A large area of land at the entrance of Zhangjia Village has built a three-storey small western-style building, the house faces north and south, the north-south longitudinal wide road is equipped with an east-west sidewalk, both sides of the road are used to plant trees, every family has a courtyard, and there are uniformly placed pipes for drainage, and the water pipes from the county are used to pass through the water, and the layout of the wires is the same as the electric poles erected in the county, all of which are hung high with electric poles.

Zhang Shaoping and Zhang Shao'an were dumbfounded and relaxed, they hadn't been home for a year, and they couldn't imagine that their hometown had become upside down, and the current situation was much better than ever.

Zhang Shaoping and his younger brother Zhang Shao'an rushed to the house with their bags, Li Jianmei, a woman's family, was feeding chickens at the door of her own house, Zhang Youcai sat on the stone hill and smoked a dry tobacco bag leisurely, when Shaoping and Shao'an walked to the door, Zhang Youcai stood up from the stone ridge excitedly, looked at the two eldest grandsons in front of him, and the corners of his mouth were happy.

"Shaoping, Shao'an, why are you two back?" Zhang Youcai said with a smile.

"Grandpa, school is on holiday, so I'm back," the two brothers said in unison.

"Okay, good, good, just come back, you want to kill your grandfather and me, your father is busy every day for the livelihood of every household in the village, and he has no time to nag with me, all the big and small affairs in this family are handled by your mother, grandpa I am bored and smoking our dry tobacco bag to relieve boredom, grandpa I feel uncomfortable!"

"Grandpa, our brothers are back, don't feel bad, let me relieve your boredom with you," Zhang Shaoping said.

"Okay, good, good, with your brothers, grandpa won't be bored, otherwise I'll be in a panic."

"By the way, grandpa, when Shao'an and I came in from the entrance of the village just now, we found that our village was covered with bungalows, which are very similar to the houses in the county town."

"Opposite the mile, those bungalows were designed and built by your father and your uncle Jianguo together to lead the engineering team, but they look so beautiful, your grandfather and I have lived for most of my life and have seen such a beautiful house for the first time."

Just when Shaoping and his grandfather Zhang Youcai were chatting happily, Zhang Fugui and Zhang Jianguo came over, and Fugui was very happy to see his two dolls coming home from vacation, and the corners of his mouth were smiling.

This family hasn't seen each other for a year, the whole family is sitting on a stool and chattering, only Li Jianmei, a woman, is messing in the kitchen by herself.

The snorting made time always pass inadvertently, the sky gradually darkened, the whole family gathered around the dinner table and laughed, and Li Jianmei, a woman, made a table full of dishes and placed them on the dining table.

"Shaoping, Shao'an, how about you two try this dish?" Li Jianmei took two pairs of clean chopsticks, sandwiched a little bit of the fried plate of shredded meat, and put it in her two doll bowls.

Shaoping and Shao'an took the bamboo chopsticks and began to pull the food in the bowl, they hadn't tasted this familiar and friendly taste for a long time, and the two brothers ate with relish.

After Shaoping quickly finished pulling the food in the bowl, he walked into the hall and found out the books that An Yuran gave him when he parted from his bag, Shaoping roughly flipped through it, and in the process of turning it, Shaoping turned over a note from a book, this white note flashed in his eyes like a dazzling electric light, which made him dizzy all of a sudden!

He carefully opened the note, and when he saw what was expressed between the lines of the note, his chest seemed to feel a huge warm current surging in his chest, his eyes turned a little, the corners of his mouth smiled unconsciously, he held the note tightly, and ran out of the hall.

The bright starry sky illuminated the earth, and the bright full moon made him feel refreshed and enchanted, but the warm and happy torrent soon receded in him.

He immediately returned to the real life he was in, and it was all simple and clear: they couldn't be together!

Yes, it can't be. How can a hillbilly and farmer from the countryside get along with a woman who has lived in a public family since childhood? I have also heard that there are college students who go to the countryside to marry farmers, but this is still a very rare phenomenon after all. Shaoping felt that he and Yuran were a little too extravagant to be friends, let alone being with her, although the conditions at home have been much better in recent years, and the situation has been getting better and better, but rural people are rural people after all, but they are not as pampered as she lives in the city, and has all kinds of high-quality resources.

Zhang Shaoping thought about it and felt that he was not worthy of Yuran, the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt, and his heart hurt as if he had been pricked by a needle, and the corner of his eye saw that there was no one around, so he hugged his head and cried alone, he felt how happy and unfortunate he was, the beautiful An Yuran could actually write him such a letter, but he couldn't promise to be with this person who loved him and also loved him ("good" here refers to becoming a boyfriend and girlfriend, which is what we call falling in love today). Because he knew he couldn't bring her the happiness she wanted.

Since then, Shaoping has always been alone to help his mother Li Jianmei do housework, and he doesn't have much to say a day, whether it is the family or the village people talking to him, he always finishes what he should say, and there is no superfluous word.

Some people in the village who were his age joked with him, and he would also show a disgust, which would make people embarrassed. Everyone thinks that he has changed, he is becoming more and more strange, no one knows what happened to him, and even his younger brother Shao'an, who has been with him since he was a child, is a little confused.

When the water ran out of water, he carried the bucket to a well outside the village, and on the hill near and far, the green of the trees was no longer bright, and it looked gray, and the crops in the field looked slightly better, and he carried two full buckets of water on his shoulders, and he swayed as he walked, sweat soaked his shirt.

The long and short vacation left quietly unconsciously, Zhang Shaoping in this vacation, in addition to burying himself in the muffled housework, is to find a quiet place to read the books given to him by An Yuran, he first read Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", and then read Goethe's "Faust", these books can relieve the pain in his heart, he looks at these books as if he loves ten thousand taels of gold.

The mountains near and far, the criss-crossing ravines, the flowers and trees in the fields and mountains all look a little desolate and old, and the dusty mountain paths are filled with fresh air.

It's been almost a week since school started, Zhang Shaoping hasn't talked to An Yuran, An Yuran thought that he had done something wrong and made Shaoping angry, so he didn't take it to heart.

But seeing that half a month has passed, Zhang Shaoping goes to the library to look at the books alone, and An Yuran also stays in the library, but the two always look at each other for a while and then look at their own books.

An Yuran was a little puzzled, she didn't know why Shaoping ignored herself, she knew that Shaoping was deliberately trying to avoid herself, she thought about it, but couldn't find a reason.

However, the empathetic An Yuran guessed that Shaoping might have something at home, so he ignored her, because he was upset, so he didn't want to talk to her.

But looking at Shaoping's appearance doesn't look like something happened at home, on the contrary, Shaoping is more persistent in learning than the previous year, in the classroom where she attends, she always sees Shaoping and other classmates talking and laughing together, but they don't care about her.

An Yuran felt very uncomfortable in her heart, was she still not worthy of him? An Yuran silently guessed in his heart.

She felt that no matter how she thought about it, she had never felt so uncomfortable since she was a child, she wanted to ask Zhang Shaoping why he ignored her.

She was embarrassed to look for Shaoping directly, so she told Shao'an to ask her brother Shaoping to wait for her on the bank of the river at dusk, she had something to say to him.

In the evening, on the bank of the river outside the county seat, An Yuran came to the shore early alone, she looked at the sparkling water, her mood was a little soothing, when she was engrossed in looking at the mountains in the distance, Zhang Shaoping walked over.

An Yuran felt that there seemed to be a person standing on her back, so she turned around cautiously, and when she saw Zhang Shaoping, there were some tears in the corners of her eyes, because she didn't know if he could come, and when she saw Shaoping coming here as promised, her heart was mixed.

"You, you, you're looking for me, is there something wrong?" Zhang Shaoping said hesitantly.

An Yuran didn't know where to start with him, but the corners of his mouth raised a smile and said: "Zhang Shaoping, you have changed, I don't know you anymore, why don't you talk to me after so long since school started, why do you pretend not to know me, this makes me feel like a stranger, why is this?" ”

Zhang Shaoping didn't know how to answer Yuran, but since Yuran asked himself, he had to give her an explanation anyway, he took a breath and said: "Yuran, I'm very happy to meet you, I came to the county to study and meet you is the luckiest thing in my life, but, it's ......."

"But what, you say!" An Yuran said with a whimper.

"But I don't think we're suitable, I'm a hillbilly from the countryside who doesn't deserve you, if you are good with me, you will bury your future, I don't want to see you think of me and give up all the high-quality resources in the county, thank you for the letter you wrote to me, it's the first time I've received such a letter since I was a child."

"Zhang Shaoping, do you like me?"

"Yes, but we're never all the same, we'll end up being strangers, and I don't want us to go through Romeo and Juliet again."