Meng Zhen's father remarried in her junior year, married Han Chunyan from their compound, who was also a colleague in the factory. At that time, when Meng's father was about to get married, he consulted Meng Zhen's opinion. She has not fully recovered from the shadow of losing her mother, but she understands and supports her father's remarriage, during her mother's illness, it was her father who took care of her mother tirelessly, and after her mother's death, her father seemed to be ten years older.

He goes to school outside, and there is little chance of returning to the county in the future, and his father's lonely life is too hard, so Meng Zhen also hopes that someone can take care of him and accompany him through the rest of his life. Aunt Han is familiar to her, her husband died of cancer, and she only has a son who is eight years younger than Meng Zhen. Her husband's illness had almost all of the family's savings, and after his death, Aunt Han's life was difficult.

Everyone is both a colleague and a neighbor, so usually Dad Meng takes great care of them, and after a long time, two people who have lost their partners have formed a new family.

Han Chunyan is very good to Meng Zhen, but this kindness always carries a kind of alienated politeness. For such a feeling, Meng Zhen didn't like it very much. Every time she came home, she saw that the smell of her mother in the house was getting less and less, and the breath of the new hostess was getting stronger and stronger, and she began to have a sense of distance from this home.

Later, after graduating from college, she stayed in Quancheng, and rarely went home, although her room and belongings at home were still the same as before she left, but Meng Zhen always felt that that place was no longer her home. Although thinking like this will make my father sad, every time I go home, I see my father, Aunt Han and her son Zheng Jian happy, and I look like an outsider. This feeling is very bleak, and she only goes home now on Chinese New Year or special days.

Meng Zhen exchanged a few words with Aunt Han on the phone, and Meng's father took the phone: "Zhenzhen, why didn't you go home last month?" Have you been busy at work lately? ”

"Dad, I'm fine, are you okay? Now it's snowing in Quancheng, is it snowing at home? ”

"I'm in good health, and now I'm retired, and I'm playing chess with your Uncle Wang at home all day. Hey, Han, is it snowing outside? Father Meng hadn't gotten out in the morning, so he didn't know what the weather was, so he asked his wife next to him.

"No, it just rained a little in the morning, but the temperature was quite low. What, it's snowing in Springs? ”

Father Meng got the answer, turned his head and continued to say to Meng Zhen: "No, it's raining a little here." It's cooled down over there, are you dressed enough today, you have to pay more attention when you're outside. By the way, you said last time that you dealt with the object, when will you bring it home for Dad to see, if the person is good, let's settle down quickly. You are also not too young, the little pair in our courtyard, she is still two years younger than you, and she has a son this year. ”

"Oh, yes," Meng Zhen almost forgot that she had told her father about Du Wei, and if she knew that the two of them were like this, she wouldn't tell her father first: "That, Dad, I broke up with him, and I feel that the two of them are not very suitable." ”

"Broke up? When? ”

"Well, last month's thing. Dad, let's not talk about him. By the way, I bought a house in Springs and am now in my new home! ”

"Bought a house? Is there enough money, I have heard that the housing prices in Quancheng are several times more expensive than in our county. Every time you send back money, I save it for you, and I'll send it over in a while, and if the money is not enough, I'll add some more to you! ”

"Dad, enough money! I didn't buy a commercial house, I bought a bungalow on the outskirts of the city, and I also brought a big yard, which was very cheap. You don't have to save money for me, the money I send you is for you to spend. It's already very unfilial that I can't take care of you by my side, so I have to send some money for you to eat something good, and you can spend that money. ”

"Bungalow, you live alone? Ann is not safe? Has anyone bullied you? "On the outskirts of the city? Isn't that rural? Is it okay for her to live alone in a yard as a girl? Meng's father also felt that after he remarried, his daughter was getting farther and farther away from home.

"Originally, I lived alone, but then two teachers from the village primary school rented my house, and now there are three of us. Dad, don't worry, the people here are very good to me. And half of the people here are surnamed Meng, maybe our ancestors were brothers five hundred years ago. Oh, by the way, Chen Xue was afraid that I would not be safe alone, and asked someone to help me get a wolf dog to watch the house, so don't worry. ”

Meng Zhen looked at Xiong Xiong who was squatting at his feet, and hurriedly comforted his father, if he didn't worry about the old man, it would not be good to come all the way.

"Wolfdogs? That's okay, it's obedient, right?! ”

"Well, very obedient, Chen Xue said that it is the offspring of the police dog, but it is fierce!"

Xiong Xiong seemed to sense his master's attention, propped up his front legs, straightened up, and took on the posture of a standard guard. It's a pity that there is no long hair on the round belly, and the pink is tender and tender, which is a bit cute no matter how you look at it.

"Okay, you have to pay more attention to yourself, and go home more when you have time, your aunt and I are very worried about you."

"Well, okay," Meng Zhen knew that he always didn't go home, which made his father very sad: "By the way, Dad, it's snowing heavily today, and the highways in Quancheng are closed, and it is estimated that it won't be open tomorrow, so I won't go home first." Tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, when you go to the grave of your grandparents, burn more paper for my mother. ”

"Don't worry, every year your aunt and I go to see her, go and pull the weeds for her, and add some soil to her grave. We can't forget! ”

Speaking of his deceased wife, Father Meng's heart was also sour. When she was depressed, it was very tormenting, and what she went later was unknown, and now she recalls the happy days when the two of them struggled together. Therefore, every year during Qingming, Death Day, and Halloween, he would go to the cemetery to see her, and sometimes Xiao Han would accompany him.

"Well, Dad, you and Auntie must pay attention to your body, don't be reluctant to spend money, now your daughter can earn money. If you're healthy, I'll be at ease outside! ”

"Well, okay, when the weather is warm, I'll go to your new house." Meng's father knew that his daughter had made a home in Quancheng, and she might be even younger when she came back. Alas, let her be!

“……”

The snow fell heavily for two days, and the whole village was white, and on the third day the snow finally stopped, but the sky was still overcast. It wasn't until the fourth day that the long-lost sun revealed its clouds.

At noon, the snow began to melt, and Zhoujiazhuang, which had been quiet for several days, began to have a sound, and people wore rain boots and carried hoes to the wheat fields.

Meng Zhen happily sent off his aunt and prepared to go to his own wheat field to have a look. Yesterday, it was reported in the news that due to the heavy snowfall, the wheat seedlings and vegetables in many villages around Quancheng were frozen to death and frostbitten, and they should do a good job of remedial work after the snow melted.

Remedy? Meng Zhen planned to dig out some of the yellow soil in the manor and add it to the wheat field, which she thought should be more effective than pesticides. After lunch, she changed into her work clothes, put on rain boots, and carried a hoe and shovel to the wheat field to loosen the soil and "fertilize".

Greeting the villagers he met on the road, Meng Zhen came to the wheat field, put on gloves, took a hoe and began to hoe grass and plough the land.

When she hoeed the wheat field for the first time, she didn't even know how to use a hoe, but her second aunt taught her hand in hand. Originally, according to the second aunt's meaning, she simply got herbicides, and she finished her work in a while.

Meng Zhen's goal is to create green and pollution-free food, refusing to use any chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and her wheat field doesn't look like much, so artificial hoeing should be possible, right?

The second aunt saw that she was very firm, so she enthusiastically taught her how to hold the hoe and how to use it hard, Meng Zhen looked at it seriously, and when the demonstration was finished, she picked up the hoe and picked it down very imposingly: the weeds are still there, but the wheat seedlings are flying. The second aunt laughed vigorously and said that she was "not a working servant".

In the next two days, Meng Zhen came to the wheat field to hoe the grass after selling the vegetables, and made progress in practice, and after grinding two shiny blisters on her hands, she finally finished removing the grass in the wheat field.

Now there is not much grass in the wheat field, so the main thing is to loosen the soil and add the soil in the loess of the manor as fertilizer. Meng Zhen leaned his waist, holding the hoe in both hands, and cultivated it one by one. After loosening a ridge and spreading the "fertilizer" thinly on it, half a day passed, and Meng Zhen finally got all the wheat fields ready. She straightened up, stood on the ground, looked at the wheat that was obviously alive, and thought to herself, it should be about the same, and pour some spring water, these wheat will definitely be harvested this year.

Meng Zhen pounded his sore waist, and seemed to be able to see the scene of the wheat ripening and the wheat waves rolling.

"Jennier, are you done?"

Second Aunt Meng came back from the field, passed by Meng Zhen's wheat field, and saw her looking at the wheat field.

"Oh, second aunt, when I was done, I loosened the ground and added some mud dug from the lotus pond. I look at Maizi and seems to be in good spirits, don't you see it? ”

Meng Zhen turned his head and chatted with Aunt Meng.

"Well, it looks much better, you said to use the mud dug in the lotus pond?"

There was more fresh dirt in the ground, and she was about to ask what it was.

"Yes, when I planted the saplings that day, I thought the mud I dug out was quite moist, and the fruit trees were all alive when they were planted. I thought that it might be more nutritious because of the moisture of the spring water, and today I saw that the frostbite of the wheat was not very serious, so I dug some and tried it. ”

"It's possible, what kind of mineral does our spring water here, I heard that it is very nourishing. Oh, Jeniel, you still have eyesight. Don't you know, since you dug up the spring water in this lotus pond, the people in the village are envious. Aunt Meng looked at the wheat field that Meng Zhen had cleaned up, and then looked at the lotus pond where there was still snow, and she was also envious in her heart: "By the way, you have fish fry in this lotus pond, right?" ”

"That's right, I bought it from the fish pond in Song Village, and I just put it in, and I don't know if the fish has frostbite!"

"It should be fine, this spring seems to be at a constant temperature, and you can see that it is still steaming. Since the pond is stocked with fish, you can't just leave it open, it's better to put a fence or someone watching. Although the people in the village may not have the idea of beating your fish fry, you still have to guard against those unscrupulous bastards to make trouble. ”

"Well, when the weather improves, I'll find Wang Sanye to build a wooden house, and add a fence by the pond."

Meng Zhen thought that the fry were still small, and when they grew, she would receive the spring water of the manor, where it would be safe and fast. But the hut and the fence must also be built, and in two days' time, there will still be a large number of vegetables to be sold in the manor, and things will have to be done in the same way.