"Everyone has discussed it, and now we have to start going to the town to have a look, to find out if there is a suitable store to rent, I am familiar with the town, so I will go tomorrow, Nuan Nuan, do you want to go with your mother?" Before going to bed at night, Zhang Minzhen casually asked Gu Nuannuan.

"I'm going." Gu Nuannuan responded with certainty. Of course, she usually goes straight to school when she goes to town, and she doesn't have a chance to go around at all, and she hasn't really revisited the town's shops since she was reborn.

"I knew you would want to go too, so go to sleep." Zhang Minzhen closed her eyes as she spoke, and then murmured softly, "By the way, I also asked my colleagues from the supply and marketing cooperatives to help me buy a little flawed flower cloth, and I will go and get it back tomorrow just to make you another skirt to wear, your two sets of clothes in summer are a little small......" Her voice slowly decreased, and the breathing sound gradually calmed down when she closed her eyes......

Gu Nuannuan smiled, and felt a little distressed in her heart - her mother has indeed been tired enough recently.

Before dawn the next day, Gu Nuannuan heard the slight movement of her mother getting up, and opened her eyes in a daze.

"You can sleep a little longer, Mommy will cook breakfast first, and call you when it's ready." Zhang Minzhen couldn't help but laugh softly when she saw that she was awake, and lowered her voice.

"Hmm."

......

Gu Nuannuan couldn't help but pause when she saw her mother riding a bicycle and taking her straight to the gate of her uncle's unit, "Why did Mom come here?" ”

"Your uncle told me to deliver meat buns, and by the way, it's safe to park your bicycle here." As he spoke, he had already arrived at the gate, Zhang Minzhen laughed, stopped the bicycle, took down two of the three oiled paper bags hanging on the handlebars, and called out to the master of the communication room who was washing rice and vegetables under the faucet at the door: "Uncle Tao." ”

"It's you, why do you have free time today, this is your daughter? It's really good to be so big? I haven't seen your eldest brother for a few days, and I heard them say that he quit and went out to do his own small business, is it true? You said that the people in your family are not good at persuading him, what a good iron rice bowl, others are still worried about not being able to enter, so he just said that he didn't want it. ”

"Nuan Nuan's name is Grandpa Tao." Zhang Minzhen asked Gu Nuannuan to call someone, and Gu Nuannuan called obediently. "Good." Uncle Tao smiled heartily, revealing that he was missing two teeth.

Zhang Minzhen smiled and handed over the two oiled paper bags that were still a little hot in his hand, "It's not that my eldest brother has quit, but he has been on leave without pay for a year, and you happened to be absent in those days, so I didn't have time to tell you." In the future, our family wants to do some meat bun business, but there are not enough people. Well, this is the meat buns that our family makes ourselves, and we will live on them in the future. I got up this morning and wrapped it, and my eldest brother told me yesterday not to forget to bring you a few so that you could help me taste them. ”

"In those days, I just went back to the house for something. Your brother says that every time, and I really don't know that he is actually thinking about me being here alone, so every time he has something good, he thinks about me. Uncle Tao put down the pot in his hand, wiped his hand on his clothes, then took the two oiled paper bags and opened one of them directly, and saw that there were five big meat buns in one bag, and couldn't help shaking his head and said, "Bring me so much, how can I finish eating alone?" I'll just keep one pack. ”

"It's just so happened that I was in a hurry, so don't cook it and eat it as breakfast. My eldest brother has specially explained that these two packets are yours. It's not that you don't know his temper, he usually looks good, but he is in a hurry to scold people, and I don't feel comfortable going back to find it. Zhang Minzhen smiled, "It's hard to say that we will come to the town to open a shop next month, and my eldest brother has been thinking that he will be able to drink with you again when the time comes." ”

"Haha, most of the people who have been soldiers have a loud voice, but in fact, the thunder is loud and the rain is small, where can you really send a temper to your family? I think I was similar to him back then, especially when I just came back from the army, my boy with a loud voice saw me, like a mouse and a cat, and he couldn't hide. Uncle Tao smiled all of a sudden, recalling that the wrinkles on his face had stretched a little bit, and so many years had passed in a flash, but the old situation still seemed to be right in front of him, he sighed for a while, and asked expectantly, "It's great that you want to come to the town to open a store." I'm also thinking about drinking with your eldest brother, when are you coming? ”

"Today I'm just here to see if there's a suitable store."

"You watch first, if you don't find it for a while, don't worry, I'll help you inquire at that time." Uncle Tao said and grabbed a meat bun and took a big bite, and then nodded again and again: "Woo, this meat bun tastes really good, in my opinion, your business will definitely be popular." ”

"Thank you for your old good words." Zhang Minzhen pushed the bicycle to the carport, "Uncle Tao, my car is here, and it is estimated that it will be picked up in the evening." ”

"Go ahead, pick it up whenever you want. If you don't go back at noon, you can come here to eat, and I can cook two dishes cleaner than eating outside, and there will be people to accompany me to be more lively. ”

"No, Nuan Nuan, this child has been clamoring to eat the noodles of the sixth family for the past few days, and I am ready to take her over to eat at noon." Zhang Minzhen refused with a smile while parking.

"The noodles of the sixth family used to be really good, so you can take the children to try them. However, I heard that the noodle shop is now the sixth and his son is taking over, and I don't know if the taste has changed. Uncle Tao nodded with a smile, ate steamed buns and smiled at Gu Nuannuan, "You go to the house and open the drawer in the middle of the table, there are letters from your uncle, all of which were sent by the army, don't take the two letters with the triangle red stamp without stamps." I have this memory now, I'm afraid that I will forget it when you turn back, and I don't know when you will be able to come back next time. ”

"Well, Grandpa Tao, I can recognize my uncle's name." Gu Nuannuan then entered the house, the room was small but very neat, except for a bed and a rectangular table with drawers, there was a chest of drawers. She opened the drawer in the middle of the desk as she said, and sure enough, she saw two letters in the corner of the desk, and the top one did not see the sender's address and name in the lower right corner, only the dragon and snake flying in the middle were written with the words "Zhang Weiqiang".

Gu Nuannuan was startled, and her face turned pale.

How could she be mistakenly surprised by the handwriting on the envelope that was so familiar to her that she could no longer be familiar?

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Gu Nuannuan's heart......