After coming back from going to the countryside, my life has been uneventful, with nothing going on. It's just normal going to and from school, and tidying up the space in my free time.
At the end of April in the lunar calendar, Zhao Wenzhuo went out for a walk early in the morning. When he came back, he asked his family to pack their things. They needed to go back to their hometown.
"Hometown? Dad, didn't we just go back last year?" Zhao Feng asked doubtfully. Didn't they only go back to their hometown once every two years, and each time they went back to their hometown two days before Qingming Festival to clean up for their elders?
Tomb sweeping or something like that, but this year’s Qingming Festival has already passed!
"Something happened this year. Your uncle's youngest son got married, and we had to go back anyway." Although his eldest brother was not his biological eldest brother, he still gave him a bite to eat after his parents died and kept him alive.
"Married? When did he say he got married? Why didn't I hear about it?" Zhang Guifang asked in surprise.
"I just found out that my eldest brother asked someone to send us a letter, but something happened to the person who sent the letter. The letter just came into my hands today. I only found out after reading the letter that the third boy is getting married the day after tomorrow.
." Zhao Wenzhuo said anxiously, they were getting married the day after tomorrow, and they had to go back anyway.
"What are you talking about? Hurry up and pack up, pack up, you put everything there, I will pack it up, you go out and see if you can buy today's train tickets, without train tickets, we can't go back." Zhang Guifang
She took over what he was doing and urged him to buy train tickets quickly. The top priority now was to buy train tickets for the whole family as soon as possible.
"Okay, then you clean up at home, and I'll go out and find a way to get two train tickets." After Zhao Wenzhuo listened to her words, he put on his coat and went out.
"Hometown, where is my uncle's hometown?" Zhang Yu asked curiously, why had he never heard of it?
Seeing that Zhao Wenzhuo was no longer in the room, Zhao Feng explained: "It's in Baoding, but you probably haven't been there. The second child and I did stay there for a while when we were young."
"Baoding?" Zhang Yu always felt that this place was a bit familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere. After being stunned for a long time, he suddenly thought that in the TV series, didn't He Yuzhu's father follow the White Widow to Baoding?
But he didn't expect that his younger uncle's hometown was in Baoding, so he curiously asked Zhang Guifang: "My younger uncle's hometown is in Baoding, how do you know my sister-in-law?"
"That's it! It's a long story." Zhang Guifang said perfunctorily, still packing the gifts she wanted to take home. This wedding is a lifetime event, so she had to give some congratulatory gifts.
"We don't mind talking long, you can keep it short, sister-in-law." Zhang Yu looked at his sister-in-law with bright eyes, and the children next to him also looked at him with curiosity.
"What are you kids doing asking about this?" Zhang Guifang couldn't help but blush as she thought of how she met my husband.
"Mom, just tell us."
"Yes, sister-in-law, tell me."
"You guys!" Zhang Guifang nodded their heads with her hands, and then said: "Your dad! It was not easy for him to come to Beijing back then. Your grandparents left early, leaving only your dad alone. In the end, he was from the same village.
Brother Zhao gave him a mouthful of food, and he slowly grew up. That year, the situation in various places was not good, so in order to survive, your father left home and followed others to the capital."
"What's next, what's next, you haven't said how you and dad met?" Seeing that Zhang Guifang stopped talking halfway through, Zhao Xiaoping, who was having fun next to her, pulled her mother's customer service officer and shook it hard, wanting to know what happened next.
things.
"After that, it will be like this now. Okay, okay, let's clean up quickly. This time, while you guys have nothing to do these two days, let's go together." Zhang Guifang looked at her daughter's bright eyes and said,
Quickly change the topic.
After a while, Zuo Zhi came in from outside and shouted: "Is there any cold water at home?"
"Yes, yes, dad, I have cold water here." Zhao Xiaoping hurriedly handed over the porcelain jar on the table.
Zhao Wenzhuo picked up the porcelain vat, drank "Gudong", "Gudong" and "Gudong" in one gulp, and then breathed a long sigh of relief, "I'm so thirsty."
"Where have you been? You are so thirsty."
"Aren't you trying to find a way to buy a ticket? I didn't expect that I met an acquaintance before I even got to the train station. It was Lao Liu who drove the car from the textile factory. Did you know that?"
"I know, what happened to him?"
"He was going to drive to Baoding at noon today to pick up some raw materials, and he happened to meet me. He said he would help us carry them there later."
"That's a good relationship. You don't have to buy train tickets anymore." The whole family was very surprised to get a ride.
After saying this, Zhao Wenzhuo turned to look at Zhang Yu again, "Xiaoyu, I remember that you won't be going to class these two days, so come with us."
"Shall I go?" Zhang Yu said hesitantly. After all, he had never been to his uncle's hometown.
"Why is it bad? You were not in good health before. I saw you fell ill on the way, so I let you go. Now that you are in good health, and nothing has happened in the past two days, you still have to visit my uncle's hometown.
"
"Yes, Xiaoyu, come with us. You don't know that there are many mountains in my hometown and there are many interesting things. When I get there, I will take you for a walk and you will know."
"Okay, then I'll go pack some things too."
"Go quickly, go quickly."
After packing their things, they hurried to the door of the textile factory, where their uncle's friend was already waiting at the door.
Seeing them, they hurriedly waved their hands out from the car and shouted: "Old Zhao, I'm here, I'm here."
"Brother Liu, I'll trouble you this time." After they got in the car, Zhao Wenzhuo took out a box of cigarettes and handed them to him.
He was not polite, took the cigarette and waved his hand, "What's the point of this? Besides, it's not a special gift for you. I'm just in time, right?"
Zhang Yu was not listening to the two of them chatting. Instead, he was looking at the car. Compared with the car he rode in when he was working, this car was relatively new.
Just because the trucks of this era only had two seats in the front and no truck bed in the back, and Zhang Guifang and Zhao Xiaoping didn't want to be crowded with others, so except for their uncle who was in the front talking to their friends, everyone else was there.
Went to the car at the back.
Fortunately, when packing things, Zhang Guifang thought that there would be no way to open the front, so she took two sacks and a quilt from home. They spread the sacks on the ground, and then put the bags containing clothes on top of the sacks.
People sit on it and cover it with the quilt sideways.