See my mother again
After seeing everyone off, it was almost three o'clock.
Hu Yufeng then asked Qin Wenli to use a machete to chop off the large stool along with its hind legs, and also to shave off half a rack of ribs. Wrap the meat in plastic and put it in a snakeskin bag.
Seeing that Qin Xiaoqin had packed everything, Qin Wenli pushed the meat and took the two of them to the roadside to wait for a car.
At home, Hu Yufeng asked Qin Shengtian to continue dividing the meat: her own mother's family, Yang Xiu's mother's family, Qin Wenli's biological parents' family, and the families of his aunts, uncles, and cousins. With just one point like that, a pig is basically gone.
When Qin Wenli returned home, he saw Hu Yufeng pointing at the other hind leg and three cuts of meat and saying, "You and Xiu'er go to the plateau tomorrow and bring the child with you."
Seeing Qin Wenli was about to speak, Hu Yufeng continued, "First, you haven't been back for half a year. While the pork is coming down, send it back for your brothers to taste. Let the uncles and aunts meet the two children. Second, I want you two to go to the market to see how other people do business. If there are any new varieties, we can buy them back and try them..."
Seeing his mother mentioned business, Qin Wenli did not refuse.
In the evening, several people were busy packing and packing.
Early the next morning, Qin Wenli's family of four, along with Hu Yufeng and Xizi, a total of six people, set out with large and small bags.
"Where are you going, carrying so many bags?" Chen Xiu Lian asked curiously when she saw it.
"Going back to my mother's home..." Hu Yufeng replied with a smile.
A cold wind blew in from Kongxiankou, and everyone was shivering even though they were wrapped like bears.
"Dad, let's make a fire and roast them?" Qin Yu said with anticipation.
"OK!"
The two children immediately cheered and started picking up firewood in the trench. Seeing this, Xizi put down his things and went over.
The three of them carefully piled up the branches and leaves they had picked up, and Qin Wenli squatted down, blocking the wind with one hand and lighting a fire with the other.
Waves of white smoke rose with the cold wind and flames lit up.
"Mom, put the food on the ground and come over to roast it." Qin Wenli said.
Hu Yufeng put down their things and Yang Xiu stretched out their hands to light the fire. When the two children and Xizi saw the fire, they shouted and went to collect firewood.
The flickering firelight emitted a faint warmth at the winter intersection, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law couldn't help but move closer.
After a while, another young couple came to the intersection.
The two young men saw the fire and came over to greet him: "Auntie, are you going out?"
"It's Shuanzi, you guys are going out too?"
"I slaughtered a pig yesterday, and I'm going to send some pork to my father-in-law's house..."
"Where is your father-in-law from?"
The four of them chatted while roasting the fire.
"Ding, ding," the bus whistle sounded somewhere on the hillside. Everyone looked up to the west and then to the east.
Two minutes later, a red bus slowly drove down the eastern slope. Qin Wenli hurriedly said, "Mom, it's going to Sancha..."
Qin Wenli waved at the car, and Hu Yufeng quickly stood up to pick up her things, and at the same time called Xizi, who was addicted to picking up firewood:
"Xizi... the car is here, come back quickly..."
Xizi ran over with a smile and helped Hu Yufeng carry the things.
The shuttle bus slowly stopped in front of everyone. The car door opened, Qin Wenli helped Hu Yufeng up first, and then helped Xizi put the things into the car. He paid the fare, the door closed, and the bus started slowly.
"Dad, how long will our car take?"
Qin Yu and Qin Shu also ran back and looked up at their father.
"It's almost done. Another ten minutes or so." Seeing that the time was almost up, Qin Wenli covered the fire with snow.
It was said to take about ten minutes, and the bus really arrived on time.
Ren Zhuzi and his wife were also heading in this direction, and the six of them lined up and got on the bus and sat down. Qin Yu looked at the tall poplar trees flashing by outside the window as the car slowly drove away.
The two children have basically never taken the shuttle bus, so they can't help but be curious at this moment.
Qin Shu was fine. He just sat on his mother's lap and looked at the scenery outside the window curiously.
Qin Yu had a hundred thousand questions:
"Dad, does the shuttle bus need to be refueled? Can a bicycle be refueled and run on its own?"
"Dad, what's behind this mountain? Chuanli? What does Chuanli look like?"
"Dad, why is the chimney of this house so tall?"
"dad……"
Qin Wenli was overwhelmed by the strange questions one after another.
Fortunately, after forty minutes, both of them fell asleep in a daze, and Qin Wenli breathed a sigh of relief.
*
"Yu Yu, don't sleep anymore, we're here..." Seeing that they were almost at their destination, Qin Wenli quickly woke up his daughter.
Yang Xiu also patted her son, and the little guy said sleepily: "Mom, I need to pee..."
Yang Xiu hurriedly said: "Hold it for now, we'll be getting off the car soon..."
Qin Wenjun, who had been waiting at the intersection early, saw the bus just stop and Yang Xiu rushed down, holding Qin Shu and running to the side of the road.
He thought Qin Shu was going to vomit, so he quickly ran a few steps and saw Yang Xiu had half of Qin Shu's pants off.
Qin Wenjun stopped, turned around, picked up Qin Yu who was getting off the car and put him on the side of the road, then took the things from Qin Wenli's hand.
"Brother, you've been waiting for a long time, right?" Qin Wenli asked hurriedly when he saw his brother's red nose.
"No, just a few minutes. We have everything at home, why did you take so much..." Qin Wenjun looked at his brother disapprovingly.
"It's just our own pork, not much..." Qin Wenli said with a smile.
"Brother..." Yang Xiu carried Qin Shu, who had just finished peeing, over.
"I rode a tricycle here. I put my belongings and two children in the tricycle pockets, and your sister-in-law took some clothes for me..."
Qin Wenli saw a straw mat and a military coat on the tricycle. Qin Wenli placed the two children on a straw mat and wrapped them in military coats. Qin Wenjun pushed the tricycle and the three of them walked home.
"Are mom and dad all right?"
"It's fine. You called and said you were bringing the kids here. Mom and Dad were so happy. They're looking forward to it..."
Qin Wenli raised the corners of his mouth slightly when he heard that.
*
"Dad, Mom...Yu Yu, Shu Shu, these are grandpa and grandma, call them..." As soon as Qin Wenli entered the yard, he saw two old people standing under the eaves looking at the door.
"Grandpa, grandma..." the two children called out obediently.
"Hey, dear, you are so handsome. I'm glad you're back. Come into the house..."
After some politeness, several people supported the old man into the main room.
There was a stove in the room, and the warm steam made everyone's faces look much softer.
"Xiu'er, Wenli, quickly take the two children to the kang to warm up." Mother Qin greeted her son and daughter-in-law warmly.
"I'll sit by the stove and warm myself, and let Xiu'er and the two children go up to the kang..." Qin Wenli said to his mother.
Mother Qin wanted to give in again, but Qin Wenjun said:
"Do whatever makes you feel comfortable at home. Mom, go to bed and look after your grandchildren. Don't worry about Wenli."
Mother Qin smiled like a flower when she heard this: "Okay, okay, then I won't care about you brothers anymore, I'll go and hold the child..."
Old Man Qin sat on the sofa, watching with a smile, but said nothing.
"Are you Shushu? How old are you? Look at this little face, so rosy, so much like Wenli..." Mother Qin's eyes were so kind that tears could flow out of her eyes.
Yang Xiu glanced at her fair and tender son in her arms, and then at her ruddy-faced husband: Sure enough, in the eyes of her mother-in-law, the children all look like their father.
Qin Yu, who was pulled into the old lady's arms, spoke clearly: "Grandma, Xiaoshu is three and a half years old, and I am six and a half years old."
"Oh, this child speaks so well. Do you still remember your grandma?" The old lady loved her granddaughter no matter how she looked at her.
"Remember, grandma once steamed buns for me..."
Yang Xiu suddenly remembered that four years ago, she came to the hospital for a check-up while pregnant with Qin Shu and left Yu Yu with her mother-in-law.
When she came back, she heard Yuyu say that her grandmother had steamed white flour meat buns for her. The little girl kept thinking about them for a long time after she got home, which made Hu Yufeng scold her.
"Oh, you were only three years old at that time, you still remember it? Grandma will steam some buns for you tomorrow!" The old lady didn't expect that her granddaughter still remembered what happened four years ago, and she was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.
"Wenjun, Wenli, come and serve the food..." Mrs. Qin shouted in the yard.
"Look at your sister-in-law, she was assigned a task as soon as you came back..." Qin Wenjun said with a smile.
Qin Wenli's eyebrows curved when he heard this, and he followed his brother out.
Although Mother Qin seemed to be hugging her granddaughter, Yang Xiu discovered that she was secretly glancing at the two brothers. Seeing the two of them go out together, Qin's mother secretly breathed a sigh of relief and her expression became more relaxed.
Yang Xiu sighed in his heart: How pitiful are the love of parents in the world, it can neither be taken lightly nor too seriously!
She quickly got up from the kang and said, "Dad, I'll go back and help serve the meal. You take care of Shushu..."
Old Man Qin let out a sigh, put down his pipe and moved to the end of the kang.
When Mrs. Qin saw Yang Xiu coming in, she smiled and said, "Xiu'er, you can stay with the children. The two brothers can take care of it..."
"The child's parents are watching him, what else can I do, sister-in-law?"
"Then you serve the soup. The men are clumsy and they almost spill half of it when they scoop out a spoonful!" Mrs. Qin pretended to complain.
Yang Xiu also smiled: "Okay."
Several people quickly brought the meal to the table, and Qin's father and mother also sat over with the child in their arms.
"Niannian and Yueyue are not at home?" Niannian is Qin Wenjun's eldest son and Yueyue is the youngest daughter.
"No, he went to his uncle's house during the holiday. He should be back soon..."
At the dinner table, the old couple saw their little grandson eating by himself skillfully and praised him again. Qin Shu straightened his little body and ate more obediently after being praised.
Mrs. Qin stared at him, unable to move her eyes away: "Oh, at this age, he is at his most obedient. No matter how I look at him, he looks so well behaved. I can't get enough of looking at him..."
Mother Qin said with a smile: "I also said to let the two children stay for two more days, so you can have a good look..."
“That’s a good feeling.”
Everyone at the table ate happily. Qin Wenli and Qin Wenjun went to deliver meat to several other families, while Yang Xiu stayed at home with the two children.
It is said to be Yang Xiuling. The child would never reach Yang Xiu's hands.
The old couple played with the child in various ways and took out their treasured canned snacks for the child to eat.
Qin Shu, no longer shy and awkward as he was when he first arrived, started climbing up and down Old Man Qin, even pulling the old man's beard.
Yang Xiu's eyes widened. But the two children were having so much fun playing that they didn’t even pay attention to their mother’s color.
Mrs. Qin saw this, turned around and pulled Yang Xiu and said, "You are good at sewing. I made a pair of soles for Niannian. Please help me with it..."
Qin Wenjun's eldest son, Qin Nian, is 17 years old this year and is in his third year of high school with mediocre grades. Since there was no hope of getting into university, the couple planned to either go to a junior college or learn a craft.
Mrs. Qin prepares wedding shoes whenever she has time. If you decide to get married just after you turn 20, you won’t be unprepared.
The two sisters-in-law measured with the soles of their shoes and discussed from time to time.
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