My aunt wanted my father to give the not-too-shabby old house of the Deng family in the city to his half-brother as a wedding house, and my grandfather's old house in the suburbs to him.
He remembered the old house, which was a mud house and had not been lived in for many years when his grandfather was still alive.
In order not to embarrass his father, he agreed.
I went there on purpose today to take a look. There were only a few houses around and the area next to it was deserted.
Deng Chen didn't want to clean up either, because even if he did, it would be uninhabitable.
He didn't have many things at home, but today he came out with a bag and went straight to the train station. He was going to Shanghai to take a look. He heard that there were many people playing with stones there.
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Ever since Ying Han met Deng Chen in the department store, he has been looking for him from time to time in the past few days, but to no avail.
Now I am patiently making my own small stool at home.
The folding stools she tried to make were given to Grandma Wang and the elderly people in the courtyard who liked to come out and chat.
Nowadays, when it is cool in the evening, almost every elderly person holds a Luban folding stool in his hand.
There was an old man in the yard who had a bad back. He asked her if she had a backrest that could be folded and held conveniently.
Look, Ying Han has been studying a folding one with a backrest these days.
"Grandpa Lin, I've prepared it for you. Look, is it comfortable to sit on?" In the evening, when the weather was cool, Ying Han brought the chair over.
This is the third one she has made, and the previous ones were all useless.
"Oh, not bad, not bad. This is much lighter. I can chat with my old comrades in the future and sit for a while longer." Grandpa Lin smiled and tried sitting on it. He was very happy.
"Hanhan is a good kid. He recently made a small stool for each of the old ladies in our yard, which makes things much more convenient." Grandma Lin has one herself.
Now I’m chatting with Grandma Wang and the others, one for each of us.
"Grandpa Lin, Grandma Lin, you're welcome. I just wanted to practice with some of the things I had free time for. It would be a waste to just leave them piled up at home, so I might as well make them more convenient for the neighbors."
"Hanhan, come and have some fruit. We just bought some melons. I'll take two away for you and your brother to try."
Lin's daughter-in-law Wang Lu brought over a plate of sliced melons and enthusiastically asked Ying Han to be polite.
"I heard that you are studying architecture. Are you keeping up in school? There are really few girls studying architecture these days. In our unit, except for some people who organize documents and receive guests, all the other jobs are men. Study hard and you will have a bright future." Wang Lu works in the Urban Construction Bureau. At the beginning of the year, she heard people in the compound say that the youngest daughter of the Ying family was studying architecture, and they even praised her a few words.
"Auntie Wang, school is pretty good. I'm the only girl in our class, and the teachers and classmates are very caring towards me. I've been able to keep up with the basic knowledge I've been learning recently. I'm at home with nothing to do, so I might as well learn some of our ancestors' crafts."
"This is a great skill. Not many people know how to do it now." Grandpa Lin praised.
Ying Han sat at Grandpa Lin's house for a while. When she was about to leave, Aunt Wang insisted that she take back two melons. She couldn't refuse her kindness, so she accepted them.
In fact, she quite likes to eat melons, and the seeds inside can be used to plant them in the space.
After Grandpa Lin went out with the folding chair with a backrest, several of his old comrades were envious. They had suffered a lot of injuries when they were young, and now they all had more or less problems.
Several old men in the compound also ran to Ying Han's house to help make one.
They couldn't let Ying Han work in vain, so they sent her wood, various snacks and desserts.
Ying Han has been dealing with wood in the yard every day these days. She did not use the convenience of space, but did it herself. She did it just for practice.
Seeing that she was busy with these things every day during the summer vacation and was more tired than working, her brother wanted to help her, but he didn't know where to start because he didn't know how to do it at all.
"Brother, don't worry about me. I'm having fun. It's just that using this little saw is too much trouble. If I had an electric table saw, it would be much more efficient."
"What is a table saw?"
"..." Ying Han fooled her brother and asked him to go back to his room and study English quickly and not disturb her work.
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Wang Xiu'e never went to the countryside in this life, but her fiancé Yang Yuewen still had an affair with someone else.
Wang Xiu'e had never thought of marrying him, so she found a time and deliberately let her mother see Yang Yuewen and that woman together.
If Wang Xiu'e's mother knew about it, the marriage would definitely fail.
Recently, the family has been busy with Wang Xiu'e's cancellation of the engagement.
When Ying Han delivered stools to the grandfathers, he always liked to listen to Wang Xiu'e's updates.
I heard that the mothers of the two families had a fight yesterday.
It seems to be because of the deposit.
Ying Han felt a little sick from making chairs these days, but here are the remaining two, which are still space-saving.
School was about to start, and the two were worrying about their parents when their parents suddenly sent them a telegram saying they were coming back.
Xi's brother and sister both had tears in their eyes.
So, I cleaned the house early this morning.
Ying Li said he wanted to go to the street to sell some food, such as watermelons and fruits.
Ying Han didn't let her brother go. In the space, there was everything except meat.
She has all the popular watermelons, cantaloupes, and all kinds of vegetables.
Ying Han went there himself and bought two pounds of pork and a chicken.
After returning, he carried a basket to the kitchen and took out some of each: watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, beans, tomatoes, and eggplant.
The two of them waited at home from morning until it was almost dark in the evening before the car came to pick up their parents.
It was a military vehicle from the army, which took my parents directly to the doorstep.
"Dad, Mom."
"Dad, Mom."
"Xiao Li, Hanhan."
When a family of four meets, the indescribable feeling and complicated emotions cannot be expressed clearly in simple words.
After saying goodbye to the little brother who was sent there, the family returned to their own yard.
The man choked with sobs, and the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried bitterly.
"I'm glad everything is okay. It's not a bad thing that you've been outside these past few years. Your mother and I are so happy to know that you two are going to college. Now our family is safe and sound, which is better than anything else." Ying's father said with red eyes.
"Yes, peace and safety are better than anything else." Ying's mother wiped her tears and smiled.
Ying Li boiled a pot of water for his parents, went home, and took a bath to get rid of bad luck. This is the custom here.
While their parents were taking a shower, the brother and sister started busying themselves in the kitchen.
Ying Li lit the fire, Ying Han fried some beans, seasoned some cucumbers, and made a tomato and egg dish.
The chicken and mushrooms have been stewed on the small stove since noon for four or five hours.
After three years, the family was finally reunited.
"I was able to come back so quickly this time thanks to you, Old Chief Liang Yizhou, Old Chief Pei Shangen, and Chief Wang here."
"Grandpa Liang also helped. When we go to Kyoto, we must thank him properly." Ying Han nodded.
"Yes, thanks to them."
"Dad, Wang Erliang took your place. How did your superiors arrange you?" Ying Li said.
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