Chapter 81: Memories of the Post-80s
That night, the three brothers drank until midnight and then stayed directly at Chen Huihuang's house.
The next day, after having breakfast at Chen Huihuang's house, Liu Xiahui and Liu Guihua left on a motorcycle.
On the way home, Liu Xiahui said to Liu Guihua: "Brother, you should study hard in school now. When you graduate, you will definitely have a business here for you to do, so don't worry about not being able to make money!"
Liu Guihua smiled and said, "Okay, Brother Hui, I don't want to study anymore, and I will drop out of school and go back to hang out with you!"
Liu Xiahui smiled and said, "In this era, it is better to read more books. Anyway, you should study hard in three years of high school to see if you can get into a good university. If you can pass the exam, then continue to study. If you don't pass the exam, you will go back to your brother. You will definitely not have to worry about not having a way out in the future!"
Liu Guihua nodded and said, "Well, Brother Hui, you say that, brother, I have a clear idea!"
Liu Xiahui said: "The business in our county town will be open on the eighth day of the first lunar month. Then you will go out and play with Huihuang for a few days. I will buy you a mobile phone, otherwise it will be inconvenient to contact you!"
"Okay!" Liu Guihua nodded again.
After all, the two are brothers who grew up together since childhood, so there is no need to say those polite words.
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This year's lunar calendar is New Year's Eve.
In Qinghe Village, New Year's Eve is a very important day.
On this day, we will worship Duke Tudi, Emperor Huaguang and ancestors of the Liu family.
On this day, we have a reunion dinner, which is similar to the New Year’s Eve dinner in other places. However, the reunion dinner in Qinghe Village was very early, and basically after worshiping Tudigong, Emperor Huaguang and the ancestors of the Liu family, we went home to prepare a reunion dinner.
Then, it is generally started at one or two in the afternoon, and some even finished the reunion dinner before two in the morning.
After the reunion dinner, it was the most anticipated part of the children - receiving red envelopes!
Receiving the Spring Festival red envelope is the biggest income for Chinese people when they were young.
Of course, although this income is generous, it has to be questioned about the right to dominate the money!
I guess readers have had similar experiences. After happily receiving the Spring Festival red envelopes sent by their elders and relatives, their parents will make a brilliant debut and come out to speak out to you in a angrily voice that they will help you keep the money.
And this character is probably a mother.
Even if you don’t agree, your mother still has ways to deal with you until you agree to hand over the money.
After all, they are still children, so where is the mother's opponent?
Therefore, although the children are happy to receive red envelopes, there is not much money they can really control themselves.
As you grow older, you must at least go to junior high school to truly control your Spring Festival red envelopes.
However, even if you are in junior high school, it depends on how many red envelopes you receive. If the amount is not high, your parents will let you control it by default, but if the amount is high, hehe...
When Liu Xiahui was young, in addition to receiving red envelopes, the thing she most looked forward to was setting off firecrackers.
After all, they are boys, and they basically like to play with "dangerous" things like firecrackers.
At that time, Liu Xiahui and his cousins would dismantle all the small firecrackers, put them in their pockets, or put them in a bag.
Light another incense stick, hold the broken firecrackers in the left hand and the lit incense in the right hand, and then stroll around to fry things and play with it.
At that time, Liu Xiahui was also a naughty child. She really blew whatever she saw and specially selected those exciting ones to blew.
For example—cow dung!
In the countryside, cow dung is the most common thing. Put small firecrackers into cow dung, then light the lead with incense, and then quickly run away.
"Bang!"
Then the scene of cow dung gushing can refresh the three views of those children in the city!
In addition to frying cow dung, in order to pursue excitement, Liu Xiahui and others also stepped on small firecrackers with their shoes and lit the leads directly with incense. The feeling of firecrackers blowing the soles of the shoes is also quite sour...
In short, compared to children in the city, children who grew up in the countryside have too many ways of entertainment.
Especially rural children born in the 1980s, they are really good at playing.
Throwing sandbags, walking on pig ears, hitting stones, walking on camps, jumping ropes, tug-of-war, catching bugs, catching cicadas, shooting sour vine cannons, burning hornet's nests, catching bird eggs, catching fish, picking wild fruits... etc.
Even at night, dozens of children gather together to play war.
Each child takes out the flashlight from his home, then divides the enemy and us, and then hides it using the terrain.
If the flashlight shines on someone and then call it, the enemy will be sacrificed.
In this way, if any side sacrifices in the end, they will lose.
This gameplay is basically the brighter flashlight, whichever is awesome.
In order to play this game, Liu Xiahui spent a lot of money to buy extra-long flashlights, batteries, and electric gallbladders.
Especially the electric gag, this thing has a little power supply and will burn it. Playing games for a night can burn several electric gags.
Unfortunately, when the post-80s generation grow up, rural children born in the 1990s and 2000s are no longer as good at playing. Needless to say, they are all playing with mobile phones, and the wide variety of entertainment methods have gradually become history!
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During this Spring Festival, the Liuxia Hui family undoubtedly became the focus of the village.
The story of Liu Xiahui starting a business with two thousand tuition and miscellaneous fees also spread throughout Qinghe Village and began to spread to other villages.
Although after investing in raising chickens and ducks, it was said that Liu Xiahui made a lot of money in business in the county town, no one can explain clearly how much he made.
But now, even the car that costs 180,000 yuan has been driven back, which proves that Liu Xiahui has made at least hundreds of thousands of yuan this year.
Hundreds of thousands, what does this mean?
The most important thing is that Liu Xiahui was just a junior high school student a few months ago.
In just a few months, I started my business with two thousand yuan in tuition and miscellaneous expenses and made money that others would never make in their entire lives.
This experience is so legendary, it is comparable to the starting experiences of those big names on TV.
As a result, Liu Xiahui became the most talked about in Qinghe Village this year. The first thing everyone said when they met was not to ask "Happy New Year" or "Have you eaten?", but "Have you heard of it? Then Liu Yuansheng's son made a lot of money..."
In addition to attracting the attention of the whole village, the treatment of Liuxia Hui's family among relatives this year is also different from previous years.
When my elder aunt, second aunt and younger aunt came to visit relatives, they must have gone to my grandparents' house.
However, since my grandparents were taken to the city by my third uncle to enjoy their fortunes, the three aunts came to visit relatives again, and they basically went to my uncle's house.
Although the houses of Liuxiahui family and uncle were connected, the three aunts never went directly into their house. Instead, they went to the uncle's house and put down all the gifts they brought, and then picked some of them to Liuxiahui's house.
For example, the peanuts, soybeans, pickled cabbage, dried radish, cucumber peel and other local specialties that they usually bring, basically there is no portion of Liu Xiahui's family, and they all take them to their uncle's house.
I basically eat at my uncle's house and I won't come to Liuxiahui's house to eat.
There may be some reasons why the uncle is the eldest son, or there may be other reasons. Anyway, this has been the case since Liu Xiahui can remember it.
But this year, that changed!
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, when the three aunts brought their families to visit relatives, they all went to Liuxiahui's family and brought a lot of local specialties, much more than they had brought to their uncle's house in previous years...
This scene made Liu Xiahui sigh.
Chapter completed!