Chapter 261 Visiting Relatives---Aunt's House 1
In the early morning, the fog that shrouded the entire quiet and peaceful village gradually dissipated. The early morning sunlight gave the entire village a light golden hue, and sprinkled on the farmers who had already started working in the fields, creating a quiet and peaceful atmosphere.
Yi Ke rode his bicycle to the town in high spirits. Shanfeng Town is still the same town, with lush trees along the streets and few pedestrians. There are still long queues at the food station, and most of the people queuing with food certificates are still old people and women. Occasionally, there are three or two men who stand out in the queue like giant pandas...
Yi Ke had no interest in appreciating those alternative scenery. She first went to the supply and marketing cooperative to find her cousin Liu Baoer. The salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative told her that her cousin Liu Baoer was on vacation today.
Yike turned around and left the supply and marketing cooperative, pushing his bicycle to Liu Baoer's house.
Yike knocked on the door of the courtyard, and it was Liu Baoer who opened the door.
"Ah, cousin, it's you! Mom, cousin Yike is here." Liu Baoer immediately shouted when she saw it was Yike.
"Hello, cousin." Yike called out obediently.
"Oh, okay, okay, haha, I've been thinking about visiting you someday." Liu Baoer helped Yike put the bicycle against the wall.
"Cousin, take that bag down." Yike followed over to get the bag.
"Yike is here. Come in quickly. Ask your cousin to put the bicycle away. Come in first." Zhong Tongxin came out from the main room.
"Hello, Grandpa, hello, uncle, hello, aunt." When Zhong Tongxin and Liu Yu heard that Yike had arrived, they both came out. Even the old man stood at the door of the main hall to look at her.
Today happens to be Sunday, and the whole family is at home. They are all very happy to see Yi Ke.
Especially the eldest aunt Zhong Tongxin, who had always liked Yike because he was well-behaved and cute. Now that she knew they were her younger sister’s twin children, she loved them beyond measure.
It has been a long time since Zhong Tongxin accompanied her sister to meet Yike last time. She held Yi Ke's hand and had endless things to say.
"Mom, please let go and let my cousin come into the main room and sit down." Liu Baoer was helping Yi Ke park his bicycle. Seeing that his mother was still chattering on and on, he interrupted her.
"Oh, good! You see, I'm so happy that I'm confused. Come, Yike, let's go into the main room and talk." After saying that, he took Yike's hand and went in, and said to Liu Baoer: "Go pour some honey water for Yike to drink, and take out the peach cakes in the jar."
Zhong Tongxin continued to say to Yike: "Have you had breakfast? How about I cook you a bowl of noodles? You must be hungry after riding your bike from so far away." She asked Yike to sit in the main room and then went to the kitchen to cook noodles.
Yike held her back and said, "Aunt, don't cook. I came here after I had breakfast this morning and I haven't digested it yet."
"Really?" Aunt Zhong Tongxin asked doubtfully, "Even if there was food, I'd be hungry after walking so far."
"I'm not hungry. I ate two steamed buns, an egg, a sweet potato, and some porridge. They are all very filling foods." Yike explained hurriedly.
"Mom, please sit down. My cousin will definitely not be hungry. With my cousin's husband at home, how can I bear to let my cousin go hungry? Right, cousin?" Liu Baoer said with a smile, holding an enamel cup in one hand and a pastry in the other.
Yi Ke nodded shyly in acknowledgement.
"Then drink some honey water and eat some cakes. Peach cakes are delicious." Zhong Tongxin pushed the peach cake in front of Yi Ke.
"Thank you, auntie, and thank you, cousin." Yi Ke thanked them obediently.
"You kid, you're still being polite to your aunt." Zhong Tongxin looked at him and became happier and happier the more she looked.
My uncle Liu Yu came out of the room and took out a few test papers and notebooks and handed them to Yi Ke, saying, "Take these test papers to practice. They are mock test papers given by the school to the third-year junior high school students. This notebook is the lesson plan written by the teacher. Take it back and have a look."
"Thank you, uncle, and thank you, teacher." Yike said with emotion, holding the notebook.
"Well! I will help you convey your thank you to the teacher. You are a good child and you know how to be grateful." Uncle Liu Yu said with satisfaction.
"Can I just do the test here? When I'm done, please ask my uncle to help me correct it, okay?" Yike said.
"Sure, today is Sunday, there is plenty of time. You eat first and have lunch here at noon." said uncle Liu Yu.
"Okay, thank you, uncle." Yike replied with a smile.
"Cousin Yike, there are so many things in your bag. You must have moved your entire home here." Cousin Liu Baoer brought in the bag that Yike had asked her to carry.
"Be careful, there is a bottle of wine in it, don't break it." Yi Ke quickly stood up to help.
"Oh, okay." Liu Baoer carefully placed the bag on the table.
You can untie the bag and take the things out.
First, he took out the wine and handed it to the old man, saying, "Grandpa, this is the Moutai I bought for you last time when I went to the provincial capital. You drink it first."
Grandpa Liu stood up from the armchair, took the wine that Yi Ke handed over, and said happily: "Okay, okay, you are thoughtful."
"Dad, please drink slowly. Don't drink it all at once. It will harm your body." Uncle Liu Yu was afraid that his father would drink too much at once, so he advised.
"I know, I know, you're so nagging. Hehe, I'll ask Old Zhang to come and taste it with us. Last time his son bought him a bottle of good wine and asked me to taste it. Today I'll ask him to taste it too. Baoer, go and ask your Grandpa Zhang to come over and tell him that I'm treating him to a drink. Haha, ask him to prepare some peanuts." The old man said with a laugh.
"Grandpa, no need for peanuts. I have peanuts here." Yike took out a small bag of peanuts containing half a pound. "This bag is spiced peanuts, and this bag is spicy peanuts. You can have whichever flavor you like."
"I like it, I like them all. Yi Ke really understands me. He not only sent me wine, but also prepared snacks to go with it." The more the old man looked at Yi Ke, the more he liked him.
"Grandpa, there are more. This small package contains braised ears, this package contains salted edamame, and there are also dried fish. Grandpa, can you eat them?"
"Okay, okay, haha, except for the dried fish, everything else is edible. Oh, what a good boy. Baoer, go quickly and call your Grandpa Zhang. I want to eat it now. It smells so good." The old man urged Liu Baoer.
Grandpa Liu opened the bags one by one to take a look. The fragrance overflowed all at once. Even the serious uncle couldn't help but glance over, his Adam's apple moving up and down.
Liu Baoer quickly reached out and snatched the bag of dried fish from the old man's hand, "Give this dried fish to me. Since grandpa doesn't want to eat it, I'll help him eat it. This is my reward for walking. Hehe." Liu Baoer put the dried fish into her own bedroom and went out to call Grandpa Zhang.
"Aunt, there is dried meat, two frozen chickens, some dried mushrooms and black fungus, and peeled peanuts, both raw and dried. If you seal them, they can be kept for a long time. And..." Yi Ke explained one by one, mainly because he was afraid that Aunt Zhong Tongxin would not know how to preserve them, and then the peanuts would be wasted.
"Child, you brought so many things, just keep them for yourself. Take the peanuts back later, there are almost five or six pounds now, take a chicken back too, one for lunch today. Take some dried meat back too, it's too much, I will just take half. I will take all the mushrooms and fungus."
"Aunt, I won't take it back now that I have given it. It's not right to take back a gift that I have given away." Yi Ke refused to agree no matter what.
"Everyone in my aunt's family has a job and gets paid. They have money and tickets. You can go buy it if you want to eat it. My aunt knows that it's hard to make money and even harder to get tickets in your countryside. Listen to my aunt and take it back later." Zhong Tongxin said.
"We didn't buy these, we grew them ourselves. We raised the chickens ourselves, too. Really, we raised them secretly in the mountains. There is a big cave in the mountain behind us. No one knows about it, so we raised them secretly there." Yike said in a low voice.
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