After eating a sumptuous and mountainous lunch, Chen Xiang's parents moved a small square table placed under the eaves to the center of the courtyard, made tea, and piled a table of melon seeds, peanuts, candies and fruits on the small square table.

A few old girls stayed behind to clean up the dishes and chopsticks and clean the hall.

During the chat, Wang Bo slowly learned about the source of income of Chen Xiang's family. The family's main income comes from Chen Zixin's odd jobs, but in order to take care of the family, her father does not dare to stay too far from home, and usually goes to the town and county to find work. There is very little work in the town and county, and I can't afford to pay for it, so I work for three days and two days, so the income is very limited.

When my father went out, my mother took care of the family at home, and worked with my grandparents to serve the seven or eight acres of slopes on the back mountain. Every time the farming season is busy, Chen Xiang and Chen Bing, two little girls, also have to go to the field to help, planting, harvesting, and doing what they can.

In addition to serving the farmland, in line with the principle of relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water, the elderly and weak women and children who stayed at home would also go into the mountains to find some mountain goods, or hunt, or gather. Chen Xiang's grandfather had an ancestral bow and arrow, was an old hunter, and the pheasants and hares he ate at noon, and the boxes of game that Chen Xiang dragged to the city every year were all masterpieces of Mr. Chen. Although the old man is not dexterous on one leg, he still has experience, and the arrow is not missing, every time he enters the mountain, he has more or less some gains.

The family ate little of the harvested game, and most of it was taken to the town by Chen Xiang's mother, Song Chun'e, to exchange money. And part of the money in exchange is subsidized by the family, and the other part is taken by medicine. Chen Xiang's grandmother has chronic bronchitis and needs to eat some Chinese herbs for many years.

In the small talk between Chen Zixin and Old Man Chen, Wang Bo gradually sketched in his mind the daily life of Chen Xiang's family for decades, how the family worked hard to survive in this mountain valley, fought against God, and asked for a bowl of rice. Wang Bo can see from Chen Xiang's body that the family is not a lazy person, hardworking, simple, and does not bow to fate. However, in a society where birth determines destiny and where you are born can better influence your future, no matter how hard you work, work hard, hide in the mountains and forests all your life, and isolate yourself from the world, your achievements are very limited. Then, there were a few twists and turns, such as Chen Xiang's grandfather had an accident when he was young, and the fate of the whole family changed, and he has been struggling with poverty for decades.

Wang Bo doesn't know what the fate of the family was in the previous life, even if the whole family worked hard and finally provided for a college student, it would be difficult for the family's economic conditions to be fundamentally changed. If she learns Russian, the way out is narrow, and Chen Xiang's character is not the kind of competitive person, even if she stays in a big city, just buying a house can make her unable to feed her family for more than ten or twenty years. If you find a rich man, it's okay, if the other half is also very average and stingy, Chen Xiang, a college student, can help the family even less.

But rich men are more scarce than beautiful women, and where are they so easy to find?

For example, when she was in middle school, the whole family borrowed money to open a small restaurant in the town.

Peers are enemies, and people are naturally unconvinced. The brother-in-law of one of the bosses was on an errand at the police station, and found a few thugs to make trouble for three days, and he didn't give money for eating white food, and Chen Xiang's grandfather was so angry that he only wanted to shoot a few arrows at those lawless second-rate people. The Chen family is an outsider in Liujia Village, and it has nothing to do with it, after this trouble, the business slowly failed, and it soon closed down, and it still owed a lot of debts.

After Chen Xiang's father went through this toss, the impulse and blood fever of his youth were gone, and he was disheartened, and continued to work for others.

These Chen Xiang never told his family about his misfortune, and Wang Bo sighed when he heard it. At the same time, Chen Xiang can cook good dishes, which seems to be a "family history".

If it was someone else, these families would be unfortunate, and Wang Bo would listen to it, but Wang Bo would not be able to stand idly by and watch the misfortunes of his own woman's family. He thought that in history, next year, Outside C will renovate the commercial street, gather several scattered small restaurants and snack bars together, and there will be more stalls than the original, and there will be foreign investment.

But this matter is not in a hurry, and there is no need to say it now, when next year's summer vacation outside C will start to renovate the commercial street, he said hello, and the school gave him a letter of approval, and it is not too late for him to discuss with Chen Xiang. With the craftsmanship of Chen's father and Chen's mother, as well as the business of not worrying about customers in the closed environment of the school, at that time, not only the economic conditions of Chen Xiang's family can be greatly improved, but his sister-in-law Chen Bing can also receive Shuangqing to study in high school. The teaching level of Aoki Town Rural Middle School is still very different from that of Shuangqing City.

Wang Bo accompanied Chen's father, and Chen Ye chatted for a while. Soon, several old girls who were busy with housework also walked out with small benches, surrounded Wang Bo's big Buddha, and started a tea party after dinner. When the host is warm and thoughtful, when the guests will chat, any topic can be discussed, and it can be said, a large family, happy and leisurely.

After sitting in the courtyard for about an hour or two, at three o'clock, Chen Xiang proposed to take Wang Bo to Zhuan Shan and visit the place where she had lived for more than 20 years.

Wang Bo also felt a little embarrassed when he saw that the whole family was with him, and he was also curious about the growth environment of the two sisters, so he gladly accepted it.

So, under the leadership of Chen Xiang and sister-in-law Chen Bing, in the afternoon, Wang Bo followed the two sisters to go around the surrounding mountains and forests.

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Chen Xiang's home is deep in this mountain, starting from the back door, along an overgrown path, over a mountain beam, and the landscape in front of him is changed.

At one end of the valley, there is a small waterfall, which flows straight down from a place dozens of meters high, like a white horse, forming a deep pool of two or three meters square below. The water of the pool meanders along a small stream, flowing merrily into the distance.

On both sides of the valley, there are endless green hills. Looking up at the sky, the clear sky of the winter afternoon is blue, clean and boundless, as if it has been washed.

Under the leadership of sister-in-law Chen Bing, the three of them rushed down the mountain trail like a whirlwind, and soon came to the bottom of the valley. Wang Bo raised his eyes and saw that the stream was crystal clear, sparkling and jagged, with broken gold sunlight flashing on the water.

The three of them went up the river and went to the "Beauty Pool" where the two sisters often go. Chen Xiang told Wang Bo that every summer, she and her sister would come here to bathe.

"Take a bath, Xiangxiang, aren't you afraid of encountering voyeurs?" Wang Bo's mind couldn't help but appear two beauties, one big and one small, swimming around like mermaids under the waterfall, and he felt regret in his heart, regretting that it was not at the right time.

"What's the voyeur? There's no one in the area. Chen Xiang gave her a blank look.

"If you're not a voyeur, aren't you afraid of any beast?" asked Wang Bo again.

"Giggles, Brother Bo, the biggest beasts in the mountains near my house are pheasants, hares, and snakes, and there are no other big animals!" Chen Bing, who was walking in front, chuckled and explained to Wang Bo. With two braids on her head and a red down jacket, she was bouncing like a deer in the woods under the light of the fine sunlight above her head, as if she was a little elf bred by nature.

After walking along the creekside path full of dead branches and leaves, I walked for about a quarter of an hour until I arrived at the "Beauty Pool" in the mouths of the two sisters.

This "beauty pool" is not big, the widest point is only two or three meters square, and it is estimated that it is not very deep. There are a lot of stones on the side of the pool, and there is a huge stone with a flat top that is the size of a grinding plate.

"Bo, let's go sit on the stone for a while. After walking for so long, I guess you're tired too. Chen Xiang raised his hand and pointed at the stone and smiled at Wang Bo, at this time, there was a ray of sunlight shining on the girl's side face, applying a layer of dazzling gold dust to her fair-skinned and warm face.