Chapter 64: Stone Bridge Village
After making up his mind, he began to pack the things he should bring, the backpack and the contents must be indispensable, and he also had to go downstairs to buy some necessities in life.
Also, since they have returned, their parents, grandparents, and grandmothers have to buy some sacrificial things on their graves.
In this way, there are really a lot of things to prepare, but it is also convenient to sell things in the county, but it takes less than half an hour to go out, and all the things in the plan have been bought by him.
From Xiaoyan County to Qingshi Town, it is about a little more than an hour's drive, but it took more than two hours to get from Qingshi Town to Shiqiao Village, where his hometown is located, because of the rugged road crossing and the lack of traffic.
When he walked across the thousand-year-old stone bridge in front of him, Jiang Wei was almost exhausted.
"Auntie, what age is it now, why is it still not open to traffic, every time I come back, I have an urge to never come back."
Jiang Wei was dressed in rough clothes, sitting on the stone on the side of the road, the sweat on his face as if he had just been fished out of the water, desperately flowing down his chin.
"You, your body is too weak, and those people in the village who carry grain down the mountain carry a hundred catties of things on their backs, and they don't still run several times a day."
Although Jiang Yanhong was not as unbearable as Jiang Wei, she was also breathing heavily, her face was flushed, and she couldn't help but sigh with emotion when she looked at the wisps of cooking smoke coming out of the rent roof in the distance:
"When my family was poor, your father and uncle and I got up before dawn to work in the fields in order to be able to eat a mouthful of food.
Now that I think about it, it is really incredible that I could endure that kind of suffering at the age of six or seven. ”
Jiang Yanhong lowered her head, and when Jiang Wei was not paying attention, she secretly touched her eyes with her sleeve, and then said:
Two years ago, I heard that the government had stripped off a poverty alleviation fund, saying that it was going to let everyone here move to live in the town, but I don't know how, and after a while, the matter died down.
No, these Zhuang families, who don't know anything else except relying on the sky to eat, still live here. ”
Listening to his aunt's feelings and the recent situation in the village in the past few years, Jiang Wei's heart was also very uncomfortable.
"If my parents were still alive, maybe I would still be living in this poor ravine, and I wouldn't even have a chance to go to college!"
Looking in one direction, Jiang Wei unconsciously felt a little lost, that was the place where his parents were buried, and no one knew how much he longed to have a real home in his heart.
"Let's go, there are not many steps, and you can rest well when you get home."
Jiang Yanhong took the lead in the front, and Jiang Wei followed behind her, after the conversation just now, the two of them didn't have the heart to chat again, just lowered their heads and hurried away.
Soon, a mottled and old tiled house came into their sight.
Jiang Wei's uncle has two children, a boy named Jiang Dongwang, who is older than Jiang Wei, with a sturdy and dark length, and the tendons and flesh on his body are high and bulging, and he knows that he is often engaged in manual labor at a glance.
Girl, sixteen or seventeen years old, named Jiang Yimei, as her name suggests, her figure is tall, her appearance is extremely beautiful, even if she is wearing a stall, it is difficult to hide her slim temperament.
It may be the reason for his father's illness, both of them are at home at this time, and as soon as they saw Jiang Wei and them coming back, they warmly stepped forward to greet them.
I have to say that people who have lived in the countryside for many years can feel a very comfortable mellow and simple taste from the tone of their mouth to the actions of dealing with people.
This kind of temperament cannot be felt in the people of the city in any way.
After sitting down, my aunt chatted with the adults, while Jiang Wei chatted with his cousin.
After some conversation, Jiang Wei also knew that his cousin had been working on the construction site for many years, and this time he came back to take care of him after his father was sick.
My cousin, on the other hand, had just graduated from high school and had not yet decided whether to continue her school or go out to work.
Jiang Yimei, who had long known that Jiang Wei was a college student, took this opportunity to ask Jiang Wei to help him get attention.
Jiang Wei is not good at expressing his opinion on this kind of thing, but since the other party asked, he will analyze it with the other party from an objective point of view according to his personal opinion.
Generally speaking, it is to let the other party go to school well to have a future, otherwise if it is just a part-time job, if it is not very lucky, it is difficult to have a good way out.
We chatted until lunchtime, and Jiang Wei became familiar with these two cousins and cousins who had only met a few times.
In the afternoon, Jiang Wei said that he wanted to see his family's old house, and his cousin Jiang Dongwang volunteered to take him to the order side of the mountain.
"Xiaowei, you don't know, the house in the countryside is afraid that no one lives, your house has not been inhabited for more than ten years, and it has already collapsed in half, at the beginning, my dad went to repair it, but then I felt that it was impossible for you to come back to live, so I didn't care about it anymore.
No, look over there, the house with only half of the wall left is your house. ”
Following his cousin's fingers, Jiang Wei really saw a building that had been changed beyond recognition, and from the surrounding environment, he could vaguely feel a hint of familiarity.