According to the custom of Guanzhong Xifu, after the New Year, relatives will have to leave.

In previous years, relatives were only on foot or by bike.

And this year, because Brother Dong Mei bought a van and Brother Dong Mei bought a walk-behind tractor, there are more means of transportation.

In the second year of junior high school, my sister-in-law's house entertained guests.

Dongmei was originally going to take the children from Nanyang Town to Guojia Village, where her sister-in-law is located.

However, when Brother Dongmei and Brother Dongmei found out, they rushed to drive their own cars to pick up Dongmei's family.

Dongmei won't be able to choose for a while.

She can only ask her brother to come and pick her up today, and when she goes to her sister-in-law's house tomorrow, her brother will come to pick her up.

Moreover, compared to the dirt roads with potholes in the past, the roads are now wider and much smoother.

Brother Dongmei drove the van and loaded Dongmei, Weiguo, Baoguo, Xiaofang, Weiguo's mother, and the children, a total of eleven people, into the yellow van at one time.

Although the van was heavily overloaded, and walking on the country road, it would tilt east and west from time to time.

However, at that time, people did not have the concept of overloading, and everyone's legal awareness and safety awareness were very weak, so they did not take the overloading of the surface as a thing, but felt that so many people were crowded in a car, which was very fun.

In addition, the van was dangling, just like riding in a rocking car, and everyone was happy.

This scene, when many years later, Dongmei and Wei Guo realized the danger of that year, and they couldn't help but start to be afraid.

When Weiguo and Dongmei bought a family car, they already attached great importance to safety compared to their previous weak legal awareness and safety awareness.

The whole family takes the car, not only in strict accordance with the law, but also absolutely not overloaded.

In addition, the members who sat in the back row also wore seat belts.

At that time, everyone sat in front of them, not only did they not wear seat belts, but they also felt that a car, if it was not overloaded, could not play its performance.

Due to the great changes in the countryside over the years, and the construction of houses and roads has not stopped, Dongmei can't find a way to Guojia Village.

She looked at the scenery outside the window all the way, and felt that the changes in the countryside in the past few years have become bigger and bigger.

Not only are the roads wider, but the houses are also new.

The main thing is that two-story buildings rise from the ground, and even occasionally three-story buildings appear.

The adobe houses of the past are basically gone.

What excites Dongmei the most is that with the advancement of the large-scale development of the western region, the state's investment in rural infrastructure construction is continuing to increase.

The roads that run between villages will all be hardened and even paved with asphalt to become standard asphalt roads.

Dongmei listened to her brother all the way and told her about the future development trend of the countryside.

Dongmei sighed that the development of the countryside is really getting better and better.

She clearly remembered that when she was young, in the countryside, in the village, wherever there were such smooth and spacious roads, they were all muddy.

But now, the roads in the countryside are not only smooth and wide, but also hardened with cement and even paved with tar, and what a great thing it must be.

In this way, people living in the countryside can say goodbye to that kind of road forever, which is so muddy that they can't walk when it rains.

Dongmei remembers that in the past, once it rained, the road in the village could not be walked, and even the frame car could not be pulled through.

If it rains and she has to do farm work, Dongmei is worried.

But now, once the roads are hardened and asphalted, everyone no longer has to worry about bad roads.

Brother Dongmei likes to drive fast, and it took him less than an hour to send everyone from Nanyang Town to Guojia Village.

In the past, if you had to walk, you would have to walk for at least a few hours.

After entering Guojia Village, Dongmei didn't find her sister-in-law's house.

She looked around in wonder and said, "Oh, I remember my sister-in-law's house, which came in the middle of here, why did it suddenly disappear." ”

Dongmei's mother pointed to the family in front of her, repaired the gatehouse, and built a two-story courtyard in the backyard, and said, "This is your sister-in-law's house, it's all in front of you, you can't find it?"

Dongmei looked at the unfamiliar courtyard in front of her and said, "I remember that the gatehouse of Xiaoying's house is not high, why is it tall and big now, and it is uniformly built with bricks?"

Baoguo's wife Xiaofang said: "Xiaoying and Guo Lijun have not only rebuilt the head gate, but also renovated the entire yard." ”

Hearing this, Dongmei suddenly thought of the situation when her sister-in-law had just gotten married.

Because the family is poor, the sister-in-law works in the fields every day in order to generate income, and she doesn't even have time to take care of the children.

Since the child was unattended, the second daughter ate the poop again after pulling the poop.

For this reason, the sister-in-law cried in public that her family was poor, but she didn't expect to be beaten by her husband.

Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and with the efforts of my sister-in-law and Guo Lijun, not only have my life come to an end, but I have even renovated the yard, rebuilt the house, and even built a two-story building.

Seeing the changes in her sister-in-law's family, Dongmei was very happy.

She thought to herself that in the past, because Wei Guo had a regular job and she was selling food at the farmers' market, among all her relatives, her life at home was prosperous.

But now, with the development of the economy and everyone's efforts, all relatives have basically lived a good life and successfully achieved a well-off life.

The younger brother fulfilled his childhood dream of owning a walk-behind tractor that could generate income.

My brother also realized his dream and owned a van that could both pull goods and carry people.

As for Chunmei, it was even better, through her uninterrupted efforts, she not only had a certain amount of wealth, but also built a dairy farm and started selling milk for a living.

Dongmei couldn't help but realize that this kind of change in the countryside and the improvement of the living standards of the surrounding relatives is not a very individual phenomenon, but a whole, even a reflection of the changes in the entire Chinese countryside, and a reflection of the entire social and economic development.

At this moment, the sister-in-law Xiaoying came out of the kitchen.

She greeted everyone warmly.

And Dongmei and everyone also took out all the gifts they had bought in advance.

Although everyone's living standard has been greatly improved, the gifts of relatives during the New Year have not changed, and they are still small gifts such as noodles, cakes, biscuits, tea and so on.

Sister-in-law Xiaoying said happily: "I got up early in the morning and waited for you, and finally waited for you." ”

Dongmei took Xiaoying's hand and said, "Xiaoying, what you said back then, you want to create wealth with Guo Lijun with both hands, and today it has finally come true." ”

When Dongmei married into the country, Xiaoying had not yet married.

After Xiaoying and Guo Lijun talked about the object, Dongmei suggested that Xiaoying should think about it, after all, when Guo Lijun came on a blind date, the poor didn't even have unpatched clothes, and the shoes were worn out, and the front was also perforated, leaving people with a feeling of being very poor at home.

Dongmei told Xiaoying that if there is no economic foundation before marriage, life after marriage must be very difficult, so Xiaoying should consider remarrying.

However, Xiaoying told Dongmei without thinking about it that she was not afraid of hardship, tiredness, or poverty, and that the husband and wife were all created with their hands.

However, when Xiaoying got married, in the face of family trivialities, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, and in the face of a poor and white family, Xiaoying really suffered a lot.

For a while, it even made Xiaoying desperate.

And her husband, who loved her before marriage, also had conflicts with herself because of poverty.

At this time, Xiaoying, after suffering all the hardships and sins, completely understood Dongmei's words, and understood that marriage without bread was far from being as happy as she imagined.

As Xiaoying said, it is very difficult to change the family's economic situation in a short period of time by relying on the hands of the husband and wife to create.