Chapter 63: The Taste of the New Year (Part 2)
Shortly after dinner in the morning, the naughty children in the village ran to Liu Junhao's house to pay New Year's greetings. They called uncle one by one in new clothes and smiled, and then reached out to ask for New Year's money.
Liu Junhao had already changed the change and waited for him. He gave it to everyone according to the head, and each person had ten yuan. In one morning, he had more than two hundred yuan.
Of course, he also put the candy seeds in a sieve early and put them on the table, so that they could grab them if they wanted to eat them.
All he bought were fudge, which was much better than the fruit candy of ordinary people, so the naughty children stretched out their claws and snatched them in the basket.
Those melon seeds were made by him, and they tasted very good. These naughty children also liked them very much. When they finished their New Year's greetings, everyone was full of pockets, and the candy melon seeds in the sieve were half missing.
These things are made for people to eat, so Liu Junhao didn't care and let them go.
The homely affection between neighbors and neighbors during New Year greetings made many people in the city infected and began to visit each other. Most of them were regular customers in Liujiagou, so they were not unfamiliar with the villagers. Of course, more people in the city gathered at Liu Junhao. They basically bought eels here, which can be considered regular customers for Liu Junhao.
Now the interpersonal relationships in the city are changing very quickly, and relatives are also distributed in various places. The New Year is very monotonous for each household, and there is no need to set off firecrackers in the city. They cannot be bustling and cannot feel the atmosphere of the New Year.
But this year is different. Many people who have been to Liujiagou think of coming here to celebrate the New Year and experience the lively atmosphere.
The crackling sound of firecrackers was filled with a strong festive atmosphere, and the delicious food revealed a simple homesickness. Everything made them feel that the trip was worth it.
Liu Junhao stayed at his home all morning. It was not that he didn't want to go out to pay New Year's greetings, but that the people who came to pay New Year's greetings had never stopped. It was not until the afternoon that he had free time and went to the village to pay New Year's greetings from house to house.
In the third year of junior high school, Professor Zhao and his wife followed their children back to the city to wish the old friends a happy new year. Of course, when they returned, they specially brought a lot of Liu Junhao's sweet dates.
The old friends were a little unbelievable when they saw the couple. Professor Zhao and his wife looked rosy and magnificent, and suddenly they looked several years younger.
What surprised them even more was the back: Professor Zhao played table tennis for half an hour in the elderly activity center, but he didn't even breathe. You know, he had been out of breath for ten minutes before.
On the fifth day of the lunar month, the hospital organized a volunteer service team for "New Year Warmth" to come to the community to check the health of the elderly. Professor Zhao's various physical indicators were actually excellent.
Not only were the old friends surprised, but even the medical staff who were checking said that it was the first time that they had met an elderly person with such good physical fitness after so many days.
Although Teacher Wang's health is not as good as Professor Zhao, no major problem was found. The doctor said that her blood lipids had dropped a lot, so as long as she pays attention to her diet, it would be fine.
After the examination, the old friends kept gathering around the couple and asking them, asking them what nutritional supplements they had taken in the past six months and how they were recuperating their bodies so well.
No wonder they asked so urgently. The elderly at this age are particularly concerned about their own health issues. After all, nothing is as good as good as good health.
Professor Zhao also enjoyed this kind of attention-grabbing look, and he talked about the delicious pastoral life of the couple in the countryside with a little smugness. The old friends who envied all expressed their opinions that they would stay in Liujiagou for a while when the weather was warmer.
Zhang Qian was having a very depressed New Year. She was forced by her parents to go on a blind date the day after she returned home.
The man was a young civil servant and graduated this year. She got angry after less than ten minutes of the conversation between the two.
When she heard that Zhang Qian was teaching in the valley, the civil servant followed this topic and talked a lot about how poor people in the mountains were, how poor the sanitation conditions were, and how they couldn't even eat enough, etc. Finally, she asked her how she could endure it for so long?
Zhang Qian was so angry that she almost poured the cup of coffee in front of her on his face. After returning home, her parents kept asking the young man how he was and said that they would have more contact.
Of course, what made her even more depressed was still behind her. After taking Qiuqiu home, even if the little nephew had a good toy, he would fiddle with the duck every day, and kept stuffing chocolate and biscuits into its mouth.
As a result, less than a week, Qiuqiu was tortured to the point where she was sick and no longer had the energy she used to. At first, Zhang Qian thought it was just a new environment and it would be cured after a while. But she didn't expect that after only one day, the duck's condition became worse. No matter how she feeded her, she wouldn't eat, she opened her mouth and gasped, and even her screams were hoarse.
Then Zhang Qian became anxious and hurriedly took Qiuqiu to the pet clinic in the city. When she went there, she realized that she would not treat the ducks. She had to take a taxi to the veterinary pharmacy and asked the veterinary doctor to treat Qiuqiu.
The veterinarian quickly found out the cause and gave the duck some medicine to take. Qiuqiu started eating the next day, but he was obviously not as energetic as before. Zhang Qian said this time and didn't let her nephew play again.
Just after the New Year, she was forced by her mother to go on a blind date. Zhang Qian saw that it would not be a big deal to continue like this, so she packed up her things and said that the school was about to start, and then took the bus back.
After arriving at the county town, Zhang Qian went to Xu Xiaoli's house for a night to ask her to go to Liujiagou together, because when Xu Xiaoli called to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the New Year, she said she would go to see her in two days.
With Xu Xiaoli accompanying him, the driver Pang Xu is naturally indispensable. As soon as this foodie arrived at Liu Junhao, she ran to the kitchen to find food.
The dumplings that had just been steamed in the morning were half a bowl left. Liu Junhao was originally going to eat them for lunch, but they all got into Pang Xu's stomach.
When she returned to the village again, Qiuqiu screamed happily again, and Zhang Qian's mood improved a lot. She thought it would be better here.
The next day was Po Wu, and Pang Xu urged Liu Junhao to lead them to the streets to watch the fun. After May Day, even if the Spring Festival is over, people who have been resting for a winter will start to be busy with their lives, so the town is particularly lively on this day.
It was already 8:30 when they arrived in the town. As soon as they reached the intersection, they heard the loud gongs and drums and crackling firecrackers, which shocked people's ears numb.
There were also many pedestrians on the street. The small pickup truck driven by Pang Xu could not get in at all. He had no choice but to park the car at the door of an acquaintance's house and ask others to help take care of it. The four of them hiked into the crowd.
Pang Xu and his wife didn't have breakfast in the morning, so when they walked to a stall selling hot soup, they even said they were hungry and asked Liu Junhao and Zhang Qian to go shopping on the street first, where they wanted to fill their stomachs.
The streets are indeed very lively today, and the town government specially organized a lion dance team and a dry ship team to perform on South Street.
Liu Junhao and the others were watching with relish, but suddenly the crowd exploded. A half-large scalper was rushing around the streets like crazy, scaring people to hide from the side.
When Zhang Qian saw the cow rushing straight towards him, she was so scared that she forgot to dodge and stood there motionless with a pale face.
Seeing that the horns were about to hit her, Liu Junhao roared and pushed her aside, grabbed the horns of the horns that rushed to him with both hands and lifted them hard, gritting his teeth and overthrew the ox to the ground.
The scalper rolled on the ground and rushed towards Zhang Qian again, as if she had recognized her.
Liu Junhao had to stop the shocked cow again. He quickly grabbed the half-rein on the bull's nose and pulled it hard. The yellow cow mooed in pain, but it also calmed down and disappeared from the madness he had just now.
At this time, a sweaty man squeezed out of the crowd and kept apologizing to them.
"Are you okay?" Liu Junhao ignored him and stretched out his hand to pull Zhang Qian up.
"It's okay, it's okay," although Zhang Qian said, she still touched her chest with lingering fear, obviously she was very scared by the scalper.
How could the scalper suddenly get frightened? Liu Junhao only remembered to ask the man.
It turned out that I didn't know which troublesome naughty kid secretly tied a small firecracker to the ox's tail while the owner was not paying attention. As a result, the ox was shocked and naturally broke the reins on the street and spread them wildly.
Since Zhang Qian is fine, Liu Junhao did not pursue the matter. After all, they didn't do it on purpose.
However, the onlookers watched him keep praising him, but they didn't expect that the young man would be so powerful that he would stop a shocked bull. You should know that when the bull was frightened, two or three young men were not their opponents at all.
I didn't pay attention when I was nervous just now. Now that I relaxed, Liu Junhao felt that his arms were numb and his palms were also polished with the reins, and it was hot now.
After such a fuss, they naturally lost the interest in continuing to watch the fun, so they were about to find Pang Xu and the others to go home together. When they arrived at West Street, Pang Xu and Xu Xiaoli were still sitting there happily drinking Hula soup.
"Little mouse, I just heard that there was a bull on the South Street and was shocked, but a guy was subdued. Have you seen it on South Street? Is that guy particularly developed limbs?"
"See, I'm the guy you are talking about with developed limbs!" Liu Junhao said gritting his teeth.
"Cough...cough..." Pang Xu's vermicelli had just taken a bite and suddenly got stuck in his throat.
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