The first stop for a family of four was the grandparents' house. In this remote small village in Lunan, the family drove back in a car to celebrate the New Year, and suddenly became the focus of the whole village.
After all, in the early 2000s, there were probably only a handful of people in the city who could drive a Buick car back to their hometown in the countryside to celebrate the New Year.
On New Year's Eve, after watching the Spring Festival Gala, Xu Yiyang was lying on the earthen kang in his hometown, and his cell phone kept ringing.
The brothers who slept together sent text messages to say hello, and Shen Lele, Gu Sijia, Tong Yuewei and Ning Ruolin also sent text messages to say hello.
Xu Yiyang replied one by one, and took the initiative to call Mr. Hu, Hu Bingwen, and Mr. Zhao Hansheng, who had helped him a lot, to say New Year greetings.
Several brothers who slept with him told him that they had become the pride of their families when they returned this time.
After all, the money distributed to everyone this semester has exceeded 200,000, and several people have suddenly become rich, and the economic level of the family has been greatly improved.
For someone like Li Yiming, the money he earned in one semester with Xu Yiyang was equivalent to what his parents had worked hard to farm for more than ten or twenty years. It was a huge help to the family.
Li Yiming called Xu Yiyang. In addition to thanking him, he also told Xu Yiyang that he had just bought a house in his hometown county this morning.
The house is 100 square meters and cost less than 50,000 yuan in total. According to him, his parents cried excitedly in the house several times.
Coincidentally, Chen Meng also bought a house.
The old house in his hometown in the Northeast was too small. It was a house divided by his work unit before his parents were laid off. The total usable area of the two-bedroom apartment was only more than 40 square meters.
In order to improve the life of his parents, he spent nearly 80,000 yuan to buy a second-hand three-bedroom house in the city that was almost new. The original owner had just completed the renovation and had all the furniture and appliances. Because he encountered Something happened to change hands, and he bought it directly after seeing that everything looked good.
After buying a house, he specially brought his elderly grandmother over from the countryside to live with their family.
This New Year, their family of three generations and four members will spend the New Year in their new house.
Xu Yiyang was extremely pleased after hearing this.
Rebirth is a blessing from fate, and these roommates can be regarded as getting some light of fate from themselves.
After spending the first day of the Lunar New Year at my grandparents' house, the family of four set off again on the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year to my grandma's house dozens of kilometers away.
Xu Yiyang's grandmother and grandfather gave birth to four children in total. In addition to Xu's mother, there were also Xu Yiyang's two uncles and an aunt.
The eldest uncle and the second uncle both got married in this village, almost living next to the elderly on one side and the other on the right. The aunt married and moved to another village.
When Xu Yiyang's family of four came back, his uncle and uncle were very attentive. Not only did they greet them in various ways, they also took the initiative to help carry the various gifts they bought to their grandma and grandpa's main room.
Xu Yiyang said hello to his grandma and grandpa and chatted with them for a few words. Then his grandpa urged his uncle to go out and set off firecrackers.
As soon as Xu Yishan heard about the cannons, she immediately became interested and insisted on dragging Xu Yiyang along. So while her parents were chatting with their elders and peers, Xu Yiyang was dragged out by her and went out to set off the cannons.
As an elder brother, Xu Yiyang didn't know why Xu Yishan, a cute and charming little girl, was so fond of setting off firecrackers.
The firecrackers in rural areas of Lunan are different from the ordinary red-skinned firecrackers. The firecrackers in Lunan are wrapped in waste newspapers and are as thick as a thumb. They make an extremely loud noise when fired. This kind of firecrackers must be hoisted up to fire off each firecracker. The cannon twisted and exploded into pieces as it fell, making an alarming noise.
Xu Yiyang picked up the firecrackers with a long bamboo pole specially used for setting off firecrackers. Xu Yishan held the firecrackers with one hand and used a lighter to light them with the other hand. Xu Yiyang hurriedly shouted: "Stand away, idiot, why don't I light it instead." "
"I don't!"
At this time, my uncle's eldest cousin came out of the courtyard wearing a shiny black cotton-padded jacket with his hands folded in his sleeves.
Seeing this scene, he hurriedly called to Xu Yishan: "Shanshan, I'll light a cigarette for you and hold it. This cannon is very powerful. Don't kill you."
As he said that, he took out a pack of soft-packed large front doors from his sleeve, took out a lighter and a cigarette from a half-deflated cigarette case, lit it, took two puffs, and handed it to Xu Yishan.
Xu Yishan smiled and said, "Thank you, cousin."
After saying that, he ran back with the cigarette, held it from a distance, and asked Xu Yiyang: "Is this okay, brother?"
Xu Yiyang nodded: "Just click and run. Look back when you are far away."
"I know." Xu Yishan said, "I am an expert at setting off firecrackers, so there is no need to be so nervous about this little thing."
After saying that, Xi Liu lit up the cannon, threw the cigarette to the ground in fright, covered his ears with his hands and ran away.
Firecrackers crackled loudly.
As soon as the cannons were all blown up and the smoke hadn't dispersed, my cousin ran over and picked up the cigarette that Xu Yishan had just thrown away in the panic among the cannon shells on the ground. He took a few puffs with a look of satisfaction on his face.
Xu Yiyang looked at his cousin's posture and suddenly had a sense of déjà vu as Mr. Wang Baoqiangshu.
Thinking about it, this cousin is indeed very strange. As long as he stutters, he will never work. If he can't get a partner, he would rather be an idle second-rate in the village than go out to work.
After the cannon was fired, the eldest cousin held a cigarette in his mouth, continued to put his hands into his sleeves, and circled the Buick driven by Xu Yiyang several times. Then he chinned and asked him: "Yangyang, I heard someone said that you should learn to drive." It’s so easy, isn’t it true?”
Xu Yiyang nodded: "It's not difficult. You can get your driver's license in a few months."
"Hey, so fast?" The eldest cousin smiled and said, "Oh, the driver's job is better. It can't be blown by the wind, can't be wet by the rain, and it's majestic..."
Xu Yiyang said: "The driver is not that easy to do. Sitting in the car for a long time can easily cause occupational diseases."
The eldest cousin grinned, squinting due to the smoke from the cigarette butts, and said: "What are you afraid of if you sit for a long time? Isn't it the same if I move a horse to the village and sit there all day? How can there be a car seat when sitting on a horse? It’s comfortable to sit on, like a sofa.”
After saying that, he raised his eyebrows at Xu Yiyang and said with a smile: "Yangyang, how about I sign up for a driving school and be your driver?"
Xu Yiyang couldn't help but feel dizzy and said, "Brother, I'm going to school now, so there's no need for a driver."
The eldest cousin said happily: "Then who usually drives your car?"
Xu Yiyang said: "This is a company car, and the company has a full-time driver to drive it."
The eldest cousin immediately said: "Isn't this just right? I will work as a full-time driver for your company. You can rest assured that I can use it, right?"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said: "Brother, everything has a first-come, first-served basis. If I drive away the original employees to arrange for my family, other people will be disappointed if they see it. Why don't you wait and wait for my company to add more cars? , I will let you be the driver."
In fact, Xu Yiyang knew his cousin's plan very well, and he didn't dare to let him be the driver even if he was killed. It was just a delaying tactic.
However, unexpectedly, the eldest cousin was not happy. He frowned and said, "What's wrong? Don't the bosses fire whoever they want to fire? If they dare to talk nonsense, you will fire them all. When the time comes, hire them." We cousins, cousins, I'm sure we can do better than them, we are all our own, so you can rest assured, right?"
Xu Yiyang smiled slightly: "That's not possible. My employees all need professional skills. You can't just go and do it."
The eldest cousin took a hard puff of the cigarette. In order not to take his hands out of the warm cuffs, he bared his teeth, shook the cigarette up and down with his teeth, skillfully shook off the long ash on it, and then said: "Yangyang, Do you look down on our poor relatives? The director of the Houshan Cement Factory moved all his relatives to work in the factory. I am a brother-in-law who has not even graduated from elementary school. When he went there, he even arranged a job with a salary of seventy-eight dollars a month. Bai, why can't I do it when I get to you?"
"It's really not..." Xu Yiyang said sincerely: "Brother, this is not something to look down upon or look down upon. What I do is a training class, teaching students to read, and most of the students are junior high school and high school students. Your primary school Can I teach before I graduate?"
The eldest cousin said: "Let's not talk about teaching. Let's talk about drivers. I will be a driver for you. I don't need any academic qualifications, right?"
Xu Yiyang was helpless: "Didn't I just say that there is already a full-time driver? If I add a new car, I will hire you again."
The eldest cousin asked: "Then when will you add another child? I see you also make a lot of money. Otherwise, you buy a car for my aunt and uncle, and I will be a full-time driver for them in the future. I can often drive them back to see our grandparents, oh no, it’s my grandparents, your grandparents.”
Xu Yiyang's head suddenly felt as big as a bucket. He tried to say whatever he said, but no matter what he said, he couldn't do it anymore
So he could only lie and say: "Brother, my business is not going well right now. I have to repay tens of thousands of dollars for a bank loan every month. If the market goes even slightly worse, I have to lose money. How can I have spare money to buy a car?"
The eldest cousin was immediately extremely disappointed: "Then when can I, the driver, start working?"
Xu Yiyang said: "Just wait, wait."
The eldest cousin asked again: "Then what other positions in your training class can I take? One with less work and more leisure."
Xu Yiyang said seriously: "Cousin, this is really not possible..."
Fortunately, grandma came out to eat at this time, which freed Xu Yiyang from his elder cousin's troubles.
At the dinner table, the eldest cousin seemed a little dissatisfied with Xu Yiyang. He kept seizing on the conversation at the dinner table and criticized Xu Yiyang, saying that Xu Yiyang was now powerful and rich, and looked down on his poor relatives.
My aunt couldn't see it, so she said, "What are you talking about? Didn't Yangyang lend you money to build your new house?"
The eldest cousin said angrily: "My aunt borrowed it."
The aunt said: "Your aunt borrowed it, and it is also Yangyang's money. You should quickly go out and find a job after the new year, and seize the time to make money to repay your aunt."
The eldest cousin immediately became energetic and blurted out to Xu Yiyang's grandfather: "Grandpa, I just told Yangyang about this. You see, Yangyang's business is so big now, but I don't have a job yet. I was thinking about getting a driver's license and working as a driver for Yangyang, but he just refused to do so. What do you mean, isn't this looking down on poor relatives?"
Xu Yiyang's grandfather hesitated for a moment and said to Xu Yiyang: "Yangyang, it's not easy for your eldest cousin. It's even harder for him to be willing to do a job. How about you make arrangements? You see, your cousin is in his twenties." Now, I can’t find a suitable partner. If I have a decent job, I can find a wife in the future.”
Xu Yiyang's grandfather was an old feudal man and favored boys over girls, so he doted on his eldest cousin the most.
The uncle has two children, his cousin is the eldest, and his cousin who is two years younger is already married;
The second uncle gave birth to three daughters but no sons, so my grandpa only had one grandson, his eldest cousin.
Coupled with the fact that he is the eldest son and grandson, he is naturally doted on.
As soon as he heard that his eldest cousin, who had always been unwilling to work, actually took the initiative to work as a driver for Xu Yiyang, the old man immediately felt relieved, thinking that his grandson would have a chance to marry a wife, and he even had his great-grandson in his mind.
Seeing the old man speak, the uncle hurriedly echoed with an expectant look on his face: "Yangyang, you also know your cousin's situation. As a younger brother, you have the ability. You have to give your cousin a hand no matter what." !”
(End of chapter)