"Miaomiao, come and let grandma hug you. Do you miss grandma?"
After entering the house, Li Suhua ran towards the child held by Zheng Juan.
The child also gave Li Suhua face and stretched out his hands for Li Suhua to hold: "Miaomiao, let grandma take a good look at you. I haven't seen you for a few days. You have lost weight."
"Mom, the child here eats well, drinks well, and is taken care of very carefully. How could he have lost weight?" Although everyone knew that Li Suhua felt that the child was thin, it was the misconception that grandma cared about the child, but it still didn't feel right to say this in the Zheng family.
Appropriate. "Mom, you have hugged this child, so go back quickly. If you don't go back, are you still thinking about having someone else prepare the New Year's Eve dinner for you?"
"Mom, come and have a glass of water." Aunt Zheng, who was busy cooking, also stopped and gave Li Suhua a cup of sugar water.
"I won't drink anymore. When I went out, the food was still simmering on the stove. I have to go back quickly."
After Zhou Bingkun's reminder, Li Suhua remembered that she had nothing to do and had to be the main force in preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Regardless of whether the remaining three people in Lao Zhou's family have the ability to cook New Year's Eve dinner.
One is her husband Zhou Zhigang who came back from Chongqing, one is her favorite eldest son Zhou Bingyi, and the other is the leader's daughter Hao Dongmei.
For Li Suhua, it would be inappropriate for any of the three to work and prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.
"How about I take you back by bicycle?" Zhou Bingkun said politely after sending Li Suhua out.
"It's okay. If you go back too late, the water in the pot may dry up." That's when Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan were used, Li Suhua felt so at ease.
Zhou Bingkun: “…”
"Bingkun, I've been with my father and your brother for several years, and I've only been back for a few days. What's the matter with you not coming home all the time?"
"There is no overnight feud between father and son. If you go back and admit your mistake to your father, he won't be really angry with you. If he forgives you, you can go home..."
The consequence of being a bitch is that Zhou Bingkun needs to ride a bicycle to send Li Suhua back.
It's a small problem to contribute a little bit, but it's very uncomfortable to continue to listen to Li Suhua's nagging, which only talks about emotions and not the truth.
"Mom, tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year. I will go back to pay you New Year greetings, but please don't say these words anymore. I will definitely spend this New Year at Zheng Juan's house. You can get off here, and I won't go ahead.
Already."
Zhou Bingkun quickly ran away without sending Li Suhua to the door of Zhou's house or to the intersection of the street.
After returning to Zheng's house, Zhou Bingkun continued to help Aunt Zheng cook.
Pine nuts and corn, ribs stewed with beans, chicken stewed with mushrooms, iron pot stewed goose, iron pot stewed fish, three delicacies, dried tofu with hot pepper, pot meat, pickled cabbage and white meat, meat skin jelly.
There are ten dishes. Although the portions of these dishes are not large, each dish is only a few pieces of ribs, chicken, goose, and pork, but the variety is definitely not small.
No matter which era it is placed in, with these dishes, the New Year's Eve dinner in Northeast China is not bad.
With good food, of course, it must be paired with good wine. Zhou Bingkun also used the Moutai he signed in a few days ago: "Come, come, come, Mom, Juan'er, today is New Year's Eve, let's have a drink together."
"Okay, okay, let's have a drink together. It's better if there are more people. It's festive and lively when there are more people." Aunt Zheng responded.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, we drank tea, ate melon seeds, and chatted. After chatting a little later, we had another meal of dumplings. We spent the New Year's Eve at Zheng's house and had a very comfortable time.
…
"Crack, crackle, crackle!"
On the first day of the new year, we set off firecrackers and eat dumplings, and then it’s time to go out to pay New Year greetings.
"Juan'er, let's go. Wrap the child tightly." Looking at the snowflakes still falling outside, Zhou Bingkun changed his mind again: "Forget it, it's too cold today, and mom doesn't have to go out, so I'd better keep the child here."
Just be at home."
The child was left in the care of Aunt Zheng and Guangming, while Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan were left alone.
"Mom, I'm back and wish you a happy new year. (Mom, we wish you a happy new year.)"
Zhou Bingkun took Zheng Juan back to Lao Zhou's house first. When he entered the door, he saw that Zhou Zhigang, Li Suhua, Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei were also chatting enthusiastically.
Seeing Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan come in, everyone's reaction was different. Li Suhua was still smiling:
"The child hasn't come back. Have I prepared a red envelope for the child?"
"Bingkun, you're back, and I just want to have a chat with you." Zhou Bingyi changed his face to a serious one.
Zhou Zhigang immediately put away his smile and turned into a dark face: "You don't need to wish me New Year's greetings."
"It's a bad day today, so I didn't take the child out. Just give me the child's new year's money, and I'll bring it to her for you." Zhou Bingkun first looked at Li Suhua and said, then looked at Zhou Bingyi: "Let's talk another day, we have to go
I’m paying New Year’s greetings to someone else’s house, so I don’t have time today.”
Finally, he looked at Zhou Zhigang: "You are overthinking it. We know you don't need it, and we didn't send you New Year greetings. We just called you mom just now."
"Cough, cough, cough, cough." Zhou Zhigang, who was smoking, was directly distracted by Zhou Bingkun's teasing.
Li Suhua patted Zhou Zhigang on the back to calm him down. In order to make Zhou Zhigang feel better, he said to Zhou Bingkun: "Zhou Bingkun, why are you so tough now? You came here to argue with your dad on the first day of the new year."
"Who's going to make a fuss? I'm here to wish you New Year's greetings, and some people won't like it. Okay, I've finished my New Year's greetings for you, so I won't stay any longer."
The only ones I need to visit for New Year greetings are the homes of a few neighbors with better relationships, then Chunyan’s home, Qianchao’s home, and National Day home.
After arriving at Qianchao's house, he wished Qianchao's parents New Year greetings. Qianchao pulled Zhou Bingkun who was about to leave: "Bingkun, I met Chunyan yesterday. He said that this year's Chinese New Year, we won't get together, okay?"
Another three years have passed, and Qi Chao is still working as a wood porter in the factory.
Although I learned how to operate an electrician from Zhou Bingkun, I couldn't be transferred to the electrician class because I couldn't pass the written electrician exam and didn't have an electrician certificate. There was no shortage of people in the electrician class.
Even though you have learned a skill, but you cannot use it without a certificate, it is the same as having none.
The conditions are still so bad, and there is still no market in the marriage and love market.
I am not qualified to pick and choose, so now I am introduced to Chunyan, and I am hooking up with Chunyan's pedicurist apprentice Yu Hong.
Except that Yu Hong's family conditions are as poor as those of the Sun family and her job is not respectable, she doesn't have any other problems.
Sun Qianchao himself is quite satisfied, and he is very satisfied to find someone like Yu Hong.
"Well, didn't our family all come back this year? We have no place to live. So I am celebrating the New Year at Zheng Juan's house this year. There is no inconvenient place. I won't get together this year. We will wait until after the New Year."
"Okay, let's change the date to the end of the year," Qianchao replied.
"Then you go back. I still need to go to my home on National Day to pay my parents New Year's greetings."
"I haven't gone to Guoqing's house yet. I'll go with you."
The three of them came to Guo Qing’s house again to pay New Year greetings, and also informed them that there would be no gatherings on National Day this year.
Then National Day also came out to chat outside: "Bingkun, catch up, why don't you get together at our house this year?"
"Let's get together at your house? There are both old people and children at your house. It's still too noisy for us all to come over. Let's change it to after the New Year. A few days later won't affect the relationship between the brothers."
Zhou Bingkun took a look and saw that Wu Qian was inside the half house built by Guo Qing's family and rejected Guo Qing's proposal.
By rejecting the elderly and children, Zhou Bingkun saved face for the National Day.
Although Xiao Guoqing received a one-level salary increase after entering the transportation department, he could still make some extra money while hauling wood from the forestry farm, selling some fruits and other wild products.
It can be said that the conditions at home have improved a lot in recent years.
However, the economic status has not improved the family status of National Day.
He still couldn't control his daughter-in-law Wu Qian, and the couple often fought.
Wu Qian is still the same stingy, selfish, and greedy, so these are Wu Qian's essence and have nothing to do with whether her family has money or not.
If so many people really want to have a meal and drink at home during National Day, Wu Qian will inevitably have to deal with it.
Zhou Bingkun and other friends were used to seeing a husband and wife fighting, and Wu Qian took care of them privately on National Day.
But when you come to your home for a National Day party and drink, the more likely result is that while drinking, Wu Qian will feel sorry for her family's things, make a fuss, and end the party on bad terms. It would be better not to get together at all.
…
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, after paying New Year's greetings, Zhou Bingkun had completed the whole year's mission of visiting each other to pay New Year's greetings.
It’s not all bad if I don’t have any relatives in the Northeast. In terms of people and sophistication, it’s quite worry-free.
The job in the wood processing factory has no future, no matter how hard it is, it will be like this. There is no need to even go to the leader's house during the Chinese New Year.
During the past few days during the Chinese New Year, I just had a lot of fun, skating, sledding, spinning tops, snowball fights, building snowmen, riding horse-drawn sledges, and soaking in hot springs.
If it's not too cold, you can still have a lot of fun if you want to go out. If you're not afraid of danger, you can even fish through holes in the ice if you're confident.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Bingyi came to Taiping Hutong early in the morning and stopped Zhou Bingkun who was about to go out: "Bingkun, Bingkun, I have come to see you several times, but you are not here."
"Are you looking for me for something?" Zhou Bingkun looked at Zhou Bingyi and asked calmly.
Because Zhou Bingyi is not as destructive as Zhou Rong.
Although he was not filial in his actions, in general, he was harmless to the Zhou family.
Therefore, Zhou Bingkun believes that it should be the best situation for two people to get along without interfering with each other.
"We are brothers, I can't come to you if I have nothing to do."
Zhou Bingkun may be used to working in education in the Corps, so when he opens his mouth, he speaks with dignity and dignity.
"It's definitely possible, but we're going out now. If you're okay, we're okay."
"I have something to do. I will go back to the Corps tomorrow and want to talk to you about our family." Zhou Bingyi said.
"What's there to talk about in our family? You should leave when you should and come back when you should. Haven't I been the one doing all the family affairs all these years? No one of you has taken care of mom in all these years, right?"
There is nothing to talk about about the old Zhou family for the time being. If the time comes, no one else will be able to come back, and Zhou Bingkun still can't get away.
Being hinted by Zhou Bingkun that he didn't care about his family, Zhou Bingyi was embarrassed for a second. With this shame, Zhou Bingkun felt that Zhou Bingyi was indeed a political talent:
"You have taken good care of our mother. Thanks to you for your sister and me, you have fulfilled your filial piety in front of our mother these years. I should thank you very much."
"Don't thank me. I can't fulfill my filial piety for you. I can only be filial to my own share. If you don't be filial to your mother, you are really unfilial. No one can be filial to you." Zhou Bingkun replied stiffly.
"Okay, we are unfilial, but Bingkun, you also know what caused it, and there is nothing we can do about it. Besides, it was only because I went to the Corps and Zhou Rong went to the countryside that you were able to stay in the city."
No matter how euphemistic the words were, Zhou Bingyi believed in his heart that Zhou Bingkun was taking advantage by staying in the city.
"Don't mention this to me. I want to stay in the city. Is it my choice? You forced me to stay in the city. You want to go to the Corps because it is close to the countryside where Hao Dongmei joined the team. Zhou Rong goes
I went to the countryside to find Feng Huacheng. Don't be selfish and get your own way, and then think that I took advantage of you." Zhou Bingkun definitely does not agree with the relationship between the two of them.
"I didn't say you took advantage, but you stayed in the city and became a worker. Among us three brothers and sisters, it's a fact that you enjoy the most happiness."
Zhou Bingyi's concept is a secret exchange. Regardless of whether Zhou Bingkun takes advantage or enjoys the most blessings, he still wants to say that Zhou Bingkun owes his brother and sister.
"You don't have to follow me around. This is not a blessing I want to enjoy. The villages where I jumped in line have been contacted. It was Zhou Rong who ran away. If I left too, there would be no one to take care of my mother. I had no choice but to stay."
From the city.”
"Okay, let's not talk about this matter. We are sorry for you staying in the city, right?" Zhou Bingyi is able to bend and stretch, and his magnanimity is much greater than that of Zhou Zhigang.
"It's not accurate what you said. The main person who is sorry for me is Zhou Rong. In order to elope, he came to kill me first and then show off, leaving me here." Zhou Bingkun still knew clearly who was mainly responsible.
"I came here today mainly because I wanted to talk to you about the problems you and our dad have."
When it comes to this, Zhou Bingyi just wants to be a peacemaker.
"This is nothing to talk about. My father looks down on me and treats me and my wife and children differently. The key to the current situation lies with our father. To solve this problem, you should not come to me, you should come to us.
Dad, go."
"I have communicated with our father."
"Then how do you communicate?"
Zhou Bingyi laughed awkwardly and said, "You know our father's temper, so I came to find you."
Zhou Zhigang has a bad temper and is stubborn, especially when targeting Zhou Bingkun.
The meaning of Zhou Bingyi's awkward smile was obviously that he did not persuade Zhou Zhigang.
"Since you and our dad haven't communicated well, why did you come to me? Isn't my dad's temper very good now, and he has a big belly? Zhou Rong has done such shameless things that ruined the family tradition, isn't he?
Can you still run hundreds of kilometers to bow down to Zhou Rong?"
Just because of what Zhou Zhigang did, Zhou Bingkun completely looked down on Zhou Zhigang.
"Bingkun, that's our dad after all. You can't let him bow his head and admit his mistake to you, right?"
What makes Zhou Bingyi stronger than Zhou Zhi is that Zhou Bingyi understands all the principles, whether his actions follow the principles or not does not matter.
After Zhou Zhigang's heart went astray, he became completely unreasonable and became old and confused.
"He is my father. If he admits any mistakes to me, I don't need him to admit any mistakes."
"Then why don't you go home to live or visit?"
"I'm not going home because I don't want to create more conflicts. I'll go home after you all leave."