to take care of the children. You have to take care of them every day."
Mother Chen...
Shut up and don't speak. She just brought Chen Shaorong up. She has just lived a free life for a few years, and now she has to take care of a child, which she doesn't want to do yet.
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When Su Qingzhu looked at the earrings last night, she thought they were very special. They had a very Chinese style and were made of gold with small laces. This was indeed very unique. People of the older generation said that there were three golds. Chen Shaorong gave away the first gold. So
Does it mean this is the first step?
Mother Chen looked at Chen Shaorong and said, "Then when I go back, I plan to give your grandma a pair of earrings, but I have nothing left to give."
"Who said there is nothing? Su Qingzhu didn't give me some food, drinks and nutritional supplements. If you don't tell me then, I won't tell you. Grandma and grandpa know who gave it to me?"
Chen Mu
"We can't do this. How did I teach you how to be a human being? You seem to have failed in my education."
"Mom, I tested you on purpose to see if you have changed." Chen Shaorong looked at Chen's mother and said.
Mother Chen, you son of a bitch, if I hadn’t said this, I would have done this by default with him. If I criticized him, he would test me. The initiative rests with him.
"You kid, tell me, what do you want to do when you go home so actively?" Mother Chen asked.
"Visiting my grandparents and grandparents." Chen Shaorong said.
"Then you are going back empty-handed? Or Qingzhu has prepared a gift." Mother Chen said.
"My gift is ready. You will know when it arrives." Chen Shaorong said.
When they arrived at Yangcheng Airport, Chen Shaorong and his mother walked out of the airport. There was no one in the entire airport. It was the first day of the Lunar New Year and everyone was celebrating the New Year at home. Yangcheng is one of the few major cities with a high proportion of local residents.
Chen Shaorong pulled the suitcase to the parking lot, walked to a black and silver Cullinan, took out the car key, opened the trunk and put the suitcase inside.
Mother Chen looked at Chen Shaorong in confusion. The back seat was filled with gift boxes.
Chen's mother got into the passenger seat and Chen Shaorong started the car.
"When did you prepare this?" Mother Chen asked curiously.
"The car was bought before and has not been driven. A few days ago I bought some gifts and put them in the car. Then I found a tow truck to transport the car to the airport here and parked it here. It was as simple as that."
Mother Chen had to admire how thoughtful her son was and how he had arranged everything in advance. That's not right. He said last night that he had nothing to buy and that he had to go back to Yangcheng quickly. Why was he in such a hurry to come back?
Many people have a misunderstanding that cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen do not have rural areas. In fact, many rural people in the imperial capital may have never been to the Forbidden City in their lives. However, the prosperity of big cities makes people mistakenly think that there are no rural areas.
It's just that the rural roads in big cities are slightly better, especially the main roads. The villages may have cement roads, and that's it. Those who deserve to be poor are still poor, and those who deserve to be backward are still backward.
Just like the urban and rural areas of every city, most people only see the prosperity of the urban areas and seem to have forgotten that there are rural areas in the world.
It is true that we don’t see many young adults in rural areas anymore. They are basically old people who stay at home to look after their houses, or left-behind children whose parents go out to work. If you go to the countryside after the Chinese New Year, it will be difficult to find a parking space.
The urban population now accounts for a very high proportion, exceeding 60%, but 40% of these 60% have moved from rural areas, mostly for work, marriage, and children's education.
Settling down in the city.
The remaining 40% or so of rural residents are basically the elderly, and now there are fewer left-behind children. The elderly are not used to city life, and their children go home during the holidays.
To be more precise, everyone comes from the countryside. There is a saying that if you look up three generations of your ancestors, they are basically farmers. There are only a handful of people whose ancestors are not farmers. Many city children think that their families are not from rural areas, but only during the New Year.
When I go back to my ancestral home with my parents or grandparents during festivals or some weddings, I realize that my ancestors also came from the village.
It’s just that with the death of a group of old people, people who have stayed in the city for a long time will probably not return to the countryside in the future. Because times have changed, more and more people will have no relatives to go to in the future. Three or four generations
People may all live in a certain building in the city.
Compared with the north, the clan culture in the south is very strong, especially in areas such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, and Laoguang is famous for its strong clan culture.
During festivals and other important events, hundreds of people go to worship their ancestors. The ancestors of these hundreds of people are all from the same lineage, and there are special ancestral halls to worship their ancestors.
Lao Guang is also famous for its New Year spirit. For example, some of the sacrifices to gods and ancestors are very grand, and the customs have not changed.
Chen Shaorong's father is a rare only son in the village. He has many relatives in the family. Because Chen Shaorong's grandma was not in good health before, she did not have more children. However, Chen Shaorong's grandfather has many people in his generation, with a family of three or four children.
Chen Shaorong's father also has many cousins, and it takes more than an hour to drive back to his hometown from the airport on the expressway.
After Chen Shaorong's father passed away, Chen Shaorong's family did not have enough New Year spirit. After all, a family with a white-haired person sending a black-haired person was most afraid of the Chinese New Year. Chen Shaorong's mother would bring Chen Shaorong back every year, but there was always an indescribable feeling.
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The only thing that makes Chen Shaorong's grandparents happy is that the daughter-in-law here has not remarried and takes good care of her grandson.
When Chen Shaorong drove back to his hometown, there were people on the road and cars on the roadside.
Every household is posting Spring Festival couplets. Many people took off their suits and leather shoes and put on pajamas and slippers. It seems that only when they return here, this moment is their real self, with the nagging of their parents, a group of tired middle-aged people who are struggling to support their families.
, I feel like I am still a child at this moment, my parents will immediately do things obediently if they say a word. If the sky falls and my parents are there, they just need to listen and come to eat. How happy.
Chen Shaorong's hometown has not changed. It is a two-story small building that Chen Shaorong's father built back then. Later, his mother spent money to renovate it. Next to the small building is a bungalow, which is the second grandfather of Chen Shaorong who has never been married. The legs and feet of Chen Shaorong's grandparents have always been taken care of.
Inconvenient second grandfather.
After Chen Shaorong entered the village, he suddenly opened the car window and the music started playing. Chen's mother looked at Chen Shaorong in disbelief and said, "What do you mean? Are you afraid that others won't know that you have returned to the village?"
"Don't you want to interact with everyone up close? Mom, you should say hello and I'll drive slower," Chen Shaorong said.
Chen Shaorong's mother felt like she was dead in an instant. The Rolls-Royce Cullinan still had a high turn-around rate. Everyone couldn't help but take a second look. The music played in the car was no longer hesitant. The sound was loud and attractive.
attracted many people.
Many people took a look and wondered if it wasn't Chen Shaorong who was driving. Many people in the village knew that Chen Shaorong's ancestral home was in this village. People in the village were still discussing whether he would come back during the Chinese New Year. They didn't expect him to come back in such a high-profile manner.
Chen Shaorong's mother awkwardly greeted some people. Many people came to take pictures of Chen Shaorong with their mobile phones and followed Chen Shaorong back to his grandma's house.
"You turn off the music and raise the windows. Don't you feel embarrassed? I can't stand it anymore." Chen Shaorong's mother said angrily.
Chen Shaorong's car parked in front of his grandma's house. In the village, everyone's car was parked in front of their house. Every household was a small villa. It was too difficult to live in such a spacious house in the city.
There seems to be little change in the countryside. Many things have remained the same for decades, except that the houses have changed from one-story houses to two-story houses.
If there are any particularly big changes, Chen Shaorong found that children in any region can basically communicate without barriers and speak Mandarin. They can understand dialects, but they can't speak them anymore.
Chen Shaorong took the gifts out of the car and walked into the yard with the gifts in both hands. Chen Shaorong's grandparents and his second grandfather were buying meals. Knowing that Chen Shaorong was going home, they started shopping early in the morning.
Seeing a group of people following behind Chen Shaorong taking pictures with their mobile phones, Chen Shaorong's grandparents had question marks on their faces and felt uncomfortable.
Why are there so many people here? They soon recognized that they were all from the village. There were more than a thousand households in the village, and most of them were surnamed Chen. In the past, when Chen Shaorong's father was alive, the house was very lively and everyone came over.
Later, Chen Shaorong's father passed away, and gradually, fewer and fewer people came to their home. Unexpectedly, when Chen Shaorong came back, so many people from the village would follow him.
Calculated based on the number of people in the village, the total number of people who went home for the New Year was less than 5,000, not counting those visiting relatives. Some people in the next village knew that Chen Shaorong was coming, and they rushed to see the stars.
Chen Shaorong put the gifts into the house. There were people in and outside the yard of his house. Chen Shaorong seemed to be fine.
Mother Chen seems to have discovered something. Did Chen Shaorong let people take pictures on purpose?
He was indeed like a normal person, but the rest of the family were not used to it. Chen Shaorong also said to everyone: "Everyone can take pictures of me, but don't take pictures of my family."
"Shaorong, I didn't prepare any red envelopes for my return home," someone joked.
Red envelopes are given out here during the Chinese New Year, and there are not many in fact. Each red envelope is only five yuan or ten yuan. It is basically given to familiar people and juniors, but these five yuan and ten yuan are not enough to prepare hundreds of yuan when going out.
They all carry twenty or thirty red envelopes.
Rich people would also pack a hundred bags, such as Chen Shaorong, who quickly went inside to open his suitcase.
Chen Shaorong's mother followed him in and was dumbfounded. Chen Shaorong actually came back with thousands of red envelopes.
What on earth is this kid going to do? And each red envelope contains one hundred.
Now it is becoming more and more obvious that Chen Shaorong has been prepared for a long time. Mother Chen does not know what he wants to do.
Brothers, it’s the end of the month, please vote for me.