Chapter 103: Old Friends Reminiscence
Get up in the morning, Tiancheng tied the prepared gift to the back of the motorcycle, simply picked up a few mouthfuls of food, and hurried out of the door, since his pig farm was listed, every time he went out, he went out early, went home early, one was afraid that Lianying was worried, and the other was afraid of delaying the day's business. Today's visit to your guests is no exception.
When Tiancheng drove to his father-in-law's house in Liji Village, his father-in-law was eating, and his mother-in-law, who was standing in the yard and feeding the chickens, saw Tiancheng who came in and greeted: "Look at your uncle getting up early, combing his hair in front of the mirror, and fitting on clothes, he has been busy all morning, and he is more particular than he used to participate in major activities." ”
"Looking at what my aunt said, friends I haven't seen for decades have been leaders, and we can't seem to be shabby!" Tiancheng said with a smile.
Ren Pingfan heard his wife's answer to Tiancheng in the courtyard, and greeted Tiancheng in the house: "Come in quickly, see where I clean up and it's not suitable?"
Tiancheng agreed to enter the house, and when he saw Ren Fanping eating, he was really taken aback, a white shirt, black trousers, the leather shoes under his feet were polished, and his hair seemed to have just been shaped from a barbershop.
"It's really unusual!" Tiancheng praised with a smile.
"Thanks to the clothes you bought, I was afraid of getting cold in the car, so yesterday I bought a jacket. Ren Fanping said and pointed to the jacket hanging on the clothesline.
"You're still more thoughtful than I thought!" Tiancheng said with a smile.
"It's just that you can take care of yourself, when you get old, you will think about more things, and compared to you, you have become much slower!" Ren Fanping looked at Tiancheng and praised himself again, and said modestly.
"You said this, I think a lot again, you are old, I will send you to the bus station in the town, you take a car, I ride a motorcycle, to the county seat, I will go to the station to pick you up?" Tiancheng heard his father-in-law say that he was old and was afraid that he was not suitable for riding a motorcycle, so he reminded him in particular.
"What are you doing with that trouble, you drive slowly, let's talk about some things on the way." Ren Fan waved his hand and said.
"Then listen to you!" Tiancheng calculated in his heart, from here is less than fifty miles away from the county seat, usually Tiancheng drives faster, usually only ten minutes, now there is a father-in-law with the car, naturally it is much slower, even if it takes an hour, the time to the county seat will not exceed ten o'clock, and the visit is just right.
After Ren Fanping finished eating, he simply cleaned up, the hour hand had pointed to eight o'clock, and the two of them got into the car, Tiancheng didn't dare to drive as fast as before, he controlled the speed below thirty kilometers per hour, so that the people sitting in the car felt comfortable and comfortable, and they could really listen to each other when they talked.
Despite the windy weather in autumn, the wind brought by the car still made Ren Fanping, who was sitting in the car, seem to be afraid of drinking the wind, and tightened his mouth, so he naturally didn't dare to talk more.
The motorcycle entered the county, Tiancheng thought that Yu Guangzhou should be in the unit, if he took this gift to the unit naturally not good-looking, so he parked the car on the side of the road not far from the gate of the Agricultural Bureau, and said to his father-in-law: "I went to the unit to find Yu Guangzhou, I can only let him take us to see Uncle Liang, otherwise we can't find the door!"
"Okay, you go find him, I'll watch the car here!" Ren Fanping naturally saw Tiancheng's thoughts.
The agreed things naturally have fewer twists and turns, and when he saw Tiancheng coming in in Guangzhou, he put down his work after saying hello.
"It's a coincidence that you're here, I'll go out a little later, and now it's just in time, I can't go out a few times this year, and today I happen to follow the leader out, so I can't accompany you, I'll find someone to lead you there!" Yu Guangzhou said and walked out of the office.
For Guangzhou can not accompany them, Tiancheng feels a little pity, after all, there are not many such opportunities, after all, I have more opportunities to meet him alone, now that I know him, it will naturally be much easier to find him in the future. While thinking about it, a beautiful little girl was brought in in Guangzhou.
"Let me introduce you, this is Xiao Cheng in our office, let her take you to my father-in-law. After the introduction in Guangzhou.
"Hello, Mr. Wang!" Xiao Cheng said politely
"Hello, I'm bothering you!" Tiancheng felt that the little girl in front of him should have something to do with Yu Guangzhou, otherwise how could she be arranged to go in this matter.
"I told Xiao Cheng about your situation just now, it's not too far from my father-in-law, and Xiao Cheng is not an outsider, you just have to follow her!" Yu Guangzhou's words confirmed Tiancheng's thoughts even more.
"Then let's go!" Xiao Cheng's Mandarin is very good, and it is very comfortable to listen to.
"Okay, then let's go first!" Tiancheng said hello to Guangzhou before going out.
Out of the office door, Tiancheng asked Xiao Cheng, "Are you still riding?"
"You don't need to ride, Uncle Liang is only 100 meters away from us, but you don't know, take you once, you will know!"
Tiancheng nodded, Xiao Cheng called Uncle Liang, this Xiao Cheng must be related to Uncle Liang.
Out of the gate of the Agricultural Bureau, Tiancheng hurriedly looked in the direction where his father-in-law was standing, and it happened that his father-in-law was also looking at him, the two waved their hands to each other, and Tiancheng said to Xiao Cheng: "There are still people waiting for us over there, I'll go and push the car over." ”
"No need to push, let's just go over there!" Xiao Cheng said and walked in the direction of Tiancheng's parking.
When he walked in front of Ren Fanping, Tiancheng introduced: "This is Teacher Cheng from the office. ”
Ren Fanping immediately greeted: "Hello." ”
"Hello, uncle, let's turn the corner in front and see Uncle Liang's doorstep!" Xiao Cheng said enthusiastically.
"Thank you!" Ren Fanping immediately expressed his feelings.
"You are too polite, Brother Yu told me just now, you and Uncle Liang are classmates, my father and Uncle Liang are comrades-in-arms, and we can be regarded as a family. Xiao Cheng introduced.
As he spoke, they had turned a corner and entered a small alley on the side of the road, the alley was not very deep, Xiao Cheng pointed to a gate in the alley and said, "That's Uncle Liang's home!" After speaking, he stepped forward and knocked on the door.
"Here we go!" the door opened with a sound of promise from the door.
"Isn't this Xiao Cheng! Come in!" The door was opened by a slightly chubby middle-aged woman, who, in Tiancheng's opinion, was only in her forties.
"Auntie, you're a guest at home!" Xiao Cheng's title immediately made Tiancheng understand that this was Liang Lao's wife, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Aunt Liang, my name is Wang Tiancheng, this is my father-in-law, Uncle Liang's classmate when he was a child." Tiancheng pointed to Ren Fanping, who was following behind the car, as he spoke.
Ren Fanping was also busy greeting him: "Look, I haven't seen my old classmates for so many years, and I'm here to trouble you today!"
Ren Fanping's kind words made Mrs. Liang feel a little outlanded: "Look, I heard that Lao Liang was coming, but I didn't sleep well last night, and I didn't finish breakfast to buy vegetables, and I haven't come back yet! Come in, come in!"
"Auntie, do you have anything else to arrange? I'll go back to work first, if there's something to do, just call me!" Xiao Cheng said to Mrs. Liang with a smile.
"You can go first, I'll let them drink water and wait for your uncle to come back." Mrs. Liang smiled and waved her hand to Xiao Cheng and said.
Ren Fanping and Tiancheng entered the door, and Mrs. Liang let the two of them into the living room and sat down.
"You see, I'm just here to catch up with my old classmates, and I don't have any special meaning, but he really recognizes it!" Ren Fanping said to Mrs. Liang.
"He mentions you to me from time to time, because of the inconvenience of transportation, so he can't go to your house to recognize your door!" Mrs. Liang muttered, although this was short, it seemed that Mrs. Liang's words were very lovely, don't care that Liang Laoti didn't mention Ren Fanping, after she said this, Ren Fanping was as warm as a spring breeze.
Tiancheng was infected by Mrs. Liang's enthusiasm just now, and he forgot to understand the things on the car and sat down, at this time he suddenly thought of the things in the car, so he stood up, walked to the door, and untied the big cardboard box from the car, and carefully opened the carton lid on the ground, and then two chickens poked their heads out, startling him, and he hurriedly shouted to Mrs. Liang, who was talking in the house: "Aunt Liang, prepare a covered household belongings, and put down the lake products I brought." ”
Mrs. Liang, who heard the shouting in the house, came out, saw the two old turtles in the box and said, "Why are you still carrying such a valuable thing?"
"I didn't bring anything, except for my own home-raised, which is a specialty of our lake!" Tiancheng responded.
Mrs. Liang brought a large wooden bucket from the kitchen, put the two turtles in it, Tiancheng poured some water into the bucket, and then entered the living room.
"Where are our guests?" the voice of the question came from the courtyard, and immediately made the three people sitting in the room stand up in unison.
"Look, who is here, Lao Liang is back!" Mrs. Liang replied to the old Liang in the courtyard after speaking: "The guests are in the house! Why did you come back?"
Ren Fanping and Tiancheng greeted them out of the house.
"Oops, old classmate, the appearance still hasn't changed, but it looks mature!" Liang Lao hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Ren Fanping's hand and said.
"You are the same, you just look a little fat, and the others have not changed, I haven't seen you for decades, and it's like a familiar thing at first sight!" Ren Fanping sighed.
"You see that our children and grandchildren are so old, are we all old?" said Liang Laoying.
"That's, looking at your dress, you are still as energetic as you were back then, or so exquisite, I'm ashamed!" Liang Lao looked at Ren Fanping's outfit and felt that the old classmate in front of him still hadn't changed his style back then.
"Hey! After so many years, people can't be old, otherwise they will be called really old!" Ren Fanping still did not change the momentum of the hustle and bustle of the year.
"Speaking of what happened back then, I still have to thank you, if you hadn't pulled me to join the Eighth Route Army, I wouldn't know what to do now!"
"What are you talking about, in fact, we joined the Eighth Route Army together, after you left, my parents did not agree with me to join the army, and asked me back from the army, and I really couldn't help myself, so I haven't been able to get out of my hometown half a step so far. Ren Fanping always lamented when he mentioned the events of the year.
"When my brothers were young, I listened to you the most, when the Eighth Route Army came to us, I followed you to post leaflets and write propaganda slogans on the wall, which one was not what you commanded me to do! Don't you say, I was with the army for a few years, it can be said that I was born and died, although I have never carried a gun and fought, but I also came out of the rain of bullets, the two years of fighting devils, it is really dark, I met the devils to sweep, ate the last meal and did not eat, think about it at that time, I don't know if I can come back alive, I have no confidence. When Liang Lao said this, his eyes were a little moist, and it seemed that those years had become an indelible scar in his mind.
"Don't talk about this, now in the era of peace, let's talk about something happy!" Ren Fanping saw that Liang Lao was a little sad, and he didn't want to talk about those sad pasts, and the purpose of coming this time was not to talk about some old things, but more importantly, to solve the big things of Tiancheng. Although Ren Fanping didn't know what big things Tiancheng had, Tiancheng persuaded himself repeatedly to visit this old classmate, and he must have something big in his heart to do. So he turned around and said: "Now that our children and grandchildren have grown up, I heard my son-in-law say that your son is in Beijing, and her daughters are also working!"
"Yes, my son graduated from college, and now works in a state-owned enterprise in Beijing, and my daughter works in our county hospital.
"Your life is very regular, your children eat national food, serve iron rice bowls, don't worry, my two daughters are married, and the eldest is the one in front of us. Now that the rural areas have implemented a responsibility system and good policies, they have lived a comfortable life in the past few years. Ren Fanping glanced at Tiancheng, and then said: "The second daughter's family works in a food factory, and she can be regarded as having an iron rice bowl, and the youngest is her son, who is now in high school at the No. 1 Middle School in the county! Compared with you, I have to work for a few years." ”
"It's good to be busy, it's showing that we should be old and strong! I really can't find anything to be busy if I want to be busy! You're much better than me." Liang Lao said with a smile.
Liang Lao's words made Tiancheng find an opportunity to interject: "Uncle Liang, I think if you want to do something, I ask you to do it, I now have a pig farm in the countryside, and it has been more than a year, and I always feel that if I only do a pig farm, it is very limited, but if I want to be bigger and I don't know which direction to develop next, please be my backbone, what do you think?"
As soon as Tiancheng's words came out, the two old men immediately realized his existence, Ren Fanping looked at Tiancheng and felt that this was the big thing today, so he continued: "Look at what kind of backbone thing you want Uncle Liang to take care of, you have to pay Uncle Liang for it!"
"That's a certainty, I really can't do without Uncle Liang, the backbone. Tiancheng said with twelve points of sincerity.
Liang Lao listened to the two of them singing together, and immediately understood: "I heard that you are studying in our county's agricultural school, I know all the teachers there, if you want to invite Gao Shen, I can introduce you, what can I plan now, that is, if you really want to use me, I am still willing to contribute." ”
These words made Tiancheng immediately feel that Liang Lao's words were a pun, that is, he did not shirk what he wanted, and he said what was in his heart, that is, he wanted to have a senior staff member to help him plan, and he also put forward his personal wishes at the end.
Tiancheng was very happy and hurriedly said, "Thank you Uncle Liang first." ”
Although Mr. Liang went to buy vegetables and came back, due to the tight time, Mrs. Liang still had an extra heart, and went directly to the restaurant outside to ask for six dishes.
When Ren Fanping saw the dishes that came up, he felt very sorry not to go, when he came, Tiancheng wanted to ask them to go to the restaurant to eat together, but the idea of paying the bill by himself was disappointed, and immediately said: "Look, I was going to have a meal together in the restaurant when I came, but I didn't expect to send it directly to my home!"
"It's close to the restaurant, and it's very convenient to deliver food, so it's convenient for us to eat at home, so watching the three of you talk, I just ordered the food and chatted while eating." As she spoke, Mrs. Liang placed the chopsticks and wine glasses in front of the three of them.
Liang Sihua took out a bottle of old wine, filled three cups, and the three of them humbled each other again, and then laughed and ate wine.
Needless to say, the polite words on the wine table did not pour it again because of their age, and the three of them each ate a small glass of wine.
After eating, seeing that it was still early, the three of them drank tea for a while, and casually pulled some homely short, Tiancheng thought that people in the city had the habit of taking a lunch break, so he proposed to take advantage of the high temperature at noon, so as not to lower the temperature later, for fear of his father-in-law catching a cold and other reasons, he got up and said goodbye and went home.
Liang Sihua and his wife were polite again, turned around and took out a box of unknown things from the house, and insisted on letting Tiancheng take it back, indicating that they were a gift for Ren Fanping. The four pushed each other, and in the end, Tiancheng had no choice but to tie it to the car and bring it back.