Chapter VIII

Although the courtyard of the old Xie family is not as large and gorgeous as the one built by Xie Yinan's family, it is actually exquisite and lovely. The house is located around the rice fields, the house is a little dilapidated, but the arrangement is reasonable, and the residents are not uncomfortable. The left side of the lower hall was formerly the mother's land, one for the bedroom and one for the granary.

On the right is grandma's territory, and in the middle is the hall, where to eat and entertain. In front of the hall is a large threshing field made of cement, and there is a four-square, aqueduct built along the house in front of the threshing field, which is used to drain rainwater, and this water is directly discharged into the half-moon-shaped pond in front of it, and there are fish, shrimp, and snails in the pond.

Next to the pond is a depression of vegetable garden, protected by a half-human high fence wall, and outside the fence wall is a secluded path, which leads to the Xiangyun River at one end and the village at the other. Between the river and the vegetable garden, there are large rice fields, and everywhere you look, they are all green and magnificent.

There are two houses on the right side of the upper hall, one for buffalo and one for chickens and ducks. One on the left is the kitchen, the other is the bathroom, and across the corridor and outside, there is an old well. This well is 100 meters deep, and it is taken from real groundwater, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, sweet and moist, strong in activity and rich in minerals. Xie Yinan remembers that in his previous life, Xiangyun Mountain, a few kilometers away from here, was also favored by a developer in Beijing, invested tens of millions of CNY to build a reservoir, pumped underground water sources, and made two different mineral water brands of high-end and low-end, and Laoao Village also made earth-shaking changes in the style of his hometown because of the injection of funds.

Xie Yinan dissuaded her uncle from giving up the development of a taxi company in a neighboring county, which was no child's play, and she knew that because of the developer's intervention, the county's development focus had shifted to Xiangyun Mountain, and the effect was so amazing that even dozens of villages near Xiangyun Mountain, the government had established a new county and city, named Xiangyun County.

Therefore, transportation can definitely make a lot of money in the development and construction process of Xiangyun Mountain.

Xie Yinan got up from the ground by the pond and sighed silently at his little short hand, such a small body, even if he has all kinds of ideas, Mr. Zhuge 's intelligence, and Mr. Zhang Liang's change, he can't stand the appearance of this short-legged child!

Alas, in the end it is still too small.

Far away and don't think about it, she can't touch the snail that is close at hand, pitiful, sighing!

The grandmother of the Xie family saw that her little granddaughter was melancholy for a while, smiling for a while, and her little appearance was very funny, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Grandma, you're laughing at me." Xie Yinan felt very frustrated, even if he couldn't pick up the snail, he would be laughed at by his grandmother, he couldn't bear it.

"Oh, my baby, where is grandma's joke about you, grandma is not suing you, the snails at this time are not fat, not delicious. When the rice is ripe, grandma will go down to the pond to dig it for you. Obediently, grandma will fry tofu for you at noon. ”

"Where did you get the tofu?" Xie Yinan asked curiously. You must know that the countryside is not as good as the city, what you want to eat, what you want to play, you can buy it in a corner of the house, this old concave village, full of grocery stores, the coke in it is still glass, every time you buy it, it is still covered with a layer of dust.

He grinded it by himself, saying that he had to do it at home anyway, so it was better to do more by the way, and sell it to make some pocket money. No, your Aunt Hua remembered you and instructed his eldest son to send a piece of tofu over. ”

Xie Yinan sighed, indicating that he heard it. Also, if you want to eat a piece of pork, you have to see whose pigs are fattened and killed, so you have the opportunity to buy one or two pieces to try it, and it is easy to understand that Aunt Hua does this.

Speaking of Aunt Hua, Xie Yinan suddenly remembered something. It is said that when she was just born for the full moon, Aunt Hua saw that her mother and grandmother did not treat her, and she once had the idea of hugging Xie Yinan. No, it's not even just a thought, Aunt Hua'er even has a small bed and clothes ready at home, and her mother agrees without nodding or shaking her head, and she doesn't say that she will raise Aunt Hua, or sell it to Aunt Hua, just say that she will look at it everywhere first, and then talk about it.

So, Xie Yinan, who was more than a month old, went to Aunt Hua's house with Aunt Hua to live. Maybe it's really a lack of fate, Xie Yinan only stayed at Aunt Hua'er's house for one evening and one night, and was sent back by Aunt Hua in the early morning, saying that Xie Yinan has not stopped crying since he entered Aunt Hua'er's house, not eating or drinking, just crying.

Even if Aunt Hua wants to raise a girl again, she doesn't dare to act recklessly when she sees Xie Yinan's stubborn little temperament.

It's also a strange thing to say, this Xie Yinan has been crying since he entered the door of Lao Xie's house, and the little appearance that has been crying without stopping immediately stopped crying, holding her mother's fountain of life and sucking wildly, where can I still see half a stubborn little appearance, this strange flower aunt is amazed, and it is worthy of the old Xie family's species, so I recognize the people of the old Xie family.

Since then, Aunt Hua has no longer mentioned the matter of raising Xie Yinan, but she really loves Xie Yinan, if there is a little food and drink at home, the three boys in her own family may not have a share, but Xie Yinan is definitely a share, or the kind that accounts for the majority.

Xie Yinan remembered that she was really muddy, this Aunt Hua was so good to her, she lived a lifetime in her last life, but she didn't repay Aunt Hua at all. Alas, I think it's another big favor, and in this life, I must repay him.

In fact, Aunt Hua'er's family is not surnamed Hua'er, the reason why Aunt Hua is called Aunt Hua is because Aunt Hua likes to wear a flower in her ear, regardless of what flower, what color, as long as it is a flower. Aunt Hua'er's habit is also famous.

Her mother-in-law's surname is Zhang, and Zhang Tianyang is the same family, according to Xie Yinan's understanding, Aunt Hua'er's family and Zhang Tianyang's family should be a side branch outside the five suits, even if there is a little kinship, it is only possible to get together when worshipping ancestors during the New Year's Festival, and most of the other days have no contact.

There are only two ancestral halls in this old village, one surnamed Xie and the other surnamed Chen. Aunt Hua'er and her family worship their ancestors every year to go to the Zhang family ancestral hall in the next county. This Zhang Tianyang is naturally in a neighboring county.

"Grandma, let's go buy a mirror after dinner, and stop by Aunt Hua'er's house to thank her for the tofu, okay?"

"Okay, grandma promised you, I'll go after dinner. After the grandmother has finished cooking, you go and pick a handful of leeks, and fry them with tofu at noon. ”

Xie Yinan answered, ran to the fence wall at the other end of the pond, picked a small handful of leeks, and ran back to his grandmother with a small look of begging for praise without speaking.

Alas, it's not that Xie Yinan loves to be coquettish, it's really that she is too calm at her age, not to mention it, and she is also alienated from her feelings.

"Nannan is awesome, let's go, go to grandma's house, we're washing vegetables and cooking."

One of the grandparents and grandchildren carried a hoe and a cabbage, and the other jumped home happily with a dog's tail and grass empty-handed, washing mud and picking vegetables, making a fire to make rice, what sadness, sorrow, that is the scenery written by the poet, and the actual life of the common people is too far away. Even if this family has just experienced life and death, it is only a matter of a short moment, compared with a long life, compared with endless poverty, these are not worth mentioning.

Life, sad for a day, happy for a day, bitter for a day, sweet for a day, why not let yourself live a tasteful, happy, happy and happy life?

The lunch of the grandparents and grandchildren was a plate of fried tofu and fried leeks, a plate of fried vegetables, two pieces of salted fish, and a pot of white rice. Oh, and there's also a bowl of sweet soup made with fresh sweet potatoes cut into chunks and boiled without extra sugar.

This farmhouse rice looks thin, but the taste is really good.

Xie Yinan, a Chinese who has lived in the American Empire for more than ten years, slammed the fried tofu into her mouth, the taste in her mouth and the aroma in her memory all bloomed, and she almost burst into tears when she ate it.

"Grandma, your cooking is delicious!" Xie Yinan couldn't tell Grandma how much he missed this simple taste, so he could only thank Grandma with the praise of fairy tales.

"If you like it, eat more, and grandma will make it for you later."

"Hmm!"

Xie Yi buried her head in hard work, but she had a big heart and a small belly, and she didn't pay attention to it, and she was uncomfortable after eating, she didn't sit or stand, and she didn't lie down, she was tossing!

"The little girl loves beauty so much, can't wait for such an idea?"

Xie Yinan wants to cry without tears, my own grandmother, where am I in a hurry to buy mirrors, am I in a panic?

However, in such words, where did Xie Yinan's soul in his thirties speak, isn't it a shame?

"Grandma, I didn't." Xie Yinan can't defend herself, but she can deny it.

"Okay, good, no, no."

It's just that it obviously doesn't have much effect. Xie Yinan sighed for the Nth time, and followed his grandmother to the grocery store in the middle of the village with his head down.

The sun at noon in early summer is actually not hot, and for those who are used to doing farm work, the lethality is simply negligible, but Xie Yinan still insists on wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat on his and his grandmother's head. Grandma is not too young, you have to start paying attention, herself, her little skin is very white and tender, with her thirty years old, she is not interested in becoming a little clay figure, a little black girl or something. That's pretty scary, okay?

Once reborn, she is determined to be a veritable Bai Fumei, this beauty or something, don't you have to start from a young age?

Besides, this ultraviolet ray is the natural enemy of freckles, and she hasn't forgotten the little freckles that made her grit her teeth with hatred in her previous life, but she has no way to use it.

There is also grandma, in her previous life, she lived because of skin cancer.