Before going to bed, Wen Xu asked her parents, "I'm going back to my hometown tomorrow. Is there anything I need to bring?"
"There is nothing to bring. We have everything that Ding City should have." Xuxu's mother waved her hand and said, "Go back quickly."
But Xu Xu's father came out of the room and said, "Xuxu, if you go back to your hometown, bring the beard knife in my room."
"Don't you mind it?" Xuxu's mother was unhappy, "The beard knife from my hometown has not been used for many years, so it must be broken."
Xu Xu's father looked at Xu Xu's mother and said with a smile: "Oh, that's not necessarily the case. It would be a waste to leave it at home. It's better to bring it."
Xuxu's mother said unhappily, "As long as you don't mind the trouble."
"Xixu doesn't mind it, you're the only one who talks a lot."
Xu Xu's father looked at Xu Xu's mother proudly, then turned around and told Wen Xu the specific location of the beard knife.
"I know." Wen Xu said, "Then I'll go to sleep first."
"Hmm, go to sleep. If you drive back to your hometown tomorrow, you should be early."
Xu Xu's mother rushed Wen Xu to go to bed. However, when Wen Xu was about to close the door, she called Wen Xu again:
"That's right, if you go back to your hometown, you can go to the second floor of our house and bring the rice bucket."
"???"
Wen Xu thought he didn't hear clearly, "What?"
Xuxu's mother clapped her hands and said, "Fan Tong, the rice pail you grew up eating, don't you remember?"
"……Remember."
"Tch." Xu Xu's father passed by the living room again. He said as he walked: "It's troublesome to get a beard knife, but it's not troublesome to go to the second floor to get the rice pail. You are really strange."
"But the wooden bucket rice is delicious!"
Xu Xu's mother followed Xu Xu's father's footsteps and entered the room, "Let's bring the rice bucket. We can make wine in Dingcheng this year."
As the door closed, Wen Xu couldn't hear clearly the conversation in the next room. She shook her head with a smile and then closed the door.
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Wen Xu set off from Dingcheng in the morning and when he returned to his hometown, it was already close to eleven o'clock at noon.
Her hometown is also in this province, but it is not in Dingcheng City, but in Linshi.
It is a small village at the bottom of Linshi.
The small village is not big. Because the village is built at the foot of the mountain, it is not like a whole piece together, but like a necklace, built along the foot of the mountain.
These houses were built sooner or later. Those built earlier were wooden houses. Some wooden rooms had loess walls on both sides, and many more did not.
The ones built later are all cement-brick houses. They are scattered in a winding line.
"Sequence?"
"Why are you back?"
When Wen Xu parked his car on the terrace, an aunt looked at Wen Xu in surprise. At this time, she was still carrying a hoe on her shoulder. Apparently, she had just returned from the fields.
"Come back and get something."
Wen Xu looked at the other person with eyes that were familiar yet strange, and yet strange yet familiar.
Speaking in human terms, Wen Xu recognized the other person's face, but she felt guilty because she was not sure how to address him.
Is it aunt?
Or aunt?
When Wen Xu was a child, in the eyes of others, she was an honest child.
The word "honest" has been almost worn out now.
Wen Xu was fortunate enough to receive this evaluation early when he was a child.
Some people use this word to praise her for being well-behaved, quiet, not like to get into trouble, and easy to take care of.
Some people use this word as a polite comment.
This is because Wen Xu has had a bad habit since she was a child. She doesn't like to call people.
Even though the village was small, she could not name most of the people with complete accuracy. She could not even name all the people in the same village who were five years older or five years younger than her.
This may be partly due to the fact that she has been boarding in school since elementary school.
However, there are a few peers like her, but others are not like this.
Not being able to pronounce the title was really embarrassing for Wen Xu, who was no longer a child.
But it doesn't matter, she has other preparations.
She had prepared a trunk full of fruits. Those who didn't know it thought she was here to engage in retail sales.
She opened the trunk, took out a box, and then looked at the woman carrying a hoe, "Where do you live now, up there or down below?"
Although Wen Xu couldn't pronounce his name, he recognized his face.
People remember people by their names, but she remembers people by their location.
The fellow in front of me took the lead in building a cement house when she was in elementary school.
But her old house was not abandoned.
The old house is a row of wooden houses built together with everyone, sharing the living room and kitchen.
Although the new house is nice, the old house is busy.
Before the high school entrance examination in Wen Xu, this fellow countryman lived in both places.
As expected, it’s not surprising that there are so many people.
After some push-and-pull procedures, the fellow said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go to my sister's house to have lunch!"
very good!
This is an aunt.
Wen Xu went to have a meal with her aunt. Now her face was many times thicker than when she was a child.
So soon, everyone in the village knew that the Du Miaomiao of the Wen family and the Miao family were back.
Fortunately, Wenxu had a lot of fruits on hand, and after sending a few more boxes of fruits, the things Wenxu wanted to do were easily handled.
"We have some bitter bamboo shoots at home. Your uncle is not used to bitter bamboo shoots. The bamboo shoots in my field are wasted every year. If you want it, bring a hoe in the afternoon and dig bamboo whip in my field for two days."
"Go dig sweet bamboo shoots at my house. I have them at home," said a man who should be called brother after hearing the order.
She just said it.
Her face now is thicker than she could have imagined when she was a child.
But it's not possible to include everyone in the same village. Her family also owns mountains and land. Although it is almost deserted, her father also planted the seedlings that are popular in the village when he was young.
Wen Xu went to the back of his kitchen and took out a rusty hoe. He then went to his aunt's house and borrowed a newly sharpened hatchet.
The aunt was so enthusiastic. When she saw that Wen Xu's hoe was too worn, she generously took out the one she had picked up at noon and said, "Use this one. Yours hasn't been used for a long time. If you want to use it, you have to sharpen it and soak it first."
Soak in water."
Yes, if the hoe has not been used for a long time, it will easily stop working if it is not soaked in water.
If you don't pay attention, the iron tools and wooden sticks are performing for her in the air and they break up on the spot and abandon each other, which is quite dangerous and can easily hit her head.
Wen Xu would not refuse his aunt's kindness.
She declined, and then she accepted it, and she really became the hypocritical person she thought she was when she was a child.
The aunt asked again: "Do you want your brother to go up the mountain with you? You are a girl, do you dare to go up the mountain?"
She didn't dare to do it before.
There are graves on the mountain.
But now she has dared, and she has to dare even if she doesn't dare. She has to do some sneaky and unsightly things.