Chapter 356 This was a place I saw in textbooks (4200
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Mengmeng had a slide and big blocks to play with, but she just stayed in the kindergarten and didn't want to leave. She kept dragging her around until almost 5 o'clock.
During this period, Cheng Xiaolin and Cheng Yan also chatted for more than an hour, covering everything from their experiences in the past two years, their children, and their parents' conflicts.
During the chat, Cheng Xiaolin also learned that Cheng Yan and her partner had bought a small house of more than 70 square meters in Quancheng, which had not yet been renovated.
It is planned that after the renovation is completed in two years, their son will go to elementary school in Quancheng tomorrow morning.
Li Xiaojuan saw that it was too late. She had just promised her granddaughter that she would buy whole lamb and lamb legs to eat in the evening.
"Yanzi, you and I will go to our house for dinner tonight, and I will go to town to buy whole sheep." Li Xiaojuan invited the two of them.
But Cheng Yan knew that she had just returned, and the family must have a lot to talk about. It would definitely be inconvenient for her to take her son there to get involved.
"Auntie, please go back quickly. I will take Mingchen to visit relatives in the evening." Cheng Yan declined the invitation.
"Are you really not going?" Li Xiaojuan asked her. Seeing Cheng Yan shaking her head and leaving with a little boy who looked like a tiger-like head, Cheng Xiaolin called her daughter to go home.
Mengmeng was very reluctant when she left. She kept looking back at the playground equipment in the kindergarten.
"Mengmeng, why don't we take you to kindergarten after we go home? Our kindergarten also has these things, and there are more than here." Cheng Xiaolin said.
"Okay...not good." Mengmeng resisted the temptation at the critical moment.
Cheng Xiaolin was very puzzled, thinking that her daughter remembered things quite well.
"Forget it, let's wait until next year to send it away." Cheng Xiaolin thought to herself.
After returning home, Li Xiaojuan was about to go out on her electric bike as soon as she put down her things.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Cheng Xiaolin asked her mother while pulling the electric car.
"I'm going to buy whole sheep and lamb legs." Li Xiaojuan said.
Cao Shujie was helping his father-in-law with work in the yard. He also heard: "Honey, it's already this time. You can drive and take our mother there. It will be convenient to take it back."
"Okay!" Cheng Xiaolin asked her mother to stop the electric car and took out the key of the electric car.
She went inside to get the car keys and was going to drive her mother to town.
"I can just go there by electric bike. It's not very far and it's convenient to ride." Li Xiaojuan muttered.
Cheng Xiaolin tugged on her clothes and said, "Mom, hurry up and leave early. Go back early."
"Dongdong, Mengmeng, are you two going?" Cheng Xiaolin asked them again.
But neither of them went. They gathered next to Cheng Rengui and Cao Shujie, insisting on watching the adults work.
What kind of hobby is this?
Cheng Xiaolin drove her mother to Dayao Town and bought three kilograms of whole sheep from a store called Xiaoguo Whole Sheep.
When they came over, the mutton with rib bones was still simmering in the pot over low heat. The soup was very clear and bubbling. There were no other ingredients in the pot. The smell of mutton was not strong, and the mutton smell was not strong.
The fragrance is very strong.
I also bought a leg of lamb and 8 hooves.
Cheng Xiaolin's mouth watered when she smelled the fragrance.
When it was time to pay, she paid before her mother.
As they drove back, Li Xiaojuan said to her: "I didn't ask you to pay."
"Mom, I can't come here more than once a year. What's wrong with spending some money? If you can save it, save it. Don't just think about helping my brother. If you help him like this, he will always feel that someone is taking care of them. There is no need to fight.
Jin'er can't grow at all."
"Look at Shujie and I, haven't we both struggled on our own?"
This is true. Li Xiaojuan sat silently in the passenger seat. The whole mutton, leg and hooves she bought were hung on the hooks in the trunk.
When I returned home, I saw Cao Shujie cooking vegetables as soon as I walked in. Mengmeng and her little cousin Dongdong were gathered around a square table with vegetables, wondering what they were discussing.
Seeing her grandma and mother come in, Mengmeng shouted happily: "Mom, come here and take a look, dad's cooking is delicious."
"How do you know it's delicious?" Cheng Xiaolin asked her.
Mengmeng said with a smile, "Have a try. You will know if it tastes good or not."
Cheng Xiaolin saw that her daughter's fingers were very clean and not oily.
Then she saw that there were two pairs of chopsticks on the table. There was an obvious oily smell on the chopsticks, and she knew what was going on.
"Eat meat, look at the meat that grandma bought." Cheng Xiaolin carried the whole sheep and showed it to her daughter.
When Mengmeng saw it, she exclaimed in surprise: "There's so much meat, Mom, I want to eat it."
"Wait a moment, let's eat together." Cheng Xiaolin said.
Li Xiaojuan tried to snatch the shovel from her son-in-law's hand, but Cao Shujie said, "Mom, it's okay. I don't have anything else to do anyway."
"That's not why I asked you to do the work." Li Xiaojuan still disagreed. Finally, Cheng Xiaolin went to take the shovel, and Li Xiaojuan said nothing else.
Cheng Xiaolin looked at her mother and asked her, "Are you really my mother?"
"What, do you have any objections to asking you to cook?" Li Xiaojuan asked her daughter.
Cheng Xiaolin said nothing and just went to work.
"Shujie, where is your dad?" Li Xiaojuan asked him.
Cao Shujie pointed to the west and said, "I went to feed the cows. I'll be back soon."
"I'll get the bowls, and we'll eat later." Li Xiaojuan put the legs and hooves of lamb on the small table in the yard, then went inside to get the bowls, chopsticks, and plates.
While Cheng Xiaolin was cooking, she asked her husband: "Did you call our mother and say you can't go home tonight?"
"I told you earlier, don't worry, your mother-in-law didn't urge us to go back," Cao Shujie said.
"Besides, your father-in-law won't come with us to play." Cao Shujie looked at his nephew who was eating vegetables with his daughter, and said, "You can tell Mengmeng's grandma later and take Dongdong with you.
When we leave tomorrow, we will take them back directly."
"Go back to Caojiazhuang to rest for a day, pack your things, and set off in two days," Cao Shujie said.
"Okay!" Cheng Xiaolin agreed.
She also wanted to take her mother out for a walk.
We didn't have that condition before, but we have it now.
She felt that apart from taking care of her family, she could only achieve so much in her life.
Cheng Xiaolin finished frying the vegetables, and while eating, Cheng Rengui took the initiative and said, "Shujie, let's have some wine."
"Dad, okay, I was just thinking about having a drink with you."
Cheng Rengui nodded and told his daughter: "Linlin, go and open the wine you brought and take two bottles to drink."
When Cheng Xiaolin heard this, she thought that she had not left tonight at all. She brought the wine in at noon and forgot to tell her father about the wine.
It would be really lively if his father took the wine to give away in a daze.
The key is that the person receiving the gift may not necessarily think it is real, which will make it even more depressing.
She said: "Dad, do you know how much a bottle of that wine costs?"
Sure enough, Cheng Rengui muttered: "How much more money can we have? Fifty-sixty-one bottles? Or more than a hundred bottles?"
"Dad, that bottle of wine can buy half a calf." Cheng Xiaolin said to her father.
"How much?" Cheng Rengui's hand trembled, feeling a little numb.
At this time, Cao Shujie walked towards the house and said, "It's just a box of wine. Dad, drink it slowly. If you run out, call me and I'll get you two more boxes."
Li Xiaojuan looked at her daughter, then at the back of her son-in-law, blinking and making eye contact with her daughter, as if asking her whether what she just said was true or false.
"Mom, why did I lie to you? Shujie found someone to buy three boxes of wine and spent more than 30,000 yuan. Let me tell you this to make my dad feel safe. Don't give it away casually.
." Cheng Xiaolin said this.
Li Xiaojuan saw that her son-in-law had come out with a bottle of wine. She came to her senses and said, "Don't drink this wine. Let's drink something else."
Cao Shujie laughed: "Mom, it's okay. It's just a bottle of wine. It's just a little more expensive."
As soon as he finished speaking, his father-in-law Cheng Rengui said in a faint tone: "This is not more expensive, this is ridiculously expensive."
No matter what he said, his son-in-law had already opened the bottle of wine, took the bottle and poured the wine into the tea bowl.
"Dad, please try first to see if it tastes good, but many people are not used to this wine," Cao Shujie said.
Cheng Rengui got drunk after drinking two glasses of wine that night. Before going to bed, he kept mumbling that his daughter and son-in-law had become successful, and he also benefited from it. He could drink wine for almost 2,000 yuan a bottle. What else could he say in this life?
It's worth living till the end.
As for the remaining five bottles of wine, Li Xiaojuan hid them before Cheng Rengui could react.
He never said where he hid it, and even shouted that he would dig a hole and bury it some other time, and then take it out to drink when Mengmeng gets married.
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Early on the second day, after breakfast, Cao Shujie drove his wife, children, mother-in-law, and nephew back to Caojiazhuang in a car.
Before getting in the car and leaving, Cao Shujie had already called his mother to explain the situation. By the time they arrived at Caojiazhuang, although it was not yet time to eat, his mother Wang Yuelan had already stewed the ribs and fried the chicken and fish.
After waiting, this made Li Xiaojuan a little embarrassed.
They stayed in Caojiazhuang for two days. During this period, Cheng Xiaolin packed her luggage at home and Cao Shujie also went to Caojiazhuang Village Committee for a meeting.
They mainly held the meeting to discuss kiwi fruit planting and cattle raising. Knowing that Cao Shujie was going to be away from home for a while, Cao Jianlong and the others were only envious.
But there is no way, their current income is not enough to support them on this long trip.
At the same time, he also told Cao Shujie to pay attention to safety on the road and told him to call him if anything happened.
The distance from them to the eighth floor of Xinjiang is more than 3,200 kilometers. Simply driving without stopping would take more than 30 hours.
According to the plan of Cao Shujie and his wife Cheng Xiaolin, every time they visit a new place or an area with scenery along the way, they will come down to the scenic spot and taste the local specialties.
Cao Shujie doesn't care how much money this trip will cost?
How long will it take?
For him, just having fun with the whole family is fine.
On the first day of their trip, they left Dongshan Province and entered Bei Ha Province. They found a place to rest in Hejian that night. They also experienced donkey meat, a special delicacy here, and went to see the eunuch temple.
When passing through Baiyangdian, I also saw the reed marsh used for filming the movie. Unfortunately, there was no water in it and rowing was not allowed.
The reeds are all dry, and there are people around who are cutting the reeds, collecting them, and preparing to weave things and sell them.
"It's different from the one in the TV series." Cheng Xiaolin was a little disappointed.
However, there are many shops selling double yellow duck eggs around, as well as pickled salted duck eggs.
No matter what he said, Cao Shujie still bought two boxes as a way to support the business of the people around him.
The price of double yellow duck eggs is not cheap, and they can eat them along the way.
But along the way, what impressed Cao Shujie the most was Pan’s donkey meat. He bought three kilograms of donkey meat, asked the store to cut it into large pieces, rolled it into five pancakes, and drank donkey meat soup. This kind of heroic
Cao Shujie was deeply impressed by the way of eating.
When leaving, Cao Shujie asked the store to cut 10 kilograms of donkey meat for them and bought 10 pieces of their special cakes, which he planned to eat when he couldn't find a restaurant on the road.
When they entered Xishan Province, they also went to eat local specialty noodles.
I went to see the Xishan Museum and Yuncheng, which is known as the oldest city.
It is said that the Xia Dynasty established its capital here, as did Shun and Yu. It is said that there are more than 1,600 various cultural relics and historic sites here.
"Dad, hurry up and chase me." As soon as the car stopped and Cao Shujie was about to book a room, Mengmeng started to be naughty again.
She didn't look as sleepy as she did when she visited the museum yesterday.
Cao Shujie also noticed that his daughter only enjoyed looking at things she was interested in. If she was not interested in something, even if it had historical and cultural heritage, what would it have to do with her?
"Mengmeng, come here." Cheng Xiaolin called her.
But Mengmeng shook her head: "Don't listen, don't listen, I didn't hear it."
After she finished speaking, she called to her little cousin who was standing next to her grandma: "Brother Dongdong, come over and play. Let's hide the cat."
After playing with his aunt and uncle for a few days, Dongdong was really tired. He was leaning on his grandma and didn't want to move at all.
When his cousin called him to play hide-and-seek, Dongdong remained indifferent.
He just thought that after his uncle finished opening the room, he would go to the room and take a nap.
On the contrary, Grandpa Cao Zhenghu was always in good spirits and walked alone along the way without letting his grandson help him.
Cao Shujie also said that he would buy a wheelchair for his grandfather to sit on, and he almost got slapped twice.
Cao Shujie took his ID card, entered the hotel, opened four rooms, and came out, calling his wife: "You all come over, let's put down our things and rest for a while, and then go out to find something to eat in the evening."
Everywhere they go, it is their custom to taste the local specialties.
This trip out was really based on a principle.
Not short of money!
It was the first time for Li Xiaojuan to travel in her life. When she first started traveling with her daughter and son-in-law, she saw how much money it would cost to go out for fun.
When they arrived at a scenic spot and bought tickets for five adults and two children, it cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. At that time, Li Xiaojuan's first thought was to go home quickly.
But after playing with it for the past few days, she got used to it.
To use her daughter's words, she has already come out and there is no need for her to pay, so don't think about spending money.
"Grandma, let's go in quickly, I want to go to bed." Cheng Tiandong held Li Xiaojuan's hand, feeling very energetic.
But this time I was able to play for a long time without having to go to kindergarten. Cheng Tiandong was still very happy.
They have now arrived in Weiwu City, which is more than 1,600 kilometers away from the starting point. They will reach another famous place, Jiuquan, by walking more than 400 kilometers further.
JYG and Yumen are not far away from here. Thinking of this, Cheng Xiaolin is still very excited. These names that she only knew in books before can now finally come and meet them in person.
