"They came just before the autumn harvest this year. There were eight educated youth, four men and four women. You didn't grow up in the village, so you definitely don't know," said Aunt Guihua.
"Is that so? Then how come you get along so well with the educated youth? I heard that the educated youth from other places have caused a lot of trouble with the local villagers," said Deng Jinyuan, the eldest son of the Deng family.
"There have been a lot of incidents in our village, but not in Tong Zhiqing's. She moved out of the Zhiqing compound a long time ago and doesn't get close to the Zhiqing. She has a good temper," said Aunt Guihua.
Aunt Guihua swallowed the food in her mouth and continued, "The educated youth came to our village and cheated the young people in the village for food. After they refused to date them, the villagers reported them to the team leader. After they paid back the money, the villagers stayed away from them.
But Tong Zhiqing was different. She worked actively in the village and never caused trouble. Later, when someone in the village suffered from heatstroke, she saved his life. When the team leader asked her about it, he found out that she had already obtained a medical certificate in the city, and finally became our team leader's barefoot doctor.
When she first arrived, the team leader asked me to work with her for two days. I thought she was a nice person, so I wanted to help her and prepared to send her some vegetables. But she not only refused to accept them, but also bought some vegetable seeds for me with the educated youths in the Youth House.
When the sons and daughters-in-law heard this, they were originally afraid that their mother had been deceived by the educated youth, but now after hearing what she said, they believed it a little bit.
The family then asked about some things happening in the village. The two elders talked to each other, and the sound of their family chatting could be heard all over the yard.
Tong Yiya was drinking wine and tasting the food she had prepared after a busy day, which was also delicious.
It took her almost two hours to finish the meal, but she didn't consume much of the food on the table.
After finishing her meal, Tong Yiya sat on the kang and rested for a while before getting up and taking the remaining food back to the kitchen.
I went to the kitchen and put all the same dishes together, washed all the empty bowls, cleaned the kitchen, covered all the leftovers, closed the kitchen door, and went back into the house.
At night, she was not in a hurry to enter the space. She went back to the room, sat on the kang, took out a book and started reading.
She read until about ten o'clock in the evening, then she put the book down and went into the space to take a shower and wash her hair, change her clothes, and then picked some fruits in the space and took them out of the space.
Seeing that it was already past twelve o'clock, she spread out her bedding and prepared to go to bed. She put the new clothes she would wear tomorrow on the box at the head of the kang, and then she crawled into the quilt to sleep.
At the Deng family's side, only Uncle Deng and his three sons stayed up until almost one o'clock before returning to their rooms to sleep.
Tong Yiya had a dreamless night and woke up at nine in the morning. She stood up and checked the time. It was not too late, so she slowly got up and got dressed. She washed up in the house, went out to pour out the water, and went to the kitchen. She took a bag of frozen dumplings from the space, lit the stove and cooked them. This was her breakfast.
After eating the dumplings, she went into the room and placed a large plate on the table. On it were some melon seeds, candies, and some fried dried fruits. Tong Yiya mixed them all together.
He also brewed a pot of tea and put a few bowls aside, waiting for someone to come so he could pour some for himself.
After finishing everything, she opened the gate of her house and stretched her limbs in the yard.
Not long after, Aunt Guihua came with her children and shouted as soon as they entered the door: "Tong Zhiqing, Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year, Auntie too. Come in quickly. I have some melon seeds and dried fruits. Come in and sit down and eat while we chat," Tong Yiya said with a smile.
At this time, several children also said obediently: "Happy New Year, Auntie"
Tong Yiya quickly took out a red envelope wrapped in red paper from her bag, handed one to each person, and said with a smile: "Happy New Year to you too, keep the red envelopes, and come into the house and auntie will give you some candy."
Aunt Guihua watched from the side and said quickly: "Hey, don't give them red envelopes. I just couldn't stand their pestering, so I wanted to bring your family to play."
"It's a gift. It's New Year's gift. It's not much. It's just a token of my appreciation. Okay, let's stop talking outside and go inside to warm up," Tong Yiya said.
Seeing that their grandmother didn't say anything else, the three children happily took the red envelopes and thanked her, then happily took Tong Yiya's hand and followed her into the house.
When they got into the house, Tong Yiya first put some melon seeds into each child's pocket, and also put two candies in each pocket.
After receiving the red envelopes and candies, the children had no time to stay in the house. They said goodbye to their grandmother and ran out to show off to their friends.
After the three children left, Aunt Guihua said, "These three naughty monkeys, who knows how many children they will bring to you when they go out."
Tong Yiya smiled and said, "It's the New Year, and that's the only fun for kids. Besides, I originally planned to eat these things, so I need someone to share some of them. Otherwise, I don't know how long it will take me to finish eating them all by myself."
It is a custom here today that children will visit every household to wish everyone a happy new year, and every family in the village will prepare some food to entertain the children who come to wish everyone a happy new year.
Tong Yiya didn't mind anything, and it was just for this day, just some melon seeds and nuts, it was worth it to see the children smile.
Aunt Guihua saw that she was not used to it, and said with a smile: "Yesterday, my eldest daughter-in-law said that the braised pork you made was delicious, and asked me to ask you if you could teach her how to make it too."
"Really? This is very simple. If sister-in-law wants to learn, ask her to come over and I'll tell her about it. Then she can do it herself when she goes back," said Tong Yiya.
"She is at home now to help entertain the children. My old man took his third son to visit the elderly in the village to pay New Year's greetings, and I brought the children to your place. The two of them will stay at home to entertain the children who come to pay New Year's greetings. When I am free, I will bring her here to learn from you," Aunt Guihua said with a smile.
She originally wanted to find a topic to talk about, and when she heard that Tong Yiya was willing to teach, she thought of asking her daughter-in-law to bring some thank-you gift so that Tong Zhiqing would not be taught in vain.
The two chatted for a while and found out that many children came to Tong Yiya's house to wish her a happy new year because she had candy at home.
Candy is very attractive to children these days, and it is not cheap in the supply and marketing cooperatives. Children in the village can seldom eat candy once a year, so when the three children of the Deng family heard that there was candy here, they all came here.
A group of children came in and didn't move. They all greeted Tong Yiya obediently. There were no red envelopes, but Tong Yiya smiled and gave each of them a handful of food on the plate. No one got any candy, and the most they got was two.
After the children got the candies, they went out to play. Later, a few aunts from the village came to Tong Yiya's house. When they saw Aunt Guihua was there, they all sat on the kang and chatted for the whole afternoon.
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