Chapter 39

Chapter 39 spring festival

The next morning, Li Haitang crawled out of his warm bed and took out his newly bought white turtleneck sweater from the closet to put it on. He was wearing a burgundy cotton jacket embroidered with small flowers, a pair of denim flared pants and a pair of small leather shoes, and his shoulder-length hair was loosely spread. After washing her face and brushing her teeth, she put on her hat, scarf, and gloves and went out.

The father and son of the li family got up early to get ready for work. They had already cut everything, washed everything, and stewed everything. The rest of the stir-fries were waiting for Li Haitang to go over.

Li Tao's eyes lit up when he saw Li Haitang change into a brand new outfit and he said, "Wow, this outfit is so beautiful. Sister hoi tong, you're not the school belle of your Tam city 1 middle school, are you?"

Li Haitang shook his head decisively, "No, my upper bunk looks better than mine, but she doesn't like to talk. She hasn't spoken to anyone else in the dorm for the whole semester, but she has spoken to me twice. In total, she has three sentences. She's a perfect ice beauty."

Li Tao: ... "So personal?"

"Well, she has a lot of personality. She's a maverick girl. She also has excellent grades and can play the piano. I heard that her piano is better than the art teacher in our school." Li Haitang chatted with him as he poured oil into a clean pot.

Li Tao's curiosity was not drowned out by the "Sizzling" oil explosion, "The Ping shan middle school doesn't even have a piano. I heard that the person who is very expensive and can afford a piano should be super rich, right?"

Of course, a piano costs tens of thousands. Her family was definitely rich and powerful, but she was very low-key, never showing off outside, and not at all coquettish. Living in a dorm like everyone else, eating in the cafeteria, wearing a school uniform, and probably the most valuable thing on your body is a watch on your wrist." Speaking of Xia Lin, Li Haitang was actually very impressed. Comparing her to Lv Feifei, it was really a phoenix in the sky and a pheasant on the ground.

Li Tao laughed and joked, "I'm sure you're a millionaire too. You're a very rich man and you're very low-key. I think all your classmates at school think you're a very poor person."

"Haha, it's possible." Li Haitang smiled and said that she was very low-key at school, except when the results were announced in a high-profile manner, other times, she was so low-key that no one paid attention to her.

After working in the kitchen for more than an hour, Li Yang hopped over to celebrate the new year in his new blue cotton-padded clothes. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he smiled and said, "Uncle, tao, Sister hoi tong, happy new year!"

"Happy new year!" Everyone replied with a smile.

Li Jianguo took out a small red packet from his pocket and gave it to him. It was the new year's money from the elders to the younger generation. Usually, it was between fifty cents and one yuan.

Li Tao looked at the little red envelope that his father gave him and secretly touched the two big red envelopes in his pocket. He was so happy that sister haitang was the most generous to him.

Li Haitang caught a glimpse of his movements and kicked him in the foot in amusement, reminding him, "Li Tao, the dishes will be ready soon. Go set the table and the dishes first."

"Oh, oh, okay." Li Tao went out to work immediately.

Not long after, the others came over one after another, and the dishes in the kitchen were all ready.

Li Haitang took off his apron and went out to say "Happy new year" to them. He gave one yuan each to the five children of Li Tao's second uncle and third uncle.

The li family's second aunt, who had a slightly smelly face, immediately smiled when she saw the red packet, but her two daughters' eyes had been glued to Li Haitang's body, mainly because her clothes were too beautiful. By comparison, they were real bumpkins.

The second and third uncles of the li family had the same temperament as Li Jianguo. They were a little dull and didn't talk much, but today they took the initiative to chat with Li Haitang.

There were a lot of people. There were two tables in the hall. Five adults and Li Haitang sat at the top table, while the other six children sat at the bottom table.

The second aunt of the li family, who had originally wanted to come over today to pick on a few words, closed her mouth tightly when she saw the dishes on the table. Braised chicken, spicy duck, pork with plum, braised fish, braised pork trotters, sweet and sour pork ribs, lotus seed pork belly soup, and chinese cabbage in clear soup. Today's dishes were very rich, and the portions of meat and vegetables were very high. She knew that Li Haitang had ordered all of these, so she had no reason to pick on each other.

In the past, Deng Wenfang had prepared up to three or four meat dishes, with a little minced meat in the rest, but she had prepared real meat, and they were all in large bowls. The richest people in the village probably didn't have such a good reception. She had nowhere to find fault, so she picked up her chopsticks and ate hard.

Li Haitang had no idea what was going on in her mind. Even if she did, she didn't care. She kept her head down and ate.

Li Jianguo took out a bottle of wine that Li Haitang had brought back from tan city and poured one for each of his brothers. The three of them rarely spoke a lot about a pot of wine. After a few drinks, the three brothers opened their mouths to talk about each other's experience for a year.

At the bottom of the table, the six children started the fight for food. In the end, Li Tao came out to uphold justice. Each dish was divided equally, one dish after another. No more fighting. After the unanimous vote was passed, their table calmed down to eat.

Li Haitang turned his head to look at them, smiled, and continued to eat slowly without any intention of talking to the two aunts.

This meal was a feast for the guests and the host, and everyone was very satisfied with it. After Li Tao removed the bowls on the table, Li Haitang wiped the table clean and brought everyone hot tea, melon seeds, peanut butter and other food.

She had long noticed that her two daughters were staring straight at her new clothes, and her second aunt's expression of hesitation. After giving her tea, she resolutely retreated to the kitchen to wash the dishes.

What was the plan of the three of them? She could think of it with her toes. She didn't want to talk to them.

She slowly washed the dishes in the kitchen, then cleaned up the stove, the kitchen cabinet, the chopping board and so on. When she went out, she saw that everyone was still chatting and eating melon seeds in the hall. She walked up to say hello to Li Jianguo and walked home briskly.

Looking at her back, the two daughters of the li family's second aunt pouted their mouths into the sky. They really wanted such beautiful clothes. How could they get them?

On the way back, Li Haitang went to every family in the village to pray for the new year. After collecting some new year's money bags from her elders, she naturally returned a gift.

After returning home at noon, she cooked something to eat. It was cold outside, so she stayed by the fire and didn't want to move. She took out her notebook and continued to write the second martial arts novel in a series.

After the first day of the first month of the year in 1988, Li Haitang calmly put away the script and went to bed.

The second day of the first month is the traditional "Uncle's day."

As soon as breakfast time passed, the main road nearby became lively. Li Haitang looked far away and saw that the men in the village took their wives and children with big bags to pay new year's greetings to their father-in-law and mother-in-law. The children also wore new clothes, accompanied by laughter, and occasionally compared their new year's money and new clothes.

In the past, Li Jianguo and Deng Wenfang would take Li Tao and Li Ting to the neighboring town to pay new year's greetings, and they would stay there for a day before coming back, leaving Li Haitang alone at home.

This year, Li Jianguo and Deng Wenfang divorced, so naturally, they didn't have to go there to pay new year's greetings. But Li Tao wanted to see his mother and sister, so Li Jianguo agreed to send him there. Because it was a long journey, they rode a bicycle at dawn.

Li Haitang wanted to go to the wang family and class teacher Tang Hui's house, but when she thought that it was the second day of junior high school, they must have gone to her mother's house to pay new year's greetings, so she stopped thinking and went back to her room to continue writing.

In the evening, Li Haitang had just finished dinner and made a pot of hot tea. A familiar footstep came from outside the door. She immediately got up and opened the door. She saw Li Jianguo's face was tired and there was a layer of frost on his eyebrows. She frowned and said, "Dad, you came back today?"

"Yes." Li Jianguo rubbed his face casually with his strong hands and said in a heavy tone, "Haitang, Taoer went to his grandmother's house today and cried after coming out. I asked him that he didn't say anything and didn't eat when he came back. I just vaguely heard him crying in the house. Help me persuade him."

"Okay." Li Haitang went into the house, picked up his hat, put on a pair of shoes, closed the door, and immediately followed him.

On the way, Li Haitang asked about Deng Wenfang and her mother. Li Jianguo didn't go to the Deng family. He learned it from li jianhong.

It turned out that after their divorce, Deng Wenfang took Li Ting back to the Deng family. Deng family's parents are still alive, and now they live with their eldest son, deng wenfei. Naturally, the mother and daughter are staying at deng wenfei's house.

Deng Wenfang and his sister-in-law had an ordinary relationship, and the two of them were too lazy to eat. They lived together for half a month and quarreled every day. In the end, because of some trivial matters, the Deng family sister-in-law and Deng Wenfang, this sister-in-law, fought fiercely. One of them was accidentally pushed to the ground by her brute force, broke a rib, and lay in the hospital for more than half a month, spending a lot of money.

Deng Wenfang and Li Ting naturally had no face to live in their big brother's house after this. Later, the Deng family couple came forward and planned to place the two of them into the family of their younger son. However, the little daughter-in-law suggested that their family did not support idle people. If the eldest aunt and niece wanted to eat and live in his house, they had to help with the work. Li Ting was responsible for the household chores, and the eldest aunt had to go to his brick factory to help with the kiln fire.

Deng Wenfang spoiled Li Ting in her eyes, but she didn't want her to suffer a little. She disagreed on the spot and fell out with her younger brother's house again. After that, she took Li Ting to rent a house in town. After living in the town for exactly a month, Deng Wenfang suddenly took Li Ting to the man's house, begging for food and drink, forcing the man to divorce his wife.

The man's wife, wife, family and brothers were all bad people, and their sister had suffered so much, so naturally they would not let the man and Deng Wenfang mother and daughter have a good time. On the day of the divorce, they drove two big trucks over to take away all the money, furniture, and appliances in the house, leaving them no rice left. Before he left, the two sons and one daughter of the man frantically pounced on Deng Wenfang and his mother. The three children pinned them down on the ground and beat them up. The frail Li Ting was also scratched and a very conspicuous scar was left on his forehead.

A good, rich family was completely wiped out by Deng Wenfang and his daughter. When he left, he was criticized by outsiders. The man spread all his anger on them and scolded them every day. Then he left them to work in the south in a fit of anger.

When her daughter made such a mess, the Deng family couple nearly had a stroke because of her anger. Finally, they left their old faces to ask their relatives for help and found Deng Wenfang a relaxing job in a small textile factory in town.

Li Ting, who was not yet fifteen years old, continued to go to school. However, after a series of family changes and a disfigured appearance, she became unstable and lacked parental control. Soon, she played with the hooligans in the town and often stayed home late at night. In the end, without Deng Wenfang's knowledge, he took the initiative to drop out of school and follow the thugs around collecting protection fees and so on. In short, in just half a year, she was completely ruined.