Zhou Lanxiang hasn't been to the old mansion for seven or eight years, this is where she grew up, and it is also the real home in her heart.

It's still that yard and that house, but there are not many traces of her living here with her grandfather and Xiaojin back then.

After the death of the grandfather, the four sons of the Han family divided the things of the old house, leaving only a few bulky pieces of furniture that the grandfather pointed out to leave behind, and even the wooden pier where the three of them often sat at the door to enjoy the shade were gone, and the big elm tree on the side of the courtyard gate was also cut down.

The yard was bare, and the small stove and big red horse were sold, and there was no noise of chickens and ducks. Every winter, she and Xiaojin build a few snowmen in the yard, using carrots for noses and small potatoes for eyes, and grandpa is still used to them, they take out grandpa's old cotton jacket for the snowman to wear, and he also looks at it with a smile.

The houses in the east and west wings are still very strong, but the window paper is rotten, and the inside is empty.

The stone table and stone bench they used for dinner in the summer evening were gone, and the small grinding plate and small mill for grinding rice and flour were also removed.

Even the garden is bare, before the grandfather planted more than a dozen fruit trees for them, sand fruit, small apples, mountain cloves, plums, pears, and more than ten bushes of blackcurrants, all because no one took care of the dead for a long time, the dead do not hang the fruit, and finally in order to be able to spare more land to grow vegetables, I don't know who cut it away.

A few years ago, they didn't let Han Jin in at all, and Zhou Lanxiang didn't have a position to come, and when they came back, except for the house and yard, this place was no longer what they remembered as home.

Their home almost disappeared.

Zhou Lanxiang tried to take a deep breath, no matter what, now that everything is developing in a good place, she should be happy!

Han Jin couldn't see Xiangxiang uncomfortable, and when he came back for the first time, he didn't feel good, but at that time, he found Xiangxiang back, and he didn't care about being uncomfortable, he just wanted to clean up and not let Xiangxiang see it.

Fortunately, Xiangxiang didn't see the original appearance of the old house, otherwise maybe it would be more uncomfortable!

Han Jin took Xiangxiang into the house and tried to say something happy to coax her: "Grandpa left the table where we eat, I'll move the kang table over later, the floor table is too big to fit over there." I also made you a pair of small boxes, the same as the two you used to carry clothes, don't you look like them? ”

Grandpa left the two tables where the three of them ate, as well as a large cabinet of four red pine, and then the set of furniture in the Xiangxiang House.

He had explained that the furniture in Xiangxiang's house would remain unchanged, and it would have to be handed over to her in the future. There is a small kang table for her to draw patterns, which is made of cedar wood, only brushed with a layer of varnish, but has a particularly beautiful wood grain, and anyone who sees it says that this table is a rare thing.

Cork is a particularly valuable timber in Northeast China, and after liberation, the state did not allow private individuals to cut it, and it was directly sent to the arsenal to make gun butts.

Xiangxiang also has two small wooden boxes, which are also made of cedar wood, which is a good wood that grandpa got before liberation, and later Xiangxiang moved over, and grandpa specially found the best old carpenter to make it for her, and the four corners were also wrapped with copper feet, saying that she would make a dowry in the future.

At that time, I also made a small table of eight immortals and two chairs with backrests, a basin stand, and an old-fashioned dressing box with many small drawers, all made of walnut, this kind of wood is also very rare, beautiful and strong, and it is a good thing that is very expensive and difficult to find in the market.

When Xiangxiang was still young, the old man who knew in the tunzi said that if in the past, whoever married a girl had such a good set of furniture, it would be a big landlord's family who could also marry!

But later, Han Jin was so reluctant to marry Xiangxiang, grandpa mentioned that Han Jin would go crazy if he married her, and grandpa didn't dare to mention it again, just thinking that when he grew up to be more sensible, reconciled with Xiangxiang and let him send it himself.

But Grandpa left quickly, and by the time Han Jin could enter the door of the old mansion, none of the furniture could be found.

It is said that when it was *****, the Han family was afraid that these old objects would cause trouble to the family, so they took them out and burned them.

What are the fears of causing trouble, in the final analysis, they can't get it themselves and don't want to let good things fall into the hands of others!

Han Jin quickly figured out that it was Han Limin who was pushing everyone to do it, and he would definitely write down this account for him!

But Han Jin wouldn't tell Xiangxiang about this kind of bad thing, anyway, she didn't know what her grandfather left him at the beginning, so Han Jin thought about finding a good wood by herself and giving him a better set.

Zhou Lanxiang looked at the two small boxes, happily touched here and there, and praised Han Jin: "Your craftsmanship is so good!" If you have the time to make me a wishful head sewing board! If it's smaller, I can smash a toe on my foot now! ”

Of course, this is an exaggeration, but Han Jin is still very happy, and he is about to turn over the wood, if it weren't for Xiangxiang to stop him, he would have done it immediately.

Han Jin took Xiangxiang around the main house, and the home they were very familiar with at the beginning, but now it is a little unfamiliar.

The two rooms in the west where she lived back then had been cleaned up, and it was not like other people's homes, even the new house for marriage was pasted with a layer of newspaper, he got two bags of white ash, painted several layers, and even the roof of the shed was hung again, and it was also painted white.

The wall of fire that was re-passed was also painted, so clean that when I entered the door, I thought I had entered the house of the people in the city.

Now the county town also has to burn stoves in winter, and there are few people in the city who are so clean, at least there is a lot of coal ash on the wall of Han Lirong's house, and three generations live in three houses, and the house is not so bright and spacious.

There was no furniture in the house, nothing but the two small and beautiful little boxes, but Han Jin had already planned it, and by the time he brought Xiangxiang back, everything in the house would definitely be neat!

When he entered the two rooms on the east side where Han Jin lived, it was obvious that he didn't clean up the west side carefully.

Although the roof of the shed is newly hung and the window paper is also new, the lime in the house has not been refreshed, and it is still a layer of lime brushed when the grandfather is there, which is yellow and dull, and the house looks much worse than the two rooms of Xiangxiang.

But fortunately, he loves cleanliness, and he cleans it spotlessly, the quilts are neatly folded, the clothes are all put in the cabinet, and there are no dirty clothes and socks, and even the shoes are neatly and cleanly placed on the small wooden shelves by the wall.

Zhou Lanxiang didn't say anything to him, it's okay to clean it up in the west, she won't live in the future, and he won't have to clean it up when he gets married.

The east room has nothing except the four large wooden cabinets against the wall, which looks very empty, but Tie Dan likes it very much, running around the house and making noise, and specially turning two heels for Aunt Xiaoxiang, but Han Jin is busy lighting the stove, he only burns the kang when he goes home every day, and he leaves after sleeping, and he doesn't feel cold, but Xiangxiang can't do it, she has to hurry up and burn the stove even if she stays here for a while.

Xiangxiang was not idle, she found the window flowers that she cut yesterday and let Xiao Jin take them, and pasted every window in the old house.

After staying in the old mansion for a while, they went back to the team headquarters, Han Jin carried a large board into the door, just in time for the pig to finish its hair and open its chamber, and the old head was directing Brother Zhu to cut the pig's head.

Han Jin hurriedly blocked Xiangxiang behind him, and the scene of cutting the pig's head was terrifying! This is also the main reason why Han Jin is reluctant to make Xiangxiang to kill pigs, clean up the grinning pig's head, and turn over those pig intestines, Xiangxiang will not do it, whoever likes to do it will do it!

really loves to do it, it's Chen Meilan's mother's big nose.

When the meat was unloaded piece by piece, and the men began to weigh the meat, the women packed up the pig's head and the water, filled the sausage, and cooked the meat to prepare for the pig-killing dish.

Over the years, the pig-killing dishes in the team have been handled by Chen Laoer's daughter-in-law with a big nose, a hooked nose growing in the big nose, slender eyes, and a little scary, but they gave birth to five beautiful girls, who are the five golden flowers of the famous Chen family, among which the youngest Chen Meilan not only looks good, but also graduated from junior high school in the commune middle school, because of these five daughters, the Chen family does not know in the nearby tunzi.

However, this year, because the old man Chen broke his leg, the daughter-in-law wanted to marry the little girl out for a bride price for treatment, and the big nose was not in good spirits, and when she burned the pig's head and trotters, she lost her loud voice in previous years, but she still commanded the women to be dripping.

Today's spoon is the biggest, everyone thinks about eating pig-killing vegetables, so they don't care about her, let the fire add firewood, let go to wash the pig's intestines and quickly take the snow to rub.

Xiangxiang was called in by Aunt Pole to cut some sauerkraut, and there were four or five hundred people in the team, and the heads and hooves of two pigs went into the water.

When the meat is cooked, take it out and cut it into slices, put the sauerkraut into the old soup pot and cook it, and then put the meat slices, and then go to the blood sausage after a while.

The big nose stared at the blood sausage in the pot with a big sewing needle, and when he saw the heat, he pricked two needles to release the gas, the kitchen door was wide open, and a cloud of white gas with the sour aroma of meat and sauerkraut wafted out, and the men and children waiting in the yard began to swallow.

The old captain had already settled the accounts with the team accountant Han Liqun, and Han Liguo was also a member of the sixth team, and he was also helping to pull the abacus on the side. This year, the two pigs are very good, a total of 512 catties of net meat, 508 people in the team, one person can share more than one catty!

The old captain was so happy that he coughed, and waved his hand to let Han Liqun preside over the meat, and he stood aside and chatted with a few old men.

There are rare and small things in the team, such as dividing meat and killing pigs, which will not be halved for children like other production teams, but for children and adults.

Isn't living a life like a child? Let the kids have a good meal of meat!

When all the families received the meat, Sister Fangya's cheerful voice came from the kitchen: "Kill the pig and get the dish!" Eat meat! ”

The big guy has already prepared the pot, carrying the meat and queuing up to get the pig dish!

There was laughter and laughter in the team headquarters, not to mention how festive!