Chapter 174 174
When they knew that Jiang Guotai and Jiang Zhenzhang were going to Jiang's house to hold a house-warming party for Jiang's father, they remembered that after the big guy's big house was built, there was no house-warming party. It should be held. In the past two years, when their family built the building, the big guy's family sent gifts.
With Jiang Guotai and Jiang Zhenzhang taking the lead, they remembered this matter and took red paper, wrapped the gift money, and sent it to Jiang's house.
Jiang's father received so many people who came to send gifts for the house-warming party, and he decided to hold the house-warming party on the fifth day of the New Year, because many people had to go out to work on the sixth day and had no time to have a party.
Jiang Guotai and Jiang Zhenzhang had to leave on the second day of the New Year, and they had many families who needed them to visit and pay New Year's greetings, so they naturally couldn't stay in their hometown all the time.
After dinner at Jiang's father's house, Jiang Guotai and Jiang Town Mayor visited Jiang's house. While visiting, they praised: "Guoping's house is built in one step. I will build the same one as Guoping's house in the future."
The old houses of the three families are in the same area. Jiang Guotai and Jiang's father's old house share a wall. The distance between Jiang Town Mayor's house and Jiang Guoping's old house is only one meter.
Jiang Guotai smiled and said: "Add me, and then our three houses will be built in the same area, and we will grow old together!"
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 since childhood, in that most difficult era. At
this moment, they also sincerely thought that they could live together like they did when they were old.
After Jiang Guotai had a tour of the house, he said, "It's big, but it's a little empty."
Mayor Jiang smiled and said, "Songzi will be 22 next year, right? When he gives you two grandchildren, the house will not be empty anymore."
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 can live well wherever he is!"
This was true. Jiang Song had a very good relationship with people since he was a child. Even if he didn't have a penny, he would not starve to death. There were people everywhere who would take him out for dinner.
Jiang Guotai was right. Even though Jiang Song had a girlfriend, he had a completely different attitude towards his girlfriend and the women who came to him on their own initiative. It's not that he was not good to them, but he was doting and respectful to his serious girlfriends. He was willing to lower his head and lower his status to coax people. He would not get angry no matter what he did.
So when he was with his girlfriend, he always considered her feelings more. While he was comfortable, he also considered her feelings. More importantly, the two of them achieved the state of harmony between man and nature.
But when he was with this girl who took the initiative to pester him, he was completely in a state of promiscuity. The girl also allowed him to do whatever he wanted, and even took the initiative to pester him and flirt with him. She also served him comfortably. Every day, someone washed his clothes and someone cooked his meals. Every day, he had everything he wanted. His life was simply a breeze.
Even in the Jiang family, as the eldest son with more than 80% of the family resources, he had never lived such a life at home.
Life in the countryside was poor. He was not allowed to wash clothes, wash dishes, feed the pigs, or sweep the fields. He was not spared from doing anything he was supposed to do. At most, he would be lazy and run away, but he had never been served like this.
Jiang Xi had a good temper when he was young, and he could still order his sister around. But after he said, "Girls should wash dishes," it was like turning on a rebellious switch in his sister. She could no longer do anything when he was called to do it, but he didn't care and did it himself.
Although Jiang's mother dotes on him and most of the time Jiang Bo and Jiang Xiao are asked to do things at home, he is the eldest in the family. He was born tall and strong, and is a half-strong laborer. In the busy season in the countryside, it is competing with God for time. How could she not let Jiang Song work at all? Unless she wants to tire herself to death, so she has been asking him to do it since he was a child.
In his opinion, this is the norm, so he can be so humble to his two girlfriends. It is completely trained by Jiang's mother and Jiang Xiao, two generations of women in the family. His sister told him with practical actions that no one will ask for anything from him.
But will Jiang Song be grateful and moved by such a life, or even fall in love with this girl because of it?
That's impossible. Jiang Song, who was taught by his father and mother to be the eldest and the second oldest, would only think it was his due.
You did it on your own will, I didn't force you, 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 the other person's efforts as a matter of course.
The girl thought that the two of them had spent a New Year holiday so intimately, and they were already intimate. She at least occupied a very important position in his heart. In fact, in Jiang Song's heart, only his girlfriend had a position.
But he also liked to be with this girl. Who wouldn't like it? How comfortable!
Staying in the rental house all day long like this, eating and drinking, clothes... they don't wear clothes much, which makes Jiang Song's life happy.
Motorcycles are very popular in this era. How can Jiang Song, a trendsetter who walks at the forefront of the times, not have a motorcycle? The first thing he did after making money was to buy himself a motorcycle.
His girlfriend came early for the New Year just to accompany him. During the day, he rode a motorcycle to accompany his girlfriend to all the fun attractions around. He placed his girlfriend in the hotel at a fixed time every day. Even if he wanted to do something, as long as his girlfriend said she was afraid and unwilling, he would always take his girlfriend's feelings as the priority, but when he returned to the rental house at night, there was a girl waiting for him in the rental house.
To his girlfriend, he is a good boyfriend who is available at any time, but to the girl waiting for him in the rental house, he is the boss. He has become accustomed to the girl's dedication to him and is willing to coax him with sweet words, but there is nothing more.
The girl was jealous and angry about him going out with his girlfriend every day, but Jiang Song was puzzled. His big eyes that always fascinated her were full of doubts and he said, "If you don't want to go, just go. My girlfriend came to see me specially. If I don't accompany her, should I accompany you?"
The girl's eyes were red with tears and she asked him crying, "What about me? Who am I?"
Jiang Song was even more confused. In his heart, you are a woman in a dance hall, and you took the initiative to do it. How can you compare with my girlfriend?
He was even more puzzled and said, "Don't you know that I have a girlfriend?"
That's because I thought I could snatch you away!
She lowered her head, tears fell on the bed sheet one by one, and Jiang Song's heart softened, and he went to coax her again.
But the more he coaxed her with such a good temper, the more she knew how good he was to her girlfriend, and the more she was reluctant to let him go.
The love she had felt since she was a child was too little, so little that even if Jiang Song didn't love her, he was willing to coax her when they were together, willing to buy her new clothes, new shoes, new jewelry, and softly coax her with sweet words when she was sad and crying. The more she wanted to snatch Jiang Song away, as long as she snatched him away, he would give her all the tenderness he showed to his girlfriend.
She had learned to show weakness without a teacher, and showed a weak and gentle image to others. After realizing the huge difference between her and his girlfriend's status in his heart, she no longer tried to use tough means to make Jiang Song stay. She
knew that Jiang Song was a person who would not tolerate hard things, and she didn't want to change her image in Jiang Song's heart, so she wanted to start with his girlfriend.
Jiang Guotai and Jiang Zhenchang went back to the neighboring city on the second day of the Chinese New Year. Shen Hongyun and the mayor's wife needed to go back to their mother's home. Jiang Yanyan and Jiang Miao followed their mother to their grandmother's home. Jiang Xin followed Wang Xiyue to his future father-in-law's home and accompanied Wang Xiyue to watch a movie.
Although there is a movie theater in Jiangjia Village, it is very simple. The seats are not chairs, but long wooden boards nailed together. It is cold inside in winter. They said they would go back to the movie theater in the neighboring city.
Wang Xiyue finally saw Jiang Bai in the movie.
Even though she had seen him in person and watched his gg, the little monk in the movie was destined to become one of the amazing moments. Watching a movie on a big screen and facing Jiang Bai's close-up shot is completely different from the feeling of the fifteen seconds of gg on TV.
After she returned, she also told her parents about what she saw and heard in Jiangjia Village, focusing on the siblings Jiang Xi
and Jiang Bai. Jiang Bai was okay, he made movies, had sex, and appeared on TV, which was nothing to her father. After Wang Xiyue told her father what Jiang Xi said to Jiang Guotai, the mayor of Jiang Town, and how much they valued her, her father sighed that Jiangjia Village was really a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery.
He was not just talking about Jiang Guotai and Jiang Xi. In the 1950s, Jiangjia Village had a vice-national leader who was demoted to the Puqingxu Farm in the neighboring city in the 1980s. Although it was in the neighboring city, Shuibu Town was located right in the middle of the neighboring city and Wucheng. Puqingxu Farm was one-third closer to Jiangjia Village than the neighboring city.
After all, it was the hometown of this old leader. Although the people of Jiangjia Village did not dare to take care of this old leader openly, they managed to let this old man live to the end of the 1970s and return to the capital.
Of course, this old man is no longer here, and his Jiang family and the Jiang family that still stays in Jiangjia Village are no longer the same Jiang family, but many people still know and remember this old man who was famous in his hometown at that time.
This is also one of the reasons why Jiangjia Village is not only one of the largest villages in the area, but also one of the reasons why no one dares to bully the people of Jiangjia Village in the surrounding area.
Unfortunately, such a blessing is only known to the old people who know the deeds of the past. The younger generation only knows that Jiangjia Village is very big.
The current generation no longer knows the old man, but only knows Jiang Liu.
Wang Xiyue’s father said, “Isn’t your Uncle Jiang going to send you to study abroad? I know our country is still some distance away from some developed countries abroad, but our country is also developing rapidly. Don’t ignore Daxin when you go abroad. Since you have decided to be together, you should get along well with each other.”
The young Wang Xiyue felt a little embarrassed and said coquettishly, “Dad, I know!”
“When his mother comes back tomorrow, you take a box of wine to give to your Uncle Jiang. There are some other things at home, take some of them too.” The wine he was talking about was of course not ordinary wine, but specially supplied Moutai. The other things were not ordinary things on the market. They were all special items that only people with a certain status could have. The value of such things was not too high, mainly because they were specially supplied.
When Jiang Guotai went out to discuss things, sometimes he only needed to pass cigarettes to the people at the same table. Some people would know that there might be someone with a background behind him just by looking at the cigarettes he was smoking.
Even the people he passed cigarettes to were reluctant to smoke the cigarettes they got, but kept them in their cigarette boxes, waiting to take them out and show off at the critical moment.
Some things and some words did not even need to be explained clearly. Jiang Guotai only needed to see the things Wang Xiyue brought him to know what her father's attitude was.
Originally, on the third day of the Chinese New Year, Grandpa Jiang and his family were going to leave. He and Jiang Bo were in a hurry to sell clothes to make money. Their granddaughter/sister had a huge house loan of 10,000 yuan a month. They felt a heavy burden on their shoulders and would not feel at ease if they did not make money.
But this year, the Jiang family built a new house and held a beam-raising wine party. This is a big event. As a member of the family, Jiang Bai and Jiang Liu would not be able to say anything if they were not here at this time.
On the day when Jiang's mother returned to her parents' home, she told her brother, sister-in-law, younger brother and sister about the happy event in the family. She also went to Aunt Jiang's house and told her about the good news.
Aunt Jiang is Grandpa Jiang's sister, who is seven years younger than Grandpa Jiang. She looks like Grandpa Jiang, not very healthy. Not long after Grandpa Jiang died in his previous life, Aunt Jiang also died.
Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai are relatively cold and don't have much contact with the descendants of Jiang's grandmother, that is, their cousins. After all, they all have their own jobs and are not in the same city. Jiang's father and mother are close to the descendants of Jiang's grandmother, that is, Jiang's father's own cousins.
After Jiang Bai and Jiang Xi said they wanted to go back to school on the third day of the Chinese New Year, Jiang's father would not let them go no matter what.
They are the protagonists of the Shangliang wine. Jiang's father wants to show off his big house. He also wants to show off his promising college students to all relatives and friends!
Starting from the second day of the Chinese New Year, he began to actively invite all relatives and friends to come to the Shangliang wine, even to the distant cousin's house in the town who had not been in contact for many years.
On the day of the beam-raising wine, the Jiang family was extremely lively. Even the first, second, and fourth rooms, who usually only cared about their own affairs, all came to give gifts for the beam-raising wine. Men and women all actively came to help. The Jiang family had a banquet, but there were not enough tables. The men in the village were particularly enthusiastic and brought their own square tables. There were not enough bowls and chopsticks. The women actively put their own bowls and chopsticks in bamboo baskets and brought them to the Jiang family. The Jiang family kitchen was short of staff. Originally, they thought they would have to ask a chef to cook, but who knew that so many people came to help.
Jiang's mother, who was surrounded by six or seven women from the village who were enthusiastically helping in the kitchen, had never felt more clearly than at this moment that their family's status 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 fellow villagers.