Chapter 25: Sending out red envelopes until your hands are tired

In fact, Yang Hai was mentally prepared. He knew that if he drove such a good car home for the New Year, he would be exposing his strength to the villagers. Many people would definitely look at him differently and come to him to get close to him and show their presence.

This is inevitable. Everyone wants to be close to capable people. As the saying goes, a rich man in the mountains has distant relatives, while a poor man in a busy city has no one to care about him.

Whether you have money or not, other people’s attitude towards you will definitely be different.

Even with the closest people, their attitude towards you will be different and change when you have money and when you don’t, when you have ability and when you don’t.

But your true relatives will not ignore you just because you have no money, will not distance themselves from you because you have no money, and will not stop interacting with you just because you have no money.

When you encounter difficulties, your closest relatives will still be willing to lend you a hand.

But when you have money and have demonstrated your abilities, your closest people will not only be happy for you, but will also be proud of you. However, their attitude towards you and the tone of their voice will certainly be different from before. There will definitely be changes, and they will be very obvious changes.

The eldest cousin's wife and her family had a very good relationship with Yang Hai's family before. Whenever there were any difficulties, the eldest cousin's wife would be very enthusiastic to help.

For example, Yang Hai's mother has been ill for many years, so the eldest cousin's wife would often send some fruits or nutritional supplements to Yang Hai's mother.

Sometimes when Yang Hai's mother suddenly fell ill and the family had no money, he would just ask his cousin's wife for a loan, and there would be no problem. His cousin's wife would never refuse.

However, a situation like this year, where the eldest cousin's wife's son and daughter-in-law brought their children to Yang Hai's house to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year, would definitely not happen.

The reason for this change is definitely closely related to the fact that Yang Hai drove a Mercedes worth millions of dollars home to celebrate the New Year.

There are so many cousins ​​and nephews who came to Yang Hai's house to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. It must be because of him that he drove a Mercedes-Benz worth more than one million yuan to go home for the New Year.

This is a way of showing closeness and getting closer to you in advance. If they ask you for help in the future, you will feel embarrassed to refuse!

Yang Hai didn't feel disgusted by this, nor did he look unhappy. This was a normal thing. When the other party asked for help in the future, he would help if he could, but there was nothing he could do if he couldn't help.

When Shen Ruobing saw these people of almost the same age as her, or even older than her, wishing her a happy new year, calling her aunt, and some even calling her grandma, she was a little unable to adapt at first.

Especially when a woman in her early twenties called her grandma while holding her child and calling her great-grandma, Shen Ruobing was so embarrassed that she didn't know how to respond. She could only take out a red envelope and give it to her great-nephew.

The question is, after giving a red envelope to the great-grandson, should I also give a red envelope to the nephew's wife who calls her grandma? Can anyone tell me?
Yang Hai told Shen Ruobing that she would only give red envelopes to unmarried children. Even if married children called her aunt, they would not receive any red envelopes.

But I didn’t tell her that people call her grandma and that she is already married, so does she still need to give red envelopes?

There are quite a few cousins ​​who are not married yet, so a lot of red envelopes were given out this morning.

Yang Hai gave quite a lot of red envelopes, one of which contained 200 yuan! So the people who received the red envelopes were all very happy. In the countryside at that time, even the closest people would not give such a big red envelope. At most, or yuan would be considered a big red envelope.

At that time in the countryside, the wages for a day's work as a bricklayer were no more than 50 yuan, and the wages for odd jobs were generally 25 yuan, or at most 30 yuan.

Yang Hai's father has five brothers, and Yang Hai has eighteen cousins. Yang Hai ranks eighteenth. To be exact, he has seventeen older cousins ​​and no younger cousin.

The cousins ​​were all married, and the youngest had two children. The oldest cousin was the eldest son of the great uncle, but he had passed away due to illness. He was almost seventy years old now, only a few years younger than Yang Hai's father.

Yang Hai's father is twenty years younger than his uncle, so his eldest cousin's grandson has already married and had children.

Yang Hai could hardly count how many nephews and nieces he had, almost 40, and he already had seven or eight grandsons and nieces. In the entire Yangjia Village, their family was the largest, accounting for more than half of the village. After a busy day, Shen Ruobing couldn't stand it anymore: "Your family is too big! I'm so tired of giving out red envelopes."

"Luckily we still have some money, our family is well-off. If we didn't have much money, we would go broke giving out red envelopes."

Yang Hai smiled and said, "If you don't have money, you want them to come and wish you a happy new year, but they won't come."

"Besides, if you don't have money, how can you give them such a big red envelope?"

"For ordinary families in the countryside like us, if they are not our own nephews, giving a 5-yuan red envelope is already good enough. If they really don't have money, giving 10 or yuan is also fine."

"If you don't have money, people will look down on you and won't come to wish you a happy new year, and you won't have to give red envelopes."

"Is that so? Why didn't you tell me earlier? If I had known this was the case, I would have given them a red envelope of 20 yuan, which would have saved me a lot of money." Shen Ruobing said with a look of regret.

“Can you please stop looking like a money-grubber?” Yang Hai said with a helpless smile.

"Think about it, the cars we brought back are worth more than 100 million yuan. People come to you to wish you a happy new year early in the morning. Do you have the nerve to give them a 20 yuan red envelope?"

"Oh, that's right! What you said seems to make sense. If we really give them a red envelope of 20 yuan, will they look down on us? Will they call us stingy behind our backs?" Shen Ruobing said as if she suddenly realized something.

"By the way, can we go back to the hotel tonight? I didn't even take a shower after having sex with you yesterday. I feel really uncomfortable."

"Sure. There's no New Year's celebration tomorrow anyway, and probably no one else will come to our house to pay New Year's greetings." Yang Hai nodded and said.

"And we don't have to pay New Year's greetings or receive guests the day after tomorrow, so we can stay in the hotel for two days."

"It's just that there are so many leftovers at home, which is a bit of a pity."

"Wow! That's great. We can finally go back to the hotel." Shen Ruobing said happily.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people pay respects to their clan members and also worship their ancestors. However, Yangjia Village has not yet built an ancestral hall, so the ceremony is relatively simple. People only worship their ancestors at home.

The second day of the Chinese New Year is the day for nephews to pay New Year's greetings to their uncles, but Yang Hai no longer has an uncle, and his uncle's son is not his biological son but adopted by his uncle.

When Yang Hai's parents were still alive, he was still around. His aunt and uncle were still alive, so naturally as a nephew he would pay New Year's greetings to them.

Of course Yang Hai also had to go to pay New Year's greetings to his cousin. Paying New Year's greetings means visiting each other, with both sides giving and receiving each other.

After Yang Hai's parents passed away, this family line was severed. This is what is called the first generation of relatives, the second generation, and the third generation is the end.

The third day of the first lunar month is the day to wish the dead a happy new year. If a family has an elder who passed away last year, a big banquet will be held on the third day of the first lunar month. No matter whether they are distant relatives or close neighbors, everyone will go to that person's home on that day, set off a string of firecrackers at the door of their home, then go to the deceased's spirit tablet, burn three incense sticks, bow three times, and wish the deceased a happy new year.

On this day, you cannot casually go into other people's homes. It is taboo and will make the host unhappy.

However, you can visit people from the same village, but you cannot go to their homes to wish them a happy new year, or you might be beaten out with a stick.

(End of this chapter)