Dreaming back to the 90s to help my dad catch a rival in love

Shanghainese usually "resign" on the 29th of the New Year, which is the day of the New Year's Eve.

Early that morning, Ning Jianguo took Xiaobei back to the old house in Jiandeli, and began to do all kinds of cleaning and cleaning at the end of the year.In the evening, I will cook a table of good dishes for my ancestors, and then I will offer incense to pray for a safe year.

Ning Xiaobei originally thought that sister Xiaomei was going back to her hometown for the New Year. He and Ning Jianguo had already discussed it. The old lady had no one to take care of her these two days, so she was taken to the worker's new village.Although the cast on the leg is still there, the old lady has been able to get out of bed in the past two days and walk around with a cane.

So when they went back to Jiandli to pick up people two days ago, they were surprised to find that Xiaomei had no plans to leave at all.

"My parents are gone. I used to live in my elder brother's house... My sister-in-law, she doesn't like me very much. It's not interesting for me to go back to celebrate the New Year. I just do housework for my elder brother's sister-in-law. Why don't I continue to take care of my grandma in Shanghai. "

When asked by the "little boss" why she didn't buy a ticket back home, Xiaomei was washing the bedding for the old lady.As she spoke, she showed a wry smile.

The sun shone in the tub, and a colorful soap bubble rose up and floated on Xiaomei's half-length hair.

Ning Xiaobei suddenly discovered that Miss Xiaomei was actually quite handsome, but she didn't know how to dress up.I’ve been in Shanghai for so long, and I haven’t had my hair done yet, and the clothes I wear seem to be from the 80s and [-]s.

In fact, many young girls who come to Shanghai to work at her age dress very fashionable and youthful.Maybe Xiaomei has always been taking care of her grandma in the old alley, and most of the neighbors she comes into contact with are middle-aged and elderly people, so she seems out of place with her surroundings.

"Xiaomei, come down quickly."

As soon as Ning Jianguo entered the door, he saw that he was standing on a stacked stool, holding a feather duster, trying to hook the painting "Three Friends of Sui Han" hanging in the middle of the main room, and hurriedly waved her down.

"What if I fall off? Let me go."

Xiaomei smiled sheepishly, jumped off the stool, and stroked her hair shyly, "I've already wiped all the glass windows, remembering that grandma said that the hall paintings should be replaced during the New Year, I just thought Take it down first, and when Brother Jianguo comes, you can directly hang the New Year picture."

"Sister Xiaomei, we agreed to clean up together, how could you do all the work by yourself?"

As Ning Xiaobei said, he took out a hat made of newspaper from his trouser pocket and put it on his head.

For today's cleaning, Fan Xia folded many paper hats last night.When the father and son went out today, the uncle and nephew downstairs were already working vigorously while wearing hats.

"Ah, you spend money, don't you just ask me to work?"

Seeing that Ning Xiaobei picked up the broom as if he was about to start sweeping the floor, Xiaomei hurriedly grabbed the broom.

"Xiaobei is a scholar, how can he do this? Let me do it. You go upstairs to accompany grandma, and I will finish everything in a while."

"Xiaomei, don't spoil him. Middle school students nowadays need to develop in an all-round way. This kid's grades in physical education are already a mess. In terms of 'labour', you still give him a chance." Fix it, fix it."

There is no way, Ning Xiaobei is an old man after all, how could he run around the playground like a real child.Their grades are good, only the sports grades are all just passing, it is really tiring to run an extra step.Fortunately, most of the first class are "scholars" who are capable of literature but not martial arts. There are quite a few children like him, so it doesn't seem obtrusive.

Ning Jianguo opened his jacket, took out a red envelope from inside, and handed it to Xiaomei, "Here, here you are. Happy New Year. Here is your red envelope."

"Ah, brother, you can't help it. This month's salary has already been paid. I sent half of it back to the countryside."

Xiaomei quickly waved her hand.

"Hey, if our factory didn't perform well this year, we would have to give year-end bonuses at the end of the year as usual. Just treat this as the year-end bonus given to you by your elder brother. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. This is the rule in Shanghai. The Wu family The aunts invited by Muma's house also have red envelopes."

Xiaomei heard that others had it too, so she wiped her hands next to her trousers and took the red envelope with both hands.

"Well, I'll send it back to the countryside and build a house for my brother."

"What kind of house are you building? After lunch, you go to Nanjing Road Huaihai Road to buy a new set of clothes and new shoes. Then go to the hairdresser in the alley to have your hair permed. This is just like Chinese New Year."

Ning Jianguo laughed.

"That's right, sister Xiaomei, don't send money home as soon as you have money. You also said that your brother and sister-in-law are not good to you."

Before Ning Xiaobei finished speaking, he felt his calf being kicked by Ning Jianguo, so he had to shut up obediently.

Xiaomei's nose turned red, she nodded, and turned back to the back of the main room.

"Good girl, I'm coming to see you!"

After talking with Xiaomei, Ning Xiaobei ran up the stairs to the second floor.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he went up, Mrs. Ning, who was sitting on the sofa, turned around and put her right index finger by her mouth, signaling Ning Xiaobei to keep silent.

"Good girl, what's the matter...Ah! Aziz..."

Ning Xiaobei almost cried out when he saw a ball of orange fur lying at Granny Ning's feet.He hastily covered his mouth with both hands, and stared at Old Madam Ning with puzzled eyes.

"I came back suddenly last night... I was listening to the radio on the bed, and suddenly I heard the sound of 'dong dong' coming from the window on the second floor. I thought it was the wind outside, blowing the branches to the glass. But it seemed to be very loud. There was a very soft meowing sound. Let Xiaomei come up downstairs and open the window..."

Grandma lowered her voice and pointed to her feet, "Then Azi rushed in and fell asleep here. Isn't there an oil bath here at night, which is very soothing. It has slept until now , Xiaomei didn’t even notice it when she removed the oil in the morning and put a small towel on it. Hey... Azi suffered a lot outside, what a crime.”

When Ning Jianguo walked up to the second floor, he saw his wife and his son sitting side by side by the sofa, both of them tearful.

Aziz's return was the biggest happy event of this new year. The little guy didn't wake up until the afternoon, and then ran to the corner of the stairs on the first floor without seeing anything, and ate the cat rice cooked by Comrade Ning Jianguo himself.

In order to celebrate its return, Ning Jianguo spent a lot of money and cooked a whole river crucian carp for it, so that it can also experience the joy of the New Year

"Wait a while, Xiaobei, stay with grandma at home. I'll take Azi to the newly opened veterinary station across the road. I think his legs seem to be limping a little, so I need to check them out."

Ning Jianguo pointed to Aziz who was rubbing against his legs and said, "And it's too dirty. It's Chinese New Year, just like people, you have to wash it."

"Dad, that's not called 'Vet Station', that's called 'Pet Hospital'."

Ning Xiaobei said, hooking Azi's tail with his shoes.

The pet hospital is a new thing in the past two years.I don't know when the dog-raising trend became popular among Shanghai people, so these facilities for cats and dogs have also increased.

When Mrs. Ning heard for the first time that cat food and dog food were sold in the supermarket, she was shocked, saying that they were more sophisticated than people.

In the afternoon, Xiaomei went shopping to buy clothes. The father and son changed the hall paintings, took out the brass candlesticks that were only bought out once a year, put big red candles on them, and put them on the table.

After finishing the work, Ning Jianguo went to the kitchen to cook. Ning Xiaobei and the old lady sat opposite each other, watching TV while folding tin foil, preparing to bake it for the ancestors later.

"I heard that many people went to the factory to make trouble today, didn't they?"

Grandma's soft hands seemed to be magical, and after a while a piece of silver-white tin foil turned into a round ingot in her hands.

"Well, it's been going on for several days. Because it's the New Year's Eve today, there are relatively few people going."

Ning Xiaobei said with a heavy heart.

Unlike the Ning family who had already planned ahead and made two-handed preparations, most of the workers in the factory did not expect that such a large factory would not open if it could not be opened, and their lifelong reliance would collapse.

Not only that, after hearing that some leaders actually bought the equipment in the factory at a low price, and prepared to start a new stove by themselves, many masters ran to the workshop angrily, protecting the machine with their bodies, and resolutely refused to be dragged away by others. .

"No! This is the property of the state! How can it fall into private hands? It's all your gray grandchildren who have ruined a good factory! My old man and I are all from the third factory. You are ruining our 'root'."

Many people have worked in the factory for two generations, dedicating their entire lives to the leather shoe factory and the clothing group. The old employees shed tears. Even if they only heard Ning Jianguo's report, Ning Xiaobei felt distressed. sharp.

But this is also a helpless thing. It is a step that cannot be skipped in the country's industrial upgrading and industrial development.

"A few years ago, many people agreed to buy out their working years, right? They sell for [-] a year, but only [-] in ten years. It's quite a lot now, but in two years..."

Grandma is glad that she has retired early, at least the monthly retirement salary can still be guaranteed.

"But those who buy out their seniority, at least they still have money to celebrate the New Year. Those who have been suspended without pay really don't know how to celebrate the New Year. Even if they are like the factory manager, those who stay in the factory to deal with the aftermath, it seems There is no salary."

"I heard that there are still people holding ropes these days and running to the workshop director's house to hang themselves?"

Granny Ning has many sources of news.

"Well, we have called the police. It is useless to call the police. You come today, and he will come tomorrow. The director really has no choice but to hang himself at the factory director's house together."

"The factory manager can't help it...it's not just your father's factory. It's just our alley..."

Grandma lowered her voice, "A lot of people's work units have collapsed. Mrs. Song's grandson, Mama Yang's daughter, textile factories, and non-staple food factories seem to be failing. Every night, people quarrel, throw bowls, and scold their mothers. I guess there will be no firecrackers on the eve of the New Year's Eve tomorrow."

After all, fireworks are never cheap, and I'm not in the same mood after losing my job.

"That Xiao Zhao who is very good with your father, how is he? Has he also bought out his seniority?"

Grandma turned her eyes and asked.

"Uncle Zhao? He's amazing. It turned out that he had retreated a long time ago. He and others jointly opened a clothing store on Xiangyang Road, selling women's clothes from Guangzhou. The business is very good. After the workers' meeting, he took the initiative to buy out his seniority and used the money to buy goods."

Before the Chinese New Year, the business on Xiangyang Road was very good. There were not only Shanghai residents buying new clothes and trousers during the Chinese New Year, but also many tourists from other places.The clothes and shoes here are much cheaper than those in regular department stores, and they look new. In just a few short days, Uncle Zhao has made a lot of money.

Because Fan Xia always said that Ning Xiaobei’s 21-inch color TV is better than his uncle’s 18-inch TV downstairs, so Zhao Jingwen simply bought a 32-inch Panasonic color TV before the Chinese New Year, thinking that his nephew would stop being like a follower every day Rooted in the living room of Ren Ning's house, get out of here after finishing your homework.

Who knew that the TV set was bought, and Fan Xia said that the new color TV set was too big and the colors were too bright, making him dizzy and dizzy, and continued to stay at Ning's house, refusing to leave, making Zhao Jingwen so angry that he had nothing to say.

"Xiao Zhao is a quick-witted person. It would be great if he and Nong's father were equal. Nong's father is too 'wooden'."

Mrs. Ning nodded, she looked in the direction of the kitchen again, pulled Xiaobei's neighbor and asked, "The Aunt Wang that Lennon told my good woman before... how far is she with Lennon's father now?"

"Tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner, Aunt Wang is going to bring her daughter to our house for dinner."

Ning Xiaobei reported excitedly.

"Really? So fast?"

Mrs. Ning was overjoyed, "Father Nong has finally 'opened up'?"

"It's not..."

Ning Xiaobei said embarrassingly, "I told Aunt Wang that the mother and daughter are the only ones who don't have a lot of fun during the Chinese New Year. Why don't you come upstairs and have a New Year's Eve dinner with us. My dad's cooking is delicious. Not worse than a hotel."

Granny Ning couldn't help but nodded.

"Aunt Wang was embarrassed at first, but she agreed later, and said that she would also cook that day, so give me a taste of her cooking skills. Good woman, am I good?"

"Xiao Bei, good boy."

Grandma was so excited that she took out a handkerchief from her arms and wiped her eyes, "If father Nong can really be with that little Wang, he will have someone to accompany him for the rest of his life. I can let it go."

"Good girl, what do you say about the New Year's Eve? Grandma will live a long life."

Ning Xiaobei got into the arms of the old lady, the old cucumber was painted green, and said coquettishly with an innocent gesture.

"Besides, Aziz is back, everything will be fine."

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Ning Xiaobei's idea was perfect. In his plan, on New Year's Eve, Dad and Aunt Wang would be in the kitchen together. You cut the meat and I chose vegetables, and you cooked vegetables and I made soup.For example, Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies exchanged feelings and sublimated their friendship during labor, full of revolutionary feelings and yet romantic.

He and Chang Leyun were sitting in the living room, eating melon seeds and watching TV.Although he doesn't have learned music and dance like Chang Leyun, but he is good at socializing, and he will definitely make this "sister" happy and let her accept him.

So just as Ning Xiaobei put the glass fruit bowl full of candy and various snacks on the coffee table, after hearing the knock on the door, he immediately went to open the door happily.

"Boss, Happy New Year!"

Dressed in bright red, like a "living red envelope", Fan Xia held up a huge cake box wrapped in colorful ribbons and stood at the door of Ning's house, showing two rows of white teeth with a smile.

Standing behind him were Zhao Jingwen, Uncle Zhao with his hands in his pockets, and the mother and daughter of the Wang family who were also beamingly dressed.

Why are there four people?

Ning Xiaobei froze on the spot.

"Hey, you are all here, that's great! Hey, don't take off your shoes, just walk in like this, my family doesn't have such big rules."

Ning Jianguo poked his head out of the kitchen with a large spoon in his hand.

"Jingwen, come in and help me kill the fish, hurry up!"

"I'll come. I'll come. I'll come."

After hearing this, Wang Yihong hurriedly took off her coat. She was wearing a pink turtleneck sweater today, making her look a lot younger.

"Hey, what are you doing? Sit and watch TV. When you turn around, you will smell of oily smoke. Wouldn't your newly permed hair be useless? How about going out tomorrow to pay New Year's greetings?"

Zhao Jingwen didn't give her a chance at all, went into the kitchen familiarly, picked up the rubber sleeves and gloves, and started to work.

"Then... Lele, you and your two brothers are watching TV. Mom went downstairs. I was in a hurry and forgot to take the fruit basket."

Chang Leyun nodded, and obediently sat on the sofa peeling candy and eating it.

"Fan Xia, why are you here? Aren't you going home for the New Year?"

Seeing that the lord was gone, Ning Xiaobei grabbed Fan Xia who was trying to open the cake box, put his arms around his neck, and asked through gritted teeth.

"Didn't my new mother give birth last month? My dad took her and my little sister to her hometown in Chongming to celebrate the New Year this year."

Speaking of this new younger sister, Fan Xia is extremely beautiful.The new mother's younger sister is very beautiful, with big eyes, a high nose bridge, and smiles when she sees people.

The key is that her skin is white, completely different from her own, she is simply a "Snow White".Fan Xia now tells everyone that he has a little sister, making his classmates who are all only children envious.

"Then why don't you go to Chongming to celebrate the New Year together?"

Could it be that that bitch Fan Jian has a new snow-white child, so he doesn't want his old black child?

"Didn't Uncle Ning say that my uncle, Lele and her mother will celebrate the New Year together at your house this year. My dad was disappointed when he heard that I couldn't go to Chongming."

Fan Xia said innocently, "Boss, I stayed in Shanghai because of your face. My new mother told me that the New Year in the countryside is very lively and much more fun than in the city. I really like it." I want to go."

Ning Xiaobei turned his head and glanced at the bustling kitchen, unable to say a word for a long time.

Comrade Ning Jianguo!

Why don't you take good care of your own happiness!

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