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94. Chapter 94
Xi Junjie only stayed for a moment, and then bid farewell. After all, the family reunites only once a year, and it is not suitable for him to stay here for too long as an outsider. When he thought of the word "outsider", Xi Junjie felt sour in his heart. He silently calculated that there would be three years before graduation, and suddenly felt that the road to marrying a wife was too long.
The people from the old Li family watched Xi Junjie exit the door, but they remained silent collectively. After about a minute or so, Meat Bun guessed that Xi Junjie had gone far, so they couldn't help but asked, "Aunt, what the hell are you doing? Did you deceive people?"
"What are you talking about?" Zhen Zhen stretched out her white and tender fingers and stabbed Meat Bun on the head: "We are in love, do you understand? Besides, he took the initiative to pursue me."
As soon as they heard the words "love and love", Li Muwu and Wang Sufen covered their faces with their hands. The girl was so direct, it was really overwhelming.
Seeing Meat Bun's obviously disbelieving eyes, Zhen Zhen pointed to the north: "If you don't believe me, ask your fourth uncle and fourth aunt."
As soon as Mingbei saw Li Muwu's eyes slanted over, he immediately waved his hand and shook his head: "Don't ask me, I don't know anything, and when I found out that they were dating, they were already holding hands blatantly."
The family turned to Wang Xinwen again, although Wang Xinwen was confused and didn't understand, but she nodded firmly on the principle of not breaking the stage: "Yes, it is Xi Junjie who chases our family Zhen Zhen every day." It seems that she feels this sentence. The words are too flimsy, you have to testify to be convincing, so Wang Xinwen added: "Every night after class, Xi Junjie is at the bottom of our dormitory waiting for each to bring hot water to Zhen Zhen, you don't know that when he comes, all What can cause a commotion in the whole dormitory building, those girls are lying on the window looking at him one by one, and sometimes they fight for a good position."
Looking at Zhen Zhen, Rou Bao concluded: "So you all look at your face."
Zhen Zhen smiled and looked at the meat bun with sympathy: "Do you feel particularly desperate?"
Meat Bun touched his face, and for the first time he felt a little unconfident. Originally, he didn't feel anything wrong among a group of rough old men, but since he met Xi Junjie, Meat Bun felt that he was a little different in appearance and stature than others. Almost, his voice is not good, and his brain is not as good as others. Meat Bun can maintain the top five at most for three years in high school, and the first place is a bit difficult, but Xi Junjie can take the first place in Imperial College. Fab.
Seeing Zhen Zhen's complacent look, Rou Bao reluctantly added: "My little uncle is good in everything, but his eyes are not very good, otherwise why does he fall in love with you?"
Zhen Zhen picked up a handful of pine nuts and was about to throw them away, but Meat Bun smiled and hid behind the sweet-scented osmanthus flower: "Just kidding, those pine nuts are the pine cones I picked for you by climbing the tree myself, so I can't waste them."
Zhen Zhen smashed a few pine nuts with a "quack", and while throwing the pine nut skins into the trash can, smiled at the meat bun: "Wait until I see what kind of niece you can find for me."
Seeing that it was getting dark, Wang Sufen quickly led Osmanthus and Zhen Zhen to the kitchen to make dinner. Mingbei went to Xi Junjie's house next door to borrow a phone and called Mingxi, telling him that Mingdong and Mingnan were both here, and asked him to come back early after get off work at night. Right now, Mingxi doesn't have any experiments at hand, he only organizes materials in the office. When he gets off work, he rides his wife and children back to the courtyard with his wife and children.
Wang Sufen led her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law to busy with a table of dishes, and filled the table to the brim. Fortunately, the room in the kitchen was big enough that the whole family was not too crowded to sit down, but it was quite lively.
There was heating in the kitchen, and the two stoves didn't turn off, and the flames licked the casserole. The table was covered with a very thick stack of towels, and Zhen Zhen used thick gloves to put the handle of the casserole directly on the table.
Lifting the lid of the casserole, Zhen Zhen took the chopsticks to remove the lotus leaf covered inside, and the meaty incense burst out of the casserole and scattered in every corner of the house. The grunts sounded one after another for a while, Ming Dong covered his stomach and laughed. : "I've been eating dry food on the train these days. When you came up with such a fragrant jar, I suddenly felt that my stomach was empty and my heart panicked."
Ming Bei didn't even want to say a word when he smelled the fragrance, so he went straight to move a stack of small bowls and put them aside, and Zhen Zhen took them one by one and distributed them to everyone. Osmanthus saw that the soup in the bowl was thick and brown, so she couldn't help taking a sip of the soup first, only to see that the mellow soup was thick but not greasy, and her mouth was full of meaty fragrance. Picking up an abalone, osmanthus recognized it for a long time and didn't see what it was. After taking a bite, it was quite chewy, and the more delicious it was, the more fragrant it became. Nothing is the same.
Compared with sweet-scented osmanthus, which was very meticulous, the meat buns were snorted and stuffed into their mouths after a few small bites. Zhen Zhen only took a few bites and they had already eaten up the bowl. Looking at Buddha Jumping Over the Wall, who had lost half of the jar, Zhen Zhen stingy Bala gave another spoonful: "You young and strong eat less, and keep the rest for my milk, my parents and my mother."
Mrs. Li usually likes to drink a cup of wine when she eats, but today she doesn't even care about drinking the wine, so she didn't stop eating. When she heard Zhen Zhen say that she should keep the rest for herself, she nodded in agreement: "I thought so too. Come on, Bo'er, give me another bowl of milk."
"Okay." Seeing that Mrs. Li likes to eat the sea cucumber and fish maw in it, Zhen Zhen specially gave her more: "My milk is the best food, I know what to eat."
Mrs. Li squinted her eyes with a smile: "Anything is delicious, Zhen Zhen, you and Junjie also learn how to do this, and we will cook at home later."
Zhen Zhen put a bowl of Buddha Jumping over the Wall and put it by Mrs. Li's hand: "It's not particularly difficult to stew this, the key is that the stuff in it is not easy to put together." Zhen Zhen pointed at Mrs. Li with a spoon like: "Sea cucumber, abalone, Fish maw, fish maw, turtle skirt, shark fin, fish lips... deer tendons, pork belly, lamb elbow... There are dozens of things to run on the mountains that swim in the sea, and it takes a lot of effort to buy these things."
"Then this jar is too old and rich." Mrs. Li frowned: "You can't eat other people's food for nothing, go back to my box and get some ginseng for the Xi family, this in-law family has to have contacts and contacts. Yes."
Zhen Zhen took a sip of the soup and said, "Just tell Auntie Ling not to ask for it. It's almost New Year's Eve. I'll put ginseng in the New Year's gift, and it won't be eye-catching."
Mrs. Li nodded, her face full of admiration: "My granddaughter has grown up and thinks better than me."
"Isn't it a good one!" Zhen Zhen smiled and put a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs for Mrs. Li: "Your favorite sweet and sour taste."
After Ming Dong finished drinking the soup in the bowl, he sighed contentedly: "Zhen Zhen, your future mother-in-law's craftsmanship is really good."
As soon as the words fell, Ming Bei raised his head with a spare rib in his mouth, stretched out his chopsticks and pulled the bone down, swallowing the meat in a few bites: "Her mother-in-law? The future brother-in-law bribes him with various snacks, and from time to time, he can eat exquisite meals at home. Mingbei has become Xi Junjie's number one fan: "This is made by Xi Junjie, oh, you don't know, he is a skilled craftsman. Well, the dishes are better than the state banquet."
Mingnan burst out laughing: "It's like you've had a state banquet."
Mingbei raised his head in dissatisfaction: "Even if you haven't eaten it, you can imagine that it is not as delicious as this one."
"This jar of vegetables was actually made by my future uncle?" Meat Bun's chopsticks were hanging in the air, his expression was very tangled: "Is it so difficult to marry a wife in the imperial capital now? Not only do you have to grow well, but you also have to be good at cooking. ?"
Zhen Zhen's big eyes curved up with a smile: "So meat buns should study hard after you finish the college entrance examination, otherwise there will be no girls who will miss you in college."
"Hey, I learned it last winter." Meat Bun stuffed a mouthful of double-cooked pork into his mouth worriedly: "But my mother said that my shredded potatoes are thicker than fingers, and my fingers are clumsy and like toes. Not that stuff at all.”
"Then you're done." Mingbei said with wicked joy: "It's hard to pursue girls in the imperial capital. If you don't have any skills, you can't designate them."
"I've decided to go to Bingcheng's university." Roubao looked at Ming Nan expectantly: "Third Uncle, what do you think?"
Ming Nan smiled and cast a glance at him: "Our Bingcheng girls don't have a good time to pursue."
Meat Bun looked desperate: "It's over, Dad, why don't we go back to Anbei to find a daughter-in-law."
Mingdong laughed angrily at him: "Is there anything serious in your mind besides looking for a daughter-in-law? Let me tell you, if you don't get into the university in God's City next year, see how I deal with you."
The meat bun wilted all of a sudden, and after eating three bowls of rice with a sullen head, he regained his energy: "I just thought about it, the university in Didu is also very good, at least I have the opportunity to eat what my uncle makes. Meal." Then he stood up: "Tama, grandpa, grandma, eat slowly, I want to go back to the house to read."
"Go." Mrs. Li looked at him with a smile: "You haven't rested well on the train these days, don't stay up too late."
"Hey!" Meat Bun responded, and said another word to those present before leaving. Meat Bun went back to his room, and after opening the textbook, the smiling faces of Tian Zhen and Zhen Zhen disappeared, their faces were very serious and serious, and they quickly immersed themselves in the book.
Zhen Zhen retracted her consciousness and asked Ming Dong with a smile, "Isn't Meat Bun serious about studying?"
"It's okay to study, and I'm willing to endure hardship. I get up at 5 o'clock every morning to memorize the text, but I'm a bit obsessed with doing the questions. I didn't get the first place in the exams because of my carelessness." Mingdong said: "But our house is over there. You know your level, it’s not as difficult as the imperial capital, when I was in college, it wasn’t as difficult as it is now, if you have time these days, you can make up for his homework or something.”
My own nephew, it was such a critical period again, Zhen Zhen agreed with one bite, and even planned to give out a paper roll tomorrow and touch the bottom of the meat bun first, so that she could make up lessons in a targeted manner.
Zhen Zhen is an action-oriented person who does what she says she wants to do, she went back to the house after dinner, she lit the lamp and stayed up until twelve o'clock to get a set of papers, looked at the yard of the meat bag with her consciousness, and saw that the light was still on From the window, you can still see the figure of the meat bun learning. Zhen Zhen put on the padded jacket, went to the kitchen to warm up the beef stew and steamed buns left over from the evening, and brought the meat buns over.
"Meat Bun, you haven't slept yet?" Zhen Zhen knocked on the door and asked softly. Meat Bun rubbed his eyes and stood up, opened the door and saw the midnight snack that Zhen Zhen was carrying, and immediately smiled: "It's better for my aunt, you know I'm hungry and help me to cook."
Putting the food on the table, Zhen Zhen took out a stack of white paper from her arms with a smile and handed it to him: "Is there something better for you?"
"What?" The meat bun chewed the steamed bun in his mouth and asked vaguely. He reached out to take it, and the word "mathematics" came into view, and the steamed bun in his frightened mouth got stuck in his throat. If he couldn't get down, he choked with despair.
Zhen Zhen stretched out her hand to help him take pictures of the steamed buns, and kindly turned over the papers for him: "There are also language, physics, chemistry, etc., you do it well, when I get up at noon, I will judge the papers for you. of."
Meat Bun looked at the clock on the wall, the time on it was already 12:30, and then he glanced at the thick rolls in his hand, Meat Bun was a little confused: "Are you going to sleep until noon? I'll do it before noon. Finished so many questions?"
"Are you moved by the test paper I gave?" Zhen Zhen looked at him with a smile on her face: "Don't worry, this kind of test paper will appear often in the future. By the way, I heard from your father that you often did the test because you were careless before. Wrong question, if this kind of problem occurs in my paper, one wrong question hangs upside down on a tree and does a hundred sit-ups."
The steamed buns in the mouth of the meat bun fell and smashed into the bowl of beef stew, Zhen Zhen stood up and patted him on the shoulder: "Enjoy your supper, boy, you may not have such a good appetite from tomorrow. "
Roubao looked at Zhen Zhen with a sad face: "Then what, I don't think it's better for you to give Doubao a set of questions, he was only a freshman in high school and he was able to take the tenth exam, he couldn't bear it."
Zhen Zhen glanced at him with a half-smile but not a smile: "Don't worry, after you are freed, his good days will come."
Seeing that Meat Bun had turned grief and anger into appetite, Zhen Zhen happily went back to the house and went to sleep.
Since the holiday, Zhen Zhen rarely stayed up late. Although she didn't sleep until noon the next morning, she didn't get up until around ten o'clock. After stretching, Zhen Zhen felt a sense of comfort all over her body. Sweeping around with his consciousness, Meatbao was writing and writing at the table, Doubao took the two sons of Mingnan's family to do homework, Tangbao accompanied Mrs. Li to pick beans, and the Mingbei couple coaxed noodles to build building blocks. .
Seeing that there was nothing to do outside, Zhen Zhen didn't go out at all, she entered the space in a flash, cooked a bowl of noodles with the chicken soup boiled in the space, and ate the temperature of the space to 28 degrees, she was half lying in her pajamas. Memorizing words on the sun-drenched rocking chair, until the noon sugar bag came over and asked Zhen Zhen to have lunch, Zhen Zhen just flashed back to the bed.
Zhen Zhen is not the kind of child who likes to slack off, no one talks about her like sleeping in occasionally. After lunch, Zhen Zhen went to the meat bun house to read the exam paper. The foundation was quite solid, but the two lessons The meat buns with traps are all hit. When Zhen Zhen used a red pen to mark the key points on the question, Meat Bun's face turned green. Before doing the question, she repeatedly reminded herself to read the question carefully, how could she forget it when she was in a hurry.
"Blame yourself for not having a long memory, right?" Zhen Zhen looked at Meat Bun with a smile: "It's alright, you will remember after doing the sit-ups." Zhen Zhen already knew the answer when she asked the question, so she only It took less than an hour to approve all the test papers: "There are five questions in total because of the reason of reviewing the questions, and the other ones that you really can't do are not included in this scope. Five hundred sit-ups, you are going to finish them in a few days. ?"
"Five days?" Roubao looked at her with a frown.
"Okay." Zhen Zhen agreed very readily, "Anyway, we will take the next set of papers in five days."
So when Xi Junjie came to Lao Li's house to discuss with Zhen Zhen about going to celebrate his birthday tomorrow, he was mysteriously brought to the garden by Ming Bei.
The thinnest trees in the garden are more than a hundred years old, so they are all towering. Xi Junjie was wondering why Ming Bei led him here in the winter when he heard a trembling voice shouting: "Fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty..."
Following the sound, Xi Junjie saw Zhen Zhen sitting on a tall tree, with a man hanging upside down on a sturdy tree branch next to him, sitting and crunches while crying and urinating.
Xi Junjie's frightened face turned green, he hugged the tree and raised his neck and shouted, "Zhen Zhen, come down quickly, falling down is not a joke."
The meat bun hanging on the tree was about to cry: "Little uncle, what are you looking at? Didn't you realize that it was me who fell off easily?"
Although he didn't recognize who was hanging on the tree, the "little uncle" called Xi Junjie refreshed: "Then be careful when you do sit-ups, don't fall off."
The meat bun couldn't hold back and was almost made to cry by Xi Junjie's words, Zhen Zhen sat on the tree happily, insisting on waiting for the 100 meat buns to be made before reaching out and dragging him. Seeing these aunts and nephews doing such dangerous actions on a tree three or four meters high, Xi Junjie's soul almost flew out of fright.
Holding the tree trunk and climbing down for a while, seeing that there were less than two meters off the ground, Zhen Zhen turned over with a relaxed scorpion, fell off the tree and landed in front of Xi Junjie, lightly without even making a sound.
Turning around, Zhen Zhen realized that Xi Junjie's face was pale before realizing that he might be a little scared, Zhen Zhen Shen smiled and took Xi Junjie's hand and shook it gently: "You know my hometown is on the side of the mountain, I have been climbing like this since I was a child. Climbing up and down, in fact, this is not dangerous for me at all."
Xi Junjie stretched out his hand and pulled Zhen Zhen around his arms and hugged him tightly: "But I look at you like you are about to fall off."
Feeling Xi Junjie's body trembling with fear, Zhen Zhen hugged his back and rubbed her little face in his arms: "It's alright, it's alright."
Meat Bun was still crawling down, his feet touching the ground with great difficulty, and when he turned around, he saw two people hugging each other tightly.
Mingbei shook his head and dragged him up: "It's only been a few years since you did a hundred sit-ups and your legs are weak. You're too lack of exercise."
"I was scared by them." Roubao pointed at Zhen Zhen and didn't dare to speak aloud: "Aren't they afraid of letting my grandfather see their legs?"
Mingbei touched his chin and said very pertinently, "Auntie is fine, as for Xi Junjie, it's hard to say."
As soon as the words fell, the two saw Zhen Zhen suddenly raised her head and put her arms around Xi Junjie's neck. For this familiar gesture, Ming Bei instantly understood what Zhen Zhen wanted to do, and he tightly covered the meat bun. His eyes widened nervously to see the movements of the two.
Fortunately, Zhen Zhen was worried about someone beside her, so she just kissed Xi Junjie on the mouth gently, and then let go: "Do you feel your soul is coming back now?"
Before Xi Junjie could answer, Ming Bei hummed with a wry smile and said, "You two have returned, but my soul was scared away by you."
Meat Bun frantically pulled Ming Bei's hand off his eyes, looking at the three people with different expressions, a little confused.
On the 80th birthday of Xi Junjie's grandmother, Zhen Zhen wore a knee-length woolen skirt and a woolen coat that reached her calf. Because there were no leggings in this era, Zhen Zhen could only use trousers for bottoming, with a pair of small wrist-length leather boots bought from the store. This outfit will not be outdated in the future, let alone in the present.
The birthday gift that Zhen Zhen prepared for the grandmother of the Xi family was a painting of "Peacock and Peony", a 100-year-old ginseng tree and a 100-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, all of which are good things to celebrate the birthday.
The car stopped at the door of Zhen Zhen's house on time at nine o'clock, Zhen Zhen was holding the painting in one hand and the box containing ginseng in the other, Ming Bei helped her to remove the ganoderma wrapped in red cloth.
This Ganoderma lucidum was specially cultivated by Zhen Zhen Hui on Beicha Mountain. First, found a Ganoderma lucidum with the size of a fist, covered the circular mold with the Chinese character for longevity, and instantly ripened it until the mold was full. It stopped growing, and when took off the mold, saw that the characters of Shou were still too clear and obvious. Zhen Zhen made Lingzhi bigger, not only the lines were more natural, but the characters for Shou also seemed to be formed naturally.
Xi Junjie got into the car and helped Zhen Zhen tidy things up, and then helped Zhen Zhen into the car.
The imperial capital of this era was not as big as later generations, especially those with some status in the family, who basically lived not too far away. After driving for about ten minutes, the car arrived at the gate of a courtyard house. Looking at several cars parked at the gate, and the faint voices coming from inside, I could guess that a lot of people had come.
As if afraid of Zhen Zhen's nervousness, Xi Junjie squeezed her fingers when he helped Zhen Zhen get out of the car, and said softly, "Don't worry, everything is up to me."