At nine o'clock in the morning, the adults in the alley have already gone to work, the older children are also at school, and the people at home are the elderly who have no jobs or children who have not yet reached school age.

Song Yuanchao carried his luggage, crossed the street and walked towards the alley, and just arrived at the entrance of the alley, a vigilant voice sounded.

"Who is Nong? What do you do? Who are you looking for? ”

Hearing the prestige, I saw an old lady wearing a gray cloth cotton jacket, very familiar with small feet, looking at herself vigilantly, and there was a little girl of three or four years old beside her, the old lady protected the child behind her, and her eyes were fixed on Song Yuanchao.

"Zhang's mother?" Song Yuanchao recognized at a glance who this old lady was, wasn't this the Zhang family aunt who lived next door to him? Zhang's A-Niang is a native of Mingzhou, as early as before the liberation of Huhai, Zhang's A-Niang's surname is not clear Song Yuanchao, because her husband's surname is Zhang, so Song Yuanchao has been calling her like this when she was a child.

"Hey, who's that? Nong recognizes me? The mother of the Zhang family was stunned for a moment, and looked Song Yuanchao up and down, but after looking at it for a long time, she only felt that there was a sour smell of sweat on her body, she was sloppy in her clothes, her hair was long, her skin was dark, she was carrying a big bag on her shoulders, and she looked a little familiar with the countryman who was carrying a burden in her hand, but she couldn't remember who Song Yuanchao was.

"A-Niang, I am the Song family's aid to the dynasty on the 23rd! Song Yuanchao! Nong remembers me? When I was a child, I often went to the ...... of Nong's house. ”

"Aid to Korea? Yes! Nong is aiding North Korea? Zhang's aunt's eyes widened suddenly, she looked at Song Yuanchao carefully, and soon the suspicion in her expression faded, replaced by surprise.

"Oh, Nong is really aiding the DPRK! The little giant (little devil) is finally back! It's good to come back, it's good to come back, A-Niang remembers that Nong was only sixteen years old when she left? It's been eight years since I left, eight years! It's all over to play small RB, but it's finally ...... turnaround. ”

As she spoke, the Zhang family's aunt couldn't help but shed tears, took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes and asked: "Aiding the DPRK, how can Nong become thin and black, and suffer in the northwest?" Will you go back this time? ”

"If you don't leave, the state has implemented the policy, and you won't leave when you come back."

"It's good not to go, it's good not to go." Zhang's aunt nodded again and again: "It's good to come back!" Did Nong have breakfast? Just got off the train? Let's go, I still have rice in the house, so let's go to the house to eat something first. ”

As she spoke, she was about to leave with Song Yuanchao's hand, when the little girl next to her stared at the person in front of her who had never met before with big eyes, tugged hard at the corner of the Zhang family's aunt's clothes, and asked crisply: "Grandma, who is this?" ”

"I almost forgot, Pingping, this Nong is going to be called Uncle Yi, call someone Pingping." Zhang Jianiang touched the little girl's head and said.

"Ah...... Uncle is so ....... The little girl was a little frightened when she saw the stranger, and she half-hid behind her mother and shouted.

"It's not good to call Uncle, I want Brother." Song Yuanchao corrected with a smile, Zhang Jianguo, the son of the Zhang family's mother, was more than ten years older than Song Yuanchao, and Song Yuanchao called Zhang Jianguo Uncle since he was a child.

Zhang Jianguo has two children, the eldest son Zhang Hao should be nine years old this year, Zhang Hao was still a nursing doll when he left, and now he should be in the second grade of primary school.

This little girl is Zhang Jianguo's youngest daughter Zhang Pingping, Song Yuanchao's previous life in the early nineties when this place was demolished, Zhang Pingping was already a big girl who was about to take the university entrance examination, although the old neighbors were separated after the demolition, but they still have contact with each other, in 1999, Zhang Pingping got married, and Song Yuanchao also went to her wedding.

Song Yuanchao knew that his current appearance was not very good, and he was afraid of scaring the child, so he tried his best to say in a soft tone that Pingping was really good, thought about it, took out a bag of things from his luggage, squatted down and opened the oil paper, which contained a few persimmons.

Persimmon is a specialty of the countryside, Song Yuanchao brought some before coming back, he took the persimmon and handed it to Pingping, signaling her to take it, some timid Pingping did not dare to take it, timidly looked back at his grandmother with big eyes, and two small hands tightly grasped the corner of the clothes of the Zhang family.

"Brother Aiding Korea is not an outsider, take it, this is a persimmon, it's delicious." The Zhang family said to her granddaughter with a smile, and Xiao Pingping carefully stretched out her hand to take the persimmon, and then put it to her mouth and took a small bite.

After taking a bite, the sweetness of the persimmon suddenly made the little girl's eyes light up.

"Grandma, sweet."

"Well, sweet, Pingping is good, it's delicious." Zhang's aunt said to the child, and then beckoned Song Yuanchao to go home together, Song Yuanchao picked up his luggage and walked to the alley with Zhang's aunt and Xiao Pingping, getting closer and closer to home.

"A-Niang, are you a relative in the countryside again?"

"Where is this a relative in the countryside?"

Walking into the depths of the alley, from time to time I met the neighbors to greet and ask who the villager who followed the Zhang family A-Niang was, and then the Zhang family A-Niang would explain to them that this was not her relative, but the Song family who lived in No. 23, that is, Song Yuanchao, the son of the former Song teacher, came back.

The neighbors in the alley are all old neighbors who have lived for a long time, and this era is different from later generations, unlike the neighbors in the community in the future, who do not communicate with each other, even if they have lived in the door for more than ten years, they do not know each other.

In this era, there is more affection between people, and as the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.

We live in an alley, many of whom have known each other since our ancestors, and many of the adults have grown up together since they were children, and they have a very good relationship with each other.

On weekdays, the Zhang family, the Li family, and the Wang family live in the same building, and they don't even close the door during the day.

Just like when Song Yuanchao was a child, he would often run from the east to the west to play, and when it was time to eat, he liked to run around with a bowl in his hand, and he would come over to see what delicious food the family had made, and the adults were not annoyed, usually scolding a few little red guys and gluttonous embryos, and then smiling and smiling with a chopstick for him to taste.

Most of these neighbors originally knew Song Yuanchao, but Song Yuanchao had been gone for many years, and their memories had long been blurred.

In addition, Song Yuanchao is much taller than when he left, he has been dark and thin in the northwest for many years, his face is full of dust, he is wearing a patched old army coat outside, there are two binoculars (large patches) behind the buttocks of blue cotton pants, there are liberation shoes with holes in them on his feet, and then he has messy and greasy curly hair, carrying luggage, and has an obvious countryman tone, where can anyone recognize who he is at a glance?

When they knew that this person was actually Song Yuanchao, everyone was surprised, no one expected that the only son of the Song family (Dumiao), who had been gone for eight years, would actually come back.

"Is this aiding Korea?" The grandmother of the Li family on the 11th looked at her in surprise.

The aunt of the Chen family on the 30th recognized it first, patted her thigh and exclaimed: "Hey, hey, this is really Mr. Song's son!" When he left, the white and tender young man, how could he come back like this? ”

Uncle Liu, who was smoking a cigarette on the side, flicked the cigarette ash and scolded with a smile: "Nong is only big, Song Yuanchao is going to cut the queue to settle down, Nong thinks it is a leading cadre going to a sanatorium?" Cutting the queue and settling down is to farm, and the son of Wang's mother went to Huangshan for three years and came back as black as a briquette, not to mention that Song Yuanchao has been gone for eight years. ”

The chubby, somewhat familiar woman with a familiar face but couldn't remember the household anymore interjected and asked: "Aid Korea, remember that Nong went to the northwest to settle down, right?" What does the Great Northwest look like? Have a good white phase of felling? ”

The grandmother of the Li family looked disgusted when she heard this: "Shoutou is angry, what can a poor place like the Great Northwest look like?" Can that? Want to check it out? Nong also signed up to cut the queue and settle down, so you'll know if you go. ”

The fat woman couldn't hold her face a little, and immediately retorted: "Thirteen o'clock, Ah Nong, ask what is the boundary, Grandma Nong is too full for breakfast today and deliberately squass me?" ”

The old man of the Qian family shook his head and sighed: "Hey...... The aid to Korea finally came back, but unfortunately Mr. Song and his wife ...... Think about it, this family is really a (pitiful) ....... ”

The old men, old ladies and aunts who were idle at home in the alley suddenly heard that Song Yuanchao on the 23rd was back, and all the kung fu hula came out in the blink of an eye, and the inner and outer three layers surrounded Song Yuanchao and couldn't stop looking, and at the same time talking nonsense.

"Okay, okay, let's see the trick of the monkey? Go away, go away! Seeing that there were more and more people, the Zhang family aunt raised her voice and shouted in displeasure.

Some of these people are fine, and some of them are more and more outrageous, and who in the alley doesn't know about the Song family's affairs? Just after Song Yuanchao came back to mention this, didn't he deliberately poke Song Yuanchao's heart?

"Go back to your house, Yuan Chao just came back and didn't eat breakfast, Yuan Chao, go back to eat with A-Niang, and disperse ......."

As she spoke, the Zhang family's aunt pulled Song Yuanchao and walked quickly in the direction of her house.

Zhang's aunt still has a little prestige in the alley, not to mention what A-Niang said just now is also reasonable, they are all old neighbors, Song Yuanchao just came back and watched like this, it was really a bit unusual, everyone got out of the way, and watched Song Yuanchao go to Zhang's mother's house, and after waiting for people to enter the building, several women who like to inquire on weekdays suddenly got together and couldn't help muttering again.