On the right side of the river there is a small dirt road that goes diagonally inside, and Willin's grandmother took us into this path, and when we got here, the houses were densely distributed, and the dirt road was lined with houses on both sides, and there was only a path between each house for people to pass, and most of the doors were open, and some could hear the voices of people talking and doing things inside.

The whole path is primitive loess, fortunately, this dirt road is quite smooth, probably because there are more people walking, Liu Ting's suitcase can still be dragged on it, and some of the weeds on both sides of the path have even grown to the door of some houses, and those houses are closed and no one seems to have cleaned them.

However, the houses are all old tiled houses, and there are some newly built buildings among the houses, all of which are three-story buildings with cement yards at the door, but there are really not many on this road.

I pointed to the tiled houses with closed doors and asked Wei Lin curiously, "Are these houses unoccupied?" ”

Wei Lin didn't know very well, so he asked his grandmother, and his grandmother said: "No one lives, it turns out that there are some old people, and the children are all working outside, and it is rare to come back once, and the old man has not come back since he died." After speaking, the old man sighed, and then said: "It is cheaper to build a house in the village, and if the children who work outside earn money, they will build a new house, and the money earned will naturally come back more, and those who do not earn money will not come back almost once a year." ”

After listening to his grandmother, he felt very lonely and bleak when he looked at these closed old tiled houses, what his grandmother said was actually a common phenomenon in China, many people who went out to work in the city adapted to the life in the city, got married and had children in the city, and basically stayed in the city, and some of them were almost rare to come back once because of work problems, and they were really forced to do so.

The eight words "earn money to support the family and do your filial piety to your parents" summarize the entire life stage of many people from adolescence to middle age, but many people have desperately completed the first half of the sentence, and when they want to continue the second half of the sentence, they look back at their relatives who have long passed away, and what is left is only two graves.

Follow Wei Lin's grandmother and keep going until she came to the end of this road, at the end of the road is an independent compound, surrounded by cement, the cement of the fence is very low, only to the height of a person's chest, you can clearly see the situation inside, people can easily climb over, I guess this kind of wall should just be to block livestock and animals, the yard is very large and much larger than the average yard, there are cages for chickens and ducks, you can hear the cries of chickens and ducks inside.

Originally, when I was walking on the road, I was still a little worried, if Wei Lin's grandmother's house lived in a tiled house, we didn't know if there was a place to live at night, and when I saw the three-story cement house here, I knew that my worries were redundant.

There was indeed a tiled house next to the cement high-rise building, and when I saw the black chimney on it, I guessed that it was a kitchen.

Follow Wei Lin and his grandmother into the yard, the young black dog ran out of the house in a hurry, should have heard the sound of pushing the door, saw the old man come back and the puppy barked excitedly twice, the little tail behind a vigorous wagging violently, even if there were three strangers next to him, he was not afraid at all, the little eyes looked at the faces of the three of us and revealed curiosity, looking very cute.

"Oh, that's so cute!" Liu Ting saw the cute appearance of the little black dog, her eyes were full of stars, she squatted down and touched the little head of the black dog with her hand, the puppy raised her head and touched Liu Ting's palm with her nose, and finally stretched out her tongue and licked her palm.

Wei Lin's grandmother walked into the house first, and shouted in her native dialect: "Come out, old man, Awei will come back to see you, old man... ”

As my grandmother shouted, there was a sound of going downstairs from upstairs, and after a while, an old man with gray hair walked down.

Wei Lin's grandmother is very thin, only 1.5 meters long, standing up to my chest, but Wei Lin's grandfather is very strong, about 1.7 meters long, not much shorter than me, he is wearing a white vest and a pair of shorts, although his face is full of age, but the muscles of his thighs and arms are very strong at a glance, it can be seen that the old man is a diligent and diligent person.

"Sister-in-law." Welling shouted.

"Awe is back, haha." When the old man saw Wei Lin, his face was full of smiles.

"Hello grandpa." We greeted the old man politely.

Wellin introduced us to the side, and the old man looked at us and smiled and nodded as a gesture of kindness to us.

The furnishings in the house are very simple, the first floor is the entrance of the hall where there is a large round wooden table for eating, a wooden hollow bench, in front of the dining table is a big butt TV, that is, the kind of old-fashioned TV set that is very wide behind, for the popularity of LCD TV now, only in the countryside can see such a TV, and then there are a few wooden benches and bamboo chairs, as well as calendars and a few photos on the wall, a few simple pieces of home make the hall seem very empty.

Wei Lin chatted with his grandfather, his grandmother took us upstairs to put our luggage, the second floor is Wei Lin's grandparents live by themselves, his grandmother took us to the third floor, the third floor has three rooms, a small living room, a balcony, the old man arranged two adjacent rooms for us, open the door inside is very messy, there are some dried vegetables, peanuts, radish, a bunch of messy things, should be taken outside to dry, there is a big wooden bed, a wardrobe, a table.

There was some dust in the room, and it was clear that it hadn't been cleaned in a while.

"These things are going to be taken to the roof balcony to dry, so they are piled up here, you put your luggage in it first, I'll clean it later, and you can live at night." The old man spoke broken Mandarin, which we could barely understand.

After putting the luggage, we went downstairs and saw the two sitting on the sofa Wei Lin was still chatting with his grandfather, but the atmosphere between the two was a little wrong, Wei Lin's face was a little pleading, and his grandfather was a little entangled and helpless.

Seeing us go downstairs, Wei Lin's grandfather stood up and said, "Awei, your friend is here for the first time, I will kill a chicken and make food for you at night, you can take them around first." With that, his grandfather smiled at us and walked outside.

Wei Lin's face was somewhat depressed, but he didn't say anything, the little black dog was rolling and playing in the yard outside, and Liu Ting couldn't wait to tease it when she saw the puppy.

Seeing Liu Ting go out, I sat next to Wei Lin and asked, "What's wrong with a depressed expression, what are you talking about with your grandfather?" ”

"Nothing, I just wanted to ask me what happened when I was twelve, but they just wouldn't tell." Welling leaned back on the couch depressedly.

I thought about it for a moment and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him: "Take your time, you've just come here, don't think about it so much yet." ”

Wei Lin nodded, and looked at the time, it was only more than three o'clock, and it was boring to sit here, so I went to the yard to take a walk, Liu Ting teased the puppy, with a look of pity, the little girl was simply defenseless to these cute little animals, Liu Ting teased it with a strong love in her eyes, I felt that if no one bothered her, she could just squat for an afternoon.