Chapter 216
Because of the temptation of leek boxes, the three young children in the family go to take a look at the leeks in the backyard every day.
I tell my mother every day how much the leeks have grown, and I am very positive.
Xu Di sometimes thought, why not smuggle some leeks out of the space to prevent the children from being too greedy.
Later, I rejected this idea. It is true that the children wanted to eat leek dumplings, but it is also true that they wanted to watch the leeks grow slowly and cut them by themselves.
Xu Di doesn't want to be a spoiler parent and wants his children to grow up happily and freely.
As the chives grew taller and taller, the small shed she had built would soon be unusable.
The shallots and garlic planted by Aunt Wu have sprouted, and the Chinese cabbage and lettuce she planted have also sprouted.
Just when the leeks that everyone had been longing for were about to grow, Zhang Chaoyang came back.
According to the address left in Xu Di's letter, Zhang Chaoyang found the newly purchased house.
“Woof woof…Woof woof…”
Just as Zhang Chaoyang was about to knock on the door, he heard the barking of a puppy in the yard.
"Who is it?"
There was a small opening in the door, and Aunt Wu's face appeared.
"Aunt Wu, it's me."
"Oh, Chaoyang is back. Wait, I'll open the door for you."
Aunt Wu quickly opened the door, and Zhang Chaoyang saw two dogs barking at the gate of the courtyard, one spotted and one yellow.
"Huanghuang, Huahua, don't bite, this is my dad." Yuanyuan scolded the puppy and immediately rushed to her father for a hug.
"Dad, hug me, I miss you."
"Dad wants Yuanyuan too."
Zhang Chaoyang held his little girl in his arms, and at that moment, all his fatigue was swept away.
"Dad, you're back. It's just in time. The leeks are about to grow up and we can eat leek dumplings."
Nuannuan heard a dog barking, came out to see, and found that it was her father who came back.
Zhang Chaoyang held Yuanyuan in his arms, walked over, and also picked up Nuannuan.
The father and his two daughters walked into the house. Tuantuan saw his father coming back, hugged his older sister and younger sister, and smiled.
"Tuan Tuan, Daddy is back, come here, let Daddy hug you."
Putting Nuannuan and Yuanyuan down, Zhang Chaoyang picked up his quiet second daughter.
"Grandma, Dad is back."
Nuannuan ran to tell her great-grandmother that her father was back.
"Grandma, I'm back."
Zhang Chaoyang held his two daughters and went to greet their grandmother.
"You're back, thinner and darker. Have you eaten? Ask Aunt Wu to make you some noodles."
"Grandma, I'm back from dinner. Let's eat together tonight. This yard is nice. Thank you for your hard work."
Zhang Chaoyang felt a little guilty because he couldn't help at all with buying a house, cleaning up the house, and moving.
"I didn't have to work hard, it was Grandpa Xiaodi and my second uncle who brought people to help with the cleanup.
Xu Qiang borrowed a car from his company for the move, and your eldest brother and Liang Bo helped with the moving. ”
"Wait until Xiao Di has a rest, then we'll go see grandpa and grandma, as well as second uncle and second aunt."
Zhang Chaoyang was grateful. He had a week's vacation this time and took his children to visit his grandparents in the countryside.
"Of course, stay there for one night. Grandma Xiaodi misses the children too."
Grandma Qian knew that Grandma Xiaodi was prone to motion sickness and would not easily go into the city.
"Well, I just happened to be driving back."
Zhang Chaoyang’s current level means he is provided with a car and security guards.
When Xu Di came back at night, she saw her husband and three children waiting for her at the gate of the courtyard.
"Wife, I'm back."
"You're not hurt?"
"No, wife, you have worked hard." Zhang Chaoyang took the bicycle and pushed it into the yard.
Nuannuan and Yuanyuan also followed their father into the yard. Tuantuan held their mother's hand and walked slowly behind them.
For dinner, Aunt Wu cooked several dishes, as the family’s meat coupons had been used up this time.
At night, the family of five lay on the big kang, feeling very comfortable.
"Wife, this kang is comfortable to sleep on."
"Yeah, I like it too. It's really relaxing."
"Dad, ride a big horse."
Yuanyuan threw herself on her father and wanted to play the horse riding game.
Zhang Chaoyang lay on the kang, and his three children took turns climbing onto his back. Joyful laughter came out of the children's mouths.
The children were tired from playing and it was time to go to bed. After a while, they started snoring.
"The children miss their dad, especially Nuannuan."
"I miss you too, every day." Zhang Chaoyang hugged Xu Di in his arms, feeling the happiness of having children and a warm wife at this moment.
A long separation is better than a new marriage. The children were there and it was inconvenient, so Zhang Chaoyang carried his wife to another room.
There is no kang, but there is a double bed.
This night was also passionate.
After finishing, the two of them cleaned up and returned to the kang, fearing that the child would wake up early the next day and find them gone.
The next day, Zhang Chaoyang rode his bicycle to take Xu Di to school and visited his aunt by the way.
"Chaoyang, long time no see."
"Auntie, is everything okay?"
"Not bad, I came back safe and sound, I'm very lucky."
The two of them chatted briefly, and as they had classes to attend, Professor Zhang left first.
In fact, the two of them are not familiar with each other, so I really don’t know what to say.
The day after Zhang Chaoyang came back, the family had dinner. They had the leek dumplings and leek, egg and dried shrimp dumplings that they had been craving for.
"Wow, it's really delicious! Dad, we grew these chives ourselves."
With a round little expression, it feels like what he is eating is not leek dumplings, but the peaches of the Queen Mother.
"You're so amazing! You can even grow vegetables! You really deserve to be my Zhang Chaoyang's daughter!"
"Dad, are you bragging about yourself?"
"Ha ha……"
Xu Di and the others were all amused. This kid has a pretty quick reaction.
On Sunday, after breakfast, Zhang Chaoyang drove and they went to their grandparents' home in the countryside.
This time, Grandma Qian also went along.
Aunt Wu went back to see her grandson the day after Zhang Chaoyang returned.
She doesn’t know what will happen to her daughter and son-in-law in the future, but now, she is still thinking about them.
Before leaving, I added enough dog food to the two dogs and also added food to the chickens in the backyard.
Xu Di bought rain boots, raincoats and Liberation shoes from the supply and marketing cooperative for his second uncle and second aunt, as they would need them when they went to work.
We also bought some food and daily necessities, and the family drove to the countryside.
It's mid-April now and the fields are full of people working. It is now 1978, and there are still a few years before the household contract responsibility system was implemented.
I wonder if it will be implemented earlier near the capital than in other places.
The jeep stopped in front of grandma's house. Xu Di and the others got out. Grandma Xu had already come out when she heard the sound of the car.
"Grandma, I'm back."
"Oh, Xiao Di is back. Is Chaoyang on holiday? Sister Qian is here. Come in quickly. Come in quickly. It's not easy for you to come here."
Grandma Xu is two years younger than Grandma Qian, so she always calls her Sister Qian.
"I just stay in one place and don't want to move. I asked you to come to the city, but you refused to come."
The two old ladies had gotten along well before and had similar personalities, so they spoke to each other more casually.
"I've started working. The chickens, ducks and geese at home really need an old lady like me."
Grandma Xu took Grandma Qian into the yard and introduced the house, the vegetable garden, the curtains she made herself, and the thousand-layer cloth shoes she made...
Nuannuan and her two younger sisters also followed to see if the chickens at their great-grandmother's house had laid eggs.
Grandpa Xu was wandering around the brigade headquarters when a kid told him that there was a jeep parked in front of his house, so he hurried back to take a look.
"Grandpa, I'm back."
Xu Di looked at his grandfather walking towards him from a distance and quickly greeted him.
"Is Chaoyang back?"
"Yeah, I'm back. Grandpa, slow down, we drove the car here."
When Grandpa Xu saw his eldest granddaughter, he knew what was going on.
At noon, Grandma Xu also made some leek dumplings, which warmed the three of them and they had another delicious meal.
However, they think that the chives they grow themselves are more delicious when made into chive dumplings.
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