The leisurely life of rebirth

Chapter 87 Another Year

As the Spring Festival approaches, I travel around as usual, buy some gifts, and drive home.

Unknowingly, another year has passed, and after the New Year, it is 2012.

During the time I came back, my travels were much more exciting than in my previous life.

Although I lived a long life, I basically followed other people's instructions and did things I didn't like every day. I was busy and worked hard, but I didn't make much money.

Unlike now, when I can do something according to my own ideas, life is so comfortable.

Some people are born in Rome.

Some people are born as cows and horses.

This time when I returned home, my travels were obviously much more relaxed and enjoyable. My home had basically been improved, and my parents were able to live peacefully and leisurely at home.

Now it is basically the center point of the whole village. It used to be that at banquets, weddings and funerals in the village, some older and respected people would be invited to sit at the main table.

His father had been an honest man all his life, but he never expected that he would be respected by the village even when he was old, and he could occasionally serve as the head table.

And since I bought a new car, I have occasionally been responsible for driving wedding cars. At this time, a car worth more than [-] yuan is nothing in the city, and it is enough to be used as a wedding car in the countryside.

When he got home, he finally found that his father and the car were not there, so he asked his mother: "Mom, where is my father?"

"There were a lot of marriages a few years ago, but your father went to marry someone else's wife." His mother didn't even raise her head, obviously she was used to this.

Well, I didn’t expect to become a social figure in the village.

They usually get married here in the morning. Before dawn, the man has to drive to the woman's house. If it's a little closer, he has to arrive at the man's house before 10 o'clock.

"Who is getting married today?" Zhou You asked curiously

It's okay not to ask, but when asked, his mother put down the broom in her hand, raised her head and looked at him: "The village head, Lao Hei's child, is five or six years younger than you. Look at the people who are the same age as you in the village now, who is not married? Have a baby"

Zhou You already knew that he was a bitch, so it was okay, why did he ask about marriage?It is normal for people to get married at the age of 20 in rural areas.

A little sooner, I will become grandparents in my 40s.

"That said, if your son hadn't gone to college, you would be allowed to have your grandson now. Would you be willing?"

Hearing this, his mother was not happy: "Now that you have graduated and settled down, while I can take care of your children, get married and have children as soon as possible."

36 meter, go is the best plan.

Unable to speak or listen, Zhou You left the car at home, turned around and went out for a walk.

Walking along the road, their village is a typical settlement-style rural area, with every household living close together, unlike some villages in the south where each household lives scattered around.Some are close and some are far away.

They are almost houses next to each other.When I was eating when I was a child, every family would bring the food to the front door to eat. The front door was opposite the front door, so we could chat across the road.

He met many acquaintances along the way, and his neighbors greeted him one after another.
"Teacher Zhou is back. Come and play at home when you have time."

"Zhou You, since you bought your dad a car, your dad has been marrying people off every day. I don't know how many wives I have seen. Your dad will definitely urge you when he comes back." This person is obviously an elder, and Zhou You doesn't even want to smile. say.

"Brother You, when did you come? Let's have a drink together tonight." I met a boy from the village and invited him to have dinner together in the evening.

"Okay, I just happened to bring two bottles of good wine. I'll take it over and let's drink some together in the evening." You're not polite about traveling around. This is all you need when you return to the village, eat, drink and have fun.

Slowly walking to the east end of the village, there is a small river next to their village, which can be used for both irrigation and flood discharge.

It was quite clear when I was a kid, so I could swim and fish every summer.

But now there are basically no fish, let alone swimming.

The water quality is even more turbid, and sometimes the rivers even stop flowing.There are many reasons, including the misuse of pesticides, the problem of congestion upstream, and the lack of care in their own villages, who throw garbage into the river.

Slowly the river became polluted and wasted.

The beautiful scenery of the past is gone.

This situation continued and did not recover for many years.

Looking at the small river ditch that left a good impression on me in my childhood, it has become what it is today, and there is nothing I can do about it.

This is simply not something that one person can change.

Zhou You was standing there in a daze when a car stopped next to him.

"You, what are you doing here? Do you want to have a wedding banquet with me at noon?" His father was just coming back from welcoming his bride, and was going to park the car at home and go have a wedding banquet.

When having wedding banquets in rural areas, everyone goes with the whole family. To be honest, they are basically not knowledgeable enough. Many people just follow the one or two hundred.

However, eating in rural areas is different from that in cities. Nowadays, we find a few chefs from the village who can cook big dishes. They start preparing them as early as possible a few days in advance. Especially in this weather, many dishes can be prepared a day in advance. good.

You can cook it yourself and buy it yourself, and it doesn't cost anything to invite people. When the time comes, just take care of the cigarettes, wine and food.So the cost is not high.

There is a special place for borrowing tables and benches. If the weather is good, you don’t even need to build a shed. They can be set up in the yard, on the street, or at a neighbor’s house.

The waiters who serve the dishes are all young people from the same village. They often play together and help each other.

You help me when I get married, I help you when you get married, and other things like building a house or building a house. In rural areas, we help each other and neighbors help each other.

This is also when rural areas are a little more impersonal than urban areas because everyone uses each other.

"It's too cold. I don't want to go. I'm at home with my mother. You can go by yourself." When I was traveling around, I loved eating wedding banquets because there was nothing to eat at that time. If I could go to a wedding banquet, I would improve the food.

"You get in the car, I'm going to tell you something, and you're still prepared."

Seeing his father being so formal, Zhou You opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.

"What's the matter?"

"Your uncle and his family came back a few days ago. They came to chat with me. They talked about work and wanted you to show them the way to go in the future."

Hearing this, Zhou You had actually been thinking about it for a long time: "Well, I have an idea."

His dad paused for a moment and said, "I'll help if I can, but you have to live your own life, and you still have to take care of yourself first."

The first generation is close, the second generation is representative, and the third generation will bring down the family.

In Zhou You's generation, he still had a slight relationship with a few of his cousins, but by the time of their next generation, they would probably gradually become estranged.

Just like the village where they live, even though they all have the same surname and many of them are relatives, in total they all have five servers.

Zhou You has actually already thought about what to do. It just depends on what they think. To put it bluntly, like so many projects he does, they are all investments.

But relying on mountains and rivers, rural people don’t have many options. All they can earn is coolie money. However, no one is willing to leave their hometown if they can make money at home.

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