Chapter Seventy-Three: Returning Home for the New Year
had a finale banquet with the crew, Zuo Le didn't stay in the capital for long, and returned to Quancheng that night with the film material and Chen Fatzi.
After handing over the handover report with Taili, Zuo Le went back to his home in Qingwan Town, simply packed his luggage, and hurriedly took the high-speed rail back to Zhaocheng for the New Year.
When Zuo Le was taken home by his cousin Chen Ping, it was already the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Zhuang Cuicui was taking the family to clean up the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the yard.
Seeing her eldest son returning home in the dust, Ms. Zhuang was very happy, greeted with hot tea and fruit, and it took more than half an hour to lose her enthusiasm and return to the kitchen to cook.
Zuo Le stayed in the house and was fine, so he simply moved a small bench to help Comrade Zuo make dumplings, and the two of them chatted while working.
Lao Zuo didn't talk much, saying that the two were chatting, but in fact, it was mainly Zuo Le himself who said it in Nabalabala, and Comrade Lao Zuo only listened to it from the side, and occasionally asked a question.
This slightly boring chat mode has lasted for more than 20 years in Zuojia.
Not only Zuo Le, but the rest of the family Zhuang Cuicui and Zuo Xiao, including the old man and Lao Zuo chatting, is also this scene, the Zuo family has long been used to it, in Ms. Zhuang's words.
"Your dad is a stuffy gourd, and he can't beat a fart with eight sticks. ”
After half an hour, Zuo Le took the dumplings full of curtains and put them on the shelf under the canopy in the yard.
The outdoor temperature of Zhaoshi Layue is nearly minus 20 degrees, which is almost half a natural refrigerator, and dumplings can be frozen and kept fresh here.
Although Zuo Le didn't understand why these dumplings that were going to be put in the pot in a few hours still had to be frozen and kept fresh, Ms. Zhuang sent a message, and he could only do it.
As soon as the dumplings were put away, Zuo Le was about to wash his hands, when he saw his sister Zuo Xiao, who had just gone out to play with his classmates, came back, and when he saw him, he immediately let out cheers and screams, and then asked a series of questions.
"Brother, when did you come back? Why didn't you call me and tell me? Is the capital fun? Did you bring me anything delicious?"
"How do you know how to eat, and you don't care if your brother is thin, whether you are tired from working outside. ”
Zuo Le was also very happy when he saw his sister Zuo Xiao, but he habitually changed to the brother-sister bickering mode.
Miss Zuo smiled, very hypocritically greeted the old brother's working body around Zuo, and put on a posture of a well-behaved little sister.
Zuo Le was comforted by the photo, so he guided Zuo Xiao to the living room storage kitchen, where there were special snacks he brought back from the capital and Quancheng.
"Yay, preserved fruits, preserved meat, donkey rolling, roast duck, horseshoe cakes, figs......... Long live my brother!"
Miss Zuo is a snack goods, and when she saw that there were so many delicious foods, she immediately turned into star eyes, and sincerely sang the praises of her brother Zuo Le.
Zhuang Cuicui couldn't look down on her daughter's "unproductive" appearance, and couldn't help but open her mouth to mend the knife.
"Eat, eat, you see the acne on your face, they are all caused by uncontrolled eating and drinking, and you don't have a long heart"
"Mom, scolding people doesn't reveal their shortcomings, what are you doing. ”
Miss Zuo suddenly looked helpless, she was in the third year of junior high school this year, she was in adolescence, and there were some small acne on her face, she was worried, Ms. Zhuang also brushed the knife.
Zuo Le looked at Dark Music from the side, wanting to fan the flames for the two of them, but Zhuang Cuicui, who was recognized, replied.
Then, Zuo Le was embarrassed and kicked out of the house by his mother, Zhuang Cuicui asked him to invite the old man to come to the house for the New Year, and by the way went to the village commissary to buy a bottle of vinegar.
The old man is so invited, when Zuo Le arrived, he was sitting by the stove with a listening machine to listen to the commentary, Shan Lao's "Sui and Tang", Li Yuanba washed Siping Mountain in blood.
The old man loves this paragraph the most, and he never gets tired of listening to it, and he is reluctant to turn it off when he sees Zuo Le's grandson coming, so he just lowered his voice, and while listening to Zuo Le's words, he listened to Qi Guoyuan and Cheng Yanjin two teasing bragging.
Zuo Le saw that the old man was happy to hear it, and he didn't disturb his old man's interest, and said to the old man, planning to buy vinegar first, and then take the old man home for dinner.
"Got it, you go. ”
The old man waved his hand impatiently, then raised the volume of the listening machine, and continued to indulge in the world of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
"This old man is quite fascinated........."
Zuo Le smiled bitterly, got up and went to the commissary, and on the way, he met a group of old ladies and old men gathered at an intersection to chat.
Anyone who has been to the countryside knows that there is such a group of people in every village, who are used to gathering somewhere in the village, gossiping and gossiping, and if they happen to walk past them, they will be a dog, and they will instantly become the center of the conversation.
It's a nightmare for countless young people in rural areas.........
Zuo Le stood a hundred meters away and hesitated for a long time, but he didn't dare to go over, and chose a detour.
After buying vinegar from the commissary, Zuo Le was pulled by the enthusiastic proprietress to take a photo, and then fled to the old man's courtyard and took the old man home for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
The Zuo family had dinner early, and before eight o'clock, the family sat at the dinner table and feasted.
During this period, Zuo Le remembered what happened in the village just now, and tentatively proposed that he wanted to buy a house in Zhaoshi and let the family move out of the village.
As soon as Zuo Le's words fell, except for Miss Zuo's surprised face, the other three people at the dinner table fell silent.
"I'm not moving. ”
The old man was the first to break the silence, and Zhuang Cuicui quickly said: "It's good to live in the village, I've been used to it for decades, and it's awkward to move out." ”
Comrade Lao Zuo also had a few difficult words: "Xiaole, I know you want to be filial to us, but that's just like your mother said, the two of us and your grandfather are used to living in the village, and our relatives and neighbors are also familiar with each other, so you let us move out, and we didn't even have anyone to talk to."
Your grandfather is almost 80 years old this year, and your mother and I are also looking at Ben Liuzhang, to put it mildly, what are you still tossing blindly at this age, Zuojiawan is enough for us to support the elderly. ”
"That's what your dad said. ”
After Lao Zuo finished speaking, the old man nodded in agreement.
Zuo Lezhen didn't expect that the three of them would oppose the move so fiercely, looking at this meaning, no matter how insistent he is, this year's New Year will not be good.
Zuo Le honestly shut up, but he didn't completely give up, and planned to wait two days to say it again, even if he didn't move, the house should be bought.
This year, he has only been famous for a short time, and the people in the village have not reacted to it yet, and in another year or two, the people in the village will taste it, so he won't want to live in peace when he goes home.
It's not that Zuo Le thinks too badly of people, it's really that he has seen a lot of such things in the circle, and it is very necessary to buy a house in advance to be prepared.
After eating, Zhuang Cuicui and his wife went to watch the Spring Festival Gala, Miss Zuo was playing with her mobile phone next to her, Zuo Le ran back to the room to video chat with Tian Yan, and from time to time someone called for New Year's greetings, and Zuo Le replied one by one.
When it was almost early in the morning, Zuo Le was assigned by Zhuang Cuicui to set off a cannon battle, and with the crackling firelight, time turned to the new year.
The next day, from six o'clock in the morning, Zuo Le's family continued to have people come to pay New Year's greetings, and Zuo Le, as a "young man with a lot of interest" in everyone's eyes, was pulled to chat, and his face was stiff with a smile.
It wasn't until almost noon that Zuo Le found an opportunity to sneak out, went to the cinema with Miss Zuo to watch a Chinese New Year movie, and went to the game area in the mall to play for more than two hours, and went home when it was dark.
Zuo Le stayed at home until the sixth day of junior high school, during which time he successfully persuaded Lao Zuo and Zhuang Cuicui to agree to buy a house in the city.
After that, Zuo Le entrusted this matter to a friend and asked him to help him choose a suitable house, and then he would pay for the formalities.
On the seventh day of junior high school, Zuo Le returned to Quancheng, and did not rush to the post-production of "The Story of the Cooking Class", but found Lao Fang and had a showdown with him to see what he had been thinking about for a long time.
He wants to leave Dongshantai, start a new stove, and be his own boss and go it alone!