Chapter 201: Beginning to be cowardly
After hearing what Zhang Chunnuan said, Father Shen felt relieved.
He is not afraid that something will happen to his family, but he is afraid that the baby will be able to take care of himself without telling him.
Now that I know the cause and effect, I naturally start to think with Zhang Chunnuan.
Otherwise, having an elder in the family is like having a treasure. Father Shen only thought for a moment and then tried to speak:
"Nuan'er, we can't rush this matter. We have to do it step by step. Fortunately, you have taught the children well before and they don't talk about the things at home, so it's not that difficult. Don't worry.
I see, we don’t have to deal with the livestock at home first, the most important thing is the food and clothing for the children.”
In fact, he had said these words before. Living in the same village, the four little children in the family lived very different lives from the little children in other families in the village.
The little ones from other families were running around with their buttocks naked and without enough food or clothing to keep them warm. But these little ones at home looked more rosy and plump than the others.
Especially the youngest granddaughter Shen August, with a bulging face and little steamed bun hands full of flesh.
Father Shen is thinking this way, and he has never expected that the person who loves his twins the most is himself.
"Dad, what you said makes sense."
Zhang Chunnuan nodded repeatedly when she heard this. Yes, she only wanted to put away the eye-catching things at home, but she didn't even think about the children at home.
Right!
She suddenly thought of something and asked Father Shen to wait. Then she rushed into the room, took out the patched old clothes she had prepared before, and put them on the table.
"Dad, look at what I have prepared in advance, and I will ask everyone in the family to put it on later!"
Father Shen casually picked up the top one. Judging from its size, it should be for his mistress.
He spread out the clothes and looked at them, touched the inside and outside of his hands, and then said:
"If you take off the patch, you can still wear it."
"To patch?"
Zhang Chunnuan was stunned for a moment. She had made those patches specially just to "pretend to be poor", but now she was told to take them away?!
"Yes." Father Shen nodded and continued: "This outfit, when the weather gets warmer, the mistress will probably wear it shorter, and with the patches, it will be too... too obvious.
Moreover, the fabric of your patch is the same as the fabric of your clothes, and the color is similar, so it is better not to patch it."
Zhang Chunnuan finally understands what Father Shen means. Anyway, it means that she has not grasped the essence of poverty and her counterfeiting skills are too bad!
Listen to others and eat enough.
Zhang Chunnuan thought about removing the patch when she went back, and then heard Father Shen continue:
"The people in the village are all good. When our family was rich before, no one would be jealous and cause trouble. I was afraid that people outside would be bad, so the children still had to talk to each other.
In the second half of the year, Xiaosanzi and Xiaoyu will go to the commune to attend junior high school. Then let them walk there like other children in the brigade, and don't bring them any food."
As he said this, he glanced at Zhang Chunnuan, who couldn't help but laugh at him.
It's not enough to send the two children to junior high school in the commune. I plan to give them the family's bicycles to ride to and from school. I also plan to let them bring lunch from home to school.
It's not like the children from their village are the only ones going to school in the commune. They are from their brigade. Who knows whether there are people or tigers in other brigade.
In fact, Zhang Chunnuan really didn't expect this, mainly because the past few years have been so smooth.
Because life is going smoothly, I have lost my vigilance.
Now when she heard what Father Shen said, although she didn't say it clearly, as soon as she thought about it deeply, she realized it, and a layer of white hair started to appear on her back.
Father Shen couldn't help but take out his cigarette, and he didn't put any tobacco in it. He only sucked the cigarette holder twice. After a while, he said, "I'll go to Zhou's house tomorrow."
We should really communicate with the village chief uncle's family. After all, in the entire Shanjiao Village, apart from our own family, only the Zhou family is living a good life.
If you go back and behave yourself, you won't be showing off to the Zhou family.
Zhang Chunnuan nodded, and opened his mouth to ask Father Shen to bring something to Wang Dongxue, who was in bed at home after being discharged from the hospital to raise her fetus. She thought about it, but did not say anything.
From now on, I have to change my habit of giving things to people!
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law kept talking until eleven o'clock in the evening before they went back to their rooms to sleep.
Early the next morning, before Xiaosanzi and Wang Xinyu got up, Zhang Chunnuan got up and made breakfast.
The day's plan begins in the morning.
Now that you have decided to be stubborn, let’s start with breakfast!
The Shen family's breakfast in the past was mainly steamed buns with various fillings, supplemented by lean meat porridge, bone porridge, shrimp porridge and other porridges. Occasionally, when changing the taste, they would eat a few meals of plain noodles.
But today, when the mistress and Wang Xinyu got up, they found that the quality of breakfast at home had plummeted.
The mistress picked up a wild vegetable steamed bun with chopsticks and ate it without any taste, while Wang Xinyu said nothing and concentrated on eating.
In fact, it is said to be wild vegetable steamed buns, but in fact it is not unpalatable.
Wild vegetables are made by soaking dried vegetables that have been dehydrated in processing plants. The wild vegetables harvested in the farm are so tender that you can pinch the water out of them. Even if you eat them after being dehydrated and stored, they will not be edible.
It’s not that Zhang Chunnuan didn’t want to bring out fresh wild vegetables. The problem is that it is only the second month of the lunar calendar and the wild vegetables outside have just sprouted, so there is no way to bring them out.
The noodles are two-faced noodles, and the cornmeal and flour are both fine noodles processed in a processing factory. They are not at the same level as the thick cornmeal ground with a mill.
The reason why I can't eat enough is in response to the old saying: It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go back from luxury to frugality.
The two schoolmates went to school after eating and drinking. Seeing that there was no time, Zhang Chunnuan had no choice but to run down the mountain to work with two wild vegetable steamed buns in his arms. Only Father Shen was left at home, weaving bamboo baskets and still sleeping.
The twins of dragon and phoenix.
Brother and sister Shen Shiqi didn't get up until the sun was high in the sky.
When Father Shen saw the two children putting on their clothes and shoes and running out of the main room hand in hand, he put down the bamboo strips in his hands and entered the kitchen.
On the kitchen stove, there are pots on both burners, one is warming breakfast, and the other is the hot water reserved for washing.
He mixed some water for the two little ones and put it on the ground, waiting for them to wash themselves after brushing their teeth.
Shen Shiqi rolled up the sleeves of his cotton coat with all his strength, reached into the basin with his little hands, fished out a towel, wrung it out and handed it to Shen August.
After his sister has finished washing, he will wash her again.
After washing up, Shen August, who had been hungry for a long time, hugged his grandfather's lap and said, "Grandpa, Grandpa, August is hungry and wants to eat!"
"Okay, grandpa will put breakfast in the main room for you. Can you eat it by yourself?"
"able!"
“August can do it too!”
So, Father Shen took out the wild vegetable steamed buns that were hot on the stove in a sea bowl.
Holding steamed buns in one hand and steamed eggs in the other, followed by two little tails, he walked into the main room.
The two children gathered around the table and watched their grandfather put down the bowl he was carrying.
When I saw wild vegetable steamed buns, I couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
Two cute little faces were raised, with big eyes full of doubts, and they asked Father Shen:
Chapter completed!