The word road has too many meanings.

For Feng Yiping when he was a child, he knew that along the road in front of the school, more than ten miles away was his grandmother's house, more than 30 miles away was the town, more than 100 miles away was the county, more than 300 miles away was the city, and further up, 400 miles away, 500 miles away, for him, that was the world.

For the current Fengjiachong villagers, the lack of access is a sign of poverty or wealth. Listening to those who live on the side of the road, or the road has long been built in the village, when they come to the village, they say, "Alas, it's better for you to live, it's also annoying to live on the side of the road, and those cars on the road don't stop in the middle of the night, and they start to make trouble early in the morning." ”

They weren't stupid, they could hear the ostentation and superiority in those words.

After the start of construction in the summer, under the leadership of the fourth uncle, the villagers who stayed in the village, all of whom were of some age, only invited a small amount of construction machinery, and those who could dig with hoes were dug with hoes, and all the earthwork projects dug out were also picked up by them basket by basket.

After the prototype was repaired, the leveling work was also done by soil methods, and the stone stone was pulled by oxen, and it was rolled over and over again, of course, before laying the cement, it was necessary to ask the roller to press it

Perhaps it is God's favor that since the start of construction, there has been no heavy rain or a major safety accident, and at the beginning of winter, a brand new cement road was finally completed.

After removing the mulch and the straw mats laid on it, the smooth cement pavement exudes a silver-gray light, and the men, women and children at home, like a festival, drag their children and daughters, smiling and walking on the new road.

The fourth uncle happily called Feng Zhenchang, "The road was opened in advance, and everyone unanimously decided that the first car to pass through this new road can only be your family, and now we are blocking the other end of the road with a shelf, you guys come back quickly!"

Receiving such an honor made Feng Zhenchang very excited and put down the phone. He was speechless for a long time.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" asked him.

Listening to him, Mei Qiuping was also like him, she lost her mind for a while, such treatment. There are many ideas that surpass their simple clothes and return to their hometowns, and the countryside says that people live with a face, and trees live with a skin, such an arrangement. It is a great recognition of them.

"Don't be stunned, hurry up and call Yiping, it just happens that tomorrow Saturday, I will tell Yuxuan. When Mei Qiuping said this, her voice was a little sharp.

So, it was rare that when it was not the Spring Festival, the Feng family of four embarked on the road back to their hometown.

They rushed to Meijiawan on Friday, and the excitement of the night was needless to say. The eldest uncle and the third uncle of their noodle factory, more and more prosperous, now the second uncle is in charge of a brick factory in the town, has recruited more than a dozen people in the town, this month to go to work in the factory, another cabinet factory, their family is also a major shareholder, Meijiawan people, treat them, is no longer an ordinary son-in-law and married girl.

They had a restless meal. People often come in to interrupt, but Feng Yiping found that such an interruption. Whether it's mom or dad, they seem to be enjoying it.

Mei Qiuping and Feng Zhenchang said that they must let Mei Jianzhong go up with them tomorrow, and their parents must share such happy things with their children.

The next day was a good day. The sun came out early in the morning, adding a little warmth to this cold winter.

After having breakfast in Meijiawan, Feng Zhenchang was in front and Feng Yiping was behind, and after driving for less than twenty minutes, he arrived at the intersection of the road in the village.

The fourth uncle and a few village elders, mainly the elderly, were sitting on the wooden railing at the intersection smoking and waiting.

There was no empty ceremony, everyone greeted for a while, Feng Zhenchang invited the old people into the car, and the fourth uncle hung a piece of red silk prepared on the front of Feng Zhenchang's car, and then lit a firecracker, and the two cars slowly drove towards the village.

Some people in the township also came out to see the excitement, some disdainful, and some envious, they have lived on the side of the highway for many years, but their road is still a machine farming road, and Feng Jiachong's this is a fifteen-centimeter-thick cement road.

In the winter of the hometown, dim yellow is still the main color, the wheat in the field on both sides of the road, the tea trees on the side of the ground, is a rare green, on the high paulownia trees behind the front house, there is not a single leaf, the bird's nest on the tree is particularly eye-catching, the small river at the edge of the field, there is not much water, the river bank, is also full of withered grass, a few chickens are pecking grass seeds in it.......

In short, this is a very primitive countryside, a very ordinary winter, but now, because of the silver-gray road at the edge of the village and the two cars on the road, it has added a lot of modern colors to this remote and backward countryside.

A few dogs, with their tails curled, kept running behind the car, and in the houses on the side of the road, the people who were resting at home all moved their stools, sat in front of the door, and watched them coming, whether they were old people or children, they all stood up and greeted them loudly.

On both sides of the pass at the back of the village, there is a slope that has been opened, and you can see it from afar, and the hills on both sides are full of people, and when the car drives through the pass, there is a loud sound on both sides, which is to cheer for the road finally opened.

Feng Zhenchang and Mei Qiuping, wearing the clothes they usually wear, got out of the car, Feng Yuxuan originally said that she wanted to wear the best clothes back, but she was opposed by her parents, no matter when, they are Feng Jiachong's people, and when they go back to Feng Jiachong, they are going home, not relatives, and they can't be like the original villagers, like people in two worlds.

The two of them are almost a hundred years old together, and now in the face of such people, they are also a little blushing and a little cramped, but they will get used to it after a while, carrying their bags, and greeting those old people one by one, while smoking.

Most of them have gray hair, wearing blue and black tunics, and there are eight out of ten, the collars of autumn coats are torn, they have been working under the sun for many years, their faces are dark, their foreheads are full of wrinkles, but in Feng Yiping's eyes, they are the cleanest.

At this time, most of the old people held their knees with their hands and looked at the road and the cars on the road with a smile.

This smile is definitely from the heart, first laughing in the eyes, and then stretching to the face.

After going through the vicissitudes of life, their eyes at this time are so clear, like babies in swaddling clothes, and the smile on their faces is so innocent and splendid, not a trace of impurities.

Such eyes, such a smile, are extremely infectious, and Feng Yiping's eyes are a little moist.

At noon, on the barn field in front of the village department, and on the playground of the village primary school, dozens of tables were placed, two pigs were killed in the village, and several tofu were made, plus some vegetables picked by each family in the vegetable garden, the flowers are not much, but the amount is very sufficient, and the wine is not a good wine, mainly old rice wine, the degree is not high, even so, Feng Zhenchang, who has not been drunk for a long time, is drunk again today. (To be continued.) )