Chapter 61: There are also parents like Lao Dong, who treat their children as tools...
"Cough cough--" Dong Fuyun coughed twice. He didn't expect that he was only two steps late and the little yellow-haired boy was approaching his niece.
Xu Heye turned around and looked at Dong Fuyun, and couldn't help laughing.
The people in Zhangshu Lane were so enthusiastic that Dong Fuyun looked like a disheveled rag.
"Uncle." she called out.
"Yeah." Dong Fuyun nodded and looked at Lian Yushu warily. "What are you talking about?"
Xu Heye: "Nothing."
Lian Yushu looked at Dong Fuyun and thanked him sincerely: "Uncle, thank you for saving my brother."
Dong Fuyun: "..." Who are you calling uncle? "Just call me brother, I'm not much older than you."
Lian Yushu: "...Brother."
"That's enough." Dong Fuyun waved his hand to send the man away. "I understand your kindness. You can leave now."
"Then brother, I'll have my parents come to your house in person to thank you." Lian Yushu left tactfully.
Dong Fuyun immediately said, "He Ye, let me tell you, at your age, you should focus on studying. Three-legged frogs are hard to find, but two-legged men are everywhere. Once you have achieved academic success, there will be no shortage of good-looking boys chasing you."
Xu Heye: "..." I was speechless. "Uncle, what nonsense are you talking about!"
"I just came to say thank you for helping me find Lian Jiashu this afternoon."
Dong Fuyun: "Of course, your uncle knows that you don't have any bad intentions. But that doesn't mean others don't have any. You are so outstanding, good-looking, have good grades, and are kind-hearted. I'm just afraid that someone will take notice of you!" Who wouldn't like such a good girl?
Xu Heye laughed: "Uncle, what are you thinking about!"
She glanced at Dong Fuyun's wet clothes, which were wrinkled like pickled cabbage leaves, and pushed him: "Uncle, go home and change into dry clothes. You stink."
Dong Fuyun raised his hand and smelled it, and sure enough, there was a foul smell.
The smell of sweat mixed with the smell of dried rain water is really not very pleasant.
He put down the things he bought and said, "Then my uncle will go back and change his clothes first, and then come over to have dinner with you later?"
"Go back." Xu Heye waved her hand.
After Dong Fuyun left, Xu Heye immediately went back to the house and started packing her luggage. She was going to buy a ticket back to her hometown in Gan Province tomorrow.
She missed her parents a little.
After being reborn, she has not seen her father yet.
Her mother died early in her previous life, and her father had also died of illness before she was reborn. She was unmarried and had no children. She was the only one left in the world, confused and unable to find the purpose of life.
The only thing that makes her feel a little bit of existence is her work, but if she is alone, what’s the point of earning more money?
Late at night, loneliness and solitude gnaw at people's hearts.
But this life is different.
With both her parents around, she is still a child who is loved by them.
Xu Heye thought about it and laughed, then she heard someone calling her, "Good boy."
Xu Heye suddenly raised her head and saw her mother Dong Taohua and father Xu Hui standing in front of the rental house, carrying large and small bags, with sweat on their foreheads.
"Mom, Dad, why are you here?" Xu Heye stood up excitedly.
"Of course I came to see you."
Dong Taohua said, "My dear, come and take what's in your mother's hand."
Xu Heye ran out quickly, took the thing from Dong Taohua's hand, and his hand fell down.
Xu Heye: “…”
"Mom, what are you carrying? Why is it so heavy?"
Dong Taohua raised her hand and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"I brought some specialties from our Gan Province."
Xu Heye gritted her teeth as she carried the things into the house, placed them on the table, and flipped through the package. Inside were dried bamboo shoots, bean curd strips, yams, lotus seeds, black sesame seeds, tea cakes, dry rice noodles, ham, bacon...
"Oh my god, this is just a little." It was a thing weighing several dozen kilograms.
Xu Hui also put the things in his hand on the table and said with a smile: "I have more here!"
"What is it?" Xu Heye rummaged through the contents and found four large jars.
Xu Hui opened a lid, and a sour, spicy and sweet smell instantly filled the entire space.
"Is it fermented fish?" Xu Heye sniffed and smelled the unique spicy aroma of fermented fish.
"That's right." Xu Hui said, "Your mother made it herself. It took her several days."
Wine lees fish, a specialty of Xunyang, can be made with grass carp, carp or black carp.
After being salted, dried, stewed with wine lees and other processes, the fresh fish meat becomes firm and chewy, infused with the sweetness of rice wine, the spiciness of chili peppers, and the sourness of vinegar. The taste is very rich and it is delicious to eat with wine or as a snack after a meal.
Xu Heye picked up a piece of the fish meat on the top and put it into her mouth. She chewed it and squinted her eyes happily.
"This is the taste." The taste of my hometown, the taste of my mother's cooking.
"Come, take a look at this." Xu Hui opened another jar.
"Spicy dried fish!" Xu Heye shouted excitedly.
The dried fish used are small whitebait grown wild in Poyang Lake. They are transparent and crystal clear. They are very small, and an adult fish is only as thick as a child's thumb.
The taste is very good, the texture is crispy and tender, without any fishy smell of freshwater fish. It is delicious no matter how you cook it, and the spicy dried fish is the most durable way to cook it.
Dong Taohua took a pair of chopsticks and smiled as she picked up one for her daughter. "Try it. Is it salty?"
"It's hot, and Mom was afraid the food would spoil, so she put a little more salt in it."
Xu Heye shook her head: "It's a little salty, but it's best eaten with rice." This little flaw does not affect the deliciousness of this jar of silver fish at all.
"What are the remaining two jars?"
"Two jars of wine."
"Wine?" None of the three of them liked to drink.
Xu Hui said, "This wine is for your uncle and your grandfather. Didn't you say your uncle loves to drink? Our Xunyang sweet rice wine is brewed with the best glutinous rice. It has a mellow and sweet taste, and the alcohol content is not high. A drink or two can also nourish your body."
Xu Heye nodded, but then pouted a little unhappyly and said, "I agreed to bring him to my uncle, so why did you have to bring him all the way to my grandfather?
He doesn't like our family. He never comes to see me normally, but the last time he came to the rental house, he was here to warn me not to embarrass him..."
"Don't talk nonsense! He's your grandpa after all." Xu Hui patted his daughter's head and made excuses for Old Dong. "The old man may not have the nicest words, but he definitely doesn't have bad intentions."
"He doesn't have bad intentions, but he doesn't care either." Xu Heye said unhappily, "In his heart, apart from my step-grandmother's family, only my uncle's family can be regarded with any respect by him.
But he values his uncle not because he loves his children, but because he is old and needs to rely on his uncle for support in his old age."
In other words, he needed his uncle's family to help him suppress his step-grandmother's family, so that they would not think that he was old and weak and useless, and would abandon him and lead a miserable old age.
This old man has mastered the ancient emperor's art of checks and balances without any instruction.
It is hard to imagine that there are parents like Xu Hui and Dong Taohua who love their children selflessly, and there are also parents like Lao Dong who treat their children as tools.
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