Chapter 5 Arriving Home
In that year, Shen Qinggong set out from Panao Township, all the way to the field proudly, high school jinshi, and since then he has become an official in the court, and the Li family in Panao Township has also risen.
Because Panao is located in the salt road, Sichuan salt is at the end of the waterway, and begins to be transported by the horse gang, so it has become a large transshipment place, with merchants and merchants, and water and land are disturbed.
After Shen Qing announced that he had returned to his hometown, he was very noisy, so he took his own case and hid in the area of Lijiagou Village and lived a semi-secluded life.
The Li family in Panao Township was also divided into two cases, one under the leadership of Shen Qingong continued to sit on the ground in Panao Township, and the descendants operated docks, freight, stores and other livelihoods;
According to the direction of the Wuxi River, the Shenqing Gong branch is called "Shanghe Li", and the Shenqin Gong branch is called "Xiahe Li".
In the feudal era, the two sects relied on each other and aided each other, which was actually a symbiotic relationship, and the Shanghe Li family received financial support from the Xiahe Li family, and the children were able to concentrate on studying. The Li family in Xiahe has been taken care of by the children of the Li family in Shanghe, and they can get more convenience in business.
It was not until modern times that the relationship between the two clans gradually weakened, except for the genealogy or a book, the rest of the time, at most, in the teahouse at the time of the market, when the two clans chatted, they could only know the relationship between the two clans when they heard the conversation between the two clans.
Gossip turned back, after Shenqingfang, even if you entered the core area of the village, the center of the small plain is the Li family ancestral hall with white walls and blue tiles, and in front of the ancestral hall is a large threshing floor. Shi Bao's family was near the ancestral hall, and the two said goodbye to each other here.
Li Junge continued along the bluestone avenue, passed the village, passed a few mounds at the end, and came to a large pond, the pond was more than four acres, which was not small in the countryside.
On the left hand side of the pond, there is a rectangular frame made of thick Nanzhu bundled on the water, and a middle-aged woman is standing on the edge of the pond, taking out the grass from a big basket pocket next to her and throwing it into the water, it seems that she is feeding the grass carp in the water, it is Li Junge's old lady Shi Sufen.
Shi Sufen saw someone coming, looked up and saw that it was Li Junge, she couldn't help but be happy, threw down the grass, and shouted loudly while wiping her hands on the blue cloth apron: "Miwa! Miwa! Why are you back?
Li Junge sped up and trotted over, and shouted loudly: "Mom!" Then he took the old lady's hands and shook them straight, and was silly there. Shi Sufen took out her right hand and slapped it on Li Junge's shoulder, and said, "You dead baby, you haven't been back for a few years!
"Wait, wait, the fish haven't been fed yet. Li Junge took off his backpack and threw it aside, went to the basket and began to throw fodder into the fish pond. "Yo! Grass carp is so big! Mom, this pond hasn't been cleared for a long time, right?"
Shi Sufen dialed the number and waited for the connection, and at the same time talked to her own baby: "You still cleared it before you left home last time, and the fish collector came to see it twice, and only opened four yuan a catty, saying that the road is too far to row." Our fish ponds are all living water, and they eat forage, what is the difference between them and wild ones, and the old lady is not allowed to sell them for four yuan!
At this time, the phone was connected, and Shi Sufen shouted into the mobile phone again: "The dead ghost is coming back soon, Mi'er is back! What do you call it suddenly, you are still not happy when Mi'er comes back! Hurry up and get me back from the teahouse, and say that I am going to die with two cards in my mouth!"
Most of the men in Shuzhou Province can afford to be strong outside, and a few people in the Sichuan army did not accept softness and did not recognize yellow in front of well-equipped Japanese devils with a gun, but most of them were soft in front of their daughters-in-law, and the so-called "rake ears" were also.
"Rake" means "soft" in the dialect, and "rake ears" means that the husband's ears have been pinched by the daughter-in-law for a long time, and they have been pulled soft, which is the synonym of a man who is afraid of his wife.
Because of this characteristic, Shuzhou women have also developed a delicate and pungent temperament in front of their own men, and Li Junge has long been accustomed to hearing the old lady talking to the old man like this.
At the end of the fish pond is a small dam, which is its own threshing floor, called the "open dam". Opposite the open dam is the house of the house, which is a U-shaped structure, with three two-story red brick houses in the middle, and a hall house on the right and left, and a staircase leading to the roof.
On the left side of the open dam is a large single-storey house with blue bricks and green tiles, inside which are toilets and pigsties, in which two pigs are lying, and there are a large number of places where various agricultural tools are placed, and a layer of wooden planks is built on the top of the head, and various firewood and miscellaneous items are placed on the wooden boards.
On the right side of the open dam is the same big house, which is where Li Junge's kitchen is located, and the kitchen is a wood stove, and the top is hung with smoked meat products such as bacon sausages.
On the outside of the pigsty house is a small flat land with three longan trees with a crown higher than the red brick building. The small flat land under the tree is surrounded by a low fence made of bamboo strips, and two or three chickens and a dozen chickens are stocked in it.
Behind the kitchen is a bathroom, and on the right are three lychee trees, which are also quite tall. The lychee tree is very beautiful, with a stone table and four stone benches under the tree.
The lychee tree and the longan tree were both planted by Li Junge's parents when they got married, and Li Junge had to call them brothers in terms of age.
There is still a bit of land between the fish pond and the open dam, and it is not vacant, and there are two peppercorns, one osmanthus, and one yellow cypress.
There are some messy flowers planted under the trees, such as a red moon and a whip, which are strange and beautiful, and together with the houses of the three compartments, the open dam is enclosed.
At the back of the house is a tiled shed that can be accessed from the back door of the kitchen.
If you come out of the back door of the kitchen, you will see a refrigerator and a washing machine against the wall on the right hand side.
There is also a small wooden table with a rice cooker, cutting board, kitchen knives, and a few buckets underneath.
There are also some farm tools hanging on the red brick walls, as well as axes, saws, wood knives, electrician's tools, etc. There is also a large area where Li Junge's various fishing gear is hung.
On the outside of the shed, there are two stone water tanks, one three meters square and the other five meters square, two hoses to introduce the spring water from the mountain into the tank, and when the water tank is full, it will automatically overflow into the ditch outside the shed, bypass the house, and finally flow into the fish pond in front of the house.
Next to the water tank are several large and small clay kimchi jars, and there is a long cement platform with a large cutting board on it, and a large kitchen knife, which is used to cut pigweed, and a pile of green fodder such as grass and sweet potato vines stacked next to it. It was a dinner for poultry and livestock.
Underneath the cement table are a variety of large and small basins.
Further back, behind the shed, is a small hill, and a small stone path leads to the top, which is the Chai Mountain of Li Junge's family.
After the mother and son threw the fish grass, Shi Sufenti slipped through the empty basket, and Li Junge slipped through his backpack and walked along the fish pond to his house together.
Grandma was sewing insoles under the eaves, and she had seen Li Junge a long time ago, and when she saw him coming, she immediately grabbed the baby and shouted "good grandson", and her wrinkled hands stroked Li Junge's face and body.
After appeasing her grandmother, Shi Sufen went to the field to pick vegetables at home, and the grandparents and grandchildren entered the hall.
In the middle of the hall is a table of eight immortals, four benches, and a teapot and several cups are placed on the table. There are also a few wooden chairs with backrests on the left, lined up along the wall, and a cabinet on the right, on which are placed a few tubes of tea leaves, a water dispenser, and the cabinet is full of wine cups and the like.
On the front wall is a wooden niche, and in the middle there is a sign with several block letters written "Heaven and Earth Monarch Prince's Position", of which the word "bit" is only a quarter the size of other words.
There are also a lot of red paper pasted on the left and right sides of the wooden niche, on which are painted some gods and Taoist charms and other things, all of which were invited back from the market by his parents during the New Year's Festival, and Li Junge could not understand it.
Under the wooden niche is an incense table, in the middle of which is an incense burner, which is full of burned incense stakes, and next to the stove is an incense candle lighter, and on each side is a candlestick, which is still empty, and outside the candlestick there is a plate, one for fruit and one for candy.
There is a small wooden door on both sides of the hall leading to the left and right ear rooms, on the left is Li Junge's grandmother's room, on the right is Li Junge's room, there is a big TV in the grandmother's room, and there is a computer in Li Junge's room.
Upstairs is the parents' room and guest room.
Li Junge walked into his house, threw his backpack on the small sofa, and when he came out, he had changed into coarse cloth clothes and pants and liberation shoes, and immediately turned into a rural baby, lifted the lid of the teapot, saw that there was tea inside, poured a cup, and drank it all, "Well, Lao Yin tea, it's delicious!"
When I walked out of the hall, I saw my grandmother sewing insoles again, so I dragged a stool over and chatted with my grandmother.
Grandma is most concerned about the good grandson's girlfriend, I heard that there is no more, I kept sighing, saying that I don't know if I can see the end, I heard that Li Junge couldn't sit still, and saw some fallen leaves in the open dam, so he grabbed the broom next to the wall and began to sweep the open dam.
As soon as the dam was swept, Li Junge's father Li Siqi came back and said to his grandmother first: "Mom, I'm back." Only then did he turn his head and look at Li Junge, he couldn't take his eyes off it.
Li Junge also stood up and said to his father respectfully: "Dad, I'm back." ”
This is the family style handed down by Shen Qinggong, and the entire Li Jiagou family is like this, "You must tell when you go out, and you must face when you return." ”
After this rule, the father and son relaxed, Li Junge went to the hall to bring out the tea, sat next to his grandmother, and drank tea and chatted with his father.
After a while, Shi Sufen came back, carrying a basket with loofahs, eggplants, water spinach and other seasonal vegetables, looking at the father and son and said, "Don't talk about it, it's time to feed the pigs and cook." The baby went to the pond to get two fish, and the baby did not call in advance when she was back, and the family was not prepared. ”
Li Junge said with a smile: "The fresh vegetables and fish at home are good, I often think about it in Yuzhou, no, I have to hurry up and get two, and I will eat the sauerkraut fish made by my mother tonight!" After speaking, he ran to the back of the house, ready to get fishing gear.
Shi Sufen smiled: "Hahaha, every time my son just comes home, he is poor and hungry shrimp, the same as when he was a child, so let's get two bigger ones today, eat less tonight, eat more fish!"