Back to 2003

After washing his face with cold water, Mr. Tang sat down and smoked leaf cigarettes leisurely!

Children were running and playing in the courtyard, passing him from time to time. He liked this scene very much. Life was rare in seventy years. At his age, he had no worries about food and clothing, and he also looked forward to having children and grandchildren...

The Tang family is really prosperous!

The old man took a puff of cigarette with a smile on his lips!

My son opened a factory, made a lot of money, and brought his brothers and sisters with him. Now every family has a car, and they go home for gatherings on weekends. They even come to thresh the millet. It took two days of work to produce the millet in one morning. Finished.

Thinking about this makes him happy!

"Drip-drip-"

The horn sounded, and Tang Qinghua's car came back.

The children swarmed up to him and stood at the door, chattering!

"Get out of the way first and get under the shade of a tree. We'll give you something delicious later!"

Tang Qinghua could only shout loudly.

"Yeah yeah..."

The children immediately ran away.

Tang Qinghua drove the car to the carport and then asked the little ones to come, each with an ice cream.

In these days, rural people are only willing to eat popsicles. The ice cream is sweet and soft, and the taste is obviously different. Children take it in their mouths and lick it, and they suddenly smile.

"This popsicle is so delicious!"

"So sweet and soft!"

"My mother said this is called ice cream..."

"Let's go and eat on the stool under the tree."

Several little kids ran away in a hurry.

Jiang Hua ran over to help, but the bag in his hand sank and almost fell to the ground!

"How much did you buy?"

"I don't know, I emptied the supermarket freezer."

"Holy shit... come on, let's eat ice cream!"

Jiang Hua shouted loudly while carrying the bag.

In the hot summer, especially after a long day of exhaustion, taking a bite of ice cream is simply refreshing, something that city dwellers cannot experience!

So everyone started eating.

Tang Qinghua also brought out a few roast rabbits and roast ducks, as well as two large bags of barbecued meats, and a lot of drinks.

"Wow, there's Coke!"

"What is Coke?"

"It's a very delicious drink, but it's a little bit pungent!"

"There's also orange juice, I drank it!"

The child didn't care about anything else and just stared at the drinks on the table. Before finishing the ice cream, he was wandering around the drinks.

"You can't just eat sorbet and drink a drink... take a break and drink later."

The adults quickly drove them away.

People in Yuzhou like to eat river-water bean curd. If there is no food at a rural family gathering, they will prepare this dish.There are many Tang family members, especially the two sons-in-law Liu Chaoyang and Jiang Shunqi, who like the river water the most.

Eat on time at [-] noon!

There were too many people, including children, so there were four tables for people, so we put the two adult dining tables outside under the shade of the trees, with the Three Gorges electric fan blowing next to them, while they drank well water beer and blew the electric fan. , eating wine and meat!

"Qian Li, Dewa hasn't come back yet?"

During the meal, Liu Shurong asked Ma Qianli.

Ma Qianli is the daughter-in-law of Tang Wenyuan's cousin, and Yan Zhangde is her husband, who can also be regarded as Tang Wenyuan's nephew.Yan Zhangde went to Guangzhou to work a few years ago, but there was no news the following year. She was living a difficult life with her two children, until Tang Wenyuan brought her into the cement factory cafeteria not long ago.

"Don't talk about coming back, there's no news!"

Ma Qianli suddenly looked sad when she heard this: "It's been more than three years. First, I haven't written a letter, second, I haven't called, and I've never sent any money. It's like nothing... Cousin, you think this is a joke." Son?"

"Oh, I'm sorry for you!"

Liu Shurong couldn't help but sigh.

"I don't have to be ridiculous, the key is the two babies!"

Ma Qianli was said to be sad: "I can be more miserable or tired, but no matter how hard I work, I can't support two children who are studying... If my cousin hadn't helped me in the canteen, this year The eldest brother may have to drop out of school.”

"Don't tell me, Qian Li is very capable!"

Seeing that Ma Qianli was about to cry, her little aunt quickly interrupted: "Although she has never learned to be a chef, her stir-fries are delicious. Now she is in charge of all the stir-fries in the canteen, and more and more people are eating."

"Really, is it more delicious than Liu Ping's stir-fry?"

Everyone immediately burst into laughter.

Several women in the family are pretty good at cooking, but Liu Ping is the one who really does it well.

"Drip drip!"

Just as he was talking, the sound of a car came from the door.

Everyone turned around and looked - Hey, say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here!

It's Liu Ping and his wife who are here!

"Yeah, Ping is back!"

"Qingsong, hurry up, I'm waiting for you to drink!"

When everyone saw this, they immediately shouted loudly.

"There was something going on at the store in the morning, and I couldn't leave until I finished solving it... It happened that he was fine in the yard, so I pulled him back."

Liu Ping said with a smile.

Although she is not from the Tang family, she does not regard herself as an outsider. She has always regarded this place as her natal home.

"Come on, come on over, have a beer...afternoon, go to the fields. I've left two rows of rice with you."

Jiang Quan pulled him over.

"If you don't keep it, leave the rice for me!"

Liao Qingsong said angrily.

"Let you feel it, drink quickly!"

Jiang Quan smiled and opened the beer for him.

"Just drink. When you get drunk, you don't have to go to the fields."

Liao Qingsong was not reserved and went to the table directly.

……

Tang Qinghua was the first to finish eating.

He was holding a rabbit leg, sitting under the tree and chewing it!

Xiao Haoer was wandering around him, but his eyes were not on him, which made him feel very surprised.

"What are you looking at?"

Tang Qinghua hugged him over and kissed him.

"Uncle, look there is a bird's nest there."

Xiao Haoer pointed at the book and said.

Tang Qinghua looked up and saw that there was indeed a bird's nest.

The branches of the yellow-horned branches are too big for birds to make nests, but there are exactly four forked branches there, and a bird's nest was built at some point.

"Not bad, we have neighbors!"

Tang Qinghua said to him with a smile.

"Neighbors? Bird neighbors?"

Xiao Haoer's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Uncle, I also want to build a house on a tree."

"A house built on a tree? Wouldn't that be a tree house? How can people live in a tree..."

Tang Qinghua's words suddenly stopped.

One of his biggest wishes when he was a child was to build a house on a tree. He had no chance to realize it before, mainly because there was no suitable big tree, but this yellow-horned tree in front of him was just right.

He turned to look at the big tree and found that its roots were huge, and its branches started from a height of one meter and spread out in all directions, stretching several meters horizontally, covering nearly half of the entire yard.

The branches stretching horizontally at a height of two meters are simply the best location in the bookstore.

"Uncle, I want a bookstore, can you help me build it?"

"Is it good, is it good..."

Xiao Haoer pulled him and started acting coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, I'll help you build a tree house, but not today. I have to thresh grain today, and tomorrow is the day after tomorrow, okay?"

Tang Qinghua quickly agreed to him.

"Okay, but you have to do it for me."

The little guy looked at him firmly and said.