The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 111 A Harmonious Family
Wang Shaodong's uncle, Zhao Shitang, is only 17 years younger than his grandmother, and is 51 years old this year.

Back then, when Wang Shaodong’s grandmother was 14 years old, she followed her mother, that is, Zhao Shiling’s grandmother, along the mountain road to beg for food from Beizhaolin Village, Yanzhuang Town, under the jurisdiction of Luzhong County. After begging for more than 40 miles, they arrived at Qingquanling Village only asked for dried sweet potatoes less than a catty.

In Qingquanling Village, Zhao Shiling's grandmother is a kind person. She took pity on the mother and daughter, so she soaked two pancakes for the mother and daughter in plain water and ate them.

Later, Zhao Shiling's grandmother saw a pile of dried sweet potatoes piled up in the corner of Zhao Shiling's grandmother's house. Knowing that the family would not die of starvation, she left her daughter in Qingquanling Village and gave her to Wang Shaodong's grandfather Zhao Chengseng as his wife.At that time, Zhao Chengseng was only one year older than Wang Shaodong's grandmother, who was only 15 years old at the time.

In the past, the age of marriage in the countryside was very early. Zhao Shiling's parents had children in the 17th or [-]th.

Then Zhao Shihai had his eldest son Zhao Yubin when he was there, and later gave birth to a son and a daughter, but the younger son died of an emergency when he was four years old.

Zhao Yubin was born in 1970 and was 2002 years old in 32. He has been married for seven years and has a six-year-old son.

Wang Shaodong's grandma is only 68 years old and already has four generations living under the same roof. It has to be said that getting married early still has some advantages.

In his previous life, Wang Shaodong remembered that by 2017, his grandmother was 83 years old and still in good health.At that time, the son of his eldest cousin's family was already 21 years old. With the good tradition of early marriage and early childbearing in the old Zhao family, Wang Shaodong estimated that in a few years, his grandma would have five generations under one roof.

Today is the third day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Shaodong drove his car across the mountains, from Taohualing Village to Qingquanling Village, and parked the car in an open space north of his grandma's house.

This open space is a wheat threshing field, and now this open space is useless, it would be better to use it as a parking lot.

After getting off the car, the three members of Wang Shaodong's family went to the back compartment to get gifts for visiting Wang Shaodong's grandma.

After all, did you get rich last year, so this year the Wang family's gifts are particularly generous.

Years ago, the Wang family was too busy, so they didn't come to grandma's house early to send off the new year, so when they came to visit the elderly on the third day of the new year, they had to pay more attention.

A few years ago, Wang Shaodong bought ten boxes of Moutai, a total of sixty bottles, and the price of one bottle was 280 yuan, and the total cost was 16800.
Two or four bottles of these wines were sent to Wu Youguang's house years ago, and then two bottles were given to Ma Zhentang, Liu Yujiang, Su Yulong, He Jiaqing, He Jiaxiang and Zheng Changyou's family, and they were drunk at noon on the first day of the new year. Four bottles, and at night Wang Shaodong and Wang Fumin drank two bottles in total these days.Finally, there are 38 bottles of Moutai, and now there are [-] bottles left.

Today I came to visit Wang Shaodong's grandmother, and Wang Shaodong brought a total of eight bottles of Moutai.

53度的茅台在97年的时候达到历史高位320块钱一瓶以后，然后价格就一直在300左右徘徊，在2002年的时候买酒还是挺划算的，280一瓶绝对是这几年比较低的价格了。

With four bottles in one hand and eight bottles of Moutai in both hands, Wang Shaodong walked towards the smiling uncle and grandma behind him.

The parents of Wang Shaodong's eldest sister-in-law passed away many years ago, so every year on the third day of the third day, the couple of Wang Shaodong's eldest uncle's family did not have to visit relatives, but stayed to serve Wang Shaodong and his family.

Wang Shaodong's second concubine is also from Qingquanlingben Village. Because of the proximity, Wang Shaodong's second uncle, Zhao Shitao, will come to his mother-in-law's house to have a drink at his mother-in-law's house every year on the third day of the junior high school, and then go to Wang Shaodong's grandmother's house to accompany Wang Fumin again. drink a little.Wang Shaodong's second uncle's family has a cousin, who is two years younger than himself, and is currently in the first year of Luzhong No. [-] Middle School.

But Wang Shaodong's third concubine's home was far away, so he couldn't make it back on the third day of junior high school, and then on the fourth day of junior high school, Wang Shaodong's three uncles would go to Wang's house in Taohualing Village to visit Zhao Shiling.

Seeing that Wang Shaodong was carrying something in his hand, Zhao Shitang, Wang Shaodong's uncle, rushed to greet him: "Dongzi, your grandma was still talking about you just now."

"Ah, Moutai, good guys, Dongzi, you guys are really generous this year."

Without waiting for Zhao Shitang to come up to meet him, Zhao Yubin took the things in Wang Shaodong's hand first.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Shaodong's cousin Zhao Mei also came out, followed by Wang Shaodong's eldest sister-in-law behind Zhao Mei.

"Auntie Binzi is here, hurry up and get warm in the house."

Zhao Shitang's wife took the sausage, grilled chicken, soybean milk powder and so on that Zhao Shiling was carrying.

Zhao Mei, on the other hand, was going to pick up the things in Wang Fumin's hands with a smile. Seeing that it was a whole pig's hind leg, which weighed at least thirty catties, she frowned.

Wang Shaodong's cousin Zhao Yubin and cousin Zhao Mei are not tall, Zhao Yubin is about 1.6 meters 1.5, while Zhao Mei is just over [-] meters, very slender.

"Come on, you go inside and make tea for your aunt and uncle."

Zhao Mei agreed, then turned and ran into the house.

Wang Shaodong's grandma's house was a tile-roofed house built in the early 80s, with blue bricks and blue tiles, with a high foundation and five steps to enter the house.Wang Shaodong remembered that when he was four years old, he once fell down the five steps, and there was a spot on the back of his head where his hair didn't grow because of that fall.

The floor of the house was originally earth, but last year it was filled with sand and covered with a layer of red bricks.

The earthy ground is easy to attract mice and insects, and because of the mice, there will also be snakes.Fortunately, the snakes in this area are not poisonous, and they are just scary after encountering them.

There is a stove in the house, which is much warmer than outside.

Zhao Mei and her mother held Zhao Shiling's hand and sat on the head of the bed at the easternmost end of the room, talking about homework.

Before Zhao Shiling got married, she had been coaxing Zhao Yubin and Zhao Mei at her natal family, so she had always had a good relationship with Zhao Yubin, Zhao Mei, and Wang Shaodong's eldest sister-in-law.

Wang Shaodong's grandmother looked at everything in front of him kindly, and then Wang Shaodong, Wang Fumin, Zhao Yubin and Zhao Shitang sat on the sofa drinking tea and chatting.

Zhao Yubin's wife and son went back to their natal home by themselves, and then Zhao Yubin had to wait until Wang Shaodong's family was sent away, and then went to his mother-in-law's natal home to drink at four or five in the afternoon.

Relatives care about each other, help each other, meeting and talking is very speculative, which is what Wang Shaodong likes.

Everyone chatted for a while, and then Wang Shaodong's eldest sister-in-law went to get busy preparing food. Zhao Mei offered to help, and Zhao Shiling wanted to help, but Zhao Shitang stopped her from doing the hard work, saying that she came today to be a For the guests, you can't be busy.

After drinking at noon, Zhao Shitang mentioned that he was getting older, and this carpentry job was getting harder and harder.Then Wang Shaodong on the side began to think about whether he had absorbed his uncle as his own hired worker, to see where there was light work and let him do it.

(End of this chapter)