Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo, who had recovered from his injuries, took a four-hour train ride and a three-hour car ride in the dark, and finally rushed to Xinglin Village in Fujin on the morning of the 23rd day of the lunar month.

Li Zhongxin looked at the big tunzi rising from the smoke, and his heart was quite emotional.

In later life, he only came here when his grandmother and grandfather died, and now, he has been at his grandmother's house when he was about ten years old.

He couldn't help but think in his heart, in this life, would he be able to get his grandfather and several uncles out of the fate of poverty, and whether he would be able to let his grandfather live a happy life?

He knew in his heart that his grandmother and grandfather had moved here in 61 years and had lived here for more than 20 years.

At this time, it is very different from later generations, the neighbors live as if they are a family, in a large tun of 1,000 people, almost everyone knows each other, and whoever has a big or small affair, everyone can help each other.

If you go to the city, although grandma and grandpa can get to know some friends again, there is no way to compare with their hometown, and it is difficult to convince them to enjoy happiness in the city.

If he has been on Fujin's side, the distance is too far, and there are no cars yet, even if there are cars, the road conditions are not suitable for coming here often, he needs to think about it carefully and see if he can persuade his grandfather to settle in Jiangcheng.

"Grandma, grandpa, uncle, second uncle, uncle, aunt, aunt, aunt is good...... the first thing Li Zhongxin did after entering the house was to say hello to all the relatives in the house.

In his eyes, he saw that his grandmother and grandfather basically did not change much from the later generations, but they were younger than he knew in later generations.

Grandma is still the same as before, as if she is a landlord's wife, sitting cross-legged on the kang head, holding a large cigarette pouch in her hand, leaning forward, swallowing clouds and spitting out fog one by one.

After seeing him coming, after taking two large puffs of cigarettes, he smiled and knocked the cigarette ash in the cigarette pouch on the kang gang a few times, knocked the remaining cigarette ash to the ground, and said with a smile: "Yo, isn't this my eldest grandson coming?" Come over and let grandma see if my grandson has grown up. ”

Grandma touched Li Zhongxin's face with her hand, and stretched out her crossed legs to Grandpa, who was still smoking a cigarette.

She kicked hard with her foot and said viciously: "You dead old man, didn't you see the eldest grandson and the third child coming back?" One day you know that you will smoke, and you will be smoked. ”

Grandpa Wang Mingshan choked on two puffs of cigarettes, coughed twice and then said none-noomily: "It's good to be back!" Don't kick me. Grandson, your grandma misses you, and she is almost close to your grandma for a while. ”

After Wang Mingshan said this, he smoked the big cigarette pouch vigorously and stopped talking.

Li Zhongxin remembered that his mother said in later life that his grandfather had been a small long-term worker herding cattle for his grandmother's family since he was a child, and he had lived in the shadow of his grandmother almost all his life. But what! After decades of integration, the two have been able to achieve some tacit understanding.

It's just that Wang Mingshan doesn't like to squeak too much, even if he sees Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo arriving home, he doesn't have much to say, it's just that there are some more smiles on his wrinkled face.

Uncle and aunt, second uncle and a few people have hardly changed, but they are much younger than in later generations, they are all middle-aged people in the prime of life, and the only thing that has changed is Wang Changming, the son of the eldest uncle's family.

After Li Zhongxin's grandmother grabbed Li Zhongxin's hand, she touched Li Zhongxin's hand and face while shouting to Li Zhongxin's aunt: "Swallow! Your third brother and eldest nephew are back, and they shouldn't have eaten at this point! Look at what to eat for the two of them. Your eldest nephew is here for the first time and boils two eggs for him. ”

When Li Zhongxin came to F County, he had already heard his third uncle Wang Bo talk about the situation in his grandmother's family, and there was basically no change from later generations, and his eldest uncle Wang Zhi was farming at home. The second uncle, Wang Xi, works as a farmer at home. Uncle Wang Jun went to school in Toulin. The second aunt got married in Toulin Town, and she also worked as a farmer, but she had time to get some small things to sell.

My grandmother's family almost lives on farming, but fortunately, the land in Fujin is vast and sparsely populated, there are not many people, and several uncles have opened up the wasteland here, so they can have some bargaining grain to sell, and they can also let their families have enough to eat.

Before coming here, Li Zhongxin told Wang Bo to get some things for his grandmother's side, including a 14-inch Panda brand TV, New Year's goods for two people from Zhongxin Company, as well as some daily necessities and rare good things in the countryside that Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo bought in Zhongxin Supermarket before they died.

Among the things brought over, there were also some old clothes and old shoes in Li Zhongxin's house, at this time, these old clothes and old shoes were good things in the countryside, and many people couldn't even get such old clothes and shoes.

Li Zhongxin didn't buy clothes for his grandfather and grandfather in Jiangcheng, because neither he nor Wang Bo knew the size of the clothes they were wearing, and if they bought big and small ones, it would be a troublesome thing at that time.

Li Zhongxin told Wang Bo to buy two pieces of cloth (two rolls, the thick fabric is about 30 to 50 meters) at the Jiangcheng Department Store.

Thin fabrics are nearly 80 to 100 meters long), and when they arrive in Xinglin, they will find tailors to tailor them when the time comes, and these fabrics can also allow each of the relatives on the grandmother's side to make one or two sets of clothes.

During the period from '82 to '83, the cloth tickets were hard to find, and the cloth tickets for each household were fixed, if Li Zhongxin had not asked Wang Bo to find someone from the related unit of the Commercial Bureau to help approve the strips, such two pieces of cloth would never have been bought.

In addition to the cloth, Li Zhongxin also asked Wang Bo to buy more than a dozen catties of wool, which was basically hand-knitted sweaters at that time, and there was no woolen sweater and cashmere sweater in later generations.

For his younger siblings, he bought a lot of white rabbit toffee and waffle cake (the predecessor of the wafer thing), yokan, and fruit dan peel......

These things are rare in the department stores in Jiangcheng, but Li Zhongxin asked Hong Bin to come back from the south to sell some and keep them for gifts for the children in relatives and friends.

After his grandmother's caresses and his family's mutual greetings, Li Zhongxin ate a bowl of hand-rolled noodles made by his aunt.

Although my aunt was a rural woman, the food tasted quite good, and in later generations, my mother would often talk about things like sticky bean buns and sticky cakes made by my aunt, and also remembered the hand-rolled noodles made by my aunt.

The hand-rolled noodles made by my aunt are full of gluten, and they are very chewy after eating them, although they are noodles fried with diced cabbage and pork in soup, they are comparable to the noodles that Li Zhongxin ate in restaurants in the city.

And Li Zhongxin's big bowl still has two white and fat big eggs floating in it, sitting on the fire, a big bowl of noodles snorting and eating, Li Zhongxin finally relieved himself from the cold.

After the eldest aunt Feng Yan cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, she greeted the family and prepared to go back to the uncle's house across the road to make sticky bean buns.

Uncle Wang Zhi told Li Zhongxin that in the past few days of the New Year, there is a custom of steaming sticky bean buns in the village, and the eldest aunt Feng Yan has made an appointment with someone to make sticky bean buns at home a few days ago, and in the evening, in addition to the goose that Uncle Wang Zhi specially killed, there are delicious sticky bean buns and pot stickers when stewing goose. (Potstickers are the same as the Northeast Daguotai Restaurant in later generations, and a circle of big cakes is pasted around the big iron pot, which is the potstickers).