Chapter 193 Moving the Family

The same thing happened to Su's father and mother. They had to move their family and had to take a lot of things with them. They couldn't take them all at once, so they had to ask their second son Su Xiao to deliver them by mail.

Of course that's no problem.

Su Xiao gave 500 yuan to Su's father and mother. Supporting them in their old age was originally their responsibility as sons, but the burden seemed to have fallen on his sister.

He feels a little guilty.

"What for? We have money, you don't have to worry." Qian Su's father and mother didn't want it.

They really have money. They receive a pension every month, and their children also provide them with pension money every month.

Since retirement, the eldest and second oldest sons give them 20 yuan every month. After the third oldest son's life became stable, he also sends money once a year.

As for the fourth child, we gave him 100 yuan each during the Chinese New Year.

So all in all they had quite a lot of money, about two thousand yuan.

"Mom and Dad, just take it." Su Xiao forced it in.

Su's father was furious and said he didn't want it, but the money was still given to him, saying that they had money, so Su Xiao couldn't give it away.

It’s better to pay it month by month.

Actually, the old couple has a lot of money to take care of their parents, even though they don't have a pension and they don't have children to support them every month.

But they have chickens at home, and they sell the eggs they lay, earning about ten yuan a month.

Including what they had before, they now had about a thousand yuan in cash.

You really can't underestimate these old men and women, they are all rich.

Depart on the morning of the 5th.

Mother Gu couldn't sleep that day, so she got up early and made breakfast. She was very happy to live with her children in the capital.

But I also felt reluctant to leave their house, as their mud house had collapsed and they were now building a brick house.

It has been seventeen years and the house is no longer new, but it is full of the smell of fireworks.

They are leaving now and don't know when they will come back.

Gu's mother felt a little sad, and a little distressed. This was a brick house, and it was about to be gone. It felt such a pity.

And they have two brick houses.

Since they were going to the capital, the house was handed over to the second sister Gu to look after, and Gu's mother gave the house key to the second sister Gu.

The uneaten vegetables, noodles, rice and eggs at home were all given to Second Sister Gu to take back and eat.

Otherwise it would be a waste to put it here.

After meeting up with Su's father, mother and others, we took the bus.

It was the first time for Gu's parents to travel far away and take a bus. It was a bit novel, but the novelty made Gu's mother feel churning in her stomach.

She is carsick.

Motion sickness was so uncomfortable that she wanted to open the windows even in winter.

Fortunately, Gu's mother had better self-control than Su He, and she held back from vomiting all the way. When she arrived at the station, she got off the bus, held onto a big tree next to her, and vomited.

She understood, she understood. She finally understood that Changyi Changan didn't want to come back.

This is simply fatal!

When we arrived in the city, we went to the state-owned hotel for lunch and then went to the train station.

It was the first time for Su's parents to take a train and they were a little excited. They kept asking Su's father and mother what it felt like to take a train.

Su's mother replied, "It's very stable, not like a bus that bumps around."

Father Su, "Yes, sister, you won't get carsick when you get on the train."

Soon several people got on the train. What Su's father and mother said was indeed right. Gu's mother no longer felt dizzy when riding the train.

Because it was their first time taking a train, the parents were very excited and looked left and right.

However, no matter how fresh something is, it will no longer be fresh if you get tired of sitting with it.

Two days and three nights later, the train arrived in the capital. Gu's mother felt that her waist was about to fall apart from sitting for two days and three nights.

She understood her two grandchildren again. It was very uncomfortable to rush on this journey!

Su He and Gu Jianhua first took both sets of parents to their upstairs and let them rest for a few hours.

Afterwards, I went to the school and called Changyi and Changan out, asking them to accompany their younger siblings and their grandparents to take care of them.

She and Gu Jianhua took the luggage of the four elders to the rented yard.

They needed to make a fire and heat up the kang. While Gu Jianhua was lighting the fire, Su He went to buy vegetables, rice, flour, soy sauce, oil, vinegar and other daily necessities.

I wanted to buy it before the New Year, but then I thought that no one would look at the things in the house after they went back, so I didn't buy it.

Two hours later, the kang was heated and the kitchen was filled with various seasonings, rice, flour and other grains and oils.

Su He also boiled two pots of water, filled the thermos, and poured some hot water into the pot for washing up in the evening.

Everything is ready, just waiting for people to move in.

When Su He and Gu Jianhua returned upstairs, they found that Su's father and others had woken up and were sitting in the living room chatting.

Su He, "Mom and Dad, why don't you get some more sleep?"

"As we get older, we feel less rest. One or two hours of rest is enough," said Su's father.

Gu's mother also said, "We can't sleep during the day, so let's have a good rest at night."

"Xiao He Jianhua, are you done?"

Su He responded, "Yes, it's all ready. Mom and Dad, you can just move in."

Gu Jianhua smiled and said, "The kang is heated for you guys."

Su's mother was surprised, "There is a kang? I thought they were all beds."

Gu Jianhua said, "There are three rooms, two of which have kangs, and the remaining one has a bed."

He felt that it was more comfortable to sleep on a kang in winter, except that it was a bit troublesome to heat it.

After hearing this, Su's mother said to Su's father, "That's great, let's sleep on the kang."

"Okay, it's warmer on the kang." Father Su also likes to sleep on the kang.

In the past, when we slept on beds at home, we would have a charcoal brazier and put a hot water bottle in the quilt to keep it warm while we slept. It was okay, but not as warm as a kang.

As long as the earthen kang is heated, it is really warm to sleep on in winter.

Su He looked at the time. It was twelve o'clock in the afternoon, time for lunch. He said to everyone, "Let's go eat some roast duck."

I'm tired after traveling for several days, so I won't cook today and will eat out.

"Okay."

My parents have eaten roast duck before, but it was not fresh. I heard that freshly roasted duck is a hundred times more delicious than one that has been stored for a few days.

I can try it today.

The family went to Quanjude. Su He was afraid that one roast duck would not be enough, so he ordered two.

The main part of roast duck is the roast duck skin, which can not only be rolled into pancakes, but also dipped in sugar.

Regarding the idea of ​​dipping the duck in sugar, Gu said, "How can you eat roast duck dipped in sugar?"

The roasted duck skin is fragrant and can be eaten alone or rolled into a pancake. But why does it have to be dipped in sugar? It feels so strange. In his concept of food, the meat of animals such as chicken, duck and fish can be dipped in salt, chives, hot sauce and paste, but it cannot be dipped in sugar.

Of course, you can't eat it with yogurt or milk.

Salty is salty, sweet is sweet, they have to be separated.

Su's father said to him, "Brother Gu, try it. It's quite delicious."

Father Gu shook his head and said, "No, no, I'll just roll this cake."

Gu's mother tried a piece and found it quite delicious, sweet and with a hint of oil.

"Old man, why don't you try it? It tastes good."

Father Gu still shook his head. Chang Huan was a stubborn little girl. She liked to eat roast duck skin dipped in sugar. It was so delicious and sweet, so she picked up a piece for her grandfather.

"Open your mouth, I'll feed you."

Unable to refuse the food fed to him by his granddaughter, Gu ate it. After chewing it twice, he found it was not as bad as he had imagined. It was okay, but he still couldn't accept it.

He doesn't like the taste.

Like his father, Gu Jianhua thinks roast duck or rolls taste better.

While eating roast duck, Gu's mother sighed in her heart, what can I say, this person still has to have a dream, yes, her dream is to go to the capital.

I used to think it was unlikely.

Later, when she saw that her daughter-in-law and two grandchildren were all admitted to university and her son went to work in the capital, she knew that she and her husband would definitely be able to come to the capital in their lifetime.

I just didn't expect it to happen so soon.

When she thought back on the past, she felt that life had passed so quickly, as if the days when she was bullied by her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law were just yesterday, but in fact, forty years had passed.

Life was very difficult back then, with internal and external troubles. It was really not easy to get through this.

Fortunately, everything is fine.

She came to the capital to eat roast duck, and Gu's mother felt that her life was complete.

She is much better than those old ladies in the village, none of whom have ever eaten roast duck.

Gu's mother thought that she would definitely talk to them about it when she returned to her hometown one day.

If only there was something, like a camera, that could take a picture of the food and show it to the other person like making a phone call.