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Mi Yang was very happy to stay in Shanhai Town for the past few days.

His second aunt, Cheng Chun, was engaged, and the family was very busy with people coming and going. The future second uncle was the most attentive every day, either giving gift boxes or fruits.

Cheng Ru, the third daughter of the Cheng family, is the most pungent, and she often jokes at the door, "Hey, I just delivered crucian carp at noon, why is the big engineer coming again at night?"

The newly engaged second brother-in-law is an engineer who has just graduated from university and was assigned to work in oil construction. At the moment, his face is flushed, and he is standing at the door holding his glasses on the bridge of his nose, neither staying nor leaving.

Mi Yang was carried by Cheng Chun and walked over, stuffing him into Cheng Ru's arms, poking the tip of the third child's nose and saying: "You are the worst in the whole family, go quickly, the figs in the backyard are ripe, my mother asked you to take Yang Yang to pick them." eat some."

As soon as she opened her mouth, she reminded the young man at the door, and quickly handed over the bag of snacks she was carrying, and said, "I heard from Cheng Chun that the eldest sister is back, here are some calcium milk biscuits bought for the children."

The flattery was in place, Cheng Ru took it over with a smile, and stopped embarrassing him: "Thank you brother-in-law!"

Hearing that the address had changed, the person at the door also grinned.

Mi Yang leaned on his third aunt's shoulder and looked back. There was a pair of young men and women standing at the door, one inside the door and the other outside the door. They were both blushing and bright-eyed, shy and eager to see each other.Mi Yang remembered that the second uncle’s family helped Cheng Chun to arrange a job. After the uncle was promoted to be the chief engineer, he divided them into two big houses. After the old couple retired, they took pictures every day, taking pictures of flowers, birds, etc. Had a good time too.

Cheng Ru carried him to pick figs, washed them and put them on a plate to feed him, and opened a bag of biscuits for him.

Mi Yang took a look at the packaging, it was Qingyuan calcium milk biscuits, this brand is too familiar, he was always sick when he was a child, and his grandma couldn’t find anything good for him to eat, so he always bought some of these biscuits soaked in milk powder to coax him more eat some.

Mi Yang took a small bite and ate it, squinting his eyes to feel the taste more than 20 years ago, as if it had never changed in his memory.

Seeing that he likes to eat, Cheng Ru happily packed them all in a small cloth bag and took them with him. When he sent Mi Yang back, the small cloth bag already contained a lot of snacks, such as hawthorn fruit peel, figs, almond candies, etc. Calcium biscuits.

Mi Yang lives here with his grandma. Their old house in the town is a bit like a courtyard house, with a patio in the middle and side houses built around it. The middle one is where the old man lives, and it is also the most spacious and bright room.When Mi Yang went back, his mother was talking to the old man, and when she saw him coming in, the old lady immediately waved and smiled: "Our Yang Yang is here, come quickly, let grandma have a look!"

Mi Yang took off his shoes, ran over and hugged the old lady in his socks, rubbed his face against her and shouted, "Grandma!"

Mrs. Cheng likes him very much. She loves him so much. Mi Yang's small mouth is sweet and pleasing. After staying for two days, he has become the pistachio of the whole family. The piece of meat on the tip of the old lady's heart can't wait to Give him all good things.Seeing the small snack bag he was carrying, Mrs. Cheng generously stuffed a handful of dried red dates and lotus seeds into it, and said with a smile: "It just so happened that I went out for a wedding a few days ago, and they sent some dried fruits over there. Yang took it and ate it."

Cheng Qing hurriedly said: "Mom, he can't bite these."

Mrs. Cheng said: "Then let him play with it."

Mi Yang hugged his pocket immediately like a little money fan, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Thank you, grandma!"

Mrs. Cheng liked his naughty and cute appearance, and she was very happy when she touched his little face.

The lotus seed rice is mainly for auspiciousness, and it cannot be chewed without cooking, so Mi Yang took out a few and played the game of throwing lotus seeds with the old lady for a while.

Old Mrs. Cheng suddenly said: "Oh, look at my memory, I almost forgot." She turned over and took out a red envelope from the drawer of the bed cabinet next to her, muttering: "This is for our Yangyang, I saw it yesterday. You were so happy to be back, I forgot about it."

Cheng Qing hurriedly stopped her and said, "Mom, don't, it's not a festival, why give him money!"

The old lady Cheng said: "Oh, this is for our Yangyang. He didn't come back last year, and grandma made up for it. I guess you are busy with work this year, and the winter is cold, so you can't go home. Give it in advance first. Keep it in mind all the time, hehe!"

Cheng Qing couldn't stop it, so he had to accept it. Cheng Ru, who was next to her, saw it and took out a stack of red envelopes. They were much thinner than the old lady's, but they were better in quantity. She stuffed them all into the elder sister's arms Go, and said with a smile: "Sister, you accept our mother's, we can't push it out! This is the wish of my second sister and my younger sister, it's not much, it's for Yang Yang!"

Cheng Qing couldn't resist, so he could only accept it. Mi Yang held the eight big red envelopes, raised his head and said, "Thank you grandma, thank you second aunt, third aunt, and auntie!" They all laughed.

When he was sleeping at night, Cheng Qing asked Mi Yang to leave all those red envelopes, and the reason he said was still the same for 1 years.

Cheng Qing: "Yangyang, you are still young, mother will save the lucky money for you first, and I will marry you a wife later."

Mi Yang: "..."

The warm red envelope was taken away, and in exchange for a small leather ball, Mi Yang thought it was okay, at least there was a toy as a consolation prize.

When she was about to go to bed, Mrs. Cheng brought a new quilt, which was packed in a high-grade vacuum bag. She opened it and said, "This was sent by a student of your father a few years ago. What is it? Silk quilt, it’s thin, I think it’s just right for Yangyang to be a cool quilt in summer, so he won’t get cold from kicking the quilt at night.” The old lady covered Mi Yang as she muttered, the quilt was not big, and the workmanship was exquisite, After pinching the corner of the quilt for Mi Yang, the old lady left in peace.

But in the middle of the night, Mi Yang was taken to the hospital.

Speaking of it, it was the fault of the new quilt, and I didn't know what ingredients were in it. Mi Yang was allergic to it, and had small red bumps all over his body.The doctor checked it, prescribed some ointment for allergies, and warned: "Be careful, don't let the children catch it. Now the silk quilts on the market are said to be silk, and they are mixed with chemical fiber products, such as What kind of acrylic fiber or something like that, it’s fine for us adults to use, but children’s skin is too tender, and it’s easy to cause allergies.”

Mrs. Cheng asked, "doctor, is this important?"

The doctor smiled and said: "It's okay, just take care of it for a few days."

Only then did the Cheng family come back with the child in their arms, and the old lady Cheng blamed herself so much that she personally guarded Mi Yang all night without closing her eyes. scar.

No matter how Cheng Qing tried to persuade her, it was useless. When she got up in the middle of the night, she saw the old lady go to make milk powder.

She went over to ask a question, only to realize that it was Mi Yang who said he was hungry, and Cheng Qing was angry and anxious: "Mom, you are too used to him, it's just an allergy, the doctor said it's fine..."

The old lady Cheng didn't listen, she waved her hand to tell her not to worry, she made a bottle of milk powder for her grandson, watched Mi Yang drink it, and asked, "Yangyang, are you still feeling bad?"

Mi Yang opened his eyes wide, as if feeling it, and said: "Grandma, the itching is gone, it will be fine after drinking."

It looked like a little fox cheating on food and drink.

After Mi Yang finished drinking, he stretched out his hand to grab the old lady again: "Grandma, I'm sleepy, I want you to pat me to sleep, and you can sleep here too."

Mrs. Cheng smiled and said, "Okay, grandma is sleeping too."

Cheng Qing persuaded him all night, but none of the little villain's words helped, and he couldn't laugh or cry as he watched from the sidelines.

Mi Yang is sick, and he hasn't been carried out to play much these days—his two legs have basically become decorations, and when he returned home in Shanhai Town, several aunts rushed to hug him, so he basically didn't get down and walk by himself.

When Mi Yang is almost healed, it's time to return to the army.

On the last day when Cheng Qing was packing his luggage, Cheng Chun came over. Mi Yang liked the soft-spoken second aunt very much, so he rushed over to give her a hug.

Cheng Chun brought a bag over, and opened it to contain two new clothes, especially a small cashmere windbreaker on the outside, which was fashionable and thick, and it was expensive at first glance.Cheng Chun pushed the clothes to the eldest sister, saying that she would take them to the army to wear, Cheng Qing would not want it, and quickly refused: "Nonsense, this is your engagement dress, it was brought to you, you bring it to me What does it look like..."

The second girl from the Cheng family is gentle, but she is very persistent. She said with a smile: "Sister, just take it. You are going to work there. It is useless for me to stay at home and wear them. You go to work and dress decently." , don’t let those city people look down on you.”

At that time, the gap between agricultural and non-agricultural hukou was still quite large. Everyone wanted to jump into the agricultural industry, go to work and have a job, and it was a very decent thing to say it.Cheng Chun sincerely wants her elder sister to be better off outside, and she is willing to give whatever she can help or give to her sisters.

Cheng Qing's eyes were red when he heard this, and before leaving, the two sisters had endless things to say.

Mi Yang was listening, but what he felt emotionally was the issue of household registration.

Back then, everyone didn't want an agricultural household registration. On the one hand, it was because they didn't want to work in agriculture, and on the other hand, it was related to the agricultural tax.Later, the agricultural tax was abolished, and there was no household registration restriction. You can find a job wherever you go, and non-agricultural household registration is not so rare. Later, with the development of land, the countryside became popular, especially in places like Shanhai Town, which is close to the old city. , After the expansion plan, the land skyrocketed, and the price doubled several times in just two or three years.

At that time, it seemed that only the third aunt who hadn't left Shanhai Town turned around at once, and she got two sets of villas alone.

This kind of thing is really impossible to say.