Chapter 46 New Year
Su He was right. Gu Jianhua thought his wife looked particularly beautiful and energetic in the red scarf, so he wanted to go over and give her a kiss.
But since my parents are still here, let it go.
Third brother Su Che brought some roast duck, which Gu's mother heated up for Su He to eat in the evening. Su He couldn't finish the whole roast duck by himself, so he gave half to Gu's father and mother.
Try the roast duck in Jing City.
Have eaten in Soho several times.
Her third brother would bring one back every time he had a holiday.
Her third brother once said that the duck is delicious when it is roasted, sliced and rolled into special roast duck cakes, with cucumber and scallion shreds added and dipped in the special roast duck sauce.
This is also the authentic way to eat roast duck.
But for them, it tastes good just like this.
Taking care of the parents, they enjoyed the meal very much.
In the next two days, everyone in their family except Su He will eat leftovers. There are quite a lot of leftovers from the dishes cooked today.
According to Gu's mother, the child's uncle only drank alcohol and didn't eat much of the food. If it were someone else who saw such a sumptuous meal, they would have finished the whole plate and wouldn't even leave any soup for you.
In fact, this is what Su's mother taught her four children since they were young: when they go to eat at someone else's house, they should not eat up the whole plate like a starving ghost.
The four brothers and sisters remembered from a young age that when visiting someone's home, they could eat more staple food, but should eat meat dishes in moderation.
So when we came to visit today, the three brothers ate a lot of dumplings, but there was a lot of meat and vegetables left over.
After the Little New Year, New Year’s Eve soon arrived.
The last day of 1962.
On New Year's Eve, they had to eat a big piece of meat, so Gu's mother stewed half a pig's head that Su Yue and the other two brought back. It was the lower half of the pig's jaw, with the tongue.
Su He has loved eating pig tongue and pig tongue since he was a child. He would slice the pig tongue and add no seasoning, just some pickled mustard greens juice, and it would taste great.
Especially the pork tongue, I love it so much.
There is a lot of fat on the pig's jowl. The book says that people in later generations don't like to eat fat, they eat lean meat or pork belly, and the fat is used to make oil.
It didn't exist in their era, and fatty meat tasted delicious.
Make some garlic sauce and dip the pork head in it. Su He also likes to eat it.
The New Year's Eve dinner is pork head and dumplings.
After finishing the New Year’s Eve dinner, the family would boil water to wash their hair and take a bath, to wash away the dust of the year and welcome the new year.
All six members of the Gu family took a bath.
The two babies were washed first, followed by Gu Jianhua. Su He was the last to take a bath before going to bed. After taking a bath, she went straight into bed without worrying about catching a cold.
Su He was very mean. Seeing that the two babies were asleep, he went straight into Gu Jianhua's bed, saying, "Your body is hot, let me hold you to keep warm."
How could Gu Jianhua, a young man in his twenties, bear this? He took a deep breath and said helplessly,
"My dear wife, this is too torturous for me."
Su He, "Really? You need to stay calm and learn to control yourself."
“I can’t stay calm!”
He leaned over and kissed her on the lips.
Su He felt that he had played with fire and ended up getting burned.
Comrade Gu Jianhua turned the tables, "Wife, the doctor said it will take at least two months."
Su He snorted, "I know, you should take good care of yourself these days, don't wait until you are no longer able to do it."
A man cannot say no, Comrade Gu Jianhua responded,
"Just wait, I will fight you for three hundred rounds."
Su He, "Really 300"
Gu Jianhua: ".....three times."
Three hundred times is not enough even if it costs his life!
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people go out to visit relatives and friends to wish them a happy new year.
But in Xiangyang Brigade, there weren’t many relatives of Gu’s father. When my father and stepmother were still alive, they would only visit the second branch of the old house to pay New Year’s greetings.
Now that both of them have passed away, there is no need for him, as the eldest brother, to go. If there is a need for New Year's greetings, they should come.
As parents, Su He and Gu Jianhua prepared New Year's gifts for their two children.
Each person gets ten yuan, but they don’t spend it and save it.
The grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gu, also gave some. Mother Gu took two five-yuan notes and put them next to the two children.
"Hey, my dear grandson, this is the New Year's money your grandma gave you. Your parents saved it for you to buy candy when you grow up, okay?"
Mother Gu kissed the foreheads of the two children and then said to Su He,
"Xiao He, please take away the New Year's money for the child."
Su He didn't refuse, he put it away and placed it separately with the New Year's money they gave him.
Not long after, Uncle Gu and Aunt Gu came with their son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and granddaughter. After wishing everyone a happy new year, they brought the children to pay New Year's greetings to Mr. and Mrs. Gu.
The eldest Gu Tiezhu and his wife Li Jinhua have three sons, namely Gu Zhuang, 16 years old, Gu Gang, 14 years old, and Gu Biao, 11 years old. The eldest brother, Gu Zhuang, stopped studying after the third grade and worked in the fields at home. Earn work points.
The second oldest, Gu Gang, is in the fourth grade at primary school in the neighboring village of Dakuwa, and the third oldest, Gu Biao, is also in the second grade.
The three children in the book did not do well in school. The eldest did not finish primary school and could barely read. The second and third children did finish primary school, but when they grew up, they became farmers like the eldest and did not achieve much.
The second son, Gu Yinzhu, and his wife, Wu Sanfeng, had three sons and one daughter.
The eldest, Gu Hai, is 13 years old, the second, Gu He, is 11 years old, the third, Gu Shan, is 8 years old, and the youngest daughter, the heroine, Gu Li, is 3 years old.
Gu Hai and Gu He, like their elder brothers, are also studying in Dawu Village. They are in the fourth and third grade respectively. The third child, Gu Shan, will also be sent there when school starts in September this year.
As for her children's academic performance, Wu Sanfeng said that her two sons were better than Li Jinhua's two sons and rarely failed in exams.
But the book says that this only applies to elementary school. When you reach junior high school, you can’t keep up. Then you stop studying and go home to farm.
As for the heroine Gu Li, she said that her grades were okay, but she only studied in junior high school in her previous life and did not go on to higher studies. After the reform and opening up, she boldly went to the city to work hard. She earned a lot of money in a year and went directly to the capital with the money.
It was also at that time that she met the male protagonist Zhou Yinghuai. Gu Li was beautiful and dressed fashionably and boldly, so Zhou Yinghuai fell in love with her at once, but Gu Li didn't think much of him.
He has a good-looking face, but he is a bit poor.
Not her cup of tea.
So when Zhou Yinghuai pursued her, she rejected him and turned around to marry a rich second-generation man who was pursuing her.
After all, at that time, there was no comparison between a poor college student and a rich second-generation who spent money like water.
Mainly when eating with the male protagonist Zhou Yinghuai, sometimes it was Gu Li who paid, but the rich second-generation family was very generous and gave them whatever they wanted.
Of course Gu Li chose the rich second generation.
However, she met the wrong man, and her married life was not as happy as she had imagined. Instead, it was terrible. Gu Li regretted it, and then she saw that her cousin married Zhou Yinghuai and lived a sweet and loving life as a rich wife.
She regretted it even more.
So after her rebirth, she chose Zhou Yinghuai, and at the same time she wanted to improve herself. With the help of the learning system, she was admitted to Peking University in 1977.
She became a schoolmate with Zhou Yinghuai, her girlfriend.
Su He thought that since she had no learning system in her life, could she still get into Peking University like in the book?
She waited and watched.