Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn-Chapter 35 - 34 Family Travel Plan

Living in Ge Village for half a year, the changes that had taken place in Xiao Xian were quite gratifying to Zhu Shijun. Although Ge Village was a small mountain village with scarce resources and a poor cultural environment, the redeeming feature was its excellent mountains and waters, with all kinds of birds and beasts wandering the hills, providing a natural paradise for modern children who lack contact with nature.

Before coming to Ge Village, Xiao Xian had developed a stubborn temperament, but now she turned into a good child who could listen to adults and even help with some agricultural work.

Life was going so smoothly that it was easy for troubles to arise, and Zhu Shijun also felt that it was wrong to continue to let Xiao Xian stay in the village. A while ago, Xiao Xian could still play with the preschool-age children in the village, but ever since she returned from Bai Family Ancient Town, resolved to farm, her interest in playing with the kids had lessened.

Zhu Shijun had asked Xiao Xian why she didn't want to play with the village kids, to which she pouted and said directly that the village children were still playing house with wild grasses and wild fruits, very uninteresting, and it was better to follow Sister-in-law Lian to dig in the fields.

Zhu Shijun feared that Xiao Xian might subtly become like Sister-in-law Lian and turn into the kind of person typical of Ge Village residents.

When Mr. Zhu traveled around the country in his earlier years, he went to Inner Mongolia and met a young shepherd. Around eleven or twelve years old, with a ruddy face, speaking Mandarin with a heavy Mongolian accent, Mr. Zhu asked the shepherd boy his plans for the future, and the boy gave him several sentences that he still vividly remembered to this day: "Shepherd to earn money and get a wife."

"What will you do after getting a wife?"

"Have kids."

"And after having kids?"

"Shepherd to earn money for the kids to get wives."

These words were turned into a joke by Zhu Shijun when he brought them back to Beijing, but now, if it were to truly happen to his own granddaughter, it wouldn't be so funny at all.

Sister-in-law Lian had good character, but she was uneducated. If she really instilled some negative, old-fashioned thinking in Xiao Xian, it would be hard to change it afterwards.

Zhu Shijun thought about it for several nights, not sleeping well, his spirit was vague, and his body was also getting worse. He thought that after the New Year, he should take Xiao Xian to Guiyang to get a health checkup on one hand, and on the other hand, he had a subordinate in Guiyang that he had promoted before. He could entrust him to find a good primary school for Xiao Xian in Guiyang, so she won't be stuck in this mountain ravine.

"Grandpa, you don't look well. Why don't you just sit and listen to the radio? I'll listen to the stories they tell, and you can explain what I don't understand..." Zhu Xiaoxian actually didn't resist attending classes. Zhu Shijun's way of teaching was very gentle and reasonable.

He usually only taught for forty-five minutes with a five-minute break in between, and the content of teaching was wide-ranging, including mathematics, language arts, some drawing, and simple English.

After taking a nap at noon, Zhu Shijun also felt tightness in his chest and blurry vision. It was really hard to muster the energy to lecture, so he simply turned on the "radio" and set the frequency band properly.

It just so happened that the "radio" was talking about the wonders and odd stories of the nation when the channel discussing customs and folks mentioned "Southwest Tourism Town - Bai Family Ancient Town, where pear trees blossom amid the winter cold, drawing tourists from various places to come and watch."

"Grandpa, it's a pity that our road is in poor condition. If the road were properly built, those people could come and see the white pear behind our house," Xiao Xian didn't realize that this white pear was a descendant of the very one behind her home. It was just that, due to a generation gap, the efficacy of the Iron Immortal Liquid had weakened, and both the flowers and the fruit the pear tree would bear were slightly inferior compared to the forty-nine-year-old white pear.

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The same news segment was also broadcast on the evening news in Shanghai.

Zhou Ziang had just finished his final exams. At the dinner table, Xi Lijuan was talking about how a good friend of hers had just returned from New Zealand with lots of photos of beautiful landscapes.

"Old Zhou, you haven't taken your annual leave yet, right?" Xi Lijuan, listening to the TV report about Guizhou's warmer weather and the ancient town's pear blossoms blooming in winter, began to mumble.

Recently, Zhou Qiang had been busy with the Agricultural Expo. At the time, Xi Lijuan wanted to check out the Expo, hoping to save some ticket money since Zhou Qiang was a government organizer. She mentioned this to Zhou Qiang, who quickly brushed her off, saying what's there to see at a bunch of rotten vegetables and apples, suggesting they take a trip somewhere else after the new year when he had some free time.

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"I haven't taken it. Why don't we take advantage of the fact that work is slowing down at the end of the year and both of us take a trip," Zhou Qiang did have a hint of rugged tenderness in his bones, it was just that work usually kept him too busy, neglecting his pampered wife at home.

"Where can we go? You're a civil servant; it's even harder for you to get a passport than for others. How about we take my son and me to Hainan for a trip?" Xi Lijuan would never leave her precious son behind, no matter where she went.

Zhou Qiang cursed inwardly but couldn't respond back. Ever since Zhou Ziang was young, he, as a father, had never really taken him out to play. They had once planned to take the child to Beijing to visit the Forbidden City when he was just five or six, but Zhou Ziang couldn't handle it, getting sick with vomiting and diarrhea as soon as he boarded the train. In her panic, Xi Lijuan called off the trip to Beijing.

"Ziang, what do you think? Shanghai is chilly recently; how about we go to Hainan and enjoy a warm new year there," Xi Lijuan sought Zhou Ziang's opinion.

Zhou Qiang frowned. Xi Lijuan really wasn't afraid of spoiling their son rotten. He was the one footing the bill, and yet they didn't consult his opinion.

"We're not going to Hainan; we'll go to Guizhou," Zhou Ziang was still looking at the pear tree on the TV, the pear blossoms white as clouds, which were impossible to grow even in a greenhouse with added warmth.

Those pears delivered from the Agricultural Expo, even though Zhou Ziang repeatedly stated that they must be local Chinese pears, Zhou Qiang didn't believe it and didn't heed the advice to keep some. Instead, he sent all the pears to the British Embassy in Shanghai that very day.

However, Zhou Qiang did bring home several pounds of pears that night, and purposely had Xi Lijuan stew them with rock sugar, stating it was good for the throat. In the end, the pears went into Zhou Qiang's own stomach, with Xi Lijuan chiding, "Our son's cough has been gone for ages. He's been out exercising these past few days; you haven't noticed."

So, it goes without saying that in the Zhou Family household of three, Zhou Qiang is nominally in charge, but in reality, he is quite susceptible to his wife Xi Lijuan's words, and she, in turn, is very compliant with their son Zhou Ziang. Thus, after going full circle, the decision-maker turns out to be Zhou Ziang.

After one dinner, the Zhou Family's New Year travel plan also came out. Hainan was off the table. Once Zhou Qiang's annual leave was approved in a few days, the family would first take a plane to Guiyang, then from there to the Bai Family Ancient Town, broadcast on TV and not yet famous.