Chapter 47 047: Incoming call

Author: Chen Wangdong

Chapter 47 047: Incoming call

The twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Xu Ning and Fa Xiao walked around the village.

Then,

Even the village dog knew he was back.

In rural areas, this is a sense of ritual.

Every year before the Chinese New Year, migrant workers who come back from outside will go out and stroll around the village, meet their uncles, brothers and sisters, and announce that they are back.

At this time, the aunts started to gather around and gossip, who is back... so and so and so and so talked about a certain partner, and so and so and so and so made a salary of more than 1,000.

Xu Ning has never heard anyone talk about him, but in the past two days, he has often heard his aunts talk about other people who have just returned.

Not to mention, it was quite interesting to hear. I heard a lot of little information from them that I didn’t know before.

It wasn't until the afternoon of New Year's Eve that a cousin walked into the village carrying a large bag of luggage, and all the migrant workers in Laogou Village came back.

That evening,

It snowed heavily in the sky, adding a lot of flavor to the Spring Festival of 2002.

As a child from the north, Xu Ning always feels that there is no meaning in celebrating the New Year without snow. Only when it snows is it called Chinese New Year.

This is a joy that many southerners cannot experience.

Soon after the New Year's Eve dinner, people who have spare money will take out the prepared fireworks and set them off for a while.

Gorgeous fireworks bloomed in the sky filled with heavy snow.

very beautiful.

The Xu Ning family is one of those with spare money.

Yesterday, he gave 500 yuan to his father, Xu Jianguo, to buy a cart of fireworks and firecrackers from the town, ready to set them off for fun.

In this era, there are still too few families who can afford to buy fireworks. Most families just buy a few firecrackers and listen to them.

Therefore, when fireworks went off at the door of Lao Xu's house, many villagers stood in front of the house to watch.

The children were so happy that they ran to Xu Ning's yard one by one with toy guns. After each firework was set off, these children would take the initiative to help light another one.

Now I can save the time and do it myself.

It took more than 20 minutes to set off all the fireworks, and the air was filled with a strong smell of fireworks.

"Old Xu's family is really coming through now."

"Xu Ning, I heard that he earned hundreds of thousands in BJ in half a year. I have never seen so much money in my life."

"I wonder if he has a partner. My niece is very handsome. I will ask Chen Meijuan tomorrow."

"..."

There are a hundred or so households in the village, and almost every household is discussing Xu Ning. It is like this in this era. Whoever becomes successful will definitely become the object of heated discussion among the villagers.

After eating the New Year's Eve dinner and watching the Spring Festival Gala for a while, Xu Ning was called by the boys to play cards. Xu Jianguo couldn't sit still when his son left, and soon he went out to play cards with his peers.

A group of more than a dozen people came to my cousin's house to play cards under heavy snow. Everyone gathered around the small table, with a circle of people standing behind them. The scene was very lively.

It's called "Eight-Eight Kong" here in Jiangsu Province, which means each person draws two cards and compares with the dealer, pairs, 2 and 8, pairs of 10, kings... This kind of special card doubles the money.

We continued working until three o'clock in the night, and then we all went home still unsatisfied, and made an appointment to continue fighting tomorrow.

Xu Ning was lucky tonight. He won a small amount of 200 yuan and lost more than 1,000 yuan. However, all the money he won was given to his eldest sister Xu Xiuyan.

This girl couldn't stay at home and ran over to watch the card game. On the way, she dropped her newly bought down jacket and got it dirty. The two hundred yuan was just enough to compensate her.

New Year's Day.

After the New Year greetings, the men in the village gathered together according to their age groups.

Play cards in the morning,

Play cards in the afternoon,

Play cards at night

…

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, continue playing cards.

There were too few entertainment activities in this era, and it was snowing heavily, so playing cards seemed to be the only entertainment activity.

The men played poker, the women played mahjong, and the children played with snowmen, toy guns, and threw firecrackers.

There is almost a tacit understanding.

It wasn't until the third day of the Lunar New Year that the snow stopped, and Xu Ning was taken by her parents to her uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings to her grandparents.

Xu Ning has four aunts and two uncles.

There are seven or eight cousins ​​younger than him.

My mother, Chen Meijuan, is a well-established big family.

Seven families gathered together, totaling more than forty people, and even the meals were divided into five tables.

Fortunately, many of the younger generation are not married and have children, otherwise the five tables would not be able to sit.

At the dinner table, everyone talked about study and work.

Most of my parents have no academic qualifications. The best one is my eldest uncle, who went to a technical secondary school and now teaches high school Chinese in a county middle school.

The richest one belongs to his second uncle, who works as a contractor in Jinling, specializing in exterior wall insulation. In his previous life, Xu Ning worked with his second uncle on the construction site in Jinling when he came back from his migration to the north.

I remember that seven or eight years later, my second uncle was worth more than 20 million, had several houses, and drove a Mercedes-Benz, S, and BMW 7 Series.

At today's dinner table, if Xu Ning had not become a promising person, then the poorest person would still be the old Xu family.

Every time there was a New Year's party in his previous life, Xu Jianguo didn't want to go because he would lose face.

Now when Xu Jianguo hears that he is going to visit relatives, he is definitely the first one to do so. Even when talking at the wine table, he becomes even more forceful.

Before Xu Ning came here, he told his parents not to tell his relatives that he was filming in BJ, because the TV series he acted in have not yet been released in the mainland, and his relatives would not believe him if he told him.

It's better not to say anything and save yourself trouble later.

If any relatives ask, just tell him that he is a trainee in a company and it takes two and a half years of training before he can debut.

Only in this way will the relatives feel balanced, otherwise they will definitely feel sour when they know that Xu Ning has made a lot of money from filming.

After three rounds of drinking,

Xu Ning got up to go to the toilet. In this era, rural toilets were generally behind the house, requiring a long walk around.

He didn't bring his mobile phone. He was playing Snake with Nokia for his cousin Zhou Xiaochong. This kid is in the second grade of junior high school this year. He is usually very playful and hasn't touched a word of his winter vacation homework.

What Xu Ning didn't know was that Zhou Xiaochong accidentally hung up the phone while playing with Snake.

On the other end of the phone, Jiang Qinqin angrily sat in front of the TV and watched TV with her parents: "You brat, you won't answer my calls now, huh."

A few minutes later,

She edited another text message and sent it.

At this time, Zhou Xiaochong had been brought over by his uncle to eat. Suddenly a message was sent, and Zhou Xiaochong looked at it curiously.

"My cousin's girlfriend sent a message."

"What? Your cousin has a girlfriend? Didn't he just say he didn't?" Grandma put down her chopsticks and asked in surprise.

Xu Xiuyan frowned and told her grandmother, "I never heard that Xiao Ning has a girlfriend."

Zhou Xiaochong was young and didn't understand privacy. He read: "The sender is Jiang Qinqin. Jiang Qinqin said that Qiong Yao decided to let her cousin play Yong Qi in "Huan Zhuge Ge"."

"..."

What?

All the relatives here have watched "Huanzhugege" which is popular all over the country, and they all know the beautiful star Jiang Qinqin.

So when they heard the content of the text message, they were all shocked.

"Let Xiaoning play Yongqi? The person who sent the text message is not a liar, right?"

The relatives in the room were all born and raised in rural areas, and they had never thought that filming a TV series would fall on them.

At this moment, they seemed to be listening to a book from heaven.

However, before everyone could react, the bell in Xu Ning's hand rang, indicating that it was still Jiang Qinqin.
Chapter completed!