"Looking for Xiaolan."
Sister-in-law Chen hung up the phone. Chen Wangda was surprised, "you're nervous when you talk to Xiaolan?"
Mrs. Chen couldn't explain clearly: "I couldn't help being nervous when I heard the other side talking."
She is a middle-aged male voice. She is actually very polite. Sister-in-law Chen just can't help being nervous. She doesn't control herself at all. She speaks to each other with a more solemn attitude than her father-in-law Chen Wangda.
"Then tell Xiaolan and ask her to call back. Maybe there's something urgent."
Finally, something interrupted Chen Wangda. Sister-in-law Chen naturally slipped faster than the rabbit. Stepping on the snow to Xia Xiaolan's house, I happened to meet grandma.
The old lady is the landlord of Xia Xiaolan's mother and daughter in the commercial capital. Sister-in-law Chen thinks the old lady is dignified.
Grandma Yu remembered sister-in-law Chen and stopped her: "tell ah Fen about marriage again?"
Sister-in-law Chen blushed, "no, Pengcheng called and said to find Xiaolan. I'll call her."
"Wait, who called Pengcheng?"
"I said my last name was Tang."
Grandma Yu grabbed sister-in-law Chen. "This man is looking for me. Let's go. I'll call him back."
Looking for the old lady?
Mrs. Chen was suspicious, but what the other party said on the phone was vague. She asked Xia Xiaolan if she had returned home for the new year. Did she want to ask the landlord if the old lady had followed?
Mrs. Chen can't speak too much of her grandmother. In a few words, she was diverted to pay attention. She slipped in the snow. Grandma Yu held Mrs. Chen's hand tightly and followed Mrs. Chen back to the village committee. In a few words, sister-in-law Chen cleaned up her family for grandma Yu. She knew that she was the eldest daughter-in-law of the village head. Her son used to be a classmate with Xiaolan. Now she is also going to university in Beijing. She didn't go home this winter vacation.
Oh, that's what Liu Fen said about Chen Qing.
Mrs. Chen also wants to inquire about Xia Xiaolan's object in turn. Grandma Yu immediately understands that this is the son of the Chen family who has a crush on Xiaolan? It's not that grandma Yu doesn't look up to the young people in the countryside. Grandma Yu doesn't look up to sister-in-law Chen.
After half an hour, the phone rang again. Grandma Yu picked it up, said a word and stared at sister-in-law Chen.
Nowadays, people don't have the right to privacy. Sometimes when relatives call, the whole village can't wait to listen. Sister-in-law Chen doesn't have self-consciousness. Grandma Yu has always been outspoken:
"Sorry, I have something personal to say."
Grandma Yu looked at her with a pair of eyes. Sister-in-law Chen knew what grandma meant. She had not been said like this. Her face was very hot and she hurried out.
Grandma Yu muttered. She talked on the phone for several minutes. Sister-in-law Chen secretly bah. She really thinks she is an important person. It's mysterious to talk on the phone. But when grandma hung up, sister-in-law Chen squeezed out a smiling face.
Grandma Yu doesn't like such a person. If she wasn't from the city, would sister-in-law Chen treat her like this?
"Thank you. I can't bother you for the Chinese New Year. Come home early tomorrow."
Mrs. Chen wanted to help her back. Grandma Yu delayed again and again. She found a wooden stick and walked back slowly. She was old and had a straight back. She had a special temperament when walking.
The smiling face on Mrs. Chen's face closed, "bah, what's so great? I'm not coming to the countryside for the new year."
Not everyone in the city has the right to have money. Xia Xiaolan is not the only college student. So is her son. In a few years, her family Chen Qing graduated from university and is promising. She can still be a city man!
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"Grandma Yu, where have you been?"
Grandma Yu's cotton shoes are wet. Xia Xiaolan bought them in Pengcheng. They are covered with leather and thick hair inside. If you step on the snow in winter, just wipe the outside with a handkerchief. Your feet won't be frozen.
"I walked around the village."
Grandma Yu didn't mention the phone at all, and Xia Xiaolan couldn't think of going there. The new year's Eve dinner should be prepared one day in advance. Xia Xiaolan's yard is spacious and the style of the new house. It is said that this year's new year's dinner will be held at her house.
Liu Yong originally planned to repair the house, but he was disgusted by the Tian family. His obsession with returning home in good clothes was lighter, and he didn't mention building a house in the countryside.
We should prepare several tables of people's meals, cook the chicken one day in advance, fry the fish and balls, and all kinds of vegetables. Peel what should be peeled and cut into pieces.
Grandma Yu looked at the prepared things. "Don't stew the mutton together. Leave half of it to stew a soup. Ah Fen, your craft is good. You stew it."
Liu Yong bought two mutton legs in the county and agreed to use braised ones. Grandma Yu suddenly said she wanted to drink mutton soup.
Liu Fen had a good temper. Her apron was relieved. She was busy again. She raised the stove and chopped half of the mutton leg for stew.
The old lady wants to eat some mutton. It's nothing to do with diabetes. People with diabetes usually have to eat less food containing sugar and starch. Mutton has little effect on blood sugar. Liu Fen doesn't put potatoes in it.
Xia Xiaolan thought it was a little strange. Grandma Yu basically gave her what to eat. It was the first time to give advice. Is it really not to treat them as outsiders?
Liu Fen made up her mind not to go out and hurried back to the provincial capital after going to the grave for her parents after the new year, which made the Tian family unable to sleep over and over. The Tian family was choked by Xia Xiaolan's words. Rural people still taboo talking for luck during the new year. Xia Xiaolan opened her mouth and said that the Tian family was dead. The more the Tian family wanted to be angry.
Liu Yong invited the Tian family to the reunion dinner instead of the Tian family.
The village also said that Liu Yong wanted to hire someone to be a bricklayer, with a salary of 10 yuan a day. There was still no Tian family in this matter.
"I'll come and ask tomorrow. They're all from the same village. Why don't you invite me?"
Tian Laosan drank some cat urine and began to go crazy again.
"Yes, you don't look up to our third child. Why don't you send the third child to work? There are two or three hundred yuan a month, which is also a great income. The third child should have this salary. What is raising Xiaoyan's sister and brother! "
Tian Laosan thinks this is very reasonable.
Like him before, Liu Yong was idle and didn't do serious things.
Why does Liu Yong say he gets rich when he gets rich, but he wants to be poor in the village?
If Liu Yong doesn't agree to be a burden to the Liu family, he will bleed some blood and spend some money to raise him every month, or he will pester the Liu family!
Tian Laosan hiccups and calls his daughter Tian Xiaoyan. Tian Xiaoyan's shoulders are shaking.
Tian Laosan showed a rare smiling face and spewed out a thick smell of wine:
"Xiaoyan, Dad won't beat you. Dad won't beat you and your brother in the future. I'll buy you new clothes, let you eat meat and send you to school... As long as your father has money, you can do whatever you want. You'll kneel at the door of Liu's house tomorrow and ask your uncle Yong to promise your father to go to work. When he promises you, you'll get up."
Tian Xiaoyan was educated by Xia Xiaolan. In front of so many people, Xia Xiaolan didn't agree to ask her and her brother. Can uncle Yong agree to her request?
"Dad, what if Uncle Yong doesn't agree?"
"Then you will kneel and die at his door!"