Chapter 22: Returning Home
February 11, 1996, the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Chinese New Year's Eve. Li Lingli's mother and daughter were sent back to their hometown by Lu Zhou's friend.
In this regard, Li Lingli originally planned to refuse, but who let them have too much luggage in large bags.
The daughter said that she was going to come back for the New Year, Li Jinxi and Zhang Zifang were ready, just the sheets and quilts were dried and dried, the winter in Jiangnan was cold, and ordinary people at this time did not have air conditioning and floor heating at home, so they used a ten-pound quilt, plus a wool blanket, and then they were still shivering from the cold.
Really, minus 30 degrees in the Northeast is not as cold as minus 3 degrees in Jiangnan, because there is no heating in Jiangnan.
Since receiving the call in the morning, Li Jinxi has been ready to eat, and his niece loves to eat the braised pork ribs he makes, which are heating in the pot at this time.
"Grandpa, grandma!" After Zhou Rui was reborn, she quickly followed her mother to Shenshi, and she didn't even look at her grandparents.
Of course, this is also a child for a long time, this temperament is a little naïve, you let Zhou Rui, who was just reborn, give it a try, even if she is excited, Mrs. Zhou will not behave like this.
"Hey, run slowly, whatever I say, I'll just say that this car should be a ......" Li Jinxi said and greeted him, and was pounced on by Zhou Rui, who ran back.
"Grandpa, I miss you, do you miss me. Zhou Rui smiled and looked at the face in his memory, well, he was younger.
Although my grandparents had children and daughters, there was nowhere to put their portraits after their deaths.
At first, after my grandfather left, his portrait was placed in his old house with his grandmother, and later, when my grandmother also left, the old house became the place where they put their portraits, but my uncle later sold the old house, and there was nowhere to put the photos of my grandfather and grandmother.
It is impossible for the aunt's family, after all, it is a foreign daughter. Uncle's ...... lived in her cousin's grandfather's family, so after Zhou Rui bought her first house, the first thing she did was to ask her grandparents' posthumous photos home.
She has been looking at it for so many years, how can she not remember this face in her memory.
"Don't be ashamed, be ashamed!" Zhang Zifang looked at her niece with some jealousy.
Her preference for her eldest daughter is a matter on the surface, because Zhou Rui is less than half a year apart from her aunt's cousin, and Zhang Zifang has patronized her eldest daughter for a few days except for a few days during the confinement.
Who made Li Lingli stand on her own since she was a child.
Now that she is older, Zhang Zifang is not unthinkable, among the two daughters and a son, the second daughter who is the most unfavored is the most filial one, and the other two, she can see clearly, they are too selfish.
"Grandma, I miss you too! hehe!" If you are not ashamed, you will not be ashamed, Zhou Rui pounced on it and kissed her grandmother on the face twice.
Zhang Zifang was really surprised, this eldest niece has always been close to her grandfather, but it is not as good as when she is released here, most of the time she stays quietly alone, without the vitality that a child should have.
This is not as good as Li Yingai's little Lu Yi.
"Mom, Dad, I'm back. Li Lingli saw that her daughter got along with her parents so well, and she was also a little infected, and her eyes turned red in an instant.
In the past two years of being away from home, although life has been getting better and better, I am always homesick.
Li Lingli is not very old, she is only thirty years old, although she has become a mother, she is still attached to her parents.
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back!" If you want to talk about grievances, Zhang Zifang must have had some originally, and how much she has ruined her reputation in this year's divorce.
Although she always persuaded her daughter to divorce before, she never thought that her daughter would really leave, not to mention that it was so sudden, and she left without discussing it with her family.
But as soon as she saw her radiant daughter, a lively and lovely niece, and recalled the last time she saw her daughter, she looked withered and thin, and Zhang Zifang knew that this marriage was not wrong.
As for fame, people don't live for outsiders to see, so let them go.
The house where Li Jinxi lives now is a housing reform house of the Agricultural Bank of China, which originally had only two bedrooms and one living room, and when he came back, he also took the key to the set next door, and after opening it, it became a four-room house.
However, this house is on the first floor, when the flood in 98, this house was flooded, and my grandmother said that she didn't want to live in anything anymore, and sold at a very low price, and went to buy a two-room commercial house in the town of my grandfather's ancestral home, which failed.
At that time, the housing prices in the town were not much cheaper than in the city.
"Lingjie, Lingjie, come down and help carry the luggage...... This kid doesn't go out to play during the holidays, he stays at home and reads every day......" Zhang Zifang shouted and explained.
When Li Lingjie heard his mother call him, he came out very obediently, and he just smiled shyly at his sister and niece, who he hadn't seen for more than a year, and called out to the second sister, which was considered to have been greeted.
Zhou Rui doesn't have any special feelings for this uncle, he is a very self-caring person, and he will never take the initiative to call or greet people if he has nothing to do.
After two years of high school, I was admitted to the university, and I should be twenty-two this year, but I am still in my freshman year after twenty-three.
When Li Lingjie was admitted to university, Li Lingli sent 10,000 yuan home, and it was precisely because of this that Zhang Zifang's attitude towards this second daughter was exceptionally good, and she felt that the marriage was right.
Because Li Lingli hadn't divorced Zhou Liangjun, she would never have been able to give so much money to her parents.
"Hey, that master, go into the house and have a cup of tea, I don't know what to call you!" Zhang Zifang greeted the driver who sent Li Lingli's mother and daughter back all the way with a smile on her face.
"Zhang Qiang, call me Xiao Zhang, send Miss Li away, I still have to go back to Hangzhou, it's the end of the year, and there are many things in the unit. "Zhang Qiang drove for Lu Zhou's friend, no, he was requisitioned by Lu Zhou, knowing the relationship between the boss and this side, he was also very polite and helped carry the luggage together.
"I'm not in a hurry for a while, I'll leave after eating! This meal must be eaten, and it's not a good dish, so it's a common meal." Zhang Zifang knew as soon as she heard that this was a driver, and it was rare to be able to afford a driver this year.
Listen to what he calls his daughter, Miss Li? No, she needs to inquire carefully.
"Auntie, I really don't need to, I have to go back, goodbye, auntie! next time, next time you have the opportunity, you must try your craft." "This lady has such a big hand, Zhang Qiang finally broke free and ran away.
He didn't lie, he still had to send his boss's friend Mr. Lu over after the year, and he might have to stay here for two days at that time.
In Hangzhou these days, Zhang Qiang drove Li Lingli and the three of them to play.