Chapter Eighty-Five: The Oldest Hometown
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Before dark, the newly recognized grandmother's family left, the courtyard finally returned to quiet, and Grandma Zhou also went back to rest.
Zeng Yirou has time to gossip with Zeng Ruolan about what's going on.
Zeng Ruolan simply called Zeng Yirou to sleep together, and the mother and daughter nested in the same bed and talked about what happened a long, long time ago.
It turned out that their oldest hometown was actually in a small mountain village in Guxian County, called Zengjiazhuang, her grandfather also had an eldest brother named Zeng Yuanchang, and his wife was Li Guihua from a neighboring village.
Their family gave birth to three sons in one go, Zeng Ruoshi, Zeng Ruoniu, and Zeng Ruoxin.
When the two brothers Zeng Yuanchang and Zeng Guochang separated, the eldest occupied the ancestral house, and the second divided a piece of land.
Before liberation, the family was poor, Zeng Yuanchang got married early, and it was inconvenient for the uncle to always live at home, so Zeng Guochang went out early to apprentice.
Unexpectedly, Zeng Guochang was smart and clever, and he could be a man and do things, so he made some small achievements, bought a house in the city, married a virtuous wife who had read books, and opened a small shop.
When I go back to Zengjiazhuang, I can already be regarded as returning to my hometown!
Zeng Yuanchang was not jealous of his younger brother's development, that is, he insisted that Zeng Guochang use his homestead and quickly build a house, saying that a hundred years later, he met his old father, and he could be regarded as watching his younger brother grow up and have the ability.
Zeng Guochang also felt that he should have a bottom in his hometown, as the saying goes, the cunning rabbit has three holes!
So he obediently built five bungalows, with the front and back yards.
During that campaign, the family moved back to Zengjiazhuang, and Zeng Guochang has always been grateful to his brother for his original decision, otherwise they would not even have a way back.
When their family left Ishihara City, they left these five houses to Zeng Guochang's family, saying that they were afraid that the house would be dilapidated quickly if no one lived in it.
Secretly, Zeng Guochang told Zeng Ruolan that their family is only a girl in Ruolan, and she will be a son-in-law in the future, and she will not return to a small mountain village like Zengjiazhuang. Now that they have gone to other places again, I don't know when they will have the opportunity to come back, these five rooms, he planned to give them to Zeng Yuanchang's family, who made their family have more boys. Besides, their family doesn't know how to farm, they earn work in the village on weekdays, and they rely on the help of the eldest brother's family, this love must be remembered.
Saying so much, it is also for Zeng Ruolan not to have a pimple with the uncle's family in her heart, and not to have any reluctance about this house.
If you want to talk about Zeng Yuanchang's big family, it is actually not easy.
Zeng Yuanchang worked hard to renovate the ancestral house all his life, married a daughter-in-law to his eldest son, and built a second son.
Fortunately, Li Chunhua is finally a relative of Li Guihua's mother's family who has five blessings, and he does not dislike Zeng Ruoxin's family difficulties, so he agreed to marry.
Zeng Guochang wanted to help his eldest brother, and before they left, he directly asked Zeng Yuanchang to take the third family from the ancestral house to live with them.
As for Zeng Ruolan, she was anxious at that time, worrying about Zeng Yirou in her stomach all day long, where would she think so much, I wish I wouldn't go back to this broken mountain village for the rest of my life!
Later, Zeng Guochang and his wife died, and Zeng Ruolan had no contact with the village.
This time she returned to Gu County, she was busy moving, adapting to a new life, and living every day was more energetic and busier than before, and she never thought about the things in the village at all.
It's just that they didn't think about it, which doesn't mean that Zeng Yuanchang's family didn't remember it either.
In the past ten years, Zeng Ruoxin and Li Chunhua have also run their small family prosperously, built a pig farm outside the village, fed more than a dozen pigs, and had some savings in their hands.
They also bought a homestead a long time ago, next door to Zeng Ruolan's house, the same land, all of which are five rooms.
In the past two years, they have been ready to build a new house.
Every year when they go to the county town to catch the market, they will come to the city to take a look around, and ask Grandma Zhou if there is any news of Zeng Ruolan's family, they are all old habits, always thinking about which day they will come back, they just go into the city to bring them some village specialties, bring some pork, eggs, grain and vegetables, etc., to express their gratitude.
However, every year, there is no news.
No, this year, before they came, the village killed a pig and brought five catties of pork over, and if they couldn't see Zeng Ruolan and them, they left it to Grandma Zhou.
Unexpectedly, I met people this year, and I knew that they had moved back to Guxian and would not leave in the future.
No, the family went shopping, bought things, came over for an afternoon meal, and went back to the village.
Before Li Guihua left, she also took Zeng Ruolan's hand and happily explained that in two days, she asked Zeng Ruoxin to bring them some millet, corn, beans and the like.
Zeng Ruolan said and told Zeng Yirou a lot of things in the village when she was a child, picking wild vegetables in the spring, stealing edamame in the summer, picking rice ears in the field in the autumn, and roasting sweet potatoes in the winter......
Although I was a little poor in those days, life was not boring at all.
Zeng Yirou listened to it on the sidelines, and she was envious.
Hey, she didn't know that there were so many fun things to do in the countryside.
What made her even more impressed was that in her previous life, she didn't care about what her mother was like when she was a child and what her past was like.
Fortunately, she now has a long time and opportunity to care for her mother.
Zeng Ruolan looked down at Zeng Yirou, who was already asleep, and the tenderness on her face melted away, turning cold and dazed.
She didn't tell her daughter, and Li Guihua secretly said that that person had come to look for her, and she didn't know where she got the news, and knew that she was pregnant with a child at the time.
In previous years, I came here two or three times.
That is, I haven't been here for two years.
However, when Zeng Guochang left, he told Zeng Yuanchang that they should keep their affairs secret, and don't tell anyone, even if they know where they are, don't reveal the news when others ask.
Zeng Ruolan only understood the old father's hard work at this time, this is the most important reason why he left the house to Zeng Yuanchang's family, right?
directly cut off her last miss for this village, and there was no chance to come back.
At the same time, why didn't he cut off that person's thoughts and prevent him from having a chance to come to the door?!
It's been more than ten years, and he has already gotten married, has his own family, and his children should be as old as Yirou, right?
What the hell did he think about coming back to them?
What's the point?
What's in the picture?
Want to compensate them?
However, they no longer need his compensation and repentance.