The tarpaulin was removed, I gently removed the dust on the front windshield, opened the middle door, and the master and the lady carefully helped the old lady to the car, the old lady was reluctant to live or die, and had to walk back, I was afraid that I couldn't live with the master, but after all, she couldn't resist the two middle-aged people, and finally was helped into the car.

The car roared out of the courtyard gate, rushing on the bumpy and rugged mountain road, all the way to the north, past my grandmother's village, all the way full of pine and cypress, deep ravines and dangerous ravines, mountain roads winding snakes, the car went very difficult, a little careless there is the possibility of falling into a deep ditch, fortunately the master is quite familiar with the road conditions here.

At that time, there was no road through the village, dozens of miles of mountain roads drove for most of the day, there was no danger all the way, and there was really no road when I drove to the halfway waist of Shimo Mountain, Master found a place to stop in a spacious place, I helped the old man to get out of the car, her eyes were full of tears, and she kept saying words of thanks, which provoked me and Master to be unbearable.

Master knew that she had children at home, so she bought some food from the town on the road, Master asked me to take the good food, he personally supported the old man, we began to climb to the depths of Shimo Mountain, and gradually the low and uneven and irregular stone wall earth house came into view, this is the only natural village in the depths of Shimo Mountain, it used to be said that our Shangen Village is in the mountains, and this is the mountain in the mountains! It's all rocky, and the rabbits can't run out of the place.

It wasn't until I walked into the village that the old lady had a smile on her face, and she kept saying to me and Master:

"My house is just ahead," she said, pointing ahead.

"That's it"

Master and I stopped and looked at the three shabby thatched huts in front of us, there were no walls, only a simple fence was enclosed with some dead wood branches, and the huge poplar trees were also natural barrier courtyard walls, old trees, new vines, no faint crows, although the old man's life was poor, even poorer than imagined, but this is also an excellent place for health, or the old man would be in his 80s and still be able to run so far on the mountain road!

"Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng" The old man stood outside the fence wall, panting, but he could still scream a few times in a clear voice.

"Grandma, you're back" I heard someone call out of the thatched hut a boy of the same age as me, although he was ragged, but his dark eyes were shining! This must be the eldest grandson in the old man's mouth

"What about your brother," the old man asked again.

"Reading in the house"

"Junjun, grandma is back" At this time, a little boy with a tiger's head ran out of the house, and he threw himself into the old man's arms, looking at Master and me with uneasy eyes, about ten years old

"Grandma, where have you been, you just came back, I thought you didn't want me and my brother anymore"

"Silly boy, you and your brother are the lifeblood of my grandmother, and my grandmother doesn't want anyone's two grandchildren," the old man said and wiped away tears again.

"Come, kid, eat calcium milk biscuits" I took out a bag of biscuits from the plastic bag and handed them over, the boy named Junjun seemed a little scared and didn't dare to take it, but glanced at the old man.

"Master, little master, I am grateful enough that you can drive the old body back to the mountain, why do you still buy things?"

"Auntie, you don't have to worry about it, Xingze has a little heart"

"Take it" I stuffed the biscuits into the hands of the army, the old man let me and the master into the house, the light in the house was very dim, there was still light in the north of the wall, and it brought not light but leakage of wind and rain, although it was hot outside the house but the inside of the house was very cool, it must be the big tree outside the door that played a role, the master and I looked at the whole house at the same time, there was no decent furniture at all, under the west wall was the only broken wooden bed in the house, this must be the place where the three ancestors and grandchildren lived, although the bedding was shabby and looked very clean, It is also very neatly folded, and it can be seen that although the old lady has a hard life, she is a person who loves cleanliness.

I took out two packs of instant noodles and handed them to Xiaofeng's hand and asked him to eat some to relieve his hunger, but he was reluctant to eat them, saying that he would leave them for his younger brother to eat, and he would grow up.

If it weren't for the abruptness of poverty and misfortune, it would be a pleasure to look at the three of them, hey......

"How old are you this year, young man?" Master looked at Xiaofeng, who was eating instant noodles on the door frame, and asked.

"I'm Eighteen"

"Oh, a year older than Erdan," I touched my head and didn't speak.

"Why didn't you go out to work with your neighbors in the village?"

"I want to, but they don't want to take me, saying that our family is a disaster, and if you bring me to be unlucky, you will definitely not make money" Xiaofeng couldn't hide his sadness and buried his head deeply, and the old man sighed again, two lines of tears.

"Do you want to go out and work?"

"I think, I dream at night, and if I want to live a good life, I must go out of this mountain."

"Okay, young man, if you have ambition, when your mother comes back, I will tell her, and I will find you a good place to work and earn money, and then ask for a daughter-in-law

"Okay, well, good" Xiaofeng listened to the master's words and actually blushed and smiled and smirked, I saw that I was a good person with my second egg, and I couldn't close my daughter-in-law's smile.

"Master, are you serious?"

"Auntie, seriously, how can Xingze make jokes about children, I have a distant cousin who opened a small restaurant in our county, and often recruits guys, as long as the child's mother is willing, I can send the child to be placed properly"

"If this is true, the master can be regarded as saving the child's life, otherwise he will have to be like his two stupid uncles, and there will be no one to live until he is old."

"Xiaofeng, come and kowtow to the master, thank the master first"

Xiao Feng heard the sound and knelt on the ground to face the master is three heads, I just hurriedly helped him up, the master said:

"Auntie, you are tormenting Xingze, why should I let the child make a big gift when I raise my hands?"

"This is how it should be, I have taught my children since I was a child, and it is not wrong to have affection and gratitude."

"Xiaofeng, since you kowtowed, I'll give you some news first, my cousin's hotel is not big or small, there are a lot of waitresses who are handsome, they are about the same age as you, some are younger than you, as long as you are righteous and generous, I am afraid that other people's daughters will not look down on you"

It doesn't matter what the master said, this simple mountain baby was so ashamed that she ran out of the hospital with a smoke, which made us laugh and look at the old man's mood!

"This kid is not bad with my daughter, but he is a little introverted"

"It's a good child, as long as you don't nest in this village, you will definitely be able to make a living"

Master and I looked at the little one again, eating biscuits while holding a tattered and yellowed book that resembled a comic book like a comic book today.

"Grandma, let me tell you a story, my brother just taught me"

"Okay, grandma is willing to listen."

Unexpectedly, although this military soldier was childish, he looked like a childish one, and Master and I did not disturb him to tell the story until he finished speaking.

"Kids, do you want to go to school?"

"Think"

"Uncle will figure it out for you."

"Auntie, you must let the child study, you must not delay the child, our children in the mountains have no way out if they don't study!"

"Reason, I understand, but the family is poor, I really can't come up with much money, usually I can't go to school for a year and a half, because I can't pay the tuition, I was sent home by the teacher, so I have been delayed until here, and I have only attended the Yuhong class for more than a year."

"Auntie, don't worry, I will pay for the army's schooling, and I must let him be educated"

"Master, this is not good, are you looking for a burden on yourself? If it is spread out, people will scold the old man for being shameless, and push the responsibility for the difficulty to others, which is not okay, and it is not okay."

"Auntie, you are serious, we behave uprightly, who will scold us, and besides, your old man's good deeds in his life should be rewarded"

"Master, you are pitiful and sympathetic to my old body, I know, you can find a job for this big one, and the small one can't let you worry about anything anymore, I'm old and useless, his mother is still young, let my daughter raise it by herself."

"If he grows up to the point where he really can't get better, can't you help him find a place to work?"

The master understands the arrogance of the old man, and no longer argues with him, this old lady is arrogant, don't be angry with her old man anymore.

"Auntie, you said that one of your two sons is missing, where does the other live?"

"Two, I ran away from home, I don't have the energy to find it, let him fend for himself, big, I built a thatched house on the mountain behind that, raised a few sheep, crazy people rarely come down the mountain, every once in a while I go up to send him some food, see if it's dead or alive, don't get sick and die and no one knows, let people live and neighbors jokes, I can only do so much when I am a mother, I can still eat the food cooked by my mother, if I leave, who cares!"

Master felt that he had made the topic too heavy, and hurriedly diverted the topic.

"Auntie, let's go to the pear tree in your yard to enjoy the cool, you see you have everything in your yard, walnuts, apricot trees, plum trees, grapes, we don't have it."

"Hey, they've been planted for many years, the apricots have failed, the grapes have been eaten in advance, and the walnuts and pears should be ripe in a few days."

Under the pear tree, the old lady took my hand and said, "Baby, if you don't want to gnaw on it too hard or too sour, you can pick one and taste it first."

"Grandma, it's not ripe yet, let's not pick it, don't mess with it"

"Well, it's not bad, you pick one and nibble, his brothers eat it secretly when I can't see it, and every year they can't get it ripe, they are eaten by his brothers."

I can't resist the old man, I picked one and gnawed several bites in a row, although the skin is thick, astringent, sour, and very hard, I still ate the whole pear, I don't want to live up to the old man's enthusiasm, she looked at me after eating and smiled with satisfaction, and kept praising it.

"This baby is not bad, good"

We didn't know each other before, and the old, middle-aged and young group sat under the pear tree, and they were happy.

"Auntie, you green mountains and green trees are so good, it's so good, your old man can live for more than 20 years."

"Huh? No, I'm old, I can't live anymore, let's live one day at a time."

"Well, look," the old man pointed to the east of the courtyard.

"There is a stream under the dam, which flows down from the mountain, I cook and go there to wash rice, and I go there to wash my clothes when I have nothing to do, this water is really nourishing, otherwise the old body will not live to this age"

"Yes, yes, auntie, this landscape nourishes the people in the mountains and nourishes people's hearts."

"Hey, by the way, master, I have some jujube wood in the east corner, if you can bring tools in the future, you can help the old man make a coffin, people say that with this jujube wood, you can make future generations rich earlier"

The master didn't even look at the wood, and said without thinking:

"Auntie, I Xingze made a promise that after you are a hundred years old, Xingze will send you a good coffin, which is also a good jujube wood, and Xingze will personally choose a place for you to place a grave"

"Master, you want to give me something without payment, you regard my old body as that debt collector, you shouldn't have invited you here in the first place......"

Master, this is to forget the old man's temper and character, pure and arrogant, poor and not cheap, stubborn, Master, quickly changed his words:

"Yes, auntie, I didn't say I don't want to be paid, yes, it's just that Xingze doesn't love money, but I like these roosters in your house, and I will take them back to kill and eat meat when I leave, of course, I won't move those hens that lay eggs, so it's good."