Zhou Mei has been here for more than five years, and it has taken more than a year from the beginning of the discomfort to the slow acceptance. I finally realized that I had indeed traveled to this place that I don't know what era it was.

This is a country that has never been seen in history. The folk customs are relatively open. There is no rule that a woman is not allowed to show her head when she has little feet. Here, women can go to the fields and farm, they can do business, as long as they have the ability, they are not restricted, and they can also be promoted. It is estimated that it was transformed by the ancestors.

Later ones like me enjoy this little benefit. When I woke up, I learned that when I was young, my grandfather gave a baby kiss. What the older generation says must be heard. Although the fiancé looks white and clean, he is still a scholar. Last year, I took a children's exam, and the old man was ready to hold a wedding. The scholar's side disagreed, saying that it was to wait for the scholar to come to the door with a double happiness. Plum is nothing, anyway, whoever marries is married. Just thinking about his sixteen-year-old little body, he pouted helplessly. I thought to myself, thank you so much, how long it has been for me.

There are two brothers in the old Zhou family, the eldest Zhou Dachuan's family is a pig killer, and everyone calls him Zhou Butcher, Zhou Dachuan's daughter-in-law, Zhou He's family, likes to take advantage of small things. This He is the maiden niece of Grandma Meizi, when Grandma Meizi died and did not divide the family, because Zhou gave birth to two daughters, both of He are sons, and the family lives together, although the river protects Zhou's on Tuesday, but Meizi Niangsan is still wronged.

Later, my grandmother passed away and separated the family, although the things I got were few, only one acre of paddy field and two acres of dry land, and the house was an earthen house built by Zhou's dowry. But although the family lives a poor and tired life, they are also comfortable.

In the past four or five years, Meizi and Zhou's learned to read and write, and the fonts are all traditional characters, and some can't understand them, and Meizi has learned them from scratch. Occasionally go up to the mountain to pick some wild vegetables and follow her father to learn to hunt, Zhou Mei has learned to shoot beforehand, but she doesn't dare to show too much for fear that her parents will be suspicious.

"Father, mother, eldest sister", the three people in the field straightened up when they heard the voice. I saw the two sisters and brothers walking with bamboo baskets on the ridges of the fields, "Slow down, don't fall" Zhou was busy. "Mother, it's okay to go down and take a bath when it's hot." Zhou Zhu should arrive as he walked. "You little monkey," Zhou said, and went back to the work in the fields. "Eldest sister, have you picked up a snail?" Zhou Zhu asked Zhou Mei on the edge of the field now. "I just think about eating all day long, and I'm about to become a snack." Zhou Lan said after him.

"It was the eldest sister who promised me in the morning, as long as I obediently went home this evening and got me snails to eat." "You can't do without you, don't you see there's something in this bamboo basket?" Zhou Mei patted the bamboo basket hanging on her waist to show her younger brothers and sisters as she spoke. "Dad, mother, eldest sister, come up and wash your hands and drink some water, I'll bring you food." When the three people in the field heard this, they washed their hands and came out of the field to find a shade and do it. As far as the eye can see, there are people working in the fields, and some are sitting together in groups to eat. At this time, it was almost the end of the Shen period. Like Zhou Mei's family, when they had breakfast, someone would come to the family to deliver something to eat. Some families didn't eat in the morning, so they went home and got their own food.

Today, the second sister brought boiled sweet potatoes, potatoes, and pickles. The family talked and laughed, and after eating the things brought by Zhou Lan, they didn't rest for long, and then went to the fields to work.

Zhou Mei's family doesn't have many paddy fields, but yesterday was busy for a day, and today it was busy for a day, and it was almost the same in the afternoon. When she returned home, Zhou Mei poured the snail she picked up today into the water and let it spit out the mud and sand. I definitely can't eat it today, so I have to vomit for two or three days, let it vomit clean, otherwise it will smell fishy.

"Sister, can't you eat it today?" Zhou Zhu squatted on the edge of the basin with screws, raised his head, and asked Zhou Mei with a pair of big watery eyes. "If you can't eat today, you have to let them vomit all the mud and sand in their stomachs before they can eat it. Otherwise it's going to be fishy. Zhou Mei said while looking at her younger brother with a smile. Oh," Zhou Zhu replied reluctantly.

"Sister, some people are afraid that they are hungry." The second girl poured water for her father and mother to drink, and came out with a teapot, and when she heard the eldest sister and the younger brother talking, she smiled and said a word to the younger brother. "Where do I have it, the second sister wronged me, and the second sister said it because she wanted to eat it." The whole family also laughed when they heard this.

"Today the seedlings in the field have been planted, and tomorrow I will go to the mountains to take a look, and the animals will come out in spring. Add some meat to you little gluttonous cats."

After a busy day's work, I got some food at night. While it was not yet dark. Meizi and Erniu put up the dirty clothes they had changed out of today in a wooden basin. The second girl holds the basin. Meizi took the pole and the bucket, thinking that when she came back, she would have to pass the bucket of water from the well and use it tomorrow morning.

The three sisters went out together. On the way, I met some neighbors who came back late and greeted them with a smile. All the way to the river, Meizi and Erniu found a stone slab and squatted down to wash clothes, and Bamboo and children of about the same age went to the side under the big tree to play with the children in the village.

"Hey, have you heard, the grandson of the village head and the uncle's family is back," Aunt Huang, who loves to gossip in the village, just came and began to tell the news she knew. No matter how tired you are during the day, at night, everyone is busy and everyone who has nothing to do comes out to sit under the big tree by the river and chat. There are women who do laundry, children who play around, and old men who smoke cigarette pouches, and everyone is kind. Let's talk about the shortness of home. Let's talk about crops.

At this time, even if there is no egg at home, someone will take it out and talk about it. Meizi has been here for so many years, and she likes to come to the river in the evening, washing clothes and listening to everyone's chat. In places where there are no electronic products and no reinforced concrete high-rise buildings, it is also interesting to listen to these parents.

"Aunt Huang, you can't be mistaken! Didn't you say they were all dead? The woman squatting on the other side of the laundry asked. Hey, where could I be mistaken? Isn't this what I heard when I went to the village chief's house a few days ago to show his mother-in-law a trick to show my daughter's clothes, and I just met Uncle He went to the village chief's house with a letter and asked the village chief to read the letter to him! Aunt Huang said while doing the laundry. Isn't this a letter from a few years ago that he died in the war? Why did you come back alive again, didn't you even get a pension down at that time? The woman who had just spoken to her asked.

"Who knows! At that time, I didn't even find the body, and I almost passed by in one breath. It's been so many years, and suddenly a letter came saying that he wasn't dead. At that time, Uncle He couldn't believe it when he heard the news, and he couldn't react for a long time. ”

It was the grandmother of the Zhang family who was washing clothes next to the plum, and she had a good relationship with the family, so she said casually: "Isn't it! That and the old man, crying and laughing all the way home. As he walked, he was still chattering about what he had with his family, and he was worthy of his ancestors when he died underground. ”

Everyone also said: "Good people still have good rewards, God is still not blind!" ”

"I shouldn't have died!"

Meizi listened to the aunt while doing the laundry. The second girl on the side washed her clothes and touched the plum with her elbow and said, "Sister, what the eldest lady said, is it the village head who does woodwork and the uncle's house!" ”

"It should be!"

"How did I not know he had a grandson?"

The plum family has bean sprouts to sell in the market, and the sawdust of the bean sprouts is taken from the uncle's house, and his family is also familiar with his family, and his grandson Mei Zi has also seen it when he first wore it, a few years older than the plum, and he just met the conscription and the uncle's family is only such a grandson. The son's family is gone. And there is no money. I forced it to go.

In the second year of my visit, I said that I had died in battle. I didn't expect to be alive after so many years. Now it's coming back.

Meizi is also happy for Uncle He. The two sisters washed their clothes and greeted the ladies on the side, and called the younger brother to carry a basin of plums to fetch water and leave with a flat burden.

"Hey, you can tell me that the Erhe family has had a better life in the past few years. The two daughters are filial and obedient. also has a son, and now the old family is still a child, and people are going to take the Xiucai exam, and when the time comes, the big girl of the family will be the showcai lady this week, and the good days are coming. ”

Aunt Huang, who had just started talking, said. Some of those who have not yet left are also echoed on the side. Sister Meizi and the two walked away, so naturally they didn't hear what the eldest lady said.