Chapter 411: Meeting Grandma for the First Time
Zhan Mengyan and Yun Dawen walked in the alley, their laughter echoing in the alley...
The little cat was not to be outdone, and kept meowing, trying to attract the attention of its owners, just like a music box that it carried with it, playing cheerful melodies.
The little cat walked with its furry little paws, like a ball of jumping dandelion seeds, following closely at the feet of Zhan Mengyan and Yun Dawen. Its tail swayed left and right like a small flagpole, and its soft body followed a Mobius loop. From time to time, it would suddenly rub Yun Dawen's trouser legs, and then rub Zhan Mengyan's trouser legs. Its four powerful short legs alternately trotted, sometimes taking two steps ahead, looking back, and sometimes braking suddenly. Its front paws suddenly pounced on Zhan Mengyan's shaking shoelaces. It regarded Yun Dawen and Zhan Mengyan's shadows as its pursuit targets, jumping between the light spots, playing the "stepping on shadows" game.
The little cat arrived at the door first.
"Meow meow meow" the little cat turned around and called to its two owners, as if to say: "Masters, please hurry up, look how great I am! I got home first!"
"What's your name? Look at how smug you are! How can we, with our two legs, outrun your four legs?"
While Yundawen was speaking, he rushed to the little cat squatting in front of the door, held it in his arms, and lovingly combed the fur on its forehead.
"Oh, cousin Mengyan, I forgot to tell you that my aunt came to our house. She is an old lady with a bad temper and a weird attitude. She has no children now and is a five-guarantee household in the village. Her daughter died and left behind a granddaughter who is married. She lives on her own now. Her old house has been in disrepair for many years and is about to collapse. She is afraid that the house will collapse while she is sleeping and she will be crushed to death in the house. She goes to the village chief every day to ask the village committee to build her a new house. She heard from somewhere that Zhan Yingying is dating the village chief's third son, so she wants my dad to talk to Zhan Yingying and the village chief to build her a new house as soon as possible."
As Yundawen spoke, she held the little cat and looked into the house through the window glass, pointing at the old lady sitting on the kang in the house.
Zhan Mengyan understood and followed Yun Dawen's gaze towards the house.
The two of them leaned over the window and saw: Aunt was sitting cross-legged on the kang, with a big pipe dangling from her mouth. The long pipe was two feet long, the brass bowl was glowing dimly, and the agate mouthpiece swayed slightly as Aunt spoke.
"I say, third brother, your mother is gone, but it is a fact that your mother and I were born from the same mother, and it is also a fact that I loved you a lot when you were a child, so you can't deny me as your aunt, right? Zhan Yingying is your apprentice and your niece. It will definitely work if you say something. Let her talk to the village chief's son and build me a house. What's wrong with that? When the cooperative was established, my family had a big roof with beams that could be pushed three times, and two big carriages with four reddish-brown horses, all of which were confiscated by the cooperative! Your uncle was so distressed that he sighed all night long! Now I'm an old lonely woman, and the country has to take care of me! I'm not your aunt. As a citizen of Xia Country, I have the obligation to help lonely elderly people!"
While my aunt was talking, she did not forget to smoke her pipe, and the room was filled with smoke and fog.
Yunhan sat on the stool opposite her aunt, with her head lowered, as if she was being trained.
"Even if my mother is no longer alive, I still want to recognize you as my aunt! I've asked around, and the village chief is preparing wood for your new house, saying it will be built in the spring of next year. Don't be too anxious. I'll talk to Zhan Yingying and the village chief's son and ask them to build you a house quickly. It will take several months, and building a house is not like making candy figures. You can't just blow it and it's done. Even if it's making candy figures, you have to boil the syrup first, right? You can't be impatient."
While Yunhan was talking, she respectfully refilled her aunt's pipe with tobacco leaves after she had knocked out the ash.
Just as Yunhan was about to light a cigarette, her aunt put the tobacco leaves in the pipe back into the pipe bag.
"Okay, Third Brother, I'll give you some time. I'll stay at your house for a few days. When the new house is built, I'll move out. I won't chat with you anymore. I'll go to Zhan Mengyan's cabin to sleep."