Chapter 221 new year's greetings at home

They bought a plane ticket for the morning of the fifth day of the lunar new year and arrived in the provincial capital before lunch. Xia Lin came to pick them up and naturally gave her a roast duck.

Li Jianguo's car was parked in the warehouse, and he drove it out. The family found a small restaurant that was already open and ate at will.

Li Haitang took the time to visit Teacher Qin's house in the provincial military region. After a hasty new year, he only stayed for a cup of tea and left. They planned to rush back to Lee ka tsuen today, so they were in a hurry and didn't stay much longer.

When she passed tan city, she also went to the Liu family and Teacher Zhou's house. Fortunately, she called them last night and they were all at home, so she put down the new year's gift, sat down and talked for a while before leaving.

He returned to Lee ka tsuen at nightfall and had dinner at his third uncle's house. Third aunt Lu Hongyu made a lot of money raising cattle last year, and his eyelids were not so shallow. There were chicken, duck, fish and meat on the table, and he kept telling them to eat more food.

After a long day of running around, everyone was tired. They went home to boil some hot water, washed up and went back to their rooms to rest.

The next day, Li Haitang woke up before the chickens even crowed. This sudden change of place to sleep, she was still a little unaccustomed, lying on the bed and rolling a few times, some couldn't sleep, so she simply turned on the light to get up.

A man lit a stove in the kitchen behind him to burn hot water, and while he was cooking, he was learning a french beginner textbook in his hand, and reading it aloud in a soft voice.

Li Jianguo also got up early. He went to the bathroom in the backyard and saw Li Haitang roasting in the kitchen. He asked with a frown, "Haitang, why are you up so early?"

Li Haitang turned around, "Dad, I slept early last night. I woke up."

"Yes. There's no need to make breakfast. Wait for your second uncle's." Zhao Chunhua had already said last night that they would not open fire to cook today.

"Okay." As soon as he left, Li Haitang continued to read.

Everyone in the family got up one after another. The last one was Li Tao. He came over with his sleepy eyes rubbed and his voice was a little hoarse, "Sister hoi tong, what time did you get up? I heard footsteps outside the door and looked outside. It was dark."

"Actually, it's getting late. It's five o' clock." Li Haitang pointed to the hot water on the stove and urged him, "Go get some water and wash your face. We'll have breakfast at second uncle's later. Don't let them wait too long."

"Oh."

When their family passed, Zhao Chunhua was cooking noodles in the kitchen. Li Hui had just gotten up and brushed his teeth. He called out to them and washed up quickly.

Li Jiangang got up early and cleaned up the sheepfold early in the morning. At this moment, he was feeding the sheep with some crop straws.

Li Haitang walked to the sheepfold and saw that there were six or seven lambs inside. There were only four adult lambs. It seemed that the others were sold years ago. He asked casually, "Second uncle, did your sheep sell in town or in the county?"

"Yes, we don't need much in our town. Last year, your second aunt raised twelve of them at home. Butcher liu came over to buy two and sold them. The other ten were sent to the county by truck when I came back. The county is easy to sell. Ten sheep have been ordered by a rich lord and the price is high." Li Jiangang said this with a smile on his face. Now that the whole family is working together to earn money and the children are obedient, the family has changed greatly in a year or two.

"There aren't many ten sheep. Even if they were sold in bulk, they could probably be sold out in two or three days." In the past few years, many people have gone into the sea to do business, earn money, live a rich life, buy more meat during the new year, and mutton is more scarce, so it is naturally easy to sell.

"Yes, I think dozens more can be sold. It's just that our traffic is not convenient and we don't have a car to deliver the goods, so we can only wait for us to come back and sell them at the end of the year." This year, the eldest brother's family went to the capital to celebrate the new year. They let him and the Li Jianhua brothers drive back in a truck, just to give their home some convenience.

"The other people in the village seem to have started raising sheep and cattle. How do they sell them?"

Li Jiangang poured all the straw into the slot, then called her home. As she walked, she replied, "Most of the village is pig and cow raising, only Ming Tang and wen jian two sheep raising families. They each raised seven or eight sheep. During the dragon boat festival and the mid-autumn festival, they called for tractors to take them to the county and sell half of them. The rest is also shipped to the county to sell when I come back."

"Oh." Seven or eight sheep could earn nearly two thousand yuan a year, which was about the same as working outside. She thought of Ming Tangshu and suddenly asked, "Second uncle, the aunt mei fang introduced to uncle ming the year before last was a matchmaker. It seems that the aunt she introduced is not bad, but Ming Tangshu didn't respond. How is it now?"

"It seems that my eldest brother and sister-in-law forgot to tell you that this matchmaker has been made. The two of them came back at the end of last year to collect their certificates and set up a banquet at home. This sister-in-law is called duan yulan. Apart from being infertile, she is really good. She is very diligent, quick, and good at life. Your third uncle Third uncle is very satisfied with this daughter-in-law. Your uncle ming's son, xiaobo, has no problem with this stepmother."

Li Haitang chuckled, "That's good. Ming Tangshu is diligent and capable. The whole family will live a good life together soon."

"Yes, Ming Tang intends to earn another year this year to rebuild the house. Your third uncle and I have the same plan to build a red brick house like yours." Now building red brick houses is the trend in the countryside. Many people build bungalows, but they still want to build two floors.

While they were chatting and breakfast was ready, Li Lan and Li Ya came out with a happy face and invited everyone to eat together.

While eating, Li Jianguo asked with a smile, "Big brother, is there still a banquet at home this year?"

Li Jianguo shook his head, "I won't do it this year. I'll take the children to every family for the new year. I'll give them a red envelope and give them some new year gifts."

"That's fine. Having a meal is tiring for sister-in-law and the rest of them. They can't rest for a few days at home. Let them relax for two days."

Li Jiangang had already told them not to open fire and cook this year. He had been coming to his house for the past few days. Sister-in-law and haitang had prepared a generous annual gift for them years ago. It was proper to treat them to a few meals.

After breakfast, Liu Fen went home and picked up a few big bags, which contained dozens of small ones. This was a new year's gift to someone else's house. Each family took a bag of white sugar, a bag of red dates, and some dried longan meat, dried cuttlefish and candy. These were very polite in the countryside. Dried cuttlefish and dried longan meat were also brought back from the capital, and they were not available in the provincial capital, but also spent a lot of money. Liu Fen picked all of these, but Li Haitang was the one who rushed to give the money.

First, he went to his relatives' and elders' home, and then began to pay his respects to captain Li Yuanhua. Li Haitang had already set up his own household, and now his household registration had moved to the capital city, which was considered a capital citizen. But this was the real hometown, and he would still come back for the new year when he had time. Instead of giving big bags and small bags their annual gifts, she gave them red envelopes. The children also gave them five yuan new year's bags.

Lunch was at Ming Tangshu's house. Third aunt was very happy this year. She dragged Li Haitang away and told her new daughter-in-law to cook immediately. She served all the chicken, duck, fish and meat at home. Unable to overcome the old man's hospitality, they had to stay for dinner.

Ming Tangshu's son, Li Bo, was ten years old and was still in primary school. He was a very shy and honest child and had a good relationship with Li Tao. The two brothers soon got together. During the meal, she watched him call duan yulan "Mother." She didn't feel uncomfortable at all. She seemed to really like this stepmother.

After dinner, Li Haitang gave Third uncle this year's salary in advance, because Third uncle was in charge of her small orchard, and he helped to plant all the fruit trees. Third uncle refused to accept the money, but she forced it into her pocket.

That night, they had dinner at second uncle's house. Li jianhong and her two daughters came back in the morning. Her shop hasn't opened yet, but the three of them live in town and occasionally go back to their mother's house.

Second uncle went to the big pond of Li Yuanhua's house in the afternoon to cast a net and hit two big grass carp. Tonight, the whole family gathered together to eat fish hotpot like last year.

Li Haitang drove to the town on the seventh day of the first month to pay his respects to Mr. Tang. He had lunch at his teacher's house. In the afternoon, he went to the wang family and had a good chat with the wang family. He also met another acquaintance, Wang Ming Wang Dadun.

Wang Dadun also worked now, working as an accountant in the town's rural credit cooperatives, taking the iron rice bowl that the rural people envied. After Li Yongchun heard of his unique humor, Li Haitang was skeptical of his words and allowed him to talk nonsense.

Before they left, the old couple of the wang family stuffed her with half a trunk of wax. They knew she liked it, and so did all her friends. Every year before the new year, she called them to help them smoke nearly a hundred kilograms and sent them to her friends in the capital.

Li Haitang didn't refuse either. It was only in winter that these things could be smoked. They were left to be eaten slowly in the future and sent to old qi later. Looking at her watch, it was getting late. She waved goodbye and drove back to Lee ka tsuen.

Wang Dadun looked at the car that disappeared at the end of the village and smiled, "The first person in our town to drive a car."

"Hehe, there's more. We are the richest man in Shaoxian." Wang Li added, sighing, "Now that I think about it, it really feels like a dream. I still remember her coming to school the day she broke up with the li family. At that time, she was still thinking about how to make money, but she knitted some bracelets in one afternoon, and then asked her sister-in-law to sell them in the county. She started off by earning two or three yuan a day, and then unknowingly made millions in just five years. It was incredible to think about it."

"Millions?" Wang Dadun's eyes bulged, but he thought carefully, "That's right. There are nearly ten big trucks delivering goods in her shop. They all cost nearly a million, and this small car is estimated to cost about one or two hundred thousand. She bought a big house and car in the capital, and it cost nearly a million. So rich!"

Wang li's mouth twitched. In fact, she was also a little rich woman now. When Su Tong and the others went to Hushi to buy stocks for the first time, Li Haitang called for her to come with them, but at that time, she was in her hometown, so she didn't go. Later, she and her brother went with uncle jianguo, who both earned a lot of money and planned to buy a house and settle down in the provincial capital this year.

Li Jianguo and the others returned to the provincial capital on the eighth day of the lunar new year. Li Haitang stayed at home with Li Tao for two more days. On the eighth day of the lunar new year, he and jin qiao went to shao county prison to visit Li Ting.

Li Ting was doing really well in there. Li Jianguo spent some time and money last year to find a connection and reduce her sentence to five years, just two years before she came out.

Li Tao had never given up on her sister, and now he was studying in Shaoxian. Every half month, he would take time to send her some food, bring her some educational books, tell her about the wonderful lives of the people outside, and urge her to show her a good performance and come out to live again.