Chapter 238 My Own Uncle
Everyone carried the boxes and other items into the house, placed them on the shelves, and then sat down to introduce themselves to each other.
From now on, we'll be relatives, so we'll definitely need to spend more time together and have a good chat.
"Well, in-laws, you must be tired from your journey here. Take a rest first, and we'll go back and tidy up the house."
The wedding is in two days, so the family needs to get everything ready early.
After chatting for a while, Zhang Shuzhen told Wang Chunxiu that they had to go back first.
It was a rare opportunity for the Zhou family to see Zhou Qinglan, so they naturally had some private things to talk about, and it wouldn't be appropriate for the Sheng family to be there.
Another thing is that the Sheng family is really busy. They're having a banquet the day after tomorrow, so they have to start preparing things today. There are also quite a few people coming to give gifts.
"At noon, my in-laws will bring Qinglan's uncles, aunts, uncles, and aunts to our place for lunch. I'll have Xiping come and invite them."
The old house here is where Zhou Qinglan, Wang Lin, and Li Xue live. Zhou Qinglan usually eats at the Sheng family's house, while the two girls don't cook; they go to the canteen.
Here, all we do every day is heat the kang (heated brick bed) and boil water; we don't cook. So, the Zhou family always eats at the new house.
"Okay, okay, then we'll have to trouble you, in-laws." Wang Chunxiu and Zhou Mingyuan understood, of course, that getting married and having a banquet was not just a matter of words; there were many things involved.
It's all for the sake of the two children's marriage, who would complain about this? The couple immediately got up and saw the Sheng family out.
Sheng Liancheng and his wife accompanied Zhang Shouzhi back to the new house, while Sheng Xiping drove the horse-drawn carriage back to the Dajianchang.
The old house is at the westernmost end of the forest farm, and the new house is at the eastern end, which is right across most of the forest farm.
Zhang Shouzhi had visited the area a few years ago and still remembered it. He was particularly pleased to see the Sheng family's new house.
"Wow, not bad, brother-in-law, this house is quite beautiful."
There were many people helping out and giving gifts at the family's wedding, so the dogs were sent to Liu Changde's house to prevent them from barking at people and scaring them.
After entering the courtyard, Zhang Shouzhi looked around at the house and the yard and nodded repeatedly.
"It's great. It's more organized than the house in our hometown, and it's much bigger than the house I live in. I don't even have a yard where I live."
Zhang Shouzhi works at a coal mine and lives in public housing. It's a large coal mine with many workers, so the housing is relatively concentrated and definitely not as spacious as the forest farm.
"Brother, let's go inside. You can take a look at the house and see how it is." Sheng Liancheng chuckled as he ushered his brother-in-law into the house.
Upon entering the house, the cement floor was smooth and shiny, and the cement stove was also particularly neat. Looking at the furnishings in the east and west rooms, everything was clean and tidy. Zhang Shouzhi couldn't help but nod repeatedly.
“It’s great, really great. I think even the third brother’s house in Qingdao isn’t much better than yours.”
Zhang Shouzhi was pleased; he could tell at a glance that his sister and brother-in-law were doing quite well.
He was at ease as long as his sister was doing well.
"Sister, brother-in-law, this is something our parents and siblings asked me to give to you."
"It's a long way, and it's really inconvenient for them to come, so they specifically asked me to bring you eighty yuan."
After Zhang Shouzhi entered the house and sat down, he took out a stack of money from the large bag he was carrying on his back.
"These were asked to be brought to me by your sister-in-law."
My area is just a coal mine, so there's nothing good there. Your sister-in-law's family is in Shenyang, so she specially went to pick out some fabric and bought a blanket and a tea set for Xiping and his wife.
My nephew is getting married, and this is just a small token of our appreciation from his uncle and aunt.
The bag Zhang Shouzhi was carrying was quite large, bulging with contents; it turned out to contain a blanket.
"Brother, it's good that you came. Why did you bring so much stuff?"
You and your second and third brothers send us things every year. Just the other day, my second brother even sent a lot of cotton. This is just for our child's wedding; how could we let you spend so much?
Sheng Liancheng was a connoisseur; he could tell at a glance that the blanket was expensive and the tea set was made of fine porcelain, so it was probably quite pricey as well.
These days, no one is having an easy time.
Although both parents in Zhang Shouzhi's family work, they live in the city and have to buy everything they eat, which is quite expensive.
Life isn't easy back home either. Zhang Shoushan is a farmer, and even though he works hard all year round, he can't earn any extra money.
Needless to say, the two elderly people are quite old and can't do much work. Where do they get the money? They save it from their own diet.
Sheng Liancheng knew all too well how people in his hometown lived; they truly saved every single bite from their mouths.
"What are you saying? So you've been sending things home less often? It's my nephew's wedding, can't we send something?" Zhang Shouzhi didn't like hearing his brother-in-law say these things.
Over the years, Sheng Liancheng has taken good care of the Zhang family.
Every winter, I send back some mountain products such as mushrooms, wood ear fungus, pine nuts, and hazelnuts.
After Sheng Xiping learned to hunt, he would occasionally send a few hides back home.
A few years ago, Sheng Liancheng also bought a coffin for Zhang Shuzhen's grandmother from the forest farm and managed to send it back via less-than-truckload (LTL) freight.
That's the best red pine coffin; everyone in the village and neighborhood would be envious.
Everyone says the Zhang family got their money's worth from their son-in-law; otherwise, who would have ever seen such a fine coffin?
When the old lady of the Zhang family passed away, the village carpenters were incredibly eager to buy her a coffin. They kept asking around, hoping someone could help them buy one, no matter the cost.
How could the Zhang family cause trouble for Sheng Liancheng? They found a way to avoid it.
Sheng Liancheng has always been incredibly kind to the Zhang family. Now that his child is getting married, how could the Zhang family possibly fail him?
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