The situation was not improved until the village party secretary's house installed a telephone. Whenever she receives a notice that she will be closed on holidays and weekends, or that she can't come back from make-up classes, Ah Li will call Abba in advance to save him from waiting in the town in vain.

Driving through the bumpy loess road and through the winding mountain road, the Su family father and daughter entered the village. Sujia Village is a typical mountain village, where the villagers build a village on a rare depression in this mountain range, and the foundation of the house is piled into a high slope, and the villagers build houses on the slope to prevent the possibility of being submerged by sudden flash floods. This is also the most marginal place in Shuangliu Town and even Shuwang County, which is a stretch of mountains, deep in the mountains, with steep peaks and dense forests, and there is no way to live in it.

Sujia Village is very small, there are only dozens of households, the land is scarce, most of them are terraced fields at the foot of the mountain, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, and the days of every household are barely able to maintain food and clothing on the line, after the spring breeze of the part-time job blows into the mountain village, the young and strong labor force in the village choose to go out to work, and most of the people who stay in the mountain village are old, weak, sick and disabled.

It's just that most of the young people who go out of the village have only been in school for a few years or have not gone to school at all, and they can't keep up with the development needs of the big cities, so they can only do the hardest and most tiring work and get the least income.

When I entered the village, it was already dark, the people in the village rested early, except for a few faint lights still shining through the windows, there were no people in the village who were active outside, even if they were naughty children, they all went home to rest, and did not play outside. It's always dark in the mountains, and it's not always safe.

Along the road down the slope, Su Zhiyuan rode his bicycle and drove his daughter all the way forward, their house was at the back of the village, near the foot of the mountain on the edge of the depression, and the same pattern as the village with a high foundation existed alone.

When he arrived at the place, Su Zhiyuan got off the car first, and then let his daughter get off, and it was about to go uphill, and the slope at the foot of the house foundation was a little shaky, and it was not suitable for riding up.

The street lamp in front of the gate is on, illuminating the uphill road, and also reflecting the thin figure standing in front of the gate. The cool breeze of the night blew the hair that blew down in her ears, and in the dim light, the yellow-faced woman had a pair of beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and the wind and frost left the marks of the years in the corners of her eyes, and also brewed her gentle and moving temperament, not at all like a rural woman.

Lin Juan quietly stared at the uphill route, knowing that according to the usual practice, it would take a lot of time for their father and daughter to come back, but she couldn't wait to wait at the door early, eager to wear it.

The girl's summer vacation was only seven days, and before she could make up for her daughter's time, it was nearly a month's time, and I don't know if her Ali Bao has lost weight again. Her body is not angry, there is only a child like Alibao, that is her life, her eyes.

Vaguely hearing the sound of the bicycle rolling, Lin Juan couldn't help but move two steps, and saw the two father and daughter pushing the bicycle uphill more clearly, and suddenly her eyes flashed with a bright light, she didn't expect that the two father and daughter would come back so early today, and they fell down as soon as it was dark.

"Ali Bao!"

"Grandma!"

Two calls of surprise sounded at the same time, Su Li trotted to meet the grandma who trotted down from above, threw herself into her arms and hugged her mother's thin body, and burst into tears. At this moment, seeing her grandmother who was sane, moved freely, and was still young, Su Li could no longer restrain her excitement, and let the tears slip down her eyes and fall silently.

Her aunt is still alive and well, her Amma's body is warm, not the stunned and autistic grandma with gray hair in the memory of later generations, not the grandma who came out of the emergency room with a pale face and no temperature, her grandma is alive and well now. It was now the time she had just stepped into the fifteenth year, and nothing bad had happened.

"Grandma, I miss you, I miss you so much!" How much she misses, she misses it all the time, she often thinks that if she can be a little more careful, her grandma will not suddenly fall ill and no one will notice that she will commit suicide, and it will be too late to rescue.

Her Amma, who was so young when she left, also took Abba with her, turning her into a lonely ghost, living alone in a mechanical way. In this life, if it is a dream, she is willing to be drunk for a long time and never wake up. All this is true, she has to fight against fate, she is bound to change the tragic fate of Abba and Aunt, she wants her Abba and Auntie to live well, live healthy and happy to see the beauty of this world. For this, she will not hesitate to pay any price!

"Good, Grandma's Alibao, don't cry, don't cry, Grandma hurts!" Lin Juan patted her daughter's back distressedly, and glanced at her husband, all of them looked at the painful girl in her arms distressedly. I don't know what grievances this child suffered at school, and he cried so hard when he came back, but he hated that his husband and wife were ordinary mountain people, and they had no ability, so they could only helplessly comfort their daughter here, silently distressed, and had no way to do anything for their daughter.

After a while, Su Li calmed down under the comfort of Abba and Aunt, all the suppressed restraint since she was reborn for a day, after seeing her living parents, they all collapsed, and the surging emotions broke down, and she made Abba and Grandma worry again. She promised that this is the last emotional out-of-control, she will live well, her Abba and Aunt will also live well, there are no conditions, then she will try her best to create a happy soil, in this life, for her to support the sky of happiness for her parents.

After all, the night in the mountains in early autumn was a little cold, and seeing that her daughter was no longer crying, Lin Juan hurriedly took her daughter, followed by her husband who was pushing the cart, and the family went uphill and went home.

Su Li's home is a typical farmhouse courtyard, the three main houses and the kitchen built in the soil embryo were the first to be built, and then the family conditions were better, so the brick walls were pulled up, and two houses were built on the left and right sides of the gate, one was used as Abba's pharmacy, one and a half rooms were used as a storage room, and half of the room was placed with Grandma's loom, where Grandma would spin and weave cloth when she had time, and at the same time as the family used it all day, the family did not need to buy cloth anymore.

The main house of Su Li's house sits in the north and faces south, it is a pattern of three ridges, the east is Su Zhiyuan and Lin Juan's room, the west is Su Li's room, the middle is the hall house, and the middle of the hall house is placed against the wall with a triple cabinet strip, and the middle is for Su Zhiyuan's adoptive father and Lin Juan's grandmother's posthumous photos, as well as the ranking of the Su family's parents who died early and the couples next door. On both sides are placed warm bottles, teacups and other commonly used miscellaneous items.

"Ah Libao, come, let's rub our faces with a hot towel, let's eat, grandma made a lot of delicious food, your grandma went into the mountains the day before yesterday and put down a cover, two pheasants and a hare, fragrant, Ali Bao has lost weight again, you have to eat more to make up for it!" There are no fat people in our family, and we are not afraid of being fat and not good-looking! I didn't ask Su Li why she cried, it was because her children knew that their daughters had a strong personality, and they would definitely not say anything, and they always reported good news and not bad news.

Yes, as soon as she entered the house, Lin Juan didn't say anything and asked her husband to set the table for dinner. She first poured some hot water from the thermos into the basin, soaked a towel and wrung out the excess water, and gently wiped her daughter's face. After washing it and applying the big treasure cream that her daughter bought for her, Lin Juan stopped her movements and asked her to sit down at the table.

Su Zhiyuan has already set up the meal, the girl is rare to come back, and Lin Juan prepared a very hearty dinner, a plate of fried chicken nuggets with green peppers, a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks, a plate of spicy rabbit meat, a plate of fried pork slices with cucumber fungus, a small pot of rare white rice in the mountains, and a casserole of codonopsis, astragalus, mushrooms, and Huaishan pheasant soup are full of aroma, all of which Su Li loves to eat.

"Ah Libao, drink some soup first!" Lin Juan put the bowl full of chicken thighs and some mushrooms in front of Su Li. "I've skimmed out the chicken fat, the soup is very clear, it's not fat at all, Ah Libao tastes it, eat more!"

This pot of chicken soup, Lin Juan started to stew as soon as lunch was over, added a small amount of good medicinal materials that are helpful to her daughter, simmered slowly, and cooked this pot of medicinal chicken soup for several hours. The head of the family has studied traditional Chinese medicine, and he is a barefoot doctor in the township, and the most important thing for their family is a variety of Chinese medicinal materials. If Ali Bao likes it, tomorrow I will let the head of the house go up the mountain, and get wild things to make up for my daughter, her daughter has lost weight again, and the pressure of the third year of high school is high, and she has to have a good body.

The clear chicken soup entrance, the slightly hot temperature is just not burning in the entrance, the delicious taste spreads in the mouth, and the slightly hot warm current spreads from the abdomen after swallowing, and the mother's familiar craftsmanship soothes Su Li's empty and uncomfortable stomach and arouses Su Li's rare appetite. The chicken is tender, the mushrooms are delicious, and the Huai yam noodles are sweet, and Su Li unconsciously ate a small bowl of chicken soup and the ingredients inside.

Seeing that the girl was eating well, Su Zhiyuan and Lin Juan couldn't help but smile, and Su Zhiyuan took a small bowl and added some rice and put it in front of the girl. His wife gave birth to a pear with dystocia and hemorrhage, her body was short and there was no milk, and the milk powder in the city was too expensive, and they couldn't afford it. A Libao was raised by the east family and the west family since he was a child, and then raised with rice soup.

Yes, perhaps because I have been accustomed to the taste since I was a child, Ah Li loves rice more than people in the mountains. It's just that the soil here is thin and they don't produce rice. The terraces are mostly planted with corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, wheat, these drought-resistant and high-yield crops, and they only have spare money in hand to buy some rice in the town and come back to Alibao to eat, until the past few years, Alibao is angry, there is no tuition and subsidy for school, the family conditions are slightly better, and their family has some savings, so they always have rice, so that Alibao can eat it when he comes back.

"Ah Libao, eat vegetables, eat some food! Drink the soup at the end of the day. ”

The daughters and wives are all weak in spleen and stomach, and it is a different habit for their family to drink soup first and then eat, but Alibao has a small appetite, and they don't want Alibao to be full after drinking the soup.