After Sun Weiguo took it, he leaned forward and handed it to Sun Baoguo, who was driving the carriage beside him, and said, "Brother Baoguo, you are the same as Weiguo."
Sun Baoguo quickly reached out to take it and said happily, "Thank you, Chu Tian, for giving me so much."
Chu Tian smiled, "Brother Baoguo, you are too polite. This is the money you earned through hard work, you deserve it."
Sun Weiguo nodded and agreed, "Brother, you are too polite. You always have to thank Brother Tian. Really, Brother Tian is not that kind of stingy person!"
“····”
Sun Baoguo glared at his annoying brother and thought to himself that only Chu Tian and him were good friends. If it were someone else, they would not use him. He always spoke without thinking and was stupid...
Chu Tian curled his lips and smiled when he saw this. He didn't know what Sun Baoguo was thinking. If he knew, he would definitely say that he actually liked Sun Weiguo's personality, which was to say whatever he wanted to say. It was not tiring to interact with him this way.
Sun Baoguo collected the money and looked at Chu Tian again, "Chu Tian, I heard from Wei Guo that you issued radio tickets?"
Chu Tian looked at Sun Weiguo and nodded, "Well, what? Brother Baoguo wants it?"
Sun Baoguo nodded embarrassedly. "Well, my father has told me several times that your radio is great. He can listen to national news every day. I thought about buying him one after the New Year, but I haven't had the ticket..."
Before Chu Tian could say anything, Sun Weiguo exploded, "Brother, Dad wants a radio, why didn't you tell me earlier? I can buy it from Brother Li Gang!"
Sun Baoguo laughed, "We've already separated. My parents live with me. How could they possibly ask you to buy something for me?"
Sun Weiguo grabbed the reins unwillingly, forcing the horse to stop. The horse yelled at him, "Brother, what do you mean? Now that the family has split up, my parents are no longer my parents? Why can't I buy something for them?"
Sun Baoguo also stopped the carriage and looked at the man who had jumped off the carriage and ran to him with an angry look on his face. He rubbed his temples with a headache and said, "Weiguo, how old are you this year?"
Sun Weiguo was stunned for a moment, then answered honestly, "Ah? After the Chinese New Year, I'll be 27. That's six years younger than you, big brother. Have you forgotten?"
Sun Baoguo, “…”
Chu Tian, "..."
Seeing his elder brother looking at him with a complicated expression and not saying anything, Sun Weiguo was confused. "What's wrong? I'm not wrong. I was born in 1950, and you were born in 1944. Aren't you six years old?"
"Yes, you're right, you're the smartest."
Sun Baoguo looked directly at Sun Weiguo, and at the same time sighed in his heart, thinking, what should I do if my younger brother is stupid? As the eldest brother, I can only accommodate him more! At the same time, he sighed in his heart, fortunately Chu Tian is a righteous person. If it were someone else, he would be afraid that his younger brother would be sold out and help others count the money!
Sun Weiguo nodded in satisfaction. In a flash, he remembered why he stopped the carriage and asked unhappily, "No, brother, you haven't answered me yet. Why can't I buy things for Dad after the family split up?"
Sun Baoguo didn't want to argue with his younger brother, so he just waved his hand in surrender. "Let's go home and talk about it. Today is New Year's Eve, and it's almost twelve o'clock. Mom and Dad are waiting for us to go back for lunch. Grandma Chu is also waiting for Chu Tian. Let's go home early, right?"
Sun Weiguo looked back at Chu Tian after hearing this, and nodded obediently, "Oh, okay."
He turned around and walked towards the carriage he was driving. While cracking the whip, he did not forget to repeat to Sun Baoguo, "Brother, if we want to buy something, let's buy it together. Just because our parents live with you, you can't be the one buying everything for us!"
Sun Baoguo nodded quickly, "Okay, okay, okay, we'll talk about it later."
Sun Baoguo now regrets so much that he mentioned this matter in front of Sun Weiguo. He should have found Chu Tiancai in private.
When they arrived at the brigade, Sun Baoguo drove the carriage back to the stable first, while Sun Weiguo drove the carriage to take Chu Tian back to his home, helped him unload the sacks at the gate, and then said goodbye. Although it was lively on New Year's Eve, the family also gathered together at noon.
Chu Tian waited for Sun Weiguo to drive the carriage away. He looked around and saw that there was no one around. He quickly put the sack on the ground into his pocket. It was better not to let Yao Xiujuan see the money in the sack.
The Chu family always eats New Year's Eve dinner together during the Spring Festival. At noon, everyone eats a little at home and takes two or three semi-finished products or unprocessed vegetables, raw meat, etc. from their homes, and gathers them all at Uncle Chu's house. Because life is getting better and better, the New Year's Eve dinner in the past two years has become richer and richer. Of course, it cannot be compared with the future decades, but it is really rich in this era.
There were six tables, each with a small pot of rabbit meat braised with dried cowpeas, a small pot of fried chicken with chili peppers, a braised fish, fried meat with wood ear mushrooms, pickled cabbage with vinegar, fried peanuts, cold-mixed chamagushi, and a dish of four kinds of Beijing pickled vegetables that Chu Tian gave to Uncle Chu, a total of eight dishes, plus a meatball noodle soup, and the staple food was a two-meter-high flour pancake.
Of course, it was impossible to ask Uncle Chu's family to pay for the flour. After all, there were more than 70 people, big and small. If Uncle Chu were to pay for it, it was estimated that this meal would use up the food rations for their family for a month. Therefore, when each household came at noon, they took two kilograms of white flour and two kilograms of cornmeal.
Uncle Chu looked at the spacious main hall with three tables set up, and listened to the chattering of women and children coming from the inner room. He picked up the white wine that Chu Tian had poured for him and brought back from Sichuan Province, glanced at the men sitting in the main hall, then turned his head to look at Old Lady Chu sitting in the main seat and spoke.
"Mom, Xinjiang is still the best. The land is large, so the house is big. Look, there's still plenty of room for three tables. If it were back home, two would be a bit cramped."
"Um···"
Old Mrs. Chu smiled and nodded slowly.
"Okay, everyone's ready, let's eat!"
Old Mrs. Chu casually said a few words of New Year's greetings and then ordered everyone to eat. The descendants of the Chu family present did not say anything polite. They were all family members, so there was no need to be polite, and they all started to clink glasses.
Next to Chu Tian was Chu Jie. He raised his glass and clinked it with Chu Jie's, drank it all in one gulp, and leaned close to him and whispered, "How are you doing lately?"
Chu Jie poured another cup for Chu Tian and himself, and glanced at Chu Tian sideways, "Which aspect are you talking about?"
Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, then reacted and said, "All aspects, such as life, work, and emotions?"
Chu Jie picked up a peanut and put it into his mouth, chewing it. He raised his glass and smiled at Chu Min who was sitting opposite him, then drank it in one gulp before continuing.
"My work is still the same. I'm still doing my job as a foreman. As for my life? Every day, I go back and forth between the dormitory and my work station. Occasionally, I go home during the day shift."
"As for feelings..."
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