Chapter 292 292. Seventh Cousin’s Plan
Zhou Maozhu and his wife were honest and thought about it by themselves. From beginning to end, they never thought about doing anything while making tea.
It is enough to show that Song Sancheng's gift of five kilograms of tea was really not a loss at all.
Song Sancheng sent them off, and now he thought of the generosity he had promised, and couldn't help but feel guilty.
It was Song Tan who took the initiative to speak:
“Dad, you have such good taste. My uncle Zhou’s family is very honest. I have been speculating on tea for such a long time, and I haven’t taken advantage of it at all.”
Having already given it away, why should she still make her father uncomfortable after such a long time?
As for tea, whether it is 3 pounds and 6 taels of roasted tea, one pound of dry tea, or 4 pounds of fried tea, one pound of dry tea, a little more, a little less, no one can say for sure.
But Zhou Maozhu’s family even roasted the old leaves they sifted out every day and sent them over to keep for boiling water while working at home, and they were honest from the beginning to the end...
Song Tan said nothing else, but he was still good at looking at people.
They are really honest people.
Having said this at this moment, Song Sanguo actually started to tremble: "Really? I'm telling you, dad eats more salt than you eat rice, and everything he says has a deep meaning. Sometimes you can't just take it at face value!"
Ulan passed by next to him, and he made a soft sound from his nose——
"snort."
Song Sancheng:…
He instantly stepped aside.
But the seventh cousin was sitting there, and he was also quite touched at this moment:
Every father has to find a way to take care of his children. His child went to the border to get married and have children, and he himself has never been there...
Of course, the children rarely come back.
Now that he thought about it, he couldn't help but ask his wife next to him:
“You say...how about we send something to Shuliang?”
…
I have to say that the seventh cousin used to be a stubborn person.
Because he is a chef, he has been able to live a good life at home over the years. In those days, being a cook was a good skill that could ensure income and food during droughts and floods.
So when his son saw no hope of passing the exams, the seventh cousin thought of passing on this craft to him.
However, my son Shuliang can do anything, but he doesn’t like squatting in the kitchen!
As the son of a chef, he would rather be poor at making food than learn it.
The seventh cousin worked hard, thinking that if he had a craft, he would recruit a few apprentices in the future. The whole family would support each other, and no matter whether he opened a restaurant, sold snacks or did something else, he would always be able to support himself.
Because of this, I tossed my son a lot, and after tossing and tossing, my son ran away.
Before leaving, he left a note saying that he didn’t want to learn to cook for anything, he was really not interested.
Master Qi Cousin has been angry and angry, but...if no one is in front of him, what's the use of being angry?
It was only later that he received news about his son, and he found out that his son had followed others to the border.
Hey guys, how long the day is over there!
Isn’t working there much harder than being a cook? ?
Sure enough, my son wrote back with complaints - it was bright early in the morning, and the sun had not set at ten o'clock in the evening...
After complaining, the seventh cousin asked him to come back and learn to cook, but he still refused!
The border is a long way away, and it takes a lot of time to communicate. Gradually, my son got used to it.
Grapes cost 30 cents per kilogram, and there are still many local shops opened by educated youths back then. The young man didn’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 his seventh cousin: From now on, he will stay in the border area...
… That was all many years ago.
At that time, cities were not developed yet, and small towns like Yuncheng were not much different from the frontier counties.
Parents can never control their children. Even if the seventh cousin is an only son, according to his old-fashioned thinking, he will have to wait for his son to provide for him in the future.
Looking at the child's determined face, he didn't say anything in the end.
The border is so big that there is no direct train from where my son lives. Every time he goes back and forth, he has to take a bus, a bullock cart, or a motorcycle... all the way to the train station, and it takes several days to get back.
After so many years, only a handful of children have come back.
Cousin Seventh wanted to go there, but he couldn't even find him.
If this were not the case, he would not have made up his mind to buy a house to find a home for him to support himself in his old age.
At this point, the son, who is now 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 are in need, he will definitely go back!
But after getting married, she came back once, but when she sent him away, Grandma Qi sighed:
“I haven’t seen him for so many years, so I have to be careful when talking to my son... I can’t figure out his taste, and I don’t know what his life is like over there. He can hardly understand our native dialect.”
“We are old...can we still expect him to be around?”
Time has not been able to erase the emotions, but it has deepened the gap step by step.
Finally, the seventh cousin also sighed.
At this moment, Grandma Qi was really stunned for a while when she heard him mention her son.
She thought of the mutton, fruits, dates, raisins, etc. that her son sent back from all the way 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 think we should renovate the old house? I think we will stay in the village from now on. I will also send a letter to the children, asking us to meet the grandchildren... If he doesn't have time , now there is positioning and navigation, and I have learned how to surf the Internet. Give me the address and we can go there by ourselves.”
The seventh cousin would not dare to respond to this.
Grandma Qi’s body is not that healthy. If they go to the border area, at their age, if they get acclimatized again, half their lives will be lost.
But at this moment, I couldn’t help but be moved by my wife’s suggestion——
The old house is in good condition, and it will be more comfortable for my wife and I to live there in the future. If my son comes back with his children, the house will not be too shabby.
“Okay, I think this engineering team is good. When Tantan’s house is built, let’s see what it looks like. If it works, we can also strengthen our old house and tidy up the yard.”
As for sending things…
The seventh cousin asked: "Honey, tea, white fungus?"
The meat and fruits on the border are good and cheap. To say that they are rare, that’s what he just said.
Grandma Qi nodded: "Tell Tantan carefully, I'm afraid she won't be able to settle the money with you."
Speaking of this, the seventh cousin snorted:
"As for that girl, how can she calculate the money with me? She would rather give me an extra pound than reduce the price by one cent! This point is clear."
Humbling words of complaint, but a deep smile on his face. Obviously, the seventh cousin agreed very much with Song Tan's method of negotiating business.
The son will come back, but he will not stay.
(End of this chapter)