When Li Shanglin came home from work, he heard Li's mother talking to Li's father**: The weather is good these days, you remember to clean up the house well, take out the quilt and blanket to dry, if I go back to the quilt is damp, see how I clean you up. ”
Father Li has been living at home alone for a long time, a single old man, so he naturally made a mess at home, and when he heard the old woman's power, he didn't dare not listen: "Okay, okay, I know, when are you going to come back?"”
Mother Li glanced at her son, who was changing his shoes, and said vaguely: "Soon, I will go back with him when my grandson has a holiday." ”
Li Shanglin chuckled in his heart and avoided his mother's gaze.
Seeing her son's attitude, Li's mother was a little unsure: "Shang Lin, can you book tickets now?"Wouldn't it be cheaper to book a ticket home early?”
Li Shanglin's family has not been home for the New Year for three years, the first two years were the reason for the mask, and last year because of some of Li Shanglin's careful thoughts, Li's mother couldn't hold it back this year, and she had already planned to wait for her grandson to take her hometown back to her hometown during the winter vacation.
Li Shanglin said vaguely: "It's still early, and no matter how cheap the New Year's ticket is, it's not cheap." ”
Mother Li didn't give up: "Then when will the tickets be released?"I'll take a notebook and write it down, so I'll remind you when the time comes. ”
She muttered again: "Your aunt's cousin has given birth to a daughter who is going to have a full moon, your second aunt's youngest son is going to marry a daughter-in-law, and your uncle is going to celebrate his 80th birthday. As a rural woman, Li's mother is very enthusiastic about this kind of dinner party in the village.
Li Shanglin walked into the room without looking back: "Let's talk about it, I'll take a look when I get there." ”
Entering the room, his daughter-in-law Zhang Yun glanced at him: "Your mother is going back for the New Year again, right?"Back and forth, she wouldn't agree to stay here this year. ”
Li Shanglin was silent for a while and didn't speak, and then said: "I feel that I haven't left my relatives in the past three years, and it's nothing, and I have saved a lot of money." ”
Zhang Yun glanced at him: "I haven't been back for three years, and I haven't seen you save a few dollars." ”
Li Shanglin said irritably: "You don't know that our company's business is not good, this salary is delayed day by day, not to mention the year-end bonus, you will receive 12 months of dead wages all year round, but if you look at the ticket, it will cost more than 700 for one person, four people back and forth, more than 5,000, and I haven't listened to the sound of my salary for half a month." ”
The family came to work in a southern city, more than 1,000 kilometers away from their hometown, and they could go back once or twice a year when the company's welfare was good, but now they don't go back for three years, and Li Shanglin also feels that he has no money in his hands.
More than 5,000 yuan is just the most basic travel expenses, I haven't gone back to visit relatives for so long, do you want to give gifts?Do you want to give red envelopes to the elderly and children?They only have one son, and they definitely can't get much, and they are basically losses.
And everyone takes advantage of the end of the year when everyone is full of wine, this birthday and that big birthday, this gift of five hundred and one thousand went out, only to earn back a full stomach, and ended up empty, and Li's father and mother have no jobs, and they have long stretched their necks and waited for their daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law to take the money home to do New Year's goods.
For Li's mother, it is the desire of her heart to belong to her hometown, but in the eyes of Li Shanglin, the head of the family, her hometown is a bottomless pit of gold caves, and if you go back for the New Year, twenty or thirty thousand yuan may not be enough.
And the New Year's holiday is only about ten days, the child will start school on the ninth day of junior high school, and he will have to come back on the seventh day of the new year at the latest, and he will have to pay thousands of tuition and food fees as soon as he comes back, adding up to the ten days of annual leave, which will cost him more than 30,000 yuan or 40,000 yuan.
How could Li Shanglin not feel distressed?He and his wife work quite ordinary, but the family plus Li's mother and children spend a lot of money in the city, and it is difficult to save four or five thousand yuan a month, and he has to spend all the money he has saved at the end of the year in the New Year, how can he easily let go of his promise?
Zhang Yundao: "Your mother is sharpening her knives and going to drink wine everywhere, do you dare to tell her that she doesn't plan to go back this year?"Zhang Yun didn't quite understand, he didn't go home because he didn't have money in the past three years, and this year Li Shanglin breathed a sigh of relief, and Li's mother looked as if she was going to return home.
It seems that she hasn't seen her fellow villagers in the past three years, and she has enjoyed great blessings and wants to go back to show off.
Li Shanglin thought for a long time and sighed: "Otherwise, we won't go back, let my mother go back alone?"”
Zhang Yun pouted: "Your mother went back, we have to pay the gift that should be given, and if the child doesn't go back, he won't even have a chance to get it back." ”
A few cousins and uncles have a happy event, but there are no people, and the ceremony still has to arrive, so the only thing that can be saved is the five or six thousand yuan of fare.
Li Shanglin died of a headache, should he go back for the New Year?
What do you think?