Chapter 292 292. The Seventh Cousin’s Plan
Zhou Maozhu and his wife were just thinking about it by themselves. From the beginning to the end, they never thought about doing anything while making tea.
It is enough to show that Song Sancheng's gift of 5 kilograms of tea is really not a loss at all.
When Song Sancheng sent them away, he couldn't help but feel guilty when he remembered the generosity he had promised.
Song Tan took the initiative to say:
"Dad, you have such good taste. The people in my uncle Zhou's family are really honest. If you have been frying tea for so long, you really haven't taken advantage of it at all."
I've already given it away, so why bother asking for it after so long? Is her dad uncomfortable?
As for tea, whether it is 3 jins and 6 taels of roasted tea and one jin of dry tea, or 4 jins of roasted and 1 jin of dry tea, a little more and a little less, no one can say for sure.
But Zhou Maozhu’s family even fried the old leaves they sifted out every day, and sent them over to keep for boiling water when working at home, and they were honest from beginning to end...
< br>Song Tan, apart from anything else, is good at looking at people.
They are really honest people.
Now that he said this, Song Sanguo actually started to tremble: "Really? I'm telling you, Dad eats more salt than you eat rice, and everything he says has a deep meaning. Sometimes Don't just look at the surface!"
Ulan passed by and made a soft sound from his nose -
"Huh"
Song Sancheng:...
He stepped aside for an instant.
On the other hand, the seventh cousin was sitting there, and he was also quite touched at this moment:
Every father has to find a way to take care of his children. His child went to the frontier to get married and have children, and he himself didn’t I went there once...
Of course, the children rarely come back.
Now that he thought about it, he couldn’t help but ask his wife next to him:
"You say... how about we send something to Shuliang?"
...
To be honest, the seventh cousin used to be a stubborn person.
Because he is a chef, life at home has been okay over the years. In those days, being a cook was a good skill that could ensure income and food during droughts and floods.
So when his son saw no hope of studying, the seventh cousin thought of passing on this craft to him.
However, my son Shuliang can do anything, but he doesn’t like squatting in the kitchen!
As the son of a chef, he would rather be poor at making food than learn it.
The seventh cousin worked hard, thinking that if he had a craft, he would recruit a few apprentices in the future. The whole family would support each other. No matter whether he opened a restaurant, sold snacks or did anything else, he would always be able to support himself. .
For this reason, I tossed my son a lot, and after tossing and tossing, my son ran away.
Before I left, I left a note saying that I didn’t want to learn to cook for anything. He was really not interested.
The seventh cousin has been angry and angry, but...what's the use of being angry when no one is in front of him?
It was only later that he received news about his son, and he found out that his son had followed people to the border.
Hey guys, how long are the days over there!
Isn’t working there much harder than being a cook? ?
Sure enough, my son wrote back with complaints - it was bright early in the morning and the sun had not set at ten o'clock in the evening...
After he finished complaining, his seventh cousin asked him to come back and learn to cook, but he still refused!
The border is far away, and communication takes a lot of time. Gradually, my son got used to it.
At that time, the local mutton skewers cost 50 cents per skewer. They were pure mutton and came in large pieces!
Grapes cost 30 cents a kilogram, and there are still many shops opened by educated youths in the area. The young man does not feel nostalgic - he even met a girl!
Slowly, I took root there.
Until one day, he came back with his girlfriend and solemnly told his seventh cousin: From now on, he will stay in the frontier...
...That was all many years ago.
Cities were not yet developed at that time, and small towns like Yuncheng were not much different from counties on the frontier.
Parents can never control their children. Even if the seventh cousin is an only son, according to his old-school thinking, he will have to wait for his son to provide for him in the future.
But looking at the child's determined face, he finally said nothing.
The border is so big that there is no direct train to where my son is. Every time he goes back and forth, he has to take a bus, a bullock cart, or a motorcycle... and he has to transfer all the way to the train station. It takes a lot of suffering. The genius can come back.
After so many years, only a handful of children have come back.
Cousin Seventh wanted to go there, but he couldn't even find him.
If this were not the case, he would not have made up his mind to use the house to find a home for himself to retire in.
At this point, the son, who is now a father, has gradually realized the feelings of his parents back then, so he took the initiative to mention the house on the phone.
But he also promised that once his parents are in need, he will definitely go back!
But he came back once after getting married, but when she sent him away, Grandma Qi sighed:
“We haven’t seen him for so many years, and I have to be careful when talking to my son... I don’t know what his taste is, and I don’t know what his life is like there. He can’t even understand our native dialect.”
“We are old... we can still count on him to be here. Around you? ”
Time has not been able to erase the emotions, but it has deepened the gap step by step.
Finally, the seventh cousin also sighed.
Listening to him mentioning his son at this moment, Grandma Qi was really stunned for a while -
She thought of the mutton, fruits, dates, raisins, etc. that her son sent back from all the way every year, and finally sighed. He sighed:
“Let’s send it too.”
After finishing speaking, he hesitated for a moment:
“Don’t we still have some money? Do you think we should renovate the old house? I think we will stay in the village from now on, and we will also send a message to the children. , at least ask us to meet the grandchildren... If he doesn’t have time, now he has a location and navigation, and I have learned how to surf the Internet. Give me the address and we will go there by ourselves.”
The seventh cousin did not dare to respond to this. .
Grandma Qi’s body is not that healthy. Going to the border, at their age, if they are not accustomed to the climate again, half their lives will be lost.
But at this moment, I couldn’t help but be moved by my wife’s suggestion——
The old house has been tidied up, so it will be more comfortable for the couple to live there in the future. If my son brings the children back, the house will not be too shabby.
"Okay, I think this engineering team is good. When Tantan's house is built, let's see what it looks like. If it works, we can also strengthen our old house and tidy up the yard."
As for sending things...
The seventh cousin asked: "Honey, tea, white fungus?"
The meat and fruits on the border are good and cheap. , to say that it’s rare, that’s what he just said.
Grandma Qi nodded: "Tell Tantan carefully, I'm afraid she won't be able to settle the money with you then."
Speaking of this, Cousin Qi snorted:
"As for that girl, how can she calculate the money with me? She would rather give me an extra pound than reduce the price by one cent! This point is clear."
He was speaking with words of complaint, but there was a deep smile on his face. Obviously, the seventh cousin agreed very much with Song Tan's method of negotiating business.
The son will come back, but he will not stay.
(End of this chapter)