Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

Chapter 393 Think of a trick

Sheng Xinhua is only two and a half years old, and the memory of such a young child is not that strong.

I don't know whether it was because he was unfamiliar with his mother after not seeing him for so long, or because he thought her mother had left him behind for so long. Anyway, the baby was hugging his grandma's thigh and looking at Zhou Qinglan with tears in his eyes.

"Xinhua, I'm mom, why don't you recognize mom?"

When Zhou Qinglan saw her son like this, she felt like her heart was cut by a knife. The child didn't dare to recognize her after not seeing her for a long time.

"Come, let mom hug you, mom misses you." Zhou Qinglan knelt down and reached out towards her son.

Sheng Xinhua tilted his head and looked at Zhou Qinglan, but did not step forward, still holding Zhang Shuzhen's legs.

"The child is young. If you leave for four or five months, he won't be able to remember you. It's okay. You can just coax him later."

When Zhang Shuzhen saw this, she could only give Zhou Qinglan a few words of advice. "Let's go into the house. Let's sit down and talk slowly."

With tears in her eyes, Zhou Qinglan stood up with Sheng Xinyu in her arms. Sheng Xi'an, Sheng Yunfang and the others, carrying large and small packages, entered the house and sat down.

"Hey, why do I see that my dick is so dark and thin? Girl, you've lost weight too. Why, isn't the food in school good?"

Zhang Shuzhen looked at her eldest daughter-in-law and her second son anxiously, and said distressedly.

Zhou Qinglan has indeed lost some weight, mainly because she was pregnant with her second child and was in confinement, and Zhang Shuzhen took good care of her, so she gained a lot of weight.

When she went out to study and weaned off Sheng Xinyu, and the food at school was indeed not as good as at home, she would naturally lose weight if she was busier and studied harder.

As for Sheng Xi'an, they do running exercises every day at school. As time goes by, they will naturally lose weight and become darker. This is normal.

"Mom, the food in school is pretty good. The cafeteria has everything, including meat and vegetables.

The main reason is that we are tired from studying. Everyone is studying hard and trying to make up for the missed years in the past. They study very late every day. " Zhou Qinglan explained.

Indeed, among the first batch of people admitted to college after the resumption of the college entrance examination, the oldest ones are almost thirty.

After participating in the labor force for so many years, they are finally looking forward to college life. Many people are studying like crazy, trying to make up for the lost time.

No one was laughing or playing in the school. They were holding books and reading almost anytime and anywhere.

The enthusiasm of these people for knowledge and learning is incomprehensible to others.

"Well, it's the same in our school. We all focus on studying with our children. When the lights are turned off at night, we hide in bed and read with a flashlight."

Sheng Xi'an nodded, this is a common phenomenon, it is the same in almost every university.

"Oh, you can't just focus on studying and not take care of your body." Zhang Shuzhen felt heartbroken.

"Fang'er, hurry up, I'll give you the money and go to the store quickly to see if there's any meat left. If there is, buy some fat meat and come back. Let's make dumplings this afternoon."

Zhang Shuzhen suddenly remembered, quickly took out the money and sent Sheng Yunfang to buy meat.

These days, Sheng Xiping was transferred to cut down Dao Shadow. He worked from dawn to dusk every day and had no time to go hunting in the mountains.

Huahua hadn't sent meat to her house for some time, so Zhang Shuzhen asked Sheng Yunfang to buy some meat.

There is a small train coming up today, and it will definitely bring some meat to the store. I don't know whether I can grab it or not.

"Hey, I got it, Mom." Sheng Yunfang took the money and meat tickets and ran out quickly.

At this moment, Zhou Qinglan also remembered that she had brought some things back, so she quickly opened the bag and took out the things.

There were candies, snacks, milk powder, and malted milk she bought from the provincial capital, as well as clothes, shoes, hairpins, stationery, etc. that she bought for her brothers and sisters at home. She took out a lot.

There is a subsidy for college students, which is 24 yuan a month, and the food in the school cafeteria is not expensive. For example, Zhou Qinglan has a small appetite and can still have a lot of money left over a month.

In addition, Sheng Xiping, Zhou Mingyuan, and Zhou Qingyang also send some money to Zhou Qinglan every month, so Zhou Qinglan has quite a lot of money.

She doesn't spend much money and keeps whatever she saves to buy things for her family.

"Xinhua, come on, mommy has some candy here, come on."

Zhou Qinglan grabbed a few pieces of candy from the paper bag, distributed them to Chen Feng, Chen Yue, and Sheng Xitai, and then waved to Sheng Xinhua.

Sheng Xinhua was sitting next to her grandma. When she saw the candy, her eyes lit up and she turned to look at her grandma.

When Zhang Shuzhen saw her grandson like this, she knew that he was craving for delicious food, so she raised her hand and touched Xinhua's little head.

"Go ahead, why don't you want the delicious food your mother gives you?"

After all, children are unable to resist the temptation of sweets.

Sheng Xinhua walked up to Zhou Qinglan, stood next to Zhou Qinglan, and called her mother in embarrassment.

"Hey, my darling son."

Zhou Qinglan picked up the child, put it on his lap, grabbed a handful of candies from the bag, and stuffed it into Sheng Xinhua's pocket.

"Good son, call me mom again."

When she goes out to study, what Zhou Qinglan misses most is her two children at home.

When Sheng Xinhua didn't recognize her when she entered the house just now, Zhou Qinglan felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Mom." Sheng Xinhua held two pieces of candy in his hand, raised his head and shouted again, and kissed Zhou Qinglan on the face.

Zhou Qinglan was so excited that she hugged Sheng Xinhua tightly and quickly gave him two more biscuits.

Next to Zhou Qinglan sits Sheng Xinyu. This little guy is ten months old and can sometimes stand up while holding on to things.

Seeing that his mother gave his brother candy, the little guy opened his mouth and drooled. He crawled to his brother on his hands and feet and screamed at him.

The meaning is obvious, he also wants delicious food.

"Hey, Xinyu is also greedy, isn't he? Quick, cut the candy into four pieces with a knife. It doesn't matter if you give it to him to try."

Zhang Shuzhen knew what her grandson was doing at the first glance, so she quickly called to Sheng Xitai, cut the candy and gave it to Sheng Xinyu to have a taste.

The candy was so big that I didn't dare to give it to Sheng Xinyu whole, for fear that he would choke.

After hearing this, Sheng Xitai immediately took the candy to the kitchen, cut the candy into four parts with a knife, and then stuffed one part into Sheng Xinyu's mouth.

As soon as the sweet candy entered his mouth, Xiao Xinyu's eyes widened immediately, he sat down with a smile on his face and ate the candy quietly.

At this time, Sheng Yunfang, who went to buy meat, ran back and shouted as soon as he entered the yard.

"Mom, I bought the meat. I managed to grab a piece. It's three kilograms, isn't it a lot?"

Zhang Shuzhen hurriedly walked out of the room, took the piece of meat from her daughter's hand and looked at it. It should be the front part, not too fat.

In these days, everyone loves to eat fat meat. No one cares about the thin meat. For the same price, the fat meat tastes so good.

"Okay, it's pretty good. I'll chop it up and make dumplings to eat in the afternoon."

I'm a little thin, but I don't have any tricks. If I can grab it, it's good. At worst, I'll put a little more oil when adjusting the stuffing.

Zhang Shuzhen casually put the meat into a small basin and put it on the shelf.

Then he called his daughter into the house, "Your sister-in-law has bought you some pretty hairpins and silk hair tie. Come and have a look."

In the house, Zhou Qinglan distributed the things she brought back to her brother-in-law and sister-in-law one by one, and gave the rest to her mother-in-law for safekeeping.

Then he sat on the kang, holding his son in each arm, playing with them.

After all, they are mother and son, connected by blood. After getting along for a while, Sheng Xinhua is no longer as alienated as before. She is leaning into her mother's arms and smiling happily.

Everyone chatted for a while, and it was almost noon.

Normally, the weather in July would be hot, and most people would not cook at noon. The porridge in the morning would still be warm, so just eat something casually.

But today Zhou Qinglan and Sheng Xi'an are back, and there are also brother and sister Chen Feng, so they can't deal with them blindly.

So Zhang Shuzhen called sister Sheng Yunfang and quickly went to pack up some vegetables and simmer a pot of rice.

At noon, the family had a happy meal, and in the afternoon Zhou Qinglan coaxed Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu to take a nap.

Sheng Xitai took Chen Feng and Chen Yue out to play, while Zhang Shuzhen chopped stuffing and kneaded noodles with her two girls.

After the two Sheng Xinhua brothers fell asleep, Zhou Qinglan also came out to help.

The mothers took advantage of the time when the children were sleeping to make dumplings. By the time Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu woke up, most of the dumplings had been made.

It just so happened that Sheng Xitai and the others had gone out for a field trip and brought back a small pot of trays and half a bucket of crickets.

Sheng Xitai and Chen Feng coaxed the two brothers Sheng Xinhua to eat from the tray, and then caught a small cricket and put it on the north kang to climb up.

Not to mention, this thing is so useful for coaxing children. When the two children looked at the crawling cricket, their eyes widened. How could they bother to make trouble on the south kang?

Just like that, the ladies on Nankang finished making the dumplings smoothly and hurriedly took them to the outer room.

At around five o'clock, Zhang Shuzhen called to boil water to cook dumplings. At 05:30, Sheng Liancheng went home first.

As soon as he entered his yard, Sheng Liancheng smelled the delicious aroma of chive filling.

"Did you make dumplings stuffed with chives today? Hey, why do you cook them in two pots at the same time?"

Sheng Liancheng knew that the eldest daughter-in-law and the second child were coming back. He guessed that with Zhang Shuzhen's usual style, the family would be able to make dumplings today.

Sure enough, as soon as they entered the house, they saw Zhang Shuzhen and Zhou Qinglan, standing in front of the stove, gently stirring the dumplings in the pot with a spoon.

Sheng Liancheng was a little confused for a moment. How many dumplings were made and cooked in two pots?

"It has two kinds of fillings, leek meat and celery meat. You can eat whichever you like."

Zhang Shuzhen smiled while looking at the pot.

At this time, leeks usually start sprouting. Some people say that the sprouting leeks cannot be cut, and the leeks will die if cut.

Zhang Shuzhen didn't care about that. As soon as two rows of leeks sprouted in the Sheng family's vegetable garden, she let her cut them to make dumplings.

"They are working hard at school day by day and have lost weight. Make some delicious food to replenish their weight."

"Well, okay, you look at the arrangements. I'll wash my hands."

Sheng Liancheng nodded, scooped out a basin of water, washed his hands carefully with soap, and then entered the house.

As soon as he entered the house, he found that not only Sheng Xi'an and Zhou Qinglan were back, but there were two more people at home, Chen Feng and a little girl. "Grandpa, you're back. Did you miss me? I'm here again, and this time I brought my sister."

As soon as Chen Feng saw Sheng Liancheng entering the door, he came over with a playful smile and asked with a smile.

"Think, how can I not miss my grandson?
Is this your sister Xiaoyue'er?Ouch, such a pretty girl, come on, let grandpa take a look. "

Sheng Liancheng hugged Chen Feng, patted his shoulder, and then waved to Chen Yue.

Chen Yue obediently walked closer and greeted Sheng Liancheng, "Hello, Grandpa Sheng. I am Chen Yue."

"Hey, okay, okay, this kid is really rare."

The Sheng family has more boys than girls. In Sheng Xiping's generation, there are four boys and two girls. In Sheng Xinhua's generation, there are currently only two boys.

Sheng Liancheng was looking forward to having a granddaughter, so when he saw the cute and well-behaved Chen Yue, he was naturally very excited and smiled kindly and lovingly at Chen Yue.

“Coming here is just like home, no need to be restrained, just tell me what you want to eat.

When you usually go out with your uncle, be more careful. We have mountains and rivers here, so be more careful. "Sheng Liancheng gave a few worried warnings.

"Lao Liu, did you hear? You are not allowed to lead Xiaoyue'er and the others to places that are too dangerous.

You are absolutely not allowed to go to the other side of the Diaoyutai, there are any air-raid shelters, etc., nor are they allowed to go into the woods that are too deep.

Xiao Yue'er is a girl, not a naughty boy like you. I don't want to run around with you all over the mountain. What if I bump into her? "

Sheng Liancheng turned his head and gave some instructions to the old man Sheng Xitai.

"Oh, I understand, Dad. Don't worry, I won't lead Xiaoyue'er to those places."

Sheng Xitai is older now and is much more sensible than before. He doesn't need Sheng Liancheng to ask him about this.

"Well, remember what you said and don't forget it." Sheng Liancheng nodded and went to play with his grandson.

At this time, the dumplings were cooked and taken out of the pot. Zhang Shuzhen shouted, and Sheng Xitai and Chen Feng in the room all went out to help serve the dumplings.

The dumplings are hot right out of the pan. I don’t like eating them hot on this hot day.

Besides, Sheng Xiping hasn't come back yet, so everyone is not in a hurry to eat and just sit there and wait.

At this time, footsteps sounded outside, and Sheng Xiping walked into the yard wearing big boots.

"Oh my god, how did you get this thing to be covered in mud?"

Zhou Qinglan came out of the house when she heard the noise, and saw Sheng Xiping covered in mud. Zhou Qinglan was stunned.

"What are you doing in the security department? How can you still cause this?"

"What's the Security Department? The Security Department? I've already been kicked down by someone and returned to the engineering team."

Seeing his wife coming back, he should have been happy, but Sheng Xiping's muddy body and all the bad things happened recently made him really not in a good mood.

"We have a new secretary in the field. He may be struggling every day. At this time, we are asked to go up the mountain to cut roads and build tractor roads. We are going to go up the mountain to cut trees after a while.

Today's road construction is full of ditches and ponds. Look at the body made for me. "

Sheng Xiping lowered his head and looked at himself. The trousers of his work clothes could hardly be seen anymore.

"A new secretary? What about Uncle Wang? Where has he been transferred?" Zhou Qinglan was stunned, was he transferred at this time?what's going on?
"The director of Tiaotanghe Forestry Bureau has gone. The new one came directly from the province. He is not a big official and has a lot of airs.

You don’t know that this day-to-day life may be a struggle. "

As Sheng Xiping said this, he took off his wet boots and then took off his work clothes as well.

Zhou Qinglan got a basin of water, Sheng Xiping washed his face, wiped his neck with a towel, and then used the basin of water to pour some water on his feet to rinse.

Will the smell get better after wearing water boots for a day in this weather?
I don't have time to soak my feet or something like that right now, so I can get some water to rinse it and remove the smell, otherwise how could he enter the house to eat?Don't all the people in that room have to be smoked out by him?

After washing his feet, Sheng Xiping didn't bother to wipe his feet. He just pulled on a pair of old cloth shoes handed over by Zhou Qinglan and stepped into the house.

"Hey, Chen Feng and Yue'er are here? Xiao Yue'er, if you leave your mother, you can't cry at night, right?"

As soon as Sheng Xiping entered the room, he saw Chen Feng and Chen Yue, so he deliberately asked Chen Yue.

"No, I won't cry as long as my brother and aunt are here." Chen Yue was teased by Sheng Xiping, looking embarrassed.

In the past few months, every Sunday, Shao Minzhi cooked delicious food and asked Zhou Qinglan to come over for dinner.

At first, Zhou Qinglan was embarrassed to go, thinking it would be too much trouble for others.

Shao Minzhi said that she would like to ask Zhou Qinglan to give Chen Feng some guidance on homework so that Chen Feng would not be able to keep up.

Zhou Qinglan had been worrying about Chen Feng's homework before. After Chen Feng returned to the provincial capital, Zhou Qinglan was worried that Chen Feng wouldn't be able to keep up.

Now that she has come to the provincial capital to study, it is also close to the Chen family. Now that Shao Minzhi has asked, Zhou Qinglan can't refuse.

So I went to Chen's house on Sunday to give Chen Feng a lecture.

After this back and forth, Chen Yue and Zhou Qinglan became familiar with each other, and they pestered Zhou Qinglan to let her give lectures and so on. Zhou Qinglan became the tutor of the Chen brothers and sisters, and got along very well with these two children.

If not, Shao Minzhi wouldn't be relieved and let Chen Yue follow.

"Okay, as long as you don't cry, we have a lot of fun places here. If you have free time, let your Aunt Yunfang and Yunfei take you to pick mushrooms, pick trays, etc."

Sheng Xiping was teasing Chen Yue on purpose. Since Chen Ruiqing and his wife dared to let Chen Yue come, there must be no problem.

"Oh, don't talk about that now, sit down and eat quickly. Just in time, the dumplings are not hot anymore, so eat quickly."

Zhang Shuzhen asked everyone to sit down and eat quickly.

"Today we have dumplings filled with leek and celery meat fillings. You can eat whatever you like. Eat them as you like. Eat them open."

She's busy these days, and the weather is hot, so she has to cook and cook, so Zhang Shuzhen is not in the mood to cook anything delicious.

Sometimes I stir-fry two vegetables, sometimes I just dip cucumbers in soybean paste, pat cucumbers, etc. I haven’t made stuffed ones for a while.

So when everyone saw the fragrant dumplings on the table, their eyes lit up.

As soon as Zhang Shuzhen spoke, everyone started to scoop out the garlic sauce and dip the dumplings. They tasted delicious.

"Well, well, our food is still delicious. There must be a lot of oil in these dumplings. They are so delicious."

Sheng Xi'an nodded while eating dumplings. You can't eat such delicious dumplings in school. They are so delicious.

"Yeah, I think the meat is a bit thin. I put a lot of oil in it when making the stuffing. Does it smell good? Eat more if it smells good."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Shuzhen moved the plate towards Sheng Xi'an and asked her son to eat more.

"Yue'er, can you get used to it?" Zhang Shuzhen looked over at Chen Yue, who was eating quietly and delicately, and asked with a smile.

"I'm used to it. The dumplings made by grandma are so delicious and fragrant."

Chen Yue is also a child who has suffered from hunger and hardship. She used to eat vegetable dumplings without being dissatisfied. How can she find that the dumplings are not delicious?She is just a slow eater by nature, it’s not that she doesn’t like to eat.

"Okay, okay, just eat if you like. Just tell grandma what you want to eat and we'll make milk for you."

A cook loves to hear people praise her delicious cooking, and Zhang Shuzhen was no exception. She immediately burst into laughter and kept picking up dumplings in front of Chen Feng and Chen Yue.

"These are stuffed with leeks, they are delicious too, try them."

"Well, it's delicious, thank you grandma." Chen Yue picked up a dumpling stuffed with chives and took a bite. She nodded repeatedly and kept praising the dumplings for how delicious they were.

Who wouldn’t like such a cute, cute and sensible girl doll?

The Sheng family was extremely enthusiastic towards Chen Yue, and Chen Yue could barely survive this meal.

After dinner, the family sat on the kang and chatted casually.

Sheng Liancheng and the others had to ask about Sheng Xi'an and Zhou Qinglan going to college outside, especially about Bingcheng. Everyone was full of curiosity.

After the Niumaoguang season this year, several households in the forest farm bought radios, so there were not as many people coming to Sheng's house to listen to the radio at night as before.

On the other hand, Chen Weiguo and others came to join in the fun when they learned that Sheng Xi'an and the others were back.

Especially Chen Weimin. He and Sheng Xi'an are similar in age. They are classmates and good friends, so they came together.

Sheng Xi'an didn't know that Chen Weimin had a prosthetic leg, so he was shocked when they met unexpectedly.

After learning that Chen Weimin had a prosthetic leg installed, both Sheng Xi'an and Zhou Qinglan said that they looked much better.

When she learned that the bureau had arranged a job for Chen Weimin as a temporary worker and that he was currently a trade union officer, Sheng Xi'an was also happy for his old classmate.

"Well, thanks to the temporary worker quota in the bureau being released early and all the procedures being completed, Secretary Wang was transferred.

If this is a few days later, I feel that Wei Min, a temporary worker, will have to get stuck again. "Wang Jianshe was standing next to him and suddenly said something.

Everyone in the room understood what this meant.

With Feng Baosheng's urinary nature, even the women in the logistics department could be assigned to the saw room, so how could he possibly accept Chen Weimin?
That’s why I said that all the procedures for gains and losses have been completed.

"Hey? Xiping, this new guy is too troublesome, so there's nothing we can do about it. How about treating him? It would be great if he could be driven away."

Wang Jianshe sat next to Sheng Xiping and whispered in Sheng Xiping's ear.

Recently, everyone has been assigned to cut down the shadows and build roads. After working in mud and water day after day, they are all tired.

This work should have been done after the cold weather in autumn. At that time, there was less rain, the ditches and ponds were drier, and the roads built were easier to walk.

It rains every now and then. When it rains, the ditches and ponds are filled with water. This job is really difficult.

The road builders were all young people with bad tempers. They were scolding each other while working on the mountain.

Wang Jianshe knew that Sheng Xiping had many ideas, so he whispered to him about this matter.

Sheng Xiping's eyes flashed and he smiled, "What are you thinking about? He was parachuted directly from the province. He has a background and a backer. What can we, a common man, do?
Forget it, just work with peace of mind. It's not easy to do work at this time, and the weather is not perfect.

Just take your time, there's no rush anyway, we're still far away from the winter sports. "

Sheng Xiping said nothing, only smiled at Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo.

Several people looked at each other and smiled, and no one said anything more.

(End of this chapter)