On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the two aunts returned to their hometown to pay New Year greetings. shu mark 玷癞癹
As soon as you enter the door, you are naturally greeted with New Year greetings, and then comes the lucky money that children most look forward to during the New Year. Although ordinary families do not earn much these days, they want to have fun during the New Year. The New Year's money is nominally given to their children, but many parents will take the money back from their children in the end. In the final analysis, it is just an exchange of money between relatives. Nothing to lose. So at this time, adults don't care about being generous.
Xia Shao smiled and took the two hundred yuan of New Year's money handed over by her sister-in-law Xia Zhilan, and thanked her sweetly, "Thank you, aunt!"
Xia Zhilan smiled and pinched Xia Shao's cheek, with a fond smile in her eyes, "Look at how our Shaozi looks, white and tender, so cute! In a few years, she will definitely be a quiet lady. Unlike mine. This guy spends all his time outdoors and gets tanned like a tomboy!"
Xia Shao had a dark feeling in her heart. She was almost thirty and having her cheek pinched by someone. This feeling was really... very weird! But she quickly stopped her thoughts and looked aside.
The mother also gave the lucky money to her cousin Zhang Ruman and said with a smile: "What are you talking about? What's wrong with our Manman? She looks so much like her dad! She has a military demeanor. She might be a female officer when she grows up!"
My younger uncle Zhang Qixiang is an active-duty officer and a company-level cadre. He always has a soldier's iron temperament in his dealings with others. Under his influence, his daughter's temperament has been wild since she was a child. She often fights with boys. Everyone who sees her says she is a boy.
Seeing her daughter being praised, sister-in-law Xia Zhilan immediately looked at her daughter with a smile.
The eldest aunt Xia Zhimei on the side rolled her eyes secretly when she saw it. Her expression clearly said that you two are the only ones who have a good relationship!
Xia Shao's mother, Li Juan, and Xia Zhilan were employees of a factory in the city, and they had a really good relationship. It's just that Xia Zhilan has a softer temper than Li Juan. To put it bluntly, she doesn't have much independent opinions, but she is indeed quite kind.
Speaking of which, Xia Zhilan was the red thread that Xia Shao's parents held from the moment they knew they were in love! She was the matchmaker who made this marriage happen, so not only has the relationship between the two families been very good, but the relationship between Xia Shao and her cousin Zhang Ruman is even closer than that of real sisters!
Zhang Ruman is only one year younger than Xia Shao, and their temperaments are also very different, but the strange thing is that they are very good friends! Even though we later worked and couldn't be together all the time, we often talked on the phone and talked about everything.
In contrast, the eldest aunt Xia Zhimei's family is relatively distant in Xia Shao's memory.
Not to mention anything else, it can be seen from the New Year money given to children during the Chinese New Year.
I saw my aunt Xia Zhimei saying helplessly: "Sister-in-law, little sister, it's not me who is talking about you. I have told you so many times, every year, why don't you listen? This matter of giving new year's money to children should not be promoted! Little one! At such a young age, it’s okay to spend the New Year’s money just after the Chinese New Year. With such a small amount of money in front of you, what can you do when you grow up?”
Xia Zhimei is a teacher at No. 1 Middle School in the city. In this era, the profession of a high school teacher is considered to be a guaranteed job, and he is also well-educated. Others are envious of him. She always spoke in the style of lecturing her students. The whole family had to listen to her lectures every New Year, so they got used to it.
Seeing that she was about to start again, Li Juan and Xia Zhilan winked at their respective daughters in a tacit understanding, asking the children to go down and play first.
"Sister! Let's go out and set off firecrackers and build a snowman." Zhang Ruman had long been impatient. Seeing her mother's eyes, she immediately rushed over, pulled Xia Shao and ran to the yard.
Xia Shao was pulled away, smiling bitterly in her heart. She didn't think much of it when she was a child, but now that she was taken out to play by a child, she really had some dark streaks.
Watching her childhood cousin boldly setting off firecrackers in the yard and running into the snow to make snowballs, Xia Shao suddenly felt like she was in a very distant time and space.
Yes, it's an unreal, distant feeling.
At this time, my cousin would not know that her father changed his job and returned home when she was in high school. The jobs he was assigned after that were not satisfactory, and the family conditions became worse year by year. In the end, he had to go to work elsewhere when he reached middle age. Even though he was born in the military and had always been in good physical condition, he was so tired from unloading and loading goods every day that he became sick all over his body. My sister-in-law Xia Zhilan finally left the depressed factory and went out to work with her husband in order to earn more money to support her graduate studies at Beijing University. But in the end, my cousin failed to get admitted to the Foreign Affairs College, which she dreamed of, so she chose the law department. Although this seems good to outsiders, she has always been a little depressed, especially because she has been a boy since she was a child. She has never been in a relationship in her twenties, and all the boys she likes treat her like this. The type didn't call, so she often called to complain to Xia Shao.
Thinking of these memories of her past life, Xia Shao looked at the cold and bleak sky in the New Year of 1992, then looked down at her hands and feet, and smiled slowly. It feels like the carefree era of childhood is so beautiful. And she really felt wonderful to be able to live her childhood again.
But at this time, because she has an adult soul, she cannot truly become carefree. She has many things to do and a destiny that urgently needs to be changed! Not only hers, but also those of her cherished relatives!
It was not until lunch time that Xia Shao and her cousin Zhang Ruman returned to the house.
The grandparents and a large family of four children sat together on the warm kang. The children were not interested in what was going on at the table. The only thing they thought about was eating. Those chickens, ducks and fish were not easy to eat.
In order not to appear too mature, Xia Shao also put some vegetables into the bowl, but she ate very slowly, paying attention to the topics of her elders while eating. Men only talk about work and business, while women talk about children, food and clothing, eternal topics.
At this time, I heard my aunt Xia Zhimei say: "Sister-in-law, what kind of clothes are you wearing? Isn't it too red? Your skin color is dark, so it is not suitable to wear red."
When Li Juan heard this, she suddenly looked a little embarrassed. She smiled and said, "Sister, I like to wear red. It's just a festive occasion during the Chinese New Year. If you don't wear it at this time, it will look even more gorgeous if you wear it normally."
After hearing this, Xia Zhilan glanced at her second sister, but did not dare to speak. Jiang Qiulin on the side smiled and glanced at Li Juan's clothes without saying anything. It was obvious that she was watching a show.
"You can't wear bright red. It makes your skin look so dark and rustic. After all, you are working in the city, so you should pay attention to the color of your clothes." Xia Zhimei usually teaches in high school. She's used to lecturing people, and she basically doesn't give up until the person who speaks is silent.
In the end, grandma couldn't stand it anymore, coughed, and said: "Okay, okay, it's just a piece of clothing, what else? It's a Chinese New Year! Let's eat."
Xia Zhimei curled her lips. She didn't want to offend the old man during the Chinese New Year, so she revealed the matter and never mentioned it again.
Xia Shao, who was listening silently, felt bitter in her heart. The era when my mother was born was particularly difficult. At that time, the country was still in turmoil, and there was not enough food to eat or clothing to wear. The clothes my mother wore when she was a child were all those that her elder sister had outgrown. It was rare for her to wear new clothes. She liked brightly colored clothes, but her gentle temperament also contained a bit of shyness. She usually did not dare to wear them for fear of wearing them out. Others laugh. Therefore, she only wore her favorite color during the Chinese New Year. Even so, her aunt even used it to tease her in front of the whole family.
Xia Shao's inner anger was hard to express, but there was a faint look on her face, and a determined light had already flashed in her eyes. In this life, she will never let her mother suffer such injustice again!
At this time, his father spoke. He looked at his sister Xia Zhimei and said with a smile: "My eldest sister is right. Dark skin does not look good in red. But I like to see your sister-in-law in red. I feel very good."
Li Juan's face immediately turned red after hearing this, and her eyes were even more touched.
Xia Shao took a bite of vegetables and ate it, a smile flashing across her eyes. It wasn't until a while later that she raised her eyes again and looked at her eldest aunt Xia Zhimei and her eldest uncle Liu Chunhui.
Their family started out by opening an oil processing factory, and later opened factories to help produce parts for some domestic brand car companies. Before Xia Shao was reborn, their family had already set up branches in three major first-tier cities in the province. There are a lot of real estate properties, and they are considered a famous family in the city.
Cousin Liu Yuguang made some money from the family business. When he was in school, he changed girlfriends as fast as he changed clothes. Later he got married. The wife he found was the host of Dongshi TV station, and his father-in-law was the deputy mayor of Dongshi. long. The family has a high level of vision, and the relatives and cousins in the Xia family don't look down on her at all. They usually speak in a condescending manner, and they obviously look down on her.
Although Xia Shao understands that people are cruel creatures and everyone wants to stand taller than anyone else and be looked up to and respected by others, she really can't have a good impression of such a person who has gained power and stepped on his own relatives first, let alone Don't mention respect.
The four children born to the grandparents, the aunt and the brother-in-law, are financially well off, but unfortunately, both families are not very filial.
When grandma was seriously ill, the children were supposed to take turns taking care of her, but Xia Shao's mother, Li Juan, took her home without saying a word and took care of her all the time. As a daughter, her aunt only visited her twice and brought some things. , chatted for a while and then left. Until her grandmother passed away, she never took care of her daughter for a day.
Xia Shao lowered her eyes, her mouth slightly stern. As the saying goes, God is watching what you do, and the wind and water will take turns! It's a pity that she is reborn now, and she didn't get to see whether Xia Zhimei's family will really be prosperous in the last life.
She stared at Liu Chunhui and Xia Zhimei, feeling aggrieved for her grandma.
But at this moment, something shocking happened to Xia Shao.
A series of pictures suddenly appeared in her mind!
It was night, and the raging fire burned half of the sky red. The scene was very chaotic, with figures running and putting out fires everywhere, and the place where the fire started seemed to be a company's production line.
Then, she saw a short and fat figure, grabbed the water pipe from the firefighter's hand and rushed to put out the fire herself. The man's appearance was clearly Xia Shao's eldest uncle Liu Chunhui!
After that, the scene changed again. At this time, uncle Liu Chunhui and aunt Xia Zhimei were visiting each other's house. The proud expressions of the past were completely gone, and they seemed to be asking for something in a low voice. At this time, my uncle's temples were covered with white hair, and he suddenly looked like an old man!
After that, the cousin and cousin-in-law kept arguing, and the cousin-in-law slammed the door and left with the child in her arms.
Xia Shao opened her eyes wide and looked at these pictures in shock. The pictures were so real that she seemed to remember them vividly. Finally, she felt someone push her.
Those scenes immediately dissipated. Xia Shao turned around and saw her mother looking at her strangely, "You kid, what are you doing watching your aunt and uncle if you don't eat vegetables?" As she spoke, she put a piece of fish in her mouth. In the bowl, "Eat quickly."
Xia Shao nodded, holding the bowl and lowering his eyes, but his heart kept beating wildly.
What were those she saw just now
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