Wang Xiaohu climbed the building with his burden, and his speed was faster than them. When the two uncles and nephews reached the staircase on the third floor, the young man had already unloaded his burden and walked back with sweat.

Ying Fang shouted to him: "Xiaohu, wait for me." ”

"What else does sister-in-law command?" Wang Xiaohu immediately stopped.

Yingfang pushed open the door, took a clean cloth bag, and went to the West House to load a few catties of salt-fried melon seeds.

This is a new fried not long ago. Raw melon seeds can be stored for a year if they are properly stored, but they are easy to deteriorate when fried. Therefore, they are all eaten in batches and fried in batches.

"You take these and share them with your comrades. ”

Ying Fang grabbed the cloth bag, stuffed it into the guard's arms, and gave him the last apple in the house, "This is for you to eat, you have worked hard today." ”

"Squeak squeak—"

Without waiting for the guards to react, the little monkey jumped out of the house and swung to the guards with the power of the door frame, trying to snatch the apple from his hand.

Wang Xiaohu was so shocked that his eyes were about to fall off.

"Sister-in-law, this ......"

Uncle Lu was also surprised.

Ying Fang only felt that her brain hurt, and she dragged the little monkey back to the house, glared at the old Jin and the two who pretended to be innocent, and sneered: "This is a friend I met when Little Golden Tooth went to play in the mountains, invited to the house as a guest, and left after a while, and left after a while." ”

Finally persuaded the guards who turned back one step at a time, Yingfang pulled her uncle into the house, closed the door, and pretended to be angry and said to the little monkey: "How can you rob other people's hands?"

"Squeak-" The little monkey snapped aggrievedly to his paws.

I knew that I would have eaten the apple, but whoever made it have a small appetite, and it would be full if it ate one apple of that size.

"Woo. ”

Little Golden Tooth ran to play a round for his little friend, next to Yingfang's instep, rolled back and forth twice, and finally shook his paws and tongue with his feet facing the sky, looking like Ren Jun was teasing, which made Yingfang laugh without laughing.

Uncle Lu was stunned: "This is all raised at home?"

"Lao Jin and Little Gold Tooth are family members, but the little monkey is not, this is not coming back with the old Jin Ye today, I let it go home after dark, and it won't come back, and I can't communicate with it. It depends on when it wants to leave. ”

Ying Fang said, scratched the little gold tooth, then picked it up and greeted her uncle: "Come, gold tooth, this is our uncle, who came from the coal city to see us." Lao Jin, you also come and say hello to your uncle. ”

Lao Jin gave a "high" face.

As for King Jin who slept in the corner of the Westinghouse, forget it. Pull it out to give a salute to your uncle, you don't have to frighten people.

After introducing the "family members", Yingfang asked her uncle if he had brought a change of clothes.

Uncle Lu hurriedly said, "I brought it." Don't say you're going to stay here for two days, can you not bring it on a hot day? ”

"Okay, you go to the water room to take a shower. It's just half a bucket of cold water, mixed with hot water to make do with a wash, if it's not enough, you have to go downstairs to get well water. The running water has been off for days. ”

"It's easy to do, while the clothes are not wet, I'll go get two buckets first. ”

Uncle Lu didn't say a word, he had a wooden bucket in one hand, and in less than three minutes back and forth, he came up with two buckets full of cool well water.

Yingfang dismantled a new towel, put it in the water room with the bathtub, and brought a bottle of hot water to her uncle and asked him to wash it with cold water.

The well water is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is refreshing to wash clothes and vegetables in winter, and refreshing in summer. Unlike tap water, the sun is basking on the rooftop, and the temperature of the water released is 30 or 40 degrees. The well water is pumped up from the ground and poured directly on the body, which can make people shiver with cold.

After preparing the things for the bath, Yingfang said: "Then uncle, you wash slowly, and I'll go next door to fry two dishes." I didn't cook tonight, let's eat cold noodles, and tomorrow we will pick up a table to catch you up. ”

"What's the wind, the cold noodles are good. It's hot, and your uncle can't eat it. Just cold noodles, other dishes just like you to get some, uncle doesn't need it. Uncle Lu said briskly.

Ying Fang smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll watch and do something." ”

Originally, I ordered cold noodles, eggplant, and loofah egg soup, and the noodles were for two people, but now that my uncle is here, these designations alone are not enough to eat.

Fortunately, there are still noodles left, wake up and put them on the board, I was going to cook noodle soup tomorrow morning, but I don't care about it at this time, I neatly pull it into noodles, cook it in the pot and mix it well.

In addition, soak the black fungus and dried bamboo shoots in hot water, blanch them for a while, and then mix them with a sour and spicy appetizer.

Jiang Xiaoqin was also cooking in the kitchen, knowing that Yingfang's uncle was here, and he also picked up an obviously heavy burden, no need to guess to know, it must be the food sent by his grandmother's family, so he couldn't hold back his envy and asked jealously: "Xiaoshu, where is your grandmother's house? ”

"Yes, my grandmother's house is from Coal City. Ying Fang said while cooking noodles, "It's far away from us, and the train alone will take a day and a night." ”

"Your uncle doesn't look like he is farming, there are a lot of mines in the coal city, could he be a mine worker?"

Seeing Yingfang nodding, Jiang Xiaoqin became more and more envious in her heart.

It is said that the benefits of coal mines are good, and if they are coal cities that specialize in producing good coal, the benefits will be even better. The benefits of the mine are good, which means that the treatment of the workers who work in it is also good, and there are briquette tickets issued during the New Year's holidays. Thinking that there were enough briquettes to burn the stove in winter, Jiang Xiaoqin made a calculation in her heart, and wanted to ask something more, but when she saw Wu Guihua carrying a bucket of water, she yawned and came in, so she had to shut up first.

When Wu Guihua saw Yingfang, she asked, "You have a guest at home?"

"Well, it's my uncle, who came to us on a business trip and came to see me by the way. Ying Fang glanced at Wu Guihua a little embarrassed, "My uncle and I are standing at the top of the stairs and talking, arguing with my sister-in-law to sleep, right?"

In recent days, Wu Guihua has heard that she works the night shift, going to work at 10 o'clock in the evening, and has to work until 6 o'clock the next morning before changing shifts with others. When I came back, I was sending my son to school, washing clothes and buying groceries, and I had to be busy until noon, so I slept all afternoon.

Yingfang was so excited when she saw her uncle that she forgot about this stubble, and she only remembered it when she saw Wu Guihua.

"I slept soundly and woke up when the alarm went off. I just went downstairs to fetch water, and I heard a few broken mouths muttering there, and I knew that you had a guest at home. Well, this is the vegetable melon I bought in the morning, and I will give you one to entertain the guests. ”

Wu Guihua fished up a tiger skin striped vegetable melon from the bucket, put it on the cutting board of Yingfang's house, and without waiting for Yingfang to speak, she said, "Don't just look down on me", picked up the bucket and went back to the house.

Yingfang couldn't cry or laugh, so she had to accept this gift to her heart.

After soaking in the well water for a day, the vegetable melon is cool to the touch, and it must be very refreshing to eat.

Thinking that my uncle must have been on the train for a day and night, his throat must be very dry, and Xiang Gang must have been training for a day, and it must have been very hot. When I asked my sister-in-law to borrow it, I came back with a big watermelon and shared half of it.