Chapter 18 Spring Blossoms, Letters from Far Away

The long winter has finally passed, and the footsteps of spring are slowly coming. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yangchun Budeze, all things are brilliant." It seems that overnight, the earth is covered with a layer of green, the grass comes out of the ground with the fragrance of the earth, the trees pull out tender green shoots, everything recovers, and spring flowers bloom.

Spring is coming, and people who have rested for a winter are starting to get busy again.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, take off the thick cotton clothes in early summer and put on a thin sweater, the babies have been more than three months, will turn over, sleep time is not as long as before, now someone has to watch it, if you don't pay attention, the brothers are easy to roll over.

Originally, in early summer, I wanted the old lady to watch the children at home, but the old lady didn't agree, so that now I am embarrassed to go out in early summer, I am afraid that others will say that let the old lady who is almost seventy work, and I, a young man who is less than twenty, is idle at home, what is the matter.

The old lady and father-in-law who were sent away to work in the production team took the children into the space in early summer, dug up several common edible wild vegetables, including purslane, camellia, and pinched a handful of tender toon leaves.

At the beginning of spring, the old lady caught two little piglets, because of the confinement in early summer, plus the New Year's eat, the family has been eaten up, so five chickens were caught, the family chickens, ducks and geese are counted according to the head, a few people can raise a few chickens, this year because there are two more babies, so you can have two more varied.

Chickens are very easy to solve, just feed something on the line, pigs need to play pigweed, thanks to the early summer space to save the time of pigweed, directly put the chickens and pigs into the space, let them eat themselves. I didn't dare to leave it for too long in early summer, for fear that it would grow too fast and cause suspicion.

In order to promote the baby's physical strength and coordination of limbs, the babies were trained in a variety of turnovers in early summer, and when they had time, they were gently stroked their limbs, and every time the babies laughed very happily.

Eat a winter of cabbage finally eaten, can finally change the taste, although they have space, but can not be used openly, can only be used secretly in private, want to improve the food for the home, no excuses, the New Year to take out the things have long been swept away.

At noon, in early summer, I made purslane salad, shepherd's cabbage tofu soup, and toon tofu with wild vegetables, and the old lady and father-in-law said that it tasted very good.

It is said that the spring rain is as expensive as oil, in the afternoon, there was a drizzle in the small mountain village that had not rained for a long time, like cow hair, moistening the earth, moistening all things, people working in the fields, looking at the light rain have shown a happy smile, it is really a timely rain, after the rain, it is just time to start planting peanuts.

At the beginning of the summer, he was home alone, and there was a shout outside: "Is anyone home?" "Yes." Early summer came out.

When I got out of the house, I saw a strange man in his thirties standing in the courtyard, and without waiting for the early summer to ask, the middle-aged man spoke, "May I ask if you are Zhang Chuxia?" ”

"Yes, I am, is there something wrong with you?" Hatsu asked suspiciously.

"That's right, I'm the postman in our town, and here's a letter from you." After speaking, he took out a letter from the bag on his back and handed it to Hatsu.

Chu Xia took the letter and looked at it, it turned out to be a letter from Zhang Jianjian, who had not written back for a long time, and thanked the postman and greeted him warmly, "Thank you, comrade postman, I still trouble you to run so far, let's drink saliva in the house first." ”

The postman waved his hand and refused with a smile, "It's okay, this is our job, it should be, no, there are still a few letters to be delivered, I'll leave first." After saying that, he turned around and left.

The postman was sent away, and he didn't open the letter in early summer, after all, he was a stranger he had never met, although the children were born.

Thinking about this cheap husband of mine, my heart is also quite complicated, for an older leftover woman who has lived for more than 30 pairs of marriages in her previous life, she is really a little unbearable. Whatever he does, there will be a way before the chariot reaches the mountain. Throwing away the troubles of being unhappy, I look forward to the surprise of seeing the old lady come back and see the letter in early summer.

As expected, when he took out Zhang Jianjian's letter in early summer, the old lady had tears in her eyes, and her father-in-law was also excited.

The old couple was finally excited enough, urging them to read the content of the letter to them in early summer. Open the letter,Found that it seemed to be divided into two letters,One is written for my father and mother,One is written for early summer.,I don't know what kind of mentality.,Early summer secretly stuffed the one for himself back into the envelope.,Take out the one for the old couple and start reading it seriously.。

"Daddy's mother is well:

I'm sorry to reply to you so late, the unit has been doing closed training for the past few months, and I just got back today.

Daddy, are you okay? Forgive my son's unfilial piety, I couldn't go home to spend the New Year with you, and I knew from your letters that I was a father, and I was a father all at once

The father of two children suddenly felt that his shoulders were much heavier.

For a long time, I have not had much time to be with you, and after I got married, I have been bothering you to help take care of my wife and children, just because of you at home, I can work in the army with peace of mind, and I really thank you for your support and understanding of me.

Let's talk about my life in the army, I am very good here, I eat well and dress well, the leaders also care about us, and I am not very tired from training in peacetime, so you don't have to worry.

Let's write about this first, I took a leave of absence to go home in June, and when the time comes, we will meet and talk about it in detail.

Finally, I wish my father and mother good health

Unfilial son Zhang Jianjian

March 1, 1970. ”

Hearing the letter that the old son was coming back, the old couple was not calm, one would say that they would prepare this, and one would prepare that, all of which Zhang Jianshe loved to eat, and when he saw them like this in early summer, he persuaded: "Daddy, the construction will not come back in two months, and you will not be afraid of breaking it if you are ready now." ”

The old couple thought about it, yes, that's the case, worried that they would forget what to prepare after a long time, so they specifically asked for early summer to write it down, and then prepare when the time is almost up.

finally got the excited old couple, and only in early summer did they have time to take out the letter that Zhang Jianshe wrote to him.

How are you, Xia Xia?

This is the first time I've written to you alone, I'm sorry I couldn't be by your side when you were pregnant and giving birth, you must have felt very scared, you weren't a bold person, you must have felt very helpless at the time, I'm really sorry, please forgive me for my selfishness, for the sake of this military uniform I love, I have wronged you, I can only promise to care about you and let you in the days to come.

The parents at home have to trouble you to take care of them, they are old, you have to worry too much, you missed the birth and growth of the children, and I also feel a lot of debt to the children, please help me tell them, Dad loves them.

Finally, I would like to say sincerely, my dear wife, that you have worked hard

Fu Zhang Construction.

After reading the letter, I thought that Zhang Jianshe was coming back, and I suddenly felt bad in the early summer, and the things I took out during the New Year were not easy to explain, you said that you stayed well in the army and came back, what did you come back, and the early summer hated in my heart, and you didn't want to think that this was Zhang Jianjian's family, where could he go if he didn't come back, the author complained.

No matter how secretly I hate it in the early summer, the days go by day by day.