I don't know why, Ruan Jiaojiao feels that she is in a particularly good mood now.

She took the basket from Jumbo's hand and even hummed a song.

"Sister Jiaojiao! It's too much! ”

Ruan Jiaojiao, who was in a good mood, walked along the road, even when she reached a fork in the road.

Fortunately, there was a treasure that had eaten a mouthful of dog food that had not been digested, and she called out to her in time, and Ruan Jiaojiao, who was gradually coming up, came back to her senses and pretended that nothing happened.

……

At the entrance of Taohua Village, there is a very dense and huge ginkgo tree, the stem of which is so thick that three people can barely hold it together, and it is said that it is nearly 1,000 years old.

Wang Dawang, the village head, valued the ancient tree and built a fence next to the ginkgo tree to prevent mischievous children from carving or destroying the tree.

On the back side of the ancient tree lay several smooth stones, which had existed since the memory of Wang Dawang.

Families chatting under the old trees sit on these stones, and year after year, the stones are a little pulped.

They remove the roughness of the surface and form a film with a faint sheen.

"Actually, just like that, they all look down on us countrymen. Last time I went to the supply and marketing cooperative, the salesman gave me a blank look, and I already counted it by ignoring you. ”

"We're already living well, at least the clothes are decent. Even if they see that we are countrymen, they will at most roll their eyes and ignore it. Ouch, didn't you see how they wanted to touch the fabric to the people of Chenjia Village in our commune, and they were directly hit on the back of their hands with a ruler! ”

At this time, there were already many people sitting on the stones under the tree, most of them were elderly women, and there were also two young girls in between.

While they were chatting, their hands were also busy with their own work, and none of them were idle.

Song Genhua held her sewing frame and quietly lowered her head to accept the soles of her shoes, her ears pricked up to listen to them talk about the commune salesman looking down on people.

Next to the stone where she was sitting, there was a small bamboo chair with a backrest that every household had, which was specially used for Ruan Jiaojiao to sit on.

"Chenjia Village? Is it the brigade that our commune can't meet the standard of public food every year? A lady was busy with flying needles and threads in her hands, and looked up and asked.

"That's it! My eldest brother and daughter-in-law's house have to go in, and there are no big roads in that village, all of them are small roads, and the mountains are denser than ours. I've heard ......"

The voice of the talking aunt suddenly stopped, Song Genhua waited for a few seconds and didn't hear her continue, and raised her head in dissatisfaction to urge, "Don't hang your appetite, you ...... Ouch, Comrade Jiaojiao is here, come and sit! ”

Song Genhua raised her head and saw that the person who spoke just now had her eyes straight, and when she followed her line of sight, she saw her granddaughter and Ruan Jiaojiao walking towards her, and she hurriedly stood up to greet her.

Some of these people sitting at the entrance of the village had seen Ruan Jiaojiao on the first day, while some had only heard of her name and had not seen her, and they regretted very much that they were not there that day and could not join in this big fun.

"This is Comrade Ruan Jiaojiao from the city, and he is the object of Xiao Ji Zhiqing......"

Song Genhua briefly introduced Ruan Jiaojiao to everyone.

Ruan Jiaojiao smiled with the aunts and sisters-in-law who were sitting in a row here, and then sat on the bamboo chairs.

Jumbo didn't have a chair, so she took the small satchel handed by her grandmother bitterly, took out a pen and paper from it, squatted on the ground, and wrote on the stone.

"Okay, okay, let's just get to know each other, there's no outsider here, where did you just go? Keep going! Song Genhua waved her hand and continued to sit back on the stone to collect the soles of her shoes.

"Chenjia Village, Chenjia Village!"

"Oh yes, go ahead."

Ruan Jiaojiao's arrival made everyone quiet for a while, but compared to the one she had already seen, it was more important to hear about the things that had just been half hung by her appetite, and the atmosphere became hot again, and several people urged the eldest lady who had just said something.

The eldest lady's gaze stayed on Ruan Jiaojiao's face for a few seconds, and then continued: "I heard that many of their families want to come out and change relatives because they can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law. It's all the kind of fools, lazy people, old widowers, and lame people. The girl who was born in Chenjia Village is really unlucky. ”

In the end, the eldest lady said with a faint emotion and resentment in her tone.

The people who listened to the gossip here, whether they were sincere or false, also sighed after listening to it, some said pitiful, and some were cursing the people who changed their relatives.

The people who curse are generally old, and it is obvious that they have suffered such injustices at home, and they used to have suffering, but now they are all masters of the house, and they naturally want to say what they want.

"I also have an update that happened last night. The commune may have spread, but no one in our village knows about it! ”

An aunt took a wooden basket to select sweet potato leaves, and after everyone sighed and sighed and was quiet, she raised her head and said, there was still a trace of pride on her face that could not be hidden.

"You say!"

"Hurry up!"

Everyone took out their pockets one by one, some took a few peanuts, some took a few dried sweet potatoes, and stuffed them into the aunt's hands.

This is everyone's tacit understanding, the information fee of first-hand news, giving more and giving less is the intention, and no one will dislike it.

Peach Blossom Village has a good life, basically every household has such a small snack, if you share things that everyone doesn't know, you can receive a total of several handfuls of bits and pieces, and it is very good to take them back to the children at home.

Ruan Jiaojiao did the same, opened the paper bag in the basket, and handed over two chicken cakes.

When the aunt happily accepted it with her eyes open, she opened the bag of melon seeds again, ready to share a little for each person, and everyone chatted while eating.

Zhenbao was very spiritual at this time, threw away the pencil for writing, and directly took over the work of dividing the melon seeds, grabbing a handful for everyone.

First, she can be lazy, and secondly, she has small hands, and there is still a lot left after each person is divided, and she will eat next time.

Everyone who received the melon seeds was very happy, and everyone smiled and thanked Ruan Jiaojiao.

Especially the aunt who received the chicken cake "reward", she couldn't hide her smile, and she didn't want to talk about it.

"The Fifth Brigade, not far from our village, had a murder yesterday!"

Ooh! This is really big news, everyone is out of the fire, and everyone has raised their heads.

The Fifth Brigade is not a village, it is a brigade integrated by several villages, which has people of various surnames, and is not as united as a separate village, and there will be various frictions and contradictions every day, providing a lot of after-dinner topics for the surrounding villages.

But this is the first time to kill someone!