Chapter 25 Chapter 25 (Inverted V) Mung Bean Soup
"Brother, please speak up! Can you express your opinion?"
Seeing that his brother remained silent for a long time, Zhang Deshuang shouted, "It's scary that he hasn't said anything yet."
"Okay, I know what to do. Even though the Gu family is not as good as ours, if you want to deal with them, you have to tell Dad. Go back!"
Zhang Decheng said after reading the information.
"Okay, I'll go back then."
Zhang Deshuang patted his butt and left.
Even though his brother didn't say it directly, his attitude made Zhang Deshuang understand that he didn't need to worry about the Gu family's affairs, and that they would be handled by General Zhang and Zhang Decheng.
They dealt with the Gu family in the capital, and the three members of Gu Yan's family in his hometown were naturally dealt with by the Zhang family in his hometown.
Although the Zhang family members in their hometown don't hold high positions, they all have real power. They are local tyrants who want to attack the Gu family, who are outsiders. They really don't understand why.
If the Zhang family back home can't even deal with Gu Yan's family, General Zhang and the others will be so angry that they will die.
Zhang Mengzhi did not completely leave this matter to his relatives, he also made some arrangements on his own.
"Brother Zhang, the person you asked me to monitor has moved. Those two are dating every day. Sometimes I see them hiding in the woods. They are so close."
The person who is speaking bends his two thumbs together.
In the afternoon, Zhang Mengzhi went out to throw away the garbage. Immediately, two bad youths came over pretending to throw away the garbage and talked to him.
"Continue to monitor, and ignore the rest. But if the other party does anything wrong, report it to me immediately."
After Zhang Mengzhi left, a red paper bag appeared where he was standing.
"Hehe, Brother Zhang is very generous."
The bad boy picked it up immediately and opened it to see that they were two big unity notes.
"Brother, Brother Zhang is so loyal, we can't let him down. We have to do the job he entrusted us with well."
I saw that the two big unity cards were enough for the two of them to use for a while.
They were educated youth who had been sent to the countryside. After returning to the city, there was no place for them at home, and they had no jobs so they had to hang out outside every day.
Therefore, they are not liked by their family members and people outside also dislike them.
Only after Zhang Mengzhi came back, he treated them the same as before. He gave them several dozen yuan. The task he asked them to do was not big, and it was not a big deal except for a little effort.
"Of course, Brother Zhang is closer to me than my own brother. I have to do everything he asks me to do."
The leader of the bad youths put the money in his pocket and said.
Then he took his younger brothers back to monitor Gu Yan, even recording how many times he went to the toilet a day.
Zhang Mengzhi didn't expect that he just treated people with a normal heart and gave money to two people to monitor Gu Yan. The two of them just monitored each other honestly without daring to make a mistake.
As a result, the two did not disappoint him and actually found out some unknown things for him.
This is a story for later. After meeting the two men, Zhang Mengzhi returned home.
"Uncle, our aunt beat us."
Xiaoyu and Xiaoshuang saw him and ran over to complain.
"Heh, my brother is back and you guys have found someone to complain to, right? Why don't you tell me why I beat you up?"
Zhang Mengyu sneered behind him and said.
“…”
The two children remained silent and just hugged Zhang Mengzhi's thighs without saying a word.
"Where are my wife and mother?"
Not seeing his mother and eldest wife, Zhang Mengzhi asked his younger sister.
He went out to throw away the garbage, and when he came back the two elderly people were no longer at home.
"I went out for a walk. The sun is not shining on our side right now. The alley is shaded from the sun, so it's good to go out for a walk. It's a little windy outside today, so it's not that hot."
Zhang Mengyu told his brother.
"That's fine. I'll go make some mung bean soup for my wife and mom to drink when they get back from shopping."
I dare not put it in the well, and my mother and my eldest wife dare not eat too cold food. Zhang Mengyu is the same, and she must take extra care of her health in the next few years, otherwise she will suffer in the future.
Although he is a boy, he had read a lot of books before traveling through time and had some understanding of girls' physical conditions.
Women should avoid eating raw or cold food. This was not only told to him by his teacher, but also by some female elders in his previous life. After all, in that era, if a boy did not learn a few more skills, he would not be able to marry a wife.
So when Zhang Mengzhi was at home, he never let his mother and sister touch cold water or eat raw or cold food.
Zhou Guilan was the same, she was a woman who had never had to do any housework in the Zhang family. She had everything she wanted, just like the daughter of a landlord.
Moreover, under the care of the Zhang family, her spirit is getting better and better. She can go out for an hour's walk every day. When she talks to her two sons on the phone, brothers Zhang Deshuang and Zhang Decheng are so happy.
As long as they nursed their mother for a while longer, they would be able to start the treatment period. When her body had recovered to a large extent, they brothers would be able to take their mother to their side to take care of her.
The two of them thanked the Zhang family for taking care of Zhou Guilan. Even their own son was no better than this. Maybe they didn't take as good care of Zhou Guilan as the Zhang family did. Their two families were really not as good as the Zhang family in terms of taking care of people.
It’s not that their daughters-in-law are bad or unfilial, but that they have their own careers and have no time or energy to take care of their mother-in-law.
My children are grown up and are either in school or at work, so I don’t have time to take care of them.
This is one of the reasons why Zhang Decheng agreed to his brother's proposal to leave his mother in his hometown to be taken care of by his cousin's family.
In addition to Zhou Guilan's physical condition being unsuitable for long-distance travel, the two of them could not find anyone to take care of their mother.
As for General Zhang, he should not count on him.
When he heard his son say that he had found his original wife, he didn't say anything. He is a man who is both affectionate and heartless.
It's not that his original wife is bad, but he chose to give up on getting her back then and married a new wife, so he no longer has any feelings for her. He treats his two children well because he has the responsibility of being a father. He feels that he has no responsibility for his original wife, so he doesn't care about her.
However, he did not stop his two children from showing filial piety to their biological mother. This was his biggest concession.
They had long known that their father would not care about their mother, so Zhang Decheng and Zhang Deshuang did not mention Zhou Guilan to their father.
As General Zhang's wife, Zhou Guilan knew very well what kind of person he was.
So after she woke up, she never asked General Zhang a single question. The two of them had no relationship since the day she led the Japanese away.
Anyway, when the two got married it was the old society and there was no marriage certificate. They just set up a few tables for banquets, worshipped heaven and earth and their parents, and then they started a family.
There is no need to even get a divorce. Not disturbing each other is the best outcome for them in this life.
Zhang Mengzhi took out the mung beans, picked out the broken ones and the pebbles, washed them with water, put them in a casserole and stewed them on the stove.
There happened to be some rock sugar at home, so he took it out and poured it into an empty bowl for later use.
I went to the wall to pick some mint leaves, washed them and set them aside. The women in the family cannot drink mung bean soup with mint, but Zhang's father and Zhang Mengzhi can drink it.
In addition to its sweetness, the mung bean soup with mint also has a natural cool feeling.
After the mung beans are cooked, add rock sugar and simmer for another half an hour. When you are about to serve, scoop out half of it in a bowl and set it aside. Then add mint to the remaining half of the mung bean paste and simmer for a few minutes.
The two different flavors of mung bean paste were ready, and the one he and his father drank was hung in the well with a rope, while the one his mother and her friends drank was put directly in cold water to cool down quickly.
After a while, the hot mung bean soup became cold, but not as cold as when it was placed in the well, so it was just right for women to drink.
"We are back."
Mother Zhang brought Zhou Guilan back home. She learned a lot from being with this elder.
Although Zhou Guilan has been confused for decades, her knowledge and life experience are something that Mother Zhang could never learn in her entire life.
Zhou Guilan also wanted to teach Mother Zhang, and taught her everything she knew. Even Zeng's grandmother asked her daughter to learn well when she found out.
"Grandmother and mother are back just in time. The mung bean paste I cooked is ready. Come and have some."
Zhang Mengzhi served five bowls in small bowls. Except for the women in the family, the two nephews were too young to eat the one with mint.
Mung beans are cold in nature, so Zhang Mengzhi didn’t give everyone too much. One bowl per person is enough.
"It tastes good. Our dream master Zhao Qiao, I don't know which girl will get her in the future."
Zhou Guilan couldn't help but act like a queen mother when she saw her handsome and capable nephew. She felt that any ordinary girl was not worthy of Zhang Mengzhi.
"It's up to him. We don't care. Isn't free love advocated now? His father and I will be fashionable for once and let him do what he likes."
Mother Zhang said in an open-minded manner.
The daughter of the Wang family was arranged by the elders for him, but she turned out to be a worthless person. Zhang's mother thought that she and Zhang's father would not interfere in their son's marriage in the future, and they would agree as long as their son liked her.
"That's right. It's different now. We don't follow the way we did when we were young."
Zhou Guilan nodded. Whether the relationship between a couple is good or not depends on themselves. Others, even elders, cannot live their lives for them.
What if they like it but the young people don’t, wouldn’t they become a couple of enemies?
Zhang Mengzhi pretended not to hear what his first wife and mother said. For the sake of keeping his ears clear, he did not tell them that he did not plan to get married.
Anyway, he keeps dragging it out, and everyone should be able to guess it after a while.
"By the way, Mengzhi is about to start school, right?"
Zhou Guilan was so surprised when she found out that her nephew had been admitted to university.
Even though she had been confused for decades, she knew how difficult it was to get into university.
"Yes, school starts in less than a week."
Mother Zhang smiled and nodded, but she couldn't stop smiling when she mentioned her son going to college.
"It's good to go to college. I dreamed of going to college back then, but unfortunately, I was lucky enough to go to a girls' school at that time."
Her family was well off at the time, but they only sent their daughter to a girls' school.
While Zhou Guilan and Zhang's mother were chatting while drinking mung bean soup, the Zhang father and son in the capital were also talking.
At this time, the atmosphere in the Zhang family in the capital was a little tense. General Zhang and his son were discussing things in the study upstairs, while the mother and son downstairs did not dare to speak loudly.
Xie Yun looked upstairs several times, and finally glared helplessly at her son and daughter who were huddled on the sofa.
No future!
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