Since the road from the county seat to Damiaozi Town, even Lin Xiang, who has always been chattering, has closed his mouth and silently looked at the familiar villages outside the window. They have lived on this land for generations, and many of them have relatives and friends in Huaicheng County, many of whom live in these villages along the roadside.

Look at! In front of the village, there is a winding river called Wanshui Village, and the village that is covered by bamboo forests is called Maozhuzhuang, and there are low houses, not because their houses are short, but because of the low terrain, so it is called Wazi Village...... There are also many villages that can be named, and they have their own characteristics.

On the road to the town of Damiaozi, cars are almost extinct, and vehicles such as tractors and agricultural tricycles come and go. These vehicles do not have cabs, so the drivers sit in thick military coats, and let the dry north wind cut their rough and dark skins, and when it is really cold, they light a cigarette and smoke it, whether they can heat it or not, but they always feel better.

There are many people who can sing and dance well in Huaicheng County, those small traders who have returned home after the market, along the way to drive the cattle pulling carts, pulling their voices, singing one after another mountain songs, one after another, the song goes straight to the sky, they are the most enlightened people in this land, and the songs they sing are mostly love songs such as "love brother" and "love sister".

From the county seat of Huaicheng County to Damiaozi Town, Lin Dong spent forty minutes. Today is the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, which is the day of the fair, but it is already afternoon. The vendors and farmers who had rushed to the market had long since dispersed. Discarded rotten leaves can be seen everywhere on both sides of the street.

When you arrive at Damiaozi Town, less than ten miles to the west is Liulinzhuang. This luxury car appeared here in Damiaozi Town, which really attracted a lot of onlookers from the townspeople, and everyone talked about it.

Lin Dong drove down the streets in the center of the town, and from time to time he saw someone pointing at him and talking. Heading west, you will be out of town in seven or eight minutes, and there will be a fork in the road ahead. Since entering Damiaozi Town, Lin Xiang has wanted to speak several times. When the car passed by the door of Liu Zhi'er's house just now, he almost asked Lin Dong to stop the car to see his sister Liu Zhi'er.

"Brother Dong, take the road on the left?" Lin Xiang saw the fork in the road and hurriedly said.

"Left? Isn't that going to Zhujialing? Lin Dong stopped the car. If you want to go to Liulinzhuang, you should take the road on the right! Book. bar

Lin Xiang explained: "Brother Dong, you don't know yet, the bridge that entered our village has collapsed for half a year, and the town has not repaired it. It's winter now, there should be no water in the river, if we are a light person, then naturally we can cross without a bridge, but what about your car? ”

"Bridge...... Collapsed? Lin Dong's words echoed in Lin Dong's mind for a long time. The old bridge paved with cement slabs in his memory was gone, and for a while, memories came flooding in, and the bridge carried too much of the fun of his childhood. He still remembers that when he was a child, every summer vacation, the big river in front of the village was always full of water, and he stood on the bridge, jumped into the river with his friends, and then swam up. Climb to the bridge and jump again......

The old bridge is gone, the old bridge in memory is still there, and that's enough.

Lin Dong turned the steering wheel to the left and went in the direction of Zhujialing. Zhujialing is relatively close to Xiaoliuzhuang, where Liu Qiang's family is located. So Lin Dong decided to send Liu Qiang home by the way. The car drove over the dirt road next to Zhujialing and went straight to Xiaoliuzhuang. entered Xiao Liu Zhuang. From time to time, the sound of killing pigs came into the ears, and the strong smell of the New Year has enveloped this village.

Lin Dong kept driving Liu Qiang to the front of his house, and the neighbors found that such a car was parked at the door of Lao Liu's house, and they ran to tell each other and ran over to watch. …,

Liu Qiang's parents heard the sound of the car outside the door, and curiously went out to take a look, and found that the black car had stopped in front of their house. As soon as the car stopped, Liu Qiang got out of the car impatiently, and saw his parents walking out of the courtyard at a glance.

"Mom, Dad, I'm back......"

"Qiangzi ......" Liu's father and Liu's mother didn't react, and saw that the car door opened, and Lin Dong and Lin Xiang got out of the car.

"Uncle Liu, Aunt Liu." Lin Dong stepped forward and handed a cigarette to Liu's father.

Liu's father stretched out his trembling old hand and took the cigarette from Lin Dong's hand, he heard his son say that Lin Dong is rich now, and when he saw it, he almost didn't recognize it, it seems that after people become rich, their appearance will really change.

"Dongzi, have you eaten?" Father Liu asked with a smile.

"Oh, old man, hurry up and invite Dongzi and Er Feizi into the house, these children must be in a hurry, they haven't eaten lunch yet." After Liu's mother finished speaking, she had already run home to get hot dishes.

"Dongzi, Erfeizi, you two are not outsiders, don't be polite, just have a meal at your uncle's house, go, sit in the house." As Father Liu spoke, he beckoned Lin Dong and Lin Xiang to go inside.

Lin Dong hurriedly said: "Uncle Liu, my parents are also waiting for me at home, I'll come back another day, I have to go." ”

"Yes, Uncle Liu, my mother is also waiting for me to come home for dinner." Lin Xiang also said.

Father Liu took a sip and said with a smile: "I can understand your feelings, it's not that your Uncle Liu is stingy, so I won't leave you, hurry home." ”

Helping Liu Qiang take his things out of the car, Lin Dong and Lin Xiang got into the car, waved their hands, said goodbye to the Liu family father and son, and drove away. There were neighbors who were familiar with the Lin family, and when they asked Liu Qiang, they learned that the young man who drove the car was Lao Lin's son.

"Oh, Lao Lin's son is out, and the good days of Lao Lin's family are coming......"

The villagers talked for a while, and then they all poured into Liu Qiang's house to see if Liu Qiang had brought any new gadgets from the big city.

Out of Xiaoliuzhuang, after a few turns, I entered the boundary of Liulinzhuang. Before I entered the village, I saw a large willow forest. In the cold winter, the willow trees are all bare, if in the spring, when the willow trees sprout, that glance is definitely the best beauty of Damiaozi Town.

The dirt road in the countryside is lined with large fields of farmland, and after crossing the dirt road, you enter the village. Every family here is a villager who is very familiar with the two people in the car. Lin Xiang's house was not far from the entrance of the village, and when he arrived at the door of Lin Xiang's house, Lin Dong stopped the car.

Lin Xiang's elder brother Lin Fei was the first to run out of the house, this guy was tall and strong, and he looked much more burly than his younger brother.

"Adong, you kid is so awesome, you're all on the Mercedes!"

Lin Fei is Lin Dong's childhood playmate, the two are the same age, Lin Fei was born two months earlier than Lin Dong, so since he was a child, Lin Dong has always called him brother.

"Brother Fei, help, Er Feizi came back with a lot of things and helped get them home." Lin Dong opened the trunk, and Lin Xiang's parents also came out of the house.

When the old couple saw Lin Dong, it was like seeing a benefactor, Lin Xiang could have today, and they knew that it all relied on the support of Lin Dong, the nephew in the clan.

"Third uncle, third aunt." Lin Dong saw Lin Xiang's parents, stepped forward to say hello, smoked a cigarette and handed it to Lin Xiang's father.

Lin Xiang's father's name is Lin Guang, three brothers, the third in line.

"Dongzi, smoke me, don't think the third uncle's cigarette is bad." Lin Guang saw Lin Dong handing over the cigarette, so he quickly took out the cigarette and handed it to Lin Dong.

Lin Dong waved his hand, "Third uncle, you're welcome, smoke me, how can there be a reason to smoke the elders as soon as you come back." ”

Lin Guang excused himself and took it, and asked Lin Dong to enter the house sideways, "Dongzi, sit at home, it's not too late to drink saliva and go home." ”…,

Lin Dong said: "Third uncle, I have to go home now, my parents are still waiting for me to have lunch." ”

Lin Xiang said: "Dad, you hurry up and let Brother Dong go home, uncles and aunts are looking forward to him at home." ”

Lin Guang no longer invited Lin Dong into the house, and waved his hand, "Dongzi, then you should hurry home." ”

Lin Dong said goodbye to Lin Guang and his son and drove home. His family is separated from Lin Xiang's family by more than a dozen families. Most of the houses in Liulinzhuang are tiled houses, and only there is a two-story building in the middle of the village, which is the house of Liu Dahai, the village party secretary. When Lin Dong passed by the door of Liu Dahai's house, he unconsciously slowed down the speed of the car, and couldn't help but glance at the door of Liu Dahai's house, except for the big black dog tied to the door of Liu Dahai's house, he didn't see anything.

His home is in the east of the village, and the three small tiled houses were built by Lin Dong's grandfather before his parents got married, and now they are already dilapidated. Among the more than 300 households in Liulinzhuang, the houses of other families have already been renovated, and only his family still lives in that kind of small tiled house.

Approaching the door, Lin Dong became inexplicably bitter, he could be regarded as returning to his hometown, he should have been happy, but thinking of the difficulties of his family in the past, he couldn't be happy at all. His parents have worked hard for more than ten years to provide for him to go to school, and he has been supporting him to finish college, and the family has a meager income and owes a lot of foreign debts.

When I was studying, every time I was at home during the winter vacation, and when the Chinese New Year was approaching, my parents would worry about where to get the money to pay off the money owed to other people's families. Father Lin knew that his relatives were not wealthy, so no matter what, he would always pay off the arrears before the Chinese New Year. Therefore, every year during the Chinese New Year, his family will sell the fat pig that has been raised for a year, instead of slaughtering a fat pig for the New Year like other people's families, which is far from enough, and most of the food hoarded at home must be sold, so as to pay off the arrears.

Mother Lin went to the market to buy some simple New Year's goods, mainly fish and meat, and the family ate a few delicious meals, even if it was the New Year.

It rained at home the day before yesterday, and the sun was very good today, the frozen soil in front of the door had melted, and Lin Dong's new car had run over, leaving deep tire marks. The brand-new Mercedes was covered in mud in a few moments, and it looked very unsightly.

Lin Dong sat in the car, took a few deep breaths, dispelled the sad emotions caused by the memories, shook his head, wiped the corners of his eyes, grinned in the inner rearview mirror, and said to himself in the mirror: "The hard days are over, what else do you have to be sad about?" (To be continued......)