After staying at Zhao Ruijie's house for two nights, Zhou Yan and his wife said goodbye to Zhao Ruijie's family and returned to the highway.
After driving for a certain distance on the highway, the car plunged into the Daxingan Mountains and headed straight towards Bingcheng. After traveling in the Daxingan Mountains for half a day, the RV plunged into the endless northeastern plains.
After entering the Northeast, the first stop was Qiqihar. The two people, eager to return home, only rested in the city for an hour or two before restarting the car and continuing their drive back.
On both sides of the highway, the rice plants have begun to bend down, open the car windows, and the rice flowers are fragrant all the way.
The RV drove more than a thousand kilometers toward Guannai, and the whole journey was full of harvest scenes.
"I only knew this was a granary before, but in the past two days, I finally have a clear impression of the granary," Qin Ruoshu said with envy on his face, "Our hometown is also a big grain-producing city, but it can't be compared with here. Everyone else is
Mechanized operations, or large machinery..."
Two days later, they "entered the customs." After entering the customs, it took another half a day for the two of them to return to the capital.
The house has not been lived in for more than a month. Although a special housekeeping company cleans it regularly, the young couple still did a general cleaning after returning home.
After finishing the work, Zhou Yan glanced at his wife who was in charge of the command, and then at the empty 600-liter refrigerator that the mice shook their heads at, and said with a smile: "Let's find a place to have dinner tonight?"
Qin Ruoshu struggled for a while before replying: "That's okay."
Then, the young couple happily carried the nutrients and ingredients and went to the second aunt's place to have a meal.
It's a bit inaccurate to say "dining". To be precise, it's a dinner party: you bring your own ingredients and cook it yourself.
As soon as he entered the room, Zhou Yan found that the room was filled with boxes of various sizes.
"Hey, my nephew is here. He is packing his things and preparing to go back to his hometown!" As she said that, the second aunt glanced out the window and said, "Junjun is going through the resignation procedures over there, and it will take a while before he can go back. By the way, this time we
I won’t be with you anymore…”
Zhou Yan felt like there were question marks hovering above his head.
"It's not convenient to get on a plane with children..."
Zhou Yan realized that the second aunt didn't want to cause trouble to him, and said with a wry smile: "We are all from our own family, why are you so polite? If you don't want to fly for the time being, then just drive. I just got a new car with a bathroom and a bed...
…”
"That's okay..."
"Um..." Zhou Yan smiled awkwardly, "I'll go back soon. Xiao Qin and I are too lazy to open fire and want to make a living here..."
"You kid, you are a member of your own family, what are you talking about? Your second aunt can't take care of the food?"
After having two meals at the second aunt's house and helping her clean up, the group set out on their journey home.
The entire 800-kilometer journey was on high speed. Except for the delay of an hour or two within the fifth ring road of the capital, the rest of the time was stuck at the maximum speed limit.
Morning departure and evening arrival.
In the new house I bought for my cousin in the city, my second uncle was already standing guard at the entrance of the community. When he saw the familiar face behind the windshield, he breathed a sigh of relief and greeted him with a smile.
After helping to move things, Zhou Yan was too embarrassed to stay for dinner, so he took Qin Ruoshu to his father-in-law's house.
"Hey, do you still know to come back?"
As soon as she entered the door, Miss Qin was severely criticized by her mother-in-law, which made Zhou Yan shrink his head.
"Did you have a good time along the way?"
Zhou Yan smiled and took the tea cup handed over by Qin's father-in-law Fang Yuan: "In the RV, Ruoshu is basically either lying down or paralyzed. The road is all on the national highway, and there are basically no bumps..."
"By the way," Zhou Yan took out the key from his pocket and handed it to his father-in-law, "Dad, the car is left in the city. You can take it for a self-driving trip when you have time..."
"Forget it," Qin Fangyuan seemed to have remembered something, "I think it would be nice to go fishing with your dad on the weekend..."
"I'm still angry if you don't talk about fishing..." My mother-in-law seemed to be unable to hear the word "fishing", "Comrade Qin Fangyuan, my fishing skills are not very good, but I bought a lot of things, including fishing rods and fishing boxes.
Yes, the warehouse has now been turned into a fishing gear display area.
You tell me, just go fishing, and buy a rubber boat..."
After hearing his mother-in-law's scolding, Zhou Yan could also imagine that Lao Zhou probably received similar scoldings at home.
After chatting for a while, my father-in-law, who had been scolded a lot, took the initiative to cook a nutritious dinner of meat and vegetables.
The next day, after breakfast, Zhou Yan took Qin Ruoshu and continued to drive back.
I arrived home at around nine o'clock, the sun had just risen over the mountains, but there was already a bit of heat in the air.
When the young couple returns home, they naturally have to say hello to their elders first...
Then, Zhou Yan was scolded, criticized and reprimanded by his mother.
"You are too big-hearted, leading your pregnant wife around..."
After reprimanding him, I threw Zhou Yan to Father Zhou again.
"Son, the ham we made during the Chinese New Year is ready. Two days ago, I took some and went to the city to test it. They said that basically no harmful substances were detected..."
With that said, Father Zhou handed Zhou Yan a test sheet.
"No problem, it's ready for mass production..." Zhou Yan looked at the test form carefully and returned it, "Dad, when you made ham, you still remember the ingredient list, so follow that...
"
"Well..." Father Zhou was a little embarrassed, "Our ham has no selling point. I thought for a while, if we could ferment it in the pine forest..."
"The cost will be huge. You have to build a warehouse that can cover the pine forest..." Zhou Yan said, "We can build a small fermentation room and hang it in the pine forest..."
"That's a good idea," Mr. Zhou's eyes lit up. "As for the fermentation room, we can also use pine wood. Later, you can design the ham fermentation room. It's best to put in a few more hams..."
"Okay," after nodding in agreement, Zhou Yan thought about it and asked, "Dad, I see that several villages near the reservoir have begun to relocate. Do you have any feedback?"
Of course, Father Zhou knew what his son was concerned about. After thinking about it, he said: "A few people who married there and returned to their parents' families said that the newly built small building is not bad. Although there is less land, the family can have one or two people."
Working in a factory is much better than farming..."
"Oh..." Zhou Yan breathed a sigh of relief, "The construction of the reservoir dam and the scenic spots in the reservoir area will start soon. The dam will be completed in October."
"By the way," Father Zhou suddenly remembered something, "the cabins in the back mountain have been completed. You can go take a look when you have time. Your uncle said they look pretty good..."
"I'll go tomorrow..." After saying that, Zhou Yan thought for a while, "Dad, discuss with the village to replace the thin land behind the pig farm and plant pine trees in autumn, so that we can continue to make ham next year...
"
"Alright..."
"One more thing..." Zhou Yan thought carefully, "If you want to mass-produce ham, it already belongs to food production. You must have a food production license. I also need to consult professionals to see what is required.
condition……"
"That's true..." Mr. Zhou nodded, "There are no restrictions on the things entering the entrance, so we ourselves don't worry...
By the way, I went to the warehouse and got a ham, and you can see how to make it."
"The ham is naturally cooked with honey sauce, stir-fried green beans, and then marinated..."