After staying for about an hour, the family prepared to go home.
Before leaving, Zhou Chengning reminded his grandfather to finish drinking the crucian carp soup and be careful of the bones when eating crucian carp. He kept nagging him. It was rare that Gua Gua didn't say anything. Xu Xiangjuan just watched the grandfather and grandson from the side.
Grandpa smiled and agreed. Before leaving, he took out money. The banknotes, both new and old, were neatly stacked. It could be seen that there was not a single Big Unity banknote. The rest were just some scattered coins, cents and dimes, which he held with both hands and gave to Guagua.
Xu Xiangjuan knew that the old man was not stingy, but that he simply had no great unity. This handful of loose change was probably all his savings.
Guagua reached out and took the one-cent coin. Xu Xiangjuan said, "Grandpa, you can keep the rest for yourself. Just give Guagua one cent for candy. Aning and I will bring Guagua here next time."
Xu Xiangjuan wanted to stop him at first, but then she thought about it and realized that her grandfather had thought about it before giving it to her. Knowing that Aning would not accept it, she gave it to Guagua. Guagua could take as much as he wanted. Fortunately, Guagua only recognized one cent.
The road to grandpa's house is not as far as Zhou Chengning's way to the town middle school. It only takes an hour to walk back and forth. He stayed at grandpa's house for more than an hour, a total of two or three hours. Niu Niu was very well-behaved and did not cry. When his great-grandfather teased him, he even grinned unconsciously.
All in all, everyone was quite happy on this trip today.
On the way back, Guagua was held by his father and asked him, "Dad, why does grandpa live in a straw house?"
At this time, everyone lived better than before, although not significantly better. However, few people lived in thatched huts. Most of them lived in brick houses with green tiles and red bricks. In any case, after Guagua was born, no thatched huts had been seen in the village. There were thatched stacks, but they were not used for living.
Zhou Chengning was silent for a long time. Xu Xiangjuan knew that her daughter's words had unintentionally touched Aning's heart. After all, not only the great-grandfather lived in this thatched house, but also Gua Gua's father.
"Guagua, do you want to live in a thatched house? If you do, mom will build one for you."
"In no mood."
Well, the topic of the straw house ended like this, but Guagua's little mouth kept talking, "Mom, next time you visit grandpa, bring him some delicious food."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Okay."
Zhou Chengning was moved when he heard Guagua's words, "Our Guagua has grown up and become sensible. He is a good child."
Xu Xiangjuan: ...
Her husband is such an old-fashioned person that she wouldn't even say that.
But Guagua did behave well today. "Guagua behaved very well today. Mom will buy some fruit for Guagua when she gets home. We won't take other people's fruit. We can buy some for ourselves."
There are also many families in the village who have jujube trees planted in their yards. At this time of year, more than one family has a jujube tree. If you want to eat some jujube, just spend one or two cents to buy a small bowl.
“Good mother!”
...
In fact, she didn’t know when she would visit grandpa next time. When she returned home, Xu Xiangjuan fed Niu Niu first. After Niu Niu fell asleep, she found a close relative and bought a bowl of dates for him.
Zhou Chengning was using a branch to scratch on the ground, teaching Guagua to recognize the words "Tai" and "Ye", which means great-grandfather.
Handing Guagua a few dates and telling her to remember to wash them before eating, Xu Xiangjuan sent Guagua away and asked Zhou Chengning, "Aning, do you have aunt's mailing address?"
Grandpa Zhou now has two children, one is Zhou Chengning’s father, and the other is his aunt, a brother and sister.
I guess her parents-in-law can live a comfortable life thanks to this younger sister.
Xu Xiangjuan didn't know much about her aunt or the Zhou family, so she asked about Zhou Chengning's general family situation.
Originally, she was not going to marry into the Zhou family, she was going to marry Zhou Chengning. Besides, Zhou Chengning had to live with her in Maodong Village, so she just needed to get a general idea from Aunt Qian and Zhou Chengning.
"Yes, my aunt gave grandpa the address, and grandpa copied it for me. I wrote it down in my notebook."
His aunt lived in Huadu. When he went to school in Huadu, his grandfather gave him the address and told him to find his aunt if he had any problems. But he had nothing to do and never went to find his aunt.
He didn't want to trouble others, and his impression of his aunt was still from his childhood, so he was not very close to her.
He knew that his aunt would send packages and money to his grandfather, but his parents would always hold them in their hands and then distribute them to his younger brothers and sisters.
"We can write a letter to Auntie and tell her about Grandpa... Aning, you write it and I'll read it."
Xu Xiangjuan is a person of action, and just so happened to write the letter to her eldest brother at the same time.
In the past, her parents were illiterate, so she wrote the letters for them. In her previous life, she never asked her daughter Aning to write letters for her. Her daughter Aning's handwriting is so beautiful, she couldn't let such good handwriting go to waste, right?
Her man doesn't write like her, he writes as he pleases. Zhou Chengning follows the rules for all the strokes, his fingers are distinctly articulated and his pen holding posture is also correct. Xu Xiangjuan admired him as she read.
The paint on this pen has peeled off after several years of use, but Aning still treasures it very much. Xu Xiangjuan thought, "When the family has more financial resources, I will buy him a new one."
Zhou Chengning didn't write according to Xu Xiangjuan's original words, but the meaning was almost the same. He just polished the sentences a little. "Juan, is it not good to write like this?"
"Why is it bad? Auntie won't believe it if I don't write it this way. What's the problem if I ask Auntie to send the things to our house? Our family won't swallow up Grandpa's things. If your parents want to make a fuss, they can come to me. Am I afraid of them? And according to the inertia of your parents and your younger brothers and sisters, even if it is in Grandpa's hands, they will snatch it away, right?"
The meaning of Xu Xiangjuan's letter is that Zhou Chengning's parents, her parents-in-law, treat the elderly badly. The elderly can write down anything in just one or two lines. This is not simple, it is crude.
She asked her aunt to send it in two batches next time, one to her home and the other to her grandfather.
Her husband's parents must have been greedy for something from her grandfather's side, but she also had to let her husband's parents see that something was missing and see her aunt's letter. She told them that she knew they were not good to her father, and she would not send them any more if they did that again.
In her letter, Xu Xiangjuan instructed her aunt on how to write a reply.
"Will Aunt not believe us? Will she think we are trying to cheat her out of something?"
Xu Xiangjuan looked quite open-minded. "We can send some things over, such as dried mushrooms and chili sauce from home. It should be easier to believe. Even if they don't believe it, we won't lose much."
She didn't know what her aunt usually sent back, but she thought that if there were a lot of things, she would have to send them in a simple manner, otherwise she would lose a lot of money. The postage cost money, and the chili sauce and dried mushrooms were not free. In the letter, she also mentioned subtly that she was taking her three-year-old girl and two-month-old boy to visit their great-grandfather, hoping that her aunt would understand.
Of course she had to send it to her eldest brother as well. Later, she would not only send it to her eldest brother, but also to her second sister and third brother, so that they all had a share.
The weather is cool, so the things can be stored.
When Zhou Chengning heard his lover's explanation, he no longer had any doubts.
My grandfather is old and has never had a good life in his life. Their family is not well off and cannot subsidize him all the time. The things that my aunt gives to my grandfather should naturally be given to him instead of his parents using them to live a good life.
Xu Xiangjuan patted Zhou Chengning on the shoulder and said, "Aning, don't think about these things. Even if the sky falls, I will support you. Okay, give me the pen and I will write a letter to my eldest brother."
The two of them sat on a long bench. Since there was no proper desk at home, they used a low cabinet to make do.
She thought about it and decided that it would be better for her to write the letter to her eldest brother herself. After all, she had always written for her before and her parents read it to her. Her eldest brother was familiar with her handwriting. If someone else suddenly wrote it, her eldest brother would be suspicious.
The key point is that when she got married, her brothers and sisters all came back, and her mother didn't stop saying bad things about her daughter Aning to them.
After all, Xu Xiangjuan hadn't held a pen for a long time, and she forgot how to write when she picked up the pen. This meant she was no longer a student. With cell phones, who would still write a letter by themselves?
Her husband is still working as a Chinese teacher in a middle school. For the first time, Xu Xiangjuan felt ashamed of herself.
Zhou Chengning did not make fun of his lover, but patiently told Xu Xiangjuan how to write each word.
At first, Xu Xiangjuan started writing first, and crossed out any words she felt were wrong. Zhou Chengning taught her how to write correctly. Later, she simply stopped writing the words she was not sure about, and asked him to write the correct ones on the notebook, and she copied them.
The author has something to say: Taking advantage of the last few days of the short holiday, I will add more chapters~
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