The New Year is approaching, and in a blink of an eye, it is in the lunar month. People in the city may not be enthusiastic about the New Year, but the people of Zhucun are still enthusiastic about the New Year.

The people of Zhucun who are wandering outside go home one after another every month of wax.

Even though the mountains are high and the forests are dense, the transportation is inconvenient, and the economy is backward, it is like a bamboo whip in the bamboo forest, criss-crossing and deeply rooted in the hearts of every Zhucun person.

Bamboo Village, like thousands of small rural villages in China, has become a lingering nostalgia for wanderers.

On this day, after many days of continuous rain, it finally cleared, and the warm sunlight spread among the mountains and ravines of Zhucun, and the wilting bamboo branches after frost had a trace of vitality and vitality under the warm winter sun.

On the muddy plough road, two young figures, a man and a woman, walked.

The young man wears a black tweed coat on the top, black slacks on the bottom, and Nike sneakers on his feet, looking low-key and extravagant;

The young girl wears a flaming red cashmere coat, black bottoming pants, and a lace miniskirt;

A pair of black high-tops go straight to the knee, showing endless charm and style.

The figures of two young people beat among the mountains and forests, bringing vitality and vitality to the silent mountain forest.

They are none other than Li Dacui's son Shen Xiaolong and his girlfriend Yingzi, who are coming home for the New Year.

Yingzi is a native of Guangdong in the south, and has never seen the majestic mountains and reckless bamboo sea of Ruzhu Village.

When I saw the waves and forests today, I couldn't help screaming again and again, completely forgetting that the high-bon leather shoes on my feet had been stained with mud on the muddy machine plowing road.

Back in the courtyard, Shen Xiaolong shouted loudly, "Mom! Mom!"

When Li Dacui heard it, it was Shen Xiaolong's voice, and immediately came out of the house.

He looked at his son, and then at the handsome woman next to his son, and his heart instantly blossomed, and a bright smile immediately bloomed on his face.

I look forward to the stars and the moon, not only looking forward to my son, but also looking forward to such a handsome daughter-in-law, my heart is like eating honey, sweet.

"Long'er, are you back? Why don't you say hello to your mom in advance? Girl, come and sit at home. Li Dacui greeted his son and daughter-in-law warmly with a loud voice.

Third Uncle Wu, Third Aunt Wu, and Zhou Jueming heard Li Dacui speak in a loud voice, and they walked out of the house one after another.

When Shen Xiaolong saw the neighbors coming out, he hurriedly took out a cigarette and handed it to Uncle Wu and Zhou Jueming.

Zhou Jueming put his hands in the sleeves of his old cotton coat, hesitating whether to take the cigarette or not.

Li Dacui said: "Jueming, Xiaolong will give you smoke." Cantonese cigarettes, you smoke, see if it suits the taste? ”

Li Dacui didn't want her daughter-in-law to feel that she had a bad relationship with her neighbors and was a bad mother-in-law, so she said to Zhou Jueming.

As the saying goes: raising a child depends on the filial piety of the daughter-in-law, the adoption of the daughter depends on the filial piety of the son-in-law, and she has to rely on the daughter-in-law in the future, she does not want to leave a bad impression on the new daughter-in-law.

A smoke and enmity. Zhou Jueming took the cigarette, as if he had written off the grievances with Li Dacui in his previous life.

greeted Shen Xiaolong warmly: "Xiaolong, it's time to breathe!" Earn money and get ready to ask for a wife? ”

"No interest, no interest, just eating outside." Shen Xiaolong said politely.

"Xiaolong, are you back? also brought back such a beautiful daughter-in-law. Aunt Wu looked at Xiaolong and Yingzi with a smile.

"Yes, Sanma, we're back. Are you okay old man? Shen Xiaolong hurriedly went to the door of Uncle Wu's house again, handed Uncle Wu a cigarette, and responded to Aunt Wu in a hurry.

"If your father were still here, he would be so happy to see his son come home like this today.

Your dad has suffered too much in his life, but unfortunately he left before he had time to enjoy the blessings. Good people don't live long! Third Uncle Wu sighed.

"Xiaolong is coming back happily today, what are you talking about these frustrating words?" Aunt Wu touched the old man with her hand.

"Alas, my dad is really miserable. When I was a child, I escaped death, and when I became an adult, I struggled with my shoulders and endured all the hardships. Shen Xiaolong said with infinite emotion.

After greeting his neighbors one by one, Shen Xiaolong walked towards his house.

Li Dacui hurriedly cleaned up the red roots, winter melons, pumpkins, etc. scattered at home and cleaned the house;

He took out two new bamboo chairs from the bedroom, took out two pairs of clean woolen slippers for his son and daughter-in-law to change, and hurriedly called his daughter-in-law to the stove to roast the fire.

Yingzi's family is in Guangdong, and there are relatives in the countryside, but their houses there are not like the style of Xiaolong's yard.

The courtyard of Xiaolong's house is green and simple, and moss grows in some places on the cornice; The brick walls are thick and the lime seam imprints are clearly visible. The nostalgia and family affection in the compound are pure and strong.

She saw that Xiaolong's mother was busy and was deeply infected by her enthusiasm. Such a fiery mother won't be the evil mother-in-law in the drama, right?

At this time, a majestic and powerful rooster crow suddenly made the courtyard even quieter.

This compound is like a thousand-year-old house, with simple folk customs in the vicissitudes of life, compared with the hustle and bustle of the big city, there is a paradise of tranquility and comfort.

Li Dacui was mixed in his heart, happy that his son had finally found his daughter-in-law, and worried that his daughter-in-law could take a fancy to this dilapidated home?

Li Dacui hurriedly took out the bacon, sausages, pig hearts, pig tongues and other dishes that had been smoked at home to entertain distinguished guests, washed them with hot water, and put them on the firewood to simmer.

happily went to the chicken coop and found four eggs, washed the iron pot again and again, until there was no more oily smell, and began to cook snacks for his son and daughter-in-law.

The older generation of Takemura still feasts on the gift of entertaining VIPs left by their ancestors: eat snacks before each meal.

For those who are exquisite, the dim sum before breakfast is egg noodles; The snack before lunch and dinner is mash rice balls with eggs, also known as boiling water.

The main meal is the owner of his family, the tongue, liver, heart, kidney, etc., the general pig's body, smoked into wax products, sliced into cold dishes, it has become the best dishes on the table.

After a while, the poached egg in the iron pot rolled up a thick white skin and completely covered the egg yolk.

Li Dacui carefully scooped up the foam in the boiling water, then put in the mash and brown sugar, and after boiling, he put it out in a white magnetic bowl and handed it to Xiaolong and Yingzi.

"Come, Yingzi, eat boiling water." Yingzi looked at the two white and tender poached eggs lying in the bowl, floating gently and softly in the brown sugar boiling water, like two delicate white lotuses.

She had never seen poached eggs and brown sugar water go so well together.

She closed her eyes, and wisps of sweet scent filled with the smell of rice wine soaked into her internal organs.

Years later, when she told others why she married into this poor mountain village, she bluntly said that it was her mother-in-law, Li Dacui, whose food captured her stomach.

Shen Xiaolong saw that Yingzi didn't eat for a long time, thinking that she didn't want to eat, and said, "Yingzi, Mom told you to eat boiling water." This is the most solemn hospitality in our bamboo village. ”

"Eat boiling water? This is obviously not boiling water. Yingzi blinked.

Shen Xiaolong didn't explain to her again, he picked up the bowl by himself, snorted and ate it three times by five, and finally said, "Mom, there is a lack of glutinous rice balls in this boiling water." ”

"Now no one pushes dumplings. If you want to eat it, my mother will soak the rice in two days, get it to the market, beat it with a machine, and then cook it for you to eat. Li Dacui said hurriedly.

"Xiaolong, why doesn't your mother eat it?" Yingzi asked suspiciously. She thought it was lunch.

"I usually eat it a lot. You eat slowly. Li Dacui said heartily again.

After a while, Li Dacui's sausages and bacon had been cooked, she cut them into thin slices while they were hot, and then packed them one by one with a white disk, fried some cabbage and other seasonal vegetables, and then had lunch.

Yingzi looked at the dishes on the table of the Eight Immortals, and said in surprise: "Didn't you already eat it just now, why do you still eat it now?" ”

"That's the meal. It was just a snack. Shen Xiaolong explained to Yingzi.

"Mom, what are you doing so grandly? Yingzi is not an outsider. Shen Xiaolong said happily.

"It is precisely because Yingzi is not an outsider that it is a little grander.

If your dad is still here, I don't know how happy I should be to see you bring back such a beautiful daughter-in-law today. Li Dacui wiped his eyes and said happily.

A family of three happily ate lunch.

"Xiaolong, let's go to Shuangjiang Town to buy a house. Look at this house at home, it is in tatters;

Besides, there is no way out of this ravine. Li Dacui said while eating.

"What are you doing when you buy a house in town?" Shen Xiaolong asked disappreciatively.

"For marriage, of course." Li Dacui said solemnly, "If you don't have much money in your hands, your father's life money is still in my hands, you can buy it." ”

"How much money do you have? Keep it for yourself. Shen Xiaolong remained unmoved.

"Don't you want to get married? You're so old, and Yingzi is so good. You don't dislike the family, but you can't lose Yingzi. Li Dacui said anxiously again.

"Mom, don't worry. I didn't say I wouldn't buy it. We're going to go to the city to buy a suite, and in the future, you'll follow us to live in the city. Shen Xiaolong said after selling Guanzi.

"Going to the city to buy it? That's great. But the housing prices in the city are expensive, thousands of yuan a square meter. Li Dacui was surprised and delighted.

"Yes, yes. Mom, don't worry about it, Yingzi and I have already planned it. The city is definitely better than Shuangjiang Town, education, medical care, public services, everything. Shen Xiaolong said.

"Mom listens to you. I've lived in this bamboo village for most of my life, and I don't want to live here for a long time. Li Dacui couldn't wait to walk out of Bamboo Village immediately.

"Takemura is still so backward. You see, this rainy machine plow road, one foot deep and one foot shallow, there is no way to walk. Shen Xiaolong said.

"By the way, not long ago, Secretary Tang of Murakami brought someone to measure the road, saying that he was going to build the machine farming road into a cement road." Li Dacui suddenly remembered the matter of building a road.

"Secretary Tang? Which Tang secretary? It is of course a good thing that it can be built into a concrete road. Shen Xiaolong was surprised.

"The new resident secretary of our village. However, road construction and widening should occupy forest land.

I told Secretary Tang that it was okay to build roads, but the forest land occupied must be compensated. Li Dacui said his shrewdness.

"Mom, how much woodland can you occupy? How much is a few cents of woodland worth?

Let the family repair it, and when you go back to your hometown in the future, you can also take a comfortable step.

You're all this age, what are you doing guarding those woodlands, are you still cutting bamboo and selling it?

Building roads is a matter of accumulating virtue and benefiting future generations. Shen Xiaolong persuaded.

When Li Dacui heard his son say this, he thought about it in his heart, and the truth was indeed the truth, and his heart was loosened.

After the family finished lunch amicably, Li Dacui cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and took out the pork knuckles to stew.

Shen Xiaolong hurriedly blocked Li Dacui: "Mom, we are not in a hurry to leave at home, do we have to finish eating in one day?" ”

Yingzi also came over and said, "Auntie, the food you made is so delicious." There are so many more on the table, do you want to cook them again? ”

"If you say you don't cook it, you won't cook it, and you will cook it in two days." After speaking, he hung the pig's feet on the wood stove.

The family sat by the stove and chatted, and Li Dacui told Xiaolong about the latest events in the village.

In the afternoon, Xiaolong took Yingzi to climb the mountain. In the distance, Xiaolong saw a figure wriggling on the mountain beam.