Chapter 294 Gathering together

Within ten minutes, received two calls from Erwa, and Dawa thought something was wrong at home. repeatedly asked Erwa if his mother and father were sick. Erwa said no, Dawa still didn't believe it.

Erwa gave Cancan the phone, Cancan said a few words to Dawa, and then changed Yanyan to chat with him. The eldest child believed that Song Zhaodi hoped that the whole family could get together, which was indeed a momentary emotion.

In recent years, the eldest child can see several brothers every year, but every time there are three children but no two children, there are two children who are not self-reliant, and they are self-reliant but not reborn. To get together.

Erwa said on the other end of the phone, if you really can't take leave, don't play tricks with the leaders, and they go to the imperial capital another day, and he can take a day off to get together.

The big baby promised well, hung up the phone and started to figure out what to do after the new year. Major events in the army, such as military exercises, are arranged months or even half a year in advance.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1996, the Gregorian calendar was January 16th. Dawa opened the schedule to check, and she couldn't take a week off until the return of Hong Kong City on July 1st.

Dawa thought for a moment, but because Erwa said on the phone that he could not contact Zili, he asked him to contact him. After three or four days, Da Wa guessed that it was time for Zi Li to rest, so he called to Zi Li's house.

This time it was Xiao Yun who picked it up. Unlike last time she was cleaning the room, this time she and Zi Li were having dinner. The person to answer the phone changed to Zili, and Zili heard Dawa say that the port city has returned to the arms of the motherland, and it is time for them to go home and get together.

For the first time, the big baby, who felt that his mouth was full of trains, finally said a decent word. Then he asked Dawa when he had time, and Dawa said he didn't have time in the first half of the year. Self-reliance said that he tried not to take long vacations in the first half of the year.

Dawa and Zili agreed to bomb Sanwa. On the day Zili went to Sanwa's house to see Xuanxuan, Sanwa was in the army, and the two brothers were staggered, so the last time Sanwa saw Zili was when he got married.

Sanwa hasn't returned to the island for more than a year, and she also wants to go home to see it. Although she doesn't want Dawa to be happy, she still tells Dawa that he will leave the vacation in the second half of the year.

On September 16, 1997, the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, Dawa called her home and told Song Zhaodi that they would go back on the morning of October 4th.

Song Zhaodi was very happy, and as soon as she was happy, she couldn't help but take the bad water: "Are you coming with them?"

"Yes." Dawa said, "Take a plane from the imperial capital."

Song Zhaodi rolled her eyes: "Zili and Sanwa both bring their daughter-in-law, what do you bring?"

The other end of the phone was quiet, and for a while, Song Zhaodi suspected that he had hung up. The big baby's voice came over: "Mother, my heart hurts." Song Zhaodi didn't allow her to speak, but she was full of vitality, "I'll bring Xuanxuan."

Song Zhaodi was speechless: "That's Sanwa's son."

"Will Sanwa dare to give it to me?" Dawa asked back.

Song Zhaodi scolded, "Bandits." and hung up the phone.

On the morning of October 4th, Song Zhaodi asked Xiao Fang, the steward, to cook some porridge and eggs, and fry two dishes of side dishes. While Zhong Jianguo went to the toilet, she drove Zhong Jianguo's car to the vegetable market.

Zhong Jianguo came out of the toilet and felt that something was wrong. He walked around the room and saw Xiao Fang alone in the room: "Where's Teacher Song? Xiao Fang."

"Go shopping," Xiao Fang said, "Mr. Song said that Secretary Qi and the others will be back today."

Zhong Jianguo subconsciously said, "I didn't call me to buy vegetables, and I bought a lot when I went back. How could she carry—" He froze suddenly, ran outside to look, and suddenly wanted to scold his mother, "Did Song Zhaodi drive my car? went?"

"I don't know." Xiao Fang came out of the kitchen and saw that the courtyard was empty. "It should be." After speaking, he peeked at Zhong Jianguo, saw his face full of anger, and said weakly, "Mr. Song's driving skills are not very good. okay?"

Zhong Jianguo glanced at him.

Xiao Fang froze in his heart, and quickly said, "I, I will cook and cook." After speaking, he ran into the house.

A little after seven o'clock, Song Zhaodi came back, stopped the car, and saw Zhong Jianguo sitting under the porch with an expressionless face, looking towards her, full of words that he was very angry. Song Zhaodi, who had been married to him for 30 years, didn't need to think about it, she knew why he was unhappy, and pretended not to know: "Come here and help me get something."

Zhong Jianguo remained motionless.

Song Zhaodi smiled silently: "If you don't come, I'll go call Zhenxing and Zhengang."

"Are you calling me? Teacher Song." Xiao Fang ran out of the room.

Zhong Jianguo stood up and glared at him: "Have the vegetables been cooked? If not, hurry up and cook the vegetables."

Xiaofang looked at Song Zhaodi subconsciously. Song Zhaodi waved at him, Xiao Fang shrugged and went back to the house to continue cooking.

Zhong Jianguo walked slowly to the front of the car and saw that the trunk was full: "You buy so many things, how do you eat?"

"You seven sons, four daughters-in-law, three grandchildren, how much do you think I should buy?" Song Zhaodi asked back.

A trace of unease flashed across Zhong Jianguo's face, apparently forgetting that he had a bull's head. He ate it in seven meals, and simply changed the subject: "They are all back, how do you sit during dinner?"

Song Zhaodi: "You men sit at the long table, and we sit at the generous table with Cancan, Yanyan, and Xuanxuan. No accident, Dawa and the others will be home at half past four. We'll have dinner at half past five, you come back early."

"I have a few days off." A senior military officer like Zhong Jianguo has dozens of days off every year in addition to statutory holidays, mainly for recuperation, "I told someone in my office yesterday that I have something to do. Find me at home."

Song Zhaodi is now the principal and no longer teaches the students: "Then let's clean up after dinner?"

Zhong Jianguo nodded. After breakfast, Xiao Fang pressed the water, Song Zhaodi and Zhong Jianguo washed the vegetables.

After ten o'clock, Zhenxing and Liu Jingjing came back, they took over, Song Zhaodi and Zhong Jianguo rested. In the afternoon, steamed a few crabs, fried a few dishes, and the whole family ate whatever they wanted, then put it in the yard and stewed it in a large borrowed pot.

Cancan and Yanyan saw that the big iron pot was full of bones and meat. The brothers stood on either side of Song Zhaodi, grabbed her hand, and asked in unison, "Grandma, I don't want to go to school in the afternoon."

"You won't be able to eat the meat in the pot if you don't go." Song Zhaodi said, "You have to stew for four hours before you can eat it."

Cancan was born in 1988 and is nine years old this year. You don't need to think about it to know what time it will be in four hours: "I can't eat when I come back from school?"

"That's right." Song Zhaodi nodded, "Come on. When the beef head is stewed, you can eat whichever piece you want. You two will pick it first."

Cancan swallowed and glanced at the cauldron again, very unwilling: "How long does it take?"

"Grandma never lies, do you think she will lie to you?" Zhenxing asked.

Cancan shook his head, went into the house and took out Yanyan's schoolbag. The two brothers carried the schoolbag and went to school hand in hand.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, when Cancan and Yanyan came back from school, they went to the gate and saw that the yard was full of people. The brothers subconsciously looked around, it was their grandparents' house, that's right.

"Why so many people?" Yan Yan asked curiously.

Zi Li turned around when he heard the voice, "Cancan, Yanyan, are you back? Come in."

"Uncle?!" The brothers said in unison.

Zi Li came back last year and brought them a box of cantaloupe. It was the sweetest cantaloupe that the two children had ever eaten, so that they hadn't seen each other for more than a year, and Yan Yan, who was only seven years old, did not forget to stand on his own.

Cancan pulled Yanyan to run over and asked, "Uncle, when did you come back?"

"Just got home." Zi Li said with a smile, "Put your schoolbags in the house, and I'll get you some meat to eat."

Cancan was overjoyed, turned around and ran into the house.

Holding the long chopsticks, the big baby who was stirring in the pot looked up and saw the corner of Zili's mouth with a smile, and glanced at Xiao Yun who was washing peach gum with Shen Ying: "It's too late to want to live now, but I can think of it again in two years. won't be born."

"Xiao Yun is currently preparing for pregnancy." Zi Li said.

Song Zhaodi hurriedly asked, "Really?!"

"Really?" The big baby paused and turned to Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun sighed: "My mother is forcing her to die."

"Cough cough..." Erwa, who was eating grapes, choked, "Aunt Pei?"

Xiao Yun nodded and looked at Shen Ying: "Zi Li and I went to see your home Xuanxuan, and I went home to see my mother. My mother cried when she saw me, saying what if I didn't have a child. My brother and sister helped me persuade my mother. , she said, "Zi Li and I are getting old tomorrow, and during the festival, she asked her son to pick us up and celebrate the festival with them."

"It's okay if she didn't say it. When she said that, my mother cried even more fiercely. She also said that if I didn't give birth, she would die for me to see. I thought she was scaring me, but I didn't know it a week after I left. Where did she get the sleeping pills, and she didn't know how much she ate, anyway, if the housekeeper hadn't found it in time, she would have gone like this."

"Why didn't I listen to you?" Song Zhaodi looked at Zi Li.

Self-reliance smiled bitterly: "My father-in-law is not allowed to say."

"It can't be just because you don't have children?" Song Zhaodi said, "When you were 30 and didn't have a partner, your mother didn't urge you much."

Xiao Yun nodded: "I also felt that it was not only because I didn't have children, but I went to the doctor and told him about my mother's condition. He said that my mother was in menopause, and people during this period are like crazy people. Arguing with her can't stimulate her."

"Isn't your mother in her 60s?" Erwa said, "Is it even at this time of menopause?"

Song Zhaodi: "Menopause refers to the symptoms that women experience in the few years of menopause, and a few last for five to ten years. Xiao Yun's mother may belong to a minority.

"Previously, Xiao Yun's mother thought that she would give birth in two years. Seeing that she has not given birth at the age of 40, and will not give birth in a few years, her mother started to worry. When she was born, her mother was stimulated, Xiao Yun went home to visit her mother, told her mother not to have children, was stimulated again, and then broke out. Is that right?"

"Mother is right." Xiao Yun sighed, "The doctor said the same."

Xue Qi asked, "But you're already forty, so your mother doesn't think it's dangerous for you to have a baby?"

"When my cousin was born, my second grandmother was forty-three years old." Xiao Yun looked at Shen Ying, "Your mother's brother, when he was born, my second grandmother was cooking and felt a little uncomfortable in her stomach, and the child came out. "

Shen Ying swallowed: "It's that simple? I've been in pain for more than ten hours."

"Really." Xiao Yun said, "That's why I told my mother at first, I'm not afraid of life, I'm afraid of raising me."

The big baby pointed to the people under the porch: "Commander Zhong said that when the child is three years old, he will help us raise it."

"Really?!" Gengsheng didn't believe it. "When we were young, Dad wanted us to get out. Now we want to raise a grandson? Dad, today the sun comes out from the east, not from the west."