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Chapter 1496: Farewell with tears (New Year's Day event plus 25)

Chapter 1496: Farewell with tears (New Year's Day event plus 25)

February 1988, 2, the 12th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Just after six o'clock in the morning, when Wang Meilan had just brought the hot pig-killing dishes and sticky rice dumplings to the table, Li Baoyu rushed into the house.

"Brother, Auntie, Uncle, Third Uncle!" Li Baoyu was not a pushover. He greeted everyone as soon as he entered the room, but it was obvious that he greeted them according to their closeness to him.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Youcai looked at his anxious look and then looked at the clock on the wall.

It's only six o'clock and it's still dark outside.

"Uncle, let's perform Journey to the West!" Li Baoyu's words stunned Zhao Youcai and the other three.

"Second daughter, eldest daughter! It's time to perform Journey to the West!" Wang Meilan instantly found an excuse to wake up the two little girls early, and went to the east room to wake up Zhao Hong and Zhao Na.

Everyone in the Zhao family is very busy today. Zhao Youcai is going to Zhou's house in Yongsheng, Wang Meilan is taking two little girls to Wang Qiang's house, and Zhao Jun has to go to Lin Xiangshun's house.

Zhao Youcai and Zhao Jun were easy to deal with, but Wang Meilan had to take two little burdens with her. If she wanted to go there early, she would have to help the two little girls get up and eat. After they finished eating, Wang Meilan would have to wash the dishes and clean up the stove.

After all, nowadays, in a family that lives a normal life, no one would just pile up the used bowls and chopsticks after a meal.

And there is a group activity around 7:30 today, which is to send Jie Sun home.

Wang Meilan must attend this event.

Children sleep a lot, and when Zhao Hong was woken up just after six o'clock, she kept making noises.

But when she heard that they were going to perform "Journey to the West", Zhao Hong still cooperated and put on her clothes.

Seven or eight minutes later, Zhao Hong sat on the kang in a daze, while Wang Meilan was braiding Zhao Na's hair.

The two little girls who had not yet woken up had dull expressions and looked a little confused.

But when Li Baoyu turned on the TV program Journey to the West and saw the scene of Sun Wukong eating noodles in the restaurant, the two little girls' eyes lit up.

Because Li Baoyu was blocking the way, Zhao Hong's body kept tilting to the right.

Zhao Jun sent Kaobizhan to the door of the east room and invited Li Baoyu to sit down and eat together.

Li Baoyu also ate yesterday's leftover pig-killing dishes and cooked garlic sprouts when he got home, but he preferred to eat with Zhao Jun.

The 86 version of "Journey to the West" is definitely suitable for all ages. Even Xing San was quickly attracted by the plot and pictures. Lao Shan Gouzi, who was shoveling rice from his bowl, never took his eyes off the TV.

It was just past six forty when the two little girls finished their meal. Wang Meilan was contentedly washing the dishes in the outer room.

Just then, the dog outside the house suddenly barked twice.

Judging from the dog's reaction, the person who came should be someone familiar. But it was still dark at this time, who could it be?

After a while, Zhang Yuanmin came in.

"The help is here!" Wang Meilan saw it was him and immediately called out, "Come in quickly. The kang has just been heated and is very warm."

It was a newly heated kang. Zhao Jun and his gang were sitting on it, and there was a fire roaring in the kang hole underneath.

People in the south have never seen a kang, so they might think that the kang is used to heat up the whole family.

"Ah!" Seeing Zhang Yuanmin coming in, Li Baoyu, who was sitting at the door, asked directly: "Brother Zhang, are you here to watch Journey to the West?"

Zhao Jun heard this and hurriedly pushed Li Baoyu. At this time, Zhao Youcai looked at Zhang Yuanmin in surprise and said, "Yuanmin, aren't you going to Yongfu today?"

A few days ago, when Zhao Jun and his team were catching pigs in Yongxing Brigade, Zhang Yuanmin kept saying that Yang Yufeng's relatives never invited their family when they slaughtered pigs every year.

But this year, people called them.

Moreover, the letter was delivered the day before yesterday, and it was sent personally by Yang Yufeng's cousin Yang Manshuang.

But that day Zhang Yuanmin and Zhao Youcai went up the mountain, so Yang Manshuang told Yang Yufeng to let their family go to their house to eat pork on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.

In the evening, when Zhang Yuanmin came back, Yang Yufeng happily told him about this.

Yang Yufeng thought it was a good thing. Her parents even remembered to call her when they slaughtered a pig. Yang Yufeng felt very honored.

But what Yang Yufeng didn't expect was that Zhang Yuanmin was so angry that he cursed at her. He said that when his family was not doing well, no one cared about him. In the past, they killed pigs every year, at least two every three years, but no one came to Yongxing to call them.

Now that my family has just recovered, someone comes to find me directly. Who is this person?

Although that was the case, Yang Yufeng and Zhang Yuanmin had different ideas. After all, that was her mother's home, and unless Yang Yufeng wanted to completely break off ties with that place, she had to eat the pig-killing meal.

But Zhang Yuanmin said he would not go no matter what. He was stubborn and obstinate even when he was poor, and his ideas were correct. When he really got angry, Yang Yufeng could do nothing about it.

Hearing Zhao Youcai's question, Zhang Yuanmin reached out to take the cigarette handed to him by Zhao Youcai and said, "Whoever wants to go, go. I'm not going!"

"Brother!" Although Yang Yufeng was not there, Zhao Jun still helped Yang Yufeng to persuade Zhang Yuanmin, saying, "If you don't go, how can my sister-in-law go?"

"Then I won't go either!" Zhang Yuanmin rarely refused Zhao Jun in person. He twisted his body and said angrily to Zhao Jun: "Brother, you don't know! I'm not thinking about their food, what do you think? When I was in trouble...ah..."

At this time, Li Baoyu handed over the struck match and interrupted Zhang Yuanmin's complaints.

After lighting up the cigarette and taking a puff, Zhang Yuanmin calmed down a little. Shilin cigarettes were indeed good to smoke, and they calmed Zhang Yuanmin's emotions to a certain extent.

"Let's talk about it." Zhang Yuanmin spread his hands and said, "My mother-in-law is ill. Is that from the Yang family?"

Everyone nodded when they heard this, Yang Yufeng's mother was indeed a member of the Yang family.

"If I'm sick, I'll pay for someone to see me." Zhang Yuanmin said, "It was really difficult. A few days ago, my mother Lingdang went back and asked to borrow 40 yuan from them, but they didn't lend it to me."

As soon as Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, two more dog barks were heard outside the house.

Yang Yufeng came with a little bell.

"Auntie!" As soon as the door opened, Yang Yufeng asked Wang Meilan, "Is that evil guy in my house here?"

Wang Meilan smiled when she heard this, raised her hand and pointed to the east room, and whispered, "It's in the storage room."

As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, she heard Zhao Hong's voice from inside the room: "Lingdang! Come on, play Journey to the West!"

Xiao Lingdang was much more sensible than Zhao Hong. She knew that her parents were unhappy, so she looked up at Yang Yufeng.

Yang Yufeng gently pushed Xiao Lingling's back and took her into the east room.

"Lingdang, come here!" Zhao Na called out to little Lingdang, while Yang Yufeng said to Zhang Yuanmin unhappily, "Why are you running out so early in the morning?"

"I'm willing to go!" Zhang Yuanmin said in an equally bad tone, "I can go wherever I want."

Hearing what Zhang Yuanmin said, Yang Yufeng was helpless. This bad boy in her family just refused to go, and she couldn't do anything about it.

But at Zhao Jun's house, Yang Yufeng immediately looked at Zhao Jun for help.

Zhao Jun smiled when he saw this and said to Zhang Yuanmin, "Brother, let's go."

Zhao Jun didn't give Zhang Yuanmin a chance to speak, and pointed at the watch on his wrist, saying, "We have money now, we have to let them know. This is the watch my sister-in-law gave you, take it and let them see it."

"Well... I don't want to bother with them either." Zhang Yuanmin's attitude softened a lot, but he still didn't give in.

"Brother, go ahead." Zhao Jun advised again: "I'll drive the big jeep to take you three there later. Let's let them see that my brother is getting better."

After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhang Yuanmin remained silent.

"Brother, I won't bother you." Yang Yufeng said to Zhao Jun, "Why are you bothering me? It's so cold."

"It's okay, sister-in-law." Zhao Jun winked at Yang Yufeng, meaning that it would be fine as long as your Zhang Yuanmin can go.

So Zhao Jun said to Zhang Yuanmin again: "Brother, let's make a deal. I will drive to pick you up in the afternoon."

"No need." Zhang Yuanmin held Zhao Jun's arm, then turned to look at Yang Yufeng and said, "Before we come back, let them harness the sled and take me there!"

Upon hearing this, Yang Yufeng rolled her eyes at Zhang Yuanmin but said nothing.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Zhang Yuanmin became even more excited and asked Yang Yufeng, "Did you hear that?"

"Don't worry." Yang Yufeng curled her lips and said, "They don't want to use the sled to send you, so I'll carry you back, okay?"

Yang Yufeng's words made everyone laugh, and Zhang Yuanmin also laughed.

The couple talked and laughed, and the matter was over. That's how a couple lives, just accommodating each other.

"Let's go." Seeing that the couple had stopped arguing, Wang Meilan said, "Let's send Xiaochen and the others off."

As she spoke, Wang Meilan waved her hand toward the north window and said, "We still have to catch pigs for him."

After hearing what Wang Meilan said, everyone except Xing San and the three children stood up and walked out.

There is no need to mention the three children, and Xing San knew that he was not needed to catch the pigs, and he had no intention of sending the Sun family away.

Li Dayong and Li Ruhai, who came out from next door, together with Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai and Li Baoyu, caught three big black pigs in the backyard of Zhao's house.

Wang Qiang and Lin Xiangshun are both slaughtering pigs today, so we might as well catch the pigs and send them over while we have a car.

After the three pigs were loaded onto the cart, Wang Meilan went into the house and called the three little girls.

Sending Jie Sun away is a big deal. If Jie Sun is not allowed to vent her emotions properly, she may not leave.

Xiao Lingling is easy to deal with. Even if she doesn't send Jie Sun off, it's almost time for her to leave.

But Zhao Hong and Zhao Na were not happy. Instead of reading Journey to the West, they went out to talk nonsense?

However, the arms were no match for the thighs, and the two little girls were forced to put on cotton jackets and dragged out of the house.

Li Xiaoqiao who lives next door also had the same experience as them.

Everyone got on the back of the Jiefang truck, and Zhao Jun drove to deliver pigs to Wang and Lin's homes. At this time, Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan were sitting in the passenger seat.

Suddenly, Zhao Youcai spoke up and said to Zhao Jun, "Hey? After you send your brother Zhang and the others off, drive our big jeep to Yongsheng for me."

Zhao Youcai has a big jeep at home and he also wants to show it off.

"That's not convenient." Wang Meilan interjected, and Zhao Youcai questioned her, "If you can give it to others, why not to his father?"

"Dad." Zhao Jun turned to Zhao Youcai and said, "I will be on my way later. Let him take you there."

"I..." Zhao Youcai was a little unhappy. How could the big Jiefang have a big jeep? But he wanted to say something else, but heard Zhao Jun said: "Wait until two or three in the afternoon, I will drive to pick you up, is that not okay?"

After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhao Youcai thought about it and felt that it was acceptable as long as he had a car to go back and forth.

……

As New Year's Eve approaches, the village is increasingly filled with a festive atmosphere.

That early morning, the sound of sporadic firecrackers could be heard from every corner of the village. Little boys gathered in groups of three or five, playing happily with the small firecrackers they had picked up.

When Zhao Jun and others arrived outside the Jiang family's courtyard, they found the two brothers Jie Zhong and Jie Chen wandering outside the house.

"What's going on?" As soon as the car stopped, Li Dayong in the trunk shouted at the two of them, "Why don't you go inside?"

"My mother and my grandmother Jiang are crying in the room." Xie Chen said helplessly. Wang Meilan, who got off the passenger seat, couldn't help but twitch her lips and said, "They keep doing this."

"Aren't you just going to stay for a few days and come back after that?" Zhao Youcai asked puzzledly. The last time Xie Sunshi and Xie Chen went home, he was in Yongxing Brigade and didn't see such a "touching" farewell scene.

After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Xie Zhong said helplessly: "Who knows? We don't dare to ask."

Everyone hurried to the front of the house, and as soon as they opened the door, they heard Xie Sun's crying voice from inside: "Aunt, I'm leaving, you must take good care of yourself!"

Recently, several families have been watching TV every day, and no one has lost anything.

Hearing the crying, Zhang Yuanmin, who had not yet entered the house, could not help but shake his head and said, "I am reluctant to leave."

Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, and Li Baoyu continued, "I shed tears and say goodbye."

"It's so touching!" Li Ruhai made his final summary, earning a roll of the eyes from Li Zhong.

(End of this chapter)