"Rong'er, you miss your mother so much. You said you've been away for so many years. Why don't you come back to see your mother?"
Li Suhua was also crying hard. Zhou Bingkun had seen Li Suhua cry too many times over the years, but he had never seen Li Suhua cry so hard.
The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried for at least five minutes before some of their emotions were vented.
"Mom, please stop crying now. Let Zhou Rong introduce me to you first and get to know him."
Zhou Bingkun cracked melon seeds and watched Zhou Rong's performance. It was Zhou Bingyi who saw that the two people's emotions had eased a lot and stopped them from crying anymore.
"Mom, this is Feng Huacheng, it's your first time meeting me." Zhou Rong first pointed to Feng Huacheng, a middle-aged man who was not much younger than Li Suhua, and then pointed to the little bean Feng Yue and introduced: "This is Yue
Yue, you have seen it a long time ago."
Feng Huacheng bowed fiercely to Li Suhua and shouted loudly: "Mom."
This shocked Li Suhua and successfully made Li Suhua notice Feng Huacheng. Feng Huacheng looked like he was in his forties or in his fifties. He couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Are you Feng Huacheng?"
"Mom, didn't I send photos back to my family? Have you seen the transformed photos?" Zhou Rong said angrily to Li Suhua. The old couple in the Zhou family were just like Zhou Rong.
It can also be said that Zhou Rong took advantage of the old couple because she knew how to act coquettishly.
"Yes... I have seen the photo. Mom just didn't expect that the photo and the person are so different. Hahaha, stop standing and come sit on the kang."
The black-and-white photo cannot be said to be a fraud, but it is just because the photo is not clear enough and does not capture the vicissitudes of Feng Huacheng's ten years of hard work in the countryside.
Li Suhua was not very interested in Feng Huacheng. After passing by Feng Huacheng, Li Suhua looked at Feng Yue, opened her hands and said: "Yueyue, do you still remember grandma? You stayed at grandma's house two years ago.
Yes, let grandma come and hug you."
"Mom." Feng Yue shouted and hid behind Zhou Rong.
When I was more than two years old, I lived at home for more than half a month, and more than two years have passed. How can I still remember Li Suhua.
It would be better for Zhou Miaomiao to call Li Suhua "grandma" when she sees her, and Li Suhua kisses Feng Yue for nothing.
"Yueyue, you don't know grandma anymore. Don't you remember that when you first went back, you kept saying that it was great to be at grandma's house. You can eat meat all the time and eat sweets all the time. Please call grandma and let her give you a hug.
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After Zhou Rong's repeated persuasion, the child finally called grandma.
If you hold it, you will definitely not be allowed to hold it. No matter how close the child is to you, should the child accept it as a child or not?
"Rong'er, don't force the child. If the child doesn't want to be hugged, don't let him be hugged. After a few days, when we get familiar with each other, the child will naturally become close to me. You guys have been working hard on the car ride back. I'll go cook for you."
Zhou Bingkun doesn't live at home, and it would be embarrassing for Li Suhua to go to the black market to buy meat.
So there must be no meat at home, but Li Suhua still kept all the fine grains for Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong to eat when they came back.
In addition, Li Suhua raised a few chickens, accumulated some eggs, and treated two families to eat egg sauce noodles. This standard is actually quite good.
"Bingkun, come and help mom roll out the noodles."
When it was time to work, Li Suhua called Zhou Bingkun. This was because he was closer to Zhou Bingkun, but also because he couldn't bear to work as a good eldest son and a good daughter.
"Zhou Bingyi, help mom roll out the noodles. This is your home now and I am a guest. Are you embarrassed to let me work?"
It was impossible for Zhou Bingkun to serve Zhou Rong's family, so he gave instructions to Zhou Bingyi.
"Mom, let me come and help you." Zhou Rong followed Li Suhua and shouted like a good girl.
"What are you doing for me? You can roll noodles now?"
Even though she knew Zhou Rong was just talking, Li Suhua was still happy because Zhou Rong understood the Zhou family well.
"I don't know how to do it yet, our family cooks all the time." After replying as expected, Zhou Rong stood aside and watched.
"You are a guest. Lao Zhou's house is no longer your home, right?"
Zhou Bingyi looked at Zhou Bingkun in surprise and asked.
"It's true, but it's not completely true anymore. Our father never came back, so I made the decision on my own and divided the family between us two brothers."
Zhou Bingyi darkened his face and said, "How did you divide your family? Have you told me?"
"Mom, aren't you taking care of me now? So everything in Lao Zhou's house belongs to you. The house, including the things in our house, all belong to you. I will leave the house and take only our family's personal belongings with me."
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What Zhou Bingkun did was already very impressive. Others would be so happy to have such a sensible brother.
Only Zhou Bingyi looked unhappy because he had his own house and could not live in his father-in-law's family openly.
In fact, although the old Zhou family did not announce a separation, the three brothers and sisters had already de facto separated.
As early as 1969, the three brothers and sisters were no longer in the same household register.
This year Zhou Bingkun was admitted to university, his registered residence was transferred from home to school, and he was completely separated from the Zhou family.
The original five members of Lao Zhou's family are now divided into four household registration books.
"Bingkun, you have to feed so many people. Mom can't do it. Come and help quickly. If you don't come and help, when can we eat?" Li Suhua urged in the outer room.
"Hurry up and help mom roll out the noodles. Don't feel any grievance. I'm cooking for you. I'm not here to eat. I have a wife to cook for me. I'll go back to Taiping Hutong to eat later."
Zhou Bingkun looked at Zhou Bingyi who was darkened and lost his mind and said.
"Mom, you should be busy. If there are too many people, it will be troublesome to cook. I won't stay and cause trouble. I will go back."
"Today is the first day your brother and sister have come back. Why don't you eat at home?"
Of all the people in the room, Li Suhua was the most polite to Zhou Bingkun, and even politely tried to persuade him to stay.
"No, the food has been prepared over there. It's hot now and I can't keep the leftovers. In order not to waste it, I'd better go back and eat."
Zhou Bingkun's reason is enough to explain to Li Suhua.
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In the next few days, Zhou Bingkun, Qianchao, Guoqing, and Qiao Chunyan got together twice.
The life of the three families cannot be considered too good, but there are some problems caused by the return of the brother and sister to the city.
The house is tight and the money is tight. Each has its own difficulties, but it is not too bad.
In other words, the quality of life is worse than before.
With these young people returning to the city, either they will be assigned jobs or they will find a way out, this stage will eventually pass.
The rest of the time, Zhou Bingkun just rode his nearly ten-year-old bicycle.
Man Jichun wandered around, looking for some houses for sale.
Although it is still a little early, it is already time to buy some houses.
Some wealthy families have already received returned houses.
Or you may be worried about policy changes, financial constraints, job transfers and other reasons, and want to sell your house.
However, because housing transactions are not yet so formal, homeowners who want to sell their houses will not advertise on a large scale.
Housing is not that easy to find, so even though Zhou Bingkun wandered around for a long time, he only looked at four or five houses.
The selection range was not that large, so Zhou Bingkun could not find a decent house. Zhou Bingkun also took a fancy to these dilapidated houses.
After failing to buy it, Zhou Bingkun changed his mind and wanted to rent a house for a few years.
There are many more options for renting a house, and all kinds of houses are available for rent.
We had to choose a lot, and from a geographical point of view, it was not far from Guangzi Film, and there was a train line in the middle, so it only took less than half an hour to walk.
In terms of comfort, the house can have a fireplace, which is very important in the winter in the Northeast. Zhou Bingkun chose a Soviet-style brick house.
Because many Soviet people lived in Jichun, there are quite a lot of Soviet-style houses in Jichun.
Most of these Soviet-style houses were built by the Soviets, and a few were built by the fashionable Chinese at the time.
The owner of the house Zhou Bingkun contacted was a fashionable family at the time.
Three bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a bathroom.
On the contrary, it has a similar layout to the Soviet-style bungalow that Zhou Bingkun originally planned to buy.
Zhou Bingkun signed a five-year contract at a price of 60 yuan a year.
Houses in this era don't pay too much attention to decoration. They can move directly after scraping a layer of whitewash.
"National Day, please excuse me, Lao Jin didn't say anything, did he?"
Zhou Bingkun said to Guo Qing, who drove a truck from the factory to help with the move.
"What did Lao Jin say about me? I don't take advantage of the factory. I use it during off-duty hours. Even if I burn this little oil, I will make up for it with the money."
The workers are the owners of the factory. It is very kind to use the factory cars and pay for gas during the National Day.
"National Day, come again and help me lift this cabinet."
Zhou Bingkun pointed at Aunt Zheng and Guangming's large wardrobe and said.
This move was a bit troublesome, and it didn't just involve moving the belongings of Zhou Bingkun's family of three.
Even Aunt Zheng and Guangming's belongings were moved directly. It was a pity that the house with a small Soviet-style courtyard and a pretty nice house remained empty.
Zhou Bingkun persuaded Aunt Zheng and Guangming to live in the house. The popularity of the house would also help the maintenance of the house.
Aunt Zheng's one and a half house here will not be empty. Renting it out can earn more than ten or twenty yuan a year, which is also a big supplement for Aunt Zheng.
After the move was almost done, Guo Qing patted the dust on his hands and said, "Bingkun, the things here are almost moved. Should we still go to your old Zhou's house?"
"Yes, there are some things belonging to Zheng Juan and I, and a few boxes. Let's move them."
After living in the old Zhou family for so many years, Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan still have a lot of bits and pieces of their things.
After finishing moving things in Taiping Hutong, Zhou Bingkun and Guo Qing came to Zhou's house again.
Because a lot of the original street was occupied by private construction, trucks could not drive in.
It's better to borrow a neighbor's trolley to make a transition.
"Bingkun, why did you pull a cart here to move things?" Zhou Bingyi, who saw Zhou Bingkun pulling a cart, was obviously a little bit teasing.
Even if Zhou Bingkun makes room for Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Bingyi does not always live in the Zhou family, only two or three days a week. Most of them will go back to the Zhou family to live alone without bringing back a wife.
"Well, move things away. Move all the things belonging to me, Zheng Juan, and the children so that we can no longer take up your space. We occupy a lot of space in your house. You think the house is too small and you don't come back to live in your own house. Where can we live?
Fortunately, I occupy your place." Zhou Bingkun looked at Zhou Bingyi with a strange look.
Whether it was because he couldn't control his wife or he wanted to curry favor with the Hao family, the old Zhou family had a place to live, and Zhou Bingyi often stayed at the Hao family, which Zhou Bingkun looked down upon.
"Bingkun, you really have to move all your things. The Zheng family in Taiping Hutong is not big, so moving back will take up a lot of space. It's no problem to put your things here. Let me tell you, it won't be easy for you to move back here."
No problem, the place in Zheng Juan’s house is not big, so there is no place where I can live comfortably at home. Don’t worry about me not having a place to live, I can talk to your sister-in-law’s house and live in your sister-in-law’s house.”
Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong are both the same type of people. In the name of doing good for you, they want to throw away the responsibility of taking care of the elderly.
Zhou Bingyi could come back every now and then to visit, but Zhou Rong disappeared again after returning to Jichun.
After meeting my mother Li Suhua, who was about to die, I stopped thinking about it and the family of three stayed in a hotel outside.
Although people are still in Jichun, they basically don't go home. The family of three spends the whole day playing and traveling in Jichun and around Jichun.
The travels of literati cannot be said to be tourism, but rather to collect customs and find inspiration.
Zhou Bingkun looked at Zhou Bingyi with disdain: "Zhou Bingyi, do you really want to live in the Hao family's small foreign-style house? If you really want to live there, just say so and live there boldly. I won't come back to live there anyway.
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"Zhou Bingkun, what do you mean?" Zhou Bingyi reacted strongly when the sore spot was poked.
"What do you mean by me? You really pretend that I can't tell. You just don't want to care about mom. How have you asked your sister-in-law to take care of mom in the past few months? You really pretend that I don't know. Come back and take a look, just come back and take a look.
Look, there is no help at all. For such an old lady, if she is asked to fetch water by herself, we are really not afraid of her falling!"
Originally, Zhou Bingkun did not take care of Li Suhua himself, so he was not prepared to comment on Zhou Bingyi and his wife taking care of Li Suhua.
But Zhou Bingyi wanted to trick him into taking over again, so Zhou Bingkun was rude.
"Bingkun, why are you quarreling with your brother again? Dongmei wants to work, but her mother won't let her help. What does this have to do with your brother? Why are you and your brother quarreling?"
Li Suhua came out of the back room and said that Zhou Bingkun felt wronged for Li Suhua. Maybe Li Suhua thought Zhou Bingkun was meddling in other people's affairs.
"Yes, I don't need to say this. Let me declare that from now on, the two daughters-in-law of the old Zhou family must be treated equally. My sister-in-law will not work when she comes to the Zhou family, and my Juan'er will not work when she comes."
Zhou Bingkun now also has a problem with Li Suhua, so it's okay to treat the two daughters-in-law differently.
After all, Hao Dongmei is the daughter of such a powerful leader. It is understandable that Li Suhua, an ordinary person, does not dare to do anything.
But now the two brothers had a few quarrels, and Li Suhua took sides. Zhou Bingkun couldn't accept that he was being treated like this sincerely.
