There are more than a dozen people sitting in the spacious bus, all of whom are rushing home from the city, and there are many villages along this highway, all of which are nearby people.

"Are you the daughter of Zhao Laosan in Liujia Village?"

"Huh? Do you know me? I see you're familiar, but I can't remember anything. ”

"I don't come often when I leave you, and I shouldn't know you, I'm from Zhangjiawan, I know your father well, and you have to call me Uncle Sheng according to your generation."

"I remember, you are the uncle of Zhangjiawan, right? I also came to our village during the Chinese New Year last year. ”

The people in the car were all talking like this, only Ye Xuan and Li Xin'an quietly watched the gang chatting, and they ate without hurrying.

Li Xin listened to them and covered her mouth and snickered, this person in Zhangjiawan is surnamed Zhang, what is the matter with the surname Zhao in this Liujia Village? Is there still immigration?

Ye Xuan is not surprised when he is used to seeing it, every time he goes home, it is this scene, when there are many people, the car is full, and sometimes he can't stand up. When there are few people, it is empty, and there are still empty seats for one person to occupy both seats. When someone starts chatting, more and more people will join, and in the end they all become relatives and acquaintances, and even many times Ye Xuan feels that he is not taking a bus, but a private bus, and the car is full of his own family, just him and Li Xin, two outsiders.

Yejia Village is not too far from the county seat, it is only about 40 minutes by car, get off at Gaojia Village, and take a dirt road to arrive.

The people in Yejia Village are all surnamed Ye, the village is not big, and in the past two years, people have begun to run out, working part-time, and going to school. There were only women, children, and old people left in the village. Now that it's the National Day, those who should go to school will come back.

The road paved with sand and stone is still quite flat and wide, and there are green crops on both sides, in fact, Ye Xuan has always wondered why these people want to grow crops, probably because the Chinese have planted the idea of food as the sky. In fact, you can't buy a lot of money to grow crops, you can't keep it at home for a long time, most people don't eat their own milled noodles anymore, and the mills in the village are probably closed.

After walking along the dirt road for about ten minutes, I saw the outline of the village, which was Yejia Village, hidden behind the forest in the ravine, only half exposed.

Ye Xuan was shocked when he entered the village, he hadn't been here for a year, the village was already very desolate, the air was still mixed with the smell of earth, both sides of the road were already overgrown with weeds, and there was no one on the way from the village to the door of Ye Xuan's house, if he hadn't seen Ye Xuan's second aunt when he arrived home soon, he really thought that this was a deserted village.

Ye Xuan's second aunt saw Ye Xuan from a distance, and she was stunned before she walked over with tears in her eyes.

"Auntie." Ye Xuan greeted with a smile, his second aunt was very good to him, his parents didn't care about him, when he was a child, his second uncle and aunt helped his grandmother take care of her, and then his grandmother fell ill, and it was the second uncle and second aunt who helped him take care of his grandmother. Ye Xuan is a person with clear grievances, and he can remember the person who is good to him for a lifetime.

"You stinky boy, you know that your grandmother's death hit you hard, and you can't afford not to come back for a year, your uncle went to work, your tiger brother went to school, and I don't know if I can come back, leaving my aunt at home alone, it's all conscienceless." As he spoke, tears were already rolling in his eyes, and his aunt was not good at this, and she began to cry as soon as she didn't agree.

Seeing this, Ye Xuan hurriedly comforted her: "Auntie, my uncle is also going to school for Brother Hu'er, no wonder he, I went to high school this year, and I didn't have time to come back, so I hurried back as soon as I was on vacation?"

"Flim Flam." The second aunt nodded at Ye Xuan's eyebrows, and pulled him to drag him home, "Your house has not been inhabited for a year, and it is very trendy, and you have been living in your aunt's house for the past few days." ”

Ye Xuan hurriedly shook off the second aunt's hand and said, "No, Auntie, I still have classmates here, it's inconvenient to live with you."

The second aunt looked at Li Xin and asked, "This is?" In fact, she had already seen Li Xin, but she didn't know her relationship with Ye Xuan, so she was embarrassed to ask, in case she said the wrong thing, wouldn't it be embarrassing.

"This is my classmate, it's an orphan, and there is no one at home, and I have no place to go during the holidays, so I brought it back." Ye Xuan pulled Li Xin to him and said, this has to be explained clearly, the people in the village always love to guess, if Li Xin is treated as their own daughter-in-law, it will be troublesome, and I don't know what the people in the village think, they are not against high school students falling in love, as far as they want, if they don't do well in school, they will get a daughter-in-law back, and those who can talk about objects in high school are all capable.

Ye Xuan's second aunt probably thought the same way, and after listening to Ye Xuan's explanation, she sighed and said, "That's quite pitiful, it's good to bring it back, then if that's the case, you should put the things here first, clean the house, and the aunt will go to cook, and she will probably be hungry after a long journey."

Ye Xuan had no choice but to take off his and Li Xin's schoolbags and hand them to the second aunt, most people in the village are like this, simple, without heart, it is not a good thing to grow up in such an environment.

After a few words of greeting with the second aunt, I said goodbye and went to my yard to see if I could still live in it.

Ye Xuan's yard was the best decoration in the village a year ago, there are not many houses in the countryside with bathhouses, most of the courtyard walls are adobe, only Ye Xuan's house is a cement wall, the ground in the yard is also paved with cement, and the outside of the house is pasted with tiles, I just don't know what it looks like now, when he left, the things in the house were not taken away, and the furnishings are estimated to be the original.

Take out the key from under the trough in the cowshed facing the door, the last time I was in a hurry, the second aunt went to the field again, so I hid the key here, and I was not afraid of losing it, and I left a spare key for the second aunt's house very early.

It is estimated that it is damp, the key is rusty, but fortunately, the function has not been lost, the wooden door is also damp, the force is small and can not be opened, the waste of the boss to push open, but also made a "squeak" toothache sound.

Fortunately, there was not much change when I walked with myself in the yard, that is, there were not many withered yellow weeds in the cracks of the cement slab, and the door curtain had faded, and it was replaced by gray and black.

The first thing to go to is the hall, all the doors of his house are wooden, but only the door and the door of the hall are two, the hall is the earliest room of his family, so when the door is installed, it is not a hinge, but the earliest wooden wedge technology is used, so the sound is very loud when the door is opened.

The hall didn't change much when I walked along, but the tables in the room were covered with a thin layer of dust.

Facing the door is an offering table, behind which hangs the middle hall, on which are placed the posthumous photos of grandparents, which are covered with black cloth, and will only be unveiled during the Qingming and New Year. Further ahead is the incense burner.

The furnishings of the hall are very simple, except for the table, the right hand side is a red lacquered wood sofa coffee table, the left side is a TV cabinet of the same color, and there is a TV covered with a red cloth on it, and the specifications are quite bulky.

Ye Xuan remembered that his grandmother said that this was the first color TV in the village, and it was 02 when I bought it, and at that time, the people in the village were very envious, and the black and white TV was boring, so they all crowded at home to watch color TV.

He was three years old in '02, and he didn't remember anything about the color TV, as if the TV had been there all the time in his memory. Technology is developing very fast, and his biggest fun when he was a child was to lie down in front of the TV and watch cartoons, but now he hasn't watched TV for several years, and TV has become boring after having a smartphone.

Half of Ye Xuan's primary school is in the township's primary school, not far away, they all run there, I remember that when he was very young, in order to watch the finale of "Journey to the West", he skipped school and didn't go to school, and told his grandmother that the school was on vacation. Later, I don't know which kid sued, and was beaten severely after being found by his grandmother, that was the first time Ye Xuan felt that his grandmother's rickety body had endless strength.

At that time, the communication was not developed, it was bad news for the people who worked, they were out all year round, sometimes put aside a few weeks to call, at that time the telephone bill was quite expensive, a village was installed at the head of the village with a landline, who came to call and stood at the head of the village to shout.

But this is good news for children who don't like to go to school, at that time there was no such thing as calling parents, because the communication was backward and basically could not be contacted, and some villages far away from the township and even many teachers did not even see their parents, which also created opportunities for poor students to skip school. There is a parent-teacher conference every other year, but not many parents go, and it is the busy season of farming, so no one will delay planting crops for an inconsequential meeting.

But at that time, the teachers were very dedicated, teaching and teaching steadfastly, many times by the students' angry blowing beard staring, playing two boards, still explaining over and over again, they are also from the countryside, usually attend classes, and take care of the crops in their spare time. Sometimes, when it rains or snows, and when I can't go to class or work, I walk around the nearby village to check on the students' families.

Every time I think of these, Ye Xuan will always laugh unconsciously, and after laughing, he will be moved by their spirit and cry, the times have progressed, but people's thinking has degenerated, the teachers at that time regarded the observation of students as their own responsibility, and turned to ten miles and eight towns to see their students in their eyes, but many teachers now only regard teaching as a profession, and occasionally one or two students who brave the wind and rain to see sick students will be regarded as virtues and hung on the wall of honor for people to admire, isn't this what they should do?

Ye Xuanzheng was in place, his expression changed a lot, crying and laughing, Li Xin looked at him quietly and didn't disturb, maybe he was thinking about his previous experience, this is touching the scene?

It took a long time for Ye Xuan to return to normal, he glanced at Li Xin next to him, and said in a gentle tone: "Whenever I think of something, I will be in a daze, Chen Xiang, who saw it here today, remembered to wake up when he was a child, and remember to wake up in the future, otherwise I will keep thinking about it."

Li Xin nodded obediently, this may be the truest side of Ye Xuan, there are joys and sorrows, it turns out that his usual fearless strength is on the surface, and he also has his own joys, sorrows, and sorrows.