Chapter 24: Returning Home

The skin is rough, the forehead is occupied by wrinkles, the hair is thinning a lot, and there is white hair, and the body is a lot rickety, this is the last time Zhang Yu saw his parents, his father looked, his mother was better, his hair was dyed black, but he still couldn't hide the wind and frost of the years, they should have been much younger ten years ago, and now there are only more than 1,000 chickens in the chicken farm, and the workload is not as big as a few years later, Zhang Yu still remembers the winter vacation of his senior year, and the time to eat at home is often postponed to the evening because of the work of the chicken farm, And because of my father's slightly lazy and procrastinating style, my mother's workload was much greater. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Thinking of the white hair mixed with his parents' black hair, tears swirled in Zhang Yu's eyes, it was not just a trace of time, it was inseparable from his own nonsense, if he was more obedient, life at home would definitely be better, and his parents would worry less.

Zhang Village, just on the edge of the county road from Pingyang to Yihe Town, heard the young voice of the conductor who was still ten years later, Zhang Yu walked down from the car and stepped on the land of Zhang Village.

Compared with the cement roads all over the village ten years later, Zhangcun was still an ordinary small village ten years ago, the Zhangcun Primary School next to the county road was still a red brick courtyard wall, the entrance and the big willow tree had not been cut down, and the big willow tree that had existed for a long time on the campus was much younger than ten years later.

Touching the rusty iron gate, Zhang Yu remembered the childhood years he spent in this yard, two years of kindergarten, five years of elementary school, Zhang Yu is so familiar with everything here, the white courtyard wall that he once climbed with his friends, the vegetable patch he dug, and the corner of the wall where he baked potatoes.

Compared with ten years later, Zhang Village at this time looks much more backward, many of the two-story small western-style buildings in the memory have become bungalows and tiled houses in front of them, along the dirt road at the entrance of the village that has disappeared in memory for a long time to their own door, a two-story small western-style building, red iron gate, which was built two years ago, with a lock on the iron gate, this is Zhang Yu's home.

Zhang Yu's family moved into this new house from the chicken farm last summer, as a capable breeder in the village, Zhang Yu's family is also the first to get rich, if it weren't for Zhang Yu's worry-free, Zhang's business would be better.

The new home is locked a lot of the time, and the parents will stay in the chicken farm most of the time, the farm is two streets away, in front of which is a fish pond, planted a lot of trees, Zhang Yu used to fish and swim in this pond when he was a child.

Although it is called a farm, it is an ordinary house, and it is also the former residence of Zhang Yu's family, which was later changed into a chicken farm by his father, and the big tile house that has been demolished in later generations reappeared, looking at the blue-gray gate in front of him, Zhang Yu stretched out his hand and gently brushed the wooden door, looking at the street in front of him that was dissatisfied with the traces of his childhood.

Pushing open the creaking wooden door, there was the sound of a dog barking, a pure white poodle was leashed in the yard, and when he saw Zhang Yu, he wagged his tail happily, which was brought by Zhang Yu's father from a neighbor's house, and he was very short-tempered, only the Zhang family could get close, and when others approached, they would bare their teeth and let out a low roar.

Zhang Yu squatted down and rubbed the puppy's head, and shouted Dabai, Dabai is Zhang Yu's name, hearing the familiar voice, Dabai barked happily at Zhang Yu a few times, rolled on the ground a few times, and grabbed Zhang Yu's pants.

Letting go of the puppy, Zhang Yu stood up and looked at the new house in front of him that his grandfather, who had never met more than 20 years ago, helped his father build a new house, the white walls of the hall fell off a lot, revealing the red bricks inside, and a few chicken houses were built by his father with red bricks in recent years, and there was a small shed built with bricks, which was temporarily built by his father in the process of expanding the scale of breeding, and outside the shed was the plane tree that Zhang Yu had already existed when he was born.

Touching the rough bark of the sycamore, Zhang Yu remembered the days when he once climbed the sycamore tree to dig a bird's hole and catch a climbing branch in the tree.

Hearing the big white cry, Zhang's mother walked out of the chicken coop, wearing an apron on her body, wearing long boots on her feet, looking at the familiar figure, Zhang Yu's nose was a little sour, "Mom." ā€

Compared with the appearance in Zhang Yu's mind, Xu Qin is much younger, with jet-black hair, no trace of white hair mixed in, the wrinkles on his forehead are very shallow, and Xu Qin still has waterproof gloves on his hands, "Xiaoyu is back!" Zhang Yu is the only child in the family, and although Xu Qin has a hot temper, he loves his son very much.

Zhang Yu hummed softly, snatched the gloves and apron from Xu Qin's hand, "Mom, I'll help you feed the water." "Zhang Yu's chicken farm is still in a primitive state, and it all depends on people to manage it, and Zhang's mother is responsible for feeding water and picking up eggs.

Zhang's mother did not refuse Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu in his previous life was in a period of youth rebellion, although the relationship with his parents was not as tense as in the TV series, but it was also full of contradictions, and his mother, who was also hot-tempered, was even more at all, and rarely helped the family to work, until he graduated from high school, Zhang Yu slowly understood the hard work of his parents, and went home every winter and summer vacation to help his parents take care of the chicken farm business.

Watching his son push the water into the chicken house, Xu Qin smiled with some relief, but his son rarely took the initiative to help them work, "Xiaoyu, mom go buy something, and go home to eat after feeding the chickens." ā€

Fill all the sinks with water, Zhang Yu helped his father clean up the chicken manure in the chicken house, and his mother, his father at this time is also very young, and his hair looks sparse in later generations but it is black and shiny, and the calluses on his hands are not so thick, but there are already cracked holes.

Raising chickens seems simple, but it is also very time-consuming, it is already one o'clock in the afternoon when he is busy with these things, Xu Qin has already prepared a meal, is cooking soup, fried meat with potatoes, chicken legs, beef, and a fried bean sprouts, all the dishes on the table, Zhang Xintian and his wife are usually reluctant to eat much better, but they are very sad about their son's nutrition, and they are very happy about their son's nutrition.

Zhang Xintian took out a bottle of wine from the house, and in his wife's glare, he smiled, "My son is back today, happy, take two sips." Like most of the villagers in Zhang Village, Zhang Xintian is also greedy for cups, often drinking and making mistakes, Zhang Yu remembers that the chicken farm lost more than a dozen chickens because of his father's drinking, and because of this bad habit, Zhang Yu often stands on the same front with his mother and criticizes his father.

Zhang Yu's father is just an ordinary old farmer, who has changed because of the pressure of survival, but because of his lazy and indecisive character, he has still been a small farmer for more than ten years, and Zhang Yu has suffered a fatal loss because his father did not take responsibility, which is also the biggest reason for Zhang Yu's discord with his father in his youth.

The incident that caused the estrangement of the father-son relationship happened when Zhang Yu was promoted to junior high school, Zhang Xintian reported the best junior high school in the county for Zhang Yu, and Zhang Yu lived up to expectations to become the first in that exam, and in the subsequent crucial entrance exam, Zhang Yu faced the choice of the thirteenth middle school and the town's junior high school, but Zhang Yu's father chose the town's junior high school for him, Zhang Yu no longer knew what his father did at that time, so he was sent to the town's junior high school, Later, I learned that my father changed his attitude because of the conversation of the principal of the elementary school, and since then, Zhang Yu has been somewhat resistant to the choice made by his father for him, and his academic performance has slowly pulled down, and he has hated his father since then, and has become a thorn that has not been pulled out for a long time, and his father's weakness and lack of assertiveness left a great impression on Zhang Yu in his youth.

Looking at his father in front of him, who was already ruddy because of drinking, Zhang Yu remembered the proposal that he wanted to mention to them to open a restaurant in the county seat, Zhang Yu smiled, and ate a bite of the dishes piled up in the bowl, his father's weakness was the reason why Zhang Yu finally gave up, in those novels he read, the protagonist's father often digs the first pot of gold because of the protagonist's uncertain prophet, because their father's character is not like his father, although the father of those protagonists is difficult, but his character is resolute, Zhang Yu didn't want to train his father to be a political elite or a shopping mall tycoon like in other rebirth novels, he was just an ordinary farmer, and he just wanted to make his parents' lives better.