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When Liu Xia and the others opened the vermilion door and walked into the yard, Zeng Guangtong was cooking. He heard voices from outside and walked to the door with a shovel in his hand. Seeing Liu Xia and the others, he was overjoyed and laughed heartily: , let me see who is here? Ah, it seems that I guessed correctly, this big pot of porridge is not in vain, just in time to feed a kitten."

Although it has been four years, Maoer was deeply impressed by that trip to Kyoto, and his memory of Zeng Guangtong is still clear to this day, so when he heard Zeng Guangtong call his name, he immediately called out: "Grandpa Zeng."

Zeng Guangtong greeted Mao'er with a smile, and greeted them one by one by name. When he got to him, he showed Mao'er and then Liu Xia: "Oh, I've grown up so much, I don't dare to recognize them. The leather monkey has grown into a handsome guy who is more handsome than a star, and the kitten has grown into a handsome boy, how can I not grow old! Hahaha, hurry up, it’s cold outside, come in, come in.”

A group of people entered the room talking and laughing, and Zeng Guangtong suddenly saw a big bag of fried dough sticks that Liu Hai was carrying: "Xiao Hai, I bought a lot of fried dough sticks. I just went out and bought three catties, and I also bought... ouch, the vegetables are burnt. !"

Liu Hai quickly ran over and quickly put the wok aside, took a bowl of tap water and poured it in.

The fried tofu with cabbage was reimbursed, Liu Hai asked Zeng Guangtong to sit down and talk to Liu Xia and the others, and cleaned the pot by himself, but the tofu was gone, and he was going to fry another big plate of hot and sour cabbage.

The relationship between the two families has not faded with the passage of time. Liu Xia's feeling for Zeng Guangtong is still as familiar and friendly as before, and Zeng Guangtong treats them the same, so there is no extra politeness. Like the children who left home for a few days on a temporary business trip, they are affectionate and casual, thinking that they must have gone to the train station early yesterday afternoon, and it is impossible to eat in the car at night, so let Liu Xia and the others eat still warm fried dough sticks and pancakes Guozi talked to them: "Talking while eating, we don't pay much attention to it in our own house, and we will continue to serve Xiaohai's fried dishes later."

He asked everyone in the Liu family one by one, especially about Liu Changqing and Sun Chang'e's physical conditions. Although they often corresponded and knew each other's situation well, it was still different to meet and talk in person.

Liu Hai's dishes have been fried, and it's time to serve dinner. They still haven't seen Zeng Huaichen and his wife and Fat Chong'er. Several people feel a little strange. They thought it was too cold, and they haven't woken up yet. Liu Ling asked : "Brother Huaichen, where are they?"

Zeng Guangtong said: "Huai Chen went to your brother Huai Jue. On the fourth day of the lunar new year, I received a letter from him, saying that he was hospitalized on the 28th year ago. The injured leg was uncomfortable. Huai Chen and I were worried. Huai Chen decided to go there. Look, he just left at noon yesterday, and he hasn't arrived yet. We want to persuade Huaijue to return to the capital for treatment, but I guess he won't be willing.

After your sister-in-law and Fat Chonger returned to their mother’s house in the second day of junior high school, Fat Chonger never came back. He was weak, and he had a fever and cough whenever he was exposed to the wind. For two years, when winter came, he lived in Dongyan’s mother most of the time. There, their house is a building with heating, and they don’t have to leave the house to eat, drink, and drink. This year, Fat Chong’er came back for three days during the Chinese New Year, and his grandma refused to let him come back as soon as he went back on the second day of the second year. "

Liu Xia looked around and said, "Now you have heating in this room, and it's quite warm. Isn't this room more spacious and comfortable than Sister Dongyan's natal home?"

Zeng Guangtong looked around his spacious room with a wry smile and said: "But the toilet here is outside, so you can go out to relieve yourself. Grandma Fat Chonger said that he got sick because he was warm in the room, and then he got cold when he went out. Yes, so don't let him come back." After he finished speaking, he shook his head and sighed.

Zeng Guangtong felt that the children became like that because they were too delicate to cover them all day long. Back then, my three children often played outside in the winter, and they must have had occasional colds, but none of them were like Fat Chonger. Not to mention the children of the Liu family, eating ice and snow, rolling and playing in the snow nest, peeing outside with their bare buttocks in winter, climbing trees to dig out bird nests, playing crazy in the mountains every day in the ice and snow, and Isn't one healthier than the other?

But as a grandfather, he couldn't say that, especially when his in-laws were helping to take care of the children, he couldn't show any dissatisfaction.

Liu Xia and the others are still young, and they don't understand the twists and turns of getting along with in-laws. They just live in a spacious yard like their own for the sake of little fat insects, but they are confined in a house like a birdcage It's a pity, and it's very pitiful that Zeng Guang, who is celebrating the New Year, is guarding an empty house all by himself.

Zeng Guangtong said: "No, in the past no matter how busy your sister-in-law was, she would come back almost every day to clean up the house and wash the clothes, unless Fat Chonger had a fever and she really couldn't come back.

In fact, she doesn't really want her mother to bring Fat Chong'er. She thinks that the old lady has many bad habits and is too used to children, but there is no way. In our family's situation, we can only trouble Fat Chong'er's grandma.It wasn't easy for the old lady, she took her granddaughter with her, and she felt sorry for her daughter, and even took Fat Chong'er with her. "

The cat took the porridge brought by Chen Zhenbei and said: "Then when we go home, let Fat Chonger go with us, go back and follow my grandma, mother and fourth aunt, they are the best at raising children, we Xiaoyun, Xiaolei, and Fat Xiaoxuan are smarter and tougher than the other."

Zeng Guangtong smiled and knocked on Mao'er's head: "Little Mao'er, do you know how difficult it is to raise a child? There are already three in your family. If you are fat, your grandma will not be able to survive?"

Mao'er certainly doesn't know the difficulty of raising a child now, he only knows that his uncle is very happy to raise him, and he is very happy.

In a letter to Liu Xia when Liu Ling first entered the winter, he briefly stated that after Zhou Jinheng moved away, Zeng Guangtong remodeled many living facilities in his home, such as toilets, which were divided into male and female in the southwest corner of the yard; The living room was redecorated according to the style of Zeng Huaichen's wedding room. Zeng Huaichen and his wife now live in the West Wing room generously; All the rooms are equipped with radiators, including the two rooms where the old couple surnamed Luo lived. Therefore, the old couple of the Luo family volunteered to take over the job of burning the boiler. In winter, the house has hot water throughout the day.But Liu Ling's letter didn't say why that rascal Zhou Jinheng moved away before his due date.

Didn't see Zhou Jinheng today, Liu Xia felt very comfortable, so he asked Zeng Guangtong about it, Liu Hai also waited to stop with great interest, he hated Zhou Jinheng more than the others, Zeng Guangtong told them all with a smile.

According to the agreement reached by Zeng Guangtong and Zhou Jinheng, Zhou Jinheng should only move out this summer, but the family is disgusted to death by the father and daughter, especially Dongyan, who gets angry when mentioning Zhou Jinheng and Zhou Lijuan, and doesn't want to see them for a minute. So Dongyan has been thinking of a way to drive Zhou Jinheng away in advance for the past few years.

After having Fat Chong'er the year before last, Yang Dongyan found fault with Zhou Jinheng and his wife every day, and didn't let them live a peaceful life. Fat Chong'er didn't sleep at night and cried at night, so Dongyan or Zeng Huaichen hugged him and wandered outside. Zhou Jinheng tossed and couldn't sleep all night, the chubby bugs all shit and pissed outside by Zhou Jinheng's side, Zhou Jinheng dared to open his mouth to say something nasty, even if he stabbed a hornet's nest, Dongyan could even sarcasm without swearing He scolded all eighteen generations of his ancestors.

Han Cuiying was beaten by Zhou Jinheng all her life until she lost her temper at all. Every time she tried to pull Zhou Jinheng to make him say less, but Zhou Jinheng who had nowhere to vent her anger ended up scolding her head and face.

Zhou Jinheng's son didn't deal with him. Except for the Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year, he rarely came, and his daughter-in-law never showed up.

Zhou Lijuan came over to stand up for her father twice, but she was not the master here after all, and Dongyan could choke her half to death with just three words.

Huai Chen's colleagues would also come to have a drink from time to time, and they would drink in the outside room until midnight, all kinds of tossing, if Zhou Jinheng came out to rely on the old to sell the old or pretend to be sick, he would have a meal immediately, and they would all be embarrassing him. He didn't even earn a place to live for himself, and stayed in someone else's old house, yet he had the nerve to come out to show his eyes.

Zhou Jinheng was so angry that he was half-dead, and once pretended to be angry and was admitted to the hospital. Zhou Lijuan came to Zeng Huaichen to argue, but was almost smoked by Dongyan, and finally made a fuss to the neighborhood committee and the police station. Because the old house was occupied by others, the father-in-law felt ashamed of his ancestors and had a heart attack. She was afraid that something would happen to him, so she sent him back to his hometown to recuperate. She wanted to ask Zhou's family for money, and then she pulled Zhou Lijuan and refused to leave without paying.

Since then, Zhou Lijuan has come less and less.

One night after the National Day this year, Zhou Jinheng came back from a drink somewhere, and was a little unsteady when he walked. Somehow, he bumped into Dongyan who had gone to the toilet to get a urine jar. When the old Luo family heard the movement and came out to watch, I happened to see the scene where Zhou Jinheng and Dongyan were torn apart, and Dongyan scolded Zhou Jinheng as a "smelly hooligan" in horror and anger, and then threw the urine jar on Zhou Jinheng's body.

That time the world was turned upside down, a button on Dongyan's coat fell off, Zhou Jinheng was caught with a face full of flowers, Huai Chen took a kitchen knife and tried to chop up "the old bastard surnamed Zhou", and finally was brought to the house to drink The two friends of the family pulled each other, and finally went to the police station again, where the old couple of Luo's family evaded to testify at the police.

Han Cuiying went to her son's place that day to see that the child hadn't come back yet. When they received a call from the police station and rushed over, Huai Chen had already thrown all Zhou Jinheng's things in the outer room outside the gate, and was smashing on the door of the south suite when he saw their family come back. , cursed loudly, picked up the chair and smashed it like crazy...

Two days later, Zhou Lijuan brought people to move away the things in the south suite, and the Zeng family's west wing announced that all of them would be recovered.

At that time, Zeng Guangtong was not at home with a few students sketching on the Bashang grassland. When he came back half a month later, the old Luo family and their son in the back seat came to discuss with him: the one-story house they used to live in is now being renovated. The son's unit is also talking about the fund-raising house. They have to live here for a while. As long as either side of the unit and the son's fund-raising house is completed, they will move out immediately.

Zeng Guangtong agreed, but he said that the time limit would not exceed three years at most, because Liu Hai should come back by then. If Hai gets married, it will definitely be here, and you will have to vacate the house anyway."

Liu Xia rubbed his hands and said repeatedly: "Sister Dongyan is mighty, Sister Dongyan is a hero!

Liu Hai said: "Rogue Zhou can only be dealt with by Sister Dongyan like this. It's really hard to change someone. It's too scumbag. We ordinary people have nothing to do with him."

Mao'er said: "This kind of disgusting person is called a black brick in the middle of the night, and he is paralyzed, his mouth is crooked, and his eyes are squinted. Let's see if he is still bad."

Chen Zhenbei clasped Mao'er's head with his big hands, and said with a smile: "Okay, Liu An, looking at the appearance of a good-looking little guy with delicate features, it turns out that Xin'er works in the underworld, but——, I like this kind of thing! Zaba Zaozi's normal methods are really not good enough, so he has to shoot black bricks and cover sacks in the middle of the night, or if he fails, he will be thrown into the moat without anyone noticing."

Liu Ling put the teacup in front of Zeng Guangtong: "Chen Zhenbei, our cat is only twelve, can you teach him something?"

Chen Zhenbei immediately put on a serious face, and said in the tone of a news broadcast announcer: "Student Liu An, you can't use this kind of illegal violence to treat a comrade who has made mistakes. You should be full of revolutionary spirit." Enthusiasm, move with emotion to Comrade Zhou Jinheng, understand with reason..."

Liu Ling turned her head, her face was as usual, and her eyes were as calm as water, looking at Chen Zhenbei.

Chen Zhenbei immediately changed into a grinning ruffian again: "Cat, look at how fierce your fifth uncle is, I dare not provoke him. In case I get annoyed, he will give me a coordinate calculation error for our live ammunition exercise next time, you I will never see Uncle Zhenbei again."

Zeng Guangtong laughed: "Zhenbei, you rascal, no matter what I think, you are the one who beat Xiaoling to death. Knowing that he is soft-hearted, you dare to play poor in front of him."

Everyone was in the main room at noon, chatting with Zeng Guangtong about the interesting, helpless, nostalgic and sad things that happened in Liujialing in the past and are happening now.

After lunch, Liu Xia and Mao'er wanted to help deliver the dishes to the kitchen, but were stopped by Chen Zhenbei: "Go and sit on the sofa and watch TV, just a few bowls, I'll clean them up; Uncle Zeng, aren't you the one after lunch?" Do you have to sleep for a while? Leave us alone, you can go and rest for a while."

Zeng Guangtong developed this habit when he was in Liujialing. Liujialing is remote and closed, and accidents rarely happen. People's life can be said to be very regular. Zeng Guangtong enjoyed the afternoon nap like other people in the village from the first day he went. The benefit that does not require any payment has been with him very stably for nearly 11 years, until today.

Getting up early in the morning to prepare meals for those who are about to come back, and sitting and chatting for a whole noon, Zeng Guangtong was indeed a little tired and wanted to lie down for a while, so he was not polite, and said something to let the children play casually, and then went into his bedroom up.

Mao'er stacked his and Liu Xia's bowls on the plate in front of Chen Zhenbei, and suddenly let out a soft cry, Liu Xia was startled: "What's the matter?"

The cat blew on his left hand: "It's okay, there is a hard barb on the edge of the nail, I just touched it, and it hurts a little."

Liu Xia took Mao'er to the door to have a look.

Liu Ling said to Chen Zhenbei, who was about to clean up the stall with his sleeves rolled up: "Company commander, don't stretch out your hand. It's only the eighth day of the new year, and it's still in the new year. Go home and have a look. Let's stay for a few days. Brother Zhendong is too." You are busy all year round, and you don't have much time to reunite, he should be free these days..."

Chen Zhenbei walked to the sink with a plate in his hand, unscrewed the water pipe, and interrupted Liu Ling: "He's busier than usual these days. I lived at home for two days a year ago. I didn't dare to be home during the day. I always Playing with Yangzi, Su Laoxier and Jingyan, just like that, the old man's blood pressure has been soaring in the past two days, if I really go home and stay for a few days like what I told you now, the old man will definitely talk to me about him In the future, we will cover the issue of the national flag."

Liu Ling turned her head and looked out the window, took a deep breath, walked over and pushed Chen Zhenbei aside who was stirring the water after pouring out the detergent: "I'll come, you'd better go home for a few days, Your father has been a soldier all his life, so he is a little serious in front of you, that's just his habit, he must be happy to see you go back."

Chen Zhenbei stood beside him with water dripping from his hands, staring straight at Liu Ling, and slowly clenched his hands.

Liu Hai came over and put a pair of chopsticks into the sink, and pulled Liu Ling who was rolling up his sleeves: "Fifth Brother, I'll wash it, don't..."

Liu Ling said: "You are leaving the day after tomorrow. I don't know when you will come back. Go and be with Yao'er. You don't know how much he misses you?" As he spoke, he began to wash the dishes.

Liu Hai puffed his face and said: "It will take a few minutes, Yao'er is pulling out the barbs of the cat!"

Liu Ling turned his head and glanced at him, Liu Hai smiled and hugged Liu Ling from behind: "I don't want you to wash it, I can't help it, brother Zhenbei is obviously a young man, but I don't think he is so awkward when he works , Seeing you doing this kind of work feels wrong. Brother Zhenbei, are you not angry when I say that?"

Chen Zhenbei pulled the corners of his lips and said with a smile: "There's nothing to be angry about, I don't like to see your fifth brother do this either."

Liu Hai let go of Liu Ling, looked back at Liu Xia who was carefully cutting the cat's barbs with nail clippers, and ran over with a smile: "Boy, do you use nail clippers for a barb? Squeeze it tightly and it will come out. "

Liu Ling turned to look at Liu Xia and the others at the door, then continued to wash the dishes, and said in a soft voice: "Xiaoxia, you haven't seen each other for several years, he misses you very much, since you don't want to go home , Go over and talk to him too.

The camera was owned by Xiao Hai’s classmate in France. On the day he returned home, he told Xiao Xia the approximate price, but Xiao Xia was dubious. Maoer was afraid that Xiao Xia would find a way to take private jobs to make money if he knew the real price of the camera. I made up a lie to lie to him.

If Xiaoxia asks you, you will say that the camera is a bit of a quality problem, but for people who are not professional photographers, it will hardly affect you. Sister Yixi has already received compensation from the manufacturer. You can think about how much is appropriate for the specific amount.

The cat said that when he grows up, he will double the money he earns and repay you. The cat is still young. He doesn’t know the relationship between time and money, but I know. I don’t think we should be so thick-skinned. Tell me, how much is the camera? ? "

Chen Zhenbei called softly: "Xiao Ling..."

Liu Ling filled the washed bowls with water and put them in the cupboard next to them: "I will...return them slowly. You wash your hands, it's uncomfortable to get dish soap on them."

Chen Zhenbei walked over, turned on the water hose very small, and slowly rushed at his hand.

Liu Ling raised her eyes and looked at the persimmon tree outside the window that had grown a lot.

The persimmon trees that have lost all their leaves are still beautiful, like root carvings, with a little white floating between the dead branches-it's snowing again.