kingnovel Chapter 372 The worldly atmosphere (5)
Chapter 372 The worldly atmosphere (5)
Song Jinhan ordered a pig before the New Year, giving half to relatives and friends and keeping the other half for a buffet.
A big pot of stew with plenty of pork and vermicelli, stewed tofu, fried tofu, spicy tofu, and pot-fried tofu. Even though tofu accounts for half of the dish, it is already a top-notch meal in rural areas.
Life is hard nowadays. Eating tofu a few times a month is considered an improvement in food, not to mention meat. Many families save their meat coupons to make dumplings during the Chinese New Year.
There are also radish meatball soup, cold shredded carrots, sweet egg soup, and the most popular among children, eight-treasure cake, which contains peanuts, red dates and raisins, and tastes sweet and delicious.
Each person was given two cornmeal steamed buns.
There were meat and vegetables, hot and cold, sweet and spicy dishes, and everyone was very satisfied with the whole meal.
All the bowls and plates that were stained with meat were licked clean by the children and did not need to be washed at all. Yun Tinglan felt a little sad seeing this.
Fortunately, this year is 77. In 78, Anhui was hit by a severe drought. In order to survive, Xiaogang Village took the risk to implement the "contracting production to groups and households" policy, and adhered to the principle of "ensuring the state's share, leaving enough for the collective, and the rest for everyone", which thoroughly stimulated everyone's enthusiasm and ushered in a bumper harvest.
This is the beginning of contracting responsibility.
This was the first case in which Xiaoqiao Village did not have the right time, place, and people, and was not forced into a desperate situation. Not many people were willing to work together and take risks. Anyway, they would not starve to death, but at most they would not have enough to eat.
This is people's general desire for stability.
When the facts are laid out before them, they will always be moved, and then life will get better.
While Yun Tinglan was accepting everyone's blessings, her mind was wandering and she was thinking about all sorts of things. It was really boring.
Everyone knew that she was weak, so Song Jinhan took over the task of toasting. She just moved the pendant and pulled the back of his clothes. He took a step and she followed, her face stiff with smile.
Everyone joked, "Oh, they can't bear to be separated for even a moment, they wish they could be conjoined twins."
"It's our honeymoon."
Everyone started to cheer and laugh.
What is Yun Tinglan afraid of? They are an old couple. What's wrong with them sticking together? It's not against the law.
Of course, most of these smiles were well-intentioned, and Yun Tinglan simply ignored the occasional glaring glances.
Yun Duoer had been displeased with her for a long time, but what could she do? She was just furious. She had long since destroyed the blood relationship with Yun Changshan, and Yun Changshan only showed her respect, not to mention her cousin who had just met him halfway.
Although the original owner died in an accident due to his weak body, Yun Duoer is also somewhat responsible.
Anyway, Yun Duo'er is here, there is no such person. Don't tell her that "you can't write two flower characters with one stroke", a flower character requires more than one stroke.
As for the young intellectual, she felt that she had robbed her lover, which was even more ridiculous. Just because you know someone, does that person belong to you? Do you have to marry him/her?
There is no such thing in this world.
Yun Duo'er had no idea what Yun Tinglan was thinking. Her mind and eyes were filled with the down jacket on Yun Tinglan. She had seen this jacket on TV and heard that it cost three or four hundred yuan, which was something they could not earn even after working for a whole year. Yet Yun Tinglan just bought it.
This is the life she wants, but why does everyone treat such a sickly person differently?
Yun Duoer drooped her eyelids, looked droopy, and was in a very bad mood.
As pregnant women, Jiang Yue'er and Ye Lihua were arranged to sit at the next table to eat according to taboos, but they acted as if nothing happened and divided the dishes and poured them into the enamel basins they brought with them.
It would be a lie to say that I don't blame my parents-in-law in my heart. Every family has its conflicts and there are always quarrels between tongues and teeth. How can I really divide the family property so neatly?
The key point is that after the separation, the old couple's life is getting better and better, but their own life has become tight. Now that the family is going to have a new baby, they naturally have to plan their lives carefully.
As for gift giving? That's a man's thing, they don't know.
Jiang Yue'er didn't dare to provoke him, but was reluctant to bleed. Anyway, Yun Hu was there, and no matter how hard she tried to curry favor with him, she was Yun Tinglan's sister-in-law. She knew it in her heart and was fearless.
Ye Lihua really had no money. A few years ago, her family wrote to her saying that her younger brother was getting married, and the bride's request for a dowry was too high, so they asked her to contribute some money.
She was not happy about it, but the letter said that her future sister-in-law was the daughter of the director of a fertilizer factory, and if the marriage went through, it would be easy for her to return to the city.
Ye Lihua gritted her teeth and mailed back fifty yuan. She didn't have any money left. Anyway, her younger sister and the others were not short of money. Besides, they had Yunchuan. She didn't believe that he didn't have some secret stash of money.
Yunchuan really didn't have any. Now that his wife was pregnant, he had to get some good nutritional supplements. In the past, when his mother was around, he didn't have to worry about these things at all, but now he can't!
His mother was obviously really sad and had completely abandoned his family. He felt very wronged and was completely implicated by his second son. But what could he do? The family had already been divided. Could he abandon his wife? Or ignore his children?
Both ends...you have to take care of one of them.
His parents were still in good health, and he had his younger brother's husband to support him, but he was the only one with his wife and children. So he bought some fine grains to improve their meals with the little money he had.
But it would be wrong for the eldest brother to not give anything as a gift for his sister's wedding. Even if his mother didn't scold him, he would feel guilty about it. So he gritted his teeth and borrowed eight dollars from the second brother and bought a pair of Double Happiness enamel basins.
Yunhu is rich and knows how to behave. He openly gave me a pair of thermoses and secretly gave me fifty yuan. Of course, Jiang Yue'er didn't know about this.
Here, Yunluoer and Liu Zhicheng also came.
Second Uncle Yun was so angry that he jumped up and wanted to curse. Yun Changan, who was sitting next to him, pushed him down with a fake smile and said, "Second brother, you want to go to the toilet."
That sight made Yun Changhe shiver and he instantly turned into a quail. He cursed in his heart and turned back to settle the score with that damn girl Yun Luoer. The occasional glances he gave her were filled with calculations.
As for Second Aunt Yun, news came from her parents' home that her mother was seriously ill, so she went back to take care of people.
Yun Huaer and his wife simply never came back.
She and Yin Dalong received the news that Yun Tinglan and others would be back in the evening of the sixth day of the New Year, so they helped to light the stove and prepare food in advance before going to the train station to pick them up.
I had already told Yun Tinglan that I would not be coming today.
The couple is hiding from Uncle Yun and his friends. The general perception is that there are all good parents in the world, and Uncle Yun naturally occupies the moral high ground.
It is both reasonable and legal to let the daughter take care of the elderly in their old age. This is a responsibility that Yun Huaer and her husband cannot escape.
But in fact, once the two of them brought Uncle Yun and Aunt Yun into the city, they would inevitably not be able to get rid of Yun Duoer and Lei Jun.
Even if Yun Huaer agreed out of pity, Yin Dalong would still not be willing. He could give the pension of ten yuan a month, but the person would not serve him.
Uncle Yun and Aunt Yun are both under fifty, far from needing to be served. After they had a fight several times, Yin Dalong just kept dragging his feet and refusing to pay them, and kept pinching them, so the couple had no choice but to compromise.