Chapter 364: Xenophobia
Dunzi took the bicycle and didn't take Zhou Chen and Zhou Wanwan home directly, but rode along the tree-lined path covered with grass and wildflowers in the direction of Xiaohan Mountain.
"I'm going to take the two of you out to play today, during this time, you two are exams and preparing for the wedding, you must be busy."
"Go on a picnic! Barbecue! Zhou Wanwan was so happy that he shook straight on the beam, "Put some mushrooms in the barbecue, it's very delicious!" ”
"Bury a few more sweet potatoes under the fire!" Dunzi smiled and added to her that it would be good for her to eat a skewer of barbecued meat, and every time she relied on roasted sweet potatoes to be full.
"Where's Big Brother? What about Brother Shen? Won't they go? Zhou Wanwan looked back at Dunzi, "Brother Dunzi, are you tired when you just arrived home?" Shall we go tomorrow, or wait until the eldest brother gets married? ”
"If you don't take them, let's go out today." Dunzi touched Zhou Wanwan's head, "Our family has been tired recently, so I don't care about anything today, let's have fun first!" ”
"Did you bring a slingshot?" Zhou Chen dug out the pocket of the pier in the back, and sure enough, he took out a slingshot, "What else are you preparing, take it out!" ”
"The slingshot is for you, and the kettle, you don't need to bring anything else, I have what you want from the two of you! Or isn't my spy battalion a fool? Dunzi easily dropped the handlebars and rode the bike steadily and fast, "Xiao Wang! Race! ”
Xiao Wang jumped to the front with a roar, and with a hard slash at the foot of the pier, he also rushed out like an arrow, "Little Er!" Hold it tight! ”
"Ahhh Brother Dunzi, you're speeding! Ah! I don't dare to look at it! Zhou Wanwan covered her eyes with her hands and shouted happily.
"Zhou Dunzi, are you crazy!?" Zhou Chen slapped on the back of the pier angrily, "Do you think this is your army's tank?!" Fly out! ”
Dunzi laughed and chased Xiao Wang. Stay all the way to laugh and frolic all the way.
Xiaohan Mountain is no longer the semi-barren hill they went to more than ten years ago to survive, now it is lush with trees and flowers. Pheasants and hares run all over the mountain, and even large herbivores such as roe deer and deer can occasionally be seen.
It's a pity that almost all the animals can only be seen and can't be caught, and after more than ten years of struggle, the surrounding villagers finally accepted this reality and no longer pondered them in vain.
Of course. This is for others, for the Zhou brothers and sisters, Xiaohanshan is their vegetable garden. Feel free to eat whatever you want.
Dunzi arranged a hearty picnic, and after eating, he made a comfortable and wide hammock for Zhou Wanwan out of vines, and then helped her pick a large bunch of wild flowers.
Then he taught Zhou Chen to tie a few unique knots in the army, and practiced slingshots with him for a long time.
Wait for Dunzi and Xiao Wang to run to catch a little rabbit for Zhou Wanwan and come back. Zhou Chen had already washed the wild strawberries and wild melons and sat in the shade waiting for him. Zhou Wanwan handed over the freshly washed handkerchief.
Dunzi looked at the two of them as if they were waiting for him to speak, a little embarrassed.
"You've been coaxing the child for a long time, it's time to get down to business, right?" Zhou Chen looked at him amusedly.
Zhou Wanwan also sat down obediently, pressed Xiao Wang who was surrounding them and lay down beside him, waiting for Dunzi to talk about him.
Dunzi looked at the two pairs of beautiful black eyes in front of him that were almost identical, and even the black and clear light when he was concentrating on people was almost identical, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
"Second brother, Brother Dunzi doesn't seem to be ready yet."
"Otherwise, I'll play with you for a while. Putting your mind at ease? Zhou Chen couldn't help but smile and looked at the pier.
"Brother Dunzi, don't be nervous. If Zhou Xiaoer makes you too stressed, you tell me well, I will definitely not laugh at you, slander you, and bully you while supporting you. ”
"You little villain who speaks ill of people behind his back still has the face to say that me, didn't you tell Zhao Xiaosan'er when the wheat harvest was harvested a few days ago that you would wait for Dunzi to come back, these mules and horses can be rested, is your Dunzi brother enough alone?"
"I'm learning from other people's words, not Brother Dunzi, you heard it wrong! Moreover, do you think it's a bad word to be able to work hard? Zhou Wanwan went to Dunzi to complain, "Brother Dunzi, you can see it!" How bad you are in Zhou Xiaoer's heart! ”
Dunzi was amused by his younger siblings' tricks, and patted them on the head one by one, "Okay, let's get down to business!" ”
Zhou Wanwan and Zhou Chen looked at him intently with shining black eyes together.
Dunzi suddenly sighed very emotionally, these two children have always trusted him and been close to him since they were young.
Every time they looked at him with such clean and clear eyes, he could strongly feel how lucky he was, his poor and miserable life was changed from the time he met them, and no matter how much fame and fortune he had later, they were the most precious things in his life.
Over the years, more and more people have said that he is a good brother, taking care of his family, taking care of his younger siblings wholeheartedly, and he smiles and does not say a word every time.
No one knows, in fact, he is the one who has been taken care of. The care and happiness that these two children give him are so meticulous and intimate that no one can match or understand.
"Actually, Yoko asked me to take you for a good day." Dunzi is still a little unorganized about what he wants to say.
"Oh! It turns out that Brother Dunzi is entrusted by others! Zhou Wanwan looked at Zhou Chen, "You said that if the eldest brother doesn't ask him, will he still come out with us?" ”
"I've seen enough, you see that it's hard for him to be like that, maybe he is reluctant."
Dunzi smiled, "Actually, I wanted to say this for a long time, but I didn't know how to speak, and I may still not be able to express it well today, but I have to tell you." ”
Zhou Wanwan and Zhou Chen stopped making trouble, nodded and waited for Dunzi to say.
"After Yoko got married, I thought, if you can, will you treat me as a big brother in the future?"
Dunzi looked at the two pairs of puzzled eyes in front of him, and suddenly stopped thinking about the words, a little messy, but he sincerely said what was in his heart.
"I'm here to be your big brother, like Yoko before, I love you wholeheartedly, put you first, no one is as important as you, you can rest assured that you can rely on me. Don't have any scruples, don't think about anyone's feelings.
I hope that you are still the same as before, and don't force yourself to be sensible just because Yoko is married. He has always told you that he wants you to be willful, and now I want you to be willful to me, like you are willful to Yoko. ”
Zhou Chen and Zhou Wanwan glanced at each other, "It turns out that you are digging the corner of my eldest brother?" ”
Dunzi smiled, a little nervous. "It's not, it's just, it's ......"
"But. Brother Dunzi," Zhou Wanwan looked at Dunzi seriously, "We are not children anymore, and we can't always live willfully." When you grow up, you have to be sensible. You have to take your time to have your own life. I don't want you to be my eldest brother, my eldest brother didn't get married until we were twenty-eight years old, do you know how uncomfortable we are?
I hope you can live your own life happily with someone you like, just like my big brother now. Even if we are not the first person in your heart, we will be very, very happy! Happier than ever! ”
But you are my whole life. Dunzi worked hard for a long time, but he didn't know how to say this sentence in a different way.
"My eldest brother is not my eldest brother when he gets married? What the hell are you thinking? Zhou Chen frowned lightly and looked at Dunzi. I think it's very incomprehensible for him to think like this.
"You will be able to deny us when you get married in the future? Don't get along with us like you do now? It's not a critical juncture where only one can be saved by a shot on the battlefield, we are living our lives. Does it really matter who comes first? Everyone gets along well, and the family can live as before. How can you be as xenophobic as Shen Guodong? ”
Dunzi was speechless. He also knew that Zhou Chen was right, but he just couldn't turn that corner in his heart. He is xenophobic, protecting calves, and has a small belly, but he can't control it.
In the year of Zhou Yang's engagement, he was always afraid that Zhou Chen and Zhou Wan would not be able to adapt to it, even if he knew that Zhou Yang would love them, Shi Yun was also a reasonable girl, but he just couldn't control these two small grievances.
Dunzi couldn't say that he couldn't express his unknown feelings, and finally found a bosom friend after Shen Guodong chased him, and the two talked about coming back when mosquitoes were about to get up in the mountains, and after going home, they went out to talk together for a long time at night.
Zhou Yang's wedding is scheduled for August 2, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Valentine's Day in China.
In the courtyard of the Zhou family, on the fifth day of the seventh month, they began to build a wedding shed, a hot stove, and invited people who came to help to eat.
The chef who cooked was invited by Shen Guodong from other counties, and no one knew him, everyone set up a very strange-shaped stove under his command, and then saw him put on a posture and took out a row of tools, there were five or six kitchen knives alone, and they all began to look forward to the banquet.
Zhou Chen gathered the people who came to help and began a simple division of labor, Zhao Xiaosan'er took care of the accounts, and went to him to collect the money and things, Shen Guodong and Dunzi were responsible for receiving guests and maintaining the order of the wedding, he was responsible for the kitchen, and Zhou Wanwan was responsible for receiving female guests and coaxing children.
"This is absolutely not good, those children are like monkeys, you can't let them suffer from it!" Shen Guodong was very opposed.
But someone supported, "I'll help my sister watch the children!" Whoever doesn't obey me will beat him! Zhao Xiaosi'er sat next to Zhou Wanwan, and when he came, he promised his mother that he couldn't let his sister hug him, so he could only lie on Zhou Wanwan with most of his body.
"Just take a snack and give it a smile, and don't let her coax it all the time. I want you to go, for fear of scaring the children into tears. After Zhou Chen finished assigning a large chunk of work, he began to assign assistants to everyone again.
Teacher Li's Baoxue and Zhongxue help Zhao Xiaosan'er manage money and things, and Uncle Baocheng's Erzhu, Zhao Dazhuang, and Zhao Erzhuan are responsible for ensuring the snacks of tea, cigarettes, and melon seeds and candy cubes in each room, and they must also observe the surrounding environment at any time to prevent emergencies.
"What's an emergency?" Erzhuzi felt that he was carrying a heavy responsibility and was a little nervous.
"If you don't like it, go find Shen Guodong." Zhou Chen gave a simple guidance, "I bring my own people, I don't care how to divide the labor, and I will find the person in charge when someone has an accident." ”
"Tomorrow, grandma's uncles and cousins will come over, and then they will be divided into your groups, and Ya'er and Ye'er will be in charge."
"Nannan, Aunt Zhao and Aunt Baocheng will also help you receive female guests, and you can discuss the details with them later." Zhou Chen looked at it, and then pointed to Zhao Xiaosi'er, who was eager to try, "Xiaosi'er is also under your control." ”
Zhao Xiaosi'er threw herself into Zhou Wanwan's arms, and her little face flushed with joy, "Sister, whoever dares to let you hug him, I will beat him!" ”
"You stinky boy! Let me hug you again, and I'll beat you first! Shen Guodong took the little chubby dun off Zhou Wanwan's body.
Soon, the smell of fried things in the yard began to spread, and the adults and children in the tunzi came, Zhou Wanwan and Zhou Chen stuffed a few croquettes or fried small fish into each of the children's hands, and put a handful of melon seeds and a few pieces of sugar in their pockets, and the family was full of laughter and laughter.
The first happy event of the Zhou family officially began. (To be continued......)