Song Tan Jishi

  Chapter 292 292. Seventh cousin's plan

  Zhou Maozhu's honest husband and wife thought about it on their own, and didn't think about doing anything when they went to stir-fry tea from the beginning to the end.

   It is also enough to see that Song Sancheng's gift of 5 catties of tea is really not a loss at all.

  As Song Sancheng sent them away, now thinking of the generosity he had promised at the beginning, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

   It was Song Tan who took the initiative to say:

   "Dad, you have a good eye. My Uncle Zhou's family is really honest. It's really not cheap at all to fry tea for so long."

  I've already given it away. After so long, why make her father feel uncomfortable?

   As for the tea, whether it is 3 catties and 6 taels of roasted dry tea or 4 catties of roasted dry tea, more or less, no one can say for sure.

  But Zhou Maozhu’s family even fried the old leaves that were sifted every day, and sent them over to boil water for drinking when working at home, and they were frank from the beginning to the end...

  Song Tan doesn't say anything else, but it's okay to see people.

  They are honest people.

   Now that he said this, Song Sanguo trembled: "Isn't it? Let me tell you, Dad eats more salt than you eat rice, and what you say has a deep meaning. Sometimes you can't just look at the surface!"

  Wu Lan passed by next to him, and made a soft sound from his nasal cavity——

"snort."

  Song Sancheng:…

  He stepped aside in an instant.

   But Seventh Cousin was sitting there, and was quite touched at the moment:

  Everyone who is an old man has to find a way to take care of his child. His child has gone to the frontier to get married and have a child, and he has never been there...

   Of course, the children rarely come back.

  Thinking about it now, he couldn't help but ask his wife next to him:

   "You said... how about we send something to Shuliang?"

  …

   I have to say that Seventh Cousin was also a stubborn person before.

  Because he is a chef, he has been able to live at home all these years. In those days, being a cook was a good skill to ensure income and food during droughts and floods.

  So when his son saw that he was hopeless in the exam, Seventh Cousin was tempted to pass on this craft to him.

   However, his son Shuliang can do anything, but he doesn’t like squatting in the kitchen!

  As the son of a chef, he would rather cook bad food than learn it.

  Seventh Cousin worked hard, thinking of having a craft, and in the future he would take in a few more apprentices. The family supported each other, and no matter whether it was opening a restaurant to sell snacks or doing anything, he could always support himself.

   For this reason, I tossed and tossed my son a lot, and after tossing and tossing, my son ran away.

  Before he left, he left a note saying that he didn’t want to learn how to cook. He was really not interested.

   Seventh Cousin was angry and angry, but... people are not in front of him, what's the use of being angry?

   It was only later that he received news from his son that he knew that his son had gone to the border with others.

   My boy, how long the day is over there!

   Isn't working there much harder than being a cook? ?

   Sure enough, my son also complained when he wrote the letter—it was dawn early in the morning, and the sun hadn’t set at ten o’clock in the evening...

   After complaining, Seventh Cousin asked him to come back and learn how to cook, but he still didn't do it!

  Frontier Luyao, it took a lot of time to communicate back and forth, and slowly, my son got used to it there.

  At that time, the local mutton skewers cost 5 cents a skewer, pure mutton, big pieces!

  Grapes cost 30 cents a kilogram, and there are still many shops opened by educated youths in the local area, and the young people don’t feel nostalgic—he even met a girl!

   Slowly, it took root there.

  Until one day, he came back with his girlfriend and solemnly told Seventh Cousin: He will stay in the frontier from now on...

  …

   That was all many years ago.

  At that time, the cities were not yet developed, and a small town like Yuncheng was not far behind the counties in the frontier.

  Parents will never be able to hold back their children. Even if the seventh cousin has only one son, according to his old-fashioned thinking, he will wait for his son to take care of him in the future.

   But looking at the child's determined face, he didn't say anything in the end.

  The frontier is too big, and there is no direct bus where my son lives. Every time he goes back and forth, he has to take a bus, a bullock cart, and a motorcycle... All the way to the train station, it takes a few days to come back.

  For so many years, there are only a handful of times when children come back.

   Seventh Cousin wanted to go there, but he couldn't even find it.

   Had it not been for this situation, he would not have made up his mind to take the house to find himself a family for the elderly.

   At this point, the son who is already a father has gradually realized the feelings of his parents back then, so he took the initiative to mention the house on the phone.

  But he also promised that once his parents needed him, he would definitely go back!

  But after getting married, she came back once, but when she sent him away, Seventh Grandma sighed:

   "I haven't seen you for so many years. I have to be careful when talking to my son... I can't figure out his taste, and I don't know what he lives there. He can't understand our local dialect."

   "We are old...can we still count on him by our side?"

  Time failed to erase the emotion, but it deepened the gap step by step.

  Finally, Seventh Cousin also sighed.

——

  She thought of the mutton, fruits, jujubes, raisins, etc. sent back by her son every year, and finally sighed:

   "Let's send it too."

   After finishing speaking, he hesitated for a moment:

"Don't we still have some money? Do you want to renovate the old house? I think we will stay in the village in the future, and send a letter to the children, telling us to meet our grandchildren... If he doesn't have time , Now I have positioning and navigation, and I have also learned to surf the Internet, give me an address, and we will go there by ourselves."

  Seventh Cousin dare not answer these words.

  Grandma Seven’s body is not that healthy. Going to the frontier, they are at this age, if there is another acclimatization, it will cost half their life.

  But at this moment, I can't help but be moved by my wife's proposal—

  The old house is tidy, and it will be more comfortable for the old couple to live in. In case the son brings the children back, the house will not be too dilapidated.

   "Okay, I think this engineering team is good. Let's see what it looks like when Tan Tan's house is built. If it's okay, we will also reinforce and tidy up our old house, and reorganize the yard."

   As for sending things...

  Seventh Cousin asked: "Honey, tea, white fungus?"

  The meat and fruit on the frontier are good and cheap, if you say they are rare, that’s what he just said.

  Grandma Seven nodded: "Tell Tan Tan well, I'm afraid she won't be able to settle the money with you then."

  Speaking of this, Seventh Cousin snorted:

   "As for that girl, can she still count the money with me? She would rather give me an extra catty than reduce the price by a penny! This point is clear."

   While complaining, there was a deep smile on his face. Obviously, Seven Cousin agrees with Song Tan's way of doing business.

   The son will come back, but will not stay.

  (end of this chapter)