My aunt's family is very large and has a lot of people.
It was my young aunt and her family who went south at first. Now some of them don't plan to come back, but my sister and her family have come back.
When Yu Xiangan and his friends returned, they recognized each other. Their young aunt looked similar to the members of the Yu family. When she stood next to Yu Changcun, they could even see some similarities.
When she smiles, her eyes narrow into slits, making her look very kind.
The uncle has a problem with one of his legs and a scar on his face, but the two of them have a very deep relationship.
Although one was a child bride and the other had physical defects.
It’s not that they say their relationship is so good, but the tacit understanding they have when they look at each other in their daily interactions can’t be cultivated if the relationship is not good.
The two of them had eight children. Among her brothers and sisters, she had the most children. However, the daughters she gave birth to in her first two pregnancies died, so she managed to raise the next six.
Among the remaining six, there are four sons and two daughters. The four sons gave birth to a large number of grandchildren, who came back here with their families. The population is very large, so Zhang Chahua would say that the family is flourishing.
Yu Changxi asked: "Are you my eldest brother's granddaughter?"
Yu Xiangan smiled and said, "Yes, auntie, I am the fifth child in my father's family and his youngest daughter."
Yu Changxi suddenly realized: "Your father is my eldest brother's youngest son."
Zhang Chahua happily took Lin Chuanbai and introduced him to her: "Yes, this is my grandson-in-law, and these are their two children." It can be seen that she was in a good mood.
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After Yu Xiangan's family of four was introduced, Yu Xiangju stepped forward and each of them took their turn.
After retreating, Yu Xiangan looked at the crowd and felt that his brain was not enough. Lin Chuanbai also felt a headache. Fortunately, they didn't move around often, so they only had to recognize the main faces. Otherwise, how could they recognize who was who in such a large crowd.
Yu Qingbao knew that they couldn't recognize it, so he secretly prepared a note and showed it to them.
Aunt: Yu Changxi,
Uncle: Tian Dazhuang.
The eldest son: Tian Yougen, who looks the most honest. His wife is He Li, who has curly hair. They have four daughters and two sons. The two sons who are with him now are Tian Yuqian and Tian Yucai.
The second son: Tian Youjia, the tallest, with a wife named Li Sanya, three sons and two daughters. Now with him are the second son, Tian Duofu and Tian Duoshou.
Three sons: Tian Youle, the fattest one, and his wife He Hua, also the fattest. They have three sons and three daughters. The second son brought back is Tian Changzhi and Tian Changkun.
The fourth son has not returned yet and is looking after the store in the Philippines, but his eldest son Tian Fujiang has come.
The name of my great-aunt's granddaughter-in-law hasn't been written on it yet, nor has the name of the great-grandchildren. When Yu Xiangan saw it, he felt that he almost couldn't recognize the word "田".
Yu Qingshan also felt a bit of a headache: "Come on, let's all copy one, otherwise we'll make a fool of ourselves." It is very likely that someone will mix up the facts.
Yu Yegui: “…”
Looking back, when they first came back here to recognize their relatives, they couldn't recognize them clearly. It took them some effort to finally recognize them roughly.
They found it difficult to recognize him at the moment, and the Tian family also found it difficult to recognize him.
I don’t have many relatives on my father’s side, so I met them very quickly, but on my mother’s side, wow, four brothers!
These four brothers had sons and daughters, and their sons had grandchildren, whose total number was greater than the population of their family.
The younger generation is the one who is troubled. Yu Changxi and Tian Dazhuang know that Yu Chang has four brothers. Now it is more convenient to identify them and just remember whose family they are.
The eldest brother, Yu Changyou, had two sons, Yu Qingbao and Yu Qingshan.
The second elder brother is Yu Changcun, he has two daughters and one son, the son is Yu Shunwen.
The third brother, Yu Changxin, had two daughters and two sons.
The fourth brother is Yu Changyi, and the only son is Yu Niangen.
As for the brother's grandchildren, the two of them had no choice but to recognize them one by one.
It is good to have lush branches and leaves. There are many brothers in the family and others will not dare to bully you easily.
This is especially true when they are in a foreign country. As fellow Chinese, they need to stick together for warmth.
If there are few able-bodied men in the family, it will be easy to be targeted.
If there are few people and they are weak-tempered, they will most likely not survive.
Yu Changxi is back now, and although he can't recognize these younger generations, knowing that they are living well is the happiest thing for him.
She herself didn't expect that her parents' family would live so well.
Some are cadres, some are craftsmen, some are teachers, some are cadres...
Her family was almost starving to death at the time, and before she returned home, the best she wanted was for her family to be safe and sound.
This was a pleasant surprise.
After a lively meeting, Yu Xiangan asked Yu Changxi: "Aunt, now that you are back, will you go abroad again?"
Yu Changxi said with a smile: "I won't go out." She had a satisfied look on her face. "I won't go out. I'm already this old. If I go out again, the next time I come back, it will be my ashes. I want to be in my hometown. As for my children, it's up to them. They can live wherever they want. The children are grown up, it's not the time for them to follow what the adults say."
Yu Changcun nodded, "That's right. Fallen leaves return to their roots. It's not a problem in a foreign land, let alone a foreign country. Your house was confiscated before. What are you going to do?"
The Tian family's house was empty before they left. It was later requisitioned by the local brigade. Now they are communicating with the brigade to get the house back. They are still renting someone else's house.
"We went back and told them that they are now cleaning up and will return it to us when it is done. We will just pay some maintenance fees. If no one has taken care of this house over the years, it would have fallen into disrepair long ago."
"That's fine too."
Their house had been used as a warehouse by the village over the years. It took some discussion to get it back, but the final result was achieved.
Yu Changxi and his friends stayed here for several days and it was very lively. However, the younger generation mostly just came here to make up the numbers and they had no feelings for each other. The older generation was different. For example, Yu Changcun and Zhang Chahua were obviously very happy. The relationship between the next generation was also very close. For example, Yu Qingshan and her friends were their aunts and they were very closely related by blood. But for the next generation, people like Yu Xiangan were their great aunts.
The great aunt who had never appeared and was thought to have passed away suddenly appeared. We are not distantly related by blood, but how close can we be to each other? Not really.
Yu Manchang: "How about opening the wine you brewed last year, Xiaoan, and trying it?"
Last year, Yu Xiangan was inspired to brew several jars of wine, some of which were brewed with grains and some with wild fruits from the mountains.
In the past, every household could not afford to make wine because grain was precious. Now they grow their own crops and have not encountered any natural disasters or man-made calamities. The granaries are slowly filling up and they have stored a lot of grain.
Every year, new grain becomes old grain. Although the price of old grain will be much cheaper when it is sold after the new grain comes in, basically every household does this. People who have been hungry before know how precious food is.
Yu Yegui tasted the wine and gave a thumbs up: "Not bad!"
"Would you like to take a look at our land? We planted sesame seeds this year."
"OK."
As they walked along the street, many people came up to them and talked to them. With the return of Yu Changxi and his family, their family once again became the topic of conversation after dinner.
In their words, this matter was very dramatic, and of course the facts were indeed very dramatic.
Those who have lost contact with their family members all have expectations in their hearts.
Are they also living in some unknown corner? It's just that for some reason, they didn't come back to see me.
Just like the two people from the Yu family, one is in Hong Kong and the other went to Southeast Asia. They couldn't come back in the past few years, but now they are coming back one after another.
It's not impossible.
Yu Yegui laughed and said: "This is not the first time, but I still want to say, you are really enthusiastic."
Yu Manchang laughed loudly: "Our Yu family is a big family here. If you really talk about the relatives, they are basically all relatives."
Yu Xiangan was closer to the group and arrived earlier. A few days later, Yu Manwu, who was in Shanghai, also returned with his wife and daughter.
He hasn't been back for several years. Everyone can understand why he hasn't come back. He is too embarrassed to come back. After breaking up with Ruan Chenxi and marrying another wife, he can't bring himself to look back at his past.
Now that he is back, it means he has let it go.
Yang Huili had heard his voice when she talked on the phone before, but she couldn't see him. Now that she could see him, she was so happy that all three of her sons were together.
How can I not be happy?
Yu Qingbao, who is an introvert, looks cheerful all day long.
It was the first time that Yu Xiangan saw Yu Manwu’s wife in person. Her name was Dingxiang. She was a little chubby and looked very gentle.
Her family is from a rural area in Shanghai, and she is a completely different type from Ruan Chenxi.
That’s good. Otherwise, if I find a similar one, I’ll be really upset when I find out about it later.
When Yu Mansheng saw him, he hit him with a punch and said, "It's been so long, and you finally came back! Have you almost forgotten where the door to your house opens?"
Yu Manchang followed suit and punched him on the arm: "You little bastard, look forward to the future."
Yu Manwu smiled sheepishly and said, "I won't do that again."
Yu Xiangan and Xu Xiaojuan chatted with Ding Xiang.
Xu Xiaojuan introduced them to her openly. She never hesitated in front of these two sisters-in-law, each one more outstanding than the other.
Although she has no education, a good family, or a good job, both of her third-generation sons were born from her womb, and this is her confidence.
Seeing that my second brother and his wife would not have any more children because of their work, my third brother would have another child, but by that time her children would have grown up.
Because she has the confidence, she can stand up straight in front of her two sisters-in-law.
And she knew that they would not stay at home for a long time in the future. It was just a few days, and if she did a good job, everyone would be happy.
This family reunion meeting eventually turned into a family reunion.
Yu Manyu's daughter is over one year old. She is very cute, with a chubby little face, loves to laugh, and has a good temper. Even if she accidentally falls while walking, she doesn't cry, but sits on the ground and laughs "giggle, giggle", and people who laugh will unconsciously laugh along with her.
Lin Yining likes this cute little sister very much.
This chubby little sister is so cute. When I hold her and tease her, she will sweetly call me sister.
She wants her mother to give birth to another little sister.
Yu Xiangyan was busy and couldn't come back. When Yu Xiangqing knew about this, he wanted to come back, but he couldn't leave, so he could only regretfully say he would come back next time.
It is worth mentioning that this big family was featured in the newspapers when they returned. The social news specially interviewed them and took pictures of Yu Changxi and his whole family.
Not many people returned to China at the beginning of the reform and opening up, but now more and more people are coming back, some to return to their roots, some to look for relatives. This big family that returned is very representative.
They have also thought about how to make a living. They have returned and settled down again. The village plans to distribute land to them. They can hardly grow much crops this year. They haven't farmed for a long time, so it may take some time for them to regain their farming skills. If they don't have other jobs in the future, they can support themselves by farming. However, they used to run a Chinese restaurant, so they plan to go back to their old business.
But there is no rush. They just came back and are not familiar with the place yet. The closest relationship right now is with the Yu family. Yu Changxi has a second brother, a sister-in-law, and nephews are also his biological parents. This is the closest relationship.
Yu Changxi and Tian Dazhuang often came to talk to Zhang Chahua and Yu Changyou, and Zhang Chahua and Yu Changyou also liked it.
I listened to her talk about their journey to Southeast Asia, the hardships they endured there, and how they lived their lives afterwards.
Yu Changxi and the others just listened to their eldest sister-in-law and second brother talking about their hometown.
After decades of absence, they need to supplement a lot of things. Even though they are not in the same commune, they are right next door and not actually far away.
Yu Xiangan did not have much contact with his aunt's family.
I only spoke a few more words to my aunt.
Although her children, that is, Yu Xiangan's uncles and cousins, can speak their hometown dialect, they still have accents, and they probably can't fully understand what Yu Xiangan and others are saying.
There is a language barrier, so communication is inconvenient.
If they want to stay here, it shouldn't take too much time.
They came frequently, and if Yu Xiangan was there, he would serve them tea in time.
As long as Zhang Chahua is happy, then they are welcome.
Yu Xiangan hasn't sold the produce from her farm for a long time. Now, she no longer needs to earn income by selling these things, and time does not permit it, so all the harvests are stored in the warehouse. The warehouse seems to be endless and is never full. Some of the fruits she harvests will be directly brewed into fruit wine and stored for later use.
She controlled the number of fish and ducks she raised because other things could be harvested and sown with one click, but fish and ducks could not.
The inventory in the warehouse is getting more and more. Yu Xiangan has just returned from a family reunion meeting, and her farm has been upgraded.
This farm is a half-baked one, otherwise there wouldn't have been only four kinds of fruits at the beginning, and there would have been no way to increase the variety. Later, it was upgraded, but the variety didn't increase, and a new ranch was opened.
Now it has been upgraded again, but the variety has not increased, and new processing workshops have appeared.
Yu Xiangan felt that the farm could be upgraded one or two more times in his lifetime.
I don’t know what will appear at that time, a store or something else?
She has tried this processing plant. She put the raw materials in, adjusted the data herself, pressed a button after confirming it, and waited for a while before receiving the finished product.
It can range from fifteen minutes to twenty-four hours.
This time she put some grapes in it, chose to process them into wine, and set the brewing time herself, which took twelve hours.
Previously she chose to process it into raisins, which took half an hour.
It takes forty minutes to process the beef into beef jerky.
The taste is pretty good, because she decides the recipe and time herself, which means she made it herself, with a familiar recipe and familiar taste.
There is a very important aspect, that there is no limit to the materials that can be processed here, and the things she brings to the farm from outside can also be used.
Lin Chuanbai likes this function very much and he enjoys using it whenever he has free time.
Maybe it's processed medicinal liquor, maybe it's processed medicinal materials, maybe it's processed food, just like a big boy who got a new toy and can't put it down.
But the two of them need to avoid people when entering.
In order to prevent the twins from finding out what the two of them were doing.
They were sent away with different reasons every day.
Only after Lin Chuanbai had his fill did he slow down the frequency of going in. However, by this time, Yu Xiangan's warehouse was already full of these processed products.
That day, when the twins came back, they found a lot of beef jerky in the cabinet at home, with various flavors, including spiced beef jerky, spicy beef jerky, juice beef jerky, air-dried beef jerky, hand-torn beef jerky...
They were dazzled by what they saw.
Lin Yining likes to eat beef jerky. She knew how much stock the family had. Seeing these, Lin Yining jumped for joy and cheered: "Mom, you made a lot of beef jerky."
Yu Xiangan said seriously: "Enjoy it."
In fact, most of them are made by Lin Chuanbai, and he has modified some of the recipes himself. Some of the flavors are probably quite peculiar, and you might even get a "surprise" taste.
In addition to beef jerky, there are also fruit juices in the refrigerator, including grape juice, pear juice, and apple juice.
Lin Yihong took out a bag of spiced beef jerky, took out one and put it in his mouth to chew, then opened the refrigerator and took out two bottles of juice, one grape juice and one apple juice. He wanted the grape one and Lin Yining wanted the apple one.
Lin Chuanbai coughed and said, "We have too much beef jerky at home. When you go to school tomorrow, take some and share it with your good friends."
This way it can be consumed faster.
They both agreed, and the next day each brought a few bags of beef jerky to school. During break, Lin Yining shared them with Wang Lipan and his fat deskmate.
The little fat boy took a piece and put it in his mouth. He ate it and said, "This is made by your mother again. It's delicious. My mother made it once before. The pork jerky she made was a waste of the grain bureau. We forced ourselves to eat it. But your mother's is different. After eating one, I want to eat the second one. I can't stop at all."
Wang Lipan also opened a pack, picked up a stick and put it in his mouth. After chewing it twice, his whole face froze unexpectedly. What a sour and refreshing taste!
He immediately gulped down a big gulp of water, "Did your mother put this beef jerky in vinegar?"
Little Fatty, "Sour? What flavor is this?"
Lin Yining picked it up and took a look. "I haven't eaten this bag, so I don't know what it tastes like." She picked up a small piece and put it in her mouth. Her whole face wrinkled. It was sour, and a little spicy. Spicy and sour beef jerky?
She had never tried this flavor before and it didn’t taste good. Could it be that this was a new flavor her mother made and it failed?
(Yu Xiangan: His reputation was damaged.)
We can’t waste food, Lin Yining frowned and swallowed it, "This may be made by my mother to test a new flavor, don’t waste it, I’ve taken it out." Who would be willing to eat it if we take it back?
Wang Lipan: “…”
With this smell, can he soak it in water first?
The little fat boy picked up one and put it in his mouth. He could handle sour food, so he thought it was okay. He smacked his lips and said, "This taste is a bit strange, but it's okay, not that exaggerated."
Lin Yining pushed the whole bag to him and said, "Then it's yours!"
She wants normal flavor!
Yu Xiangan's farm was upgraded, but there was no change in Lin Chuanbai's medicine garden. The only changes were the number of medicinal herbs planted there and the things he stored there.
After years of hard work, he has his own laboratory in the medicine garden. There are no expensive equipment, only some relatively affordable ones. If you calculate carefully, these things will cost a lot of money.
There are some finished products on the shelf.
Now Yu Xiangan and Lin Chuanbai plan to convert some of the finished products here into funds.
At the beginning, Lin Chuanbai used some medicinal materials to make some facial creams, moisturizing lotions, and sunscreen products for Yu Xiangan.
In the 1970s, Yu Xiangan had no place to buy these products. The supply and marketing cooperative only had the simplest clam oil vanishing cream, etc.
There are still large gaps in this market. How much money can Yu Xiangan make from these things?
Lin Chuanbai wanted to build a laboratory with high-tech equipment. Apart from some instruments that he was not qualified to buy, the other instruments were also astronomical in price. The more ways to make money he had, the faster his laboratory would be established.
Regarding these, Yu Xiangan plans to register in Hong Kong and make the newly established company named Meiyan a foreign-funded enterprise.
Foreign investment is very popular and there are preferential policies wherever it goes. Some countries provide free land, some provide free road construction, and there are various tax incentives.
This was not a difficult matter for her, and Yu Yegui helped her with it.
After obtaining the license, we took the product for identification and applied for a patent at the same time.
She also talked to the government about the land she was interested in.
Seeing Yu Xiangan's methodical actions, Yu Yegui was a little surprised. Property rights are really not taken seriously in China, and it takes time to get them, so many people will not do it.
The time waiting for appraisal and property rights is just right for building the factory.
Knowing what she was doing, Clete came to her door and said, "Yu, can I join? You know, there are also skin care and makeup counters in the supermarket."
"I believe in you. Your products are guaranteed. I will not be involved in management. I can also help with sales later. Yu, we will have a pleasant cooperation."
For example, he could open a counter in his supermarket, but that would depend on whether the product was good enough. Otherwise, it would be fine in China, but if it was sold abroad, his uncle would not allow it. Yu Xiangan agreed.
He provided 10% of the money and the follow-up channels.
Seeing that Yu Xiangan was busy involving himself in a new industry, Yu Mansheng began to wonder whether he should also expand into other businesses?
Apart from taking on construction site contracts, he only has one business, building commercial housing and selling it, which is very simple. But after thinking about it, he found that it is not so easy to get involved in other industries. Without technology and formula, it is difficult to make any progress.
After Yu Xiangan knew his idea, he asked him: "Are you interested in building a hotel? An office building? A shopping mall integrating leisure and entertainment?"
After hearing this, Yu Mansheng had only one question: "Are there really so many customers?"
"Look at how many bosses are wearing gold chains and fur in winter? Are there any houses you launched that cannot be sold? Can't we afford it ourselves? We may not be willing to spend money at ordinary times, but when we are negotiating business and showing off, will we spend this money?"
"Every year it changes. Look at my place. It was so remote when I first bought the land. How about now? If you are interested, start planning now. Once it is completed and operational, it will be almost there."
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