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On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Luo Meng's mother, Liu Chunlan, received a long-distance call from Daxibei. It was the uncle of Luo Meng and Luo Hongfeng, who passed away two months ago.

Considering the long distance, Liu Caiyun also felt that her sister's family was living a normal life in the previous contact, and they would not be allowed to make this trip if they were far away, so she did not inform Liu Chunlan when the funeral was held.

The last time Liu Chunlan and Liu Caiyun communicated was during the Chinese New Year last year. Regarding the changes in their family this year, Liu Chunlan had never called Liu Caiyun before.

This time Liu Caiyun called to discuss with Liu Chunlan, she wanted to go back to her hometown for a while.Now that her husband is gone, and her children are all married, she is a lonely old woman, and she misses the mountains of her hometown for some reason.

Liu Chunlan reassured her, not to mention that the situation at home this year is much better than in previous years, even if it is not good, can she still lose her mouth and a pair of chopsticks?

After the reunion dinner on the evening of August [-]th, when the family was sitting in the yard admiring the moon, Liu Chunlan told Luo Meng and Luo Hongfeng about her own childhood.The old man Luo knew about these things, but Luo Meng and his siblings had never heard of them. They only knew that their family did not have much contact with their grandmother's family in the past, and they had little contact with the two uncles in the city.

Liu Chunlan's natal family used to live in a village a little above Dawan Village, which is just over an hour's walk away. There are five brothers and sisters in the family. The third child died when he was in his teens. In the end, only two remained. Boys and two girls.

According to the customs of their place, boys are supposed to inherit the family business and provide for their parents’ retirement. After a girl gets married, she only needs to give her parents something or gift money during the holidays, instead of giving them a pension.

So the problem came out. People in their place think that boys belong to their own family when they grow up, and no matter how well-raised girls are, they belong to others. Guaranteed.

Liu Caiyun is their family's first child. Her parents, grandparents, and grandparents all hoped that this would be a boy, but it turned out to be a girl when she was born. The parents-in-law were very dissatisfied with this daughter-in-law, and the man would not give it to her. Look good.As for Liu Caiyun's mother, she vented all her anger on this daughter. She didn't take good care of her when she was young, and let her do housework to take care of her younger siblings when she grew up.

Luo Meng's mother, Liu Chunlan, is the fourth child. Although it is said that she can't get up and down and doesn't hurt others, those unlucky things can't be her fault. There is an older sister who is responsible for her. Later, her older sister ran away , a lot of housework fell on her shoulders.

Liu Caiyun's temperament is not weak. When she was a child, there was nothing she could do. Her parents were gods. She couldn't resist if she wanted to. After more than ten years, when she was a teenager, the family would not be peaceful. .

The mother and daughter would quarrel every now and then, and sometimes they would fight, regardless of the men in the family.Liu Chunlan was still young at that time, and every time there was a disturbance at home, she had to find a place to nest up, so as not to be affected by the fish in the pond.Everyone in the village advised Liu Caiyun not to quarrel with her mother, otherwise the reputation of the girl's family would be ruined, who would dare to ask for it in the future?

Whether Liu Caiyun's reputation is bad or not, Liu Chunlan didn't know. She was still young at that time, so she knew that they were going to build roads in the mountains, and a survey team from the army came. Liu Caiyun went with a young man from the Northwest of the team. up.

The night before she left, she persuaded Liu Chunlan to go with her. She said that their mother was used to doling her around all these years, and after she left, Liu Chunlan would definitely have to do the housework. Their father didn't love his daughter, I didn't bother to make trouble with my wife, so I didn't care at all and let Liu Chunlan go with her.

Speaking of this, Liu Chunlan couldn't help wiping away tears.Back then, she was just a little girl in the countryside who didn't understand anything. She was supported by her elder sister in the past, and she really didn't suffer much grievance at home. Her determination to leave was not firm in the first place.

In addition, during that period of time, her mother whispered to her again, saying that there is nothing in the northwest that is full of sand. The food and bed are full of sand, and the people outside are still fierce, all of them look like robbers. See whose girl is good-looking, she will be taken home as a daughter-in-law, and if she is disobedient, she will be chained up...

In the end, Liu Caiyun left, and Liu Chunlan stayed at home. As Liu Caiyun said, the housework really fell on her young shoulders, but Liu Chunlan was not forced to work like Liu Caiyun when she was a little older. The son asked her to do so many things, and she couldn't handle them well.

One winter, when she cooked pig food, she didn't cook it thoroughly, and the pig at home seemed to be dying after a few meals. Her father scolded her mother, and her mother beat her when she came back. She went to wash clothes in the house, and then she fell ill and had a high fever, which almost killed her life.

This winter her father hung her mother up and beat her half to death. The farmer was really angry this time. As for why he was angry, Liu Chunlan has not been able to figure it out until now.

Maybe it was because the eldest daughter left him, and maybe the youngest daughter was really sick at that time, maybe it was because the gossip outside made him lose face, anyway, he beat his wife, and the villagers said he Well played.

After that, Liu Chunlan's life became a little easier. When she was 17 years old, she married the old man Luo. In a blink of an eye, the two lived together for most of their lives. Now even Luo Hongfeng has two daughters.

More than ten years ago, in the entire Dawan Village, only the village chief Luo Quanshun's family had a phone number. Liu Caiyun didn't know how to find out, so she called Luo Quanshun's house and said she was looking for Liu Chunlan, and then the two sisters finally Got in touch.

These years, they have one or two phone calls every year. Except for the first time, there are actually not many topics to talk about in the future. It is probably just to tell each other that they are safe and talk about their children.

In December last year, Liu Chunlan called Liu Caiyun. She didn't say anything about her man's serious illness. Even counting his age, the man is still under [-] this year, probably because he was tired when he was young, and the exploration team was always in the mountains. Drilling, eating and sleeping well, I'm afraid it's the root cause of the disease.

A few days later, Liu Caiyun and her eldest son first flew to Tongcheng, and then took a car from Tongcheng to Yongqing.

Luo Meng borrowed a car from Xiao Shulin and drove Liu Chunlan to the county to pick up her.When the two old sisters reunited decades later, it was inevitable that they would shed some tears of sadness or joy. Liu Chunlan was so busy crying, but Luo Meng took a closer look at his aunt who had never met before.

A woman in her 60s, neither fat nor thin, with a straight back, tears in her eyes, and little color on her face. She may have worked on a journey, or she may not have recovered from the grief of her man's death.But if you look closely at her eyes, you will know that she will never be easily crushed by grief. There is a rock in this woman's eyes. The countless ups and downs in her life have been precipitated by the years, and now her heart is strong and quiet.

Liu Caiyun's eldest son is named Na Maocheng, in his 40s, he is a man with five big and three rough, one side supports the other side, his roughness is incomparable to the people in Luomeng and his area, even Niuwangzhuang Luo Zhifang, who was the biggest in size, stood in front of Na Maocheng, and he seemed to have become a gentleman.

However, the spirit of this northwestern man is obviously very bad now, and his personality is a little reserved. Except when Liu Chunlan asks him, he is basically silent at other times.

Both mother and son lived in the village that night, Na Maocheng slept in the attic, the small room where Liu Ruhua lived when he first came, and Luo Meng made room for his aunt, and he slept in Niuwangzhuang.

Anyway, the snake and the weasel already knew the location of the two places where he often slept. If they couldn't find him in the village, they would definitely divert to Niuwangzhuang.If you can't find the two places, then the village will be lively that night. There are too many masters in Niuwangzhuang, and both of them have suffered losses there, so every time they go there, they go quietly. guts.

When Liu Chunlan got up to work in the early morning of the next day, the mother and son also got up. Liu Chunlan drove them to sleep more, but Liu Caiyun said that she slept too much on the road yesterday and couldn't sleep now.The two of them didn't go idle, her son Na Maocheng was really good at moving the steamer, a pot of steamed buns was cooked, and a thick stack of steamer was piled high, he could move it all at once, After steaming the steamed buns, Liu Chunlan cooked another large pot of vermicelli, with potato flour and rice flour, egg flower and finely chopped cabbage, sprinkled with a large handful of chopped green onion, poured in a small spoonful of sesame oil, and for a while The smell filled the room.

Liu Chunlan asked everyone to eat first, and then they would have the strength to work. Na Mao made a bowl of soup, and ate one after another of the steamed buns. In a blink of an eye, half a basket of steamed buns went into his stomach. It was a big steamer.

"How is it? Is our steamed bun delicious?" Liu Chunlan asked him with a smile. Although it was the first time they met, Liu Chunlan was very satisfied with her eldest nephew, and she found everything pleasing to the eye.

"Delicious!" Na Maocheng nodded. There is no shortage of milk in their hometown. At first, he thought that the milk on their side was already the best, but after eating the milk steamed buns from Romon's house, he knew what it means to be beyond the sky. .

"Eat more, and Luo Meng will go to the town to deliver breakfast later, you two will go with him if you have nothing to do, and go to taste the food in Hongfeng shop." Liu Chunlan urged them to eat more, for fear that the mother and son Be polite to her.

"I'm full, how can I still eat it?" Liu Caiyun smiled and watched her son eat one after another, and didn't say anything about him. Since his father left, her eldest son just looked at it. That's right, a bright and cheerful man in the past made himself look like a plague chicken. It's good if he can eat, he can do well if he can eat, and he should regain his energy soon.

After making steamed buns in the morning, Liu Chunlan took Liu Caiyun's mother and son to Niuwang Village. She originally wanted to take them for a stroll, but she didn't expect them to throw their arms around and start working.

First, Liu Caiyun made moon cakes with others in the courtyard.Although the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, the mooncakes at Niuwangzhuang are still being made. There are still many people wanting to buy them online. The Jiwei Building also asks Luo Meng to continue supplying them. Mooncakes are originally a part of pastries and desserts. If you want to eat it, you can eat it all year round, not necessarily during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The craft of making moon cakes has to be learned. These old people in Niuwangzhuang have been learning from the fat chef Hou Jun for a while, and now they don't need Hou Jun to learn it, they can make it by themselves.Liu Caiyun just came here, and she doesn't know anything else. Washing bean paste is the quickest thing to learn. She just does this, and talks to others while doing it. Gradually, she blends into the crowd of the courtyard.

After a while, Na Maocheng also set up a shed with Bian Dajun and the others. Seeing that he was working hard, Luo Meng didn't stop him much.The mother and son have just arrived and are not familiar with any place. If they have to treat them as guests, they will feel uncomfortable, and they can just let themselves be happy.

Apparently Liu Chunlan thought the same way, she didn't stop Liu Caiyun from working, she was still working with everyone on the sidelines, Liu Caiyun drove her back to catch up on sleep, she said that she never slept at this time, she would wait until noon if she wanted to sleep After eating.

For lunch, Luo Meng asked Hou Jun to cook more food, and Liu Chunlan called Luo Hongfeng and the others to come over to eat. When everyone was halfway through eating, Old Man Luo came over with the herd of cattle.

Now the number of cows waiting to give birth and those who have just given birth in the Romon family has increased a lot, and the workload of the old man Luo has also increased. Before that, Romon wanted to find someone to help the old man Luo share part of the work, but unfortunately he has not found a suitable one. The candidate has been delayed until now.

Looking at Na Maocheng at the dinner table now, Romeng thought about it again.

In the next few days, Romon began to pay attention to his cousin Na Maocheng, who came from afar, and found that this man was thick but delicate, and he especially loved livestock. Go over and take a closer look.

In terms of raising cattle and sheep, he is obviously much more experienced than the old employees of Niuwangzhuang. The reason why the cows of the Romon family have been raised by laymen like them for so long is basically because Romon's eyes on the spiritual spring, Romon often puts the spiritual spring water in the water tank where the buffaloes drink water. The cows drink the spring water, not only the milk they produce is good, but their own physique is also much better.

At first glance, this man is the kind of person who doesn't have much ingenuity, and he is very honest in his work and speech. During the conversation with him, Luo Meng learned that their family has a large piece of land, and if it is planted properly, the harvest every year is not bad.

But the farm next to them expanded to the edge of their family's land the year before last. The people on the other side of the farm have asked him several times to rent out their family's land. Na Maocheng has never agreed because he only knows how to farm. Raising livestock and renting out the land, he couldn't support his family.

There are three brothers in Na Maocheng's family. Speaking of which, when Liu Caiyun first became a mother, she thought that if she gave birth to a daughter, she would love her and make her a happy girl. Unfortunately, their family didn't seem to be destined for a girl. Liu Caiyun and his wife only had three sons and no daughters.

Later, these sons of hers grew up and got married. The eldest son gave birth to a boy, the second son gave birth to two boys, and the third son just gave birth to a baby at the beginning of this year, which was also a boy, but there was still no girl.So this time when Liu Caiyun came to her sister's house and saw Luo Hongfeng and her two daughters, she liked her very much.

Na Maocheng's second brother is in business and has lived in the county a few years ago. The third brother is a college student who studies architecture and works in the city. He married a girl from the city. It is to take care of their young couple.

His second and third younger brothers are doing well, the land in the family has always been used by his eldest brother, and neither of them has ever cared about it.But Na Maocheng didn't take it for granted. Their land was very fertile, and the flat terrain could be used for mechanized planting, and it could also be used to grow pastures and raise cattle and sheep.

If this piece of land is really rented out, he will naturally have to share the rent with his two younger brothers, just like they give his mother the same amount of living expenses every month. Unfortunately, he has no other livelihood skills other than farming, so he has no choice but to It's just so cheeky and dragged on.

When Liu Caiyun came back this time, she actually didn't plan to leave again. She lived here for the past few days, and she felt very at ease.She plans to buy an old house in the village, and spend her old age here until she dies. She has already made an agreement with her son that when she dies, she will take her ashes back and bury her with her husband. .

After Luo Meng knew about this, he took them to the blacksmith shop. Although Niuwangzhuang is also good, but if you want to live, you have to live in the blacksmith shop. A place to really live.

Luo Meng showed them a hut. Liu Caiyun looked at the front and back of Liu Caiyun's house many times, and the more she looked at it, the more she liked it. I heard that other people in this yard are renting, and she also wants to pay the rent. She is rich, and she can't spend all the living expenses given by her three sons every month. It's a pity that Luo Meng can accept it. It's not like he's crazy about money.

Speaking of which, there are not many relatives in their family who are still walking around. This Liu Caiyun can almost be said to be the only one left.

Luo Meng's father, the old man Luo, was originally the only seedling in the family. He didn't have any brothers or sisters. He did have a few distant relatives, but they were too far away to be close.Liu Chunlan did have two brothers, but both of them had lived in the city early, and they had never supported her younger sister who lived in the countryside before, so naturally Liu Chunlan couldn't think about them now.

Before Luo Hongfeng got married, they had an extra family, but now she is also divorced, and the in-laws have become enemies.

After settling his mother, Na Maocheng planned to go back. On the night before he left, Romon talked to him for a while, asking him what his impression of Niuwangzhuang was, and if he wanted to work here?

Na Maocheng was also taken aback when he heard what Luo Meng said, because Luo Meng hadn't revealed anything before. In fact, Luo Meng didn't say anything before, because he was worried that if he mentioned it, Na Maocheng was unwilling. The two families will be a little embarrassed for a few days, so they save the conversation until now.

"You don't have to think that we are cousins. If you come, you will work and get paid like Bian Dajun and the others. I will also arrange a big house for you. You can bring your sister-in-law and nephew to live here. Anyway, you can be like other workers, at most during the holidays, our two families get together to have a reunion dinner."

Seeing that Na Maocheng was still hesitant, Luo Meng told him what he was thinking. In fact, he didn't really want to hire a relative to work on Niuwangzhuang, but these days he saw that Na Mao If he is successful, he feels that he is good, a real farmer.

"I'll think about it again." Na Maocheng was already a little shaken in his heart, but he also felt that working under the hands of his relatives was too much right and wrong, and he was still somewhat repulsed.

"If you figure it out, rent the land to them and negotiate a good price now." Romon said again.

The family's farm is going to expand, and they are bound to get the land of Na Maocheng's family. Na Maocheng can still refuse it now, but after a while, they may not be able to refuse it. They must have ways to make him unable to refuse.

The arm can't twist the thigh, and Romon doesn't want the cousin he just met to do those unnecessary struggles. After all, if they rent out the land and get a sum of money, and then come to work on their side, the couple will earn a lot of money separately. With a salary, life is good, and there is no need to touch an egg with a rock just to catch a breath.