Ye Shifang learned about Niu Geng's experience of poetry, and in the next few days, he was arranged to read "Liweng Rhyme" every day when he got up in the morning, and recited "Three Hundred Tang Poems" in the afternoon, but the difference from the past is that the amount of recitation every day has increased, from the original three to five.

I thought that my thoughts on poetry would bring rewards, but this more recitation every day made him almost stay at home. Fortunately, it was too cold in this winter, and the children in the village did not come out to play much, and he could not see the freedom and happiness of others in front of him.

After the winter solstice, New Year's Day is getting closer and closer, and the weather is getting colder and colder. The calendar hanging on the wall has been torn to only three left, 1988 is about to pass, for Niu Geng, he is 4 years old after the New Year, grandma said that he was born on a big day, a New Year is a whole year old.

At present, Niu Geng is not concerned about being a year older, but about the eye-catching date 29 characters on the calendar, which reminds his parents that they are coming back with their younger brothers.

A few days ago, my uncle, who had worked hard, came down from Longxian to do something, and came over by the way, bringing news that my grandmother had fallen. Mother Tian E discussed with her father Niu Yonghou, and took advantage of the free time of the previous year to take the two little ones back to her parents' house to have a look, and by the way, stay a few more days to take care of the old mother. After all, it is still relatively long to go over the mountains and mountains to Longxian by car.

Niu Geng's grandmother began to agree, you two are gone, and there are only three of us old people and a little doll left in the house, how can this be done? It was his father-in-law Ye Shifang who came out to speak, and his grandmother fell and injured herself, and his mother should go back to see. Tian E's mother's house is far away, and she hasn't been back much throughout the year, so this time she took her two little grandchildren back and stayed for a while. In addition, let Yonghou also go back together, he and I studied traditional Chinese medicine, in the treatment of bruises, there is still no problem, this time just to his old mother-in-law to do his filial piety. The three of us are old and have a little hard work, there is no problem, we are not old and can't move, besides, our fourth daughter Xiaoxia is married in the next village, so it's good to ask her to come over if there is anything.

Niu Geng's grandmother said that his father-in-law Ye Shifang finally promised her son Niu Yonghou and daughter-in-law Tian E to take their two little grandsons to Longxian County.

The two of them have been going for more than ten days, and Niu Geng's grandmother complained about his father-in-law Ye Shifang when she saw the sky, but fortunately, his fourth aunt Niu Xiaoxia came over to help every once in a while, and often said good things to comfort her, and her grandmother's heart eased a little.

Niu Xiaoxia, the fourth aunt of Niu Cultivator, got married recently, and it was in Hulu Village next door, and it took only ten minutes to walk over. Niu Xiaoxia's husband's family is also surnamed Yan, which is the same family as the surname Yan in Yuchi Village. His fourth uncle's name is Yan Zhangfu, a large truck driver, and in the past two years, he has built a large truck to pull coal, transporting coal between Gansu and Shaanxi.

A few days ago, when Niu Xiaoxia came to cook for the old people, she said that when her husband Yan Zhangfu was passing by in Longxian, she happened to meet her second brother and second sister-in-law, and brought the news down, saying that she would come back on the 29th of this month.

Niu Geng's two younger brothers are twins, one is called Niu Gengyu and the other is Niu Gengmu. He was born in December last year, and now he is just over a year old, and he misses the two little ones in his heart when he is not there during this time.

The heavy snow had stopped for a few days, the sun was too short during the day, the weather was so cold, and the snow on the ground had barely melted.

On the day when the weather cleared, the snow in the yard was cleaned up by father-in-law Ye Shifang, grandfather Niu Chuanqing, and the ox cultivators, who piled up the snow under the plane tree in the yard, under the grape trellis, and beat it into a cone shape around the roots.

Since grandfather Niu Chuanqing and father-in-law Ye Shifang talked that day, Niu Gengqian would have an hour and a half of free time every afternoon, and the requirement was not to run far.

There was only an hour and a half, and Niu Cultivator didn't dare to move too far freely, and he didn't know much of the children in the same village, so he was familiar with two friends of the same age near his home. For more than a year before his father-in-law Ye Shifang came back to give him enlightenment education, he often played with these two people. However, in the past almost a year, he has been writing and reading almost without leaving home, and he has lost contact with these two partners, only remembering that one of them is called Yan Wenbin and the other is Yan Zhangping.

Yuchi Village belongs to Jinhe Township, Baoji City. As the name suggests, this township is named after the river. The name of the river is Jinling River, it is said that in the Song and Jin dynasties, the Jin Kingdom buried the soldiers who died on the loess plateau by the river, so this loess plateau was called "Jinling Plateau", and later simplified to "Mausoleum", and the river at the foot of the mausoleum became the Jinling River.

Jinling River is a tributary of the Wei River, originating from Badu Town in the northwest of Baoji, it is like a flowing jade belt, connecting more than a dozen villages in Jinhe towns along the river, Yuchi Village is under the Yuchi Plateau on the bank of the river.

Niu Geng's home was built at the entrance of the village, the closest to the riverbank, and it was only a few dozen steps from his house to the head of the Yuchi Bridge. In winter, the trees on the banks of the river are bare, and the courtyard walls of his house are also low, so standing on the steps of the corridor of the upper house, you can clearly see the road into the village on the other side of the river valley.

It was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and Niu Gengqian stood on the steps of the corridor courtyard and watched it several times, but he hadn't seen his parents yet. I only saw that the valley of the Jinling River that had been alluvial for thousands of years was completely covered by the white snow, and the valley went up to the fields on the opposite bank, and there were a few sparse trees erected on the ridges.

They were eating at eleven o'clock near noon, and Niu Geng was already a little hungry by this time, and his grandfather Niu Chuanqing didn't give him baked buns today, but secretly gave him a piece of snack. The dim sum was bought by Niu Yongfeng, the uncle who lived in the city, or the aunt Niu Xiaoling, who came back every time he came back.

Niu Geng's grandfather lived in a separate upper room, nearly 20 square meters, and a screen was glued with white paper with bamboo poles in the center, dividing the room into two small rooms, which were used to store things, and his grandfather slept in the outer room. There is a single bed in the outer room against a white paper screen, and in winter it is an electric blanket, but it is turned on for a while before going to bed.

In the middle of the bed, against the upper part of the screen, there is a flat basket made of plastic hanging all the year round, which is where Niu Cultivator often gazes, because it is used by Grandpa Niu Chuanqing to place those snacks. In addition to the basket decorated with snacks, he also paid attention to the big teapot painted with Grandpa Mao's head.

For as long as Niu Cultivator can remember, his grandfather Niu Chuanqing has been drinking tea with this big tea jar, and there are four big red characters on it "hard work". Niu Chuanqing is a refreshing person, he makes the bed flat and tidy when he gets up in the morning, and the floor of the room is always clean.

This large tea jar is also a brand-new product if it weren't for the enamel marks on the lid and the edge of the tea jar mouth. The inside of the tea jar is different, after long-term tea use, it has been coated with a layer of dark gray tea dirt.

Niu Chuanqing, the grandfather of Niu Cultivator, has three hobbies, drinking tea, smoking, and playing mahjong. Among these three hobbies, the latter two are related, because when he is not playing mahjong, Niu Chuanqing rarely smokes, a pack of cigarettes can be smoked for several days, and when he plays mahjong, he will say otherwise, a pack and a half of the pack are not fixed.

Niu Gengqian knew that drinking tea was his grandfather Niu Chuanqing's first hobby, and every morning when he got up and finished washing, he began to boil water to make tea.

The brown paper bag containing the tea is vertically printed with four large green characters of "100,000 mountains", and in the lower right corner of the large characters are four small green characters "jasmine tea". On the left and right sides of the big characters, like a couplet, there is a sentence written on each side, "often drink 100,000 big camellias, refresh your mind and open your mind."

There are several small characters printed on the back of the brown paper bag, and when Niu Gengqian had just finished learning "Thousand Character Text", Niu Chuanqing asked him to read this text in order to test his literacy ability. Although he was a little stuttered at the first time, he was able to recite the text aloud after reading it well.

"The '100,000 Mountain' brand tea comes from, located at an altitude of 2,500 meters above sea level (China, Vietnam, Myanmar) at the junction, the production area is cloudy and mist, the rainfall is abundant, and there is no pollution. The unique ecological environment has created the excellent quality of 100,000 camellia. "100,000 Mountains" brand series of jasmine tea is made of Yunnan high-quality large-leaf roasting raw materials, with a special process, refined jasmine flowers in Guangxi cellar, white hao revealed, fragrant and high flavor, soup color yellow and green bright, is a natural health drink. ”

Niu Geng likes his grandfather Niu Chuanqing tea very much, and the moment he opens the brown paper bag and grabs the tea leaves, he smells a faint aroma of jasmine mixed with fruit trees, and sometimes it seems to have a slight smell of burnt smoke, like the smell of dry tobacco leaves. His grandfather Niu Chuan made tea, grabbed a handful and threw it into the big tea jar, when the water boiled, a hot breath poured into it, and the hot water vapor wrapped in the aroma of jasmine tea wafted in the room.

For the jasmine tea of "100,000 Mountains", the deepest memory of Niu Geng is the first time to drink it. It was last year, about late autumn, he came back from playing outside, opened the curtain and entered his grandfather Niu Chuanqing's house, and smelled the fragrance of jasmine tea. At that time, his grandfather Niu Chuanqing was not in the room, and the lid of the large tea jar on the table was open, and it was full of a large jar of tea, which was seductively bright. He also happened to be thirsty for playing, so he leaned over to the jar and sniffed it with his nose, it was very fragrant. The mouth of the large tea jar was almost as big as his face, and he tilted his hands at an angle, and the tea entered his mouth in one gulp.