Go home, what a warm word, but when it fell in the ears of the eldest grandson, it was a little more apprehensive for no reason.

The home of this life will inevitably not be a reinforced concrete building, I don't know what kind of honor it is, there is a mother in the family in my memory, who loves the eldest grandson Hong very much, and I really don't know how to face it when I meet.

With a stomach full of uneasy emotions, the eldest grandson brother took Erlang out of the pine forest, went to the official road, walked a journey, the sky gradually turned white, and when he walked to the small Lijia Village in the middle of a hill, the morning light had covered the sky.

The village is located in a flat dam, in the undulating hilly area, this kind of dam is generally extremely rare, most of them have become an excellent place to build villages and towns, Lijia Village was built here, also because of geography.

The road is winding, winding in a green field, on both sides of the road, mulberry trees are planted along the ridges that extend in all directions, the ridges are already narrow, but the mulberry trees can be planted on the ridges like seams and needles, and do not affect the pedestrians to move around, very ingenious, so that people have to admire the wisdom of the farmers.

From time to time on the road, there are early farmers carrying farm tools to the field, seeing the eldest grandson Hao's family, without exception respectfully stopped to say hello, the eldest grandson replied with a smile, greeting, he remembered the name of each villager, can call their names, and can also ask some family trivia by the way.

In this way, there was some delay, and by the time the three of them came to the courtyard of a brick house at the west end of the village, along the dirt road that was not very wide, the sun had already jumped on the treetops of the tallest plane tree at the head of the village.

The courtyard is not big, the courtyard wall is rammed with mud, about half a person high, standing outside you can see the pattern inside, a hall house, east and west wings on both sides, ordinary farmhouse courtyards, the only decent point is that it is all brick houses, and the roof is also green tiles. This is much better than the houses that Changsun Hong saw along the way, almost all of which were mud houses and grass roofs.

The gate of the courtyard is a firewood, there is no one, the eldest grandson Hao pushed it open, walked in, and began to shout loudly: "Child, we are back." ”

As soon as he put the sliding rod in the yard, he heard a noise of pots and pans in the kitchen next to the east wing, as if someone had knocked over something in a panic, and then a middle-aged woman in a blue skirt with a bun on her head with a hairpin on her head, holding a gourd scoop in her hand, rushed out of the kitchen.

"What about Erlang and Erlang?" She shouted, and then at a glance she saw Changsun Hong, who was standing beside Changsun Jin in a daze, and the scoop was thrown to the ground by her, and she rushed over in three steps and two steps, hugged her, and pressed her face to Changsun Hong's cheek.

This kind of warm hug made Changsun Hong a little unbearable, and he was hugged so much that he could barely breathe, but fortunately, the woman quickly let go of her hand and began to look him up and down.

"Didn't suffer hardship, did you? Are you hungry? Tired or not? A woman's eyes, misty and full of tears, calloused hands touched the face of the eldest grandson, like a handful of rubbing, her face that was tortured by years and fatigue a little old, through the love that can be seen at a glance, the mother's worry and joy for her son's return from a long trip are written on it at a glance.

"Ah, I'm not tired, I'm not tired, my mother is relieved." Changsun Hong said with difficulty, quietly pushing her hug away. He immediately realized the difference between his mother and his father, the eldest grandson's mother is called Zhang, gave birth to four children, three of them died, and the second eldest grandson Hong was left with a single seedling, and he was very loving, and he didn't want to let his son go out on this trip, but he couldn't resist the decision of the eldest grandson, so he had to let him go with tears.

"I've lost so much weight, and I still say I didn't suffer hardship." Zhang was disgusted, and reached out to pat the dust off Changsun Hong's body.

Changsun Hao stood by the water tank in the courtyard, picked up the scoop of water on the ground and drank it, and said with a smile while drinking: "The man's family, the children of the farmer's family, how can it be so expensive, if you want to build a family in the future, how can you do it without going through some hardships?" ”

The eldest grandson Jin shouted: "Sister-in-law, is breakfast ready?" My stomach is hungry. ”

Zhang slapped the dirt off his son's body, told him to wash his face quickly, and walked towards the kitchen with a smile, while responding: "Soon, quickly, I don't know if you will come back today, I will be Zhang Luo." ”

As she walked, her eyes were still on Changsun Hong, and she waited until she entered the kitchen before she gave up, and Changsun Hao beckoned her son to the water tank, gave him a scoop of water, and used this scoop of water to wash his face.

Changsun Jin squatted under the eaves, nibbling on a cucumber that had just come from the kitchen, looked at Changsun Hong, and said as if jokingly: "Erlang's body, if you practice martial arts, you can probably get better, he is twelve years old this year, it's not too late." ”

The eldest grandson Hong was overjoyed in his heart, and secretly asked for it, these days, he didn't dare to go out without any martial arts.

Unexpectedly, he didn't express his position yet, but he only heard the eldest grandson Hao refuse in a muffled voice: "Hugh wants to mention this, Erlang just needs to study hard, practice martial arts or something, don't think about it, what's the use of martial arts?" You and I have learned martial arts, and we are not for the sake of selling our lives, so why bother? ”

Changsun Hong was stunned suddenly, wiping the water droplets all over his face, but Changsun Jin just smiled, shook his head, and was silent.

The aroma of the kitchen wafted out through the paperless window, and the peculiar smell of brown rice when cooked was a great temptation for those who had walked all night, and three men entered the kitchen like a gust of wind, and the vegetable leaf porridge in three earthen bowls was steaming.

Zhang smiled and divided the bowl to the three of them, almost without a pause, a sound of "sighing and snoring" sounded, and then all three of them were so hot that they grinned, opened their teeth and danced in the air for a while, and buried their heads in eating and drinking.

To be honest, brown rice is far less palatable than white rice, and the chaff mixed with rice grains scrapes the esophagus is very uncomfortable, and the teeth are also very uncomfortable to chew, but even so, Changsun Hong also thinks it is very delicious, after all, he eats two meals a day, and he is really hungry.

"Eat slowly, I have to go to school tomorrow, and I can't do it if I burn my mouth." Zhang sat by the stove, looking at his gobbling son, and asked with pity.

"Going to school?" With the bowl in his mouth, Changsun Hong's brows furrowed, but then he stretched out, let's go up, this is a good thing that many peasant children dream of.

After breakfast, the eldest grandson brother went out, looking at their cautious appearance, most of them were looking for a market for private salt, and it was impossible for Changsun Hong to participate in this matter, so he went back to the room with peace of mind and slept back to the cage.

This night, I slept all day, until it was dark, and I was called up by Zhang to have dinner, and when I got up, I only felt that my body had recovered better, after all, it was a teenager in the growth period, and the recovery speed was fast. The eldest grandson brother also came back, and it seemed that things were not going very smoothly with his face, but the two didn't say anything, and the eldest grandson Hong didn't dare to ask.

Dinner is still brown rice dry rice, the side dish is vegetable leaves, a little salt is added, there is no trace of oil, which makes Changsun Hong very shocked, he originally thought that the life of the Baozheng family will not be too bad, so it seems that it is necessary to re-understand the living conditions of this era.

This is not the case for the Baozheng family, let alone other farmers.

It was another night's sleep, and in the middle of the night, Changsun Hong was woken up by hunger, staring at the beam helplessly, and fell asleep again after half a sound.

At dawn, after swallowing a bowl of brown rice porridge, Zhang hung a blanket on his shoulder, and the eldest grandson Hong took a look, which contained an inkstone, an ink strip, a brush, a stack of poor-looking straw paper, and a small crockpot filled with water, and the eldest grandson Hao brother had disappeared, listening to Zhang, he went out early in the morning, and must still be busy selling salt.

Salt is a thing that the government strictly investigates and sells, whether it is bought or sold, it is necessary to punish crimes, and low-level illegal salt dealers like Changsun Hao must not have a wide range of sales, and it will probably take some effort to sell it safely and safely.

But Changsun Hong can't help, this kind of thing, it's better for them to be busy.

"Listen to Mr. and go to school with your heart, otherwise you will be beaten by the ring ruler again." Zhang advised, and secretly stuffed a cucumber in his hand.

The cucumber relieved the eldest grandson Hong, who had not eaten enough, and he put the cucumber in the coat, said goodbye to his mother, and strode out of the door.

The school is not far away, it is just an alley away from the eldest grandson's house, and when it came closer, the eldest grandson Hong found out that the so-called school was the private school of the richest man in the village, Li Guan's family.

Standing in front of the two stone lions at the head of the vermilion lacquer gate, Changsun Hong was in a trance, he looked sideways left and right, the low thatched houses on both sides, the yellow earthen houses, and then looked at the tall Daiwa powder wall in front of him, he couldn't believe that this was a thing of the world.

Li Guanren is really rich, are the landlords so extravagant these days? He looked at the walls stretching on both sides, estimating how big it was, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

On the side of the door, a side door "creaked" open, and a man dressed as a sackcloth servant stepped out with a clay pot, yawned and raised his hand to dump the contents of the pot out, and the thick smell of feces and urine spread in all directions with his movements.

Fortunately, Changsun Hong rested for a few days, and his body recovered to seventy-seven or eighty-eight, and he dodged away in a flash, so that he was not poured by Yexiang.

The servant poured out the pot only to find that there was a person standing outside, and was also taken aback, and when he saw that it was the eldest grandson, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Erlang, who came to class?" Come on in. ”