Chapter 173: An Old Mountain Village with Two Lives
quickly packed their luggage, the time was not too early, because they had to catch the last train back to their hometown, and Li Chenggong was a big man, sometimes he was quite brainless, so their father and daughter went home, except for one carrying a bag with clothes and luggage, nothing else was the same.
On the car back, Li Jianing thought in her heart that when she met her aunt later, she would probably have a good show.
Of course, even if she is very aware of this fact in her heart, Li Jianing is not ready to remind her of Lao Tzu, let alone pay for it herself.
Don't ask her why, because she's still angry!
The minibus was climbing and driving on the winding and steep winding road, and as the beautiful scenery flashed in front of her, Li Jianing's thoughts suddenly drifted far away......
After more than two hours of driving, the car finally stopped at the intersection of Yanzichong.
Li Chenggong picked up his gift bag, and didn't say that he wanted to give his daughter a gift salute, but after the car stopped, he greeted Li Jianing and said that he got out of the car, and he took the lead in getting out of the door.
After getting out of the car with the scumbag, looking at the scumbag who was walking towards another yellow mud path in the three-way intersection, Li Jianing's expression was a little dazed.
Yes, it's a trance!
For two lifetimes, I rarely set foot in this old country house in the mountains.
Once when she was a child, before her mother passed away, she was still brought here by her parents every year for the New Year, but she was still young at that time and had no memory;
Later, when she was older, her own mother left, although she begged her stepmother, but because her grandmother was still alive, she had no choice but to take her back for the New Year;
Later, when her grandmother passed away one after another, and her son was out running a car all year round, and her stepmother was such a person, since then, after the New Year, they have not returned to this small mountain village.
In her memory, she only vaguely remembered the yellow mud path that made her legs weak in her impression;
It smells of earth and water, and the many terraces with small half-stalks soaked in the water, and the muddy roads that twist and turn;
and the cattle pen next to the old house, which always smells of stinking cow dung;
Of course, in addition to these, what impressed her the most was the extremely profound poverty and hardship left by her hometown......
In my memory, when my mother was still alive, the family of three went back to their hometown, and the elderly grandfather would tell my grandmother to take a small tea pot the size of a palm, put two eggs and water in it, put it by the fire, and boil the eggs inside, and the grandmother would smile kindly and hand the peeled eggs to her little hands.
At that time, she didn't like to eat eggs the most, and she would share the eggs in her hands with them without hesitation under the green eyes of her four cousins.
At that time, I didn't know that the two eggs that my grandmother gave me at that time were definitely the highest treatment in the family!
The reason why it is so ridiculous is that Li Jianing knows today that all this is only because his family, and even all the villagers here, are too poor and too poor......
"Sister Ning hurry up, there are still four or five miles to go, if you don't hurry up, it will be dark when you get home!"
Hearing the urging of the scumbag father who had already walked on the yellow mud path in front of her, Li Jianing looked at the yellow mud path in front of her and overlapped with her memory, and she retracted her thoughts.
After two lifetimes, when she set foot on this road again, suddenly, she had a different mood.
As she slowly approached the old mansion in her memory, the terraced rice fields hidden in the mist from top to bottom;
the ancient trees that can't be embraced by a few people;
the small wooden buildings on the mountainside;
the clear mountain streams that run through the mountains;
and the old mansion that she rarely set foot in her two lives;
Even the cattle pen that she hated so much in her memory, in the current view, Li Jianing feels that it has a special rural charm.
Maybe it's because of a different state of mind......
"Oh, it's success to come back, come back when you come back, why do you still bring so many things? Success is so polite to you......"
Li Jianing woke up from her aunt's giggling laughter like an old hen.
Listening to the unusually enthusiastic greeting, watching her aunt come up enthusiastically, pulling the bag she was carrying in her hand, Li Jianing was amused.
Seeing that his Lao Tzu was defeated in the enthusiasm of his aunt Luo Lanhua, he blushed and explained extremely uncomfortably: "Don't, sister-in-law, don't be polite, this bag is full of my clothes, not heavy, not ...... hard"
Hearing Li Chenggong say this, Luo Lanhua paused as she pulled the travel bag, looked at the little uncle in front of her incredulously, interrupted the words in his mouth, and then looked at the bag in Li Jianing's hand, with disbelief in her mouth, "It's all clothes?"
Li Chenggong nodded and said, "It's clothes." ”
If it is said that Luo Lanhua, who saw her and her scumbag father carrying bags and greeted her just now, was enthusiastic, after knowing that their father and daughter were carrying clothes and did not bring her a gift?
Immediately shook his face and asked Li Chenggong with confidence: "I said, little uncle, you came all the way from the county to celebrate the New Year, and I don't expect you to bring me and your brother anything, but why don't you even care about your nephews and nieces for the New Year? You, a person who is your own uncle, don't know how to bring something to your children?"
"Sister-in-law, I ......"
"What am I, hum ......"
Li Chenggong was flushed by what Luo Lanhua said, and wanted to explain, but the other party didn't give him a chance at all, and he looked at Li Chenggong's father and daughter fiercely, and Luo Lanhua directly shook his head and left.
In the end, Li Chengcai, who came out with his wife, hurriedly stepped forward to snatch the bag in his niece's hand, and turned his head to look at his younger brother and comforted him.
"Success, don't be angry with your sister-in-law, she didn't mean it, the family is really poor, this is a little sour, don't think about it, come on, come on, come into the house." ”
As he spoke, he greeted Li Jianing with a smiling face: "Sister Ning, are you tired of riding in the car along the way?" Come, hurry up and follow your uncle into the house, and your uncle will let your aunt boil eggs for you to eat." ”
His filial niece, of course, he can't be treated badly, even if he will be scolded by his fierce mother-in-law for a while, but as long as he thinks of being able to give his child eggs, Li Chengcai feels that it is worth being scolded in the New Year!
Li Jianing also received the love of her uncle, and as soon as she spoke, Li Jianing smiled and responded: "Hey, uncle, let me take it myself, it's not heavy anyway." ”
"That's not good, your little girl's body is expensive, Uncle East and West will help you get it, and I'll put it upstairs in the house for you later. ”
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