Chapter 174
When they knew that Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang went to Jiang's house to hold a Liangnuanfang party for Jiang's father, they remembered that they had not held a Liangnuanfang party after the big guy's big house was built. It should have been held. Two years ago, when their family built the building, the big guy's family sent gifts as a favor.
Led by Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang, they all remembered this and took red paper, wrapped the gift money, and sent it to the Jiang family.
Father Jiang received so many people coming to send gifts for the new beam, and he also decided to have the wine for the new beam on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, because many people had to go out to work on the sixth day and would not have time to have a drink.
Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang are leaving on the second day of the Chinese New Year. They still have many families who need them to visit during the New Year, so they naturally cannot stay in their hometown forever.
We had dinner at Jiang's father's house in the evening. After dinner, Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang visited the Jiang family. While visiting, they praised: "Guoping's house was built in one step. I will build one like Guoping's in the future."
The old houses of the three families are together. Jiang Guotai's and Jiang's father's old houses share a wall. Mayor Jiang's house and Jiang Guoping's old house are only one meter apart.
Jiang Guotai also smiled when he heard this and said, "Add me in, and then the three of us can build a house together and live together in our old age!"
They may not do this in the future, but at this moment, they all remembered their childhood. The three of them can be said to have grown up together in that most difficult time.
At this moment, they sincerely wished that when they get old they could still live together like they did when they were children.
Jiang Guotai toured the house from top to bottom and said, "The house is big, but it's a bit empty."
Mayor Jiang said with a smile, "Songzi will be 22 years old after the Chinese New Year, right? Wait until he gives you two grandchildren, and you won't have any free time."
When Jiang Song was mentioned, Jiang's father said sadly: "How do you know where he is now?"
Jiang Guotai was not worried and said, "Your son will be fine wherever he is!"
This is really true. Jiang Song has been very popular since he was a child. Even if he doesn't have a penny, he will not starve to death, as there are people everywhere who are willing to take him to eat.
Jiang Guotai was right. Even though Jiang Song had a girlfriend, he had completely different attitudes towards his girlfriend and towards women who came to him. It's not that he was not nice to them, but to his serious girlfriend, he was doting and respectful. He would lower his head and humble himself to coax her, and he would not get angry no matter what he did.
So when he is with his girlfriend, he always considers other's feelings more. While he is comfortable, he also considers other's feelings. More often than not, the two of them achieve a state of harmony between man and nature together.
But when he was with this girl who actively pestered him, he was in a state of debauchery all day long. The girl tolerated his debauchery and even actively pestered him and seduced him. She also served him comfortably. Someone washed his clothes and cooked meals every day. He just had everything he needed, and his life was simply perfect.
Even in the Jiang family, as the eldest son to whom more than 80% of the family resources belonged, he had never lived such a life at home.
Life in the countryside was poor. Apart from not being allowed to wash clothes, wash dishes, feed the pigs at home, or sweep the fields, he had to do all the things he was supposed to do. The most he would do was to be lazy and run away, but he had never been served like this before.
Jiang Ning had a good temper when he was young, and he could still order his sister around. But ever since he said, "Shouldn't girls be the ones washing the dishes?", it was like a rebellious switch in his sister was turned on, and she wouldn't do anything no matter what he asked her to do. But he didn't care if she couldn't do it, and he would do it himself.
Although Jiang's mother dotes on him and most of the time it is Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning who do the housework, he is the eldest in the family. He has been tall and strong since he was a child and is a half-laborer. During the busy farming season in the countryside, it is a race against time with God. How could she not let Jiang Song work at all? Unless she wanted to tire herself to death, she had always ordered him around since she was a child.
In his opinion, this is the norm, so he can be so humble towards his two girlfriends. It is all because of the training he received from two generations of women in his family, Jiang Ma and Jiang Ning. His sister has taught him through his actions that no one can demand anything from him.
But with such a life, will Jiang Song be grateful and touched, or even fall in love with this girl?
That's impossible. Jiang Song, who was taught by Jiang's father and mother that he was the eldest in the world and the third in the world, would only think it was natural.
You did it willingly, I didn't force you to do it, and I didn't ask you to do it.
People are like this, especially people like Jiang Song. If you have demands on him, he will cherish you more. If you give him everything he wants, he will just lie down and enjoy your efforts as a matter of course.
The girl thought that they had spent the entire New Year holiday so intimately that they had become inseparable, and that she at least occupied a very important position in his heart. In fact, in Jiang Song's heart, the only one who had a place was his girlfriend.
But he also likes being with this girl, who wouldn't like it? How comfortable!
Staying in the rented house all day with food provided for them and clothes...they didn't wear much clothes, which made Jiang Song live a happy life.
Motorcycles are particularly popular in this era. How could Jiang Song, a trendsetter at the forefront of the times, not have a cool motorcycle? The first thing he did after making money was to buy himself a car.
For his sake, his girlfriend came early for the New Year just to accompany him. During the day, he rode a motorcycle to accompany his girlfriend to visit all the fun attractions around, and placed his girlfriend in a hotel at a fixed time every day. Even if he wanted to do something, as long as his girlfriend said she was afraid and didn't want to, he would be the same as before and always put his girlfriend's feelings first. But when he returned to the rental house at night, there was a girl waiting for him inside.
To his girlfriend, he is a good boyfriend who is always available, but to the girl waiting for him in the rental house, he is the boss. He has become accustomed to the girl's devotion to him and is willing to coax her with sweet words, but there is nothing more.
The girl was jealous and angry that he went out with his girlfriend every day, but Jiang Song was puzzled. His big eyes that always fascinated her said with doubts: "If you don't want to leave, then just go. My girlfriend came to see me specially. If I don't accompany her, should I accompany you?"
This sentence made the girl's eyes red, and she asked him crying: "What about me? What am I?"
Jiang Song was even more confused. In his mind, you are a woman in a dance hall, and you were willing to do it on your own initiative, so how can you be compared with my girlfriend?
He was even more confused and asked, "Don't you know I have a girlfriend?"
That's because I thought I could snatch you away!
She lowered her head and tears fell one by one on the bed sheets. Jiang Song felt softened and went over to comfort her.
But the more he coaxed her with such good temper, the more she realized how good he was to her girlfriend, and the more reluctant she was to let him go.
The love she had felt from childhood to adulthood was too little, so little that even though Jiang Song didn't love her, he was only willing to coax her when they were together, willing to buy her new clothes, new shoes and new jewelry, and willing to coax her with sweet words when she was sad and crying. The more she wanted to snatch Jiang Song away, the more she wanted to snatch him away. As long as she snatched him away, all the tenderness he gave to his girlfriend would be given to her.
She had learned to show weakness without any instruction and presented herself as gentle and docile. After realizing the huge difference between her and his girlfriend's status in his heart, she no longer tried to use tough measures to make Jiang Song stay.
She knew that Jiang Song was a person who would only respond to soft words and not to hard ones, and she didn't want to change her image in Jiang Song's mind, so she wanted to start with his girlfriend.
Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang went back to the neighboring city on the second day of the Chinese New Year. Shen Hongyun and the mayor's wife both needed to go back to their parents' homes. Jiang Yanyan and Jiang Miao followed their mother to their grandmother's house. Jiang Xin followed Wang Xiyue to his future father-in-law's house and accompanied Wang Xiyue to watch a movie.
Although Jiangjia Village has a cinema, it is very simple. The seats are not chairs but long wooden boards nailed together. It is cold inside in winter, so they said they would go back to the cinema in the neighboring city to watch the movie.
Wang Xiyue finally saw Jiang Bai in the movie.
Even if you have seen him in person and seen his films, the little monk in the movie is destined to be one of the scenes that will amaze you. Watching the movie on the big screen and facing Jiang Bo's close-up shots is completely different from the feeling of watching that fifteen seconds of filming on TV.
After she returned, she told her parents about what she saw and heard in Jiangjia Village, focusing on the siblings Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai.
Jiang Bai was fine, he made movies, had sex, and appeared on TV, which was nothing in her father's eyes. After Wang Xiyue told her father what Jiang Ning said to Mayor Jiang Guotai and how much they valued her, her father sighed that Jiangjia Village was truly a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery.
He was not just talking about Jiang Guotai and Jiang Ning. In the 1950s, Jiangjia Village produced a vice-state-level leader, who was demoted to Puqingwei Farm in the neighboring city in the decade. Although in the neighboring city, Shuibu Town is located right in the middle of the neighboring city and Wucheng. Puqingwei Farm is one-third closer to Jiangjia Village than the neighboring city.
After all, it was the old leader's hometown. Although the people in Jiangjia Village did not dare to take care of the old leader openly, they successfully allowed the old man to live to the end of the 1970s and return to the capital.
Of course, this old man is no longer with us, and his Jiang family and the Jiang family that still remains in Jiangjia Village are no longer the same Jiang family, but many people still know and remember this old man who was very famous in his hometown in that era.
This is also why Jiangjia Village is not only one of the largest villages in the local area, but also one of the reasons why no one in the surrounding area dares to bully the people of Jiangjia Village.
Unfortunately, such blessing is only known to the old people who know the events of that year. The younger generation only knows that Jiangjia Village is very big.
The current generation no longer knows that old man, they only know Jiang Ning.
Wang Xiyue's father said, "Isn't your uncle Jiang going to send you to study abroad? I know our country is still a little far from some developed countries abroad, but our country is also developing rapidly. Don't ignore Daxin when you go abroad. Since you are determined to be together, get along well."
The young Wang Xiyue was a little embarrassed, and said coquettishly: "Dad, I know!"
"When his mother comes back tomorrow, take a box of wine to give to your Uncle Jiang. There are some other things at home, take some of them with you." The wine he mentioned was of course not ordinary wine, but specially supplied Moutai. The other things were not ordinary things on the market either, but special supplies that only people with a certain status could have. The value of such things is not too high, it is mainly because they are specially supplied.
When Jiang Guotai went out to discuss business, sometimes he would just pass out cigarettes to the people at the same table. Some people would know that there might be someone behind him just by looking at the cigarettes he was smoking.
Even those who received cigarettes from him were reluctant to smoke them, but kept them in their own cigarette boxes, waiting to take them out and show off at the critical moment.
Some things and some words don't even need to be explained clearly. Jiang Guotai only needs to see what Wang Xiyue brought him to know her father's attitude.
Originally, Grandpa Jiang and his family were going to leave on the third day of the Chinese New Year. He and Jiang Bai were in a hurry to go out and sell clothes to earn money. Their granddaughter/sister had a huge mortgage of 10,000 yuan a month, and they felt the burden was heavy on their shoulders. They would not feel at ease if they didn't make money.
But this year the Jiang family built a new house and held a beam-raising banquet, which is a big event. As members of the family, if Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning were not here at this time, nothing would be justified.
On the day Jiang's mother returned home, she told her brother, sister-in-law, brothers and sisters about the happy event in her family. She also stopped by Aunt Jiang's house and told her about the good news.
Aunt Jiang is Grandpa Jiang’s sister. She is seven years younger than Grandpa Jiang. She looks like Grandpa Jiang, not in very good health. Not long after Grandpa Jiang passed away in his previous life, Aunt Jiang also passed away.
Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai have rather cold personalities and don't have much contact with the descendants of Aunt Jiang, that is, their cousins. After all, they all have their own jobs and are not in the same city. On the contrary, Jiang's father and mother have a close relationship with the descendants of Aunt Jiang, that is, Jiang's father's own cousins, and they have frequent contacts with each other.
After Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning said they wanted to go back to school on the third day of the Chinese New Year, Jiang's father refused to let them leave no matter what.
They are the protagonists of the beam-raising wine ceremony. Father Jiang wants to do more than just show off his big house. He also wants to show off his pair of promising children who are college students to all his relatives and friends!
Starting from the second day of the Chinese New Year, he began to actively send invitations to all his relatives and friends, inviting them to come and enjoy Shangliang wine. He even sent an invitation to the home of a distant cousin in the town who he had not contacted for many years.
On the day of the beam-raising wine, the Jiang family was extremely lively. Even the people from the first, second and fourth rooms, who usually only cared about their own rooms, all came to give gifts for the beam-raising wine. Men and women all took the initiative to help. The Jiang family had a banquet but there were not enough tables, so the men in the village were particularly enthusiastic and brought their own square tables. There were not enough bowls and chopsticks, so the women actively put their own bowls and chopsticks in bamboo baskets and took them to the Jiang family. There were not enough people in the kitchen of the Jiang family, so they originally thought they would have to ask a chef to cook, but who knew that so many people came to help.
Jiang Ma, who was surrounded by six or seven women from the village helping enthusiastically in the kitchen, had never felt more clearly than at this moment that the status of their family in Jiangjia Village seemed to be really different.
Those who once avoided them, or even spoke coldly and mocked them, have now all become their good relatives, good neighbors, and good villagers.
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