After chatting with the old man for a while, Zhuang Yan and they knew that the old man's name was Wang Pingshui, who was over 70 years old this year, and was a native of Chadong, who had lived here for more than 70 years and had never been far away.

He has a son, who is in his forties and works in Sichuan, and only comes back two or three times a year, and the couple still leaves a son, who is now in high school and will only come back on weekends, but he lives in the new city.

They call the side with the small western-style building called Xincheng, saying that it is not a city, Chadong is a small town, more than 20 years ago because of the convenient transportation, the people in the town suddenly increased, because the villagers in the small village next to it have come to live here.

However, later, with more and more contact with the outside world, many people chose to go out to work, and there were many fewer people in Chadong.

Now in the new town of Chadong, there are about 1,000 families, one junior high school, two primary schools, and most of these students are left-behind children.

There are even fewer people living on this side of Laohe Street, and the old man can't say a number of the specific number of people, but he just said that there are about forty or fifty families and people, basically all of them are old men and old ladies.

Zhuang Yan and the two of them drank tea on the stilted floor of the old man's house for more than two hours, and waited until it was almost dark, and the two of them were ready to leave, "Old uncle, it's not too early, we won't bother you here, let's go back." ”

"Don't go, stay here to eat, I just killed a duck today, I wanted to go into the salt tank, just so you come, eat together and then leave." The old man smiled and left the two of them to eat.

Zhuang Yan how could they agree, and waved his hand again and again: "No, uncle, your duck should go into the salt tank, we really have to go." ”

After speaking, the two turned around and wanted to go to the staircase, but they didn't expect the old man to jump up from the chair and grab Zhuang Yan's arm, "Don't go, your baby, stay and drink wine with me." ”

The old man used his strength, but Zhuang Yan didn't dare to resist, so he let the old man pull him back into the chair.

After pulling Zhuang Yan, the old man pulled Yao Qian to a chair and sat down.

After both of them were pulled to the chair by him and sat down, the old man smiled and said, "You two don't move, the old man will go down and make a fire for you." ”

After saying that, the old man walked downstairs, this time no faster than the previous one.

After the old man went down, Yao Qian and Zhuang Yan looked at each other, and Yao Qian said, "Teacher Zhuang, this person in Chadong is so enthusiastic." ”

Zhuang Yan smiled, "Yes, the people in Chadong are so enthusiastic. ”

The enthusiasm of the people of Chadong, Zhuang Yan has experienced it many times in his dreams, just like the old boatman, who sold some wine and walked on the road, he could drink with others.

"But it's not appropriate to let an old man of this age cook for us. Yao Qian said.

Zhuang Yan stretched out his head and looked downstairs, and saw that the old man was busy working, he nodded and said: "It's really not suitable, so let's go, Yao Qian, you go to the new city to see if there are any cooked vegetables for sale, buy some cooked vegetables and come back, and buy some wine by the way." ”

Yao Qian nodded: "Okay, I'll buy it." ”

But as soon as Yao Qian went downstairs, Zhuang Yan heard the old man's call upstairs, "Why are you disobedient, why are you disobedient, tell you to stay with it, what are you doing running down." ”

Zhuang Yan had to stretch out his head and shouted down: "Uncle, he has something to go out, don't worry, we won't go, I'm not like this." ”

Only then did the old man let Yao Qian go, "Let's go, let's go, go and come back quickly." ”

Yao Qian came back after walking for about half an hour, but he didn't come back alone, he also brought an old man, this old man was younger, probably fifty or sixty years old.

Wang Pingshui saw someone coming, got up from the stove and said, "Captain, why are you here?" ”

The man walked up from behind Yao Qian and laughed, "Uncle Wang, you have a guest at home." ”

Old man Wang smiled and said, "It's not a guest." ”

The "squad leader" sniffed and said, "Killed a duck?"

"The one who killed it in the morning came in handy, and it was supposed that I should have come to my house as a guest, otherwise I wouldn't have wanted to kill this flat hair today. ”

The two old men were talking, Yao Qian took out all the things he was carrying in his hands and put them on the table, the old man saw that he was buying some cooked food and wine, and his face suddenly pulled down, "What do you mean, I don't have any wine and food, I want to go out and buy it." ”

Yao Qian wanted to explain a few sentences, but the "team leader" laughed first: "Uncle Wang, your duck is enough for a few people to eat, and I haven't eaten yet." ”

Old man Wang looked at the ducks in the pot, then at the cooked food on the table, and said helplessly, "Okay, you have to keep it for dinner, even if I have two ducks, it won't be enough to eat." ”

This interruption, Old Man Wang didn't ask Yao Qian about buying vegetables, Yao Qian was spared, and ran upstairs to find Zhuang Yan.

As soon as Yao Qian went up, the squad leader also came up, and when he saw Zhuang Yan, the old man said with a smile: "Hello, hello, I am the militia leader here, and my name is He Bing." ”

Zhuang Yan also introduced himself: "Hello, I am Zhuang Yan, and I came here to travel this time." ”

"Oh, I heard this Mr. Yao say, you are from Jinling?" He Bing said.

Zhuang Yan nodded: "Yes." ”

He looked at Yao Qian with inquiring eyes, Yao Qian understood what Zhuang Yan meant, and explained: "When I went to Xincheng to buy wine and came back, I happened to meet Captain He, and I heard that I came to Uncle Wang's house, so he came with him. ”

"Hehe, I'm here for dinner. He Bing said with a smile.

While the three of them were talking, another person came from below, "Old Wangtou, I just saw He Bing's old boy coming here, did he come to you?" ”

Wang Pingshui said: "Upstairs, what are you looking for him?"

"It's nothing, you can do it. ”

"Have you eaten?"

"No, I don't. ”

"Stay here and eat. ”

"Any wine?"

"How can you not?"

"Okay, give me more rice. ”

At the end of the brief conversation, the three of them heard the sound of going upstairs, and from the footsteps they could hear that this person was not the old man Wang, but he should also be an old man.

Before this person came up, He Bing smiled and said, "Lao Xu, what is the matter with you coming to me?"

After he said this, Zhuang Yan saw the man come up, it was indeed an old man, he saw Zhuang Yan and they were stunned, they didn't care about their own affairs, but asked first: "Captain He, who are these two?"

He Bing introduced with a smile: "These two are from Jinling, and they came here to travel this time. ”

Lao Xu was surprised: "Tsk, Jinling used to be a place where the emperor stayed, why did you come here to play?"

He Bing said unhappily: "What do you mean, our tea is not bad." ”

Lao Xu said with a smile: "It's not bad, it's not bad, people from all over the world come to travel." ”

He Bing said to Zhuang Yan embarrassedly: "This is Lao Xu, Uncle Wang's neighbor, people are like this, don't mind." ”

Zhuang Yan was about to say that he wouldn't mind, but someone came again.

This person's voice was very loud, and Zhuang Yan could hear them clearly on the second floor.

"Old man Wang, the lights in your house are all lit, is there any excitement?"