Chapter 21: Centennial Tea Tree
Thunder squeezed in.
"Where did you hear about it?"
Everyone watched in amazement at the thunder.
Lei Deyong asked tremblingly, "Lei Xiang, what's going on?" ”
"Dad, it's okay, don't worry!"
Chen Daniu, the village party secretary, looked at the thunder.
"Thunder, it's a fact that the county came down to investigate, right?"
Lei Xiang asked rhetorically: "Do you know the results of the investigation?" ”
Lei Deyong grabbed the thunder.
"Son, are you really being investigated?"
Chen Daniu snorted coldly.
"Old Lei, do you still need to ask? Go back and educate your son. ”
A young man in his twenties squeezed into the crowd and shouted at the thunder.
"Director Lei, you're back!
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, I heard your voice and came over. ”
Everyone was stunned and turned their heads to look at the thunder.
Chen Daniu frowned: "What do you call him?" ”
The young man smiled.
"You don't know, do you? Lei Xiang has been promoted to the deputy director of the Songling Sugar Factory.
I already saw the appointment documents two days ago! ”
The young man is an employee of another township sugar factory, and the sugar factory is also a subordinate unit of the Guoning Sugar Company.
Lei Deyong hurriedly turned to Lei Xiang
"Son, is it true?"
Lei Xiang smiled and nodded.
"Dad, it's true!
Someone reported that I had been framed, and that person is now in a detention center. ”
Chen Daniu was a little embarrassed.
"Director Lei, I know you've been reported, but I don't know you've been promoted."
Lei Xiang didn't bother to pay attention to Chen Daniu, turned his head and said a few words to the young man, pulled his father and walked to the car.
Everyone booed at Chen Daniu.
……
Lei Deyong smiled from ear to ear.
"My son is the factory director! Glory to the ancestors! ”
Lei Xiang helped his father into the car.
……
After a while, the car arrived at the door.
Lei Deyong got out of the car and rushed home.
"Yuqing, hurry, our son is back!"
Lei Xiang's mother, Wen Yuqing, came out of the kitchen.
"It's not the first time my son has come home, why are you so happy?"
Lei Deyong's voice trembled a little.
"My son is the factory director!"
Wen Yuqing's mouth was half-open.
"Factory director?"
Lei Xiang walked into the courtyard with his things.
"Mom, it's the deputy factory director!"
Wen Yuqing excitedly pounced on the thunder.
"Son, are you really an official?
Our family burns high incense, there are officials! ”
Lei Deyong danced happily.
"Our family has been a farmer for generations, and finally there is an official!
Gotta kill a chicken to celebrate, I'll catch the chicken! ”
Lei Deyong happily went to the backyard.
Wen Yuqing looked the thunder up and down.
"I mean, my adopted son is not the same as someone else's!
If I marry your father well, I will have a better son! ”
As the saying goes, the son is his own good, and the husband is the good of others.
In Wen Yuqing's eyes, her husband and son are all her own good!
Lei Xiang said with a smile: "It's still my mother who is well educated, without my mother, how can I be where I am today!" ”
Lei Deyong, who had already gone to the backyard, heard this, turned back and snorted a few times.
Lei Xiang hurriedly said:
"Since I was a child, my parents not only taught me to be a good person and do good deeds, but also taught me by word and deed!
My parents' children are just promising! ”
Lei Deyong had a smile on his face, turned around and went back to the backyard.
Thunder shouted at the backyard:
"Dad, don't kill chickens, I bought beef and ribs."
Lei Deyong replied loudly:
"Such a big happy event, how can you do it without killing chickens!"
Wen Yuqing smiled happily.
"Let your dad toss, let's celebrate and celebrate today!"
Lei Xiang no longer stopped and followed his mother to cook.
Wen Yuqing let Lei Xiang rest, and he couldn't help in the kitchen.
Lei Xiang had no choice but to exit the kitchen and wander around to the golden tea tree behind the house.
This small-leaved goldenrod tea tree is much taller than the average goldenrod tea tree.
It is about five meters in diameter and twenty-three or four centimeters in diameter.
The shape of the tree is beautiful, and the branches are vigorous and powerful.
The foliage is dotted with small yellow flowers and some buds.
Lei Xiang was surprised.
Two months ago, after the golden flower tea bloomed for a while, it was completely extinguished, and there were no flower buds!
Normal golden flower tea appears yellow buds in July ~ August every year.
It is not until November that the tea is fully opened, and it blooms until March of the following year, and the full flowering period is 1 to 2 months.
But this hundred-year-old tea tree has a strange phenomenon,
That is, it blooms for one month every three years, which means that only one crop blooms.
This year is the year when the flowers bloom for a month, and after the flowers bloom in November,
There will be no more buds, no more flowers.
But now it's not just the trees full of flowers, but also the strings of yellow buds!
Lei Xiang ran back to the yard in surprise, Lei Deyong was killing chickens.
Thunder went over to help.
"Dad, that golden flower tea is still blooming now, and there are still many yellow buds, what's going on?
It's very unusual, did you put fertilizer in it? ”
Lei Deyong put the blood of chickens.
"How is it possible to put fertilizer?
I will remember your grandfather's words, let him be born and grow, and keep it in the style of the mountains!
Your mother and I are also very curious, why is it blooming this year?
It looks like it may be open until March next year! ”
Wen Yuqing's eyebrows fluttered and he came out with a spatula.
"It's not surprising at all, our century-old tree is blooming twice,
It's a great event!
Our family is out of office! ”
Lei Deyong patted his head.
"Your mother is right, the hundred-year-old tree has already reported the good news in advance!"
Lei Xiang was excited.
Although the parents' words were wishful thinking, they were full of joy.
Many phenomena in nature cannot be explained by science, and explanations like those of parents are not only clear, but also comfortable and happy!
Helping his father kill the chicken, Lei Xiang came to the hundred-year-old tree again.
Looking at the golden flower tea full of trees, the shadow of an apple flashed in front of Lei Xiang's eyes.
How excited Apple would be to see this century-old Golden Flower Tea!
Lei Xiang took out his mobile phone and wanted to call Apple and invite her to come and have a look!
As soon as Apple's number was called, Thunder stopped.
Seeing Apple this time, Lei Xiang clearly felt that Apple was keeping a certain distance from him.
And I also feel that Apple doesn't seem to like to bother her all the time!
Let's wait for her to come to herself.
An hour later, the meal is served.
Lei Xiang took out the wine and cigarettes he bought in the town, handed the two cigarettes to Lei Deyong, and then put the wine on the table.
Lei Deyong took the cigarette and looked left and right.
"Lei Xiang, such good cigarettes and alcohol were given by others, right?"
"Dad, don't worry, I bought it!
I just came up, no one sent it, and I don't want to send it! ”
Lei Deyong nodded, took the wine and looked at it carefully.
"That's right, you can't take anyone's things, and you have to be innocent when you are an official.
However, don't buy cigarettes so well in the future, your dad has a sore throat when he smokes well. ”
"Dad, don't worry about that money, I should honor you!"
Lei Xiang unscrewed the cap of the wine bottle and poured it first for his father, then for his mother, and finally for himself.
Mother Wen Yuqing picked up the cup and sniffed it.
"This wine is also a good wine, it costs more than a hundred bottles, right?
Thunder, you're not married, don't spend money lavishly.
I live a life of coarse tea and light food with your dad, and I can't eat such good things, so don't spend the money on us......"
The thunderous nose is a little stuffy, and the throat is a little tight!
Although the salary of a civil servant is not high, he is responsive to the needs of his future mother-in-law, Wu Yujiao.
The money he spent on his parents was only a fraction of what he spent on the Hu family's mother and daughter, but his parents were distressed.
But Wu Yujiao has never thanked Lei Xiang for his efforts, let alone felt sorry for Lei Xiang's money.
In Wu Yujiao's opinion, the money that spends thunder is a matter of course!
"Mom, Dad, don't worry, I won't spend a lot of money.
You are only my son, I will not honor you, who will honor!
Dad, Mom, son respects you! ”
Lei Xiang picked up his wine glass: "Without you, there would be no me!" Thank you! ”
Listening to their son's words, the couple was so moved that they almost burst into tears......
The family was having their best time drinking, when suddenly a pungent stench wafted in.
Wen Yuqing hurriedly got up and closed the door.
Thunder gaged for a while, worried and said:
"Dad, Mom, you have lived in such an environment for a long time, I don't worry!
I want to rent a house in the town, and you guys go to the town. ”
Lei Deyong immediately waved his hand.
"If you don't live in the ancestral house here, what are you going to waste that money for?"
"Dad, what's a waste of money? If you're sick,
It's not just money, you have to suffer from sickness! ”
Lei Deyong said indifferently: "I'm in good health with your mother!" ”
"Dad, so many people in the village have been sick in the past two years,
And now it's a high growth trend, let's get out of here first. ”
Lei Deyong found a reason to refuse.
"Those who are sick, they are not in good health!
I'm strong with your mother, no problem!
It's your marriage with Xiaoya, just don't let us worry about it! ”
Wen Yuqing spoke: "Thunder, your dad is right!" It's twenty-nine, it's time to get married!
Find a time, I will go to Xiaoya's house with your father to propose marriage, and let you get married! ”
"Mom, people in the city are not interested in proposing."
Wen Yuqing said: "Just when we go to the city to see Xiaoya's mother, you have been talking for so long, we can't talk about it if we don't go." ”
Lei Deyong took a sip of wine.
"If you want to get married, you have to buy a house in the city first, otherwise Xiaoya's mother will look down on us even more.
Thunder, you have to have a number in your heart about how big a house to buy.
You don't have enough money, your mother and I can help you. ”
Although buying a house has been in the thunderous plan, I have always been embarrassed to tell my parents.
Now that it was mentioned, Lei Xiang had no choice but to say:
"Xiaoya said that she wanted a big three rooms, which is the kind of one hundred and fifty square meters."
Wen Yuqing's eyes widened.
"So big? Can I buy a smaller one? ”
"Originally, I thought it was a bit big, but I thought that I was going to take you over in the future, so it was just right."
Wen Yuqing directly refused.
"We still live in the village, and we are not used to life in the city."
Lei Xiang's tone was firm: "I will slowly get used to it!" You must pass! ”
Lei Deyong shook his head.
"If you really want to live in the city, your mother and I will definitely not go, just go and see you in a long time.
Thunder, how much does such a big house cost? ”
Lei Xiang pulled a tissue to wipe the sweat from his head.
"If you don't live in the city, you can't say, I'll have the final say!
The third room needs 500,000 or 600,000 yuan. ”
The couple fell silent.
Five or six hundred thousand is a lot for them.
After a pause, Lei Deyong asked, "How much do you have to pay for the down payment?" ”