20. Hometown
All the glory or accomplishments we have in the world come from our Mother.
Many times after staying outside for a long time, I often forget to feel homesick, and it becomes a rule to go home every year, and people who don't go home only break this pattern.
Very few people around me say that I go home because I miss my parents and some even feel ashamed to say such things.
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
It's human nature to be homesick, Li Youbin thinks. Of course, it's not clear how this is in foreign countries, but at least in China.
Li Youbin and Ding Haiqiang didn't go home directly after they got together, but went to see his mother first.
works in Longxi.
I met my mother at the door of the clothing store.
I don't know what the reason is, the first thing his mother does every time she sees him is to buy him clothes, or it may be a habit developed when he was a child, it should be because his family was poor when he was a child, and many times there were no new clothes to wear.
The clothes he bought are indeed not good, Li Youbin is quite different from his mother's vision, he likes the kind of loose, lazy clothes, his mother likes sportswear, various styles of sportswear. His dad also has this hobby, so his dad often wears sportswear, and they probably take it for granted that their son also likes to wear sportswear
I really don't like it, but he doesn't dare to say it, because he feels that his mother has no vision, not only do he dare not say it, but you have to wear it every day and pretend to like it very much.
Mother is sometimes very naïve, and the result of Li Youbin's doing this is to make his mother think that he really likes sportswear, and the clothes he buys in the future will be all sportswear.
Buy winter in winter and thin in summer.
I finally got out of the clothing store, and immediately after I came out, I went to eat.
In fact, Li Youbin had just eaten breakfast, but her mother didn't believe it.
The mother always feels that her son is not full.
When he was a child, it was the most obvious, every time his mother served him rice, he pressed it into it one by one, and the bowl of rice couldn't be poured out upside down, because of the porcelain.
If you eat three bowls of rice in one bowl, you sometimes doubt the capacity of that bowl.
That's not all, after a bowl, my mother always feels that he is not full, and she has to serve another bowl, and she also has her reason: "How can you be full after eating a bowl?"
One bowl is one bowl, and it contains the amount of three bowls.
Sometimes we really can't stand it and get impatient: "Mom, don't, I'm really full."
"Why are you so thin when you're full?"
Sometimes it's quite speechless.
Li Youbin is indeed thin, and he can't refute such a sentence.
After eating, Li Youbin's mother went back.
Li Youbin began to struggle with how to go home, his family is in a small village in Tongwei, if you take the bus, you don't want to take it, the bus here is very magical, the car can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, everyone has it.
What Li Youbin couldn't stand the most was smoking in the car.
He smokes a cigarette and smokes it, but it smells very uncomfortable in the enclosed space of the car.
The driver and conductor are also from the countryside, and no matter what, although there is a "do not smoke" sign on the inside of the car, few people care about that.
The mountain people are bold and informal.
This informality manifests itself in a variety of ways, in addition to being friendly, often smoking everywhere and urinating everywhere. This has nothing to do with quality, it is a habit developed in the mountains.
Of course, this is not a reason to smoke casually in the car.
I don't know what others do, Li Youbin can't stand it.
After thinking about it, I finally called his dad.
"Dad, I'm in Longxi, come and pick me up."
"You can take the shuttle back, I'm a little busy."
"I get motion sickness." Li Youbin had to find an excuse.
"Motion sickness, you bear with Hasa, and you don't drink some medicine."
"Are you playing cards again?"
"Just sat down at the table, why don't you take the shuttle bus over, get off at Shi Miao'er and I'll pick you up."
"If you play cards, you play less or something, I really don't want to take the shuttle."
In the end, his father still couldn't survive Li Youbin's soft grinding and hard bubbles.
When he drove to Longxi, Li Youbin had just come out of the store.
"Get in the car."
Parking the car on the side of the road, he glared at Li Youbin angrily and waved his hand at him.
"Your face is a little better, and your forehead lines are coming out like this." Li Youbin got into the car without skin and face.
"You said you, what's the matter with taking the shuttle, what can I do to you?"
"Oh, anyway, you're just playing cards, so it's a big deal."
"You also know in our ravine, everyone has gone out to work, it's not easy to make such a table, I go this time they are missing one, scattered, it will be difficult to fight in the future"
"It's okay, I'll fight with you later."
"You're."
The way home was a lot of fun.
There is a dirt road after walking along the road to the temple, and the ground is full of snow on both sides of the road.
The land here is full of terraced fields, and there are steps down one step at a time on both sides of the mountain, and this sense of stairs is evident in other seasons. In winter, it doesn't look like a terraced rice field, it just looks like a mountain.
As far as the eye can see, there are some white flowers, and the sunny side occasionally melts, giving some spots to the snow-white earth.
I didn't see anyone along the way.
When he was about to arrive at the village, Li Youbin and his father rolled down the window of the car.
Everyone in the village has this rule, because they have to greet people when they enter the village.
When I saw a Wuling from a distance, I knew that it was Li Youbin and his father.
There are quite a few cars in the village, and they are all vans, and those who have money are pickup trucks. It's not that you can't afford to buy a car, and many cars are not as expensive as pickup trucks, mainly in rural areas, van pickup trucks are easier to go.
Some people may think that it is better to buy an off-road vehicle, mainly because they have no money, and rural people have limited income after all. Even if you have money, because of the frugality in your bones, it is impossible to spend five or six hundred thousand yuan to buy an off-road vehicle.
In their eyes, it is better to buy an off-road vehicle than to buy a car for 67 or 200,000 yuan.
Li Youbin and his father are representatives of this kind of people.
His family can be said to be a rich man in the village, a few years ago, when the bird flu was prosperous, his family happened to grow a lot of medicinal materials such as banlan root and codonopsis, which were sold well that year and made a lot of money.
But his father just saved money, and after making money, he bought a Wuling for 50,000 yuan.
Li Youbin doesn't think there's anything, it doesn't matter if the car is good or not, just be able to travel.
After entering the village, I met people along the way.
"Lao Li, did you pick up your son back?"
"I'm back, second sister-in-law."
"Hello Auntie." Li Youbin also stuck out his head to say hello.
"Good, good."
The simplicity of the people in the village is reflected at this time, and when they greet each other, they are loud and laugh exaggeratedly.
It's not an exaggeration, it's a bit exaggerated in the eyes of outsiders, it's normal in the eyes of Li Youbin and them, everyone is like this.
When I got home, I met my grandmother first, which is the old rule, and when I got home, I saw my elders first.
In the past, there was actually a rule, that is, after returning home, I first went to the ancestral hall to burn incense, but now the concept is light, except for the New Year's festival, this rule is usually not used.
In fact, some things in the countryside cannot be said to be good or bad, but they are not good because the times are progressing, and they are good because these are all traditions and cultures.
The villagers are also friendly to people and eat well in the village, once they go out of this square circle to the big city, they are easy to be fooled.