MTL - Shanwa Small Rich Farmers-Chapter 18 near township

Wen Xu's home is in Linjiang Province, Dafang is 380 kilometers away from Mingzhu, and it takes nearly four hours to go there. In fact, it is more in Linjiang and Yuehai Provinces than in Linjiang Province From the map, the junction looks a bit like a piece dug out of the boundary of Yuehai. As for why it is in Linjiang instead of Yuehai Province, it is because Wenxu’s hometown is surrounded by undulating mountains, and the exit is in Linjiang. If it returns to the East China Sea, administrative management will be difficult. One hundred kilometers, this is a bit too nonsense.

Not much nonsense, let’s just say that Wen Xu drove the small truck with the stopwatch adjusted by himself. After a journey of more than 5,000 kilometers, in fact, the actual distance was at most 700 to 800 kilometers, and he drove towards home along the high speed .

After bypassing the small county town, the road to the countryside becomes more and more difficult. There are no national roads or national roads here. It is completely a county road. Two cars face each other on the asphalt road and even four cars can pass through it. , it is much better than the gravel road in Wen Xu's memory.

   What makes Wen Xu feel that there is a big change is that from time to time on Xiaopo Road, you can see a luxury car such as a Land Rover, Jaguar, BMW, dragging a long sound from her small truck, and drifting past with a whining sound! Originally, Wen Xu thought that she would come back to support her hometown's proposals, but now she looks a little bit like going back to her hometown to beg for food.

When the car arrived in the town, the town was no longer what I remembered. There were many small buildings with five or six floors, and a big turntable was built in the center of the town. The original small road became a small herringbone-shaped commercial area. , Jiangguo Supermarket has everything you need, much more heroic than the small town next to the Pearl where I live now.

After asking about the location of the police station in the town, Wen Xu went in directly and checked whether her account had arrived. The police officer who was in charge of the account looked complacent. When she saw that Wen Xu's account was called back from Mingzhu, He looked Wen Xu back and forth eight times with a pair of small eyes, and after muttering something in his mouth, he gave Wen Xu an affirmative answer. Hearing that the household registration has arrived in his hometown of Wenjia Village, Wen Xu directly made a new household registration book for himself and settled in his old house directly. After completing this, he went straight to the place where the town government's personnel files were in charge. The file I got was filed away.

After leaving the government, Wenxu had to express a little emotion. I feel that doing things now is much more convenient than before. I think that when I moved my household registration, it was not as fast as it is now. I originally planned to spend two things together. Who knew that it would be finished in less than two hours. Although the person in charge still didn't show any smiles on his face, the matter must have been finished.

Follow the memory and walk on the road leading to the village. Even if you go out of the center of the town, all you can see along the way are small two-storey brick buildings. The kind of brick house with a small courtyard, and a few trees planted in the courtyard, the image of the town is too far away.

  While passing by the elementary school, I happened to meet students after school, and a large group of people were picking up the children at the intersection, so Wenxu's car was naturally driving very slowly.

Seeing an old man with a hunched waist, Wen Xu had a very familiar feeling as soon as he turned his head. Turning his head and taking a closer look, Wen Xu recognized who the old man was, and immediately stopped the car and pressed the button. window.

   "Fifth brother!" Wen Xu yelled loudly at the old man.

  The old man heard Wen Xu calling himself, but he didn't recognize him all at once. He turned his head and looked around, then looked at Wen Xu and asked, "Young man, are you calling..."

   Before I could utter the words, a smile appeared on my face: "You are Xiao Shixu from Uncle Zhuo's family?"

The old man's name is Wen Shiqing. According to his seniority, he is Wen Xu's cousin. He is in his early 60s this year. Regardless of his age, Wen Xu still has to be called brother. You can't say that calling him uncle because of his age is a mess of seniority. Calling him Wen Shi Qing didn't dare to bear it, it would mean that he was of the same generation as his father.

  Wen Xu is the name on the household registration booklet, everyone in the village calls Wen Xu Shixu, this life is the generation, which means Wen Xu belongs to the generation. The seniority of this branch of Wenjia Village is Renliang Shi Guangyuan and Jinda Changrong Qi.

The children in the city may not understand that the younger the generation, the longer it is, what is the younger the longer, that is to say, there are two brothers, and a normal daughter-in-law has a child, and the younger brother is always a few years later. The children of my son got married a few years later than my elder brother's children. After these few lives, the phenomenon that everyone sees now is formed, a sixty-year-old elder brother and a twenty-year-old younger brother.

   "Fifth Brother, what are you?"

   "Isn't today Friday, pick up the grandchildren from school" Wen Shiqing said to the two children beside him: "What are you doing in a daze, call yourself Grandpa Shixu!"

   "Grandpa Shixu!" The two little things looked at Wen Xu with their dark eyes, and shouted honestly.

  Looking at Wen Xu smiling, Wen Shiqing introduced: "This is Guangli's son Yuan Bin, and this is Guang Hong's son Yuan Lin."

   Oh, two facial expressions popped up in Wen Xu's mind, the big five and the three rough brothers, two rural red brothers appeared on their faces in winter, but now they are all in their thirties according to their ages.

   "Get in the car, I happen to be going back to the village too," Wen Xu said immediately.

  Wen Shiqing said: "I still have a small tricycle here."

   "It's easy to handle, just throw it on the car," Wen Xu said. The town is not far from the village in a straight line, only about ten miles away, but the detour is more than three times as long.

  Wen Shiqing originally said this, and nodded when he heard Wen Xu say that, so Wen Xu drove the car and followed Wen Shiqing to the place where he kept his tricycle, then opened the back of the car, and lifted the tricycle onto it.

  Before the door was closed, I heard someone talking to Wen Shiqing over there: "Uncle Wu, who is this!"

  Wen Xu took a look, this understanding, according to seniority, is his nephew: "Guang Jun?! I am Wen Xu"

   "Uncle Xiao Xu?" Wen Guangjun, who is in his fifties with a little gray hair, looked at Wen Xu for a while, then nodded and said, "Like, he looks more and more like Master Xiao Zhuo."

   "Okay, don't talk about it, just take Xiao Shixu's car back to the village, don't leave you, go and see who else hasn't left, just take a ride" Wen Shiqing said to Wen Guangli.

  Wen Xu said immediately after hearing this: "Yes, yes, let's see who else hasn't returned to the village!"

Hearing what Wen Xu said, and he was the only one of the three standing adults who had a lower status, Wen Guangli responded and handed the children in Wen Shiqing's hands. There is no obstacle.

In about half an hour, seven or eight adults and a dozen or so children gathered together, and all the cars of each family were thrown on the roof of the carriage. Except for Wen Shiqing who sat in the driver's cab, all the other adults and children gathered together. We squeezed into the rear compartment, but fortunately, the warm rear compartment has a small window open, and the door will not be stuffy once the door is closed.

  Driving a small light car to the village.

   "Fifth brother, this road is better than before."

"This section is fine now, but it won't work when you get to Liyu Bay, and your car won't be able to drive in." Wen Shiqing started smoking his own dry cigarette as soon as he got in the car, while smoking While looking at Wen Nu's car, he touched this side and looked there from time to time.

  Wen Xu sees that the road looks like it has been repaired. Why is it not working when you reach Liyu Bay, and there is still a third of the road from the village: "Why is it that it was only half repaired?"

"It's not because of lack of money. Originally, the county said that part of the county would be paid for, part of the town would be paid for, and part of the village would be paid for. But the village didn't have the money, so the road was only built to Liyu Bay. It turned out that it was at Liyu Bay. Build a bridge, build another bridge over Pingdongzi, then the road to the village can be reduced by half, but then the county spent too much money, and wanted to move the village out, some people moved out, and our hometowns are hard to leave. Keep it up, Wenjia Village is still Wenjia Village but there are not many people looking after it..." Wen Shiqing rambled on what had happened in the village over the years.

  Wen Xu hasn’t been back to the village for ten years since Wen Xu went to college. The only time he went back was when he left from night to early morning and only stayed in the old house for one night.

  Wen Shiqing finished reading, and Wen Xu, who fell into memory without saying a word, asked: "By the way, Shixu, why are you back? Didn't you say that you are doing well in Mingzhu? I heard that it is 20,000 to 30,000 a month."

   "I'm back, no matter how good Mingzhu is, it's not my home," Wen Wen said.

Wen Shiqing listened and took a puff of smoke: "Don't be stupid, your dear child. Even if Mingzhu lives in a toilet, she is also a Mingzhu person. What is there in Wenjia Village? If it weren't for the old ancestor's grave that can't be left alone, I would also run to Mingzhu The capital is gone, people can’t nest in the ravines, their vision is shallow!”

   "Fifth Brother, I have my own plan!" Wen Xu said.

  Hearing what Wen Xu said, Wen Shiqing stopped talking, and smoked without saying a word.

Soon the car arrived at Liyu Bay, and sure enough, as Wen Shiqing said, the car couldn't drive any further. Now, only the tricycle tied to the roof can be used, and the four-wheeled things can go one-way except for the hand tractor. , everything else is choking.

There are still a few families on the Liyu Bay side. They were also moved out of Wenjia Village. They are Wen Xu’s nephews. This was originally a small quarry, but later it was not allowed to be mined, so a small flat depression was formed. A few families moved out. After I came out, I settled down here and made a living by scraping some dry goods from the mountains.

The car was placed here, and Wen Xu divided up the presents he brought, and then followed the tricycle troop to the village, replacing a small truck in Liyuping with five old and new tricycles, each with a A lantern, if the tricycle is replaced by a donkey cart, Wen Xu will feel like he used to go out of the village to the town. Over the years, the only change in the village is to replace the donkey cart with the current mistress I don't know if this is progress or regress.

Every little kid got something to eat, and the older ones in their teens put away their food, while the small and greedy ones had already opened their food and started to eat, and soon they were at the end of the line The warm smell of bread, liqueur chocolate, and all kinds of dried fish and shredded pork.

Listening to everyone chatting along the way, I felt like returning to the past in a trance, my grandfather was driving a donkey cart, and the lantern on the small shelf next to the cart was flickering, and I was lying in my mother's arms at that time. Looking at the back of his father sitting on the other side of the car, he could only see half of his father's side face, but when his father looked back at her, Wen Xin could feel the love for her in his eyes. Putting a big dark green travel bag, chatting with the grandfather driving the car in a low voice.

The mother just hugged herself in her arms without saying a word and shed tears, holding her tightly, and sometimes one or two drops of tears fell on her face, the warmth at that time did not quite understand , Why does her mother hug herself like this every time she walks away? Later, Wen Xin understood, but her mother will never be able to hug herself like before, and she can no longer feel the painful hug that strangles her like that.

  This is Wen Xu's clearest memory of her parents.

   "Bear boy, what are you thinking about!"

Wen Xu, who was in a daze, felt his handlebars turn, and immediately came back to his senses, and found that the front of his tricycle almost went off the road. Although the river below was not deep, it was three or four meters long. If he fell, at least his head would be broken. .

"Forget it, forget it, you seem to be close to the country, but the next section is uphill, so you don't need to ride, everyone just use two legs." Wen Shiqing drove Wen Xu aside, and replaced it by himself Tricycle.

  Going up the slope, not to mention being loaded, you can’t even ride even if you are on a car. You just push the car. Children, big and small, whether they are playful or sensible, stretch out their hands to help the elders push the car. After walking up and down like this for almost half an hour, after crossing two slab bridges built with wooden planks and stones, the small mountain village by the mountain finally showed a little bit of light.

  I heard the dogs in the village barking non-stop from a long distance away, probably because I felt the smell of Wen Xu, a stranger in my hometown who had been away for a long time.

   "What's it called! My family doesn't recognize it! They're all itchy, useless things!" When they arrived at the entrance of the village, someone in front of them yelled at the dog.

The big yellow dog who heard the sound immediately closed his mouth, stepped aside, just like this, and looked at Wen Xu with a whining sound, and then followed Wen Xu two or three meters behind, sobbing while keeping this The distance is like guarding against thieves! Soon the dogs in the whole village became like this, and behind Wen Xu there were more than a dozen dogs, big and small.

   "Come back! Rhubarb!"

   "Heizi, you are going to die!"

   With a sound of yelling, the local dogs were honestly called home by their masters, and their masters greeted Wen Xu.

   "Uncle Xiaoxu, you're back!"

   "Uncle is back"

   "Xiao Wenxu is back"

  ...

   Uncle Xiaoxu is the most commonly called, followed by Uncle Xu, and the name of Xiao Shixu is less than a slap. Facts have proved that Wen Xu’s seniority in the village is quite high according to Teacher Dandan!

   While looking at the smiling faces of the people of the same clan, a sentence came out of Wen Xu's heart for no reason: I'm back home! The unique nostalgia in the hearts of Chinese people came to my heart instantly!