Although the provincial capital is in the south, the winter is always cold and the weather is gray. After a long stay, people's hearts will be gray.

Xiaoduo made up his mind to resign, quit the rent, help Mimi drop out of school, and pack his luggage. After two or three days of being so busy, the two of them were finally ready to go back to their hometown.

My hometown is a three-hour drive from the provincial capital, although it is not far, but I want to take so much luggage to take the train to the bus to go through the security check, and the small heads are big.

Xiaoduo suddenly thought that they still had an old car, which was still a small domestic off-road car they bought when they first got married. At that time, in order to show his loyalty, Wang Weihua offered to write Xiaoduo's name.

Later, after they became prosperous, they bought a lot of new cars and hired drivers. Xiaoduo has hardly driven a car since she got her driver's license, so she forgot about it.

When Wang Weihua divorced, he thought it was worthless, and gave Xiaoduo "generously". Xiaoduo originally wanted to sell it for some money, but he found a second-hand car dealer and said that the old car would be sold for 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. Later, Xiaoduo gradually forgot about it.

Now Xiaoduo suddenly felt that this seemed to be a life-saving straw for her, and it was also her courage to start again, she said to Mimi: "Why don't we drive back to our hometown!" ”

Mimi was startled and stammered, "Mom, do you know how to drive?" ”

When Xiaoduo saw Mimi like this, he thought it was funny and wanted to tease her, "You can't learn." ”

"Just go to school on the road, it's so dangerous!" Mimi is so nervous.

"It's okay, I have a driver's license, although I don't drive often, I have passed the driver's license test."

The two of them giggled and moved their things to the car, Xiaoduo fastened Mimi's seat belt, and glanced at the gray sky before getting into the car, and the tall buildings in the distance were hidden in the rain and fog, which seemed unreal.

"Goodbye, Jiang City!"

There is a long highway from Jiangshi to Ning'an in the mountains, passing through the continuous mountains, and the eyes suddenly open up.

The sky is blue, and the road is lined with green farmland dotted with all kinds of farmhouse houses. It was evening, and smoke was rising in the farmhouse.

Xiaoduo opened the window, breathed in the free air, and couldn't help but want to shout out loud, but Mimi didn't expect Mimi to shout before her, "Mom, is this your hometown, it's so beautiful here." ”

Ning'an Town is a small town on the backwoods, and the climate is warmer than that of Jiang City. And this open vision, endless farmland, Mimi has never seen before, and he is even more excited at this time.

After getting off the highway and entering Ning'an Town, Xiaoduo saw a tall billboard erected next to the road, which read, "Welcome to the hot spring town, beautiful Ning'an"

"Mom, there's a hot spring here! You didn't say anything. ”

"I don't know!"

Xiaoduo hasn't returned to his hometown for more than ten years, and he didn't know that his hometown had changed so much. Xiaoduo's grandmother moved to the provincial capital very early to live with them. Later, her grandmother died, and her old house was left to her in her will. Because Xiaoduo has never cared about the house in the countryside, and he didn't know that his hometown had changed so much.

Ning'an has been developing the hot spring industry for more than ten years. Over the years, the town has been home to resort hotels, farm stays, and souvenir shops.

The houses on the main street of the town are all three- or four-story antique buildings, exquisite and lovely, and the pavement is paved with bluestone slab bricks, clean and tidy. The water had just been sprinkled in the evening, the road was wet, and the car creaked and creaked, but there was a strange sense of crossing.

Xiaoduo entered the address of the old house in the navigation, but he didn't know if he could find the old house, after all, he hadn't been here for so many years. Fortunately, the street pavement has been renovated, but the path has not been changed. Ten minutes later, they came to the old house.

Seeing the old mansion, Xiaoduo couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Originally, she thought that no one had come for more than ten years, and this place must be dilapidated, but she was ready, if it was particularly dilapidated, she would take Mimi to live in a guest house for a few days. Unexpectedly, although this old house looks old, it is unusually clean.

The old house was a two-story building, originally a bungalow, but more than ten years ago, her father had to rebuild it, saying that every time he went back to worship his ancestors, he looked shabby. So they rebuilt the old house. Later, her father died of illness, and her grandmother moved to the city sadly, and they never came again.

She parked the car in the open space at the door, took out the key and was about to open the door, when suddenly a sturdy lady flashed out of the neighbor's house.

The eldest lady stared at her vigilantly, "Who are you?" Before Xiaoduo could answer, she reacted: "You are Xiaoduo!" ”

Xiaoduo looked at the eldest mother's face, and suddenly remembered that this was Aunt Zhou.

"You're Aunt Zhou! I'm a little bit bigger! You remember me. ”

"It's really you, Xiaoduo! Oops! Oops! We must have seen each other in seventeen or eighteen years, and you're only in your early tens! It's all that big now. Oops! The appearance still hasn't changed. No, no, no! It's getting prettier! ”

Aunt Zhou is an old neighbor of her grandmother's house. It's about the same age as Xiaoduo's parents. Because she is a foreigner, a man is a crew member, and she begs for a living outside all year round, so it is inevitable that Aunt Zhou and her son will live in the village at times.

Xiaoduo's great-grandfather is a famous doctor in the village, although he is in the township, but because of his good medical skills, he is very famous, and people within a radius of ten miles will come here to see a doctor and buy medicine if they have a headache and brain fever. Therefore, the Li family can still talk in the village.

Grandma often takes care of Aunt Zhou next door, she goes to work in the town, grandma helps her pick up the children, and sometimes the family cooks delicious food and often takes it with them. So the relationship between the two families is very harmonious.

"Aunt Zhou, you haven't changed at all, you're still so young and good-looking." The small mouth is also very sweet.

"Ouch, how old have I become, you're still making fun of me!" Although there are many wrinkles on Aunt Zhou's red face, the whole person looks very good, and her smiling face is like a flower.