The noisy house suddenly fell silent, and there was silence all around, except for the sound of sparrows' in the bamboo forest behind the house. This is the most familiar living environment of Su Qingtong when she was young, and it is also a scene that she remembers deeply in her soul.

Su Qingtong was suddenly a little confused, did she really come back?

She went back to when her parents were alive?

She always couldn't believe how such luck could fall on her head, she was so suspicious, but she was so happy that she wanted to cry.

I fell into a stupor.

In a drowsy state, I suddenly heard the sound of the door being pushed open, and then a sound of footsteps coming from the outside in.

After a while, a crisp young man's voice called softly to her beside the bed: "Green girl." ”

Su Qingtong opened his eyes and looked at the little uncle in front of him curiously.

At this time, the little uncle was still a teenager, although he was weak, but his skin was fair, his eyebrows were clear, and his expression was a little innocent, and he was a very likable boy.

Uncle Xiao grabbed a paper bag in his hand and handed it to her, if Qingtong didn't guess wrong, this paper bag was the compensation given to her parents for not being able to attend the wedding banquet, a kind of pastry fried with glutinous rice flour that was empty in the middle, and the outside was covered with powdered sugar, which her hometown people called snow dates, and if the sesame seeds were rolled, they were called hemp dates, which was Su Qingtong's favorite snack.

Snow dates are not sold all the time, because powdered sugar is easy to melt in hot weather, so shops in the countryside usually do not buy until the Chinese New Year.

There is a custom of sending sugar when visiting the New Year in my hometown, that is, I wrap brown sugar, white sugar, rock sugar or sugar orange cake and other foods in kraft paper, tie it with mat grass (an aquatic plant, you can tie things after drying), and then sandwich a small piece of long red paper between the mat grass and the paper packet, and send one such sugar bag when visiting relatives and friends, among which the snow dates are fluffy and not weighed, and a pound can make two or three sugar packets the size of a pound of orange cake. It's all face.

What Su Qingtong couldn't understand was how his uncle could buy this kind of food before the Chinese New Year.

The little uncle stuffed the paper bag in his hand into her and said, "Your father asked me to buy it for you, you can eat it quickly!" He said you just want to eat this, so I ran to Waziping to buy it. ”

Su Qingtong's nose was sour, Waziping was five or six miles away from his brigade, because it was closer to Qingxi Town than here, so the goods were more abundant than here, which was why his uncle bought snow dates.

In this era, Qingxi Town only passes through the countryside where she lives a few times a day, and bicycles are even rarer.

In her previous life, she didn't know that her uncle had run so far for this bag of dim sum, and in her impression, she only remembered her uncle's stupidity.

The little uncle was not well raised in the mother's womb, and when his grandmother was pregnant with him, he was the poorest era, not only hungry, but also had to work day and night, in order to earn a few more jobs, his grandmother also chose the most tiring thing to do, and later tired the little uncle was born prematurely.

When the little uncle was just born, he was the size of a mouse, and his grandmother had no milk, so he could only survive by drinking rice soup, everyone said that he couldn't live, but the little uncle survived strongly, but the little uncle would call his mother when he was five or six years old, and he would not stagger until he was eight or nine years old, so the neighbors called him Fu Wu (the little uncle was the fifth son of his grandmother, and the eldest son and the third son did not stand), which is to laugh at his physical IQ is not very good.

Qingtong was ignorant when she was a teenager, and she also made fun of this uncle, but now I think about it, she is really a poor and ridiculous fool, others look down on her, and she actually despises the little uncle who lacks intelligence.

The little uncle died when he was forty years old, and he didn't start a family all his life, and after his death, it was Su Qingtong's younger brother who held it, because the eldest uncle and the fourth uncle had no sons, only the only sister who married gave birth to a son, so the younger brother was the most appropriate son and nephew, at that time, Su Qingtong didn't go back to the city in the south, and she didn't go to sweep the tomb for the little uncle, she felt that as long as she remembered it in her heart.

One year Qingming, she went to sweep the graves of her grandparents and uncles on a whim, burned some money paper and incense, I don't know if it was a dream in the heart of the day and a dream at night, or there was really a god and ghost in the dark, and the next night I had a dream, in which the little uncle smiled and said to her that he now has money and wants to buy the new clothes that he has long been optimistic about.

Su Qingtong remembered the past, her eyes were a little moist, she took a bite of the snow date in front of her little uncle, she was almost sweet, she really couldn't eat it, and in a blink of an eye, she saw her little uncle's eyes staring directly at the candy in her hand.

She knew that her uncle also wanted to eat them, so she handed him the snow dates and said, "I won't eat them, you can eat them all." ”

The little uncle asked in surprise: "You really don't eat it?" ”

Su Qingtong nodded and closed his eyes, and the little uncle was still saying, "I'll eat later, don't ask me again." ”

Su Qingtong wanted to laugh, but he really didn't have the strength.

The little uncle happily walked away with the snow dates, walking very fast, for fear that Su Qingtong would regret going back.

After a while, there was a clear sound of the TV in the parents' room, and it was my father who taught my little uncle how to turn on the TV when he left, just to keep my little uncle at home to take care of Su Qingtong.

Speaking of the 14-inch black-and-white TV at home, it is a second-hand TV that my father bought back for a huge sum of 420 yuan.

In May this year, my father went to City C with an acquaintance surnamed Liu from the Mashan production team, and when he came back, he carried a TV set and followed by a teenager with luggage, which immediately caused a sensation in the entire production team, and everyone gathered around like a diorama.

His father bragged that if it weren't for his face, the Liu family would not sell him the TV set at the original price, and if it was sold to others, it would charge at least 70 yuan more in handling fees.

The Liu family is a person who went out from the Mashan production team, and now works in a unit in City C, so they can get these materials, and if his family doesn't want to change to a bigger color TV, if they don't raise a naughty son, they won't just collect money from their father for a TV set, but a lot of people are willing to spend a lot of money to grab his family's black and white TV.

Su Qingtong, who was only ten years old in his previous life, didn't believe this kind of thing, and he didn't know how his father believed it.

Liu Lihui is a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy from C City with the TV set, and his temperament is very stubborn, it is said that he has done it by skipping classes, fighting, stealing money, lying, and running away from home, and he was persuaded to quit by the school at the beginning of the third grade of primary school, and he has changed all the schools in just a few years, and finally he is not even eligible to participate in the high school entrance examination.

If it is the family surnamed Liu on the side of the Mashan production team, he came up with the idea to let the child come to the countryside to study, which not only solves the difficulty of not having a school to study, but also takes the opportunity to hone his temperament, so that he can endure some hardships in the countryside, and from now on he will understand that life is not easy and will become obedient.

After having a TV at home, the cultural life and spiritual life are indeed richer, but the money bag is even more deflated.

At that time, my father's salary of 37 yuan a month was barely enough to support the family, who knew that in order to buy this TV, he owed a huge amount of money, and he borrowed the east family to repay the west family for several years, and his life was extremely difficult.