Chapter 56: New Year Greetings
Like now, Chu Hong also felt the legendary pulse that was smooth and round, like beads rolling on a plate.
Chu Hong reminded her mother: "Wake up Aunt San first, and then ask her when she had her period last time."
Wu Xiu pinched her philtrum.
He didn't dare to be too harsh the first time, so much so that Shuanzi's mother didn't even raise an eyebrow.
Wu Xiu pinched her hard again, and this time Shuanzi's mother finally opened her eyes.
She struggled to remember: "What's wrong with me? I have to go see Shuanzi."
Chu Hong walked to the door and gave the two of them space to talk to avoid embarrassment.
Wu Xiu whispered a few words to her, and Shuanzi's mother protected her belly in disbelief: "Is it really possible?"
"Aren't we going to the hospital?" Wu Xiu said gently, "Let the doctor check you again."
Shuanzi's mother's eyes filled with tears: "Oh, my sister-in-law is really grateful to you."
Wu Xiu also lowered her voice and joked with her: "I don't have this ability, it's all thanks to Axiong."
Chu Hong almost couldn't help laughing, but in order to avoid embarrassing them, she could only pretend that she didn't hear it.
On the way back, Wu Xiu felt a little regretful: "We are both half-baked, and we don't know if it is accurate. If Elder Jia could come and check her pulse, he would definitely not make a mistake."
Chu Hong also felt that she had missed a good opportunity.
The mother and daughter came mainly because Shuanzi's mother fainted, so they naturally didn't ask Old Jia to come along, for fear that something might happen to her. Shuanzi's family members directed their anger and resentment towards Old Jia.
But if I had known earlier that I was pregnant, that would have been a good thing, and having Dr. Jia diagnose me would have been a good start.
"It's better to be careful." It's no wonder Chu Hong is cautious. After all, if something happens, it will involve Grandpa Song, who has a sister, as well as younger brothers and sisters.
My eldest sister died soon after she got married, leaving no children. My former brother-in-law remarried soon after, and we have no contact now.
My younger sister married into Houwu Village and gave birth to a son and two daughters. However, the economic situation was bad in the past few years and she lost one of her daughters.
After his son got married, he had already given birth to two sons and a daughter.
The daughter married a worker in the town and gave birth to two sons.
By the way, Song Youfu’s wife is from Houwu Village. He saw her when he visited his aunt’s house to pay New Year’s greetings.
So now young men and women who are not married particularly like to visit relatives. Who knows, they can find their future partner in their relatives’ village?
Second Grandpa Song also had only one daughter and one son, and his house was built in front of Chu Hong and her family.
Because my second grandfather was more than ten years younger than my grandfather, he got married late and his son was only twenty-six years old.
His son also got married late, and his grandson is only two years old now.
If Chu Hong hadn't divorced, she might have given birth to a child next year. The children, who are two years apart in age, are of a different generation.
They had made an appointment several years ago to come to pay New Year's greetings to Grandpa Song in the afternoon of New Year's Day.
When Chu Hong entered the door, she saw nearly twenty people talking and laughing in the yard, and several children chasing and playing. She almost thought she had walked into the wrong door.
Wu Xiu started to call out: "Uncle, Aunt..."
Chu Hong also remembered who they were and started calling for help.
With so many people here, they must have dinner. Chu Dan had already washed a large basin of vegetables and started cutting radishes. When she saw Chu Hong coming in, she was overjoyed: "Sister, you are finally back. Dinner can be cooked at 3:30. We have to prepare dishes for three tables."
Chu Hong finally understood why her grandparents always said to save the food for guests before the Chinese New Year.
With so many people here, if we hadn’t bought more meat and prepared more vegetables before the New Year, we would have been able to ask everyone to eat more today: vegetables, radishes, and tofu for safety.
Chu Hong asked in a low voice: "Are there more people coming to my aunt's place this year?"
In the past, only my aunt would come with her children and grandchildren to pay New Year’s greetings.
Today, not only my aunt's family came, but also my cousin's family, whom I rarely see, came.
Chu Dan also looked bewildered: "Yes, grandma originally said that two tables would be enough, but now we need at least three. Dad and my second uncle went to my younger uncle's house to borrow tables, chairs and benches."
The uncle she was talking about was her second grandfather’s son.
Chu Hong then remembered that her grandfather had borrowed money from her great-aunt's family and paid it back last year.
Or you heard that you had received an unexpected fortune.
A poor man in a busy city has no one to care about him, but a rich man in a remote mountain area has distant relatives. The old saying is indeed true.
The pickled meat at home was kept in a large vat outside Chu Hong's room. The lotus roots in the pond were never washed after being dug out. Grandpa Song later exchanged a lot of lotus roots from the village, so it was very easy to make six dishes.
Grandma Song was being talked to by her sister-in-law, and she was also thinking about dinner. She went out to pour tea and saw that her two granddaughters and two daughters-in-law were already lighting the fire, cutting vegetables, and cooking. She felt relieved and went in with the kettle.
Wu Yinghong is my great aunt's daughter. She married a man who worked in the town's enamel basin factory. Later, when they were recruiting, Wu Yinghong asked someone for help and became a temporary worker.
A few years ago, the Song family borrowed money from her family. She thought that among her relatives, her family was the best with two working families, and she was really afraid that her uncle would ask her to borrow money again.
Since her mother's uncle is the eldest, she has to come to pay New Year's greetings, so she simply doesn't let her husband come along. Even if her uncle asks her to borrow money, she has an excuse to say that she is not the head of the family.
But unexpectedly, my uncle paid off the money last year. I also heard that Chu Hong had a son-in-law who lived with her, and then he went to college. After the divorce, Chu Hong asked for a large sum of compensation.
There are also six tractors, and I heard that Chu Hong also went to Shanghai to apply for them.
This shocked them.
Another thing is that the factory where they work is a branch of the municipal government, and the machines were all discarded by the city. When they were put into storage, it was discovered that several batches of enamel basins had quality problems.
It was originally the most popular. Newly married couples had to buy a pair of enamel washbasins with double "囍" patterns. The "囍" character turned into "喜", and a pair of magpies turned into a single magpie.
It's just missing the other half.
Although it is to get rid of that, such a washbasin has a bad omen and she is not willing to buy it.
Of course, the goods to be shipped out were remade after working overtime. The two thousand defective washbasins were piled up in the warehouse, and the leader asked everyone to find a way to sell them.
Now we can’t trade privately, and we can’t lower the price, otherwise the materials won’t match, and they’ll have to pay for it, which makes it even harder to sell.
So during dinner, Wu Yinghong talked about this with Party Secretary Song: "Big cousin, I heard from my second cousin that you supplied a lot of vegetables to the purchasing department before the New Year. We have a batch of defective wash basins. Can you think of a solution for us?"
After listening to her, Secretary Song shook his head after a while: "If you want 200, then I might have a way. These 2,000 basins are really too many."
He had been wondering why the gifts from his aunt and her family were particularly heavy this year, with two kilograms of glutinous rice noodles and two kilograms of dried red dates more than in previous years.
So he had something to ask of me?
But there's nothing I can do if I can't help. When I go to my aunt's house tomorrow to pay New Year's greetings, I can just take an extra jar of cookies with me.
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