It is the busy season when the ears of wheat bow their heads and the farmers bend over. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the breeze, the ears of wheat gently shook their heavy heads, as if bowing to the earth that nurtured them, and as if welcoming the return of the wanderers who had left their hometowns.

The car approached the Qingliang River, Dalin saw that the water of the Qingliang River was not as polluted as in the past, but it was still like the muddy tears of the elderly, the fish and shrimp were gone, and there was no anger.

The weather was not very hot, but there were already a few bare-bottomed children playing in the riverbed, proudly showing passers-by their "********* Dalin came back this time, it has only been more than half a year since he last visited his home, and he still feels new and kind when he sees everything outside the car window.

When Dalin was young, his favorite thing was to go to the market with his grandfather, who walked in front with a burden or a basket on his back, and he followed behind, and when he came back from the market, his grandfather would always spend a few cents or a few cents to buy him a popsicle or a handful of fried peanuts, the popsicle was very sweet, and the peanuts were very fragrant, but the distance from the market town to the village was too difficult to walk, and the grandson asked several times, "How far is it?" He replied the same number of times as his grandfather, "It's almost there!" After that, I finally saw the old poplar tree in front of my house.

Although it is the busy farming season, because it is close to noon, there are not many busy people in the fields, and the wide application of agricultural machinery has greatly reduced the working time and labor volume of farmers. In the past, after the farmers were busy, they all liked to gather at the entrance of the village, cool in the shade of the trees on hot days, and warm up in the sun on cold days.

Men like to get together in a bunch, three or five or more people, smoking low-quality cigarettes, talking about boring topics, talking about everything, talking about everything, talking about everything. They nourish their stomachs with coarse tea and light rice, wash their lungs with fresh air, sleep peacefully in grass huts, and feel that their small days are beautiful.

Women also like to get together, and the content of their chats is more varied and colorful than that of men, what is the east family, the west family is short, the son of the south family is not filial, the daughter-in-law of the north family is not in charge, and everything they see and hear can be judged, all of them are genius critics. Advocacy workers should know that if there is any important news that needs to be disseminated, it can be published in newspapers, it can be broadcast on the radio or on television, but the quickest and most economical way is to hold a women's conference.

Sitting at home, the peasants can check all kinds of information on the Internet, turn on the television to watch all kinds of programs, make appointments with a few good neighbors, open a small table to "fight the landlords," and carry out the "land reform movement" that their ancestors and fathers once carried out in the midst of laughter.

Dalin sat in Zhao Lianming's car, and walked directly to Yanhe Village without stopping at Qiaotoupu, and before he could enjoy the scenery outside the car window, the car drove to the door of his house.

After sending Dalin home, Zhao Lianming hurried back to the county seat, before he told Dalin that Fang Yuan would pick up Dalin and his family by car to go to Qiaotoupu for dinner in a while, and Tie Dan would also wait for them there.

Dalin's father, Cui Changxing, saw his eldest son, still didn't say much, and hid his happiness in his heart, Dalin's mother was still humble in front of her long-lost son like a nanny used by people in the city. Dalin spent a lot of time looking forward to seeing his parents, wanting to know about their lives and physical conditions, and sometimes he was afraid to see them, and they were always polite like outsiders in front of their sons. He also always felt very guilty in front of his parents, feeling that he owed them too much, and they were always unwilling to accept his return, and Dalin sometimes sent them some money or bought some things, they were not at ease, but panicked, which made Dalin feel even more uneasy and uncomfortable.

Erlin, who works in the county seat, came back the day before yesterday to meet a girl introduced by others.

Cui Changxing did not have high requirements for his second son's girlfriend: "If you can live, you will be in the middle!" Dalin's mother asked Erlin's girlfriend to be lower: "As long as I can have a baby, I have no opinion!" ”

Da Lin listened to Erlin, and the girl he had just met looked reasonable, but Erlin was not very satisfied with her. Because through understanding, he knew that this girl went to the south to work for a few years after graduating from junior high school, and then ran back because she couldn't stand the constraints outside. After living in the city for a few years, she returned to the countryside, but she didn't open her mouth when she came to eat, she didn't stretch out her hand when she came to clothes, and she thought that the food made by her mother was not to taste, so she often had to make instant noodles and drink eight-treasure porridge; She couldn't afford any of the clothes her mother made, and she had to buy even trousers and insoles outside. I don't want to do housework, and what I hate the most is to go into the kitchen to cook and wash dishes, and the neighbors around her call her "not sticky (sticky) pot". She also likes to do things at home, which is to be locked in the house alone and apply oil and powder, with a face like a big pumpkin, the upper half is like a panda face, and the lower half is like a monkey's buttocks.

"The most important thing for me to find a girlfriend is to be able to take care of our parents in the future, you work in a big city, the future sister-in-law cannot be a countryman, my wife must be able to live in the countryside with peace of mind, be diligent and thrifty, and respect the elderly, even if she is ugly and the family is poor, I am willing." Erlin said to Dalin.

"Honoring our parents is the common responsibility and obligation of our brothers, you can't wronged yourself for this matter, marriage is a lifelong event, how can I bear to let you do it casually."

Dalin said to his brother bitterly.

Erlin lowered his head, sighed and said: "I'm afraid that sometimes I can't do it if I want to, this girl I saw the day before yesterday has already told the introducer yesterday, she said that she was not very happy to have a relationship with me at the beginning, and it was her parents who forced her to meet with me." As for the reason, to put it bluntly, she thinks that our family's living conditions are relatively poor, the house is dilapidated, and the two old people are not in good health, although there is an elder brother who works in the military system in Beijing, he is only a magazine editor who does not wear military uniforms, and he can't earn much money a month. ”

After Erlin finished the last sentence, he was afraid of hurting his brother's self-esteem, so he glanced at Dalin uneasily.

Dalin smiled disapprovingly and didn't say anything.

Dalin was accompanied by Erlin, went to his ancestral cemetery, burned some paper money and incense in front of the tombs of his grandparents, the two old people have died for more than half a year, he always feels that they are not dead, still looking at himself somewhere, thinking about himself, he has always left a place for the two old people in his heart, often miss them.

As soon as Dalin and Erlin returned home from the ancestral cemetery, Cui Shuanglai, director of the village committee, heard that Dalin had returned from Beijing, so he took a cigarette in his mouth, held his hands behind his back, paced square steps, and shook his chubby body into the courtyard of Cui Changxing's house. (To be continued.) )