Chapter 46 Goodbye, Small Mountain

Village The night in the countryside was originally quiet, and any movement was particularly obvious. Fu Zhengtu was a light sleeper, and he used to sleep alone. Su Taotao tossed and turned, which naturally affected his sleep.

He closed his eyes, stretched out his hand, and pulled the soft person onto himself.

Su Taotao was turned 180 degrees for no reason, and her head was pressed against a warm neck by a big hand, patting her back gently. The steady voice was like raindrops falling into a jade plate, with a warm and hoarse sound in her ears: "Go to sleep."

Su Taotao gave up and didn't struggle. She simply closed her eyes and lay on Fu Zhengtu, rubbing his neck: "I can't sleep."

Fu Zhengtu: "Don't talk, close your eyes, and count to the rhythm of my hand."

Fu Zhengtu took the cattail leaf fan with his other hand and gently fanned her.

It would be very tiring to travel with two children tomorrow. She couldn't be tired tonight. She must have enough sleep, otherwise he wouldn't mind using another birth control product to help her fall asleep.

I don't know if it's because Fu Zhengtu's voice has a soothing effect, or because his voice is so nice, or because of the artificial fan, the gentle breeze is just right for sleeping. Su Taotao listened to him and followed the rhythm of his hands clapping on her back to count the beats. After a while, she felt her eyelids were heavy, and she fell asleep before she counted to a hundred.

Fu Zhengtu listened to her steady breathing and knew that she had fallen asleep, but his hands did not stop. After about ten minutes, he was sure that she was asleep, then he carefully turned her over and let her sleep comfortably on the pillow.

Su Taotao wrinkled her nose immediately when she touched the pillow, reached out to her side, touched Fu Zhengtu's arm, turned over and hugged him, one foot directly crossed over Fu Zhengtu's body, hugged Fu Zhengtu tightly like a koala hugging a tree, and muttered: "Sleep..."

Under the moonlight, Su Taotao's white jade-like feet were hooked around his legs, and her white toes were slightly curled up, more crystal clear than the white pieces on the chessboard.

Fu Zhengtu had never paid attention to lesbians before, but he knew that not every lesbian was like his wife, with every part of her body as delicate as a work of art carefully carved by God, and everything was just right.

Zhou Linglan said that she deliberately played ugly to avoid a lot of troubles, but she would indeed attract a lot of troubles. She must have suffered a lot of grievances in the past three years of being ignored.

Fu Zhengtu held her and gently waved a cattail leaf fan, trying to recall what she looked like when he first met her, but he could not remember it vaguely. Maybe he was too young and hot-tempered at that time, and did not know how to appreciate her beauty and kindness. He only thought that she was eccentric and clingy. Even if he married her, he did not really take

her to heart. This time when he came back, everyone had changed, and he was really blind. No matter what, he decided to treat her well in the future.

In fact, Zhou Linglan said when she just got married, if she had not been rushed to the countryside, how could she, a golden phoenix from a big city, end up in a farmer's home like theirs? It is right to love her more.

Fu Zhengtu thought about how she was coquettish and pretentious when she was directing him to work today, and he unconsciously stroked Su Taotao's arm. She was a golden phoenix, tender and coquettish everywhere.

How could Fu Zhengtu know that his wife had changed her heart? If she was still the same "Su Taotao" as before, he probably wouldn't take it to heart.

Fu Zhengtu didn't know when he fell asleep. His mind was in a mess all night. Su Taotao had been messing around in his mind all night.

When he woke up, she was still hanging on him like an octopus.

Su Taotao also woke up, not realizing that she was hanging on him. She turned over, rubbed her eyes, and asked, "What time is it?"

Fu Zhengtu took the watch and looked at it, "Six o'clock."

Su Taotao rubbed her face against the pillow, "What time do we leave?"

Fu Zhengtu didn't sleep well, and stretched out his hand to pinch his temple, which was very painful. "If you are not going to G City, you don't have to leave so early. The train is at 10 o'clock in the evening. If you want to stay in the city, you can leave after breakfast. If we don't stop, we'll set off after lunch."

Su Taotao sat up and stretched: "I'll go prepare some dry food, and ask the children for their opinions when they get up."

After spending these few days together, Fu Zhengtu found that Su Taotao advocated democracy and implemented it. Whether it was Fu Yuanhang or Chenchen, she always put them on an equal footing, never using her adult status to oppress them, and only made decisions after asking for their opinions in advance.

But she didn't spoil them, and generally let them do things within their ability.

Chenchen was so young, Su Taotao would let him do things independently, such as washing his face, putting on his shoes, and packing his schoolbag.

Chenchen must be very happy to have such a mother.

Chenchen was indeed very happy. He was not angry with his uncle even though he was dug out of bed early in the morning.

Usually, a child of Chenchen's age would forget what you told him last night after a good night's sleep.

But Chenchen would not. He remembered clearly that he was going on a long trip with his parents and uncle today. As soon as he got up, he put on the new clothes made by his grandmother and carried the small schoolbag made by his grandmother.

Zhou Linglan still did not go to work today. She waited for her youngest son and eldest grandson to get up early in the morning. When she and Su Taotao were making mugwort cakes in the kitchen, she was still multitasking. From time to time, she ran to their door to listen and see if they had gotten up.

Su Taotao pinched a piece of mugwort and put it in the banana leaf, then said with a smile: "Mom, if you really don't want to leave, just come with us."

Zhou Linglan shook her head: "It's not the right time yet, let's talk about it later."

Su Taotao didn't force her, and the first pot of steamed mugwort rice cakes were almost ready to be served.

The mugwort at this time was not as tender as in spring. Zhou Linglan went to pick it early in the morning in the dew, and only used a little bit on the tip, which was still very tender. After blanching it in water, it was not bitter at all. Su Taotao left a plate of it to mix cold and eat with porridge later.

Su Taotao made two flavors of mugwort rice cakes, one with peanut sesame candy filling that the children liked, and the children all liked the sweet taste, and the other with preserved vegetables and minced meat filling, which Su Taotao liked the salty taste.

In fact, mugwort glutinous rice cakes are not as durable as pancakes. Generally, when traveling in a hurry, people like to make pancakes, but mugwort glutinous rice cakes are more delicious than pancakes, and they don’t need to be eaten with vegetables. It’s not a problem to take them on the train for a meal or half a meal.

Zhou Linglan also boiled all the eggs in the house, more than 20 eggs in total, and it was enough to take these two kinds of dry food on the road for emergency use.

When the first pot of mugwort glutinous rice cakes came out of the pot, Zhou Linglan also squatted at the door of the room and saw the sleepy Chenchen. She hugged the little guy, touched his head, and kissed his face. Chenchen was confused by her and hid back with his nose wrinkled.

Fu Yuanhang came back from washing up, and Su Taotao gave him six mugwort cakes, three each of salty and sweet, and asked him to go and say goodbye to Cao Guohua.

When all the mugwort cakes came out of the pot, Fu Zhengtu had already put all the big items in the car, and took a shower and changed clothes.

This man loves cleanliness too much, but he is not a mysophobia type, he just pays attention to personal hygiene.

While having breakfast, Su Taotao asked, "I heard from Chef Xu that there is a zoo in the city. Do Xiaohang and Chenchen want to go to the zoo? If you want to go, let's go after breakfast."

Shopping malls, supply and marketing cooperatives, etc., all look the same to Su Taotao, they are just places to sell things, but zoos are much more interesting.

The farthest place the two children have been is the county town, so naturally they don't know what a zoo is.

After Su Taotao explained it to them, they all said they wanted to go.

So they unanimously decided to set off after breakfast and go to the zoo first.

After dinner, Fu Zhengtu went to the brigade to get a certificate first, and Su Taotao began to check for omissions.

Zhou Linglan called Fu Yuanhang into the room, and it was unknown what she said to him. When they came out, both of them had red eyes.

Zhou Linglan thought she could hold back her tears, but when the car started and she saw Su Taotao leading the two children to wave goodbye to her, her tears still flowed.

She cried at the door of her house, while Fu Yuanhang and Chenchen cried in the car.

Fu Yuanhang's eyes were red, and he lowered his head to hold back his tears.

Chenchen was precocious and could tell the difference between this waving goodbye and the usual waving goodbye when he went to the county town and came back. He probably knew that he would not be able to see his grandmother for a long time, so he cried and called for his grandmother.

It was the first time that Su Taotao saw the little guy crying so miserably. She was so sad that she wanted to ask Fu Zhengtu to stop the car and go back to pick up Zhou Linglan several times.

In fact, Su Taotao vaguely knew why Zhou Linglan was unwilling to leave. At least she would not leave here in the next few years. The reason she said openly was certainly one of them, but Zhou Linglan could not express the deeper reason.

Even if Su Taotao knew, she did not dare to say it or ask.

Even for Su Taotao herself, it was difficult to get rid of the shackles imposed on women in this era, and she must follow the survival rules of this era.

In short, her position is that it is natural for parents to raise their own children, and they have no obligation to revolve around their grandchildren. Unless she is willing and feels happy, she hopes that her parents have their own space and time to live the life they want.

Raising Chen Chen is her and Fu Zhengtu's responsibility, not Zhou Linglan's.

Su Taotao let the child lie on her chest and stroked his back:

"Chenchen, don't cry. We can come back to see grandma during the Chinese New Year. Look, dad, mom, and uncle are all with Chenchen. Chenchen must be happy, and grandma will be happy."

Su Taotao pointed to the scenery outside the window to divert Chenchen's attention, and the little boy gradually calmed down.

The car had driven far away. Su Taotao turned around and Zhou Linglan was still standing in front of the yard gate, following their car and waving.

What Zhou Linglan couldn't see was that Cao Guohua was standing silently at the corner of the alley behind her, his eyes following her...

Goodbye, Xiaoshan Village. Goodbye

, Qinglian Commune.