Chapter 51 Saying farewell to the old and welcoming the new
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhusha was almost recovered, and grandpa, grandma and Ma Xiaofeng also returned from the capital together.
"Who are you!?" Seeing the handsome middle-aged man in his forties and the middle-aged lady in her early forties in front of her, Chen Jun opened his eyes wide and couldn't believe that they were already sixty.
Grandpa and grandma who are many years old.
They've only been separated for a few months, why did they suddenly change so much?
"Haha, as expected, even Xiaojun didn't dare to recognize him." Ma Xiaolong laughed and said, "Look carefully, these are our grandpa and grandma."
"Grandpa!? Grandma!?" Chen Jun still couldn't believe it: "Have you taken the rejuvenating medicine!?"
"Almost." Grandpa chuckled and said, "Didn't Xiaolong mail us two pills last month? They said they could restore...recover...recover what?"
"Restoring a certain amount of cell activity is, in short, rejuvenating." Ma Xiaolong said with a smile.
"Yes, rejuvenated." Grandpa laughed and nodded: "Then your grandma and I became what we are now. You don't know that since your grandma and I became young, many young girls and boys rushed to us.
ogle."
Everyone was happy when they heard it.
"What about this matter?" Zhu Sha smiled and said, "Grandpa, didn't you take the opportunity to hook up with a few girls?"
"That's no good. I'm so old, how can I seduce a little girl? Besides..." He turned to look at the fair-skinned and beautiful grandma in a cheongsam outfit, and said with a smile in the corner of his eyes: "My wife is so beautiful, how can she be so beautiful?"
Look after others."
"You old man, what are you talking about in front of the children?" Grandma blushed a little.
Ma Xiaolong was very emotional. He recalled that when he was first reborn, his grandmother was only in her fifties, but she was already a little old lady with silver hair. But now, eleven years later, her hair has turned black again, and her physical condition
She has also returned to her middle-aged state of early forties, and my grandma is 1.58 meters tall, three centimeters taller than Zhang Chiling. Her appearance is about 14 or 15, and when she wears a cheongsam, she looks like a noble lady of the Republic of China.
"Grandpa, grandma, if you are like this now, when you meet people, don't say that you took medicine, just say that you often do beauty treatments outside and dye your hair, so you are so young." Ma Xiaolong warned.
"Don't worry, we have said this a long time ago." Grandpa said, "The rent is getting more and more every year, and your grandma and I are a little bit intolerant."
"Where are we?" Ma Xiaolong hugged Lulu, who was wearing a little flower jacket, and stroked her, and said, "Just wait! It will be next year. At the end of next year, China will join the WTO. By then, our economy will be
Take off, house prices
, the rent will also double. That is to say, I have bought enough houses in the past few years, but I am not short of this little money. Otherwise, I will definitely hoard a lot of houses. After more than ten years, I can pay ten times the price.
Do you believe it if it’s sold at a price?”
"So many!?" Although everyone couldn't believe it, Ma Xiaolong never missed a word, so they couldn't help but believe it.
"In this case..." Zhang Zhiling was moved in her heart and said: "Xiaolong, our place is about to be demolished. When the time comes, will mom directly ask for money? Or change the house?"
"Then you must change your house!" Ma Xiaolong said: "But the area of your house is not large, so you only need to change to a two-bedroom apartment of 80 square meters, but it is not bad. Choose a better floor. After ten years, one square meter will be
Ten thousand yuan should be fine."
"Ten thousand yuan per square meter?" Everyone was shocked again. Nowadays, there are no such housing prices in Beijing, Shanghai and other places. The housing prices in this small town are only eight or nine hundred and one square meters. How can it rise so much!?
"Don't believe it, we are next to the canal and in the center of the town. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is in a prime location. The house will naturally be sold at a high price. Of course, it must have a good floor. The poor floor will be as high as seven or eight.
Qianyiping."
"That's expensive enough." Grandpa sighed for a moment and said, "So, when our house is demolished, we will also be rehoused?"
"Change it!" Ma Xiaolong said, "But in the future we will all live in villas, this is at best a place to stay."
"Yeah." Grandpa nodded and said, "How about changing to a storefront?"
"That's okay." Ma Xiaolong nodded: "My wife just changed two stores, both are corner stores at the intersection. From now on, just collecting rent will cost ten or twenty thousand a month, which is enough for ordinary people to live."
"Then we also want a shop." Grandpa said, "Our house is so big, how big of a shop can we have?"
"As for the decoration of our house, we will definitely replace it on a one-to-one basis. With a little extra money, it should be no problem to replace it with a two-story, eighty-square-meter store." Ma Xiaolong said.
"Then it's settled." Grandpa said, "I'll leave this matter to you. I'll keep the house book and everything at home!"
Ma Xiaolong smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will definitely change to a gold store."
"Grandpa, don't worry about your work."
Amidst the laughter, everyone took a short rest and then went out to buy new year's goods.
...Ma Xiaofeng: Didn't I come back?...
Because of the huge changes in grandpa and grandma, the surrounding neighbors were all upset in the next few days. Grandpa and grandma had to have a good explanation, but they also made many old men and women envious.
We promised to grow old together, but you secretly baked it. It has faded. The revolutionary friendship has faded!
On New Year's Eve, both Ma Qiangsheng and Liu Ying came over. Because this place was about to be demolished, maybe this was the penultimate Spring Festival that everyone spent in this house, so everyone cherished the time spent celebrating the New Year here.
After a year of layoffs, the neighbors have all found jobs. Some sell breakfast, some sell vegetables, some ride three-wheelers to deliver goods, and some have joined factories with good profits. In short,
It's much better than last year.
Because he provided some help to the neighbors last year, this year many people came to Ma Xiaolong's house to give gifts. However, facing these people, he accepted all the thanks and let them take the gifts back: "There is no shortage of anything at home, so bring
Go back, or don’t come to my house again.”
This was what my grandfather and grandma said, which made the neighbors helpless and very moved.
Doing good deeds without asking for anything in return has always been a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. However, the number of people who can do this is getting smaller and smaller with the wave of reform and opening up, where everything is about money.
Not many people would do something that is not beneficial, and if they did, they would definitely have something else to ask for.
But Ma Xiaolong is capable, and everything is based on his sufficient financial support. The help he can give to his neighbors is not even a drop in the bucket, and he can still get a good reputation, so why not?
This is how people are, when they live to a certain class and status, what they seek is no longer worldly money and power, but a reputation before and after death.
Except for those with mental problems, who doesn’t want to have a good reputation after death? For people like Qin Hui, future generations would not dare to recognize him as their ancestor.
If anyone dares to admit it, there must be something wrong with society.
Not to mention, society does have such a problem now and in the next ten or twenty years. It doesn't matter if it has a bad reputation, as long as it can be diverted and realized, some people may even dare to recognize the Japanese as their ancestors.
On the evening of the 30th, the family had just finished eating steaming dumplings and sat in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala together.
This year's Spring Festival Gala's language program has new partners. For example, Feng Gong broke up with Niu Qun. This year, he changed his partner to Guo Donglin. A piece of "Old Songs with New Sings" directly made Goubuli Baozi in Jincheng popular.
Baozi, which was originally just a folk snack, has become popular all over the country and has become a business card of Jincheng. It has embarked on the luxury road of turning snacks into gifts, and it is also a road of no return from the masses.
Pan Changjiang and Gong Hanlin also partnered with "Pan Jinlian" and acted in "She at the Same Table".
To be honest, it's not funny.
The sketch "Hourly Worker" by the new king of sketches Uncle Zhao and Song Dandan also gave birth to some golden lines, such as 'If you chat for ten dollars more', 'I won't recognize you if you put on the vest?', 'I won't recognize you if you take off the vest'
I still know you' and so on.
And Mr. Wen Xingyu, who was the only one to appear on the Spring Festival Gala, also performed a skit with Cai Minghe. I wonder who Wen Xingyu is? He is the retired father Fu Ming in "I Love My Family".
Ni Ping and Zhao Zhongxiang, two Spring Festival Gala hosts who have accompanied countless people for more than ten years, also performed a short program "Tasting Tea". After this year, the two left the Spring Festival Gala stage, marking the end of an era.
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Generally speaking, this year's language programs are much worse than in previous years. Song and dance performances also invited a large number of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars. To be honest, they are not very good.
Ma Xiaolong did see the future masked demon king Tan Jing appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage, but he was just one of many singers and was inconspicuous. If he hadn't had sharp eyesight, he wouldn't have recognized that this person was Tan Jing.
But, how should I put it? There are many people of Tan Jing’s level in the national team. The reason why she crushed everyone with her devilish attitude on the masked and singer stage is because the level of the pop stage is too low. Tan Jing
Participating in this kind of program is no different from going to the countryside to express condolences. The main purpose is to let the locals feel the warmth of the red sun.
By the way, let the popular circle feel how stupid they are.
There is another thing that seems a bit unusual in this year's Spring Festival Gala. In Ma Xiaolong's opinion, "Unforgettable Tonight" was not sung in this year's Spring Festival Gala.
The last song of this year's Spring Festival Gala is "Sleepless Tonight". I don't know why?
Looking back on the past year, the return of Macao City is the biggest historical event. Therefore, many artists from Macao City have appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage, which can be regarded as a perfect end to the 1990s in China.
But it is true that this year’s Spring Festival Gala is not good to watch. In addition, the number of home computer users is increasing. People do not watch the Spring Festival Gala on New Year’s Eve. More and more people are using computers to access the Internet. In addition, local TV stations will also be watching in the near future.
They have successively launched their own Spring Festival Gala programs, resulting in the ratings of Yangma’s Spring Festival Gala getting lower and lower. Many young people don’t even watch the Spring Festival Gala. This directly leads to fewer and fewer programs that domestic people have common memories of.
China has finally moved towards a colorful future, and no program can trigger the common memories of all people across the country.
Thanks to the fact that the current management of the town is not strict enough, at midnight this year, Ma Xiaolong still accompanied the girls to set off firecrackers and fireworks for half an hour, but this scene will gradually disappear in the near future, and the people want to set off fireworks to their heart's content.
, basically can only be seen in rural areas.
On the first day of the new year, Ma Xiaolong received many New Year greeting text messages on his mobile phone. With the price reduction of mobile phones, more and more users can afford mobile phones in the past two years, and the practice of sending New Year greeting text messages on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day has gradually begun.
became popular.
The people who sent text messages to Xiaolong Ma were basically people who had direct contact with him in the past, such as editors of publishing houses, some of the main department heads of Xiaolong Technology, Feng Pants, Uncle Ge of Xiaolong Entertainment, and those who were treated by him.
Teacher Zhao and Coach Ma, who recovered from cancer, both sent New Year greetings messages.
There is no group sending function on Ma Xiaolong's mobile phone, so he can only reply one by one, which is very troublesome.
In addition, there were so many neighbors who came to their house to pay New Year greetings this year. It took them most of the day to entertain them, and it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon when they were free.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Ma Xiaolong and Zhu Sha went to Shuangshi Village to pay New Year greetings to their two elders. This year, the old man and the old lady did not go to the capital to celebrate the New Year with Zhu Lingling because Zhu Lingling was not in the country at all. At the moment, she was discussing business with Mi Li's family and was very busy.
The old couple didn't care at all and were in a good mood because their son, Ma Xiaolong's father-in-law, had a twin twins last year. What does this mean? It means that the Zhu family finally has an heir.
For rural people, having a girl is not called having a child, because the girl belongs to another family after all. If you want to continue the incense, you can only give birth to a boy. Although the old man and the old lady loved Zhu Sha, their granddaughter, they knew that Zhu Sha and Ma Xiaolong were married.
After that, they directly pushed their granddaughter over without any reluctance, which vividly showed that they didn't particularly value girls in their hearts.
But for this new grandson, in order to see this grandson often, the old couple bought a new computer, connected the network cable, and bought a camera. From time to time, they would video chat with Li Jiapo's son. Whenever they saw their chubby grandson, they would
As happy as anything.
The old couple are even preparing to apply for passports and plan to go to Lijiapo to see their grandson after the Chinese New Year.
Oh, by the way, there is also a granddaughter.
Ma Xiaolong and Zhu Sha came to pay New Year's greetings. The old couple were very happy. The happiest moment was when Ma Xiaolong beat a boy from the village violently in the yard's martial arts training ground.
In the past few years, Ma Xiaolong has really earned a lot of face for the old couple.
How much money does Ma Xiaolong have? They don't value it very much. Their daughter is also very rich, but what matters most to them is that Ma Xiaolong's martial arts skills are so strong that he can defeat all the opponents in the village, allowing them to live with their chests and heads held high in the village.
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A place has its own customs, and the people of a place have their own way of living. In Shuangshi Village, having a son-in-law or grandson-in-law who is highly skilled in martial arts can make the elderly feel proud.
Ma Xiaolong earned enough face for the second elder, and the second elder also loved Ma Xiaolong as his grandson-in-law, and kept him company with delicious food and drinks. For most of the day, the elder couple couldn't help but smile from ear to ear.
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