The dilapidated courtyard carries the memories of Ji's father for half his life, so he doesn't want this small courtyard to disappear like this.

He spent a whole day removing the weeds in the small yard and carefully sprinkling and sweeping the small yard carefully.

Although he was very tired, he couldn't straighten his waist when he was tired, but looking at the new small courtyard, he was very satisfied and content.

In the evening, Dad Ji went to the well behind to fetch a bucket of water, which was still very clear and dry.

He went to the firewood house, lit a fire, boiled a pot of boiling water, and then found some wild vegetables to cook for the whole family's dinner.

Mother Ji looked at those vegetable nests, her brows furrowed very tightly, what age is this, and you still eat this vegetable nest?

Although Ji's mother and Ji's father are the same age, but the family backgrounds of the two are very different, the conditions of Ji's mother's house are far better than Ji's father's family, although they are all people who came from poor days, but Ji's mother has never eaten wotou since she was a child, and all she ate when she was a child were white flour steamed buns dipped in sugar, in that era, it was equivalent to the oatmeal bread roll cheese that she eats now.

When Ji's father was a child, he couldn't even eat the vegetable nest at once, and in the green and yellow season, Ji's father's mother used some bark roots and some wild vegetables that could not be named, cooked them together, and then gave them to the family to eat.

Those wild vegetables and tree roots are really unpalatable to death, and some of them are even bitter, even worse than traditional Chinese medicine.

However, in order not to go hungry, Dad Ji and his brothers and sisters are also impeccable, so they can only pinch their noses and feed them in their stomachs.

Later, life got better day by day, and Ji's father hadn't eaten his hometown's vegetables for many years.

"Don't look at this vegetable nest is unpalatable, when I was a child, I rarely even ate this kind of pure vegetable nest." Father Ji said, taking a big bite of the vegetable nest in his hand and said.

"Aren't your family rich peasants? Rich peasants can't afford to eat vegetable nests? Mother Ji rolled her eyes and asked.

"What rich peasants? After the liberation, there was nothing, and ordinary people are the same, to say rich, not nothing, I heard my aunt say, my family was quite rich, is a well-known big landlord, my grandfather opened a shop, the guests, all live in my store, at that time the house is big, almost as big as a stadium, I remember when I was a child, my courtyard gate, very high, four horses and large trucks can enter and exit very freely. Dad Ji recalled the past and said enviously.

"Blow, blow, just like your mother, she likes to brag." Ji's mother didn't believe that what Ji's father said was true, because when she got married, the Ji family was poor, and when she got married, she didn't even have a TV, so she got married in a daze.

"I didn't blow to you, my grandfather married the fourth aunt's wife, do you think, if my family is very poor, can my grandfather marry four wives? If you look around our hometown, it's all our own family of the same clan, and we used to be a big family. Ji's father said to Ji's mother.

This Ji's mother heard about it, and when the matchmaker introduced them to them, she said that Ji's father's family is a big family, although it is rural, but the people are very good, so Ji's mother agreed to meet Ji's father at that time.

Later, the two talked well, and it was time to talk about marriage, but the first time they came to Ji's father's house, Ji's mother regretted it, who knew that this big family actually lived in such a small yard?

At that time, in order to coax Ji's mother, Ji Ran's grandmother patted her chest and assured Ji's mother that this family would be hers in the future, and it was the rule of the countryside for the old boy to keep the house, so this yard would also belong to Ji's father in the future.

Mother Ji was young at the time and had little experience, and she was fooled by Grandma Ji like this, so she really believed it.

However, who would have thought that it would not be the case after marriage.

Not to mention the entire courtyard, even the westernmost west wing, almost didn't give it to two people.

What's even more infuriating is that later even this small west wing room was asked to go back, which made me angry.

Fortunately, Ji's father worked well later, and after working hard together for more than ten years, they finally bought a house in the city, otherwise they wouldn't even have a place to live.

"Did you ask his uncle? Is it dead or alive? Is there a letter? Ji's mother looked at Ji's father and asked.

Father Ji was silent and shook his head.

Since the disaster, many people have fled, and Ji's father and mother have only been trying to escape for their lives along the way, and they don't know where the people from their hometown have gone.

Later, after the disaster passed, they returned to their hometowns one after another, and the ± also organized manpower to re-register the people to make it easier to check their relatives.

However, at the time of the registration, many of the survivors of the disaster temporarily deserted, and they felt that this was a good opportunity to blend into the big city life, anyway, now that their homes are ruined and everything is waiting to be rebuilt, no one knows the details of whom.

Some of the people who fled the countryside claimed to be from the city, and as long as no one had conclusive evidence to prove that he was lying, they were generally given a hukou in the city.

Although Ji's father and Ji's mother also want a city hukou, they still want to go back to their hometown to have a look.

He is still reluctant to have this small courtyard in his home.

After returning to his hometown, Ji's father inquired about the whereabouts of his relatives, and as a result, 90% of the people in the entire Shayu village disappeared, most of them went to other cities, and only a few old people who were older than Ji's father returned.

They are old and have a strong country accent, and they can't pretend to be city people at all.

In addition, they have lived in this yellow earth for most of their lives, and they don't want to run around anymore when they see that they are about to enter the earth, they just want to return to their old house and spend their old age in peace, hoping that the disaster will not happen again.

Ji's father asked a few elders in the village about the situation of his family, but no one knew where his family had gone.

The village party secretary of the village was transferred from the next village, and he used to be a middle school teacher and had a bit of culture, but he didn't know much about Shayu Village, but he was only responsible for the future planning and reconstruction of Shayu Village.

Ji's father asked the village party secretary a few times, and the village party secretary didn't know where his family had gone, and the ± department did not have the names of several relatives he said in the household registration book, but after registering it, he asked Ji's father to wait for news.

Daddy Ji knew that this could be a long time, maybe days, maybe months, or years, or even never be found.

"You can inquire carefully, don't waste all your efforts, repair the yard, and then your seven aunts and eight aunts will come back and be cheeky to rob the house." Ji's mother gave Ji's father a dose of preventive injection in advance.

(End of chapter)