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Chapter 47 Repairing the House ([-])

The thatch on the roof was very messy. After two days of rain, the straw on the roof was wet, and many of them were rotten, exuding a rotten smell. There were even some small mushrooms growing on some thatch. During renovation, From time to time, one or two small crawling insects, or spiders, or small centipedes will be found, and they will run away when they see the light.

Seeing them falling from the roof one after another, An Xiu'er felt her scalp go numb. She didn't know that she had lived with these insects for so long, but when Liang Shi saw these insects, he was not polite to them, and directly stomped on them. Many died.

Father An and others threw down the old thatch and replaced it with new meadows, and then pressed the meadows tightly with bricks. After working for half a morning, they finally repaired the roof. Their luck It's not bad, just after finishing it, the rain fell again.

This rain was the best test for the new roof. Father An and others walked around the house to check whether the roof was leaking. Checked, but found no leaks.

"Thanks to the help of parents this time, we won't be afraid of the rain no matter how much it rains." An Xiu'er had already cleaned up the house, and when Father An and the others came over, she hurriedly invited them to sit down, while He poured tea for everyone and said, "Thanks for your hard work."

Father An nodded, and coughed again. He looked at Zhang Zhenan, his eyes still could not hide the sorrow, and said, "This year is like this, but what should you do in the future?"

"Yes, this straw is the most likely to breed such small bugs." Liang Shi also said beside him: "Don't blame us for talking too much. If you have the conditions in the future, you still have to build tile-roofed houses."

"Understood, mother." Seeing that Zhang Zhen'an didn't speak, An Xiu'er answered first, and then said: "You guys sit down first, I'll cook."

"Hey, don't worry about it, we'll leave after a while." Shi Liang quickly stopped her and said, "I asked your second sister-in-law to cook at home."

I took my daughter's things yesterday, how can I have the nerve to eat at my daughter's house today, and my daughter's family is not rich at all.

"Mother, it's just a meal, so don't push back. If you refuse again, I'll be really angry."

Anxiuer's face was filled with anger, she rolled her eyes at Mrs. Liang, and went to the kitchen to cook. Seeing that her daughter was cooking, Mrs. Liang couldn't sit and wait for food, so she also got up and went to the kitchen to help, leaving it to Zhang Zhenan Alone, sitting in the main room and chatting with Father An.

When Dad An was young, he was also a person who traveled from south to north, and he would not have nothing to talk to when he was with Zhang Zhenan. The two talked about the matter of Qingshui Village to Luohe Town, and from Luohe Town to Changning City Zhang Zhen'an also listened seriously, adding a sentence or two from time to time to make Father An's conversation more intense.

Now that he is getting older, he has said what he experienced in his youth at least ten times at home, and his two sons are already tired of hearing it, and even his grandson An Ronghe doesn't want to listen to it anymore.

He always talked about how exciting the outside world was, but An's family had limited financial resources, so even going to a county town would be a big deal. Let's talk about Liang's, the farthest place I've traveled in my life is probably the town.

These years, he knew that none of the children wanted to listen to him talk about these things, so he didn't talk about them anymore. When you return to your hometown, you marry a wife and have a baby, and when you get old, your family is poor, and it used to be useless.

But the old man is lonely after all, and occasionally when he couldn't sleep, he would think about his youth. At that time, he was working as a clerk in a cloth shop in the county town, and he had seen all kinds of people and the bustling world outside.

"You don't know, that year, my shopkeeper and I went to the county town to buy goods. The county town was prosperous. I was young at that time. After entering the city, I saw tall buildings everywhere, and the sound of hawking kept coming and going. People come and go, traffic is busy, but it is extremely lively, and at that time, I wanted to stay in the county city for the rest of my life."

As Father An said, a light flashed in his eyes, and he looked a little younger, as if going to the county town once was a great encounter.

"Then, why didn't you stay in the county?" Zhang Zhenan asked in a timely manner.

Seeing that someone cooperated, Father An continued to talk, saying: "I also want to stay in the county town, but people don't stay in the county town if they want to. I'm just a boy. I went back, but this experience really opened my eyes.”

When Father An mentioned the county, his eyes are still full of admiration. He said: "You don't know, there is a big family in the county. It has a history of hundreds of years in Minyue County and has gone through several dynasties. The family property spreads all over the county, but the scenery is boundless, if you can be reborn into this family, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life."

"What family is so powerful?" An Tiemu also replied, the farthest place he has been to now is the town, and he still yearns for the county town that his father said.

"I also heard from our shopkeeper at the time that this family's surname is Zhang, and they are called Zhang Bancheng. Until now, they still control half of the county. You don't even dare to provoke an existence." Father An replied.

"This kind of aristocratic family is really something I look up to." An Tiemu nodded after hearing this, and said, "There is also a rich man Zhang in our town, but is that Zhang family that father said?"

"I don't know about this. Maybe it's maybe not. I just heard about it. How could I know about the internal affairs of the family." Father An shook his head, saying that he didn't know.

Zhang Zhen'an on the side had a weird expression when he heard them talking about the Zhang family. Hearing them talking about the rich man Zhang, he couldn't help saying: "It's just a local rich man. How can he compare with a rich family like Min Yue's Zhang family? Even if he It's the Zhang family, and it's just a collateral branch."

Seeing the disdain in his eyes, Father An raised his head and asked, "Could it be that you have been to the county town too, uncle?"

"Well, I've been there a few times." Zhang Zhen'an's voice became calm and steady again.

Father An also nodded. Speaking of this, he remembered that Zhang Zhen'an's origin was unknown, and wanted to ask about his family background, but seeing his gloomy face, he was a little speechless.

"Is there anything father-in-law wants to say?" Seeing the change in Father An's expression, Zhang Zhenan took the initiative to ask.

"I just want to ask, where is your ancestral home? Why did you suddenly come to settle in our Qingshui Village?" Father An looked at Zhang Zhen'an with wide, cloudy eyes, as if he wanted to find out the answer from his eyes.

Seeing that Zhang Zhen was quiet and silent, Father An said: "Everyone has their own secret, if you don't want to tell it, it's fine, as long as your family background is clean and you haven't done anything harmful, we will recognize you."

"My ancestral home is here in Minyue County. My family background is absolutely innocent. I'm a fisherman. Unless I kill a little more fish, I haven't done anything harmful." Zhang Zhenan answered Father An's question with a clear corner of his mouth.

"I see that although you are not very talkative, you are calm and capable, and you seem to be a decent person." Father An nodded slightly. Except for the unknown origin of Zhang Zhenan, he was actually quite satisfied with him.

He is not the Liang family, he only sees the poverty in front of Zhang Zhen'an's family. In his opinion, Zhang Zhen'an is a good fisherman, and he looks tall and strong. Such a person is reliable. He has met many people, but he only feels that Zhang Zhenan is quite extraordinary, and he believes that he will do something in the future.

As for his unknown origin, so what?He felt that he was a responsible person, and no matter what in the future, he would never abandon his daughter, and that was enough.

Everyone has their own secrets, even though they are curious, it will inevitably arouse his disgust, and Father An does not go to the root of his life experience, but just chats with him about other things.

In the kitchen, An Xiu'er and Liang Shi were also busy making lunch.

An Xiu'er steamed a large pot of rice at noon, and Mrs. Liang who watched said that she was a prodigal, and said: "Your child, your parents are not outsiders, is it worth entertaining with such a good meal? You are still young, save more Money, repairing the house is the right thing to do."

"It's just a pot of rice, mother, you don't have to talk about it, anyway, my daughter doesn't have anything good to entertain you, so you can eat whatever your daughter eats."

An Xiu'er didn't take it seriously, in fact, she also felt that eating white rice and white noodles every day was too wasteful, but as the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal, she feels that she is not used to it now Those brown rices are gone.

Liang shook her head and sighed. She felt that it was too wasteful, but she didn't want to wrong her daughter. After thinking about it, she didn't say anything more.

The fire was so hot that the rice was cooked in a short while. Anxiuer started to prepare the dishes. She scooped up two fishes and made them braised in brown sauce. After thinking about it, she still felt that it was not enough. She asked Mrs. Liang to help cook first, and she took the money and went to a tofu seller in the village to buy two pieces of tofu.

Two braised fish, one sour bamboo shoot, one dried bamboo shoot scrambled eggs, and one fried tofu, although simple, but in the farmhouse, it is quite a good meal.

This is the first time that Mrs. Liang, Papa An and others tasted An Xiuer's fried dishes. They were amazed that An Xiuer, who seldom cooks on weekdays, was so good at cooking. I don't think too much oil is bad for the dish. Anxiuer cooks with so much oil, so I understand that this dish is not very tasty.

(End of this chapter)