Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Jinjiang exclusive, plagiarism will be investigated (catch...
"Okay girl, we'll come see you next time."
When seeing the insoles, Mother Zhang said happily that it was not expensive and most importantly, it was free.
"Okay, next time you come to me, just come directly."
The salesperson happily saw Zhang's mother off and didn't leave until she was no longer visible.
Mother Zhang came back carrying a lot of things. When Zhang Mengzhi saw it, he quickly went over and took the basket.
"If I had known I would have gone with you guys, this is too heavy."
Zhang Mengzhi said distressedly, these are just some things used for weighing, even though there aren't many things on them, they are really heavy.
"Why would I bring you along? Things like this are usually done by women. If someone sees you, they'll laugh at you."
Mother Zhang waved her hand and refused the tea offered by her daughter. As for her son's helpless expression because of her words, she pretended not to notice it.
"Give it to your eldest wife first. She has been walking with me for the whole afternoon and is exhausted."
"I have it, drink it quickly!"
Zhou Guilan said while holding a cup in her hand.
"Mom, how could I forget my first wife? She is my elder."
Zhang Mengyu rolled her eyes. She had just come home from school and put down her schoolbag. She hadn't even had time to ask where her mother and her mother-in-law had gone. But she saw them coming back sweating profusely.
"Okay, okay, it's Mom's fault. Mom will apologize to you, okay?"
Mother Zhang said quickly.
"Okay, I forgive you, Mom."
Zhang Mengyu said generously.
"Auntie is shy."
Two funny guys were making fun of them.
"Let you laugh at me."
When Zhang Mengyu heard this, he was not willing to do it at all. He went over and started rubbing them.
"Hahaha……"
The two children laughed out loud.
"Okay, don't tease me too much, or you'll get a stitch in the side."
Zhang Mengzhi put away the backpack, turned around and said quickly when he saw this.
"oh."
Zhang Mengyu held one nephew in each hand and let the two nephews go.
"Uncle, our aunt bullied us."
Xiaoyu and Xiaoshuang quickly complained.
"Hey, you two little brats, you really find every opportunity to complain!"
Zhang Mengyu was unhappy and spoke to them with a fierce face.
“There’s no seam!”
"What about sewing?"
The little guy was still young and didn't understand what his aunt meant, so he started looking for cracks in the floor.
“…”
Their reaction left the elders in the family speechless.
"You are the one who said all this nonsense. You are responsible for coaxing them into good behavior."
Zhang Mengzhi rolled her eyes at her sister. Don't you know that kids of this age love to ask questions? But she is at an age where she doesn't understand anything, so explaining is the same as not explaining anything.
"ah."
Zhang Mengyu began to wail.
But she didn't play with her two nephews for too long because she still had homework to do.
"When will I not have to do my homework?"
Zhang Mengqian picked up a pen and started writing on the notebook, complaining as he wrote.
"Wait until you graduate from college!"
Zhang Mengyu sat on the doorstep picking vegetables. The vegetables their family eats now are all grown in their own small vegetable garden.
I ate cold noodles at noon and couldn’t eat them at night.
He cut the noodles when he came back in the afternoon, and they had noodles with stewed sauce in the evening. This is the way it is cooked in the north, but the stewed sauce in Sichuan Province is spicy.
After picking and washing the vine vegetables, Zhang Mengzhi began to cook the stew. She cut the mushrooms and black fungus that she had soaked at noon into small pieces, and also cut the dried tofu and chili into small pieces.
There is still some meat bought this morning at home. I rubbed it with salt and put it in water to cool. It can last for a day without going bad even in hot weather.
He cut the meat into small pieces and poured it into the pot to boil out the oil. He then poured out the excess oil and added ginger, scallions and bean curd and stir-fried them well. Then he poured in mushrooms, black fungus and dried bean curd and stir-fried them together for a few minutes. Then he poured in boiling water and boiled it for 20 minutes. He then added a little salt, MSG and soy sauce, adjusted the taste and thickened it with starch, and added the beaten eggs.
After it is done, put it in a bowl, then cook the cut noodles and put them in a bowl, put the vegetables on top. When eating, just pour the sauce on the noodles and you will have a bowl of delicious noodles.
Because it is a northern recipe, the Zhang family rarely ate it before, mainly because except Zhang Mengzhi, no one else knew how to make it!
I won’t talk about the stewed meat, the Zhang family can learn how to make it, but whether it tastes good is another matter. Only the noodles, the Zhang family doesn’t know how to roll them, or the noodles they roll out don’t taste good.
It's either too chewy and makes your cheeks hurt after eating it, or it's not chewy at all. In short, it's not as delicious as the noodles sold outside!
Zhang Mengzhi can make her hands and basin shiny when kneading dough, but no one else in the family can do that.
On this point, Zhou Guilan admires her nephew. No wonder he wants to open a restaurant. His cooking skills are better than many chefs.
In the evening, when Zhang's father came home from get off work, the family sat under the eaves, eating noodles with gravy and talking about family matters. Life was so good.
Occasionally you can hear the chirping of insects, which is quite interesting here.
When Zhang Mengzhi was not in class, he found some nearby carpenters and talked to them about making the wheelbarrow.
The cart is not difficult to hit, but no one thought that a wheelbarrow could be used in this way. The current wheelbarrows are big, but if the things are not tied up, they are easy to fall off.
The cart Zhang Mengzhi wanted had a compartment and a door. The compartment could be opened and had supporting legs underneath, which made it look like a large table from a distance.
After agreeing with the carpenter about the cart, he went to the repair shop and asked the carpenter to find a way to equip it with a tricycle so that it could be towed by the tricycle and no one would need to push it.
The tricycle was modified from an old car. Tricycles are very expensive nowadays and he cannot afford a new one, so Zhang Mengzhi could only go to a repair shop and ask someone to modify a broken tricycle.
Fortunately, people nowadays have strong hands-on skills, and they can successfully transform anything that Zhang Mengzhi describes.
It must be said that this modified tricycle for hauling goods is really easy to use. After converting the cargo bed into a carriage and adding a cart, it becomes two carriages and can hold more things.
Thinking of the cart loaded with food and the tricycle loaded with tables and chairs, Zhang Mengzhi felt that the day when he could set up a stall was not far away.
Because Mid-Autumn Festival is not a legal holiday now, no one has the day off.
Zhang's father couldn't go back to the countryside, so he could only ask his relatives who had returned to the countryside to give their own gifts to his mother. Even if he asked someone to do something for him, he couldn't leave empty-handed, so he also gave the other person a gift.
After receiving the benefit from Zhang's father, the other party promised to deliver these things to Zhang Mengzhi's grandfather's house intact.
Then it was to my parents-in-law's house, where Zhang's mother and father took time out to personally send us off.
I also made an appointment with my parents to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together at Zhang's house.
Originally they should have come to Zeng's house to celebrate the festival together, but there was another Zhou Guilan in the Zhang family, so they had to trouble Zeng's grandparents to make the trip.
After exchanging gifts with relatives in the city, the Zhang family finally celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival peacefully at home.
Zhang Mengzhi went to the market to buy vegetables early in the morning. In addition to meat, the Zhang family also killed a chicken and bought a fish.
Seeing someone buying pomelo, he also bought two. How can we celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival without pomelo? And now is the time to eat pomelo, which is a seasonal fruit.
In the afternoon, Zhang's mother went to Zeng's house in person to pick up her parents to celebrate the festival at Zhang's house.
"Grandma, Grandpa."
"Grandma, ma'am."
The children saw the old man and quickly called for help.
"Mom and Dad, this is Deyun's aunt."
Mother Zhang introduced Zhou Guilan to her parents.
"Hello, Sister Zhou!"
The two elders quickly took the initiative to greet each other.
"Zeng brothers and sisters-in-law, hello to you too."
With Zhou Guilan talking to the two elders, they had no time to care about their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
When it was almost time for dinner, Zhang Mengyao and Xia Dayong came back. The whole family was startled and quickly stood up to look at them.
"Mengyao, Dayong?"
"Grandma, grandpa and grandma."
Zhang Mengyao saw several elders and quickly called for help.
"Why are you back? Does the Xia family have any objections?"
Mother Zhang pulled her daughter over and asked quietly. She didn't mind her daughter going back to her parents' home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, but wouldn't the Xia family make a fuss?
"Oh, I don't treat Dayong as my son, what are we doing here? Are we going to be annoying?"
Zhang Mengyao became angry whenever she mentioned the Xia family.
Mrs. Xia prepared Mid-Autumn Festival food for her youngest son early in the morning, but she didn't think of Xia Dayong at all.
Obviously, the couple had prepared a festival gift for Mrs. Xia long ago, and even gave her 20 yuan. But Mrs. Xia didn't even have a good face for her eldest son, and didn't even give him a mooncake.
Her son didn't like it, and he didn't even ask about his grandchildren. Zhang Mengyao was so angry that she brought her husband to the Zhang family to celebrate the festival.
Anyway, the Xia family doesn't welcome them, so they might as well come to the Yue family to live a good life and reunite with their children.
In order to annoy Old Lady Xia, Zhang Mengyao deliberately brought a lot of bags to the Zhang family. These bags were all holiday gifts from her, as a daughter and son-in-law, to her Yue family.
In addition to apples and oranges, there were four packs of mooncakes, two grapefruits, two packs of sugar, a box of biscuits, and even a can of malted milk.
Such a generous gift made Mrs. Xia's eyes red when they left.
Zhang Mengyao didn't care how red her eyes were, she locked the doors and windows. Since she knew they would climb through the windows, she asked her husband to modify the windows, locking them from the inside so that they couldn't be opened from the outside. The door locks were also changed, but they couldn't be opened without a key.
In the end, Old Lady Xia could only look at the house with empty windows and closed and feel angry.
They are all ungrateful.
Zhang Mengzhi ignored the Xia family's lawsuit and concentrated on preparing dinner in the kitchen.
Twice-cooked pork and braised pork are indispensable, because everyone loves these two dishes! The fish is steamed directly, the scales of the killed fish are scraped, the internal organs are hollowed out and cleaned, and a few slits are made on both sides, and ginger slices are stuffed in them and spread out on a long plate.
Sprinkle some green onions on it, put it into the pot and steam it on high heat for ten minutes after the water boils.
After steaming, take it out and pour out the water, pick out the ginger slices and onions, put on the green onion shreds again, pour soy sauce on it, and finally pour hot oil on it. The steamed fish is ready.
Out of consideration for Zhou Guilan, Zhang Mengzhi did not add any chili peppers. Otherwise, according to the custom of people in Shu Province, steamed fish would also have to be sprinkled with some red pepper shreds to make it look better!
I fried another dish of Mu Shu pork, put the fried crispy pork on a plate, and then fried two more vegetarian dishes, and the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner was ready.
"Dad, peel the grapefruit."
When Zhang Mengzhi came out with a bowl of smooth meat soup, he saw only two nephews surrounding Xia Dayong, looking at the pomelo in his arms and shouting.
"Xiaoyu and Xiaoshuang, can we peel the grapefruit after we finish eating? Daddy promises you that he will peel the grapefruit for you after we finish eating."
Xia Dayong was about to agree, but he changed his mind after seeing his brother-in-law come out.
"good."
The two children were well-educated and agreed immediately after hearing what their father said. Although they were young, they knew that there was a lot of meat to eat during the festival. If they ate the grapefruit, they would eat less meat later.
So as soon as Xia Dayong said it, they agreed. They were so smart.
"Dinner is ready, everyone please take your seats."
Zhang Mengzhi put the soup on the table, and a large group of people sat under the eaves, eating while admiring the moon in the sky.
There was no rain during the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, and the moon in the sky rose early.
As long as you look up, you can see the bright jade plate hanging in the sky. Coupled with the five-nut mooncakes, people in China celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.
On this day of reunion, family members who cannot eat and chat together are missing each other.
After dinner, Zhou Guilan looked at the moon in the sky, holding a sweet pomelo in her hand, thinking about her two sons who were far away in the capital.
I don’t know what happened to Decheng and Deshuang?
However, the brothers Zhang Decheng and Zhang Deshuang, who were far away in the capital, did not have a very good Mid-Autumn Festival.
Their father was still alive, so the two brothers brought their family back to the old house during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
General Zhang was at home and the family was sitting together for dinner.
The children of the wife he married later were not too old, so they have not started a family yet. The children of Zhang Deshuang and his brothers are not young anymore, they have all started a family and have children.
Therefore, there are quite a lot of people, and the whole old house becomes lively once they come back.
General Zhang usually likes quietness, and only at this time will he happily watch his grandchildren running around the house.
"Zuzu, why don't you play with us?"
Zhang Decheng's great-grandson stood in front of General Zhang holding a tank and asked.
"Grandpa is old and doesn't like to move."
General Zhang looked at his great-great-grandson and his eyes narrowed.
For an old man, having a large family is the happiest thing. His two sons worked hard and gave birth to four grandsons and one granddaughter.
Now all the grandchildren have started their own families. Except for my granddaughter who is still young and has no children yet, the other grandchildren have married and have children of their own.
Four generations living under one roof, how can one not be envious!
Although Zhang Deshuang is younger than Zhang Deyun, he got married early, so his children are older than Zhang Mengzhi.
They all got married during those years, had children early on, and went to work in various departments as arranged by their father.
"dad."
Zhang Decheng came over.
"grandfather."
When Zhang's great-grandson saw his grandfather coming, he immediately walked over and hugged his thighs.
As the eldest of the fourth generation, he has been the focus of attention of everyone in the Zhang family since he was born.
"Yecheng, what's wrong?"
The son is of the Shi generation, and the grandson is of the Ye generation.
Many people in my hometown do not name their children according to their generation names, but General Zhang is the only one who insists on naming his children according to their generation names.
It’s not that the people from the hometown have forgotten their roots, but the children born in those years were not named using generation names in order to avoid trouble. After all, who knows if someone will cause trouble and accuse the Zhang family of missing the old society?
Not using generation names is not a big deal. The older generation agrees, and the children's parents have no say. The characters are chosen by the elders, and they don't even have the right to participate. Therefore, most of the next generation in Zhang Mengzhi's hometown did not use generation names.
Zhang Mengzhi was not named according to his generation name. The situation had already become serious when he was born. Zhang's father listened to his father-in-law and did not name his son and daughter according to their generation name.
However, for the sake of fairness, although the names were not based on generation names, the word "Dream" was chosen as the middle names of several children.
As for the word "knowledge": I hope my son can learn more knowledge so that he can stand out in life.
Facts have proved that he was right in choosing the right character. His son is indeed well-educated and very filial to his parents and elders.
"Grandpa, can I go to the second floor to play?"
Because he seldom came to visit his great-grandfather, Zhang Yecheng did not dare to make decisions on his own. As the eldest grandson, he was personally brought up by Zhang Decheng.
The child is lively but also sensible. Before he came here, his grandfather told him that he should not be as naughty at his great-grandfather's house as he is at home.
So he wanted to go to the second floor to play, so he came to tell his grandfather.
"No, you guys just play downstairs."
Zhang Decheng refused directly. He felt at ease only when the children were playing under their supervision.
There is a study on the second floor, and the children cannot be allowed to go in and mess up. At the same time, the second floor is also other people's rooms. If the children go in and accidentally break something, he will have a hard time explaining it to others!
"All right!"
When Zhang Yecheng heard that he couldn’t go up to play, he didn’t insist. He went to play with his younger brothers and sisters.
But he is only four or five years old, and his other brothers and sisters are even younger, and the youngest can't even walk!
So Zhang Yecheng didn't get to play in the end. Instead, he was detained by his parents to help take care of his younger brother.
I hate being a brother.
Zhang Yecheng took care of his younger brother with a sad face and was very unhappy with his identity as an older brother.
"Where's Deshuang?"
Not seeing his younger son, General Zhang asked his older son.
"In the garden!"
Zhang Decheng knew that his brother was feeling uncomfortable because he thought that the original mistress of the house should be their mother.
Every time he came to the old house for dinner, Deshuang felt uncomfortable. Especially this year, after his mother came back, Deshuang actually didn't want to come to the old house. If it weren't for his brother, Zhang Deshuang would just ignore it.
"What's so good about that black and black thing? Call him in!"
General Zhang knew that his second son had a problem, but he didn't care. He was a self-centered person, he would take responsibility for his own responsibilities, and he would not care about the responsibilities that were not his.
He couldn't find his first wife, and thought she was dead, so he remarried a new wife without any guilt.
Now his original wife has been found, but he has remarried, so the other party is no longer his wife.
General Zhang could let it go, but his son Zhang Deshuang could not let it go like his father. General Zhang understood his second son's discomfort and did not scold him.
"Lao Zhang, it's time to eat."
Xie Yun came out of the kitchen. The old house had a special chef who cooked for her. If it weren’t for An Yan today, she wouldn’t have to go to the kitchen to watch over it.
"Okay, let's go!"
This was said to the eldest son.
"Yes, Dad."
Zhang Decheng reached out to help his father up, and the family walked towards the restaurant.
There was a long dining table in the restaurant, which was usually not even one-third full, but today it was full. When they saw General Zhang coming in, everyone stood up.
"grandfather."
"Ancestor."
"dad."
Everyone shouted at the same time, and the noise was quite chaotic and noisy. However, General Zhang himself didn't mind, and the others didn't say anything either.
"Mother, please sit here."
Xie Yun's younger daughter helped her mother to sit next to her father, and then looked at Zhang Deshuang with a proud look.
Humph, so what if that woman is found? The mistress of the Zhang family is my mother now.
Zhang Deshuang was the last one to come in, and was immediately met with an unfriendly look from his half-sister. However, he sneered in his heart and did not take her look seriously.
Did he care about the title of Zhang family mistress? He just felt sorry for his mother. It was his mother who had suffered with his father, and his maternal grandparents had given most of their property to support his father, but now they were gone and his mother was still in her hometown to receive treatment.
But Xie Yun was enjoying a good life with her father. How could Zhang Deshuang feel comfortable with this?
"What are you still standing here for? Do you want to sit next to me?"
General Zhang glanced at his motionless daughter. He was a man who favored boys over girls. Even though she was his only daughter, General Zhang would not favor her more because he had three sons.
"Dad, I was wrong."
Zhang Qunhua blushed and walked over to sit next to her brother.
This was what she had intended at the beginning. She had always felt that as her father's only daughter, she should receive some preferential treatment.
In fact, just by looking at her name, you can find out that she was not named according to the generation name, which shows that General Zhang did not treat her daughter as a treasure.
However, although he favored boys over girls, he still sent his daughter to school and even let her take the college entrance examination. However, she did not study well and failed the exam twice.
General Zhang asked her to take the exam again next year, and if she failed, she should find a job and then get married.
Although she was not treated as well as her son, she was much happier than many other women because General Zhang never stopped her from going to school and would let her go as long as she could pass the exam.
It’s just that Zhang Qunhua is really not good at studying, and General Zhang is helpless!
Zhang Qunhua had always felt that as the only daughter, she should be given priority, but reality gave her a hard slap in the face. In addition, she had no self-awareness and was determined to compete with her two brothers, which made General Zhang very unhappy.
In comparison, the third child, Zhang Dexiang, is much more sensible. Maybe it’s because he has been raised by his father since he was a child, so he was not corrupted by Xie Yun!
"Okay, let's eat."
General Zhang picked up his chopsticks and took a bite of the food. Only after he started eating did the others pick up their chopsticks.
"Brother, I want to eat that roast duck."
Zhang Dexiang quietly spoke to Zhang Deshuang who was sitting next to him.
This roast duck was not made at home, but bought by Xie Yun from a restaurant outside. The price was not cheap, and it was not often eaten even in the old house.
"Here, what else do you want?"
Zhang Deshuang had no opinion about his younger brother. After all, he was more sensible, so he was willing to lend a hand with some small favors.
“And the braised pork.”
Zhang Dexiang stared at the braised pork in front of his father. He didn't dare to pick it up with his chopsticks, so he could only ask his brother for help.
"Give."
Zhang Deshuang picked up two pieces of braised pork for the third brother and took one piece for himself.
He took a bite and put down his chopsticks.
"What's with that expression, Lao Er? Doesn't this braised pork suit your taste? Isn't it your favorite?"
General Zhang asked, and then he took a chopstick to taste it. Is the taste the same as before? It is his favorite flavor.
"Dad, you haven't tasted the braised pork made by Meng Zhi, it's really delicious!"
When Zhang Deshuang said this, he thought of the braised pork made by Zhang Mengzhi and suddenly missed it.
“Is it as delicious as you say?”
Zhang Decheng looked suspicious.
"Brother, that's because you haven't eaten it. If you've eaten it, you'll act even more exaggerated than I describe. I sometimes even dream about eating it now. Do you think it tastes good?"
When Zhang Deshuang mentioned his cousin, his brows relaxed and a smile appeared on his lips.
"Dad, are you talking about brother Mengzhi? We have only seen the photo you brought back, but not the real person. Didn't you say he did very well in the college entrance examination? Why didn't he come to the capital to study?"
Zhang Deshuang's eldest son Zhang Shirong asked after looking at his aunt with high eyebrows and low eyes.
When Zhang Qunhua heard what his nephew said, his face suddenly fell and he was obviously not happy.
"He was worried about his parents, so he chose a university close to home. The best student in our Zhang family is Meng Zhiliao, who did very well in the college entrance examination, and almost got full marks!"
Zhang Deshuang seemed not to notice Zhang Qunhua's unhappy look and started talking about Zhang Mengzhi.
From the eldest brother to the third child, no one in their family knows how to study. The third child didn't want to study after graduating from high school. Recently, his father is using his connections to find him a job so that he can earn money to support himself in the future.
Only Zhang Qunhua refused to give up and wanted to continue taking the college entrance examination. Zhang Deshuang said that her result was only embarrassing and had no other benefits.
"Dad, speaking of which, brother Mengzhi has a younger sister, right? How are her grades?"
The old man's official achievements said meaningfully.
"Yes, your cousin's name is Mengyu. She has good grades and should have no problem getting into university. Second brother's family also adopted a girl from his eldest brother-in-law's family, named Mengyao. It is said that her grades were also good when she was in school and she graduated from high school. But she got married and did not take the college entrance examination."
Zhang Deshuang saw what his nephew was thinking, so he introduced his cousin's family members to everyone.
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