Except for Yang Jun who was at home due to a leg injury, the other families, all the young people in the family went out, and the remaining elderly and children, I heard that Zhou Ziyan came back, all came to care about his well-being and were extremely intimate.

When the lights were being held, the few families left allowed Jiang Xueyan to appreciate the enthusiasm of the people in the mountains for the first time.

There are only a few families in this small yard now. Which one of the guests is the distinguished guests in the entire yard. Every household will do its best to entertain them. There are five tables on a small open space in the yard, and each table is full of dishes. Jiang Xueyan counted them, and there were a total of sixty-six different dishes!

Moreover, Jiang Xueyan especially liked this kind of cuisine. After eating it, Jiang Xueyan couldn't help but begged Zhou Ziyan: "What should I do? Ziyan, if I want to eat it again, I will not only support it, but I'm afraid I will also have to grow a body of fat."

Zhou Ziyan held back his laughter and picked up another piece of deer meat for Jiang Xueyan: "Eat it, eat it, this thing is in the city, and you may not be able to eat it if you have money."

Jiang Xueyan frowned and wanted to refuse, but she couldn't help but drool. After struggling for a while, she finally said, "If you are fat, just be fat. If you don't eat such a good thing, I'm really sorry for myself..."

Although only Yang Jun is the young man, and there is less atmosphere when the young man is missing, Jiang Xueyan almost got over for this supper.

After dinner, several families were scrambling to ask Zhou Ziyan and Jiang Xueyan to stay at their homes. Anyway, the son and daughter-in-law were all out, and there were many empty houses.

That night, Zhou Ziyan lived in Yang Jun's house, but Jiang Xueyan couldn't resist the kindness of others and lived in the Duan family.

People in the mountains slept late but got up very early. After all, this period was the busy farming season, so they didn’t care about the crops they had made. The old men and ladies who dealt with the land all year round couldn’t bear it and had no more helpers at home. So early in the morning, they started working hard.

It was almost dawn that Jiang Xueyan was woken up and got up quickly. Before she could wash up, Old Mrs. Duan had already prepared breakfast. Two or three dishes were not exquisite, but they were very rich, almost all meat. She was afraid that Jiang Xueyan was a city man who couldn't get used to the breakfast in the mountains in the morning, so she specially cooked a bowl of poached eggs.

Seeing Jiang Xueyan get up, Old Man Duan personally brought water to wash his face and rinse his mouth, which made Jiang Xueyan grateful from the bottom of his heart.

There are several servants at home, and they do things like serving tea and pouring water. However, Jiang Xueyan feels that it is natural for the servant to do it at home, and it is better for granted to do it. But here, what Jiang Xueyan feels is that people are close to their own children from the bottom of their hearts.

After breakfast, Old Man Duan and his wife did not lock the door and asked Jiang Xueyan to stay at home to rest. However, Jiang Xueyan was embarrassed and wanted to go to the ground to help, but Old Man Duan and his wife refused to let him go and said that the things in the ground were all rough work, so how could Jiang Xueyan do it?

As he was talking, Zhou Ziyan came over and Jiang Xueyan gave up.

After Old Man Duan and his wife left, Jiang Xueyan smiled and said, "I really didn't see that the people here are really enthusiastic. There is no barrier between people. It's great."

Zhou Ziyan smiled: "The people here are so warm and hospitable, honest and simple. This is the nature of our mountain people. What's so strange about it?"

"Is that so? No matter how I look at you, I don't have the kindness and simplicity of them at all, Princess..." Jiang Xueyan said, unable to help laughing: "You guy, all I see is cunning... Princess..."

Zhou Ziyan said in a dismay: "I am cunning?"

After laughing for a while, Jiang Xueyan said seriously: "Since I came back to now, I haven't heard you mention a word from your own family... You must be hiding something from me?"

Zhou Ziyan smiled bitterly: "I'm going to see my home, are you going?"

"Go to see your home?" Jiang Xueyan pondered what Zhou Zi said: "Of course I'm going."

Zhou Ziyan nodded with a wry smile and led the way.

Zhou Ziyan's home is not far away, and it is within the yard. It is just on the left-most edge. There are two tiled bricks and tiles. Because no one lives in it, it has been disrepair for many years and has been dilapidated. Half of the room has collapsed, and no one has collapsed. Because the rafters are decayed, the tiles fall, and after years of sun and rain, half a person-tall weed grows on the ground.

Zhou Ziyan stood in front of the room, silent. Jiang Xueyan couldn't bear it and gently took Zhou Ziyan's arm to try to give Zhou Ziyan some warmth.

Zhou Ziyan just stared at the dilapidated former home, his mind full of memories of the past, and he seemed to be unaware of Jiang Xueyan's intimacy.

After a long time, Yang Jun came over, and Zhou Ziyan came to his senses.

"I'm sorry, Ziyan, I haven't been here for a long time, your house..." Yang Junji apologized for guilt.

Zhou Ziyan shook his head. For Zhou Ziyan, this former home has no real meaning except for the mother and Xiaoting who will stay here forever.

Because Zhou Ziyan himself can no longer belong to this former hometown, Zhou Ziyan even believes that even Yang Jun and Lao Duan and others who are still here will leave here one day.

Therefore, Zhou Ziyan did not mean to repair his house again. He was too lazy to pull out the weeds. He was alone and no longer belonged to this place. Even if he was still attached, he only needed to remember it in his heart. Things like pulling out weeds are pretentious and artificial to do - even if the weeds inside are pulled out, how many days can he live in this collapsed house?

After lingering for a while, Zhou Ziyan smiled and said to Yang Jun: "Brother Jun, you are unable to move, so you should go back and rest. I want to stroll around these places without having to accompany us."

Yang Jun smiled: "Okay, but no one has hunted in recent years. There are so many wild animals, so be careful."

When talking about wild animals, Jiang Xueyan was a little curious and asked, "What kind of wild beasts are there? They can't bite people, right?"

Zhou Ziyan and Yang Jun laughed for a while, and then they said that in the past, they could hunt, but there were basically no large wild beasts in the mountains. Now it is different. Everyone yearns for urban life, and there are fewer and fewer families living in the mountains. In addition, the control is strong, many wild beasts slowly appear again.

However, the most large wild beasts are wild boars, and that thing is also quite powerful. If you encounter them, it will easily hurt people.

Jiang Xueyan was a little scared when she heard this, and begged Zhou Ziyan with her eyes, otherwise she would rather not go shopping. If she didn't pay attention, it would be very dangerous.

Zhou Ziyan was happy. After all, wild beasts are wild beasts. Most of them are hiding during the day and appearing at night. Let’s talk about wild boars. They are essentially afraid of people. They are not easy to come out in broad daylight. Even if they encounter them, don’t provoke them head-on, and there will be basically no problem.

As he said that, he sent Yang Jun home, and the two of them left the yard.

While walking, Jiang Xueyan asked, "Ziyan, who shouldn't you go to visit the graves?"

Zhou Ziyan was stunned and replied, "It's not the Qingming Festival now. According to the rules of our place, you don't need to disturb the dead if you have nothing to do, so as to prevent the purity of the dead. Moreover, in two days, it will be my mother's death day."

"In other words, do you still have two days off?" Jiang Xueyan knew the principle of following the customs in the countryside. After all, every place has different customs and habits, especially the people in the mountains. Every village has rules for each village, which is not surprising. Therefore, Zhou Ziyan said that it will take two days to visit the tombs, and Jiang Xueyan absolutely believed it.

However, Jiang Xueyan hoped to go to visit the grave in two days. She could play here for two more days, appreciate the enthusiasm of the people in the mountains, and taste the delicious food in the mountains.

The two of them said all the way, and soon they arrived at the stream in front of the yard.

Only a few dozen meters in front of the yard is the stream that cannot flood its calves. It is not wide, just four or five meters away. The stream flows slowly, so clear that even the gravel is clearly counted.

Zhou Ziyan couldn't help but bent down, picked up the stream and took a sip.

Jiang Xueyan was startled: "Can this water be drunk?"

Zhou Ziyan smiled and said, "I didn't see the distance here, and I couldn't see the people. To be honest, this is the most natural and pure spring water. The water you drank and ate yesterday were all the water from this stream. Why, do you feel uncomfortable with stomachache or something?"

I didn’t have any stomachache, but when I came here yesterday, I just saw a child playing and having fun here, as if I was taking a bath.

When I think about it, Jiang Xueyan felt a frizzy feeling in her heart.

My heart was a little scared, but suddenly, Jiang Xueyan found a black shadow under her feet, and it disappeared in a flash.

"Ah!" Jiang Xueyan was so scared that she couldn't help but scream: "What is this? It's not a snake, right?"

Zhou Ziyan looked at the slightly turbid water rising around a piece of gravel, and couldn't help but smile and said, "That's a fish, you're lucky, look at me..."

Zhou Ziyan said, took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, went down to the water, spread his hands open, slowly approached the gravel, and then covered the gap under the gravel at a very fast speed, plucked it, then held it in both hands, and jumped ashore in a few steps.

When Zhou Ziyan got ashore, Jiang Xueyan couldn't help but look. Then she realized that Zhou Ziyan was holding a fish four or five inches long, with a head as thick as a thumb, and a brown scale on her body, and was still struggling.

"How could there be such a big fish in such shallow water?" Jiang Xueyan asked curiously.

Zhou Ziyan smiled and said, "You don't understand this. We call this kind of fish, also called the big-headed fish. It is clear water and the unique fish species inside. The largest one can reach two or three taels, and it tastes so fresh. Hehe, it can't even compare to ordinary sea fish."

Jiang Xueyan was not willing to believe it, only saying that Zhou Ziyan was lying to her. The fish looked ill of the vast wildlife, and it was not certain whether it was poisonous or not.

Zhou Ziyan smiled for a while, and then digged a small pit with his hands on the sand beside the stream. After the stream water seeped in, he put the fish in the pit to raise.

Then he went down into the stream and touched it everywhere.

Soon after, I caught another one, which was about the same size as the previous one.

At this time, the five children who were playing in the stream yesterday afternoon jumped all the way to the edge of the stream.

These children are eight or nine years old and five or six years old. Because it is Sunday, they stay at home and their grandparents do not allow them to work. Therefore, after doing their homework, they can only go out to play. The best place is the stream. The stream is shallow, and even the calves of adults cannot be submerged. It is relatively safe, so this stream is their world.

The five children watched Zhou Ziyan catching fish, and they were all excited. One of them was a little bigger. They turned their heads and ran back. In a few minutes, they brought a small fishing net, found a slightly deeper place in the stream, got off the net, and then touched it with Zhou Ziyan and others with their hands, and then scooped it up in the dustpan.

At this time, Zhou Ziyan suddenly returned to his childhood, and he became the king of children. He commanded several children with shouts and shouts, lifting the small gravels in the stream, blocking a dam, and using this small dam to catch fish.

Jiang Xueyan was very excited to see it, and took off her shoes and socks and wade into the water.
Chapter completed!