Chapter 94 Visiting Liang's Relatives On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Long got up early. Habits are terrible. Even though he no longer needs to get up early to harness the carriage, after more than ten or twenty days, he has to get up before dawn every day. Now, even if he doesn't have to work, his biological clock has automatically marked the time for him to wake up. I can't even sleep in. Before he heard the sound of firecrackers outside, Li Long got dressed and went to the west room. Liang Yuemei had already set up the stove and was making dumplings. "Xiaolong, go prepare the firecrackers. When your sister-in-law tells you to cook dumplings, you can light the firecrackers over there." Li Long responded, went to the fire wall, got the electric cannon with a thousand rounds, and went outside to disassemble it. Li Juan and Li Qiang, who were wearing new clothes, had also climbed up. When they saw Li Long go out, they immediately followed him out. Li Long tied the firecrackers to a long pole with thin wire and then held it high. "Qiangqiang, do you dare to order?" "I dare not." Seeing how big the electric cannon was, Li Qiang really didn't dare to light it - he knew that this was different from the firecrackers last night, which his uncle had let go.
"Haha, then you just hold the pole here with your feet." Li Long leaned the pole against the edge of the courtyard wall, letting the firecrackers fall outside the wall. Only someone needed to hold the pole here. "it is good." Li Long took out a kerosene lighter, walked outside the courtyard wall and grabbed the head of the firecracker. When Liang Yuemei opened the door and shouted, Li Long lit the firecrackers. The huge noise made my ears hurt. I have to say that the quality of firecrackers at that time was really good! After the firecrackers were set off, Li Qiang immediately rushed out and picked up the duds outside the courtyard wall. Li Juan followed suit - Li Long remembered that he seemed to have done something similar when he was a child. After breakfast, it was time to pay New Year's greetings. Li Long gave Li Juan and Li Qiang ten yuan each as New Year's money. Although Liang Yuemei thought it was too much, Li Long thought it was what he should give. Next is to visit relatives and friends in the village. Usually, people visit relatives and friends all the time. They don’t need to bring gifts, just say Happy New Year. Unless they meet someone they are very close to, they usually go back to their own homes for lunch. Li Jianguo usually didn't ask which family to go to, but he had to go to the Gu family. The two families had a very good relationship, so it was not appropriate for Li Juan to take Li Qiang to pay New Year's greetings at this time. However, these children also had their own way of celebrating the New Year, often going from house to house in groups, and seeing and comparing whose candy and peanuts tasted better. Li Long went to Gu's house and was relieved to see that Gu Xiaoxia was still studying. After leaving Gu's house, he went to Tao Daqiang's house and then returned to the east room. He used to like the hustle and bustle, but now he feels that it is also good to stay alone and read books. In the afternoon, Xu Haijun came to play with Li Long, but Li Long declined. He felt that it was childish for him to run around like a kid even though he was already twenty years old. The next morning, Li Long went to the stable to harness the carriage and brought it back - today was the second day of the Chinese New Year, and he was going to the Liang family. In the past, Li Long would not go - he wanted to save face, he felt that the Liang family was his brother and sister-in-law's relatives, and had nothing to do with him, so he would stay at home. But his brother and sister-in-law couldn't persuade him, and he couldn't cook, so Liang Yuemei usually prepared meals for him in advance. When Liang Yuemei mentioned this last night, Li Long agreed without hesitation - go ahead. In fact, he understood in his previous life that the Liang family took better care of him than his parents. For the sake of his eldest brother Li Jianguo, the Liang family would often bring some things to Li Long when they took care of him. Mr. Liang really treated Li Long as a junior. It’s just that in his previous life, Li Long was too concerned about his hypocritical self-esteem and failed to live up to this care. Liang Yuemei was very happy to know that Li Long was going. Li Long took the initiative to suggest that they go with a horse carriage - if the whole family went, they would have to bring some meat, fish and other things, which would be inconvenient. At this time, the team's horse-drawn carriages were really idle. After all, not everyone was willing to pay one dollar and sixty cents to rent a horse-drawn carriage to visit relatives, so they would just walk if they could. When he was driving the carriage out, Mrs. Lu from the opposite house happened to run into him and asked in surprise: "Juanjuan's mother, where are you going?" "Back to my mother's house." Liang Yuemei said with a smile, "Today is the second day of the Chinese New Year, let's go back to my mother's house."
"Oh, that Xiaolong..." Mrs. Lu remembered that Li Long never went in previous years, so she was even more surprised to see Li Long sitting in the car. "I'm going too. I haven't seen Uncle Liang and Aunt Liang for a long time. I'm going to wish them a happy new year." Li Long also said with a smile. Li Jianguo whipped the horse-drawn carriage and it drove along the road. Mrs. Lu looked at the carriage and murmured, "This Li Long has really changed." When the carriage arrived at the Liang family, five kilometers away, Liang Wenyu was still muttering that his elder sister was about to arrive. The second sister Liang Xingmei's home was relatively close and she had already arrived. Liang Xingmei married Du Haihua, a farmer from the neighboring production team. The two production teams were less than one kilometer apart. The two teams belonged to Qianjin Commune, which was adjacent to Hongqi Commune where Li Long and his team were. "Uncle, uncle!" Li Qiang saw Liang Wenyu from a distance and shouted loudly. Liang Wenyu was a little surprised, and then she quickly rushed over and picked up Li Qiang from the car: "Qiangqiang is here! Let your uncle see you. You are so heavy, you have become a big boy!" Then he looked at Li Juan: "Juan is here too, she's grown taller!" After Liang Wenyu greeted Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei, she looked at Li Long. Before Li Long didn’t come, Liang Wenyu thought he was pretentious. Now that he is here, she feels a little awkward. Liang Wenyu is half a year older than Li Long, but Li Long always greets him by his first name. "Brother Wenyu, Happy New Year!" Li Long was the first to greet Liang Wenyu, which made him stunned for a moment before he said, "Happy New Year! I heard that you had a good time before the New Year. How was it?" "It's OK. Anyway, we have enough meat to eat at home." Li Long said with a smile, "Look, there is still some to honor the grandpa and aunt." Looking at the half-stalk of wild boar meat, two lamb legs and a bag of fish in the car, Liang Wenyu couldn't help but say: "Isn't this... too much?" "Not much, not much. There's still a lot at home." Li Jianguo said with a smile. In the past, because of the burden of Li Long and the various things in the production team, Li Jianguo had to accept a lot of help from his father-in-law's family, which led to Du Haihua, who was carrying the load, being weird whenever he saw him. We brought back so many things this time, let’s see what that Du guy says! Speak of the devil, and here he appears. Hearing the noise outside, Du Haihua and Liang Xingmei walked out of the house and saw the carriage. It is still rare to visit relatives in a horse-drawn carriage these days. After seeing Li Jianguo, Du Haihua half-jokingly and half-sarcastically said: "Oh, my brother-in-law is really showing off. He got a horse-drawn carriage just for a few kilometers. Is he thinking that the show is not big enough?" "It's not that we think the scene is too big, but we can't carry the things." Li Jianguo pretended not to hear Du Haihua's ridicule and directly took the bag of fish from the car and put it on Du Haihua's shoulder: "Now that you are here, you can help me. Send this fish to my parents' room." After Du Haihua finished speaking, he had actually seen what was loaded on the carriage and was stunned for a moment, otherwise he would not have been directly "tricked" by Li Jianguo. The fish was already on his shoulders, so it would not be appropriate for him to put it down any further, so he had to carry it into the house. At this time, Liang Yuemei's father Liang Donglou and mother Chen Xiuzhu came out of the house and happily greeted their daughter, son-in-law and grandson - including Li Long. In their eyes, Li Long is also a younger generation like a relative. (End of this chapter)
