Although the uncle and cousins came late, they were still very touched by this caring brother and sister. So Zhou Chen and Shen Guodong enthusiastically left them at home to eat before going back.

The eldest uncle refused to say anything, and was about to take the group home. Six big men, how much food do you have to eat for this meal? Don't you have to empty the children's food rations?!

The second uncle turned out of the hut next to the kitchen where the grain and sundries were kept, and happily reported to Li Houhua: "Brother! I see their pockets! Plenty of food! Let's have a meal! Let's eat here! Xiao Er can cook! ”

Then Li Guohua instructed Zhou Chen again: "Make that cucumber slices fried chicken breast meat for your uncle last time!" It's fresh, tender, and delicious! ”

Li Houhua glared at this unobtrusive younger brother, "No matter how much food you have, you can't be so bad!" You still order!? Why can't you look like an elder! ”

Li Guohua was unhappy, "I am their maternal uncle, why is it a waste of food to eat one meal from them?" When the children run out of food, I save them from my own bowl, they have enough food to eat, why can't I honor a meal? ”

Li Houhua was asked by his younger brother's crooked reasoning, and he didn't find anything to discipline him for a while, so he could only stare dryly.

"Dad, why don't I take Qingxue and Qingsheng back to deliver a letter to my grandfather and grandmother first, they are still thinking about it at home." Li Qingyun hurriedly diverted the topic.

He took his two younger brothers with him, leaving his father and his brothers to eat here, and he didn't have to waste so much food.

"I'm going to deliver the letter, I'm fast on my bike." Shen Guodong picked up Zhou Wanwan and walked out, not giving Li Qingyun a chance to go home.

He likes the informal Li Guohua. It's just a meal, as for the whole is so serious!

Of course, Shen Guodong, the eldest young master who had never been hungry, couldn't understand Li Houhua's mood. Even now, although it has been a good year for a few years. However, more than half of the grain harvested had to be handed over to the state and the collectives, and the grain distributed by the peasants was still not enough to eat for a year.

A meal for six big men is a very big burden for ordinary farmers.

Shen Guodong pushed out a bicycle from the warehouse, tied Zhou Wanwan's small chair to it, and wanted to take her to Songtun.

Xiao Wang ran forward and followed. It's clear that we want to go together. Before outsiders came to the house, Xiao Wang kept surrounding Zhou Chen in order to eat meat buns. Now there are outsiders. Xiao Wang must have been by Zhou Wanwan's side every step of the way, and even his meat buns were temporarily put down.

Shen Guodong's thoughts are actually similar to Xiao Wang's, there are no outsiders at home, and he can run casually every night. With outsiders. He has to hold it in his hands all the time and look at it in his eyes, even if it is his own uncle and cousin, he is not at ease.

Shen Guodong can't be blamed for this, his father and sister can be so unreliable, and of course he doesn't trust outsiders.

So if he wants to go to Songtun to deliver the letter, he must bring it last night.

"Gordon, why do you have three bicycles in your barn?!" Li Qingxue also followed Shen Guodong out. He is twenty-three years old and has been engaged for two years. I'm getting married this winter.

"Hmm." Shen Guodong snorted with his nose, not very kind to this second cousin of the Li family, who had no eyes.

When Zhou Chen was still in school. Once Shen Guodong rode away another bicycle at home, and Li Qingxue borrowed Zhou Chen's bicycle for school in order to pick up his fiancée and save face.

He said that he would borrow Sunday for one day, but he didn't return it for three days. Zhou Chen could only walk to school every day, and in the late autumn weather, Lu Yuan couldn't come back to eat at noon, so he nibbled on cold cakes for two days.

Dunzi really couldn't stand it, and went to Songtun to ask for a bicycle, only then did he know that Li Qingxue lent the bicycle to his future brother-in-law without telling his family, and told people that his relatives were not in a hurry to use it, and he could ride it for a few days!

Since then, Shen Guodong and Dunzi have been very unkind to him.

Li Qingsheng then came out, he took out a large handful of ripe purple mushrooms from his pocket and showed it to Zhou Wanwan, "Ye'er and Ya'er gave it to you, they picked it up in Beihetao, and they skewered a lot of strings at home, and I will send you a few more strings in winter, you can play with this first." ”

The Beihetao in Li Qingsheng's mouth is the Hetao where they caught fish every night, because in the north of Songtun, the people in their tun called it Beihetao.

"Thank you, Brother Qingsheng, I also brought delicious food to Sister Ye'er and Sister Ya'er." Zhou Wanwan patted the small flower cloth satchel on his body, which contained preserved fruits and sugar cubes.

Li Qingsheng smiled and motioned to Zhou Wanwan to take the purple mushroom in his hand, Zhou Wanwan grabbed a handful, it was too big, she grabbed three or four with one small hand and grabbed it full.

Shen Guodong looked at it next to him and smiled, but he didn't help, until Zhou Wanwan looked at him distressedly and begged for help, he took the purple mushroom Niang in Li Qingsheng's hand and put it in his pocket for her.

"Guodong, when I get married, all three bicycles of your family will be lent to me, how magnificent it is to pick up the bride!" Li Qingxue didn't care about Shen Guodong's indifference to him at all, and his eyes kept staring at the two brand-new bicycles in the warehouse.

"I don't borrow. Whose bike was bought to look at? If you borrow it and don't pay it back, what do we use for our own family? Never lend it to you again. Shen Guodong rejected him unequivocally.

"I'll get married and have a long face in one day, isn't this the family poor and unearned, or I won't be able to ask for you." Li Qingxue's words sounded self-deprecating, but they made people feel subtlely uncomfortable.

"Our bicycles are also earned by ourselves, so it's quite reasonable that you can't earn them?" The person who makes Shen Guodong feel uncomfortable, he has always made you more uncomfortable immediately, "If you can earn it, you will give yourself a long face, if you can't earn it, what kind of face will you have?" If you can't earn it and pretend to be poor, you're really shameless! ”

Shen Guodong put Zhou Wanwan in the car, rang the bell briskly, and walked happily, Xiao Wang followed behind in a bouncing manner.

Li Qingyun's face turned red and stood in the courtyard for a while, "He, why does he dislike our poor relatives?!" ”

"Second brother, what kind of relatives are we? We can't have anything to do with the head of Shen, don't talk nonsense, let the master listen to it and scold you. Li Qingsheng turned around and entered the house.

He also envied the shiny bicycles in the barn, and never thought of borrowing them for riding. It wasn't something their old peasants could afford to eat.

When Shen Guodong came back with Zhou Wanwan, Zhou Yang and Dunzi also finished work, and half of the sky was reflected in the burning clouds. Painted the yard and house with a layer of orange red.

Zhou Yang accompanied his uncle and eldest cousin to sit at the long table in the courtyard and talk, Dunzi gave Zhou Chen a hand in the kitchen, and Li Qingsheng also went over to help, he was responsible for lighting the fire.

As soon as I saw him at home, he helped his second aunt to work, burned it well, and occasionally had his spare hands to help Zhou Chen pick vegetables.

The second uncle took Li Qingxue to pick vegetables in the garden, and prepared to take them home after eating for a while. They have been eating fresh vegetables from Zhou Yang's family every autumn all these years. I can eat until the old autumn is frozen, and I can pick whatever I want to eat, and I don't need to take care of it by Zhou Chen at all.

Shen Guodong entered the courtyard. Zhou Yang greeted him, he held Zhou Wanwan in his arms and turned it upside down, smiling and not speaking, but his eyes were full of joy that was about to overflow.

His sister was asleep when he left at noon. All afternoon, his mind was always the image of his sister asleep. It's easy to wait until work, and when he comes back, the little guy will be taken away, Zhou Yangming knows that he will come back in a while, but he still thinks about it.

Zhou Wanwan said hello to Li Houhua and Li Qingyun, and hugged her eldest brother's neck and was tired, "Ya'er gave me a lot of purple mushrooms, let's eat them together later, it's sweet!" Grandma wants to make me a jacket. It's purple with a black bud rim. I like green, just like the color of the wisteria leaves, and when the wisteria flowers fall, I have to wear a jacket, and then I will sit next to my eldest brother to eat, and you will be like you can still see the wisteria flowers......"

Zhou Wanwan chattered with Zhou Yang endlessly, and Shen Guodong was jealous next to him.

He didn't want to think about the little girl for a month after he left, but he just hugged him in his arms for half an afternoon, and he didn't get close enough at all!

And after the two finished talking on the swing in the afternoon, although Shen Guodong's heart knot was opened, he was particularly dependent on Zhou Wanwan psychologically. The feeling of holding her in his arms and putting her in front of him was so vivid that he couldn't resist it at all.

I don't know if it's temporary dependence after the psychological change, or subconscious psychological suggestion, that kind of intimate and inseparable feeling Shen Guodong himself can't speak, he just feels that no matter how close the two people are, it's not enough.

Therefore, at this special moment in Shen Guodong's life, he couldn't even accept that Zhou Wanwan's intimacy with Zhou Yang was better than his own.

Of course, Shen Guodong, who never refused to grieve himself, would not sit still, "It's cold, let's go into the house and put on some clothes, right?" ”

"Big brother hugs me, it's not cold!" Zhou Wanwan still hugged Zhou Yang's neck.

Zhou Yang only has his sister in his eyes now, she said that he listened to the sesame mung bean with relish, how could he still pay attention to Shen Guodong, "It's okay, I'm holding her when it's cold." Then he seemed to remember something, and smiled warmly, "Like when I was a child." ”

Zhou Wanwan was encouraged by Zhou Yang even more, put her face on Zhou Yang's neck, and hugged him and didn't let go.

Although Zhou Yang and his sister are close, but usually his younger brother takes her, today it is easy to have the opportunity to hug her, and his sister is sticking to him, of course he is happy to let her get tired of it, how can he care about paying attention to Shen Guodong.

Shen Guodong really had no choice, and suddenly a flash of inspiration, "I'm going to see grandpa tomorrow, and I'm going to go with you." "Then you'll have to follow me!

The two brothers and sisters of Zhou Yang looked at him together, and they didn't understand why he was so excited to see Grandpa Shen.

"Ugh! Grandpa wants to be a girl, she has to go with her! Shen Guodong emphasized again, although only he knows, this is just an explanation of the weakness of the heart.

"Then go ahead. Do you miss Grandpa Shen too? "Of course Zhou Yang won't stop him when he goes to see Grandpa Shen.

Shen Guodong was satisfied, leaving the brother and sister tired and going to put the bicycle.

"Guodong, have you eaten the buds? Why didn't you bring her? Today, Xiao Er killed four old hens! Alas! The big hen is blind, and she still lays eggs! If you don't kill it, you can't do it, let people cut off the tail of capitalism and be even more blind! Li Guohua came out of the garden and carried a large basket of eggplants, cucumbers, beans, and tomatoes.

The uncles discussed with Zhou Yang and decided to kill some of the chickens, although there is no restriction on raising chickens, but too much is still too eye-catching, this policy will change, who knows when it will not be allowed to raise? When the time comes, let the family be killed, and they will end up engaging in capitalism, so it is better to kill and eat meat by yourself now.

"I don't know if I ate it, I didn't pay attention." Of course, Shen Guodong didn't pay attention to whether Ya'er, a yellow-haired girl, ate or not.

Li Guohua doesn't care, he treats people informally, and rarely finds fault with others, and he is happy every day, and he looks very young.

If he has any good things, he will definitely think about Zhou Yang's children, either send them or take them over to eat, even Dunzi and Shen Guodong are treated the same, so he doesn't see them outside, and when he sees the chickens killed, he thinks about letting the little girl come to eat too.

Zhou Yang's brother and sister walked into the courtyard from the gate, sat at the table and talked to the eldest uncle, Zhou Yang talked to the eldest uncle and eldest cousin, and at the same time held his sister in his arms and poured warm water to feed her.

Zhou Wanwan won't let people feed her after she was three years old, but occasionally her brothers spoil her and don't know how to treat her well, so they will feed her, and she happily accepts it.

This kind of brother-sister interaction that is both physically and mentally pleasant is often staged in their home, and everyone is very used to it.

But Li Houhua can't get used to it, since he entered the door, this little niece hasn't walked a single step, everything is to let people hug her, and now she even has to be fed with water, which is too pampered!

"You put her down and let her sit on her own! Such a big kid, you can't even drink your own saliva?! Li Houhua looked at the Zhou Yang brothers and sisters with a dark face. (To be continued......)