Chapter 115 Chapter 115 1st update

After the news that Shen Moer and Fu Mingze were admitted to Capital University spread, the old lady with the highest score among the Shen family clan members personally went to the home of the seventh Shen.

The situation has changed in the past two years. Originally, no one dared to burn paper during the Qingming Festival and Zhongyuan Festival. Last year, some people started to burn paper secretly. This year, almost every household went to the mountains during the Qingming Festival.

Old lady Shen had been thinking in her heart that their Shen family had produced a capable person. First, he became the director of a state-owned factory, and now both husband and wife were admitted to the highest institution of learning. Before, they could make such a big fuss just in the commune. If they went to the capital, wouldn’t they be free to do whatever they wanted?

For such a big event, shouldn't we inform our ancestors and hold a big banquet to celebrate?

Shen and Zhou are both big surnames in Yangliu Brigade. Originally, those with the surname Shen were always suppressed by those with the surname Zhou. There were more people with the surname Zhou among the cadres of the brigade. But since the rise of Shen Laoqi's family, those with the surname Shen have straightened their backs a lot in the village.

Old Lady Shen leaned on a cane and looked at Shen Shaoyuan eagerly. Shen Shaoyuan sucked Xiao Liangliang in his arms without raising his eyelids and said, "Forget about informing the ancestors. We, father and daughter, are not important figures in the old Shen family. It's okay to have a banquet to celebrate. I will arrange this later. You all can come then."

Old Lady Shen's face turned red. In the past, the old Shen family treated the seventh son badly. The two big partners cheated the seventh son of the family out of his house. When the seventh son got married, he asked for relatives, but they thought it was a matter between brothers. If they could not interfere, they would not interfere. After all, the seventh son had no problem.

Now that he has become powerful, they are shamelessly sticking to him. It's no wonder that he would sneer and ridicule him.

Old Lady Shen was silent for a few seconds and said, "That's fine. Just tell them and I'll ask them to come and help you with cooking, washing vegetables and serving dishes."

Shen Shaoyuan nodded, "Okay."

He was not unhappy about having free labor. Besides, these people had never helped Old Seven Shen, but they had never bullied him either. Shen Shaoyuan did not have the idea of ​​breaking off contact with them.

Old Lady Shen breathed a sigh of relief and went home on crutches.

"Your parents went to the mountains to play, leaving us two at home. Tell me, if it weren't for your grandfather to accompany you, you would have been alone and cried to death. So you have to thank your grandfather. Hey, little guy, you look smart. If your uncle and grandfather saw you, he would definitely like you. Who knows, he would give you a lot of good things, what a pity... But it doesn't matter, your grandfather will leave some good things for you in the future."

Shen Shaoyuan was bored and kept chattering with the little kid with his eyes wide open. The little kid looked at him, occasionally showing a toothless smile and spitting out a few mouthfuls of saliva in response.

"What good things are you thinking? Do you want those wicked guys to leave good things for our little Liangliang?" Shen Yinyin came in from outside, teased the little kid first, and then said, "I will buy things for you later. When our little Liangliang gets married in the future, I will buy you a bracelet!"

Shen Shaoyuan's expression did not change. He looked up at Shen Yinyin and asked, "Why did you come here today?"

Shen Yinyin lifted the sack in her hand: "Our village has slaughtered the New Year pigs. We raised a lot of pigs this year, so the brigade distributed them and allowed everyone to buy from the brigade. I thought your family might be holding a banquet, so I bought some extra and sent them to you."

Shen Shaoyuan laughed immediately: "You are so thoughtful, sister. I was just thinking about where to get some meat."

He thought for a moment and said simply: "It's better to hold the banquet tomorrow than to wait for another day. Set up a few more tables, and ask your brother-in-law, Zhengyang and Zhenghui to come over." Shen Yinyin's face suddenly turned black: "You think one thing after another."

She lowered her voice: "Don't you want someone to help calculate a good day?"

Shen Shaoyuan smiled and said: "I observed the sky at night and counted with my fingers. I think tomorrow is a good day."

Shen Yinyin: "..."

couldn't help but complain: "You are really annoying. I finally rushed to the mountain road to give you a piece of meat. I have to send it here, and now I have to hurry back along the mountain road to call for help, and then I have to hurry down the mountain road early tomorrow morning. You are really my dear brother."

After a lot of chatter, she smiled at Xiao Liangliang, who was staring at something with big eyes like black grapes: "Liangliang, be good, your aunt will come back to see you early tomorrow morning!" She

put the things in the sack into the stove in a hurry, and left in a hurry.

Shen Shaoyuan looked at her figure walking away and smiled.

Shen Moer and Fu Mingze had nothing to do, so they went up the mountain to dig winter bamboo shoots and pick mushrooms. Without Wang Qiutong and Zheng Jiamin, the two lively treasures, there were Chen Yu and Zhou Zhaodi, who were also chattering all the way.

Chen Yu insisted on dragging Shen Moer to look for wild game: "Digging bamboo shoots and picking mushrooms will not show your ability. Since we have entered a treasure mountain, how can we return empty-handed? We must get some meat back today."

Shen Moer: "..."

It can be seen that this child is really greedy for meat.

However, it is not known whether they are unlucky or the weather is too cold. Pheasants, rabbits and other animals have all hidden. They wandered around the mountain and did not catch any wild game. However, they did pick a small basket of wild persimmons.

In the middle, they went to dig some bamboo shoots and pick some mushrooms. The four of them could only go down the mountain with regret.

As a result, when they returned to the Shen family courtyard, Shen Shaoyuan told them that Shen Yinyin had brought the meat, and he was going to have a banquet tomorrow to celebrate Shen Moer and Fu Mingze's admission to university.

Chen Yu immediately jumped up with joy: "Ahhh, that's great, there's meat to eat!"

Shen Moer twitched her lips. No wonder the old saying always goes that a young boy eats his father out. His parents are both able to make money and work, and Aunt Chen is also able to provide food. Even so, this kid looks like he's starving all day long.

In the countryside, as long as there is meat and food for a banquet, it's fine. Anyway, there are vegetable plots and plenty of people to work.

Chen Yu volunteered to take on the task of notifying the families who had contact with the Shen family, while Fu Mingze pushed his bicycle to the commune to notify others.

The next day, a large group of people came to the Shen family's courtyard early in the morning. Everyone had something in their hands, such as salted fish and bacon, radish and green vegetables, and whatever they had. After they arrived, they didn't need to be called. They rolled up their sleeves and started to help.

Shen Yinyin took a large piece of meat, Fu Mingze asked Bao Ge to help him get a basket of fish, and Liu Guizhi helped to get a bag of pig offal. Other miscellaneous things were added, and there were also meat and vegetables that everyone in the village politely stuffed in. Even if there were more than ten tables of dishes, they were finally cooked very decently.

This time, not to mention the three brothers of the old Shen family, even the eldest aunt Shen Xianghong's family came shamelessly, and each family gave three red envelopes, one for Shen Moer, one for Fu Mingze, and one for the little kid Liangliang.

Shen Shaoyuan didn't say he wouldn't accept them. These families had troubled Shen Laoqi and his daughter for so long, so these red envelopes were just for Shen Laoqi and his daughter.

Shen Lingling also brought her son Zhang Pengpeng. During the meal, Zhang Pengpeng was holding the meat plate and refused to put it down. He was hit twice by the big-headed grandson of Aunt Cai, who was sitting at the same table. He started crying on the spot.

Shen Lingling managed to coax the child and wanted to argue with Aunt Cai's daughter-in-law. As a result, she was speechless when she said, "How dare you, a teacher, teach your son like this?"

Someone also deliberately asked, "Didn't you say that your son Zhang Junliang was admitted to the university? Did you receive the admission letter?"

The admission letter from the capital, which is so far away, has been delivered. What school's admission letter is still on the way?

Shen Lingling blushed when she was asked this question. She already knew that Zhang Junliang didn't do very well in the exam. With his grades, it was impossible for him to be admitted to the university.

Shen Lingling took Zhang Pengpeng away without eating much.

After walking away with the unwilling Zhang Pengpeng, Shen Lingling looked back. Because there were too many tables, there was no room in the yard, so the tables were set up on the village road outside the yard. People were moving around and laughing.

Shen Lingling was in a trance for a moment. When did it start? That family was living better and better, even to a level that she could no longer reach?

She couldn't even remember clearly how Shen Moli looked skinny because she didn't eat enough.

She couldn't even believe that someone like Shen Moli had lived like that.

How was it possible?

A few days after the banquet, Fu Mingze suddenly received a telegram: Grandfather is ill, come back soon.

After his parents were rehabilitated and returned to the capital, his grandparents who lived far away in the frontier also returned to the capital. His mother mentioned in her last letter that the old man was not very adaptable to the climate in the frontier, and his health had deteriorated a lot in recent years. He had been recuperating since returning to the capital.

Fu Mingze had recently asked his brother Bao to help him collect some dendrobiums to bring back to the capital after the Chinese New Year. But before the Chinese New Year came, the telegram from home arrived first.

"Originally, I should have gone back with you. We don't know the seriousness of grandpa's illness. But now if you wait for us, we can't leave for the time being and we will be delayed. I think you should go back alone first. We should leave tomorrow morning. It will be the third day if we are on the road for two days."

Shen Moer leaned against the head of the bed and patted the little girl gently. Seeing her half-closed eyes, she said softly, "Go to sleep", and then continued, "Why don't we just go back after a year as planned? Then we will have Liu Yinshuang and Zhou Pingan with us, so there will be no problem."

Zhou Pingan has been learning painting from Shen Shaoyuan in the past few years. He first worked as an apprentice in a kiln factory, then a temporary worker. Later, the kiln factory was going to make him a regular employee, but he turned around and ran to teach painting in the commune middle school.

Then not long ago, when he heard that Shen Shaoyuan was going to the capital, the boy submitted his resignation to the commune middle school, saying that he would stop teaching after this semester and that he would follow his master to the capital.

Zhou Xingwang and Liu Guizhi were both honest people, but Liu Guizhi was almost angry to death when she gave birth to a son who was so unruly. The boy even said that he would go to the capital after his parents retired.

Liu Guizhi was so angry that she blurted out, "Why are you going to the capital? Are you begging for food?"

The boy raised his chin and said, "I will support you."

Liu Guizhi was angry and amused. He was asked to support them, but it was a question whether he could support himself!

But she had no choice but to let her only son go to the capital, just to broaden his horizons.

Liu Guizhi also warned Shen Moer behind her back, asking her to buy a ticket for her son if he couldn't make it in the capital.

How many educated youth returned to the city these days? I heard that they couldn't find a job and had to become vagrants. What could he do when he could only draw?

When Fu Mingze heard that Shen Moer asked him to go back to the capital alone, he couldn't help but frowned slightly and said hesitantly, "The capital is a long way away, and you have children with you. I'm worried if I don't go with you."

Shen Moer said, "I've already agreed with Feng Wei that we will pay for the gas ourselves and borrow the factory's car to take us to the provincial capital. After arriving in the provincial capital, we will all get on the train, and we will be in the capital when we get off the train. It won't be too much trouble."

"If I go back with you before the New Year, the factory is very busy right now, it's hard to borrow a car, and we haven't prepared anything, and we probably won't be able to buy a sleeper ticket. I'll be fine, but Xiao Liangliang can't stand it."

Fu Mingze knew that Shen Moer was telling the truth, but he felt uneasy thinking about letting his wife and daughter travel a long distance to the capital after the New Year.

Shen Moer turned her head to look at him, and seeing his sad face, she couldn't help laughing: "I've been to Guangzhou so many times, you don't have to worry about me on the train. Besides, we have Dad. How can ordinary people let our Dad suffer? And there is Liu Yinshuang, she doesn't let others suffer. Plus Zhou Ping'an is such a big guy, are you still afraid that we adults can't take care of a little Liangliang?"

She deliberately glanced at him: "You, you only have your daughter in your heart. . " Fu Mingze

lowered his eyes

and glanced at her: "You have no conscience." Shen Moer smiled, walked up to him, stared at his deep dark eyes for a few seconds, and took the initiative to kiss him: "So, Fu Zhiqing only has me in his heart?"

Fu Mingze held her head and deepened the kiss. After a long time, he said in a calm voice: "Yes, only you."

Almost as soon as the words fell, the little bean who was left out suddenly cried, crying, looking particularly sad and aggrieved.

Shen Moer laughed: "Your daughter has an opinion."

Fu Mingze touched her cheek and smiled.

Fu Mingze went out early the next morning. Two days later, Fu Mingze, carrying large and small bags, set foot on the land of the capital again after more than seven years.

After leaving the train station, Fu Mingze got on the bus to the hospital directly.

In the dead of winter, the sky outside the window was a little gloomy and dark, just like Fu Mingze's mood at the moment.

The streets and scenery of the capital seemed to have not changed much, but everywhere revealed a kind of strangeness that had not been seen for many years.

Fu Mingze was a little absent-minded. He suddenly thought of his grandfather's old age and had endured so many years in the frontier. He didn't know how serious his illness was this time. He also thought of his wife at home. He didn't know what she was doing. Did Xiao Liangliang notice that her father was not at home... Well, the daughter would definitely not notice.

Unknowingly, they arrived at the hospital stop. Fu Mingze got off the bus and walked to the hospital with his bag.

After all, it was almost the New Year, and there were not many people in the hospital. Fu Mingze went directly to the inpatient department. As soon as he entered the door, he heard someone calling uncertainly: "Mingze?"

Fu Mingze looked in the direction of the voice and saw Yin Xiuwen standing not far away, looking at him in surprise.

After not seeing his mother for many years, although she was still well-dressed, there were many white hairs on her temples that could not be ignored, her skin seemed to be darker, and there were fine lines at the corners of her eyes.

Fu Mingze looked at his mother and nodded: "Mom, I'm back."

Yin Xiuwen's eyes suddenly turned red. She turned her head and wiped her eyes, then hurried to Fu Mingze and reached out to take the bag in his hand: "Why don't you send a telegram first so that your dad can pick you up with all these bags."

Fu Mingze avoided the question: "I'll do it myself."

Then he immediately asked: "How is Grandpa?"