Chapter 2

The summer vacation in July and August has just passed, there are no big festivals and holidays in September, and Chen Anxiu has made people push off the farmhouse reservation, so except for weekends, the work in the small restaurant is still relatively idle, but this season a lot of mountain goods have come down, walnuts, sticky corn, persimmons, sweet potatoes, as well as fresh jujubes and millet, and everyone has free time to use them to simply process and package these things. In addition, the production of various lo-mei and small pickles has not stopped, and in the past two years, there have been more deliveries to the city, because the taste and health quality have been very stable, and the source of customers has slowly stabilized, and now there are even some restaurants that take the initiative to call them to talk about cooperation.

Farmhouse, Taobao shop and supply to downtown restaurants, is the main source of income for Chen Anxiu, of course, the first two are the main, the latter can only be regarded as improvised, the profit margin of lo-mei and small pickles is very small, and the supply of restaurants is pressed again, but because of the large amount of each shipment, so the income looks good, and those hotels promised to give them farmhouse and Taobao store promotional pages, virtually saving a part of the advertising costs.

This year, all kinds of vegetables in the field are also good, but unfortunately the place is limited, not much, except for the small restaurant for personal use, can not sell much, Chen Anxiu is considering whether to contract a piece of land next year, specializing in organic vegetables, now people are very health-conscious, just look at their local chickens and eggs to know the way, more than three times higher than the market price, or someone made a special trip to buy, this matter was originally considered this spring, but at that time there were places everywhere to use money, insufficient funds at hand, plus all kinds of Ji Junyan, Lu Yaya things did not stop, As a result, I couldn't calm down and take this matter seriously. However, it is not too late to think about it, there are many barren hills in the village, and it is now planned to start construction next spring.

"Zhuangzhuang, the sugar is running out, do you still have it anywhere else in the store?" Chen's mother said that she was stained with noodles and leaned out of the kitchen to ask.

Chen Anxiu slid his chin and hand, and his chin almost hit the counter, "Mom, that's Sun Xiao just bought five catties of white sugar the day before yesterday, we haven't used much yet, have you used it all?" ”

"There's not much left, and I don't look at it for less than three pounds."

Chen Anxiu closed the ledger, pushed open the counter baffle and walked out, while saying, "Mom, I'll see how much you blew up." ”

His mother steamed a day of steamed buns yesterday, each steamed bun is one and a half pounds big, a large iron pot can be steamed five or six, his mother steamed more than fifty, out of the pot also lit red dots one by one, stacked up the same mountain buns, two months at home is enough, today began to fry twist, Green Island here has a custom of fried twist for marriage, here twist is fried with flour mixed with a small amount of corn flour, eggs, sugar and sesame seeds fried together, fried out golden yellow, very crisp, and a little sweet, sometimes do it on the New Year's Festival, but do more when you get married. There are a lot of ready-made products in the market outside, but they are not as clean and assured as they are made by themselves, so there are conditions, and they are all fried by the man's own family.

Chen's mother also said, "It's not much, and the family will be gone." ”

When Chen Anxiu saw those finished products, his fingers trembled, and most of them were half a basket, not much, this basket is not a small needlework basket, but a large rattan basket for drying grain at home, with a length and a half meters and a half, although the twist is relatively loose and easy to occupy space, but his mother must not call it too much, "Enough, Mom." ”

"Come to each house and get a bag, right? You can't let people come and let people carry three or two sticks back. I used to make a lot of steamed buns, and there were all kinds of fires, and at that time there were many flower molds, and I had any tricks I wanted, and your grandmother said to pinch a pair of little tigers for you, and I wouldn't do that. ”

Chen Anxiu's third aunt Chai Qiuxia has also been busy in and out these days, originally marriage is a big deal, close relatives have to come over to help spontaneously, everyone operates together, and the work is lighter, but Chen Anxiu and Zhang Shinian This relationship is too special, Chen's mother estimated that she was going to invite someone, and no one was willing to come over, so why bother to ask for it, she had a strong temperament, so she planned to take it on with all her might, and finally there was a Chai Qiuxia to help, the two of them had a discussion, and they were also very energetic.

At this time, Chai Qiuxia rubbed her dough, and when she heard their mother and son talking, she smiled and said, "Your mother is really busy marrying her daughter and marrying her daughter-in-law, and when Wangwang and Qingqing get married, she will be clear of everything." ”

Chen's mother rubbed her hands and said, "Just them?" I don't know when I will wait, I think it is still better to wait for the providence of God, and the will of Heaven and Wenwen should also be, right? ”

Speaking of this, Chai Qiuxia was obviously very happy, and the smile on her face deepened, "It's been more than a year since they graduated, and they are thinking about doing things next year, and they haven't chosen a good date yet, so let Providence's father and second brother discuss it again." ”

"This is a good thing, when the child reaches this age, he gets married early, and we have a lot of things to worry about when we are old."

"Who's to say it isn't."

Chen's mother looked back and saw that Chen Anxiu was still standing there stupidly, so she urged him to say, "Hurry up, go out and buy some sugar, I'm all reconciled." ”

Chen Anxiu compromised, "Okay, okay, I'll buy it, but Mom, third aunt, don't make too much, go home early in the afternoon to rest, it's really busy that day." ”

"It's still strong and distressing, last time Providence and Wenwen and the company went out to travel, and came back to midnight, I said give them some noodles, do you know what Providence said, Mom, you fry two more dishes for us, you can't eat noodles."

Chen's mother knocked a few eggs, put them in a bowl and stirred them, and said with a smile, "How big is the will of God, this year is only twenty-three, and An Xiu is thirty this year. She paused, and sighed again, "I've been raising it for thirty years, and no matter how busy I am, it's just a matter of the past few days." ”

"Second sister-in-law, don't think too much, don't the children have to be like this sooner or later?" She heard her sister-in-law say one day that her second sister-in-law was pregnant with her first child back then, and An Xiu brought it back from somewhere else, but no one else had seen it, and An Xiu and Lin Changning looked so similar, it was impossible to say that it was someone else's child, right? The second brother and the second sister-in-law also value An Xiu, even An Xiu found a man, and the stars outside were drowned, and it was up to him, if this is not a kiss, then how can it be considered a kiss.

*

Marriage, Chen Anxiu didn't say in his circle of friends, after all, not everyone can accept such a relationship, so he notified the Lou Nan family and Liu Yue, he left Junya for three years, Liu Yue is now the assistant to the director of catering, it can be seen that Yu Junsheng cultivates him very much, he and Liu Yue don't meet much, occasionally get together for a meal, the two of them drink averagely, and they don't drink much, two or three years, the relationship is still so lukewarm, if there is no accident, it may continue, there is a vague feeling of gentlemen's friendship is as light as water, He could see that Liu Yue knew about his relationship with Zhang Shinian, but that person never said anything, so he shouldn't be so repulsive about this relationship.

As for Jiang Xuan and Lin Meizi, he called Jiang Xuan but no one answered, so he didn't continue.

Liu Yue was going to Guangdong to participate in a training at the end of the month, and sent a gift in advance, Lou Nan originally said that he would come to the banquet that day, but when he heard that the others were all family members, he changed his mind and invited them to dinner, and celebrated in advance.

That day, Ton Ton and Mao Mao also went, the two big children were easy to play together, and the two little ones were too, and the candy was still not much, but when I saw Mao Mao, I hugged a lot of toys and came out, and after dinner, Chen Anxiu said that when I was going to leave with Mao Mao, Candy ran to my toy room and took out a small remote control plane for Chen Anxiu.

Chen Anxiu bent down, touched his fat face and said, "Candy is so good, uncle will come to play with you next time." With that, he returned the plane to him.

Candy saw that he didn't want a plane, and ran to the toy room again, and when he came out again, he dragged a small wooden horse in his hand, at this time Chen Anxiu and they had already walked to the yard, Candy dragged the wooden horse in front of Chen Anxiu, solemnly put it down, tiptoed, stretched out his short arm to touch Chen Anxiu's arms.

Chen Anxiu was confused now, what did Candy want to do?

Or his father understood his son, so Lou Nan asked, "Candy, do you want Mao Mao to stay in our house?" ”

Candy Mumu had a wooden face, and his round head was a little bit up and down.

Chen Anxiu smiled, "No wonder you gave me so many toys, it turned out that you wanted to change our family." ”

Ton Ton whispered and joked with Sugar Ball, "Earlier, we can give it away for free." ”

Others were also laughed at the candy's move, Lou Nan hugged the candy and kissed it several times and said, "Our candy is very worthy of your family's fakes, these are candy toys very much, and they are willing to take them out and change them." ”

After the candy was picked up by Lou Nan, the position was high, so he leaned over his small body to touch his risky hands, and the two small meat hands were stacked together.

Chen Anxiu saw this, how to go, hard to tear it open, it will definitely make the child sad, it is not good to live here, there will be guests at home tomorrow, but don't we have a killer feature that has been tried and tested? "Candy, it's okay to stay here, but my family wants to eat a lot of things, and he eats them all, so you don't have to eat, you can only go hungry."

Ye Jingqian also scared him, "If Mao Mao stays, Dad will cook porridge for candy, make soup, and cook vegetables for Mao Mao alone." ”

Candy opened his eyes wide, looked at Chen Anxiu, and then turned his head to look at Ye Jingqian, as if he was making a difficult choice, and finally let go of Mao Mao's hand, just when everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he opened his arm towards Chen Anxiu, and Chen Anxiu hugged him over knowingly, "Candy is going to say goodbye to Mao Mao?" ”

How do you know that Lu Dao Candy hugged Chen Anxiu's neck, and pointed at Zhang Shinian's car parked next to him with his fat short fingers, and spit out three words in his mouth, "Cheche." He also looked back at his father and brother, which probably meant that they went up together.

Lou Nan raised his forehead, waved his hand at him and said, "I'm not going with my father and brother, if you want to go, go alone, we won't pick you up, you can live at Uncle Chen's house." You can live as long as you want. "Candy likes to go to Chen Anxiu's house, why hasn't this addiction been broken.

Candy looked at him and stopped talking.

Chen Anxiu knew that such a big child couldn't leave his family when he woke up at night, and he didn't dare to say that he would bring candy alone, so he persuaded Lou Nan to say, "Otherwise, you can follow the mountain and live for a few days." There are rooms anyway. ”

Lou Nan Zhilu said that all kinds of relatives are definitely coming these days, the Chen family is very busy, usually no matter what, and now it is purely to add to the chaos, "No, let's go again during the eleventh holiday." He brought the candy back, and the candy didn't resist, but when he got into the car, he shouted, "Brother." ”

Chen Anxiu pressed the car window, and shook his hand at him, "Come and play with the candy in a few days, and my uncle will leave it for you to eat." He laughed heartlessly.

When he went back to Zhang Shinian to drive, Chen Anxiu sat behind him with Mao Mao and Ton Ton, and the family still couldn't laugh when they talked about candy.

Tons pinched the little claws and said with a smile, "It seems that the candy really likes to take the bubble, and you have a big face." ”

took the risk of being careless, and as soon as he provoked him, he wanted to drill into Tonton's arms, and Tonton hated him, "You have so much meat on your body, don't want me to hold you, your legs hurt when you press the ground." ”

Mao Mao pretended not to understand when he understood, and crawled over cheekily with his hands and feet, sitting firmly in his arms, leaning his neck and babbling something in his mouth, probably only he himself could understand.

"Will the second sister-in-law come over with Congshan and Ning Tian tomorrow?"

"Well, I said I came over in advance to help."

Tomorrow is September 25, He Congshan is Ji Junyi's wife, Jiang Ningtian is Ji Junxin's wife, the former is a lawyer, the latter is a doctor in the military hospital, Chen Anxiu saw the two of them during the Chinese New Year, He Congshan has a hearty personality, Jiang Ningtian has a gentle temperament, they are not difficult to get along with, of course, these two people have a good family background.

"What about Yueran and Tao Tao, do they want to come together?"

"The two of them still have to go to school, and they have someone to take care of at home."

"Oh." The days are approaching day by day, and it is false to say that I don't feel it.

*

People come to have a good reception, finally the room is almost empty, Chen Anxiu arranged for them to live in the courtyard next door to the second elder of the Ji family, for their arrival, Chen Anxiu put on all the spare bedding of the farmhouse, and the three of them came in with their luggage.

Zhang Qingcilian said, "I haven't lived in such a yard yet, there are kang heads, and there are flowers outside." "There is a big moon tree planted outside the window, the flowers are still blooming very well in this season, the vigorous branches and leaves are higher than the window sill, the moon flowers have no fragrance, but as soon as the window is opened, you can see such a brilliant flower, it can still make people feel happy for a long time.

"I'm afraid that the second sister-in-law is not used to it, this kang is a little hard, I added a thin cushion, if the second sister-in-law is not used to it, there is still thick at home."

Zhang Qingci patted the kang noodles with his hands and smiled, "It's already very good, the bed is hard and good for the body, and the bed in our house is not soft, your second brother is not used to it." ”

"That second sister-in-law, you have been in the car for so long, take a rest first, I will come over and call you for dinner, now I will go to my parents to have a look."

"Okay, go ahead, don't take care of us, we're here to help."

Chen Anxiu smiled, and after going to the other room to say hello to the other two, he took the outside courtyard door and came out.

Chen's mother washed some fruit and brought it over, and when she saw him coming out of it, she asked, "Are you all here?" I brought them some fruit. ”

Chen Anxiu put his arm around his mother's shoulders and walked out, "Forget Mom, don't be busy, they will be washing now, the old man drank a lot of tea there just now, and he shouldn't have the heart to eat, it will take a few days here, not bad today." ”

Chen's mother was not reluctant, and said, "When I first got off the bus, I sat in the building materials store for a while, and I was very kind to listen to the conversation, and I brought things to your father and me." "It's just that they don't feel like they're all the way, two worlds.

"Mom, they're them, we're us, anyway, we won't see each other a few times a year, don't be too stressed, what to do, what to eat, what to drink."

"I know the way, I know the way, and you use your hairy boy to teach me." That's right, but I can't get over that hurdle in my heart, but now that my son's marriage is important, I don't think much about anything else, so I'll finish this matter first.

Lu Jiangyuan came back on the 26th, and Lin Changning also asked for leave on this day, but the two of them couldn't help much, making the bed and stacking the quilt, and cleaning up the house was mostly done by women, and the rest of the Ji family except for Ji Junxin came over one after another on the 27th, and Ji Junxin couldn't come over because he was on a mission outside.

The day before the wedding on the 27th, the family usually wanted to make dumplings, and they had to pack a lot, and Chen's mother adjusted two pots of stuffing alone, a pot of cabbage and shrimp, and a pot of celery fungus eggs. Lin Changning and Lu Jiangyuan also went to Linjiadao to pick up the old man and the old lady in advance, and Tianyu and Tianqing also came back early.

This dumpling worker doesn't need to help, there are too many people over there, Chen Anxiu said there is a conversation, find a free time and slip out, tonight is not in a state, tomorrow is a good day, the surrounding village heard that there are several couples to get married, all kinds of fireworks and firecrackers are endless, that is the blessing of everyone, can announce the happy event, he lay down on the embankment, all kinds of ceremonial flowers are blooming in the sky.

Hearing someone's footsteps, Chen Anxiu pillowed his arms and looked sideways, "Dad? How did you get out? ”

Lin Changning sat down next to him, "Come out and breathe." ”

"There's too many people in the house."

"It's better to be lively, this is a bit of a marriage, are you starting to get a little nervous now?"

"Seriously, Dad, it's a little bit, and it's a little hard to say." All sorts of confusion thoughts.

"Everyone who wants to get married is like this, and getting married is another stage of life."

Chen Anxiu stretched his legs, "That's what I said." ”

"Here's for you." Lin Changning stuffed a bunch of keys into his hand.

"What is this?" Chen Anxiu did it and took it to take a look.

Lin Changning said softly, "It's the key to the house, I just bought it for you." "When a son gets married, parents who have the conditions will prepare a house for their children.

"Dad, what are you sending me for, it's not like I don't have a place to live."

"Take it, apart from these, we don't know what to send." After missing out on so many years, he can only make up for these material things, but these are not lacking at all, "If you don't want to live in the future, you can sell it." ”

Chen Anxiu gave him a hug, "Xie Lu Xie Dad, Xie Lu Xie." ”

"I'll show you something more." Lin Changning took out an envelope from his pocket, which seemed to be a photo, it was too dim to see what was on it.

Chen Anxiu looked at the light, vaguely looking at a person, but his eyebrows and eyes still couldn't see clearly, "Whose photo is this, Dad?" ”

"It's me."

"Your picture?" How did you suddenly give him a picture?

"It was Ning Shizhao back then, I thought I had lost it, but this time I went back and found it in the study, and I remade it for you. You must have been in my belly for seven months. Since then, for more than 20 years, when taking family photos, he has taken two photos with this child, but alone, never again.