Xu Shiqin always obeyed her third brother's words, and she herself regretted not being able to take the college entrance examination.
When the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination first came out, Xu Shiqin was eager to sign up.
As a result, the first requirement was to be in good health, but she failed. She was very sad at that time.
She has had a job in the past few years, so she doesn't think about it so much, but today her third brother's words rekindled her desire to learn.
"Okay, I will listen to my third brother. After the new year, I will tell my master that I will go to the capital to look for opportunities to study."
The brother and sister chatted for a while, then returned to the house to chat with a group of relatives and friends.
Everyone is of the same mind, and no one knows how Han Liwei accomplished his merits.
It was Han Wenzhong who expressed his gratitude to Xu Shiyan.
If Xu Shiyan hadn't immediately arranged for mutton and venison to be delivered yesterday, Chef Zhang really wouldn't have known what to add.
"Shi Yan, how much did the mutton and venison cost yesterday? I'll give it to you." The Han family held a banquet and couldn't let Xu Shiyan pay for it.
"Uncle, why are you being polite to me?
We agreed that the two families would hold a banquet together. There were so many people in my house, and the money for the banquet has not been calculated to you yet."
Xu Shiyan smiled and waved his hand, why do you think so clearly? As long as Han Liwei and Xu Shiqin live a good life, everything else is just a cloud.
"How can that be done? A deer costs a lot of money. You raise it to get the antlers. It's better to just kill it."
Han Wenzhong felt very distressed. A deer can harvest two crops of velvet antlers, and the deer antlers alone can be sold for more than a thousand yuan a year.
Besides, this deer can harvest its velvet for many years. If you calculate it this way, killing a deer will cost you a lot.
Originally, the Han family said they were hosting a banquet together, but it was just a pretext, and they had no intention of charging the Xu family for the banquet.
There are only seven or eight tables of guests in the Xu family's side, and there are three tables for the mother-in-law's family visiting the bride, so this cannot be counted.
How much does a banquet cost these days? How can it be compared with a deer?
"Uncle, our two families don't have to argue about this. I won't pay you for the banquet, and you don't have to pay me for the mutton and venison. That's it.
I think we went up to the mountain to fight back Quan, just to add food to Liwei and Shiqin's wedding."
Xu Shiyan smiled and waved his hand, refusing to accept it no matter what.
If Xu Shiyan doesn't want it, the Han family can't do anything about it, so it can only be like this. In the worst case, it can be made up for later.
At noon, the Han family prepared a sumptuous feast of wine and food. Everyone ate, drank and chatted together, which was very lively.
After one o'clock, the banquet broke up and everyone in the Xu family said goodbye and went home.
It was already the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and this year it was the New Year's Eve, the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month. Several of Xue Xiulin's sisters began to grow weeds in their hearts, thinking of going home as soon as possible.
I haven’t prepared many things for the New Year, and I can’t always stay at my parents-in-law’s house.
But Xu Shixian and his brothers insisted on staying for one more day and would wait until the younger sister came back tomorrow before leaving.
How bad would it be if Han Liwei accompanied Xu Shiqin back home tomorrow, only to find that only the second and third brothers were there and the other brothers were gone?
Not only Xu Shixian's brothers didn't want to leave, but the children didn't want to leave either.
There is food, entertainment, and color TVs to watch here.
Especially since the Chinese New Year is approaching, CCTV also has programs during the day. These naughty children are obsessed with watching TV and wish they could live at their grandparents' house all the time.
Xue Xiulin's sisters could not stand up to her husband and children, so they had no choice but to agree to stay.
When Zhou Guilan saw this, she knew that her daughters-in-law had something on their minds and couldn't stay any longer, so she simply led them to make noodles and began to steam steamed buns in the afternoon.
Since the Chinese New Year is coming, I have to steam some jujube steamed buns and flower steamed buns to make it festive.
In order to make the children happy, Zhou Guilan used all her special skills to make various jujube steamed buns and flower steamed buns.
They even took out the molds and asked the children to help them make fish steamed buns, Yuanbao steamed buns and so on.
The children were very happy now, and they all had a great time playing.
Now, I was busy until eight o'clock in the evening. I steamed five or six pots of various kinds of steamed buns, and the kangs in the east and west rooms were all burned to the point of burning my buttocks.
Originally, they all crowded towards the end of the kang, but now, they all ran towards the end. No one wanted to sleep on the end of the kang, it was too hot.
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Han Liwei and Xu Shiqin returned home carrying many things. The Xu family entertained the young couple warmly and grandly.
The Xu family prepared more than a dozen dishes of chicken, duck, and fish. Xu Shiyan and others drank some wine with Han Liwei, and then the young couple stayed at the Xu family until about two o'clock in the afternoon, and then left.
After waiting to see off Han Liwei and his wife, Xu Chenghou called his sons to come over.
"There's something I've wanted to say since you came back, but I never had a chance.
Now that the sixth child is married, and the marriage is over today, it’s time to say something to you.”
What Xu Shixian and the others are most afraid of now is what their father will do. Every time his father sets up such a formation, they will be punished.
Maybe Xu Chenghou has already spoken. These guys can't hide even if they want to. What can they do? Just bite the bullet and listen.
It is estimated that next year's pension will need to be set, and it is likely that it will go up some more.
Well, if it goes up, let it go up. Prices are also going up. Old men and women have to live, right?
"That's the thing, your mother and I are getting older and older, and we can't do much in the future.
The pension money you guys give me is just enough for me to eat and drink every year, so I won’t be able to save much.
I have been thinking about it for a long time, thinking about selling this house." When Xu Chenghou said this, he paused and looked up at his sons.
Xu Shixian and others were stunned for a moment, looking puzzled.
Ordinarily, there is also such a custom in rural areas, that is, after the elderly have completely lost their labor force and cannot live independently, most of them have several sons taking turns to take care of them.
For a few months in this family and a few months in that family, each son would stay at his home for a period of time, taking turns to take care of him.
Maybe Xu Chenghou is only 65 years old after the Chinese New Year, and Zhou Guilan is only 57 years old after the Chinese New Year. It is still too early to be able to live independently. Why is it necessary to sell the house at this time and live in his son's home for retirement?
Xu Shixian glanced at his wife and thought that this matter would not be easy to handle.
It's okay to say that my mother has a good temper, but my father's temper is too weird. Is it okay to go to his house?
Besides, his house only has three small shabby rooms, which are not very spacious for a family of five. If my parents go over, where will they live?
Among the five brothers, apart from the third eldest, the second eldest is Xu Shian. His house in Sentie is quite big and spacious.
The other three houses are all small houses, which cannot be accommodated if the population is large.
But this cannot be said like that.
The brothers looked at each other and said, "Dad, are you willing to give up such a spacious house? What a pity it is to sell it?"
Otherwise, if our brothers can give you some more pension money, then don’t sell this house, right?"
Xu Shixian felt that he would rather give his family more money than take his parents over to live there, otherwise, there would be no peace in the future.
Xu Chenghou glanced at his sons and snorted, "I know that your brothers have no intention of taking us to take care of them in our old age."
All the white-eyed wolves, once it was said that they were being provided for in old age, they all dared not say a word, right?