Portable Space: Red Age of Rebirth

In early winter in the capital city, the sky is clear and the clouds are light, and the fallen leaves are everywhere, adding a sense of desolation to the bleak chill. However, thousands of miles away in the Northeast, the wind is biting and the first snow has fallen.

W County is located in the northeastern corner of the three eastern provinces. Although the sun is shining brightly, the air is dry and cold, and the cold air can blow into the bones. Pedestrians walking in a hurry on the road do not shrink their necks, and their bodies are wrapped tightly. Although the road is covered with

The area was clean and tidy, but the black soil as far as the eye could see on the outskirts of the county was covered tightly with white snow, which was so bright that it dazzled the eyes.

Hu Tianshu was wrapped in an old army green coat and a dark woolen hat on his head. He stamped his feet, exhaled and rubbed his hands. He opened the thick cotton felt curtain and felt a burst of hot air blowing in his face.

I warmed my hands around the red-hot stove. After my body calmed down, I poured myself a cup of hot water from the kettle that was warm on the stove. After drinking a cup of hot water, I finally felt a little warmer.

The house is a large red brick house facing the street. There is a big kang in the corner and a simple counter near the door. However, there is a large yard behind it, especially several bright warehouses built in the yard.

This is the front house rented by Hu Tianshu and Meng Dezhu in the county. To be more precise, they bought it from the landlord more than half a month ago to seize their new husband. They are very powerful.[

Hu Tianshu drank a cup of hot water and felt a little sweaty from the heat. He threw his hat on the counter and said, "Mencius, today we have transported all the inventory in the warehouse, and the weather is getting colder and colder."

Now, we can finally have a good winter. I’ll cut a few kilograms of mutton back and let’s heat up the pot and eat it!”

Firstly, to celebrate the two newly-minted 10,000-yuan households. Secondly, Hu Tianshu didn’t tell anyone. He just met his former colleagues and found out that his former boss, Director Wang, had finally joined the bureau. It was said that there was a lot of commotion at the time, and the province

The Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent people to investigate. Hu Tianshu may seem generous, but he is a man of calculation. He knows clearly that the mistakes made by Director Wang can be big or small, but his nephew often pulls Director Wang's mistakes.

The big flag does evil.

When Hu Tianshu was eating in the government, he often had to wear shoes because he couldn't stand the nephew of Director Wang! At that time, Director Wang was so embarrassed that he lost his job. When we were laying out this store, Director Wang's nephew

The nephew often caused trouble. Stealing business was considered a minor matter, but the most egregious one was blocking the door to prevent mountain people from selling mountain products!

Fortunately, both Hu Tianshu and Meng Dezhu have some skills, so this small business stall can be arranged in a thrilling way. However, although it does not have much impact, it is quite disturbing to come over every now and then to cause trouble.

Therefore, the news brought by his former colleagues was a piece of good news worthy of celebration for Hu Tianshu. The abscess on the toad’s body was finally an eyesore to his superiors! Of course, Hu Tianshu also murmured in his heart, feeling a little embarrassed.

I can't help but wonder if there is any shadow of Lao Zhai in Director Wang's horse.

However, after muttering about recursion, Hu Tianshu understands the truth that it is rare to be confused. No matter what, let's celebrate first. No wonder business has been going smoothly in the past two months!

Meng Dezhu was sitting behind the counter, making calculations and writing down the accounts word by word.

Hu Tianshu casually picked up the account books that Meng Dezhu had copied. The more he looked at them, the bigger his grin got. "Well, Mencius, my younger brother and sister are really the nobles of our two brothers! If not that my younger brother and sister are top students, who would have thought that, just like this

After just half a year of hard work, the two of us have become households worth tens of thousands of dollars! This is because we deliberately take it easy. Next year, if it is like what Xiao Guo and the others said, let’s just go out and do it, and we won’t make a lot of money.

The bowl is full!”

In the past six months, Hu Tianshu feels that his life has been like a duck in water. Although he is very busy, he is busier than before when he helped the aunts in the neighborhood committee find cats all day long and broke the locks for the uncle who forgot to bring the key, but he is happy to be busy!

Hu Tianshu and Meng Dezhu are both old veterans who have experienced the cruelty of the battlefield. After their passion and heroism faded, they yearn for peace and quiet. They are not interested in making achievements. What they want now is to have a hot bed with the old woman. When the children want to eat meat, they can

Spend money to buy meat for the children, and the wife doesn't have to worry about money if she wants to buy some beautiful clothes. This kind of small life with a small amount of money in her pocket is a happy life for the two veterans.

Meng Dezhu's accounting hand paused. Although he didn't say anything, there was a smile on his face. In the face of reality, this veteran who was almost crushed by poverty and his backbone no longer had the desolation and motivation he had a few months ago.

Complete.

Although this store has an unattractive appearance, it has never worried about selling out goods, and the prices are fair and the payment is timely. Although the hard work involved is not enough to be appreciated by outsiders, it finally did not embarrass Lao Zhai and his younger siblings. In just a few months, it almost monopolized the entire W

The county's mountain goods market has a vague tendency to expand to surrounding county communes.

Meng Dezhu suddenly remembered the phone call he had just hung up on. "By the way, Husband, Lao Zhai just called and said that he was getting married to his sister-in-law on New Year's Day!"

"Oh! Lao Zhai is finally looking forward to seeing his younger siblings grow up! From the first time I met Lao Zhai, I knew that the boy was a real man. I don't know when he fell in love with his younger siblings! However,

Although my siblings are young, they look like little fairies. It’s not in vain that Lao Zhai has been holding back for so many years!”

Hu Tianshu became more and more arrogant as he talked, "We have to go to the winter anyway, so we might as well take the children with us to the capital to broaden our horizons! By the way, I'll take Uncle Meng with me too. How can I not watch the news and not talk about Tiananmen!"

However, after talking for a long time, when Meng Dezhu didn't respond, he slapped his forehead and said, "Mengzi, the main reason why Lao Zhai made this call is to want you to go to a big hospital to see your legs, right? Go ahead, my brothers and sisters have called me several times, and you have to take off your clothes."

No time! I will accompany you this time. It happens that Lao Zhai is getting married. Let’s take a look at your legs and have a wedding banquet!"

Meng Dezhu was told the central point by Hu Tianshu. He smiled bitterly and patted his numb and swollen injured leg, "Actually, my leg is just like this. The most romantic of the Three Kingdoms! Why are you wasting that money for letting your younger siblings worry about it?"

We have benefited from so many siblings. Now that we have this business, you usually do the errands, and this leg is not in the way at all! If this cannot be cured, I always feel like it is a waste of my siblings' efforts!"

Life has gone smoothly in the past six months, and Meng Dezhu doesn't care much about his injured leg!

Hu Tianshu frowned and did not agree with Meng Dezhu's excuse, "Mencius, you still can't tell what kind of character my brothers and sisters are! Besides, we have a life-long friendship with Lao Zhai. If what we said just now makes Lao Zhai and my brothers and sisters

You only hurt their hearts when they heard it! You

It's not okay to hide the disease and avoid medical treatment. This leg can't be cured, but it can't get worse with treatment! Listen to my brother, let's go to the capital together when the time comes, take the children to see the roots of the imperial city, and treat the leg by the way! To put it bluntly, Yingzi Xiao

The Eagle siblings and uncle are all pointing at you!"[

Meng Dezhu was a little moved when he heard the names of Yingzi and Xiaoying, and asked without confidence, "Why don't we go to the hospital in Beijing and have a look!"

"What do you mean, go or go, you have to go! Why are you becoming more and more useless! My brothers and sisters are right, it is not good to hide the disease and avoid treatment! If it can't be cured, we will waste a small amount of money at most. If it can be cured, you can usually do it.

Don't suffer this old crime!" Hu Tianshu patted Meng Dezhu on the shoulder with a look of disgust on his face. He pretended to be careless and didn't see it. If it gets cold one day, his injured leg will feel bad!

Meng Dezhu knew that although Hu Tianshu’s words were unpleasant, they were really for his own good!

When Hu Tianshu saw that Meng Dezhu acquiesced to the treatment of the leg, he felt happy. His eyes rolled and went to other places, "Mengzi, that old girl named Cuihua that my wife mentioned to you a few days ago, are you?

What do you think?"

"I don't think so! I just want to watch over your uncle and Yingzi and sister and brother and live a good life! Yingzi is now a little older and can do all the work at home. The four of us have a very happy life!" Meng Dezhu said to

His injured leg is relieved, but Meng Dezhu really has no idea about remarriage at the moment!

Hu Tianshu had been talked about a lot by his wife these days, so he tried to persuade her a little more earnestly, "Mengzi, you are only in your thirties, and you will have a lot of time in the future. Besides, Yingzi is still a little girl, how can you do the work at home?"

It all falls on Yingzi. No matter what, there must be a female elder in the family to teach her! Is it possible that you still want Uncle Meng to find a wife? "

Meng Dezhu still listened to the first few sentences, but the more he listened to Hu Tianshu's words later, the more outrageous he became, "You kid, you don't keep your mouth shut! The four of us are not living a very good life now! Besides, Yingzi still has Huzi.

Will you teach her step by step?"

When Hu Tianshu saw that Meng Dezhu was not getting enough food and salt, he was choked. However, after thinking about it from another perspective, he felt that Meng Dezhu's words made some sense. It's quite good for the two of you to have fun with each other all day long!

Since Meng Dezhu and Hu Tianshu started a business partnership, Meng Dezhu moved his family from the mountains to Hu Tianshu's village and bought two small courtyards next to Hu Tianshu's. The two families became neighbors. However, Meng Dezhu and Hu Tianshu were usually busy, and sometimes

They would live here in the store to look at the goods, and the two families would eat together. The Hu family had no elders, and the Meng family lacked a housewife who loved their children. The two families became neighbors, and they were like one family.

Hu Tianshu's wife, Huzi's mother, used to feel very sorry for the two Yingzi siblings. Now that the two children are next to each other, she treats them just like Huzi, and the three children are like their own siblings. But Mr. Meng has nothing to do.

I come to the store to help out sometimes, and I am usually responsible for taking my three children to school.

Hu Tianshu had no idea at all. Both Yingzi and Xiaoying were good children. However, if they have a stepmother, they are afraid of having a stepfather. Otherwise, they should wait two years until the two children grow up, and then find a son for Mencius.

About companionship?

Meng Dezhu didn't care what Hu Tianshu's wavering thoughts were, and took the time to settle all the remaining accounts.

When Hu Tianshu saw the old man Meng Dezhu, he suddenly felt that the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuchs were not. However, Hu Tianshu finally realized that it was useless to talk to Mencius about this matter. He still had to discuss it with Uncle Meng, and by the way, Yingzi.

That girl, that little girl is precocious!

When they heard that Cao Cao had arrived, Hu Tianshu was thinking about Mr. Meng and Yingzi when he saw the thick cotton felt curtain hanging at the door being lifted up, and two small cannons rushed over with a burst of air-conditioning.

In the past six months, after eating every meal of hot soup and rice with great care, the previously skinny little eagle became a lot more plump. Standing side by side with the tiger-headed tiger, the situation in the Three Kingdoms changed like two brothers.

The two little cannons entered the house, took off their hats and threw them on the bed in the corner. They split into two groups and plunged into their father's arms. Their little mouths were like machine guns, "Dad, dad, grandpa said today

It's too cold, so we have to cut mutton for us to eat in a hot pot! Dad, let's go and buy some meat! If you go late, it will be gone!"

The weather in the Northeast is cold and the days are short, so the time for children to study is very short. Hu Tianshu and Meng Dezhu are both knowledgeable people and know the importance of knowledge. After the school started in September, the three children studied in the county, and Mr. Meng usually picked them up and dropped them off.

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The two round little ones were still chattering, when Mr. Meng and Yingzi came in, "Yes, Dahu, Zhuzi, it's cold today, so I'll cut a few kilograms of mutton and a piece of tofu in a while.

Let’s go home and eat hot pot.”

Yingzi carried the backpack that Ya'er gave her during the summer vacation on her shoulders. She just smiled with her lips pursed. The peaceful and leisurely life for the past half year has made the little girl's delicate face lose two points of pretense of strength and gain more.

Two points of childishness.

Hu Tianshu was a rare child, with tiger tails hanging on his body like a bear. He rubbed Yingzi's braid that had just been tied up, and said with a smile, "Hey, uncle, you always want to go with me. I just said

Mencius said that today we are eating from a hot pot!"

After saying this, the two little cannons exploded with a loud bang, jumping up and down with joy. They really want to eat hot pot at night!

Compared to Hu Tianshu, Meng Dezhu, as a father, is more reserved emotionally. Although he is not as indulgent as Hu Tianshu, he does not hesitate to put down the work in his hands.[

The attentive Yingzi put the hats on his two younger brothers again. A few minutes later, Hu Tianshu drove out from the backyard a second-hand electric donkey with a tent. He covered his legs with an old coat. Meng Dezhu and the others were crowding behind.

, which is quite warm.

Turn on the stove, close the door, and check it with General Iron. Cut the meat and go home to eat in a hot pot.

In the bone-chilling winter, it is a wise choice for the whole family to sit together and enjoy the hot pot with the old soup pot simmered over low heat and the steaming hot pot of vegetables, eggs, and fish.

At the very least, in Ya'er's opinion, if you are hosting a banquet in the winter, treating people to hot pot will save you worry and effort.

In the 1980s, going abroad was not an easy task. Even though Professor Stephen said he would arrange it as soon as possible, it would probably take a month or two to complete all the procedures.

Grandpa Du and the others knew that Ya'er would not be going abroad for a while, so they all calmed down a lot and prepared with peace of mind for the grandson-in-law's visit at the weekend.

Ya'er's usual time schedule is very full, and she didn't pay much attention to how the old ladies arranged it. It was already Saturday night, and the cold wind was blowing in the yard. Only then did Ya'er realize that Grandma Du and Ma Du were still frowning at the dinner table.

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As the saying goes, it's hard to reconcile people's opinions. It was agreed that the five prospective grandson-in-laws would come together tomorrow. The old ladies were worried about one thing and not the other. They were also worried that the reception would not be good and the children's face would be lost. They were even more nervous than Du Haoxuan and the others.

When it comes to matters at home, the old ladies and Ma Du are at home, and Grandpa Du and the others don’t know how to persuade them!

Ya'er received Grandpa Du's look, helped the old ladies and Ma Du fill a new bowl of hot porridge, and said comfortingly, "Grandma, mother, it's an ugly daughter-in-law meeting her parents-in-law, not a pretty mother-in-law, a pretty mother-in-law meeting an ugly daughter-in-law.

What are you worried about? Besides, the more solemn you are, the more nervous the other person will be, so why not be more casual! Let’s have hot pot tomorrow, and you can put chicken, duck, and fish in the hot pot, and you don’t have to worry about not being to the other person’s taste!”

Grandma Du and Ma Du, who were worrying about tomorrow's menu, their eyes lit up, "The hot pot that our family just had two days ago? I think it will work, so you don't have to worry about any taboos!"

When Ya'er saw the eyebrows of the old lady and Ma Du stretched, she smiled proudly at Grandpa Du and the others, but she still had to take action on her own!

The author has something to say: Although it’s a little late, I’m finally no longer a short-haired person, although long-haired is not yet considered!

The ugly daughter-in-law wants to meet her parents-in-law!