Zhuqing packed his luggage at noon and started to catch the car, until the sun went down, his time was spent on the way home, although this will not be home, but he can finally breathe a sigh of relief, the rest of the road is less than a few hundred meters.

It's close.

Zhao Sanxing's small courtyard is made of cement, and like most rural families, there are a lot of chickens, ducks and livestock at home, pulling on the ground, although it is swept clean, but the smell of in the air is still a little smelly, but for Zhuqing, this is the smell of soil in his memory, and he grew up with this smell when he was a child.

"It's almost dark, you definitely can't live in your house tonight, just deal with it at my house for one night, people in the middle of the mountain have moved down one after another over the years, only your family and Master Mo's family are still on it, I haven't been up, I heard that your back house seems to have collapsed."

Zhao Sanxing treated Zhuqing very warmly, not because Zhuqing returned from the city, but because the two were good friends when they were children.

"I haven't been home for many years, and when I come back the first night, I still want to stay at home and look for some blank memories of the past." Zhu Qing rejected Zhao Sanxing's kindness, not that he didn't appreciate it, but that he felt that it was unnecessary, when his father was there, he would go home every night, even if he occasionally went to help others, until 3 o'clock in the morning, he would go home.

Zhao Sanxing also knew that no matter how good his family was, it was not Zhuqing's own home after all, Zhuqing came back after four years of separation, and he was naturally very homesick, and there were those things in his family in the early years, so he would naturally think more about going home, and he didn't persuade him anymore, just said: "That's okay, but you definitely can't eat at night alone, your stove is in the back room, and the back house was washed down by the mountains and rivers, so come to my house to eat today, so it's decided, if you refuse again, you will look down on our rural family." ”

Hearing Zhao Sanxing say this, Zhu Qing really couldn't refuse anymore: "Okay, I'll go up and have a look first, and then borrow your broom, shovel, and hoe." ”

Zhao Sanxing took three things, and seeing that Zhu Qing couldn't hold the box alone, he helped deliver it.

In the past, when I was a child, I always raised my head to see if the peaches on the peach tree were ripe, and now I have grown taller and grown, and then I walked in front of the old peach tree, and I could reach out and touch the peaches that bent the branches, but Zhuqing did not steal peaches like when he was a child, but walked quietly under the old peach tree, and the familiar old man who kept the peach seemed to be gone.

When he was in high school, he had been staying in school, rarely going home, and during the summer vacation, he worked in a hot pot restaurant in the county seat, and his food and accommodation were also in the hot pot restaurant, so he had not come back for more than seven years since he left the town in the third year of junior high school and went to the county seat.

The sky has gradually darkened, the sunset has set the last rays, the withered yellow old tree bears a lonely crying bird, the bird call of 'cuckoo, cuckoo' evokes the childhood bed of the child's listening, the memory of childhood time is like a tide into the brain, there are laughter, there are crying, mixed tastes.

"When I left home and went back, my sideburns have not changed. When the children don't know each other, they smile and ask where the guests are from. Zhu Qing thought in his heart, picked up his suitcase and walked on the path halfway up the mountain, and Zhao Sanxing resisted three things and followed behind him.

There was no road halfway up the mountain, only a winding path that zigzagged through the ground, and there were fewer people walking on the road, and the weeds on the road almost jumped on the trouser legs.

"Strange, I remember that this place used to be all land, why is it all barren now?" Zhu Qing stared at the weedy field in the middle of the mountain, which used to be all grown with grain, but now it is all weeds, and his family also has a piece here, and the weeds in the field are even more abundant.

"In fact, I have to say that the current standard of living has improved somewhat, the young people in the village are all going out to work, and the remaining older generation is getting older and older, so most of the land in the middle of the mountain is deserted, and the land on the mountain is very tired to plant, and the annual harvest still depends on the sky, so everyone only planted the fields, not the fields." Zhao Sanxing said.

Zhu Qing stared at these abandoned lands, and couldn't help frowning slightly, thinking: "It will take a lot of time for the wasteland to be reclaimed, if someone is planting, they can directly harvest the crops and replant them...... However, no one wants to plant the wasteland, and it is not difficult to contract these lands, anyway, they didn't plant, and I will give them some money for each piece of land as a lease fee, naturally no one will object, although it takes some time to transform the wasteland, but I can lease the farmland below first. ”

Zhao Sanxing continued: "Now there are fewer and fewer young people in the village, our generation left in the village except for me, almost gone, Li Hu came to me a year ago, saying that his land was given to me to plant, I didn't take it, my parents are now older, there is no need to let them work hard, I go out to work every day, I can earn about 150 yuan, a month is still a few thousand, enough for the family's expenses." ”

"One hundred and 150, 4,500 a month, in fact, this is a middle income in the city." Zhu Qing thought that he was looking for a job a few days ago, and his salary was only about 2,000 yuan.

"But I'm very tired, I cross the mountain with the sun on my back every day, you look at me, and now it's all sunburned into a piece of black charcoal." Zhao Sanxing took out his arms, and the two arms were indeed like a layer of pot ash: "So, I really can't figure it out, why did you go back to the countryside after studying in college in the city, and it wouldn't be much easier to work as a farmer compared to us, have you forgotten the hardships of helping your family work in the sun at noon when you were a child?" ”

"I haven't forgotten, but I'm just coming back to try and see if I can succeed, anyway, even if I get a salary of more than 4,000 a month outside, but it's more than 40,000 a year, if I buy a house or a car, I will work for others for at least 20 years in this life, and if I get married and have children again, I will only be more tired, so I am still young, take advantage of the opportunity, turn back and break through, what if I succeed?"

Zhuqing said with a smile, thinking that the probability of success is still very high, at least now it has taken a small step.

"Maybe there is a gap between the vision of those of you who have read books and those of me who are rural people, anyway, the young generation who were born and raised in the countryside like me, no one wants to stay in the village and suffer, I also want to go out, but unfortunately the family is supported by the old and the young, and I really can't go, and my parents are often not in good health, so I can only stay at home for the time being." Zhao Sanxing said.

Zhu Qing was stunned: "Are you married?" ”

"It's been two years, the children are more than a year old, and they weren't at home just now, so I guess their mother went to the field to help with farm work." Zhao Sanxing said.

Zhuqing was slightly stunned, secretly thinking that he was still worried about the opposite sex paradise on the mobile phone screen, and everyone else had children.

During the conversation, the two had already returned to Zhuqing's home.

Zhao Sanwai said that he didn't need to help weeding, Zhu Qing shook his head and said no, Zhao Sanxing nodded, and said Then I will go down to cook first, and you will come down later. Then Zhao Sanxing left.

Zhuqing stood outside the house in a daze.

The old bamboo fence that can't stop the dog is broken and encloses a yard of half-human-high weeds, the former vegetable garden is full of human-tall grass, the old earthen wall house surrounded by verdant green grass is barely supporting the last remnants of life, the old wooden door that has been cleaned by the wind and rain hides the heaviness of the last memory of each other, the old New Year's painting on the door panel has long lost its color, only the residue of the corner remains, and the effort to backfill the vague memory of the year, the door buckle buckle on the wooden door supports the teeth of the crack, Trying to show that the thief who didn't know which god had entered the house and stole it, maybe he didn't find anything valuable, so in his anger, he kicked a hole in the door panel, so it became a convenient passage for the rats to enter the house and outside the house.

The old cobwebs of several years are wrapped around the cracks of the closed door, sticking to the stubborn old spring, but it still ushers in a too powerful force, opening the picture in the memory again, and the already broken sunset is reflected heavily in the dark room, as if trying to soak in the last warm afterglow.

The squeak seemed to announce the return of the Lord of the World, and it was like the old servant finally waiting for the distant master to let out a laugh full of sadness.

But it seemed that his presence was not pleased by all things, and the startled dead rats in the corner let out vigilant cries, as if to curse the invaders of their paradise.

Although the picture is old, the memory is blurred, and the memories are heavy, the embroidered hoe that is missing half of the mouth resting in the corner of the wall is like a smile on the last bit of kindness, and the memory of the hoe is like a pot of hot wine that has been scalded, burning a familiar and friendly picture in the body.

It's just that in the picture, there is a trace of sadness, and the crickets outside the house are pulling the strings......

When Zhuqing left home, there was actually not much at home, and now when he goes home, there are not many things at home, several old cabinets are rotten by the rainwater leaking from the tattered small green tile roof, and the old clothes in the cabinet are not known to have been turned out by anyone, and they are thrown all over the ground, and now they are all bitten into pieces by rats.

The roof with several holes in the top of the head reveals the moonlight that is gradually darkening, and the sunset has receded in the darker and darker evening, the quiet night belonging to the village is dyed by the sound of insects and birds, the air is soaked in the freshness of the summer night, and the frogs in the rice fields in the distance come from one by one, and there is no noise of cars in the city, and there is no gorgeous combination of lights in the world, it is not comparable to the night in the city.

However, there is still a good village in the village, at least the air is clean and cool, and it seems to be much cooler than in the city, but there are also a lot of mosquitoes.