The Story of Qingfeng Village

Chapter 100 Li Qiang's thoughts

Li Qiang had already cleaned up the pigsty, and when he came out, he saw his father sitting under the eaves smoking silently, wondering what he was thinking.

And Liu Li walked around the kitchen with his grandmother, saying that he was learning cooking.

Li Qiang took a stool and sat down next to his father.

Li Fumin handed the long cigarette stick in his hand to Li Qiang, "Come on, take two puffs..."

He usually doesn't smoke much, but he really hasn't smoked this one.

Li Qiang took it and took a sip like his father, but he choked until tears flowed out.

Hearing the sound of coughing, Liu Li ran out to look, and asked concerned: "What's the matter, uncle?"

Li Qiang waved his hand: "It's okay, I'm choking."

Li Fumin laughed loudly: "It's really not good for ordinary people to smoke this, haha...Liu Li, do you want to try it?"

Before Liu Li could answer, Aunt Li came out of the kitchen with a pot.

"What are you smoking? Children are from every family. Don't teach them badly... You guys are full of cigarettes, so you don't need to eat..."

After speaking, he took the pot and entered the main room.

Liu Li followed in with a stack of bowls and chopsticks.

Turning around, he said to grandpa and uncle: "Grandma cooks even pot noodles, which are very fragrant."

Li Fumin nuzzled at his son, meaning: Seeing that your mother is in charge, this posture is different.Smoking has to be controlled.

Li Qiang: "Dad, you can ask for more blessings in the future. I can't help you."

Li Fumin put away the cigarette rod, "I was afraid that she would fail, so I let her...go, let's eat."

On the table is a pot of noodles, golden fried eggs, white noodles, green vegetables, green onion and lard stars floating on the surface...

Haven't eaten yet, but it smells delicious.

"Grandma's cooking skills are really good, and the simple noodles are cooked to a full color and fragrance."

Liu Li took a bowl and filled a bowl for everyone.

Aunt Li: "Eat, eat, my dear grandson, eat more."

"Grandpa, Uncle, eat it while it's still hot, we have to go to a meeting after eating."

Yes, go to a meeting after eating.

The three of them didn't speak, they all started to eat in a daze.

A pot of noodles is eaten quickly.

After dinner, Aunt Li cleaned up and urged Liu Li to go out quickly, so as not to miss the meeting.

So the three generations of the Li family went out together.

When I arrived at the village committee, I didn't see Secretary Xiao and Wang Jinfa, and Li Jinfeng was not there at the canteen next door, and Yao Ma was helping her look after the store.

A bunch of people were sitting at the door chatting and setting up a dragon formation.

Yao Ma: "Secretary Li, Li Qiang, Liu Li, are you here? They went up first."

Li Qiang said: "Dad, Liu Li, you go up first, I'll make a call."

It’s been a few days since I’ve been back, and because my mobile phone has no signal, I called my wife on the phone of the village committee on the day I came back, explaining that I’m home, and I’ll go back after I’m done, and I haven’t called again since.I'm going back tomorrow, so I'll give my wife a call.

The phone was connected, and Gao Dongli's voice came from inside: "Hello, Li Qiang..."

"Honey, have you eaten yet?"

"have eaten."

"Where's Haohao?"

"I'm watching TV. Haohao, Haohao, come on, dad is calling."

Gao Dongli's voice calling for her son came from the other end of the phone, and Li Qiang was brought back home in an instant.

After coming back for a few days, he seemed to have returned to another world, leaving his wife and son behind, and had no time to think about them.

Now his wife and son have called him back again, which warms my heart.

The son's voice sounded on the other end of the phone, soft and soft: "Dad, Dad, do you miss me?"

Without waiting for Li Qiang to answer, he said immediately: "I miss you, and mom misses too... Dad, when will you come back?"

Li Qiang: "Dad will be back tomorrow."

"Oh, that's great..."

Li Qiang could imagine how happy his son was on the phone.

Gao Dongli answered the phone: "Are you coming back tomorrow? Are you done? Do you want me to drive to the station to pick you up?"

Li Qiang said: "No need to pick it up, I'm one-legged and good-handed, so you don't need to take the trouble to make a trip, I'll just take a car and come back."

Gao Dongli said: "Why do you come back alone, what about your parents? Aren't they coming back?"

"Mom and Dad are going to stay here for a while. I guess they won't go back until after the New Year!

They also hope that we will come back for the Spring Festival. "

"This……"

Gao Dongli hadn't digested the sudden information yet.

She didn't expect that her father-in-law and mother-in-law would not come back once they left. At that time, they agreed to go back after finishing their work.

Once you live in your hometown, will you never come back?After that, don't they have to go back to their hometown every Spring Festival?
"Could it be that mom and dad won't come back in the future? They've stayed in their hometown."

Li Qiang knew Gao Dongli's worry, and said: "No, no, it's because of a little unexpected situation. When we came back, I didn't expect my nephew to come to the village to support education. My parents were worried about him and we had a lot of friends with him. We haven't seen each other for a year, and now that we see him, I feel a little bit reluctant, and want to stay here with him for a while longer. It won't be too long, just a few months. They will go back with us after the New Year is over."

"Your nephew? Is it your sister's son?"

Gao Dongli only knew that Li Qiang had a sister who died long ago and a nephew, but she didn't know much about the others.

"Yes. We have been away from our hometown for so many years, and our parents have never seen him, so..."

So of course the old man is reluctant to see his grandson, and it is reasonable to want to stay together for a longer period of time.

Gao Dongli thought this way and said straightforwardly: "Alright then! Let them stay in their hometown for a while longer.

It stands to reason that I have been married to you for so many years, I should have gone back to my hometown long ago.But I haven’t gone back, and it’s a bit unreasonable... We will take Haohao back this year for Chinese New Year, and then we will bring our parents back together. "

With such a reasonable and understanding wife, what else can Li Qiang say, and what he wants to say, his wife will say it for him.

"Okay, that's the decision."

Li Qiang readily agreed at this time, but he was a little uneasy.

He vaguely felt that his parents might not follow him back.

What should I do then?

Alas, forget it, don't think so much before that time, he comforted himself again.

Maybe Dongli will bring Haohao back for the new year and pick them up. For the sake of their daughter-in-law and grandson, they will go back.

At this moment, Liu Li hurried in, "Uncle, uncle, everyone is here, I'm just waiting for you."

"Okay, come right away."

He said to the phone: "Okay, don't talk about it, I will talk about it when I go back."

He hung up the phone, followed Liu Li and hurried to the school on the slope.

A classroom at the school has been turned on and brightly lit. Secretary Xiao is sitting on the podium in front, looking at the materials.

The tables in the middle of the front row were already occupied, including President Wang, Wang Jinfa, Zhu Xia, Wang Deshun, Li Fugui, Wang Xiaochun, and a few familiar seniors.

And my father and Uncle Zhu sat at the end, not knowing what they were mumbling about.

Looking at this posture, Li Qiang felt like returning to the classroom.

(End of this chapter)