Chapter 94

On the first day of the New Year, Li Long climbed up early.

Habit is really terrible. Even if he doesn't need to get up early to harness the horse-drawn cart, but after ten or twenty days, he climbs up before dawn every day. Now even if he doesn't need to work, his biological clock has automatically marked him, and he wakes up when the time comes.

It's impossible to sleep in.

Outside, I haven't heard the sound of firecrackers yet. Li Long put on his clothes and went to the west room. Liang Yumei had already set up the stove and was wrapping dumplings.

"Little Long, you go and prepare the firecrackers, in a while your sister-in-law will shout to cook dumplings, you light the firecrackers on that side."

Li Long responded, took a thousand-shot electric light cannon on the fire wall, and went outside to dismantle it.

Li Juan and Li Qiang, who were wearing new clothes, had also climbed up. Seeing Li Long go out, they immediately followed.

Li Long used thin iron wires to tie the firecrackers to a long pole, and then lifted them high.

"Qiangqiang, dare to light it?"

"Don't dare." Looking at the electric light cannon so big, Li Qiang really didn't dare to light it—he knew it was different from the "two-kicks" last night, his little uncle had set them off.

"Haha, then you support the pole with your feet here." Li Long leaned the pole against the courtyard wall, letting the firecrackers fall outside the courtyard wall. Someone just needs to hold the pole here.

"Good."

Li Long took out the kerosene lighter, walked outside the courtyard wall, and grabbed the head of the firecrackers.

When Liang Yumei opened the door and shouted, Li Long lit the firecrackers here.

The huge sound made his ears ache. I have to say, the quality of firecrackers at this time is really good!

After the firecrackers were set off, Li Qiang immediately rushed out and picked up the duds outside the courtyard wall. Li Juan also followed to pick them up—Li Long remembered that he seemed to have done similar things when he was a child.

After breakfast, it was New Year's greetings. Li Long gave Li Juan and Li Qiang ten yuan of New Year's money each. Although Liang Yumei felt it was too much, Li Long felt it should be given.

Next was New Year's greetings in the village. Ordinary New Year's greetings are visiting east and west families, no need to bring gifts, just say Happy New Year. Unless you meet someone with a particularly good relationship, generally, everyone goes home for lunch.

For who to visit, Li Jianguo generally doesn't require it, but the Gu family must go. The relationship between the two families is very good. It is not appropriate for Li Juan to take Li Qiang to visit at this time, but these children also have their own way of spending the New Year, often running from house to house in groups, and also looking at and comparing whose candy is delicious, whose peanuts taste good, etc.

Li Long went to the Gu family and saw Gu Xiaoxia still studying, which was very gratifying. After leaving the Gu family, he went to Tao Daqiang's house to see, and then returned to the east room. He used to like liveliness, but now he feels that it is also good to stay quietly and read books one by one.

In the afternoon, Xu Haijun came to find Li Long to play. Li Long declined. He felt that he was already twenty, and running from house to house like a child was a bit childish.

Early the next morning, Li Long went to the horse stable to harness the horse-drawn cart and drove it back—today is the second day of the New Year, going to the Liang family.

In the past, Li Long didn't go—he wanted face, he felt that the Liang family was a relative of his older brother and sister-in-law, and had nothing to do with him, so he would stay at home. And his older brother and sister-in-law couldn't dissuade him, and he wouldn't cook, so Liang Yumei usually prepared food for him in advance.

When Liang Yumei mentioned this last night, Li Long didn't hesitate to agree—go.

In fact, he understood in his previous life that compared to his own parents, the Liang family took more care of him. Looking at the face of his older brother Li Jianguo, when the Liang family took care of this side, the things they brought would often have a share for Li Long. Old Man Liang really treated Li Long as a younger generation.

It was just that Li Long in his previous life was focused on that pretentious self-esteem and failed to live up to this care.

Knowing that Li Long was going, Liang Yumei was very happy. Li Long took the initiative to propose to harness the horse-drawn cart—the whole family went, and had to bring some meat, fish, etc., so it was naturally inconvenient to carry them.

At this time, the team's horse-drawn cart was really quite idle. After all, not everyone was willing to spend one yuan and sixty cents to rent a horse-drawn cart to visit relatives. If they could walk, they would walk.

When driving the horse-drawn cart out, Lu Lu Dasao across the street happened to go out and run into them, asking with surprise:

"Juanjuan's mother, what are you doing?" "Going back to my mother's house." Liang Yumei said with a smile, "Today is the second day of the New Year, we are going back to my mother's house."

"Yo, then Little Long..." Lu Lu Dasao remembered that Li Long didn't go in previous years, and was even more surprised to see Li Long sitting on the cart.

"I'm going too. Haven't seen Grandpa and Grandma Liang for a long time, I'm going to pay them a New Year's greeting." Li Long also said with a smile.

Li Jianguo raised his whip, and the horse-drawn cart went along the main road. Lu Lu Dasao looked at the horse-drawn cart and muttered in her mouth that this Li Long had really changed.

When the horse-drawn cart arrived at the Liang family five kilometers away, Liang Wenyu was still chanting that the eldest sister was coming soon.

The second sister Liang Xingmei's family was closer and had already arrived. Liang Xingmei married a farmer Du Haihua from a neighboring team. The two production teams were less than one kilometer apart. These two teams belonged to the Qianjin Commune and were adjacent to the Hongqi Commune where Li Long and the others were located.

"Uncle, Big Uncle!" From afar, Li Qiang saw Liang Wenyu and then shouted loudly.

Liang Wenyu was a bit surprised, then quickly hurried over, picked up Li Qiang from the cart:

"Qiangqiang is here! Let uncle see, so heavy, you've become a big child!"

Then he looked at Li Juan: "Juan is here too, grown taller!"

After Liang Wenyu greeted Li Jianguo and Liang Yumei, he looked at Li Long.

!.

In the past, Li Long didn't come, Liang Wenyu felt he was pretentious, but now that he came, he felt a bit awkward.

Liang Wenyu was half a year older than Li Long, but Li Long had always called him by his name when greeting him.

"Brother Wenyu, Happy New Year!" Li Long greeted first, which made Liang Wenyu stunned for a moment before saying: "Happy New Year! Heard you messed around a few times before the New Year, how is it?"

"It's okay, anyway, the family is not short of meat to eat now." Li Long said with a smile, "Look, there are still some to honor Grandpa and Grandma."

Looking at the half side of wild boar meat, two sheep legs, and a bag of fish loaded on the cart, Liang Wenyu couldn't help but say:

"This... is too much, right?"

"Not much, not much, there is still a lot at home." Li Jianguo said with a smile.

Because of Li Long's drag before, plus the miscellaneous things in the production team, Li Jianguo often accepted the help of his father-in-law's family, which led to his brother-in-law Du Haihua being sarcastic when he saw it.

This time bringing back so many things, let's see what that Du guy says!

Speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives. Hearing the commotion outside, Du Haihua and Liang Xingmei walked out of the house and then saw the horse-drawn cart.

Driving a horse-drawn cart to visit relatives at this time was rare. Seeing Li Jianguo, Du Haihua said half-jokingly and half-sarcastically:

"Yo, Brother-in-law is quite showy, only a few kilometers away, and you got a horse-drawn cart, this is because you think the formation is not big enough."

"It's not that I think the formation is not big enough, but that I can't carry the things." Li Jianguo pretended not to hear Du Haihua's sarcasm, directly took the bag of fish from the cart and put it on Du Haihua's shoulder:

"You're here, just right to help, take this fish to Grandpa and Grandma's room."

Du Haihua had actually seen the things on the horse-drawn cart after speaking, and was stunned for a moment, otherwise he wouldn't have been directly "calculated" by Li Jianguo.

The fish was already on his shoulder, and it wouldn't be appropriate for him to put it down, so he had to carry it into the house.

At this time, Liang Yumei's father Liang Donglou and mother Chen Xiuzhu came out of the house, happily welcoming their daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren—including Li Long.

In their eyes, Li Long was also a younger generation like a relative.

(End of chapter)