Meng Laosan in the novel, known as Meng Jinniu, is a native of Liuzhuang, Naliang Commune, Meng Shengli's hometown, and Meng Shengli's nephew.

Meng Shengli left home at the age of twenty to participate in the revolution, during which he also sent a few letters and some money home, but never got a reply from home, until he returned to his hometown at the age of forty-five with the infant Meng Taohua, his old parents have passed away, and the five brothers and sisters except him, only the eldest brother is left in the room, and the others are gone.

Meng Shengli's name when he was at home was Meng Changshu, ranked third, the eldest brother Meng Changshou was five years older than him, and married Geng Liuju, the eldest daughter of the Geng family in the next village, Geng Liuju was a person who could give birth and raise a family, and gave birth to four sons and three daughters for Meng Changshou, all of whom were raised, with her pungent energy, she kept the five brick houses and a large courtyard of the Meng family classified as rich peasants, and she also had a good reputation for supporting her mother's brothers and sisters, but she couldn't tolerate Meng Shengli, the little brother-in-law who returned from outside.

When Meng Shengli returned to the village, because he knew that he could receive a subsidy every month, Geng Liuju also treated him politely, and later found that Meng Shengli was too thoughtful, not only did not hand over all the subsidies, but also refused to listen to her arrangement, and gave away the lost goods Meng Taohua, and succeeded his own grandson, so he turned his face.

Meng Shengli didn't mind, he only proposed to go alone, and the village chief came forward to divide the house, Geng Liuju didn't agree at all, saying that Meng Shengli didn't send his parents to the end of his life, so he was not qualified to come back to the branch house, giving full play to the woman's ability to cry, make trouble and hang himself, and drove Meng Shengli's grandson and grandson out of Meng's house.

On the point of providing for his parents to provide for the elderly, Meng Shengli did feel guilty, feeling that he was a head shorter, and seeing that his brother also acquiesced in his sister-in-law's approach, he had no choice but to leave his hometown and go to Linshui Village.

Every New Year's holiday, Meng Shengli also takes his granddaughter back, one is to sweep the graves of his parents, and the other is to let his granddaughter be close to his brothers and sisters, and they can rely on each other in the future, but they are always ridiculed by Geng Liuju and cold-eyed, and they are not even allowed to enter the house, and gradually, Meng Shengli will not go back.

And the third Meng Laosan in the article is the third son of Meng Laifu, the eldest son of Meng Changshou and Geng Liuju.

Meng Laifu married a total of three wives, the first was Geng Liuju's niece, who gave birth to two sons and died in childbirth; The second wife is Meng Laosan's mother-in-law, Meng Laifu himself fancied, but Geng Liuju was not allowed to see him, and he was driven down to work by Geng Liuju within a few days after giving birth to Meng Laosan, and was rubbed to death in less than a year, and the third wife was still Geng Liuju's maiden relative......

Geng Liuju doesn't want to see Meng Laosan's mother, and naturally doesn't like Meng Laosan, this is a sad baby, growing up begging like a stray cat and dog since childhood, starting to work for the family at the age of three or four, and working as a laborer in the production team at the age of twelve, Geng Liuju loves other grandchildren, and only has white eyes for Meng Laosan, either beating or scolding, but Meng Laosan's bitter gourd, even grew a foolish and filial piety, and was very obedient to Geng Liuju, and listened to everything!

Meng Tao pays attention to Meng Laosan every time she writes about the plot, and has been waiting for Meng Laosan to appear.

Because in the novel, Meng Laosan was forced to marry by Geng Liuju when he was twenty years old, and forced him to marry a niece and granddaughter of her mother's family, a widow named Geng Caiyue, who was six years older than him and had three young children.

Meng Laosan wore a green hat, and the old Meng family became the laughing stock of the whole village and the people nearby, Meng Changshou honestly made people who didn't like to come out, and scolded Geng Liuju for a long time, Geng Liuju himself felt embarrassed, and for the first time in his life, he obeyed Meng Changshou, and asked Meng Laosan to take his three children to Linshui Village, as Meng Shengli's descendants, and asked to settle down.

Meng Shengli has no heirs, Meng Taohua is just a granddaughter and is not angry, and the people of Linshui Village promised to let Meng Laosan settle down.

In the book, Wang Shuifeng and Shi Datou strongly opposed this matter, but Bao Shunfeng and other village cadres did not listen to them, and directly allocated a piece of dry land at the foot of the mountain that Meng Shengli had opened up before his death to Meng Laosan's father and son, and also helped him build three thatched houses, and simply surrounded a bamboo fence yard.

After Meng Laosan came to Linshui Village, Shi Datou didn't dare to beat and scold Meng Taohua casually, because Meng Laosan saw him hit Meng Taohua with a stone on the ground, so he beat him with a flat pole and his head was bleeding, and two teeth were lost.

There is a scene later in the text, Meng Laosan appears as a background board: on a Qingming Festival after Meng Taohua's death, Meng Laosan took his wife and seven or eight children up the mountain to sweep the tomb, one large and one small, and the two graves were both set up with tombstones, which were Meng Shengli and Meng Taohua's, which should be Meng Laosan's master, did not let Shi Datou bury Meng Taohua casually, but placed her next to her grandfather.

Meng Laosan's wife in Linshui Village is also a widow, Meng Tao knows, and now she is still Lin Erhu's daughter-in-law Ge Xiangqin in the village, Lin Erhu seems to be going to build a road, suffered a landslide and hung up, leaving a young daughter-in-law and three babies, Meng Laosan adopted six as a father, and he gave birth to two with Ge Xiangqin, and he has been busy fighting for his children all his life.

Meng Tao didn't know what Meng Taohua thought in the novel, now she is in charge, and she knows that according to the plot, Meng Laosan will eventually come to Linshui Village to settle down and inherit Meng Shengli's incense, then she has to be prepared, for the sake of Meng Laosan's sincerity in treating family affection, she should do her best to interfere, so that Meng Laosan will not be too hard in this life.

Geng Liuju's superb old woman, if you can get rid of it, get rid of it as soon as possible.

Seeing that a group of people were leaving, Meng Tao shouted coldly: "Meng Jinniu!" ”

"Hey."

Meng Laosan didn't know who called him, so he only subconsciously agreed, turned around, and looked at Meng Tao who was walking towards him, a little unbelieving that it was this strange and handsome girl who called out his name.

Several men also paused, and turned to look at Meng Tao together.

Meng Tao walked up to Meng Laosan and asked, "You are Meng Jinniu, the grandson of Meng Changshou in Liuzhuang of Naliang Commune, right?" ”

Meng Laosan nodded mechanically, opened his mouth and didn't know what to say.

Meng Tao continued: "I am Meng Shengli's granddaughter, Meng Taohua. ”

The stunned Meng Laosan seemed to have been clicked open on the acupuncture points, and his black and red face suddenly burst into a big smile, and he was so excited that he was incoherent: "Ah! Are you a peach blossom? I know you! You're my cousin, I'm your cousin! Your grandfather's name is Meng Changshuan, and later he went to join the army and changed his name to Meng Shengli, he is my third grandfather! It's the third grandfather of the family, I share a grandfather with you! ”

Meng Tao: "......" is so verbose.

She nodded and said, "I went to your house with my grandfather when I was a child, and I still remember you, but you don't remember me anymore." ”

"No, I remember, I always remember you, it's ...... You've grown up and changed. The third grandfather is not there, my grandfather and a few adults in the clan have gone to your house, and they don't ask us to go. ”

"Well, my grandfather is gone, why didn't you come to see me? I'm alone, and you don't even know that I've been bullied. ”

"I, I ......"

Meng Laosan's smile became embarrassed, and he slowly couldn't laugh anymore: "I'm sorry for my sister, I want to go, but ...... There is too much work at home, and they don't call to go. ”

"You are already an adult, you should have your own ideas, what you want to do, if you think it is reasonable, you will do it, why do you have to listen to others? Can someone else take care of you for the rest of your life? Cousin, I am alone in Linshui Village, and I was withdrawn by the Tian family, if you can come to see me often and let others know that I also have relatives to rely on, it will not be so difficult for me. ”

Meng Tao's eyes turned red as she spoke, and Meng Laosan panicked: "Sister doesn't cry!" Brother will go in the future, I will definitely go to Linshui Village to see you! ”

"What if 'they' won't let you go?"

"I'll go too! It's a big deal to scold a few times, it's fine. ”

Four men next to him came over and interjected: "Third child, this is the granddaughter of your third master's family?" ”

"Your third master's granddaughter is really handsome."

"Yes, it's so good-looking, why does it make people quit? Who is blind? ”

Meng Laosan hurriedly introduced: "Sister, they are all from our village, the third master knew their grandfather when he was a child, this Liu Dafu, that Wang Ergou, Ma Liuzi......"

Meng Tao greeted with a smile and called his brother in unison: "I am helping the educated youth in the village to buy things today, and I am about to go home by car, let's eat something first, you haven't eaten yet, have you?" Why don't we eat together, today our brother and sister are reunited, and I have a treat! ”

The men hurriedly waved their hands and refused, they were very hungry, but they were not greedy for the little girl's food.

Although Meng Laosan is honest, he also knows that he can't spend his cousin's money, his cousin is alone now, and his life is sad, he pushed Meng Tao into the restaurant: "You go eat, you go eat!" We're here to see off a patient, and we're going back! In two days, my brother will go to Linshui Village to see you, if you have any work, wait for your brother to do it! ”

Meng Tao couldn't resist five crop men, seeing them leave in a hurry, he turned around and went to the window of the restaurant, and saw that there was braised pig's head meat on the counter, as well as broth, noodles, big meat buns, white flour steamed buns, black noodles and buns, big meat buns are more expensive, each two taels of food stamps plus two cents, white flour steamed buns plus eight cents, black noodles don't need food stamps, six cents a piece, the steamed black noodles in the restaurant are sufficient, hot and soft and big.

Meng Tao thought about it, took out a kettle and a white cloth bag from his shoulder bag, asked the waiter to fill twenty black noodle nests, and then filled a pot of leftover bean juice sold in the morning, and a full pot only cost five cents.

While the waiter was filling the bean juice, Meng Tao grabbed a handful of salted dried radishes from his satchel and stuffed them into the cloth bag containing the nest, which was stored in the space, not too much, one per person.

After paying, picking up things and running, they walked quite fast, ran more than 100 meters to catch up, shouted "Brother Taurus", Meng Laosan just turned around, he was stuffed with things, still warm, Meng Tao didn't speak, waved his hand at him, and ran back.

She still has to eat, so hurry up and get on the bus after eating, don't miss the shuttle.

The farmer men in the village followed Meng Laosan to deliver the patient, no matter what the patient was, they could help carry it to the county for medical treatment, that is, to do good deeds with righteousness and spirit, and should not be starved.

As for why they didn't buy meat buns and white-flour steamed buns, Meng Tao was worried that they would not accept it because they thought it was too expensive, and it would be troublesome to return it.