The days passed slowly, as if they were constantly circulating.

One day at a time, one month at a time.

Experienced spring, summer, autumn and winter, year after year.

Wang Manyin has been completely integrated into this world, and everything about the future has long become vague. It was only occasionally when he flipped through his notebook that he was able to recall something concrete.

Over the years, with the continuous expansion of the scale of Six Squirrels Food Co., Ltd., Wang Manyin has naturally encountered many opportunities and temptations.

Of course, there are no small troubles.

Fortunately, he kept his focus on the main channel and didn't stretch out his hand indiscriminately, but he finally passed it smoothly.

The company's products are also constantly being updated, from the original roasted food series, and now extend to a variety of dried fruits.

The cartoon about the six squirrels has never been broken, one a year.

A few lively and cute little squirrels not only accompanied the post-80s generation through their childhood, but now they have become a happy memory of their children's childhood.

It has even been introduced by many countries.

Thanks to cartoons, companies can gain enough attention with little to no advertising.

At present, the peripheral authorization of just six squirrels can bring tens of millions of profits every year.

Although the caves on the Loess Plateau are as good as they are, they are not as good as brick houses in terms of ventilation and light transmission.

Therefore, in the 90s, Wang Manyin's family took the lead in bulldozing the entire mountain and building a three-story building with four rises and four floors on the spot.

Subsequently, other families in the village followed suit. Now the village has been almost bulldozed to the ground, with buildings one after another, and cars parked in front of every house.

In the center of the village, there is a landscape pond of more than 10 acres, which is stocked with a lot of fish. Many elderly people in the village often sit on the shore to fish when they are idle.

The muddy village road has also been replaced with a concrete road, and street lights have been installed on both sides.

The original flood ditch has been transformed into a landscape river, and the river bank and bottom are paved with stone and cement, and the banks are planted with flowers and plants.

The only thing that makes Wang Manyin a little regretful is that since the nineties, the water flow of the Dongla River has decreased sharply, and finally dried up completely. It is only during heavy rains in summer that it flows for a period of time.

The other six squirrel factories continued to grow in size, and there was no room for expansion on the original site, and finally had to be relocated to Yangweigou in the south of the village.

The family is big and the business is big, and Wang Manyin is worried that the three children will fight for control of the company in a hundred years.

So he did the partition very early.

Wang Lei graduated from university and joined the company, and currently manages all things in the company.

Of course, the palms and backs of his hands were full of meat, Wang Manyin did not treat Wang Xing and Wang Tao badly, and prepared enough cash for them.

If the two choose to lie flat, they can live comfortably for a lifetime.

Fortunately, the two children are competitive and have studied abroad.

After returning from school, Wang Xing first entered a university as a teacher. After working for a few years, she used the money donated by her parents to set up a charitable foundation. Over the years, Wang Xing has led his team to build many schools on the Loess Plateau.

Wang Tao set up an Internet company, which is currently developing well, and I heard that it is already planning to go public.

A generation has a generation's thoughts, and Wang Manyin and Orchid did not interfere too much with what the three of them did.

After all, they are not children...... Even the youngest Wang Tao is 38 years old this year, and the child should go to junior high school soon.

Thinking like this, Wang Manyin felt that his life passed quite quickly.

In the blink of an eye, he was sixty-three years old. My mother-in-law is three years younger than him, and she is sixty this year.

"What do you want?" Hearing her husband sigh leisurely, the orchid next to her couldn't help but ask.

"I'm thinking about what happened before us, as if we just got married at that time, and you were only eighteen." Wang Manyin took her mother-in-law's hand and replied.

"yes, more than fifty years...... Man Yin, marrying you in this life is the happiest thing for me. ”

"Me too," Wang Manyin said, clenching his hands.

In the past, this strong man who was more than 1.8 meters old now has his hair starting to turn gray.

Space water, while magical, is not a panacea. As for immortality or something, Wang Manyin didn't dare to think about it at all.

For him, this life has not been wasted, and he is already satisfied.

However, the two of them are much better than ordinary old people, and they rarely get sick for so many years. Even if you have an occasional cold and cough, even if you don't take medicine, you will get better in a few days.

Over the years, they have traveled a lot together. Especially after handing over the business to Wang Lei, the two of them traveled more than half of the country, and finally felt more comfortable living on the Loess Plateau.

Because there are acquaintances here who they have been with for half their lives.

However, acquaintances are becoming fewer and fewer.

No one can escape the call of time, and many old people have disappeared from Jar Village.

Wang Mancang, Wang Lianshun, Wang Yanqiang......

Wang Qiusheng also died last year at the age of 70. In the morning, he also got together with Wang Manyin to play chess, and went home at noon to bask in the sun on the bamboo chair after dinner.

After a long time, Xie Dongmei shouted, but she didn't hear her husband's response, so she hurriedly stepped forward to check, only to find that the person was out of breath.

Later, I was sent to the hospital and heard that the doctor said that it was a myocardial infarction.

In this way, the two sat on the sidelines and chatted.

Halfway through, Orchid went back to the house and flipped out the photo album, reminiscing about the past.

The two just got married and then had a baby...... The three children grew up, and the photos were changed to color.

Later, the three children started their own families and had their own children.

It wasn't until the sun was in the west that Wang Manyin got up and said, "You rest at home for a while, and I'll take Xiao Qi to the mountains for a walk." ”

"Be careful, don't go far! I heard that there are wolves in the mountains now, and I was photographed by tourists a few days ago! ”

"Don't worry, even if you really encounter a wolf, you won't be afraid to have Xiao Qi follow!" Wang Manyin replied disappretently. Xiaoqi is a dog and should be regarded as Rhubarb's great-grandchild.

After living in his own house for more than ten years, Rhubarb left quietly.

The same goes for small black and white dots.

Now the few local dogs raised in the family are basically the great-grandchildren of Rhubarb.

After decades of greening and remediation, the mountains near the village have become lush and green again, with various shrubs and wildflowers blooming.

In the autumn light, it gives a colorful feeling.

Sunflowers are planted in the fields of the river ditch, which adds a large area of goldenness.

This is the Huangyuan City Agricultural Science Institute developed Jinyuan No. 9, belongs to the high-yield variety, the average yield per mu is about 400 catties, and now it is widely promoted in the entire Huangyuan area.

Also by virtue of the fame of the six squirrels, the Shibi Festival Township opened a sunflower tourism. In recent years, with the continuous development of the Internet, many people have come to play.

Wang Manyin walked slowly with Xiao Qi.

Suddenly, a hare sprang out of a sunflower field.

Xiao Qi was just about to rush out to pursue, but was stopped by Wang Manyin.

Now the hare pheasant has become a protected animal...... What's more, there is a lot of space, and there is no need to catch it outside.

He walked forward a little further, and heard a few voices floating from the mountain beam not far away.

"Brother, you go to the west exit, my little sister is really hard to stay, take my brother's hand and send you to the gate. Brother, you go to the west exit, don't make friends, you have made a lot of friends, I'm afraid I will forget the slave ......"

Just listening to the voice, Wang Manyin knew that it was not the Loess Plateau who spoke. Although the other party sang loudly, the voice was too monotonous, and there was no such depth as the suffering people of the Loess Plateau.

Walking closer, Wang Manyin looked up at Shanliang and said, "The dolls in the city, you can't sing the taste of Xintianyou, and you can't sing the roots of Xintianyou." ”

"Uncle, you can bring us a song." A young man called out an invitation.

"Let's have a song, let's have a song!" Wang Manyin did not refuse.

He climbed up the hill and looked up at the sky.

The sky is blue, and the white clouds are drifting.

The wind blew by.

Under his feet is the thick yellow earth, and the marks of time are still left between the ditches and bumps.

Wang Manyin cleared his throat: "The blue line of the blue line, the blue line of Lan Geyingying, gave birth to a blue flower, I really love to death." The seedlings in the five grains are unique to the sorghum high, the daughter of the thirteen provinces, only the jacaranda flower is good......"

"Good!"

"Uncle sings so well......"

As soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he will know if there is one.

Wang Manyin's voice was desolate, gloomy, and had a hint of bright color.

"Uncle, how old are you this year, are you fifty?" The girl on the other side asked curiously.

"I'm still fifty, I'm sixty-three this year......"

"You're really sixty-three, you don't look like it."

"You guys take your time, I'll leave ......" Wang Manyin replied and left again with Xiao Qi.

"Do you feel that the old man just now is very familiar, like where have you seen it?" Seeing Wang Manyin disappear, the girl suddenly asked a few companions.

"Familiar? I haven't seen it, you recognize the wrong person......"

As early as more than ten years ago, the Huangyuan region began to implement a ban on grazing, and sheep could only be raised in captivity. So when I walked into the mountains, the shrubs became more and more dense, and it was difficult to walk.

Unconsciously, Wang Manyin walked out of seven or eight miles, but he was still in good spirits.

It wasn't until he turned into the depths of the bushes that he disappeared with Xiao Qi.

Wang Manyin was initially interested in the study of space, wanting to know what would become of it in the end.

Later, I looked at it with a plain heart.

Over the years, he has gradually neglected the existence of space, and sometimes he will not go in for a month or two.

Covering the sky and the sun, the sound of birdsong in the ears.

In the past few decades, the space has also changed a lot, and now the area has exceeded 3,000 acres. However, how big it is, Wang Manyin has not accurately measured.

Around the spring in the center, the trees that were planted back then have become truly giant trees. The thickest pine tree, three people can't hold it.

The small birds in the woods, most of them are shrike.

At first, Wang Manyin only introduced a few, and then caught some pairs, and now they are completely multiplied. Fortunately, these guys mainly eat insects, so don't worry.

In addition to the shrike, there are also peregrine falcons, which have also been breeding for several generations.

In the woods, a small stream meanders and flows, and at the end it flows into a small lake of more than ten acres.

The water is shallow, and many small fish swim slowly.

Wang Manyin walked all the way to the outskirts of the woods, skimmed over the shrubs, then into the sparse wild meadows, and finally stepped on a piece of yellow earth.

The cultural relics and stamps I collected at the beginning were stored in this yellow earth.

If you take it out now, you can buy at least two houses in first-tier cities.

However, Wang Manyin is completely out of use.

Of course, even if he knew that it was useless, he would still collect it if he went back to decades ago. Because under the circumstances at that time, Wang Manyin was not sure what he would become in the future.

After seeing the situation in the space, Wang Manyin appeared outside with Xiao Qi again, and walked slowly along the way he came.

At the entrance of the village, I saw an orchid standing on the side of the field and looking at it from a distance.

When her husband came to her, she didn't say anything, but said, "The meal is ready!" ”

Dinner is simple, with cold shredded radish, white flour steamed buns, and two bowls of white rice porridge.

After eating, the two walked slowly along the village road to eat.

Most of the signs on the side of the road have cartoon images of six squirrels.

Not only Jar Village, but also Shibijie Township and Yuanxi County, many places have the imprint of six squirrels.

As soon as I walked a few steps, I saw a group of elderly people gathering under the street lamp in the square to chat.

In the early years, when the village had just been electrified, Wang Manyin's family bought the first TV in the village. At that time, people didn't even bother to eat in order to watch more TV.

Now that TV has been popularized for a long time, the old people in the village don't like to watch it, thinking that the new TV series is not interesting.

Most of the time, they prefer to get together and make small talk.

In the crowd, Wang Manyin also saw Xie Liansheng and his family.

In the early years, they had already returned to live in the village of jars. As for the two children in the family, they have settled in the capital. In addition to Xie Liansheng and his family, other educated youths have often come back to see over the years.

Seeing Wang Manyin and Orchid, everyone greeted each other.

They chatted with others until about ten o'clock, and then turned around and returned.

Under the street lamp, there are two long shadows.

End of book.

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