Ganquan, Li Xiulan's ancestral hometown.

The reason why it is called "Sweet Spring" is actually because there is a spring under the city, and its water is like wine. It is also named after the allusion of the famous general Huo Qubing of the Western Han Dynasty who defeated the Huns, poured wine in the spring, and rewarded the three armies, so it attracted many literati and ink writers throughout the ages to splash ink and praise it, among which the most famous is Li Bai's poem "Drinking Alone Under the Moon".

If the sky does not love wine, the wine star is not in the sky. If the earth does not love wine, there shall be no fountain of wine on the earth.

Heaven and earth love wine, and love wine is worthy of heaven. I have heard that it is more than a saint, and it is as virtuous as a sage.

Since the sages have already drunk, why bother to ask the gods. Three cups lead to the avenue, and one bucket is natural.

But if you have fun in wine, don't pass it on to the awake.

This place is also called "Jade Sweet Spring", because it is backed by Qilian Mountain, there is a lot of jade in the mountain, digging stones to make cups, drinking wine, and getting its good name - luminous cup, which is what Wang Han's "Liangzhou Ci" wrote.

Grape wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa immediately urge.

Drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people came back to fight in ancient times?

In the countryside, more than ten years have passed since Li Xiulan's sister Li Xiumei married Qu Dashi. The small life is also harmonious and beautiful, and this weird fate can be regarded as a legend.

Over the years, Qu Dashi's leg injury has also healed, but he is still a little lame when he walks, but it does not affect his agricultural production. So far, the two have only given birth to a female baby, named Xiaomei, and then Li Xiumei's stomach has not moved.

Now, Li Xiulan's younger brother Li Guoqiang has also married a family, so he used the ancestral house as a wedding room.

Li Xiulan's mother, Qiao Chunmei, originally wanted to stay in the old man's house to support the elderly, which was a common practice among the villagers. But in the past two years, Qiao Chunmei's body is not as tough as before, and it is estimated that it is still the root cause of the disease in those hard days back then.

Li Xiumei was not at ease about handing over her sick mother to her clumsy younger brother, so she simply discussed with Qu Dashi and took Qiao Chunmei to her home to support.

Li Xiumei took the soup from the kitchen, snorted across the courtyard to the West House, and helped her mother who was lying sick on the kang.

"Mom, it's time to take medicine!"

Qiao Chunmei, who was already in her old age, frowned deeply, twisted the wrinkles on her face into locust bark, looked at a big bowl of bitter potions, and sighed: "Hey, this medicine is taken every day, and it is not necessarily good, so don't waste this money." ”

Li Xiumei pursed her lips and blamed: "Mom, the medicine can be seen in one dose, and besides, you have an old problem, so you have to keep taking it." It's not the first two years now, and we can still afford this medicine. ”

While chattering, a three-year-old little girl opened the door curtain and revealed her little face with two pigtails, like melon seeds. Under the curved eyebrows, a pair of watery eyes flickered, extremely smart, and the innocent appearance was quite a bit of Li Xiulan's style back then. It's just that there is a lot of mud on the white little face, which is probably the result of playing with the children in the village, this is Li Xiumei's daughter Qu Xiaomei.

At this moment, she jumped up and down to Li Xiumei, touched her empty belly, and muttered.

"Mom, I'm hungry, I want to eat steamed buns."

Li Xiumei rolled her eyes and chattered to her daughter: "You kid knows that he is crazy every day, just like a boy, he doesn't have any showmanship, and he only goes home for dinner when he is crazy." ”

"Humph!" Meizi pouted, let out a crunchy snort, and jumped onto the bed with a kick on her calves, lying beside Qiao Chunmei, frowning and asking with cute brows, "Grandma, you drink medicine again!" Bitter or not, I'll taste it for you? ”

"Huh!" Qiao Chunmei happily touched the child's little brain: "It's bitter, this is medicine for grandma, and Xiaomei can't eat it indiscriminately." ”

Li Xiumei glared at her daughter disapplauded: "Heh, you just let her taste it, and she won't be curious anymore if she sheds tears so bitterly." ”

Qiao Chunmei smiled and looked at Meizi and tasted the potion in small sips, and then grinned bitterly, and said with emotion: "This kid, just like your sister, is also a person who can't control her temperament." ”

Li Xiumei nodded, and said with deep feeling: "It's not, this temper is very strong, not like me and Dashi at all." ”

"Hey!" Qiao Chunmei sighed suddenly, with a slight complaint in her melancholy tone: "Your sister doesn't know how well she has been doing all these years, how many years have she had, and she hasn't come back once, so she almost forgot about my mother." ”

Li Xiumei stepped forward, tucked the quilt for her mother, and comforted: "Mom, my sister also has her own job, and she still has three children at home, why do you let her go back?" Even if there is a railway now, it will take seven or eight days to go back and forth. Besides, sister doesn't often write to me, the money sent over the years has never been broken, I see, she is also thinking about you! ”

Qiao Chunmei looked at the black decoction sadly, and sighed: "Seeing that my body is not as good as day by day, I don't know if I can see your sister again before I die, hey!" ”

Li Xiumei had some resentment on her face, and said angrily: "Mom, now that life is better, it's time to enjoy happiness, but you can't say these ruinous words." If you miss my sister, I'll write to her when I go back and ask her to send a family photo back, okay? ”

A sentence woke up Qiao Chunmei, and hurriedly said: "That's good, then you wrote it earlier, I don't know what my grandson and granddaughter have become!" ”

This can't blame Li Xiulan for forgetting to send a family photo to her mother, she is really good at picking on her own door, and a photo is a day's ration for the whole family. I wanted to take pictures for a long time, but in the end I couldn't implement it. Coupled with He Yi'an's schooling, and then so many astonishing mutations, Li Xiulan didn't have that heart.

Li Xiumei smiled and nodded in agreement: "Okay, I'll write it in a while." ”

At this moment, he suddenly heard outside the door, Qu Dashi excitedly shouted: "Xiumei, Xiumei!" ”

Li Xiumei sat up in surprise, stepped out of the door in three or two steps, and asked Qu Dashi with a happy face, "What's the matter?" ”

Qu Dashi happily shouted: "Divided, divided?" ”

Li Xiumei was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Who is crazy?" ”

Qu Dashi's face twisted, and he screamed: "Oh, it's not who is crazy, it's us who are assigned to the ground!" ”

"Really?" Li Xiumei's eyes widened suddenly, and she grabbed Qu Dashi's arm tightly with both hands and swayed: "It's really like what was said on the radio, we can also contract land?" ”

This year, an epoch-making conference was held.

It is also from this starting point that we have entered a new historical period of internal reform and opening up to the outside world.

The internal reform first began in the rural areas, and the household responsibility system initiated by a small mountain village was like a flame full of strong vitality, which quickly burned to the north and south of the country, and became the prelude to the rolling trend of this era.

Of course, Li Xiumei's village is no exception, the land is the foundation of life, which may be what all farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky are looking forward to the most.

Qu Dashi happily showed his red thumbs: "It's not true, our family has been divided into three acres of land, and they are all high-yield land, I have seen them all, and I signed and pressed my handprints, hehe......"

Hearing this, Li Xiumei jumped up like a child at Qu Dashi: "That's great, that's great, our family also has our own land!" ”

Meizi heard the noise of her parents, and ran out with her, staring at her bulging little eyes, and asked curiously: "Mom, parents, why are you so happy, tell me to hear it!" ”

Li Xiumei rubbed Meizi's little face lovingly, and said happily: "Okay, we all have to tell each of us, and we have to tell loudly that we have our own land!" ”

I don't know why Meizi was infected by her mother's excitement, and jumped up and shouted: "Oh, yes, yes! ”

Qu Dashi picked up the plum in his hand and strode towards the house: "Let's go, we will also tell grandpa and make him happy." ”

Inside the house, the husband and wife respectfully laid a stick of incense in front of the portrait of the old father. Next to the portrait, a box sits upright. Inside the box is a jade pendant made of ancestral Qilian jade, which was originally a pair, but I don't know why only one piece was left later.

According to the previous generation, it seems that a long time ago, one of his brothers was taken out to fight, and then there was no news. It is rumored that finding another jade pendant in the future will be able to achieve a great good deed, but as for what it is, no one knows.

The reason why the jade pendant is still placed next to the statue is because the old father hopes that Li Xiumei can bring him a grandson, so as to pass on the incense of the Qu family, but he only has a granddaughter, which has become his biggest regret.

Who would have thought that this jade pendant would really set off a monstrous wave for the next generation, which is a later story.

Qu Dashi's magnetic voice came: "Dad, tell you a good news, our village has also implemented the joint production contract responsibility system, and our farmers' lives will be more prosperous in the future. ”

Qiao Chunmei, who was sitting on the kang, also had old tears on her face, chattering endlessly: "Good things, all good things, Xiumei, tell your sister this good news when you write a letter!" ”

Li Xiumei happily agreed: "Hmm! I know! ”

Longyou, Tuanchang.

Cheng Jia'an was cooking, only to hear Li Xiulan's exclamation from the back room, Cheng Jia'an hurriedly dropped the shovel, rushed in, and asked nervously, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”

Li Xiulan took the letter sent by her sister, raised it in the air excitedly, and said happily: "His father, Xiumei, they have also implemented the joint production contract system, and they have also divided four acres of land." ”

Cheng Jia'an's eyes lit up, and an unconcealable joy climbed up his eyebrows, and he said excitedly: "Oh, is it? That's a great thing! ”

Li Xiulan raised her eyebrows happily, and her face was full of warm sunshine: "No, we farmers have our own land, even golden beans can be grown." His father, Xiumei, and they can be regarded as having survived. ”

Cheng Jia'an responded with emotion: "Yes, this day will get better and better." ”

Immediately afterwards, Li Xiulan's face changed, and she suddenly became sad again: "But, but Xiumei said in the letter that my mother's health has become worse and worse in recent years, and she thinks about me too much." ”

's mother, Qiao Chunmei, came from the old society, and basically never had a comfortable day in her life, which made Li Xiulan, as the boss, cut her heart like a knife.

It stands to reason that the responsibility of taking care of the elderly should fall on oneself, but the world has changed, and even seeing each other can only be dreamed back at midnight. Now that life is better, it's time to be distracted and think about taking care of my mother who is far away. But it is definitely inappropriate to take Qiao Chunmei to the group to support the elderly, people are always difficult to leave their homeland when they are old.

Cheng Jia'an thought for a while, and said decisively: "Well, this is also easy to do, no, you can ask for a leave of absence from the unit and go back to Ganquan to have a look." ”

Li Xiulan rolled her eyes and said angrily: "It's easy for you to say, it's okay to ask for a day or two, but how can it be possible to invite for ten days and a half months, the printing house is busy like something now." ”

Cheng Jia'an frowned and struggled: "Then what should I do?" I can't go back again! ”

Li Xiulan thought about it for a while and said: "This is put aside in advance, and my mother asked us to send a family photo over, which can be regarded as a thought." Well...... Speaking of which, we really don't have a decent family portrait in our family. ”

Cheng Jia'an's expression immediately became weird, and he hummed and said in a nasal voice: "Can you blame me, how many times have I said it, you just don't want to spend that money, even our wedding photos are the flagpole of the City God Temple - unique." ”

"Go, what do you say?"

Li Xiulan stretched out her leg and pretended to kick Cheng Jia'an, her face was entangled, and she looked hesitant: "Uh, or not...... Why don't we take a picture over the weekend? ”

"Huh!" Cheng Jia'an's smile was very sunny, very kind, and very crisp: "Cheng!" Go on the weekend! ”

This year, the whole family cleaned up, wore the most modest clothes of that era, and did not have any hairstyles and headdresses. can only use simple smiles from the frame, in the most ordinary years, on the most monotonous black and white negatives, to portray the most gorgeous, warmest, and most harmonious happiness labels that belong to them.