sbdcsierra Chapter 250: Living together
Chapter 250: Living together
"Dad, Qian Baogui, grandpa and grandson are working." Qian Yizheng said as he came up to the two of them.
"Yizhen, it's a good thing you're here. Gouhuan wants to go back to Lijia Village to visit his grandmother and mother's graves before going to Beijing to attend university. Are you free to go tomorrow?"
"Qian Baogui, I'm afraid you can't go tomorrow. I received a call from your homeroom teacher, asking you to go back to the Provincial Experimental Middle School this afternoon. He said that the top five students in the college entrance examination should each write a speech about their learning experience and give a tour speech to the younger students in the Provincial Experimental Middle School. He also invited me to speak as a parent representative."
"Aunt Yizhen, I understand. But I think this speech is not easy to write. Everyone has his or her own brain. My learning experience may not be useful to others. Gao Weizhe is an example. I tutored him, but he just couldn't understand." Qian Baogui muttered.
"Qian Baogui, since your head teacher has assigned us the task, let's complete it seriously. Even if only 10 percent of the students and parents are inspired after listening to our speeches, it means that our efforts are not in vain, right?" Qian Yizheng said.
"Aunt Yizhen, I will go to the Provincial Experimental Middle School to find my homeroom teacher this afternoon to prepare a speech." Qian Baogui said softly.
"Yizhen, don't forget that Gouhuan is going back to Lijia Village to visit his mother's grave." said Dad Qian.
"Dad, I understand. When the time comes, I will ask Yiyun and Wang Min to go with us." Qian Yizheng said.
After finishing the speech activity at the Provincial Experimental Middle School, Qian Yizhen called Qian Yiyun and Wang Min and asked them if they wanted to go and if they had time to go, as he would accompany Qian Baogui to Lijia Village to worship his ancestors this Saturday.
Qian Yiyun and Wang Min agreed in unison: "Let's go, let's go. Take the children with you. The summer vacation is almost over, let them go climb the mountains and breathe the fresh mountain air."
"Okay, tell the children and ask them to visit Lijia Village, where Qian Baogui lived when he was a child. Let them feel the living environment of rural children and receive education on enduring hardship," said Qian Yizhen.
At ten o'clock on Saturday morning, driver Xiao Sun brought Qian Ba, Qian Yizhen, Qian Baogui, Gao Weizhe, and the group of people who support the army, love the army, and strengthen the army. Li Peishui drove a Toyota Subor and brought Wang Min, Xiangxiang, Ganggang, Qian Yiyun, Maomao, Junhua, Junyan, and Junge to Qian Zuhui's home in Lijia Village.
Li Peishui had another mission, so he drove his Toyota Subor back to the Huaguoshan Hotel. The driver Xiao Sun and Sanjun took the things they brought for ancestor worship off the car.
Qian Zuhui was a little confused when he saw so many people coming. He pulled up his loose shorts that were about to reveal his buttocks and said, "Dad, Yizhen, why are you here? Why didn't you tell me in advance? Look at the mess at home. Xiuzhi, clean it up quickly and go boil some water to make tea for the guests."
"Brother, who is this?" Qian Yiyun asked.
"Are you talking about Xiuzhi? Just call her sister-in-law. We have been living together for almost a year. Yiyun, do you remember that year when your sister made a scene at Li Dazhuang's wedding, Zhao Xiuzhi's family also forced her to break off the engagement with me.
After many years, my wife died and Zhao Xiuzhi's husband died. Last winter, Zhao Xiuzhi was alone and too poor to buy coal, so she came to my place for heating, so we got together again and lived together. "Qian Zuhui said lightly.
The pigeon covered his nose and said, "Mom, it stinks here. Let's go. Didn't you say you would take us to climb the mountain and dig Chinese medicinal herbs? How did we end up in such a dirty, messy and smelly place?"
"Military flowers, support the army, love the army, strengthen the army, military swallows, military pigeons, listen up, this is your uncle Qian Zuhui, the biological brother of mom and aunt Qian Yiyun, come here and call him uncle." Qian Yizhen said.
"Maomao, Aunt Yizhen is right, come here quickly and call me uncle." Qian Yiyun said.
Military flowers, supporting the army, loving the army, strengthening the army, military swallows, military pigeons, and Maomao walked forward and reluctantly shouted "Hello, uncle."
When Qian Zuhui saw his nephews for the first time, he was so excited that his eyes were filled with tears. He stammered, "Hello, nephews. You should study hard and you will definitely have a bright future when you grow up."
"Xiangxiang, Ganggang, come here quickly and call me uncle. He is your father's biological brother." Wang Min said.
Xiangxiang, who just turned six, asked: "Mom, what is a biological brother?" "Children born to the same parents are biological brothers, sisters, younger brothers, and younger sisters. Do you understand?"
"I understand, Ganggang is my biological brother. Junhua is the biological sister who supports the army, loves the army, strengthens the army, and is a military swallow and a military pigeon, right?" Xiangxiang said jumping and skipping.
"Is this Qian Zuhua's child? He has grown up so big, he must be the descendant of the Qian family. Come, come, let grandpa hold him." Qian Zuhui said as he was about to hug Gang Gang.
Gang Gang hid behind Wang Min and said, "No, no."
Dad Qian and Qian Baogui picked up the brooms and started cleaning the yard. Driver Xiao Sun, Yongjun, Aijun, Qiangjun and Gao Weizhe also helped to clean and tidy up the yard.
Qian Yiyun said, "Sister-in-law Wang Min, please take Maomao, Xiangxiang, Ganggang, Junge, Junyan and the other children to play in the fields outside the gate. Junhua and I will wash Qian Zuhui's dirty clothes and bedding."
Qian Yiyun carried Qian Zuhua's dirty clothes and bedding to the well and began to draw water to wash the moldy and smelly clothes and bedding. Junhua held her breath, put the dirty clothes in the washing basin, and sprinkled detergent on it.
"Aunt Yiyun, don't you think it's dirty for my uncle to wear such dirty clothes? It's really unbearable. I don't want to live in the same house with such a person. When are we going back to the Chen Mansion?"
"Junhua, don't be anxious. Your mother is sending you to the countryside to experience life. You have a mission, to experience it yourself and accumulate materials for writing essays and diaries." Qian Yiyun said.
Gao Weizhe said: "My grandparents' house is also so dirty and smelly. Why are all the rural people so dirty and smelly? I really don't understand."
Qian Yizhen came to the kitchen and said to Zhao Xiuzhi, "Sister Xiuzhi, is the water boiling? Do you have mung beans at home? No need to make tea. It's so hot today. Let's make a pot of mung bean soup."
"There are mung beans. I'll get them." Zhao Xiuzhi said as she stood up to get the mung beans. Qian Yizheng squatted down, added a handful of firewood to the stove, observed the situation in the kitchen, and thought about letting the children taste the farm meals she had eaten when she was a child.
Zhao Xiuzhi came to the kitchen with a bowl of mung beans, washed them and poured them into the pot. Qian Yizhen asked, "Sister Xiuzhi, what do you two have for lunch? I want the children to taste the food at home."
"Pancakes, corn cakes, pickles, stir-fried Chinese cabbage, celery, etc. are all grown by ourselves. We eat whatever we have as long as we can fill our stomachs," said Zhao Xiuzhi.