The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the imperial calendar, the midyear festival.

Dongchuan County, Wulong County, Panlong Village.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, on the overgrown dirt and gravel road at the entrance of the village, a brand-new van sprayed with advertising slogans slowly drove up.

The handsome driver looks to be about 25 years old.

"Look at the grass, look at the car marks, there should be a car back, but it left quickly...... More anxious than me, who could it be? ”

At this time, on the balcony on the second floor of the three-story small western-style building at the entrance of the village, a woman in her fifties and sixties just saw the driver who was driving, and said loudly: "Oh, Yoko is back, and she finally drove a new car?" ”

Zhao Dongyang put away the doubts in his heart, slowed down the speed of the car that was not fast, raised his head and responded with a shallow smile: "Yes, a new car and a new life!" No, Aunt Five, you're back too! ”

In Wulong County, there is a tradition, that is, as long as it is a woman, it is generally only used to worship ancestors during the New Year.

As for the mid-year, unless there are special circumstances.

And Zhao Dongyang, the fifth aunt, because she believed in a foreign religion in her early years, since she first married to the present, let alone the Midyear Festival, she does not worship her ancestors during the New Year.

And in recent years, after the other party went to work in a supermarket in the city, it was rare to come back several times a year, let alone the Midyear Festival?

After all, the road from the county seat to Panlong Village is almost all in the mountains and forests, which is very difficult to walk, and it takes two or three hours to drive.

So, his fifth aunt was almost nailed to the city.

In addition, the other party's parents like to arrange Zhao Dongyang behind their backs, and as soon as they met him today, he subconsciously said a sentence.

However, Zhao Dongyang never expected it......

"Hey, it's all your fifth uncle and your brother Yong, they didn't stagger the time, and a big boss insisted that they go over to talk about business today, saying that it was hundreds of millions, I ......

"Smack!" Zhao Dongyang quietly slapped himself.

It was taken advantage of by others to install it again!

Especially his distant fifth aunt, she can say that tens of thousands can be said to be millions, and hundreds of thousands she dares to tell you hundreds of millions, tens of billions.

If you want to hear her truth, it's harder than climbing to the sky!

Even if it is exposed afterwards, she can say that her woman's family doesn't understand it without blushing and her heart is beating, maybe she heard it.

What's more, in rural areas, bragging is a must-have skill.

Honest people like Zhao Dongyang are almost extinct.

He didn't want to listen to the other party continue to blow, so he interrupted: "Fifth aunt, you worship your ancestors for the first time, can you find a place?" ”

Afterwards, Zhao Dongyang felt that he was still too young.

"I don't worship my ancestors, there are swallows!" The fifth aunt waved her hand.

Zhao Dongyang was slightly stunned, "Little Swallow is also back?" ”

The fifth aunt sighed: "Yes, it was her husband's driver who drove us back." Alas, the swallow's sports car is expensive, but it is just good-looking, and when it is an ornament, even our mountain road can't be walked.

It's still Yoko, you, a famous college student, have a smart brain, and you used to know how to buy an old pickup truck, and now you have changed your car and changed your bread.

Oh yes, Yanzi was still mentioning you just now, saying how good you were when you were studying, how many girls liked it, and saying that there was a girl who danced for you......"

Zhao Dongyang hurriedly interrupted: "Fake, it's all fake news!" ”

Little Swallow is 8 years younger than him, how can he possibly know about his middle school? It can only be adapted by him, the fifth aunt!

Because no matter what the words are, as long as they reach the mouth of his fifth aunt, after entering and leaving, they will definitely change the sky.

If she continues, Zhao Dongyang should have an illegitimate child.

However, the fifth aunt's mouth will not stop......

"At that time, you were famous, and her husband followed you every day! Unexpectedly, now that Yanzi has given birth to three children, and her husband has opened several companies, you still ......"

Zhao Dongyang found that he could no longer listen.

If he listens to it again, the other party will continue to squeeze him back and forth openly and secretly, so he decisively fled in the name of his ancestors, "Fifth aunt, I'll go and serve the ancestors first, and we'll talk later." ”

"What are you anxious about? I haven't finished my sentence yet, the last time I called you, the woman I introduced to you, she is young, she has no children, and she has a house, why don't you add someone else's micro number? ”

"I have a girlfriend, I've posted it on WeChat!" Zhao Dongyang decisively increased the throttle, and then ran away.

Whether it is praising or hurting, he is not an opponent!

What does it mean to be young? A year older than him, both 36!

What does it mean to not have children? The two children have graduated from junior high school, of course, they are not called children, they have to be called teenagers!

What does it mean to have a house? and the man have a bedroom......

Fortunately, he has a girlfriend, fortunately, Xiaoyanzi told him the truth, and fortunately, he set up a refusal to add strangers as friends......

……

"Fart girlfriend! Find a random woman to take a photo, and then P has to be like a big star, when I don't understand this? If there were, why didn't I see you bring people back? When the fifth aunt saw Zhao Dongyang leaving, she immediately showed a strong disdain.

"I'm 35 years old, and I think I introduced him to a second marriage. Hum! What happened to the second marriage? It's good to have a drag oil bottle for you in a few years! ”

"Mom, why are you talking so much?" At this time, a young woman with a child in her arms walked to the side of the fifth aunt.

"Hmph, it's good that you didn't marry him, otherwise you wouldn't even have a house to live in now." The fifth aunt snorted coldly, and then smiled again: "Come on, come on, let me hug my good grandson." ”

"Mom, can you stop talking about the past? Also, the sports car was rented for wedding dresses, how did it become mine? ”

"Where did I keep mentioning it? I say it seventeen or eighteen times a year, and I don't say it every day? The fifth aunt glared at her daughter, but she kept silent about the sports car.

But she immediately rolled her eyes again and said, "No matter what I say, I can be regarded as his fifth aunt, what happened to me when I said him?"

I'm 35 years old, and I don't even have a girlfriend!

I just scolded him to his face, did he dare to talk back?

He's embarrassed, I'm still embarrassed?

Hmph, what's the use of being good-looking?

What about graduating from a prestigious university?

Haven't you opened a broken loaf of bread yet?

Not a part-time job yet?

Still dare to look down on you?

Still don't like me?

What now?

Is it still a cow?

Phew! ”

"Mom, how many years has this been? It's his father who doesn't like you, what does it have to do with Brother Yangzi? Besides, Brother Yangzi and I are also a grandfather, how can we get married? ”

"Why can't you get married? Yes? How many generations has this been? Isn't it just disgusted that you are short? Can it be eaten as a meal? ”

"Didn't you say I'm 1.75 meters? Where am I short? ”

"Hmph, I'm just talking about it outside. Are you barefoot 1.57 meters, or did I give you the measurement, can I know? ”

"1.57m is taller than you!"

"Smack!"

……

The scorching sun was in the sky, but it couldn't dispel the coldness of the ancestral grave forest.

Zhao Dongyang carried a heavy woven bag and walked through the lonely graves, leaving wisps of green smoke.

By the time the woven bag in his hand was empty, he was already kneeling in front of a black tombstone.

On the tombstone, there is an old black and white group photo.

The husband and wife in the photo are in their prime.

Under the curling green smoke, Zhao Dongyang kowtowed three times.

"Dad, Mom, my son is 35 years old!"

"I'm still alive, I'm still alive and well, I don't miss arms or legs, and I celebrated my birthday the day before yesterday!"

"Also, you have grandchildren, and they're all 8 years old!"

"You can't think of it, do you?"

"Hehe, I didn't expect it either!"

"I only found out the day before yesterday, but I accidentally met the child who came back to eat and his grandmother, and the old lady told me quietly."

"Although the child is not in the country, he is living well. Listening to his grandmother, he can speak three languages, right? ”

"I bought a new loaf of bread yesterday, and I plan to run Chuanlong Road to deliver goods part-time in the future, and try to save some money for your grandson......"

"Also, I'm getting better and better now!"

"I lived to be 40 last month. In a few years, I will live to be 50, 60, 70......"

"When I can live to die of old age, I will go and bring your grandson back, and let him kowtow to you a few times."

"Well, there's also, my current girlfriend, her life is really hard! It's been 3 years, not to mention being sick, even the last time the car was hit and scrapped, she was safe and sound......"

"But for the sake of insurance, I still don't dare to bring her back."

“…… I'm a little happy today, and I'm talking a lot. ”

"Well, I have to get to the city at 12 o'clock, lest any of my relatives go to the hospital again. Let's go, let's talk about the New Year. ”

Zhao Dongyang got up and patted the dust on his knees, and the smile on his face just now had disappeared.

He left the sad place with the empty woven bag.

……

When Zhao Dongyang returned to the van, it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

"Oh, Yoko, are you going to leave so fast again?" An old man in his seventies got stuck in front of the van with his hands behind his back.

"Eh, Uncle Nine, I haven't seen you for a long time, what about a walk?" Seeing this, Zhao Dongyang immediately got out of the car, then took out a cigarette and handed one to the other party.

Although the old people are not high, they are old.

As soon as Uncle Nine took the cigarette, Zhao Dongyang hurriedly lit it for the other party.

"It is worthy of coming out of a famous university, that is, it is sensible, and you know that you will come back every year during the Midyear Festival." Uncle Nine took a sip with satisfaction.

Zhao Dongyang really wanted to correct the other party, he just graduated from a key university.

Besides, whether people can be sensible or not is not something that universities can teach.

Universities can only teach people the techniques to earn money and burn money.

But he had explained it many times before, and it didn't work.

The whole village thinks that he studied at a prestigious university, and some even say that he graduated with a doctorate, and he was the champion in ancient times.

Zhao Dongyang doesn't know when it started, and the meaning of this sentence changed from the original praise to the later damage to him.

However, he really wasn't mad at these people.

Then I saw Uncle Jiu sigh and said with emotion: "It's a pity, those guys are not like you, they made a few stinky money outside, and they started to spend all their time, and no one came back this time!" ”

"By the way, when are you going to get married?" As soon as Uncle Nine sighed, he immediately asked a question that made people's heads blow up.

However, he has been asked a lot over the years, and Zhao Dongyang has long been able to deal with it calmly, "I haven't thought about it yet, let's talk about it slowly." ”

"You are not a big boss, you are not an uncle to talk about you, you were the pride of our village back then.

Now that your elementary school classmates and grandchildren have all of them, you're not married!

When people ask me how old your child is, I'm embarrassed to say. Listen to my uncle's advice, don't pick again, as long as people are not stupid......"

Uncle Jiu's words, if it had been placed two days ago, even if Zhao Dongyang could still squeeze out a smile when he heard it, his heart would have been blocked.

But now, he's really smiling.

Zhao Dongyang bent down and hugged Uncle Jiu's thin shoulders, smiled and put the cigarette he had just opened into the other party's hand.

Then he whispered in the other party's ear: "Uncle Jiu, what about you, you don't know the girl in the big city!" They're different from our rural areas who don't lay eggs and have to fight! ”

"What do you mean?" Uncle Nine clutched the cigarette tightly and looked puzzled.

"Hehe, you always think slowly, let's talk about it again during the New Year."

Sitting back in the car, Zhao Dongyang turned on the stereo to the maximum for the first time, and then looped the 'we are different' that he had changed.

……

"This kid is stupid to read!" Uncle Nine smoked the cigarette given by Zhao Dongyang, looked at the van that left and shook his head and sighed.

"I've said before that it's useless to read too much! Look at him, I didn't talk about driving an old car before, but this time I got a new one, but I didn't have a license plate, and I was fooled by stickers, which was a swollen face......"

An old man beside Uncle Nine nodded in agreement: "Yes, my grandson has become a boss after graduating from junior high school, and now he has a bunch of brand-name doctors, and he takes tens of millions of cars to and from work, has he driven back to foreign air?" ”

"What are your tens of millions of cars? My grandson was a freshman in high school, and he took a plane to and from work, and he said that he wanted to build a big airport......"

Soon, the two old men forgot about Zhao Dongyang.

……

"We are different, different, different, everyone has a different situation......"

"We're different, we're different, we're different, we're going to experience different things......"

Zhao Dongyang shook his head and sang loudly along with the stereo.

"We're different, we're different, ......we're different," his magnetic voice echoed in the mountains and forests of the countryside.

Suddenly—

The engine of the "......" stalled.

"Smack-" Zhao Dongyang almost hit the windshield headlong, but fortunately there was a seat belt to tie him.

"Lying ......"