After a simple rebirth

She went back to her husband's house before the New Year, and on the second day of the New Year, Fu Yu and her family came back again.

As usual, Fu Ying gave each child a red envelope, and then received a red envelope from Fu Yu.

I didn't go to my sixth uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings this year, nor did I go to my eldest aunt's house, because they all said they would come over.

Especially my sixth uncle's family, all my cousins ​​are coming, mainly because it's the first time everyone is there, so they come to Fu Ma's house to wish a happy new year and get to know each other.

The first time everyone was together mainly refers to the first reunion of the four children left by the eldest uncle after they grew up. After the eldest uncle passed away, his eldest son was imprisoned for robbing money, the eldest daughter and the second daughter ran away from home one after another, and the youngest son grew up in the house of the sixth uncle.

In the previous life, these cousins ​​were common in Guangdong Province and would make dinner appointments during festivals, so Fu Ying knew that they contacted Fu's mother later, but she didn't know the exact time.

My eldest cousin came out last year and went to work in Guangdong Province, near Fu's parents.

The two cousins ​​got in touch with each other at the end of the year. Fu Ying heard from Fu Yu that the two cousins ​​had actually been in touch with each other a long time ago, but they were in different places. This year is the first year that the eldest cousin has come back, so he returned to Yunnan Province to celebrate the New Year.

There were so many of them that they chartered two vans and went to Fu's house. Fu Ying went out to greet them.

There were eleven people in total. Fu Ying recognized them all, but she just followed them and called them obediently.

The third cousin brought her boyfriend, who was from Fu's mother's family, and Fu Ying thought she was the best looking one. But maybe life is full of drama, her emotional journey has always been changeable, at least Fu Ying is very sure that the husband she later got married to was not this one, this one was introduced to be from Guizhou Province, but Fu Ying remembers that the third cousin who got married the longest was also the one who got married, and he was from Guangdong Province.

After leading a group of people into the house and sitting them down, the Fu family never stopped and was busy entertaining them. They put melon seeds and fruits on the table for the people sitting by the fireplace, and a few boys gathered in Fu Ying's room to watch her play games. They had to bring some drinks to them.

Fu Ying and Fu Zhe, as they were the youngest among their peers, each received a red envelope of 100 yuan. Fu Yu's three children each received 50 yuan. As for how much to give back to their cousins, and who should give and who should not, it was a headache for Fu's mother and Fu Yu to discuss.

There was no room for two tables for dinner in the evening, so Fu Ergu and Wang Jun came to eat as representatives. There was no large round table for dining at home, so the elders had to sit by the stove, and the younger ones sat at the eight-immortal table.

Fu Ying brought a few children to her room to eat. She looked after the children inside while Fu Ma and Fu Yu entertained them outside.

After dinner, Fu Wei and Fu Zhe took some cousins ​​out for a walk, while Fu Ying and Fu Yu cleaned up the mess.

It's still lively when there are many people. The fireworks that were not set off on New Year's Eve are set off tonight with great enthusiasm. Fu Ying feels that her family should be the noisiest in the whole village.

As for the cards that must be played during the Chinese New Year, I can’t stop.

When it comes to winning money by playing cards, Uncle Six gets extremely excited. He doesn't care that he's too old to get involved with kids. He sits at the table with great interest and plays both big and small cards, making the whole scene grand and lively.

Fu Ying joined in the fun for a while, but because there were too many people, she lost interest. They were all relatives, but that didn't mean she could fit in.

Fu Ying found an opportunity to leave the table and let Fu Yu go play. She went to help Fu Yu look after the baby and also watched TV with Fu's father.

Dad Fu also likes to play cards, but he is not so addicted to gambling. He just likes to play 1,000 points.

There was not enough space for so many people to sit by the stove, so Uncle Six and his friends went to Fu Ying's room to play cards. However, the stove was considered the living room, so some people had to stay there. It would be bad if no one entertained the villagers when they came to visit, and there were three children, Wang Ruizhong and his son, so someone had to look after them. So Dad Fu stayed there.

Fu Ying asked her father to go out and play for a while, but his father shook his head and continued to sit and watch TV.

At half past ten, Fu's mother thoughtfully arranged a midnight snack and instructed Fu Ying to peel thirty or forty potatoes. In order to satisfy this group of people who were all of working age, and also because her cousin who left home when she was young loved eating potatoes and always said that she couldn't eat potatoes as delicious as those in her hometown outside, Fu's mother simply fried the potatoes and let them enjoy them to their heart's content.

It took Fu's father nearly half an hour to fry the potatoes. Fu Ying served several rounds. The first rounds were basically sold out in seconds, and he slowed down the latter rounds only when he was full.

After having supper, Fu Ying saw her mother coming over to discuss accommodation arrangements with her father. There was definitely no room for them at Fu Ying's house, and it was not easy to sleep on the floor in the middle of winter, mainly because there were not that many beddings at home.

Now Fu Ying can relate to her. No wonder Fu's mother always wants to add another floor and keeps a lot of quilts in reserve. It's usually okay as the house is just big enough for them to live in, but when relatives come, it's all over as there's no room for them at all!

It was already difficult enough to arrange for this group of cousins. Fortunately, my uncle's family did not come. If that family had come, the Fu family's house would have been blown up.

Fu Ying listened to Fu's father and mother's discussion.

There is an empty room in Fu Ergu's house, but it definitely can't accommodate everyone, and there are other relatives at her house, so they can only arrange some more people to go to Kui Ge's house next door.

As the saying goes, a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. This is how the villagers help each other.

Fu's mother asked Fu's father to go and ask Second Aunt Fu's family if they could borrow a few rooms, and then go to Brother Kui's family to ask.

The final arrangement was that Fu Ergu's family would borrow three rooms for Fu Wei and other males to sleep in, and Kui Ge's family would borrow two rooms for Fu's parents and two cousins ​​to stay in. The four rooms in Fu's family would be occupied by Fu Yu's family, the sixth uncle and his wife, Fu Ying and Zhao Ming with Wang Ruiya, and the cousin with her family.

After the rooms were arranged, Fu's mother told Fu Wei and Fu Zhe to live at Fu Ergu's house and remember to help see if the men needed anything. Fu Yu and Fu Ying would take care of the house.

But in fact, Fu's father and mother underestimated the extent to which young people stay up late.

The thicker the gambling atmosphere, the easier it is for people to get lost in it and lose their minds. Winners think they have good luck today and will definitely continue to win and win more. Losers are unwilling to give up and persist, thinking that they will definitely rebound and win back their money.

Fortunately, Fu Ying's room is close to the backyard, so even if the crowd is noisy, it shouldn't affect the neighbors that much.

After the children fell asleep, Fu Ying was dragged into the water to play with them. They played until one o'clock in the morning. She was so sleepy that she insisted on leaving.

But the room was still very noisy. Not only were there people playing cards, Fu Zhe and his younger cousin were also playing computer games loudly, while others were still gambling all night long. Fu's mother, sixth uncle, and the older cousin were still gambling as well.

My cousins ​​were more low-key, but they lamented that there was no mahjong, otherwise they could have set up another table and played all night.

Fu Ying was speechless when she heard this.

They really played mahjong all night long. Whenever they got together, they would play mahjong. They would even go to a hotel to get a room. Those who were sleepy would sleep and then find someone to take their place. They would continue playing after waking up.

One year during the Chinese New Year, Fu Ying tried to play with them because no one stopped her from leaving the table, so she played to the death. She played from after dinner until 2 a.m., and she only felt sore shoulders and waist. She was so sleepy that she didn't know what hand she had won, and she just mechanically followed them to draw cards and play cards.

It was Fu Yu who woke up and came over to take her turn to sleep, and then Fu Ying woke up at six in the morning and found these women still fighting...

They were beaten until their father Fu called them to eat breakfast, and they would not go to bed until they had eaten. He told them not to call them to eat lunch before going to bed, and to tell them when they woke up.

Knowing that they were all addicted and were taking advantage of the New Year to indulge themselves, Fu Ying didn't want to chase them away. She climbed onto the bed directly from her seat, pushed Wang Ruiya in, and then drew the thick bed curtains so that no one could see anything. Then Fu Ying went to sleep.

When I am sleepy, I can fall asleep no matter how noisy it is.

Fu Ying didn't know when Zhao Ming went to bed. She only knew that when she woke up at around eight o'clock, except for Fu's father and Fu Yu's family, no one else was awake, so no one ate breakfast.

Fu Ying helped prepare lunch. Preparing food for so many people was just like preparing a banquet.

Fu Ying thought they would stay for a few more days since it was a rare visit, but at noon on the third day, Ulala and her group left.

The Spring Festival reception for relatives finally came to an end. When Fu Ying thought she could take a break, she suddenly heard on the seventh day of the New Year that her uncle Fu and his family were about to arrive.

Fu Ying was surprised.

Fu Ying knew that Uncle Fu, who had left home for a long time, had contacted this place in his early years, but when he got in touch, Grandma Fu had already passed away. Uncle Fu was heartbroken and had no longer any concern for his hometown.

The two families really visited each other more often after Uncle Fu and his wife went to Guangdong Province to do business. Although the two families were not together, they were not far apart, only less than an hour's drive away.

Fu Ying remembered that during those years, whenever there was a holiday of more than two days, a group of Fu family members would take the bus to Fu's uncle's house and basically come back after dinner that day, because the house rented by Fu's uncle was also very small, with only one bedroom and one living room, which could not accommodate the entire Fu family.

When Uncle Fu has free time and wants to rest, he will go to Fu's house to play, play mahjong, and bring some cold dishes, so the Fu family saves money on buying groceries.

Although Uncle Fu stopped doing business later, the two families still kept in touch quite often.

On the afternoon of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Uncle Fu drove his brand new white car and parked it directly at Fujiachangba.

Uncle Fu is even darker than Fu Zhe, the little black charcoal. He has never been white. He is about the same height as Fu's father, less than 1.7 meters, and is also very thin.

To be honest, Uncle Fu has a bad appearance, a bad personality, no property, no background, and only a criminal record. Fu Ying doesn't know why Aunt Fu likes him.

Uncle Fu and Aunt Fu are a reconstituted family. Uncle Fu and his ex-wife have a child, the son lives with his mother, and Aunt Fu and her ex-husband have a daughter, who also lives with her mother. In other words, Uncle Fu and Aunt Fu are raising a daughter together, who is Fu Ying's cousin.

But strictly speaking, cousin Fu is being raised by her grandmother. Uncle Fu and Aunt Fu have never had a proper job or income. I heard that the car was bought by Aunt Fu's family and is in Aunt Fu's name.

Although Uncle Fu couldn't be said to have married into Aunt Fu's family, it was almost the same. They also settled in Aunt Fu's house.

This time, Aunt Fu and cousin Fu came with them. Aunt Fu and cousin Fu were very fair, and standing there, they made Uncle Fu look particularly dark.

The Fu family became lively again. After chatting about the adults, they talked about the children. Fu Ying, who was listening nearby, remembered that her cousin Fu was one year older than her and was in the same grade as her, which meant that she was also a sophomore in high school.

Fu Ying remembered that her cousin Fu was admitted to a pretty good university in the province, majored in accounting, and joined a branch company that was far ahead in Chuncheng.

To be honest, during the days when she was suffering from inferiority and depression, Fu Ying certainly envied her cousin Fu, a favored only child who went to a good university and had an even better job. Later, it seemed that she even married a civil servant. No matter how you looked at it, she had the configuration for a happy life.

But Fu Ying later came to understand that people always envy others and always want too much, but they don’t realize that many people also envy themselves. And no matter how perfect a life may seem, everyone has their own experiences and tribulations, so it is more important to cherish what you have.

Here, Aunt Fu and Mother Fu were not familiar with each other at first, so they talked about their children. The two mothers became excited when talking about their children's studies, praising their own children for their hard work and praising other children for their excellence.

The two mothers also urged them to talk more and learn from each other.

Fu Ying remembered that her cousin Fu’s ID card had her mother’s surname, Wu Jin.

Although Wu Jin is older than Fu Ying, she is a somewhat introverted person. And since they were at Fu Ying's house, Fu Ying, as the host, could only take her to her room to rest and also took the initiative to chat with her briefly about studying.

Wu Jin is also a student in a key class. Although her school is not a key high school, it is still a good one. Her key class is more valuable than the key class in Fu Ying's school.

Fu Ying herself had not been exposed to much knowledge and teaching methods of other high schools. She was curious about the school management and materials used in the provincial capital, so she wanted to learn from them.

Fu Ying actually wanted to try to ask Wu Jin to help her with her studies, but Fu Ying was ranked first in the grade, which was higher than Wu Jin, who was ranked fifteenth. Fu Ying was afraid of being misunderstood as a provocation and ridicule, so she didn't ask.

After chatting for a while, I turned on the computer for her to play because I was afraid she would be bored. She didn't play any games, but watched some videos. Fu Ying stayed by her side to keep her company.

At night, Wu Jin and Fu Ying slept in the same bed, with Wang Ruiya between them. However, Wu Jin suddenly asked her about her premature love.

Fu Ying didn't understand at first because Wu Jin spoke with a provincial accent and Fu Ying was not yet accustomed to their way of pronunciation.

Wu Jin repeated her explanation, and Fu Ying finally understood what she meant by premature love.

Fu Ying was thinking, did Wu Jin have a premature love affair in her previous life?

I really don’t know, because we don’t keep in touch on a daily basis.

But Fu Ying knew that Wu Jin had been in love since she entered college. She dated that boyfriend for seven years and was ready to get married. But in the end, because the boyfriend was also an only child and his family forced him to return to Henan Province to develop, they broke up. Later, Wu Jin went on a blind date and married a civil servant in Chuncheng.

Fu Ying did not hastily persuade Wu Jin not to fall in love too early, but only said that she herself would never fall in love too early, and did not want to restrict her development because of a momentary impulse or emotion. Only when you have the right to decide your own destiny, you have the right to choose love and marriage.

Wu Jin didn't say whether she understood or not, but she didn't discuss it any further either.

Uncle Fu's family stayed much longer, because it was the first time for Uncle Fu to come back to worship his deceased parents and ancestors, so Fu's father and mother accompanied them to visit Aunt Fu, to sweep the graves of Grandpa and Grandma Fu, and to another county where the Fu family ancestral hall is located. They were busy almost every day.

When needed, Fu Ying will accompany her; when not needed, Fu Ying will study on her own.

Uncle Fu left after the Lantern Festival, but he first wanted to send Wu Jin back to Chuncheng to study. Fu's father and mother went with him to see Chuncheng, get to know the area, and also take this ride to go to Guangdong Province to work.

As for Uncle Fu and his wife, just as Fu Ying remembered, they were going to Guangdong Province to see if they could do business or work.

Wang Changjie and Fu Wei set out with other relatives on the twelfth day of the first lunar month.

The busy Spring Festival is over, and Fu Ying feels tired and time flies, and school finally starts.