War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 603 Let's go to class

Chapter 603 Let's go to class
In the afterglow of the setting sun, in the small farm yard at the head of the village, a square wooden dining table has already placed several farm side dishes.

Mrs. Sun, who was busy preparing food, even bought three big bowls of mutton soup with full of ingredients and aroma, and four or five thick, round and delicious big sesame cakes after cooking the dishes. .

"I reckon you came in a hurry, you must have never tasted our Pingquan's mutton soup and biscuits."

Old Mrs. Sun introduced with a smile on her face, "This is a good meal. I've been married all my life, and I can't get enough of it!"

"I heard about it on the way here"

Wei Ran took a big mouthful of sesame seed cakes, and took another big mouthful of mutton soup with plenty of pepper powder. After swallowing everything, he asked curiously, "Old man, old grandma, are you two here by yourself? Don't they?" come back to see you?"

"Come back, why don't you come back!"

Zhao Shengli picked up chopsticks and stuffed haggis into his mouth, and said happily, "The eldest son is close, the couple come back once a week, my eldest grandson came more diligently, and only left at this time yesterday.

My girl married far away, so she can only come back during the holidays. The third son, the father and son, are both busy in the army, so they may not be able to come back once a year.On the contrary, the daughter-in-law of the third eldest family must come back once a month to see it. That Biao girl, even the heavy snow can't stop her from coming back to see her, she is so filial!
Except for their generation, this summer vacation, those great-grandchildren's generation, all the fuck came here, just like the little devils mopping up back then.Hawthorn, walnuts, pickled eggs and duck eggs, everything can be made clean. "

"may not"

Mrs. Sun continued, "Once those kids come, the noodle tank at home can't wait to bottom out every three days!"

"That's great." Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"There is no idle time in our yard"

Mrs. Sun said quite proudly, "Whoever has a conflict in this village, whose daughter-in-law is being bullied, or whose family has a problem, they are willing to ask this old man to comment and help. Throughout the year Wow, it's even more lively than in Daji."

Before the old lady finished speaking, the middle-aged man who beat his wife also walked in with his wife in the afternoon with an awkward expression on his face.

"The third child is here?"

Zhao Shengli waved warmly to the couple, "It's just right, come over and have something to eat together."

"no, I'm fine"

That Liu Laosan waved his hands again and again, handed over the letter in his hand and said, "Old man, I have finished my self-criticism, 500 characters, not a single one is missing."

"Let me see"

Zhao Shengli took out his reading glasses from his pocket and put them on, first turned to the last page to look at the signature on it, then handed it to the other party and said, "Third brother, read it, your broken characters are like old sows." I sprained my ankle when I hit the ground, and I couldn’t even recognize it.”

"Huh? Still reading it?"

Liu Laosan looked embarrassedly at the daughter-in-law behind him who was holding back a smile, and then at Wei Ran who was also holding back a smile, his rough face was already flushed.

"How about I read through the loudspeaker for you?"

Zhao Shengli asked with a smile, "What's the matter? When you beat your wife, you can't wait to turn the sky around. Why are you so cowardly now?"

"No. I don't."

"Then read it!" Zhao Shengli said without refusal, "Whenever you finish reading, go back."

Liu Laosan grinned, stood up straight with a mournful face, cleared his throat, and began to read his self-criticism in a voice softer than a mosquito's.

"Speak louder!" Mr. Zhao Shengli yelled angrily, "Hit my voice!"

Not to mention Liu Laosan, even Wei Ran shivered subconsciously, but the old lady Sun gave Zhao Shengli a blank look, and said angrily, "What are you shouting for? Don't scare the child!"

"Where did you yell?" Zhao Shengli's tone immediately softened a lot.

Wei Ran was laughing happily beside him, but the youngest Liu didn't dare, so he quickly stood up straight and began to read at the top of his voice.

It's just that the review book, which can be called a running account, and the occasional words that he can't recognize what he wrote, made the smile on Wei Ran's face even stronger.

Before the review book was finished, Liu Laosan's daughter-in-law couldn't bear the embarrassment, "Old man, why don't you forget it? I think the third child also knows that he is wrong, so don't read this review book." It's strange. It's shabby."

"Look, third child, look, it's your wife who really hurts you, how can you do it?"

Zhao Shengli's tone also eased a lot, "Your self-criticism is here with me. If your wife is still crying and comes to me for comment one day, I will let you go to the brigade and read it with a loudspeaker."

"I promise! I promise I won't beat my wife!" Liu Laosan hurriedly promised again and again.

"Okay, come and eat."

Zhao Shengli waved his hand indifferently, "Don't drink your wine in the future, let me catch it once, I really went to your house to overturn the table, we have only been out of poverty for a few days? When will it be time to enjoy it? You If you have the time to drink, clean up the walnut grove in your house."

"I won't drink, I definitely won't drink."

Liu Laosan made a promise again, "Then what, old uncle, we won't eat the rice, we have already prepared it at home, and my daughter-in-law steamed steamed stuffed buns with wild vegetables."

"I brought a few for you old couple." While the beaten daughter-in-law was speaking, she had already opened the thermos bucket she had brought.

"take away take away"

Zhao Shengli waved his hand without thinking, "Why are you so messed up, kid? When in my life have I ever received anything from someone else?"

"It's just a few buns," the woman said aggrievedly.

"Don't talk about steamed stuffed buns, not even a thread!"

As Zhao Shengli said, he stood up and urged, "Go back, go back, you don't want to beat your wife anymore, third child."

"No more fights, I definitely won't fight anymore."

Liu Laosan made another promise with embarrassment, and left the small courtyard at the head of the village with his daughter-in-law and the thermos of steamed buns stuffed with wild vegetables.

"Old man, your consciousness is high enough." Wei Ran said with a grin.

Zhao Shengli replied as a matter of course, "I have observed the three major disciplines and eight points of attention all my life. How can I let a few vegetable buns be corrupted. Besides, when you leave, take away the things you brought. "

"It was given by Mr. Chen Qi"

Wei Ran pretended to be innocent and said, "If you think he wants to corrupt your consciousness, you can teach him lessons. I think the old man has low consciousness!"

"Hey! You brat, are you still learning how to speak from me?"

Zhao Shengli was amused by Wei Ran, but he sighed again, "You kid, it's as if you're telling the truth. Don't look at Chen Qi and I haven't seen each other for decades, but I know him well." , he would never give me these things."

"Old man, why don't you teach old man Chen Qi?" Wei Ran said again, "I think he misses you a lot."

Before the other party agreed, Wei Ran had already pulled out his cell phone, "I have his son's number, I'll call it now, how about you talk?"

"Let's talk, it's time to meet." Mrs. Sun comforted me.

"Let's talk!" Zhao Shengli didn't hesitate for a few seconds before making a quick decision.

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately took out his mobile phone and called Chen Qi's son. After briefly explaining the situation, he immediately added the other party's WeChat, and then started a video call.

Turning up the volume of the phone to the maximum and leaning against the rice bowl, Wei Ran whispered into Grandma Sun's ear, and after the other party nodded kindly, he quietly entered the room and picked up the gifts he brought. He took out a bottle of good wine and opened it, took a glass and filled it up, and brought it to Zhao Shengli.

At this moment, a straight shadow of Chen Qizhan also appeared on the screen of the mobile phone. The moment he saw the other party, Zhao Shengli, who was missing a sole of his foot, also stood up straight.

Seeing this, Wei Ran silently put the cigarette case and lighter on the dining table, smiled at Grandma Sun, and walked out of the small farmyard shrouded in the setting sun alone.

In the cool evening breeze, Chen Qi on the other end of the phone seemed to be radiant, every word he uttered was full of vitality, and he was completely different from Wei Ran when he first saw him. The two of them were no different from when they first met in that trench.

Outside the small courtyard, the driver of the black car, Liu Yanghe, was sitting in the driver's cab, watching the video while watching two crispy big biscuits. Next to the co-pilot, there was a bowl of hot mutton soup and a can of hawthorn. .

"Brother, are you leaving now?" Seeing Wei Ran coming out, Liu Yanghe immediately put away the biscuits in his hand and asked.

"No rush, take your time."

Wei Ran pointed behind him, "I guess we have to wait, if it's later, I'll give you some more money, you can take care of it."

"what's the matter"

Liu Yanghe waved his hands nonchalantly, "Even if nothing happens until tomorrow morning, you don't need to add money to me. Don't think I'm a shady car driver, but I'm definitely a nail in the ass!"

Wei Ran smiled, opened the car door and sat in, "Eat yours slowly, I will sit by myself for a while."

"Do you want to drink mutton soup? I invite you"

Liu Yanghe said very righteously, "It's strange to say that the mutton soup seller in this village was obviously closed when I went there in the afternoon, but it opened again just now."

Hearing this, Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, and finally just smiled and waved his hands, but in his heart he became more and more grateful to the warm-hearted old couple in the yard.

After waiting patiently for more than half an hour, Grandma Sun called Wei Ran back to the yard. After learning that Liu Yanghe was Wei Ran's driver, she even invited him in and sat at the dinner table.

"You two take your time, and I'll get you two more dishes." Grandma Sun pointed to the room, "I guess they'll chat for a while, if it's too late, you can stay here today."

"Don't be too busy." Wei Ran said quickly, "This is enough."

"Why don't you be so polite, it's okay if you don't eat enough." Grandma Sun waved her hands nonchalantly, and walked into the wing room slowly.

Under Grandma Sun's warm hospitality, Wei Ran and Liu Yanghe, who was already half full, were allowed to leave the dinner table by the old lady until they were full, and Zhao Shengli, who was in the room, also hung up the phone .

"Young man, Chen Qi said that you still have to go to Dandong to see Squad Leader Lin and the others? Is it true?" Zhao Shengli limped out of the room and asked.

"I've bought all the air tickets." Wei Ran gave an affirmative answer, and changed the subject without waiting for the other party to say anything more, "Old man, where is old man Chen Qi?"

"Don't worry about that old guy"

Zhao Shengli greeted Wei Ran to sit down at the dinner table, "I'll call my son tomorrow and ask him to take me to find that old guy. I have to talk to him. How can he be lost now?" Hun'er, he is stupefied, what time is this, and he still wants to go back to the mountain to fight! What is it, is it not an invader?"

Wei Ran grinned, hesitated for a moment and said, "Old man, since you plan to visit Mr. Chen, then I'm going to leave now. I have to go back to the capital overnight, and I have to fly to Dandong early tomorrow morning. "

"In such a hurry?"

Zhao Shengli was quite at a loss, "You child, why did you come here and leave? I haven't figured out how to thank you! Why are you leaving? No, no!"

"Old man, why don't you give me some hawthorn leaf tea?"

Wei Ran smiled and said, "I really like drinking it, how about thanking me for giving me some leaf tea?"

(End of this chapter)

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