Chapter 46: Homecoming
Zhang Yuanjun's room is not large, and the furnishings are simple: a bookshelf with a few books he has read since childhood; A half-old writing desk and a chair were replaced by their parents a long time ago, and the three siblings of the Zhang family wrote their homework on this desk when they were children; a closet for his clothes; A half-old but very comfortable bed that completely adapts to Zhang Yuanjun's body.
Lying on this bed from childhood to adulthood again, Zhang Yuanjun's spirit was extraordinarily relaxed.
I don't know why, at home he would go to bed almost two hours earlier than in the capital.
Leaning on the head of the bed, Zhang Yuanjun smelled the familiar smell in the air, and the cracks in his bones were lazy and comfortable.
The book on his lap had not read two pages, and he fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Zhang Yuanjun was woken up by the sound of acquaintances and birds outside the window.
The sunlight that came in through the cracks in the curtains sprinkled on Zhang Yuanjun's feet at the end of the bed.
As soon as Zhang Yuanjun woke up and wanted to get up for a while, his mother's knock on the door rang: "Don't sleep, get up and eat." ”
"I'll sleep a little longer, and I'll stop eating."
"I'm still sleeping, it's nine o'clock, and I'm going to see your grandma after dinner."
"Oh, here it goes." Zhang Yuanjun got up, touched his mobile phone and looked at it, 8:05.
Breakfast is very simple, sweet potato porridge, with some tofu at home.
While Zhang Yuanjun was eating, his mother said to him: "This bottle of wine will be given to your grandmother and uncle; This cigarette is for your grandfather, remember to take it when you leave. ”
"Hmm."
Zhang Yuanjun snorted and drank two bowls of porridge and planned to go out.
"Who's going to eat that?" Mom poured all the remaining porridge in the pot into his bowl.
"Just feed it, I'll get fat sooner or later."
"You're not old enough to get fat, so you can't eat that." Mother Zhang poured the pot clean, "Let's eat at your uncle's house at noon." ”
"I guess they won't let me go either." Zhang Yuanjun continued to eat, "After eating at my uncle's house, I will definitely eat at my grandfather's house at night." ”
"Are you tired of eating?" Zhang's mother smiled, "How many times do you go back all year round?" At the beginning of the holiday, they asked the third child why he hadn't come back. ”
The old man was so concerned about himself, Zhang Yuanjun felt a little guilty.
"There is another thing I forgot to tell you, your grandfather will celebrate his 70th birthday in winter, and you will come back to me no matter how busy you are."
"Isn't my grandfather only 69, so he will do 70?"
Zhang's mother patted him: "If you do it back then, you can do it a year in advance." ”
"Oh, are they back?"
"Even if there are knives in the sky, I have to come back." Zhang's mother said.
Zhang Yuanjun drank porridge and realized one thing: "You and my dad will be 50 next year, what are you two going to do?" ”
Mother Zhang smiled: "We didn't want to do it, but your cousins and cousins said that we should do it well." ”
"Definitely it will be done." Zhang Yuanjun said, "Next year, our family will be happy, my grandfather's 70th birthday, and you and my father will be 50, we will definitely do it."
"I'm also filming now, and I have saved some money in my hand, and when the time comes, I will give you and my dad a full set of gold jewelry, so that they will die of envy." The more Zhang Yuanjun said, the more unserious he became.
"I don't want anything else, you tell the boss to bring a girlfriend back next year, and your dad and I will die laughing. At the age of twenty-four or five, he doesn't go on a blind date, and he doesn't talk about love. As soon as the eldest takes the lead, you and the second will not talk. ”
"Didn't the boss talk about one before, and you don't like it." Two years ago, the boss talked about a Chinese girlfriend abroad and sent a photo home, but my mother didn't like it.
"That's good-looking, but it's a little shorter."
Zhang Yuanjun has also seen the photo of that girl, she looks very good, she is indeed a little shorter, one meter in her early sixties, standing in front of the 187cm boss like a thin little chick.
Zhang's mother is good at everything, just a little, and likes tall and beautiful offspring.
The most important thing is that the aesthetics of the three children all follow their mothers, and the three siblings are all Yan dogs.
"The boss is in the United States, can you still arrange a blind date for him?" Zhang Yuanjun asked again.
"As I said last time, the daughter of the deputy secretary general of our city is also studying in the United States, half a year older than the boss, I have seen that girl, she is beautiful, and her father also likes the boss, and said that the two little ones will meet each other, your boss is good, and after meeting and having a meal, he will ignore people. There's no way to take him. "The marriage of the boss is the most important and headache for the Zhang family in recent years.
"The boss has been assertive since he was a child, and he must have his own plans. If you push him to continue, he will hide in the United States and not come back, what can you do with him? "Zhang Yuanjun knows his own boss.
After eating, Zhang Yuanjun went out for a walk twice to eliminate food, and then drove to his hometown in the countryside.
The parents are from the same village and the same village, the grandparents live on the slope, and the grandparents live on the slope.
Grandpa has passed away, and grandma is not used to living in the city, so she lives with her uncle in her hometown.
My grandparents are still here, living with my uncle.
The three old men refused to enter the city, and the price they paid for this was that they were not allowed to farm anymore, and only moved the few vegetables from their own garden every year.
"My son (aunt) is the boss in the city, and my parents are so tired in the countryside that they stink to death, and what we lose is our face as children."
Zhang Yuanjun went to see his grandmother first, and as soon as the car drove uphill, he saw three or five people sitting under the tree in front of his house from a distance.
I think a few villagers are greedy for the coolness of a summer morning, playing cards under the trees.
The car approached, and someone recognized Zhang's car.
"Who's coming?"
Grandma Zhang's eyes were very good, and when she looked at the car, she knew that her grandson was back, and said with a smile: "My grandson is back." ”
"The second one?"
"Yes." Grandma smiled.
Zhang Yuanjun also parked the car under the tree, got down, called his grandmother, and greeted everyone.
"How many are these second children?"
"The third."
"The third child is so old! Your family's good offspring is the same as the black tree. Someone boasted.
"When did you come back?" Grandma asked.
"Arrived yesterday." Zhang Yuanjun said.
Grandma saw him carrying wine and blamed: "Your uncle's mouth can't drink it, why give him such a good wine, it's a waste of things." ”
Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile: "My uncle doesn't smoke, and he always has to drink a bottle of wine." Where's my uncle? ”
Zhang Yuanjun said and brought the wine into the room and put it on the table.
"It's Yuanjun who is back." Uncle's voice rang out at the back door.
Zhang Yuanjun walked to the back door and saw the uncle and aunt plucking chicken feathers in the basin.
The aunt got up, wiped her hands, and told him to come in and sit.
"Why did you come back so late this year?"
"There was something going on at the school and I only came back yesterday. You're busy, I'll do it myself. Zhang Yuanjun took the cup and poured water by himself.
After two sips, Zhang Yuanjun said that he was going to his grandfather's house on the slope.
"Come back at noon and eat, don't eat at your grandfather's house." Uncle instructed.
Zhang Yuanjun carried the cigarette for his uncle and said with a smile: "I know." ”
Zhang Yuanjun walked down slowly.
The clansmen playing cards under the tree looked at Zhang Yuanjun's distant back and said to Grandma Zhang:
"You are blessed, the second child is so rich, and several grandchildren are filial and sensible."
"What do you expect them to do, I can come back a few more times, and I will be satisfied if I stay a few more days." But in the eyes of grandma looking at Zhang Yuanjun's upright back, she couldn't hide her pride and self-satisfaction.
Before Zhang Yuanjun entered the door of his grandfather's house, he saw a yellow dog with his tail cut off barking at him.
"Damn it, what's it called!" There was a loud rebuke from the grandmother in the house, and then a rickety figure appeared at the door, holding a wooden stick for beating a dog.
When the old man saw his grandson standing outside the door, he was pleasantly surprised, "I also said that you would be late." ”
"Just got off my grandma." Zhang Yuanjun walked in with a cigarette, "Why doesn't that dog have a tail?" ”
"I always pounce on people's chickens, so I cut them. Eat at home at noon, don't go to your grandma's. ”
Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile: "My uncle has killed all the chickens." ”
Grandma said, "I chopped the duck last night and raised it for half a year." ”
While the grandfather and grandson were talking, the grandfather wore a straw hat and carried a basket into the door.
"Yuanjun is here." The old man said happily and handed over the basket, "Taste the freshly beaten dates and peaches." ”
In my grandfather's vegetable garden, there is a jujube tree and a peach tree, both of which are more than ten years old and bear fruit every year.
Zhang Yuanjun picked a soft peach and ate it, with cool and full juice and thick and tender flesh.
"It's delicious, and I'll take it back with a basket later." Justice.
Eating at noon became a big problem, and the old people on both sides wanted Zhang Yuanjun to go back to their homes to eat.
"My chickens are all in the pot." Grandma went to her in-laws' house to pull Zhang Yuanjun.
"How many meals do you eat at your house throughout the year, and this year I eat at my place." Grandpa just won't let me.
"The second brother will eat at your house when he comes back."
Zhang Yuanjun, as a junior, is not easy to speak. In the end, the aunt also came down, and the grandmother and the two forced Zhang Yuanjun home.
Zhang Yuanjun didn't offend anyone, he ate with his uncle and grandmother at noon, and went back to his grandfather's house for dinner in the evening.
Zhang Yuanjun stayed in the village for a day, and at about six o'clock in the afternoon, he drove home before it was dark.
"Slow down." Grandpa instructed.