Parents are sometimes very contradictory creatures. When their children are young, they are very guarded against falling in love early. As soon as they become adults, they start to rush and rush to find a partner. They wish they could get married where they are. Then when they get married, they start to be unwilling to do anything about it.
Abandon……
My eldest aunt is a typical example of this. When Duan Fengchun didn't have a partner, she would be so anxious that she would get angry every day. When she met a young man on the street, she would want to ask him if he had a partner, so that he could marry her daughter off as soon as possible.
But now that her daughter is married, she starts wiping tears every day, as if a piece of flesh in her heart has been taken away.
"Oh, why are you crying again!" Qin Jingru and the others saw that their aunt's eyes were red, and they hurriedly stepped forward to comfort them. Then they didn't care about serving the food. They took the photos and went back to the main room with the others.
appreciate.
"This is good, you smile so beautifully."
"Oh, why did I close my eyes?"
"This is a great photo. Give it to me. I'll make a photo album later and put it in it."
"Give this to Fengchun and the others."
"And this."
A group of people in the room gathered around the table, spread out the photos, sorted them into piles, and discussed how to divide the photos. Even the two gay men, my grandfather and uncle, actively participated in it.
Taking pictures at this time was expensive, let alone in rural areas. People in the city might not take pictures once every few years, so every photo was precious to them, so they naturally had to choose carefully.
Chu Heng didn't get involved. He still had the negatives in his hand. If he really wanted any of them, he could just go back to the darkroom to wash them.
He wandered to the Arhat bed and sat down. After teasing Chu Zhecheng and Huniu for a while, he saw his uncle and aunt muttering a few words, then left the main room and returned to the main room after a while.
return.
After entering the house, the aunt and the uncle looked at each other. The uncle came straight to Chu Heng and stuffed a wad of dough to him: "Hengzi, this is the money for the photo. Take it, don't talk to the uncle."
Tear it up, you have spent a lot of money on Fengchun's marriage during this period, you can't spend any more money on these photos."
"Hey, what are you doing? Take it back quickly." Chu Heng naturally couldn't ask for this money. Not to mention that he didn't spend a few bucks in the first place. Even if he went to the photo studio to develop the photos according to the time, he wouldn't
To recover this money, firstly, there is no shortage, and secondly, the relationship with Duan Fengchun is at stake here.
"No, you have to keep it, otherwise I will be angry!" The uncle said with a straight face and stuffed it into his pocket again.
"I can't accept it even if you're angry. Listen to me, uncle." Chu Heng quickly told him about using the darkroom of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop photos.
"You didn't lie to us, did you?" My aunt came forward doubtfully.
"That's not true, auntie." Ni Yinghong smiled and explained helpfully: "Chu Heng has a very good relationship with the person in charge of the darkroom at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He goes to his place to develop some photos every now and then, and he never spends any money.
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"Tsk, Hengzi is really capable." The uncle was relieved and gave Chu Heng a thumbs up.
In the eyes of many people today, as long as someone can take advantage of the public from their work unit, they are capable.
My uncle is obviously one of them.
"Hey, what kind of skill is this? It's just that I'm more popular." Chu Heng smiled reservedly, then touched his belly, and couldn't help shouting to Yang Guizhi and the others who were still looking at the photos: "I said, are we?
Time for dinner? What time is it!"
"Hey, it's already this hour. You guys hurry up and pack up while I'm going to serve the food." Yang Guizhi looked at the time and hurried out.
"Let me help you."
Qin Jingru and her aunt also followed out.
After a while, the three of them came to the kitchen.
Yang Guizhi strode to the big stove, opened the lid of the pot, and revealed the braised pork with potatoes that had been simmering for two hours. Suddenly, a strong aroma of meat wafted out of the kitchen.
"Is this grandson eating meat again?"
Outside the door, a middle-aged man smelled the smell of braised pork wafting from the courtyard, and gritted his back molars with envy.
He lived in the courtyard next door to Chu Heng. There was only a wall between the two families. Every time the meat was stewed here, he could smell it clearly. He was so greedy that he bit his cheeks in his dreams at night, and at the same time he was extremely jealous.
Especially after Chu Heng came back and gave Duan Fengchun several home appliances in one go, this jealousy reached its peak, causing his human nature to become distorted. He secretly wrote many letters of report to the streets, districts, and even the city.
I've poured money into it, and I've used up half a bottle of pen water.
"Why haven't there been any changes to my report letters yet?" The man gritted his molars and looked at the two vermilion doors in front of him bitterly.
Ya Jiantian eats meat, buys TVs, and gives away refrigerators.
Where did you get so much money? Where did you get so many votes?
He must have embezzled public property!
They even have to be enemy agents!
No, I must help the country eradicate this moth and cancer!
The man's eyes flickered, and he turned around and walked back. Less than half an hour later, he came out of the house again wrapped in a thick cotton coat and braved the cold wind. He put his hands on his chest, put them into his sleeves, and shrunk.
He scratched his neck and looked sneaky.
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The next day, Sunday, was the day when Chu Heng and Wei Hong's mother came to visit, and it was also the day when Duan Fengchun and his wife returned home.
Huimen, also known as Guining, is a traditional wedding custom of the Han people. The newlyweds will visit their parents-in-law’s home with gifts on the third day after the wedding. The parents-in-law will also cook a large table of delicious dishes to entertain them.
My eldest cousin’s parents’ home is too far away. With the current train speed, it would take three days to go back and forth, so I could only use Chu Heng’s place to make things easier.
Early that morning, my eldest aunt began to prepare for the homecoming dinner in the evening. Because she wanted to entertain her new uncle, she insisted on not giving away the things from the Chu family. When she took out the national food stamps, she had someone exchange them.
I exchanged a lot of meat stamps, vegetable stamps and other things with Chu Heng according to the market price. Then I and Yang Guizhi went to the grocery store and the vegetable market and bought a lot of ingredients.
“Chop chop chop!”
At about nine o'clock in the morning, in the kitchen, my aunt was chopping meat fillings and preparing to fry eggplant boxes for a while to entertain my uncle.
Eggplant box is a Shandong dish, which is more popular in the north. To cook, you just slice the eggplant and add seasoned meat filling in the middle and fry it. It will be fragrant and crispy when it is done, but it will become soft if it is not done well.
It's the same as Chu Heng's at 11:30 midnight last night.
Huniu loves to eat eggplant boxes. Firstly, they are meaty and heavy in oil, which suits her taste buds very well.
Ever since, when she found out that her aunt was going to fry the eggplant boxes today, the little girl's greed was aroused. She ran to the kitchen to take a look, and she was so anxious that she wanted to help chop the meat stuffing.
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"Deng Deng stare."
At this moment, Huniu came again, standing eagerly at the door of the kitchen, asking: "Uncle, grandma, the eggplant box is not ready yet?"
"Hey, I said you girl, can you calm down for a while? Go, go, go and play with your godfather. I'll call you when you're ready." The eldest aunt looked at her with a headache.
"My godfather asked me to ask. He wants to eat and is so greedy." The little girl's eyes rolled around.
"I think you are greedy." Yang Guizhi walked over with a smile and handed her a small piece of Bingcheng red sausage: "Take it and leave quickly, don't interfere with my work with your uncle and grandma."
"Yeah." Huniu, who didn't eat the watermelon but picked up a handful of sesame seeds, took the red sausage and prepared to leave with satisfaction.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the courtyard door.
