Time flies by, and suddenly I look back and it’s the end of another year.

As soon as New Year's Day passed, it was Spring Festival in a blink of an eye. The weather was getting colder and colder, and the northwest wind was blowing on my face like a knife.

Entering winter, Jichun began to run out of coal as usual, and we often heard news that there was another quarrel over coal somewhere.

After autumn, Wang Lidong found connections and got six tons of Jixi coal. He sent out trucks in time to catch up with the National Day, and each family got a share, so there was no need to worry about coal throughout the winter.

On this day, three kids were clamoring to ride a "children's tricycle". This thing is not complicated. Wang Lidong happened to have nothing to do. He hadn't done carpentry work for a long time, and his hands were a little itchy.

I found tools that I hadn't used for a long time, got some red pine wood from the lumber factory, and spent two days making three tricycles with my own hands.

At the front wheel, press the bearing bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, install the pedal, and a brand new wooden tricycle is completed.

The three little guys were scrambling for the first place. Wang Lidong shouted, "What does daddy usually teach you?"

The three bean sprouts immediately lined up in a row. Wang Lidong pushed the eldest boy, and the little guy excitedly sat on the tricycle. He kicked his calves and with a 'plop', he flipped over.

Zhou's mother felt very distressed and stepped forward to help her grandson. Wang Lidong hurriedly called to his mother to stop him. It is normal for children to fall and beat. Don't just go up and help him.

The boss also tried his best and didn't cry. He sat up and helped the tricycle up. After getting on the bus, he didn't use all his strength. The tricycle swayed and moved forward at a turtle speed.

Then I pressed the bearings and pedals on the other two cars. After a while, the living room was full of chickens and dogs, and the bells were ringing. My father-in-law twitched in distress when he saw that his precious purple clay teapot was knocked over by his grandson and fell to the ground in two pieces.

corner of mouth.

"Go play outside," Wang Lidong quickly pushed the three monkeys into the small courtyard.

My mother-in-law and my mother-in-law were not worried and followed me out together.

The father-in-law waited for Wang Lidong to sweep away the debris on the floor, then told him to sit down, "Are you going to hang out like this until graduation?"

Within a few days of his freshman year, my son-in-law completely let himself go, did not concentrate on his studies, and often missed classes. The teacher in charge turned a blind eye because of his reputation and his status as the number one scholar.

This has caused dissatisfaction among many teachers and students.

Fortunately, my son-in-law was very upbeat, and every time he took the final exam, his grades were all perfect. Students ultimately relied on their grades, and "scores" were the last word, so the dissatisfied discussions gradually subsided.

Wang Lidong smoked a cigarette and said, "Dad, I have published several books in the past year or so. How can I call it a fool's errand?"

"I'm not doing my job properly." My father-in-law took a puff of cigarette, "I like writing novels so much. I should have majored in Sihai Literature or Chinese Language as my first choice."

"I didn't even drop out of the professional courses." Wang Lidong took a puff of cigarette, "Isn't it true that private companies are not allowed to open factories now? When the country is liberalized, I will open a machinery manufacturing factory. Applying what I have learned is the best way to study.

method."

My father-in-law was surprised, "After graduation, are you going to start a business?"

"Our country is in desperate need of development. In one word, it is 'poor'. Dad, you are planning to research new pig breeds, but it has been almost a year since you applied for funding, and it has not been approved yet. It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others. If

You have money, why don't you lower yourself and ask grandpa to tell grandma to throw away three melons and two dates?"

“Isn’t this the integration of industry, academia and research by Lao Mo?”

"In the late 1950s, Xiaozhi's universities began to combine industry, academia and research. Since the 1960s, Xiaozhi's economy has developed rapidly." Wang Lidong flicked the ashes of his cigarette, "Mere research without transformation is a huge disaster.

Waste*, turn the results into profits, and then invest in research to form a virtuous circle, only in this way can we go a long way.

Dad, the several kinds of pig, cattle and sheep feeds you have developed in the past few years are quite marketable. They are low cost and have good fattening effects. If they are put into production and put on the market, they will definitely have sales."

My father-in-law is not an old-fashioned person, and he is troubled by research funding. But thinking of the above style, the little flame that just sprouted was extinguished to the last dregs.

"Our world is different from our childhood. Let's talk about this later."

"In two years, I will start a business, and you can just do research and count money..."

At this time, Zhou's mother pushed open the door and walked into the house. She happily waved the telegram in her hand and reported, "Kun'er, your dad has telegraphed, saying that he will go home for the New Year this year."

Wang Lidong received the telegram, which contained only one line: "Arrived home on the 25th, Zhou Zhigang."

"Your eldest brother and second sister will also go home to celebrate the New Year this year." Mother Zhou was very excited. It has been ten years. After 69 years, their family has not been reunited again. She thought that in two days, her eldest son and second daughter would be back.

Well, there was no one living in the old house, so Zhou's mother couldn't sit still.

It's too late today, she plans to go back to her old house tomorrow, "Kun'er, when you go back tomorrow, take two baskets of coal back, and bring some of your cured ham and sausages. The day after tomorrow, let's buy some fresh pork and fry some meat.

ball...."

Wang Lidong had no interest in going back to that miserable place. He interrupted my mother's thoughts loudly, "Mom, if you don't stop me from going back, I won't go back with you."

"Kun'er, don't make trouble. Your father finally came back. How can father and son have an overnight feud? Xiao Xigua (the nickname of the third child) and the others are almost two years old, and they haven't met their grandfather yet."

"My dad has legs, but it's not like he can't walk. If he wants to see Little Watermelon and the others, he can just come to my house to see them. I didn't stop him from seeing them..."

"You kid, how..."

The mother and son had a quarrel over whether they would return to their old home during the Chinese New Year. Seeing that neither of them would let the other go, Fu Jinshan took the initiative to persuade them. Then the topic changed and he talked about the meeting between the parents of the two families.

My daughter and son-in-law have been married for so many years, but he has never met his father-in-law. This time, his father-in-law came back from Guizhou for the New Year, and they just happened to meet. "Mother, what day is convenient for you?"

Zhou's mother thought for a moment, and her family didn't have many relatives here. According to Jichun's tradition, they don't go out on the first day of the new year, but start visiting relatives on the second day of the new year. "My father-in-law, what do you think of the second year of the new year?"

"Okay," Fu Jinshan glanced at his son-in-law and agreed with Zhou's mother that he would go to Zhou's house to visit his father-in-law on the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year.

.......

The next day, Zhou's mother carried some New Year's goods and clothes packed overnight, took her granddaughter on the bus, and returned to Guangzichi, which she had not returned for a long time.

In the past two years, the Zhou family has been prospering. All three children have gone to college. The eldest son's father-in-law has become the leader of their province. The relationship between the Zhou family and their neighbors has undergone some subtle changes.

When the neighbors saw Zhou's mother, they were even more polite and polite, but there was a hint of alienation in their politeness.

In the past, everyone was of the same class. They ate coarse grains, slept on earthen kangs, and used dry latrines.

But now the gap is getting wider and wider. In two or three years, after graduation, the Zhou brothers and sisters will all enter public institutions. They have high diplomas and connections, and their career will be just around the corner.

There is a common problem in the world. When others are in trouble, they are willing to help. But when others get better and prosper, many people feel uncomfortable and unbalanced.

On the surface, he was becoming more and more polite, but behind his back, there were more and more gossips about everything. Most of them were focused on Zhou Bingyi, who were envious and jealous of him for marrying the only daughter of a big boss.

Many young people in the optical film knew Hao Dongmei, and several of them were Hao Dongmei's classmates in middle and high school. I felt so regretful...

There are also a lot of gossips about Wang Lidong. When he was a child, he was always at the bottom in exams, but in a blink of an eye, he became the provincial champion. Thinking of Wang Lidong’s father-in-law’s identity as a professor at Harbin University, everyone can’t help but wonder...

"Zhou Zhigang really has a good eye for the wives he chooses for his two sons..."

"Zhou Rong is marrying well. I heard the man is a great poet..."

"Not bad, that man is twenty years older than Zhou Rong. It was Zhou Rong who took the initiative to come to the door, and a big girl took the initiative to send him..."

Although Zhou's mother has not grown back, Qiao Chunyan, a reporter, often visits Wang Lidong's house whenever she has something to do. She talks quickly and talks about everything, so now Zhou's mother will not return to the post even if she has nothing to do.

Qiao Chunyan heard the noise outside the house, moved to the window, wiped the moisture on the glass with her sleeve, and saw through the glass that Zhou's mother was back. She quickly got off the kang and put on her coat. When Aunt Qiao saw that her daughter was about to go out, she shouted

, "What are you going to do?"

"My godmother is back!" After saying that, Qiao Chunyan opened the door and disappeared. Aunt Qiao mumbled in dissatisfaction, "You're not even so enthusiastic when you see me."

Father Qiao took a puff of dry cigarette and said, "Say less. It's not easy for Chunyan. We can't help her, so don't hold her back."

Qiao Chunyan greeted Zhou's mother and helped take the big bag on her back, "Godmother, why are you and Yueyue, my brother and my sister-in-law?"

Mother Zhou knocked on her waist and muttered, her wings were stiff and she was disobedient.

The three of them returned to the old house all the way. They didn't come back for many days, and there was a layer of dust on the kang on the table.

They lit a fire to burn the kang, and Qiao Chunyan helped fetch water. The two adults and one child took rags and brooms and worked for more than two hours to clean the two rooms.

After Qiao Chunyan filled the water tank with a bucket, she said hello to Zhou's mother and was about to say goodbye and go home. Zhou's mother hurriedly grabbed her goddaughter and left her to have lunch.

"Duoduo and Lanlan are waiting for me at home."

After hearing this, Mother Zhou didn't say anything to keep anyone company. She took seven or eight skewers of meat sausages from the package and grabbed a large number of white rabbits, asking Chunyan to take them back to satisfy the two children's cravings.

Qiao Chunyan took it unceremoniously and stuffed the candy into her pocket, "Thank you godmother, I'm leaving."

"When you have time, bring Duoduo Lanlan to play."

"okay."

The door of "Kacha" was closed, and Zhou's mother asked her granddaughter to stay in the back room, "Grandma will make lunch, and you can play by yourself."

Zhou's mother came to the kitchen, took the basin and took out rice for two people. She heard movement behind her and knew that her granddaughter had followed her out. "Yueyue, go back to the inner room quickly. It's cold outside."

Feng Yue said flatly, "Grandma, when will we go back?"

"When your grandfather and the others go back to work, we will go back to your brother-in-law's house."

"When will Grandpa and the others go back to work?"

"In previous years, it was held on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year."

Feng Yue found the calendar posted on the wall, stood on tiptoe and counted the numbers. There were still fifteen days left, and her little face wrinkled up...Fifteen days without TV, no heating, no toys, and no one.

Play together.....

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Rong, and his wife, a group of four people, returned to Guangzipi. Zhou Bingyi came back last year, but Zhou Rong had not been home for ten years.

The moment she saw her daughter, Zhou's mother dropped the kitchen knife in her hand. The mother and daughter wept with joy, and their emotions could not be calmed down for a long time.

When Feng Huacheng saw Feng Yue hiding behind his mother-in-law, he showed what he thought was the kindest smile, bent down and clapped his hands, "Yueyue, you don't know dad anymore?"

Feng Yue hesitated for half a second, then took small steps and walked up to his father. Feng Huacheng picked up his daughter and kissed her twice. "Look at the gift dad brought you..." As he said this, he took out a colorful gift from his pocket.

plastic headband, "Dad, put it on for you."
To be continued...