Good mountains, good water, good people

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In the end, Gu Changning was still pushed outside by his mother, and he was not allowed to help cook in the kitchen, so he had to sit and talk with his grandma at the door.

The sun sets quickly in winter, and there is no sun in the west before five o'clock. Their grandpa came back from the outside with a few sheep, and he went to help his grandpa drive the sheep back to the sheepfold.After his grandpa came home, not long after, his grandma also came back from the field.

The two old men were very happy to see him come back, but his grandfather was not a talkative person, so even though he was very happy to see them come back every time, he didn't have much to say to them.On the contrary, his grandma is a woman who talks a lot, and every time she sees them back, she can't finish talking, asking questions or not.

"Hey, you old lady, let the child do the work on his own, what are you asking?" His grandfather sat on the small stool by the door, took out a small cigarette stick from behind, The tobacco rod is made of bamboo, and the surface is smooth and oily. It looks like it is often held by people.

The old man took out the tobacco rod and the pipe, squeezed a little bit of shredded tobacco with his hands, put it in the pot, lit it, and took a puff, with an expression of enjoyment.

"What's the matter with me asking, my grandson won't allow me to ask." Grandma Gu knew that their old man disliked her talking too much, so she rang his ears.But at this moment, Grandma Gu was happy to see her grandson come back, and she gave the old man a look, she didn't know the same as this old guy in their family.

Glancing at the cigarette stick that his wife was holding, Grandma Gu felt that the cigarette stick in the old man's hand was a bit of an eyesore, so she couldn't help but said, "Look at you, you've been holding your cigarette all day long. Pole, the grandson will not say a few words to the grandson when he comes back."

"..." Grandpa Gu glanced at the old woman who was picking on him, and without speaking, he turned around holding the cigarette stick, and continued to smoke his cigarette.

Gu Changning looked at his grandpa with the look of "I won't talk to you, let you talk", the old man ignored his grandma, and his grandma died down by herself.

He has been used to getting along with his grandpa and grandma since he was a child. If he really talked about eloquence, his grandpa would naturally be inferior to his grandma, but his grandpa is obviously very self-aware of this, so his grandpa is very Stop bickering with his grandma.And once his grandpa stopped here, his grandma would not continue to pester her, otherwise it would appear that his grandma was making trouble for no reason.

But he knows that the relationship between these two people is really good. He has never seen these two people really blush since he was a child. up.

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Hearing the familiar buzzing sound of a motorcycle coming from outside, Gu Changning knew that it was his father who came back from outside, so he got up and said to the elder, "Xu It’s Dad who’s back, I’ll go to the door to have a look.”

"I'll go to the kitchen to see if the food is ready." Now that my son came back from the outside, it was time for the family to eat, and Grandma Gu also got up and went to the kitchen to have a look.

Grandpa Gu sat at the door and smoked his pipe, accompanying his old mother.

The mother and son sat at the door, facing the direction of the gate of the yard, and neither of them spoke.

"Father." As soon as he reached the gate of the courtyard, Gu Changning saw his father coming back from the outside on their old motorcycle, and the father and son met at the gate.

Village head Gu rode a motorcycle back to the door of his house, and when he saw the big boy standing at the door, he was a little surprised, and asked in surprise, "Hey, when did you come back? Why didn't I know you came back?" of."

"I just got home in the afternoon, and you were still outside when I got back." Gu Changning stepped aside, let his father's car come in first, and followed behind.

Village head Gu parked the car in the shed in the yard, locked the front of the car, took off the key and put it in his pocket.

"Grandma said you went to town, Dad, did you go to town to do something?" Gu Changning watched his dad come back from outside with a dusty look, knowing that his dad would not go out if he had nothing to do It took me all day to come back.

Speaking of which, his father is still the village head of their village, but from the middle-aged man in dark blue old clothes and old cloth shoes in front of him, he doesn't look like a village head at all.

In the past, his grandfather was the village chief in their village. Later, his grandfather became too old to be the village chief, so everyone elected his father as the village chief.Of course, the village head is also elected by everyone in the village through elections and votes. It is not a hereditary monopoly by their family. Whoever has the prestige and ability to convince the whole village can be qualified to be the village head. .

Gu Changning remembered that when he was in elementary school, his father was the village head of their village. He had been the head of their village for more than ten years, and he had been elected in the middle, but everyone was still willing to choose his father as the village chief. long.

In fact, in a small place like theirs, the village head is a very ordinary person. On the contrary, because he holds the position of village head, he asks his father to handle everything in the village, and the owner's chickens go to the grass nest outside the yard. After laying eggs, the owner of the Xi family picked up the eggs, and the two families had conflicts because of this. They all came to his father to uphold justice and deal with such trivial matters.

It is precisely because of his position as the village head that his father has hardly left the village in the past ten years. Whatever happens in the village, big or small, he always comes to his father to deal with it. There is no free time.While his father stayed in the village, his mother naturally wanted to stay here too. Like his uncle and aunt now, he followed the children to work outside, but his father and mother could not.

"Here, I just want to tell you about it." Village head Gu took his son inside, called the old father and grandma, moved a stool and sat down, and pulled it with his hands. He told his family members about his trip to the city today, "If this matter can be applied for, our village can get a sum of money. If we have this money, we can give it to the people in the village. Many people have repaired their old houses."

Gu Changning went into the room and poured out a cup of hot water, handed it to his father, stood beside his father and listened to a few words, only then did he know what his father was busy with when he went out that day.

Grandpa Gu took a puff of tobacco slowly, and quietly listened to what his son said, with a bit of thought on his face, he looked up at his son sitting opposite, and asked, "Do you think this can be done?"

"I'm not sure about this matter for the time being. Now that our application has been submitted, the higher-ups will arrange people to come down to our place to inspect it. We won't be able to say anything until experts have seen it." Village Chief Gu today I went out for a day to run, for the sake of their village.

However, Village Chief Gu is also very open about these things, "If this matter can be done well, we can pay a sum of money to help everyone. The policy is said to support the development of our villages below, and I will go to find out when the time comes, if this way doesn’t work, let’s find a way in other ways, there will always be a way, right?”

"Well, it's good if you can think so. Before there is any result, don't go out and tell people outside, and let those who know, don't go out and talk about it, so as to save time and make everyone happy." Gu Grandpa is a former village chief. The previous retired village chief will think more deeply. If the money cannot be approved by then, the people in the village are full of expectations, thinking that there will be money. Come down, but when the time comes, there will be no money coming down, and the people in the village will think that they have left the money away, and these things are really hard to explain.

This Village Chief Gu has naturally thought about it. He took a sip of the water his son poured him, and replied: "I have thought about this too. I told a few of them before I came back, let them Don't talk about it outside."

"Hey, you guys, come over to eat. Grandma is here to eat, old man, you bring grandma to eat." Grandma Gu came out with a pot of soup, put it on the dining table, put it away, and went out Shouted to a few sitting at the door talking.

Grandpa Gu replied, "Here we are." He put the cigarette stick back in his hand, tied the mouth of the cigarette bag tightly, and tied it to the stick. He also carried the stick with him all the time.

"Let's go, let's go eat. Dad, you go ahead, and grandma, I'll help you." As soon as he heard that it was time to eat, Village Chief Gu, who was already hungry after coming back from outside, got up from the small stool he was sitting on. He got up, patted his son on the shoulder, and went forward to help his grandma to the dining table to eat, "Grandma, let's go to eat."

"Taiwan, let's eat." Gu Changning supported his grandma's hand from the other side.

"Okay, eat and eat." The little old lady was supported by her grandson and great-grandson, and tried to keep up with her grandson and great-grandson with her little feet, grinning with a toothless mouth, and the wrinkles on her face were like Like a blooming flower, it said on its mouth: "I can walk by myself, I don't need you to help me."

"Don't we help you walk faster?" Village head Gu also slowed down, walking slowly in cooperation with the old lady.

When they arrived, the soup and dishes had already been placed on the table.

Mama Gu brought the last dish out, and the family had already sat down around the table. She lifted the lid of the casserole, and inside was pig's feet stewed with soy sauce and soybeans. The pig's feet were stained with soy sauce and sugar. The surface of the pork skin is yellowish in color, with a scent of soy sauce and soybeans. Later, she added a little cinnamon and bay leaves, and the taste of the stewed pig's trotters was even more fragrant. "We have a good time today." , This soup and pig’s trotters are stewed by Dawa, he cooked the soup and rice when I came back, and I fried a few dishes.”

"Oh, let me see, tonight's dishes look pretty good." Village Chief Gu glanced at the dishes on the table tonight, a pot of soup, a pot of soybean stewed pig's trotters, a big bowl of pork belly fried beans and braised eggplant , as well as braised yellow croaker in soy sauce and a big pot of soy sauce chicken, it looks richer than what they usually eat.

"I thought it took so long for the eldest son to come back. It happened that the group of little hens in our family had also grown up, so I went to catch a chicken and kill it, and made it into soy sauce chicken for everyone to eat. I will go back to Erwa's school next time." When we come back from vacation, let’s kill another stew.” Because of her son’s return, Gu’s mother had a happy smile on her face, “If it wasn’t for killing this chicken tonight, our dinner would have been ready by now.”

The meat of the chickens raised at home is relatively tough. Knowing that there are elderly people in the family, she picked a relatively tender pullet and killed it. The pullet was slaughtered, plucked, cleaned, wiped with soy sauce and put in Cook it in a pressure cooker, the chicken will be softer, and even their toothless grandma can eat a few bites of chicken.

Gu Changning distributed the bowls and chopsticks to everyone.

"The second baby will not come back until the end of this month?" Grandma Gu asked.

"Yeah, they're in their third year of high school now, and they only have two days off in the last week of the month, and they have to make up classes at other times." Mother Gu felt sorry for her son's hard work in studying, and every time the younger son came back from school , she will try to buy as much meat as possible for her youngest son.Of course, she treats her eldest son equally. In the past, when the eldest son went to junior high school and high school, every time he came back from school, she would think about buying some meat for the child.

The life of their family has not been very good these years, and the two children spend a lot of money every year studying.Until the eldest son graduated from university and was able to help the family, and the younger son's tuition and daily living expenses were all paid by the eldest son, it was easier on their side.

But every time the two sons come back from outside, Gu's mother is very reluctant to kill chickens and ducks to make up for the two children. The chickens and ducks in the family are all raised by her, and the old people in the family will not say anything about it.