Otherworldly Days

Chapter 231 The Return

"Knock, knock, knock - knock, knock -" Who else would knock on the door at this time, the shop in front has already closed, and there is no business.

"Who is it?" After soaking the rice that will be ground tomorrow morning, Cao Dapeng was about to go back to sleep in the house, but he didn't expect to hear a knock on the door. He walked over with doubts in his eyes and asked loudly .

"Dapeng, it's me, Sun Ji." The person outside the door responded.

"Aji!" Cao Dapeng strode over when he heard this, opened the door, and saw the person coming back from the door, with a happy smile on his face, he said, "Oh, Aji, how many of you, Sun Jing? When did you come back?"

"We just got off the boat, we knew you were here, so we came here." Sun Ji said.

"Brother Dapeng." Sun Jing and the others were younger, and they all called Cao Dapeng brother.

"Hey, hurry up, come in quickly, have you guys had dinner?" Cao Dapeng remembered something and forgot something, he turned his head and shouted inside, "Uncle Sun, Uncle Sun, Aji and the others are back, come out quickly." After shouting, he hurriedly opened the door to let Sun Ji and the others come in.

"Your father is also here, we all live here now." Cao Dapeng thought that Sun Ji didn't know, so he said hastily.

"Well, I know, my father wrote that you are here." Even though he is in Nanyang, Sun Ji also knows what's going on here from the letters from his father and Cao Xiangnan, so he naturally knows that his father has moved here now. Live in town.

Originally, he thought that he would not come back until the end of this month, but after thinking about the early and late days, it was nothing, so he simply came back a few days earlier.Grandpa and Ah Mo are at home, so he is not at ease.

"Oh, that's how it is." Cao Dapeng led a few people in and said, "Didn't eat anything on the boat, are you hungry? There are still vegetables in the kitchen, I'll cook some dishes for you and serve you a bowl of noodles."

"Don't be so troublesome, we ate something on the boat." Sun Ji had a backpack on his back, and they were all in simple attire. They rushed back from Nanyang. I just brought two more clothes.

"That's right, Brother Dapeng, we've eaten." Sun Sheng said.

Sun Jing and Sun Bing all followed in. They all followed Sun Ji back from Nanyang, and no one stayed behind.

Son is back? !

Sun Yanshan, who had just laid down in the room and hadn't fallen asleep, heard the sound and threw off the quilt. He still remembered grabbing the overcoat on the side and putting it on his body. It's an indescribable excitement.

"Father." Sun Ji walked over in a few strides, grabbed Father's hand, and called out.

The sound of father is the longing for the relatives at home day and night outside, thinking of the father who is far away in his hometown. Now that he is back, he finally sees the relatives he misses.

"I'm back, Xiaojing and Xiaobing are all back." Sun Ji glanced behind him, he took his cousins ​​out and brought them back safely.

"Uncle Yanshan." Voices shouted one after another.

After going out for a trip, everyone has changed to some extent when they come back, and everyone seems to have grown up all of a sudden.Being outside is no better than being at home. With the care of my parents, people only know that the outside world is different only when they go outside.

"Ah, I'm back, it's good to be back." Sun Yanshan felt relieved when he saw that the faces of the boys who came back were all in good spirits, knowing that they had a good time outside.

The two boys in the room also got up from the bed and walked out when they heard the voice outside.Sun Ji wasn't here when they were working in the store, but they had seen him before and knew that he was Uncle Sun's son, so they all called out Brother Sun. It was cold at night, and the wind was strong outside. At that time, Sun Ji led his children into the house, and seeing that there was nothing to do, he asked the two boys who were working in the shop to go to bed first.Seeing the reunion of father and son, the two boys came out and called someone, then went back to sleep in the house.

Although Sun Ji and the others said no need, thinking that there was still meat and vegetables in the kitchen, Cao Dapeng insisted on cooking them a bowl of noodles for fear that they would be hungry.

Although I ate on the boat, I only ate dry food for a day, and this time I would have a mouthful of hot food. Sun Jing and the others went to the kitchen to help, and it was welcome to see if there was something to eat.The half-grown boys would eat me to death, and the teenage boys just had a big appetite and wanted to eat. Cao Dapeng cheerfully cut a large piece of meat into the pot and gave them some meat.

Sun Ji was talking to his father in the house, and when he saw some running away, he laughed and let them go.

From his father's words, Sun Ji also knew some things in the village during the days when they were not in Caojia Village.

"Well, that's very good. You don't have to go hungry this year." He heard his father say that the village head led everyone into the mountains to hunt, pick up some wild vegetables and mushrooms, and beat chestnuts, so as to provide food for the people in the village during the winter. Adding some food, Sun Ji smiled.

The deepest impression of winter every year is hunger. He eats one or two meals of rice porridge every day, and he still wants to leave all the food for Ah Mo, Grandpa, and his father. He is always hungry.

But he thought that from now on, they would never have to go hungry again.

This winter, the widowed elderly and some families in the village will arrange to live in the academy, and Sun Ji also knows about it.He knew in his heart that all the changes in Caojia Village were due to who, including their family, was able to pay off all the debts they owed, and it was because of Cao Xiangnan that he, Sun Jin, was able to be where he is today.

If it wasn't for Cao Xiangnan, he would have thought that his grandson, Ji, would have lived in Cao's Village all his life. He was a little smart, but not smart enough to spend his whole life in Cao's Village.Later, Sun Ji felt grateful for helping Cao Xiangnan more than once in his heart. This unintentional act at the beginning changed his life, and also changed their Sun family.

"Okay, let's eat noodles. There's nothing to eat in the kitchen right now, so everyone will order." Several large bowls of noodles were cooked, with a layer of sliced ​​meat on top, and Cao Dapeng also pulled some fresh bean sprouts together. under.

"No, no, brother Dapeng, this is already very good." There are noodles, meat and vegetables. They used to eat such good things only during the Chinese New Year. They are very content with a bowl of noodles.

"delicious."

"Yeah." A few people ate dry food for a day, and this group sat down and ate a mouthful of hot noodles, and they all felt very delicious.

Cao Dapeng had a big smile on his face when he saw a few kids gulping down a big bowl of noodles, and finally there was not even a little soup left.Later, when he wanted to clean up the dishes, Sun Jing and Sun Bing rushed to put them away.

"It's getting dark, you can stay here to sleep tonight, and go back tomorrow." Now that it was getting dark, Sun Yanshan didn't let his son and nephews rush back to the village, and it was not too late to go back. For such a night, stay here for one night and go back tomorrow.

"Okay." After returning home, Grandpa and Grandma had already fallen asleep, and he wanted to wake them up, so Sun Ji simply stayed here.

He stayed, and the others followed suit.

Sun Ji took Sun Jing to squeeze a bed for him and his father, and Cao Dapeng took the rest of the people into his room. Everyone squeezed together on the bed, and they could sleep for a night.

The breath exhaled in the morning is white mist, and people are already wrapped in thick coats.The town is different from the village. There are people on the pier outside early in the morning, and people start to set up stalls on the street early in the morning, and the day starts like this.

Early in the morning, Sun Ji and others also got up together, helping to grind rice to make river noodles and dustpan cooking, and the small yard began to get busy.

Cao Dapeng went out to buy pig offal, cleaned it up to make pig offal, porridge boiled in the pot, and the shop was about to open for business early.

Son asked him if he was used to living in the town, and Sun Yanshan said with a smile, "It's okay, I've been selling food and food here for so long, and I've come and gone every day, and I'm used to it, now it's easy to live here many."

What he said was also true, he had been selling food in a shop in the town for so long, but now he just lived here.Apart from worrying about whether the family's father, mother and elders are doing well at home, there is nothing unaccustomed in this town.

But now that he's back, he doesn't need to stay here anymore.

Sun Ji originally wanted to stay and help with the work, but he went back to Caojia Village when the store was not so busy after noon.When Sun Yanshan heard that he would continue to work here, he disapproved and said, "We come here in a hurry, you take Sun Jing and the others back, and you go back to see your grandpa and grandpa, they are talking about you It's been a long time."

Hearing his father's words, Sun Ji also felt that it made sense, he didn't hurry back, but others were homesick.

"Father, brother Dapeng, let's go back to the village first." There was a carriage in the backyard, Sun Ji hitched the horse, told his father and Cao Dapeng, and drove the carriage with a few people Went back to the village.

A wide avenue leads to their village, and they didn't come back for a short time. When they returned to Caojia Village, those who came back found that many changes had taken place in their Caojia Village during their absence.

"A Ji, Xiao Jing, Xiao Bing, A Sheng, Ah Mao, you are all back. We were still talking about when you will come back yesterday. It's almost winter." The carriage went to Cao Xiangnan first, and Sun Bailian saw The cousins ​​who came back were very happy.

"It's not because we're afraid of snow in winter. We rushed back from there." When winter comes, there will be no boats coming to Fenshui, and it will be difficult for them to come back, so it's better to come back earlier, Sun Ji Said.

Watching Sun Bailian go inside, knowing that Cao Gang and Xiang Nan had brought the people from the village into the mountain, Sun Ji went in and said hello to Qi Wanfeng Aning, and brought snacks for the children when they came back .Knowing that Xiang Nan was not at home, after saying hello, he and a few cousins ​​came out and asked everyone to go back to visit their parents and come back in the afternoon.

Caojia Village is still the original Caojia Village, but Caojia Village is not as it is in memory, it has become very different here.

Seeing the son who came back, Ah Mu at home couldn't believe it, thinking that he was dreaming.

"Amu, I'm back." Wang didn't believe that his son was back until he heard his son calling him Amu. He held his hand and touched it here and there, feeling everywhere. Rare, I asked my son how he was doing outside, whether he had endured hardship, whether he was hungry, whether he was cold, and whether his life outside was good.

The man on the side looked jealously at the daughter-in-law who loved her son and gave up her husband, and his mouth was curled up with a face of "I'll come back when I come back", what's so strange?

Da Er called him "Daddy" and handed him a bag of golden tobacco leaves. When he saw the golden tobacco leaves that he wanted to take a sip in his dreams, he hurriedly reached out to take it, and his attitude became 180 degree of change.

"What kind of tobacco to buy, if you buy such expensive ones, just buy two taels of ordinary shredded tobacco for smoking. Why do you buy such expensive tobacco?" I feel like a waste of money.

"What do you know! You don't know the goods." Covering a little golden tobacco leaf in his hand, he was afraid that his daughter-in-law would snatch it.

"Em, I bought you a hairpin too." Seeing the little gestures of my father and mother, Sun Jing couldn't help laughing, took out a small cloth bag from the package, and opened it to find a silver hairpin inside. .

Sun Jing walked over with the hairpin, and said to his mother, "Em, don't move, I'll put your hair on it to see if it looks good."

Sitting there upright, Mrs. Wang didn't dare to move, the grin on her face almost covered her ears.

Carefully pinning the hairpin on Ah Mu's head, Sun Jing asked his father, "Daddy, do you think this hairpin looks good on Ah Mu?"

"Well, it looks good." I glanced at the hairpin on my daughter-in-law's hair, and sure enough, he is a good son, and he still doesn't forget his parents when he goes out. "Oh, this hairpin is so expensive, how can I wear it when I go out?" Touching the hairpin on his head, thinking that his son bought it for him, his heart felt sweet, as if it had been smeared with honey.

The family was happy and harmonious, and Sun Jing didn't forget to bring gifts for his brother and nephew when he came back.

The elder brother who was waiting for her husband to return home, when she saw her husband came back, there was indescribable tenderness in the eyes of the two of them, they only had each other in their eyes, and they only said softly, "Fulang, You are back."

"Well, I'm back."

It wasn't until noon that Cao Xiangnan came out of the mountain, and Cao Xiangnan knew from Wan Feng that Sun Ji and the others had returned from Nanyang, "Oh, it's good to be back." He was afraid that Sun Ji and the others would stay in Nanyang for the new year.

Recently, they would go into the mountain for half a day and then come out every day. With the concerted efforts of everyone, almost all the big chestnuts were put away.They hunted a lot of prey, even those who don't know how to hunt can get a little prey, but the chestnuts they transported have to be distributed to other people.

There are also a lot of chestnuts at home. It is good to roast them in the fire in winter, or grind them into powder to make pastry fillings.Children also like to eat chestnut cakes, and they can make chestnut cakes for them at that time.