Chapter 5: Homecoming
The sky was dark, and Bian Rui saw the primary school campus at the foot of the mountain, and when he arrived at the primary school campus, it meant that he was not far from his hometown.
Bian Rui's childhood was also spent in this elementary school, but at that time there was only a row of dilapidated adobe houses, and now the adobe houses are long gone, replaced by a four-story cement school building, there used to be only a dozen students in each grade, now there are thirty-four in each grade, and I heard that the total number of students has reached more than 300.
Teachers are not like three or four teachers who taught both Chinese and mathematics in the past, and by the way, they also taught some art and music, and each teacher was an all-rounder.
Now the teachers of each subject are more professional, almost all of them are normal graduates, although there are still a small half of the substitute teachers, there is no formal establishment, but in terms of the quality of the students trained, not to mention the primary school in the town, even the primary school in the county does not dare to say that it must be better than the primary school in Bianjia Village.
When passing by the elementary school, Bian Rui turned his head and faintly saw the one-person high stone plaque in front of the elementary school, which was blind in the black light and could not be seen clearly, but during the day, he could see the names of the college students who walked out of here and the schools he was admitted to were written on the stone row. In the past thirty or forty years, nearly 400 undergraduate and junior college students have graduated from Bianjiacun Primary School, which may not be a big achievement in other places, but in a rural primary school, more than 20 students go to university every year, which is a great achievement.
Continuing along the concrete road, the headlights of the Indian cars are quite powerful, even if there are no street lights, they still light up the roadside.
Vaguely seeing the village, Bian Rui couldn't help but increase the accelerator.
"Daddy, I'm sleepy"
The girl couldn't help it a little, she had been sitting in the back seat for more than two hours and almost three hours, and the little guy was now sleepy with his head rushing one after another.
"Bear with me for a while, we'll be home in about ten minutes, grandparents, grandparents have prepared a lot of delicious food for you," Bian Rui said to his daughter.
Bian Rui is not afraid that his daughter will fall asleep, there is a handrail on the back seat of the motorcycle, Bian Rui has also done enough protection, and he can't fall down, mainly because Bian Rui is afraid that his daughter will catch a cold when she sleeps.
While driving, I talked to my daughter, and before I knew it, I had arrived at the entrance of the village.
Almost twenty meters away from the village, the dogs in the village began to bark, and the originally peaceful village was awakened by the sound of dogs barking one after another.
"Is it Da Rui?"
An old voice came from Bian Rui's ears.
"Grandpa, why are you squatting here".
Bian Rui heard that it was his grandfather's voice, so he immediately stretched out his foot to support the motorcycle.
Wow!
The big black dog beside the old man kept barking at Bian Rui.
"Kuroko, itchy skin, I don't even know you anymore!" Bian Rui yelled at the black dog.
"Big black, big black!"
The girl behind her suddenly became excited when she saw the big black dog, and she didn't feel sleepy at all, if she wasn't tied up by a seat belt, she would have slid down and hugged the big black dog.
The big black dog originally heard Bian Rui's voice, and wagged his tail to come over and make love to his master, but when it heard the voice of Bian Jing, the little girl, it stood for a while, and then the dog's eyes couldn't help flashing, and its body shrank significantly, revealing a frightened expression.
"Little girl!"
When the old man saw his great-granddaughter, his whole old face seemed to be a flower, he threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and came to the motorcycle, and reached out to hug his great-granddaughter.
"Grandpa, wait a minute, I'll untie the safety belt."
When Bian Rui saw it, he immediately got out of the car and untied the seat belt on his daughter's body.
Bian Rui's grandparents are here, the two old people are not only all there, but also have good bones, not only the two, the grandparents of Bian Rui in the village are several old people, and their health is not bad, the eldest grandfather is almost 100 years old, and he can still beat pigweed every day, feed the pigs and tidy up the vegetable garden or something.
For the old people in the village, once the village is idle, it means waiting for death, and many old people are taboo about this. Unlike the ancestors who were full of joy and prepared to pass away, many of the old people of these grandparents were 'afraid' of death, and believed that as long as they had work in their hands, they would naturally be able to live longer, so as long as they could move, almost all the old people in the village would find a job to do.
For example, Bian Rui's grandmother took care of two acres of vegetable garden, and his grandfather took care of twenty or thirty sheep every day, driving the sheep out every morning, and coming back with the sheep in the evening.
As soon as the seat belt was unfastened, the old man took my granddaughter from the motorcycle into his arms, and asked repeatedly: "Little girl, do you miss grandpa?"
"Yes!"
"Where do you think?"
The little girl pointed to her chest: "Here!"
"Ouch, my little heart, alas, I haven't seen it for half a year, but I want to die grandpa" The old man hugged his great-granddaughter and didn't let go.
"Grandpa, let's go into the village, don't stand, it's a little cold outside!" Bian Rui said.
When the old man heard this, he immediately nodded and said, "Yes, yes, go home!
Bian Rui's car was not easy to push, so Bian Rui rode home first, and the old man walked slowly behind with his great-granddaughter in his arms.
The village is built on the mountain, and the whole village is located in a small valley, if you can see the valley and the hillside are mostly cultivated with crops during the day, but now it is dark, and you can only hear the insects and birds chirping in the fields.
Bian Rui's hometown is similar to the houses of other families in the village, with a strong Jiangnan style, a small white courtyard wall encloses a small courtyard, the north of the courtyard is a two-story building, the kitchen in the east of the courtyard, and a shed in the west.
Bian Rui's motorcycle had just arrived at the door of his house, and the person who heard the sound had already opened the courtyard door.
When Bian Rui saw it, it turned out to be his little nephew.
"Uncle!"
The little guy's name is Shen Dongdong, who is seven and a half years old this year, and he hasn't seen Bian Rui for half a year, and the villain is a little shy.
"Why are you here?" Bian Rui joked with his little nephew.
"Why can't your nephew come, as the old saying goes, your nephew is your uncle's dog, and you can leave when you are full. Not to mention that the family has not been separated, even if the family is separated, it is only natural for the nephew to go to your house to eat, drink and take it."
You don't need to look at it, as soon as Bian Rui hears the voice, he knows that it is his sister who is speaking: Bian Ye. Married to the nearby Shenjia Village, her mother's family and her mother-in-law's family were close, and they came over with one step.
Bian Rui's brother-in-law is called Shen Zhaoxing, and now he has a few acres of fish ponds in their village, and the small life of the family is good. Both of them are honest people.
"I can come, I can come!"
As soon as he met his sister, Bian Rui had no choice but to surrender, saying that it was when he was a child at this time, and Bian Rui was also a character who was shouting in front of his sister.
"Push the car in, everyone is waiting for you to eat, what about Jingjing?" Bian Ye glanced behind his younger brother.
"Walking in the back with grandpa, my car is not easy to push!"
Bian Ye glanced at his brother's motorcycle: "You are mentally ill, how good it is to buy such an expensive two-wheeled one, how good it is to have the money to buy a shed with a shed, no matter how bad it is, it can't be drenched on a rainy day, what do you do with such a thing" Bian Ye felt that his brother was spending money indiscriminately.
Bian Rui smiled, and without saying a word, pushed the car into the courtyard and put it under the shed on the west side.
At this time, Bian Rui's grandmother, parents and brother-in-law all came out, waiting for the old man to come back with his great-granddaughter, which was another lively scene.
Bian Rui was asked two more words by his mother, and the focus of other people was all on the little girl, the little girl went from the grandfather's arms to the grandmother's arms, and then transferred to the grandparents, and then to the aunt, and the time passed in about ten minutes.
Everyone sat down at the table, and the family immediately surrounded a small table for home-cooked meals.
Because Bian Rui and Bian Jing came back, there are really a lot of dishes today, a stewed potato with an old goose, garlic seedlings fried with salted meat, a white chopped wind chicken, a big carp weighing four or five catties, and the most important thing is a pot of stewed lamb meat, full of good meat, and the essence of a whole lamb is probably all placed in this pot.
The whole family reunion must drink some wine, Bian Rui accompanied his grandfather, father, and brother-in-law to drink, and the rest of the people drank juice.
"Brother, really won't go back to Mingzhu in the future?" Bian Ye asked.
"I won't go back if I don't have anything to do, just go to my small restaurant for two days from time to time to take care of me, and spend most of my time here in my hometown," Bian Rui replied.
Hearing his daughter-in-law ask, Shen Zhaoxing kicked his daughter-in-law under the table and signaled her to be careful when she spoke.
"Can you make money from that little restaurant?" asked the mother with a look of suspicion.
Other people's restaurants are all done every day, but their own sons open restaurants for up to two days a week?
Bian Rui said with a smile: "If you can't earn it, you can't earn it!" I'm going to open up the land on Shizun's side, plant two acres of land, and plant some side dishes or something, and the usual expenses will have ......."
Except for Bian Rui in the village, no one else knows that the immortal old Taoist in their mouth is actually everyone's ancestor, and every person surnamed Bian in the village has his blood on his body, although everyone respects the old Taoist very much, and it is usually the old Taoist elder who shouts, but this relationship is a secret. Bian Rui was not ready to find out, because it was too cumbersome to explain.
"Your master's house was also transferred to you a few months ago, and the village also changed the land certificate, and let your mother give it to you after eating," Bian Rui's father said lightly.
Bian Rui's grandfather opened his mouth and said: "I don't know how long it will take for this old Taoist to go out this time, I remember the last time the old Taoist master's master went out, it was twenty years after he left, and I was still a child when the old Taoist came back to inherit the house...... The old Taoist is not young, and it is estimated that he is one or two rounds older than the eldest brother."
"Who knows, he didn't tell me how old he was," Bian Rui said.
"That house has not been inhabited for a while, and it looks like there is a dilapidated place, so usually your mother will take care of it......" Bian Rui's grandfather opened his mouth and talked about the house again.
"Leave it to me and fix it slowly, I don't have anything to do at home anyway," Bian Rui said.
The house left by the ancestor should indeed be repaired, some of the tiles on the house have grown grass, and some windows or something should also be done, Bian Rui can't stand the window with paper, how to say that it has to be replaced with glass, and on the ground, the original stone bricks are not what Bian Rui likes, at least the bedroom should be replaced with the floor, as for where the floor comes from, the space is planted with trees and boards.
Anyway, Bian Rui thought about it last night, starting tomorrow, he will give the old mansion a big renovation to make his life more comfortable.