In early autumn, the afternoon sun shines on an ordinary small courtyard in the mountain village, through the slightly tall laurel tree, reflected on a bluestone path in the courtyard.

Nie Yun stood in the courtyard, staring blankly at the mottled shadows of the trees.

The sound of birdsong in the mountains and forests not far away is clear to your ears......

Everything is like a world away!

In Nie Yun's memory, it seems that he hasn't set foot in this small courtyard for more than ten years, either fifteen or sixteen years. In short, at that time, Nie Yun had not yet gone to elementary school and lived in his grandfather's house in the countryside. And this small courtyard is the small courtyard of Grandpa's house in Nie Yun's memory.

Since he was in the first grade of primary school, Nie Yun was picked up by his parents who were far away in the provincial capital, and never came back, even when his grandfather died, Nie Yun was unable to come back because of academic delays. Until now, Nie Yun graduated from college at the age of twenty-two, and I am afraid that he will really have a life of fifteen or sixteen years!

"If it weren't for the damn civil service exam, I'm afraid I wouldn't have come back once in my life. Even if he comes back, at most he will take a second look and sweep the tomb of his grandfather......"

With his hands in his trouser pockets, Nie Yun laughed at himself.

When he was admitted to university, Nie Yun didn't know which nerve went wrong, so he actually applied for a major in "urban gardening", and after four years of college, because of the lack of professionalism, those high-tech companies couldn't get in, and there seemed to be only one broad road in front of Nie Yun - taking the civil service exam.

However, Nie Yun took the exam three times in a row, all of them were one result, he passed the written test, but he couldn't pass the interview!

It's not that Nie Yun's interview performance is too poor, it's mainly that those civil servant positions are usually only recruited by three or two people, and the competition is already fierce enough, plus a few more related households, a candidate like Nie Yun who has no way out, the chance of being admitted is very small.

Although Nie Yun's father was the first college student to come out of the village, he had only barely gained a foothold in the provincial capital over the years.

Both parents are ordinary workers, it doesn't matter what the way is, Nie Yun wants to step into the threshold of civil servants, it is even more difficult!

The successive failures made Nie Yun a little disheartened. Nie's father saw that Nie Yun was a little depressed, so he simply sent Nie Yun back to his hometown in the countryside to worship his grandfather, and at the same time lived for two months to recuperate.

This is the scene where Nie Yun returns to the small courtyard of his grandfather's house......

Standing in the small courtyard, Nie Yun looked around at the small courtyard.

There is almost no difference from the small courtyard in my memory, my grandfather's house only has three main houses made of bluestone, and the courtyard is not too big, the width is only seven or eight meters, and the length is only about ten meters, a total of one hundred and ten square houses. There is a stone road in the small courtyard, which leads from the main house to the main gate, and there is a small west house in the courtyard for the kitchen. The east side of the yard is planted with a laurel tree more than three meters high, the diameter of the crown is also two meters upward, it is the silver cinnamon variety, at this time it is close to the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the laurel tree has a little white flower, fragrant and pleasant.

Grandpa likes osmanthus flowers, but Nie Yun has this impression in his memory.

I heard my father say that in the early years, my grandfather's house still had a few pots of precious osmanthus bonsai, with ancient roots, lush canopy, and good varieties. It's a pity that during the ten years of turmoil, all these osmanthus bonsai were smashed......

"If grandpa's bonsai back then could have kept one or two pots, I'm afraid I wouldn't be so depressed now!"

Thinking of this, Nie Yun seemed to think of something again, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

In recent years, the people's living standards have generally improved, flowers and birds antiques have risen greatly, and some decades of treasures and old pile bonsai can often be sold for hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan at a high price, comparable to the national treasure level of antique calligraphy and painting.

Nie Yun expected that if his grandfather's treasured osmanthus bonsai remained until now, it was estimated that it would be worth this amount!

Nie Yun's thoughts, if they fall into the ears of those experts who play with flowers and birds, they will definitely scold Nie Yun for being vulgar and incomprehensible, and only money is left in his eyes.

But the reality is like this, and Nie Yun has no way!

Nie Yun still clearly remembers that when he and his girlfriend Li Xiaoli went to see her parents just after graduation, Li's mother reminded Nie Yun that there was no three-bedroom house of more than 100 square meters in the provincial capital, and he didn't want to continue to be friendly with his girlfriend!

Nie Yun's parents are just ordinary workers, and their hometowns are all rural, so they haven't saved much money at all over the years, Nie Yun went to school and Nie Yun's grandfather was sick, and it took a lot of money. Now the housing prices in the provincial capital have been speculated to an outrageous level, and if you want to buy a house for Nie Yun in the urban area, I am afraid that you can't even afford the down payment.

originally expected Nie Yun to be admitted to the civil service, and his girlfriend's mother's attitude would be a little more relaxed.

But he didn't expect that Nie Yun had been defeated again and again, and none of them succeeded......

In the past few months after graduation, his girlfriend went to work in a company in the provincial capital, and Nie Yun was "unemployed" at home, and the contact between them was unconsciously reduced......

In this case, Nie Yun had the kind of thought he had before.

"It's a pity that I don't know much about these things like flowers and bonsai, otherwise, it is also a good way to develop the cultivation of flowers and bonsai......

Nie Yun said secretly in his heart.

Flowers and birds antiques, flowers and birds antiques, "flowers and birds" and "antiques" are often linked, which is definitely a lot. Although Nie Yun has been exposed to his grandfather since he was a child, has been exposed to some bonsai knowledge, and has studied urban gardens in college, he can only be regarded as a layman in terms of flowers and bonsai.

After all, the "knowledge" when I was a child was too long, and what I learned in college was purely theoretical......

"Forget it, I don't want to do that. Recuperate in your hometown for two months, concentrate on studying, and take the exam a few times after the year! ”

With a long exhale, Nie Yun said secretly in his heart.

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The village where Nie Yun's hometown is located, called Majiatun, is backed by a rolling mountain. Most of the people in the village have the surname Ma, but there are also some other surnames, such as the "Nie" surname of the Nie Yun family, which is the only one.

Although Majiatun is a mountain village, its location is not remote, it is only thirty or forty miles away from the county seat, and it is only ten miles away from the town. Nie Yun took a four-hour drive from the provincial capital to the county seat, then took a minibus to the town, got off at the nearest intersection from Majiatun, and walked for half an hour before arriving at the village.

When he entered the village, Nie Yun met a few aunts and aunts, who had not come back for more than ten years, and Nie Yun didn't know much about these aunts and aunts.

Fortunately, an aunt recognized Nie Yun, who was eight points similar to Nie's father, and asked Nie Yun with concern.

Now that he returned to the old mansion, it was already past the afternoon, Nie Yun put the travel bag on the kang of the old mansion and walked to the small courtyard. After feeling a sigh in my heart, unconsciously, I was also a little hungry.

I took out my phone and looked at the time, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was past dinner.

Although there are pots and pans and cooking utensils in the old house, the iron pot has not been used for a few years, and it has long been rusted, and the mountain village also burns firewood, and the whole family does not have half a bundle of firewood, and there is no way to make a fire for cooking.

It seems that he can only eat some biscuits in his travel bag or something to satisfy his hunger.

Nie Yun was thinking in his heart, when suddenly there was a "squeak" at the gate, and the locust gate of the small courtyard had been pushed open, only to see a long-haired girl with braids leaning in and looking inside.

This girl is only about ten years old, and her skin is not as dark as the girl in the mountains, but very fair. Compared with Nie Yun's wheat-colored skin, it seems that Nie Yun is more like a mountain man. Melon seed face, curved eyebrows, a pair of big eyes sparkling, full of aura, mouth gently pursed, two small dimples on pink cheeks, and a hint of curiosity between the expressions.

What a beautiful girl!

While seeing this girl, Nie Yun couldn't help but feel a wave in his heart, Rao is Nie Yun has lived in the city for more than ten years, and he is used to seeing all kinds of beauties, but when he sees this girl, he still can't help but admire in his heart.

Who is this girl and what is she running here for? Nie Yun was a little curious about the girl who suddenly appeared at his door.

"Nie ...... Uncle Nie? ”

Without waiting for Nie Yun to ask, when this girl saw Nie Yun, she asked timidly.

The girl's voice was soft, like a spring in the mountains. asked Nie Yun, and without waiting for Nie Yun to answer, her pretty face turned a little red at first, but this girl still resolutely walked into Nie Yun's small courtyard.

The girl wore a floral plaid shirt on top and white trousers on the bottom, I don't know if the shirt didn't fit well or for other reasons, and the two buttons on her chest were almost open. Combined with this girl's incomparably innocent face, it made Nie Yun feel the urge to have a nosebleed.

However, hearing this girl call herself "Uncle Nie" just now, it made Nie Yun have the urge to vomit blood, and being called uncle by a girl who is not a few years younger than him, Nie Yun is still not very used to it.

"You are?"

With doubts, Nie Yun asked the girl.

"Uncle Nie, I'm next door...... Da Nier next door ...... "The girl was a little shy, and before she could say a few words, she blushed and lowered her head, and her chin was almost buried in the majesty of her chest.

"Big Nier?" Hearing this girl's self-introduction, a flash of inspiration flashed in Nie Yun's mind, and he almost blurted out, "You are the Tian family's eldest Nier?" ”

For his childhood, Nie Yun has few memories, in addition to a few pots of osmanthus bonsai at his grandfather's house, there is also Uncle Tian who lives next door to his grandfather's house!

The memory of Uncle Tian is mainly Uncle Tian's two granddaughters - Da Nier, who is two years younger than him, and Ernier, who is three years younger than him. The two girls are not a few years younger than themselves, but according to their generation, they call their grandfather Uncle Tian, but they have to call themselves uncle. When he was a child, he was at his grandfather's house, and Nie Yun had been following these two little heels behind him, calling himself "little uncle" and "little uncle" all day long.

Nie Yun couldn't have imagined that Nizi, who was following him with a runny nose, would become such a beauty!

Nie Yun vaguely remembered that the first few times his parents went back to their hometown to sweep the grave of his grandfather, he once mentioned Da Nier Er Ernier, saying that he had just returned to the provincial capital for a few years, Da Ni Erni's father went out to work as a construction worker, and died in an accident, and the mother of the two girls remarried, leaving only the two daughters to rely on their grandfather. In the past two years, Uncle Tian's health has become worse and worse, Dani Tian Zhen has dropped out of school, and Er Ni Tian Tian is still in school......

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