Chapter 9 The Guo Family
Lin Xi wanted to live with her grandparents, but Liao Shuyi objected: "No, that will have an impact on your future, as long as you are good, your grandparents will be happy when they look at you." ”
"Grandma, I'm not afraid, I believe that we will not always be like this, the country must develop and be rich and strong, it is impossible to stand still, it must be rectified and changed, it will definitely get better, and it will get better and better! In the future, I will be like my grandparents to go to university, achieve a career, and contribute to the construction of the motherland. ”
"Okay, good, to go to university, to build the motherland...... What a good granddaughter of mine! Lin Sixian was very happy, and Liao Shuyi also smiled.
Lin Xi persuaded her grandparents: "Wang Ying is the worst, when she sent me to the countryside, she secretly changed my composition, I have always been a 'capitalist cub' in the countryside, I don't care, I can't watch you live in this damp and narrow place, and live in a spacious house by yourself." Go to Ah Qiu's house for dinner tonight, please ask Grandpa Guo to find a suitable house to move out, and then think of changing your job, I don't want you to work so hard, you have to take good care of your body, without you accompanying me and watching me, even if I can live a good life, I will not feel happy. ”
Liao Shuyi's eyes were red, Lin Sixian sighed, the couple looked at each other, and finally nodded: There is nothing that can stop the connection of family affection, they haven't seen their granddaughter for more than half a year, and they have completely lost the news of their granddaughter, that kind of torment, they don't want to experience it again.
Lin Xi told Lin Sixian: "I bought a lot of local products from the black market over there, and some grain, all packed and consigned back, considering that this house is small, so I didn't pick it up today, the general consignment items can be left in the station warehouse for three days, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, we will go and get it back, see if we can put Ah Qiu's house first, four big bags, those things can be used by yourself, if you need it, you can also give gifts." The gifts for Grandpa Guo and Ah Qiupo will be taken from there, and whoever else has helped our family will give a gift, and the grandparents will look at it. ”
Lin Sixian and Liao Shuyi were very surprised to learn that there were still four consignment bags at the station, and they couldn't help but feel relieved and sad when they thought that their little granddaughter was operating these by herself, and she had really grown up.
Before I knew it, it was two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Sixian had to go to work, so that Lin Xi and her grandmother could rest at home, Lin Xi sat on a long-distance bus for five or six days, and felt that his body was covered with a layer of heavy dust, where could he sleep without taking a bath? There are no conditions in the grandmother's house, the bathroom shared by the small alley is small and simple, and it is not as good as the bath room built by the educated youths in the countryside, Lin Xi discussed with her grandmother, simply took a change of clothes, went out with her grandmother, and found a bathhouse to wash comfortably from head to toe, even Liao Shuyi suddenly felt refreshed and relaxed, and then the mother and mother returned to the hut, Liao Shuyi urged her granddaughter to lie down and rest, Lin Xi said that she was not sleepy or sleepy to talk to her grandmother, but as soon as she closed her eyes, she fell asleep, which made Liao Shuyi feel distressed and quietly stayed next to her granddaughter, I didn't dare to move, for fear of waking up the baby.
In the evening, Guo Renyi pedaled a tricycle to pick up people, Lin Xi called out to Grandpa Guo and gave him two packs of cigarettes produced in Guizhou Province - she did buy a few cigarettes from Guizhou Province in this era, which were originally intended to be given to her grandfather as gifts. There are a lot of famous cigarettes and wines in the space, but they can't be taken out, and the packaging and printing in the 21st century are too delicate to be fake, unless they are all taken apart and the tobacco is taken out directly, and then let people roll it by hand to smoke, so why bother?
Guo Renyi was very happy, and was about to tear it open and taste it on the spot, when he heard Lin Sixian coughing from the side, Guo Renyi was stunned and pretended to hand it back to Lin Xi: "Xiaoxi, what are you buying this for?" Your grandfather doesn't smoke, so it's a waste, so let's exchange it for money, right? ”
Lin Xi pushed back: "The special products that were specially brought to you, you don't want them, just exchange the money yourself." ”
"Oh, just for me? Then I want it, thank you Xiaoxi, hehehe! ”
Guo Renyi smiled happily, pretending not to see the depression on Lin Sixian's face, and Lezizi picked up the cigarette, but did not smoke it directly.
Lin Xi and his grandparents got on the tricycle together, and wanted to take out a canned meat from the travel bag or something, but the grandmother said no, the bacon and sausages sent back from Guizhou Province last time were worried that the fragrance of cooking in the small alley would be too strong and cause public anger.
The alley where Guo Renyi and A Qiupo live is relatively tidy and lively, this is a big alley, and the entrance of the alley is the street, and the Guo family has lived here for hundreds of years, which is considered an old resident. The houses on both sides of the alley look higher than ordinary houses, and the inside is a two-story structure, which is like this, building a wooden building, although the space in the house seems low and cramped, but the area can be fully expanded.
Guo's family is about 40 square meters, plus the wooden building, it is quite enough for a family of six to live at present.
It is said that the old Guo family was originally more spacious, because Guo Renyi was separated from the original partner when he was young, and the original partner refused, but the Guo family really couldn't bear the original partner, and would rather cut half of the real estate to her, so he sent it away.
Now Guo Renyi's family and the original family live next door, how do neighbors get along with each other on a daily basis? It's unimaginable.
Guo Renyi and A Qiu have followed Lin Sixian and Liao Shuyi from childhood to adulthood, except for the years when Lin Liao and Liao went abroad to study after marriage, after liberation, Guo Renyi entered Liao's factory and soon became a national worker, Ah Qiu had to serve her elderly and sick in-laws, so she was at ease as a housewife and did not go out to work, their son Guo Dafu and daughter-in-law Yang Minzhen worked in another factory, and the young couple was in shifts, and they rarely ate at home at the same time.
Guo Dafu is on duty today, and it is Yang Minzhen's turn to rest, so during the day, Ah Qiupo only took her little grandson to visit Liao Shuyi, the eldest grandson stuck to his mother, but the younger grandson only kissed his grandmother, and he had to follow wherever he went.
When the three members of the Lin family walked into Guo's house, Yang Minzhen had already helped her mother-in-law cook, and there were six dishes on the table, in addition to two meat dishes, there was also a fried hairtail, a braised pork and radish bone broth.
Fish, meat and big bones are naturally bought by Ah Qiu to the grocery store, the three of the Guo family go to work, and the monthly salary adds up to hundreds of yuan, so it is said that life should be free, but Yang Minzhen's father is sick, her mother can't do anything to take care of the sick, her younger siblings are still young, she is the eldest daughter who has to bear her father's medical expenses and living expenses, the salary is basically handed over to her mother's family, and her two children also have to eat and drink, Guo Renyi is not willing to treat his grandson badly, he has to drink some milk powder, eat an egg or something, and there is not much money left, and he usually saves money. Meat dishes rarely appear on the dinner table, and today's exception is to catch Lin Xi's wind.