His grandfather Xia Shande was sitting on the official hat chair in the hall, with a kind smile on his face. He turned to look at the girl and Tongtong who were squatting on the ground and didn't know what they were looking at. He couldn't be happier.
"Nier, you two come here." Xia Shande shouted.
It's a pity that the two little kids didn't know that the grandfather was calling them. After Xia Zekai heard this, he said to his grandfather: "Grandpa, you have to call me Yatou or Tongtong, calling anything else won't work."
"Oh!" Xia Shande nodded and shouted with a smile: "Girl, Tongtong!"
This time the two little kids reacted. They stuck their buttocks out together and turned to look at their grandfather and father. Their eyes were a little confused and they didn't know why they were being called.
Old man Xia Shande waved: "Come here, you two. There is stewed chicken in the pot. Do you want to eat it?"
As soon as they heard that there was food, the sisters reacted quickly this time. They quickly stood up and ran to the old man. Tongtong shouted: "Eat chicken!"
She shouted very clearly.
Xia Zekai and Luo Xiyun took the things they brought back to the west room and put them away with their father.
This house is sunny and a bit shady, so it is not very comfortable for people to live in, but it is a good place to store things.
Xia Weicheng also nagged them: "Why did you buy so many things? Xiyun, you can't buy more when you come back later. Just come empty-handed. Free up the trunk and ask your mother to load you with some of what we grew ourselves."
I brought the vegetables back, clean and without any pesticides."
"Hey, okay!" Luo Xiyun responded simply and clearly.
I have to buy it next time.
We came back quite late, so after finishing our work, we went to have lunch together.
Zhou Yinghong stewed a big rooster in a big pot. The stew took a long time. While waiting for them to come back, the chicken kept simmering in the big pot. It was really rotten now.
When you take a bite, the chicken falls right off the bones, giving you the feeling of eating braised chicken.
Even the girl, who never eats meat, found it particularly easy to eat this time, let alone other people.
Seeing the two little sisters each eating a small bowl, and Tongtong asking for half a bowl more, the five adults felt even happier than they were full.
"That's great. Eat more, you two. Grandma will cook whatever you want." Zhou Yinghong looked at the pair of granddaughters and felt very happy in her heart.
Xia Weicheng also nodded: "Yes, girl, Tongtong, what else do you want to eat? Grandpa will buy it for you."
Luo Xiyun glanced at her husband with a smile and felt that this day was quite good.
Her husband is willing to work hard, her children are growing up healthily, she has a stable job, and her parents-in-law are at least getting along, and that's enough.
Even the old couple in my family are still working hard to pay for their younger brother's house, and they don't know when it will end.
I hope my brother will do well!
After dinner, Xia Weicheng thought about going to the Yellow River to net some pure Yellow River carps for his two granddaughters. Yatou and Tongtong, two little kids, had nothing to do. When they heard that grandpa was going to catch fish, they became excited and shouted that they had to do it.
Follow along.
This suddenly frightened Luo Xiyun, it was on the edge of the Yellow River.
Afraid that something might happen to them when they went there, Xia Zekai and Luo Xiyun happened to have nothing to do, so they changed their clothes and followed them.
In June, this section of the Yellow River has dried up, and there is not much water left. The river bed that was originally under the river water is completely exposed.
When I glanced over, I saw that there was still some water in the deeper place.
There are many half-grown children running back and forth on the river bed, there are also young men and women falling in love here, and there are also people like Xia Weicheng who come to catch fish with various tools. It has the atmosphere of human fireworks, it is very lively.
Luo Xiyun has been to the Yellow River several times. The last time she followed her, the river was still filled with yellow water. This time she could see the river bed. She felt that there was nothing better than this in the creation of heaven and earth. The mother river she had learned about in books since she was a child turned out to be
There are also times when there is no water, which is really magical.
Xia Weicheng sighed: "This year is not going well overall. There is a drought and water shortage. We will see if the water is released by then. Otherwise, there will be no hope of watering the fields and the crops will not grow well."
"Dad, you don't have to worry about it. Just do your job well." Xia Zekai said to him.
In fact, this is really what happened. Even the secretary of the village committee and the director of the village are not worried yet. What kind of care does his father, an ordinary citizen, have?
Xia Weicheng was told a lot by his son and didn't even bother to pay attention to him.
Holding the net in his hand, he went to a place with water. He arranged the net so that Xia Zekai and the others were far away. With a wave of his hand, the net flew out like a goddess scattering flowers, covering a large area of water. The net followed
The lead pendant sank slowly.
The net looked pretty cool, but when it was closed, it was a bit laborious. Xia Weicheng even yelled: "Zekai, what are you looking at? Come over and help, there are fish."
There were indeed fish, and there were quite a few. After dragging the net to the side, I took a quick look and saw that there were at least a dozen fish, and the largest one weighed three or four kilograms.
That's it, I won't be able to finish this whole thing.
The two little kids, Yatou and Tongtong, were stunned to see it. Many other children in the surrounding area also saw it and ran over to look like crazy.
Yatou and Tongtong never expected that they could catch fish like this. Yatou looked at Xia Weicheng with admiring eyes and kept shouting: "Grandpa is so awesome."
"Grandpa, that's great, applause!" Tongtong clapped his hands lightly, but he was very excited.
Luo Xiyun did not expect that her father-in-law caught fish in this way, which overturned her knowledge since she was a child. Looking at the area with water, she thought that there were a lot of fish, so there should be some under there.
"Dad, why are there so many fish here?"
"Hey, this place is not shallow. If you go down there, you won't be able to touch the bottom. There are fish underneath." Xia Weicheng knew this, but he couldn't explain why there were so many fish.
After putting all the harvested fish into the buckets they brought, the sisters started yelling again, and the children next to them also started yelling, asking Grandpa to continue fishing.
Xia Weicheng rolled his eyes. The net he cast just now consumed a lot of energy. How many times can he, an old man who is almost 60 years old, cast the net again?
The next moment, he directly gave the net to his son Xia Zekai: "Here, you come and cast two nets."
But it turned out that it was a joke to let Xia Zekai use a cast net to catch fish. He didn't even know how to hold the net or how to throw the net out. In the end, the fish net got tangled together.
Tongtong saw that there was no good show. She was extremely disappointed with her father. She jumped up and down beside her and shouted: "Dad is so stupid, dad is so stupid."
This worldly reward comes a bit quickly.
Xia Zekai was so angry that he really wanted to throw her down.
After Luo Xiyun saw it, she laughed regardless of the image. She thought this scene was so funny. She also complained that she forgot to bring her camera, otherwise she would have to take more photos and save them for later appreciation when she gets back.
Thinking about how many years later, when my daughter has grown up and they are old, they will take it out and look at it, this must be the best memory.
Xia Weicheng was also angered by his son's clumsiness. He said, "Zekai, why are you so useless for asking you to catch a fish for such a simple matter?"
"..." Xia Zekai was speechless, thinking that I might as well not come!
In the following time, he didn't catch any more fish. Old man Xia Weicheng took his granddaughter's hand with one hand and took them for a walk here.
At first, everything was new, but after watching too much, it just became the same. The two of them squatted on the river bed and played in the sand again.
Watching them put their little hands into the soil hard, then raised their hands and squeezed hard, trying to retain the sand, but the fine powdered sand was like an hourglass, slowly passing through their fingers. It flowed out slowly.
In Xiazhuang, there is a saying that sand and soil are flowing water and soil. You can't hold it in your hands, and it will flow out from between your fingers like water.
It is no different from the soil in the desert.
Crops cannot grow on this kind of soil, so a large sandy area has accumulated on the other side of the barrage. However, it is still empty and no one has gone to the thankless task of planting crops.
They played here until the sun went down, and then they went back.
Pure Yellow River carp cooked in the evening.
Yatou and Tongtong were quite excited until they went to bed. They were chattering to their parents about what fun places they had and how they wanted to play.
The two of them seemed far more lively now than in that city made of reinforced concrete.
Luo Xiyun also specifically discussed with Xia Zekai: "How about bringing them back more often in the future."
There is no problem with this. In her previous life, when Luo Xiyun was not working, she would spend two months every year taking her second child back to live with her parents. Now that she is working, it would be in vain.
On the night we came back, the family slept very peacefully and the sleep quality was very good.
There was no alarm clock on my mobile phone in the morning, so I woke up naturally to the sounds of birds chirping, chickens crowing and dogs barking.
This time, there is no need to worry about whether the factory and store can be busy. They are more than two hundred kilometers away, so even if something happens, they can't help.
Xia Zekai simply put aside his worries and spent a good weekend with his mother and father.
Time is the easiest thing to kill. When Xia Zekai and his grandfather were chatting, it was already noon.
Zhou Yinghong knew that they would leave after eating later, so she went to prepare lunch early.
Xia Zekai asked his grandfather: "Grandpa, come and stay with me for a few days. I have time now, and I will take you out to play every day."
"I can't even live here. If I go, it will cause trouble for you. Don't go!" The old man understood everything in his heart, and he lived a clear life.
Xia Zekai pursed his lips and smiled: "Grandpa, that's all old history. Your grandson and I are planning to buy a house now. When I change to a bigger house, you can live there and ask my parents to follow. I will definitely be able to buy a house by then." Stay open.”
"Zekai, you are a good boy. Don't be too tired. I'll leave it like this. I see you all make money all day long." Xia Shande said something inexplicably, which scared Xia Zekai.
Seeing that his grandfather was fine, he felt relieved.
He also said to him: "Grandpa, what are you thinking about? Our family will get better and better. I will go and find out where this disease can be cured. Let's go and see then."
"If you don't go, it will be hard for you even if you don't tell me what you will suffer." Xia Shande's eyes were firm.
Xia Zekai: "..."
He could only count the number of times when he realized that there was nothing he could do about a sick old man.
After lunch, they were ready to leave. Xia Weicheng and Zhou Yinghong started loading their son's things into the trunk of the car. They filled the trunk full. There were even noodles and noodles.
Zhou Yinghong kept nagging: "The flour we grind at home doesn't look white, but there is nothing added, so you can eat it with confidence."
"I brought the grain in exchange for the noodles. They are all clean."
"Girl, Tongtong, you two must eat well after you go back, especially girl, eat more and grow fat."
"Old man, my eyes are a bit blurry. Why do I look like Tongtong has lost weight? Look at it."
Luo Xiyun was by her side, and as she listened, she felt bad.
At home, Xia Zekai took out 5,000 yuan and handed it to his grandfather: "Grandpa, take this money and don't give it to my parents. You can buy whatever you want to eat. If it's not enough, call me and tell me."
"You hozen, take your money back quickly. I'm half dead in the earth, so why do I need this?" Xia Shande waved his hand like a chicken to chase him away.
Xia Zekai disagreed, and finally put the 5,000 yuan into his grandfather's pocket.
The old man moved slowly. When he stood up, Xia Zekai had already ran out of the main room, ran out of the farmyard, and disappeared around the corner of the gate.
After getting in the car, Xia Zekai was about to leave. He waved to Xia Weicheng and Zhou Yinghong and said: "Dad, Mom, you go back, we are leaving!"
"Please take your time on the road. It's still early, so don't be anxious." Zhou Yinghong warned her over and over again.
Xia Weicheng just said: "When you get to the place, give me a call."
"Hey!" Xia Zekai responded.
Luo Xiyun sat in the back seat and asked Yatou and Tongtong to say goodbye to their grandparents.
The girl was more emotional and started to cry. While crying, she shouted: "I want grandpa, I want grandma!"
Luo Xiyun was also affected and his eyes turned red.
Zhou Yinghong was already crying. When she was thinking about taking out a handkerchief to wipe her eyes, she suddenly found something rolled up in her pocket.
He quickly gave it to Xia Weicheng. Xia Weicheng understood it at a glance. He took a few steps over and threw something in through the open window of his daughter-in-law. Luo Xiyun didn't know what it was and had no time to pick it up.
Xia Weicheng shouted: "Xiyun, that's the pocket money her grandma gave to Yatou and Tongtong. We can't go either. If you go back and buy some snacks for them, it will be treated as if it was bought by us..."
"Zekai, our father gave us two thousand yuan," Luo Xiyun said on the road.
After leaving home, I crossed the floating bridge of the Yellow River once again, and then got on the highway from the highway intersection on the Ping County side.
The turbulent emotions calmed down, and Luo Xiyun opened the roll of money wrapped in paper that her father-in-law threw in and counted it.
Xia Zekai was silent for a while and said, "Just keep it."
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I originally planned to walk back down the street, but I didn't want to go out as long as I stayed at home, and it was already late by the time I went out.
If we walk down the road at this point, it will be really dark when we return to Qicheng. Considering the complete problem, we directly canceled the original plan.
