Chapter 264 The New Year Is Over

The first day of the new year is mainly for New Year greetings. For the younger ones, their parents will take them there, while for the older ones, they can go alone for the New Year greetings.

During the Chinese New Year, many places have customs, but wealthy families in the past liked to be particular about it. When it comes to actually celebrating the New Year, for children, paying New Year greetings is the second most important thing, and receiving New Year's money is the happiest thing.

On the second day of junior high school, it was time to go back to her parents' home. Bingzi was going back to her parents' home in Qinling with her daughter-in-law. This is the unmarried daughter of the Luo Cheng family, otherwise she would have to entertain her son-in-law. Since there was no need to entertain anyone, my parents went directly to my uncle's house.

On the third day of the third grade of junior high school, everyone is taking a rest for a day, and I don’t know what the reason is.

It was on the fourth day of the lunar month that guests really started to be guests. Many wedding banquets in later generations were also arranged from the fourth day of the lunar month. But these days, to be honest, the real New Year celebrations are on the first and second days of the lunar month. On the first day of the lunar month, I wish my relatives a happy new year and drink a bowl of sugar water before returning home. I have a good meal at home, and when my daughter, who is married to a foreigner in the second year of junior high school, comes back, her family will entertain me with a good meal.

That's it, most people don't have much to entertain these days. Not to mention starting to invite relatives for dinner on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. In later generations, we basically had to eat this place today and that place tomorrow, and sometimes we had to eat both ends, and we couldn't make it. After the meal, they basically played cards, and those who had other activities left after eating.

Speaking of lively, it was also lively during the Chinese New Year in later generations, but it always felt like it was missing some atmosphere. Maybe it’s because I’m used to eating big fish and meat, so eating during the Chinese New Year has become a social occasion rather than an expectation.

Like people in the 1980s, children still look forward to eating. There is a drink in a glass bottle of beer, which costs 50 cents a bottle. When we go to dinner during the Chinese New Year, the children must share a bottle. Adults eat canned food and drink wine. Even in the 1980s and 1990s, everyone actually looked forward to eating well during the Chinese New Year.

At that time, children also had more New Year's money, and boys' New Year's money basically went to the game arcade.

But now is the 1960s, and it is also the famine years. Let alone the New Year party, it is not necessarily possible to get married. Therefore, when Luo Cheng's family invites guests to dinner, those aunts and uncles, aunts and uncles, Luo Cheng and the others don't have to go to their homes for dinner. We all went to pay New Year greetings on the first day of the new year, so this was considered etiquette in place.

The happiest thing today is the children who went to Luo Cheng's house to pay New Year's greetings to Luo Cheng's grandma, and they got lucky money. There are people of Luo Cheng's generation, and children of the great-grandson generation have to call Luo Cheng's grandma Grandma. As a child, if you kowtow and call me grandma, your mother will give you a few cents. As for the Luo family, grandma is also divided. Grandpa left early, but grandpa is on Luo Wen's father's side. There are still many brothers in the Luo family. Here to pay New Year's greetings, when grandma sees the boy, she at least gives him one. Damn it, girls only cost a few cents.

The child born to the uncle's eldest son is a biological grandson, so he will be given fifty cents directly. Even if she is a granddaughter, she still gets a dime. Luo Cheng and his cousins ​​paid New Year's greetings to their grandmother. Except for Luo Cheng and Bingzi, who received one yuan, everyone else received a few cents.

But no matter how much it is, in this year of famine, Luo Cheng's grandma is the only relative of the Luo family who has received the New Year's money this year. Children are happy even if they have a dime. The supply and marketing cooperative in town at least has someone taking care of the bulk firecrackers.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the Luo Cheng family hosted a three-table meal for their father's relatives. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, I entertained my mother’s relatives, and there were three tables. I borrowed the table from my uncle and my second uncle's house.

When the guests are all here and it's almost time to eat, they light up some firecrackers. One is that it is festive, and the other is that according to tradition, the Nian beast is greedy, so if you don’t make an offering, you will eat it yourself or steal it from the children present. I need to light firecrackers to rush over.

And this firecracker was so big that not only the relatives and children called by Luo Cheng's family, but also the children from the neighbors heard the sound and ran over to look for the unfired firecrackers and keep them for themselves.

I thought that this year would be enough. Unexpectedly, the uncle's second son Luo Qiang's matter was settled. After all, if Luo Qiang had a job, it would be a big deal in the town. The Liu family still agreed, but they can't marry a girl for free. Your Luo family is awesome. Your nephews are all factory directors in the city. They ask you to set up a few tables, order a set of clothes for their daughter, and a dressing table. You can always marry them.

The Liu family didn't ask for any betrothal gifts, and the Liu family was also from Longjin Town. They only wanted to marry a daughter for style and face. The main reason is that her daughter is not bad in appearance, so this is not too much to ask for.

As for the uncle's family, thinking that both sons will have jobs next year, they feel confident. This is just like saying that your Liu family wants face, but the Luo family doesn't want it. Yes, you must have a seat.

Of course, the food for the uncle's family was actually donated by his father, Luo Wen. There was no relief. Although Rowan arranged for them to hammer nails when they were at work, the most they could do was to let the uncle's family eat coarse grains. I still need some relief. As for the requests made by the Liu family, the uncle was actually unable to fulfill any of them.

Not only did this require borrowing food and vegetables to host the banquet, but one also had to borrow cloth tickets from Luo Cheng for clothes. As for the dressing table, I promised to find a carpenter in town to customize one after the year. After all, we will get married immediately after the agreement is made, so there is no time to prepare.

The cloth ticket was a gift from Luo Cheng, but there was still money to buy the cloth, so the uncle asked his father to borrow it. The wedding was scheduled for the sixth day of the lunar month, and the Liu family agreed on the fourth day of the lunar month, which was too hasty, but marriages require good things to come in pairs, either on the sixth or eighth day of the lunar month. But Chuba Automobile Factory started work. Luo Cheng and the others actually had to drive to Ngee Ann on the afternoon of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Luo Cheng simply drove to pick up the bride. The Liu family wanted to save face. This face is enough. After meeting the Liu family girl, Luo Cheng was disappointed. He thought she was so beautiful. The uncle and aunt both said it was good, and Luo Qiang still remembered it. Luo Cheng feels very ordinary, with a braided braid, an authentic rural girl.

He looks stronger than his cousin Luo Qiang in both height and figure. In terms of fertility, he may indeed be better than those skinny girls. Vegetables and radishes each have their own merits. My cousin likes the ones that are strong, so I can’t say much.

My cousin got married and entered the bridal chamber that night. Luo Cheng also lamented that, like his younger brother Bingzi, they were another couple who got married before falling in love.

Is this era open or closed? Speaking of closed, blind marriages like Bingzi and Qiangzi are the mainstream these days, while free love is rare. We haven't met each other a few times in total, maybe even without holding hands, but we can live together and have fun. Can this be called closed-mindedness?

In the city, it is much better and faster, but there are still many people who will be introduced to each other and end up in the same place. Although it will be settled soon, at least we can have some romance before marriage occasionally.

Luo Cheng felt that his partner Dai Qianqian was also a conservative but open-minded person, because Luo Cheng actually didn't mention anything after they fell in love with him. Dai Qianqian seemed to have taken the initiative to arrange the subsequent process. In other words, Luo Cheng didn't have to think about anything. If he followed that path, he would definitely be able to sleep with Dai Qianqian in a short time.

During this period, Luo Cheng didn't have to think about dating, romance, or trying to please like future generations. On the eighth day of the lunar month, Luo Cheng went to the automobile factory to say hello to others. The production process could be moved first, and then he took a leave of absence and went to SH to find Dai Qianqian.

People like Director Zhao from the munitions factory workshop, Team Leader Jiang and others, as well as people from the forklift factory who will report this year. It didn't come so quickly, and many jobs couldn't be done, so after the New Year, everyone took it easy and slowly re-adapted to the rhythm of work.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, everyone sat in the business car and started to go home to Ngee Ann City. In the car, everyone was very happy, except Zheng Xue, because she knew that Luo Cheng would be looking for his partner in a few days, and she herself would really have to keep a distance from Luo Cheng in the future.

I don’t know where it comes from, but it always makes people heartbroken. Looking at the receding scenery outside the car window, Zheng Xue always wanted to recite a poem to express her inner feelings and hate the sky for teasing her. I imagine that as a girl, I can read at the age of three and become literate at the age of five~~~.

Well, the talented girl's youthful illness has returned, and she has created an image of herself as a miserable person in her heart.

For Luo Cheng, as long as Zheng Xue does not think she can survive without him, even if he understands her thoughts, he will not provoke her. As a literary youth, it's normal to be sentimental, and it's possible to die for love, so if you don't mean it sincerely, don't mess with a woman with such a personality. Because their hearts are not as fragile as you think, they are actually people who can comfort themselves. For example, Zheng Xue blames God for not getting together with Luo Cheng, which is actually a manifestation of self-comfort. It's God's fault, not her and Luo Cheng's fault.

Even after she found out that Luo Cheng was dating, her first thought was that her grandfather also had a daughter-in-law. I will immediately put myself into another role.

It can be said that even if Luo Cheng is with her, he will be unfaithful in the future. Zheng Xue will still find reasons to comfort herself, and she still will not separate.

But you must not think that such a character is good. Everyone has a limit. When you think she will tolerate anything, it is easy to constantly challenge her bottom line. When the critical value is reached, her heart truly collapses. . Once such a woman turns black, you won't even have a chance to beg for mercy.

So when you meet someone like Zheng Xue, don't mess with her if she doesn't mean it. Once she turns black, she will make a pot of soup with a smile and everyone will finish it.

When I returned to the courtyard room, it was not completely dark yet, so I cleaned what needed to be cleaned and put away what needed to be tidied up. The courtyard door had not been open for a while, but many neighbors who knew Luo Cheng was back came to pay Luo Cheng a New Year's greeting. Although the New Year is almost over, according to custom, the New Year is not celebrated until the Lantern Festival. Luo Cheng will go to the factory tomorrow and have to say Happy New Year to many people.

After making some simple noodles in the evening, Luo Cheng sent Gao Ru back to the staff dormitory. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the kitchen staff of the automobile factory have actually started working, cleaning the stoves and preparing ingredients for the factory tomorrow.

What Luo Cheng didn't know was that just because the security department and the ambulance clinic were on duty during the Chinese New Year, several nurses had hooked up with people from the security department these days. We couldn't say hooking up these days, we should say they were hooking up. , after all, the lover is rushing to get married.

During the Chinese New Year, the security department patrolled and frequently went to the employee clinic. The outpatient clinic is newly built, not far from the factory. It is only a one-story brick building, but it is enough for outpatient clinics. After all, an outpatient clinic does not require a ward. The most it can do is give injections and prescribe medicine.

And the construction is outside, in fact, it also provides medical treatment to the outside world. It's just that employees of the automobile factory don't have to spend money to see a doctor, and there is a reimbursement rate for medicines. If you don't work in an automobile factory, you have to spend money to see a doctor normally.

Finally the New Year is over. Before the New Year, everyone wanted to take a New Year holiday. Now that the New Year is here, everyone is thinking about going to work and missing the meals in the factory. I miss the days when I could talk and laugh with my colleagues.

Some senior students who are still on vacation are still thinking about the skating rink open to the public at the automobile factory. They haven't started school yet, but there are not many places to play. Skating is quite expensive, but it's fashionable and fun.

"Gao Ru, please forget it and forgive them."

"Forgive them? Forgive whom?"

"Your family and parents, after all, they have given birth to you and raised you for many years, and they can still spend money for you to study. In fact, they should love you. But they just can't accept the opinions of outsiders, maybe they didn't look away for a while. We are young people, and the future is ours. We can have new ideas and concepts, but they can’t. Look at my cousin Wang Yue. Her marriage is completely gone. Even if she follows me here now, her work and The money she earns may be given to her brother. You are a girl, and sometimes some things are not your fault, but may be the fault of this era. You should try to understand."

"Luo Cheng, could it be that you also lied to me? You also favor boys over girls. Why should I forgive them when they treat me like that?"

"Hey, when you are celebrating the New Year at my house these days, everyone can tell that you miss your family. I said it is the fault of this era. You are a college student and you have to look at the problem objectively. And what I said before did not lie to you. In our country The current national situation is like this, generally favoring boys over girls. But China will become internationalized sooner or later, and then your work will really be nothing. Well, this year, I will arrange for you to go to Sijiucheng and study at the Agricultural University there. I'm talking about greenhouse cultivation. There are many international friends there. When the time comes, we will organize some export exhibitions of products so that you can have more exposure to foreigners' ideas. Then you will know whether I am right or wrong."

"Going to Sijiucheng, the capital?"

"Well, although there is an agricultural university in Changcheng, if you are not exposed to the wider world, you will never be able to relax. What's more, there are many experts and professors in Sijiucheng. This scientific research task is actually It’s quite heavy, and you’re not a student of agriculture. So you have to be tougher. This winter, I want to eat vegetables grown by myself in Ngee Ann.”

The cycle of agricultural planting and scientific research is actually more difficult than that of industry. The main thing is that the products have to wait. When they grow and mature, the indoor and outdoor temperatures may have to be deliberately controlled. Even if the research is done, large-scale planting still needs to be planned and set up in advance. In this way, the time spent on scientific research may only be about half a year.

And within half a year, we still have to talk to the school there to establish the project, discuss the direction, and try the variety requirements. It is impossible to grow just one kind of vegetable, and experimental planting records are required. This is different from the research on machinery and equipment. Once you have the drawings, you can immediately process a sample to see if it works, or if it doesn’t, it won’t work. Industrial research spends a lot of time on drawings and design, but the results are produced very quickly. Agricultural research has a very long cycle.

After sending Gao Ru to the staff building and returning, Luo Cheng also simply washed up and got ready for bed. Cousin Wang Yue's arrangement was very simple, asking her to follow Xiaoyu and the others to work in the cinema, do some hygiene, and help keep an eye on the tickets when they were selling them. That’s it.

At night, before going to bed, Luo Cheng was thinking about a question, which was how to get to SH. The automobile factory has its own transportation team, so Luo Cheng also understands why transportation is so slow in this era. Freight drivers are popular because they are popular, but it is indeed hard work.

There are no expressways in the country now, not even national highways. Often the distance from one city to another may be a hundred kilometers in diameter, but if you actually drive, it is normal for the distance to be more than 50%. And many roads only have landmarks and no road instructions.

When running long distances these days, I rely on memorizing the route myself, and I have to constantly ask for directions to unfamiliar places. To be honest, Luo Cheng didn't want to drive to SH City, but he thought about the things he would get from signing in to the system, which would be great gifts. During the Chinese New Year, Luo Cheng also went up the mountain to sign in every day. There was a lot of game and a few snakes were signed for him.

It's convenient to go by train, but for the convenience of giving gifts, I feel like I have to drive there.