Rebirth started in 1987

Chapter 26
Zhang Lijun's mind was still buzzing all day long, unable to calm himself down completely.

Just in the middle of the night last night, Zhang Lijun's room was suddenly and quietly opened, and a soft body was squeezed into his arms.

Without any words or surprises, Zhang Lijun trembled and accepted everything!
This night, like a coincidence, like God's punishment, Zhang Lijun was hit hard in the heart, and he fell!

His feelings for Xiao Chunlan had been buried in his heart for several years, and he never thought that an unintentional trip to the city would make their relationship like this.

Since Xiao Chunlan married in the city, Zhang Lijun has been silently watching her life these years.

Every time I went to the city to do business, I borrowed from Xiao Chunlan's house. Over the years, the relationship between the two has only remained that of old classmates, and has never been surpassed.

Last night, Xiao Chunlan told him a lot. Her marriage with Wang Cheng had long existed in name only. She knew Zhang Lijun had been following her silently all these years.

But a few years ago, Zhang Lijun had an accident, and he reappeared in his current decadent posture, which made Xiao Chunlan feel very painful inside, so she chose to face it calmly.

Afterwards, Xiao Chunlan did not ask Zhang Lijun to take her away, nor did she ask for an answer. She only hoped that Zhang Lijun would not disappear into her world again.

The more women behave like this, the more guilty men feel. This is what Zhang Lijun feels in his heart now.

At this time, Ye Huai'an was sitting in front of the dining table, surrounded by a table full of four dishes, rare meat and vegetables.

There are scrambled tofu with cabbage, boiled radish, a scrambled egg with wild chives, and the last pickle stew, which is a big plate.

Don't underestimate that there are only four dishes, but there are tofu and eggs. In Ye Huai'an's memory, this is already a rare hearty dish.

As for eating meat?

In Ye Huai'an's memory, the family usually only buys two catties of meat for Chinese New Year, and this kind of meat is usually not eaten.

Generally, Chinese New Year is also a bowl of fast-shaped meat with fatty meat. The top is cut into flower knives to make a fat and greasy big meat fast, and the bottom is filled with pickles and the like. It is steamed like this every meal.

This bowl of steamed meat starts to be served on New Year’s Eve, and it’s only around the Lantern Festival that it can be eaten in the stomach. From the second day of junior high school, when guests come to the house, this meat becomes the main dish at home.

The meat is actually just for show and for entertaining guests, but ordinary guests also know it, so they usually don’t touch the meat in the bowl, and most of them just put some pickles under the meat to taste the meat.

Speaking of this big bowl of steamed meat, Ye Huai'an has very bad memories. When he was young and ignorant, he followed his mother back to his grandfather's house on the second day of the Lunar New Year. That day he saw the big fat and greasy meat. He grabbed a piece and stuffed it into his mouth as fast as he could.

It was that action that caused Ye Huai'an to be talked about by his uncle's family inside and out for several years.

Or maybe it was because of that matter that the relationship between Ye Huai'an and his uncle's family was much worse, and the impressions of both parties were extremely bad, and finally gradually turned into strangers.

Now that he returned to his uncle's house for dinner again, Ye Huai'an felt very complicated when he saw the dishes on the table.

The main seat on the table was an old lady, she sat with lowered eyebrows, she looked kind-hearted, but Ye Huai'an didn't dare to look at her too much, he had personally seen this woman who scolded and cried his mother several times.

Next to the old lady were his uncle and aunt. They had different expressions. The uncle's expression was obviously displeased, as if someone owed him.

But the eldest aunt next to her had a flattering expression, watched Ye Huai'an look over, quickly picked up a piece of tofu and handed it over and said.

"Come on, Huai'an, eat tofu, you look so thin, you must not have eaten anything good at home, come on, here are eggs!"

Ye Huai'an had no expression on his face, he took the tofu from the other party, put it into the Dazhi bowl next to him naturally, and replied casually.

"You all eat!"

As he said that, he was not polite, picked up a handful of scrambled eggs and ate them into his mouth, the taste was not bad.

Ye Huai'an was not surprised that the eldest aunt was so enthusiastic, maybe she was the one who asked him to come to eat at home.

Ye Huai'an knew what this man wanted from him, since he wanted something from him, he was naturally not polite, only children pretend to be polite.

Except for the aunt who was too enthusiastic, everyone else at the dinner table was silent, and even the old lady didn't look at the two brothers Ye Huai'an.

Although Dazhi's IQ is not high, he obviously doesn't like this kind of dinner, and he doesn't dare to add food. He has been eating plain rice. Obviously, the past he has experienced here casts a much deeper shadow on him than Ye Huai'an.

Ye Huai'an was not polite at all, he picked up a big handful of eggs for Dazhi, and put a few pieces of tofu into Dazhi's bowl, which attracted everyone's attention.

Especially a few children, the envy and jealousy in their eyes can be seen with the naked eye.

Ye Huai'an ate a large bowl of rice, feeling that he was still not full, stood up, and naturally went to the kitchen to fill another large bowl.

As soon as he returned to the dining table, he saw his uncle's eyes that seemed to be eating people, Ye Huai'an's mouth curved slightly, he unceremoniously picked up a piece of cabbage, and took a big mouthful of rice.

After eating two bowls of rice, Ye Huai'an finally felt [-]% full, so he said calmly.

"You are full, eat slowly!"

After speaking, he stood up and sat down on a stool in front of the coal stove.

He is very clear that eating is just a foreplay, and the next is the main event.

Sure enough, less than 5 minutes after the meal, everyone gathered in front of the coal stove to warm up the fire. The uncle was still posing, smoking dry tobacco, and not talking, and the old lady was sitting aside and dozing off.

Dazhi and Xiao Jianke were a little embarrassed and stiff, sitting there without moving, but only Ye Huai'an sat there, calmly waiting for the main drama to start.

After a while, the eldest aunt hurriedly cleaned up the dishes on the table, and pretended to take out a fruit plate from the back room, which was full of navel oranges.

The eldest aunt put the fruit plate on the small table in front of Ye Huai'an, quickly took out two navel oranges from it and handed them to Ye Huai'an, not forgetting to say.

"Huian, come and eat navel oranges. Look at the big and round navel oranges from my uncle's house. This year we only picked the big ones, and we didn't pick the small ones!"

Ye Huai'an took the navel orange calmly, nodded, and said nothing.

Seeing that Ye Huai'an didn't answer, the eldest aunt glanced at the uncle, but the uncle pretended not to see, and asked him to say those words to a junior, but he really couldn't say it.

Seeing that my uncle didn't talk to me, my aunt could only give him a hard look, then her eyes changed, and she said in a sad voice.

"Huai'an, there are some things, we also have difficulties, you see we are a big family, four children have to study, and your grandmother also has to take care of, the whole family depends on your uncle to work alone, my waist can also do If you can’t do heavy work, you should understand more!”

Hearing his aunt's complaints, Ye Huai'an didn't feel any trouble in his heart. When it comes to suffering, in fact, in this year, who in the countryside is not suffering?
It is not without any benefits for the uncle's family to raise grandma. As far as Ye Huai'an knows, the uncle pays [-] catties of rice every year for this, and when the family was separated before, because the grandpa and grandma lived with the uncle, the land that the family can grow , Almost all of them were given to the uncle, and even the house, the uncle chose to give up in the end.

This is why my uncle had to borrow money to buy a tractor by himself, and he also had to support his family.

When it comes to suffering, my own mother is really suffering. With five children and a husband who doesn't care about anything, all the pressure of the family is on her shoulders.

Even so, every year during the holidays, my mother must save some and bring some to my grandma.

Although there is nothing valuable, but the heart is indeed exhausted, and that's it, the uncle and grandmother still dislike their mother, scolding each other several times, even the funeral is not over.

Don't talk about it!

Ye Huai'an's heart is like a rock, listening to his aunt's complaints, let's just listen to it as a joke.

The eldest aunt was talking vigorously, when suddenly the sound of a tractor rattled from the direction of the village entrance. Hearing this sound, Xiao Jianke stood up abruptly and shouted at Ye Huai'an.

"Brother, my dad is back!"

Ye Huai'an also raised his head and looked out of the window, hearing the familiar clicking sound, Ye Huai'an also felt a little more at ease.

The eldest aunt panicked when she saw several people standing up. After talking for so long, she still didn't get to the point.

Now that the meal is eaten, it's time to leave!
Ye Huai'an also didn't want to listen to his aunt's gossip anymore, some things happened as they happened, the purchase of navel oranges had nothing to do with family affection, Ye Huai'an stood up, and said casually in a very flat tone.

"Auntie, let's go back. I know what you want to say. You can pick and pack the navel oranges first. I will weigh them with my uncle tomorrow. They cost three cents a catty and are settled in cash. That's it." Come on, let's go back first!"

After speaking, Ye Huai'an got up and walked out of the house. Everyone in the house had mixed feelings, watching the three of Ye Huai'an disappear into the night!
(End of this chapter)