Catch the Mountain 1985

Chapter 187 Going to Second Uncle’s House
It was already noon when Zhang Peng got home. He entered the yard, parked his bicycle and turned around to enter the house. Zhang Xiaoxia and Zhang Xiaolan ran out again. They didn't know where they went. In the house, only Wang Xiufen and Li Cuihua were sitting on the kang. Nagging.

"Auntie is here," Zhang Peng greeted Li Cuihua.
"Well, Xiaopeng is back. How's it going with your partner?" Li Cuihua asked with a smile.
"It's fine. Nothing happened. I just came back after not staying long. I'm just thinking about packing up. I'll go to my uncle's house tomorrow," Zhang Peng replied.
"Oh, yes, I was talking about this with your mother just now. Your mother said that this time you offered to help, which made your mother's face look bad." Li Cuihua also said with a smile.
Zhang Peng also scratched his head when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Aunt, please stop praising me. If you continue to praise me, my tail will be raised after a while."

"Haha, you kid, you are so sensible. When will Chunming of our family be so sensible?" Li Cuihua looked at Zhang Peng and said with hatred.
Zhao Chunming didn't know what illness he had in the past two days. He lay on the kang all day and sighed. At first, Li Cuihua thought he was ill, but later she found out that he was not ill. Li Cuihua became angry and said that he was sick several times. , but Zhao Chunming just couldn't listen.

However, Zhang Peng knew what Zhao Chunming was going through now, and he could sum it up in one sentence: "It's just a pain in the ass."

Zhang Peng didn't dare to continue what Li Cuihua said. For other people's children, this sentence has always been the mantra of mothers. It's better not to attract hatred for Chunming. The most important thing is to run away quickly. He hummed casually. After a while, he went back to the east room to catch a cat.

After a while, Li Cuihua went back, and the more she talked, the more angry she became. She said she wanted to go back and have a good chat with Zhao Chunming. Zhao Chunming was scolded by Li Cuihua for no reason, which made him, a monk named Zhang Er, confused.

After Li Cuihua left, Wang Xiufen called Zhang Peng over and wanted to talk to him about going to his second uncle's house.

"Son, please go over this time and be diligent. Your uncle and your brother usually love you. Also, when you leave, I will bring you some money and tickets. Your uncle finally made the trip. Mouth, forget it if we didn't have it before, but now that we have it, let's get him some emergency supplies as I said last time." Wang Xiufen spoke, her eyes constantly looking at Zhang Peng, wanting to see what Zhang Peng said to him. What reaction was she talking about.

"Well, okay, no problem, Mom, you just have to arrange it," Zhang Peng also said

Seeing that Zhang Peng didn't have any abnormal expression, Wang Xiufen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Zhang Peng earned the money. Although she was a mother, she was helping her natal family, so she still had to seek Zhang Peng's opinion. of.

"Mom, don't worry. This is my uncle. Besides, the money is given to you, so it's a son's honor to you. I won't have any ideas. You can make the decision." Zhang Peng also understood Wang Xiufen's worries, and also Quickly give me a reassurance.

"Good son, your second uncle's love for you was not in vain." Wang Xiufen also felt very relieved when she heard what Zhang Peng said. Her family is happy, her son is obedient, and she still has money left at home, so she can live a successful life.

The sun was shining in the sky, Dahuang smiled at me, Xiaohong said early, early, early, why didn’t you take us up the mountain?
Zhang Peng was in a good mood this morning, humming a self-composed song, and then packed up the things he had brought this time.

Since this trip will take at least a week, Zhang Peng also packed the things needed for this week. However, in Zhang Peng's view, this trip is purely a semi-vacation.

Zhang Peng didn't have much to do in the past. As long as the money was available, everything else was secondary. It can be said that his second uncle's family was short of nothing but money.

Zhang Peng's trip this time was to show off for his uncle, so he also took the time to polish the bicycle, which might become a vehicle for picking up relatives.

In this way, Zhang Peng packed up, took the bear meat, bear oil and two bear paws that Wang Xiufen had prepared for him, and the 500 yuan that Wang Xiufen gave him, carefully put them close to his body, and set off on his bicycle.Zhang Peng's second uncle's home was in Xingfu Village, not far from their village. It was a small village. Zhang Peng rode his bicycle slowly toward Xingfu Village. There were bear meat and bears hanging on the front handle of the bicycle. Oil, and two bear paws tied to the back seat. These were things I brought to my second uncle's house. I thought I could make a meal out of these two.

These days, weddings and dinners are not as grand as in later generations. After all, every family is not very wealthy. Usually, immediate family members and some prominent people in the village come over to have a meal and bless the newlyweds.

And a few families with better conditions can set up two tables and invite everyone to come and have a lively atmosphere, which is already a great deal of honor.

Just when Zhang Peng was riding to his second uncle's house, his second uncle Wang Yuechun was a little worried because his son could not get married. In fact, it is not complicated to say. The matter is very simple and can be summed up in two words. , that is, "no money".

It is said that a penny stumps a heroic man, but what Wang Yuechun lacks is much more than a penny. To be honest, the woman's family is not like a lion, so she just means something, and her words are very nice. "It all depends on it." reward".

This sentence stumped Wang Yuechun. He knew very well what was going on in his family. In order to get his son married, he had emptied his family fortune. Because his house was relatively small, he built two more houses in front of his house. For a relatively big move, I will prepare a new house to live in one room for myself and another for my son when he gets married.

The original plan was very good, because Wang Yuechun was a carpenter, so he had saved some money over the years, and he had the confidence to build two more houses. However, he failed to estimate the cost of building a house, and all the money was spent all of a sudden. , I quickly borrowed money everywhere, but who has money these days, so I didn’t borrow much.

You have to give money to the woman, hold banquets, etc. You can make the furniture in the house yourself, but it also costs money.

It is because of this that Wang Yuechun has been so worried recently. His daughter-in-law Gao Yanlan also blames herself for being blind and insisting on building a new house. This makes him feel even worse and he doesn't smile every day.

"Dad, it really doesn't work. I'll go over and talk about it. I'll make up for it later. Can I give you more and see if it's okay?" Zhang Peng's cousin Wang Heqing sat silently on the kang and said to Wang Yuechun, who was sitting on the kang opposite and smoking.
"Hmph, what's going on? How can our family hold our heads high in front of others?" Wang Yuechun took a deep breath of dry tobacco after hearing this, and then said dissatisfiedly

"Then what's the deal? It's all your fault. Don't you know how much money you have in your hand? The wind is like the rain, and you can't stop it," said Gao Yanlan, who was sitting next to her.

"Okay, Mom, please stop talking. After all, I still have no ability. Otherwise, how much money will the woman need?" When Wang Heqing heard what Gao Yanlan said, he also said quickly, don't let the old couple start fighting again for their own sakes. .

"If you really can't do it, just give me less. Just give me a hundred or ten yuan," Gao Yanlan also said.
"How can that be done? It really doesn't work. I'll go out and borrow it again. No matter what the wedding, I have to give the woman a few hundred. The custom in our village is that the amount is not less than 300. It's unreasonable to give less. It's such a shame." Wang Yuechun said in a low voice

"Oh, to put it simply, where can I get these hundreds of dollars now?" Gao Yanlan also said worriedly.

(End of this chapter)