Even when he asked her to go home for a reunion and the family shared dinner, she never refused and accepted it calmly.

At sunset, the crows are drowsy.

Luo Yunbai's home is in an ordinary small village, some distance from the town, surrounded by mountains, high forests, water in the mountains, and relying on the idyllic scenery.

When the three of them came to Luojia Village, the sky was dark, and the stars were not bright and bright, and by the dim moonlight, the country road was barely walkable.

It doesn't look rich, there are no lanterns on either side of the sand and gravel roads, and in the middle of the village, wisps of cooking smoke waft from the roofs of farmhouses, the simple smell of scrambled eggs with wild vegetables.

Compared with the small city, which is not large, it is even poorer and more backward.

Under the enthusiastic leadership of Luo Yunbai, Luo Qingyi and Mu Ziwei walked through the alleys of Qianmo Village, with mountains and rivers in the distance and folk songs nearby.

In the village, there are groups of urchins with bare black feet and patched jackets.

"How does it feel to go back to your mother's house?" Mu Zi suddenly said and quipped quietly.

"Go. Luo Qingyi said angrily: "I deliberately let go of His Highness, who asked him to go to that Wu Ying without permission." ”

Who would have thought that a joke would come true.

But to be honest, Luo Qingyi's memory of this place is very vague, she only vaguely remembers that when she was a child, she and her family were crammed into a thatched house, and there was a jujube tree outside the house, and the green jujubes produced were very sour and astringent, far less sweet than the candy and fruit fed by His Royal Highness the Prince.

She still remembers that there were wind chimes that she had woven herself hanging from the trees, and that it was dark at night, and when she returned late from her apprenticeship at the drugstore, she could find her way home by the sound of the faint wind chimes.

"That's it, Sister, you haven't been home for a long time, I'm afraid you don't remember the road for a long time, right? It's okay, I'll take you a few more times, and you'll be familiar with the road, if Daddy and Mother know that I found you, they will definitely be happy." ”

Luo Yunbai enthusiastically pushed open the bamboo door of the outer courtyard, his face was filled with a smile of excitement and joy, and said loudly: "Mother, I'm back! And I also brought one back, come and see who this is!"

Luo Qingyi stood quietly at the door for a moment, this house is no longer the simple thatched hut of the past, but a square house made of red bricks and green tiles, through the thin paper window lattice, you can see that this house has two bedrooms, as well as a low kitchen, and there is an old well in the front yard.

The entire base area has more than doubled, and the old tree with wind chimes in front of the courtyard has long been cut down, leaving only a dilapidated wooden stake embedded in the soil, and the roots of the old tree have been corroded by drugs and can no longer grow.

The smell of food wafted through the yard, which made the day run away without eating

Luo Yunbai's abdomen thundered, and he hurriedly walked towards the courtyard, obviously it was the reunion of his sister and brother that made him very interested, smelling the fragrance of food.

He trotted all the way to the corner of the fence, dug out a jar of wine, and said happily: "Smell this fragrance, my mother is stir-frying bitter gourd and scrambled eggs, this is your favorite dish when you were a child, I will serve it to you now, you sit with this girl first." ”

Luo Qingyi: "......"

Luo Yunbai moved the two chairs very attentively, beckoned them to sit down, and then went to the house to serve food and call people.

Immediately afterward, there were several exclamations from inside the room, followed by the sound of a spatula falling to the ground.

Soon, a middle-aged woman slapped her thigh with tears and remorse and quickly greeted her, her face sallow from the smoke of the world, tears were all over the place, and her sideburns were faintly white.

She was so excited that she rushed out of the low house, tripped over the threshold under her feet, and didn't even have time to say any touching words about the reunion after a long absence.

Luo Qingyi sighed helplessly, floated forward, and supported one of the woman's arms to hold her steady.

The woman looked at her daughter who was close at hand, her face was full of sourness and pain, her trembling calloused hand excitedly held Luo Qingyi's arm: "Okay...... Good...... Okay......" She said three good words of unknown meaning in succession, and her voice became even more choked.

On the other side, in the house, a middle-aged man also walked out with an old cigarette stick in his hand, his face was endlessly complicated, shocked, guilty, apologetic, and joyful.

This middle-aged man is obviously a calm character, except for the slight redness in the corners of his eyes, his emotions are well controlled, he seems to sigh, nodded at Luo Qingyi, and said, "It's good to come back, let's be hungry, let's eat first." ”

In such an atmosphere, Luo Qingyi's expression was as usual, there was not much change, just a faint smile, and he naturally helped the woman and said: "It's dark, mother watch out for your feet, but do you still want to fry the vegetables?"

Hearing this 'mother', the woman's body trembled, and she choked up and said, "Good boy, good boy, how can you let you cook as soon as you come back." ”

As she spoke, her head twisted towards the kitchen, the tears on her face had not dried, but her expression suddenly became a little fierce: "Stinky boy!

She kept rubbing her hands on her oil-stained apron, and continued: "Look at me, I didn't know that you would come back today, child...... This...... There is no meat prepared at home, or you eat it first, and my mother will go to the widow's house next door to borrow a lump of pork belly. ”

As soon as he said that, he unbuttoned his apron and was about to go out, Luo Qingyi hurriedly grabbed her and said, "There really is no need to bother." ”

The man also frowned, and said, "On this big night, you go and knock on the door of the widow, what kind of system do you become?" ”

The woman smiled and said, "Then for my mother tomorrow, I will buy you something delicious to eat tomorrow." ”

Luo Qingyi couldn't cry or laugh, and he really didn't know how to respond for a while.

On that side, Luo Yunbai was holding a bitter gourd scrambled egg in one hand and a jar of wine in the other, and surprisingly, there was a little girl in a cloth jacket behind him.

The little girl looked delicate, the same age as him, followed him step by step, two fingers stirred the corners of her clothes, her eyes hesitated and timidly glanced at Luo Qingyi, hiding behind Luo Yunbai, not daring to speak.

Luo Yunbai's face was a little annoyed with her, and her smiling face suddenly became a little impatient: "You are dumb, that's my sister, it's called someone, it's really ignorant." ”

The little girl's fingers trembled, and she whispered, "Sister Luo is good." ”

Luo Qingyi glanced at her and said with a smile: "Hello." ”

Seeing that she was laughing, the girl was a little bolder and sat down with Luo Yunbai.

As soon as she took her seat, the woman wiped her tears while putting vegetables into Luo Qingyi's bowl, it was Luo Yunbai who said his sister's favorite bitter gourd scrambled eggs, and his tone and words were the same as him:

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, it's hard to live outside, home is always for you to stay here, come back if you are homesick, although now there are battlefields, life is sluggish, but a hot meal, my mother can still give you. ”

Luo Qingyi came to Nanchi City this time, had other important things, and had to hide his identity, and Mu Ziwei was extremely low-key all the way, with no long things, even the clothes were almost plain.

This fell into the eyes of Luo's mother, there was no news for eleven years, and there was no sign of returning home, and now she suddenly came to the door, thinking that the life in the outside world was too hard and difficult, so she returned to her homeland, looking for a tile and a bite of food.

Also, there are a few children who are sold.

Father Luo heard that she faintly wanted to take her daughter back, and frowned quietly, it was not that he was unkind, but that his son was close to the township exam, and the cost of studying was very large, and the family was already living tightly, and now it was a little difficult to raise one more person.

Although he had an idea in his heart, he didn't particularly reject the fact that his daughter came back, but knocked the table with a gun in distress, lit a cigarette stick, pecked lightly, and swallowed the clouds and spit out smoke from that side.

Mu Ziwu, who didn't say a word, suddenly stretched out his white and even-skinned jade hand, and under Luo's mother's stunned gaze, he put a bowl of bitter gourd scrambled eggs covered with rice in front of Luo Qingyi, but his own bowl was right.

Through the white veil, she raised her chopsticks to eat, and ate not slowly but very elegantly, without wasting a piece of the woman's kindness, she ate the bitter gourd scrambled eggs and rice in the bowl, and then said: "This scrambled egg is very delicious, but she can't eat bitter things, especially bitter gourd." ”