"Dad, why did you come back just now? I've been waiting for you for a long time."
As the captain stepped into the house, he ran into his hurried little son.
His youngest son, Yu Jianguo, was lucky in luck. After graduating from high school, he was assigned to work in a leather factory in the county.
"Are you taking a day off today? How come you have time to come back?" The captain was almost knocked away by his sturdy little son, and he quickly grabbed the door frame.
"I've taken a leave of absence and am back." Yu Jianguo was all smiles. "Xiao'e and Xiangyang are back too, they're in the house!"
My daughter-in-law Gao Cui'e is back too? This is really a rare thing.
She came to our house once when she got married. Gao Cui'e was not used to the dry toilets in the countryside, so she went back after staying there for a day. After that, she only came here once with her grandson after he was born.
"Xiangyang is here too." The captain's face lit up with joy, but then it fell again. He complained, "Why did you bring the child here in this hot weather?"
The team leader raised four sons in total. The three older ones were all sent away when they grew up, but they all lived in the same village and saw each other every day.
Only the youngest son works in the county town and married a girl from the county town. He transferred his household registration to the town a few years ago and rarely comes back because he is busy with work.
The little grandson is only five years old and can't leave his mother. He usually doesn't come back except during the Chinese New Year, so the old couple in the team miss him very much.
But the conditions in the countryside are not as good as those in the city. I want to see my grandson, but I don’t want him to come all the way here and suffer.
"Daddy! Daddy!" Yu Xiangyang heard the voice and rushed out of the house like a little cannonball, hugging the captain's legs.
"Ouch, go slower, don't fall--" The captain picked up the little guy.
"Daddy, I miss you!"
Yu Xiangyang was a cheerful person and was well-educated. He put his arms around the captain's neck and kissed his sweaty face with a pout.
The captain couldn't handle the little grandson's enthusiasm, and he dodged in a panic, "Daddy's face is dirty, go kiss your dad."
He looked like he was hiding, but in fact the captain's face was full of smiles.
"Look at your dad. He usually has a sullen face, as if someone owes him a few hundred dollars. But when he saw Yangyang, he smiled so hard that his wrinkles almost fell to the ground."
The team leader's wife Fang Erhua was picking vegetables with her daughter-in-law at the kitchen door.
Gao Xiao'e nodded: "Xiangyang keeps asking for his daddy and grandma every day, but we are too busy at work and don't have time to come back. Mom, if you and Dad are free, come and live in the city for a while."
Her parents-in-law treated her well, but she really couldn't stand the environment in the countryside. It was a little better in winter, but it was really unbearable in summer.
The dry toilets are dirty and smelly, and you have to move your butt to use the toilet, otherwise the flies will bite you. At night, the mice make a lot of noise when you sleep...
"Hey, I want to go too, but your dad is the team leader and he's usually so busy he's never seen. If I'm not at home, he won't even have a meal. And the old lady also needs to deliver food!"
Fang Erhua also wanted to spend more time with her grandson, but she really couldn't get away.
But he is good at saving face and has also taught his grandson very well.
At such a young age, he is polite and can speak. Every time he comes back, he calls out to his daddy and grandma, which makes people's hearts melt.
"Xiao'e, you guys aren't living well in the city either. Next time you come back, bring less food with you. Keep the meat and other things for yourself. It's not easy to save some money, and you work hard too."
Just today, my youngest son and his family suddenly came back, buying two pounds of meat, a can of lychees and a bottle of malted milk.
There is no shortage of fruits such as peaches and plums in the countryside, but lychees are not produced in Nanji Province. Canned lychees are precious, not to mention the malted milk.
If her daughter-in-law hadn't bought her a can when she first came to visit, she wouldn't have been able to name it!
"Mom, please don't say that. We don't come home often, so it's only right for us to buy something to show our filial piety. This meat ticket is a benefit given by the factory during the Dragon Boat Festival last time, and I was thinking of coming back to show my filial piety to you when I have the chance!"
In fact, the tickets issued for the Dragon Boat Festival were all limited-time tickets. It was impossible for the three of them to eat all the food in the hot weather, so they exchanged them for ordinary meat tickets from others at a discount.
One pound of holiday meat coupons could only be exchanged for nine ounces of ordinary meat coupons.
But you have to be frugal in your life. You can't spend it all at once, otherwise you won't be able to get it when you need it.
Seeing that the vegetables were almost picked, Fang Erhua stood up and glanced at the pendulum clock in the main hall, and said to Gao Xiaoe, "It's almost time. I can cook by myself. You and Jianguo should go and invite your brothers and sisters-in-law to come back for dinner."
Although the Yu family has split up, they still get together to eat during the busy farming season, and Fang Erhua is responsible for cooking at home.
"Okay, let's go now." Gao Xiao'e stood up wisely. She knew that this was her mother-in-law giving them a chance to show off.
Everyone is busy now. After returning home and having dinner, they rush to rest for a while and then go back to work immediately. If they don’t go out and show their heads, no one will know they have come back.
"By the way, why did you come back today?"
The captain played with his grandson on a big horse for a while. The grandson felt sorry for his grandfather and sat on his shoulders for a while before he sensibly said he wanted to get off.
Now it was Yu Jianguo who was confused. "Dad, don't you know? You're in the newspaper, the Cangyang Daily!"
"What a fuss! Of course I know. How did you know?" The captain's heart was about to fly to the sky, but he forced himself to pretend to be calm in front of his youngest son.
"I brought back the newspapers, take a look!" Yu Jianguo works as an accountant in the factory and has the habit of reading newspapers every day. As soon as he got to work in the morning, he saw their Yuzhuang Brigade written in the newspaper.
This report even has pictures. The dark and thin old man with wrinkles all over his face smiling while cutting rice is none other than his father Yu Tiedan!
He immediately told his wife about it, and they both decided to take a day off and come back to celebrate with the old man.
"Where is it? Let me see!" When the captain heard that someone brought the newspaper back, he no longer pretended to be calm, and his eyes scanned every corner of the house like a machine gun.
Finally I saw the newspaper on top of the cabinet.
"Why are you putting it so high?" The captain took two steps at a time and walked over to take the newspaper down.
Yu Jianguo smiled and rubbed his hands: "I just got wet accidentally. Dad, tell me, how did you get on the newspaper? Can you let your son be on the newspaper too?"
"Go away, do you think I printed this newspaper? Don't disturb me while I'm reading." The captain waved his hand and carefully opened the newspaper to read.
"Jianguo, mom asked us to go pick up my brother and sister-in-law for dinner." Yu Jianguo wanted to say a few more words but was pulled away by his wife.
"Ding! Time to get off work!"
As the bell rang, the members working in the fields straightened their backs, wiped the sweat off their faces, and with rumbling stomachs, washed the mud off their feet in the fields before climbing up the ridges.
"Xinghua, look, isn't that your brother-in-law and his wife from the city?"
Cao Xinghua took a look from afar and it was indeed true.
It’s not a festival, why are my brother-in-law and his family back?
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