I went back to my grandma's house today. I have adapted well every year. Apart from being a bit unfamiliar at first, I can play with my uncle and aunt later on.
Li Lijun told her a story with a picture book, and she was very fascinated every year. She stayed in her aunt's arms, and Yiyi talked to her very intimately.
Zhao Yong didn't get to hold his daughter twice today. He was always held by family members.
Li Manjun felt that it was inappropriate to pamper her so much, but Zhao Yong felt that it was good to let the child feel more love and care just once a year.
There was no need to think about going to work tomorrow. The night they slept in Heather Town, Li Manjun's family of three had no dreams until dawn.
It's a bit strange when I wake up and find that Nian Nian, who was sleeping in the middle of my sleep, woke up early but didn't say a word.
Li Manjun knew her daughter well and reached out to touch the little girl's buttocks. The diaper was a heavy bag of urine, and it was soaked into the hem of her clothes.
No wonder there was no noise or fuss, it turned out to be something bad.
Fortunately, I brought enough clothes, so I changed out of them, washed my butts, and put on the red cotton-padded jacket New Year suit made by my grandma again. The family didn't set off until after ten in the morning.
There is no one to care about the countryside. A family of seven, six adults and one child, squeezed into a car and came to Hongxing Village.
The back seat is spacious, and although Wang Xiaojuan and Li Lijun are on the thin side, it is not too crowded for the four of them, Li Manjun, mother and son.
On the way, Li Manjun also saw something even more exaggerated than his own, a large family of eleven or twelve people sitting in a van.
As expected, I couldn't finish the food Wang Xiaojuan cooked yesterday. I didn't want to waste it, so I picked out two bowls and took them back to my hometown. As for the shrimp balls, Li Xiaoniu and Nannan finished five or six of them each.
Country people are not so particular. Shrimp balls are a good thing. Qian Shufen feels that her younger siblings are more energetic this year and have more smiles on their faces.
Knowing that the second child's family was coming back to celebrate the New Year, Qian Shufen and her daughter-in-law prepared the dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner a few days ago. They just had to heat them up when they wanted to eat. The work in the kitchen was much lighter than the previous year.
This year the truck driver business is good, Li Daniu made some money, and even replaced all the old furniture at home, making the house bright and bright.
However, she never dared to mention the idea of separating the family. Ren Yan wanted to live separately. However, this year, because Li Daniu made a lot of money and bought big things for the family, her mother-in-law was very kind to her, so she never found the time to propose it.
The couple later thought that it was not cost-effective to buy another house in their hometown, so they might as well rent a house in the city like Li Manjun and his wife.
The fragrance is far away and the smell is close. Maybe it will be better if we are far apart, and it will also be convenient for my daughter to go to school.
Nannan is over five years old this year. She grew up in the countryside, running all over the mountains and plains. She is dark and thin. There is no kindergarten or primary school in the village. Preschool education is zero. Her speech and reaction are a bit slow.
Li Daniu often went to the city and felt very uncomfortable when he saw that the children in other cities could recite ancient poems and express their thoughts fluently at the age of four or five.
Now that we can't bring up the word "separating a family", we might as well take my wife and daughter to the city, let the children go to kindergarten, and learn more.
If possible, buy a house in the city, and your children will become city babies from now on.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sat together in small groups and chatted about the busy year and plans for the future.
Ren Yan asked several times about schooling in the city, and Li Manjun guessed that her cousin might have had the idea of leaving the small mountain village and wanted to go out and have a try.
This is a good thing, and Li Manjun fully supports it.
When people go out, they see more and become more knowledgeable, and their thinking becomes broader.
Her grandparents' thinking has been fixed and she can't change it, and her uncle and aunt have no hope of changing it either.
But Li Daniu’s generation is very promising!
Li Manjun didn't think too much, she just wanted to be more harmonious among her relatives at home and hear less complaints from her mother.
He reached out and poked at Zhao Yong, who was talking to Old Man Li about the great changes in the country, and asked in a low voice: "Can those who do not have a local household registration go to the kindergarten in Rongcheng?"
While Zhao Yong responded to Old Man Li's inquiry and said yes, yes, yes, he replied to his wife, "This can be done with a little money."
"Where's the elementary school?"
"Same." Zhao Yong winked at his wife. These days, whoever has money is the boss. This kind of problem is not within the scope of their family's consideration.
Li Manjun glanced at him and drifted away.
He turned to look at his cousin-in-law with expectant eyes and whispered to her:
"Kindergarten is easy to get into, but elementary school may be a bit troublesome, but if you spend some money to explore, you should be able to borrow a class."
Ren Yan breathed a long sigh of relief, hope burst out from her eyes, and her eyes were shining brightly.
He beckoned his daughter Nannan over and asked her to recite Tang poems to her eldest aunt.
When Li Daniu came back from the city, he bought pinyin cards and children's preschool books. Ren Yan used them to teach her daughter and found that her daughter learned quite quickly.
Since they started teaching her to read and read poems, Ren Yan and his wife found that their daughter's language expression became clearer, and they became more attentive to teaching her.
But don't let Qian Shufen and Mrs. Li see it, otherwise they will hear unpleasant words.
"She is just a girl. What's the use of learning these things? I don't even know if she can get into junior high school in the future."
"If you want me to see it, you don't have to go to school. Although my daughter is small, she is quite strong. Why don't you stay at home and help her weed pigs? When she gets older, she can be sent to school to learn a few words."
Already."
When Nannan heard what her great-aunt and grandma said, her dark little hands hugged the literacy card her father bought back tightly, and she stamped her feet angrily: "No! Nannan wants to learn!"
Although she is young, she also knows that other children in the village do not have literacy cards to read, and she is the only one who has them. This is something that makes her friends very envious, so she studies very seriously.
The two old ladies looked at each other, shook their heads and looked at her funny, as if they were laughing at her for not knowing the complexity of the world and being too naive.
"Goose and goose, singing to the sky, white hair floating on the green water, anthurium stirring the clear waves..."
Nannan loudly recited the ancient poems she had just learned to her eldest aunt. She spoke Mandarin with a strong accent, but she acted very confident.
Her aunt's encouraging eyes made her straighten her back and recite more smoothly.
Nian Nian, who was being held by her aunt, immediately turned her head and looked towards the speaker. When she saw her sister reciting loudly, she also started talking along with A Yi to attract the adults' attention.
Nannan was interrupted by her younger sister and got stuck in reciting. She glanced at her eldest aunt shyly, then looked back at Nian Nian with slight annoyance: "My younger sister interrupted me."
Seeing that her niece looked like she was about to cry, Li Manjun hurriedly coaxed her: "Nanny did very well today. She was able to recite so many ancient poems even though she was being interfered by her sister. She is amazing."
"Sister, she didn't mean to disturb her. She was attracted by the ancient poems you recited, and she wanted her to recite them with her."
Nannan tilted her head, "Auntie, is that true? My sister also wants to learn?"
"That's right." Li Manjun nodded and pointed at Nian Nian, who was looking at her sister excitedly. "Look, she stopped when you stopped."
Nannan immediately became happy and said a little embarrassedly: "Then I teach my sister to recite ancient poems?"
Li Manjun patted her shoulder and said, "Go ahead."