Cao Shuxu picked up Maotai and Wuliangye and looked at them. They were not new wines.

"Shujie, you can do it. You have hidden a lot of good things." He said.

Cao Shujie smiled and didn't care at all: "No matter how good the food is, you still need to drink it. All the brothers are here today, let's have a good drink."

As he was talking, he saw his wife coming over with a plate of shredded ginger and scallions mixed with beef head meat. With quick eyes and quick hands, he took it from his wife and put it on the table, and then boasted to his brother: "I'll give it to you."

You said, after the Chinese New Year, I will learn how to make wine, and then I will make my own fruit wine. When we get together next year, I will not drink any of these Maotai, Wuliangye, or Fenjiu wines, and I will drink my own fruit wine.

, and deer blood wine, how about it?"

"Shujie, don't be so naive, it's illegal to make wine privately." Cao Shulun joked at him.

Several people laughed.

Cao Shujie pointed outside and shouted: "If you dare to call and report, I will throw you into the doghouse tonight to serve the nine brothers."

"Ha ha!"

"Come on, don't just watch. Let's eat something first to fill our stomachs. We won't get home until we get drunk tonight."

At this time, thousands of houses are lit with lights and they are all in perfect harmony.

Every family who came back from working outside the village listened to their family members talk about the new things that happened in the village in the past year.

They discussed that their family's income would be significantly increased in the next two years, and the remaining money on hand would be more generous. By then, it would be easier to buy something.

"You don't know that when Shujie is the village director, he really leads the people in our village to find ways to make money. Unlike those officials in the past, they only know how to make money themselves and don't care about the lives of others." Someone said after drinking.

, suddenly talked about this matter.

"No, my family raised four cows last year, and we will sell them during the National Day this year. I heard that one cow can now be sold for more than 10,000 yuan. By then, our family will be really rich."

"Don't you still plant pasture? When the temperature rises in the spring of the new year, you can harvest the first crop. After that, it's no problem to harvest another crop every other month. Isn't that money?"

"We won't sell it. We keep it for our own cattle. I heard that Director Cao's cattle are sold at a high price. They just feed them good pasture, fruits, corn, soybean meal, and basically don't eat the kind of feed that adds hormones.

"

There were also discussions in some families about Cao Shujie leading them to plant kiwi fruit trees and start working in the town to make money.

There are also people discussing Caojiazhuang’s welfare distribution during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year and the Spring Festival this year.

Piece by piece, piece by piece, every villager in Caojiazhuang feels that life is really moving forward. It is no longer like in the past, facing the loess and back to the sky, working in a hurry for a year, and finally losing every acre of land.

A thousand dollars, but if something really happened, I would not be willing to spend it. Those days...

That night, not only the people in Caojiazhuang were discussing Cao Shujie, but the people in Zhujiazhuang and Taodong Village were also discussing him.

They are the ones in several surrounding villages who really get benefits from following Caojiazhuang.

In these two villages, there are many people planting kiwi fruit saplings, pasture, and raising cattle. They are not afraid that the kiwi fruit will not be sold after a good harvest.

On the contrary, they all felt that with Cao Shujie from Caojiazhuang here, these were not problems at all.

For the first time, some people felt that the Spring Festival passed too quickly, and they didn’t have enough chatting or drinking enough wine when they got together. They said they would drink until dawn, but after dawn, it was time to get busy with other things.

The same is true for Cao Shujie.

Last night, he drank very late with some of his close friends, and after sending them away, Cao Shujie slept for more than four hours when he was woken up by Mengmeng.

"Dad, didn't you say you were going to grandma's house today? Get up quickly." Mengmeng put her hands on Cao Shujie's nostrils, pulled his hair, and used a long hair she picked up from the bed to sweep around her father's face.

go.

"Ah sneeze!"

Cao Shujie felt itchy on his face and couldn't help it, so he sneezed.

When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was his daughter Mengmeng sitting on top of him, with one finger still pressing his nose.

Mengmeng was also startled when she suddenly saw her father open his eyes. She instinctively twitched her hand back and leaned back, almost falling back onto the bed.

Fortunately, Cao Shujie reacted quickly enough and caught her at the critical moment.

"Where is your mother?" Cao Shujie asked her.

Mengmeng was a little scared at first, but she recovered after a while: "Mom is cooking, let me wake you up to eat."

Cao Shujie yawned again and got up quickly.

After having some breakfast at home, packing up her things, and saying goodbye to her parents, Cheng Xiaolin drove her father and daughter towards Chengjiapo.

"They left." Cao Zhenghu asked.

Wang Yuelan said 'hmm': "Dad, Linlin drove away and will be back early tomorrow morning."

"Will your eldest brother come back tomorrow or later?" Cao Zhenghu asked his son Cao Jianguo.

Cao Jianguo couldn't tell, "Dad, I'll call my eldest brother and ask."

"Yeah!" Cao Zhenghu nodded.

At the same time, the expression on his face was a little lonely: "Jianguo, Lan Xiang hasn't been back for a few years, right?"

When Cao Jianguo heard the name, the expression on his face changed a bit. He said, "Dad, forget it if the second sister doesn't come back. She's far away and it's not convenient to take a car back and forth."

"Dad, the second sister might come back next year," Wang Yuelan said.

A hint of sadness flashed across Cao Zhenghu's face, and then a smile appeared: "Yes, she might come back next year."

After finishing speaking, Cao Zhenghu turned around and went back to the room: "I'm a little tired, let's go and rest for a while."

When Wang Yuelan saw her father-in-law coming into the house to rest, she wanted to say something, but she didn't say it in the end.

Instead, Cao Huifang, who was standing next to her, shouted: "Dad, Mom, my aunt is heartless. She doesn't come back for several years, she doesn't make phone calls, and she doesn't care about anything at home. Is there any girl like this?"

"Fangfang, don't talk nonsense. Your aunt also has children and a family, and she can't help herself." Cao Jianguo argued to his sister.

But this time, even his wife Wang Yuelan did not support him: "Jianguo, just protect your sister. You know better than anyone what kind of virtue she is."

"It's Chinese New Year, can you say something nice?" Cao Jianguo said.

As soon as they finished speaking, Wang Yuelan and Cao Huifang, mother and daughter, stopped talking about these things.

On the other hand, Wang Yuelan looked at her daughter and said, "Fangfang, let me tell you first. If you are looking for a partner in the future, you must not look too far away. Otherwise, otherwise..."

She wanted to say a few harsh words, but after all, she was her daughter, so she couldn't say some words.

But Cao Huifang knew in her heart, she ran over and put her arms around her mother's shoulders, and said a little cheekily: "Mom, don't worry, I definitely can't find a place far away, otherwise I will leave like my aunt and never come back.

"

"You still have the nerve to say, don't mention her to me." Wang Yuelan has a good temper, but she can't control her temper when talking about this matter.

…

Cheng Xiaolin was driving the GL8, and Cao Shujie and Mengmeng, their father and daughter, were lying on the middle row of seats.

Cao Shujie was crossing his legs. Mengmeng saw it and followed his example.

"Dad, tell me a story." Mengmeng swung one leg and said expectantly.

Cao Shujie had nothing to do and asked her: "What story do you want to hear?"

"Brother Monkey, there is also the story of Zhu Bajie marrying his wife." Mengmeng knows a lot.

Cao Shujie wondered where she knew. As soon as he asked her, Mengmeng pointed at Cheng Xiaolin who was driving in front and said, "Mom told me, she said you are Zhu Bajie, the mother I married."

"Mengmeng, your mother deserves a beating." Cao Shujie never expected that there would be such a relationship.

Cheng Xiaolin laughed after hearing this from the front. She also said to Mengmeng: "Mengmeng, your father was fat before. His belly is as fat as when I was pregnant with you. Your father lost weight just to take wedding photos."

Mengmeng's focus was obviously not on the same channel as her mother. She looked at Cao Shujie with wide eyes: "Dad, are you pregnant too? Are you going to have a baby?"

"Haha!" Cheng Xiaolin never expected that her daughter would think so.

Laughing all the way, we drove safely and smoothly to Chengjiapo.

Li Xiaojuan and Cheng Rengui were already waiting at the door in their big cotton-padded jackets. Seeing their faces turning pink from the cold, Cheng Xiaolin said to them distressedly: "Dad, Mom, just wait at home. What are you doing standing outside?"

.”

"Your dad and I couldn't stay idle at home, and we were planning on your coming soon." After Li Xiaojuan saw her daughter and granddaughter, she quickly picked up Mengmeng and held her in her arms.

It was obvious that the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month had just arrived, and it had only been a few days, but Li Xiaojuan and Cheng Rengui acted as if they had not seen each other for several years.

Li Xiaojuan hugged her great-granddaughter and pulled her daughter inside. When Cheng Rengui went to help his son-in-law move things, he saw that his son-in-law was not paying attention. He quickly took out something wrapped in a cloth bag from his big cotton-padded jacket and took a quick look.

Stuff it from the trunk under the rear seat.

He felt that he was doing it very covertly, but when Cao Shujie turned around to get something, he still saw it: "Dad, what is this?"

"Nothing, hurry up and move things." Cheng Rengui hurriedly carried a few boxes and headed home.

But Cao Shujie didn't believe it. He looked at his father-in-law who was hurriedly carrying things home, then looked at the cloth bag under the seat, bent down and stretched out his arms to take out the cloth bag.

When I opened it, I saw a stack of money inside. According to experience, the thickness should be about 30,000 yuan.

Cao Shujie didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He looked at the brand-new banknotes. He must have just withdrawn them from the bank's ATM machine recently, right?

"It takes two points to take out so much, so why bother!" Cao Shujie felt that some things were really unclear.

At this time, he suddenly realized that his father-in-law and mother-in-law had been waiting for them outside, maybe just to "secretly" pay him back the money.
To be continued...