Let's say that after the car arrived in Pingyang that afternoon, Gua Er carried her schoolbag and luggage, and walked out of the bus station. Turn a little north and you will see Binh Duong Railway Station. I first went to the ticket window to line up, and bought a half-price student ticket to the provincial capital at night with the admission notice. I ate a bowl of noodles and filled a bottle of boiling water at a small restaurant next to the train station. The first time I went out, I was not familiar with Pingyang, so Guaer didn't dare to go to the street, and walked straight into the waiting room.

At more than eleven o'clock in the evening, Gua'er checked the ticket with the passenger team, got on the bus, and put the luggage away. The first time she took the train, Gua Er was both curious and extra careful, sitting on the seat with her hands on her schoolbag and glancing at the luggage rack from time to time. Driving at night, everyone is mostly sleeping, it is dark outside the window, you can't see the scenery, Gua'er sits there, and you take a nap when you are sleepy.

I arrived at the provincial capital before nine o'clock in the morning. Gua Er carried her luggage and left the station with the passengers. Everything was so novel and unfamiliar, Gua'er didn't dare to walk around, and walked straight to the reception of freshmen at Normal University. The senior brothers and sisters were very enthusiastic, took care of the new students and got on the school bus, accosted the new students from time to time, looked at the street scene of the provincial city outside the car window, and drove towards the Normal University.

To say that this provincial city is also a military and political important place with a long history, it is surrounded by mountains and rivers in the east, west and north, and the middle and south are river valley plains, and the whole terrain is high in the north and low in the south, like a big dustpan; the Fen River flows through the urban area from west to east and turns south, and the spring water at the foot of the mountain is abundant. The traffic here is developed, there are Tongpu and Shitai, Xintai and Tailan railways intersect here, and the highway also extends in all directions. There are abundant coal, gypsum, limestone, refractory clay and iron ore, and the steel, coal, machinery, chemical, building materials, textile, and food industries are quite developed. Wheat, corn, millet, sorghum are abundant, and rice is abundant. There are Jin Ancestral Hall, Tianlong Mountain Grottoes and historic sites.

The train station is also not too far from the school, and it takes a short time to get on the bus. Under the guidance of the counselor, Gua'er completed the enrollment procedures with her classmates, bought meal tickets, and then went to the dormitory to clean up her bed.

Gua Er lives in the school's newly built girls' dormitory, with eight people in a room, four bunk steel tube beds placed against the wall on both sides, and two new wooden tables in the middle. The wooden table is quite large, the one with drawers on both sides, and every four people share a table, facing each other. The students come from all over the world, some from big cities, some from small counties, and some from rural areas, some are fashionably dressed, some are plainly dressed, some are enthusiastic, and some are not very talkative.

In this way, Guaer began her new life. However, I don't know why, no matter how much Ye Zi cares about her goddaughter, Gua Er has never taken the initiative to contact Ye Zi since the day she met, let alone write a letter to Ye Zi. Of course, that's another story.

The goddaughter went to college, which touched Ye Zi a lot, she was really happy for a while, and pinned her hopes on the dog baby and Xing'er. She thought to herself, it doesn't matter if the second dog can't study, the dog baby and Xing'er can compete for breath, and they can be admitted like melons, so she will be satisfied.

The father is not at home, and the mother is the baby's dependence. Ye Zi listened to the persuasion of the daughter-in-law of the Xing family and the old wife of the Wu family, and he didn't ride a bicycle much when he went out, and often drove the pony cart. She even went to the county seat and asked her younger brother, who worked in the county seat, to take her to the county hospital to see a traditional Chinese medicine doctor and grab some medicine. After all, he is still young, and after taking the medicine for a few days, Ye Zi feels more energetic. Running into the ground at a sky-high price, the busy days are also full and comfortable.

It is difficult for a small family, and the difficulty lies in the improvement of the family, and the encounter of major events. As the saying goes, save and save, and wait for the hole. Ye Zi and her mother-in-law worked hard to plant the responsible field for several years, so that they could not worry about food and clothing, and had some savings, but the house was leaking and could not be covered. So, busy harvesting the autumn wheat and planting wheat, the leaves began to pull the soil again and start the adobe. The neighbors all advised Ye Zi: Beating adobe is the business of the Han family, and if it is too tiring, hire someone to beat it. But in order to save money, Ye Zi made adobe by himself whenever he was free. In fact, as early as last autumn, Ye Zi asked someone to help dig up all the trees in the yard and put them together at the base of the wall to dry, and now they have been dried and can be used as rafters.

Ye Zi came back from his mother's house, and with the help of his brother, brother and sister-in-law, he bought bricks and tiles, as well as beams, purlins and boards. Taking advantage of the dryness of autumn, I hired craftsmen and neighbors, and I demolished and built the house. It's fast and fast, the original Xiaobeixia has become three new Beixia with "boots and hats", and the original Xiaoxixia has also become three new Xixia with "boots and hats", and the restaurant next to the door in the south has also been flipped.

For decades, the first time she saw that she had a decent house, the Liang family's mother-in-law couldn't help but burst into tears. On this day, after dinner, the mother-in-law of the Liang family solemnly ran to Ye Zi and said to Ye Zi: "I gave birth to an unfilial son, and I haven't come back for a few years, no matter if my wife doesn't care about the baby, I don't look at this old bone." But God gave me a good daughter-in-law. Yezi, you are the forehead, without you, we don't have this in this house. You live in the new North Building, and you live in the New West Building. Listening to her mother-in-law's heartfelt words, Ye Zi couldn't help but shed tears.

The house was built, and there was a lot of miscellaneous soil in the yard. The dealer is not as good as the city, and the miscellaneous soil is also a good thing, so it is all fertilizer in the ground. The leaves took out the jujube red horse, put on a small rubber cart, and sent all the soil and fertilizer at home to the autumn field (autumn land, that is, the land that is ready to plant autumn crops and cotton in the coming year). Pick up the dung into the ground one by one, splash it in a small circle, and after it has been infiltrating for a long time, shovel it into a dung pile with milling. On Sunday, I took the dog baby and the apricot to crush the corn stalks in the field, and then piled up a layer of straw, a layer of thatched manure, and a layer of soil on the ground to make manure. Then, all the straw piled up on the threshing floor was sold, except for enough fodder for the livestock. The neighbors all praised Ye Zi as a good hand at getting through the situation.

In this way, the Liang family moved into a new house before the cold weather. Although the house is not yet dry, it is not too tight to cook on the fire in the house in winter, and there is also a heating stove, and the small family will be settled, but they have to dry the bedding from time to time. After everything was in order, on this day, Ye put on a carriage and headed for Liuwan.

In late autumn, the autumn is crisp, the crops in the fields are harvested, and the persimmon trees are particularly conspicuous. Persimmon trees in this area are all over the fields, with thick bodies and large canopies. It is said that the persimmon tree itself cannot reproduce, it is made by grafting what the locals call soft jujube trees, and the survival rate is very low, and the growth is very slow, but once grafted to survive, it can flourish for many years. The persimmon tree is beautiful even when it is old, and the small pieces of bark resemble a neatly arranged gray-white mosaic. The persimmon leaves are somewhat heart-shaped, thick, oily, and shiny. In late autumn, the persimmon leaves that have been green for three seasons are blown red by the cold wind, and the fiery red persimmon leaves of a tree have become a beautiful scenery on the yellow earth. Pick a piece and put it on the ground, it is particularly conspicuous, and when you pick it up and face the sun, it is bright and ruddy: it contains a childlike innocence. Standing on a high place, looking from a distance, the fiery persimmon leaves of the tree are like the red glow falling from the sky, which is extremely beautiful.

But just before the New Year, the Liang family's mother-in-law was sick, and the village doctor gave her a few injections and prescribed some medicine to eat, but it didn't work. Ye Zi wanted to take her mother-in-law to the county hospital to have a look, but the Liang family's mother-in-law was very calm and persuaded her daughter-in-law not to get angry, saying that she was old and the effect was slow. She also said that her life was fine, and she was dragged by a woman to beg for food all the way, and her body was tough, so she didn't need to go to any hospital, and she was slowly getting better by taking medicine. This mother-in-law of the Liang family is a typical "small-footed woman" in the countryside, who has been diligent and thrifty all her life, and has hardly gone far away, at most she only goes to Qingxi Town to catch up with the market, and has never even been to Fenwan County. Although the old woman has never seen much of the world, she understands in her heart that it is not easy to know Ye Zi for so many years, and she knows that the house has only been rebuilt at home, and the situation is tight. Seeing that her mother-in-law refused, Ye Zi had no choice but to go to the county seat to buy some better medicine according to the advice of the doctor at the health station.

Before you know it, the annual Spring Festival is coming soon. Ye Zi naturally made clothes and prepared New Year's goods, and specially bought New Year's pictures and asked the dog baby to write a big red pair. The brush words of the dog baby are average, the child is not good, and he is not willing to write, but the leaves want the baby to write by himself, saying that it looks like a heart.

This Lunar New Year, which is the first Spring Festival for Ye Zi to live in a new house, on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Tao'er's family came to Yunling's mother's house to pay New Year's greetings. Ye Zi brought a wooden plate of delicious heads, made a pot of tea, and everyone chatted and laughed for a while.

When it was almost time to eat, Ye Zi brought the hot pot, washed it, and filled the hot pot. Put a few dishes of cold vegetables, such as mixed bean sprouts, lotus root slices, wine dates or something, stir-fry a sweet and sour cabbage, and put the previously fried small stir-fry back into the pot to heat up. Bring the hot pot in and put it in the middle of the table, and the whole family can start eating. Of course, Ye didn't forget to scald the pot of persimmon wine. This persimmon wine is not small, in addition to the mellow flavor of the wine, but also with a hint of astringency.

After lunch, the children went out to play, and Liang's mother, Ye Zi, and Tao'er sat on the kang and chatted. "Sister-in-law, this house is not crooked. "Well, it's decent, but it's not better than others. "Oh, that's enough. Brother E is not in the house, just you are alone, a woman's family, so what else?!" Tao'er inadvertently mentioned Guiwa, so that Ye Zi couldn't help but think of something, and was stunned for a while, Tao'er realized that she shouldn't mention her brother's words during the New Year, and couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, and said: "Hehe, I mean that I am not as capable as you." "Oh, what can you do, it's hard to hold on." ”

"I really didn't expect it to be able to do this in the house. Well, it's just that your sister-in-law is suffering, and everyone praises your sister-in-law in front of the door," the Liang family's mother-in-law interjected: "I also say that I have a good daughter-in-law, and no one else can compare to the blessing of E." Peach, for the New Year, you can take care of your forehead for a while, and toast your sister-in-law with two glasses of wine. "I still need to say it, I respect you, and I want to pay tribute to my sister-in-law." "Okay, let's have a good drink later." "Hehe, let's cook for us later, heat up a pot of wine, and you two have a good meal." Peach's husband said with a smile.

In this way, for dinner that day, I drank a few cups with the leaves. Tao'er's family didn't go back and stayed in Yunling for a night. Sleeping on her mother's kang, the mother and daughter chatted for a long time, and Tao'er even talked about her and her brother's childhood.

At noon the next day, the weather was a little warmer, and Tao'er's family went back to Xuejiazhuang. Tao'er is also a woman, and it was too hard to see her sister-in-law, so she ran to Pingyang alone to find her brother, but she didn't see it, and she didn't hear about your baby.