Father Ji looked at the familiar small courtyard in his hometown, in addition to recalling all kinds of things back then, more memories were when Ji Ran was young.

At that time, she was still very young, and she was a very well-behaved and cute child.

Since she was a child, she has been very sensible, never crying or making trouble, and she listens to whatever adults say.

When she was young, her family was poor and in poor conditions, she couldn't afford to buy any toys or give her any delicious snacks, and the only thing she could give her was roasted ears of wheat, or fish caught from the river, and boiled a bowl of fish for her to drink.

At that time, Ji's father and Ji's mother were very busy, Ji's mother had to go to work in the field, and Ji's father also had to go to work in the factory more than ten kilometers away from the village, often leaving very early in the morning and coming back very late in the evening, and Ji's mother because the relationship with her mother-in-law was not very harmonious, after going out to work in the morning, sometimes she would go back to her parents' house directly at noon, and then come back with Ji's father in the evening.

For a whole day, he left Ji Ran to his grandmother to take care of, and Ji Ran's grandmother was a serious patriarchal person, and she was also very indifferent to Ji Ran.

Ji Ran has been afraid of her grandmother since she can remember, and other children like to find adults, but Ji Ran is the only one who avoided adults when she was a child, and sometimes, sitting alone at the door is a day.

There is no play, no food, just sit alone on the stone platform at the door, holding her cheeks with both hands, looking at the sky, looking at the birds in the sky, sometimes there is nothing in the sky, she looks at the clouds, and a person fantasizes that there will be fairies in the sky?

Will you become a little fairy in the future?

At that time, Ji Ran was most afraid of the dawn, because his parents were going out, and it would be a day when they went out, and his favorite thing was the evening, because his parents could come back.

Every dusk, Ji Ran would go to the entrance of the village to wait for her parents to come back, and as soon as she saw her parents' shadows, she ran towards her parents with joy.

Ji's father clearly remembers that the feeling of Ji Ran calling his father for the first time was simply sweet to the bone's happiness, but in this familiar courtyard, he failed to give her enough fatherly love, so that when Ji Ran grew up, she had no feelings for this hometown that she once loved the most, and she was reluctant to go back to her hometown, because there was no good memory of her here.

Father Ji stood in the small courtyard, full of thoughts, but in the end he returned to the cold reality.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the villagers here have all moved away, some have taken refuge in the mountains, and some have taken refuge in other places.

The whole village was deserted.

The courtyard was overgrown with weeds, the vines had collapsed, and several houses on the north side had collapsed and leaked from the wind and rain because they had not been inhabited for a long time.

It's like an old dragon clock, who is about to die, and he is dying everywhere.

Standing in the small courtyard, Dad Ji couldn't help but sigh lightly and shook his head helplessly.

"Okay, don't look at it, this broken yard has nothing to do with you for a long time." Ji's mother saw the dilapidated scene in the small courtyard, but she was a little happy, this small courtyard also did not give her any good memories, since she married into the Ji family, in addition to being squeezed by her mother-in-law in every way, it was the oppression of several big brothers, and even a house that belonged to them in their hometown was finally snatched away by Ji Ran's uncles.

She has no feelings for a home, and when she sees the small yard falling like this, she feels that the sky has eyes, so that those individuals can get retribution.

She didn't want to stay here for a second longer, this place didn't belong to her, and she didn't have to stay here.

"Do you want to go? If you don't go, I'm gone. Ji's mother frowned and said, seeing that Ji's father still didn't react, she picked up Su Su and walked out.

Father Ji didn't stop him, he knew that he was ashamed of his wife, and his wife's complaints about this family were also reasonable.

It's just that this place carries too many memories for him, and he is somewhat sad to see the former ancestral house become what it is now.

He pushed the door into the ancestral house alone, the ancestral house of the mourning hall, also enshrined his grandfather's tablet, he remembered that when he was very young, when the family was prosperous, there were hundreds of people, all living in a big mansion, at that time, every festival, adults have to come to the ancestral house to worship their ancestors, remember that time, there are many tablets on the mourning hall, are the ancestors of the Ji family, the elders of the family with the younger generations to worship, full of family affection.

Later, when fighting the local tyrants, the elders in the family were afraid of getting into trouble, so they divided the family, no longer hundreds of people lived together, and the mansion was also demolished, divided into scattered courtyards, sure enough, later Wang Shi recovered Shayu Village, when the local tyrants divided the fields, the Ji family had already finished dividing in advance, they had carried out self-revolution for Wang Shi, and they had become honest revolutionary comrades.

However, even so, Ji Ran's third grandfather was still regarded as an evil landlord, was hung up with a brand, was criticized, and almost died.

Later, his children could not study or go to university.

When Ji Ran was young, he was often told by his father not to play with the children of the third grandfather's family.

Ji Ran was very well-behaved when he was a child, so he agreed.

The daughter-in-law of the third grandfather's family, Ji Ran called her grandma, she is a very good old man, every time she sees Ji Ran, she is happy, and said that Ji Ran must be a beautiful big girl when she grows up, at that time, she wanted to walk around with Ji Ran's family, but she was blasted out by Ji Ran's grandmother in a very unceremonious way, which made the grandmother very faceless.

Later, the grandmother really gave Ji Ran candy to eat, but Ji Ran remembered her father's instructions, so she never asked for it.

Although the eldest grandmother didn't say anything, Ji Ran saw deep disappointment and sadness in her eyes, Ji Ran was still very young at that time, but she could understand the mood of the eldest grandmother at that time, she must have been very sad.

Later, when I grew up, I recalled what happened at that time, only to know that in fact, the grandmother just didn't want to be looked at them with colored eyes, since the third grandfather was criticized, their family has been isolated for a long time, the grandmother was actually born in a very good scholarly family, and later when Brother Wen was born, his parents were sent down, so he had to follow his parents to the countryside.

When the eldest grandmother was young, she was actually a very beautiful woman, but because of his parents, no one dared to marry her, and in the end she had no choice but to marry the eldest son of the third grandfather and get married.

The eldest son of the third grandfather, is an authentic rural man, lazy and lazy, but also short-tempered, the eldest grandmother is a knowledgeable, gentle and virtuous woman, after following the grandfather, a good day has not passed, and has suffered a lot, suffered a lot, the grandmother's heart is full of grievances, want to find a confidant to talk to, can not find, a person with hard work to pull a few children up, and then the conditions are better, want to have a good relationship with relatives, but can not get the approval of relatives.

Later, the eldest grandmother died of illness before she was 60 years old, and on the day of her funeral, there were few people in the village, and I heard that it was a bed cover, and it was hastily buried.

(End of chapter)