On November 22, it was a light snow during the lunar calendar, and the weather in Qilu was getting colder and colder, and it seemed that some cold air was coming from Siberia south.

In a small village where the cold wind is howling, because most of the young men and women have gone to the city to work, there are quite few pedestrians on the road, and occasionally an old man and an old lady meet on the road, so they nod and leave in a hurry, and they don't care about greetings.

In such a cold weather, everyone wants to nest on the hot kang at home and doesn't want to go out.

"I've encountered countless cold days, but why don't I feel so cold today, it's all chilling!"

In a dilapidated house with windy windows, Dong Yuling sat on a hot kang with a one-year-old baby in her arms and was breastfeeding, complaining loudly about the damn weather, and her tone was quite unkind.

It's been almost a year, and her daughter Zhou Huanting has not returned from home, which makes Dong Yuling feel very worried, although her daughter still scolds her for losing money when she is at home, but once she loses it, she finds that her daughter's gold is expensive.

I heard from villagers who have been to work in eastern Guangdong that their daughter seems to be working in a garment factory in eastern Guangdong, and when she goes to work, the day and night are reversed, and I don't know if she has adapted to it.

It's a pity to see, although the girl is often called to do a lot of farm work at home, at least the relatives are there. Now she has no relatives in eastern Guangdong, and I don't know if there is anyone to take care of her when she is sick.

Two months ago, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the little sister who had stayed in the garment factory with her daughter came back, but said that Zhou Huanting had quit her job and was no longer working in the garment factory, and her whereabouts were unknown, which frightened Dong Yuling and worried every day.

Although he beat and scolded his daughter at home, how can he say that it is also a piece of meat that fell from his body, and how can he have no concern for Zhou Huanting? !

"Look at what you're doing! After receiving 3,000 yuan from Village Chief Cui's family, he sold his daughter, and actually wanted his daughter to marry Cui Er's fool, and you didn't do such a thing! My poor girl, my mother is sorry for you!" Dong Yuling wailed, if she didn't have to feed her own boy, she would have to fight hard with Zhou Fugui.

Zhou Huanting's father, Zhou Fugui, sat on a bench opposite her, smoking a hookah with his head stuffed, his eyes staring blankly at the smoke being blown by the wind, even if the window was broken and the cold wind leaked, he had no intention of picking it up.

Zhou Huanting also regretted running away from marriage, if it weren't for the orphans and widows at home, he would have gone south to eastern Guangdong to find his daughter back.

It's just that the youngest son he values the most has just been born, this is the male race of his old Zhou family for six consecutive generations, how can he leave home for his daughter, in case his son leaves home and has an accident, how can he be worthy of the ancestors of the old Zhou family!

Dong Yuling didn't bother to pay attention to Zhou Fugui when she didn't speak, this old man couldn't beat a sullen fart with three sticks, before she married him, people in their thirties couldn't find a daughter-in-law.

If it weren't for the fact that his two consecutive fiancés died in an accident and caused him to gain a reputation as a kefu, the ghost would have married this old and ugly man at the age of eighteen!

I really have been moldy for eight lifetimes, it's useless to discuss anything with him, and I don't say a word when I am bullied. He looks like a flower, attracting countless wild bees and butterflies to covet, but this dead old man is indifferent to being harassed, if it weren't for his pungent temperament, he beat those wild bees and butterflies out, I'm afraid that the top of this dead old man's head would have become a green prairie.

There's no way, men can't be trusted, they can only be strong, otherwise how can they live this day!

"Old man, it's the end of November now, and the New Year is coming in two or three months, so you will give me a trip to eastern Guangdong in two days, and bring me home for the New Year!"

Dong Yuling feels that she can't ignore her daughter anymore, and she has to get her back no matter what, doesn't the very popular Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas now: a family, the most important thing is to be neat and tidy.

"What about the little dog, if something happens to you at home just after I go out, then how can I live!" Zhou Fugui suddenly said loudly.

"You dead man, I thought you were dumb!" Dong Yuling cursed and said: "You can relax with me, my brother will come over tonight, anyway, it's not a busy farm now, I let him stay at home for ten days and half a month, enough for you to bring the big girl back." ”

"Nacheng, I'll buy a train ticket now and take tomorrow's train to eastern Guangdong. Zhou Fugui stood up, patted the ashes on his pipe, and swore an oath.

Dong Yuling glanced at Zhou Fugui and said with satisfaction: "Finally, you old man still have a bit of responsibility......

"Crackling, crackling......"

"Woo whoa, woo woo ......"

At this moment, there was an extremely loud sound of firecrackers outside the gate of Zhou's house, which scared the little baby who was feeding into tears.

"I'm going to be in your mother! Which one is killing a thousand knives and setting off a cannon in front of my house! Old man, why don't you go out and have a look!" Dong Yuling scolded while hurriedly coaxing the little dog.

"Hey, I'm going to go out and have a look. Zhou Fugui was busy responding.

……

An Audi and a pickup truck slowly drove into the village, and due to the cold weather, there were no people on the road, and it was deserted.

In fact, this is the norm in China's rural areas, since the reform and opening up, although the speed of economic development is extremely fast, but a large number of young and strong people in the countryside have moved to the cities to work, and the countryside is becoming more and more hollowed out.

It was not until 2000 that Li Changping, secretary of the township party committee from the countryside, said to the premier: "Now the peasants are really miserable, the rural areas are really poor, and agriculture is really dangerous!"

This deafening and inspiring statement exhausted the bitterness of the peasants, and only then did the central authorities begin to attach importance to rural issues, thus causing the central government to change its policies and implement many good policies that benefited the peasants.

At least the policy of paying public grain in later generations was abolished, and the government also issued subsidies to farmers who farmed and raised pigs, which greatly reduced the burden on farmers.

It's only now that it's 1997, and China's vast rural areas are really just like Li Changping said, the peasants are really miserable and the countryside is really poor!

When the car passed by one of the most dilapidated houses in the entire village, Zhou Huanting suddenly shouted: "Stop, my house has arrived!"

"This is your home?" Lin Cheng looked at this house with a big hole in the window and said in surprise, it turns out that Tingting has grown up in such a difficult environment since she was a child, it is really distressing!

"Hmm. Zhou Huanting nodded, but a look of nostalgia appeared on her face, although the house at home is dilapidated and old, but after all, she has been producing here for sixteen years, how can she not make people nostalgic?!

Lin Cheng opened the car door, and then beckoned Wang Chao: "Chao'er, where are the firecrackers?" Hurry up and take them out and put them away, today is a big day for Tingting to return to her hometown, and it must be lively." ”

Wang Chao hurriedly got off the lane: "The firecrackers are on the pickup truck behind, so I'll go and set off the firecrackers." ”