Worried, Wu Xiaozheng walked out of his room with his sister Wu Xiaoli.

This is a common four-house house in the south, with a hall house in the center, two rooms on each side of the hall on the left and right, and a small miscellaneous house at the back of the hall.

After walking to the hall, Wu Xiaozheng stepped into one of the four rooms.

It was a wood-burning room and a dining hall.

The light in the room was a little dim, and because of the long-term burning of firewood, the whole room was blackened by the smoke of the firewood. In such an era, in the countryside, coal fire was still a very luxurious thing for most families, not to mention the most common liquefied gas and gas stoves in later generations.

There was still a faint smell of fireworks in the room, which made Wu Xiaozheng feel a little smoky. But he was a little in tears at this time, because after more than ten years, he saw the two closest people in his life again, his grandparents.

"Xiaozheng, what's wrong with you, go wash up and eat. ”

Seeing that Wu Xiaozheng was a little strange, his grandmother greeted him and began to put dishes and chopsticks on the dining table.

"Oh, it's okay, the smoke is a little smoky. ”

Wu Xiaozheng rubbed his eyes, forcibly held back the emotions in his heart, and began to pour hot water to brush his teeth and wash his face.

At this time, the village radio rang out.

"It's seven o'clock BJ now. ”

"Good morning, listeners and friends, today is January 20, 1992, the 16th day of the 12th lunar month...... Now for the morning news. ”

According to Xinhua News Agency, since January 18, Comrade Deng Xiaoping has made an important speech on his southern tour of Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, SH and other places. ”

Comrade Deng Xiaoping stressed that China will unswervingly adhere to the basic line of "one center, two basic points" for 100 years. We must be more emancipated in our thinking, be more bold in carrying out reform and opening up, and have a faster pace of construction, and we must not lose the opportunity to ......."

During his inspections, Deng Xiaoping repeatedly stressed that in order to achieve rapid economic development, it is necessary to rely on science and education, and science and technology are the primary productive forces. ”

……

Wu Xiaozheng's scrubbing action stopped.

Through the radio in the village, he learned the exact date of his rebirth, and also learned an important piece of information: Deng Xiaoping's southern tour.

He couldn't help but think of a song that later spread all over the country.

1992 year

It's spring again

There was an old man who wrote a psalm on the shores of the South China Sea

There is a rolling spring tide between heaven and earth

Raise the mighty sails on the journey

The spring breeze blows green in the East China

The spring rain moistened the Chinese hometown

……

The year 1992 was hailed as a watershed in China's reform and opening up, precisely because Comrade Deng Xiaoping's southern tour laid the ideological foundation for China to embark on the road of developing a socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics.

What Wu Xiaozheng is thinking about now is, why did God want him to be reborn in this era, why couldn't he be a little earlier?

However, he quickly figured out why, because 1992 was also an important watershed year in his life, and it was in this year that his life changed completely......

Wu Xiaozheng suddenly remembered a lot.

"Xiaozheng, hurry up and have breakfast. Grandma's screams interrupted his thoughts again.

Wu Xiaozheng sat down on the square wooden dining table.

In the countryside of this era, breakfast must be eaten, because only when you are full can you have the strength to work, so what is placed in front of Wu Xiaozheng is a bowl of rice. The dishes were simpler, with some leftovers from last night, plus a plate of homemade pickled radishes, all there was for the morning.

Wu Xiaoli was a picky eater, thinking that leftovers and pickled radishes didn't taste good enough, so she pouted and didn't want to eat.

"Pickled radish again!"

After complaining, Wu Xiaoli's tears began to fall down.

Wu Xiaozheng's reaction was completely different.

He looked at his sister, then at the plate of pickled radish, and his eyes turned red.

It's been more than ten years since I've eaten my grandmother's pickled radish!

He immediately took a large bite of rice, then took a piece of pickled radish and stuffed it into his mouth.

Well, it's still that familiar taste.

Refreshing, crunchy, a little sour, a little spicy......

It was a feeling of happiness, and tears finally flowed from his eyes.

His tears made his grandparents misunderstand.

But these are tears of happiness.

Grandpa put down his rice bowl, took out his cigarette pot, and smoked his dry cigarette silently. Grandma also stopped, sighed deeply, and tears were about to fall out.

There was an awkward atmosphere in the room.

Wu Xiaozheng knew why his grandmother sighed, and he also knew why his grandfather was silent, because it had something to do with his biological parents.

It's a crazy time.

Because of the beginning of reform and opening up, because of the beginning of the market economy, and since the 80s, urban and rural residents have set their sights on those who have made a fortune, those who have made a fortune through farming, those who have gone to the sea to do business, and those who have made a fortune by speculating in stocks...... They all popped up, and everyone began to look at the money.

The development of the individual economy is accompanied by the decline and loss of control of morality, the distortion of values, and in order to get rich, many people begin to steal, rob, abduct, and cheat money by unscrupulous means...... All kinds of negative social problems began to breed.

Unfortunately, Wu Xiaozheng's father also became one of them. For the sake of money, he went so far as to steal the waste equipment of an abandoned small hydropower station in the town, and then sold them as scrap metal, and finally divided more than 700 yuan.

The worst thing is that he actually pulled his wife to let off steam.

So more than two weeks ago, Wu Xiaozheng and his sister became orphans who were not orphans, and his parents were sentenced to five years and three years.

In the previous life, this incident became an irreversible turning point in Wu Xiaozheng's life, and a series of events caused by it made Wu Xiaozheng's life distorted, and his life trajectory also changed fundamentally.

Wu Xiaozheng was even wondering, the reason why God let him be reborn at this juncture, was it because he wanted him to re-walk the road of life in a different way?

Now the reason why his grandmother sighs and his grandfather is silent is because he feels pity for his brother and sister on the one hand, and because of the pressure of life on the other hand.

Because of Wu Xiaozheng's parents, now the burden of his brother and sister is all on the heads of the two nearly 60-year-old people.

Wu Xiaozheng also sighed and began to stuff rice and pickled radish into his mouth indifferently.

As a born-again person, he knew that in fact, compared to his brother and sister, it was actually his grandparents who were more pitiful.

It's a pity that at this time in his previous life, he didn't understand this at all. He thought about it, as if at that time he only had resentment and anger, and had little gratitude at all for his poor grandparents.

Maybe God asked me to return to this era, and let me repay the favor. Wu Xiaozheng thought so again.

"Xiaozheng, your grandfather is going to the city to sell radishes in a while, you are on vacation now, and you are familiar with the city, so you can accompany your grandfather to the city for a walk. ”

Grandma interrupted Wu Xiaozheng's thoughts again.

He nodded blankly.