Since that day, Xing Youyou has never been to Zhang's house, so naturally she has not said goodbye to Zhang Xiaochuan, she has been struggling with whether to say goodbye to him, the team has already arrived in the village, passing by the door of his house, I saw him leaning on the vermilion lacquer door of his house, emaciated figure, slightly curly hair, a little pale, eyes a little melancholy, looking at her, watching her slowly walk from the front, he is getting closer and closer, Xing Youyou is actually still a little angry in his heart, I don't know whether to talk to him.

"Brother Xiaochuan, are you waiting for us here?"

Zhang Xiaochuan rubbed Xing Youqian's watermelon head, nodded and said,

"Yes, I've been waiting for you here since morning. ”

"You know we're leaving?"

Zhang Xiaochuan nodded, walked in front of Xing Youyou, squatted down, grabbed her hand, looked into her eyes and said,

"Still angry?"

Xing Youyou lowered her eyes, not wanting to look at his, the long eyelashes trying to hide her emotions.

"So you're going to walk away and punish me?"

Xing Youyou was so stubborn that she didn't want to answer him, her long silence made Zhang Xiaochuan gently hang the edge of her nose, and complained,

"Stingy, let's go, anyway, we're going to meet soon. ”

Xing Youyou raised his head to look at him as if he wanted to confirm his words, but he Xing Youliang waved his hand and entered the vermilion lacquer gate.

This team of five people is not walking fast, mainly because of the existence of Xing Youyou, a drag oil bottle, a few days ago, in order to follow his eldest brother, he forced himself to walk a lot, and now the muscles in his calves are very sore, and there is no way to walk far, so he has to carry Xing Youliang for a while to walk for a while.

"Yoyo, you're so old, your eldest brother can't carry it anymore, can't you come down and walk around by yourself?"

"But my leg hurts. ”

A few simple words made Xing Youliang unbearable to put her on the ground again, so he set his eyes on his uncle Fu Xiaojian.

"Don't even think about it, it's really too lazy to see whose child is so old and still let people carry it all day long, and he is used to being responsible for himself. ”

"I'll carry it. Xiao Wu opened his mouth rarely.

"Forget it, you don't have to rest with your luggage, at least I can put her down occasionally to rest. ”

In fact, Xing Youyou doesn't want to, who makes this era lack of transportation, whether it is a train, a car or a truck, even a tractor can only be seen in big cities, it is just visible, and it is difficult to sit on it. In rural areas, there are only board carts, ox carts, bucket trucks and other human or animal means of transportation, and the most commonly used are still used. Most people walk from where they live to the town and to the county, and it is rare to take a car.

At this moment, Xing Youyou wished he had a bicycle, the kind of big-frame phoenix bicycle he saw in the county. But I can't think about it in a blink of an eye, how can I ride this little body.

After leaving the village, the five of them kept walking in the northwest direction, the scene was depressed along the way, and they didn't see many people, and it was almost in the afternoon that they arrived at a somewhat popular place, which seemed to be a town, Xing Youyou excitedly broke free from Xing Youliang's back,

"What is this place?"

Xing Youqian pointed to the wall not far away and said,

"It's written, Ganning Town. ”

There weren't many people in the town, and the road was very wide, so Xing Youqian ran around the streets at will.

"You see, there's a restaurant here, but it's closed. ”

There are no restaurants in Jinfeng Town on the edge of their own village, but there are here, Xing Youyou felt a little incredible, and hurriedly ran over. It turned out that this was a state-run restaurant, so to speak, in this era, from the city department stores, department stores, non-staple food stores, butcher shops, vegetable shops, restaurants, to the rural supply and marketing cooperatives are all state-run, and private enterprises will not be allowed to exist at all.

"Why is it closed, I'm hungry. Fu Xiaojian rubbed his stomach and complained.

"If you don't have to sell, you naturally have to close your doors. Thinking about the depressed scene in the fields all the way, Xing Youliang felt that it was not normal to open it.

"Then let's wait to find someone's house and borrow someone's kitchen to cook a meal, your uncle and I haven't eaten breakfast, and we can't walk." ”

"Who told you to know in the morning that you are waiting for Sister Xiaohuan, and if you don't eat, you deserve it. ”

Xing Youqian's quipping words made Xing Youyou giggle, after so many years, she had never seen her uncle leave a meal for something, and she felt funny when she thought about it.

Not long after walking out of the village, Fu Xiaojian only felt that he was dizzy and dizzy from hunger, his eyes were full of stars, he stood in place, and said weakly,

"No, I can't walk, look at a house in front of us, let's go and have a look." ”

Xing Youyou looked up and saw that there was indeed a thatched house at the end of the path on the right, and the door was open, but there was no movement in the house. It wasn't until a group of people approached that they heard a woman's cough coming from inside.

"Someone, you're a child, you go in and have a look. ”

"Why don't you go in by yourself?"

"Other people's women's families are not very good, for fear of scaring others, you are a child, and you look like. ”

Hearing his uncle praise himself, Xing Youqian walked forward, knocked on the door, and entered the house.

"Auntie, are you at home?"

"Who is it?" A male voice came from inside, startling Xing Youqian, and hurriedly said,

"I'm passing through. ”

Soon, a man came out of it, this man's cotton spring and autumn shirt was very worn, washed white, sewn with layers of patches, blue labor pants were very wide, and the waist was tightly tied with a trouser belt. His feet were bare, he had no shoes, his feet were covered with dust and mud, and his insteps were black. But the overall person is still very tall, but he is too thin, and his face is also fierce, so frightened that Xing Youqian retreats straight.

"We were just passing by, and we wanted to borrow your kitchen to cook a meal. ”

Fu Xiaojian, who was hungry, couldn't care about so much, he just wanted to eat quickly.

When the man frowned and hesitated, a weak female voice came from the room,

"Daqing, just lend them the kitchen, don't worry, our family has nothing to do anyway, if you can help others, just help them, cough cough cough,"

The woman's coughing made the man's brows tighten even tighter, and he said to Fu Xiaojian,

"You can use it if you want, but there's nothing to eat in the kitchen. The man named Daqing entered the house after speaking.

Fu Xiaojian was also polite, and walked straight into the kitchen,

"It's really empty, not only do you have nothing to eat, but you don't even have firewood, Xiao Wu, you go with me to pick up some firewood." ”

Xiao Wu didn't speak, put the basket on his back on the ground, and followed Fu Xiaojian outside. Xing Youyou walked around the kitchen and found that this family was really poor, there was really nothing, and even the water in the water tank was bottoming out, no wonder the woman just now didn't worry about letting them come to the kitchen alone, it was really nothing.