He couldn't explain it to his mom, and he couldn't reach an agreement with his dad either, so Zhou Yuan was speechless.
This time Zhou Yuan was a bit embarrassed by telling his parents, but fortunately, he had a wife who would be easier to talk to, so he didn't have anything to worry about.
But the Chinese New Year came in the blink of an eye. In the early 2000s, the New Year atmosphere in the countryside was still quite strong. First of all, the production team or relatives and friends had many banquets to hold and needed to visit relatives.
Some celebrate birthdays, some get married, and some build houses. Anyway, they take advantage of the New Year holiday to hold a banquet and invite relatives and friends to come and have fun.
The most lively place was the production team. There was usually a banquet on the second day, and the first day required people to help with things like raising pigs, picking vegetables, and getting chickens and ducks.
There was a lot to do, and all the men, women, young and old at home in the production team would generally go to the host family to help.
The whole place suddenly became lively, with people laughing and doing things, and the children joining in the fun.
Running around in the yard, not only the children, but even the dogs came, a large group of them barking, joining the children in the fun.
Fortunately, dogs nowadays don’t bite people, otherwise it would be really dangerous. Zhou Yuan’s family has a dog named Xiao Huan, who is a very beautiful dog.
Its entire body is snow-white, with only a few spots on its waist and tail. Its eyes are black and shiny, and it looks very smart, lively, and very human.
In addition to being beautiful, this dog is also very intelligent. When it sees its owner, it wags its tail and barks.
It will circle around its owner, and if it is a stranger, it will bark, but it just wants to bite the person, but it doesn't really want to bite. It mainly threatens and makes its presence felt.
This guy is very picky about food. He won't eat anything except meat, bones and rice.
Every day, besides wanting to eat good food, he also follows his owner around to please him.
When Liu Caijuan brought it home, she changed its name to Huanhuan, which means very happy.
But this thing really makes its owner happy, and the name Huanhuan is well-deserved. When Zhou Yuan's son Xiaohu is at home, his favorite is Huanhuan.
In fact, I wanted to send it there specially, and even asked my grandma Liu Caijuan to give it a bath because she said it was too dirty.
Liu Caijuan looked at her dog and laughed, "Xiaohu, you're so dirty yourself, why don't you take a bath? You're worried about the dog being dirty. Who's dirtier, the dog or you?"
“Grandma, I know how to bathe myself, but the dog doesn’t, so you have to bathe with him. Wash him clean and make him look beautiful, and he will be comfortable when you take him out to play.
You can’t laugh at it.”
Liu Caijuan's words made Xiaohu angry, so he pouted unhappily. Seeing this, Zhou Yuan quickly said to Xiaohu:
"Grandma is just kidding. Look, she prepared some hot water. She washed the dog with it. The dog is now beautiful and smells good. That's all right, right?"
"Well, that's pretty good. This is the effect I want." Xiaohu finally smiled.
Seeing that her grandson looked at the dog more affectionately than at his own brother, Liu Caijuan wanted to tease him, but she was afraid that he would be really angry, so she quickly got some hot water to bathe the dog.
During the Spring Festival, Xiaohu was on winter vacation, Zhou Yuan came back with his wife, and even Zhou Xiaoyu came back, and the whole family was reunited at home.
Every day we have a lively dinner and there are still more people sitting at the table than can be full.
After Zhou Xiaoyu got married, her son was already four or five years old, but he and Xiaohu were prone to fighting.
The two little guys were fighting over toys, so Zhou Yuan tried to coax them, saying, "Want to play together? No fighting over the house. I'll buy you whatever you want. One for each of you, okay?"
"Uncle, I want that one, and I also want that one." My sister's son is called Xiaokang.
Xiaokang wanted everything. When he heard that Zhou Yuanfan wanted something, he bought it. He was so happy that he listed more than ten kinds of names in one breath.
Zhou Yuan was a little embarrassed, but since she had already said it, she had no choice but to buy it.
Fortunately, he is a big boss with a lot of money, otherwise it would be really difficult. Zhou Xiaoyu and his wife were naturally very happy to see that their boss kept his word and treated their son very well.
But Xiaohu refused to accept it. He took Zhou Yuan's hand and said to Zhou Ye, "Dad, this is unfair. I want to buy more too. If you buy more than ten kinds from him, I want more than ten kinds too. Otherwise, I won't agree."
Seeing that the two guys were both angry, Zhou Yuan simply said, "How about this? I'll take you over and you two can choose. It's a toy store after all, so you can buy whatever you want. But the prerequisite is that you have to buy two of each item. No single items will be accepted. Okay?"
"Okay, I agree." Xiaohu raised his hand first. "Okay, I agree too." Xiaokang also expressed his approval.
But when Zhou Yuan took the two guys to the toy store, they were dumbfounded. Many toys were sold in single sets, and there were very few sets of two.
So if they both insist on having one set each, they won't be able to buy anything. But if they don't choose the same one, they will both fight over it, which is an irreconcilable contradiction.
In the end, the two guys discussed it over and over again and finally chose to compromise. Some of them each chose one, and they were told that they were not allowed to steal other people's things after they returned. The most they could do if they wanted to play was to exchange.
In this way, the two guys bought almost all the toys in the toy store.
The toy store owner was extremely happy, and the two little ones were also extremely happy, but Zhou Yuan was the only one who couldn't be happy.
The most unhappy person was Liu Xiaopan. She looked at the pile of toys and whispered to Zhou Yuan, "You bought so many. Fortunately you are a big boss, otherwise you would have gone bankrupt."
Zhou Yuan patted his little shoulder and said with a smile: "Actually, I think so too. It's okay as long as it's not good. Besides, I'm really a big boss, so I want to make the children happy. It doesn't matter if I spend a little money. Anyway, I don't lack this little money, right?"
"A full man doesn't know the hunger of a hungry man, and you don't feel the pain in your waist when you talk while standing." Liu Xiaopan rolled his eyes and snorted. Once upon a time, they also suffered when they were young.
Take Liu Xiaopan’s father, for example. He later became a contractor, but in the early days he still worked outside and didn’t earn much money, so the family didn’t have an easy life.
Because of this, the hardships of her childhood are still fresh in her memory and are unforgettable. In fact, the same is true for Zhou Yuan.
Although he was reborn later, he still remembered his childhood. Those poor days will always be unforgettable.
Nowadays, during the Chinese New Year, children ask me to buy toys and new clothes, but they have everything they want.
What could they buy when they were little? Nothing.
At most, we could get a new set of clothes, and we were thankful for that. When we were in the production team, we often had to wait until midnight for the production team to slaughter pigs and distribute the meat.
And that little bit of meat was eaten up in one meal when we took it home, and it was gone the next day. Not to mention eating meat, there was not even any rice to eat. We could only eat porridge during the New Year.
At most, we only eat white rice during the reunion dinner on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. That is the happiest and happiest day of the year.
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