After a simple rebirth

After dinner, the adults were still chatting, and Fu Ying was forced to join the army watching TV.

The aunts also persuaded Fu Ma and her family to live in her house, as they had many rooms and all the necessary things.

Indeed, there are many uncles here, and each family makes the best use of resources when renovating their houses. At least they have been able to build a third floor now.

More rooms can be used for many purposes, such as renting them out.

There is no high school in Zhaojiatun, only elementary and junior high schools. The junior high school is quite large, but there are no dormitories. So similarly, students who live farther away will rent houses. My uncle's house is close to the middle school and has many rooms, so many of them are rented out.

Just like Fu Ergu's house in Gumang, several people can live together with a bunk bed. Students can eat at school or outside. It is also okay to eat here as long as they pay the food expenses.

But Fu's mother still decided to sleep at her sixth uncle's house. Firstly, her sixth uncle was her biological brother, and secondly, there were so many uncles here that it would be difficult to choose whose house to sleep at.

The three members of the Fu family slept in one room. Fu Ying and her mother slept in Fu Ying's former bed, and Fu Zhe slept in Zhao Ming's former bed so that he would not have to share with his sixth uncle.

Fu Ying first used Fu Zhe's money to buy a toothbrush. He said he didn't need it, but Fu Ying didn't care. She wanted to buy it. At worst, she could take it home as a spare.

The next morning I woke up in a strange bed. This bed was not familiar at all and I woke up early.

I don't know if Sixth Uncle has woken up yet. Fu Ying asked Fu Ma if she wanted to eat buns. Fu Ma still said to her, "You're wasting money every day. Just cook noodles."

Fu Ying asked her, "The fire at Sixth Uncle's house is out. We didn't light a fire last night. Do we have to wait until it's lit before cooking?"

Fu's mother was speechless for a moment, and gave her two yuan, asking her to buy four. Fu Ying directly said that it was not enough, and she didn't know if the price had increased now, so she had to give five yuan!

Holding five yuan in her hand, Fu Ying went out.

I noticed it when I went to eat rice noodles yesterday. The bun shop was most likely not transferred or closed, so she could eat the delicious big meat buns.

Today was not a school day, so no one bought buns so early. They should still be available. Fu Ying remembered that they were sold out if it was late for school. When she got to the main road, Fu Ying realized that today was actually the Zhaojiatun market, and there were still quite a lot of people on the road.

Before reaching the bun shop, the big steamer, the white smoke, and the fragrant smell of meat attracted Fu Ying to move forward.

"Boss, how much is a bun?"

"Two meat buns for one dollar. How many do you want?" replied the fat boss.

Fu Ying still recognized it. It was the same store. It was opened by the family of her former classmate.

That girl was quite interesting. When they learned about Tan Sitong's deeds, she said loudly and proudly in class that her surname was also Tan, and that they were one family eight hundred years ago. The Tan family is so powerful!

The whole class burst into laughter, and Fu Ying also remembered her, of course, also because of the delicious buns her family made.

The price of buns has gone up. Fu Ying calculated that among four people, Fu Zhe and herself would definitely eat two, so it would be just right to buy the three-yuan ones.

"Boss, I want six meat buns. I'll give them to you for three dollars." Fu Ying took out the money and watched him take out the big buns from the hot steamer. Fu Ying felt relieved. Although the price had increased, the size of the buns had not changed, which was good.

After buying the buns, Fu Ying went straight back to her sixth uncle’s house. She had nothing else to buy. Although she wanted to eat a bun on the way, she resisted the urge.

When Fu's mother saw the six big buns, she asked her why she bought so many. Fu Ying explained. Fu's mother cursed her and said she was a starving ghost reincarnated, then picked up a bun and ate it.

Go ahead and scold her, it won’t delay Fu Ying’s meal.

Taking out a bun that was three times the size of the ones in the future, Fu Ying took a bite and found meat in the first bite, proving that the filling was sufficient. Chewing the fragrant meat filling in her mouth, there was also some hot juice. It was indeed the big meat bun that she had been thinking about for many years. It was really delicious.

In later life, she also ate some meat buns, all of which had thick skin, less meat and were small in size. Some of them were really delicious, but three of them were barely enough for breakfast and she couldn't expect to be full.

This one is a little bigger than the barbecued pork buns in Guangdong Province. With the delicious taste, she can barely finish two, but she will feel very full.

Fu Zhe finally woke up, washed up quickly, and came over to eat the big buns.

Sixth uncle should be out, so his bun should be left there for now, and Fu's mother probably won't eat it. Fu Ying decided that if Sixth uncle didn't eat it, she would bring it back to Gumang for a snack.

If the buns weren’t so delicious after being reheated, and if the price-performance ratio wasn’t that high, she would have just bought a few more and taken them back to Gumang to eat slowly.

Fu Zhe also offered to buy a few more to take home, but Fu Ying refused. Fu's mother would not agree either. If Fu Zhe wanted to eat, he had to buy them himself with his own pocket money.

No one knew where the sixth uncle had gone and he hadn't come back. Fu Ying thought about it and decided to ask Fu's mother directly.

"Mom, when are we going home?"

"In two days, we just got here yesterday."

Fu Ying was helpless. It was good enough that she came. To put it bluntly, it wasn't her own home, and there was only one person at her uncle's house. Why would she stay there for so many days?

"Mom, we only have seven days off for National Day. Today is the third day. I have less than four days left. I have homework to do and review. How can I have time to stay here?"

"Then you study here and do your homework when you get home! You haven't been back to Zhaojiatun for a long time, so you can go to the Little Three Gorges and Qinglong Mountain for some fun!" Fu's mother remembered that Fu Ying also loved going out to play when she was here.

Fu Ying had a lively personality when she was a child, but she didn't like to go out to play every day. She went out to play because when she returned to her sixth uncle's house, everyone was away and she couldn't stay at home alone, so she went out to play.

Fu's mother must be a little vindictive. Fu Ying was not sure whether Fu's mother was referring to the time when Fu Ying went to her classmate's house for two days. She did take a risk that time. She went to her classmate's house to spend the night on a whim after school on Friday night without anyone saying hello.

But that time Grandpa Fu happened to pass away.

Fu Ying remembers clearly that in August 08, Zhaojiatun Middle School started school a month earlier, so Fu Ying became a junior high school student.

Her deskmate at that time was from a village far away. That village specialized in growing tobacco, which was dried and cut into small pieces to become rural tobacco, which had to be smoked with a long pipe.

When Fu Ying went there, it was the season for cutting tobacco leaves. They cut the leaves and dried them. Her classmates said that they could sell them themselves and there would be people who would buy them.

Tobacco leaves are a bit like a larger version of lettuce, with slightly serrated green leaves. The adults carried something like a ladder on their backs, on which were tied tobacco leaves, which they took home to dry.

Fu Ying stayed at her classmate's house for two days, Saturday and Sunday, and reluctantly helped to dry the leaves. In fact, she wanted to go home on Saturday, but she didn't know the way and didn't dare to walk alone. She followed them back on Sunday afternoon when they were going to evening self-study.

I went back to my sixth uncle's house on the way and found out that my grandfather passed away early Saturday morning. Aunt Fu also came back by car and arrived this morning.

Because they were in a hurry, Fu's mother only asked Fu Ying where she had been the past two days. Fu Ying said she had gone to a classmate's house, and Fu's mother then kept busy with Fu's grandfather's funeral arrangements.

Fu Ying wasn't sure whether her mother was really venting her anger on others or holding a grudge, but she did remember the incident.

Since then, Fu Ying rarely went out, rarely went to the city, and even less to her friends' houses. So in Guangdong Province, Meng Yuan was the only friend who lived close to her, played well with her, and would occasionally visit her.