Chapter 115 Chapter 115 1st update

After the news that Shen Moer and Fu Mingze were admitted to Capital University spread, the oldest grandfather in the Shen family personally went to the home of Shen Laoqi.

The situation has changed in the past two years. Originally, no one dared to burn paper during the Qingming Festival and the Zhongyuan Festival, but last year some people started to burn it secretly. This year, almost every household went up the mountain during the Qingming Festival.

Old Master Shen had been thinking in his mind that their Shen family had produced a capable person. First, he became the director of a state-owned factory, and now both he and his wife were admitted to the highest institution of learning. Before, they were able to make such a big fuss in the commune, so if they went to the capital, wouldn't they be able to do whatever they wanted?

For such a major event, shouldn't we inform our ancestors and hold a grand banquet to celebrate?

Both the Shen and Zhou surnames are big surnames in the Yangliu Brigade. Originally, those with the surname Shen were always suppressed by those with the surname Zhou, and there were more people with the surname Zhou among the brigade cadres. But since Shen Laoqi's family rose to power, those with the surname Shen have straightened their backs a lot in the village.

Old Master Shen leaned on his cane and looked at Shen Shaoyuan eagerly. Shen Shaoyuan sucked Xiao Liangliang in his arms without raising his eyelids and said, "Forget about telling the ancestors. My father and I are not important figures in the old Shen family. We can have a banquet to celebrate. I will arrange this later. You all come over then."

Old Master Shen's face turned red. In the past, the Shen family had treated the seventh son badly. The two elder brothers had teamed up to swindle the seventh son's house. When the seventh son got married, he had looked for relatives, but they thought that it was a matter between brothers and they would not interfere if they could. After all, the seventh son was not going to suffer a setback.

Now that others are on the rise, they are shamelessly coming up to them, so it’s no wonder that others are mocking them.

Old Master Shen was silent for a few seconds, then said, "That's fine. When the time comes to light the fire, cook, wash the vegetables and serve the dishes, just let me know and I'll ask them to come and help."

Shen Shaoyuan nodded: "Okay."

Naturally, he had nothing to be unhappy about having free labor to use. Moreover, these people had never helped Shen Laoqi, but they had never bullied Shen Laoqi either. Shen Shaoyuan did not necessarily have the idea of ​​breaking off relations with them.

Old Master Shen secretly breathed a sigh of relief and went home on crutches.

"Your parents went to the mountains to play, leaving us two at home. Tell me, if your grandfather hadn't been with you, you would have been alone, wouldn't you have cried to death? So, you have to thank your grandfather. Hey, you little guy, you look smart. If your uncle-grandfather saw you, he would definitely like you. Who knows, he would give you a lot of good things, what a pity... But it doesn't matter, your grandfather will leave some good things for you in the future."

Shen Shaoyuan was bored and kept talking to the little kid with his eyes wide open. The little kid looked at him, occasionally showing a toothless smile and spitting out a few mouthfuls of saliva in response.

"What good things are you thinking of? Do you want those wicked people to save good things for our little Liangliang?" Shen Yinyin walked in from outside, teased the little bean first, and then continued, "Grandma will save things for you later. When our little Liangliang gets married in the future, grandma will save a bracelet for you!"

Shen Shaoyuan's expression remained unchanged. He looked up at Shen Yinyin and asked, "Why did you come here today?"

Shen Yinyin raised the sack in her hand: "Our village slaughtered the New Year pig. We raised a lot of pigs this year, and the brigade distributed them. We also allowed everyone to buy from the brigade. I thought your family might be holding a banquet, so I bought some extra and sent them to you."

Shen Shaoyuan immediately laughed: “If you don’t say it’s your biological sister, you are still thoughtful. I am just thinking about where to get some meat here.”

He thought about it and simply said, "It's better to have the wedding banquet tomorrow. Set up a few more tables and ask your brother-in-law and Zhengyang Zhenghui to come." Shen Yinyin's face suddenly darkened: "You are so unreasonable."

She lowered her voice and said, "Don't you want someone to help calculate a good date?"

Shen Shaoyuan smiled and said, "I observed the celestial phenomena at night and calculated with my fingers. I think tomorrow will be a good day."

Shen Yinyin: “…”

I couldn't help but complain: "You are really annoying. I had to rush over the mountain road to bring you the meat, and now I have to rush back over the mountain road to call for help. Then I have to rush down the mountain road again early tomorrow morning. You are really my dear brother."

After a lot of chatter, she smiled at Xiao Liangliang, who was looking at something with her big eyes like black grapes: "Dear Liangliang, your great aunt will come back to see you early tomorrow morning!"

He put the things in the sack into the kitchen in a hurry and left in a hurry.

Shen Shaoyuan looked at her walking away and laughed.

Chen Moer and Fu Mingze went up the mountain to dig winter bamboo shoots and pick mushrooms. Without Wang Qiutong and Zheng Jiamin, the two lively people, there were Chen Yu and Zhou Zhaodi, who were also chattering all the way.

Chen Yu insisted on dragging Shen Moer to look for wild game: "Digging winter bamboo shoots and picking mushrooms will not show your ability. Since we have entered the treasure mountain, how can we return empty-handed? We must get some meat back today."

Shen Moer: “…”

It can be seen that this child is really craving for meat.

But no one knew whether it was because they were unlucky or the weather was too cold, the pheasants and rabbits all hid away. They wandered around the mountain but didn't catch any wild animals, but they did pick a small basket of wild persimmons.

They dug some bamboo shoots and picked some mushrooms, and then the four of them had to go down the mountain with regret.

As a result, when they returned to the Shen family courtyard after going down the mountain, Shen Shaoyuan told them that Shen Yinyin had brought the meat, and he planned to hold a banquet tomorrow to celebrate Shen Moer and Fu Mingze's admission to university.

Chen Yu immediately jumped up with joy: "Ahhh, that's great, there's meat to eat!"

Shen Moer twitched the corner of her mouth. No wonder the old saying always goes that a young boy will bankrupt his father. His parents are both able to earn money and work, and Aunt Chen is also someone who can prepare food. Yet, this kid looks like he's about to starve to death all day long.

When holding a banquet in the countryside, as long as there is meat and grain, it will be easy. After all, there are vegetable plots in the private gardens and plenty of people to work.

Chen Yu volunteered to take on the task of notifying those who had dealings with the Shen family, while Fu Mingze pushed his bicycle to the commune to notify others.

The next day, a large group of people came to the Shen family's courtyard early in the morning. Everyone was holding something in their hands, such as salted fish, bacon, radish, and vegetables. In short, they took whatever they had. After they arrived, they didn't need to be greeted. They rolled up their sleeves and started to help with the work.

Shen Yinyin took a large piece of meat, Fu Mingze asked Bao Ge to help get a basket of fish, plus Liu Guizhi temporarily helped to get a bag of pig offal, and a little bit of other things, plus the meat and vegetables that everyone in the village politely stuffed in, even if there were more than a dozen tables of dishes, in the end it was cooked very decently.

This time, let alone the three brothers of the Shen family, even the eldest aunt Shen Xianghong's family came shamelessly. Each family gave three red envelopes, one for Shen Moer, one for Fu Mingze, and one for the little kid Liangliang.

Shen Shaoyuan didn't say he wouldn't accept them. These families had been bothering Shen Laoqi and his daughter for so long, so he could just consider these red envelopes as money collected on their behalf.

Shen Lingling also brought her son Zhang Pengpeng. During the meal, Zhang Pengpeng grabbed the plate of meat and refused to put it down. He was hit twice by the big-headed grandson of Aunt Cai who was sitting at the same table with him, and he started crying on the spot.

Shen Lingling managed to coax the child, and even wanted to argue with Aunt Cai's daughter-in-law, but she was silenced by her daughter-in-law's response, "How dare you, as a teacher, teach your son like this?"

Some people also deliberately asked: "Didn't I say that your Zhang Junliang was admitted to university? Did you receive the admission letter?"

The notification letters from such far away capital have been delivered, so why are the notification letters from other schools still on the way?

Shen Lingling blushed when asked this question. She already knew that Zhang Junliang didn't do very well in the exam. With his grades, it was impossible for him to get into university.

Shen Lingling took Zhang Pengpeng away without eating much.

After walking away with the unhappy Zhang Pengpeng, Shen Lingling looked back. Because there were too many tables to fit in the yard, the tables were placed on the village road outside the yard, and people were crowded and laughing.

Shen Lingling was in a daze for a moment. Since when did that family's life become better and better, even to a level that she could no longer reach?

She couldn't even remember clearly how skinny Shen Moer was because she didn't have enough to eat.

She couldn't even believe that someone like Shen Moer had ever lived like that.

How is that possible?

A few days after the banquet, Fu Mingze suddenly received a telegram: Grandfather is ill, return home soon.

After his parents were rehabilitated and returned to the capital, his grandparents who lived far away in the frontier also returned to the capital. In the last letter he received, his mother mentioned that the old man was not very adaptable to the climate in the frontier, and his health had deteriorated a lot in recent years. He has been recuperating since returning to the capital.

Not long ago, Fu Mingze asked Bao Ge to help collect some Dendrobiums so that he could bring them to his grandfather when he returned to the capital after the New Year. However, the telegram from home arrived before the New Year even arrived.

"Originally I should have gone back with you. We don't know the extent of Grandpa's illness, but if you wait for us now, we can't leave for the time being and will be delayed. I think you should go back alone first. Leave tomorrow morning. It will take two days on the road, and it will be the third day by then."

Shen Moer leaned against the head of the bed and gently patted the little bean. Seeing her half-open eyes, she gently said "Go to sleep" and then continued, "Why don't we just go back after the New Year as planned? Liu Yinshuang and Zhou Ping'an will be with us then, so there will definitely be no problem."

Zhou Ping'an has been learning painting from Shen Shaoyuan in the past few years. He first worked as an apprentice in a kiln factory, then as a temporary worker. Later, the kiln factory was preparing to make him a regular employee, but he turned around and went to teach painting at the commune middle school.

Then not long ago, when he heard that Shen Shaoyuan was going to the capital, this guy handed in his resignation to the commune middle school, saying that he would not teach after the end of this semester and that he wanted to follow his master to the capital.

Obviously Zhou Xingwang and Liu Guizhi are both honest and upright people, but their son is so free and unrestrained that Liu Guizhi almost fainted from anger. But this boy even said that he would go to the capital after his parents retired.

Liu Guizhi was so angry that she blurted out: "Why go to the capital, to beg for food?"

As a result, the boy raised his chin and said: "I will support you."

Liu Guizhi was both angry and amused. If he were asked to support them, it would be a question whether he could support himself!

But he had no choice but to let his only son go to the capital to broaden his horizons.

Liu Guizhi also secretly reminded Shen Moer that if this silly boy of hers couldn't make it in the capital, she should ask Shen Moer to buy a ticket and send him back.

There are so many educated youth returning to the city these days. I heard that they couldn’t find jobs after returning and had to become migrant workers. What can he do if he can only paint a little?

When Fu Mingze heard Shen Moer ask him to go back to the capital alone, he couldn't help but frowned slightly and said hesitantly: "The capital is a long way away, and you have children with you. I'm worried if I don't go with you."

Shen Moer said: "I have already agreed with Feng Wei that we will pay for the gas ourselves and borrow the factory's car to take us to the provincial capital. After arriving in the provincial capital, we will all get on the train, and when we get off the train, we will be in the capital, so it won't be much trouble."

"If I go back with you before the New Year, the factory is very busy these days, and it's hard to borrow a car. We haven't prepared anything, and we probably won't be able to buy a sleeper ticket. I'm fine, but Xiao Liangliang can't stand it."

Fu Mingze knew that what Shen Moer said was the truth, but he felt uneasy when he thought about letting his wife take their daughter on the long journey to the capital after the New Year.

Chen Moer turned her head to look at him, and seeing his worried look, she couldn't help laughing: "I've been to Guangzhou so many times, you don't have to worry about me on the train, and there's still Dad. Can ordinary people let our Dad suffer? And Liu Yinshuang, she's good enough not to let others suffer. In addition, Zhou Ping'an is such a big guy, are you still afraid that a group of adults like us can't take care of a little Liangliang?"

She deliberately glanced at him: "You, only your daughter is in your heart."

Fu Mingze lowered his eyes and glanced at her: "You have no conscience."

Shen Moer laughed, came up to him, stared into his deep dark eyes for a few seconds, and took the initiative to kiss him: "So, Fu Zhiqing only has me in his heart?"

Fu Mingze held her head and deepened the kiss. After a long while, he said in a calm voice, "Well, only you."

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the little kid who was left out suddenly started crying loudly, looking extremely sad and aggrieved.

Shen Moer laughed: "Your daughter has objections."

Fu Mingze touched her cheek and smiled too.

Fu Mingze went out early the next morning. Two days later, carrying large bags, Fu Mingze set foot on the land of the capital again after more than seven years.

After coming out of the train station, Fu Mingze took the bus directly to the hospital.

It was the dead of winter, and the sky outside the window was a little gloomy and dark, just like Fu Mingze's mood at the moment.

The streets and scenery of the capital seem to have not changed much, but they also reveal a sense of strangeness that has not been seen for many years.

Fu Mingze was absent-minded for a rare moment. He thought of his grandfather who was old and had spent so many years on the frontier. He didn't know how serious his illness was. He also thought of his wife at home and wondered if Xiao Liangliang had noticed that her father was not at home... Well, a daughter would definitely not notice.

Before they knew it, they arrived at the hospital stop. Fu Mingze got off the bus and walked towards the hospital with his bag.

After all, it was almost the New Year, so there were not many people in the hospital. Fu Mingze went straight to the inpatient department. As soon as he entered the door, he heard someone calling out uncertainly, "Mingze?"

Fu Mingze looked in the direction of the sound and saw Yin Xiuwen standing not far away, looking at him in surprise.

After not seeing his mother for many years, although she was still well-dressed, there were many more white hairs on her temples that could not be ignored. Her skin seemed to be darker and there were fine lines at the corners of her eyes.

Fu Mingze looked at his mother and nodded: "Mom, I'm back."

Yin Xiuwen's eyes suddenly turned red. She turned her head and wiped her eyes, then hurried to Fu Mingze and reached out to take the bag from his hand: "Why don't you send a telegram first so that your dad can pick you up with all these big and small bags."

Fu Mingze dodged and said, "I'll do it myself."

Then he immediately asked, "How is Grandpa?"