Volume 1 Chapter 91 Returning to the Village for the New Year
Especially with Sheng Wanze's profession, he absolutely cannot be labeled as unfilial.
On the first day of the New Year, the family took the bus back to their hometown early in the morning.
There are only two bicycles at home, which are not enough for five people, so we have to take the bus back.
This journey is more tiring than going to the city, and this is also the first time Sheng Wanyan has been to the countryside in this era.
Grandpa Sheng and Grandma Sheng originally had a house in the countryside, but later when Father Sheng moved to the city, the family moved out.
It's just that I seldom go back, and the house is a bit old. Fortunately, the village chief of the Red Flag Second Team is a kind-hearted person, and he usually asks his wife to help clean it.
Even Uncle Sheng, his biological brother, was not so kind-hearted. Instead, he asked Grandpa Sheng several times to lend his house to his eldest grandson and his family.
Anyway, Grandpa Sheng only comes back once a year and stays for five or six days before leaving.
Grandpa Sheng, as your second uncle, might as well lend it to your nephew, so that he can look after the house for you.
But Grandpa Sheng disagreed and always refused, saying that he had built this house with great care when he was young. When the family property was divided, Grandma Sheng was partial and directly gave Grandpa Sheng an old house that was about to collapse.
Later, Grandpa Sheng and Grandma Sheng worked hard to tear down the house and rebuild it. Although it was a mud house, it was clean. After so many years, it was a little moldy.
To put it nicely, it's just a temporary residence, but as time goes by, it might become your own home.
As a grandfather, can't you find a way to solve the problem of having no house to live in?
At worst, your grandson still has his biological father and mother, so what does it have to do with him, your second uncle?
Is it his turn to take charge?
Sheng Wanyan and her family took a bus for more than three hours to reach Hongqi Commune, and once they arrived at Hongqi Commune they could only take a ox cart back.
Sheng Wanyan looked at the Hongqi Commune of that era. The countryside was really very backward at that time and everything was inconvenient.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, many villagers driving ox carts were waiting at Hongqi Commune.
"Dad, is that Uncle Sheng who drives the ox cart in our village?"
Father Sheng had sharp eyes and recognized the people in the village at once. He had ridden in Uncle Sheng's ox cart many times before. He didn't expect that Uncle Sheng was almost the same age as his father and was still driving an ox cart.
Grandpa Sheng looked over and nodded. He and Uncle Sheng were good friends. When they were in the village, the two families had a very good relationship.
"Yes, hurry over there and don't keep people waiting."
Grandpa Sheng hasn't seen his old friend for a long time, and his heart has long been separated from him.
As soon as he saw it, he walked towards the ox cart. When Uncle Sheng saw Grandpa Sheng, he immediately burst into laughter.
"I was really anxious. I thought you, old man, would not come back this year."
All the members of the Red Flag Second Team are surnamed Sheng, and they are from the same clan, so they are usually very united.
"How can I not come back? This is my root!"
Grandpa Sheng got angry when he heard what he said. What kind of person does he think he is? He is not the kind of person who doesn't cherish the past.
"Yes, yes, this is your granddaughter. Has she grown up so much?"
Uncle Sheng looked at Sheng Wanyan. When Sheng Wanyan was a child, he stayed in the village for two or three years. When he was three years old, his father took the whole family to the city.
Sheng Wanyan visited his house often when she was a child, and now she has grown into a big girl in an instant.
However, Sheng Wanyan only came back once every few years and had no memory of her childhood.
I didn't expect that she would grow up into a beautiful young lady so quickly. I am so lucky. All the children in the family are more promising than the other.
"Yes, this is my granddaughter."
"Yan'er, just call him Uncle Sheng. You've been to his house to eat candy many times before."
When Grandpa Sheng was young, he and he were treated as brothers, no different from real brothers, so she had to call him Uncle Sheng.
"Hello, Uncle Sheng."
Sheng Wanyan greeted him very politely, and Uncle Sheng narrowed his eyes when he saw her smiling.
"Okay, okay, good boy, come up quickly, let's go back to the village."
Uncle Sheng was very happy to see her being so well-behaved and sensible.
It’s a pity that all his grandchildren are married, otherwise he would have wanted Sheng Wanyan to be his granddaughter-in-law.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheng helped Grandpa and Grandma Sheng up first, and only after the two old people were seated firmly did Mr. Sheng climb up.
Father Sheng pulled Mother Sheng and Sheng Wanyan up, and the family rode back to the village in a ox cart.
Sheng Wanyan enjoyed the scenery along the way, but her butt was sore from sitting in the ox cart, and there was nothing along the way except mountains.
We also saw a few people from the village on the way, and Uncle Sheng took them back with him.
Everyone knew Grandpa Sheng and Grandma Sheng, and everyone curiously asked about the situation in the city.
She was more interested in inquiring about the marriages of the two children of the Sheng family. When she heard that Sheng Wanze was already married, she could only feel pity.
"Sheng's wife, your daughter is really pretty. She's already 20 years old, right?"
When Mother Sheng heard this, she smiled and nodded. She knew this would happen.
"yes."
"You're already 21 after the Chinese New Year, why haven't you taken a fancy to someone yet?"
"If you don't get married now, you really won't be able to get married. Isn't it urgent?"
"Yes, my daughter got married at the age of 16. The older a woman gets, the less valuable she becomes."
Everyone started gossiping, and Sheng's mother couldn't say anything when she heard it. After all, this was how people of that era thought.
"My son is 22 years old and works in the commune. How about finding some time for a blind date?"
"My grandson is not bad either. He is about the same age as your daughter and works as a teacher in the commune."
Everyone was talking to each other, and they were just about to ask a matchmaker to come and propose marriage.
The daughter of the Sheng family has such good conditions, who wouldn’t want to marry her?
When Sheng's mother heard this, she could only reveal the news that Sheng Wanyan had a boyfriend, for fear that the villagers would have ideas about her daughter.
"My daughter has a boyfriend, so please don't worry about her."
"What? You have a partner?"
"Last time you came back for the wedding, didn't you both say you didn't have a partner?"
"My daughter has just been dating someone for a few months, and now my Xiaoze's comrade-in-arms and Yan'er have fallen in love with him. They are almost ready to get married after the Chinese New Year."
Mother Sheng didn't want anyone in the village to target Sheng Wanyan, and she would not agree to Sheng Wanyan marrying into the village.
She had lived in a village when she was young. Although the people in the village were very simple and honest, she had seen that a whole family could be torn apart by a bite of food.
Moreover, there is no mother-in-law in the village who does not bully her daughter-in-law. She does not want her daughter to suffer. Mothers-in-law who do not bully their daughter-in-law are very rare in this era.
What's more, these are the mothers-in-law in the village who have not received much education. Her family is not without conditions, so why should she let her daughter suffer?
"So your future son-in-law is also a soldier? What position?"
"I heard that your son became the battalion commander. Is that true?"
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