Not long after, Wang Youliang and his blind sister Wang Xinliang came over to pay New Year's greetings to their aunt and uncle, and they had another warm greeting, and Su Qingtong and his younger siblings gave up their position by the stove.

When she came to the lobby house shared by the Wangjiawan clan, she saw Yang Meiying, the granddaughter of the seventh uncle and grandmother, chatting with a few children eating candy, Yang Meiying is the granddaughter of Aunt Ji Man's mouth, most of these children are children brought back by the daughter of Wangjiawan who married, and they often meet each other during the New Year's holidays, and they have also become playmates.

But they don't see each other very often, and they don't know what to say when they first meet, so they just stand like this, or sit on the high threshold and look at each other, children are actually stupid.

"Young girl, how much money did your mother give to your grandmother?" Yang Meiying suddenly asked Su Qingtong.

Su Qingtong knew that her parents had given a lot of gifts to her grandmother's house this year, so she said, "I don't know. ”

Yang Meiying said with a smile: "My grandmother said that your family didn't send anything, just give your grandmother five yuan, and then the family eats for one day on the Chinese New Year's Eve, and comes over to eat for another day on the second day of the first lunar month, your grandmother has to give your three brothers and sisters one dollar on the Chinese New Year's Eve day to press the New Year, and on the second day of the first month, you have to give your three brothers and sisters a dollar New Year's red envelope, right?" ”

Su Qingtong is not very clear whether this is really the case, but the situation must be a little different, and the parents always take advantage of their grandmother's house, so they said: "We didn't come to eat in the Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

"Your family didn't come to your grandmother's house for dinner on the Chinese New Year's Eve this year."

Su Qingtong thought to himself, is it necessary for you to be so straightforward.

"We are grandparents' grandchildren, shouldn't we have a meal with our elders during the New Year? Even I usually come to eat at the door, and my grandparents are very happy in their hearts, so they don't care about how much money our family gives. ”

Yang Meiying was stunned, and suddenly felt that Su Qingtong seemed to be a different person, not only did she dare to speak when she became bolder, but she also spoke impeccably, is this still Su Qingtong?

She turned to think of her grandmother's surprise and the happy smiles of her uncles when her parents sent things to her grandmother, and suddenly she was a little proud, and she said as if she had two hundred or fifty or eighty thousand: "This year, my mother sent twenty yuan to my grandmother, and there are a lot of fish and meat, as well as sugar envelopes and a pair of wine, my father said that the conditions were not good in previous years, and he could not honor my grandmother and grandfather, and now he has made a lot of money by chartering several buildings in the south, so he specially sent more things, isn't your father a teacher?" Why are you reluctant to give gifts? By the way, I also heard that your family still picked up food from your grandmother's house to eat, and borrowed the bride price money from your grandmother to marry your fourth uncle to buy a TV set. ”

The corners of Su Qingtong's mouth twitched, thinking that the fourth uncle couldn't find his wife to care about her family, wasn't it because the fourth uncle was short and others didn't look down on him.

is like her younger brother Su Tianhua, because he looks like a dog, although his parents died early, he doesn't even have a house to live in, and he doesn't want to marry his daughter to him with a dowry?

Therefore, marrying a wife has little to do with family conditions, their own conditions are good, and there are people who marry begging for food, alas, this matter is far away, the conditions of the fourth uncle are already like this, and in the end, you still have to rely on money to buy a wife from afar.

But she didn't say this to Yang Meiying, most of her previous life was silent, so she didn't want to talk much in this life, and they didn't understand what to do with a few children, and what Yang Meiying said also had a certain amount of truth, if her character was not good, she had to rely on money to support her, otherwise she would really be single for the rest of her life.

Another girl dressed like a butterfly is the most senior among these children, her mother is a master tailor, and at the moment she is wearing a new gown and sitting on the threshold stone and says, "Yang Meiying doesn't know? Sister Qing's family is poor, and it was Sister Xue who did something wrong to marry Teacher Su, so Sister Xue's parents can only subsidize Teacher Su's family, otherwise Teacher Su will drive Sister Xue and Su Qingtong back. ”

Su Qingtong remembered that she had heard people say this in her previous life, and she was also curious, why did her father only drive her and her mother back to her grandmother's house, but her younger siblings didn't rush back? For this reason, he quarreled with Wang Meiqi.

Su Qingtong looked at her little hands and feet, and then looked at the hall she was in, a smile hung on the corner of her lips, she really came back, back to her childhood.

Yang Meiying and other children looked at each other, Su Qingtong actually laughed, who are these people? They didn't understand what Su Qingtong was thinking, they just blindly felt that Su Qingtong was a little stupid.

The fifth day of the first lunar month is the day when Su Qingtong went to Qingxi Town to deliver vegetables according to the appointment with Huang Zhixin.

Su Qingtong sent 600 catties of vegetables to the hotel this time, who knew that the staff asked her if she had pumpkins, Su Qingtong herself had never eaten pumpkins produced in the space, and couldn't help asking: "Does anyone like to eat pumpkins?" ”

The staff said: "Yes, Director Cao in the district likes the pumpkin you sent, he said that the pumpkin you sent is very fragrant, especially powdery, and very sweet, and no one wanted pumpkins during the Chinese New Year, but now they are rushing to ask for pumpkins, and those who have not been allocated pumpkins have asked me to help them buy them." ”

Su Qingtong suddenly smiled, there was a lot of pumpkins and winter melons in the space, and he was worried that he couldn't sell them, so he hurriedly said: "I thought you didn't like pumpkins, but in fact, you have saved thousands of catties, if you want it, I will send it to you later." ”

"That's great."

In the afternoon of the same day, Su Qingtong really sent hundreds of pumpkins to the hotel, as well as hundreds of winter melons, Su Qingtong carefully inspected the vegetable field in the space, the vegetables are crazy hanging fruits, it should not be out of stock in the near future, and it can be picked twice, and then it will be ready to re-turn the soil and plant vegetables.

After the Lantern Festival, the weather slowly warms up, and spring arrives quietly.

Soon after, the mountains of Qingxi Town were full of red and bright red, and the flowers all over the mountains were waving in the wind, dazzling in the sun.

Chen Lao regretted a little when he got off the train, he shouldn't have volunteered to come over to preside over the meeting, people can't accept old age, he is not the time to climb the snow mountain and cross the grassland when he was young, not only high blood pressure, but also diabetes, coronary heart disease, all diseases find him, they all bully him old, useless.

The secretary Xiao Guan handed him the medicine, gave him another glass of warm water and said, "Chief, if you feel uncomfortable, you can go to Qingxi Town tomorrow, and rest in City C tonight before leaving." ”

Chen Lao shook his head and said, "Forget it, you have to go, it's better to go over there to raise your spirits." ”

"Would you like to have another Dr. Nike take a look at you?"

"You don't need to look at it, just bring the medicine, you can't see it well, it's still the same."

Xiao Guan took the water cup in his hand, turned around and went out to arrange for the guards to send a car to send everyone to the train station, the chief's health is not good, not suitable for taking a car, the local government has arranged a train to send them to Qingxi Town, Qingxi Town will arrange a car to pick them up, to minimize Chen Lao's bumps on the road.

Chen Lao didn't arrive in Qingxi Town until it was almost dark, there was no sleeper on the short-distance train, he suffered a lot of sins, and the whole person was depressed, and when he received the hotel, he only drank a bowl of porridge, and then ate a little green vegetables and fell asleep.

The strange thing is that he slept very well this night, he didn't wake up until more than four o'clock in the morning, and slept for eight hours, and then he couldn't sleep again, the guard heard the movement of the room and pushed the door in, and thought he was uncomfortable, who knew that Chen Lao's face was very peaceful, and said to him with a smile: "You go to the kitchen to see, are there any leftover rice porridge and vegetables from last night?" ”

The guard was relieved to see that he was in good spirits, and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll ask." ”

The kitchen left a person on duty, also to take care of Chen Lao's diet, because Chen Lao sleeps less at night, and has the habit of eating supper in the early morning, so the stove uses a low fire to cook porridge, but if the vegetables are different, he can't really eat leftovers.

After a while, the guard came in with boiled fluffy rice porridge and two plates of vegetables, a plate of eggplant beans and a plate of pumpkin, the quantity was not much, and it was enough for him to eat, and he smelled a fragrance from afar.

The guard said, "The master chef in the kitchen said that this pumpkin tastes very good, and it can also be mixed with porridge and eaten, so I recommend you try it." ”

Chen Lao smiled and said, "They have a heart, and they know that it is good to eat pumpkin when I am sick." ”

However, a few kinds of porridge and side dishes, Chen Lao ate quite satisfied, not only ate the pumpkin and eggplant beans, but even drank two bowls of porridge, such a amount of food frightened the guard, worried that his stomach would not be able to stand it, but Chen Lao was very comfortable, and after taking a turn in the room, he took out the report and read it.

The guard tried to persuade and said, "Chief, don't lie down for a while." ”

Chen Lao shook his head and said, "No need, my spirit is very good, you go and doze off first, and when the sky is white, you accompany me to walk around." ”

"I'll accompany you like this, and I'll wait for Secretary Guan and Xiaoyang to take over my class."

Chen Lao said, "If you don't worry, stay by my side for a while." ”

"Chief, how do you look so good now?"

Chen Lao said with a smile: "It was rare to have a good night's sleep last night, I haven't slept for more than three hours for several years, this time I slept for eight hours, do you think my spirit can be bad?" ”

"You're tired on the road."

Chen Lao said with a smile: "I think the white rice porridge and side dishes here are well cooked, and only by eating well can you sleep well and be in good health." ”

"Then in the next few days, let that chef specialize in your diet."

Chen Lao originally disagreed with the secretary's arrangement, and always felt that it was against his original intention to engage in this kind of specialness, but compared with physical health, some things were not easy to adhere to, after all, the body was also the capital of the revolution, so he had to say: "You can watch it, don't make a big show, and keep a low profile." ”

"I see."

The next morning, Chen Lao was full of energy, swept away yesterday's malaise, and was so shocked that the secretary Xiao Guan asked: "Old Chen, your face looks much better, is this completely good?" ”

Chen Lao drank porridge while eating the eggplant beans on the plate and said: "Well, it's much more comfortable, you come here to try this dish, it's very good, it's not only tender and delicious, but also fragrant, and the taste is even better than those in big hotels." ”

Xiao Guan nodded and said: "I tasted it last night, and the kitchen said that the response to these out-of-season vegetables has been good, and the families of nearby cadres regularly purchase them in the hotel." ”

Chen Lao was stunned, couldn't help but shook his head and said: "These people are really getting more and more unseemly, where can they get benefits from the hotel, if it was a few years earlier, they would have to go to the cadre school for a few more years of education." ”

Secretary Guan said: "It's not for nothing, it's all spent money to buy from the hotel." ”

Old Chen stopped talking, and still didn't approve of this behavior in his heart.

In the evening, Chen Lao changed to another vegetable to eat, who knew that he would wake up after sleeping until twelve o'clock, he had the habit of eating supper at night, and always felt that last night's good sleep was related to the food and drink, such as eating the same thing last night, it is strange to say, this night actually slept until half past six in the morning, he finally figured out what was going on, the eggplant beans and pumpkin made by Qingxi Hotel were good for his body, and these are out-of-season vegetables.

For this reason, Xiao Guan also told Chen Lao's special doctor, Nike, about this matter and consulted him what the reason was.

Nike was very surprised when he heard it, he had never heard of anything like this, although there was a method of dietary therapy, but the immediate effect was really not seen, he deliberately extracted the elements in eggplant beans for experiments, except that pumpkin is good for diabetes, eggplant beans are not of any use.

Chen Lao finished the meeting in Qingxi Town, and stayed for a few more days before leaving, the hotel sent him a basket of anti-seasonal vegetables, Chen Lao also forgot that he had said that this kind of behavior should be sent to the dry school, people are like this, they can hang high if they don't come to their own heads, if it involves their own interests, they will feel logical, but Chen Lai still asked Xiaoguan to keep some more vegetable money as a thank you.