The leisurely life of rebirth.

After finishing the business, Fang Monan walked out, took a deep breath of cold air, the sky tonight is especially beautiful, there is no moon, and the stars are shining extraordinarily, the mood is as dazzling and bright as this starlight, and I have to prepare meals.Cheng Shigui, Liang Zi and the others were chatting about the world, so lively, they broke up the topic of parting just now.

"You guys are really not mean enough to leave us at home." Leonard led Fangmo in through the north gate, took off his coat, and threw it on the chair.He was also curious that Fang Monan came here in the cold weather. He rode a bicycle with Mobei and came uninvited. When he saw them, it turned out to be the case.

Sometimes Fang Monan saw that Mobei was working too hard practicing the piano, so he led them to the farm to change their mood, plant land and grow flowers.You can't just patronize practicing the piano and become an idiot in other ways.

"We were just about to call you!" Cheng Shigui said.

"You look good, and you are living comfortably." Cheng Shigui looked him up and down. He was wearing a black cotton padded jacket with two fronts, and cotton shoes made of black striped flannelette. "It's really hard for me to think that you are a musician with your outfit, but where is the second uncle from?" He joked. [

"Hey! Don't tell me, this padded jacket is warm to wear, and the padded shoes are not smelly and comfortable. Sister Dayan made them." Leonard lifted his feet and said.

"Tell me how you are going these days." Cheng Shigui asked.

"It's been a good time." Leonard didn't want to say more.

Seeing that he was unwilling to say more, Cheng Shigui asked, "How is Mo Bei?"

Talking about the little apprentice, Leonard's eyes lit up and his eyebrows danced with joy. "She is really a genius. Unfortunately, my ability is limited. I will wait for the opportunity to go abroad to receive music education."

"Oh! It seems that you have a good opinion of her!" Han Zhiqian said.

"After the meal, you will know." Leonard was full of confidence.

"Okay, the food is ready, let's clean up." Fang Mobei came in and said.

In winter, hot pot is the best.

Seeing that it was a charcoal hot pot, Leonard smacked his tongue with an aftertaste on his face.

"Look, you look like the gentleman I've seen!" Cheng Shigui joked.

"I do as the Romans do, and I was spoiled by Nan Nan." Leonard made excuses for himself. "It's good to live comfortably, why bother so much!"

"Did I spoil you? Why do I feel that you just released your real self." Fang Monan just came in, and heard him say, "I can't afford this reputation, don't forget that I'm still a child."

"Well, I'm eating, I can't say no to you." Leonard said.

"This is homemade mutton hot pot mutton, cooking wine, rock sugar, homemade spicy chili sauce, ginger, scallion, dried chili, tangerine peel, dried lotus root, dried flowers and fruits, red dates, garlic, pepper, bay leaves, cinnamon, star anise, grass fruit, cumin, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, salt. The ingredients are all grown in this farm, all natural.”

"Vegetables, black fungus, enoki mushrooms, taro (preferably sliced ​​and fried, more fragrant), wax gourd, fish balls, potatoes, konjac, Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, Chinese cabbage, coriander, spinach...etc. are also produced here, reservoir Let’s eat mandarin duck hotpot today, and we can do whatever we want.” Fang Monan said, of course they came, and they were entertained with food from the space, and these were just excuses from the farm.

"Why do I feel that you opened this farm to provide food for yourself?" Cheng Shigui said.

"Yeah! That's what I thought at the time." Fang Monan raised his chin, she was just so 'delicious'.

"Hey! Wait, I'll get the red wine in the car." Han Zhiqian remembered, he turned and went out, and came back soon with two bottles of red wine in his hand. [

"Authentic 66 Lafite." Han Zhiqian opened it and poured a glass for everyone.

Leonard's favorite, but he didn't drink it today.Cheng Shigui said strangely: "Lei, why don't you drink it?"

"I don't think it tastes as good as Nannan's self-brewed fruit wine." Leonard said honestly.

Seeing this, Fang Monan went out to get two jars of fruit wine.Leonard hugged one happily, opened the jar, and the rich fruity fragrance wafted in the air, making people intoxicated.

"Matthew, I should thank you. Not only did I accept a good apprentice, but the life here is simply too wonderful." Reynard picked up his glass and said sincerely.

Cheng Shigui also picked up his glass, "It's good that you feel good, I can't help you much, I have to thank you for willing to teach Xiaobei."

"Okay, cheers," Leonard said.

Cheng Shigui tasted it and said, "It's better than Lafite."

"Brother Cheng, you can collect some Lafite. It will definitely increase in value in 66 and 82, and there will be a price market at that time." Fang Monan said, and Cheng Shigui nodded to express his understanding.

The fat man took a sip of Lafite, feeling a little sour, and murmured in his heart that it was not as good as white wine.

They sat around the stove, first tasted the fresh aroma brought by the spicy mutton, and when they were sweating and enjoying the meal, they put in their favorite hot pot ingredients and cooked it. It was guaranteed to be another kind, wonderful Than happy to enjoy!

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After dinner, after tidying up, Mo Bei played the violin.

"Lei, it seems that you have put in a lot of effort." Cheng Shigui said.I haven't seen him for a few months, and Mo Bei is not the same as the last riverside performance, and he has made rapid progress.

"That girl has a lot of tenacity, and it makes my heart ache to see her so hard." Leonard said in a low voice.

After Mobei's performance, Cheng Shigui took the lead in booing, "If you don't give us a part, I don't want to listen to the sorrow."

"Okay! I'll give you a paragraph, please comment." Leonard was in high spirits, pulling the erhu. "I learned this here, you know it!"

A cheerful erhu piece "Birds Singing in the Empty Mountains" came out melodiously. This is a highly skilled erhu solo piece, striving for perfection in bowing, fingering, melody, and beat.

Everyone seems to be brought here, just like the call of the mountains and the echo of the empty valley, the artistic conception is profound, quiet and fascinating.In the deep mountains and deep valleys, a group of birds sing joyously, and the lively scene imitates the chirping of hundreds of birds with onomatopoeia.

"It's great." Cheng Shigui said, "I didn't quite believe what you said before, but now I listen to your music and listen to the sound of the piano. It seems that you are really doing well. This place is very supportive."

"Really! I think so too. There are not very good material conditions here, but the people here are very kind, and the most important thing is food." "Haha..." Leonard smiled very happily.

Then he played two cheerful pieces of music in a good mood. Looking at Leonard with a happy smile on his face, Cheng Shigui was also happy for him. [

In the early morning of the next day, Fang Monan, Cheng Shigui, and Mobei visited the farm while running. In winter, everything was withered, and the air was fresh. Under the fruit trees, unmelted snow was piled up, which heralded a good harvest next year.

Fang Monan also took him into the greenhouse to watch the strawberries bearing fruit, some of which were already ripe and ready to go on the market in the new year.Cheng Shigui picked it up and tasted it himself in a good mood. It was sweet and sour, and he was very interested in being a farmer for a while. '

Coming and going in a hurry, Cheng Shigui unloaded the washing machine on the car, and the refrigerator was still in the process of being mailed. He handed the bill of lading to Fang Monan, and they rushed back without stopping, this time still bringing a lot of delicious food , especially the fruit wine took away the five jars.

After sending them off, Liang Zi and the others found a tractor and took the washing machine home.One year flies by so fast, and it's coming to an end again.

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As the Spring Festival approached, my father and mother decided that they were not very busy at the moment, so they decided to send New Year gifts to grandpa's house in advance, which made them very angry.

Dad's face was ashen, covered with dark clouds, but looking at my mother's face, although she tried her best to maintain an ugly look, she couldn't hide the smile between her brows and eyes, she was so beautiful in her heart!

Grandma took my mother's hand, went back to the room and asked: "What's going on! It was fine when I went. Why did you come back with this face? I'm angry again."

The mother said: "The reason is that my uncle is going to get married and my sister-in-law is going to high school. Grandpa's family needs Zhengping's support, so it's obvious that we are crying for poverty! Seeing that our life is nourishing and comfortable, the meaning behind the words is not clear, let us take more money When we got married, the old man took 200 yuan in a pretentious name, but we borrowed 100 of it, so we have to pay it back." Mom curled her lips and said: "Now it's my brother-in-law's turn to get married, they are really lions Opened up 2000 yuan. I guess I heard that Zhengping won a bonus of 2000 yuan, but that was also rewarded by the company for Zhengping's road construction and camping. This is a good money that has not been warmed up, so I gave them a contribution. This is not enough , and my sister-in-law needs 500 yuan to be admitted to high school. One-third of our annual income is gone.”

"The most exasperating thing is that they still want the two watches that Cheng Shigui and the others gave me and Zhengping, saying that they are used as a bride price for the woman." My mother was angry with what Fang Monan said, but everyone It can be heard that my mother is very happy.The more greedy they are, the happier the mother is, and the more 'painful' they force the father. A moment of pain is much better than a lifetime of pain.

"In the end, it is natural that the money can be taken, but my father refused to agree to it, so the conversation fell apart and a quarrel broke out." Mom said: "The 'old woman' is actually only ten years older than me, and she started to criticize Zhengping. No." Mom imitated her voice: "If Zhengping hadn't come back, my son would not have been admitted to university, and now he can only sweep the streets in the Qingshui Yamen of the Environmental Protection Bureau; Not to mention, we also spent a lot of money on marrying your wife. And if it wasn’t for Lao Fang’s sake, the leader allocated a house to the two of you not long after you started working. Isn’t it all Lao Fang’s There is a lot of energy behind it. Ah! Now that the wings are hardened, I don’t honor your father anymore.” She said happily again: “Fortunately, I was transferred to work in the county, otherwise I don’t know what ugly things are waiting for me!”

"This shameless old woman! Her son can't go to college, because he didn't go to high school, and he still wants to go to college. Among other things, the houses allocated by the unit are all available to your group of recruiting workers. Why doesn't she say that? Said, everyone has one and a half or two rooms! You only allocated one room, which is the result of hard work. Also, Zhengping Nongzhuanfei spent 300 yuan plus a bottle of Moutai at the time, which was allowed by the national policy No matter how much money is spent now, it doesn’t matter and you can’t get a citizen’s registered permanent residence. A dead old woman is not afraid of talking through her teeth!” Grandma said angrily: “Hmph!”

"They speak too badly. As soon as Zhengping came from the countryside, the old man asked him to find a job by himself. Porter, mason, and coal mine hauler. He didn't do any hard work, and he almost didn't work as a dung digger. Earn some money The old woman had to take some of the wages of the coolies. In the end, the construction company recruited him to go in by himself, and that took up all their money. We moved out as soon as we got married, and we didn’t need anything, pots and bowls. The pot, ladle, and basin were bought by myself, the bed was built with a wooden plank, and all the things in the house were bought after moving out. This day is just right, and parents don’t do things like this!” The more my mother thought about it, the more she felt wronged , tears fell down.

"What happened next!" Grandma asked.

"Later, it was even more ruthless. Even the money for food and water and living expenses were calculated. You have to settle the account clearly. You almost broke the relationship between father and son." The mother said with a smile on her face. The old woman settled accounts for everything in order to ask for money. .

"Then what are you going to do?" Grandma pondered for a while and said, "That's the end of the story. Let's cut off as much as she wants. Whoever is afraid of the other. They don't want you and I want it." "What the hell, Is there such a thing as an adult? Zhengping will come back too, and Mom will support you all well." She spoke more and more vigorously, and finally said nothing with arrogance.

Mom was so moved that she didn't say anything. Dad came in first, "Mom, I can support my wife and children by myself." Hearing what his mother-in-law said, he was really disappointed in his father. His father never said anything about yesterday's quarrel. In a word, he watched with cold eyes, and he even choked with the old woman to express his dissatisfaction.The father actually said all kinds of cruel things, and even said that it is their duty to support the elderly. If you take off the hat of filial piety, you can bring it if you have it, but the money is obviously to supplement the uncle.

"Zhengping came just in time, have you thought it through clearly? What should we do about this?" Grandma asked the two of them.

"Things have come to this point, you don't want me to enter the door of his house." Mom said first,

"Dayan, don't be angry, Mom. It's not worth it. I've thought it over. I only came here when I grew up. I'm still an outsider. No matter how hard I try, I can't keep people from rejecting me. No matter how much I compare It’s nothing compared to the 20-year relationship of a family. I’ll give him as much as he wants. It’s like he’s repaying the kindness I received from the countryside. I’ll also pay for the old woman’s calculations. Don't be short-mouthed!" Dad said calmly with joy now. "It's just that the money is not enough, it's still worse."

"How much is the difference, I gave it, and there is no need to pay it back." Grandma said very readily.

"The difference is more than 1000 yuan." Dad said.

"I'll give you two thousand." Grandma took off her shoes, and took out a stack of big unions from the box on the top of the kang.

"Mom, I showed you a joke. I will definitely pay it back in the future." Dad took the money and walked out.

"Hurry up, Dayan, follow, don't let anything happen, after all, they are also father and son by blood. We are saying something angry, but it is just trying to make our mouths refreshing, breaking the bones and tendons, he must be unhappy in his heart, let me explain." Take it easy." Grandma and Mom.

Mom hurriedly put on her shoes, put on her clothes and chased them out.

Fang Monan looked at it, and couldn't tell what it was like, because people's hearts were all biased.You can't accuse the old man of doing this. Human nature is so normal, but she is very happy to be able to get away from grandpa as soon as possible.

My father and mother left and came back the next day, and my father returned to normal, but steamed the steamed buns more vigorously. In the past, my father kneaded the steamed buns, but now my son seems to have endless energy, and he vents on the steamed buns , making the chopping board 'ping-pong-pong' ringing.

Grandma quietly asked her mother, "The matter is settled."

"Forget it!" Mom said doubtfully.

"What do you mean, it's settled." Grandma didn't understand, "What did you say, and what happened at that time."

"Oh! At that time! After we entered the house, Zhengping took out 5 yuan. Among them, 2000 yuan was for my brother-in-law's marriage fee, [-] yuan was for my sister-in-law's tuition, and [-] yuan was for Zhengping's living expenses over the years. Because the watch was It was given by others and cannot be given, so there is five hundred left, which is regarded as the watch money they asked for." My mother told the situation at that time. "Zhengping was very calm, and he spoke in an unhurried manner, which made my heart sore. He even patted my hand comfortingly."

"Then their family took the money and didn't say anything." Grandma asked again.

"Yes, the old woman said, 'It turns out that you are so rich, it seems that you are really rich. If we don't talk about you, we don't know how to respect the elderly.' At that time, I was so angry that I wanted to slap the table, but he took my hand , Press and press." My mother seemed to think so much, "Then we came out."

"It's almost Chinese New Year. If you have any plans, let's talk about it after the New Year. Don't expose his scars. Be careful what you say." Grandma shook her head. The in-laws would regret doing so. It's so extreme that they don't even bother to get angry. Only performance of disappointment.

When my aunt came back, the family returned to its original excitement. As the New Year approached, the busyness of the whole day dispelled Dad's unhappiness.

Liang Zi's wedding was set on the nineteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, neither early nor late, nor did it delay other people's shopping for new year's goods.Rural people like to marry a daughter-in-law if they have money or not.In the winter leisure time, there are especially many married wives and daughters, and the sound of firecrackers can be heard endlessly on good days.

The rare Liangzi chose a good day, the weather was fine, the outside of Liangzi’s house has not changed much, the inside has indeed been renovated, the concrete floor, whitewashed walls, newly bought furniture, color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, all purchased from Yangcheng along with Liangzi, Bought it back.The house was completely tidy, and everyone looked at it with envious eyes!

It's true that the prodigal son will not change his money when he returns. Everyone calls the bride a blessing.

Fang Monan gave her a wedding gift, which was an agate in the space, and Mobei used to play with it as a pearl.She hadn't looked at it carefully before, but this time she realized that these agates were all carved, and there were exquisite Buddhist allusions carved on them.Two agate bracelets, one black and one red.

Agate has the effects of treating insomnia, sleeping sweet dreams, avoiding disasters and eliminating evil, strengthening the body and prolonging life. brilliant.In addition, it also has medical effects, improving the endocrine system of the human body, strengthening the metabolism of the human body, enhancing blood circulation, and strengthening the immune function of the body.It is most suitable for Liang Zi and his wife.

As long as Liang Zi is sent by Fang Monan, even if it is a piece of paper, it is good, so wear it actively.When he broadened his horizons and increased his experience, and met more and more people, he realized the true value of his natural agates, which are really priceless.