Time flies, time flies, S City, a small northern city, has taken off the hat of poverty in the blink of an eye, and is no longer the backward prefecture-level city that was completely agriculture-based more than 20 years ago, and now it has become a new town integrating agricultural trade and processing.

Qin Xiaomao's hometown, Hongguang Village, is located in this S city.

However, as a village under the jurisdiction of S City, Hongguang Village is a little special compared to other villages, both in the past and in the present.

In the past, Hongguang Village was special in that it was the wealthiest of all the villages in S City, and the reason was simply that it was located in the most remote area of S City, and each farmer had a large amount of arable land.

Now, Hongguang Village is special because it has become the poorest of all the villages. This is easy to understand, with the progress of reform and opening up, urbanization is advancing, and the economic focus has undoubtedly shifted to industrial construction. In terms of development and newer business, it has nothing to do with them.

Of course, the definition of the poorest in Hongguang Village is only relative to other villages, and if it is compared with its previous life, it can still be said to be a world upside down.

After taking the train for more than 20 hours and changing cars, Qin Xiaomao finally returned to his hometown, S City.

Carrying the box and getting off the long-distance passenger transport, hearing the enthusiastic solicitation of customers by the taxi drivers around him, and the shouts of small merchants and hawkers, Qin Xiaomao's somewhat decadent spirit couldn't help but be shocked, and now this hometown, which has not returned since going to college, has become more and more vibrant and more commercial.

Rejecting the greetings of several taxi drivers, Qin Xiaomao decided to take a look around the city that had become a little strange first.

However, just as he had walked a few steps out of the station, a phone call interrupted him.

"Xiao Mao! Have you arrived at the station? I'm going crazy with your mother's ink! ”

Hearing the voice on the phone, Qin Xiaomao smiled, "It's here!" Get ready to take a stroll around our city! I haven't been back for a few years, and it's changed a lot......"

"It's here! It's good to be there! Well, then hurry back! When you have time, you will be walking for several years, and you will be shopping for a while! Hurry up and take a taxi back, your mother wants to kill you! ”

Hearing this, Qin Xiaomao couldn't help but feel quite guilty......

What his father said on the phone was indeed right, since he went to college, he had been working on vacation in order to reduce the burden on his family and never came back, and his mother never saw him, and everyone would understand the situation of thinking about him.

"Well, well!"

After hanging up the phone, Qin Xiaomao also lost his interest in shopping, suppressed those feelings of guilt and took a taxi and ran to Hongguang Village.

Hongguang Village, from today's point of view, can be said to be the junction of the suburbs and the urban area; At worst, it's the suburbs of the suburbs......

got out of the car, handed out a hundred yuan distressedly, and Qin Xiaomao came to the village.

The city has changed a lot, but he has not changed much in the face of this Hongguang Village at this time, except for the fact that there are some new houses in his eyes, which makes the houses in the village a little denser, and the roads have been replaced with cement roads, nothing else has changed much.

And even with these changes in Hongguang Village, the distribution of people has not changed much, and Qin Xiaomao's appearance at this lunch time has not attracted anyone's attention.

Soon, after pulling the box and walking for a few minutes, Qin Xiaomao arrived at the door of the house, and walked straight in after a slight look.

"Kneel down for Lao Tzu!" As soon as he entered the familiar door, Qin Xiaomao and his father suddenly went crazy

Qin Xiaomao was stunned for a moment, "What are you doing?" ”

"Do I still need to explain to you when I speak?"

Qin Xiaomao didn't rush to interrogate, rubbed his messy hair, and glanced at the house that hadn't been back for a few years, and after a while, he turned around and said with a smile: "Old man, are you watching too much of the bloody TV series of 'going out at a young age'!" Hey! ”

"Ha, you stinky boy has learned to flamboy!" The old man laughed angrily at Qin Xiaomao's lack of integrity, and then slapped him on the head fiercely, "You stinky boy!" Lao Tzu should really thank you for being unemployed repeatedly! This is the first time you've been home since you went to college! Okay, now that you're back, don't think about leaving, don't think your wings are stiff......"

"Uh...... When did I tell you that I was unemployed? ”

"Don't think that you old man, I haven't been out of the house and I don't have knowledge! And fooled me into saying that you change jobs often! How can you have so many choices for raw melons and eggs? ! ”

As he spoke, the people in the house apparently heard the noise at the door, and a middle-aged woman rushed out.

"Ahh Is the son back? Oh, what a little hair, you miss your mother to death, woo woo ......"

"Mom!" Qin Xiaomao shouted guiltily, and tears couldn't help but rise

"Stinky boy, do you remember your * mother and me!"

"Shut up, old man! Your son is back, and you are still beating and scolding, do you want your son to not come back after he goes out again? Didn't the son do this in the hope of lightening the burden on the family? Woo woo, you talk about my son and wife, I fought with you......"

After the middle-aged woman finished yelling at Qin Xiaomao's old man, she rushed over in three steps and two steps, hugged Qin Xiaomao, who was more than a head taller than him, and tears flowed down her eyes, "My son! Mom wants you to die, woo woo, you've been gone for several years, and mom doesn't say it on the phone, don't you know how worried mom is? ”

"Mom, I'...... Wrong......" Qin Xiaomao couldn't hold back the tears in the corners of his eyes, saying that he hadn't gone home for so many years and didn't want to go home was definitely a lie

The middle-aged woman stretched out her sleeve and wiped the tears from the corners of Qin Xiaomao's eyes, "Son! Don't cry! It's all grown-ups! Mom just complained, don't take it to heart! It's good to come back, it's good to come back, my son doesn't cry......"

The old man had already turned around, avoiding the redness in his eyes, but his tone was still a little stern, "The stinky boy is that you were too used to when you were a child, and you developed a stinky problem of running away from home and not wanting to come back!" ”

"Old man......"

"Humph! Loser old lady, this is what you are used to! Alas, let's go back to the house for dinner!! ”

After the old man finished speaking, he put his hands behind his back, tilted his head, and stepped into the house without the sight of Qin Xiaomao and his mother.

Cut! Qin Xiaomao's tears remained, and he secretly despised the old man's pretentious posture, the old man's act of secretly wiping his tears just now had already fallen into his eyes that had always been observant.

The environment is still the same environment, a fifty or sixty square meter iron brick house outside the house with a huge backyard, about two acres of land.

The house is still the same room, the interior is simply furnished, except for an old TV and a few old furniture, there is still no new decoration.

Qin Xiaomao is now sitting on the kang in the house where he has lived for more than ten or twenty years.

"Two drinks?" The old man filled his cup to himself, raised his head and glanced at Qin Xiaomao

"Hehe, old man, it's not that you don't know that your son didn't drink before!" Qin Xiaomao smiled a little weakly and refused

When the old man heard this, he immediately raised his chopsticks, "Stinky boy, you don't listen to Lao Tzu again, do you?" If you want to drink it, you can drink it, what is the ink! ! ”

Qin Xiaomao's mother grabbed the chopsticks raised by the old man, "Old man, are you finished!! Knock on what you plan to look like! ”

"Okay, okay! You two, I'm really out of order, drink! Stinky boy, you have to accompany your father and me today, or ......"

"Alas, well, old man! Today, your son, I will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman......" Qin Xiaomao touched his messy hair, and obeyed his father extremely helplessly

"It's like Lao Tzu's son! Come, full of ......"

"Old man, Xiao Mao is still a child, and he has been tired all the way, why did you fall so much......"

"Shut up, old ladies! Am I happy today? ”

"You old man! You can't let Xiao Mao ...... if you're happy."

It is said that the old naughty boy, the old naughty boy, Qin Xiaomao is a little speechless at the moment for his father, who is less than sixty years old, but he doesn't want his father and mother to quarrel over this, so he hurriedly said: "Oh, you are all old, can you stop arguing!" Mom, don't worry, I'll be fine if I drink two or three taels of liquor......"

So, Qin Xiaomao unfolded the cup pushing cup in his mother's distressed and worried eyes......

Soon, about an hour later, when it was almost dusk, Qin Xiaomao completely stopped cooking, was drowned to death by the old man, and after vomiting for a while, he fell asleep in a daze.

Looking at Qin Xiaomao, who was like a dead pig on the kang, the middle-aged woman couldn't help but ask the old man beside her worriedly, "Old man, do you think this can work?" ”

"Humph! Since our son can live alone outside for five or six years, what are you worried about? ”

"However, Xiao Mao has been in school for at least four years in the past few years! Aren't you always unemployed in the year after graduation? Where can I take care of myself! ”

"Humph! Woman's view! ”

"Shopkeeper, what do you mean, after all, our family is such a big area that he is not familiar with at all, and a lot of farm work is suddenly thrown to him alone......

"Do you want your son to get married in a place where we can see, and then give you a big fat grandson?"

"Of course I thought about it, I dreamed ...... it"

"Hey, hey! Then I will tell you slowly on the way, and walk ......"

As he spoke, Qin Xiaomao's old man pulled his mother out of the room, leaving him with a bunch of keys and a piece of paper densely written in advance, as well as a dozen or so red tickets under the bed......

Qin Xiaomao, who was in a deep sleep at the moment, never expected that after he came back from being unemployed, he would not be unemployed this time, and in fact, it was impossible to be unemployed again.

Following.

Qin Xiaomao woke up with a headache.

"Mom, Mom, bring me a glass of water to drink! I feel that I have no strength and can't get up......" With his mother's support, Qin Xiaomao habitually regained the habits of his former high school days

"Mom, Mom?"

After shouting twice more and seeing that there was still no response, Qin Xiaomao opened his eyes helplessly and sat up, and then the kang table where he drank last night came into his eyes, but the food on the table had already been cleaned up.

Glancing around, a bunch of keys on the table and a densely packed piece of paper with words on it attracted him.