Seeing the children coming to pay New Year's greetings, everyone in the Li family was happy and gave each of them two fruit candies.
This made the children very happy. The families they visited before only gave them one candy at most, but they didn’t expect to get two this time.
So they all began to express their blessings to the Li family.
However, Hu Guilan and Li Ping's faces turned dark when they heard this.
There was no other way. When the children saw Hu Guilan with her big belly, they congratulated her on having a big fat boy...
Just like that, after they left, the Li family welcomed wave after wave of children coming to pay New Year's greetings. No one in the Li family was annoyed at all. Even after giving away so many candies, they didn't feel bad. Instead, they smiled even more happily.
Of course, except for Li Ping and his wife.
Seeing the two people's expressions, Li Xu and the others didn't know what to say. In the end, they could only persuade them, "Don't be like this, it's the New Year. Be happy. Besides, they didn't mean it. How could they have thought that you wanted a daughter?"
"If they did it on purpose, I would have to beat them up." Li Ping snorted coldly with a dark face.
Li Jiakang waved his hand. "Alright, forget about it. To put it bluntly, if it's a son, just have another one. What's the big deal? The most important thing right now is playing cards. Second brother, go get the cards."
Li Xu responded, stood up and took out the cards from the cabinet, and then everyone started playing Golden Flower accompanied by the sounds of children playing and firecrackers coming from outside the yard.
Then two more groups of children came to pay New Year’s greetings, and after they left, no one else came.
The next day around two o'clock in the afternoon.
The Li family members walked to the Qinghe Brigade.
When Mrs. Li saw everyone, she was so excited that tears almost fell. "Great, great, we can finally have a reunion dinner today."
Seeing her like this, Li Jiakang quickly said, "Mom, what are you doing? You can't cry today, otherwise it will be unlucky."
"Mom knows." Old Mrs. Li's eyes were red. "Mom is happy. You don't know what it felt like to have only six people eating at home at this time last year."
Mr. Li put down his pipe and looked over with a frown. "It's all in the past, why are you still bringing it up?"
Mrs. Li was a little angry. "Why, you can't even let me mention it?"
"Okay, okay, okay, you can bring it up however you want. I don't care about you." Old Master Li snorted coldly, then stood up and walked out.
Seeing this scene, everyone showed a look of astonishment. Today is the first day of the new year, why are you two old people arguing here?
At this time, Mrs. Li complained to her eldest son, "Your father, this old man, has more people praising him now, and his temper is getting worse and worse. He is even like this to the family members. As long as he doesn't do what he wants, he will not be nice to them.
He doesn't even take a piss to look at himself. Is it because of his ability that people praise him? If we all rely on him, our whole family will starve to death."
Li Jiakang was a little amused and tried to persuade her, "Mom, you know him well. He has a bad temper, not to mention his age. How many people his age are not like this? You should be magnanimous and give in to him more often. Don't make him angry."
"He's old, so I'm young?" Old Madam Li wanted to reach out and hit him, but she pulled her hand back halfway and said angrily, "If today wasn't the first day of the new year, I'd beat you up. You're talking without feeling any pain in your back. You haven't lived with him. Otherwise, we'd be fighting in two days."
"Not really. At most I would argue with him. Besides, he is my father. How can I, as his son, hit him?" Li Jiakang said embarrassedly.
"You never know. Even a dog will bite when it's angry, let alone you."
Everyone: ...
You mean he's worse than a dog?
Li Jiakang's face darkened, "My temper is much better now."
This is true. Ever since he made Li Ju cry two months ago, he started to control his temper, and it has been quite effective so far.
"Better than the second child? Ask the second child how mad he was at your dad the other day."
"Ah?" Li Jiakang was startled and quickly turned around to ask, "Second Brother, what happened?"
Li Jiafu sighed and spoke slowly.
Only then did everyone realize that with the end of the disaster, people no longer had to worry about food and began to think about other things.
So some people were thinking about ways to make money, some were thinking about unorthodox ways, and some were eyeing Mr. Li, wondering if he could help their children find a job.
Since last month, people have been giving gifts to Mr. Li. Fortunately, he knows what's going on and hasn't accepted any of them.
Those people had no choice but to flatter him every day, hoping that he would agree if he was happy.
Mr. Li is an interesting person. He actually treats this as an entertainment activity. He listens to the nice words but refuses to agree.
Originally, Li Jiafu and others were happy to see this happen. After all, hearing more good words can make one feel cheerful.
But what they didn't expect was that the old man's mentality had been unconsciously affected by the long-term flattery, which led to him immediately getting furious if something didn't go his way.
People outside need his help, so they all agree with him, but how can his family members do the same?
So during this period, Mr. Li often lost his temper at home.
After a long time, no one could stand it, so when he lost his temper a few days ago, Li Jiafu couldn't help but say a few more words, and ended up being scolded.
Li Jiafu was so unhappy that he didn't eat for the whole day.
After understanding what happened, Li Jiakang couldn't help but look puzzled. "Are those people mentally ill? Don't they know how precious job opportunities are these days? Even if I could find one, what would they have to offer in exchange?"
You have to know that things are different now than before. Before, thirty or forty kilograms of fine grains could be exchanged for a job. Now that the disaster is over, if you want a job, you can only buy it with money, and the price has increased. The previous price was between five hundred and six hundred, but now it is at least eight hundred. It is not certain whether you can buy it.
How many people in the countryside can afford this money?
Li Jiafu showed a bitter expression, "They don't have money, but our family is rich."
Good job.
They asked the Li family to use their connections to find them jobs, but ended up having to borrow money from the Li family to buy the jobs. This is nonsense.
Thinking of this, Li Jiakang immediately spat, "They are more or less my descendants of the Li family, otherwise why would I help them so much? Is it just because of the old man's word? In a few days, you spread the news and say that I gave the order. It's useless for the old man to agree. I don't agree."
"Okay, when no one flatters the old man, I guess his temper will return to normal, otherwise I won't be able to stand it."
Li Jiakang chuckled, "That's hard to say. If they can't get my job, can't they get my money?"
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