Lin Yue followed Lin Chengzhi to the backyard, and looked at a corner of the vegetable garden overgrown with darkness, and was so happy that she forgot about her second brother Lin Yongfeng bullying her. The two picked a whole bowl in the backyard, and Lin Yue ate it one by one, squinting her eyes happily.

The grandfather next door was watering the vegetable patch in the backyard. Hearing Lin Chengzhi's father and daughter talking, he said hello from afar.

The grandfather is also surnamed Lin, and he came to the Northeast from Shandong with his grandmother and everyone back then, and has lived here for decades. In front of the house of the grandfather's family and Lin Yue's family, a tall bud rice building was erected in the middle, separating the courtyards of the two families. Between the bud rice building and the two main houses, there is a vacancy where two people can walk side by side. The master went to the back mountain and cut two logs, nailed them to both sides of the hollow, and served as a door frame. The grandfather and grandmother are not called "grandfather and grandma" because of their age, but because of their seniority.

There is also an old lady in the grandfather's family, who is the mother of the grandfather, and there are two sons and a daughter in the family.

The old lady is in her 70s, with silver-white hair and meticulously braided into pigtails that are coiled at the back of her head. She likes to sit on the north kang in the back room, and the three-inch golden lotus that was wrapped around when she was a child is placed on the edge of the kang crosswise, holding a cigarette roll rolled by herself in her hand, and from time to time putting it into her toothless mouth and taking two puffs. Lin Yue especially likes to wear the shoes of the old lady, triangular shoes, she thinks it is very strange, and she doesn't think it is too big when she wears it on her feet.

The grandmother and grandfather usually sleep on the south kang in the back room, and Lin Yue often sits on the south kang and asks the grandmother to tie her pigtails. Lin Yue was very envious of her grandmother's two long braids, which were thick and long, but unfortunately Liu Li was troublesome to wash her hair, so she cut Lin Yue's hair short, so that Xiao Lin Yue, who was originally lively and active, looked more like a little boy.

The grandfather is a powerful person, and he does a beautiful carpenter's work. If anyone lacks a cabinet, cupboard, table and bench, they will find the grandfather to do it. The grandfather is tall and has a Chinese face, and when he doesn't speak, he feels very serious, and even feels fierce. Thanks to the fact that the master is usually very kind to people, otherwise Lin Yue, a little girl, would not have been frightened by him and took a detour.

The grandfather also has a hobby, that is, drinking, three meals a day, and he can't do without wine. If you go to the grandfather's house in time for dinner, you can see the grandfather drinking a small plate of peanuts and wine. Titus was intoxicated by that look, and occasionally he could be heard humming a little tune.

The eldest son of the grandfather is married, lives in the village of Xiagou, and has a daughter named Lin Jing, who is four years older than Lin Yue; The second girl is also married, lives far away, and has a son named An Ning, who is two years younger than Lin Yue; The old son was a soldier, but he has been discharged from the army, and he has talked about a partner, and he will get married next month.

Lin Yue likes to play with An Ning the most, because An Ning's mother always brings small cookies for Lin Yue to eat, and she will buy a lot of toys for Lin Yue and An Ning to play with.

In 1991, in this backward rural area in Northeast China, biscuits and toys were still a rarity, and Lin Yue had only seen them a few times when he was so old. Until Lin Yue grew up, as long as he recalled the biscuits he had eaten when he was a child, he would sigh with emotion: no additives, no pigments, and a strong milky smell smell, put it in his mouth and take a bite, well, so satisfied! For Lin Yue, a snack merchant, as long as she is given biscuits and let her do anything.

Today, An Ning's mother brought An Ning to his grandmother's house again. Lin Yue took the remaining half of the food, sang happily, and jumped to the grandmother's house to find peace and play. An Ning gave half of the biscuits that his mother brought him to Lin Yue, and Lin Yue gave An Ning the black sky that he had just picked, and then the two of them set up the building blocks together.

The two children lost track of time as soon as they played, and it was already time for lunch.

"Xiaoyue, it's time to go home for dinner," Lin Yue's mother shouted loudly while standing at the door of the room.

"An Ning, I'm going home for dinner, I'm going to follow my father to the back mountain in the afternoon, I can't come to play with you, I'll come back tomorrow!" Lin Yue looked at the small train he had just set up, pouted, and then slipped off the edge of the kang, waved his hand to An Ning reluctantly, and slowly walked home.

"Xiao Yue'er, let's go after eating? Grandma cooked all the rice. Holding a handful of shallots that had just been pulled out of the vegetable garden, the grandmother stood at the door of the house, shouting at Lin Yue's back as she walked away.

"No, grandma, I'll go home and eat." Kobayashi Yue turned around and replied sweetly at the grandmother.

"Why is this kid so outside, it's really... The grandmother smiled and shook her head, and then entered the house.