A different life with a system reborn

Chapter 73 Report
In the first year of junior high school, Zhao Dongsheng followed his father to visit various houses in the village to pay New Year greetings. Every house had to sit down, say some auspicious New Year greetings, and then smoke a cigarette and drink tea.

Zhao Dongsheng, who is on the first day of the new year, has received the most New Year red envelopes. They are all given by the old people in the village. The money is not much, ranging from five yuan to ten yuan. They are carefully wrapped in traditional red paper.

Zhao Dongsheng happily accepted them. These were the blessings of the old people. Everyone was happy after accepting them, and the old people's smiles became even brighter.

The first grade of junior high school passed like this. In the morning of the second grade of junior high school, he warmed himself by the fire at home. After lunch, because the sun was just right, he and his second sister and his third sister moved a table to bask in the sun on the sun valley flat in front of the house.

Seeing Xiang Yong passing behind the house carrying a backpack and sitting on his brother's motorcycle, he didn't think much about it.

Today is the day when my eldest sister and brother-in-law come back to pay New Year greetings. Every year, they come after lunch on the second day of the lunar new year. He has to prepare to set off firecrackers to welcome her.

Just as I was thinking about it, the eldest brother-in-law rode a motorcycle from a distance. As soon as he parked the car, the eldest brother-in-law picked up the firecrackers hanging in front and walked to the side to set them off.

"Dad, Mom, I'm here to wish you a happy New Year~"

The eldest brother-in-law shouted loudly, and his parents came out.

"Grandpa, grandma, uncle, and aunt, I wish you a happy New Year. Happy New Year~"

The niece Liu Ya was carried off the motorcycle by the eldest sister. She was wrapped like a rice dumpling and looked like her father, a scholar. She bowed her hands and shouted loudly.

When he called his uncle, his big eyes looked at Zhao Dongsheng with twinkling eyes, and his bowed hands unconsciously turned into a clasping posture.

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year~"

"Kiss, not just New Year's greetings, but also kissing."

Everyone was blessing each other, Zhao Dongsheng picked up Liu Ya and put his face close to her.

"Bah~ Happy New Year, uncle~" Liu Ya chirped and kissed Zhao Dongsheng hard, covering Zhao Dongsheng's face with saliva.

"Hahahaha, okay, come and uncle will give you a New Year's red envelope, and we can keep it to buy exercise books when we grow up."

Zhao Dongsheng laughed and took out a prepared red envelope and gave it to Liu Ya.

"Thank you, uncle. Let me go, I'm going down." Liu Ya took the red envelope and twisted it in Zhao Dongsheng's arms. She planned to retreat as soon as she got the red envelope.

The family sat outside in the sun and chatted.

"I just saw Xiang Yong. Judging from his appearance, he should be going out."

The eldest brother-in-law was cracking melon seeds and smoking a cigarette, and talked about what he had just seen.

"Going out in the second year of junior high school, I saw it just now, passing by behind our house"

Zhao Dongsheng started talking, while the eldest sister and the three of them stretched out their hands and looked at their nails, discussing the problem of dry skin.

"Hey, of course I have to go out. Last night, I heard that he lost tens of thousands of yuan in one night. All the money he earned in two years outside was exported at once."

The eldest brother-in-law also likes to play cards, but he doesn't play that much. However, he has no luck with cards and loses a lot every year. This is why the eldest sister wants to go out to work with her eldest brother-in-law every year.

"Ah, he also won money. These heartless people, how can they bear with Xiang Yong's hard-earned money from working outside."

My mother was the most soft-hearted and couldn't help but curse when she heard this.

"Xiang Yong is honest, but he has a soft ear. He will play cards as soon as others persuade him, and he will lose as soon as he gets the upper hand."

The eldest brother-in-law said a few words with emotion. I have seen these things a lot, and they didn't happen to me, so I just said a few words with emotion.

"You should find a wife to take care of you"

Mom continued talking on the side.

"What's the use of my wife being in charge? Look at Liu Man, he still has a wife? Isn't he also playing cards everywhere?"

The eldest sister couldn't help but interrupt when she heard it, the Liu Man he was talking about was the eldest brother-in-law.

"Why are you talking about me? We will go out to work in a few days. I will quit playing cards then."

The eldest brother-in-law may also have been stimulated by Xiang Yong's story, and he talked about quitting gambling.

Only Zhao Dongsheng here knows that the eldest brother-in-law has done it. In the following days, apart from playing cards with the family, he never went out to play cards every day like before, and the days became better and better.

Watching them chatting in the sun, Zhao Dongsheng walked into the room silently, locked the door, and took out his mobile phone from the bottom of the drawer.

After thinking for a while, he still dialed the phone.

"Hello, I want to report that someone gathers a crowd to gamble, and the amount is huge, and there are many people. The address is..."

After making the call, Zhao Dongsheng put away his phone silently, then made a few cups of tea and took it out to a few people basking in the sun, hiding his merit and fame.

At night, Zhao Dongsheng didn't hear any movement. Playing cards during the New Year in rural areas is actually a relatively common thing, and the current management is not as strict as that of later generations.

The village knew that someone was opening a casino or card hall, but they would not let family members go, but they did not take any more measures, so these small casinos can survive to this day.

Only Zhao Dongsheng knows that as long as it is a formal call to the police, the police will come to deal with it. Those on duty during the Chinese New Year are boring. If they have the credit of being sent to their door in vain, these police uncles will only be happier during the New Year.

Early the next morning, when Zhao Dongsheng was still in the warm bed, the sound of firecrackers was everywhere outside.

When Zhao Dongsheng got dressed and walked out, he saw his father already in the living room.

"What's going on, dad? Why are firecrackers being set off everywhere at this time." It's normal to set off firecrackers at any time during the day during the Chinese New Year, but it's abnormal to start setting off firecrackers so early before dawn, so Zhao Dongsheng got up.

"Haha, it's okay. I just called and asked. The card-playing place under the old cement factory in the next village was raided by the police. I heard that many people were arrested. Now those who set off firecrackers are happy and can't help celebrating. .”

Dad said with a smile, he couldn't stand these people's small gambling, these people's gambling makes many people feel uneasy during the New Year.

"Dad, we won't bring any firecrackers when we go to worship the mountains today. It hasn't rained for a long time. It's not safe to bring firecrackers to the mountains for fear of catching fire."

What Zhao Dongsheng said about paying homage to the mountains is actually to pay homage to the graves. Going to the tombs of ancestors to pay homage is also considered as paying homage to the New Year. However, during the Chinese New Year, if it is not nice to say worshiping the graves, it is called paying homage to the mountains.

"Well, okay, we'll go when your eldest sister and your uncle come over."

Dad thought for a moment and agreed with Zhao Dongsheng. He knew very well the seriousness of the Baishan fire.

In the morning, when everyone gathered, my father took the whole family and set off to visit the mountain. Only my mother was at home to prepare meals.

Those who went to pay homage were only a few direct relatives. They worshiped at two hills near the village. Zhao Dongsheng and his three sisters kowtowed a few times, and then placed a stack of paper money in front of the grave. There were no firecrackers, no Scented candles, every year.

In fact, father and uncle bring them here every year, more to let them remember the place where their ancestors were buried.

In case decades later, no one will remember, and these people will really pass away by then.

(End of this chapter)