The sun was setting, and after more than an hour of scraping, a family of five finally returned to the alley courtyard with a full load of garbage.

"Dad, I want a wooden stool."

"Good rocking chair."

"Are you sure?"

"Hehe, it's still a wooden stool."

"It's okay, store the material in the upside-down room first, and wait for me to take a long vacation to see if I can make a rocking chair." I don't think it's that complicated. ”

"I'll do it, I'll give you a hand when the time comes."

"Forget it, spend some money to let the insiders do it, it's better to have this time, Dad, you take us out for a walk, and try the level of our three brothers by the way."

"You can wait for autumn to hunt, now the weather is hot, there is no meat, and in autumn, just take your mother to pick wild fruits and make some snacks for you to satisfy your hunger."

"Mom, do you hear me? My dad promised to take us out hunting. ”

Zhou Jiao smiled and nodded. It's not been a few days, something should be over, autumn is here, and she should come back anyway.

Ping An patted May Day, "Grandma may come over, don't be too happy too early." ”

"Come on, just take them out. With dad here, it's no problem to open a certificate or something. Dad, are you right? ”

Zhang Guoqing shook his head, "No, your brother Xizi and cousin Ziwen are going to get married at the end of the year, they won't come over, but they will let our family go back." ”

"How do you know if you didn't reply?"

"Ask your eldest brother, you can calculate it."

"No, I can guess it. I miss my daughter-in-law. ”

"Bastard boy, how old are you, do you know what it means to be a daughter-in-law?" Zhang Guoqing laughed happily.

"I know a lot. My grandmother told us a long time ago that when my cousin and they get married, there will soon be the fourth generation of the old Zhang family, and we are all elders. ”

Liuyi waited for him to finish speaking, and said softly, "They are all married, and grandpa asked you and my mother in the letter when we have a holiday, and they want to arrange time, right?" ”

Zhang Guoqing smiled approvingly at him, "Clever! ”

"Do you have time with my mom? Didn't you tell my mom last time that the end of the year was very busy and I guess I couldn't leave? ”

Zhang Guoqing glanced at his youngest son unexpectedly, "Did you hear this?" ”

"Well, I didn't take a nap in bed."

"If I don't have a vacation with your mother this time, how do you represent us in the past?"

Ping An frowned, "Do you have to go?" ”

"Last time Yinsuo got married, there was no one in our family, this time Xizi and they should arrange to get married before and after, and your grandma will be sad if you don't go back."

"Okay then, I'll go alone then." Ping An nodded and asked thoughtfully, "How can our family give a gift this time?" ”

Zhang Guoqing looked at him funny, "Wait for the hometown to notify the wedding date, and then discuss with your second uncle, our family will pay homage to him." Your grandfather will almost give a gift when the time comes. ”

Ping An looked at Zhou Jiao without saying anything, and then approached Zhang Guoqing, "It's okay for our family to be so casual over there, but will the aunt be unhappy?" ”

"You mean I have to give her a generous gift?"

Liuyi and Wuyi shouted in unison: "She is beautiful." ”

"So what does it matter to us whether she's happy or not? Your mother and I have limited salaries, and in addition to supporting your grandmother, we also have to support your three brothers, where does the money come from? ”

The three Ping'an brothers immediately covered their mouths and laughed.

"Happy, aren't you? Dad, he knows it all. Don't say these things outside, so as not to lose your bearing. Your grandmother has been telling me all the time before, not the poor. ”

Ping An nodded, "It's still my grandmother who is reasonable." I see that there are a few in our compound, but whenever there is a happy event in our hometown, they will slap their swollen faces and become fat, and they will say that they can't live like this.

Last year, Xiaojie's mother had a fight with his father, just to marry a daughter-in-law for a nephew in his hometown, and his grandmother actually wrote to say that his family has two salaries, which will make the eldest nephew marry, and they have to buy a sewing machine when they are uncles and aunts. ”

Liuyi smiled sarcastically, "This is what my mother said about moral kidnapping." ”

"I know about this, and later the sewing machine that his family just bought was secretly sent back to his hometown by his father, and his mother was so angry that he bought a bicycle for his grandmother's house, all fools."

Zhou Jiao didn't have much interest in these things, one was willing to fight and the other was willing to suffer.

Looking at the four fathers and sons who were happily chatting about gossip in front of her, she shook her head speechlessly, and could only step forward quickly, "Okay, hurry back to the small courtyard, we still have to go home." ”

Especially when she went out of the scrap station, she wanted to see the "garbage" selected by the children for the first time, and considered whether she should find someone in private to learn some cultural relics restoration skills in her spare time?

The calligraphy and paintings that were torn, the porcelain that was smashed...... These are all precious inheritance cultures left by our ancestors, and they will really disappear in the long river of history.

Walking all the way, thinking all the way, with Zhou Jiao's reminder, this time everyone's speed was much faster, walking through the alleys and alleys, and it didn't take long to return to the alley courtyard.

There are still many groups of tourists and children swimming in the river in the nearby park, and the place is still a good place, but unfortunately you can no longer see the street snack bar, popcorn in the corner, and desserts to cool off......

When the dumb aunt saw them return, she put down the buttons in her hand and stood up happily to face the three children, and compared the direction of the kitchen.

Zhou Jiao smiled and asked, "My master hasn't come back yet?" ”

The dumb aunt nodded, it was darker than it was.

Zhou Jiao didn't need her to answer, and it was estimated that the same was true. As soon as the old man was interested, he would go to the countryside to make a cameo appearance as a doctor. This year, he didn't go far away, which was enough to make him panic.

Over there, Zhang Guoqing pushed the cart to the upside-down room, stored all the wood he liked in it, and put two sacks at the door, and finally moved the garbage to the firewood room.

After a busy time, after dinner, Dr. Hu still didn't come back, so Zhou Jiao had to say goodbye to the dumb aunt first, and the family left.

The summer night came late, and the family walked in the alley in the afterglow of the sunset, if there were no two sacks in the way, Zhang Guoqing really wanted to take his wife and children to go shopping.

The bus staggered all the way to stop and go, and before it reached the terminal, many acquaintances came up, all of whom were military dependents in the compound.

Among them is Yi Shumin.

After greeting each other, Yi Shumin squeezed between them, and when she saw that there were two sacks next to her feet, she curiously kicked them lightly with her feet.

"What is this? Dirty. ”

can be brought into the compound, Zhou Jiao is not worried about revealing the filling. Without waiting for her to speak, the twins of Liuyi and Wuyi looked at each other, and Liuyi looked at her and said, "The broken wood I bought." ”

Wuyi followed up and said with a smile: "We want Dad to teach us how to make a small bench." ”

Yi Shumin quipped: "Don't want to be a soldier, want to be a little carpenter?" ”

"We are still young, and after learning more skills, we won't worry about not being able to marry a daughter-in-law."

Yi Shumin was amused by May Day and laughed with a few people in the neighborhood.

One of the female comrades smiled: "I have a little sister in my family who looks very cute, I don't need you to learn skills, I will be your little daughter-in-law, do you want to?" ”

Wuyi shook his head, "No, no, I'm still young." I have to wait until I grow up and go to work, and I have a salary to marry a good daughter-in-law. ”

Yi Shumin pushed Zhou Jiao, "Your son is okay, he understands it at such a young age." ”

Zhou Jiao: "......"

"By the way, why did Uncle Zhou go on a business trip for so long?"