The barking of the yellow dog alarmed the people in the house, and Li Gen walked out.

He was slightly stunned for a moment before he spoke: "Shanshan, you are here, I didn't expect you to come so early, and I said that I would pick you up at the intersection in a while." ”

"Hello Uncle Li!"

When Jiang Shan saw Li Gen, she politely said hello.

Li Gen responded, scolded the yellow dog beside him, and hurriedly went to pick up the things in Jiang Shan's hand.

"You said you were such a little doll, and you still took so many things!"

Li Gen said as he took it.

Jiang Shan Gege smiled: "If you can't take it, I'll share a little for him." ”

Li Gen shook his head and went to pick up the things in Jiang Xiaobai's hand again.

Jiang Xiaobai said: "It's okay, I'll take it into the house by myself, it's inconvenient to change hands." ”

Li Gen said: "Look at you, why do you come to my house with so many things!" ”

At this time, Luo Xiuli also came out, followed by two old people and two children.

The boy looked like he was about ten years old, the girl looked seven or eight years old, and the two children didn't seem to be very bold, even when they saw strangers coming to their house, they only went out of the house.

The two old men, a man and a woman, were nearly seventy years old, one leg seemed to be inconvenient, they were wrapped in old cotton jackets, and they wore a "Lei Feng hat" on their heads.

Lei Feng hat is the cotton hat in our army's 55-style winter uniform, also known as "felt velvet hat", famous for Lei Feng.

The hat has ear protectors on both sides, which can cover half of the face when lowered and protected from wind and snow.

The woman is about the same age as the man, her face is full of wrinkles, a white veil is wrapped around her head, her hair is gray, and her short and thin body is about 40 degrees upright, and it seems that it is difficult to stand upright.

Jiang Xiaobai entered the hall, and Luo Xiuli introduced while packing up the things he led: "Dad, Mom, this is what I told you about Brother Jiang." ”

The old man's name was Li Daniu, and he smiled and said, "Oh, it's Xiaojiang, it's from the big city of Qingzhou, a rare guest!" ”

Jiang Xiaobai said politely: "Hello uncle, Qingzhou is not a big city, it's better for you to be here, you see I've come here." ”

Li Daniu said: "What's so good about Tucheng, just like its name, it's dirty and poor. ”

Jiang Xiaobai said: "In the future, Tucheng will not be poor, it will get better and better." ”

He is telling the truth, according to the historical trajectory of Tucheng, more than ten years later, natural gas was developed, and at that time, the people of Tucheng were like people from a country with a piece of cloth on their heads, and they were very rich.

It's just that Li Daniu thought that Jiang Xiaobai was saying kind words, so he laughed: "Then borrow your auspicious words." ”

Turning his head to look at Jiang Shan, he said with a smile: "This is your daughter Shanshan!" What a cute little girl. ”

"Hello grandpa!"

Jiang Shan greeted politely, and said hello to the rickety old woman: "Hello grandma!" ”

The old woman's name was Chen Chunhua, and she smiled and said, "Huh": "Really sensible!" ”

Li Gen saw that Jiang Shan had greeted the old man, but his pair of children were still looking strange and had no reaction, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Fengfeng, Pingping, Uncle Jiang is here, why don't you know how to call people?" ”

"Uncle Jiang!"

"Uncle Jiang!"

Li Feng and Li Ping screamed weakly.

Jiang Xiaobai agreed.

Li Gen showed a smile at this time and beckoned Jiang Xiaobai and Jiang Shan to go to the next room to roast the fire.

In the countryside, there is generally a house dedicated to the fire, because the place where the fire is baked is called the fire pit, so this house is also called the "fire pit house".

Walking into the fire pit house, the light was dim inside, and there was a fire pit in the middle of the innermost wall, and in the fire pit burned a large tree root lump nearly 40 centimeters high, as well as three or four wooden sticks with thick bowls, and a little thinner firewood were burned together, and the fire was burning vigorously at this time.

There are some bacon hanging above the fire pit, each piece is not very big, but there are more than a dozen pieces, in addition to the pig's large intestine, heart and lungs, etc., and there are two open bamboo baskets next to it, which are dried tofu and the like.

It seems that the kang has not been in time for a long time, and it has not completely changed color, and a drop of grease will drip from time to time.

In the middle of the bacon, above the fire pit, hangs a bamboo tube, smoked black, and a wooden hook at the bottom, on which hangs a cooking pot, and the water in the cooking pot is bubbling hot.

This is the common "shrinking cylinder" in the countryside, which can be raised and lowered, lowered close to the fire surface when boiling water, and cannot be burned when it is not used.

Jiang Haiyang's old house has this thing.

A few people sat down by the fire pit, Jiang Xiaobai took out Huazi and gave Li Daniu a cigarette, Li Daniu excused himself: "You come to my house, why do you still want you to fill a cigarette, come, smoke me." ”

As he spoke, he was going to pull out his cigarette.

Jiang Xiaobai smiled and said, "It's all the same, smoke mine first, and then yours later." ”

Li Daniu took the cigarette at this time.

Jiang Xiaobai handed one to Chen Chunhua and said, "Auntie, you can also draw one." ”

This is just his usual habit of smoking, as long as people are present, whether others smoke or not, he will send one.

didn't think about it, Chen Chunhua took it, and said with a smile: "That's embarrassing." ”

Jiang Xiaobai was slightly stunned, in this era, in most cases, men smoke, and women rarely smoke, but it is not uncommon for some elderly women in the countryside to smoke.

Isn't this just the right one?

He couldn't help but rejoice, fortunately, he had the habit of smoking and not leaving anyone behind, otherwise he would offend people now.

Chen Chunhua took the cigarette, Li Daniu was already holding the tongs, took a piece of red-hot charcoal fire from the fire pit, and stretched it out in front of Jiang Xiaobai: "Come, Xiao Jiang, you order it first." ”

This way of lighting a cigarette is common in the winter in the countryside, and Jiang Xiaobai is not surprised, he approached with a cigarette in his mouth, and the cigarette butt was put on the charcoal, and the cigarette was lit in two sips.

"Uncle Xie!"

Jiang Xiaobai said politely, and Li Daniu stretched out the tongs to his wife again, and waited for her to light a cigarette before finally lighting it himself.

It was only at this time that Li Gen walked in from the hall with a bag of Huazi in his hand.

"I'm sorry, you're all smoking!"

Huazi was given to him by Jiang Xiaobai at Luo Changsheng's house last time, and he was not very willing to smoke it and put it in the bedroom.

At this time, Jiang Xiaobai came, he went to the bedroom to get a cigarette, but he didn't know that Jiang Xiaobai and his parents had smoked it.

But he still sent another one to Jiang Xiaobai.

Jiang Xiaobai took it with a smile, people in the countryside are like this, pay attention to etiquette, if you don't take it, it's not okay.