"Xiao Yong, eat fish, my aunt made it for you, I have been stewed in a big iron pot for more than an hour, hurry up and eat it while it is hot."

"Well, Auntie, you can eat too, I can reach it, just come by yourself."

"Come on, Xiao Yong take a sip of beer, your kid has a good amount of alcohol, and he has practiced it."

"You two drink less and eat more. Xiao Yong, eat it quickly, it's not delicious when it's cold. ”

Auntie learned that Wang Yong was coming back last night, but she prepared a lot of delicious food, all of which Wang Yong loves to eat. There is a big grass carp stewed in a big iron pot at home, a soft and rotten domestic chicken stuffed in a pressure cooker, beef stew with potatoes, boiled skin shrimp, plus a potato, beans, pumpkin stew, five dishes, all of which Wang Yong used to love to eat, and they were full of small pots. The uncle and aunt kept putting vegetables in the bowl for Wang Yong, and the bowl was full after a while. So the old couple urged Wang Yong to eat quickly, but before they could finish eating, the bowl was full again, for fear that Wang Yong would not be full. Wang Yong, who ate this meal, couldn't walk.

After eating, the aunt cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, Wang Dahai and Wang Yongye held their stomachs and went back to the coffee table, made a pot of tea and chatted.

"Uncle, can the old mansion still be inhabited?" Wang Yong asked.

"What's the matter, you're going to live there? You just live in the uncle, and it's not a place where you don't live. Wang Dahai drank some wine, and his voice was a little loud.

"Why do you want to live in an old house, how many years has that house not been lived? Let's stay here with Auntie! Besides, the old mansion is a bit biased, you are alone, and your uncle and I are not at ease. The aunt walked in and said to Wang Yong.

"Uncle, aunt. I'm so big, what are I afraid of? Behind our old house is the orchard, and I am going to build the greenhouse over there in the future, and I live over there, so it's easy to watch. Fang Zheng has to go over sooner or later, and clean up the old mansion as soon as possible. If it really doesn't work, tear it down and rebuild it. ”

"That's not necessary, our old house was built when your father got married in 80 years after the earthquake, although it is a little old, but it is all good things, absolutely sturdy, and there is no problem at all if you live for another twenty or thirty years. However, the old house has not been lived in for many years, and it will definitely not work if it is not renovated. If you have to go over to live, the uncle will renovate it for you, and it will be almost done in half a month at most. During this time, you will honestly live in the uncle's place. Wang Dahai said to Wang Yong without refuting it.

"Yes, but I'll have to pay for it myself." Seeing that the uncle and aunt were about to refute in a hurry, Wang Yong hurriedly said: "Uncle, aunt, I really don't lack money, don't worry." It may not be that much to buy a house in the city, but I can still afford to build five rooms in the village. That's it, I'll go to the old house first. ”

"Hey, why do you say that you kid still has such a temper after so many years, I am your uncle, not someone else. There's really no way to take you. Rest the meeting first, and the uncle will accompany you over when it's over. Uncle said helplessly. The three of them drank tea and asked some about Wang Yong's situation, and waited until about three o'clock, seeing that it was not so hot outside, the aunt let Wang Yong go to see the old house, and the uncle Wang Dahai also followed to see how to get what materials to prepare, so as to quickly get it for his nephew.

The old house of Wang Yong's family is behind the village, facing south in the north, and is built at the foot of the mountain. When Wang Dahai got married, Wang Yong's grandfather built a new house for him in the village, and the old house was given to Wang Yong's father, and now the so-called old house was built by the old man himself in the 80s, Wang Yong lived in the old house since he was a child, and he didn't leave here until he went to college in the provincial capital, and several years have passed. For several years, no one lived in it, and the house was slowly deserted, and the yard was overgrown with weeds.

The house is a brick and wood structure, the girder is on haode pine, even the purlin is also pine according to the uncle, the house is made of local bluestone, and the foundation is one meter higher than the ground, so it seems that the house is much higher than the average person in the village. This is to prevent the house from flooding in the summer. A two-meter-high fence built with bluestone encloses the entire courtyard. There are five rooms in the house, and there is a side room on the west side where there are some messy things. On the east side of the yard are two leafy cherry trees, which stand out among the weeds. In the middle, three stalks covered the shelves, and the bunches of grapes had turned black and purple. Wang Yong walked over and gently pulled it down and put it in his mouth, it was so sweet! Wang Yong will think of the scene before his parents had an accident, when the family ate grapes in the shade under the grape trellis. It was as if he saw his father cutting a bunch of the largest and sweetest grapes with scissors, and turned around and beckoned to Wang Yong, as if to tell Wang Yong and the brothers, come and eat the grapes, hurry up and continue. A teardrop slipped down Wang Yong's cheek and fell into the grass. My brothers and their parents have been separated by yin and yang for ten years

"The cherries and grapes in this yard are spiritual! No one cares about what no one asks, but the fruit is a lot every year, and it is much sweeter than other people's. The uncle's voice came from behind Wang Yong.

Wang Yong stabilized his mood and said, "Uncle, I will leave the decoration of this house to you." You can just do it if you look good. Opening the lock hanging on the door, Wang Yong pushed open the door and walked into the home that had been away for many years. Looking at this strange and familiar everything, scenes from the past resurfaced in front of me. The family eats together, the family lies on the kang and watches TV, and the family chats and talks together,...... Father, mother, Wang Yong, younger brother Wang Liang, a family of four people.

Wang Yong was immersed in his own memories and slowly woke up, and the reality of the day made him bury his thoughts deep in his heart. Shake yourself up and open the back door. Outside is the mountains, where their orchard is. The orchard is very large, and the whole mountain behind it belongs to Wang Yong's family. This orchard was built when Wang Yong's father was there, but at that time, there was a lack of water, and the fruit trees did not grow well, and they could not bear a few fruits. Later, after the water cellar was built and the water problem was solved, it was able to sell some money to subsidize the family. Now there are about 30 apricot trees, more than 20 peach trees, more than 50 jujube trees, more than 30 apple trees, as well as scattered cherries, pear trees, persimmon trees, walnuts, chestnut trees, hawthorn trees, pomegranates, ...... Almost all the fruit trees that are common in the north can be found here. In the past few years, since no one has taken care of it, a lot of people will definitely die, and it is time to make up for some new varieties that sell well. Under the trees there are weeds more than a meter high, and there are all kinds of wild flowers blooming, not a bee or butterfly perched on top of the flowers, all kinds of bird calls fill the ears, this is a magpie, that is a house finch (sparrow), that is a cuckoo, oh and woodpecker, this is a wren, gray maza...... What a bird's paradise. The sweltering weather was tightly blocked out by the mountains and woods, and only the voices that came from time to time reminded Wang Yong that it was a hot summer.

Wang Yong walked more than ten meters to the side, and a canal appeared in front of him. This was built by the family with great effort, and a stream of mountain spring water from the mountain leads through the entire orchard from the source of the mountainside, bypassing Wang Yong's house and flowing into the village stream. The canal is only half a meter deep and less than half a meter wide, so children can walk through it in one step. There are also three small natural stone pits in the three places passing through the orchard, the largest one is just over an acre, which has been transformed into a reservoir for water storage, and there are many wild fish and shrimp in it. Wang Yong's happiest childhood was left here. Go up the mountain to pick fruits, go to the canal to touch fish and shrimp, dig wild vegetables, pick mushrooms...... The chaotic strings all over the mountains sprinkled cheerful laughter in every corner of these mountains.

A palm-long crucian carp came out of the water, biting Lao Bian (a large grasshopper) on a dog's tail grass that was parked at the water's edge, and then fell back to the surface, causing a wave.

Wang Yong was in high spirits, walked to the canal in a few steps and bent down, looked at the crucian carp that was swallowing food, slowly raised his right hand, and suddenly copied it, and a crucian carp flew to the shore with the splash. One by one, the carp fought stiffly, and kept fluttering on the shore to the water. Before it could pounce into the water, Wang Yong clasped his hands, and then put a finger into the gills of the fish, no matter how it shook, it couldn't escape from Wang Yong's palm. Wang Yong has loved to eat fish since he was a child, how can he not eat enough, fortunately relying on the mountains, although there are no big fish but half a catty of crucian carp, more than a catty of grass carp is quite a lot, in addition to carp, catfish, plus a variety of small miscellaneous fish...... Since he was four or five years old, Wang Yong often went to the stream or caught a few fish in his own pond and went home for his mother to make for himself. Gradually, Wang Yong's ability to catch fish became famous in the village, and at the same time, Wang Yong's love of eating fish became famous. If you don't eat fish for a day, you feel sick. It wasn't until I went to college that I was forced to buy fish to eat every day because of the necessity of life. Now when I return to my hometown, I see this wild fish jumping around, although I have just eaten a whole fish made by my aunt, but I think that I can eat fish every day in the future, this saliva began to bubble out. So, when Wang Dahai came out of the old house to find Wang Yong, he saw Wang Yong lying on the side of the canal, and with a wave of his hand, a fish was caught in his hand or flew to the shore. A willow branch more than one meter long is already full of palm-sized fish, and there is a pile of river shrimp about more than a pound next to it, surrounded by a fence made by Wang Yong with a circle of branches. "You kid hasn't changed his habit of eating fish, he just ate it at noon, and he wants to eat it again?"

"Uncle, aren't I idle and have nothing to do to try how much of this ability to catch fish is left?" Wang Yong said to the uncle with some embarrassment.

"When did you have the ability to catch fish, but you also ranked first in our village, so you tried it, and quickly packed up and went home. I'm sure I'll find someone to work on it tomorrow and let you live in it for a week. Wang Dahai also didn't understand that his nephew loved fish so much, why couldn't he eat enough every day. I don't understand.