Xu Haiyuan took a nap in the evening and was already feeling sleepy.
Despite this, he still clenched the two red envelopes tightly and refused to let go.
Su Anying took off her son's clothes, put on a diaper, and pulled out the red envelope while his son was sleeping.
When I opened it, I saw that the two red envelopes each contained ten dollars. "Shiyan, look, our parents gave these to our children."
Xu Shiyan was shocked when he saw it, and quickly took the red envelope and went to the east room.
"Dad, Mom, did you make a mistake? Why did you give Yuanyuan so much money?"
A little kid with ten dollars in a red envelope? Is he crazy?
Last year, Su Anying was a new daughter-in-law, and she only had two yuan. How could she be so spoiled with children?
Xu Chenghou seemed to have expected that his son would come back to look for him. He was not surprised at all and just rolled his eyes at his son.
“Grandpa gives it to his grandson, how much does it cost you to control?
Why, when did I need your permission to do anything?"
This was something the old couple had discussed long ago. They felt that if they lived at Lao San’s place this winter, they would have everything to eat and drink, and Lao San would even buy clothes for the Chinese New Year.
The old couple felt dissatisfied, so they wanted to express their feelings in the name of giving their children lucky money.
Xu Shiyan understood his parents' thoughts to some extent, but this was too much.
Xu Shiqin's monthly salary is only 20 yuan. How can these two old men and women even think of giving 20 yuan to a nine-and-a-half-month-old baby?
"Dad, Mom, we are a family, there is no need to be so out of touch with me.
You two should keep this money, as you will have to build a house after the new year." Xu Shiyan stretched out his hand and handed the money to Zhou Guilan.
"Third brother, do you look down on your father?
Even if your father is incompetent, he won't be able to get out twenty yuan, right?"
Xu Chenghou became angry and raised his voice.
"I'm telling you, it's for the child, you keep it and you're not allowed to touch it.
Do you think I gave you flowers? You are so beautiful."
Xu Shiyan was choked by his biological father. He was celebrating the New Year, but he didn't dare to stand up to his father. What should he do?
"San'er, this is what our grandparents gave to our grandson. It's up to us, so don't worry about it.
Your father is right, you are responsible for helping to keep it, and when the child grows up, you can spend it as he wants."
On the other end, Zhou Guilan rarely stood on the same side as her husband, helping her husband to persuade his son.
In the end, Xu Shiyan still failed to defeat his parents, so he had to accept the red envelope and go back to the West House, where he asked his wife to save the money for his son.
After New Year's Eve, when you open your eyes again, it will be the first day of the Lunar New Year and the New Year.
I made a lot of dumplings last night, so I left a lid uncooked and left them outside to freeze.
In the morning, they boiled water and cooked the frozen dumplings. After the family finished eating the dumplings, before they could finish cleaning them up, New Year greeters came to the door.
Unlike the big houses in Donggang where there are just a few households, here there are more than 300 households in the Second Brigade alone, and there are also the First Brigade and the Third Brigade.
Even though Xu Shiyan has only been in Donggang Commune for a year, he gets along well with many people.
On this day, many people came in and out of the house, all coming to pay New Year greetings to Xu Chenghou and his wife.
Xu Shiyan also found an opportunity to pay New Year's greetings to the homes of Yu Shouguang and several other brigade cadres, as well as Guo Shouye, Han Wenzhong and others.
Anyway, we sat here for a while and chatted there, and the day passed like this.
The second day of the first lunar month is the day when the Xu family brothers reunite.
Xu Chenghou had already said that after the separation, no matter where he is, he must come back on the second day of the first lunar month.
Xu Shixian and Xu Shi'an were both in Songjianghe, close to each other, and they arrived very early with their wife and children.
However, Xu Shide lived a little far away from Daying, so at least they caught a Yanling bus. The couple hugged their son and rushed over in the morning.
A large family gathered at Xu Shiyan's place.
During the Chinese New Year, Xu Chenghou will naturally stop arguing with his sons, so his attitude is okay.
Especially when he saw his grandchildren, the old man immediately became happy. He quickly took out a stack of red envelopes and gave each child two cents.
Seeing that their father had no intention of getting angry, Xu Shixian and the others relaxed and sat down to chat with their parents and brothers.
"Hey, Third Brother, your house even has a radio?
A sewing machine, a radio, a bicycle, and a watch on your wrist, you can get it all together three times and one time."
When Xu Shian saw the radio placed on the box, his eyes widened. How could he not be envious?
"Third brother, if you have anything to do to make money in the future, remember to call me brother. You think my two sons also need to make more money, right?"
Xu Shian came up to his younger brother and said with a smile.
Xu Shi'an and Xu Shixian both moved to Songjianghe and settled in Caiqui.
This vegetable team is actually a team of family members of Forestry Bureau employees, who grow vegetables and sell them to Forestry Bureau employees.
Every spring, the team would lend them one dollar for a day's work. After all the harvest was sold in the fall, the team would settle the wages.
In the winter, there is basically no work, only idleness.
It was winter when Xu Shian and Xu Shixian moved here. They didn't work on the vegetable team in the summer, so naturally they didn't get their wages.
These days, everyone relies on Xue Xiulin and Wei Mingrong's salary to live.
But there are four or five people in both families, so what can we do with that little salary?
Thanks to the fact that when I moved out of the big house, I shared some food rations and money, which were not much, and I saved a little before, I was able to hold on for a while.
Xu Shiyan looked at his two brothers beside him, his mood was a little complicated, and there was a little worry hidden in his happiness.
Because of his rebirth, the fate of the two brothers is also different from what they were in their previous lives.
Originally, the eldest brother Xu Shixian should have settled in Donggang Commune in the spring of 1979 to participate in the event.
Xu Shixian moved from a big house to Donggang. He had no foundation and only worked hard at work.
In winter, the commune participated in logging, and Xu Shixian went up the mountain to carry wood.
Anyone who has ever carried wood knows that when four people lift a large log, they must move in unison and use all their strength while shouting slogans.
One day when lifting wood, Xu Shixian was on the front pole, and the big guy was shouting slogans to lift it up. As a result, the rear pole staggered.
It doesn't matter now, Xu Shixian's spine was injured, and after the injury healed, he was bent over and unable to straighten up.
Fortunately, it was a new injury. He had to wear a steel vest for two years, but it was corrected again.
But because of this, Xu Shixian could no longer do vigorous work.
Fortunately, after the winter of 1979, the policy changed, allowing people to quit their jobs and work alone, and to open photo studios, restaurants, barber shops and other individual businesses.
Xu Shixian knew how to play with a camera, so he opened a photo studio. Anyway, he could make a fool of himself.
Xu Shixian and his wife were very smart. They moved from Donggang to Songjianghe, bought vacant land and built a house by themselves. After building it, they lived there for two years and then sold it. They just flipped the house and made some money.
Later, the couple formed a partnership with others to engage in the business of ginseng. They purchased red goods from here and sold them in the south.
When it was most prosperous, the goods were shipped to the south in truckloads, and the money was carried back in suitcases.
Unfortunately, in 1991 and 1992, the market for ginseng plummeted, and Hong Kong merchants stopped accepting goods, so the business of ginseng had to be suspended.
After that, Xu Shixian could only do some small business.
I have the money I saved before, and when I got old, I took care of my family members’ retirement, and my life was quite comfortable, much better than Xu Shiyan’s.