Tiny snow seeds lay on the ground, and Chen Ping's family walked east along the avenue, passing by two villages.

This land should be a small plain, better than the fields of Baitu Village, flat and square, most of the fields have been turned over the soil, moist gray, and at this time the snow seeds fall on it, and a layer of white spots is covered with it.

When Chen Ping saw a gulf stream in front of him, the ox cart finally got off the avenue and headed down the path along the river bend towards the village on the small plain.

Go up the avenue, cross the Chuanyi, and then pass two villages, and see Gulfstream, which is the village where Chen Ping's grandparents are located, Shangwan Village.

"It's coming, hurry, the snow is getting heavier." As soon as I got off the avenue, the snow seeds turned into snow, not big, but it fell down in a misty piece, which was very obscuring the view, and after a while, the dry grass stems on both sides of the road were already covered with a thin layer of snow, and they were constantly rising.

The little lady held a small snowball in her hand, and was picked up from the ox cart by Liu and held in her arms.

"It's almost there, just cross the stone bridge in front of you." I haven't been here for a few years, Shangwan Village has not changed much, Liu's tone is a little hurried, there is a trill, brushing away the snow on the little lady's hat, staring at the stone bridge in front of him, and his steps are a little faster.

The Gulfstream is more than a zhang wide, the stone bridge is erected on it, the village is on both sides of the Gulfstream, and the ox cart is on the stone bridge, not to mention, the stone bridge is quite strong, and it did not collapse as Chen Ping feared.

"That house is." Before getting off the stone bridge, Liu had already walked to the ox cart, holding Xiaoniang in one hand and pointing to Chen Ping behind him with the other.

Looking in the direction pointed by Liu, Chen Ping saw a courtyard not far away, not to mention, just looking at the courtyard wall was much better than his own.

It's actually made of blue bricks, which is really extravagant.

"This is, isn't this Xi Niang? You're back? A village woman opened the courtyard door, she should have heard the movement outside the door, and then came out to take a look, saw the Liu family holding the child, and then looked at Chen Xiaoyi, who was pulling the ox cart, and finally her eyes fell on the food on the ox cart, and her expression was a little complicated.

Surprise, suspicion, certainty, followed by a pity, which is mixed with some schadenfreude.

"Well, my aunt has been getting better and better in the past few years." Liu replied politely, and when he saw the people from his village, this feeling came out at once.

"Okay, okay, this day is definitely getting better and better. You have also had a good life in the past few years, old Liu Tou, he should not be stubborn again, go back and take a look. The village woman who was called an aunt by the Liu family had a meaningful expression and raised her hand.

All this fell in Chen Ping's eyes, and when it came to the ability to observe words and colors, Chen Ping thought that even if the court figures at this time were compared, they could be powerful and comparable.

"It seems that something must have happened in my grandfather's family." I was so secretly worried in my heart, and saw that Liu was already holding the little lady to buckle the door, and the hardwood door was double-opened, with copper rings and copper nails riveted on it.

This is also the door of the house, the two sides of the door are actually gables, and this side is the main wall, in Chen Ping's own words, it is actually the courtyard wall. Chen Ping stood over and measured it, it was higher than the courtyard wall of his house, and it should be seven or eight feet by his eyes.

After waiting for a while, the courtyard gate did not move.

Liu picked up the copper ring and buckled it a few times, the force was greater, and the little lady stretched out her hand, tilted her body and slapped it twice on the wooden door.

"Not at home?" A layer of snow fell on Chen Xiaoyi's gray hat, and he took it down and shook it twice.

Walking such a long way, if this woman is not at home, it will be delayed.

"It must be at home, Grandpa, didn't you see that the door of this house is bolted from the inside?" There is no lock on the copper ring outside the door, this door can only be locked from the inside, Liu's strength is not small, such a big movement, it is impossible not to hear it inside, Chen Ping thought that most of the previous guesses were true.

"If you're at home, why don't you open the door?" Chen Xiaoyi's face was angry, obviously thinking crookedly, "Don't knock, if you don't open the door, then we'll go back." ”

This stubborn temper.

"I've just come, why do you want to go back? Isn't there something going on at home? Liu understood Chen Xiaoyi's thoughts, but at this time she thought of other possibilities.

"Xiao Anzi, you roar and take a look." Chen Pingdao.

Chen An nodded, opened his mouth and shouted at the door: "Open the door, if you don't open the door, I will smash this door." ”

The ruffian shouted a little harder, and his voice changed his tone.

Don't say it, there is indeed a sound inside the door when you shout like this, it is very noisy, with a bang, and it doesn't sound very appropriate across a few walls.

"How can you shout like this, even if there are people inside, they don't dare to open the door." It seems that there is really something wrong with his maternal grandparents' family, and most of them are caused by foreign debts, Chen Ping cleared his throat, and this shouted to the door by himself, "Grandfather, there is no one outside the door, it is the daughter of Baitu Village who came back with her family to visit relatives." ”

In a word, to the point.

After a while, there was a sound of footsteps inside the door, and they stopped behind the door.

"Outside, Xi Niang is back?" It was an old woman's voice, trembling and trembling, and from the sound, I could imagine that the old woman seemed to be holding on to the door with one hand, and her eyes were looking at the solid wooden door.

"It's me, mother." Liu Shi answered, his eyes slightly red.

With a creak, the deadbolt was probably raised, and the door opened.

Chen Ping looked at the old woman behind the door, his grandmother, and by calculation, she should be fifty or sixty years old, but her hair was mostly gray, wrinkles were crawling all over her forehead, her eyes were bloodshot, her gray and black eye bags were very heavy, and she was wearing a linen coat, and her face was a little pale because of the cold.

It's not the first time I've seen my grandmother in my impression, although it's been a long time and her face is a little blurred, but Chen Ping still has silk cloth in his mind, and the words are magnanimous, but now when I see it, it's not much better than the ordinary old woman.

"Mother." Listening to the sound of Liu's eyes were already red, and now seeing the mother who had changed her appearance, Liu's tears could no longer hold back, flowed out of the corners of her eyes, and stepped forward and fell into the arms of the old woman.

The old woman stretched out her hand and patted Liu's back, and the old tears were rampant.

"Okay, okay, it's good to come back, it's good to come back, Xi Niang doesn't cry, I've been wronged all these years, it's good to come back."

The two women were crying, and Chen Ping stepped into the door of the house, but his eyes were wandering around. My grandparents' house is really good, at least it should be a two-entry yard, similar to the uncle's house in Liuhe County.

However, as far as Chen Ping estimates, his grandparents' house covers a wider area than his uncle's house.

The two of them cried for a while, and finally remembered that Chen Ping and the others were still there, Liu wiped the corners of his eyes, and picked up the little lady who had just been put down.

"It's my grandmother." Liu Shi introduced, and said to the old woman, "Mother, this is Xiao Niang, Chen Zhen." ”

"Grandmother is good, cold, this ...... Grandmother wears. Chen Zhen omitted a foreign word, and took off the hat on the top of her head with her little hand, and put it on the old woman's head.

"Okay, okay, my granddaughter is really good, come, let grandmother see, has she been freezing all the way." Children, Chen Zhen is handsome, and she is so well-behaved, which makes the old woman laugh.

There was a commotion here, and a person suddenly rushed out of the courtyard.

"Sister is back, hurry up and go into the house and sit." There were more than twenty people coming, also dressed in linen, and much thinner than the old woman, with injuries on her face, swollen one eye, and her appearance was Zhou Zheng, but no matter how you heard the tone of the action, there was a smell of ruffian.