"Have you grown a little taller recently?" Zheng Hanqiu looked at her changing expressions and didn't know what to say, so he changed the subject.

"Really?" All the mess in Zheng Juzi's mind was cleared instantly, and he turned around and thought about measuring his height.

She had been so busy recently that she had forgotten such an important thing. She quickly found a ruler to mark the wall, then excitedly used a book to make an imprint on the wall, and then carefully measured her height.

The last time I measured myself was during the winter break. I was 1.42 meters tall. Today I am 1.43 meters tall. Suddenly, Zheng Juzi felt that the whole world was brighter. "One centimeter. I have grown one centimeter in less than a month!"

Happy, happy, this is simply the best New Year gift!

Zheng Hanqiu found her silly smile funny and deliberately teased her, "You changed the wall, aren't you afraid that you measured it wrong?"

Zheng Juzi insisted: "You have such a sharp eye. If you say I have grown taller, then I have definitely grown taller."

Zheng Hanqiu...thank you for recognizing my vision.

Zheng Juzi looked at her nonchalant expression but still didn't quite understand, "Aren't you worried at all? I remember you were about 1.6 meters tall before, right? Don't you want to grow taller quickly?"

Zheng Hanqiu said calmly: "Being tall doesn't mean you have more brains than others, so what's the point?"

Zheng Juzi... "I just want to be average."

Zheng Hanqiu said, "Average? I don't remember what the average for girls at that time was, but I guess it was about 1.55 meters. We still need to work harder."

That's still far from enough, okay? Zheng Juzi couldn't help but said anxiously, "Do you think we should go to the hospital? Height is a lifelong thing. If we don't take advantage of it now, the bones will definitely not grow together yet. Let's go to the hospital as soon as possible."

She also talked about this problem with Mu Xiaoyun and Zheng Guixiang, but parents nowadays think that growing taller can be solved by eating more and there is no need to see a doctor.

What's more, in rural areas, because there were many cases of poor nutrition and delayed growth in the past, parents don't think it is unnecessary to go to the hospital as long as the children are living well and it is God's will.

Why is it unnecessary? Who knows how it feels to be standing at the same height as others sitting in the same class?

I didn’t understand it before, but now I can feel it personally.

Zheng Hanqiu also had a headache looking at her. He held his forehead and said, "You are so anxious. Last time you went to Shanghai, why did you only care about making money and not go to the hospital? There are big hospitals over there."

Zheng Juzi immediately felt a little regretful: "At that time, I also thought that I didn't grow taller because of malnutrition. I thought that as long as I ate well and slept well, I would grow taller. In the end, I only grew a little bit."

It's not that I haven't grown much these days, but I just haven't grown enough. Now I'm still the shortest girl in the class.

Zheng Juzi thinks she is too relaxed. "I was 11 last year and 12 this year. It will be even harder to grow taller after the month-long holiday. I don't want to have to wear high heels when I go out in the future."

Zheng Hanqiu was at a loss as to what to do, so he coaxed her helplessly, "Aren't we going to Shanghai this year to trade treasury bonds? There's also the China International Import Expo and so on. When the time comes, go to a big hospital. If there's anything, wait until after the checkup before you decide. Don't think too much."

Zheng Juzi also went to the town’s health center to ask the doctor, who just said that height is hereditary and that one can grow taller by eating good foods.

I've never heard of any examination related to height growth, so at most I prescribed her two bottles of calcium tablets.

We still have to go to a big hospital. Zheng Juzi wrote this note in his notebook.

The land acquisition went smoothly. It was impossible to bring the entire construction team to the provincial capital to build the road. Many unskilled physical jobs were done by asking local people to help. Second Aunt cooked for them for most of a month and heard a lot of gossip from outside.

With the active cooperation of the construction team in the provincial capital and the local people, the road section was repaired quickly. Everyone knows that going north along the provincial road can lead to the provincial capital, and it is still under construction to the south. If all of them are connected, it is said that you can drive there for several days.

After the provincial road was built, some people took the land beside the road and started building houses.

However, the town required the village to set a higher price than ordinary residential land. At that time, people thought that houses were built to live in, and those who could afford to build houses were already well off in the village. There were uniform requirements for houses built along provincial roads, and not everyone wanted to do business, so the land there was not in high demand and did not cause any conflicts.

Zheng Guixiang and his colleagues chose a satisfactory location and built their houses together, with a parking lot in the front and a small yard in the back. They invested a lot of money and waited to do business and make money after the road was opened.

The development of Aotang Village has changed dramatically because of the emergence of this road, and Lijia Village on the other side of the mountain has gradually disappeared due to the loss of this road.

The New Year festive atmosphere is still very strong in the countryside at this time. In addition to paying New Year's greetings to the elders and various relatives at home, Mu Xiaoyun also took her two daughters to visit her parents' home.

When she married Zheng Guixiang, the Zheng family was poor and could not afford much dowry, so there was no possibility for the two of them to be together.

But things were so strange. The matchmaker from there came to their village to propose marriage and went to the wrong house. She talked for a long time at her house before realizing that she went to the wrong house.

Her father was the same. He took the matchmaker's words seriously and tried to bring them together, and in the end it actually happened.

At that time, the Zheng family was poor. After marrying into the family, she suffered for several years but did not have any children. When the family property was divided, she got nothing. She was extremely miserable.

Her brothers and sisters at home all thought that she had married badly, and she also thought that she had a miserable life. But just like the old Taoist priest said, after she became pregnant with a daughter, life at home gradually got better, and now it is getting better day by day.

She used to be the one who was pitied among her sisters and sisters-in-law, but now she is the one who is envied.

Not only can the man make money, but the children can also go to school. In the eyes of country women, if they can have one of the two, they are already lucky. If they can have both, they are extremely happy.

Especially for this visit to her mother's relatives, she changed her previous habits and not only let the whole family wear new clothes, but also let them wear the gold bracelet bought by Zheng Juzi for her.

Zheng Guixiang didn't feel much about the new clothes. He wanted to wear a suit when going out, but his daughter took it off. Now he just wants his wife to be happy.

The three little ones absolutely support their mom, and they are very well behaved when they go to their grandma's house.

This time when Mu Xiaoyun returned to her parents' home, she brought half a pig's leg, and also brought a few pieces of bacon, a piece of cloth, and two bags of sugar to each family. These gifts were considered expensive when visiting relatives in the countryside, so naturally none of her brothers and sisters said anything bad about them.

My grandmother's house is an old-fashioned thatched house that looks very big. The bricks used to build the house are made of local soil mixed with rice straw. Because the soil is not very sticky, the bricks have to be made very large and the walls are very thick, so the space inside is compressed a lot.

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