Chapter 198: Returning Home
Yue Yuanqiang remembered. I haven't returned to my hometown for two years and eight months
The first two years were faceless to go back, so I could only choose to hide, and I spent two years alone in the dormitory of the factory. And in the next eight months, the first two months are in a state of dissociation, and only the second half year is indeed the reason for being too busy.
I thought about taking some time to go back, but the big exhibition of the wasteland settlement made him have to postpone the trip.
Now in the wasteland settlement, there is no need to worry about materials for the time being, so Zhou Yuanqiang has less life to continue to work as a laborer and has more free time. So he wants to take advantage of the time now to go home to visit his parents, who have been talking about them for nearly three years.
Zhou Yuanqiang's hometown is actually not very far from the city, only more than 800 kilometers. If you are travelling by plane. It only takes an hour and a half, and then a two-hour express bus, arrives at the county seat and then transfers to the town, and then calls a motorcycle from the town to spend 5 yuan to send yourself to the brigade where you are, and finally return home.
Well, having said so much and turned so many times, it's nothing more than saying. My hometown is in a big mountain. It's a small village. Well, to describe it in poetic words, it is a lot of praise words by the mountains and rivers, the peaks are stacked, and the green forests are like the sea. But no matter how much praise there is, there is another. Fart, for affordable countrymen, it is called a poor place, and there is absolutely no golden doll dug up in the field.
It takes more than ten hours to take a long distance, which is far from what Zhou Yuanqiang is willing to do, so he chose to take a plane and then transfer to an express bus to reach the county seat.
The country is indeed in a big exhibition, look at a county with a per capita annual income of less than four yuan, why should the lowest housing price be put into one square meter? And it's a shame that the houses in the county town can hardly see a figure of less than four square meters, and they are all between the old 2 force squares.
Can this not be called a big exhibition? But what is maddening is that it will rise by three to five hundred yuan per square meter every year, and the money earned in a hard year is not as fast as the house.
In the past, Zhou Yuanqiang also had the idea of making as much money as possible and providing a set in the county, but in the face of the rising tide, in just four, from a square meter to a square meter of housing prices, in addition to sighing, there is more of a sense of powerlessness. This house is not something that a migrant worker like himself can afford to live in.
Although there are many complaints about the property, other places are still good, from the county to the town, taxis have been opened, chartered taxis are just a block, you can enjoy this not long journey alone. When you are lucky, the other party will also agree.
I haven't come back for two years, and the county town has indeed changed a little, but the town is still the same. All the rich people poured into the county, and it was strange that the town could show it.
Zhou Yuanqiang used to be a very taciturn person, but when he arrived in the town, some strange and familiar figures appeared. Zhou Yuanqiang doesn't remember the other party's name very well, and he encounters a little familiar, whether he knows it or not. It's all a smile and a nod, which is considered a hello.
Most of the young people in the town have gone out to work, and not many of them have stayed. There are indeed very few people like Zhou Yuanqiang who returned to their hometowns in August, unlike the Chinese New Year, when the whole town was crowded with people, and everyone got off the car with big bags and small bags. The whole town is so lively that it is full of people asking each other and saying hello.
I found a no-man's corner, and took out the big bags and small bags of things I bought in the city from the storage space, which was called two motorcycles, one to carry myself, and the other was naturally to help me transport all kinds of snacks and gifts like a hill.
Originally, if I didn't return to my hometown for a few years, there would always be a sense of excitement, the mood of the wanderer's return, but Zhou Yuanqiang seemed to "be a little unaware."
"Are you used to life in the city?"
Zhou Yuanqiang said sarcastically, turned his head to look at the crops on both sides of the dirt road, August was not long after the second ploughing. The eyes are full of green rice seedlings. But Zhou Yuanqiang thought about it. But when I was in elementary school and junior high school, I participated in farming. At that time, I had already begun to share the housework for the family.
In fact, it seems that the overlapping mountains will feel that this place is very remote, but when you actually melt into it. You will see, between the faults of each peak, in the valley, where they are connected. There will always be paddy fields and small villages built on the hillside. A dirt road connects countless large and small villages under the mountain, and some of them are close to each other, and some of them are not far away. At most one or two hundred meters.
The small village where Zhou Yuanqiang lives is not far from the town, and the motorcycle is only eleven or twelve minutes
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The motorcycle stopped in front of his house, because Zhou Yuanqiang's home was next to the dirt road, and for this reason, the whole family suffered a lot from the mud and dust.
After paying the fare, Zhou Yuanqiang looked at his extremely familiar, but unfamiliar home, with some sadness. Familiar because there is almost no change, strange because of the four earthen houses, now there are three, the former kitchen has collapsed, look at the traces, there should be a long time.
In the past, when Zhou Yuanqiang was still in junior high school, he had one room, one for his sister, one room for his parents, and one room for the kitchen. Also a utility room. Grandpa and grandma died very early, and when Zhou Yuanqiang was in elementary school, they left one after the other.
Hearing it made him look even older.
Old-fashioned tunics. It's old, but it's worn on Zhou Anpu's body. But Zhou Yuanqiang is familiar with it.
The meeting of the two. There were no tears on TV, and there were no hugs for each other, but they looked at each other and said flatly: "Dad!" And Zhou Anpu's voice: "Back?" "This is the family relationship between father and son, very plain and ordinary. But anyone can read the surprise inside.
As if it was like a New Year, Zhou Yuanqiang's sister Zhou Xiaojing was so happy that she almost couldn't leave the ground.
Zhou Xiaojing's name. It was when Zhou Yuanqiang was still in elementary school, and her parents were indeed not available at that time, so she took her to the school to report her name. At that time, the teacher asked the name of the little sister, and Zhou Yuanqiang remembered that his parents had not given the little sister a scientific name. At that time, in a hurry, Xiao Jing's name blurted out. So the name of the little sister Zhou Xiaojing was determined.
The mother in my memory, Su Lan, is a rural woman who is very hard-working, and Zhou Yuanqiang's forgetting of her is not as strong as her father's, because her performance is like that of thousands of rural women. It's too ordinary.
Zhou Yuanqiang brought a lot of things, and he entered the house where his parents lived. Piled up with the parents' humble beds.
Zhou Anpu was a little blamed and said: "It's not easy for you to make money, why do you spend so much money and buy so many useless things?" In his eyes, I'm afraid that what is really useful is farm tools, fertilizers, and things that can be useful for the family.
Thinking that his family had never enjoyed such a good material life, Zhou Yuanqiang suddenly wanted to slap himself. No, it's for your own unfilial piety. Obviously, he is rich now, but his parents are still living in this simple mud house, but he didn't think about them for the first time, isn't it a kind of unfilial fault?
Zhou Yuanqiang smiled and said: "Dad, you can eat it with confidence, you see this is shark fin, this is bird's nest, they are all very good things, and these health care products are the most suitable for you old people, see what this is?" Ha: "Didn't you envy your classmates that some people have mobile phones? This is Apple's % smartphone, and it's very easy to use. And these rag dolls, bring them back to your room in a while, and with them double you, you won't be scared at night. ”
Zhou Xiaojing happily took the iPhone, played happily, and said, "Brother, this must be very expensive, right?" ”
"What's expensive? Two or three hundred pieces of parallel goods, used for pretending. Zhou Yuanqiang smiled, of course he couldn't tell his little sister that the official price of this mobile phone was Ant Kou Yuan, if he knew that it was this. price, she didn't dare to play with it as casually as now. For Zhou Yuanqiang, what is money? The most important thing is that the family is happy.
Only Su Lan frowned a little and said, "You kid, what kind of mobile phone do you buy?" With this money, it is better to save it. Find a way to fix this house, and you can save some money. Hurry up and get married. It's more than twenty people. I don't know the proportions yet. Our Zhou family, but the sixth generation of Danding, your father and I still want you to have a few more. ”
Zhou Yuanqiang's face was also unnatural, even if his ancestors included his own generation, it was indeed six generations of single ding, and there was only one incense.
In the country, you can never avoid the fact that there are more or fewer brothers. There are many brothers. will be stronger, have fewer brothers, and be the target of bullying by others. Zhou Yuanqiang still remembers it clearly. 's own family, not less bullied by a few families with many brothers.
There have even been a few times. Six or seven brothers in the family held knives and shovels, pointed at their fathers, shouted and shouted, didn't they just want to take a share of the fruit forest on their own production team? Isn't it just bullying six generations of Shan Ding in his own family, and this generation only has his father and himself?
People are weak, and in the countryside, they are always vividly expressed.
Zhou Yuanqiang could only smile bitterly and lied and said, "Mom, you can rest assured." I have an object in the city, but they are from the city, and I will bring them back to you next time, if it is suitable, we will get married and have a baby, and add Ding to our Zhou family
Get the news. Su Lan was also happy, but said worriedly: "People in the city. Can you see our house? Zhou Yuanqiang gave her a reassuring look and said confidently: "What can't you look at?" Your son is now promising. The person that people look at is not a house, what are you worried about? ”
With Zhou Yuanqiang's words, Su Lan put his mind at ease and explained: "You have to treat others well, people can take a fancy to you as a country boy, but you have been wronged." Only Zhou Anpu interrupted next to him and said: "Okay, okay, my son's affairs, naturally he will take care of it, you go get some noodles." From the city here, but it takes most of the day, I'm afraid I'm hungry
Hear what your husband is saying. Su Lan then remembered, and went to Zhang Luo for Zhou Yuanqiang with a smile.
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