Rebirth 1958: My Home is in Nanluoguxiang

On the main roads in the suburbs of Yanjing, every passerby would look at the tricycle with envy.

The man riding the tricycle is a tall and strong young man, at least 1.85 meters tall. He looks mighty and majestic, and everyone who sees him can't help but praise him: What a man!

The truck bed was filled with straw. Two adults were each holding a girl. Two boys who looked exactly the same were sitting in front of them. They looked like a family.

The family, wrapped in military coats, with their backs to the wind, were pointing and talking at the roadside. Then they looked at the young man riding the bicycle, pedaling very fast and not looking tired at all.

As the saying goes, comparing yourself to others will make you angry. When those who ride bicycles and enjoy the envious looks of others see this family, they suddenly feel that the bicycles under their butts are not so attractive anymore.

Mercedes-Benz meets Maybach!

"Son, ride slower. If you feel tired, take a break. It's still early!"

"It's okay. I was just warming up. It's fine for me to ride another 100 kilometers."

"What nonsense! Do you think you are the donkey of the shooting formation?"

Chang Zhengyang laughed, took off his coat and threw it into the cart. He kept walking at the same speed and passed one horse-drawn cart, donkey cart and ox-drawn cart after another.

He had someone modify this tricycle, mainly by adding spring shock absorbers.

If hydraulic shockproof equipment was available, he would have wanted to install a hydraulic shockproof system.

But the big springs are also good, with one on each wheel and one under the seat. They are much more comfortable to ride than a bicycle.

The tricycle sped along the road with sparks flying and lightning, and it arrived at Guojiazhuang in just one and a half hours.

If a family rides a bicycle, it will take at least three hours to get there.

Chang Zhengyang was confident that if the road was made of cement, he would be able to reach the destination in 40 minutes at most.

After the tricycle entered Guojiazhuang, it attracted a large group of children to watch. When it arrived at grandpa Guo Quanlin's house, the whole family was attracted by the noise outside.

"Good boy, you guys even borrowed a tricycle. You got here faster than Lao Si and his friends."

It was my aunt who was speaking. As soon as she finished speaking, Guo Huiying replied quietly, "Our Zhengyang bought it. He was afraid that we would get tired on the road, so he bought this tricycle."

Here it comes, here it comes again!

Chang Zhengyang's eyelids twitched. Every time his mother saw his aunts, she would change her elegant city image and transform into a yin and yang magician.

It is said that sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law are born to incompatible, and the Guo family is a typical example.

Chang Zhengyang naturally knew the reason very well.

The main reason why several aunts were so dissatisfied with his mother was because she married a carpenter.

This story starts with my grandfather Guo Quanlin. He wanted his daughter to marry a son of a wealthy and powerful family. He did this because, firstly, he didn't want his daughter to suffer for the rest of her life, and secondly, he had a little selfish reason, hoping that the future son-in-law would be able to support his son.

So the old man selected a young man with good family background, ability and appearance among Guo Huiying's suitors, and prepared to make the decision personally to marry Guo Huiying to this talented young man.

It's a pity that love cannot be forced. Ms. Guo was influenced by the atmosphere of free love in school. She had already fallen in love with Chang Baichuan, who was just a fledgling carpenter at the time, and had secretly decided to spend her life with him.

So from then on, every time the aunts met their sister-in-law Guo Huiying, they would think of the future of their husbands and sons. If their sister-in-law had married into that family, their husbands and sons would not be like they are today, still working at the grassroots level.

Of course, the young talent chosen by the old man later moved to Taiwan Island with his family, and the aunts didn’t mention it anymore.

Despite this, the knot that had been hanging over her for many years was finally untied.

In their opinion, the sister-in-law should never hire a carpenter. What use could a carpenter be?

"Happy New Year, Grandpa and Grandma!"

Chang Zhengyang and his four siblings kowtowed to the old man and wished a happy new year. Chang Baichuan carried into the house one by one the thirty kilograms of flour, fifty kilograms of corn flour, two barrels of malted milk, six cans of yellow peaches, two kilograms of fruit candies, two kilograms of cakes, and some daily necessities such as vanishing cream, toothpaste, and soap from the tricycle.

When my aunt saw these, a flash of joy appeared in her eyes. These things were said to be for my father-in-law and his family, and would be delivered to her house in a few days.

But when he thought about his eldest brother, who was still a deputy platoon leader and did not go home for the New Year, he felt annoyed again. It would be great if his sister-in-law could marry those high-ranking officials.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, my fourth uncle's family and my sixth uncle's family, a total of more than twenty people from both families and more than a dozen bicycles, came into the yard in a mighty procession.

Fortunately, the yards in the countryside are relatively large. Old Guo’s yard is more than three acres, so even if another hundred people come, they can still fit in.

Little Pig is very happy now, because she has been promoted from the youngest of the third generation to an aunt!

From time to time, she would walk up to a little baby and ask him to call her aunt or uncle, which would cause everyone to laugh.

In stark contrast to the laughter of the younger generation in the courtyard, the kitchen was filled with a weird atmosphere.

The daughters-in-law of Old Guo's family, together with the granddaughters-in-law, Guo Huiying and the unmarried girls, a total of ten women, were led by the grandmother. Some were making fire, some were washing vegetables, some were cutting vegetables, and some were cooking. At this moment, apart from the sounds of cutting and cooking, the only voice was Guo Huiying's.

If Chang Zhengyang saw Ms. Guo's appearance at this moment, he would definitely not believe it. Is this still his quiet and elegant mother?

Why do I feel like I'm just like those aunties in the alley who brag about their husbands and sons!

"You don't know, when Zhengyang returned my diploma to me and divided it among me, I thought I was dreaming... Later he said that he had chosen a new advisor named Professor Zheng Weimin. Professor Zheng, like Professor Ma, is not only the dean of the department, but also a member of the academic department. Our Zhengyang has two members of the academic department as advisors..."

This Huiying girl!

Grandma sat there, grabbed a handful of dry branches and stuffed them into the stove, looking at her three daughters-in-law with amusement, whose faces turned pale and blue.

The old lady knew the thoughts of her three daughters-in-law very well.

As long as they didn't do anything out of line, she always turned a blind eye.

Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Since she married into the Guo family, she has been managing the family business while raising six sons and one daughter, and watching them get married and start their own families. She has lived up to the ancestors of the Guo family.

The old lady is old, and she just wants to enjoy her old age in the countryside with her grandchildren. If God can let her see her great-grandson grow up, she will be satisfied.