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[017] Inside and outside the siege

"Brother Jiu, Brother Jiu!" Just as Xiao Feng was immersed in the beautiful scenery in front of him, a familiar voice sounded in his ears.

Xiao Feng looked back and found that it was the youngest son of his third uncle Xiao Jinhao, his twelfth brother, Xiao Qiang.

The old man Xiao Dushan and the old lady He Xiumei raised four sons and three daughters in total. In addition, the ranking of each generation of the Xiao family has to be expanded to the entire family, so there are more than 20 males in Xiao Feng's generation. The power of Xiao Feng's house in Ginkgo Village can be imagined.

"Xiaoqiang, did you get up so early today?" Xiao Feng turned around and patted Xiao Qiang on the shoulder, and said, "Why didn't you come to have dinner last night?"

Xiao Qiang is two years younger than Xiao Feng, but he is not very good at studying. After repeating his studies at Yunnan No. 1 Middle School twice, he still failed to get into college and had to come back to work in farming. He wanted to work in the coastal areas, but his mother couldn't bear to leave her own flesh and hardships, so Xiao Qiang could only live in the village. It was common for him to sleep until the sun was noon.

"I went into the mountains with my sixth brother and others to hunt yesterday. It was too late when I came back, so I didn't come up!" Xiao Qiang said excitedly: "You don't know, we got a deer yesterday. Brother Sixth brother took it to Yuji Town to sell it this morning!"

Rely on the mountains and eat on the mountains and water!

The villagers of Ginkgo Village would go to the mountains to hunt during the slack farming period. In the past, most of them kept their own homes to improve their food, but now they would sell them to wild game dealers in the town to supplement their household expenses. Although there are a lot of publicity on animal protection outside, deep in the mountains, the forestry public security department does not manage so much, and there are many wild animal black markets.

Especially in recent years, more and more local tyrants like to eat wild game in big cities. There are even vendors from Chuncheng, Yangcheng and other places in Yuji Town that are purchasing various wild animals.

However, young people like Xiao Qiang are at most wandering around the old forest and dare not go to the deep mountains, because leopards, Bengal tigers, black bears, jackals and other beasts appear frequently.

"No prospect!" Xiao Feng couldn't help but hit Xiao Qiang and said, "I know how to play all day long. It seems that Sanniang has to tell you a marriage so that you can calm your heart!"

In Ginkgo Village, there are many people who have settled their marriages at the age of 20, and many people even get their marriage certificates after having children first. Things that seem incredible to the outside world are not too outrageous in remote mountainous areas. Many times, traditional power is often stronger than policies and laws.

"Don't!" He said that the kiss was Xiao Qiang's fatal hole. He shook his head and said, "If I really get engaged, I will have to live in Ginkgo Village like an old man in my life. Brother Jiu, you are doing well in Haizhou, why don't you take me out this time?"

Xiao Feng has a great status in the family. Xiao Qiang has always hoped that Xiao Feng could help convince his parents and take him to Haizhou to see the world.

"I said you guy came to me so early, and the fox's tail was revealed?" Xiao Feng smiled and said, "Maybe I won't go back to Haizhou this time, stay with my grandparents!"

Xiao Feng is not sure about his future path now, but now he is really unwilling to leave Ginkgo Village because it makes him feel the peace of mind. Although staying in the village is to scare Xiao Qiang, did Xiao Feng also have some thoughts deep in his heart?

"Brother Jiu, aren't you having a fever?" Xiao Qiang reached out and touched Xiao Feng's forehead and said, "Uncle Fourth worked hard to provide you out, but you ran back to Ginkgo Village. Can't he beat you to death?"

After staying in the county for five years, Xiao Qiang looked down on the backward Ginkgo Village at all. He wanted to go to the big city, but unfortunately his parents were too close to him. Now he heard that Xiao Feng, a college student, was coming back to live, how could he not be surprised?

"Go!" Xiao Feng patted Xiao Qiang's hand and said angrily: "With the grandfather here, he dares to do it? Tell me, what's the matter with me?"

Mr. Qian's "The Siege" is very well said. People outside the city want to go in, but people in the city want to come out! Xiao Feng, who has lived in Haizhou for five years, became tired of traffic, steel and concrete, and in Xiao Qiang's heart, the big city is always full of longing.

Xiao Feng can't say who has a better choice. Perhaps most people in this world have no way to choose their own lives.

"Let's go fishing!" Xiao Qiang used a affirmation, indicating that he was ready long ago, and just pulled Xiao Feng up.

It is the slack season now, there is no work to do in the fields, and the Xiao family is strict, so Xiao Qiang cannot play cards, so he can only go up the mountain to hunt and go to the lake to fish and pass the day. Usually he hangs out with his friends, but when Xiao Feng comes back, he naturally wants to find Xiao Feng, and his hope of going out to work still falls on Xiao Feng.

"No problem!" Xiao Feng nodded and said, "I'll go and say something to my grandparents!"

Xiao Feng first went to his bedroom and took out the gifts he bought for his third uncle, Sanniang and Xiao Qiang. After the two brothers talked to the old man, they left the old house.

After getting married, the third uncle Xiao Jinhao did not live in the old house, but moved to a new house near the Ginkgo Forest. Not only him, but also his eldest uncle Xiao Jinxu and the second uncle Xiao Jinming also built a two-story building near the Ginkgo Forest, and his life was enjoyable.

Compared with traditional stone buildings, these new houses built with red bricks, cement and steel bars are more comfortable to live in and more popular among people. Nowadays, the flat areas around the Millennium Ginkgo Forest have become the world of new houses, and only the nostalgic old people still live in old houses on the mountain.

This time, Xiao Feng prepared a large number of gifts in the Zizhu space, and basically every relative had one. Although he could not buy too expensive gifts due to the inability to expose his huge wealth, this also represents a feeling.

Xiao Feng prepared two bottles of good wine for his third uncle and bought a cotton coat for Sanniang. As for Xiao Qiang, he had a pair of Li Ning's sneakers.

"I have a share, too?" Xiao Qiang looked at the sneakers in his hand over and over, a little surprised.

"Don't leave it to Lao Thirteen!" Xiao Feng acted to grab it back, which scared Xiao Qiang to run wildly.

After sending the things home, chatting with the third uncle and the third lady for a while, Xiao Feng and his brothers walked towards Jinghu Lake with fishing rods.

Although Jinghu is a snow-water lake and is not connected to the rivers, the ancestors of Ginkgo Village have put a large number of fish fry into the lake. Over the past few hundred years, Jinghu has grown in groups of fish and shrimp, which is an important way for Ginkgo Village villagers to improve their food.

Many bosses from other places also liked the superior conditions of Jinghu and wanted to contract Jinghu for development and breeding, but because Ginkgo Village was too remote and inconvenient to transportation, it was left unresolved. However, Xiao Feng, who knew the degree of damage to water quality of large-scale breeding, naturally would not let people interfere in Jinghu's affairs.

Fishing was just to pass the time. The two brothers didn't care much about the location of the fish nest. They looked for a row of willow trees by the lake and threw down the fish hook.

Xiao Qiang was also restless when fishing, and always asked Xiao Feng about various things in Haizhou. The idea of ​​leaving Ginkgo Village was so strong that Xiao Feng smiled bitterly.

"Xiao Qiang, do you really want to go out so much?" After a while, Xiao Feng asked seriously.

"I feel like a waste at home!" Xiao Qiang was silent for a while and said, "In the field, the work in the forest is done by parents, sisters, and brother-in-law. I am doing nothing all day and I am almost moldy!"

After listening to Xiao Qiang's words, Xiao Feng fell into deep thought!

It seems that the third uncle and Sanniang love Xiao Qiang, but he was unable to consider his ideas. If this continues, Xiao Qiang will definitely be ruined in a few years.

"As you as old as you, there are not many people who go out to work?" After going to college, Xiao Feng returned to Ginkgo Village at only a few times, and he was always in a hurry every time, so he really didn't know much about the current situation in the village.

"Now, more than just unmarried young people go out. Many married couples go out together, and their children are left to the elderly to take care of them." Xiao Qiang seemed to be very familiar with the situation and said, "In the fields and forests, they can make a living and they can't save money. In addition, there is no electricity in the village, so no one wants to stay at home!"
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