Chapter 23 Confessing a Friend
“By the way, it’s such a cold weather Xiao An, you must have something to do when you come to town, right?”
In Zhou Lan’s eyes, Zhang An is actually still I'm quite lazy. I never go out unless I have nothing to do. It takes me a long time just to walk.
“I don’t have a stove at home, so I have to light the fire pit to keep myself warm every day, and I have to light the stove to cook, which is a bit troublesome, so I wanted to come over and see if it would be more convenient to buy a stove to cook and keep warm.”
After Zhang An talked about his own affairs, he didn’t expect Li Hongbin to pick him up.
“Come on, there’s no need to buy one. We have an extra stove here, but we can’t find a place to put it, so it will just pile up and rot sooner or later.”
“Ah, there are more. Did you buy one?"
Li Hongbin waved his hand, "Of course not, money is not wasted like this. I have a friend who brought his parents to the province. I went to the city and probably won't come back again. After I disposed of the things at home, I still had an iron stove, so I brought it to me. But I had no use for it, so I kept it there. I was worried that it would rust and rot. "
"Yes, that one is still there. I forgot about it. It is a big stove. You can take it back and it will be enough for the whole family, even if there are guests. "
< br>Finally, I took Zhang An to see the iron stove in the utility room. It looked almost like a new one, and it was indeed big enough for seven or eight people to sit around.
Since it was available here, Zhang An didn't go to town to buy it.
In the evening, Zhou Lan insisted on staying with Zhang An for dinner. Zhang An couldn't resist, so he called the village and asked Zhang Xinmin to tell his parents that he would go back later.
Because Li Hongbin said he would drive to help deliver the stove back in the evening, he didn't drink.
During the meal, Li Yao sat around Zhang An and told Zhang An to eat this and that, which made everyone laugh.
"Yaoyao, if you like Uncle Zhang An so much, how about you ask him to be your godfather."
"Okay!" Li Yao agreed without thinking, and turned The head actually shouted "Godfather" directly to Zhang An.
“Why didn’t I expect this? This troublemaker in our family is usually indifferent to others, but it’s different with Zhang An. Every time he comes, he becomes very affectionate and makes me jealous. Yes." Li Hongbin said as he patted his forehead.
Zhang An was a little stunned. He didn't expect that a son would come out of a meal outside.
But this was because Zhou Lan and his wife thought highly of themselves, so they readily agreed immediately.
However, Zhang An didn't bring anything with him today, so he made an agreement to let Zhou Lan and his wife take Li Yao to Changqing Village to meet his parents another day.
Although Zhou Lan's family has dinner early, it gets dark early in winter.
After dinner, Zhang An, after sitting for a while, asked to go back.
Li Hongbin originally wanted to keep Zhang An at home for a night, but Zhang An said that he was afraid that his family would be worried and would not ask him to stay next time he came again.
Li Hongbin’s family car was a Mazda sedan and could not transport the stove, so he went out for a while and drove back in a pickup truck.
The stove weighs more than 100 kilograms, which is quite heavy. Li Hongbin originally thought that it would be difficult for him and Zhang An to lift it, but Zhang An did not expect to lift it directly by himself.
After putting the stove in the car, I looked back at Li Hongbin and Zhou Lan, who looked at me with their eyes wide open.
"My dear, this is more than a hundred kilograms. You just lifted it up like this without breathing?"
Li Hongbin looked at Zhang An as if he was a pervert.
"What's the point? He's extremely talented and has practiced farming in the countryside all year round." Zhang An pretended to be humble, but his strength was much larger than before due to the space. He could lift two people. More than a hundred kilograms is not a big problem, but any more will not be a problem.
Li Hongbin rolled his eyes, "You think I have never done farm work, right? You are such a pervert."
In this era, pervert is not yet a curse word.
Zhang An originally planned to give Zhou Lan 200 yuan for this stove, and buying a new one would cost about the same.
But Zhou Lan refused to accept her, and said that Zhang An no longer regarded them as friends, so she didn't give up in the end.
After Li Hongbin fixed the stove with a rope, the two got in the car.
Because it was dark, and the mountain was too chilly, wet and cold at night, Xiao Li Yao originally wanted to go with him, but Zhou Lan didn't agree and the little guy even lost his temper.
But Zhou Lan said that as long as he behaved, she would take him there next time, and she immediately stopped him.
Before leaving, Li Yao waved to Zhang An, "Goodbye, godfather."
After half a year, the road from Shuixian County to Hongyan Town was finally repaired. The two started from the town, which saved nearly half the time compared to taking the mountain road.
Ten minutes later we arrived at the stone pass, and the car turned into the mountain road.
It turns out that when there were no roads, even driving would take thirty or forty minutes.
After a short meeting, we arrived at Changqing Village.
After parking the car on the grain drying field, Zhang An lifted the stove and moved it home.
Li Hongbin originally wanted to help, but Zhang An asked him to use his flashlight in front to find the way.
The stove was moved to the house in a few minutes. Fortunately, it was night, otherwise others would see Zhang An carrying the stove alone. The next day, the village information agency would start to spread new rumors. .
In a village, the village head intelligence center can decide whether a person will be ruined or successful in just a few seconds.
Wang Fang and Zhang Jiaguo saw their son carrying a stove back alone. They originally wanted to say something to Zhang An, but seeing someone accompanying their son, they didn't say anything.
Inviting Li Hongbin to sit at home, Wang Fang also made Li Hongbin a cup of hot tea.
Li Hongbin greeted Zhang An’s parents enthusiastically, calling him uncle and aunt.
Zhang An’s parents are more than ten years older than him, so it’s not a bad idea to call him uncle or aunt.
When Zhou Lan and Zhou Lan came last time, Zhang Jianguo took Wang Fang out to visit, so they didn't meet each other.
So this time Zhang An introduced Li Hongbin to his parents.
They also talked about accepting Li Yao as their godson, and the couple was also very happy.
He kept asking Li Hongbin to bring his children to play at home more often.
The whole family and Li Hongbin were very happy, and it was considered a great time for both the host and the guest.
Li Hongbin took a sip of tea and said, "Well, this is the taste. The tea I drank last time was this tea. It tastes very comfortable."
This naturally made Wang Fang very happy. , because this tea was picked and fried by Wang Fang himself.
Of course the camellia is really good, and only the tops are picked when picking.
But the more reason is to use space spring water to soak your hair.
At eight or nine o'clock in the evening, Li Hongbin was going back. He originally wanted to have guests at home, but he had his wife and children waiting at home, so he did not continue to stay.
Wang Fang also packed some tea for Li Hongbin to take back.
Before leaving, Zhang An called out to Li Hongbin, walked to the pond, grabbed two fine-scaled fish, found something, pretended to give it to Li Hongbin.
Anyway, Li Yao said he really liked this fish, so he packed two of them for Li Hongbin.
If it were anyone else, Li Hongbin might have refused, but he wanted as much fish as he wanted.
The last time he ate this fish, he stood up in front of Zhou Lan in the evening and convinced Zhou Lan who was usually not very satisfied.
There is no way. When you reach middle age and often socialize and drink, your health will definitely not be as good as before.
My body can’t keep up, and I will definitely be unable to stand up in front of my wife.
Zhang An put the fish in this pond. Before the weather got cold, he often used the excuse of going to the river to catch fish and bring a few fish back every time.
"Hey, brother, I'm not polite, this thing is a good treasure." Li Hongbin was happy.
Zhang An was also at this age in his previous life, so he knew what was going on with Li Hongbin’s smile.
Could this thing still be used in that way?
Thank you all for reading my book, thank you
(End of this chapter)