After riding the bus for more than three hours, I finally returned to my hometown town. I got on a minibus and arrived at the door of my house in ten minutes. Before the bus stopped, I saw my gray-haired old father standing in the small town.
On the platform of Ba, Ba looked eagerly.
After getting off the minibus, my father came over with a smile on his face and wanted to help Ju An carry his things. His eyes were sore and he said to his father: "Just wait for me at home. It's so hot outside on such a hot day."
The father smiled and said: "I'm a little impatient at home, so come out and take a look."
He shifted the box to his right hand, took his father's arm, and walked home.
When they got home, their sister, brother-in-law, and niece Tongtong had already arrived. As soon as Tongtong saw Ju An, she ran over cheering, hugged Ju An's thigh and shouted: "Little uncle, little uncle, I want to die."
It’s glowing.”
He quickly put down the box and picked up Tongtong. Only then did he realize that a little head was shrinking behind his mother and looking at Ju An.
Ju An smiled and said: "Have Ran Ran forgotten the second master?" (a term used in Ju An's hometown, his father's younger brothers are all called master)
The mother pulled Ran Ran out from behind, pointed at Ju An and said, "Didn't Ran Ran meet the second master during the Chinese New Year? Hurry up and call the second master."
Ranran twisted her arms and called out softly: "Second Master", like a kitten meowing, and you couldn't hear it clearly even if you weren't paying attention.
Ju An knew that Ran Ran was a little timid. During the Chinese New Year, Ju An discovered it. When he told his brother about this problem, he was helpless. Now his brother and sister-in-law both go to work. When they come back from school every day, they watch TV and get bored alone.
At home, he is a bit introverted and doesn't like to play with other children. He has taken him downstairs a few times, but he always stood aside while watching other children play. There is also a student in school who always bullies him.
Holding Tongtong in his arms and holding Ran Ran in his hand, he walked to the main room. At this time, his sister brought the box in. Ju An opened the box, took two buckets of potato chips from inside, and gave one to each of the two little guys.
bucket.
Tongtong took the potato chips, opened them, grabbed them and put them in her mouth, while Ranran twisted them one by one and put them in her mouth, eating them very delicately.
I played with the two little guys for a while and let them watch TV.
Ju An went to the kitchen and saw his sister, brother-in-law and parents making dumplings together. Ju An washed his hands and came over to help.
After finishing the job of rolling out dumpling skins in my brother-in-law's hands, he said: "Ran Ran, you are too timid, like a girl."
My mother said, "Yeah, I've been here for two days, and it's nothing like your brother and you were like monkeys when we were kids. Ran Ran could watch TV all morning, and your sister-in-law and mother took care of her. She didn't know.
How can I raise a child? He is not a boy at all. It would be great if he could be raised by me. Look at how happy Tongtong is."
"I'll just bring it to you. On the first day Tongtong went to the kindergarten, the teacher called the parents and said that Tongtong grabbed other children's stools and made them cry." My sister glanced at my mother and said.
Then he turned back to Ju An and said: "You don't know, my mother was criticized for taking Tongtong to the supermarket. Just when Tongtong saw the candy in the barrel, she grabbed it and ate it. The salesperson came over and said, children can't do this. You
Guess what my mother said, she said if you don’t try it, how can you know whether it tastes good or not? How can I buy it if it doesn’t taste good? When I was there, I wanted to find a hole and hide my head.”
The father said: "Well, of course you have to try this food. If you don't like it, who will eat it after you buy it? You won't be allowed to try it."
Ju An looked at his parents' confident expressions and laughed.
Thinking back to when he was young, he and his brother were often criticized by their father for exchanging things at home for candy. Now that it was the turn of the grandchildren, he felt confident. Could it be that they were really close relatives as people say?
"Brother, if you have children in the future, please don't let your parents take care of them. Your brother-in-law and I are going to have headaches just like Tongtong. The kindergarten teacher taught dancing, and one of the children was slow to learn. When school was over, she ran over and said to her
My grandma said, your kid is so stupid that he can’t even learn how to dance, which makes me so embarrassed,” my sister said.
Just like this, we were making dumplings and talking about interesting things about the little ones.
Not long after, Tongtong's little head stuck out from the crack in the door: "Uncle, I've finished eating mine, do you have any more?"
My sister glared: "You're not going to eat anymore? You're not allowed to eat. You'll be eating after you finish your meal."
Tongtong immediately pouted, leaned on Ju An, and twisted her fat little fingers.
"When brother finishes eating, we will eat. We will eat in the afternoon." Mom said to Tongtong: "Brother sees that you have finished eating. Can you give some to you?".
"Split it, I ate quickly, my brother gave me so much." Tongtong said, gesturing with her hands.
The elder sister said: "Ranran is not stingy. She shares everything with her. It's not like our family, where her belly is a bottomless pit."
Ju An smiled and clapped his hands, patted the noodles off, then picked up Tongtong and put her on his lap, twisting her little nose.
The little guy giggled and shook his head to avoid Ju An's big hand.
After dinner, while Ju An was waiting for the two little ones to take a nap, he drove his brother-in-law's Alto out the door. If the little ones were awake, they wouldn't even think about it. After telling Ju An that he had to put the things he bought into the space
Yeah, it’s hard to hide it with the little ones. You can’t drive without a driver’s license. This is Ju’an’s hometown. Anyone who picks you up on the street can bring up a relative. As long as you don’t get into trouble when driving without a license, nothing will happen.
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I went to the flower and bird market on the edge of the town. This market has only been open for two years. It is a key project of the county and was established to open up new economic growth points in the county.
As soon as we entered the market, the houses were very beautiful, with rows of white walls and blue tiles, neatly arranged on the road paved with blue bricks about ten meters wide.
It was a bit late, and there were almost no doors. Most of the doors were still closed, and the ones that opened the doors were still lazily.
I walked into a pet store and found that the owner was dozing off. He didn't even notice Ju An coming in. Ju An knocked on the counter.
Only then did the shopkeeper open his eyes.
Ju An said in his hometown dialect: "I want to buy some native dogs to keep. Are there any here?"
The shopkeeper then changed his smile and said, "Brother, if you want some native dogs, come here and see." After saying that, he led Ju An to a small square frame. There were four or five puppies surrounding it.
Ju An knew at a glance that this type of dog was a common local dog in the county.
I asked, "How much does one cost?"
The shop owner smiled and said: "Twenty-five for males, twenty for grass dogs." (Cao Gou is the name of the female dog in Ju'an's hometown)
Ju'an thought it was not expensive: "Is this a litter?".
"It's a litter. It's just over a month old. Look how smart the little guys are." The shop owner said, teasing a strip of black and white flowers.
"Okay, there are some straw dogs here, I want them all." Ju An nodded.
The shop owner said with a smile: "There are four straw dogs in this litter."
Ju An thought for a moment and said, "Give me the male as well. It will be a companion for the whole family."
"Okay," the boss happily agreed: "There is another litter here, three slightly older ones, two months old, two straw dogs, or I will give you the same price."
Ju An nodded and agreed.
"Brother, do you want to get a husky? It's popular now and it's cheap here. How about three hundred?" the shop owner continued to sell.
Ju An smiled and said: "If I were the caretaker of the home, what would I do with the husky? It would be better if that thing didn't lead thieves into the house."
"Our local dogs are easy to handle and smart at guarding the home, foreign dogs can't." The shop owner nodded and agreed with Ju An's statement.
Carrying the cages containing eight puppies, Ju An returned to the car and threw the eight puppies into the space. Then he came out and continued wandering around.
Then I purchased about twenty fluffy goose pods. Anyway, geese mainly eat grass. Ju'an doesn't have much of anything, just grass. Ju'an also learned that European geese were domesticated from greylag geese, while Chinese geese were domesticated from wild geese.
That's why I buy geese in China instead of buying them directly in the United States.
We also purchased a dozen ducks, mainly for eating duck eggs. As for duck meat, Ju An doesn’t like eating duck very much. Jiangnan City loves ducks. After living in Jiangnan for several years, Ju An is tired of eating ducks.
They were all put into the space. The ducks and geese were placed directly in the pond, while the dogs were left to roam in the yard. Fortunately, Ju An stewed a pot of beef soup with his boss in the United States, which could sustain these guys for two weeks without any problem.
, not to mention a lot of black bread.
When they got home, Tongtong and Ran Ran had already woken up. Tongtong was playing with Ran Ran on the sofa with a rope. When she saw Ju An coming back, she pointed at Ju An with her little finger and said, "Uncle, you are such a bad guy, don't take me with you when you go out to play.
Tongtong and brother".
Ju An coaxed and said: "Uncle will take you to the United States the day after tomorrow. Uncle will go out to buy something to take with you for Tongtong to eat."
"Where are the things?" Tongtong asked curiously, looking at Ju An's empty hands.
"Grandma has put away the things. When Tongtong arrives in the United States, I will give them to Tongtong and her brother to eat." My mother quickly smoothed things over and fooled the little guy.
By the time Ju An returned home early in the morning on the third day, the family had already gotten up at dawn. They dressed the sleepy little guy and finally checked that all the documents and other documents he needed to bring were all in place before getting into his bag.
Good taxi, go directly to Jiangnan Airport. Transfer to Capital Airport and fly directly to San Francisco.
Along the way, Ran Ran was still very quiet and obedient. In my mother's words, Tong Tong looked like she had an awl stuck in her butt. Except when she was sleeping, she was never honest for a moment.
In the end, Ju An and his brother-in-law had to take turns holding each other in their arms to be honest. They made a fuss for a long time before falling asleep on the plane. My sister told Ju An that she was happy. She told the children in the kindergarten some time ago that she was going to visit her uncle soon.
I’m home. My uncle’s house is so far away that I have to take a plane to get there. Looking at his rosy face, he is indescribably cute.
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