Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 141 The mother’s family is shocked
  After a long journey, we arrived at the boundary of Lushui County at around eight o'clock.

At this time, the sun had come out and the temperature was gradually rising. Both Xiulan and Xiaoxia put on their hats.

"There is a small river ahead. Let's go there and have a rest. Hong Zao is also tired." Xiulan pointed to a small river not far ahead and said.

"That's what I think too." Lin Heng nodded, and his hair was wet with sweat.

"Call!!"

Pulling the reins, the carriage stopped under the shade of a large willow tree by the river.

"hiss!"

Hong Zao was breathing rapidly and gasping for air. He was exhausted after running for nearly three hours.

Lin Heng tied it under a tree to rest temporarily, and then took it to drink water after the heat dissipation calmed down. Drinking water now is not good for it.

"Dad, where are you!" Xiaoxia got off the carriage and looked around curiously with her big eyes.

"On the way to grandma and grandpa's house." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Who are grandma and grandpa?" Xiaoxia was even more confused. She had never seen her grandma and grandpa since she was born.

"They are mom and dad. You will know when you get there." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He took his daughter to the river. Xiulan had already soaked the towel she was carrying, wrung it out and handed it to Lin Heng.

Lin Heng wiped Xiaoxia's face first. Because he was afraid that she would catch a cold, he dressed her in thick clothes. There were a lot of sweat beads on her forehead.

The three of them wiped their faces and sat under the tree to rest. Xiulan took out the soft cakes baked yesterday and shared them.

But this time there were only soft pancakes, no spicy fermented bean curd and spicy and sour potato shreds.

Lin Heng ate and looked at the scenery around him. The creek was clear and translucent, and the bottom of the water was full of colorful stream stones, which were very beautiful.

Xiulan looked at her watch and said with a smile: "At eight-thirty, we are already at Plum Blossom Stone Town. After walking two more towns, we will reach our Baisha Township. It is estimated that we can arrive before twelve o'clock."

"It's definitely no problem. Hongzao is such a good horse and very fast."

Lin Heng nodded, looked at his wife and said, "What's wrong? You're a little worried."

"Yes, after all, I haven't gone back for three years." Xiulan nodded. She didn't know what the situation was like at home now.

In the past two years, she had always wanted to go back after giving birth, but she was always busy with various things and had no time.

Lin Heng held his wife's soft hand in his palm: "We will find out when we go back and see. When we make money tomorrow or the year after next, we will buy a pickup truck. When we have a car by then, it will only take less than two hours to return to our parents' home. "

In the past few months, Xiulan didn't have to work as hard as before. She also applied hand cream, and her hands became much whiter and softer.

In addition, her fingers are already slender and beautiful, and it is very comfortable to hold in her hand.

Seeing her parents holding hands, Xiaoxia also put her little hand over and said in a sweet voice, "Let's hold hands together!"

Xiulan looked at my husband and daughter and couldn't help but smile, feeling warm in her heart.

"It costs a lot of money to buy a car. If you have a carriage, you can come back once a year." Xiulan shook her head and said.

"Not only is it more convenient to come back, but it is also more convenient to go to the city. Doing business also requires a car, otherwise it will be too inconvenient. I will not come here blindly. I will wait until I have enough money." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay, let's work together to raise fish and shrimp next year." Xiulan nodded and said.

After eating the soft pancakes and seeing that the jujube was almost rested, Lin Heng came over and untied the rope and took it to the stream to drink water.

"what?"

Just as he was about to untie the rope, Lin Heng noticed something was wrong and quickly turned back to get the bow and arrow.

"What's wrong?"

Xiulan was stunned for a moment, thinking something had happened. There was no one around here.

"I'm going to take a look. I don't know if it's a hare or a pheasant." Lin Heng pointed to the soybean field across the creek and the location against the mountain.

He saw something moving, and the soybean tree was obviously abnormal.

After saying that, he quietly walked over, stopping for a moment. It took him more than ten minutes to reach a position where he could barely set up a bow and shoot an arrow.

The soybean leaves blocked his view, and he still couldn't see clearly what it was. He wasn't sure whether it was a pheasant or a hare. It couldn't be a human anyway.

Lin Heng set up the sharp arrow and began to aim. Now they were twenty meters apart, but they could no longer get closer.

With a hiss, he drew a full bow, and the sharp black arrow flew out, piercing the soybean leaf and piercing it.

"rabbit?"

Lin Heng heard the clear popping sound of piercing into flesh and blood.

I quickly ran over and opened the soybean leaves. I saw a big gray rabbit lying on the ground. Its legs were still trembling, and the arrow just penetrated its back.

"You brought the right bow and arrows!" Lin Heng grinned and ran back quickly with the rabbit in hand.

"Such a big rabbit!" Xiulan couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised when she saw the rabbit.

I just watched my husband hunt, and I was a little impressed by how handsome she is. She is calm and decisive, and can kill with one arrow. She is so handsome.

"Daddy is so awesome, such a big bunny!!"

Xiaoxia ran over happily, clapped her little hands, full of admiration for Lin Heng.

Even though she is young, she already knows that this is food.

"Don't touch it, be careful of blood getting on you."

Lin Heng said with a smile, handed the rabbit to his wife and let her hold it while he led the horse to drink water.

"This rabbit is fat, weighing six or seven pounds." Xiulan looked at the big gray rabbit and sighed.

"Of course, everything in autumn is fat." Lin Heng said as he untied the horse's rope.

Xiulan looked at the rabbit and said, "The rabbit meat was eaten at my dad's house. Let's take the skin back and make a hat for Xiaoxia."

She had already brought enough things to her parents, and she felt there was no need to give the rabbit skin too.

"Give it to Mom, you don't need this."

Lin Hengjiang led the horse to the river. Xiulan was facing him. There was no doubt that she was just a rabbit skin, so he didn't care much.

He wanted Xiulan to be beautiful and make her parents proud of her.

Hongzao drank the water for several minutes, and then was reluctant to leave the grass beside the stream.

Lin Heng touched its head and said, "Let's go, I'll feed you well when I get there."

After saying that, he led it back to the road, put the rope on it, and continued on his way.

"shelf!!"

Lin Heng gently patted the horse's butt, and it started running again.

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On the other side, Chen’s courtyard in Liulin Village, Baisha Township, Lushui County.

The [-]-square-meter house lived in Xiulan's parents, eldest brother and sister-in-law, third brother and third sister-in-law, fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law, and five children, including three from the eldest brother's family, two from the second brother's family, and one from the fourth brother's family.

Of course, the house is also a loess house. They have more flat land and more water systems. In addition to farming, farmers often go to the river to fish.

The overall living conditions are better than those in Huangtan Town.

However, with so many people in the family, they can barely make ends meet just by farming and fishing. It’s already good if they don’t go hungry.

In this era, the poorer you get, the poorer you are. It is common to have four or five children in a family, and it is not uncommon to have six or seven children.

At twelve o'clock at noon, the family came back from the fields. Xiulan's father and three sons collected the fishing nets from the river and picked them under the eaves.

The ground cage caught a lot of shrimps and catfish, while the five-finger fishing net only caught some small carp and crucian carp, but not the big ones.

The one-finger Baitiao net is quite good, with a lot of Baitiao horse mouth and green bits.

Xiulan's father and three eldest brothers were picking fish, Xiulan's mother and three daughters-in-law were picking vegetables, and her grandchildren were playing in the mud in the village.

"Tomorrow is August [-]th. I wonder if Xiulan will come back this year. This baby really doesn't miss home at all after getting married." Xiulan's mother said with emotion as she picked vegetables. She missed her little daughter.

Xiulan's father glanced at his mother-in-law and said sarcastically: "I told you to let Xiulan marry in the village, but you insist on letting her marry whoever she likes. Now you know what you want?"

I think that boy from the Lin family is unreliable. You may not know what your daughter is doing now. She works all day long, so how can she find the time to go back to her parents' home? "

Xiulan's parents are both good-looking. Xiulan inherited her mother's oval face, small mouth and good figure, and inherited her father's big eyes, high nose and height.

Therefore, her parents liked her as their little daughter. When Lin Heng proposed to marry Xiulan, her father did not agree at all. It was her mother who persuaded her, and finally she reluctantly agreed.

"Mom, don't think about it. I probably won't come back this year. Maybe you'll have to ask our family for some financial aid if you come back. It's not a good place where she married."

The person who spoke was Xiulan's sister-in-law Zhang Shuiqin. She had a big mouth and a voice as rough as a man's.

She didn't get along with her mother-in-law, and her words were all sarcastic and sarcastic. She was the first to agree to Xiulan Yuan's marriage.

Because if you get married far away, you won’t be able to come back, so you don’t have to take things from home.

A woman who was [-] meters tall and as thin as a bamboo pole also made a joke: "That's right, Mom, it's useless for you to think about your little daughter. I probably won't be able to get you anything good when you come back. Maybe she will still ask for it." Things. Why not think more about your son and us, and get you some meat to eat during the holidays."

Although this woman is tall, her teeth are a little crooked, which makes her look completely different. This is Liu Hua, the daughter-in-law of Xiulan's fourth brother. The only person who remained silent was Liu Xue, the daughter-in-law of the third brother Xiulan, who lowered her head and picked vegetables silently.

Xiulan's mother glanced at the eldest daughter-in-law and the fourth daughter-in-law, and became very angry.

Both of them are lazy breeds who can't do much work. They talk all day long. They are the first to go up if there is something delicious to eat. When there is something to live for, they start to work hard.

She was so tired in the past two years that she couldn't straighten her waist, otherwise she wouldn't think of her youngest daughter Xiulan.

In order to let her son get married as soon as possible, she ended up marrying these two people, not to mention how terrible it was for her.

The two sons are useless at all. They scratch their ears and dare not say a word when they are in charge.

She was relieved that her third daughter-in-law was quiet and willing to do things, and she would not complain about her family's poverty all day long.

"Alas!" She was too lazy to argue with these two people now.

Seeing that their mother-in-law didn't speak, the two women felt a little proud, as if they had won.

Xiulan's father, Chen Changxia, glanced at his two daughters-in-law, and they calmed down a little.

At the entrance of Liulin Village, a group of children made a square shape out of mud, dug a hole in the middle and threw it against the stone slab. There was a loud bang, like a cannon, and they were having so much fun.

A group of children were having fun when they suddenly saw a tall and majestic red horse pulling a cart from a distance.

They quickly moved to both sides of the road and looked over curiously.

I saw a man, a woman and a child in the car behind them. The three of them were all very brightly dressed, and the man and woman actually had a watch on their wrist.

There were many things on the car, especially a big rabbit hanging beside the car that made them swallow their saliva.

These three people were naturally the Lin Heng family who rushed over non-stop.

"You are Chen Xin, right? I am your sister-in-law. Don't you recognize me?"

Xiulan looked at an eleven or twelve-year-old boy on the side of the road and shouted with a smile, "This is her cousin's child."

Lin Heng quickly stopped the carriage and looked at the little boy with a smile.

"Are you Xiulan's sister??" The little boy looked at Xiulan carefully. He felt a bit like her just now, but he didn't dare to say hello.

"It's me, are my parents at home?" Xiulan looked at him and asked with a smile.

"My uncle and aunt are at home. Sister, I will show you the way." He said and ran to the front of the carriage.

"My sister-in-law is back, my sister-in-law is back!"

He led a group of children and ran wildly on the road, shouting as he ran, which caused many people in the village to hear the noise and curiously went out to check the situation.

"Who is this? Is he from the city?"

"She's dressed so beautifully, and she's wearing a watch. She must be from the city."

"Chen Xin's sister-in-law, this seems to be Chen Xiulan who married to Nanping County three years ago. Why is she getting more and more beautiful?"

"Didn't you say that she married in the countryside? Did she remarry? How did she become so rich?"

"No, it's the man who married her three years ago. His surname is Lin. I've met him!" Lin Heng's love rival shook his head.

These people feel uncomfortable seeing the woman they once liked become so happy after getting married.

Looking at her appearance and clothes, even if she is not from the city, she will definitely become rich.

Whether it's horses, watches or clothes, they are all incompatible with the rural environment.

"You will know if you go and take a look. She is really the youngest daughter of the Chen family. The Chen family has really found a good in-law for their daughter."

"Yes, let's go take a look!!"

The villagers in Liulin Village were talking and walking towards Chen's house.

Lin Heng was helpless in the car. The child's voice must be too loud. Children everywhere are the same. They have a loud voice and make loud noises.

Fortunately, he brought Xiulan back home in fine clothes, otherwise he would have been embarrassed to death.

In Chen's yard, a group of people who were picking vegetables and sorting out fishing nets heard the cheers of children outside.

"This Chen Xin is screaming to death. He deserves a beating." Zhang Shuiqin, the daughter-in-law of Brother Xiulan, said dissatisfied.

Liu Hua, the daughter-in-law of Xiulan's fourth brother, frowned and asked: "It seems that the sister-in-law I called is back. Which sister-in-law is he?"

"Auntie Chen Xin? Isn't this Xiulan?" Xiulan's third brother Chen Zhiliang raised his head and said.

"Xiulan is back?"

Xiulan's mother was stunned, dropped what she was doing and ran out.

Xiulan's father, Chen Changxia, also quickly walked out of the yard and walked to the road.

Everyone else also put down what they were doing and followed her out. Whether they liked her or not, they had not seen her for three years and wanted to know how Xiulan was doing now.

"Uncle and uncle, my sister-in-law is back!" Chen Xin ran over first with a group of children.

Immediately afterwards, the tall and powerful red-maned horse appeared in everyone's sight pulling the cart.

When the horse approached, they were all stunned when they saw the people in the car.

No matter how they dress or dress, they are all so beautiful and eye-catching. The style and quality of the clothes look extraordinary, not to mention the watches on their hands. The three people in the car are dressed more beautifully than those who come from the city.

"Is this really Xiulan and her man?" Zhang Shuiqin, Xiulan's sister-in-law, was dumbfounded and couldn't believe it.

She looked at herself with a dusty face and patched clothes, and then at Xiulan Lin Heng in the distance, she couldn't believe it.

Obviously they were not well-dressed three years ago, but now they all wear watches. What a fortune they have made.

"Could it be that Xiulan remarried and moved to the city?" Liu Hua, Xiulan's fourth sister-in-law, stuttered a little.

Although Chen Changxia, Chen's father, couldn't believe it, he still affirmed: "It's Xiulan and Lin Heng. She didn't remarry."

He couldn't help but feel happy. At first, he felt that this guy was unreliable, but now it seemed that his daughter was marrying the right person.

"Call!!"

As Lin Heng pulled the reins, Hong Zao stopped. He jumped off the carriage, picked up his daughter and his wife, and walked towards his parents-in-law.

"mom!!"

Xiulan ran over quickly and took her mother's hand, tears rolling in her eyes. From a distance, she saw that her mother's waist was much rickety.

"Xiulan, it'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back." Xiulan's mother, Wang Zhi, held her hand and couldn't stop her tears from flowing down.

"Mom, don't cry!" Xiulan quickly took out a towel and wiped her mother's tears. She knew that her mother must have suffered in the past few years.

"Mom doesn't cry, so don't cry either!" Wang Zhi, Chen's mother, wiped her tears and then wiped them for Xiulan.

"Dad, eldest brother, sister-in-law, three, and fourth brother!"

Xiulan came over again and held her father's hand, and then greeted her three brothers. She didn't know the two new sisters-in-law, so she didn't dare to yell.

"Come back, this is your third sister-in-law Liu Xue, and your fourth sister-in-law Liu Hua." Father Lin looked at his daughter and said with a smile.

"Dad, mom, eldest brother...this is my and Xiulan's daughter Xiaoxia."

Lin Heng also came over and said hello with a smile, then looked at Xiaoxia and said, "Call grandpa and grandma!"

"Grandpa, grandma!" With Lin Heng around, Xiaoxia became less afraid of life and shouted out loud.

"Haha, okay!" Chen's father, Chen Changxia, happily agreed.

Chen's mother, Wang Zhi, smiled and asked, "Xiaoxia is so beautiful. How old is she?"

"One and a half years old!" Xiaoxia said with her eyes wide open and her voice sweet.

"You're so smart, you can talk at such a young age!" Wang Zhi, Chen's mother, touched Xiaoxia's face. The more she looked at her, the more she fell in love with her. She looked just like Xiulan when she was a child.

"Stop reminiscing about old times here, let's all go inside." Chen's father, Chen Changxia, said with a smile.

"Oh, by the way, parents, these are the clothes, wine, moon cakes and candies that Lin Heng and I bought for you. This rabbit was shot by Lin Heng on the road."

Xiulan turned around and took the gift and handed it to her parents.

"So many things, you kid..."

Father Lin was surprised when he saw the gift. Among other things, this bottle of wine Sanliangye costs twelve yuan a bottle.

"That's right, how much does this cost? It's too expensive." Chen's mother Wang Zhi also opened her mouth wide. This gift is too generous.

Xiulan's brothers were also shocked. When Lin Heng came to marry Xiulan, he was a poor boy who was not as good as them. How could he be so rich now.

The sisters-in-law next to him were drooling with envy. How rich he was. He came back to celebrate the festival and gave him so many gifts.

Just two packets of sugar can make them drool with envy, let alone clothes and wine.

So much so that compared to these things, the rabbit caught on the road seemed insignificant.

"It's not much money. Parents, just take it. Let's go back to the house quickly, otherwise it won't be good for others to watch." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay, let's all go back to the house." Chen Changxia, Chen's father, nodded repeatedly.

(End of this chapter)