"Look at what you said, Mom doesn't welcome you home, I wish you were at home every day." As soon as I heard that I was dissatisfied, my mother immediately put away the doubts in her heart.

I smiled, blinked and said, "This time I came back early, in addition to wanting to accompany you and grandpa more, another purpose is that I know that my father will not replace his car, so I must change it for him this time." Of course, the most important thing is that not only Sister Yun will come after the New Year, but also a "mysterious guest" will come with her, so you say, can my son come back in advance and prepare more? ”

Hearing that a "mysterious guest" was coming, my mother was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "It's that girl, right?" ”

I couldn't help but be a little stunned, I remember that I didn't tell her about Zhang Xiaowei, although Sister Yun has contacted them several times, she shouldn't mention it.

Seeing that I was a little surprised, my mother suddenly laughed even more: "Mom is a woman, although you didn't tell Mom, Xiao Yun didn't say it, but Mom can feel from her that you are in the provincial city, there has always been a girl next to you who is not Xiao Yun, don't you say?" ”

Suddenly, my admiration for my mother was like a surging river, scratching the back of my head and saying, "Mom, you are so amazing, you guessed it." ”

My mother smiled, raised her hand, touched my head that I saw when I half-squatted down, so that she could touch it without stepping on her feet, and said: "Our family is a countryman, and your situation is different from others, if that girl is really willing to stay by your side all the time and be good to you, then you must know how to cherish others, treat them with heart, and can't bully others, you know?" ”

I was slightly shocked in my heart, and then said, Mom, I know, don't worry, I won't bully her.

Smiling and nodding, my mom asked again, "What's that girl's name?" Are there any photos? Can you let Mom take a look at it first? ”

I hurriedly took out my mobile phone and said that my name is Xiaowei, Mom, don't say you want to see photos, you just want to video call her.

"It's called Xiaowei? It's a good name, nice to hear and easy to remember. Forget about the call, my mother is afraid that it will be too abrupt and scare the girl's house, so let's talk about it when she comes to the New Year. ”

As soon as I heard her words, I knew that she probably listened to the song "Xiaowei", and I wanted to explain, but in the end I laughed and laughed, anyway, the pronunciation is the same, yes.

Then he turned on his phone, found some photos of Zhang Xiaowei, and handed them to her.

took the phone, and the first moment I saw the photo of me and Zhang Xiaowei on the top of Xiyuan Mountain, my mother's eyes lit up with a trace of amazement: "Ah, the girl is so beautiful, son, this girl is so beautiful, you ...... Is it worthy of her? ”

I'm not happy about this, although this may be true, but how can a mother say this about her son? He immediately pouted his lips and protested.

Because there are a lot of things to say, and to see the photos, but also to the side of the road to learn that I came back, specially out of the neighbors to say hello, more than 300 meters of the road, my mother and I walked very slowly, and when we came to more than 30 meters away from home, the sky was close to all dark, the solar street lights installed by the state, have also been lit up, in the night of black pressure and drizzle, exuding a cold light.

On the street lamp, I saw my grandfather wearing a front hat and a tweed coat, standing outside the iron gate of the courtyard, looking this way with his eyes blank, although his waist was no longer straight, he also put his hands behind his back and tried to stand straight. My father, on the other hand, had already parked the tractor outside the courtyard wall, and was talking to Pan Laohai's family, who had only built their house diagonally across the road two years ago, while taking my suitcase down.

I hurriedly called out to my grandfather, and then ran over quickly.

"Is Xiao Nian back?" Grandpa looked at me with a confused expression.

"That's right, grandpa, it's me back." I hugged him and laughed.

After looking at me in a daze for a few seconds, grandpa smiled: "It's Xiao Nian who is back, hungry, right?" Come home quickly, it's cold outside. ”

My grandfather was seventy-five years old, and two years after my grandmother's death, she had a stroke, and since then, she has been confused, forgetting things from time to time, unable to remember who is who, and not very clear about her speech. Especially when our grandchildren come home, it takes a while to remember.

After helping my grandfather, diagonally across the road, and Pan Laohai's family said a few words, we went back to the yard and entered the kitchen by the iron gate.

The kitchen in the countryside is not as narrow as in the city, it is usually quite large, our local dialect is called "stove side", cooking and eating are here, many families will also put the TV on the "stove side", put a big iron stove on the side of the outside window, and if there is nothing to do in winter, they will roast around the iron stove, and basically will not go out.

The "stoveside" of my house is also similar to the furnishings, the fire of the big iron stove is booming, the lid of the stove is burned red, it is warm as soon as you enter the door, and there are several plates of stir-fried vegetables and chopsticks on the stove. After entering the house and washing my hands, my mother put stewed chicken out of a saucepan on the stove by the window.

My dad, on the other hand, took out a bottle of liquor from the TV cabinet.

After helping my grandfather to sit in the innermost part of the wall, the family was ready to eat, and when he saw me coming back, my grandfather was very happy, and when he saw that my father only took two wine glasses, he said that he would also take two sips.

Grandpa used to drink a lot, but since his health and illness did not allow him, the family did not let him drink alcohol, but he began to like it, and he wanted to drink two sips whenever he had the opportunity, and the more he didn't let him, the more he wanted to drink.

Seeing that he was very happy and smiling, with a look of anticipation, we couldn't bear to refuse, so we poured him half a cup and let him drink slowly.

After a while, when I learned that I had returned home, my uncles and aunts came one after another, drank a few glasses of wine, chatted and sat for a while, and then left one after another. As for my peers, like my brother Li Lin, who went to college in other provinces, because it was still early for the New Year, he had not yet returned home for work, school, and school, so he didn't see any of them, and only followed the children of a few nephews and nephews.

I didn't drink much, but this time every uncle accompanied me to a glass or two, so I was a little top-heavy, and after helping my mother clean up the mess, I simply walked out of the house and walked on the road to let the wind drive away the alcohol.

When I went out, my mother asked me where I was going, and after listening to me say that I was walking on the road, she smiled a little meaningfully, and seemed to stop talking, but she didn't say anything.

I was so drunk that I didn't pay much attention at the time, and after laughing and saying a few words, I came to the road with a cigarette in my mouth.

If you want to say that this rural area is completely different from the city. No matter how quiet it is in the city, people will not really calm down and relax, but the countryside is different, especially after three or two drinks, the whole person begins to be lazy, walking on the country road, so quiet that he can even hear his own heartbeat.