Chapter 568: Going Home Is the Most Comfortable

"How can I do that? This is my home. How can I not even want my home?"

Sheng Xiping laughed happily, and he was so happy that he let his wife beat him.

"Dad, get in the car. My grandparents must be waiting anxiously at home."

Sheng Xinhua looked at his parents showing off helplessly, and then looked at the strange eyes of the people around him, and had to cough dryly to remind them.

Sheng Xiping then let go of Zhou Qinglan, and the couple led the children to get in the car.

"Hello, Mr. Sheng." The driver in the car hurriedly greeted them.

Just now, the family reunited, and the driver couldn't go forward to join in the fun. Now he finally got the chance.

"Xiao Zhang, Xiao Li, long time no see." Sheng Xiping nodded to the two drivers.

The children are all grown up, and one car can't fit them, so they have to sit separately.

The two cars drove out of the train station one after the other and headed straight to Sheng's house.

At the east end of No. 1 Middle School, outside the gate of Sheng Xiping's house, Sheng Liancheng, Zhou Mingyuan, Zhang Shuzhen, Wang Chunxiu, and Aunt Li.

Several people were standing on the roadside, looking westward. They were waiting for Sheng Xiping.

Sheng Xiping had just boarded the train yesterday when his family received a call and learned that he would be back today.

Zhou Qinglan immediately arranged for a driver to go to the forest farm to pick up the old couple.

As for Zhou Mingyuan, he had just retired a few days ago. Knowing that his son-in-law was back, the couple also came to wait.

Seeing two cars turning in this direction from a distance, everyone immediately became excited.

"He's back, he's back. It must be our Xiping who's back."

Sure enough, the car stopped in front of them and Sheng Xiping got out of the car.

"Dad, Mom, why are you all standing outside?"

As soon as Sheng Xiping got off the car, he was confused by several elders. Why didn't they stay in the house and all ran outside?

Fortunately, the weather was good and not cold at this time, otherwise he would have been frozen to death.

"You bastard, you left and didn't come back for two years.

We missed you and came out to welcome you, but we made a mistake?"

Sheng Liancheng hadn't seen his son for two years and was very excited, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.

So he glared and raised his hand slightly, looking like he was going to punish Sheng Xiping.

"Go away, you are so conspicuous?"

As a result, before he could do anything, Zhang Shuzhen pushed him aside.

Zhang Shuzhen walked to Sheng Xiping in two steps and grabbed her son's hand.

"Oh my God, how did you make yourself like this? You are dark and thin, like a refugee. Where have you been?"

Zhang Shuzhen couldn't help crying as she spoke.

"Mom, don't cry, I'm fine, I just walked a little far this time, and something happened on the way, so I came back late.

I'm really fine, nothing happened, the wind was strong on the sea, and it blew me like this."

When his mother cried, Sheng Xiping panicked and hurried to comfort her.

"You are fooling me, what kind of wind can make people thin? This must be because you don't eat well and sleep well outside, so you are like this.

Look at you, you have to run out when you are fine, and make yourself look like this."

Zhang Shuzhen is so old, how can she be fooled easily? She doesn't believe her son's lies.

"My dear, don't scold him, it's better for the child to come back safely.

It's okay to lose weight, it's not a big deal? I'll make more delicious food later, and he will be back in less than half a month."

Wang Chunxiu saw it and thought, well, she should come forward to persuade.

Sure enough, as soon as the in-laws spoke, Zhang Shuzhen was embarrassed to complain about her son.

"Let's go home. We have delicious food at home. Eat more to replenish your body." Zhang Shuzhen wiped her face and invited everyone to enter the yard.

"Dad, why did you and mom come back from Heilongjiang Province the other day? Are you retired?"

Sheng Xiping walked into the yard while chatting with Zhou Mingyuan.

"Well, I just came back a few days ago and retired.

I should have retired the year before last. Didn't the forest economy have any effect at that time? I persisted for another two years.

The medicinal materials such as clubwort, gastrodia, blueberry, blue indigo fruit, and schisandra chinensis planted there last year were all in high yield, and the income was quite good.

I have completed my mission and retired gloriously." Zhou Mingyuan said with a smile.

During his tenure in the Forestry Department, Zhou Mingyuan performed very well in all aspects of his work and achieved remarkable results.

Last fall, he was promoted to deputy provincial governor and concurrently served as an advisor to the Forestry Department.

Therefore, he retired from the position of vice-provincial governor this year, and his salary is much higher than before.

"Oh, that's perfect. I'll go back to the forest farm in two days. Dad, do you want to go with me?

When we have time, we can go fishing or something. It's just right to have a companion."

Sheng Xiping has no plans to go out for the time being when he comes back this time. He has to spend time with his parents, wife and children, so he plans to go back to the forest farm and spend a few days of leisurely days.

"Okay, that's great."

Zhou Mingyuan was happy when he heard it. He was worried that he would have nothing to do after retirement. He didn't know what to do.

Now that the grandson and grandson are grown up, they don't need the couple to coax them. It's so boring for the couple to stare at each other at home all day long.

As they were talking, everyone entered the house. Sheng Xiping sat on the sofa with his father and father-in-law to chat, while Zhou Qinglan and Zhang Shuzhen hurried to the kitchen to work.

Not long after, the food was served. In addition to six dishes, there were also steaming dumplings.

"This is the shepherd's purse that your father and I dug from our fields. We are going to eat dumplings stuffed with shepherd's purse today.

The celery leaves are not ready yet. In a few days, when the celery leaves are almost grown, we can stuff the celery leaves. "

Zhang Shuzhen pointed to the dumplings on the table and smiled.

"Oh, my mother understands me best. In the two years since I left home, I have only been craving for dumplings.

Especially the dumplings made by my mother, I can only dream of them. "Sheng Xiping sniffed. The smell of these dumplings was so appetizing.

"Isn't it easy for you to eat? Just make dumplings. Your mother doesn't know anything else, but she is best at making dumplings.

You go back to the forest farm in two days, and I will make dumplings for you in different ways until you have enough. "

Zhang Shuzhen smiled even happier when her son said this.

The food was all ready, and the family sat down to eat. Sheng Xiping didn't eat anything else, but worked hard on the dumplings.

These dumplings stuffed with shepherd's purse at the beginning of spring are so delicious that you can't wait to swallow them all in your tongue.

Sheng Xiping finished three plates of dumplings by himself. In the end, he couldn't eat any more, so he stopped using his chopsticks.

Everyone looked at Sheng Xiping wolfing down his food, feeling both amused and distressed at the same time.

The food outside is so unpalatable, even for such a down-to-earth person like Sheng Xiping.

"Are you full? Or do you want to eat more?" Zhou Qinglan asked tentatively.

"I'm full, I'm full. I'm full from this meal."

In the past few days since returning to China, Sheng Xiping has eaten every meal, but today's meal was really enough to support himself.

"Today's dumplings are so delicious and fragrant."

When I’m full, I’m too lazy to move.

Sheng Xiping didn't need to pay attention to his image at home. Sheng Xiping lazily slumped on the sofa and chatted with his father and father-in-law, telling him some of his experiences when he went to sea this time.

Sheng Liancheng and Zhou Mingyuan had a tacit understanding and did not ask what Sheng Xiping was doing.

If this matter could be mentioned, Sheng Xiping would have told it when he called home before. Since Sheng Xiping didn't mention it, it must have been a confidential mission.

The ideological awareness of the older generation is still very high. No matter how curious they are, they will never ask questions that should not be asked.

Both Zhou Mingyuan and his wife were retired, so they had nothing to do when they returned home, so they played at Sheng's house until the evening and left after dinner.

At around six o'clock, there was storytelling on Jilin Channel and cartoons on CCTV.

Brother Sheng Xinhua wants to listen to storytelling, and sisters Sheng Xinyue want to watch cartoons. Now that the children are older, they watch TV every day.

Fortunately, when Sheng Yunfei came back last year, she brought home a large 24-inch color TV set.

The new TV is placed in the east room, and the old TV is placed in the room where Aunt Li lives.

Aunt Li is getting older and sleeps less. She goes to bed late at night and watches TV for a while. When she feels sleepy, she goes to bed.

As soon as the children said they wanted to watch this or that, Zhou Qinglan sent the two girls to the west room to watch cartoons, while the others read storytelling in the east room.

After listening to the storytelling, Sheng Xinhua, Sheng Xinyu and others also went to the west room to watch cartoons, while the adults were in the east room, watching other programs.

According to the rules of the Sheng family, when the news broadcast starts in the evening, the children must turn off the TV and go back to the house to study.

If you write your homework quickly and finish it early, you can watch an episode of TV while the news is over and you can go to bed at nine o'clock.

If the homework is completed slowly, nothing will be seen.

Therefore, as soon as the news broadcast started, the children immediately went back to the house to do homework and review their lessons.

The adults were in the east room, watching TV and chatting. After the children finish their homework, we come to the east room to watch TV series together.

"No, I'm sleepy and need to go to sleep.

Xinhua, you guys should go back to your house and sleep quickly. Didn’t we agree to get up early and go back to the forestry farm tomorrow? Why don't you go to sleep? "

As soon as nine o'clock arrived, Zhang Shuzhen began to urge everyone to go to bed.

When Sheng Liancheng was at home, he would watch two episodes of TV before going to bed. He had just finished watching one episode and he was not sleepy yet.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw his old wife winking at him. Sheng Liancheng suddenly understood and quickly agreed.

"Yes, yes, I'm sleepy too. Let's go to bed. Well, Xinhua Xinyu, you guys should go to bed early too, don't just watch TV."

The grandparents all spoke, and the children could only reluctantly turn off the TV and go back to the house to sleep.

Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu were in the west room. Sheng Xinyue and Sheng Xinqi usually slept on the same bed as Zhou Qinglan, but tonight Zhang Shuzhen kicked them into Aunt Li's room.

As for Sheng Liancheng and his wife, they live in the east room suite.

Everyone went to wash up and tidy up. After a while, they went back to their rooms and lay down. In the east room, only Mr. and Mrs. Sheng Xiping were left.

Zhou Qinglan laid out the bedding, and just as Sheng Xiping had finished washing his feet and brushing his teeth, he took off his clothes and got into bed.

After Zhou Qinglan finished packing and got on the kang, Sheng Xiping hugged his wife over and kissed her twice before talking.

"Keep your voice down, our parents are in the back room." Zhou Qinglan said softly.

"I know, I know, what are old couples afraid of?

Didn't you see how our mother was giving our father a wink just now? They understand. "

Sheng Xiping didn't care about that, and he didn't act calmly. "Daughter-in-law, don't you miss me?"

Zhou Qinglan reached out and put her arms around Sheng Xiping's neck, "Guess, do I miss you?"

Is there any need to guess? Wouldn't it be better to take action?

The couple had a lot of trouble that night and didn't sleep until midnight.

This was the most sound sleep Sheng Xiping had in more than two years. The next morning, even the sound of Zhang Shuzhen and the others cooking could not wake Sheng Xiping up.

It was past seven o'clock when all the children got up and went out for a run. Sheng Xiping was still sleeping soundly on the kang.

"Grandma, my dad is still sleeping? Didn't we say we were going back to the forest farm today and should leave early? Why hasn't he gotten up yet?"

Sheng Xinyu was furious. Seeing the man on the kang in the east room lying in bed and not getting up, he asked.

"Keep your voice down. Your dad has been out for so long. He can't eat or sleep well on the sea.

It's rare for him to sleep so well. Let him sleep a little longer." Zhou Qinglan glared at her son and whispered.

"Wife, don't talk about the children. I'm almost done sleeping. I'll get up now."

Sheng Xiping in the room had actually woken up, but he was too lazy to get up.

After hearing Zhou Qinglan scolding the child, he had to get up and put on his clothes, and went to the outer room to wash his face and clean up.

The whole family got up and quickly cleaned up the food and had breakfast.

After breakfast, Sheng Xinhua and his friends packed up at home, while Sheng Xiping and Zhou Qinglan went to the market to buy some meat, fish, cooked food, etc.

With so many people going back to eat and stay, and the children all love to eat meat, how can they not prepare some food?

The couple bought a lot of things and put them in the trunk of the car. When they got home, the children had packed their things.

This year, May Day fell on Friday, and the high school had a month-long holiday. The elementary and junior high schools also took a three-day holiday and went to school on Monday.

It happened that there was nothing to do, so the family went back to the forest farm to stay for two days and waited for school to start before coming back.

There were eight people in one car, and it was not enough to drive. Fortunately, there was no shortage of cars at home, and Sheng Xiping and Zhou Qinglan each drove one.

Zhou Qinglan had just learned to drive for more than a year. The main reason was that Sheng Xiping was not at home, and Zhou Qinglan had to take the children back to the forest farm during holidays, which was inconvenient to go back and forth.

In July last year, Songjianghe Forestry Bureau completely ended the history of using forest railways to transport timber. The forest train stopped running and the railway track was also demolished.

The last two forest farms, Qianchuan and Shuguang, were all converted into truck-based forest farms.

There were no small trains, so the Forestry Bureau got a few buses to run back and forth in Gouli.

The buses were divided into odd and even numbers, running to Qianchuan one day and to Shengli the next day.

The buses left at 1:30 p.m. every day, and the drivers and passengers stayed in Gouli at night. The buses would run from Gouli to Songjiang River at 7:30 the next morning.

The Sheng family did have a special driver, but it was troublesome to have the driver pick them up and drop them off all the time.

Zhou Qinglan simply learned to drive, and on Sundays, she would drive the children back to the forest farm.

In May, the weather was already very warm, and it happened to be a holiday, so many children carried baskets and shovels to dig dandelions, shepherd's purse, and small root vegetables in the fields.

Most of the older people were swinging shovels and pickaxes to turn the soil in their own vegetable gardens to prepare for planting vegetables, or they would gather in the wide area in front of the farm to chat.

So when Sheng Xiping and his wife drove into the forest farm, many people saw them.

"Oh, is this the old Sheng family back? Why are they driving two cars? Isn't it usually just one car?" Someone asked curiously when they saw them.

"Don't you know? The day before yesterday afternoon, a car came to pick up the old brother Sheng and his wife.

From what I heard, it seems that Xiping is back." Someone next to him said.

"Xiping is back? Hasn't he been out for several years without any movement?"