"Dad! Mother! I am back! ”

After Lan Luo shouted twice at the door, two adults immediately rushed out of the house.

"Big girl, I'm not dreaming, are you?!"

The woman with a coarse cloth apron tied around her waist was still cooking in the kitchen just now, at first, she was not sure when she heard Lan Luo's voice, but her daughter's voice was too familiar, and when she walked to the door, she was immediately excited, holding Lan Luo's hand, and the tears were about to stay.

Lan Luo's father, who was chopping wood in the backyard, rushed out quickly, and after seeing Lan Luo, a burst of surprise flashed on his face, "Big girl, you're here!" ”

"Eun, Dad, I'm back!"

Looking at his father, who was a little thin and had a slightly hunched back, his hair was gray, Lan Luo's eyes were hot, and he took his father's somewhat rough and wrinkled hand and said, "Dad, you are old, your hair is gray." ”

"Not old, not old, only fifty-one this year, not yet old." Father said with a smile.

Father Lan is a loving father, unlike those strict fathers who always like to keep their faces tight and have a strict face, he likes to laugh, like to talk, and like to be with his daughters, from childhood to adulthood, although he is also afraid that his two daughters will marry out in the future, and he may not even have someone to take care of himself when he is old. But he is an optimist, and the most important thing is to think about the future and live the present life well.

Of course, Lan Luo often comforted his father and assured him: "Dad, when you are old, I will definitely take you and your mother to live with me, if my husband does not agree, then I will not marry him!" ”

Father Lan smiled: "Big girl, it's enough for you to go home and see me once a year, and you usually call." If you're dead, give us an end, and then burn some paper on the grave, and I'll not raise your daughter in vain. ”

"Dad!" Every time he heard his father say this, Lan Luo was displeased. But when she entered the army, she found that it was not easy to satisfy her father's little wish. Not to mention the difficulty of asking for leave, it is rare to make a phone call for half a month...... If it weren't for Tianming, how easy would she have been to go home?

Lan Father and Blue Mother naturally noticed Tianming who came to the house with his daughter.

They took a closer look.

He is tall, well-dressed, and has a very good face, and at a glance, he knows that he is a good guy.

Lan Mu smiled and asked, "Big girl, who is this young man?" ”

Father Lan was also very satisfied, nodded and said, "Big girl." He's your boyfriend, he has a good eye. ”

"Dad, Mom, what are you talking about, he's just a friend of mine." Lan Luo blushed and quickly explained.

Tianming scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Hello uncle and aunt, I am a friend of Lan Luo, surnamed Xu, you can just call me Xiaoxu." ”

"Hahahaha" Seeing his daughter's shy appearance, Father Lan laughed heartily. "Big girl, what is there to be shy about taking everyone home. Come, young man, and come with me into the house and sit down. ”

Suddenly. It seemed that she smelled the smell of burnt food, and Lan Mu slapped her thigh: "It's not good!" The dishes in the pot are burned! ”

After saying that, he quickly rushed into the kitchen.

"Old woman, get a few more good dishes. I fried the hare I hit the other day. Father Lan said to the kitchen.

"Got it!"

Lan Luo hurriedly took out the things she had brought from Su Yun, a whole large woven bag, clothes, shoes, and socks...... Eat, use. There was everything, more than what Xiaolan had brought with her.

Especially the two electromagnetic constant temperature foot basins, Lan Luo emphatically introduced: "Dad, you often go up the mountain to collect medicine and hunt, and your mother also has to do a lot of farm work, this foot basin is bought for the two of you...... It comes with massage and heat preservation function, can massage acupuncture points, very comfortable, good for the body, or you can try it now. ”

"No, no, I'll use it when I take a shower at night."

Lan Luo took out a men's down jacket and tried it on for his father, Lan Father wiped the corners of his eyes, waved his hand again and again, and said, "It's dirty, I'll wear it at night." ”

Thinking that the firewood in the backyard was still finished, Father Lan came to the small yard behind the house again, picked up the axe, and planned to cut all the firewood before it got dark.

"Dad, let me chop the firewood, you just go back to the house and rest." Lan Luo walked over and wanted to take the axe from his father's hand.

"No, no, this work is not done by women, big girl, don't work when you just come back today, I will be able to cut this firewood soon."

"Dad, I didn't help you chop wood when I was a child, and you still praised me for chopping well, you go to rest, I'll chop!"

Tianming saw that the father and daughter were arguing, and it was really inappropriate for him to look at it on the side, so he walked over and said, "Uncle, I am a young man, let me chop this firewood." ”

"Okay, you can cut it." Lan Luo was a little surprised at this time, how could Dad let Tianming, a guest, help with the work? Dad is really ...... Seeing the curious look in his eyes and the expression that seemed to be smiling, Lan Luo understood what his father meant, he was testing Tianming.

Lan Luo blushed instantly, although she wanted to explain that the relationship between the two was actually not so close, it was just an ordinary relationship between superiors and subordinates. But with his father's son-in-law-like eyes, Lan Luo was really under a lot of pressure, but it was not good to ruin his fun.

I don't know what's going on, Lan Luo is not very resistant to this misunderstanding in his heart, and even faintly hopes in his heart that Tianming can express himself better.

Chopping wood, for Tianming is a small case, except for some trouble at the beginning, not very smooth to chop two pieces of wood, but he has a lot of strength, an axe down, whether it is right or not, is basically the result of two halves of an axe.

With the continuous improvement of spiritual power, Tianming's fineness of the operation of some actions has been improved to a very amazing point, taking chopping wood as an example, many people have to wait for the wood to be stabilized and aimed, and then they will go down with an axe, but they often cannot achieve the effect of splitting the wood into two halves.

After Tianming cut a few pieces of wood, it was easy to find the trick, three words: fast, ruthless, accurate!

Instead of waiting for the wood to come to a standstill, he stood it on the ground and split it in half the moment it was about to tilt.

Tianming is powerful, after he split the wood, it also produced an explosive effect, and the wood that might have been solved with three axes can be solved with one axe. The efficiency is amazing.

There are still a lot of wood left in the backyard, about 300 roots, and it only took more than ten minutes for Tianming to finish chopping it like a joke, putting down the axe, clapping his hands, and it seems that there is still some unfinished business.

It took a few more minutes, together with Lan Luo, to pile up the chopped firewood into a pile, and Tianming dusted off his body. said to Father Lan: "Uncle, it's all done." ”

Father Lan nodded with great satisfaction and laughed, "Okay, good guy! My big girl has a vision, okay! ”

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Lan Luo squirmed, looking like a little woman's shyness.

"It's time to eat~!" The voice of the Blue Mother came from the kitchen.

……

At the dinner table, there are about eight or nine dishes.

"Xiao Xu, come. How about you try this wild mountain mushroom, picked from a nearby mountain? "Father Lan took a few wild mountain mushrooms and put them in the Tianming bowl.

"Hmm~ good! Fresh. It's fresh, it's fragrant, and it tastes very good! Tianming praised.

"Try this soup again, pheasants from the nearby mountains. It weighs only one pound, but the yam pheasant soup boiled out is very nourishing to the body. You taste it too. ”

"Yes, this one is even better, the chicken soup is especially delicious!"

"And this, the braised hare, is also from the nearby mountains, you taste the meat of this hare, it is guaranteed to be different."

"Not bad! This rabbit meat seems to have been air-dried, and then treated with special seasonings, which is very flavorful and chewy...... Uncle, my grandfather used to go hunting in the mountains, and the hare meat he prepared was also delicious, and the taste was comparable to that made by my aunt. ”

"Oh, your grandfather also hunts?" Father Lan asked curiously.

"My grandfather also lives in the mountains, relies on the mountains to eat the mountains, is over 80 years old, and his health is still very healthy."

Lan Luo's family used to be really poor, in order to provide for Lan Luo to go to school, Lan Luo's father went to the mountain to collect medicine and sell it for money, occasionally hunted some prey and brought it to the county seat to sell, plus farming and raising pigs, he couldn't stop being busy for a year, but he could only get 10,000 yuan. The grain in the field is a bumper harvest, and there is no way to transport it out to sell, the mountain road is too difficult to walk, pick two hundred catties of millet for a day, it is only one hundred and ten yuan, it is not as good as digging a Chinese herb to make more money.

However, there is not only one medicine picker in the vicinity, but also many who specialize in hunting, and after a period of transitional excavation, the wealth that the mountain can give to the mountain people has also reached an extremely limited level, so this also led Lan Luo to fail to realize her dream of going to college, and after graduating from high school, she went to the army.

This made Father Lan feel very guilty, but he was really powerless, and his perennial hard work made him have such and such problems in his body, and sometimes it was uncomfortable, and it was dozens or hundreds of trips to the hospital, and his heart ached...... In order to save money, he went to the mountains to find some herbs to boil into a decoction to support himself, and he has recuperated a little better over the years, but let him go to the construction site in the city to do heavy work, it will definitely not work.

Relying on Lan Luo's subsidy remitted home in the army, the burden on the family has been significantly reduced, at least the youngest daughter's tuition and living expenses don't have to worry about anymore.

Moreover, last year, Lan Luo went home that time and brought 500,000 yuan over, everyone in the family was shocked, Lan Luo explained that she had made a great contribution in the army, which was a reward from the state, and it was all serious money that could be spent with confidence.

After hearing his father say that this new house cost 280,000 yuan, Lan Luo blamed him a little: "Dad, Mom, I gave you 500,000 yuan, you can all buy a house in the county, why build such a good house in this mountain?" Isn't that a waste? ”

In fact, there are not no rich people in the old mountain village, but the rich people have moved to the city with their families, even if some families are not particularly poor, they will not rebuild the dilapidated houses: one is a cost problem, and the other small mountain village will be eliminated sooner or later, and the transportation is too inconvenient. Over the years, the people in the village have moved outside one after another, and there may be less than 50 households still in the village.

Father Lan's move to build a good house in this village is completely a waste, and even looks stupid in the eyes of others, and he is panicked when he has money, and after the house is built, few villagers praise how this house looks good. ”

Father Lan smiled: "The city is not necessarily as good as the countryside, as soon as I stand on the side of the road in the city, I feel unwell." The air in the mountains is good, the water is clean, and I can retire here with your mother in the future. ”

Lan Luo knew what his father really meant, he didn't want to cause trouble for himself, and the reason why he built a better house in the countryside was that he hoped that when he came back to see them, he could have better living conditions.

"Dad, I said before that I would take you and my mother to the city to retire! Not only that, but I will buy you a villa, and you will live in the villa from now on, and you will never stay in this mountain and suffer again. ”

"Okay, if there is a villa, we will go to live in your villa." After speaking, Father Lan also glanced at Tianming with a smile.

Tianming smiled embarrassedly.

Lan Luo's sister Lan Meng, who is still attending classes in the county school, will only go home every three weeks, and will take the college entrance examination next year, her study pressure is very high, and it is estimated that she will not be able to return home for the New Year.

"Dad, Mom, let's go to the county seat to see my sister in two days, I haven't given her the gift I bought for her, let's go and surprise her!"

"Okay, the little girl misses you, let's go see her together."

…… (To be continued......)