stonecrandall Chapter 051, concern [9 more]
Chapter 051, concern [9 more]
Chapter 051, concerned about [nine more]
Just got a candy to eat, now the grandpa who gave them candy for the twins is not so strange.
Children are like this, as soon as they are given food, they immediately treat you well, and now they are all around grandpa, trying to ask for a second candy.Qiao Xiaohui found it funny again, and said to her grandpa, "Grandpa, look at them, I'll go to the kitchen and get some food."
"Okay, you go." Seeing the two children staring at him, Zhang Mingde deliberately covered his pockets, which still had candies in them.
Sure enough, as soon as he covered his pocket with his hand, the eyes of the two children looked at his pocket.
The twins are eyeing grandpa, and the two children seem to be wondering if they can get a second candy.While the eldest granddaughter was gone, the grandfather took another candy out of his pocket for each of the two children, peeled off the paper, and fed the candy to the two children.
Sure enough, as soon as they got the candy, the two children had candy in their mouths, squinted their eyes with happiness, and sat beside grandpa on one left and one on the right, leaning on grandpa.Zhang Mingde patted the heads of the two children, felt the soft hair, looked into the distance, with a calm expression on his face.
Qiao Xiaohui let the twins play with grandpa for a while, then went to the kitchen.
There was still leftovers from the porridge made in the morning, but there was not much left over, and it might not be enough for the few of them.
There was still some flour in the cabinet. Qiao Xiaohui took out the flour, found a basin, and started making noodles with the noodles. After the dough was reconciled, she cut it into strips with a kitchen knife.As soon as the water in the pot boiled, she put the noodles in, stirred them with chopsticks, poured cold water in again, and the noodles were cooked.
The hens at home have been laying two eggs every day for the past few days, and the eggs are collected. Except for the occasional egg porridge for the twins, the rest are here, and there are several eggs in the basket. I am willing to eat.
When the noodles were cooked, Qiao Xiaohui took out two more eggs, fried them slightly to make a sauce, poured them on top of the cooked noodles just now, and made egg noodles.Sprinkle a handful of shallots on top, smelling the fragrance, she couldn't help swallowing.
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The knife cuts the cabbage with a crisp sound. It cuts a cabbage in two or three strokes, puts it in boiling water for a while, puts some salt in it, and scoops it up.At this time, the porridge in the pot was also hot, so Qiao Xiaohui found a small pot and put all the porridge on it.
It didn't take long for lunch to be ready.
"Grandpa, come over for dinner." After taking the ready-made things back to the house and setting out four pairs of bowls and chopsticks, Qiao Xiaohui called her grandpa to eat, and carried her little sister to a chair to sit down.Zhang Mingde said hello, and helped carry the child to a chair and sit him down.
As soon as he saw that there was food, Qiao Xiaobao sat down obediently, waiting for his sister to give it to him.
Qiao Xiaomei is not honest, she points to the things on the table and babbles, which means she wants to eat.
"Yes, yes, I know you two are hungry, so sit down before you eat." Qiao Xiaohui filled a small bowl with half a bowl of noodles for one person, with a little egg on top, and gave a spoon to each of them, letting them eat by themselves. Scoop and eat. ·Grandpa filled a large bowl of noodles again, and handed it to grandpa, "Grandpa, you eat."
"Hey, good. You can eat too. There are too many noodles here, and grandpa can't finish it." Zhang Mingde sat down, saw a big bowl full of noodles, saw that there were not many noodles on the table, picked up his chopsticks, Put some noodles in the bowl back.
"Grandpa, you can just eat it, you don't need to put it back. Big Brother and Third Sister won't eat anything when they come back, as long as we are full." Qiao Xiaohui packed half a bowl of noodles for herself, and then put noodles into Grandpa's bowl.
Holding the bowl, Zhang Mingde refused to pick up the noodles brought by his granddaughter, and said with a smile: "It's alright, alright, these are enough for me, I can't finish eating too much."
"Is it delicious?" Qiao Xiaohui pulled her drooping bangs behind her ears, and watched the twins eat deliciously. The two children were not good at scooping up noodles with spoons, and they were eating with their hands. She didn't stop them from doing this. Just let them take it and eat it.
"Delicious." Qiao Xiaobao rolled his eyes with a smile, grabbed the noodles and put them in his mouth.
Qiao Xiaohui smiled and asked grandpa to eat more, "Grandpa, eat more, there is still porridge here, let's decorate it and eat it later."
"Okay." Zhang Mingde nodded with a smile, watching his eldest granddaughter take care of two younger brothers and sisters. This granddaughter looks a bit like her dead mother, she is a good child.Thinking of his daughter who had passed away, the old man felt a little sad in his heart.
Looking at these young grandchildren, the old man was a little worried about the future of these children.
After they had lunch, Qiao Xiaohui asked her grandpa to play with her younger siblings, then cleaned up the dishes and went to wash them up.
The sky outside is very blue, sunny and white clouds, and the sun is also very hot.The cicadas in summer are chirping, and the hens have laid eggs, clucking and singing, telling the owner that they have laid eggs.
"Cluck-cluck-clack-"
The twins are learning how to crow like a hen, and while learning to crow, they are enjoying themselves first.
Qiao Xiaohui looked at them smiling, and couldn't help showing a smile on her face. Seeing that the twins were getting sleepy after playing for a while, she was going to take the two children back to the house to sleep, "Grandpa, sit here for a while, I will take them to sleep." Take a nap."
"Okay, you go, don't worry about me." Zhang Mingde sat on the small stool at the door, looked outside the door, waiting for the few grandchildren who hadn't come back yet.
"Grandpa, if you're going to be tired, just lie down on that chair for a while." Qiao Xiaohui was talking about the reclining chair in the living room, which can just sleep one person.
"All right, you take them to sleep." The old man replied without moving his buttocks.
Qiao Xiaohui took the twins back to the house to sleep. The two children started to make noise as soon as they got on the bed. She grabbed them and pressed them to the bed. sleep.
The two children are older now, and they can sleep by themselves when they are sleepy. They don't need to be coaxed by others. After lying down and talking to her, their voices gradually disappeared.
Usually Qiao Xiaohui would take a nap with the twins, but today her grandpa came, thinking that grandpa was still outside, she got up, instead of sleeping with the two younger ones, she went out and saw the old man sitting Waiting quietly at the door, her footsteps stopped.
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"Brother, we're home."
Qiao Mingcheng, who was running ahead, pushed open the door of the yard, and when he saw his grandpa sitting at the door, he turned around and shouted, "Brother, it's grandpa."
Hearing the shouts outside, knowing that the grandchildren had returned, the old man sitting at the door stood up holding the door frame and looked in the direction of the door.Qiao Minglang stepped through the gate of the yard and saw the old man standing inside. He walked up to the old man and called out "Grandpa."
The old man gave him a very familiar feeling, and he knew that this familiarity came from the memory of this body. The relationship between the young man and the old man was very good, and the old man loved his grandson very much.
"Grandpa." Qiao Mingcheng and Qiao Xiaofen followed their brother and called grandpa.
They have been a little afraid of this serious-looking grandpa since they were young. When grandma was still there, grandma would take them to grandpa's house to see grandpa every once in a while.Grandpa is very kind to them. Every time he goes there, he will give them sweets and secretly give them a few cents to buy food.
But then grandma was gone, no one took them to grandpa's house, but grandpa would come to see them from time to time.
"Hey, they're all back."
Zhang Mingde's eyes showed joy when he saw the eldest grandson brought back the two younger ones.
Thinking of the granddaughter saying that the eldest grandson followed the uncle to do business, Zhang Mingde asked: "I heard from your sister that you and your uncle went to do business. When did it happen?"
The old man only thought that his grandson went to do business with his uncle, but he didn't know that his grandson proposed to do business with his uncle and cousin.
"As for what happened a few days ago, I haven't had time to tell you, grandpa. Please sit down, grandpa." Qiao Minglang invited the old man to sit down, and he sat down on the chair opposite to the old man.
Qiao Xiaohui went to pour a glass of water for her brother, and added some water to her grandfather's glass, and asked the two sweaty siblings to wipe their faces. Seeing that their hands were black, she asked them to wash outside the yard. Clean both paws and come back.
Looking at the grandson sitting in front of him, Zhang Mingde felt that this grandson had grown up a lot.But also, when such a thing happened in the family, people will change, so I don't think there is anything strange.
The grandfather and grandson were silent for a while, Zhang Mingde asked: "Is the business you are doing good?"
"It's not bad. I met the market today, so I sold it out earlier." Qiao Minglang briefly talked about their business.
Zhang Mingde snorted, he didn't know anything about business.He was born in a family, studied and practiced calligraphy since he was a child, and has been an intellectual for most of his life.The most difficult time in his life was when he brought his wife and children to the countryside for labor reform. He lived in a cowshed and worked in the fields. He couldn't eat enough every day, and his children screamed from hunger.
But they survived the most difficult period, and several children survived.
Later, after the movement ended, the couple became teachers in the primary school in the village. Finally, life gradually improved, but his wife died of illness and could not be saved. Only a few children followed him.
He only had three children in his life. The eldest son Zhang Huaishan was the oldest, his daughter Zhang Yue was the second, and the youngest son Zhang Huaiyuan.The eldest son, Zhang Huaishan, is 40 years old this year, and his daughter, Zhang Yue, was only in her 30s when she died. The youngest son, Zhang Huaiyuan, is several years behind his elder brothers and sisters.
Their Zhang family has been a scholarly family for generations, and their ancestors have produced university scholars. Even if they came to this remote village later, the husband and wife still did not forget to teach their children to read and write, and their daughter Zhang Yue even wrote Good handwriting.