Chapter 029.

Servant Huai Ming stood in place and watched for another moment.

When Zhen Zhen and Xue Fan were exchanging pleasantries, he called out, “Zhen Zhen.”

This Zhen Zhen interrupted the conversation between Zhen Zhen and Xue Fan.

When Zhen Zhen heard the voice, she raised her head and swept her gaze over, and the moment she saw Shi Huai Ming, she suddenly froze.

She hadn’t thought that Shui Huaiming would come back at all, so she didn’t react for a moment and thought that she was hallucinating.

It was Xue Fan next to her who stared at Serving Huai Ming for a moment and asked, “Is …… Third Brother?”

Xue Fan’s attention was completely attracted by Serving Huai Ming.

After asking the question, he walked directly toward Shi Huai Ming, and when he arrived in front of Shi Huai Ming, he asked in surprise, “It’s third brother, isn’t it?”

Shi Huai Ming looked at Xue Fan and confirmed, “Xue Fan?”

Having been called by his name, this was considered recognition, and Xue Fan was so excited, “Third Brother, it’s really you who’s back! How many years have passed since I saw you, I almost didn’t recognize you, you’ve changed too much.”

Servant Huai Ming looked at Xue Fan and exchanged polite pleasantries, “You’ve changed quite a bit too, you’re not the kid you were back then.”

When he left, Xue Fan was still a 17 or 18 year old teenager, but now the childishness and youthfulness of that time is long gone.

Xue Fan couldn’t contain his excitement, and continued in an excited tone, “Suddenly seeing you come back feels like a dream, I used to dream about you coming back all the time. Since you wrote your letter back, all of us in the village are waiting for you to come back ……”

Xue Fan was over here pulling Shui Huai Ming and exchanging pleasantries, over there Zhen Zhen reacted.

She didn’t come towards Xue Fan and Shihuaiming, and didn’t make a sound to greet Shihuaiming. Instead, she lowered her eyebrows and restrained all the colors on her face, and just pretended that she didn’t see Shihuaiming, closed the book in her hand, and turned around to walk away after carrying the basket filled with hogweed.

Seeing Zhen Zhen leave, Shi Huai Ming didn’t have the mood to catch up with Xue Fan, so he said to Xue Fan, “Let’s talk again when we have time.”

After saying this, he didn’t wait for Xue Fan to react, and then he took a step to chase after Zhen Zhen.

Xue Fan’s excitement was interrupted, and he was confused for a moment as he watched Shui Huaiming run away.

But when he saw Servant Huai Ming chasing after Zhen Zhen, he immediately understood a little bit more, so he didn’t call out to Servant Huai Ming again, but just followed him from afar.

When Shui Huaiming chased after Zhen Zhen, he reached out to pick up the basket of hogweed in her hand.

Zhen Zhen didn’t let go of her hand, nor did she look at him, and with a sullen face and tense lips, she pulled back directly.

Serving Huai Ming naturally did not let go, grabbed the basket and looked at Zhen Zhen, said: “I deliberately came back to apologize to you, I was wrong.”

Specially came back to apologize to her?

Surprise and disbelief flashed through her heart, and Zhen Zhen lifted her gaze to look at Shi Huai Ming.

However, she quickly dropped her gaze and pulled on the basket again to try and get Shi Huai Ming to let go.

Seeing that Servant Huai Ming still wouldn’t let go, she knew that she was completely outmatched in terms of strength, so she simply let go of the basket and turned around to go home with the book.

Shi Huai Ming continued to follow Zhen Zhen with the basket of hogweed and asked her again, “Are you going to ignore me forever?”

Zhen Zhen didn’t want to speak or listen to him, and her steps got faster and faster.

Seeing her like this, Shui Huai Ming didn’t make any more noise, and just carried the basket and followed her.

Walking to the head of the village, Zhen Zhen suddenly accelerated the pace trotting up, Shui Huai Ming was thrown off after stopping to stand and look at her back for a while running away, silently adjusted the breath is not too smooth.

The members of the production team were just returning from work.

Cuilan’s eyes were sharp and she was the first to see Shui Huaiming and Zhen Zhen. When she saw Zhen Zhen running up and running away, she hurriedly pulled Xiuzhu’s arm next to her and pointed at Shui Huaiming and asked, “Eh, who do you think that is?”

Xiuzhu looked in the direction Cuilan pointed and said, “The one in front of her is Zhen Zhen, and the man behind her doesn’t seem like he’s from our village, what’s that he’s wearing, a military uniform?”

Cuilan narrowed her eyes slightly, “Is it Serving Huai Ming?”

Hearing Cuilan’s words, everyone else also looked over to Servant Huai Ming’s side.

A moment later Servant Huai Zhong called out loudly from the crowd, “Huai Ming!”

Hearing someone call out to him, Servant Huai Ming turned his head back around.

Turning around, he saw that they were all people from their village, and the one who had called out to him was none other than his elder brother, Servant Huai Zhong.

The moment he saw Servant Huai Zhong, his face lit up and he spoke out, “Big brother!”

Confirming that it was Servant Huai Ming, Servant Huai Zhong couldn’t wait to run in front of him, his face filled with excitement, his eyes bursting into tears as he looked at Servant Huai Ming and said, “Huai Ming, it’s really you, it’s really you who’s back!”

Servant Huai Ming’s heart was also sore, he looked at Servant Huai Zhong and said, “Big brother, it’s me who’s back.”

Not caring that there were other people around, Servant Huai Zhong hugged Servant Huai Ming and slammed him on the back a few times.

His good younger brother, finally back.

After Shi Huaizhong finished hugging Shi Huaiming and wiped his tears, the others all came up to greet Shi Huaiming with a lot of enthusiasm.

These grandparents, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters-in-law, Shui Huaoming also greeted them one by one.

After greeting them, Cuilan pulled Hongmei to the side and whispered, “Did you see that? Chasing Zhen Zhen back.”

Hongmei also had a smile on her face, but the words she received were, “How do you know you’re not back for a divorce?”

How dare you say this here.

Cuilan was busy hitting her and giving her another blank look.

Luckily, their voices were small, so no one else heard them.

Hongmei was hit by Cuilan, so she didn’t say anything else, and continued to surround ShuiHuaiming with other people with smiles on their faces.

The members of the community stood at the head of the village for a while, all of them exchanged pleasantries with Shui Huaiming, and then entered the village together.

After entering the village, the women went home to cook, and the men followed Shui Huaiming and Shui Huizhong to Shui’s house.

The men followed Squire Huai Ming to Squire Huai Zhong’s home.

***

When Zhen Zhen arrived home, she went straight into the stove room to help Zhong Minfen cook.

Zhong Minfen pulled the bellows to burn the fire, and had just gotten the pot hot when she suddenly heard noisy sounds coming from outside.

She got up and went out to take a look, only to see the village old and young people are crowded into the courtyard of her house.

At the head of the crowd were Zhong Minfen, Zhong Huaizhong, and Secretary Li.

Zhong Minfen greeted Secretary Li with a smile, “The secretary is here.”

Secretary Li smiled back at Zhong Minfen and said, “Sister-in-law, you’re really lucky.”

Zhong Minfen greeted everyone in the main house.

Over there, Chen Qingmei had already gone into the stove room, took a kettle and poured several bowls of water and carried them to the main house.

She brought all the water to the table and set it down and left, letting them sit and drink and talk.

Chen Qingmei returned to the stove room, where Zhen Zhen was frying vegetables on the wok.

She sat behind the stove and pulled the bellows to start the fire, her face all red and smiling, and said to Zhen Zhen, “Huai Ming is now a big celebrity in our village, everyone has been waiting for him for so long, and finally he has come back.”

Zhen Zhen didn’t respond as she stir-fried the vegetables.

Seeing that Zhen Zhen didn’t say anything, Chen Qingmei glanced over at Zhen Zhen and said, “Aren’t you happy that Huai Ming is back?”

Zhen Zhen smiled a little and said perfunctorily, “I’m happy.”

Chen Qingmei looked towards the stove to continue burning, and continued to say, “I really didn’t expect him to come back all of a sudden, just like you, he came back without a word of greeting, Zhen Zhen, do you think he came back especially for you?”

Before Zhen Zhen could answer again, Servant Dan Ling and Servant Xing Guo returned.

The two ran into the cookhouse and asked curiously, “Why are there so many people in the house?”

Chen Qingmei told them, “Your third uncle is back, go and take a look.”

Hearing this, Shui Danling and Shui Xingguo’s eyes synchronized to become bronze bells, and they said in an explosive voice, “Third uncle is back?”

Chen Qingmei let out a hmm, “He’s in the main house.”

Servant Danling and Servant Xingguo silently turned around and ran to the entrance of the main house.

They didn’t recognize Servant Huai Ming, lying on the doorway for a while, their eyes fell on Servant Huai Ming’s face, but they didn’t dare to recognize him.

There are so many people in the house, this is the only one they don’t recognize, and still wearing the spirit of straight military uniforms, naturally it is their third uncle.

When Servant Huai Zhong saw them, he was busy waving at them, “Come in, your third uncle is back.”

The two children, who were very excited just now, were a bit shy, and when they entered the room, they listened to Shui Huizhong’s introduction, and one of them called Shui Huaiming, “Third uncle.”

Servant Huai Zhong also introduced to Servant Huai Ming, “These are your nieces and nephews, Dan Ling and Xing Guo.”

Servant Huai Ming reached out and pulled Servant Xingguo in front of him, stroking his head, “All grown up so big.”

Servant Xingguo was embarrassed by his touch and his face turned red.

But he was very proud in his heart, because the other children in the village were looking at him enviously.

Servant Xingguo and Servant Danling came out after greeting Servant Huai Ming.

When the two of them went outside, they naturally found kids their own age and showed off a lot.

All they said was: “My third uncle is back, have you seen my third uncle? He’s wearing a military uniform, he’s so awesome!”

The people in the main house sat and talked for a while, but suddenly someone came to the door and called them to go home for dinner.

Secretary Li got up and said with a smile, “It’s dinner time, I have to go home for dinner. Huai Ming ah, nothing to my home to sit down.”

Servant Huai Ming answered in a very polite manner, and together with the others, he followed Secretary Li as he stood up.

Zhong Minfen said politely, “Secretary Li, why don’t you stay and eat?”

Secretary Li still smiled and said, “If you stay and eat, you can have a meal, your family has such a meal ah?”

Then he thought of something, “Why don’t we do this, I’ll go back and look at the arrangements, and we’ll get together in a couple of days to have a potluck dinner, so that we can all receive the wind together for Huai Ming, what do you think?”

Mr. Huai Ming said politely, “Don’t bother,” but the others responded, “This is fine, this is fine.”

Secretary Li added, “Then it’s settled, let’s go back to our homes now.”

After saying this, the others followed Secretary Li and dispersed.

Serving Huai Ming and Serving Huai Ming Zhong Min Fen sent them to the courtyard gate and watched them all leave before returning.

When they came back to the stove room, Zhen Zhen had already fried all of Zhong Minfen’s washed and cut dishes.

Serving Huaizhong, with a glowing face, went to the main room and pulled out the eight-imperial table.

He wiped the table and the high bench clean, while the others busied themselves with bringing the food and dishes to the table.

After all the food was served and arranged, the family sat down at the table in a lively manner.

Serving Huai Zhong said with emotion, “It’s been a long time since the family has been so lively.” Yi Hua Zhong (鎳块⿰)

The family’s current bustle all came from Servant Huaizhong, so naturally the topics of conversation at the dinner table all centered around him.

Having not seen him for so many years, everyone else had endless things to say, and only Zhen Zhen stayed silent.

She sat next to Shi Huai Ming and just buried her head in her mouth to eat.

When Servant Huai Ming gave her a dish, she just said, “Thank you, no.”

Everyone at the table could naturally see the awkwardness between the young couple, but no one picked up on it.

Everyone maintained a lively atmosphere for dinner, and after dinner the family sat together and chatted for a while.

After the meal chatting Zhen Zhen did not participate, she went to her room.

Shi Danling and Shi Xingguo ran out to play, so only Zhong Minfen, Shi Huaizhong Chen Qingmei and Shi Huaoming remained in the main house.

The four of them sat together and chatted for a few more minutes. Zhong Minfen didn’t skirt around the topic of Shui Huaiming and Zhen Zhen, and looked at Shui Huaiming and asked, “Zhen Zhen went to the city for such a long time, what did you do to Zhen Zhen? When she went, I told you in my letter to be nice to her, but you made her so angry that she came back crying?”

Speaking of this, Servant Huai Ming did feel justified.

He didn’t split hairs about anything either, lifting his gaze to Zhong Minfen and saying, “Mother, it was my problem, and I’ve reflected on it thoroughly and comprehensively. I did a bad job, I will apologize to Zhen Zhen.”

Seeing that his attitude was so sincere, the anger in Zhong Minfen’s heart was not so heavy again.

She raised her hand at Shi Huai Ming, “After making Zhen Zhen suffer so much, I really want to hit you!”

Servant Huai Ming stuck his head directly in front of her, “Indeed you should hit, you hit.”

Zhong Minfen naturally didn’t hit, reaching out to push him away, “Quickly go coax Zhen Zhen.”

Servant Huai Ming stood up, “I’ll go then.”

Servant Huai Zhong also said beside him, “Go go go, hurry up.”

After Servant Huai Ming left, Chen Qingmei whispered, “You’ve gotten over it, haven’t you? Knowing that Zhen Zhen is good.”

Zhong Minfen nonchalantly said, “If he still can’t see Zhen Zhen’s goodness after such a long time, then he’s a blind man!”

***

Servant Huai Ming turned around and went to Zhen Zhen’s room, reaching up to open the door curtain he saw Zhen Zhen sitting on the edge of the bed reading a book.

This room was their new room when they got married, although more than five years have passed, but many things are still installed when they got married.

When she heard the commotion, Zhen Zhen didn’t look up.

Servant Huai Ming entered the door and went directly to sit next to Zhen Zhen.

The moment he sat down, Zhen Zhen immediately closed the book in her hand and got up to leave.

But just two steps out, she was suddenly pulled back by Shui Huaiming’s grip on her wrist.

Zhen Zhen turned her wrist and tried to pull her hand out, but his strength was so strong that she was unable to do so after half a day.

So she put down the book again and used her other hand to break it, and when she really couldn’t break it, she got annoyed and said, “Let go.”

Servant Huai Ming did not let go, his hand slightly harder, then pulled Zhen Zhen to his front.

Holding onto Zhen Zhen’s wrist, he tilted his head and looked at Zhen Zhen and said, “Can you give me a chance to repent?”

Zhen Zhen’s face was heavy with annoyance, and she looked at Servant Huai Ming with lowered eyebrows.

For a moment she spoke, “I don’t want to say anything to you right now, nor do I want to listen to you, I hate you.”

Hearing this, Servant Huai Ming and Zhen Zhen stared at each other for a moment, in the end did not say anything else, the hand holding her wrist also slowly loosened its strength.

Zhen Zhen took the opportunity to pull her wrist out of his hand, and without stopping to do more, she turned around and took her book and went out.

Servant Huai Ming watched in silence as Zhen Zhen’s figure disappeared outside the door curtain.

A few moments later he withdrew his gaze and lowered his head, his heart was so stuffy that he couldn’t breathe.

Zhen Zhen went outside to get the sickle and basket, greeted Zhong Minfen and went out again.

Chen Qingmei watched Zhen Zhen go out from the main room and said, “You’re just ignoring Huai Ming now?”

Zhong Minfen simply replied, “Serves you right!”

Chen Qingmei couldn’t help but laugh, “Mother, who is your biological child?”

Zhong Minfen said, “Whoever is good is my own.”