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After waiting for a long time, I finally got my admission letter and can now go back to the city.

Thinking that she would soon see her parents and sister, Zhang Mengzhi happily packed her luggage.

The quilt was made by my parents when they went to the countryside a year ago, so I have to take it back to the city. The mattress is an old quilt, so I can leave it to my grandparents.

You should also bring a thermos, but you can leave your books with your cousins.

As a result, the things Zhang Mengzhi had to bring back to the city were not much, just some clothes, quilts and thermos.

He didn't even take the shoes except the one he was wearing, and left them all to his cousins. He was a boy, and his two cousins ​​were married. Even if they were not married, they couldn't wear Zhang Mengzhi's shoes!

The cousins ​​didn't mind that Zhang Mengzhi's shoes were old. You should know that the shoes on their feet were broken and had countless patches on them. The cousin's shoes were not only a little old, but they didn't have any patches, and there was also a pair of rubber shoes inside!

So when Zhang Mengzhi said this, his cousins ​​came happily and divided up the shoes left by Zhang Mengzhi.

Then there were some mountain products given by grandparents and uncles and aunts. The things were not heavy, so they were just packed up and carried away.

Compared with the large bags of other educated youth returning to the city, Zhang Mengzhi had less than half of their stuff.

"My dear grandson, come and eat noodles. Grandma fried an egg for you. It smells delicious." Grandma Zhang came in with a big bowl of noodles. A golden fried egg was placed on top of the noodles. The bedroom of Zhang Mengzhi and his cousins ​​was immediately filled with the aroma of noodles.

"Grandma, I told you not to fry eggs for me. Give them to Little Four and Little Five. They are still young and need more nutrition."

Zhang Mengzhi, who was packing up, looked at the eggs on the noodles with helplessness on his face.

A big bowl of noodles was already too much, and there was a fried egg on it. Fortunately, my uncle and his family were so generous, otherwise this bowl of noodles and fried egg would have turned the house upside down.

What is worrying is not the lack of wealth but the inequality. If grandparents are too partial, it will easily make the cousins ​​dissatisfied.

"Don't worry, this egg was brought by your aunt, I'm not biased."

Grandma Zhang knew her third grandson’s worries and explained immediately.

With Zhang Mengzhi reminding her and her husband from time to time, Grandma Zhang is usually fair to her grandchildren.

Although in her heart, the third grandson is the most obedient and considerate and filial to the two old people, she cannot do too much in public. After all, she and her two sons still live together in a separate house, and she cannot bring bad luck to the third son and the third grandson.

The old lady didn't think that her favoritism was excessive. After all, the reason why the Zhang family was able to survive the famine was because of her third son.

In order to allow his family to survive, the third son, who was still young at the time, sold himself and went to the city to work as a servant in a wealthy family.

Over the years, the money brought back by the third son was used to support the two sons and to find wives for them. Now, the only thing they can do is to give the third grandson better food. Why should the eldest and second sons be unhappy?

Grandma Zhang knew that her youngest son's life in the city was definitely not good. For a child who could not read a single word, it was more difficult to make a living in the city than for them to farm in the countryside, not to mention that after the founding of New China, the third son became a worker in the city, not only supporting his own family, but also sending money back to his parents from time to time.

It was precisely because they understood how difficult it was for their youngest son that Grandma and Grandpa Zhang were particularly fond of their third grandson, whom they rarely saw, when Zhang Mengzhi returned to his hometown to work as an educated youth in the countryside.

The Zhang family has a large population. Except for the third son who has only one son and one daughter, the eldest son and the second son each have two sons and one daughter. The daughter is the eldest, almost ten years older than Zhang Mengzhi. She has been sent away and all her children have been born.

Zhang Mengzhi's eldest cousin got married a few years ago, but he did not separate from his uncle and still lives and eats with his parents.

The grandparents don't eat with their two sons, they cook for themselves. It's just that the two sons have to give them food and living expenses every year, and the older and younger sons don't have to worry about anything else.

Just like this bowl of noodles today, it was cooked by Grandma Zhang for her third grandson, and there was no portion for other grandsons.

"I'll go thank you later, Auntie."

Zhang Mengzhi then took the bowl and started eating. He also cut the fried egg into two and fed the larger piece to the old lady.

"grandmother."

"My dear grandson, just eat it yourself. Grandma won't eat it."

Grandma Zhang pushed the fried egg back into the bowl of noodles and refused to eat the fried egg that her third grandson gave her as a gift.

"Grandma, please eat. I have some more here."

Zhang Mengzhi refused and insisted that Grandma Zhang eat it.

Knowing that the third grandson was a stubborn person, if she didn't eat today, the third grandson would continue to hold it up.

Grandma Zhang ate the fried eggs happily, and she was so happy.

Why don’t she and her husband love such a filial grandson more?

Grandma Zhang has never denied her bias. She is not the kind of old woman who cannot distinguish right from wrong.

Although the third brother's family is not with her, she knows in her heart that they are the most filial among her children.

The two old people in the Zhang family have always been clear-headed and will not favor the other two sons just because the youngest son is not around.

To put it bluntly, if something really happens to her and her husband in the future, the only ones they can rely on are the third brother's family. It's okay for the other two to take care of them on a daily basis, but once the family needs money, they can't rely on them at all.

The two sons are not bad people and they are filial to their parents, but in their hearts they care more about their own families.

Normally, if she gave some eggs to her sons or helped with the housework, the two sons would not say anything. For example, if she gave her own eggs to her third grandson as a snack, the eldest and second sons' families would not stand up to stop her, because they had separated from their parents when they got married.

They can give their parents' things to whoever they want, and Zhang Mengzhi's two uncles can't say much, not to mention that Zhang Mengzhi is still a junior, and they can't bully the weak.

Fortunately, the two elders usually treat us equally and are not too partial to us occasionally, so they can't find any fault with us.

Therefore, whenever the second elder brother needed money, he would only tell the third elder brother.

Knowing the contribution of the third brother's family to the Zhang family, the two uncles of the Zhang family pretended not to see the parents' favoritism towards Zhang Mengzhi.

After all, they have spent a lot of the third child's money. If they insist on saying that their parents are partial, it will only lead to scolding from the second elders, who will call them ungrateful and conscienceless.

Zhang Mengzhi went to the countryside and returned to his hometown to become an educated youth, relying on the power of his cousin Zhang. Since he happened to be working in the educated youth office in the city, he had the power to arrange for his cousin to return to his hometown to become an educated youth.

So Zhang Mengzhi did not suffer any hardship during the one year he spent in the countryside. At most, he worked in the fields with his grandparents, and he ate and lived at his grandparents' house. Most of the villagers in the village were his relatives, so even if Zhang Mengzhi was lazy and didn't work, no one would report him.

Zhang Mengzhi also did well this year. In the second college entrance examination after its resumption, he was admitted to university. He is recognized as the most promising child in the Zhang family.

People in the village really love him now. If Grandma Zhang and Grandpa Zhang had not been calm and refused the gifts sent by relatives, the room where Zhang Mengzhi lives would now be filled with agricultural products.

As the only college student in their Zhangjia Village, or even the only college student in their entire commune, anyone who passed by the Zhang family's old house had to praise him.

The noodles nowadays are not like the tasteless noodles in later generations. Even if Zhang Mengzhi has eggs to eat every two or three days, he is still very greedy for a bowl of fine grains. After all, noodles with lard and chives are so fragrant.

However, no matter how greedy you are, his eating posture is still very handsome, more elegant than that of all the people in the Zhang family combined.

Yes, in the eyes of other people in the Zhang family, Zhang Mengzhi eats too elegantly.

Usually when several families sit together for dinner, Grandma Zhang always puts some dishes in the bowl of her third grandson in advance, otherwise Zhang Mengzhi will not be able to compete with his brothers because all the dishes will be snatched away by cousins ​​of the same generation.

He was not competitive and did not look like a farmer's son at all, which often made others sigh that Zhang Mengzhi should not have been born in a peasant family like theirs.

In response to such words, Zhang Mengzhi initially explained that this was a habit he developed in his previous life. He was not even in a hurry to eat in this life, so it was very difficult to change it.

Yes, Zhang Mengzhi is a time traveler, and he traveled from the future to the 1960s and 1970s.

For Zhang Mengzhi, who was accustomed to the convenient life in the future, the first few years after traveling through time almost suffocated him to death.

Life in the sixties and seventies was so boring.

Not to mention that the environment was not good at that time. Zhang Mengzhi was afraid of saying something wrong and causing trouble for his family, so he changed his talkative habit to a habit of speaking less.

Of course, his lack of words is relative; he doesn’t really stop talking.

After all, a hungry stomach will always complain, so his silence is only relative to before he traveled through time.

"Grandma, I'm done."

After eating a big bowl of noodles, Zhang Mengzhi was already eight-tenths full. He was only eighteen years old and in the period of growing up, so he had a big appetite.

"Then you continue to clean up. Grandma will go wash the dishes. Go to bed early tonight. You have to get up early tomorrow morning to catch the bus back to the city from the commune."

Grandma Zhang gave instructions to her third grandson.

"Okay, grandma."

Zhang Mengzhi nodded and personally escorted Grandma Zhang out the door. After seeing her enter the kitchen, he turned back to the house to continue packing.

In fact, he didn't have much to pack, because in the summer he didn't even need to cover himself with a quilt when he slept at night; a thin coat was enough.

Pack up the quilts and clothes, and just pack up the remaining items and carry them away.

"Third brother, look what we brought back for you."

Zhang Dawa and his brothers ran in with some roasted cicada monkeys.

“…”

Looking at the bunches of cicadas handed to him, Zhang Mengzhi swallowed.

Don't get me wrong, he doesn't want to eat, he's just afraid.

He has been afraid of insects since he was a child, especially boneless and soft insects. He gets goosebumps all over his body when he sees them.

He knew that these cicadas that had just crawled out of the ground were not the same as insects, but there were still great psychological barriers for Zhang Mengzhi to eat them.