◎Third update◎
That day, Shanshan walked around the loquat tree and looked at it many times. The tree was slender with sparse green leaves. She pulled her grandmother, father, mother, aunt, and uncle to look at the tree one by one. They touched the trunk and the leaves, but were afraid of knocking the tree down, so they hurriedly withdrew their hands.
However, Shanshan was only a little dissatisfied. Xiaoshu was only three months old, how could he be taller than herself when she was three years old? She stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck hard. Oh, forget it, she still lost.
"Mom, why is Xiaoshu taller than me when he is only three months old?"
Shanshan feels that she is very short.
"If it drinks a lot of water, it will eat a lot." Liang Baozhen fooled the girl, "You water it every day, so it absorbs a lot of nutrients."
"If I eat more, can I grow taller?"
"Yes, it can grow very tall, taller than a small tree."
Shanshan looked at Xiaoshu and she also wanted to eat more!
Now Shanshan's daily life is to eat, sleep and look after the sapling. She also has to water the sapling many times a day and often squats beside the sapling and watches it, as if she could get into it.
Cheng Caili brought Chuchu over, and Shanshan also brought Chuchu to look together. The two little radishes squatted on the ground and looked at the small tree together.
Shanshan compares her height with Xiaoshu every day. She tries hard to eat and drink milk in order to surpass Xiaoshu's height.
Liang Baozhen watched her daughter caring about the loquat tree her father had secretly transplanted every day, and couldn't help but say to Xu Shengjie, "Look at Shanshan, she runs over there every day."
"Do you want to give her another one?" Xu Shengjie had never thought that his daughter loved planting trees so much. Every day when she woke up, she thought about going to see the loquat tree, and she was particularly excited and said that she would treat everyone to loquats.
It takes many years for such a small tree to bear loquats.
"No, just give her this one to play with for a bit. I'm worried she won't be able to handle more."
Liang Baozhen has her own things to do, but luckily Shanshan now has her own "career" and doesn't bother her mother all day long.
As graduation was approaching, Liang Baozhen had been assigned to a job at a TV station through the help of her senior because of her internship experience at the TV station last year.
These days she is also preparing to take a look at the professional knowledge of radio broadcasting. When she has free time at home, she practices tongue twisters and reads texts aloud. She also holds the radio and follows the announcers to learn pronunciation and intonation, so that she can report the news in a clear and melodious voice.
"Hello everyone..."
The courtyard was large, and no neighbors would know she was practicing at home. Liang Baozhen gradually relaxed and followed the others in practicing every day, gradually becoming more proficient.
Sometimes Zhou Yun was her listener, lying on a recliner in the sun listening to her grandson's wife's broadcast; sometimes Xu Shengjie would come back after work to listen, but this man was too much and even required specific requests.
He pointed to a poem "To the Oak Tree" and asked his daughter-in-law to recite it, but Liang Baozhen rolled her eyes at him.
"I don't like on-demand streaming here."
"So what do you miss?"
"It's good for you to listen to some." Liang Baozhen took him to practice the latest local life news, and heard another announcer reporting on the pig farming industry on the radio.
Xu Shengjie has been busy with his clothing business recently. He goes out early and comes back late every day. After returning home, he finds it pleasing to listen to Baozhen recite a few sentences.
He loved to hold Shanshan in his arms and listen to it together, but Shanshan always couldn't help wanting to learn from her mother, and she kept chattering.
Liang Baozhen: “Yesterday”
Shanshan: “Yesterday…”
After she finished speaking, Shanshan suddenly realized that she had disturbed her mother, and she quickly covered her mouth with both hands and blinked at her mother.
Liang Baozhen was used to being suddenly interrupted by the little girl, so she gradually responded calmly and continued reporting.
Shanshan would always clap her hands for her mother until her little hands turned red.
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In October, Zhou Yun celebrated his 70th birthday.
Xu Shengjie is the head of the family and is preparing a banquet for his grandmother at a state-owned hotel to celebrate properly.
Zhou Yun likes the hustle and bustle, especially when he sees that all the children are well, he feels at ease. So he asked Xu Shengjie to notify his eldest daughter and her family in the neighboring city to come over.
Zhou Yun's eldest daughter, Xu Mingxia, married to a neighboring city in her early years. She only came back ten years ago and has never had time to come back since then. She has only sent two or three letters to her mother. Zhou Yun asked Xu Shengya to read the letters while he listened beside her.
Zhou Yun was happy that he could take this opportunity to meet the young lady.
"Grandma, my aunt said she will come over next week." Xu Shengjie raised his voice and said to his grandmother. Zhou Yun's ears were getting worse and worse, so he had to raise his voice.
Xu Shengjie's impression of his aunt is very vague. He joined the army at the age of fifteen, and later his aunt married and moved far away. The two have not seen each other for more than ten years.
"Great!" Zhou Yun's face was wrinkled with smile. He could meet the eldest lady.
Xu Mingxia's family of four arrived at the courtyard on a sunny afternoon. The man Xu Mingxia married, Song Huazhang, was a fifth-level worker in a tractor factory in the neighboring city. He had very good conditions. They had two sons and two daughters over the years. The eldest and the second were a few years older than Xu Shengjie, and the third and fourth were younger, only one year older than Xu Shengwei and Xu Shengya. This time, the third and fourth children came with Xu Mingxia and her husband. One was still in school, and the other was an apprentice in a tractor factory. The eldest and second children had already started families and careers, so they could not come.
The family wrote a letter of introduction and took a day-long train ride to the destination. When Zhou Yun saw the girl who was going to marry far away, he almost cried.
"Mom!" Xu Mingxia looks like her mother, and resembles Zhou Yun when she was young. Now that she is older, she has gradually become more kind.
"Mingxia has grown up." Zhou Yun remembered that his daughter was still a skinny girl when she got married, but now she is in her forties and has become much more plump.
Xu Mingxia smiled innocently, "This shows that life is pretty good."
Her husband, Song Huazhang, also had a simple and honest appearance, with a square face, ordinary features, and was taciturn. He was just a technician. The couple brought their two children to call for help.
The third brother Song Hongjun and the fourth brother Song Hongxue came to such a large courtyard for the first time. Their eyes moved around with curiosity flashing in their eyes.
"Shanshan, come and call them. This is your aunt, uncle, and cousin."
Shanshan was led out by her mother to call people one by one. Today was her great-grandmother's 70th birthday. Her mother dressed her up as a little red dumpling, exuding a festive atmosphere.
Shanshan didn't know them and it was the first time she saw them, so she obediently called them.
The family sat and talked in the courtyard. Zhou Yun and the eldest daughter had not seen each other for many years. After Xu Mingxia got married, she was busy with her own family, taking care of family matters, giving birth to and raising children, and later became a grandmother. She had never had time to come back. The only time Zhou Yun came back to Beijing with her husband was ten years ago when she was sixty years old.
The mother and daughter are close blood relatives, and they don't feel strange even though they haven't seen each other for many years. Zhou Yun talked to the daughter and looked at her husband and children, and felt that the daughter's life was worth it.
"I see Xiaojie is really in a bad shape this time. He was still a teenager when I last saw him, and he has grown so tall all of a sudden."
Zhou Yun nodded, "Yes, you and Xiaojie haven't seen each other for many years. The child has grown up and changed a lot."
"The same goes for Xiaowei and Xiaoya. I heard that Xiaowei is on the table tennis team. That sounds amazing. Xiaoya is also a college student at Peking University! It's incredible! Now Xiaojie has also worked hard to buy such a big courtyard house. He also has a wife and children. Mom, you brought the three of them out."
"Bring them out~" Zhou Yun smiled, feeling happy. The three grandchildren were all very capable and had grown up. "I will continue to take care of them. I will raise our Shanshan. When Xiaowei and Xiaoya have their own children, I will continue to take care of them."
Xu Mingxia knew that her mother liked children and that there was a lot of noise, so she called the third and fourth children over to talk to their grandmother, and the whole family lived in harmony.
Song Chunhua and Liang Zhigao took Baoling and put down their work to go into the city to celebrate their in-laws' birthday. Liang Baoying and Liang Baojun also celebrated their birthday. The courtyard was very lively and bustling that day.
Nearly twenty people were seated at three tables in the state-owned hotel. There were eight delicious dishes and eight vegetarian dishes on the table, all of which were good omens. The last plate of longevity peaches was even more festive.
Shanshan picked up a longevity peach for her great-grandmother and auspicious words flowed out of her mouth like they were free.
"I wish my grandmother good fortune and a long life."
Zhou Yun's smile was all over his face as he looked at everyone lovingly and bit into the longevity peach, which tasted so sweet!
After lunch, everyone returned to the courtyard. Liang Zhigao and Song Chunhua would be staying in the courtyard today as they would be returning to the city tomorrow. Xu Mingxia's family rarely came, so they would stay for a week before leaving.
"Fortunately you have many houses, otherwise we wouldn't have enough room." It was Song Chunhua's first time living in the city, so she was naturally a little surprised.
This courtyard looks so grand, who wouldn't be envious? But everyone has their own destiny, and her house in the village is not bad either.
"Yeah, there are a lot of advantages to having more houses." Liang Baozhen and her elder sister Shu Ping tidied up their parents' house together, "You and Dad can live there peacefully."
Song Chunhua naturally nodded in agreement.
In the evening, Shanshan, a camera enthusiast, asked to take a picture of her great-grandmother because she was dressed so beautifully today. She was wearing a crimson coat that Xu Shengjie had just bought for her this month. Her gray hair was combed back, and she looked kind-hearted.
"Brother, why don't we take a family photo?" Xu Shengya thought this was a good idea, and while the whole family was together, they took a photo as a souvenir.
Xu Shengjie nodded, went into the house, took out the camera from the cabinet, and asked the whole family to stand in a row.
The first photo shows Zhou Yun sitting in the middle, with the Xu family members next to him.
The second photo was taken of the Liang family, with Liang Zhigao and Song Chunhua sitting in the middle, and the younger generations standing on both sides.
The only thing in common between the two photos is that Shanshan is always held in the middle, smiling the sweetest, with crescents climbing up her eyelids, like a sweet peach.
There were plenty of film rolls, and Xu Shengjie took some random photos for other people. Shanshan was the most excited, as she really loved taking photos.
There were so many people at home today. She was the youngest baby in the family. She was teased and praised by everyone. At the end of the day, Shanshan was very busy. Her little mouth was dry, so she held the enamel cup and drank a cup of water.
Shanshan was so tired after just performing the counting from one to ten for her great aunt's family and the next moment she was taking her grandparents to look after her small tree.
After taking the photos, Xu Shengjie put the camera on the table, ready to take it to the photo studio tomorrow to pay for the photos to be developed. He was also busy today as he had to entertain guests.
When Shanshan saw her father leave, she moved a small stool and stepped on it to reach the camera.
It will take several days to get the photos I took today, but Shanshan can’t wait. Is it difficult to develop the photos?
She walked out holding the dark camera, came to the sink, stepped on a small stool to twist the faucet, and saw the cool water flowing out, she put the camera under the faucet...
"Shanshan!" When Xu Shengwei saw his little niece's amazing thing, he stepped forward and carried her away.
If it was a little more wrong, the camera would be in trouble!
"What are you doing?"
Shanshan thought the uncle was doing something bad. She held up the camera to show him, thinking the uncle was so stupid. "I want to develop the photos~"
The author has something to say:
Shanshan: Uncle, you are so stupid. I am developing photos~⊙▽⊙
My dears, April is coming to an end, happy May Day, and I hope you are all healthy and happy ^O^ Leave a message in this chapter to get a red envelope, which will be sent out at this time tomorrow.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: 1 bottle of Qianmo Hongchen;
Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
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