The returning national male god

Chapter 4 Family, Change

"Xiao Nan, you're back!"

"Anan, my aunt's just made steamed buns today, would you like to come over and have a taste?"

As soon as he walked to the small road in the house, the neighbors greeted Jiang Jinnan warmly, but turned a blind eye to Jun Jiu who was beside him.

It's not that they are partial, it's that Jun Jiu has been a dull gourd since he was a child, no matter what he says, he won't respond to you, and as time goes by, they habitually ignore him.

"Thank you, Aunt Liu, but we have something to do when we go back today, so we won't be guests!"

Jun Jiu smiled brightly at Aunt Liu, her voice was clear and playful.

"Okay, okay... hey?" Aunt Liu responded with a smile, she only thought this child was so cute at the moment, and finally realized that the person who talked to her just now was Jun Jiu?Is it that little Junjiu who always had a straight face and never smiled?
When she turned back to look for it, she could only see the backs of the two children drifting away. She rubbed her eyes, thinking that she must have been mistaken just now, so she should warm up a few buns and give them away!
This trail is full of very old wooden houses. It’s okay in winter, and every summer, bugs eat people. Basically, the people who live here are native-born locals. Once they live here, they live for a lifetime. The younger generation Unable to bear the suffering, most of them moved away.

Jun Jiu used to dislike this place too, but now all she sees is the crystal-clear lake beside the house, and the undulating mountains hidden among the clouds in the distance, which is more beautiful than she remembered.

The wooden houses here are divided into upper and lower floors. The second floor is usually used for rest, and the first floor is used for kitchen and bathroom. The total area of ​​the two floors is only fifty or sixty square meters. It is barely enough for a family of three to live, and more What's more, there is one more her?

Before entering the house, Jun Jiu could smell the aroma of the food at home from a long distance, and the cooking smoke curled up from the chimney and dissipated in mid-air.

"We'd better hide this matter from Xiao Jiu first, otherwise, according to the character of that child, he will have to ignore him for another ten days and a half month."

Sitting on a low wooden bench, Jiang Jianhua took a deep drag on his cigarette, watching his wife cook with a sad expression on his face.

After finishing the last dish, Jun Qian turned her head to look at her dejected husband, sighed softly, untied her apron, walked to him, and patted his shoulder reassuringly.

"It's just a job. If you lose it, you can find it again. My salary can barely support the family..."

"How can I support it? Jinnan will take the senior high school entrance examination in one month. You don't know how expensive high school tuition is! Xiaojiu's tuition was paid by scraps and pieces. Now I'm dismissed, just for your sake How do you pay your kids for school?"

Jun Qian gritted her teeth and said with tears in her eyes, "It's a big deal...Jinnan won't go to school! Anyway, his grades are not good, and our family only needs one college student in the future!"

Jun Jiu's heart tightened when she heard this, and she looked behind subconsciously, and saw Jiang Jinnan's tense face, although she tried her best to hide her emotions, but the hand holding the schoolbag was unconsciously clenched, There was a broken light in his eyes.Many things can only be distinguished from right and wrong when they really jump out.

In fact, in the early years, the family's conditions were not so tight. They should have had a house in the city, which was bought by their parents for most of their life. , before selling the house.

It would have been fine without her and grandpa, her parents and her brother.Jun Jiu didn't speak, and reached out to pull Jiang Jinnan's tightly clenched hand, and walked into the room with him.

"Dad, Mom, we're back." Following his greeting, the room suddenly fell silent. Jun Qian looked at the bright smile on Jun Jiu's face, and couldn't speak for a long time. The cigarette Jiang Jianhua was holding in his mouth fell straight to the ground after seeing the hands held by the two children, and he forgot to pick it up.

Only then did Jiang Jinnan wake up from the shock of Jun Jiu's sudden holding of his hand just now, and suddenly withdrew his hand, the blush on his face that had just faded away was about to spread again.

Jun Jiu didn't seem to notice it at all. After finding a place for her schoolbag and putting it away, she took Jiang Jinnan's schoolbag and put it away together, and then rolled up her sleeves and started to serve rice in a bowl.It wasn't until he filled the first bowl of rice that Jun Qian realized that she quickly took the rice from his hand and pushed him aside.

"What are you doing, kid? Let's do these things, and you should study hard now." Jun Qian turned to Jun Jiu sideways, her voice was trembling even though she had deliberately suppressed it, and she held it in front of her. The bowl of rice in her hand was obviously full, but she still unconsciously continued to pile it up.

Jiang Jianhua silently put down the folding table by the wall, and put the dishes on the table one by one, but the hands that served the dishes were very unsteady, and the soup spilled a little .

It's no wonder they had such a big reaction. Before today, Jun Jiu always ran upstairs as soon as he came back, and they always brought dinner up, especially after his grandfather passed away, let alone calling them parents. , even failed to give them a good face.

When they were busy, Jiang Jinnan moved the benches to both sides of the table, and the table was quickly set up. The family sat down in twos, but no one spoke first.

Jun Jiu took a look at the food on the table, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, braised eggplant, and a soup with pork ribs and melon, which were placed in the nearest place to her.

Although the family conditions are not good, their parents have never treated them harshly when it comes to food, for fear that their nutrition will not be able to keep up.

No one at the table spoke first, and Jun Jiu ate in silence until 10 minutes had passed. Seeing that he hadn't even eaten a spare rib, Jun Qian carefully picked one up and put it in his bowl.

"You eat more meat, how can you stay so thin?"

Jun Jiu looked at the pork ribs in the bowl. It was bright yellow in color and had an attractive aroma, and she ate it obediently. Even though she had tasted exquisite dishes from various countries, they were not as good as the ones made by her mother. As delicious as I remembered.

"Dad, Mom, I'm sorry." After savoring the ribs carefully, Jun Jiu put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, and looked up at his parents sitting opposite, "I was ignorant before, and I will never... .”

One of Jiang Jianhua's chopsticks fell to the ground with a "click" when he was not holding it properly, while Jun Qian put down the chopsticks with trembling hands and looked at him in disbelief.

(End of this chapter)