Reborn to Strive

To worship ancestors here, chicken is a must, as well as pork. Of course, the best is pig's head. In addition, a fish, cakes and fruits are also indispensable.

The cakes that Shi Zhen's family used to worship their ancestors this time were the snacks that Shi Zhen bought.

As for the New Year's Eve dinner, in fact, it is to tidy up the dishes used for worshiping the ancestors and serve them on the table, and then stir-fry a few more dishes.

After Zhao Qiujuan grew up, most of these were made by Zhao Qiujuan. She quickly cleaned up the dead fish and cooked them in a pot.

In more than ten years, rural people will start to use live fish to worship during the Chinese New Year. Many people will release the fish after the end, but now... it is impossible to release the fish, and they will definitely eat it.

The chicken was already cooked, so Zhao Qiujuan chopped it up and put it on the table, and poured another bowl of soy sauce on the side.

When Shi Zhen saw it, he peeled off two pieces of garlic, chopped them into fine pieces and put them in the soy sauce.

In fact, if you have the conditions, you can also put some sesame oil in it, so that the dipping sauce will be more delicious.

Pork is bacon, so just cut it open. Then, Zhao Qiujuan fried some vegetables and made egg drop soup with chicken soup.

After four o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was still bright, and many people in the village began to eat New Year's Eve dinner.

People in the village don't go to work, they do farming at home, and they don't have much entertainment, so they generally get up very early. There are many people who have breakfast at five or six in the morning. Many people eat lunch at ten or eleven, and dinner is naturally early.

Zhao Qiujuan packed up and invited Shi Zhen and the others to have a New Year's Eve dinner. After eating, Shi Dalin gave Shi Ting and Guan Baiyu a red envelope each.

In the past, all the children in the family had red envelopes, but now that Shi Zhen and Zhao Qiujuan can earn money by themselves, Shi Dalin no longer gives them red envelopes.

In addition... In the past, he gave each of the four children one yuan, but now... Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting's red envelopes each contained ten yuan.

After Shi Dalin gave the red envelope, Zhao Meiyun followed suit.

Zhao Meiyun also gave ten yuan to each of Shi Ting and Guan Baiyu. She used to not give red envelopes to the children, but recently she gave them when she embroidered sweaters and earned some money.

It stands to reason that Guan Baiyu, she doesn't have to pay... She gave Guan Baiyu money for Shi Zhen's sake.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Qiujuan also gave it, also ten yuan.

Shi Ting accepted the red envelope, opened it on the spot, and looked at Shi Zhen eagerly after reading it: "Brother..."

Shi Zhen smiled, gave her a red envelope, and gave Guan Baiyu another.

Guan Baiyu didn't open a single red envelope, but Shi Ting opened it on the spot again, and was excited after opening it: "Brother! You are so kind!"

Shi Zhen's two red envelopes contained one hundred.

Seeing her so happy, Shi Zhen was also in a good mood.

He doesn't know how to educate children, and he hasn't taught Shi Ting much in the past six months.

But now Shi Ting is not as exaggerated as in her previous life.

Thinking about it carefully, Shi Ting's behavior in her previous life might have something to do with him.

At that time, he liked his sister Shi Ting much more than he does now, and he always felt sorry for his sister who had no mother since she was a child, so he would always take care of her more.

Taking care of her, he got used to spending money on his sister.

Every time Shi Ting spends the money, she can get it from him, and knowing that he has money... It's no wonder Shi Ting can control her hands.

Now that he and Shi Ting are clearly separated, Shi Ting spends less money.

Shi Ting walked around the room happily, and after walking around for a while, she even gritted her teeth and gave 120 yuan of it to Shi Zhen: "Brother, please keep this money for me, I want to spend it slowly... Take it by yourself, and spend it all at once."

When Shi Zhen took the money, he was a little touched for a while.

"Brother, take my money too!" Guan Baiyu immediately gave Shi Zhen the red envelope in his hand.

"You are going to start a company, and you still need me to manage your money?" Shi Zhen said.

Shi Dalin and the others were a little surprised: "Start a company?" Did they hear correctly?

Shi Zhen was full of pride: "Xiaoyu plans to start a company that produces pencil cases and schoolbags together with his classmates. After a year, their company will be launched."

Shi Zhen praised Guan Baiyu.

Shi Dalin and the others were shocked. After they set up a stall to make money, their horizons were broadened a lot, but starting a company was too far away for them.

They plan to set up a stall for a lifetime!

Guan Baiyu is really amazing.

Shi Dalin said: "Ah Zhen, you should learn more from Xiaoyu."

Shi Zhen laughed: "I will."

Guan Baiyu: "..." He learned everything he wanted to start a company from his brother!

After the New Year's Eve dinner, the Shi family had nothing to do, so Shi Dalin kept pitying: "It would be great if the color TV was brought back, so that we can watch the Spring Festival Gala."

"Dad, the signal here is not good." Shi Zhen said.

"Oh!" Shi Dalin was still very sorry.

Shi Zhen said again: "Dad, don't worry, after you go back, you might be able to watch the replay."

There are few programs these days, and many programs will be rebroadcasted repeatedly.

Only then did Shi Dalin feel happy.

After he was happy, Shi Dalin couldn't help but said: "This man, after a good life, he really can't live a bad life..." Now, he misses Anshan Town very much.

They are in Anshan Town, they have gas stoves and rice cookers for cooking, and running water for washing dishes, but what about here?Nothing at all.

It is not convenient to buy something here. A family in the village opened a small shop, but there is only the most basic oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar there.

Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun talked about the good news of Anshan Town.

Shi Zhen also agrees with this point. Isn't it because Zhao Dongjuan is too poor here that he refuses to come back?

But Anshan Town is actually not too prosperous.

At this time, in big cities, there are already KFC coffee shops, etc., and that is called prosperity.

Even Changxi City is much better than Anshan Town.

But in their mountains, it’s not too bad. He remembers a friend he met later, who was born in the 90s and lived in an ethnic minority area. He said that there, [-]s can be seen everywhere, such as "picking others Tesuji is illegal" slogans.

It’s already in the 90s over there, and the law and order is still very bad.

On New Year's Eve, everyone does not go out to each other, unless it is to ask for debts from other people's homes.

Their family did not borrow money, and no one came to ask for debts. After playing poker for a while, they went to bed early after eight o'clock.

In their mountains, there is no custom of keeping the year old.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Shi Zhen was awakened by the sound of firecrackers.

This is called a door-opening cannon, and it will be fired when the door is opened on the first day of the first lunar month, which indicates that the coming year will be prosperous.

After waking up, Shi Zhen found Guan Baiyu's feet in his bed.

Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun's bed was not big, they slept next to each other, even though Guan Baiyu's feet slipped under the covers, they wouldn't freeze.

Shi Zhen turned his head to look at Guan Baiyu, wondering if there was a way to cover Guan Baiyu's ears so that he could sleep a little longer, when Guan Baiyu opened his eyes.

"Good morning, brother." Guan Baiyu smiled at Shi Zhen.

"Morning." Shi Zhen took a deep breath, feeling a little dazed.

Being too close to Guan Baiyu always reminded him of the past...

"Xiao Yu, get up, I'll show you around." Shi Zhen said.

Guan Baiyu immediately got up from the bed when he heard the words: "Brother, where are we going?"

"Just walk around casually." Shi Zhen said.

The vicinity of their village is relatively safe. It is winter and there are fewer snakes, insects, rats and ants, so they can walk around.

On the first day of the first lunar month, Shi Zhen didn't do anything, he just walked around with Guan Baiyu, and the same goes for the second and third year of junior high school.

Guan Baiyu was a little worried at first that Shi Ting would be unhappy, but... Shi Ting also had a group of friends in the village, and she was crazy about playing, so she didn't care about Shi Zhen at all.

In the past three days, many people came to talk to Shi Zhen and asked about the situation outside, and Shi Zhen spoke well.

Waiting for the fourth day...Shi Zhen took Guan Baiyu to find the people he wanted to take out and let them follow him.

He is interested in a total of six people. Of these six people, four are married and two are not married. They are all young and strong people between the ages of 20 and 30.

Among these people, there are actually a few who have approached Shi Zhen before, asking about working outside in the past, and now that Shi Zhen approached them, they agreed to go out with Shi Zhen without saying a word.

Shi Zhen was not surprised by this.

In the previous life, Shi Xinghuo went out with him and died unexpectedly outside. They were all willing to go out with him, not to mention that in this life, Shi Xinghuo and Shi Xingchao both made money outside. Their family's life is even more prosperous.

If this matter is settled, Shi Zhen's mission for returning this time will be considered complete.

In the end...he walked around and came home, and saw a young man at home——Zhao Qiujuan was looking at someone.

Shi Zhen knew that man, he was somewhat related to their family, he was his cousin.

People with little culture, who go out to work in the mountains, mostly choose to go to acquaintances.

In his previous life, he was in Changxi City, so he was a bit capable. When the people on their side went out to work, Changxi City was the first choice.

This man also worked on his construction site for a while.

Later, after he quit working as a contractor, he went to do decoration, laying tiles for people and so on.

He's not a bad guy, but Shi Zhen doesn't like him very much. There's no other reason. Like Zhao Dongjuan, he likes to take advantage of others, and it's a little too much.

Shi Zhen's cousin is also surnamed Shi, named Shi Zhiqiang. He is the son of Shi Zhen's grandma's sister, and they live in the same village.

Shi Zhen's grandma and Shi Zhiqiang's grandma married here together. Although the relationship between the two sisters is average, the two families are relatives after all, and they have always been in touch.

But when Shi Zhen's mother died, Shi Zhiqiang's family did something disgusting.

At that time, Shi Dalin was really poor, and Shi Zhiqiang's family was probably afraid that Shi Dalin would borrow money from them. At that time, Shi Dalin went to inform them and asked them to come to the funeral, but they said that they had too many relatives, so they would not be with Shi Dalin in the future. Dalin has come and gone, and he doesn't attend the funeral.

What's more, they have always had relatives with Shi Dashan's family, whose family conditions are not bad.

However, later Shi Dashan learned that they broke up with Shi Dalin, so he stopped interacting with them.

In his previous life, Shi Dalin never told his family about this matter, and Shi Zhen didn't know about it at first.Later, when his father got older, he began to talk more. He talked with his father about the past, and only then did he know the conflict between the two families. When talking, Shi Dalin had tears in his eyes, and then he kept talking Talking about, saying that people must be rich, otherwise they will be looked down upon wherever they go.

Because Shi Zhen didn't know about it at first, Shi Zhiqiang came to his engineering team, and he took good care of him. As a result, Shi Zhiqiang began to show his relatives, always wanting to take advantage of it, and he would also get kickbacks and so on.

Shi Zhen didn't like this person, and this time he wanted to take someone out to work, and he didn't intend to call him, but this person came to meet Zhao Qiujuan?

Shi Zhen looked at his father and found that his father was not very happy.

But his father... Like many men in this era, he doesn't like to tell people about something.

In addition to working, he usually works, even if he loves Shi Ting, at most he will pick one of the fruits for Shi Ting, but he will never hug Shi Ting or praise Shi Ting.

Shi Zhen was never praised by him when he was a child, but because he tore his clothes, accidentally injured his mother, worried about him, failed to take good care of his sister, and so on, he was beaten by him.

When Shi Dalin was beating someone, he didn't say much, and just finished the beating. Sometimes Shi Zhen didn't even know why he was being beaten.

His mother didn't want to see him being beaten. Occasionally when he was beaten, his mother would get angry with his father.

At that time, his father would stand with his head bowed and be scolded, and then he would pick up a chopstick dish for him when eating, and the matter would be over.

But after his mother passed away, he stopped being naughty, and Shi Dalin never beat him again.

Based on Shi Zhen's understanding of his father, his father and Zhao Meiyun probably wouldn't talk about the past when they were together. Zhao Meiyun probably let Zhao Qiujuan see this person because he didn't know the reason why the two families broke up.

"Ah Zhen, you are back." Zhao Meiyun was very happy to see Shi Zhen coming back: "You are talking with Zhiqiang."

Shi Zhen didn't want to make things too ugly, so he sat down and had a chat with Shi Zhiqiang, and found that Shi Zhiqiang was more interested in him than in Zhao Qiujuan.

Of course, Shi Zhiqiang's interest in him has nothing to do with feelings.

Most likely, Shi Zhiqiang didn't like Zhao Qiujuan. If he really wanted to, he had been in the village for so many years and had already proposed marriage.

Shi Zhiqiang came to see Zhao Qiujuan probably because their family was rich and wanted to go out to work and make money.

Especially... Zhao Meiyun talked about Zhao Qiujuan's ability to make money, so Zhao Qiujuan must be different in Shi Zhiqiang's eyes.

Shi Zhiqiang caught Shi Zhen and asked about working outside.

Shi Zhen said something he had told the villagers, so he didn't say more, but Zhao Meiyun urged Shi Zhiqiang and Zhao Qiujuan to go out for a walk.

Only then did Shi Zhiqiang let Shi Zhen go and went out with Zhao Qiujuan.

When Shi Zhiqiang and Zhao Qiujuan left, Shi Dalin immediately said: "This person, no."

"Why? His family's conditions are quite good." Zhao Meiyun was a little puzzled. Shi Zhiqiang was a sought-after young man in the village.

If it weren't for this, she wouldn't have asked someone to meet Zhao Qiujuan without discussing it with Shi Dalin after it was mentioned.

Of course, there is another reason for not discussing, that is, Shi Dalin slept alone in the main room recently, they did not sleep together, and there was no time to discuss.

Shi Dalin frowned, obviously not knowing what to say.

Shi Zhiqiang really wanted to say that there were no problems in all aspects, and he didn't like it, mainly because when he called people to attend the funeral, they looked like they were afraid of him borrowing money or being entangled with him, and opened their mouths to break off the relationship with him.

"Anyway, this person is no good." Shi Dalin said.

Zhao Meiyun was a little puzzled, but Shi Dalin said no...then...it can't be...

Seeing that Zhao Meiyun was not happy, Shi Zhen said: "Aunt Zhao, that family hates the poor and loves the rich. In the past, our family had no money, and they were relatives to us, so they were not willing to come to the door. Now they only come to the door because they see that we are rich. Come on. There is also that Shi Zhiqiang, he likes to take advantage of small things, and his mother is even more difficult to get along with, and my sister will suffer if she marries him."

Zhao Meiyun believed in Shi Zhen very much. Hearing what Shi Zhen said, she immediately felt that there was something wrong with Shi Zhiqiang: "That's it! That's not okay! I'll go and see someone else."

"Aunt Zhao, don't worry, my sister is only 21." Shi Zhen said.

Zhao Meiyun was in a hurry: "I'm already 21! How can I not be in a hurry! No, your sister is already 22, how can she be 21!"

Zhao Meiyun is used to talking about false age, but to be honest... Zhao Qiujuan is still more than a month away from her 21st birthday!

Zhao Qiujuan was born in February of the lunar calendar.

Zhao Meiyun thought of something, said a few more names, and asked Shi Zhen and the others how they were.

When she came back after going out for half a year, Zhao Qiujuan became a fragrant bun. In just a few days, many people wanted to see Zhao Qiujuan.

Shi Zhen felt...these people were not very good.

In fact, if Zhao Qiujuan had been living in the mountains and married one of them, she would live like that for the rest of her life, which wouldn't be too bad.

But times have changed.

Many people go out to work and see the world, and they come out for all kinds of messy things.

There is patriarchy.

Most of the people here are patriarchal.

Zhao Dongjuan is not afraid of losing money when she marries anyone, but with Zhao Qiujuan's personality, she will definitely suffer.