Longmen Town was established in 1941 and has a population of about 19,000, but only a little more than 1,000 are non-agricultural people, that is, the shopkeepers, teachers and so on in the town. The pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info named after the town because of its proximity to Longmen Mountain. The town has always been peaceful, and there is only one street in the town. There are two or three shops in town, with Hello Supermarket being the largest and only one. There is a hot pot restaurant. A rural commercial bank. There were five or six clothing stores in a row on the left side of the street, and next to it was an Internet café, and at the entrance there was a small flat field, with a dilapidated billiard table, and a few young men were playing energetically. When people in the Internet café kept coming out to say something to them, they started laughing and scuffling with each other. This scene can be seen almost every day. On the right side of the street there is a pharmacy, three rice noodle shops and stir-fry shops. There were no customers in Cold Day 1, and the shopkeeper and the helpers were sitting at the door with a wordless swing. The town hospital is behind the town streets. The school is at the end of the town street. The Longmen Homestead at the entrance to the town is almost finished, but no one is occupying it.

"Look, do you want to buy a house there? Say it's 2,000 square meters. Aunt Xia pointed to the Longmen Homestead and said.

"No, I'm living in that house very well. Shuqing shook her head, her eyes following Aunt Xia's fingers. Xie Junya said that the town was about to be restless. I'm afraid that the community can't be saved. "Has anyone bought this house?"

Aunt Xia shook her head to indicate that she was not clear, and then she added:

"Since you're not going back to the city, buy one in town. You're used to living in the city, but now you're not used to living in this house. ”

"What's not used to that, I grew up here. Falling leaves return to the roots, I should come back to spend my old age when I am old. It's not good to be in town. ”

"Yes. Aunt Xia nodded in agreement, "Oh, by the way, did they come to you?" she suddenly frowned again and looked at Shuqing nervously.

"Who are they?" Shuqing blinked her gray eyes suspiciously, Aunt Xia was fatter and older than before, and her hair was much whiter, but her style had not changed.

"O village officer! said that he wanted to drive all the lonely and widowed old people in the village to a nursing home. Aunt Xia said.

"I'm not a lonely old man, why are you driving me. I'm physically tough. Shuqing said lightly, unimpressed. Even if she was in a hurry, she wouldn't go. She can be responsible for herself and will not rely on the commune.

"Hey, yes, you're not afraid of them. The old mother of the Zeng family was sent away, and I heard that it was very pitiful. Aunt Xia smacked her lips and whispered to Shuqing.

"You said Zeng Qin's mother-in-law Yang 2?" Shuqing asked tentatively. After staying outside for a long time, many people she couldn't match for a while.

"Yes, that's right, you said that Zeng Qin and I are also sisters, and we usually help each other with something, but I really don't like her in this matter. Besides, the old woman helped her watch the children, cook and wash the laundry, and go to the field. It's-hey~"

"Has it already been delivered?" asked Shuqing.

"I don't know, I guess so. ”

"But I heard that the nursing home is going to be demolished! I said it was going to move to another town, the neighboring town of Wanchang. ”

"No, she's just rushing to this trip, the old woman is sick, and now her legs and feet are inconvenient. When she is in good health, she will do something, and when she is not in good health, she will be sent away. It's really unfilial. They all say that raising children to prevent old age, what are you trying to prevent? Her nested son didn't say anything, he listened to Zeng Qin. ”

"And what about her grandson? Her little grandson was raised by her, and it should have prevented his parents from sending his grandmother to that place. Shuqing remembered that he had seen Zeng Qin's youngest son when he came back before, and he was very honest and honest.

Aunt Xia shook her head again and waved her hand again.

"Oh, don't talk about it. What kind of mother is there, what kind of child is raised. The big one works at home and doesn't care at all. The little one was working in Shanghai, and Zeng Qin didn't tell him at all. ”

"How can people with children enter nursing homes?" Shuqing remembered that nursing homes were all for the elderly who had no insurance, that is, the elderly who were lonely and widowed. It is impossible to send it in like Zeng Qin's mother-in-law.

"Shuqing, it's not as good as before, when you go to the bank to deposit money, you have to find acquaintances. The countryside is very dirty now, you don't know. The nursing home has long been semi-private, and it will be charged if you give some money. ”

As they spoke, they had unconsciously walked to the center of the town, and Shuqing had just returned two days to buy some necessities at the supermarket in the town. By the way, I would like to inquire about the installation of a water heater. Aunt Xia accompanied her. What a caring big sister. Shuqing thought to herself.

They stopped talking, walked past a bucket shop, and walked straight into the Hello Everybody supermarket.

"Aunt Xia, are there guests at home again?" the supermarket owner came out to greet them with a smile. Aunt Xia is not a frequent visitor to the supermarket, although her children are in the city and her family is not bad, but she is still very old, she doesn't like the supermarket, she likes to go to the market. Only when there are guests at home will I go to the supermarket to buy something.

"Yes, yes, yes, there are guests!" Aunt Xia nodded, looked at the boss and then at Shuqing.

Shuqing exchanged glances with the boss.

"I'll just buy some tissues. and some commonly used daily necessities. Do you have dry noodles here?" she asked.

"I've got everything here, big sister. The boss replied, holding out his finger to point her to the location of the dry noodles, "Right there." ”

Shuqing nodded and walked in.

Aunt Xia stood at the door, didn't follow in, and chatted with the boss.

Shuqing stood next to the dry noodle rack, looking at the egg noodles, vegetable noodles, white water noodles, etc. on the shelf, hesitating. She took the egg noodles and put them down, and the vegetable noodles and put them down. In the end, she decided to take the white water surface and added nothing. She looked for the location of the tissue with her face, and saw Aunt Xia and the boss chatting energetically from the gap in the shelf. She stood and listened.

"You shouldn't be involved there. The boss said.

"Not necessarily, I can't say for sure. This is Aunt Xia's voice.

"The whole town will be terrified, you say you sold the whole thing, and you don't have a brain. The boss's tone was angry.

"This big boss has a big mouth. I said I was going to talk about it in the next two days. Our village secretary really hopes to buy land from our village, but now the land is uncultivated, and it is very desolate. ”

"How much can I accompany? How much can I give an acre? These big bosses are much more scheming than our small businesses. ”

"Yes, but I don't think we can be dismantled here, and the 1st Brigade will definitely not be able to escape. That village is the only way to go to Longmen Mountain. ”

"Yes, I heard Lao Zhang say that the main thing is to build Longmen Summer Resort. The matter of tourist towns is not yet on the horizon. ”

Two sighs in unison followed. Then we talked about our children and farming. Shuqing turned around and picked up paper towels and dry noodles, and walked briskly to the door.

1. Cold day: The local language refers to the weekday when there is no market.

2 Mother-in-law: local language, referring to mother-in-law, mother-in-law. (To be continued.) )