"Damn it, I cheated and got to meet someone's father."
After returning home, Chen Hansheng couldn't help but complain. Chen Zhaojun and Liang Meijuan had already gone to work, and the kitchen was clean without any smell of oil smoke.
My mother is also a ruthless person. If she says she won't serve me, she won't serve me.
Chen Hansheng planned to take a shower first, and then sleep well for the whole morning. In the past, he was often busy from opening his eyes to closing them. Now that he has hard-earned leisure time thanks to his rebirth, of course he has to enjoy it.
He slept until 10:30 in the morning, and the urgent ringing of the phone woke Chen Hansheng from his sleep.
In the dream, Chen Hansheng was still in 2019, and when he opened his eyes, it was the hot summer of 2002 again.
"Who is it?"
Chen Hansheng walked to the phone and picked up the receiver.
"Your mom!"
Liang Meijuan said bluntly: "At noon, our family will go to grandma's house for lunch. You will have fewer opportunities to meet her after you go to college. You should visit her more often before you leave."
"Got it."
Chen Hansheng hung up the phone and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze. One was to get rid of his bad temper after waking up, and the other was to think about the family situation of his grandparents.
Thinking about it, Chen Hansheng laughed himself: "How come it's like the possession of a body in online novels, and I have to slowly integrate my memories, but I was myself for seventeen years before and after, how the hell do I calculate this?"
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Chen Hansheng's grandmother's home is in the countryside. His grandfather is an elementary school teacher, and his grandmother is a housewife who also has to work on a few acres of land. Chen Hansheng's grandparents died early, so he has a close relationship with his grandparents.
After taking the bus for half an hour, Chen Hansheng arrived at his grandparents' house. This place will become a development zone in the future, but now it is shaded by green trees. Looking around, there is a large field of golden wheat ears. The scorching summer breeze blows, and the sound of the wind blowing the wheat waves is "rustling".
"Grandpa, grandma, get some water to drink."
Chen Hansheng, as usual, shouted and pushed the door into the farmyard. There were quite a few people in the main room. The eldest uncle's family, the second uncle's family, and the second aunt's family were all there, eating watermelons.
"Look, college students are here."
The second aunt said with a smile.
Chen Hansheng smiled "hehe". His two uncles and several cousins from the second aunt's family did not get into college. Others could mention the word "college student", but Chen Hansheng himself would deliberately avoid it and would not even show his expectations for college life.
He picked up the watermelon and ate it in big mouthfuls. He didn't care about the red juice dripping on his body. The second aunt laughed: "You are already a college student, but you still eat like Zhu Bajie."
After finishing a few slices of watermelon in front of everyone, Chen Hansheng wiped his mouth, burped loudly and said, "Where is grandma?"
"She is drying grain in the grain field behind the house." Grandpa replied while smoking a dry pipe.
It was so hot, the old lady was really stubborn. Chen Hansheng sighed in his heart, stood up and said, "I'll go and see."
"Don't go."
The second uncle said, "We can't call her back. She won't come back unless the grain is well prepared."
"That's because I didn't go. The importance of my grandson may be more important than that of my son."
Chen Hansheng said with a smile, picked up a broken straw hat from the ground, and covered his head with it without paying attention to the sweat and rice husks, and walked towards the grain field in the rolling heat.
The room was quiet for a while. Grandpa took two puffs of his pipe and said slowly: "The son of the third child, this character can get along well anywhere. He is also an undergraduate student. He will have a great future."
Liang Meijuan is the third child in the family. The relationship between her aunt and Liang Meijuan is average. She curled her lips and said: "It's just that his grades are good. He studies hard."
Grandpa smiled, tapped his pipe and said nothing.
He is an old teacher. He doesn't just look at the scores when observing students. Chen Hansheng has been doing things with a sense of sophistication and open-mindedness since he was a child, and he has a wild nature. People who study hard are not like this.
The grain field is actually a spacious open space in the village, which is specially reserved for processing rice husks and drying grain. Chen Hansheng's grandmother is a little old lady, and it is easy to identify in the crowd.
"Grandma." Chen Hansheng shouted loudly.
The old lady heard the familiar voice and raised her head hesitantly. It was indeed her grandson.
"Hey, why are you here?"
She put down the broom and walked over, holding Chen Hansheng's hand and not letting go, and loudly introduced to others in the grain field: "This is my eldest grandson, who will go to Jianye to study at university this year."
College students are rare in the countryside, and everyone around stood up to look at Chen Hansheng.
"This is the third child, right? The nose and eyes are exactly the same."
"It's been a while since I last saw you. You're going to college."
"You're still as pretty as when you were a kid."
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Rural compliments are so direct. Chen Hansheng accepted them all and smiled as he talked to his acquaintances: "Auntie praised me for my good looks, but I didn't see you introduce Sister Xiaoyu to me."
Xiaoyu happened to be in the grain field. She spat and said, "My daughter is already three years old, and I didn't know to ask Auntie San to propose marriage to us earlier."
Rural people are all related to each other. Liang Meijuan is the third child, so the younger generations call her "Auntie San". Chen Hansheng smiled and replied, "It's not too late. I'll just wait for Sister Xiaoyu's daughter."
"Bah, you're so beautiful!"
The plump and charming Sister Xiaoyu hit Chen Hansheng, causing the surrounding villagers to laugh. Everyone likes this tune during the slack season.
At this time, Chen Hansheng said to his grandmother: "Go back, it's so hot."
The old lady shook her head: "This won't work, it's not dry yet."
Chen Hansheng had no choice but to take the tools from his grandmother: "Then you go and watch, I'll do it."
"You don't understand these, go home and watch TV."
The grandmother was worried, and she also felt sorry for her grandson.
"Okay, okay, why is the little old lady so stubborn."
Chen Hansheng muttered, put on gloves and started to turn over and dry the rice. Chen Hansheng was not a lazy student who didn't know the difference between grains. In the past, his father Chen Zhaojun often encouraged Chen Hansheng to go back to the countryside to help.
The old lady saw that Chen Hansheng did a good job. After persuading him several times without any effect, she went to the shade of the tree. Half an hour later, Chen Hansheng finally finished his work. He was soaked all over, and even took off his straw hat and steamed.
After returning, Chen Zhaojun and Liang Meijuan had already arrived. Seeing her son's miserable appearance, Liang Meijuan fetched a basin of water with distress: "Come and wash your face, little bastard, don't cry when you get tanned."
Old Chen didn't care at all, and smiled as he blew the fan: "A little tan makes you look healthier."
It was lively when there were many people eating, and they talked about family matters. After dinner, the grandmother quietly called Chen Hansheng to the kitchen, took out a piece of cloth from her pocket, and opened it to reveal ten 100-yuan bills.
"Grandma, what are you doing?"
"Shh."
The old lady looked at the main room: "Don't let your uncles hear it, take this money to Jianye to buy snacks."
"I don't even want money from my parents, why should I take your money."
Chen Hansheng shook his arms and was about to leave.
The old lady held him back and refused to let him go. Chen Hansheng had no choice but to take out a bill and put it in his pocket, saying, "100 is enough, just for your sake."
Of course, Chen Hansheng did not take it for nothing. He stayed in the countryside to help a few days before school started.
September 1st was the official registration day. At the entrance of the bus station in Gangcheng, Wang Zibo finally waited for his friend to show up. He immediately complained, "I haven't been able to contact you these days. You never take me with you wherever you go."
But after seeing Chen Hansheng's appearance, Wang Zibo laughed heartlessly again, "How come you have become even darker than me?"
"What the hell are you laughing at? Watch my expression and act accordingly."
Chen Hansheng cursed and strode onto the bus of "Gangcheng Jianye".