Rebirth of the Southern Drift Era

Chapter 379 Another New Year Arrives
"Another year has passed!"

After getting married, I worked a lot, and 2004 passed by in such a hurry.

During the period at the end of the year, Liu Chang was very busy.Accompanying Zhang Xue around her family's relatives, she had to leave her own relatives.

Then I went back to Liu Chang's house to prepare for New Year's Eve. Liu Chang's family had a big reunion this year. Brother Liu Chang brought his wife, plus Liu Qian, and there was a big table, so there were a lot of things to prepare for the New Year.

This is Zhang Xue's first year in the Liu family as the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, so she is a little bit emotional. She always spends the New Year with her parents at this time in previous years. .

"Yeah, another year has passed, and next year we have to hurry up and make people. We will have a few children and put them at home. Find something for Lao Zhang to do, so that the New Year will be lively."

Liu Chang hugged Zhang Xue and replied with a smile.What Zhang Xue was thinking and sighing, he still had a rough guess.Fortunately, relatives are close, so I have to take Zhang Xue to her parents' house on the second day of the new year.

I really want to go, after the year of paying homage in Liujiawan, Liu Chang can go with Zhang Xue to have dinner with Lao Zhang and his wife on the first day of the new year.It's actually quite convenient to have a look.

"How many children? You have to pay a lot of fines."

After listening to Liu Chang's words, Zhang Xuejiao said angrily, this is treating herself like a pig.

On the 28th, there was a snowfall, and now the weather is a bit cold, so the two stayed in the room and didn't go out much.After listening to Liu Chang's words, Zhang Xue couldn't help pinching Liu Chang.

Although Liu Chang was wearing a down jacket, this one still made him grin his teeth.

The more births, the more fines, which is a characteristic of this time.

Although there is Lao Zhang's relationship and Liu Chang's own influence, the ones who should be punished are still indispensable.This makes me give birth to several, how can I do it?
"A fine is a fine. The last thing I worry about now is that I don't have money."

After hearing this, Liu Chang replied with a smile, in fact, this is just talking, there are really too many births, and it feels like a big head.

This type of child is only fun when they are young, and they are very mischievous when they are a little older, and they look big.

In addition, Liu Chang will inevitably appear in public places in the future. If some people with ulterior motives find out that he has given birth to several children, the impact will not be good.

So these are just thoughts, Liu Chang dare not let go of his courage to live.And it depends on the situation of Zhang Xue's first child. If it was not a normal delivery, Liu Chang would not have given birth to the second child.

The experience of caesarean section has too much impact on a woman's body.I am looking for a wife, not a production tool, so this has to be considered.

"Let's go, go downstairs to help. Today's New Year's Eve banquet, you can't stay in the room all the time."

The two chatted for a while, Liu Chang smiled and called Zhang Xue up.Liu Chang's mother is stewing radish soup in the afternoon. After the stew is finished, put it in a jar, and then take a part of it out of it and heat it up when eating later. This kind of soup has to be eaten until the sixth and seventh day of the new year.

This is also a feature of Liu Chang's hometown. The Chinese New Year stew is made of pork, and the soup from the stew is stewed with white radish. The white radish is super sweet after snowing.

When the previous days were not so good, Liu Chang was looking forward to this time.Liu Chang's mother would remove some bones and lean meat for Liu Chang and his three brothers and sisters. They can eat it directly with soy sauce. It feels so good to eat big pieces of meat.

"Happy New Year's Eve!"

This year's New Year's Eve in Liu Chang's family has more people than in previous years, plus Liu Ye's son can now run around, it is also much more lively.The two brothers are not separated, so they still eat and live together, and spend the Spring Festival together.

For the Liu Chang brothers, a house this big is enough for them to live in, and each has a house outside, so it doesn't make any sense to separate families.

Moreover, Liu's father and Liu's mother can still earn a lot of money a year, so the two brothers don't need to worry too much. In addition, the two brothers do not lack money to support their parents, so it is meaningless to separate the family.

"Happy New Year's Eve!"

Liu Chang’s New Year’s Eve dishes are still traditional, a bowl of white radish soup, a bowl of steamed chicken, a bowl of braised pork, and a braised grass carp.

A bowl of tofu vermicelli, a bowl of glutinous rice balls, among the remaining plates, a plate of fried bacon, and a plate of fried beef.Plus a green vegetable and a water tofu.

This year's New Year's Eve dinner was organized by Liu Chang's mother with Xu Ke and Zhang Xue. In fact, Liu Chang's mother was more in charge.Both Zhang Xue and Xu Ke were fighting.

Xu Ke came back early this year because of Liu Chang's marriage, and learned how to make tofu from Liu Chang's mother a few times. Now that she can make tofu by hand, she plans to go to Hunan Impression to do a pilot project as a gimmick.

Zhang Xue is not interested in this, and has no time to learn it.In fact, Liu Chang can also make tofu by himself. In his previous life, he learned from Liu Chang's mother, and he also made fermented bean curd kimchi by himself.

"Happy New Year's Eve! I wish you all a safe and healthy next year."

Although the Liu family didn't drink very much, everyone poured a small glass of grain wine mixed with medicinal herbs this evening, and toasted together to celebrate.

"Tomorrow you all have to get up early, everyone in Liujiawan will go to the ancestral hall tomorrow, and then go out together to pick greens on the mountain."

After dinner, Liu Chang's family sat in the lobby to watch the Spring Festival Gala. At this time, Liu Chang's father remembered what happened in Wanli, and explained that Liu Chang's brothers, Zhang Xue, Xu Ke, and Liu Ye's son would all go to attend.

This is a group activity in Liujiawan. As everyone has a little money over the years, it has become more and more grand in recent years.I pray that in the new year, everyone in the bay will be safe and healthy.As a newly married daughter-in-law, Zhang Xue really couldn't be less.

"Oh, I see."

As people grow up, the Spring Festival at home is more lively in just a few days.

Year [-], first day, second day.

After these three days, those who pay New Year's greetings go to New Year's greetings, and those who go to work go to work, and the family will not be so lively.

In the future, the feeling of celebrating the new year will only get weaker and weaker year by year. It seems that the New Year is just sitting together to eat and drink, and then the relatives are gone after leaving. There is no sense of expectation at all.

Only Liu Chang and the others looked forward to the Chinese New Year when they were young, because there are meat and fish to eat during the New Year, and they can play with firecrackers without going to school. These things are usually hard to get.

But now, every family is good at eating meat and fish, and they can eat it every day if they want to.I even got tired of eating meat and just wanted to be vegetarian.So the expectations for the Chinese New Year gradually faded.

Coupled with the prohibition of setting off fireworks and firecrackers everywhere in the future, and running around in order to live, for most people during the New Year, there will only be fewer and fewer things left to look forward to.

"I heard that the higher-ups are considering our temple fairs, trips, grass dragon lantern festivals on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, dragon head raising on the second day of February, and third days of March, plus dragon boat rowing on the Dragon Boat Festival. Material culture. Now the brigade is also considering how to make it formal and lively.”

Going out to pick greens is on the first day of the first lunar month. This is done in every village.

There are three temple fairs on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the second day of February, and the 23rd of May. This is almost a brigade.

There is no limit to the grass dragon dance on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It seems that people in the whole town will do it.

The dragon lantern made directly out of straw, and then danced and played.

On March [-]rd, Yangliu boiled eggs.

For the people in Liu Chang's hometown, this day will be more particular, boiled eggs with water willow for children, and vegetables and meat porridge.

Next is the Ching Ming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the lunar new year in June, the Zhongyuan in July, the Mid-Autumn Festival in August and the Double Ninth Festival in September.

Except for October and November, there are no festivals, and there are festivals in each of the remaining twelve months of the year.

But this was in the past. In the past, there were delicious things to eat during festivals, so I was more impressed with festivals.

Now I have good food to eat every day, and I feel less and less about these days.

In particular, most people don't rely on farming anymore, and they can't even think of some traditional festivals.

"It's pretty good to do it. Otherwise, the young people in the family may know that there will be fewer and fewer people in these days."

Intangible culture is actually applied for two purposes, one is to hope that this kind of inheritance can be passed on, so that it will not be buried.

The other most important thing is to attract more people to come and see and vigorously develop the tourism economy.It's actually really good that Liu Chang and the others are doing this here.

There are many scenic spots around, but there is a lack of opportunity.If all these are connected and under unified planning, there may be more economic sources in the future.

It is still worse to rely entirely on agriculture.Due to geographical reasons, the industrial park cannot be expanded.But also to consider the environmental reasons, tourism economy is very necessary here.

"Yeah, that's why the brigade is stricter on certain things now. By then, all the houses here will be built in a unified way. Now He Jiachong has already started to build houses in a unified way. Those who have money pay, and the brigade who don't have money will pay first. Then, the rest of the money will be deducted from the annual income. Apart from these, we will have to cultivate this kind of land in the future.”

Liu Chang's father didn't know about it, but Liu Chang already knew about it.When Liu Hu and the others first thought this way, Liu Chang knew it.

The Liu family's fields were not wasted, but Liu Chang's father's energy has been devoted to the reservoir these years.The cultivated land at home is all hired for help, so he has no objection to the brigade's unified cultivation.

After unified farming, the annual agricultural subsidies are distributed to each individual on an acre basis.Then use the land as a share, and after deducting all the expenses, you can earn as many points as you earn in a year, which is much better than the land being abandoned.

Moreover, cultivated land can be used intensively, which is also very beneficial for large-scale planting of some economic crops.

"After Liu Hu became our brigade secretary, he still did a lot of things."

Liu Ye didn't know much about Liu Hu and Liu Chang's past.He just knew that Liu Hu had indeed done a lot of things after he took office, and after listening to Father Liu's words, he praised him accordingly.

"He is much better than the previous brigade cadres. We didn't know before that when the old people in the brigade got old, there were some subsidies from above. But in those years, the old people in the brigade, as well as the widowed and lonely old people, did not receive these. After Xiaohu took office , now the elderly in the brigade can receive a little money during the Chinese New Year, as well as oil and rice. The surrounding villagers are full of praise for him, and it would be great if he was made the secretary of the brigade earlier.”

In fact, don't talk about such relatively secret things, even some slightly less secret things, Liu Chang's father will not be the first person to know, he is just like this, and he doesn't know how to exploit.

In fact, there is a lot of money to subsidize farmers, but most of the rural farmers are not aware of these policies, and the rural cadres conceal them, so only some well-informed people can enjoy these benefits, and few others.

The most outrageous thing is the subsistence allowance. Many widowed and lonely elderly people cannot enjoy the subsistence allowance, but some relatives of village cadres are living a good life, but they can enjoy the subsistence allowance. This is the most deceitful thing.

"I don't remember if I don't mention this, Dad. From next year, the two of us will contribute some money to the widowed and lonely old people in the brigade. Those who have children will forget it."

Hearing Liu's father talk about this, Liu Chang thought of something and told Liu Ye.There are about a dozen widowed and lonely elderly in their brigade, and each person is paid two thousand a year, which actually doesn't cost much.

It's nothing for the two brothers to pay this little money, it's just to save themselves a good reputation.The country gives these people some subsistence allowances every year, and the brothers and sisters add some money, just to make these old people's lives better.

"Happy New Year!"

The father and son chatted until the end of the Spring Festival Gala, and then said New Year's blessings to each other, and then started to set off firecrackers to welcome the God of Wealth, which is their custom here.

After the thirty-two o'clock of the new year, the sound of firecrackers in the surrounding households has not stopped, one after another, until dawn, they are busy welcoming the God of Wealth.

This year, Liu Chang didn't receive any red envelopes at his house during the Chinese New Year. At home, only Liu Ye's son and Liu Qian received them, and so did Zhang Xue.If Liu Chang wanted to get a red envelope, he had to go to relatives to get it. This was a newcomer's visit.

When you go to a relative's house to pay New Year's greetings, you have to give someone a red envelope first, and then the other person has to add a little to the original red envelope.Whether it is a relative of Liu Chang's family or Zhang Xue's family, this red envelope is indispensable.

"Happy New Year!"

On the morning of the first day of the new year, at Liu Chang's hometown, he couldn't eat meat, he had to be a vegetarian.For example, deep-fried meatballs, glutinous rice cakes mixed with sugar, etc.After the ancestral hall has finished worshiping the ancestors and came back after harvesting the greens, we will walk around the whole Liujiawan to pay New Year's greetings, and then have lunch.

After Liu Chang had lunch at home, he drove to the city with Zhang Xue to pay New Year's greetings to Lao Zhang and his wife.Lao Zhang and his wife didn't go out that day, as if they knew that Liu Chang and the others would come, they were waiting at home.

"Happy New Year to you too, and you want to give birth to your precious son early."

Lao Zhang didn't live in the original residence, and now he has moved to Julong Mountain Villa, and left a house for Liu Chang and the other two.Here, it has now become the real most popular place in the city.

Except for the land that Lao Zhang has already won, the land prices in other places have risen accordingly, which makes the land in Lao Zhang's hands quadruple without doing anything.

There are large supermarkets, shuttle buses in the city, cinemas and other high-end consumer areas. The green environment here is much better than that in the urban area.

There is no black dust brought by passing coal trucks, and there are various well-maintained greenery, which makes this place completely different from the city.Coupled with the convenient transportation, the surrounding area of ​​Julong Villa has become more and more prosperous.

(End of this chapter)