There are about ten miles from Qianzhen to Shangwan Village, most of which are mountain roads, and it is still steep. The three of them walked for nearly an hour and a half before they reached the entrance of the village.
At this time, the sun had already set and the sky was already dark.
Passing by the stone arch bridge at the entrance of the village, a father and son dragged the trees and came down from the next mountain sneakily. When they saw Li Heng and the other two, they obviously dodged for a while. Needless to say, they must be guilty and stole the other person's tree.
Quexinyan immediately shouted: "Master Liu Er, whose fir tree you have ever tried? It's so big that you can make a coffin!"
Mr. Liu was so scared that he shook his head and looked around, and hurriedly stopped him, "I am stupid, this is our own tree, don't gossip."
"Bad! You guys don't have a mountain here, so I'm stupid." I've never known what respect for the elderly and love for the young, and I don't know what kind of etiquette is.
With such a loud shout, several families at the entrance of the village poked their heads out of the house.
One of the boys had sharp eyes and immediately screamed: "Dad! Dad! Big brother, second brother, third brother, fourth brother, come out quickly, Liu Mazi steals grandpa's coffin book."
Before Liu Mazi could react, he saw five or six strong men holding knives and shoulder poles, and they were already surrounded like rushing around.
The so-called coffin board is a fir tree used to build coffins. This kind of tree is usually decades old, very rare and very valuable. If anyone wants to have bad intentions, it will be fine. People can't fight with you!
For a while, the scene was extremely chaotic.
He was heartless and put his hands on his hips, stood at the bridge and laughed wildly, making Li Heng and Yang Chengdu laugh.
Li Heng did not mean to blame his lack of intentions. Mr. Liu and his son were routine offenders. They not only stole trees in the mountains, fields, soil, and even those in the house came to the door to steal. The old Li family once lost 8 pieces of bacon, which was the other party's hand. Fortunately, a neighbor saw it and found it back.
With the help of the faint light, an old man was carrying a hoe and dustpan on the roadside to pick up dog shit, while a villager led a yellow cow up from the river.
There was also a bunch of old and half-boys rolling on the road, shouting and chasing each other, and it was so lively.
The more I walked into the village, the more people I saw on the road. When I reached the intersection, I was already crowded with people. Every household finally got idle and was chatting together.
"Yo! The celebrities from our village are back."
"College students are still short of wives. The eldest daughter of the third aunt is planning to get married."
"Great writer, why are you empty? You can't use up so much money, so bring a wedding candy cake back."
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When he met many neighborhood elders, Li Heng grinned and laughed all the way, his mouth almost fucked.
After finally getting out and returning home, I ran into my second sister and ate melon seeds when I entered the door:
"Second sister, when did you come back?"
Li Lan sat on the threshold with a big sword, looked at him and said, "The complexion was a little rosy than last time. Did he come back with Xiao Han?"
Li Heng looked into the room, but no one asked in a low voice: "This is it?"
Li Lan interrupted, "You are not at the point of talking about marriage, I won't say anything."
Li Lan's idea is very simple. Her younger brother is already lacking in personal morality because of Chen Zijin. If it is reported that he has a breakup with the Xiao family daughter in the future, his reputation will probably be even worse. So she won't have time to spread it to the outside world, so she won't be able to hide it.
after all!
After all, this fickle brother kept shouting about Song Yu's name in his dream. She felt that Xiao Han might not be 100% able to become a sister-in-law in the future. Therefore, he had to be careful in advance.
Li Heng nodded in admiration, reached out and touched his pocket, only took out two tickets and stuffed them to her.
Li Lan looked disgusted.
Li Heng said: "No more, there are only so many, can you buy two packs of five-spice melon seeds?"
Li Lan put the money in her pocket, "It's better not to give it to me and give it a beggar."
Li Heng reached out and said, "I'll pay the money back."
Li Lan turned her head aside and continued to eat melon seeds.
Putting down his luggage and strolling around the house, he asked, "Where are parents? Why aren't you at home so late?"
Li Lan said: "My elder sister just gave up her baby, so she went there to help."
Li Heng had a strange look: "Give me a baby? You have read books, so how can you use words like this?"
Li Lan disdained to answer, but asked, "Have you eaten?"
Li Heng sat on the other side of the threshold, shook his head, saying he was so hungry.
Li Lan didn't respond after hearing this. She knelt more than 20 melon seeds before clapping her hands and getting up, preparing to cook, but there was nothing good about her mouth:
"I didn't even get the dinner from the Xiao family. It's a waste of my mother's face, it's useless!"
Li Heng was speechless: "I came back from eating wontons."
As if he didn't hear it, Li Lan climbed onto the stove with a kitchen knife, cut the bacon, and picked the best pig's back leg to cut.
Li Heng was dizzy and understood clearly. He probably was so greedy that he was so angry that he was making bacon by the name of cooking for himself.
While his second sister was cooking, he took out 100 yuan and then found a red paper bag to go to his elder sister's house.
Before leaving the door, he asked tentatively: "Did the eldest sister give birth to a son or a daughter?"
Li Lan didn't look back: "Boy."
Is the first child a boy?
The historical trajectory has not changed, and he fell in love with it again.
Li Heng asked: "Have you been there? Do you want to go and have a look together?"
Li Lan didn't reply, and it was obvious that she looked down on her elder brother-in-law and didn't want to go to her elder sister.
Thinking about it, it seems that she only went to her eldest sister's house five times in her previous life. The first three times were when her eldest sister got married, and the other two times were when her eldest sister fell ill.
Anyway, this second sister is a weird person. She didn't even go to get married, so she didn't expect her to go now.
Sometimes he was thinking that this second sister had obviously been born in the wrong child. If she joined the Chen family, she would be the most conspiracy with Chen Xiaomi and the others.
My eldest sister's house is not very far away, about 700 meters away, next to the village headquarters, and the Women's Director is a neighbor who looks across the road.
This is also the reason why Comrade Tian Rune often comes up and walks around and gradually becomes good friends with the Women's Director.
"Li Heng is back."
"Hey, aunt, you're busy."
Although becoming famous satisfies vanity, it is also a real trouble. If you don’t say hello warmly on the road, he will stop and respond.
It took a walk and stopped, and it took a half-way walk out of the Hollywood red carpet to rush to the feet, which was so fucking wasteful and time.
As soon as I arrived at the village headquarters, I saw Liu Juan. The girl was lowering her head to wash loaches.
Li Heng leaned his head and glanced at it. He found that the bottom of the bucket was covered with black paint. He immediately asked, "Did you catch it by yourself?"
When Liu Juan suddenly heard the sound, she was shocked by the concentration. She looked up and saw that it was him, and was startled again.
Look, the buckets were all over, and hundreds of loaches were snoring along with the water. The road was full of people.
Seeing this, the woman director who was choosing beans next to him quickly threw down the beans to catch loaches. While fishing them with both hands, he also scolded his daughter:
"It's not good to do things, and you're afraid of a man. What else can you do?"
Seeing Li Heng laughing beside him, the Women's Director joked: "Li Heng, you like to tease her so much, otherwise you can marry her home. I don't want your bride price and I will give it to you for free."
"Mom!" Liu Juan stamped her feet, angry and anxious.
"What's the mom? I finally caught some loaches and came back. You can't even wash them. You still want a bride price like you, but I don't have that face."
The Women's Director didn't feel sorry for her daughter, but she just quarreled to death.
Liu Juan couldn't bear to listen and hid back in the house.
It took a long time to help Li Heng catch the loach before saying goodbye and walking into his brother-in-law's house.
My eldest brother-in-law’s surname is Zou, and his full name is Zou Shusheng. I don’t know how to get the name, but it sounds strange anyway.
The Zou family house is the same as most people in the village these days. There are three wooden houses, the main hall in the middle, the bedroom on both sides, and the kitchen behind the main hall. The yard is behind. A row of pigpens and cows are built with wooden fences in the direction of the mountain. There are also dogs, chickens, ducks and geese next to it.
As soon as he walked into the yard, Li Heng smelled a chicken scent. It seemed that it was the food my elder sister ate during confinement.
Although the Zou family's financial situation is not very good, their parents-in-law have never treated their elder sister badly. Whether it is chicken, duck, geese, or meat, they always keep their elder sister's mouth tight. At most, the old couple pick up some soup next to them.
Therefore, even if a cultural person like Li Jianguo and Tian Rune meet, he will not be able to pick out any of them, and he will recognize this in-laws from the bottom of his heart.
Seeing Li Heng coming to the door, Zou Shusheng hurriedly brought a stool over and greeted him with a restrained voice:
"My third brother is back from vacation."
His third brother was called out with Li Yan.
"Well, brother-in-law, don't worry about me. I come here often, don't be so polite."
I don’t know why? The other party is obviously five or six years older than him, but I can’t let go when I see him.
This is true in this life, and the same is true in the previous life. This situation did not improve until the age of 40.
The Zou couple was very enthusiastic, busy serving tea and pouring water, and busy finding precious melon seeds, peanuts and candies from the drawer to treat him.
Can you not treat this brother-in-law well?
This is a college student right away, and he is still a great writer who is so amazing that he can earn huge sums of money.
Of course, for the Zou couple, the most important thing is that this brother-in-law is not showing off. Li Lan did not come on the day of her wedding, and this brother-in-law came, and every time she came back from school, she would come to her house for a walk, which gave them enough face.
Li Heng called the other party the father-in-law and mother-in-law. After a few greetings, he finally met his elder sister Li Yan in the bedroom. Li Jianguo and Tian Rune were standing by and teasing their grandson.
"Sister, how do you feel after giving birth?" Li Heng asked with concern.
"Brother is here, you have become better than before. Have you become better at school food?" Li Yan said in a wild way, and her focus was whether her younger brother had gained weight, lost weight, black, and white.
Her face turned red and seemed to have gained a lot of weight. Li Heng felt that his elder sister should be living a very comfortable life. He took out a red envelope from his pocket and handed it over and said:
"Sister, it's too late to go home and I didn't buy anything. This is a little care. Please keep it and buy some diapers for my big nephew."
He didn't say he bought milk powder because there was no such concept in rural areas these days, so he didn't even want to be a good player.
If any mother has insufficient milk, she will go to the sheep to milk and drink it, or go to other mothers in the village to get a little smoother.
I only received the money last month, and now I have to receive red envelopes. My eldest sister and the Zou family felt very embarrassed, but in the end, after Li Jianguo and Tian Rune and his wife persuaded him, they put them in their pockets.
However, her mother-in-law was not in a state of coldness. She had just recovered from the serious illness and immediately ran to the backyard and caught a big goose and an old duck for Li Heng, saying that he needed to make up for it after the college entrance examination.
The old ducks are so precious nowadays, they are laying eggs. Li Heng didn't take them, and finally refused, reluctantly taking the urea bag that was filled with goose.
Perhaps because of his personality, Li Heng is born with no colds for babies and always feels a little ugly. He likes children over one year old.
But for the sake of Sister Buhan's heart, I still tried my best and chatted with me in the bedroom for two or three hours before returning home.
It was already very late when I got home, and the bacon on the table was very eye-catching. Under the instigation of my second sister's eyes, Li Heng picked up the chopsticks and ate a bowl of rice.
If he eats it, the second sister can eat it openly.
After glanced at the fried pork with peppers filled with a bowl of cabbage, Tian Rune said nothing, but when he went to the backyard to see the pigs and cows, he looked up and looked at the bacon hanging on the stove for a while.
He sighed: This dead girl is really a loser. She cut at least one and a half pounds, and she is still very close to the best cut.
In fact, since Li Heng made money by writing, the life of the old Li family has undergone tremendous changes and has become the object of envy in the village.
Tian Rune used to be a wealthy lady and was generous. She would no longer be cautious in living a life. She still spent the money she should spend.
But she was a little helpless about her second daughter's style. If she was right, the bacon in the bowl just now should have been reduced after the delivery. It is estimated that half of it had been put into her stomach before serving.
After dinner, Li Heng brought a bucket and took a shower at the backyard well. The summer was hot, so it was so fucking to soak the mountain spring water. It was so delicious that it was so hot that it was so satisfying to soak the mountain spring water. It took more than ten buckets of water before giving up.
At around 11 o'clock in the evening, Tian Rune called her second daughter and youngest son to her and said something big:
"You are all old and need a separate room. In more than ten days, your grandmother and your second aunt will come back, and you can't live in the house. Your dad and I have discussed this time and planned to build a new house. What do you two think?"
Li Lan had long had enough of the cramped wooden compartment on the second floor, and was most interested:
"Mom, is the new house a red brick or a wooden house?"
Tian Rune said: "Of course, it is to build a red brick house, so that you will not be afraid of fire and will also be faced."
This is the first time that face has been revealed from her mother. She has lived in a difficult life over the past few years and rarely mentions the word face.
Now that her son and daughter are doing well, her mental outlook has ushered in earth-shaking changes, and her words and actions have returned to the style of a wealthy family. She is very different from ordinary peasant women in the village at first glance.
Li Heng asked: "How big is it?"
Tian Rune looked at her husband and signaled him to the head of the family to say it. The latter understood and shook his wife's hand and said:
"Plan to build two floors, each floor is four rooms, so that your two aunts will have a place to live when they come back. Your mother and I have inquired about it. If you are tying a kiln and burning red bricks by yourself, it will cost about 2,000 yuan."
There are only 8 rooms, and my parents have one room, one study room, and one grandma and second sister each have one, so I went to four rooms. It’s less! It’s less! When my wife comes back in the future, my aunt and the others have no place to rest.
Li Heng fantasized happily and immediately raised his hands to agree.
Li Lan was more comfortable than he agreed and promised to stay during the summer vacation to help make adobe bricks.
The so-called adobe bricks are the original appearance of the red bricks before they were fired in the kiln.
In these days, few people bought bricks for red brick houses. They were burned by themselves by kilns. After hollowing out the mud in the fields, they could also be used to raise fish in the pond.
After spending half an hour talking about building a house, the topic went straight to the major event of the college entrance examination. When he learned that he had his first choice, Li Jianguo, Tian Rune and Li Lan were stunned for a long time.
Tian Rune thought about it and asked her son again: "Manzai, do you really want to go to the capital during the summer vacation? Go and see Chen Zijin?"
Li Jianguo and Li Lan looked over.
Li Lan also curled her lips and choked him: "Be careful not to eat, and she will choke to death."
The second sister was playing a puzzle, mocking him for hanging Chen Zijin and teasing Xiao Han, beware that one day the incident was revealed, and I don’t know how to die?
Li Heng ignored the sister's words and nodded and said, "I have to go there, I have to give Chen Zijin an explanation. I have bought all the train tickets."
Li Jianguo agreed to him to go so that he could be responsible for the man. He asked: "Which day's ticket?"
Li Heng said: "No. 15."
Seeing that he couldn't stop his son, Tian Rune, who was a little unhappy, didn't say anything more. He was just worried about his safety, fearing that he would run away from the capital alone to suffer losses.
However, when she learned that she had been with her intimacy, she finally relieved a little and was less resistant.
After thinking about it, Tian Rune got up and took out a letter from the box, and said warmly: "Zhao Jing's family is almost out of reach, and she may not be able to survive this summer vacation.
Manzai, since you are not interested in accompanying you, why don’t you go from Beijing to Gansu to visit me and your dad on your behalf. I will contact them and ask them to pick you up at the station.”
He is familiar with the land in Gansu. He has been to Zhao Jing's house several times in his previous life, and he also went on behalf of his mother. He took the letter and read it, and agreed.
Li Jianguo originally wanted to visit him, but when he thought about Zhao Jing's feelings for him in the early years and thought about so many things at home, he had to rest.
The family meeting didn't end until the early morning. When returning to the second floor, Li Heng asked his second sister: "Have you settled on your job?"
Li Lan said confidently: "I have it."
"where?"
"Don't ask, you'll know then."
Li Heng was speechless: "When will you go to work?"
Li Lan said: "Let's leave in September."
September?
Li Heng recalled it a little blurred and couldn't remember it anymore. He didn't know which month his second sister went to work?
But he was not worried about his second sister.
This sister has a hundred scheming and smart body, and the conditions at home of the boys who pursue her are not simple.
Of course, the simple ones had been sifted away by her long ago.
If she guessed correctly, the reason why she was not in a hurry to go to work during the summer vacation was probably because she wanted to use this time to figure out which one she was accepting, right?
Because once you accept it, you cannot go back on your word. Her temperament is not the kind of person who goes back on your word. She must get married in one step.
As it turns out, in the previous life, she had torture her husband with all kinds of dog-licking husbands hanging on her in the early stage, but once she agreed and got married, she was quite dedicated. The two of them loved each other for the rest of their lives.
When they were about to separate, Li Lan called him behind his back, "What do you think? How dare you provoke Chen Zijin and Xiao Han?"
Li Heng blinked: "Didn't I learn from you? Isn't there a lot of people behind you?"
Li Lan habitually raised her fist and subconsciously wanted to hit her, but she swung it halfway back, "You compare with me? Compare with me? Am I as despicable as you?
Before I promised, I had never collected a red silk from someone, had never eaten a meal for someone, nor had I had an ambiguous relationship with anyone, otherwise I would have to worry about the 16 yuan clothes with my means and appearance? I would have been wearing gold and silver long ago."
Well, it seems like this. Even though he doesn't want to admit it openly, he still admires her in his heart.
Li Heng stretched: "My affairs are quite complicated, and I can't tell you clearly if I say a few words. Just don't worry about it. It's a bit late, so let's take a break early."
Li Lan glanced at him, pushed the door and walked in.
When he came to his compartment, Li Heng sat quietly for a while. Although the space inside was a little smaller, it was not stuffy because it was located in Xuefeng Mountain.
After his head was empty for ten minutes, he found a stack of letters from his schoolbag.
Some love letters were written to themselves, some were written to Song Yu, and there was also a letter from Huang Zhaoyi to readers.
I put my love letter aside and I was too lazy to read it.
Song Yu had more than 20 love letters. He opened them one by one and went through the name of the person who wrote the letter. He didn't read the content and found that they were all shrimp soldiers and crab generals, so he put them aside.
Well, he looked at these and tried to make a new look and didn't take it much because she was confident enough to Song Yu.
Reader's letter
Li Heng muttered and opened Huang Zhaoyi's registration mail.
As usual, it was still 3 pages of letter paper, and the other party seemed to have deliberately retained this tradition.
What is different from usual is that there is a photo mixed in it.
This is the first time.
The woman in the photo looks about 30 years old, dresses very fashionable and exquisitely, has a great style and is very elegant.
Think about it, people are teachers, Peking Opera performing artists, and part-time literary critics. I guess their family background is extraordinary, so how can they lose their temperament?
The first two pages of letter paper are still the same rules, so I exchange my literary experience with him.
The third page of the letter paper, in addition to sharing trivial matters in life, also specifically explained the reason for sending photos: she said that she would go to the Chang'an Grand Theater and Mei Lanfang Grand Theater in July to perform. If he is interested, he can remember her appearance and find her.
Li Heng read the third page of the letter twice, and always felt something was wrong. A thought suddenly popped up in his mind: Could it be that the other party was using a photo to cast a stone to ask for directions?
Isn’t it possible that after more than ten letters, I have invisibly had strange thoughts about myself?
There were not many entertainment activities in this era, and even fewer than that, and most women’s views on love were particularly pure, and instead of material things, they pursued spiritual resonance more.
Therefore, there are many people who develop feelings for each other through letters, and he is not sure about it for a while. Is this true?
Or are you sensitive?
Have you ever thought about it?
But no matter what, after weighing the pros and cons, he decided to cut off the contact in time to avoid unnecessary trouble.
After thinking about it, he replied to a letter for the sake of Editor Liao.
In the letter, he tactfully told the other party that his wife was in poor health and that his youngest daughter would also be engaged in a marriage in the near future and would stay by her side to take care of her during the summer vacation. She had no time to go to the capital to appreciate her performance, which is a pity.
Well, everyone is a person with taste and status. He wrote this letter as the last one.
If Huang Zhaoyi really has other thoughts, I believe the other party can understand the meaning and automatically cut off contact.
After writing the letter, Li Heng had time to organize the compartment.
Actually, there is nothing to organize. My mother regularly cleans him, and the inside is very tidy.
But he has his own hobbies and habits, some books and some pieces will be more comfortable to put in, and it will be easier to use.
2:02
It's getting late.
Li Heng sighed that it was better to have a watch, so he took it off and put it aside, fell asleep.
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