Rural life in America

Chapter 116

The boss and sister-in-law still have to go to work, so it is impossible for them to go home early for the New Year; but Yoyo is happily carrying a small bag and preparing to go back to her hometown with her grandparents. Yoyo knows her hometown, and she still wants to play games with her younger sister Woolen cloth.

It takes more than four hours to drive from Dashanghai back to my hometown, which is not too far but definitely not too close. Fortunately, there is a car, so I heard two little girls making noise along the way.

Zhang Hao is very happy, especially after getting off the expressway; although his hometown is only in a small town in a fourth-tier city, this is his hometown after all, and Zhang Hao naturally has a lot of feelings for this place, especially when he was very young. After time did not go home, such emotions became stronger.

Pointing to the old building outside the window, Zhang Hao said, "See that over there? I used to surf the Internet secretly when I was in high school. At that time, I was afraid that the teacher would catch me, so I ran half a city to come here. It's also very cheap. , I remember it was two yuan an hour."

Christina laughed and joked, "You really are not a good boy. You should study hard in high school so that you can be admitted to a good university."

Zhang Hao looked at Christina speechlessly, not knowing what to say; in fact, he also knew that American students might not be the sheepherding state some people imagined.Especially high school students in the United States are under a lot of pressure to enter colleges; especially those prestigious schools, the competition is more intense.

There are familiar scenery along the way. Although many places have changed, more places can still bring back Zhang Hao's memories; naturally, he will explain it to Christina endlessly.

"Going out along this road is the pedestrian street in the city center, where there are some specialty stores. But we don't seem to have any special top brands here, basically some domestic brands. We will bring Xixi to buy clothes in two days, Children need new clothes for the new year."

Christina is listening to some customs and interesting traditions very seriously. She thinks this will be very interesting; although it is possible to join in the fun and watch the Spring Festival in the United States, it is just that it is not authentic at all, and there is no sense of participation.

Driving all the way to his hometown, this road is so familiar, Zhang Hao can easily know where he has arrived, and he can clearly predict how long it will take to reach the door.

Zhang Jianye parked the car skillfully, Zhang Hao was a little excited.

Although the street is very dilapidated, the asphalt road is also full of potholes because it has not been repaired in recent years, and there are some old self-built houses on both sides of the street, but for Zhang Hao, this is where he grew up.

Get out of the car quickly, let Christina hug the two little ones out.

After all, it was at the door of the house. When they saw this car, neighbors naturally noticed it; they all knew that Zhang Jianye's two sons had sent money. The youngest son is said to have turned over in the United States and made a lot of money.As for Zhang Jianye's eldest son, they all bought a house in Shanghai.

These may be relatively imaginary. The most intuitive one is the car Zhang Jianye is driving now; it is more than 100 million, and it still has a Shanghai license plate.Although there are people in the neighborhood who bought a car, but the mainstream is about 30 yuan, and the number of about [-] to [-] yuan is relatively small; naturally, more people still do not buy a car.

Seeing Zhang Hao getting out of the car, and carrying out a pink, chubby little mixed race, the neighbors next door naturally knew that this is Zhang Hao's daughter; Daughter, Yu Xiu had no choice but to go to the United States to help him raise the child.

Then I saw Christina, who was taller and blond, got out of the car, bent over and carried Yoyo out; this little girl was familiar, and Zhang Lei had brought her back several times.

Naturally, Zhang Hao also saw the neighbor, and greeted him warmly, "Second Sister, is Fatty at home?"

A fat middle-aged woman next door walked over immediately, and said enthusiastically, "The fat man has to go to work, and he won't be back in a few days. This is your girl, let me see."

Although it is not a rural area, Zhang Hao also knows that the folk customs in the small town are relatively simple, and he dare not say that he knows hundreds of families in the whole town, but he knows all the neighbors, and there are naturally some who walk relatively close.

And if it involves relatives, it can really involve a lot; for example, Fatty Lin Yuan, that is Zhang Hao's little friend who has played with Zhang Hao since childhood, but Zhang Hao's seniority is a bit older.It's not a close relationship, not even a blood relationship at all, just relatives who have been talking about it.

The second sister came over, and Cuiping from next door also came over; seeing Zhang Hao's family came back, and brought a foreign wife back, and those who walked around more diligently with Zhang Hao's family and had a better relationship planned to come to see the excitement , Of course, I also want to see Zhang Hao's daughter.

Xixi is very shy. The little girl was very lively when she was at home, but now she is shy after seeing a lot of strangers. She lays obediently in her father's arms, and she doesn't answer any questions, just laughing.

Seeing Xixi's shy look, Zhang Hao said encouragingly, "Xixi, call someone, be polite."

Xixi was still very shy, but the little girl finally said in a childish voice, "Hi, grandma, I'm Xixi."

This made a lot of people amused, Xixi herself is very cute, chubby, round, and has a unique voice; the most important thing is that the little girl speaks a standard native dialect, Xixi doesn't learn Mandarin Woolen cloth.

"Hey, you little girl is really fun, but you are a little timid."

"She's so white and beautiful, she looks like a kid from the city, and she's dressed in a different style."

Zhang Hao touched Xixi's little head. Although he was very proud of having such a lovely daughter as Xixi, he knew that these neighbors were just saying polite words, half-truths and half-truths.

If Xixi has temperament, then forget it, at most, Xixi looks more upscale in clothes.

Pulling Christina to introduce to everyone, "My girlfriend, Christina, you can just call her Tina. Her Chinese is not very good, but if you speak slowly and simply, she can probably understand."

Christina smiled like a goddess and waved her hands. Although she still had a big tongue and couldn't speak clearly, she was able to introduce herself, "Hello, nice to meet you, I'm Christina, Tina."

Seeing Christina, the neighbors felt a little distant; in this day and age, it cannot be said that foreigners are so rare.It just has to be admitted that no foreigners seem to have visited the town yet.

It's just a simple greeting, and I'm not familiar with it now, so it's just a greeting; also because Zhang Hao's family has just come back, this is not the most appropriate time to chat.

When Youyou returned home, she was like a lively dragon, dragging her sister's little hand and running towards the house; Xixi is naturally not afraid now, because she can follow her sister, because she saw her grandparents at home.

"Grandma, your home."

Hearing Xixi's words, Yu Xiu laughed, "It's also our Yoyo and Xixi's home, this is our home."

Xixi blinked her big eyes, thought for a while before saying, "It's not my home, my home is a ranch."

Well, the little girl really doesn't understand these things now, the little guy's impression is that home is a ranch; she really doesn't have the slightest impression of her hometown.

But Zhang Hao is very confident that Xixi will become more and more familiar with his hometown in the future, and he can guarantee that Xixi will like and recognize his hometown more and more.

It is enough to simply say hello to the neighbors, and the next step is to visit the hometown.

The hometown is indeed small and not very luxurious, but it is enough for Zhang Hao; Zhang Hao holds Xixi in his arms, and takes Christina upstairs to look at the room.

Dad really made a lot of preparations when he came back early. The floor, air conditioner, and TV are all available; the bed is also changed to a larger one, soft and comfortable, which is enough for a family of three to sleep.

"Is there any photo of you when you were young, I want to see the photo of you when you were young."

Throwing Xixi onto the bed, seeing the little girl rolling happily on the bed, Christina immediately spoke.

Zhang Hao thought about it, and felt that the problem was not a big one, and it was a very normal thing. He had seen Christina's growing up album, "I didn't have many photos. When I was young, my family's financial conditions were not very good, and we didn't have a camera. And I've always been quite resistant to photography, so a lot of my pictures look weird."

Hearing what Zhang Hao said, Christina became more interested; she really wanted to see Zhang Hao's awkward postures, and she really wanted to see if Zhang Hao was really not photogenic.

It's also a little strange, but she has seen a lot of photos of Zhang Hao and Xixi; when it comes to posing, Xixi is quite good at posing, baring her teeth, grinning or pouting her mouth to be cute.As for Zhang Hao, when he took a photo with Xixi, there were a lot of gods in sync. Now Zhang Hao is not afraid of taking pictures at all.

Christina laughed and saw the commemorative photo of Zhang Haoman's one-year-old naked butt wearing a bellyband. At that time, the chubby little guy was fine, the key was sitting, and the little earthworm was just like that.

There are also photos when I was four or five years old, standing on the street and holding a toy pistol; the photos when I was in elementary school don’t look like the present shadow at all, it is really dark, fat, and the face is round.As for the photos in junior high school, it’s okay to be a word; some photos in high school have the meaning of bad children. When I have dinner with my classmates, I still have a cigarette in my hand...

It's all black history. Zhang Hao felt that it might not be the right choice to dig out some of his few photos.

Although there are some aspects of these photos that make Zhang Hao feel quite embarrassing, but there is nothing to be ashamed of; who hasn't had a dark history that can't be looked back, and who hasn't had such a young and frivolous past.

The two of them just flipped through the photos with gusto, and they were also explaining the stories of some of the photos, which were very sweet and warm; if the little girl Xixi didn't make a fuss, it might be even sweeter.

(End of this chapter)