"Okay, we've been friends for half my life. The fact that you two can see me off shows that I'm quite popular. What shall we eat?" After hanging the door, Mr. Li asked the other two old friends.
"What are you eating? You haven't eaten yet? Lao Zhao and I ate before we came here."
"Aren't you two here to give me a farewell party?"
"That's... that's right. We came here to give you a farewell party. You can eat more after you've eaten. Just tell us what you want to eat. Lao Xiang is treating you today. He has money in his pocket." Old Zhao hurriedly tried to save the crumbling friendship.
"Isn't this money mine for that?"
"What money?" Grandpa Li glanced at his old friend who had been out of touch since childhood. These two were even paying for his travel expenses? Finally, they were in tune with him for once.
Old Zhao was really impressed by the brick. He had been so stupid all his life that his eyes were squeezed out. But he was living like a dog at his age.
"Okay, look at the two of you. If you have something to say, just say it. Don't make this happen again."
"I've already told Lao Zhao that there's no need to be so rude to Lao Li. Well, can you still get this year's pills for us now that you're gone?" Lao Xiang quickly stated his purpose.
Old man Li felt annoyed when he saw the fawning look on old man Xiang's face.
"Where am I going? I'm about to be laid to rest in my coffin, and you two are still trying to stop me from living? I already told you I haven't eaten yet, and you're still nagging..."
After saying that, he put his hands behind his back, without even looking at the two of them, and walked forward, "I don't want to eat in the cafeteria, I have to go to a restaurant today..."
"Next, next, next..." the two old men responded hurriedly.
During the meal, Mr. Li finally relented and agreed to the two old friends' request. He earned the money for his granddaughter, but he remembered that the medicinal herbs were very rare, so he didn't dare to say anything final.
"Just wait for my letter. If there are any shares left, I'll send them to you. Besides, I'll be back soon, so I can give them to you guys when I come back..."
After this meal, it's time for him to pack up and leave.
The old man only had a few sets of clothes, and he mailed his bedding roll according to the instructions of his son and daughter-in-law. He then took the train and moved from Lan City to Wu City.
The person who met him at the station was his eldest daughter-in-law. As soon as she saw him, she came forward and asked, "Dad, was your journey okay?"
"It's fine. There's nothing uncomfortable about it. Besides, it's only four hours, which is pretty fast." Mr. Li didn't hand the luggage to his daughter-in-law. He really didn't feel tired.
"Where's the eldest brother?" His daughter-in-law was still in the county, a long way away, and his son was working in the city and didn't know how to come.
"Hongyuan is in a meeting and won't be here until today. Come home with me first and we'll have some noodles for lunch. I already made some braised pork before I left, and asked Xinghui to get some braised pork from the restaurant. You haven't had this in a while..."
"Xinghui, Xingyao, how is work going? Are you busy?"
"Xinghui is so absorbed in researching agricultural machinery that he seems to be the busiest person. He's so busy that he hasn't even found a suitable partner.
Xingyao follows the geological survey team and disappears every few days. I can't catch him, and I'm worried about him all the time."
"Xingyao is out again?"
"Well, they've been gone for half a year now. They went to the Tibetan area and haven't come back yet."
Sun Tianxia wanted to take the old man on a bicycle, but the old man refused, so the two of them had to push the bicycle all the way back.
As soon as he arrived at the gate, he ran into his eldest grandson who was coming towards him, "Grandpa, you are finally willing to come over? And listen to what my mother said about me?
I told her to look for him herself, and if she finds him suitable, I'll marry him to her. But she insisted on asking me to look for him myself. I think all girls are the same."
Sun Tianxia handed the old man's luggage to her son, asked him to put his grandfather into a safe place, washed her hands, and went to stretch noodles.
"You are not a child anymore, it's time for you to understand things." The old man wondered why his grandchildren were so stupid. If they didn't look like their grandmother, he would have suspected that they were switched with the ones from the Xiang family.
At the dinner table, Sun Tianxia brought up the same old topic again. Taking advantage of the old man's presence, she asked him to persuade his eldest grandson, "You're already in your twenties. If you don't get married, how long are you going to stay in this house?"
"Well, look, my mother always wants to kick me out. We have such a big yard, but there's still no place for me to stay."
"Dad, please take good care of him... I won't say anything more. There's a small competition at work tomorrow morning. I'll be staying in the dormitory until the weekend. If you need anything, ask Xinghui to help. I guess Hongyuan should be in the room soon..."
"Alright, alright, I'm not a child. There's no need to worry about me. Go and do your own thing. Xinghui should also do his own thing. Don't worry about me. I know how to drink when I'm thirsty and eat when I'm hungry. Just take care of yourselves."
Okay, Sun Tianxia really couldn't delay any longer, so she gave her son a few more instructions, pushed out the bicycle, and pedaled away.
"Then grandpa, I'll accompany you for a walk outside to familiarize you with the environment here..." The old man readily followed suit and stood up.
The old man was currently obsessed with finding a partner for his eldest grandson. He went out to ask his old friends which family had a suitable granddaughter. Li Xinghui called out to him for a long time before he came to his senses.
"Huh? What did you say?"
Li Xinghui smiled helplessly, "I mean, when you're free, you can come here and play chess or chat with them. If you don't like either, I'll take you to the senior citizen center at the neighborhood office, where you can sing songs with them."
"Okay, take me to the senior center." Maybe someone there has a granddaughter.
Qiu Yuling is too young, otherwise the old man would have been worried about her a long time ago and would have forced her to come to his house no matter what.
"Oh, by the way, give me a few of your stamps so I can send a letter to my friend."
Thinking of Qiu Yuling, he had to write a letter to the girl and leave her a new address, so that she wouldn't send him letters or things to the wrong place.
"Oh, I'll get them for you when I get back. We have products from both within and outside the province." Seeing that his grandfather had adapted well, Li Xinghui became more interested in taking him out for a walk.
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Qiu Yuling went back and poured the lunch she had spit on directly to Wan Jin, and asked Little Spider to make some rice dumplings with fermented rice wine.
While eating from the bowl, she asked it to clean the bedroom. It still had the work of building the grape racks to do, but it was daytime and she didn't want the little spider to show off too often.
"Since you can move around freely at night, please wait until sunset. But be quiet and don't disturb the neighbors, okay?"
The little spider waved its tentacles and said, "Don't worry, it's working!"
"Oh, by the way, you can't be idle right now. You have to help me prepare some medicine. Or the same method as before, melting one pill into ninety pills, understand?"
The little spider nodded again to show that it understood everything.
Then I became busy like a little top.
Qiu Yuling lay on a chair, putting the empty bowl aside, under the apricot tree, enjoying the cool air and thinking.
Her second brother has been out for so long, it’s time for him to come back!
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