Chapter 1039 Do you want to raise cattle?
It’s night.
In an old house hidden in darkness in the city, Zhang Yiyan, who was sleeping soundly in bed, was suddenly awakened by the howling night wind.
“Hmm!”
He sat up with a frown. After regaining his composure, he grabbed a piece of patched clothes neatly stacked aside and put them aside. He threw it all over his body, got out of bed, stretched out his hand and pulled the light cord a few times, but there was no response from the light above his head.
"Some dog must have pinched the wires for me again!" He cursed and groped under the bed with his feet, and soon found a pair of tattered cotton shoes and put them on his feet, and then groped in the dark. Come out of the house and walk to the corner of the courtyard, ready to put some water.
First it was ticking, then clattering, and finally it was ticking again.
It took him a full two minutes to get rid of the urine that Chu Heng could finish in fifteen seconds.
“Hey, I’m old!”
Zhang glanced at the sore lower back with a depressed look on his face, and returned to the house again with a long sigh.
Already sleepy, he did not go back to bed directly. Instead, he reached to the table, took out a match and lit a kerosene lamp on the table.
When the dim orange light came on in the room, Zhang frowned and looked at the black smoke rising from the light. He waved his hand to disperse the pungent smell lingering on the tip of his nose, and then sat down to take it. He picked up the thermos bottle on the table and poured himself a glass of boiled water.
"Zi Liu! Ha!"
Under the solitary lamp, a thin old man with a hunched back was holding a water cup and sipping at a sip. In the dim environment, he looked particularly desolate.
After taking a few sips of hot water, Zhang Yan's eyes gradually became hollow, and he was inexplicably stunned, with a hint of sadness in his expression.
Long ago, his family was once full of friends and descendants.
Unexpectedly, now he only has a broken lamp to accompany him through his days.
Even his children just asked someone to secretly bring something over and did not dare to visit.
“Hey!”
For a long time, Zhang sighed deeply, thought about it, got up and walked to the chest of drawers, took out an envelope from the bottom secret compartment, turned around and returned to the table Sit down in front.
Immediately, he carefully pulled out a few pieces of letter paper from the envelope, slowly unfolded them and put them under the kerosene lamp, squinting and looking at them carefully.
This letter was sent to him by his second son from the distant army. In addition to some concerns, it also reported that he was safe. But what made him happiest was that his second son said in the letter, His second daughter-in-law finally gave birth to a boy. The little guy is very good at eating. Sometimes he doesn’t have enough milk and his strength is not small. The old Zhang family has another strong boy!
“Heh.”
Zhang glanced at the content about the little grandson in the letter over and over again, and a happy smile appeared at the corner of his mouth unconsciously.
This happened for a long time.
He carefully closed the letter, put it back into the envelope, and put it back in the secret compartment of the chest of drawers. Then he thought for a moment and reached out to open one of the empty cabinets. He reached in and fumbled around before pulling it open. a board, revealing the back A hollowed-out hole in the wall contained bottles after bottles of liquor, including Quanxing Daqu, Maotai, Wuliangye, Fenjiu, and Jingzhi Baigan. These were the ones Chu Heng gave him when he came over these days. Every bottle I brought was good wine.
But he didn't even look at the good wine. He reached out and took out a small jar from among the many wine bottles, then closed the board again and returned to the table with the jar in his arms.
This is the sorghum wine sent by his eldest son. It is very strong and the taste is not satisfactory. It has an earthy smell and is far less fragrant than the ones in the grid.
But in his eyes, this wine is the best wine in the world!
Bringing a small wine cup from the table, Zhang Yan opened the jar carefully, filled the cup with wine, and then took a small sip from the cup.
He didn't want to swallow it directly, but held it in his mouth and savored it with squinted eyes before slowly swallowing it into his stomach with satisfaction. The strong smell of alcohol instantly dispersed in his stomach, making his body warm.
After taking a few sips like this, he suddenly frowned and muttered: "The child can't be hungry. I have to look for that kid later and get some milk powder to send over."
"Dong dong dong!"
At this moment, a gentle knock on the door sounded from outside.
Zhang glanced at his heart, and with a smile on his lips, he quickly put down his wine glass, stood up, walked out of the house, and went to the courtyard door to open the door. "Squeak!"
The door opened and he saw Chu Heng standing outside the door carrying a bag of things.
“I guess it’s you!” Zhang glanced and said with a smile.
“Master Zhang, I’d like to wish you a happy New Year!” Chu Heng cupped his hands with a smile on his face.
Although he was happy in his heart, Ke Zhang couldn't help but look disgusted at first glance, and curled his lips and said: "It's so new. It's the first time I see someone coming to pay New Year's greetings in the middle of the night. Are you here to visit the grave?"< br>
"I would rather come during the day. Do you dare to let me come?" Chu Heng looked at him sideways, stepped directly into the courtyard, and shouted.
"Keep your voice down, are you afraid that others won't know you're here?" Zhang closed the door in fear and quickly pulled the grandson into the house.
A few moments.
The two came to the room and sat down at the round table.
Chu Heng looked at the wine jar on the table and raised his eyebrows: "Hey, where did you come from singing like this? Did you stay up so late at night and drank wine? I happen to be a little hungry too. Have a drink.”
As he spoke, he reached for the wine jar.
"Go, go, you don't have any responsibility for this." Zhang slapped his paw away with one glance, picked up the wine jar like a baby, got up and went back to the chest of drawers, put the wine jar away, and He took out a bottle of Jingzhibaigan, opened another bottle of canned yellow croaker, filled half a plate of peanuts, and put them down together at the table.
"Bottle wine and vegetables, let's just drink it."
"This is good."
Chu Heng didn't mind it either, he happily took the wine bottle and unscrewed it , poured two cups of wine, touched it with him, drank it all in one gulp, then picked up the chopsticks, picked up some peanuts and stuffed them into his mouth, while eating, he said: "I just went to that master's house. .”
"Oh? How is he now?" Zhang Yi quickly asked with concern.
"It's good. I'm much better than you. At least my family is with me." Chu Heng squinted at him.
"You damn girl, can you speak? Are you deliberately looking for scolding during the Chinese New Year?" Zhang glanced and became furious.
"Haha." Chu Heng looked at his appearance and laughed. It was easy to get sick if you kept some things in your heart, but it would be better to say them out.
"You're making fun of your grandma!" Zhang glared at him, picked up the chopsticks and knocked on his forehead, and then asked angrily: "I have something you can do for me."
"Tell me." Chu Heng asked, rubbing his forehead.
"My second daughter-in-law has given birth and she doesn't have enough milk. Please help me send some milk powder. You can tell me how much it will cost." Zhang Yiyan looked arrogant. He was in Chu Heng's hands during this period. Made a lot of money.
"Hey, what are you asking me for? It's just a little milk powder, so just treat me as a follower." Chu Heng waved his hand very generously, picked up the wine glass with a smile, and said: "You just Tell me, where is your second child? "How much milk powder do you want?"
"He is in the border area now. As for how much milk powder he wants, the more the better. Ten cans and eight cans are not too little for me, and one hundred and eighty cans are not too much for me." Zhang looked at him with a faint look.
“Poof!”
Chu Heng spit out a sip of wine and raised his head speechlessly: "Are you raising a child or a calf? You are not afraid of bringing disaster to your son!"
He also understood that the old man was careless and confused. So after thinking about it, he said: "Let's do this. I'll ask someone to send ten cans over first, and then I'll get some nutritional supplements to replenish them. If there's not enough, I'll send them back. I happen to have comrades who are transporting the goods. "Si, it's convenient to go back and forth."
"Okay." Zhang Yi nodded with a smile, picked up the glass and touched it with him, and said solemnly: "I won't say thank you. Old bones, you can use them as you like!”
“That’s fine, my dog has two teeth. Can you please remove two of them?”
(End of this chapter)