In order not to make my father sad, he simply stopped thinking about it, and quickly changed the topic and asked: "Dad, my second brother is also at the deputy county level this time, right?" ”

The old man squinted his eyes and looked at his daughter and said, "Your second brother is better than me, calm and introverted. It will also have a better future than me in the future. Your eldest brother didn't like to study since he was a child, and he only became a soldier after failing the college entrance examination. Alas! In the future, I will point to your second brother to honor our ancestors in the Zhang family. ”

Zhang Wanru had already thought about it, and she would fully support her second brother in the future, and now she is gradually expanding her contacts, and after Meng Haiyun comes to take office, it will be easier to do it, not to mention Lu Haijun.

Thinking of this, he looked at his father and said, "If I can't say five years, I can help my second brother become the deputy mayor, do you believe it?" ”

Zhang Fakui was stunned directly after hearing this, thinking to himself, this stinky girl is always whimsical.

Zhang Wanru saw her father's stunned appearance, and said with a smile: "I know you don't believe it, but you can see it in five years, and it won't even take five years." And I can also let you take off the hat of the deputy chief and go one step further. ”

Zhang Fakui looked at his daughter's firm tone, as if he was very sure, muttered for a while, and said to his daughter: "I remember that grandfather said that we can settle in the current village, not only to avoid pursuit, but also to be optimistic about the feng shui here. This incident was also recorded in the genealogy, and the clansmen were also warned to strengthen the education of their descendants. At that time, I also hired a private school teacher. ”

Zhang Wanru asked, "Is it in those houses next to the Zhang family ancestral hall?" ”

"Yes. Our village used to be called the mountain people, and the village next door was Gouli Village. The fortune teller named Xiao Banxian lived in our Zhang family for more than half a year, and when he left, he changed the name of our village to Xinghua Village, and Gouli Village to Peach Garden. However, the people of Gouli Village called and called the Peach Garden Peach Blossom Village again. ”

Zhang Wanru said with a smile: "This little half-immortal must be spending the New Year in the village. I also walked around the mountains. The ability to tell fortunes is not good, and it is quite good to change the name of the village, which is very poetic. ”

Zhang Fakui also grinned and said, "Actually, the hexagram is not accurate, and it can't be verified. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the elders also educated the younger generations. I hope that future generations can be named on the gold list. Generations of elders remembered this until the fall of the Qing Dynasty. The whole country was in chaos, and the so-called feudal officials gradually faded away, coupled with years of war, the clansmen no longer paid attention to the education of their descendants. ”

Zhang Wanru's mind was opened, and she said with a wicked smile: "Isn't it? Nearly 200 years have passed, and the biggest official in our family surnamed Zhang is you, the deputy director who doesn't count. Hehe, but that little half-immortal is an old fritter, and they didn't say the specific time, what they said was that 'sooner or later there will be a feudal official'. Maybe in another 100 or 200 years, it will really happen. ”

The old man also laughed when he heard this. I thought this girl would talk nonsense.

After a while, Zhang Fakui said earnestly: Girl, if one day, you are really developed, don't forget the fathers and villagers in the village. When your grandparents died, my brother and I were very young, and they helped with all the funeral. My brother and I also ate Baijia rice for several years. Later, at the strong request of the grandfather, the Liu family pooled money to send our brothers to school.

I was also recommended by the village to be a soldier, and the day I left was beautiful. All the people in the village came out to see me off, and my grandfather put on a big red flower for me, and finally drove me to the meeting place in a carriage.

I can't remember my parents for a long time in my life, but during my years in the army, I often think of the people in the village even in my sleep. Whether it is our family or the people with foreign surnames, they really have nothing to say to our brothers, neither starving us nor freezing. Our brothers and I are also very diligent, and when we see someone in trouble, we will help us do it as long as we can do it.

Zhang Wanru saw her father with tears in her eyes, and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Dad, I have it all in my heart." ”

It was the first time she saw her father to reminisce about the past, and it was rare for the father and daughter to have a rare opportunity to chat.

Zhang Fakui also said: After I went to the army, I endured great hardships, and I thought of my relatives in the village, whether it was training or flood fighting and disaster relief, I ran at the forefront, and even made a second-class meritorious service. Two third-class merits. It was the self-defense counterattack in '79, and we, as a reserve, were going to go to the battlefield, but the war ended before we could set off.

At that time, my heart was also full of enthusiasm, although I was not the material to be a feudal official, I was a mighty general, and I must kill the enemy bravely when I arrived on the battlefield. It also gives the people of the village a long face. Na Cheng didn't even smell the smell of gunsmoke.

On the morning of the third day, the eldest brother Zhang Jian came to the hospital to accompany his father.

In the evening, Zhang Wanru went back to the hotel to rest, although she closed her eyes, she heard her father talk about her experience when she was young, and knew that her father was also a hot-blooded young man at that time, and he had ideals and goals in his heart. Pictures of the time when I lived in the village came to my mind.

At that time, my father worked in the city, riding a broken bicycle every day, and it was more than 60 miles a day to go back and forth. At that time, the family lived happily.

Every weekend, watching my father help the old people in the village work, although it is very hard, it is very happy. It turned out that he was an old man for gratitude.

When his family returned to the village to build a house, the neighbors in the village also came to help, and it seemed that in a few days, not only eight north houses were built, but also two bungalows were built in the east and west. There is also a spacious yard. It became the most high-grade housing in the village.

At that time, my mother was also very happy, she was an elementary school teacher, but because she did not transfer the transfer procedures for a while, she kept doing housework at home.

If Dad came back late from work, after cooking a meal, he would take his little hand and stand at the head of the village looking out over the rugged mountain road. When I saw my dad pushing his bike up the hill, I would run over and shout, 'Daddy, Daddy. ’

Dad would pick himself up, put him on the girder of the bicycle, and push him home with Mom.

When I think of my childhood, I feel happy about my life in the village. Love the mountains, the trees, the flowers. Especially in autumn, I go to the mountains to pick persimmons and take grasshoppers with meadows.

At that time, I also asked my father to buy two lambs and two little white rabbits, and often followed my mother up the mountain to cut the grass, and when I came back, I dried them in the village and kept them as food for the goats in winter.

Sometimes, he and his two elder brothers led goats to the mountains to graze. The brothers climbed trees to dig birds' eggs, and they picked a lot of mountain flowers every time and gave them to their mothers when they got home.

My own village is called Xinghua Village, which is a very poetic name.

The famous poet Huang Tingjian's "Shepherd Boy Poem" is the best proof: during the Qingming Dynasty, it rains a lot, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls; Where is the restaurant going? The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village.

I wonder what Xinghua Village looks like when Huang Tingjian sees it? However, the Xinghua Village where I lived is a fairyland on earth.

When winter turns to spring, on the hillside around the village, a tree of pink apricot blossoms blooms proudly, if the mountain is compared to a handsome young woman, then this tree of apricot blossoms is like a hosta inserted in her hair, not only fragrant, but also add charm and charm to her.

As the pace of spring accelerates, the white pear blossoms and red peach blossoms of the trees under the shade of green leaves are also in full bloom. Among the verdant pines and cypresses on this rolling mountain, it is like greasing and powdering them, making the whole mountain glorious and pleasant, and the fragrance of flowers will permeate the gentle spring breeze.

The sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and when the petals of a tree fall, many fruits will also sit. Sister Lin in "Dream of Red Mansions", has not yet come out of the sadness immersed in the funeral flowers, the apricot leaves gradually grow full of branches, and the small apricots that sit down after falling flowers also begin to grow gradually, around May, with the rise in temperature, the yellow and red apricots have matured, the fruity fragrance wafts in the breeze, people pick the apricots one by one, and eat them happily in their mouths, sweet and sour, fragrant and moisten the throat.

Then the big and sweet peaches are also ripe. People carefully pick it and transport it to the market to sell in exchange for large sums of money.

The summer sun shines on the earth, the mountains are revived from everything to flowers, and the villagers will drive the sheep and lead the cattle to graze on the hillside.

After people have eaten sweet apricots and longevity peaches, the taste of reverberation has not dissipated, and the money in their pockets is gradually rising.

In July, the big red robe on the pepper tree is also ripe, and the red peppercorns are like acacia beans, wafting out a spicy fragrance. It is an indispensable ingredient for people to cook dishes, and every dish with beautiful color and flavor is more delicious because of its existence.

As autumn approaches, the peanuts in the field are ripe, followed by apples, pears, chestnuts, walnuts, and other fruits. seduces the gluttonous worms in people's stomachs, and proves to the world that I have been to this world.

Soon the taro in the terraced fields is also ripe, and everyone is busy, admiring the red leaves and yellow persimmons under the persimmon trees on the hillside. Have fun with the busiest harvest season of the year.

When the snowflakes fall in the sky, soon the snow presses the green pines, the people of Xinghua Village have been busy for a year, and they are all closed, the family sits around the stove, the cooked taro in the pot is steaming, each eating the soft sweet and delicious taro, talking, talking about life and ideals.