Stepping on the afterglow of the setting sun, the mother and son embarked on the road home along the path with a bit of fatigue and joy.

Along the way, Zhang Ran's mother and son met many Tongli residents who walked back from the fields, although most of these people were in a hurry, but when they saw Zhang Ran carrying a hoe and a basket on his back, they couldn't help but stop and ask:

"Hey, Brother Ran, I heard that you were sick a few days ago, and now you are getting better?"

"Well, okay, okay, can't you all work in the field!" Zhang Ran smiled and politely answered one by one.

Because the memories related to the original body were relatively vague, and Zhang Ran didn't remember what the other party called, he felt very embarrassed whenever someone greeted him. It feels like meeting a junior high school classmate on the street in a previous life, and the other party called your name as soon as they met, and also enthusiastically pulled you to talk to you, but you never remembered each other's names...

In desperation, Zhang Ran could only avoid the serious, constantly repeating words like 'Okay, I can work', and then lowered his head and hid behind his mother and asked her to deal with it.

Fortunately, although the original body is very lively, because of the loss of his father since childhood, he usually behaves very low-key in front of people, and he does not often come into contact with people. Therefore, others did not notice anything wrong for a while.

But despite this, all the way down, Zhang Ran was also quite frightened, and it was not until he returned to his small courtyard that he breathed a long sigh of relief and completely put the hanging heart back into his stomach.

After arriving home, the sun had completely set, and while the sky was still slightly bright, the mother and son couldn't take a break, and hurriedly began to make a fire to cook.

Zhang Ran brought some dry firewood from the kitchen, while his mother took her sister Sui'er and fished out a few carp from the water tank in the yard. Then, knock it out with a wooden stick, scrape the scales with a kitchen knife, break the abdomen, remove the internal organs, and quickly dispose of the fish.

When Zhang Ran took the fire fold and lit the bonfire in yesterday's fire pit, the sky gradually darkened.

Seeing that the few fish on his mother's side were almost handled, Zhang Ran hurriedly set up two tripods at both ends of the fire pond...

Just as Zhang Ran was about to go over and put his mother's cut fish meat on a long wooden stick and show off his skills in grilling fish again, he suddenly heard Zhang Li's order: "Ran'er, don't be busy cooking yet!" Go, catch two fish and send them to Sankui's house next door! ”

"Sankui's family?" Hearing his mother's words, Zhang Ran was stunned for a moment, and his eyes couldn't help but have a trace of confusion, and then an extremely honest face suddenly appeared in his mind, as well as some vague memories of the original body.

"Why are you stunned, hurry up!" Mother Zhang Li frowned slightly, and commanded again.

"Oh, okay, okay! I'll go! ”

When Zhang Ran heard this, he was suddenly taken aback, and hurriedly agreed. Then, he quickly threw down the stick and stood up, walked to his mother in three or two steps, and scooped up two fat carps from the water tank, strung them with straw ropes, carried them in his hands, and turned and walked out of the door.

In the night, seeing Zhang Ran leaving his back in a hurry, Zhang Li frowned again and muttered: "Alas, since this Ah Ran has recovered from his illness, he seems to have lost his soul all day long, and he is shocked!" ”

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Sankui's family lives next door to Zhang Ran's house, and the two families are less than 500 meters apart, but this is only a few hundred meters away, and Zhang Ran walked for a full five minutes.

Along the way, Zhang Ran kept searching his intestines and scraping his stomach, sorting out the memories of the "original body", and finally figured out the identity of Sankui.

It turned out that Sankui's family and Zhang Ran's family have the same surname Zhang, named Zhang Sankui, his family is not only a neighbor, but also the relationship between the two families is very good.

And Zhang Sankui himself is only one year older than Zhang Ran, Zhang Ran has been good friends with Sankui since he was a child, and he grew up together.

According to the memory of the original body, Zhang Ran learned that Zhang Sankui had a total of six brothers and sisters, the eldest Zhang Dahu, who joined the army in his early years and did not return for many years. I didn't see much, yes, Zhang Ran's memory was relatively vague.

The second Zhang Erniu is five years older than Zhang Ran, now twenty-one years old, has already married, and now lives in the county, I heard that the business of opening a restaurant is good, but Zhang Erniu often goes home to help every autumn harvest, so he is more familiar with the original body.

The third child is naturally Zhang Ran's good friend Zhang Sankui, this guy and Zhang Ran are good friends who grew up with a bare buttocks, and the friendship is naturally needless to say.

In addition to the above three, Zhang Sankui also has two sisters and a younger sister. The two sisters are a few years older than Zhang Dahu, and they have been married for many years, so Zhang Ran can't remember their appearance. And Sankui's sister is two years younger than Zhang Ran, her nickname is Cui'er, and she has no big name. is three years older than Zhang Ran's sister Sui'er, but because of the family, the two are also good sisters and have played together since childhood.

After the death of Zhang Ran's father Zhang Guangsu, the Sankui family often helped and helped Zhang Ran's family. It can even be said that if it weren't for the help of the Sankui family, the three orphans and widows of the Zhang Ran family would have been bullied by those ill-intentioned people in the clan a long time ago.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Ran's family had the "good family" relationship of the Sankui family, it would be good if they were not swept away by some of Zhang Li's "evil wolves", where would they be able to leave more than 30 acres of land for cultivation and chewing!

"In such a relationship, you should really send a few fish!" While recalling the memories of the "past", Zhang Ran said with emotion.

While speaking, Zhang Ran had already walked to the door of Zhang Sankui's house. Through the low courtyard wall, Zhang Ran looked inside and found that the layout and style of Zhang Sankui's house were similar to Zhang Ran's house, it was also a small courtyard, a few thatched houses, but the yard looked much bigger than Zhang Ran's house.

Maybe it's because it's already dark, the door of Zhang Sankui's house is closed, and he can't see what the situation is in the hospital, so Zhang Ran doesn't know much about the situation inside, but Zhang Ran knows that this must be Zhang Sankui's house.

"Sankui!" Zhang Ran took a deep breath and shouted while standing at the gate of the courtyard.

As soon as the words fell, there was a commotion in the courtyard, followed by a "crunch", and a crack opened in the gate, revealing a face that was exactly as honest as Zhang Ran remembered.

"Brother Ran! I'll just say, it's you! The moment he saw Zhang Ran, a trace of surprise instantly appeared on Zhang Sankui's dark face, three steps and two steps, came to Zhang Ran, grabbed Zhang Ran's hand, and pulled Zhang Ran to the yard without saying anything, and said as he walked: "Brother Ran, you came just in time, a big pot of porridge has just been cooked at home (kettle Han Dynasty cooking utensils, round bottom has no feet, equivalent to a pot in early ancient times), come in and taste it!" ”

Saying that, Zhang Sankui didn't wait for Zhang Ran to answer, so he pulled him to push the door in, and shouted loudly: "Ah Weng, Ah Mu, look who is coming!" ”

"Uh" Zhang Sankui is as his name, not only is he strong, but his strength is obviously much greater than Zhang Ran, at the beginning, Zhang Ran instinctively struggled for a while, and found that there was no effect at all, so he had no choice but to let it go, and let Zhang Sankui pull him into the small courtyard.

After being admitted to the hospital, Zhang Ran found that Sankui's house was still a little different from his own house, there was no big tree in the courtyard of Sankui's house, and a large wooden table was placed in the courtyard.

It is said that it is a wooden table, but in fact it is just a large wooden board supported by several round wooden piers. However, the house of the Sankui family is much stronger than the house of Zhang Ran's house, although it is also a thatched house, but both the thatch and the wooden beams supporting the roof are still relatively new, and they look very strong, unlike the thatched houses of Zhang Ran's family, which seem to be blown down by a strong wind at any time...

When Zhang Ran and Sankui came to the courtyard, they saw from a distance that there was a man, a woman, a couple, and a girl of twelve or thirteen years old, sitting at a wooden table holding a bowl to eat.

There is also a clay pot on the wooden table, and there is a wisp of hot air coming out of it... There is a strong smell of rice wafting in the courtyard...