Chapter 412 (Extra) Reunion 1
At the end of December this year, the weather in Xinxi was not very good. Zhang Hongying received a letter from Lu Dongcheng early in the morning, saying that the two brothers would be back at the end of the year. Then she thought about drying the quilts and tidying up the house. The weather was sunny for a while, then it was cloudy, and then it snowed for several days in a row.
It was freezing cold when the snow melted, but at least the sun was out.
Lu Mingjiang's cough was still not cured, but when he heard that his son and grandson were about to come back, he felt much better. As soon as the sky cleared up, he walked to the district and found a cotton fluffer to make two new quilts. He even bought more dishes and chopsticks at home.
Zhang Hongying took out the back of the quilt that had been washed earlier and dried it thoroughly. Then she spread a mat under the eaves and started to sew the quilt.
Her eyesight wasn't very good anymore. For someone in her fifties, threading a needle was already a bit of a struggle. She'd been trying a few times without success when she saw Chuyi running over from next door with a few children, followed by Gao Xiulan.
She called out, "Sister-in-law!"
"Sewing a quilt?"
"Ah, sewing a quilt. Chuyi, come here, help Auntie San thread a needle. I can't see, what should I do? I can't find the right needle eye after threading it for a long time."
Chuyi responded, ran over to take the needle, and inserted it in one go.
Zhang Hongying laughed and said, "Oh, this is really amazing for Chuyi. The little kid has really good eyesight."
Chuyi smiled and said, "Third Aunt, when you have finished sewing, call me and I will put it on for you."
"Okay, okay, okay."
As he spoke, he took out a stool from the main room and gave it to Gao Xiulan: "Sister-in-law, sit down."
Gao Xiulan sat down and looked at the new quilt covers on the mat and asked, "I remember you aired two quilts last time, and they were also brand new. They were the cotton quilts that Chun'e used when she came back that year, and we haven't used them since."
"Hey, it's new. Yesterday I asked him to play two more beds. I'm coming back and I'm bringing the kids with me, so I need to prepare some bedding. Those two have never been here before and they're still very young. I have to pay attention to them."
Gao Xiulan looked at her and smiled: "I'm finally happy this year. Everyone is back."
"It's not easy to come here this time. It's such a long way, and with a few kids, it takes more than half a month to go back and forth, and it won't take more than a few days to come back."
Gao Xiulan asked her, "Hongying, please don't take it too seriously. Dongping and the other three are all over there. What do you and the third brother think? Have you ever thought about following them? If you follow them, it will save you a lot of trouble. You won't have to worry about them if I don't come back. Come back, it's not easy for them."
Zhang Hongying paused, holding the needle. "I haven't thought about it yet. Life in the city isn't easy either. We don't have any land, so we have to buy everything. Lu Mingjiang and I have been blind all our lives, we don't know how to do anything, and we can only farm this little piece of land. If we go to the city and don't farm, what will we do?"
Gao Xiulan smiled and said, "You don't have to do anything, just take care of the children. Dongping and Donglin are both promising, and Wanwan has a good personality. Can we still do without you two?"
Zhang Hongying shook her head: "What you said was all good, but when it comes to the situation, it's not the same.
Dandan will be ten years old by the spring, and he's already in fifth grade. He's being picked up and dropped off at school. What can we do there? He won't even know his way around, and if he gets lost, we'll have to ask someone to find him.
"Two little ones." She paused her needlework as she spoke. "I've never taken care of two little ones, so I don't know what they were like. But you know what happened to Dandan back then. They never let me take care of them, because they thought I wasn't doing a good job or was unclean. If I really went to take care of them, I'd be asking for trouble."
"We are not old and unable to move anymore. Now that land is distributed to households, we can cultivate our own land, which is good. We should work hard and have enough food and drink. There is no need to burden them."
Gao Xiulan sighed, "There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with you thinking that way. It's always hard to have it all right with people. When they're around, they're naughty and sulky, but when they're not around, they're worried."
"I'm already twenty-eight, and I don't know when it will arrive."
The family was worried that Lu Dongping and his family were already on their way home.
I got off the train just after breakfast on the 29th.
Xinxi County has changed a lot in recent years. It is very lively during the New Year, with all kinds of things for sale.
There are even rickshaws picking up passengers from the train station to the county town.
Since there is a car to take, I naturally don’t want to walk, with children and luggage.
When they arrived at the center of the county town, Lu Dongping and Lu Donglin held Qiuqiu and Diandian and looked after the luggage, while Wen Wan and Chen Dongshuang went shopping for New Year's goods.
Stepping onto unfamiliar land, Chen Dongshuang was even more nervous than when she was on the train.
As he walked, he asked Wen Wan, "Sister, I'm a little scared."
Wen Wan couldn't help but laugh: "What are you afraid of? There is no tiger at home."
"I'm afraid that Uncle and Aunt Lu will not be satisfied with me."
Wen Wan encouraged her: "No, how could they be dissatisfied with you. They are all real people, not hypocritical. They are also very kind." As long as Lu Donglin likes her and both of them are doing well, there will be no problem.
"Besides, you have to have more confidence in yourself. You are very good, very good. You have to believe in yourself, and you also have to believe in Donglin's vision. You have known each other for so many years. To be honest, when you were still in Ai Shang, I was thinking how great it would be if you two were together. But I didn't know that brat Lu Donglin was so stubborn. After going around in circles for so many years, he finally came to his senses. Otherwise, if such a good girl was abducted by someone else, where would he go to find another one like her?"
Chen Dongshuang's face turned red after being teased by her in such a serious manner, and she no longer had the heart to think about anything else.
Wen Wan briefly introduced the situation at home to her while shopping.
I already had a lot of luggage, so there wasn't much to buy, just cigarettes, alcohol and the like.
I didn't dare to delay for too long. When I went over, I heard Diandian crying there. Qiuqiu also pouted and looked unhappy because he was hungry.
When feeding milk powder, I have to carry a kettle with boiling water and mix it with milk in the cold wind. The baby will feel satisfied only after drinking it.
After things calmed down, Lu Dongping went to find the commune's car.
Coincidentally, the driver was Liu Dacai again.
Wearing his military coat and locomotive hat, Lu Dongping called him, and it took him a long time to react: "Hey! It's you, kid. You look so well dressed, I almost didn't recognize you."
Lu Dongping smiled and handed over a cigarette: "I haven't seen you for a few years. How come you still look like this? Haven't you aged?"
"I'm old, so old, how can I not be old? I can't compare to you. You're more energetic than when you were in your twenties." After saying that, he looked around: "When did you come back? Where's Teacher Wen? Didn't he come back with you?"
"I'm back, I'm back, with the kids and the luggage. I came over to see when the tractor here will be back."
"Wait and we'll leave."
"Where are your things? Come on, let me help you get your luggage over here."
With Liu Dacai's help, things finally got a lot easier.
The two little ones who drank milk urinated and then struggled to get down to the ground.
Wen Wan put both of them in the tractor and asked them to stand while holding the luggage.
It’s true. Even though I was in the car the whole time, I was still very tired along the way.
During the twelfth lunar month, quite a few people from the commune came into the city. In addition to them, there were about ten other people.
It's almost time, the tractor sets off.
Dandan sat unsteadily on the tractor. He had ridden on Liu Dacai's tractor when he was four years old, with Lu Dongping, on a trip to the capital. He had completely forgotten the memory of it by now, and always thought it was something very strange.
Wen Wan called out to him, "Behave yourself. The road is not good. Be careful not to get dizzy."
Dandan smiled and said, "No, I don't get sick even when riding in a car."
Lu Dongping pulled him and said, "Sit tight. The road here is very bumpy. Be careful not to shake you out."
Then, along the way, it was proven that what he said was true.
Qiuqiu and Diandian fell asleep in his and Lu Donglin's arms, while Wen Wan and Chen Dongshuang looked pale from being shaken around.
Wen Wan was still holding Dandan.
Chen Dongshuang felt better, leaning on Lu Donglin's shoulder and staggering all the way back to the commune.
Liu Dacai and the others got off the tractor and pushed them forward a little further to the intersection with the brigade.
"Hey, let me give you a ride!"
Lu Dongping smiled and waved his hand: "No need, I can do it, you go ahead and do your thing." Then he took out a pack of cigarettes and gave it to him. Liu Dacai refused again and again, but finally couldn't refuse anymore and took it.
The sun had been shining for two days, but the road was still a little rotten, making it difficult to walk. The good thing was that it wasn't far from home.
Zhang Hongying was muttering at home when Lu Mingqing's child called out from the street below: "Aunt San, relatives are coming to your house!"
Zhang Hongying's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly called out to Lu Mingjiang, "Hurry up, they said someone's back, we need to go and greet them."
As soon as the old couple left the yard, Gao Xiulan followed them downstairs.
When you walk to the edge of the field below, you can see several people carrying bags and holding children, walking towards this side with both hands full.
Zhang Hongying ran over, and her breathing was rapid when she got there. She didn't look at Lu Dongping or Lu Donglin, but at Dandan, and then at the little cubs in the brothers' arms.
Dandan shouted, "Grandma!"
Zhang Hongying was stunned for a moment, then responded with an "ah".
Lu Donglin smiled and asked her, "Come here, your little grandson, do you want to hold him?"
Zhang Hongying was about to reach out her hand, but subconsciously looked at Wen Wan. Wen Wan smiled at her, and she really reached out and took the child.
Qiuqiu is a good kid. When he is held by someone he doesn't know, he just pouts, then quickly calms down and looks around with his big eyes. Everywhere he goes is a new place, something he has never seen before. As long as he is not hungry or has diarrhea, he can keep looking.
With the arrival of Gao Xiulan and Lu Mingjiang, the burden on several people was instantly lightened.
Everything in the hands was taken over, and after greeting each other, Lu Mingjiang said, "Let's go, let's go home quickly, it's warm at home." After saying that, he coughed again.
When they got home and put everything down, Lu Donglin introduced his girlfriend to his family: "Dad, Mom, this is my girlfriend."
Last time, Lu Dongping said that when he came back, he only told them that he would bring the children back, but he didn’t expect that Lu Donglin would also bring his girlfriend back.
Lu Mingjiang and his wife were truly overjoyed. Gao Xiulan was also incredibly happy: "Hey, he's been saying all day that he's single, and now he's brought someone back! This brat is just like his brother Dongping, his standards are too high, and ordinary people are not worth his attention."
Lu Donglin said shamelessly: "That's it!"
Chen Dongshuang secretly poked him in the back.
Lu Mingjiang said, "Are you cold? Come inside and warm up quickly. The weather is bad this year. There haven't been any decent days of sunshine. It's terrible." He was wheezing in his throat as he spoke.
Lu Dongping called Gao Xiulan: "Auntie, come in and warm yourself by the fire."
Gao Xiulan said, "I'll go back for a bit and come back later. You guys hurry in and don't sweat if you get too hot."
After saying that, Chuyi and several children from his family peeked in.
Wen Wan's eyes lit up and she waved at her: "Chuyi, come here! Oh, our Chuyi is so big now, she's a beautiful little girl."
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