Chapter 018: Near Country
Wen Xu's home is in Linjiang Province, a distance of 380 kilometers from Mingzhu Dafang, a trip to nearly four hours, in fact, it is better to say that it is in Linjiang Province than in the junction of Linjiang and Yuehai Province, from the map it looks a bit like digging out a piece of the boundary of Yuehai. As for why it is zoned in Linjiang instead of Yuehai Province www.biquge.info it is because Wen Xu's hometown is surrounded by undulating mountains, and the exit is in Linjiang, if it is returned to the East China Sea, the administration will be difficult, and the county seat and the Yuehai road are connected for more than 700 kilometers, which is a bit too nonsense.
Not much nonsense, just say that Wen Xu drove a small truck with his own computer adjusted, and it seemed that the journey of more than 5,000 kilometers was actually 7 or 800 kilometers at most, running along the highway in the direction of home.
After bypassing the small county town, the road to the countryside is getting more and more difficult to walk, there is no national highway here, it is completely a county road, the asphalt road of the two cars facing each other can even see the road buds and pass four cars, it has been much better than the stone road in Wen Xu's memory.
What makes Wen Xu feel that the big change is that from time to time on Xiaopo Road, you can see a Land Rover, Jaguar, BMW or something luxury car dragging a long sound from his small broken truck, and a whining sound floats by! Originally, Wen Xu thought that he would come back to support his hometown's suggestion, but now he looks at it and has a bit of a sense of returning to his hometown to ask for food.
When the car arrived in the town, the town was not at all what he remembered, there were five or six storey small buildings, and the center of the town actually made a big turntable for the first time, and the original path became a small business district in the shape of a herringbone, Jiangguo supermarket or something, which was much more arrogant than the town next to the pearl where he lives now.
After asking the location of the police station in the town, Wen Xu walked in directly, checked whether his household registration had arrived, and the police officer in charge of the household registration aunt looked gloomy, when she saw that Wen Xu's household registration was called back from Mingzhu, she looked at Wen Xu back and forth eight times with a pair of small eyes, and muttered a sentence in her mouth and gave Wen Xu a positive answer. Hearing that the hukou had arrived in his hometown Wenjia Village, Wen Xu directly set up a new hukou book for himself and settled directly in his old house, and went straight to the town government's personnel management file after completing this place, and returned the file he got with the hukou book.
Out of the government Wen Xu had to send a little feeling, I feel that now it is really a lot more convenient than before, I want to move my household registration back then, it is not as fast as now, I was originally going to spend two things together, who knows that it will be done in less than two hours, although the face of the clerk still does not give any smile, but the matter must be done.
Follow the memory to the road leading to the village, even if you get out of the center of the town, all the way into the eye are two-storey small brick buildings, although the style still looks like dirt, but it is too far from the image of the town with brick houses with small courtyards and a few trees planted in the courtyard in Wen Xu's memory.
When passing by the elementary school, I happened to meet the students after school, and a large number of people picked up the children at the intersection, and the warm car was naturally very slow.
Seeing an old man with a hunched waist, Wen Xu had a very familiar feeling as soon as he turned his head, and then turned his head to take a closer look, Wen Xu recognized who this old man was, and immediately stopped the car and pressed the window.
"Fifth brother!" Wen Xu shouted loudly at the old man.
When the old man heard Wen Xu calling himself, he didn't recognize it for a while, so he turned his head to look around, then looked at Wen Xu and asked, "Young man, are you calling ......?"
Before I could spit out the words, a smile immediately appeared on my face: "You are the little Shixu of Uncle Zhuo's family?"
The old man's name is Wen Shiqing, according to the seniority, he is Wen Xu's cousin, he is in his early sixties this year, don't look at such an age, Wen Xu still has to be called brother, it can't be said that looking at the age of calling uncle is a mess, and he doesn't dare to bear it if he is called Wen Shiqing, that is equivalent to saying that he is the same generation as his father.
Wen Xu is the name on the household registration book, and the people in the village call Wen Xu Shixu, and this life is the generation, which means that Wen Xu is the generation. The generations of this branch of Wenjia Village are in order, benevolent and benevolent, and Changrongqi.
The children in the city may not understand that the younger the generation, the longer the generation, what does it mean to be younger and longer, that is to say, the two brothers, the normal daughter-in-law has children, the younger brother is always a few years late, and when the younger brother's child is married to the age of marriage, it is a few years later than the elder brother's child, so after a few lifetimes, the phenomenon that everyone sees now has been formed, the sixty-year-old brother, the twenty-year-old brother.
"Fifth brother, who are you?"
"Isn't it Friday today, pick up your grandchildren from school" Speaking of this, Wen Shiqing said to the two children at hand: "What are you doing in a daze, call Grandpa Shixu!"
"Grandpa Shixu!" the two little things looked at Wen Xu with dark eyes, and screamed honestly.
Looking at Wen Xu smiling, Wen Shiqing introduced: "This is Guangli's son Yuanbin, and this is Guanghong's son Yuanlin."
Oh, two faces floated in Wen Xu's mind, and two brothers with red rural areas appeared on their faces in winter, but now they should be thirty-five or sixteen according to their age.
"Get in the car, I'll go back to the village too," Wen Xu said immediately.
Wen Shiqing said: "I still have a small tricycle here."
"It's easy to do, just throw it in the car," Wen Xu said. The town is not far from the village in a straight line, only about ten miles away, but it is more than three times longer than that.
Wen Shiqing originally said this, but when he heard Wen Xu say this, he nodded, so Wen Xu drove the car and followed Wen Shiqing to the place where he put the tricycle, and then opened the back compartment of the car and lifted the tricycle up.
Before the door was closed, someone was heard talking to Wen Shiqing: "Fifth uncle, who is this!"
Wen Xu saw that this acquaintance was his nephew according to his seniority: "Guangjun?!I am Wen Xu"
"Uncle Xiaoxu?" Wen Guangjun, who was in his fifties and had a little gray hair, looked at Wen Xu for a while, then nodded and said, "Like, it's really getting more and more like Xiao Zhuoye."
"Okay, don't talk about it, just take Xiao Shixu's car back to the village, don't let you go, you go and see who else hasn't left yet, just take a ride" Wen Shiqing said to Wen Guangli.
Wen Xu immediately said when he heard this: "Yes, yes, look at who hasn't returned to the village!"
Hearing Wen Xu say this, and the adults standing were in a low position, Wen Guangli responded and handed over the children in his hands to Wen Shiqing, the children are inferior to this generation, but they are of the same age, and there is no obstacle at all to play.
About half an hour, seven or eight adults with a dozen hairy children gathered together, all the cars of each family were thrown to the top of the car, except for Wen Shiqing who sat in the cab, the other adults and children were all crowded into the rear compartment, fortunately, Wen Xu's rear compartment is open with a small window, and the door will not be stuffy when it is closed.
Drive a small light car to the village.
"Fifth brother, this road is a little better than before."
"It's good now, but when you get to Liyu Bay, you can't drive in the car" Wen Shiqing started smoking his dry cigarette as soon as he got in the car, and looked at Wen Xu's car while smoking, and from time to time he touched here and there.
Wen Xu saw that this road was repaired, why did it not work when it arrived at Liyu Bay, and there was still a third of the road from the village: "Why is this why it was only half repaired and not repaired?"
"It's not that there is no money, originally the county said that the county paid a part, the town paid a part, and the village paid a part, but the village did not have this money, and the road was only repaired to Liyu Bay, and it was originally said that a bridge was built in Liyu Bay, and another bridge came to Pingdongzi, so that half of the road could be lost in the village, but then the county cost too much, and wanted to move the village out, some people moved out, and we have kept our homeland because it is difficult to leave, Wenjia Village or Wenjia Village is not too much to manage...... Wen Shiqing babbled about what had happened in the village over the years.
Wen Xu has hardly returned to the village for ten years since he went to university, and the only time he returned was when he left early in the morning at night and stayed in the old mansion for one night.
After Wen Shiqing finished speaking, Wen Xu, who was speechless and fell into memory, asked: "By the way, Shixu, why did you come back, didn't you say that you are good in Mingzhu, I heard that twenty or thirty thousand a month"
"I'm back, no matter how good Mingzhu is, it's not my home," Wen Xu said.
Wen Shiqing took a puff of cigarette when he heard it: "Don't make a fool of your cowards, Mingzhu is to live in a toilet, then it is also a Mingzhu person, what is there in Wenjia Village, if it weren't for the ancestral tomb that no one could take care of, I also went to the capital of Mingzhu, people can't nest in the ravine, and their vision is shallow!"
"Fifth brother, I have my own plans!" Wen Xu said.
Hearing Wen Xu say this, Wen Shiqing stopped talking, and smoked without saying a word.
Soon the car arrived at Liyu Bay, and sure enough, as Wen Shiqing said, the car could not go in further, and now only the tricycle tied to the roof of the car is good, and the four-wheeled things are enough to choke except for the hand tolling machine.
There are a few families here in Liyu Bay, and they also moved out of Wenjia Village, which is Wen Xu's nephew, which was originally a small quarry and was later not allowed to be mined, and a few families moved out and settled here, relying on some dry goods and local products in the mountains to live.
The car was placed here, Wen Xu divided the gifts he brought, and then followed the tricycle army to the village, from Liyuping a small truck to five new and old tricycles, each with a horse lantern hanging on the front, if the tricycle was replaced by a donkey cart, Wen Xu felt like he had gone out of the village to the town before, so many years, the only change in the village was to change the donkey cart to the current small three-wheeler, I don't know if this is progress or regression.
Each little baby got something, the older ones in their teens put away their food, and the small, greedy ones had already opened their food and began to eat, and soon Wen Xu, who was at the end of the line, smelled bread, wine chocolate, and all kinds of dried fish and shredded meat.
Listening to everyone chatting along the way, Wen Xu seemed to go back to the past in a trance, his grandfather drove the donkey cart, and the horse lamp on the small shelf next to the car flickered, and at that time he was lying in his mother's arms, his eyes looked at the back of his father sitting on the other side of the car, and he could only see half of his father's side face, but when his father looked back at himself, Wen Xu could feel the kind of love for himself in his eyes, at that time his father had a large dark green travel bag in his hand, and chatted in a low voice with his grandfather who was driving the car.
Mother held herself in her arms without saying a word, a little tight, sometimes there were one or two tears falling on her face, Wen Xu didn't understand too much at that time, why her mother hugged herself every time she walked, and then Wen Xu understood, but her mother could never hug herself like before, and she couldn't feel the hug that strangled herself a little bit anymore.
This is Wen Xu's clearest memory of his parents.
"Bear child, what do you think!"
Wen Xu, who was in a daze, felt that his handlebar was turned, and immediately came back to his senses, and found that the front of his tricycle was almost crooked, although the river below was not deep, it was three or four meters, and it was at least a bloody fall down.
"Forget it, forget it, you kid seems to be close to home, the next section is uphill, no need to ride, everyone just relies on two legs" Wen Shiqing drove Wen Xu to the side and replaced it with pushing a tricycle by himself.
When I went up the slope, I couldn't ride even if I was loaded, and I pushed the car directly, and the children, both playful and sensible, stretched out their hands to help the elders push the car. After walking up and down for nearly half an hour, after crossing a slab bridge built of two wooden planks and stones, the small mountain village in the mountains was exposed to a little light.
Far away, I heard the dogs in the village barking constantly, probably feeling the smell of Wen Xu, a stranger who had been away from his hometown for a long time, and the barking of the earth dog barked when he was away from Lao Wu, and it was so lively one after another.
"What's it called! I can't recognize it! I don't know who scolded the dog in front of me!"
The big yellow dog who heard the sound immediately closed his mouth and flashed to the side, just like that, he still looked at Wen Xu's mouth and whined, and then followed Wen Xu two or three meters behind, humming while keeping this distance, like a thief! Soon the dogs in the whole village became like this, and Wen Xu followed more than a dozen dogs, large and small.
"Come back!
"Kuroko, you're going to die!"
With a shout, one by one the earth dogs were honestly called home by their masters, and their owners greeted Wen Xu.
"Uncle Xiaoxu, you're back!"
"Uncle is back"
"Little Wenxu is back"
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The most common one is Uncle Xiaoxu, and the second is Uncle Xu, who opened his mouth to call Xiao Shixu less than a slap, and it turns out that Wen Xu's seniority in the village is quite high in the words of Teacher Dandan!
And looking at the smiling faces of the people of the same clan, Wen Xu's heart floated out of a sentence for no reason: I am home! The kind of hometown unique to the hearts of the Chinese instantly surged into my heart!