Chapter 255: You'll Know When You Grow Up
"Why haven't you come yet?" Zhang Haiyang sat on the threshold, holding his cheeks and looking at the courtyard door for the Nth time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Zhang Haiyan asked curiously: "What are you always looking forward to my aunt doing? ā
"I didn't look forward to my aunt. Zhang Haiyang said honestly, "I'm looking forward to my uncle, he promised me yesterday that he would make me a slingshot with the longest and farthest range." ā
"Don't sit in the way of your sister and brother, it's windy at the door, come inside. Grandma Zhang shouted in the stove room.
"That's it, it's a cold day, sit at the door and blow the wind, stupid or not! Come in! Your uncle won't come so early. Zhang Yuejun, who was holding a sea bowl for breakfast, said with a smile.
The two of them arrived yesterday afternoon, and today is the first breakfast back to their hometown, scallion oil flower rolls, sweet potato porridge, with fried peanuts, spicy dried fish, don't be too satisfied.
"Why?" asked Zhang Haiyang with a small face on his face.
"Silly boy, you'll find out when you grow up and marry a daughter-in-law. Now let me in! Open the door, you don't get cold, I can't stand it. Zhang Yuejun saw that his son obediently got up and covered the door of the hall with the ashes on his buttocks, so he continued to make breakfast, and said to the old man who was busy in the stove room while eating, "Mother, Xiaofang and Gangzi just got married, why did you ask her to come over so early?
"There's no work, I just thought, the two of them are so tired and crooked, they often delay breakfast until noon, which is not good for their health, so let them come over early." ā
"Poof-" Zhang Yuejun shot a peanut on the opposite wall accurately, "I said mother, the two of you are newly married, is it really good for you to mix like this?"
Luo Shengnan couldn't help laughing, and he didn't tear down his mother-in-law's stage.
"I didn't mix it. Grandma Zhang said seriously, "I just asked them to come over early for dinner." At this time, you can't see it when you're young, but when you're older, you'll know how important three meals are to your body. Don't take your body seriously. ā
"Yes, yes, you're right!"
Grandma Zhang glanced at her son, don't think she couldn't hear it, her tone was perfunctory.
"Aunt and uncle are here!" Zhang Haiyang, who had been looking out through the crack in the door even when the door was closed, immediately spotted the young couple who had entered the yard, opened the door excitedly, jumped to Xiang Gang, and asked when he would make a slingshot for him.
"You bastard, your aunt didn't eat breakfast, where did you get the time to make you a slingshot while playing!" Zhang Yuejun got rid of his son who had been bored all morning, and called the two of them into the house to eat.
Xiang Gang patted Zhang Haiyang's head and said with a smile: "The slingshot is done very quickly, you prepare the materials according to what I said first, I will make it for you after I eat, and I will take you to the field to hunt sparrows after I finish it." ā
"Okay!" Zhang Haiyang's face was swept away, and he cheered and searched for the wooden sticks, cowhide bands, and lead wires that Xiang had just said.
Yingfang went to the stove room and asked the master if she wanted help.
"What are you helping, wasn't you busy a while ago? The rest is your sister-in-law, don't worry about it, you are good with Gangzi. Did you say when you will return to the army? What do you say about the affairs of the army?" Grandma Zhang gave her a bowl of sweet potato porridge and asked with concern.
Ying Fang said truthfully: "I have to leave tomorrow, and there are still tasks waiting for him." It's still early to join the army, and it will definitely have to wait for spring ploughing. ā
"After spring ploughing, follow the army? That's not early, isn't it February at the beginning of the year? Didn't your Aunt Deng say that day that the commune was going to recommend you to study in the county this year? Didn't you tell Gangzi?" Grandma Zhang was really afraid that Xiang Gang would not agree, so she was a little cautious when she asked.
"Having said that, he supported me to continue my studies. Ying Fang glanced at Xiang Gang with a smile, and responded generously, "I also said that I would find someone to trust to see if I could transfer my student status to the middle school where I was stationed." ā
"School status can also be transferred, that is a good feeling!" Grandma Zhang was relieved, and happily served Xiang Gang a bowl of sweet potato porridge, in addition to dried radish, peanuts, dried fish, and two golden poached eggs.
"What a discriminatory treatment. Zhang Yuejun, who originally felt satisfied in his stomach, hugged his mother's shoulder and sighed exaggeratedly, "I don't know, I thought Gangzi was your old son, and I picked it up from the train station." ā
Grandma Zhang glanced at him: "The girls are about to get married, and they are still so naughty!"
Everyone laughed.
Speaking of swallows, Luo Shengnan said wistfully: "It's not that I didn't show her last year, but there is no suitable one in the neighborhood, and there is no response after asking someone to introduce her, and if it drags on, she is getting older and older......"
Zhang Youkang came in with a bundle of bamboo poles, intending to set up a big cage for the remaining rabbits to live in, and when he heard his daughter-in-law's worries, he continued: "The marriage has not yet arrived, what are you in a hurry." Like Fang girl, isn't it also seventeen years old before it was settled? ā
That being said, but before the marriage comes, parents are always in a hurry, what if they can't meet the so-called marriage? Isn't it a lifetime of delay?
"What did Yanzi say herself?" Yingfang asked Luo Shengnan in a low voice.
"It's good that the girl is willing to say, and every time I ask her, she says she's not in a hurry. Luo Shengnan simply sat opposite Yingfang, peeling potato skins and complaining, "The daughter of the old Wang family upstairs is half a year younger than Yanzi, and she has said that she has a good partner." The daughter of the Feng family downstairs, who goes to school and is in the same class as Yanzi, is going to prepare for a marriage in the spring, so our family ......"
"Mother!" Miss Yanzi finished drying her clothes and came in to argue, "What are you talking about!" Wang Qin and Feng Yuzhen are talking about, you haven't seen before, one is fat like a pig, the other is completely sick, and the wind is about to fall. I don't want such an object for nothing!"
"Hey!" Luo Sheng was angry, "Are you embarrassed to think this fat and useless?
"Bring it!" the swallow snorted angrily, flicked his braids, turned his head and rushed out the door.
"You two mothers, what are you doing all this for the New Year? Even if you worry about her life's events, you have to wait until the New Year to worry about it. "Grandma Zhang is anxious to chase after her.
Luo Shengnan didn't want to lose face with his mother-in-law, so he didn't say anything to refute it, but he didn't get up to chase after him, and sat on the side sulking to himself.
Ying Fang finished picking up the porridge in the bowl three or two times, wiped her mouth and got up and said, "Master, I'll go." ā
"Okay, you're about the same age, and you're usually more talkable. You go and persuade her, don't be angry with your mother for the New Year. ā
"I know, you and your sister-in-law can rest assured. Yingfang comforted them a few words and went out to look for swallows.
Xiang Gang caught up with his long legs: "Do you want me to accompany you?"
"No, I don't have to. Ying Fang smiled, "I know where she is, and the topic of the girl's house, you can't intervene when you go." Let's make a slingshot for the ocean, don't you want to take him to shoot sparrows? Shoot a few more, and it's also a dish to roast and roast. ā