The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 52 The most expensive house in the world
In life, there is love outside of marriage.

Two people may not be able to live together for the rest of their lives, but they love each other deeply, and their lives are filled with blazing feelings. In a momentary absence, when they are staring blankly, they can walk quietly in the evening of the setting sun or in the rain. Walking on the deserted street, miss each other deeply.

There is a kind of concern that is far away, accompanied by a lifetime, and tastes the sweetness when remembering.

When love transcends the shackles of morality, those who love each other are like the shepherds in Hoh Xil, which is heartbreaking and yet crazy.

Love can also be so beautiful.

Do you know which neighborhood your home is in, but you don’t know which building, which unit, which floor and which door it is in?
Our old Tan has.

He found his home under the command of his wife Lin Yan.

But when he walked into the door of the unit, he was immediately overwhelmed with excitement, and there was a voice in his heart: I finally have a home!

Yes, I finally have a home. 15 years, a full 15 years, spent the most beautiful years of youth in my life and worked hard to have a home of my own in this reinforced concrete city. Can you not be excited?

Excitement is accompanied by joy, and the steps going upstairs are trembling.

From this moment on, I used to envy the buildings owned by others, but now I own them.

Everything seems to be a dream, but this dream is real, because I can hear the sound of footsteps going upstairs, as well as the pounding heartbeat.There were tears of joy and pride in his eyes.

The moment I knocked on the door, I was still asking myself, is this my home?From now on, this house is your own?Some can't believe it.

The door opened, and the son stood in the door with a smile, looking at him happily.

Yes, this is my own home. From now on, this house belongs to me, and the days of renting a house are gone forever.

He picked up his son and excitedly kissed and kissed his son's little face.

Lin Yan sat on the sofa and looked at him with a smile all over her face. At this time, he felt the taste of home.Yes, this is home, this is the life of a person, all these years of hard work are worth it.

Putting down his son, he looked through every room with excitement. The son followed behind him like an orderly, introducing and explaining to him with his small mouth from time to time, showing off the achievements of himself and his mother.

"Son, is the house okay?" Old Tan asked.

"Okay, my mother and I chose it." The son replied.

"Sleep with mom or by yourself?"

"Sleep with mom."

"Sleep with Dad today?"

"No, sleep with mom."

Old Tan smiled happily.

I only stayed at home for one night, and returned to my hometown in Beipiao by car with my son the next day.

Lao Tan's fifth sister's house is at the east end of the village, next to her mother-in-law's house, in the east and west courtyards.Now there are six people in this big family, three in the fifth sister's family, plus father-in-law, mother-in-law, and Lao Tan's mother.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law live in the old house in the West Courtyard. The two old people are in good health and there is nothing wrong with them.My father-in-law used to purchase ore dressing in the village, and after the ore dressing turned yellow, he went to farm at home.My mother-in-law is an educated youth who went to the countryside and never returned to the city. She has been working in a rural supply and marketing cooperative. Now she is retired at home and tends [-] acres of land with her wife.

The fifth sister teaches in the village primary school, the fifth brother-in-law works in a shale mine in the village, and the son is in junior high school.

Lao Tan's mother was born in 77 and is now [-] years old. She is the one who has seen four generations of virtuous grandchildren.The old lady didn't enjoy any blessings in her first half of her life. Her husband passed away early, and she took care of a bunch of children. Her life was so poor that she suffered a lot.

Now the sons and daughters are all married and start a career, and they are living a good life, and the old lady is beginning to enjoy the blessings.

In rural areas, sons take care of the elderly, and girls without sons take care of the elderly.

The old lady has been in the countryside all her life, she is used to it, and she is too old to want to go to the city.In her words, she can live for ten years in the countryside, but five years in the city at most.I told Lao Tan, it’s not that you, a son, is not filial, doesn’t support the elderly, and leaves my mother alone. It’s because I’m getting old, and I’m not used to living in the city, and I’m not used to living in high-rise buildings. I want to live a few more years. , not going anywhere, just at your Fifth Sister's house.

The five older sisters were also unwilling to have Lao Tan pick up his mother.Six children, just this old mother, the son is in the city, and the five daughters are in the countryside.If Lao Tan took his mother to the city, it would be inconvenient for his five sisters to visit.Staying in the countryside is just inconvenient for Lao Tan alone.

The five daughters all wanted to support their mother, and finally the mother chose the old girl.

The elder sister, the second sister, the third sister, and the fourth sister don't have parents-in-law, but the old lady doesn't go there, thinking that living in the old girl's house is convenient, comfortable, and like my own home.

The eldest sister said that mom is old, and when she gets old, she looks like a child. Old and young children, you have to follow her mood, and she will go to whichever house she wants.Now every family's conditions are good, not to mention supporting one old man, three or two can support them.Since my mother is willing to stay at Lao Wu's house, let's stay at her place. Let's go to see it twice, and take some delicious food for her to taste, and bring money if there is no delicious food.

The five daughters are all very filial. How can I say that a son-in-law can do what a daughter-in-law can do, and a son-in-law can't do it if he can't.The old lady is a sensible person, and treats her five sons-in-law as her own sons, and the five sons-in-law treat the old lady as their own mother.

The old lady is at the old daughter's house, and the other four daughters and son-in-laws are all in place during the holidays. The whole family gathers together very lively, as if they are doing business.Sometimes when the old lady misses a girl, she makes a phone call and asks the girl's family to pick her up to stay for a few days, and then return to the old girl's house when she has lived enough.

Everyone in the village said that the old lady had a good life, and the five daughters, don't look at the suffering in the first half of their lives, and began to enjoy the blessings in the second half of their lives.The old lady often said that she was blessed, saying that these were five daughters, if there were five boys, it would be over, and she would have to tear down her old bones.

Lao Tan brought his son back to celebrate his mother's birthday. The old lady was very happy. The main reason was that she saw her eldest grandson, and her son was second.

The fifth sister's parents-in-law are all there, and the eldest sister also brought her grandson to the fifth sister's house one day in advance.

After greeting each other, Fifth Sister's father-in-law said to his son, "Call your second brother-in-law over, we'll have dinner later."

The fifth brother-in-law called the second brother-in-law and passed on the news that the brother-in-law had arrived home.The two families are close to each other, two miles away, and the elder sister and fourth sister's house are not far from the fifth sister's house, three miles away.Only the third sister's home is farther away, twenty miles away.

The second brother-in-law likes to drink two cups, and has a temper with the fifth sister's father-in-law. They always drink together.The two families both raise sheep, and mix the flocks together. Today your family eats something bad and go to your house to eat. Tomorrow, my family will call you when I make dumplings.

This is the case with relatives. They are relatives when they move around, and they are names when they don’t move around. The same is true for sisters.

Old Tan came to the kang, put his slippers on the kang and sat down next to his mother.

"Mom, are you in good health this year?" Old Tan asked.

Mother said: "Okay, there is nothing wrong with me, I can eat and drink."

"That's good."

The elder sister sitting in the kang said: "Our mother is in good health, there is nothing wrong with her, she is in better shape than us."

The mother said: "It's not a good thing. I go to eat and sleep all day. I don't do any work, but I have to maintain my physique." After finishing speaking, she asked her son: "I heard from your fifth sister that you bought a house in the provincial capital? What floor is it? "

Old Tan replied: "Yes, I bought it, the fifth floor."

"The fifth floor? That's high enough, and it's inconvenient to go up and down. Why didn't you buy a first floor?" Mother was obviously dissatisfied with the fifth floor.

The eldest sister smiled and said: "The fifth floor is very good. This time your son bought a building. Don't live in your daughter's house. Go to your son's place."

The mother shook her head and said, "No, I'm getting old and I won't go anywhere. I'm not used to living in that building. How dare we have a heated kang in our house. Besides, it's still on the fifth floor, and I can't even go up."

The old lady's words made the whole room laugh.

The fifth sister's mother-in-law joked: "I said in-laws, you have lived in the countryside all your life, and you haven't lived enough? Why don't you go to live with your son for two days?"

My mother waved her hand and said, "Don't go, don't rush home anywhere. The old people in the city are not used to living in the city. Didn't you see that many people buy houses in the countryside? The city is not good. If people live in our countryside, the air is good and the water is clean. , You can still look at the stars at night, but the city is buried, and there is not even a star at night."

"Mother-in-law, you know quite a lot." The fifth sister-in-law said.

"Doesn't the TV news talk about it every day? I haven't been to the city, and I watched it on TV. It's not good. It's densely packed with people. Except for people, there are cars. No matter how busy we are in the countryside. , Quiet, without those cars, it’s safe.”

The old lady's words made everyone laugh again.

After a while, Lao Tan's second brother-in-law came riding a motorcycle with his second sister on his back.Now among Lao Tan’s five older sisters, only the second sister’s doesn’t buy a car, while the other four have.The second sister's two girls, the eldest went to work in the provincial capital ten years ago, worked with Lao Tan, got married, married and had a child.The target is in the provincial capital, and now the couple owns a supermarket.The second child is studying in a junior college in the provincial capital.

The two girls are very good, and they plan to take their parents to the provincial capital in a few years, so they didn't buy a car, and Lao Tan's second brother-in-law couldn't drive either.

Life in the countryside is easy now, as long as you are diligent and not lazy, you can live well.When life is good, fewer people go out to work, and every family does not lack children to earn that little money.

Life is good, living standards are improving, and the corresponding level of education is also improving.Few people in Lao Tan's generation went to high school, almost all of them graduated from junior high school, and some of them only finished primary school.Nowadays, there are very few people who do not go to high school, and quite a few are admitted to universities and colleges, and some have already studied abroad.

When eating, the whole family sat down at two tables.

In order to celebrate the old lady's birthday, the fifth sister and father-in-law killed a sheep and four chickens yesterday, on the sixth day of the year of the pig.The fifth sister knew that her old brother was not at home for the New Year, so she took out all the delicious food and asked her younger brother and eldest nephew to eat it, so that the New Year would not be too gluttonous.

Family love is like this, the elder sister loves the younger brother sincerely.

We are often moved by the deep and continuous family affection, because we have lived in the most expensive house in the world with our own sisters and sisters, and we have the same blood, and we are all compatriots.

In this world, when encountering difficulties or suffering from illness, when survival becomes a problem, the lover who lives together may stay away, but the relatives who share the same blood will not, they will stay by our side and give us life. Courage and meticulous care.

Whether you are worth millions or penniless, one day when you are lying on the street and no one cares about you, our parents and relatives will pull us home even with a flatbed cart, and our mother will say to us: "Son, don't be afraid, you have a mother." The relatives will say: "Brother, don't be afraid, my sister is right here."

The moments of family affection where blood is thicker than water move us.

Family love, the warmest emotion in the world.

People with kinship have the most precious wealth of human beings that cannot be measured by money.

(End of this chapter)