Chapter 33 Asking about my elementary school deskmate
"Leni, you're back from fishing."
"Today is your grandmother's 60th birthday. Go over there to help. I'll ask you to bring some food back for Yu Yue and Yu Chi. We have six delicious dishes today. You're in luck."
"Take your seaweed too. At least we can make a pot of seaweed egg drop soup."
There was a hint of arrogance in Yu Taohong's tone, and she clearly told Yu Zhile that it was her honor to attend Old Lady Yu's birthday party.
People in Hai County don’t celebrate their birthdays. Old Mrs. Yu is sixty-three this year.
It was called a birthday party, but in fact it was just a meal for close family members to strengthen their relationship, and there were only three tables.
Zhang Zhenhua pulled her arm and said with a smile, "Le Ni, don't listen to your aunt. You, Xiao Yue, and Xiao Chi go over and talk to your grandma. Just sit and wait for food. You're just going home for a meal, so you don't need to bring anything."
After finding out Zhang Zhenhua's purpose, Yu Zhile was too lazy to bother with the two of them anymore and asked Zhou Yuesheng to pour the seafood into the wooden basin.
The seaweed on the upper layer was placed in a small wooden basin, and the scallops, snails, etc. on the lower layer were smashed with a loud noise.
Yu Taohong's eyes widened, and she called Zhou Yuesheng: "Since you are so big, add salt water, bring the wooden basin over, and add another dish for us."
Yu Zhile was very unhappy with her tone.
Yu Zhile uttered a few words expressionlessly: "Are you sick?"
"What do you mean? How can you treat your elders like this?" Yu Taohong pointed at her and started scolding her without saying a word.
Yu Zhile opened his lips slightly and said, "Get out of my house."
"Le Ni, don't get me wrong. Your aunt treats Xiao Zhou as a family member and that's why she's not being polite to him." The muscles on Zhang Zhenhua's face trembled.
Yu Zhile glanced at him coldly: "You too, get out."
Faced with Yu Zhile's drastically changed personality, Zhang Zhenhua frowned with two deep lines on his brows, thinking it was Zhou Yuesheng's work.
After a few seconds' pause, he put on the attitude of an infinitely tolerant elder, while secretly flattering her.
"Leni, you are still young. I don't blame you. You will understand in the future that only your family members are truly good to you. Some people will never treat you well with all their heart."
Facing the fatherly sermon, Yu Zhile sneered: "Zhou Yuesheng, beat them out."
Zhou Yuesheng's muscles were tense, and he looked like an arrow ready to be shot.
"You, you, Yu Pei--" Yu Taohong was shaking with fear. Thinking back to the slap she received last time, she swallowed her words and turned to look at Zhang Zhenhua.
Zhang Zhenhua smiled bitterly at Yu Zhile: "Okay, let's go, but you must remember that there will always be a place for you in the Yu family courtyard."
After saying that, he pulled Yu Taohong out of the door, looking back every few steps.
Yu Zhile felt a chill in his heart, and immediately turned around and started boasting mode again.
Her fingers slid across the muscle lines of Zhou Yuesheng's arms, and she praised him in a low voice: "Little housekeeper, everyone praises your ability to protect the family."
Yu Yue couldn't hear what she said clearly, and when he saw the two of them behaving intimately, he silently looked away.
Yu Chi and Pa Pa, on the other hand, stared at them intently.
The brisk sound of bicycle bells rang for more than ten seconds, and Zhang Zhenhua and his wife walked towards the postman carrying a large package.
"Why are you so proud? He's just a small postman." Yu Taohong muttered softly.
Zhang Zhenhua roughly pulled her arm away and made way for her, causing her to almost fall.
Yu Taohong didn't dare to say anything.
"Yu Zhile, this is Chen Zhao's package, sent from Beijing." The postman shouted loudly.
Yu Zhile pushed the door open and pointed to the cowshed, saying, "He lives there. Someone should be feeding the cows right now."
The postman had his eyes wide open and smiled innocently, looking very friendly.
"Oh, oh, okay, thank you." Hearing her words, his expression was slightly stunned, and then he scratched his hair embarrassedly.
Yu Zhile responded: “No need.”
However, the postman did not leave immediately. He stared at her for a long time and asked, "Do you remember me? I, I was your deskmate in elementary school. My name is -"
As he spoke, he nervously gripped the handlebars, and with his other hand he repeatedly fiddled with the strap of his green shoulder bag.
"No impression." Yu Zhile interrupted him and turned to close the door.
Gao Liangyi stopped for a while, turned the bike around and rode towards the cowshed.
The door of the cowshed was very broken and the hinges were very loose, as if the door would come off the frame with just the slightest push.
There were figures flashing in the yard and the sound of coughing continued.
"Chen Zhao has a package." Gao Liangyi lost his previous friendly tone and shouted impatiently.
With a creak, the door opened and a thin old man with a hunched back stuck his head out and looked at him with dazed eyes.
"Signature." Gao Liangyi threw the package directly to the ground and threw over a notebook and a pen.
The old man stepped out of the door frame tremblingly and signed with shaking hands.
Gao Liangyi kept making clicking sounds, and after the old man signed, he wiped the pen with the hem of his clothes in disgust.
After putting away his notebook and pen, he was in no hurry to leave.
"Well, is there anything else?" The old man found it difficult to speak in complete sentences.
Gao Liangyi crossed his arms and pointed at the package with his chin: "Move it."
The old man was stunned, bent down and moved the big package into the yard with difficulty.
Gao Liangyi behind him watched this scene with interest.
A few centimeters, a few centimeters, every time he moved it, he had to stop to catch his breath.
Gao Liangyi pressed lightly with his fingertips, with a fierce light in his eyes.
Until the old man's body disappeared into the shade, he straightened his collar and rode towards the center of the village.
The Yu family was extremely bustling at this time, and the palm-sized kitchen was crowded with people.
"Second sister-in-law, don't chop the chicken so small. It makes us look so stingy." Wu Caixia found fault while cracking melon seeds.
Yang Suyun didn't go to work today. She had been busy in the kitchen all morning behind Yu Lin's back. She was furious when she was criticized by someone who slept until noon.
The brothers Yu and Yang were driven up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, while Yu Fu sat with his feet up waiting to eat, which made her even angrier.
"Be patient, it will only take half a day." The young wife who was familiar with her advised.
Yang Suyun took out her anger on the chopping board.
"Yang Suyun, you are courting death. You chopped so hard that you broke my chopping board. You have to pay for it!" Old Mrs. Yu was sitting at the door showing off to her neighbors. When she heard the noise, she yelled.
As soon as she finished speaking, the noise in the kitchen became much quieter.
"Lan, you are amazing. You have a perfect grasp on your daughter-in-law." The 70-year-old neighbor lady, who was almost toothless, was amazed and looked at her with a bit of envy. "It's good to have a son. My money-losing friends knew that I would be 73 next year, and none of them said anything."
"Old sister, I'm not saying this, but daughters can be good too. Look at our Taohong, she found a director of a supply and marketing cooperative, and I don't know how much she got back for me." Old Mrs. Yu continued to show off.
At the sound of brakes, the two old ladies looked up at the same time.
Gao Liangyi smiled and said, "Excuse me, is this the home of Yu Zhile's uncle?"
"Yes, you are looking for my Haiyao?" Old Mrs. Yu looked at him. She had never heard that her son was familiar with the postman.
Gao Liangyi acted like a young man who had just fallen in love, and said, "Grandma, I...I'm helping people find out about Yu Zhile's marriage."
The two old ladies looked at each other and immediately saw through him. It was clear that he was asking on their behalf.
"Len Ni doesn't have a partner." A gleam of light flashed in Old Lady Yu's eyes.
Gao Liangyi thanked him quickly and left.
Before he even got off work, the news that Yu Zhile was going to get engaged to the town's postman spread throughout the village, and only the parties involved were kept in the dark.
Zhang Wenxin heard the news in the field and rushed to Yu's house.
In desperation, she kicked open the door of Yu's courtyard.
Yu Zhile and Zhou Yuesheng looked at her with poker faces, while Yu Chi looked at her with curiosity.
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