Chapter Twenty-Three: Mother's Pride
Recently, Zhang Yunfeng has been busy with the transfer of the fifth child.
Zhang Jiqi Fengdu Fish Powder Shop has been renovated, all the tables and chairs are in place, the kitchen equipment has also been installed, and all the preparations have been prepared, waiting for the opening on April 9.
Before the opening, Zhang Yunqi and Zhang Yunfeng discussed that they would go back to Yunxi Village on the Qingming Festival, one is to sweep the tomb, and the other is to take the mother and the fifth child to live in the city.
The house Zhang Yunqi bought belongs to the NH area, and Zhang Xiaoxiao can attend the nearby Gusuling Primary School.
In that era, the transfer of primary school students was not as cheating as in later generations, and in later generations, you did not pay the training fee and did not take the money to open the way, and many schools did not bird you at all, and the excuse that there were too many students at random and the class was full could hang you in the air and swing.
In the early 90s, there were not so many gray transactions for primary school students to transfer schools, but the procedures were also very troublesome, and schools on both sides also had to be opened.
Zhang Yunfeng took the household registration book and a copy and the real estate certificate to Gusuling Primary School to open the acceptance certificate, and then went to the NH District Education Bureau to find a staff to affix the official seal, and after returning to Yunxi Village during the Qingming Festival, he also had to issue a transfer certificate in Yunxi Village Primary School, and then went to the competent unit of Yunxi Village Primary School to affix the official seal, and sent the materials to the schools on both sides before transferring.
The day before returning to Yunxi Village, Zhang Yunqi went to Xinglong Electronic Digital City again, he found Yu Lin's store and bought him three genuine Aihua Walkmans.
Yu Lin was a little surprised, the Aihua Walkman was a luxury item in that era, and the price was as high as seven or eight hundred, but what he was surprised about was not this, with Zhang Yunqi's financial resources, it was not a problem to buy one hundred and eighty of these things.
He asked, "Why did you come to me to buy this, these things, you should have a channel to get cheaper and good goods, right?"
Zhang Yunqi said with a smile: "Cheap and good goods, let's talk about it after I'm busy for a while, I can use it now when I buy a walkman." ”
Yu Lin came up and said, "Send a girl?"
Zhang Yunqi ignored him and asked, "How much?"
Yu Lin took more than a dozen genuine Aihua walkmans of different colors and put them in front of Zhang Yunqi: "You can choose yourself, as for the money, forget it." ”
"One yard is one yard, doing business can't make you lose money. Zhang Yunqi didn't want to take advantage of Yu Lin in this kind of trivial matter, so he chose a pink, a white, and a black one, and then gave Yu Lin 2,500 yuan.
April 2nd, the day before the Qingming Festival.
Zhang Yunqi and his brothers took a minibus back to Yunxi Village.
An hour later, when they arrived in Fengyang County, the brothers changed into a minibus that went to Yunxi Village together.
After the passenger car drove out of Fengyang County, all the way to the south, through countless low villages wafting with curling smoke, to Yunxi Village, the wheels splashed a slip of white mist on the waterlogged dirt road, through the car window, looking over the vast field, it was an endless line of tobacco leaves, they thrived in the warm sunshine of early spring, and in August and September, as soon as they were sent to the flue-cured tobacco house, they would turn into golden leaves, and become the rations of millions of crops in the Fengyang area for a whole year.
When they arrived at the head of Yunxi Village, the brothers got out of the car and went home.
Tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, and Zhang Chunlan and Zhang Xiaoxiao are already at home on vacation.
Zhang's mother received a call from the brothers yesterday, she went to Longwan Town to buy fish and meat, and killed an old hen at home, made a table of good dishes, the family gathered in the hall to eat and watch TV, Zhang Yunqi ate three bowls of rice, he has not experienced this taste of home for a long time.
After eating, the family discussed moving.
The family went to live in the city, and the mother and the eldest brother opened the Jiqi Fengdu Fish Powder Shop together, these two things were promoted by Zhang Yunqi, but he has not talked carefully with Zhang's mother, but through the eldest sister Zhang Qiulan and the eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng, Zhang's mother already knew about it.
Zhang's mother's personal wishes are that she doesn't want to live in the city.
This is mainly because she has lived and worked in Yunxi Village for more than 20 years, and the people, the land, and the way of life here have been integrated into her blood.
After all, an elderly person is old-fashioned, she is so old, and then she goes to a strange city to live, and she doesn't know where to go when she goes out, and she keeps retreating in her heart.
It's just that she also understands that the current reality is that the boss wants to open a fishmeal shop in the city to start a business, the second child married to the city a few years ago, the third child is also studying in the city, and the fourth child will take the high school entrance examination in three months, and it is estimated that he will have to follow his second brother's old path and go to the city No. 1 Middle School to study.
As for the fifth child, when she heard that she was going to live in a big city, she was very happy, and she would lie on her every night when she slept these days, and asked in a milky voice: "Mother, mother, when will the eldest brother and second brother come to pick us up and live in the city?"
As a mother of five children, Zhang's mother watched her children run from the mountain nest to the big city one by one, busy with their careers, and studying in key schools, with an indescribable pride and pride in her heart!
In this life, she Liu Yufeng has been tired and desperate, she has been looked down upon by the whole village, she was pushed into a mud pit when she was irrigating water in the tobacco field and fighting with others over the canal, and her husband Zhang Liushun even wanted to drink pesticides when he was arrested and put in prison!
Now, it's finally the end of the struggle.
has food and clothing, life is worry-free, walking in the village and talking about her children, who can gossip?
In this case, she felt that her personal wishes were really insignificant, if she could let her children get over as well as possible and let the old Zhang family prosper, don't say that she wants to live in the city, and the whole world will be successful!
Besides, she didn't go to live in the city to enjoy happiness, now the fishmeal shop has just started, the eldest son Yunfeng is too honest, one person will definitely not be able to resist, and it is too wasteful to recruit people, and she went to the city by herself, not only can she help the boss open a fishmeal shop, but also take care of the family's daily life.
Thinking about it like this, Zhang's mother had no worries and directly agreed to move to live in the city.
Zhang Yunqi didn't expect his mother to be so neat.
He actually knew Zhang's mother's thoughts.
This is also the reason why he talked to his big brothers and sisters about the whole family moving to the city, but never mentioned it to his mother.
He didn't want to force his mother, but he and his eldest brother went to the city, Chunlan Middle School was admitted to the first middle school on the market, and when the time came, the old mother and the little two people stayed in Yunxi Village, the little one, the old one, this will definitely not work.
Now, my mother agreed to go to the city, Zhang Yunqi breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, there was also a feeling of indescribability, he believed that after his mother went to the city, she would slowly adapt to it, and she would naturally get used to and even like the life there.
After agreeing on it, the family went their separate ways.
Zhang Yunqi went to the town to find a truck to prepare for moving, and to buy incense paper candles to be used to sweep the grave tomorrow.
Zhang Yunfeng went to the village primary school to deal with Zhang Xiaoxiao's transfer, although the school is now on holiday, but the school leaders and Zhang Xiaoxiao's homeroom teacher are all from the village, usually look down and don't look up, the neighborhood relationship is also good, the transfer is such a big thing, they should be accommodating.
Zhang's mother and Chunlan's little three cleaned up their things at home.
The most expensive thing in the family is the tractor that was bought for 7,500 yuan last year, which will not find a seller for a while and a half, in the countryside in the early nineties, not many people can take out thousands of dollars casually, when eating in front, Zhang Yunfeng said to entrust the tractor to his old classmate Zhu Da, and let Zhu Da help find out if anyone wants to buy.
At the end of last year, Zhang Yunqi bought a large color TV and refrigerator, which were expensive electrical appliances, and the rest of the bits and pieces, according to Zhang Yunqi's meaning, did not bring those that could not be brought, and there were all in the city at home, but where was Zhang's mother willing to do it, she and the silent Chunlan walked from this room to that room one by one, and bundled all the things she thought should be brought into snakeskin bags, and were busy with their feet on the ground.
Zhang Xiaoxiao is the most leisurely and the happiest.
Her two pockets were stuffed with the wine chocolates and Mimi shrimp crackers that Zhang Yunqi bought for her from the city, and after staying at home for a while, she felt bored, so she jumped around the village, and when she met her friends, she said that I was going to live in the city!
In the end, she ran to the house of Jin Biao, the best friend in the village, and said with her little head raised: "I want to live in the city, and I will take you to the park to see the giant pandas when I have the opportunity in the future!"
"Xiaoxiao, what did you say?"
Zhang Guorui, the village secretary of Yunxi Village, was sitting on the threshold of the small courtyard holding a dustpan of rice, and when he saw the conversation between Zhang Xiaoxiao and Jin Biao, the son of the Guohua family of the opposite door, his hand trembled, and he scattered rice on the ground, he quickly put down the dustpan and called Zhang Xiaoxiao over, and asked: "Xiaoxiao, you just said that your family is going to move to the city?"
Zhang Xiaoxiao blinked and said, "Yes, my family is going to live in the city." ”