struggle in a small town

Chapter 90

Zhang Xuejiao was peeling potatoes while chatting with Liu Huifang.

But most of the time it was Liu Huifang who was talking, and she responded.

Liu Huifang sighed: "Your grandma has been sleeping more and more recently, and she is a little confused."

"Go to the hospital?"

"I went, the doctor said that at her age, she is in good health, and there is nothing serious about it."

Zhang Xuejiao threw the peeled potatoes into the sink. Before she could speak, she heard Liu Huifang scold her: "What are you throwing? Can't you put it gently?"

"understood."

Liu Huifang continued to mutter: "Your father asked Sun Qiang to go out and do it alone, and he will not accept apprentices in the future."

"Ah."

"Your father discussed with me to clean up the old house on West [-]st Road and move it back there, and the factory will quit."

Zhang Xuejiao was startled, and she was a little anxious to speak: "If you say you don't do it, you don't do it?"

"What are you in a hurry for?" Liu Huifang gave her a white look: "You and Xiao Yu are both girls, and there is no one to take over, so why don't you quit?"

"Besides, your dad has been working for decades, bending over and poking his back all day, so it's time for him to rest."

Zhang Xuejiao remembered that the old house was on the first floor, and it was convenient for grandma to enter and exit.

Three bedrooms and two living rooms, facing south, with a backyard.

It’s also good to move there to grow vegetables and bask in the sun.

"When are you going to move?"

"Not ready yet."

"Then what about this factory? Transfer it out?"

"I didn't think about it either."

Zhang Xuejiao didn't ask any more questions, she knew that her parents were also reluctant.

After all, I have lived here for more than ten years, and I am used to it.

Liu Huifang abducted the topic again: "What do you think Zhao Yang's family thinks? I have all the money ready, and the house has not been settled after several months of looking."

"Didn't Xiaoyu say that? She plans to buy a set next to her school so that she can go to work, and it's being built."

"When will it be built?" Liu Huifang felt a little resentful: "If you want me to say, young people like to be lively, so they should buy a set in the city center."

"That's their business, let's take care of it."

Liu Huifang hit her on the head with a green onion in her hand: "I can't control you, and I can't control Xiaoyu anymore? One by one, the wings are hard, and they will be angry with me."

Zhang Xuejiao decided to keep her mouth shut.

Eighty percent of Liu Huifang's second menopause came again.

She remembered that in the past few years, Liu Huifang was like eating a pack of dynamite, scolding whomever she caught, and displeasing anyone she saw.

"I heard Xiaoyuan moved to live with you?"

Zhang Xuejiao thought she had misheard: "Who?"

"Who is so and so! What are you listening to!"

"I didn't catch it."

"I said, did Xiaoyuan move to live with you?"

Zhang Xuejiao heard clearly this time, and couldn't laugh or cry: "When did you hear the news? He's been living here for a few months."

"How are you two getting along?"

"That's it."

Liu Huifang stretched out her hand to grab her ear: "What do you mean it's just like that? Is it compatible?"

"Mom, I'm almost 30, don't act like you were when you were a child."

"What's wrong with being 30? Even if you live to be 80, you'll still be young here." Liu Huifang pointed her finger at her forehead: "If I ask you serious, you'll just fool me."

"We're fine, but we've been busy recently, so we don't get along much."

"It's better to be busy. Being busy means that life is busy, and it's better than being idle."

Zhang Xuejiao had heard these words since she was a child, and her ears were calloused.

Zhang Jianguo's loud voice came from the living room: "Shopkeeper, bring out a big basin."

Liu Huifang quickly found two large basins and asked Zhang Xuejiao to give them away.

Zhang Jianguo and Lin Aimin had a bumper harvest today.

Each carried two huge black plastic bags, no need to guess, they must be fish.

The basin was placed on the ground, and all the fish were poured into the basin, big and small, long and short, and of different varieties.

Zhang Xuejiao squatted and pawed twice, pointed to a black fish and asked: "This fish has no scales, so it shouldn't be sick?"

"What do you know?" Zhang Jianguo was very proud: "This is a species imported from abroad, called mirror carp."

"Alas"

Looking at the slippery mirror carp, Zhang Xuejiao felt itchy all over her body.

Zhang Jianguo directed her: "Today you cook boiled fish for us."

"It's not suitable for boiled fish." Zhang Xuejiao chose, and chose a carp weighing more than two catties: "This carp is sweet and sour. I think there are also crucian carp. It's fine to stew it in soup."

With previous lessons learned, this time Lin Zhiyuan successfully knocked out the carp, disemboweled it, and cleaned it up.

Zhang Xuejiao watched him from the beginning to the end, and praised him: "You are not bad, you have made great progress."

"Is there any reward?"

"Yes~" Zhang Xuejiao kissed him on the face: "My husband is great."

Lin Zhiyuan looked back, but there was no one outside the kitchen, so he leaned into her ear: "If you said this sentence on another occasion, I would like to hear it even more."

"Go to work, get cheap and be good."

Wang Xiangmei woke up from sleep and walked down tremblingly holding on to the railing.

Hearing that Zhang Xuejiao is back, I have to go to the kitchen to find her.

Liu Huifang hurriedly shouted: "Xiaoxue, grandma is awake."

Zhang Xuejiao hurriedly wiped her hands, and ran out to support Wang Xiangmei's other arm: "Grandma~ I miss you so much."

"Think I'm not coming back?"

Helping Wang Xiangmei to sit next to the sofa, Zhang Xuejiao consciously entered the role of a good granddaughter: "Grandma, I will try to come back as often as possible in the future, okay?"

"That's what you said." Wang Xiangmei said to her secretly: "I want to eat crystal cakes from the lime kiln, but your mother won't buy them for me, so you buy them for me."

Zhang Xuejiao was in a difficult situation.

Wang Xiangmei's blood sugar is a little high, and Liu Huifang controls it when she usually eats.

Cakes like crystal cakes with a bag of sugar inside and noodles all over the outside are definitely not edible.

Wang Xiangmei winked like a child: "One, I will eat one."

Zhang Xuejiao compromised: "Okay, I'll buy it for you, but you can't eat too much."

Halfway through the meal, Wang Xiangmei started to feel sleepy again.

Zhang Xuejiao helped her upstairs to rest, always feeling that something was wrong with her state.

It took less than two hours to wake up, and I was sleepy again.

Watching Wang Xiangmei fall asleep, Zhang Xuejiao returned to the dining table with a heavy heart: "Mom, what did you do when you took my grandma to the hospital?"

"As far as those items are concerned, everything that can be checked has been checked, and the doctor said that they are all within the normal range."

"Grandma is getting worse and worse."

Zhang Xuejiao didn't dare to say the second half of the sentence.

The atmosphere on the table suddenly became dull.

Lin Zhiyuan held Zhang Xuejiao's hand under the table: "Why don't we take grandma to Xi'an to check."

"it is good."

There was a knock at the door, and Zhang Yuqiao finally came back.

From her expression and brisk steps, it can be seen that she is in a good mood.

When she entered the door and saw Zhang Xuejiao, she was surprised: "My sister is back? Why didn't anyone tell me?"

Liu Huifang ignored her.

Zhang Jianguo actually said a few words to her: "You still know to come back? I haven't seen you for several days."

Zhang Yuqiao stuck out her tongue, put down her satchel, and squeezed into a chair with Zhang Xuejiao.

Zhang Xuejiao took a chopstick of potato shreds and brought it to her mouth: "Try it."

Zhang Yuqiao didn't dislike it either, she ate it and chewed it, her eyes lit up: "It's a new taste."

"I let Lao Ganma go."

"good to eat."

Zhang Yuqiao ran to get a chair, chopsticks and a bowl, sat down and began to eat and drink.

Liu Huifang was angry and deliberately found fault: "Hey, Zhao Yang doesn't even let you take care of the food?"

"No, I've eaten."

"Eat it and you still eat it?"

Zhang Yuqiao hurriedly behaved: "Mom, we went to look at the house."

"Fancy?"

"Yeah." Zhang Yuqiao squeezed out a flattering smirk: "It's a little far away, I'm afraid you won't agree."

(End of this chapter)