At night, Zhang An was lying on the bed, preparing to call Su Ying.
Since Su Ying went back last time, the two of them have called and chatted from time to time.
But it was Su Ying who always called, and Zhang An now felt that he should take the initiative.
You can't just let other girls call you all the time.
As soon as I dialed the number, someone answered the call soon. It was Wu Qiuping who answered the call.
Knowing that Zhang An was calling her daughter, Wu Qiuping did not tell Zhang An.
I shouted twice into Su Ying's room, and Su Ying quickly came out of the room to answer the phone.
Wu Qiuping finished cleaning up the things in the kitchen and went back to her room.
Give this place to your daughter, otherwise she will be hesitant when talking.
After seeing her mother leave, Su Ying became more comfortable speaking.
"What are Teacher Su busy with? Why do you sound so tired?"
Zhang An listened weakly to Su Ying's words on the phone, and his interest in talking was not very high.
"Besides writing lesson plans and preparing lessons, there is nothing else to do, but it is too much to write."
As soon as Zhang An asked, Su Ying seemed to have found a place to vent, and kept telling Zhang An how much headache she had now.
"I used to think that as a teacher, you only need to attend class well and then assign and correct homework. Who would have thought that I would have to write lesson plans during the holidays? I have to write so much every day."
Su Ying's school will start on March 1st, and not only the students have to turn in their winter vacation homework.
Their teachers also need to summarize the lessons they prepared last year and hand them in at the beginning of the school year.
And we also need to prepare all the courses for the new semester.
I have been writing a large book every day for the past two days.
New teachers like them have to prepare their own lessons.
But veteran teachers don't have to do this. Since they write a lot of lesson plans, they can just find two books and copy them out.
"Hey, it turns out your teacher also has winter vacation homework."
"Who says it isn't? What have you been busy with at home these days?"
The two chatted for a while, and Su Ying regained some energy.
"Do you remember the riverside nest I told you about last time?"
Last time on the loess slope, Zhang An pointed out the deserted nest to her.
"Yeah, I know that place."
"Our family has hoeed the area in the past few days and will plow it in a few days. We plan to plant some watermelons and strawberries this year."
Zhang An told Su Ying his spring plans for this year.
Although Su Ying may not know these tasks, she must understand them.
"Hey, I want to plant strawberries. I think the strawberries are delicious, but they are too small."
Su Ying was right, the strawberries on the market now are not big, at most they are about the size of a thumb.
"You like eating strawberries, then I'll plant more varieties. Are there many people buying strawberries in the county?"
Zhang An was quite happy to hear that Su Ying liked to eat.
Don't worry if they are small. When the time comes, plant a few crops in the space and then select seeds.
In this way, the strawberries grown at home will be big and delicious.
"I saw a lot of people selling them in the garden in the middle of the street, and I feel like there are quite a lot of people buying them."
Su Ying thought about it. When she went out, she saw many people selling strawberries, and there seemed to be a lot of people buying them.
"By the way, we have five more puppies in our family."
Zhang An told Su Ying on the phone that Xiaohu had five children.
Su Ying was shocked when she heard that the mother of these little tiger cubs was actually a wolf in the mountains.
In her mind, wolves are something that belongs in textbooks.
She had only heard of it, some of it was seen in textbooks, and some of it was seen on TV.
In real life, she has never seen what a real wolf looks like.
When she heard that Xiaohu had found a wolf wife, she was a little confused.
Because this is too much beyond her common sense to understand the world.
"How could a wolf and a dog have children together?" Su Ying still didn't quite understand.
"What's the point? The dogs we raise were domesticated by wolves tens of thousands of years ago. They should be considered distant relatives."
"And in our mountains, in the past, many village dogs gave birth to wolves in the mountains. This time, it's just the other way around."
Then Su Ying seemed to have thought of something.
"Then are these puppies now what everyone calls wolfdogs?"
She remembered that there was a big wolfdog raised by her uncle downstairs. It was big and fierce.
"No, they are not wolfdogs. Wolfdogs are a breed of dog. They are called wolfdogs just because they look like wolves. They have nothing to do with wolves."
"Okay, so are these puppies wolves or dogs?"
"These are probably dogs in our house. Their tails are all up, while wolves' tails are tucked between their legs."
Su Ying now learned a lot of new knowledge, and Zhang An gave her some extra lessons.
Then Su Ying asked how the little golden rooster at Zhang An's house was doing.
It made Zhang An dumbfounded. Only about ten days had passed.
"They haven't moulted yet, it's only been less than two weeks, but they've grown a lot and their tails are starting to grow longer."
"How long will it take for them to grow up? I will go see them then."
"It should take another month before she starts to moult. I don't know the details, because this is our first time raising one. Anyway, I will pick you up when you grow up."
The two of them were on the phone for more than 20 minutes, and the telecommunications bureau had to thank them for taking care of their business.
When the end was about to come, Su Yingcai asked Zhang An in a low voice.
"Zhang An, there will be a Lantern Festival party in the square tomorrow, you..."
When she said this, Su Ying's face turned red.
Although the two are acting like friends now, this is the first time she has asked out a boy.
"The Lantern Festival Party, do you want me to come there?"
Hearing what Su Ying said, Zhang Anna still didn't know that Teacher Su was making a date with herself.
But sensing Su Ying's shy look, Zhang An wanted to tease her.
"I, you can come if you want. You don't have to come if you don't want to."
Su Ying must have wanted Zhang An to come, but she couldn't say it out loud, so she just stopped talking.
"Come on, come on. I used to like to go to the Lantern Festival Party. How could I not go? Then I'll come over tomorrow afternoon."
Hearing Su Ying's tone, Zhang An knew he couldn't tease her anymore.
My teacher Su is someone who doesn't tolerate teasing.
"Uh-huh."
In the end, the two of them were reluctant to hang up the phone.
Still because of Su Ying, Wu Qiuping came out of the room.
Looking at Su Ying who was on the phone, she had a vague smile on her face.
Su Ying suddenly blushed and hurriedly said a few words to Zhang An before hanging up the phone.
Otherwise, these two people don't know how long the phone call will take.
"Anzi, the water is boiled. Come down and wash your feet."
Zhang An, who was lying in the room reminiscing, was interrupted by Wang Fang's voice.
"Coming."
Zhang An went downstairs and saw his mother pouring hot water for him.
"Mom, I'll do it myself."
Zhang An took the kettle and poured it himself, adding a lot of cold water to it.
At home, the hot water Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo used to wash their feet was extremely hot, and Zhang An couldn't get it off his feet at all.
Every time you wash your feet, you have to add some cold water.
This also made Wang Fang tell Zhang Jianguo that he would not enjoy it, saying that washing feet with hot water was good for the body.
But the water was so hot that Zhang An had to pull it out immediately after putting it in.
"By the way, Mom, is there anything going on at our house tomorrow?"
"I don't have anything to do tomorrow. I just need to put on the lamp for your father and mother. There's nothing else to do."
Wang Fang thought for a while before telling Zhang An.
Anyway, it’s like that every fifteenth day, and there won’t be anything else going on.
"Okay, let's light up my grandpa and my breasts tomorrow morning. I'm going to the city in the afternoon."
Zhang An told his parents that he was going to the city.
"What are you doing in the city on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?"
My family goes to the mountain to light lamps for the elderly every fifteenth day, always in the afternoon.
Wang Fang was a little surprised when she heard that Zhang An was going to the city.
This kid doesn't usually go out, so why would he want to go out tomorrow?
"Mom, Teacher Su said there was a Lantern Festival party in the square tomorrow and asked me if I wanted to go and play."
Zhang An didn't want to say it at first, but his mother was too involved.
"You should go then. I'll call your second uncle and third uncle later, and I'll turn on the lights for your grandparents tomorrow morning."
Zhang An's family has always lit up the lanterns together with three members of the family, so this time the arrangements have been temporarily changed, so we need to inform them in advance.
Then Wang Fang looked at her bored son and began to teach him some experiences.
Zhang An really couldn't stand it, making himself look like a waste.
"That's fine. You are a boy. You have to take the initiative and find more words to talk about. Don't make other girls feel bored staying with you."
It came again, Zhang An patted his forehead.
"Okay Mom, I understand."
"If you have enough money, I'll give you more later. Don't think about saving money when you go out to play with Xiaoying."
"Don't give it to me. I have a lot of money and I never have anywhere to spend it."
Zhang An seems to have a book in his head now.
It's called "Rebirth: My Mom Taught Me About Love."
On the morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wang Fang got up early and started to burn incense.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Zhang An's second uncle and third uncle's family also came to the house.
Last night, Wang Fang approached me and suggested that we light up the lights earlier. Both families were a little surprised as to why they should go so early.
After further questioning, I learned that Teacher Xiao Su had made an appointment with Zhang An to play in the city, and no one had any objections.
So early in the morning I prepared offerings of incense paper and candles and came to Zhang An’s house to meet him.
A family of more than a dozen people ran all morning before coming down from the mountain.
It was already noon when I came back, so I didn’t do much tidying up at noon and just made some makeshifts.
Knowing that Zhang An was not at home in the afternoon, the second aunt suggested that the uncle and the uncle's family go to their house to have dinner together in the evening.
During the Chinese New Year, the three families spent time at Zhang An's house. On the last day of the year, the second aunt also thought of calling the big guys to her home to spend the day together.
No one had any objections to this, especially Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo.
Zhang An was not at home, so it was just the two of them eating, which seemed particularly deserted.
Now that everyone is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary together, it will be much more lively.
In the afternoon, when Zhang An packed up his clothes and was about to go out, his mother caught him and taught him a lesson.
"Look at you, what clothes you are wearing, you look like a little old man. You are such an adult and you still don't know how to take care of yourself."
Later, Zhang An was pulled into the room by his mother to look for clothes.
"Where's that suit of clothes I bought for you during the Chinese New Year? Why don't you wear them and keep them for giving birth?"
Seeing Zhang An like this, Wang Fang felt really angry.
It's not that she's boasting, she thinks her son is a man, but he just doesn't know how to deal with her.
A few years ago, Wang Fang spent a lot of money to make several sets of popular suits for Zhang An.
In the past, Wang Fang would not have spent so much money on clothes.
But now that my son is old enough, he doesn’t have many clothes to wear when going out, and he will be laughed at by others when he goes out.
Zhang An himself didn't usually buy clothes, so Wang Fang made several sets for him at one time.
But Zhang An didn't like to wear it because it made him feel constrained and uncomfortable.
In the end, Zhang An had no choice but to change his outfit whether he wanted to or not.
Not to mention, after changing his clothes, he looked different from before, so Wang Fang let him go with satisfaction.
"Brother, where are you going to play? Take me with you."
When Zhang An got in the car, Xiao Yanzi saw him.
This little girl wants Zhang An to take her to play with her no matter what.
When the third aunt saw this, she quickly came over and took the little swallow away.
"Yan'er, be good. Brother is going out to find a sister-in-law for you. Don't make any trouble."
"Oh, brother is looking for my sister-in-law. Then brother, go quickly. After I find my sister-in-law, she will come back and buy me some candies."
The little one doesn't know what it means to find a sister-in-law yet, but she knows what a sister-in-law is.
Zhou Yang and his mother, Sister-in-law Zhou, would give the little girl one or two cents every time she saw her.
So the little guy was thinking that after his brother found his sister-in-law, someone would give her money to buy something to eat.
The little girl's abacus made a loud clicking sound, which made several adults dumbfounded.
Upon seeing this, Zhang An started the car and went out.
On the way, Zhang An saw someone selling water chestnuts.
Suddenly I remembered that the Bodhisattva I planted in the space has grown up.
Originally, these local Bodhisattvas were only as big as a bottle cap. Even if they were cultivated artificially and carefully cared for, they would only be four to five centimeters in diameter at most.
The Bodhisattva planted in Zhang An's space has grown to a size of seven or eight centimeters.
Zhang An was not very surprised, because when he was watching short videos later, he saw someone with hair bigger than this.
It's just that after all, that kind is a minority and cannot be produced on a large scale. It is considered the king of Bodhisattva.
Zhang An didn't hesitate, dug some in the space, washed them and put them in the car.
Bodhisattva is in season this season, and I will take it to Su Ying's house later.
After Zhang An entered the county town, he went straight to Su Ying's home.
"Here comes Xiao An."
When they arrived at the door, Wu Qiuping opened the door for Zhang An and welcomed him in with a smile.
"You're here now, why are you bringing something with you? You're not an outsider."
Seeing Zhang An carrying a large bag, Wu Qiuping felt a little blamed.
"Auntie, I didn't bring anything. I saw someone selling water chestnuts on the road. They were big and I was greedy, so I bought some."
Zhang An said and handed the water chestnut to his future mother-in-law.
Although Wu Qiuping said that Zhang An would not be allowed to bring anything, Wu Qiuping's face was very happy.
"Xiao An, please sit down for a while, Yingying is cleaning up in the room."