At this time, Qin Qingguo came back after making a phone call, sat back at the dinner table, and said to Xiao Manman:

"Mom said let's go over. ”

The "mother" he said naturally refers to his own mother Song Danhua.

At the end of the year, it is normal to visit relatives and friends, and Xiao Manman and Qin Qingguo also go to Song Danhua twice a year, one trip before the year to send money, and one trip to visit the New Year after the year.

There was a faint impatience in Xiao Manman's eyes, but he still didn't say anything and responded.

Xiao Xiaoman immediately cheered up and persuaded Chen Yulian again:

"Mom, you can come with me to the set in a while, I can go, but I want to buy you a few clothes first, Mom, you should send me to the set, okay?"

She said so, and Chen Yulian didn't want to be unkind, after all, she was still her own child, how could she not feel distressed?

On the sixth master's side, the sixth master and Qi Ruiyuan, who originally wanted to go over to Chen Yulian's side for dinner, saw Qin Yuxi coming over with food, so they stayed in the stilted building on the sixth master's side and ate with Qin Yuxi.

The three of them are not so constrained, but they are also comfortable.

Especially the sixth master and Qi Ruiyuan, now they are like brothers, they are getting together every day, playing leaf chess, smoking a cigarette, and chatting about what happened in ancient and modern China and abroad.

Both of them were so good that they could wear a pair of pants.

Qin Yuxi sometimes looks at the sixth master and Qi Ruiyuan, and he will have an illusion, could it be that these two are long-lost father and son?

After a while, the sixth master seemed to remember something, and said to Qin Yuxi:

"Tomorrow, the successor patriarch will be the chief of the family, and when you are done, you call Shang Zihan and go to a place with me. ”

Qin Yuxi suddenly realized that the sixth master would be the new patriarch tomorrow.

She hurriedly raised a warm small porcelain cup in her hand, replaced the wine with tea, and sincerely blessed the sixth master.

"I've been back for so long, and I've always forgotten to congratulate the sixth master, and I'm going to become the new patriarch of our realm cottage in the future. ”

The sixth master raised the wine glass in his hand and touched it lightly with Qin Yuxi, but in his eyes, there was no half joy, and he said in a low voice:

"The patriarch has a great responsibility, the troubled times have passed, and I, the patriarch, are becoming more and more unnecessary. ”

"How could it not be necessary?"

Qin Yuxi looked at the sixth master suspiciously, and then looked at Qi Ruiyuan, who was also puzzled.

They didn't understand where the loss of the sixth master came from.

The sixth master shook his head, picked up the wine on the table, raised his head, drank it all in one gulp, and asked the two of them,

"I've been getting more and more confused lately, patriarch, what are you protecting? Look at those people outside, those young people, their thoughts are becoming more and more selfish, every day it seems that in addition to chasing fame and fortune, there is no room for any national hatred and family hatred in their eyes, after my generation, who can take over and become the next patriarch?

His words made Qi Ruiyuan and Qin Yuxi silent at the same time, the times are changing, and people are living more and more materially, which seems to be a general trend, but it is also an inevitable trend.

No one will not like money, including Qin Yuxi, including the sixth master, including... Excluding Qi Ruiyuan.

Qi Ruiyuan has no concept of money, he is not short of money, he has lived in the hatred of the country and the family all his life, so he and the sixth master can become friends.

Qin Yuxi sighed, and she gestured to the sixth master:

"In the future, we will have a lot of tourists here, the sixth master, the patriarch is still useful, it needs to be passed on from generation to generation, you and the next patriarch, to lead our village, maintain law and order, keep the original ecology, you don't need to change anything, you don't change, don't change the village. ”

However, who will be the next patriarch? After the sixth master, who willingly live in this small cottage, year after year, day after day, watching spring go to autumn and see the snow falling?

Even if, as Qin Yuxi said, the village will be very lively in the future, and it is necessary to protect the original ecology of the village, but in the face of more and more material temptations, can the next patriarch maintain his original intention and protect the treasures handed down by his ancestors?

The sixth master's eyes were deep, looking at Qin Yuxi, he had already made up his mind in his heart.

For this meal, Qin Yuxi, Sixth Master and Qi Ruiyuan ate together for almost an hour or two before they finished returning to the topic and went to do their own things.

Approaching the afternoon, the village is becoming more and more lively, because tomorrow is the new patriarch to take over the ceremony, every village in Jiugou and Eighteen Villages, there will be the patriarch to bring people to congratulate, and there are also a few magistrates, respect the folk customs homestay, come to join in the fun.

The whole village was full of laughter, and the heavy snow falling like goose feathers made people's hearts even hotter.

Many villages that are far away, in the afternoon, some people brought congratulatory gifts, the villagers raised the strength of the village, and there was no very precious congratulatory gift, either a pig's head, or rice, or three livestock and six animals, etc., to the village as a celebration, but also the whole village people to enjoy together.

Most of the people who come from other villages will find their own related households, and the people who rest in the Jieshan cottage are relatives, and some are more familiar people, and the patriarch does not care about this accommodation problem.

This is probably the only time that Jieshanzhai has been open to outsiders for so many years.

No matter who comes to the Boundary Cottage, they are all guests!

So these people in the cottage, there is nothing else to pay attention to, some people come to rest, some people welcome, this is a major event in the village, no one will make a hindrance from it, snub the guests.

In particular, there is another star in the Jieshanzhai, and many other villages, when they heard that Tuo Lingyun was in the magazine, they all took this opportunity to rush over to see Tuo Lingyun.

For a while, the atmosphere of the Jieshan cottage did not know how lively it was.

Qin Yuxi's house, but there is no one left, she is a little puzzled, she looked for her own house on stilts back and forth, I don't know how to make a meal, and there is no one left in her house?

Later, I remembered that Chen Yulian was probably taken to the market to buy clothes by Xiao Xiaoman, and Qin Qingguo and Xiao Manman probably went to Song Danhua's house.

Qin Yuxi suddenly had nothing to do, so he simply took out his painting clip and pencil case, and decided to climb the mountain and paint a snow scene or something.

As soon as she went out, she saw Tuo Junhao coming over, and said to Qin Yuxi with a smile:

"Yuxi, do you still have a spare room in your house? A friend of mine wants to sleep at your house at night. ”

"No, my aunt went to sleep at someone else's house, and I don't have an empty room at home. ”

Qin Yuxi also politely declined, this Tuo Junhao and Qin Shi are classmates, I heard that the two went to a coastal city and are still working in one place, Qin Yuxi can't say whether he hates Tuo Junhao or not.

But she is a person who attaches great importance to her privacy, and when Liu Rongyue wanted to sleep with her, she was not happy, let alone someone who had never met or spoke.