Leftover Girl's Neverland

Chapter 78 Relatives
"Sunja, let's go!"

The children waiting next to him were afraid of the big dog beside Meng Zhen, and told Meng Xiangshun to leave quickly from a long distance away.

"Oh, here we come," Meng Xiang agreed, and said to Meng Zhen, "Aunt Meng Zhen, goodbye!" Then he followed a group of friends to the fruit forest on the hillside.

"Goodbye!" Hehe, this kid is quite polite.

After dinner, Meng Fanhao came to play chess with Meng Qingliang, and Meng Xianglei also came to play.Seeing Meng Zhen and Zheng Jian muttering and not knowing what to say, they hurried over.

"Sister, we should have that thing here too!"

"Well, I think there are also, why don't we look for them?!"

"What is it?" Meng Xianglei was confused, wondering what fun they were playing.

"I know monkey, I just saw the children in the village digging in the woods and fruit forests beside the village!" Meng Zhen found a small flower shovel. There are more than a dozen trees in the yard of his house. Isn't this thing under the tree? .

"Hey, what else should I do! There are many poplars and willows under these trees, and your family probably has them too. But, do you know how to dig?" Not to underestimate Meng Zhen, digging a cicada monkey also requires skill, not with a shovel Look at the hole and dig.

The siblings shook their heads: No!They all grew up in the county town. Meng Zhen stayed at his uncle's house in the countryside when he was a child, but he didn't do this either.

Meng Xianglei took the flower shovel in Meng Zhen's hand and searched around the tree. Meng Zhen and the two watched him circling in a serious manner.

"I found it, you see—" Meng Xianglei squatted under a tree, pointed to a small hole and said, "This is the hole of the cicada monkey. It is different from the ant hole, because it has to arch outwards. The claws dig the soil from the inside out, so the hole is round and thin in the middle, come on, look, that's how it is!"

The lights in the yard were bright, and Meng Zhen and Zheng Jian squatted beside Meng Xianglei, watching him explain how to dig the cicada monkey in the ground.

"First take a small branch and open the hole to make sure it is the cicada monkey's hole. Sometimes, if you make a mistake, you can dig out the little toad." Meng Xianglei picked up a branch and gently opened the hole. : "Do you see it? It's shiny inside, that's the eyes of the cicada monkey. Now you can dig it!"

Meng Xianglei started digging two finger widths away from the entrance of the cave, and said while digging, "The distance must be well controlled, otherwise the cicada monkey will be cut off, and then it will not be able to eat. Look, it has been dug out!"

He picked out the curled up larva from a pile of soil and handed it to Meng Zhen.

"It's so troublesome, no wonder people sell it so expensive outside. It's so troublesome to dig one, and you can't spend a night if you get it for a catty?!" Meng Zhen understood the reason why Jin Chan was sold at a high price, so he searched for the hole first, and found it. Dig carefully, it's too much work.

"Hehe, it's not raining now, so it's troublesome to dig. If it rains, this thing will crawl out, and the trees will be full of them. You can just grab it with your hands. You can easily catch hundreds of them in one night. Ten. And the ones sold outside are not wild, most of them are artificially bred."

Meng Xianglei patted the mud on his hands and said with a smile that he hadn't dug this thing for several years.

"This thing can be bred artificially?!" Zhizhihou kept crawling on Meng Zhen's hand, trying to escape.

"What can't be raised now, but the taste of this artificially raised one is much worse than that of wild ones, and it is said that the nutritional value is also low. Why don't you try it, the old man said, eating this is good for the eyes and can improve eyesight!" "

Meng Zhen took a big bowl from the kitchen, put this one in first, and then searched in the yard with Zheng Jian and the others.

"Sister, I also dug one up, look!"

"Hey, I found one too!"

The three adults were like children, digging all over the yard.

"Hehe, you dug a lot!"

Han Chunyan saw that Meng Zhen put everything he had dug today into a bowl, first scalded the cicada monkeys to death with boiling water, then washed them, added salt, and put them aside to marinate.

"That's right, we dug a dozen or so in total, and we'll add more vegetables tomorrow!"

Meng Zhen is also very interested, sometimes not in eating, but in enjoying the joy of discovery and acquisition.

"Well, by the way, the day after tomorrow is Saturday, and your cousin is coming, should we prepare something first?"

Han Chunyan is sitting on a chair in the dining room, with a plate of fresh strawberries in front of her. Another advantage of living here is that she can eat fresh fruits at any time, and they are all completely healthy.

Whether the baby in the womb is a boy or a girl is unknown, but the baby must have a very good complexion.When Meng Zhen's mother gave birth to her, she ate a lot of apples. Look, how good Meng Zhen's skin is, and there is no trace of age on her face, she is pink and tender.

"Cousin? Zheng Min?" Meng Zhen packed up her things and sat in the living room to eat strawberries with Han Chunyan. She picked up one and took a bite. After thinking about it, she said, "No need to make special preparations. We have everything here. The day she came Let Xiaojian go to the market to buy some fresh meat!"

Meng Zhen really didn't want to see this eldest cousin. She had lived in Quancheng for 12 years, and she only went there when Cousin Zheng Min got married and gave birth. At other times, she usually hid whenever she could.

The words are not speculative, and the two of them stay together is a true portrayal of this sentence, because the two people are not much different in age, and they have been compared by the two families since they were young.Meng Zhen was more obedient when he was a child, and he was good at studying, but Zheng Min was pretty and sweet-mouthed, so the two had their own strengths.

The two children who were compared all day long didn't say anything, and they were holding their breath in their hearts. They wanted to make adults like themselves and praise themselves for being better than each other.

Later, Zheng Min was admitted to the nursing school in the provincial capital, and Meng Zhen was also admitted to the J University in the same city by coincidence.When Meng Zhen first came here, she was dragged out by her cousin to have dinner several times, and she didn’t like her changing her boyfriend every time, so when her cousin called her again, she refused as soon as she could, and she couldn’t refuse. No, she basically slips away as soon as they meet, never being someone else's light bulb.

After dating N times, my cousin got married when Meng Zhen was a sophomore, and married a local as she wished.On the day of the wedding, Meng Zhen also went. She didn't like the high-ranking feeling of her cousin's in-law's family. It seemed that marrying a girl from out of town would make her family suffer a lot. These relatives.

She is not close to her cousin, and her in-law’s family is afraid that Meng Zhen will take advantage of her, so she respects her cousin’s family at a respectful distance; and Zheng Min is also worried that her mother-in-law will think that she is from a small place, and there will be some "village" relatives When they came to the door, they were not very enthusiastic about Meng Zhen. The two lived in the same city, but they rarely communicated, so their feelings for this cousin were not half that of Chen Xue.

If she wanted to come, she probably didn't come to see her father sincerely, but to see Meng Zhen's vegetable garden.

The last time Li Sihai was invited by a TV station to do a program, in which people asked to see the origin of "Mengfu Cuisine". For the purpose of advertising, Li Sihai brought the TV station to Zhoujiazhuang after getting Meng Zhen's consent, and took the I took pictures of the vegetable garden inside and out.Meng Xianglei and Zheng Jian also had a good time in front of the camera. Although they just picked the vegetables and put them in the basket, at least one face was photographed. Even the village head Meng kept walking in front of the reporter's interview car. Ah, when did Zhoujiazhuang appear on TV? !

Only Meng Zhen, who really didn't want to show off, didn't join in the fun, but as one of the owners of the vegetable garden and the legal owner of "Mengfu Cuisine", she was still photographed in profile by the reporter.

After this episode was finished, Meng Zhen received a call from his cousin. When he first heard the voice, Meng Zhen almost didn't recognize it.In an almost honorable tone, the cousin praised Meng Zhen fiercely, saying that she is competitive, motivated, and can earn money as a farmer, so how...

Of course, the cousin's phone call was not for nothing. In the future, there will be another cousin's family among Meng Zhen's free supply crowd.Moreover, this recipient is also the family that makes Meng Zhen feel worthless and depressed the most.

"Oh, Meng Zhen, I said to come to see you a long time ago, but your brother-in-law has been busy all the time, and I work three shifts as a nurse, so I can't make time. My mother called me when my second uncle came. Call, I told your brother-in-law after I heard about it, even if you ask for leave, you have to take time away so that I can see you!"

On Saturday, the sun was shining, and my cousin's family of three drove a red Citroen to Zhoujiazhuang of Mengzhen.

After getting out of the car, Zheng Min was holding Meng Zhen's arm with such vigor that he really didn't look like a relative who didn't see him once a year, but like a good sister who had a close relationship.

Zheng Min's husband is a middle school teacher. He is 35 and six years old. He wears black-rimmed eyes and looks very serious.In his left hand he held a gift for Meng Zhen's family, and in his right hand he led an eight or nine-year-old boy, and followed everyone into the yard.

"Second concubine, congratulations, I didn't expect such a big happy event in our family!"

Entering the courtyard, Zheng Min saw Han Chunyan wearing a loose dress, quickly let go of Meng Zhen's hand, rushed to Han Chunyan, and said to her with a smile on his face: "Hehe, I work in a private gynecological hospital. I have seen some elderly women, but I think you are so lucky, this is the first time I have seen them. By the way, which hospital did the obstetric examination? If it has not been confirmed, I can contact the best obstetrics and gynecologist in our hospital. Doctor Ke—”

In fact, when Zheng Min came to Quancheng, Han Chunyan hadn't married Meng Qingliang yet.Only when she went back to her natal home for the New Year, she met her new aunt a few times, and she would not speak more than ten sentences each time.

"Thank you, you see you are so busy, and you have come all the way here to see us," Han Chunyan beckoned her into the living room to sit down, motioned Zheng Jian to take the gift brought by the guest, and invited someone to come in: "Obstetrical examination , It’s already been booked, and it’s done in the Maternal and Child Center. Really, there is a college classmate, her mother-in-law used to be the director of this hospital, she introduced a good doctor to her, and she just went for a routine checkup yesterday!”

"Oh, Maternity and Children's Center?" Zheng Min's enthusiastic eyes darkened for such a good hospital, and then he said with a smile: "This is the best obstetrics and gynecology hospital in the city. I didn't expect Meng Zhen to have such a relationship." Well. Let me just say, when you come, I’m like coming to my natal family. Hey, Yang Qi, you have to be careful in the future. My natal family was far away before, so it’s fine if you bully me. Now that my second uncle is here, you If you dare to bully me again, I will let my second uncle deal with you!"

"Who is bullying you? If you don't bully me, I will burn incense!" The cousin-in-law smiled mischievously. Their family listened to their wives for small things and him for big things, but they have been married for ten years and haven't had any big things. .

Maternal family?Meng Zhen and Zheng Jian looked at each other in blank dismay, how did their family become the cousin's natal family? !

(End of this chapter)