"Brother Shi, this road is too difficult to walk."

On the swaying car, Yang Xiaotao picked up the kettle and poured a mouthful of hot water, and handed it to Yang Shishi casually.

At this time, the two of them had left Sijiu City for most of the day, the road was sparsely populated, the road had changed from a flat dirt road to potholes, the speed could not be fast, and the donkey cart was still bumpy.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many infrastructure facilities have not been perfected, even around Sijiu City.

Yang Xiaotao went out for the first time and was used to the asphalt road and cement road, and it was a crime to take a car on this kind of dirt road.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's more difficult to go to our Zhuangzi before!"

Yang Shi took a sip of water and looked at the kettle in his hand, which was full of rarity.

They don't have this thing in their village, the big guy uses a wooden barrel to fill water on weekdays, and when he is thirsty, he takes a scoop of water to drink, and it is fine in summer, and it is cold to drink in autumn.

Sending the kettle back, he looked at the contents of the car like a baby.

Especially the bag of red flesh and blood, I learned from Yang Xiaotao that he bought it with money tickets.

He didn't know whether it was true or not, he just thought it was life in the city, and he was envious in his heart.

This pile of meat, in his opinion, is at least ten catties, and he heard that there are mutton and beef in it, so his stomach is upside down when he hears it.

Finally, the wine at Yang Xiaotao's feet, Yang Shishi licked his lips again, the wine that the grandfather brought back last time he came home was shared with a few grandfathers, he could only pick up the bottom of the bottle, put it on loose wine and drink it happily.

I wondered in my heart, with so much wine, I have to get two bottle bottoms.

At noon, neither of them had eaten, mainly because they were bumpy and didn't have the heart to eat.

Yang Xiaotao looked at the sun, took out a handful of toffee and handed it to Yang Shishi.

Good stuff again.

Yang Shishi's eyes lit up, he wiped his hands and took it carefully.

"Xiao Tao, your sugar is so sweet."

took Yang Xiaotao's toffee, counted eight carefully, and after eating one, the rest was in his pocket.

Go home and give the subject one to eat, and make sure it is ......

Yang Xiaotao nodded, "Brother Shi, when will we arrive?" ”

Yang Shishi looked left and right, "I have walked for most of the time, and I will arrive at Qujia Soap Household in a while, and after Soap Household, it is Qinjia Village, and then Gaojiazhuang, after walking five miles, we will arrive at our village!" ”

Yang Shi counted several villages along the way, and several local images appeared in Yang Xiaotao's mind.

A river, large willow trees, dirt slopes, mountains.

The memories of his predecessor made Yang Xiaotao a little homesick at this moment.

Taking a deep breath, his eyes followed the donkey cart forward, looking at the gray and barren land around him, looking at the strange era.

Yang Shi saw that Yang Xiaotao was silent, and felt that it might have evoked memories, so he explained Xiaotao, "Xiaotao, you have to stay for two days when you go back to the village this time." ”

"You're the only one who grew up together, so you have to tell everyone about the things in the city."

Yang Xiaotao nodded, and a few familiar and unfamiliar names came to his mind.

Speaking of this, Yang Shishi was a little twisted, feeling that he had taken so many benefits from Yang Xiaotao, and it was a little unreasonable not to tell him.

But thinking of the master's sternness, in the end he just struck from the side and said, "Xiao Tao, the village has prepared a big gift for you." ”

Yang Xiaotao wondered, what else could the village give him?

I had the heart to ask clearly, but Yang Shi turned his head and shook the whip, looking like he couldn't speak.

Yang Xiaotao was intrigued by this half-cut remark.

What can be taken out in the village is nothing more than food and use.

You don't have to think about money.

Besides.

Yang Xiaotao suddenly shuddered, "It won't be for a daughter-in-law." ”

Yang Shishi was startled by Yang Xiaotao's sudden voice, but after hearing it, he didn't speak and continued to hurry.

And this appearance became more and more firm to Yang Xiaotao's guess.

My heart suddenly became entangled, if I really want to tell my daughter-in-law, do I want it or not?

The wheels of the car creaked against the dirt, and the people in the car came to a river with tangled thoughts.

Not far away, a few half-sized children jumped on the ice, and the north wind was also called hot.

When the car stopped, Yang Shi smashed the ice by the river and asked the donkey to follow him to drink water, while Yang Xiaotao walked to the river.

"Brother Shi, this is not the river in our village."

After recalling carefully, he said.

"Well, this is a small river, after Qinjia Village, our village and Gaojiazhuang are more than a big river, upstream and downstream."

Yang Shi lifted the belt of his trousers, pulled the donkey back to the cart, took a small handful of fried beans from the cart, and fed it carefully.

Yang Xiaotao watched from the sidelines, he had seen a donkey when he was a child, but he had never raised it at home, and he didn't know the habits of this donkey.

Yang Shishi saw that he was interested, so he introduced him.

"This black skin belongs to the village collective, but it is kept in my house. Ten catties of soybeans are given a month, and the rest are to go to the field to graze. ”

"Don't look at its low size, but it's a good hand at pulling a cart and grinding, and we count it when we work in the village!"

Speaking of donkeys, stones are a little addicted, the more they talk, the more Yang Xiaotao listens to it, and the two seem to have a common topic, talking and laughing.

The car started again, this time the well-fed black skin walked more energetically, perhaps closer to the village, the road was better, and the car was not so bumpy.

The car came to the head of the village and walked slowly, and a man who was sweeping the street looked up.

"Stone, what are you doing here?"

The man's voice was loud, and he shouted loudly with his headless pillar.

Yang Shishi raised his voice, "Brother Dazhu, I'm going to the city to pick up people!" ”

When the car approached, several people nearby looked over and their eyes widened.

The things on the car are all good things, especially the smell of meat on the tip of the nose, and I can't envy it.

"Xiao Tao, this is Qu Xuanzhu, the team leader of Saohu Village!"

"Brother Da Zhu, this is Xiao Tao. My old uncle's! ”

"Brother Dazhu!"

Yang Shi didn't stop, and Yang Xiaotao also said hello in the car.

"This is going back to the village for the New Year. I bought a lot of things! ”

Qu Dazhu looked at the things in the car and asked enviously, Yang Xiaotao replied with a smile, "Hmm." At home this year! ”

The car walked forward, more and more people greeted Yang Shishi, from time to time someone inquired, Yang Shishi smiled and introduced, a car of things attracted the eyes made him full of a sense of honor.

Especially the little daughter-in-law I met in the village, looking at the two people in the car, her eyes changed, and she did not hesitate to inquire about the situation of the two in person.

This made Yang Xiaotao sure that the village was looking for a daughter-in-law for himself.

The car left Qujia Soohu and passed through Qinjia Village for another five or six miles, but this time Yang Shi did not take the main road, but from the small road outside the village.

Yang Xiaotao thought it was a shortcut, so he didn't ask.

Just waited in front of the house and looked at a familiar figure at the door, Yang Xiaotao suddenly understood the deep meaning of Yang Shishi.

The body was straight, and the things in the car were moved to a conspicuous place to the side, and they cooperated as they should.

"Yo, this is not the third uncle, basking in the sun."

Yang Shishi shouted to an old man squatting on the top of the house to bask in the sun.

The old man was forty or fifty years old, wearing a patched cotton jacket, with a chicken's nest on his head, and an old face full of wind and frost.

Hearing Yang Shishi's shout, the old man looked up, his cloudy eyes were a little panicked, but he was fighting hard and slowly stood up.

"It's a small rock!"

"Ah, just went to the city and brought my brother back."

Yang Shi raised his voice and attracted the attention of several other people who were basking in the sun and watching the excitement.

Yang Xiaotao looked at the old man in front of him, this person was Qin Huairu's third uncle.

The Qin family is considered a big family in the village, and the Yang family hopes in Yangjiazhuang, and the population with their own surname accounts for more than eighty percent.

Qin Huairu's father's family has four brothers, in addition to two aunts.

Qin Huairu's father is the second, and the one sitting here is the third.

Originally, the relationship between the Qin family and the Yang family was not bad, otherwise they would not have introduced Qin Huairu to Yang Xiaotao.

But now, not to mention the breakdown of the relationship between the two families, it has also reached the freezing point.

This is another manifestation of clan power, offending one family may be offending the entire village.

"It's been walking for most of the day, the car is too heavy, and it almost delayed time!"

Yang Shi said, slowing down the car and deliberately waiting in front of people, "But my donkey is tired." ”

The people around him are not deaf or blind, so they can naturally hear the smugness in these words and see the things in the car.

At first glance, they are all things to envy.

Especially conspicuous meat and wine, which are luxury ornaments in the countryside.

"So many things? Are they all from the Yang family? ”

The people on the side opened their mouths to ask, but Yang Xiaotao didn't speak, and Yang Shishi had already begun to show off.

"Well, my brother is a worker in a rolling mill, and he earns fifty yuan a month."

"The country has oil, grain, rice and noodles, and the food and clothing are all in the factory, so it's not easy to buy this thing?"

"This time I went home for the New Year, so naturally I have to pay homage?"

The more Yang Shishi talked, the more energetic he became, Yang Xiaotao looked at the people on the left and right quietly, and at this time, the big girls and daughters-in-law in the distance also came to see the excitement, and quickly kicked off the car, Yang Shishi understood.

"Don't say it, I'm in a hurry to go home, let's go!"

Yang Shi didn't give everyone time to envy, and when he talked about the whip, there was a crisp sound, and the donkey cart sped up and passed through the alley.

After the donkey cart left, the discussion began.

"Fifty dollars a month, my God."

Someone sighed, and the people on the side had some insight and hurriedly spoke.

"What's this? People say that workers can earn more than 100 yuan for 50 yuan, and more can earn more than 100 yuan. ”

The people around gasped again, a hundred yuan, they can have thirty or forty yuan in a year, it is a great gift.

"No wonder you buy so many things, the meat is so big, and there is so much wine."

"Not only that, but flour, don't you see the watch on that kid's hand?"

There are different opinions, and they are all envious.

Suddenly, someone spoke, "The Yang family is a boy in the city, and he is exquisite." This looks like Sven, I don't know if there is an object? ”

"Probably not. Otherwise, I wouldn't come back alone for the New Year! ”

"I heard that Qin Lao'er's daughter is also married to a city person, you said that the Yang family kid is so capable, and the one she found is not even more powerful?"

The matter between the Yang family and the Qin family has long been known to the neighbors of a village.

I understand the purpose of Yang Shi's bypass without taking the main road.

But they are really envious.

When these words came out, everyone's eyes looked at Qin Laosan.

At this moment, Qin Laosan's dry yellow face was a little red, and he looked left and right to get up and walk home.

"It's amazing, the child gave birth to a baby, Qin Lao Er went to a trip and was kicked back, he didn't eat anything, and he didn't have a good time!"

Someone knew that the inside story had been exposed, and some people were immediately surprised, "Can't it, they're all workers, can they still be like this?" ”

"Why not, people are tall and short, and trees are thick. That family is nothing powerful, it is estimated that they are in the factory, and they are also a little girl! ”

When the discussion came, Qin Laosan's face became even more ugly, and he lowered his head and walked into the room.

"Daddy!"

As soon as I entered the door, I was stopped by a girl.

The girl was wearing a floral jacket, her head was tied into two long braids with a red gang, and her big eyes were full of smiles on Xiaotuan's face.

"They're from the city? Where are the people? ”

The girl's voice was crisp, and she hurriedly asked.

Qin Laosan naturally knew his daughter's purpose, didn't he just want to see his cousin marry into the city, and he also wanted to run to the city!

It's just that I was counted behind my back just now, and I was in a bad mood, so I didn't speak and just waved my hand and left the house.

Seeing her father like this, the girl hurriedly ran to the door to look left and right, and found that there was no trace, so she stomped her foot angrily.

"If I knew I wouldn't have braided my hair!"

(End of chapter)