Chapter 318 The Feng family changed

1.

After New Year's Day, the 1997 winter vacation will be more than two weeks away.

During the winter vacation of 97, I made an exception in the spring and did not hold a holiday art tutorial class. There are two reasons for this, one is that during the period from entering the Layue Gate to the New Year of the old calendar, the business in Xu Dan's cosmetics store has always been very busy, and in previous years, Xu Dan's mother or two sisters took the time to help her, but this year these things have become the unshirkable responsibility of spring. are already married and started a family, and it is always a little bad to trouble Xu Dan's mother's family, besides, they each have their own business to be busy; second, according to the customs of the Hushan area, spring this year is the first year of the new son-in-law's door, according to the convention, the third day of the first month of spring to go to the old father-in-law's house to say hello, and then to accept the old father-in-law's family in turns, the length of the banquet time depends on the size of the father-in-law's family, the family with many households, the new son-in-law has to eat for four or five days in the first month, and during this period of the banquet, the new son-in-law has to eat and live in the father-in-law's house until the end of the round banquet。 In the spring, I secretly calculated that although Lao Xu's family in Hushan Town was not very big, it would take three days to eat according to three meals a day. If you calculate it in this way, it will definitely delay the work of the spring art tutorial class, so the spring simply shut down the winter vacation art tutorial class.

Although the principal Zhao Zhiqiang was reluctant to do this thing in the spring, he was helpless in the face of the spring's vigorous reasons.

2.

After eating the banquet of Xu Dan's family, busy with the affairs of visiting the door and entertaining guests in Shimengouzi Village, his hometown, and Xu Dan's cosmetics store will open on the eighth day of the first month, so on the morning of the seventh day of the first month, Spring and Xu Dan returned to Hushan Middle School.

The house has not been inhabited for more than ten days, and there is a terrible cool air everywhere, and in the spring, Xu Dan has to open the window to ventilate, dry the bedding, and make a stove to drive away the cold.

After all this, it was already more than nine o'clock in the morning, and the spring took Xu Dan to start a door-to-door New Year's greeting trip in the compound of Hushan Middle School. Although some people do things on weekdays, spring is not very common in their hearts, but the etiquette of the New Year can not be lost, and those who should not go should go must go for a walk at this time. In previous years, this New Year's greeting was done by one person in the spring, one by one, and the one who went to catch up with the meal was eaten at which house, anyway, it was a matter of more pairs of chopsticks and multiple bowls, and no one lacked that bit of food and drink in the New Year's month. But this year, in the spring, I must take my new wife Xu Dan to visit the house together, which is the least politeness.

Every year in the first month of the year, spring starts from the principal Zhao Zhiqiang's house, and this year is no exception. Zhao Zhiqiang was not at home, and his wife Tan Yan warmly received Chun and Xu Dan. Tan Yan did not hesitate to praise Xu Dan, and praised Xu Dan in front of the spring, saying that Xu Dan was smart and capable, and she was beautiful, which made Xu Dan's face crimson.

Out of Zhao Zhiqiang's house, Spring and Xu Dan turned up from a row of houses at the back of the family courtyard, stayed for more than ten minutes in each family, smoked two cigarettes, drank a few cups of tea, said a few words of blessing to each other, or talked about what they saw and heard in their hometowns during the Spring Festival, and tasted the strong warmth between colleagues and friends in laughter and laughter.

At half past ten, Spring and Xu Dan came to Feng Shu's house.

When I pushed the door in, the situation in the house startled Spring. In the hall, Feng Shuzheng was curled up on the sofa and smoking a cigarette vigorously, his eyes were bloodshot, his mouth was scruffed, and his face was full of exhaustion and haggardness.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Chun and Xu Dan greeted Feng Shu, and Chun asked with concern. Although Feng Shu has done a lot of things that are sorry for Spring, Spring is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, even if Feng Shu is a little good to himself, Spring will also remember it.

"Ahh Feng Shuchang sighed and motioned for Chun and Xu Dan to sit down, while reaching out and pointing to the closed door of the bedroom.

"What's wrong, brother, did you quarrel with your sister-in-law?" Xu Dan joked with Feng Shu after sitting down.

"What kind of quarrel? it's all the old husband and wife, you think it's you young people!" Feng Shu's face was depressed, and then he let out a deep sigh.

At this time, Feng Shu's wife Liu Shuzhen's weak voice suddenly came from the bedroom: "Is Xiaochun and Xiaoxu here?"

Spring and Xu Dan were stunned, quickly got up from the sofa, walked a few steps and pushed open the bedroom door.

In the bedroom, on the wide Simmons bed, Liu Shuzhen's head leaned against the head of the bed, her body curled up in the thick quilt, her long dry hair scattered on her thin shoulders, and her plump cheeks in the past were thin, and her face was sallow. There is no blood at all, on the thin cheeks, the two cheekbones are abrupt like two hills; there are a lot of red blood in the eyes, the lips are pale, and the lips are cracked one after another due to long-term dryness; a pair of sad and helpless eyes look at Spring and Xu Dan who pushed the door in, and a miserable and weak smile flashes at the corners of their mouths.

"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?" Spring walked a few steps and reached out to clasp Liu Shuzhen's hands.

Liu Shuzhen's hands were cold, her complexion was pale, her muscles were relaxed, and the green tendons on the back of her hands were bulging, looking a bit like the hands of an old man in his twilight years, not at all like the hands of a young woman in her thirties who was full of health and vitality.

To tell the truth, in Feng Shu's family, the only person who made Spring feel close was Liu Shuzhen. This woman is gentle and kind, treats people kindly, has always treated Spring as a younger brother, often beckons Spring to come to the house to eat and drink, and has also been anxious about Spring's marriage, and has wanted to be a matchmaker for Spring several times, threading needles for him and the young female teachers in the school, but they have all been rejected by Spring. In the eyes of spring, Liu Shuzhen is like her sister, a person who can be completely trusted and close, and a person who is completely different from Feng Shu.

"Well, I don't know what's going on..." Liu Shuzhen said weakly, "I just feel weak, sore, feverish, cold, I can't eat or drink, I always cough, and sometimes I cough up blood, I guess I have a serious illness that can't be cured..."

"Sister-in-law, don't talk nonsense..." Spring's eyes were red, and tears almost fell out.

"Sister-in-law, how many days have you been here?" asked Xu Dan with concern while kneading Liu Shuzhen's legs intimately.

"I don't feel good two days after the winter vacation, I always have a cough, chills, sometimes I have a fever for no reason, your brother said it was a cold, and I went to the hospital to prescribe some medicine, but it didn't work, and now it's getting worse and worse..." Liu Shuzhen coughed a few times, gasped for breath, and continued, "I didn't go back to my hometown during the Chinese New Year, it was your brother who took the child home, and I stayed alone in these two cold rooms all night..."

"Why don't you go to the hospital?" asked Liu Shuzhen a little angrily.

"Alas," Liu Shuzhen smiled sadly, "My parents-in-law said that I can't go to the hospital for the Chinese New Year, for fear of bringing bad luck to the family..."

After listening to Liu Shuzhen's explanation, Spring could only shake her head and smile bitterly. The old people in the family are ignorant, can it be said that Feng Shu, as a people's teacher, doesn't even understand the truth of "seeking medical treatment when sick"?

"Xiao Tian, you and Xiao Xu will eat here at noon," Liu Shuzhen's eyes had a hint of begging, "The dishes bought for the New Year are piled up in the kitchen, I can't do it, and your brother can't do it." Just let Xu Dan cook, let's have a reunion dinner together. Okay, okay?"

Spring turned his head and glanced at Xu Dan, and Xu Dan nodded again and again.

So, Xu Dan and Spring said hello to Feng Shu and went to the kitchen to get busy. Feng Shu was overjoyed, and he also ran back and forth to help get busy. Feng Shu would only do simple tasks such as noodles and porridge, and he would also make boiled cabbage when stir-frying, so the appetizers that Feng Shu bought for the New Year were almost untouched in the kitchen. Now that he has caught Xu Dan, a "laborer" who does not spend money, Feng Shu instigated Xu Dan to fry a few more dishes, and if he can't eat a meal, he can keep it for a few more meals, anyway, he can't eat a cold day.