The leisurely life of rebirth

Chapter 39
On New Year's Eve, Zhou You felt uncomfortable and felt cold all over.

There is no air conditioning in the house, so I don’t know if it’s because I’m freezing or if I’m infected.

Zhou You hid in the quilt, his whole body wrapped in it, with only his head exposed. He was wrapped in two layers of quilts and still felt cold. Then he called his parents to add another quilt.

I didn't dare to move at all, as if if I moved, the heat would disappear. I just lay quietly on the quilt. After about ten minutes, I finally felt a trace of warmth.

After a few more minutes, I felt something coming out of my body. Thick beads of sweat filled my whole body. Slowly, the small beads of sweat turned into large beads of sweat, flowing down the body and soaking the quilt.

But I still dare not move when traveling around. If I move, I am afraid that the cold air will come in and the wind-chill will enter the body and aggravate the cold.

He curled up like this and stayed in this position under the quilt for an hour. He felt that his whole body was almost sweaty before he dared to move.

This is also the reason why Zhou You likes Shi Tiesheng. Only when people are sick will they consider the fundamentals. What do you want in life?
Health is the foundation. Without health, all fame and wealth belong to the castle on the beach. Once the waves come, they will be gone.

While Zhou You was lying on the bed, his parents were also chatting.

"I'll build a house when spring comes. Xiaoyou lives in the city now. He's used to the urban environment, but he doesn't adapt to the countryside. Our house doesn't have air conditioning? It's cold when I go to the toilet. You see, I caught a cold this time. If it's a little Other things, including medical treatment, don't look good." His mother was scolding his father.
"Okay, who doesn't want to live in a good place? I also think about it, am I incompetent? If I could make money, I would have built it long ago, leaving you and me to suffer here. Do you think there are any other houses around here? It was renovated, so our family has supported Xiaoyou in school all these years, and we haven't saved any money." Zhou You's father hung his head while smoking.

It is very courageous for a man to admit that he is incompetent.

The next day, Zhou You felt better.

I can only say that a young body is the capital. In the past, my sub-healthy body in my 30s would have taken a few weeks to recover.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it is popular in the village to pay New Year greetings. Everyone gets up early and makes dumplings in the morning. It is also popular to wrap one yuan coins in the dumplings. Whoever eats them will be blessed all year long.

When I was young, my parents would let Zhou You eat it. Now that I am older, I didn’t expect that I still eat it myself every time. Parents, from the moment they have children, they have been worrying about their children all their lives.

It is popular in their village for relatives to go to the homes of acquaintances to pay New Year greetings.

When traveling around, his father sent his three brothers and a few of their nephews with him, and a group of seven or eight people visited the village to pay New Year greetings. Women were not allowed to participate at this time.

When arriving at other people's homes, the group would kneel on the ground and kowtow three ancestral tablets first, and then kowtow one to the elderly at home.

Call it a bad habit or call it folk custom. Anyway, Zhou You has been doing this since he was a child. Later, after chatting, I learned that many other southern cities do not have such a custom.

Walking around the village, only paying New Year greetings to people who are close to you and who come and go on a daily basis, it takes about an hour to go from the east end of the village to the west end of the village.

When I was a kid, I followed it and wanted to eat some candies and melon seeds.

It’s a different feeling to follow me now. Watching these old people, some of them will gradually leave in the next few years, but you can still see them now.

Because I was sick last night and didn't have the Spring Festival Gala, I found a place to watch the rerun of the Spring Festival Gala after celebrating the New Year.

How many years have passed?Zhou You doesn’t remember anything interesting about the Spring Festival Gala.And when we got to the back, almost no one watched the Spring Festival Gala.

Young people are playing with their mobile phones.The elders turned on the TV and only glanced at it occasionally, but turned it on habitually.There is no one left to watch the New Year's Eve.Everyone went to bed early.

The atmosphere during the Spring Festival is getting worse and worse.And the busy Spring Festival makes young people even more tired.The pace of the entire society is getting faster and faster, and if you slow down a little, you will be left behind.

Other young people in the village got together early to play cards and worked hard to earn money for a year, and some lost it all in just a few days during the Spring Festival.

In the past, everyone traveled far and wide, only meeting for a few days during the New Year. There were few entertainment activities in the village, and there were no exciting activities except playing cards.

Can people in the city still go to the movies and go shopping?It is still very troublesome to travel from rural areas to county towns.

"Let's play cards together when traveling around." Someone he knew called him to come with him, but he was not interested in playing cards, and there were people smoking inside, so he couldn't stand it.

At noon, as usual, the whole family went to the old house for dinner.

The family got together and had a great time eating sumptuous vegetables.This is also a way to maintain cohesion in rural areas.

Mixed vegetables are a kind of food mixed with various vegetables, meats, beans and fungi. They are usually served in rural areas to entertain guests or family gatherings.

Many people say that rural times are quiet and peaceful, with pastoral life.

These people have basically never lived in rural areas, or have lived there for a long time.

Rural areas are the lowest level of organizations, and they are also the ones that believe in the law of the jungle.

If there are no men in the family, no one will inherit your land and your homestead.

You can't compete with others when it comes to planting, weeding, and watering. Especially in the past, the farming method was simpler and cruder. It basically relied on male labor, and women couldn't finish the work.

Not to mention, there will be some quarrels and fights among the parents.

In the past, fights were common in rural areas, and no one cared about them.

This is why many people in rural areas want to give birth to a boy.

It's all based on practical considerations.

Gradually, it became clear that young people did not get married or have children out of practical considerations.

When a person gets married and has children, which will make his life worse and worse, no one will do it.

The crowd is bustling, everyone is here for profit.The crowds are hustling for their own benefit.

Everyone is interested in things that are beneficial, but if you give them things that are not beneficial, they won’t even want them.

Later, having children mainly depended on people living in rural areas and the upper class.

Many middle-class people don't get married, or they just have one child at most, just to satisfy their family relationship.

(End of this chapter)