The Lobu Brigade of Sidaokan Commune is located in the southeast of Bayan County, bordering Ulan Bu and the edge of the desert to the east.

The inhabitants of the village lived scattered, and the houses of each family were sparsely scattered, and brick houses were still rare in this era.

The houses of the villagers are all built of adobe from their own homes, and there are still a few rotten tiles on the roofs of the houses in better conditions, and some reed curtains and thatch are covered with some reed curtains and thatch in the worse conditions.

As for the courtyard wall, most people use red willow trees as courtyard walls to enclose the yard, and some people have a few sand date trees mixed between the red willows.

In spring, the pale yellow flowers of the jujube tree taste a different kind of sweetness, and in autumn, jujube can also be eaten as a snack.

By this time it was already dark, most of the houses in the village had turned off their lights, and a few sparks occasionally drifted out of the scattered chimneys, drifting in the night sky.

The city of Jinhai is a mining area, and the pollution is very serious, and the sky is always gray at night, but this is not the case in Bayan County, which is dominated by agriculture and has almost no pollution.

The village is bleak and cold in winter, the deep blue sky is high and the night stars twinkle in it, and the cold air is very fresh.

Since entering the village, Lin Zijiao has desperately suppressed his excitement, ignoring the cold, burrowing his head out and stretching his neck to look left and right.

Here is her home from her previous life, where she was born, where she grew up, and here are her deepest childhood memories.

The path in the village is narrow, and the car gets bumpy.

The big black mule knew that it was almost home, and thought of the warm yard of the cattle and the forage waiting for it, and could not help but quicken his pace, and trotted straight to his destination.

"Alright Captain, I'll be down here. Liu Zhiguo was at the fork in the road not far ahead, and shouted in advance.

"Phew!" Lin Jiaming shouted, and the big black mule slowly stopped obediently.

Liu Zhiguo jumped out of the car, took down his things and put them on the ground, and said with a smile while moving his hands and feet: "Captain, I will give half of the forage and send it to the livestock yard tomorrow, Wei Guo and Zijin, you two dolls, will go to the house tomorrow." ”

"Okay, uncle, you can come over too. Lin Weiguo and Lin Zijiao agreed in unison.

Lin Jiaming waved his hand to signal no: "You go back, you don't need to take the forage, our family is all out." ”

Liu Zhiguo looked very embarrassed, he stood still and didn't move: "How can it be, captain, I also took this car......"

"Ahem, I'm taking you along the way, don't grind, go back. Lin Jiaming stopped talking to him, and with a sound, the big black mule spread its hooves again.

There is no shuttle bus from Sidaokan Commune to Bayan County, and the back and forth are all by horse-drawn carriages, and the carriages and horses are all production teams, and individuals are not allowed to raise large livestock such as cattle, horses, and mules in their homes.

If a family really needs to use a car, they can borrow it from the production team and hand over some forage to the livestock yard according to the situation.

Lin Jialiang rushed to pick up the Lin family's brothers and sisters, the carriage was borrowed from the production team, and when he went to the county seat, he needed to hand over a basket of forage to the team, and two taels of bean material as compensation.

The old yellow head in charge of the livestock yard is a sincere person, and he especially feels sorry for the livestock in the yard he manages.

Generally speaking, the forage and beans handed in were fed to the working animals according to the principle of whoever contributes the effort eats the fodder.

Therefore, this basket of forage and one or two beans will be the reward for the big black mule to go to the county seat, and other animals will not want to eat.

It is also ironic that in this era when everyone eats a big pot of rice, the mules and horses are distributing forage according to the amount of work they do.

No one has ever said that it is wrong for the old yellow head to do this, and it is natural that the animals that work more eat more.

The mule cart stopped in front of the gate of the old Lin family's courtyard, and the Lin family jumped out of the car with a loud bang, and Lin Weiguo also jumped down and reached out to help Lin Zijiao get out of the car.

"I don't need you, I'll do it myself!" Lin Zijiao lifted the tightly wrapped quilt, and held the side of the car with his hand to learn from his brother to jump down.

Lin Weiguo retracted his hand and looked at her with a little evil smile.

Lin Zijiao felt that his brother's smile was wrong, but he didn't think much about it, and he propped up the car and prepared to jump down like him.

With a stagger, she only moved a moment and sat back down. Fortunately, the car was covered thick enough, otherwise it would have been a terrible fall.

Both of her feet were frozen, and her whole body was stiff, and she tried to get out of the car again, but she couldn't move after moving for a long time.

"Well, don't you do it?"

In the end, it was Lin Weiguo who teased her, and at the same time took a handle and pulled her out of the car.

Lin Zijiao only felt that his feet were numb and painful, and he stood on the ground for a while before recovering, and followed Lin Weiguo into the courtyard.

This courtyard was both familiar and strange to her.

The house is a simple three-room earthen house, the cool house on the west side is low, the courtyard wall is enclosed with red willow and sand date trees, and the red mud floor of the courtyard is frozen to the ground.

She remembers that in the third year after the reform and opening up, the family built a new blue brick house, the floor of the courtyard was also paved with red bricks, and the courtyard wall was made of half green bricks and half mud on the top.

My father left a large open space in the yard to grow vegetables, and a small orchard was opened in front of it, and the orchard was planted with ugly pears, which were local specialties. Every summer and autumn, the courtyard is full of melons and fruits, and the vegetables produced in the field cannot be eaten, so they are dried into vegetables and eaten in winter.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and after the younger brother's accident, the family's house was also sentenced to compensation to the victim, and her parents and she could only move to the old tofu house in the east of the village.

The house was originally the team's tofu house, because it was adjacent to Ulan Bu and the edge of the desert, and as the desert spread, the house would be implicated every time there was a strong wind, and the sand that blew in would often cover the surface of the feet.

Later, the team thought that it was always troublesome to clean up, so they simply changed the place of the tofu house, and the house was abandoned.

Eventually, when her parents had nowhere else to go, they had to move into that house.

Now, this simple but spacious yard of my house is still there!

The stone mill in the corner of the yard was still in place, and she used to play with sheep crutches on it when she was a child.

The bird's nest under the eaves of the cool house is also still there, and every spring, there are two swallows to make a nest and hatch a nest of small swallows with yellow beaks.

In the house with the gray curtains, there lived her family from her previous life, and, of course, herself.

Lin Zijiao suddenly couldn't take a step, and he didn't know what he was like now, was she still her?

Lin Weiguo naturally didn't know his sister's entanglement, he only thought that his sister was frozen, and half-pulled her into the house.