When I Have Money

In Shancheng, Yang Kun's hometown, when the Spring Festival approaches, the trees on the streets are decorated with colorful lights, as well as those red lanterns that symbolize the fiery red. Because after the city's tourism becomes popular, the image of the city has been greatly improved. Especially during the Spring Festival, which is the most intense in China, there are beautiful melody lighting decorations on the main roads of the streets.

It was only 4:30 in the afternoon when Yang Kun landed in the mountain city. There were no lights at this time, and the mountain city was still the city he was most familiar with. Born and raised here for more than 20 years, the nostalgia may be a bowl of spicy noodles for a few yuan, or a hot hot pot at night!

After landing, Yang Kun, like all returnees, returned home with big and small bags in his hands. After getting in the taxi, Yang Kun put all his luggage in the trunk, and put the presents on the back seat, and then he sat in the passenger seat of the taxi, speaking standard Shancheng dialect: "Master, Changjiahui."

Listening to Yang Kun's fluent Shancheng dialect, and adding the big and small bags in his hand, the enthusiastic master smiled and asked: "Come back for the New Year?"

Yang Kun nodded and said, "Sure, it's the Spring Festival, and wanderers have to return home."

The master smiled and nodded and said, "Damn, no matter how good it is outside, it's not as good as home."

Perhaps it was the familiar dialect of the mountain city that made him feel a lot happier. Yang Kun started chatting with the driver uncle along the way: "During the end of the year and the new year, can the Chongqing taxi business still be spread?"

Because Christmas and New Year and the recent Spring Festival are approaching, some wanderers who are unwilling to return home, or those who only have a rest during this time all year round, have come to the mountain city for tourism, which has ushered in a wave for this city. peak tourist season.

The uncle driver said with a smile: "Let's just pass by, anyway, taxis look like that. If you are hardworking, you can earn 300 yuan a day, which is very good. The main reason is that there are more online car-hailing services. Those who are lazy, earn a penny. (Taxi’s daily rent) Find another one hundred or two hundred yuan, and you will be charged.”

Yang Kun said: "Online car-hailing is still good. Especially during peak hours, there are peak prices. Unlike taxis, there is a fixed price for getting on the bus, even if it is New Year's Eve. But online car-hailing, On the 30th of the year, the price will increase.”

The uncle driver gave up and said: "The online car-hailing thing is very troublesome. I don't even know how to use this mobile phone. You young people can do it. We are already fifty. Forget it, we will almost retire after a few more years of driving." gone."

The mountain city is always so beautiful in Yang Kun's heart. Regardless of the mountains here, or the water here, or the people here. Chatting along the way, Yang Kun's taxi soon arrived at his family's community. After paying the fare, Yang Kun got out of the car with his things.

After Yang Kun swiped his card to enter the community, the security guard at the gate of the community said, "Welcome home." Another property manager quickly pushed a shopping cart from a community, and he helped Yang Kun put the luggage and gifts into the shopping cart. Here, let him push it away.

The fountains in the center of the garden in the community have all been turned on when the Spring Festival is approaching. They were not opened when I came back last time, and the trees in the community are also decorated with some New Year's lanterns and lanterns.

Yang Kun quickly pushed the luggage cart into the elevator and went home. On the double-open armored doors, Yang Kun stretched out his fingers, unlocked the fingerprints, and then unloaded the things from the luggage cart and put them in the entrance, while yelling at the people in the house: "Dad, come and help me put it away, I will Go down and return the car."

Listening to the father said to the mother as if: "Oh, the baby is back."

In a few seconds, the father's figure appeared on one side of the partition screen. His smile is still so gentle and kind: "Oh, why don't you call me in advance when you come back, so I can come and pick you up."

Yang Kun said: "I'm too lazy to bother, come, put it away for me, I'll go down and return the cart."

"Well, let's go."

Yang Kun pushed the cart back downstairs again and returned the cart.

When he returned home again and came to the living room, he saw his parents sitting on the sofa wrapped in thick winter pajamas. He shook his head and said, "Why don't you turn on the floor heating?"

"Floor heating is so expensive. I heard from your brother that their family has to burn more than 700 yuan a month for floor heating gas. Our family is so big, it can't be two to three thousand, and there are only two of us in the family."

No way, cities in the south don't have heating. You install floor heating to burn your own gas, 120 square meters, 1,000 yuan a month. But Yang Kun's family is relatively large.

Yang Kun laughed: "We are air-energy heat pump water heaters, and the price of using them is one-third of that of gas. How is it possible to use gas floor heating in such a large house? Doesn't it mean that the gas meter will run out after a few years of operation?" , Need to change the meter? All the rooms of our 'air energy heat pump' may cost two thousand yuan a month, which is the money for you and your father to rent a house on vacation."

More than two thousand a month? If it was in the past, my mother would definitely be reluctant to spend two thousand on floor heating. If you feel cold, you should wear two more. After all, most people in the south are fighting hard in winter. Now it's more than two thousand, she thinks about it and can accept it.

So she said: "Go, go!"

Yang Kun got up and turned on the floor heater. When he returned to the living room again, he didn't arrange his clothes. Instead, he took out the gift he bought: "This is the cosmetics I bought in Seoul, and the suits are the same for every store. During the Spring Festival, you can give it to others. This is for you alone I bought it because I personally asked for a brand recommended by a Korean celebrity."

When the time comes to visit relatives who come to his home, Yang Kun will buy suits, all of which are the same. My own mother uses more than suits.

Women love beauty, even when they are middle-aged and elderly, my mother smiled when she received Yang Kun's cosmetic gift, and then she picked up a box and asked, "What is this?"

Because none of the Korean brands are written in Chinese, Yang Kun took a look at it: "Air cushion BB cream. This is moisturizing cream, this is whitening essence, this." Yang Kun took the cosmetics and translated their uses for his mother.

After finishing talking about the cosmetics, Yang Kun took out the tea leaves: "This is Longjing tea bought in Hangzhou. Let's see if the store distributes it. By the way, why isn't the tea set sent back on display?"

"You're talking about the courier, your mother said, you can open it yourself when you come back." After finishing speaking, his father glanced at Yang Kun's mother resentfully.

When the courier arrived last time, Yang Kun called his father to pick it up. On the phone, he told his father that it contained tea sets and tea trays. After taking these things back, my father wanted to use them, but my mother stopped them.

"Take it and dismantle it."

At this time, my mother said: "Is there any clothes to wash?"

Yang Kun said: "I'll take it out to wash in a while, they are all good clothes. Let's go out for hot pot tonight?"

However, at this moment, a message appeared on Yang Kun's mobile phone, saying that the courier has arrived. This is some beer, red wine, and white wine he ordered before going home. How can family gatherings during the Spring Festival not drink?

Yang Kun said with a smile: "The wine I ordered has arrived, let's get it when we come back at night, why don't we go out for a stroll?"

The father who just came over with Yang Kun's tea set and was about to unpack it said, "Did you go out for a stroll as soon as you came back?"

"It's the Spring Festival. Didn't I want to go out and buy some new clothes?"

While playing with the cosmetics, the mother said, "Isn't it the same tomorrow?"

"I'm going out to eat anyway tonight, so I just went for a stroll?"

Father put the disassembled tea sets on the table one by one, looking at these exquisite utensils, his mouth was filled with a smile. Maybe he wanted a tea set in the past, but his house was small, and a tea set would take up space, and he didn't have that leisure and elegance.

Now the living room at home is bigger, especially in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, Yang Kun also placed a rest area for two people, and this rest area can just put this set of tea sets, and enjoy the river view while burning cigarettes and drinking tea , life has become beautiful.

He touched the tea set and laughed: "Let's go, baby, if you want to go out for a stroll, go out for a stroll. We haven't gone out for a long time. Let's go to the supermarket at night and get some supplies!"

The whole family was dispatched, and Yang Kun also went to change his clothes, and then took out all the clothes he wanted to wash. Mainly winter sweaters, coats and the like are luxury brands purchased by Yang Kun. It is best to wash these things according to the washing instructions.

The family went out lively, and the shopping in the mountain city is mainly department stores. Yang Kun took his mother to Wanda Pedestrian Street, and Yang Kun brought his camera with him when he came back this time. To be honest, Yang Kun's family rarely took pictures in the city.

After all, the people who were born and raised in the mountain city can see the changes in this city, and everything around them is extremely familiar. So it is not a big idea to take a formal photo with a camera. Is this a matter of course in the heart?

Just like the people who were born and bred in Huangcheng Gener, would they stand in Tiananmen Square to take pictures? No, even if you go there, you won't be taking pictures there with a camera in a very formal way, right?

It's because he can't, so Yang Kun went out today with a camera, wanting to take some beautiful photos of his parents, and then develop them. Put some at home, and in their bedrooms. It has been more than 30 years since they walked along the way. Although they stumbled along the way, they always stick to each other. This is the love of their parents.

There are spring flowers in the center of Wanda Plaza, Yang Kun asked his parents to stand among the flowers, and he said: "Dad, put your arms around mom's shoulders, make a big kiss, smile, yes, very good, change your position, and come again. Well, very good, laugh~~"

Holding the camera, Yang Kun kept recording the smiles of his parents, one after another.

They were originally out shopping, but now, taking advantage of the lights at night, Yang Kun took the two elders to record their happy smiles.