Happy Life in Siheyuan

Chapter 275 Back to Mother's Home

"By the way, my mother wrote a letter, saying that my elder brother will get married next month, so let's go back when we have time."

Li Xiuzhi reached out and took a letter from the bedside and handed it to Xu Lingjun with a look of expectation on her face.

Since she fled here three years ago, she has never been back to her natal home, not only because the distance is too far, but also because her cousin spread the news about her marrying an old You in her natal home, and she didn't want to let Xu Lingjun was wronged.

Therefore, although Xu Lingjun said every year that he wanted to accompany her back to her natal home, she never agreed.

It's all right now, Xu Lingjun has taken off the hat of Laoyou on her head, and she has become a national teacher, and it coincides with her elder brother getting married, so she is uncontrollably homesick.

"Okay! Anyway, the school is on holiday now, so we might as well go back to live for a while. Tomorrow I will go to the factory to open a letter of introduction, and then I will go to the county to buy a train ticket."

Xu Lingjun frowned, and immediately nodded in agreement.

"Then what about the chickens, ducks and rabbits in our yard?"

Li Xiuzhi frowned and asked.

"It's okay, we'll just ask Mrs. Dong and Mrs. Niu to take care of it."

Xu Lingjun waved his hand and smiled.

"Well! Then I'll talk to them now."

Li Xiuzhi frowned, and hurriedly got up and walked towards the door.

"Hey, why are you in a hurry, don't they still come over for dinner tonight! You can tell them then, so you don't have to make another trip."

Xu Lingjun dissuaded him somewhat dumbfounded.

Li Xiuzhi paused, turned her head to look at Xu Lingjun, and said with some embarrassment: "Then I'll go to the yard to see how much wheat chaff is left?"

After speaking, she opened the door and walked out.

Soon it was night.

"Lingjun, what are you doing delicious today?"

As soon as he entered the door, Guo Bizi opened it loudly.

"Eating chicken today."

Li Xiuzhi replied with a smile, and picked up the teapot to make tea.

Because she was going back to her mother's house in two days, she was worried that the chickens, ducks and rabbits she raised would become thinner, so she simply asked Xu Lingjun to cook some of the fatter ones and eat them.

"Okay! Chicken is my favorite."

Guo Shuzi's eyes lit up, and he smiled expectantly.

"Go, go, as long as it's Lingjun's cooking, I haven't heard you say that you don't like it."

Niu Fengying said with some disgust.

"hey-hey!"

Guo Bizi smiled awkwardly, and didn't dare to talk back to Niu Fengying, for fear of offending Niu Fengying and not cooking for him in the future.

"Now Lingjun is in his prime. The children are on vacation, and he is also on vacation, so he doesn't have to go to the mountains to graze the horses anymore!"

Uncle Dong was sitting on a chair, while fiddling with the dry tobacco, he said with emotion.

"How else can I be called a cultural person!"

Guo Bizi immediately answered the conversation with a smile.

"Come on, have some tea."

Li Xiuzhi poured tea for everyone, then took Niu Fengying to Aunt Dong, and said softly, "Mother, sister-in-law, Lingjun and I plan to go back to my mother's house for a period of time in two days, and I would like to trouble you to take care of the animals at home."

"Okay! You don't have to worry about it, my aunt and I will take care of it for you."

Upon hearing this, Niu Fengying nodded in agreement.

"That's right. After all, you have been here for more than three years. You really should go back to see your parents. It just so happens that Lingjun is on vacation. You can go back and stay for a while. You have us at home, so don't worry!"

Aunt Dong took Li Xiuzhi's hand and smiled kindly.

"Ok!"

Li Xiuzhi breathed a sigh of relief, pursed her lips and nodded with a smile.

If marrying Xu Lingjun was the luckiest thing in her life, then meeting good people like Niu Fengying and Aunt Dong was also a rare good thing.

"Lingjun, Lingjun."

At this time, there was a burst of shouting outside the house, and then Wang Guangyue pushed open the door and walked in.

"Hey, Captain Wang, what kind of wind brought you here?"

Guo Bizi joked with a smile.

"What kind of wind can it be? The wind from Qilian Mountain!"

Dong Haisheng echoed with a smirk.

"Hey, are you trying to rebel?"

Wang Guangyue laughed and cursed a little angrily.

"Haha, how dare we!"

Dong Haisheng said he didn't dare, but he didn't dare at all on his face.

"You kid is already a father, and you're not in shape yet, sir, don't you care?"

Wang Guangyue glared at Dong Haisheng, then turned his head and complained to Uncle Dong.

"Hmph! I'm too lazy to care about him!"

Uncle Dong said a little angrily.

"Ha ha!"

Hearing this, everyone else laughed.

Dong Haisheng shrank his neck, curled his lips a little angrily.

"Cooking!"

Xu Lingjun came out with a large pot of braised chicken, and as the heat evaporated, a tempting aroma quickly spread in the room.

Everyone turned their heads to look at the pot of braised chicken, and the saliva in their mouths was secreting rapidly.

"Captain Wang, you are here! Sit down quickly."

Xu Lingjun put down the basin, saw Wang Guangyue standing at the door, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Okay, then I'll deal with it here too."

Wang Guangyue looked at the pot of braised chicken, nodded and said.

"Come on, sit down, dinner will be served right away."

Xu Lingjun smiled slightly, turned to greet the others.

With that said, he turned and went into the kitchen again, and brought out a pot of white rice.

Li Xiuzhi came over and helped everyone cook with a bowl.

Soon, everyone started eating.

"Ouch, eat slowly."

Seeing that Xu Yiyi's mouth was stuffed and he kept biting the chicken leg, Xu Lingjun hurriedly said.

"Hmm~ um!"

Xu Yiyi hesitated and continued to gnaw on the chicken leg.

Xu Lingjun shook his head helplessly, wondering if he should limit Xu Yiyi's diet, otherwise, if he continued to eat like this, he might become a fat girl in the future!
Soon after, everyone was full of wine and food, and started joking and chatting.

Wang Guangyue wiped his mouth and started talking about business.

"Lingjun, I have already asked the factory department about what you said today, and the factory department neither agreed nor objected, so you can figure it out yourself!"

Hearing this, the others all looked at Xu Lingjun curiously.

"Hey, Lingjun, what are you trying to do?"

Guo Bizi was straightforward and couldn't help but ask.

"Nothing, I just want to open a shop in our village."

Xu Lingjun smiled and explained.

"Is it like a supply and marketing cooperative?"

Guo Bizi was taken aback for a moment, and asked in surprise.

"That's right! When the time comes, folks don't have to go to the county town to buy things."

Xu Lingjun nodded and said with a smile.

"This won't cause any trouble, will it?"

Guo Bizi frowned, and said hesitantly.

"What trouble can there be? Isn't the country encouraging the development of the economy now! Didn't you hear that Captain Wang said that the factory department didn't object?"

Xu Lingjun frowned and said confidently.

"The factory department didn't agree either! I think you'd better think about it carefully."

Guo Shuzi persuaded with some worry.

"That's right! Ling Jun, although the environment has improved a bit now, but you just took off your hat, so don't give others another excuse."

Uncle Dong exhaled a puff of dry smoke, nodded, and said in a deep voice.

"Hehe, it's okay, I know what's going on."

Xu Lingjun looked at the caring eyes of everyone, a warm current flashed in his heart, he waved his hand and smiled.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and some people's lips twitched, but in the end they didn't speak any more to persuade them.

In fact, they also couldn't figure out why Xu Lingjun wanted to open a store.

Now every household in their village raises some poultry and livestock, plus the monthly salary, there is basically no shortage of food and drink, so there is no need to take risks in business.

What's more, Xu Lingjun is still a national teacher, instead of teaching and educating people well, he wants to open a store instead. Isn't this influence a bit bad?
It's just that over the years, they have all been unknowingly impressed by Xu Lingjun's ability, so it's hard for them to say more.

Not long after, everyone got up and left.

Li Xiuzhi cleaned up the dishes, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, hesitated for a while, and said, "Are you really planning to open a store?"

"Yup!"

Xu Lingjun turned his head and glanced at Li Xiuzhi, then smiled softly.

"Then you usually have to go to school, how can you have time to take care of these things?"

Li Xiuzhi frowned, and said worriedly.

"Isn't there still you! When I go to school, you will watch the store at home."

Xu Lingjun said with a smile.

"I?"

Li Xiuzhi stared and said in surprise.

"That's right! From now on, you should stop working in the fields and be the boss at home."

Xu Lingjun nodded and smiled.

"No, no, how can this work? If we don't work in the fields, how can our family have so many food stamps to buy food?"

Li Xiuzhi shook her head violently and said.

"Haha, idiot, don't you know that the country has opened up trade now? As long as you have money, you are still worried that you won't be able to buy food!"

Xu Lingjun said with a loud laugh.

"Really?"

Li Xiuzhi asked with some doubts.

"real."

Xu Lingjun nodded seriously.

In fact, although the prelude to reform and opening up has been unveiled, the era of purchasing materials by tickets will not end for more than ten years, and the transaction of ticket money is still shady.

It's just that the risk of trading is not so great.

Li Xiuzhi was relieved for a while when she heard what Xu Lingjun said, she never thought that Xu Lingjun said it deliberately to comfort her.

Then, Xu Lingjun also told Li Xiuzhi about the renovation of the house.

Li Xiuzhi didn't pay much attention to this, she just said that Xu Lingjun could make the decision.

The next day, after Xu Lingjun had breakfast at home, he took Xu Yiyi to the factory to issue a letter of introduction to visit relatives, and then went to the railway station in the county town to buy train tickets, and by the way, bought some national food stamps from the ticket dealers in the county town .

Then, he went to the brick and tile factory, cement factory, and steel factory in the county seat, and each ordered a batch of materials. After visiting relatives, he started to renovate the house.

On the third day, Guo Bizi drove the carriage to Xu Lingjun's house early in the morning, and took the family to the county railway station.

"Papa, where are we going?"

Xu Yiyi asked curiously.

"Go to grandpa and grandma's house!"

Xu Lingjun put the luggage on the chair in the waiting hall, and replied with a smile.

"Does grandpa and grandma's house also have a prairie?"

Xu Yiyi's eyes lit up, and she asked expectantly.

"no!"

Xu Lingjun shook his head and said.

"Oh, are there any horses?"

Xu Yiyi wrinkled her nose, and then asked.

"no!"

Xu Lingjun said with a smile.

"What's the matter?"

Xu Yiyi asked with some disappointment.

"Well, there are delicious ones."

Xu Lingjun frowned, and said after a moment of pondering.

"Really?"

Xu Yiyi's eyes lit up, and she suddenly became energetic.

"real."

Xu Lingjun said seriously.

He thought to himself, even if there wasn't one, there would definitely be one after he went.

"Hee hee, then let's go quickly!"

Xu Yiyi immediately urged with a smile on his face.

"Okay! We'll take the train later."

"Is it the long car we saw yesterday?"

"Yes! Your mother came here by train."

"Well, then why is it called a train?"

"Uh this"

Xu Lingjun suddenly had a headache, why did the one hundred thousand come again!

Sometimes, children ask questions that adults can't think of.

Just like now, whether in his previous life or in this life, he has never thought about why the train is called a train instead of an iron car?

"Papa, don't you know?"

Xu Yiyi looked at Xu Lingjun with some disappointment.

"Ahem, how is it possible, I was just thinking about how to tell you."

Xu Lingjun coughed a few times and said bravely.

"Oh!"

Xu Yiyi nodded, obediently waiting for Xu Lingjun to explain.

"Well, a train is called a train because it smokes."

Xu Lingjun turned his head quickly, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and said with a smile.

"Oh! Then why does it smoke?"

Xu Yiyi immediately asked why.

"because."

The corner of Xu Lingjun's mouth twitched, and then he turned his head to answer the question.

Time passed bit by bit, and when he was tortured by a hundred thousand reasons, the pit stop announcement finally sounded in the hall.

He breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly picked up his luggage, and motioned for Li Xiuzhi to follow Xu Yiyi in his arms.

Li Xiuzhi pursed her lips into a smile, picked up Xu Yiyi with some joy, and followed Xu Lingjun to the platform.

Soon after, they successfully passed the ticket inspection and boarded the train.

It took about ten hours to travel from Qilian Mountains to Jiangyou in Shudi, and they were not short of money, so they naturally bought hard sleepers.

Li Xiuzhi was sitting in the hard sleeper compartment, recalling the scene of sitting in the open-air train warehouse back then, she couldn't help feeling deeply moved.

At the same time, the look in her eyes towards Xu Lingjun was even more tender.

Xu Lingjun didn't notice Li Xiuzhi's strangeness. Looking at the crude and messy canopy bed in the carriage, he couldn't help but shook his head in his heart, then reached out and took out the bed sheet from the luggage bag and spread it on.

However, although he was not very satisfied with the environment of the carriage, he had already bought all the sleeper tickets in the carriage, at least he didn't have to worry about being crowded with other people.

Not long after, the train started slowly.

"Papa, look, it's moving, it's moving!"

Xu Yiyi leaned on the window with an excited face, pointing to the slowly receding scenery outside the window and said.

With the sound of a siren, the train drifted away, and their family also embarked on a trip to visit relatives.

(End of this chapter)