The clerks of Zhaoli Town have been waiting for them, and when they saw them coming, they were busy arranging accommodation and eating, and it was not surprising to learn that they had eaten on the way, and they still brought food from the mountains, fragrant and tender glutinous rice cakes and large bowls of noodles.

They were not polite, and when they were full of snoring and eating, they asked for a meeting first, listened to the town's ideas, and then designed according to the specific situation of the town.

The request was communicated, and there was a quick response, and the mayor invited them to dinner and talk about things by the way.

This is interesting, just stuffed them to their heart's content, and seeing that dinner is still two or three hours away, is this still not allowed to eat?

At that glance just now, everyone knew in their hearts that if it was after dinner, there was basically no possibility of having a supper in this town. The four of them decided to take advantage of the three hours before the meal to go around the surrounding area first, scout the terrain, and eliminate food by the way.

As soon as he walked out of the original guest house, the gate of the current Zhaoli Hotel, Ayou joked to Ye Qingqing: "Come, haven't you been here, lead the way." ”

Ye Qingqing smiled: "This is what you said, as long as I keep Master Lu, I will sell you here when the time comes, it is estimated that you will not be able to get out on your own." ”

"Oh, you see the most poisonous woman's heart, I just said that, she will sell me!"

Teacher Ai: "Let's first find out if there are any grocery stores that sell tobacco and alcohol. ”

"Didn't you bring a cigarette when you came, teacher?" Ayudao.

One?! They've only been here for three days and they've been dying for four days, so they have to prepare a cigarette!? Are you trying to smoke to death here?

"There are usually handmade cigarettes made by my own family in the mountains, which are very powerful." Teacher Ai said, and Master Lu had a comprehension expression, which was obviously the tacit understanding of the old smoker, and Ye Qingqing even suspected that they were rushing to buy cigarettes.

"Do you want to ask for directions?" Ayu asked, "I guess there are only one or two grocery stores here." ”

"This town looks like it's just such a main road, there is no way to come, so there must be one to keep going, walking." Teacher Ai took the lead, and the two old smokers walked forward impatiently, and the two small ones could only follow.

Ye Qingqing walked and walked, that feeling of déjà vu came out again, the voices were sparse, not as loud as the river behind the house on the other side of the street, she heard a woman laughing loudly, and saw an old man sitting in front of the house under the eaves basking in the sun, looking at their expressions calmly, when they saw her, they seemed to know her.

She couldn't help but desperately wonder if she had been taken to a similar place by her parents to play when she was a child, and she might have stayed for a long time, so she was very impressed? She does have relatives in the countryside who live in Jiangnan Water Township and go to visit every New Year, but to be honest, because she is not familiar, she only remembers the excitement of eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in someone's villa, but rarely goes out to visit, only vaguely feels a little similar to here based on a slight experience.

But it never feels so familiar.

But if it weren't for those experiences of celebrating the New Year in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, there would be no other explanation.

"If it is really according to what the boss said, the ancestors here are to avoid disasters and migrate, then it is estimated that it used to be the area in the south of the Yangtze River," Mr. Ai walked two steps quickly and resumed his small steps, commenting leisurely, "If I hadn't driven so long to come in on the mountain road, I would have thought I had arrived in Wuzhen at first glance." ”

"I feel like it too!" Ayu said, "There is a river in the deep mountains, and they are still building in the mountain col, and the water can still pass out, but they really found a good place."

"How do the people in the reservoir below know that they have been using the footwashing water of the Zhaoli people, oh, roar, roar!" Master Lu said coldly.

Everyone laughed for a while, Ayou still remembered Ye Qingqing's "come" theory, and asked her: "Xiao Ye, did you say that you have a relative in the countryside who often goes to see it, so you feel like it?" ”

Poked again, Ye Qingqing smiled reluctantly: "Probably, the southern countryside is the same." ”

They walked and walked, passing by a number of houses, and even the ancestral hall had passed, but they didn't see the commissary, Teacher Ai and Master Lu were secretly muttering there, Ye Qingqing looked ahead, suddenly paused, and said, "Ah, supply and marketing cooperative!" ”

"Huh? Which? ”

Ye Qingqing pointed to a façade not far from the right in front of him, but his eyes were staring at the left, and he said uncontrollably: "That." ”

"How do you know, is there a plaque?" There was only a door frame on the façade, and nothing could be seen from the side, Ayu took the lead in walking forward, and when he saw it, he was shocked and beckoned to them: "Eh, it's true!" ”

"Yes!" Teacher Ai also looked back at her in surprise, and let out a long "huh", but she couldn't think of why, so she walked over with Master Lu to take a look, and shouted, "Hey, it's true!" ”

Ye Qingqing stood there and listened to Mr. Ai say to the grocery store: "You used to be a supply and marketing cooperative." ”

A middle-aged man replied: "Yes, after the restructuring, my father took down the store, you outsiders?" ”

"yes, let's play."

"What's so fun here, everyone is gone, what do you want?"

"There are no ...... you make your own cigarettes"

chatting there, Ye Qingqing stared at the house opposite the supply and marketing cooperatives inexplicably. She didn't know why, but when she looked at the old red door, she thought about it, and even her hands began to move, as if she instinctively wanted to do something.

She felt that there was a lot of things missing in front of the door, and there should be a stack of briquettes by the door, and there should be a coal stove next to the door beam, and there should be a small bench next to the coal stove, and there should be a pair of fire tongs on the stool......

The window by the door should have light.

She walked over step by step, to the window, and looked in.

Empty, as in front of the door, there was nothing.