Chapter 156: Lantern Festival Appointment
At night, Zhang An was lying on the bed, preparing to call Su Ying.
Since Su Ying went back last time, the two of them have called and chatted from time to time.
But it was Su Ying who always called. Zhang An now felt that he should take the initiative.
You can’t always have other girls calling you.
As soon as I dialed the phone, someone answered the phone quickly. It was Wu Qiuping who answered the phone.
Knowing that Zhang An was calling his daughter, Wu Qiuping did not tell Zhang An.
I shouted twice into Su Ying's room, and Su Ying quickly came out of the room to answer the phone.
Wu Qiuping finished cleaning up the kitchen and went back to her room.
Give this place to your daughter, otherwise she will always hesitate when speaking.
After watching her mother leave, Su Ying felt more comfortable speaking.
"What are Teacher Su busy with? Why do you sound so tired?"
Zhang An listened weakly to Su Ying's words on the phone, and he was not very interested in talking.
"Besides writing lesson plans and preparing lessons, there is nothing else to do, but it is too much to write."
As soon as Zhang An asked, Su Ying seemed to have found a place to vent. Likewise, she kept telling Zhang An how much headache she had now.
“I used to think that as a teacher, you only need to attend class well and then assign and correct homework. Who would have thought that I would have to write lesson plans during the holidays and write so much every day.”
Su Ying and her school School is about to start on March 1st, and not only students have to turn in their winter vacation homework.
Their teachers also need to summarize the lessons they prepared last year and hand them in at the beginning of school.
And we also need to prepare all the courses for the new semester.
I have been writing a large book every day for the past two days.
New teachers like them have to prepare their own lessons.
But veteran teachers don’t have to do this. Since they write a lot of lesson plans, they can just find two books and copy them out.
"Hey, it turns out that your teacher also has winter vacation homework."
"Who said otherwise? What have you been busy at home these days."
Two After chatting for a while, Su Ying regained some energy.
“Do you remember the riverside nest I told you about last time?”
Last time on the loess slope, Zhang An pointed out the deserted nest to her. Pass.
“Yeah, I know that place.”
“Our family has hoeed the place in the past few days. It will be plowed in a few days. We plan to plant some watermelons this year. And strawberries.”
Zhang An told Su Ying his plans for this year’s spring.
Although Su Ying may not know these tasks, she must understand them.
“Hey, I want to plant strawberries. I think the strawberries are quite delicious, but they are too small.”
Su Ying was right, the strawberries on the market now are not big, at most they are Thumb size.
"You like eating strawberries, then I'll plant more varieties. Are there many people buying strawberries in the county?"
Zhang An was quite happy to hear that Su Ying liked to eat strawberries.
Don’t be afraid if it is small. When the time comes, plant a few crops in the space and then select seeds.
In this way, the strawberries grown at home will be big and delicious.
“I saw a lot of people selling in the garden in the middle of the street, and I feel like there are quite a lot of people buying.”
Su Ying thought about it, and when she usually went out, she saw a lot of things. There are few people selling strawberries, and there seem to be many people buying them.
“By the way, we have five more puppies in our family.”
Zhang An told Su Ying on the phone that Xiaohu had five children.
Su Ying was shocked when she heard that the mother of these little tiger cubs was actually a wolf in the mountains.
In her mind, wolves were something in textbooks.
She had only heard of it, some of it was seen in textbooks, and some of it was seen on TV.
In real life, she has never seen what a real wolf looks like.
When she heard that Xiaohu had found a wolf wife, she was a little confused.
Because this is too much beyond her common sense of the world.
"How could a wolf and a dog have children together?" Su Ying still didn't quite understand.
“What’s the point? The dogs we raise were domesticated by wolves tens of thousands of years ago. They should be considered distant relatives.”
“And in our mountains, in the past, There are many dogs in the village that give birth to wolves in the mountains, but this time it’s just the other way around.”
Then Su Ying seemed to think of something.
"Then are these puppies now what everyone calls wolfdogs?"
She remembered that there was a big wolfdog raised by her uncle downstairs, which was big and fierce.
"No, they are not wolfdogs. Wolfdogs are a breed of dog. They are called wolfdogs just because they look like wolves. They have nothing to do with wolves."
"Okay, then these little dogs Is a dog a wolf or a dog? "
"These are probably dogs in our family. Their tails are up, while the tails of wolves are clamped."
Su Ying. Next, she learned a lot of new knowledge, and Zhang An gave her some extra lessons.
Then Su Ying asked Zhang An how the little golden rooster was doing.
Zhang An was a bit dumbfounded. Only ten days had passed.
“They haven’t molted yet, it’s only been less than two weeks, but they have grown up a lot and their tails have started to grow.”
"How long will it take for them to grow up? I will go see them then."
"It should take another month before they moult. I don't know the details, because our family is also the first After all, I will pick you up when you grow up."
The two of them were on the phone for more than 20 minutes, and the telecommunications bureau had to thank them for taking care of the business.
At the end of the day, Su Yingcai asked Zhang An in a low voice.
"Zhang An, there is a Lantern Festival party in the square tomorrow, you..."
When she said this, Su Ying blushed.
Although the two are acting like friends now, this is the first time she has asked out a boy.
"The Lantern Festival Party, do you want me to come over?"
Hearing what Su Ying said, Zhang Anna didn't know that Teacher Su was making an appointment with herself.
But sensing Su Ying's shy look, Zhang An wanted to tease her.
"I, you can come if you want. You don't have to come if you don't want to."
Su Ying must have wanted Zhang An to come, but she couldn't say it out loud, so she just didn't say it.
"Come on, come on, I used to like to go to the Lantern Festival Party. How can I not go? Then I will come over tomorrow afternoon."
Hearing Su Ying's tone, Zhang An knew that he couldn't No more fun.
My teacher Su is someone who doesn’t take teasing easily.
"Yeah."
In the end, the two of them were reluctant to hang up the phone.
It was because of Su Ying that Wu Qiuping came out of the room.
Looking at Su Ying who was on the phone, she had a vague smile on her face.
Su Ying suddenly blushed and hurriedly said a few words to Zhang An before hanging up the phone.
Otherwise, the two of them wouldn't know how long the phone call would take.
"Anzi, the water is boiled. Come down and wash your feet."
Zhang An, who was lying in the room reminiscing, was interrupted by Wang Fang's voice.
“Here we come.”
Zhang An went downstairs and saw his mother pouring hot water for him.
"Mom, I'll do it myself." Zhang An took the kettle and poured it himself, adding a lot of cold water to it.
At home, the hot water used by Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo to wash their feet was extremely hot, and Zhang An couldn't wash his feet at all.
Every time you wash your feet, you have to add some cold water.
This also made Wang Fang tell Zhang Jianguo that he would not enjoy it, saying that washing feet with hot water was good for the body.
But the water was so hot that Zhang An had to pull it out immediately after putting it in.
"By the way, Mom, is there anything going on at our house tomorrow?"
"There is nothing going on tomorrow. I am just going to light the lamp for your father and grandma. There is nothing else going on."
Wang Fang thought for a while before telling Zhang An.
Anyway, the fifteenth day is like that every year, and nothing else will happen.
"Okay, let's light the lights for my father and my mother tomorrow morning. I'm going to the city in the afternoon."
Zhang An told his family that he was going to the city. said the parents.
"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, what are you doing in the city?"
Every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, my family goes to the mountains to light lamps for the elderly, always in the afternoon.
Wang Fang was a little surprised when he heard that Zhang An was going to the city.
This child usually doesn't go out, so why would he want to go out tomorrow?
"Mom, Teacher Su said that there is a Lantern Festival party in the tomorrow square and asked me if I wanted to go and play."
Zhang An didn't want to say it at first, but his mother was too busy.
"You should go then. I'll call your second uncle and third uncle later, and I'll go turn on the lights for your grandma tomorrow morning."
Zhang An's family has been lighting up the lights for many years. We are all three families together, so the arrangements have been temporarily changed and we need to inform them in advance.
Then Wang Fang looked at his boring son and began to teach him some experience.
Zhang An really couldn't stand it, making himself look like a waste.
"That's okay, you are a boy, you have to take the initiative no matter what, find more things to say, don't let the girls feel bored staying with you."
Here it comes again. , Zhang An patted his forehead.
“Okay Mom, I understand.”
"If you have enough money to spend, I will give you more later. When you go out, don't think about saving money when you go out with Xiaoying."
"Don't give it to me, I have plenty of money. , I have never had anywhere to spend money.”
Now Zhang An seems to have a book in his mind.
It's called "Rebirth: My Mom Taught Me About Love".
On the morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wang Fang got up early and started to burn incense.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Zhang An's second uncle and third uncle's family also came to the house.
Last night Wang Fang came over and suggested that they go to light up the lights earlier. Both families were a little surprised as to why they should go so early.
After questioning, I learned that Teacher Xiao Su had made an appointment with Zhang An to play in the city. Now everyone had no objections.
So I prepared offerings of incense paper and candles early in the morning and came to meet Zhang An's house.
More than a dozen people from the family ran all morning before coming down from the mountain.
It was already noon when I came back, so I didn’t do much tidying up at noon and just made some makeshifts.
Knowing that Zhang An was not at home in the afternoon, the second aunt suggested that the uncle and the uncle family go to their house to have dinner together in the evening.
During the Chinese New Year, the three families spent time at Zhang An’s house. On the last day of the year, the second aunt also thought of calling the big guys to her home to spend the day together.
No one has any objections to this, especially Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo.
Zhang An was not at home, so it was just the two of them eating, which seemed particularly deserted.
Now that everyone is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary together, it will be much more lively.
In the afternoon, when Zhang An packed up his clothes and was about to go out, his mother caught him again and taught him a lesson.
“Look at you, what clothes you are wearing, you look like a little old man. You are such an adult, and you still don’t learn how to take care of yourself.”
Then Zhang An was raped by his own family again. Mom pulled me into the room to look for clothes.
“That suit of clothes I bought for you during the Chinese New Year. If you don’t wear them, keep them for the purpose of giving birth.”
Seeing Zhang An like this, Wang Fang felt really angry.
It’s not that she’s boasting, she thinks her son is a man, but he just doesn’t know how to deal with her.
A few years ago, Wang Fang spent a lot of money to make several sets of popular suits for Zhang An.
In the past, Wang Fang would not have spent so much money on clothes.
But now that my son is old enough, he doesn’t have many clothes to wear when going out, and he will be laughed at by others when he goes out.
Zhang An himself usually doesn’t buy clothes, so Wang Fang made several sets for him at one time.
But Zhang An doesn’t like wearing it because it makes him feel constrained and uncomfortable.
In the end, Zhang An had no choice but to change his outfit whether he wanted to or not.
Not to mention, after changing his clothes, he looked different from before, so Wang Fang let him go with satisfaction.
"Brother, where are you going to play? Take me with you."
When Zhang An got in the car, he was seen by Xiao Yanzi.
This little girl wants Zhang An to take her to play with her no matter what.
When the third aunt saw this, she quickly came over and took the little swallow away.
"Be good, Yan'er. Brother is going out to find your sister-in-law. Don't make trouble."
"Oh, brother is looking for your sister-in-law. Then brother, go and find her." My sister-in-law comes back and buys me candy.”
The little guy doesn’t know what it means to find a sister-in-law, but she knows what a sister-in-law is.
Zhou Yang and his mother, Sister-in-law Zhou, would give one or two cents to the little girl every time she saw her.
So the little guy was thinking that after his brother found his sister-in-law, someone would give her money to buy something to eat.
The little girl's abacus made a loud clicking sound, which made several adults dumbfounded.
On seeing this, Zhang An started the car and went out.
On the way, Zhang An saw someone selling water chestnuts.
Suddenly I remembered that the Bodhisattva I planted in the space had grown up.
Originally, these local Bodhisattvas are only as big as a bottle cap. Even if they are cultivated artificially and carefully cared for, the maximum diameter is only four or five centimeters.
The Bodhisattva planted in Zhang An’s space has grown to a size of seven or eight centimeters.
Zhang An was not very surprised, because when he was watching short videos later, he saw someone with hair bigger than this.
It’s just that they are a minority after all and cannot be produced in large quantities. They are considered the Bodhisattva King.
Zhang An did not hesitate, dug some in the space, washed them and put them in the car.
Bodhisattva is on the market this season, and I will take it to Su Ying’s house later.
After Zhang An entered the county town, he went straight to Su Ying's home.
“Here comes Xiaoan.”
When they arrived at the door, Wu Qiuping opened the door for Zhang An and welcomed him in with a smile.
"You're here now, why are you bringing something with you? You're not an outsider."
Seeing Zhang An carrying a big bag, Wu Qiuping was a little bit annoyed.
"Auntie, I didn't bring anything. I saw someone selling water chestnuts on the road. They were big and I was greedy, so I bought some."
Zhang An said. Hand the Bodhisattva to the future mother-in-law.
Although Wu Qiuping said that Zhang An would not be allowed to bring anything, Wu Qiuping's face was very happy.
"Xiao An, please sit down for a while, Yingying is cleaning up in the room."
(End of this chapter)