Rebirth Space Farming

Chapter 97 Filial Piety
After riding the mountain road for a long time, Zhuo Feng was indeed tired, so Xiao Xian asked her to take a bath in the house first.

The conditions in the village are not good enough to have showers and toilets. Taking a shower can only be done in Xiaoxian's room with the curtains drawn and a few wipes.

Xiao Xian went to the kitchen to steal a few bites of vegetables, but was chased out by Aunt Lian with a shovel.

She went around the house and wiped the dining table.Zhu Shijun had already picked a melon and put it aside, the old man didn't notice Xiao Xian came over, and took a hoe to turn up the soil.

Still wielding a hoe in his hand, he hoed a few watermelon vines that had plucked all the watermelons into the ground.The old man was very skillful in doing farm work, and he was not at all like the corrupt and criminal official that Zhuo Feng was talking about.

After hoeing the ground, Zhu Shijun also picked up a few large pieces of mud, crushed them with his hands, and threw them into the ground again.The old man has always been famous for his love for the soil. "Soil is the foundation of farmers' survival", this sentence is often on his lips.

"Grandpa?" Xiao Xian called out.

"Aren't you going in to accompany your aunt? She hasn't seen you for several years, why? Don't you remember her?" Zhu Shijun turned his head, his face still covered with sweat.From the eyes that have never looked at him since he was a child, he can read some meanings that are different from usual.Zhuo Feng told her already?Talk about his past, and Xiaoxian's parents were all killed by him?
Zhu Shijun was not too sad, the truth will be revealed one day, it's just a matter of time.

"I don't remember, Xiaoxian has only one family member," Xiaoxian said, hugging the watermelon.

A loved one, this sentence is sweeter than the sweetest watermelon, and it has been sweet to Zhu Shijun's heart.At the same time, it was also extremely sour, making Zhu Shijun's heart sour.

"Xiao Xian, remember that grandpa told you that you have no regrets in being a man, and grandpa doesn't want you to have any regrets," Zhu Shijun sighed in his heart as he watched his granddaughter walk around to the front of the house.

His military life may really end in the small mountain village, but his granddaughter can't stay here forever.

This was the old man's final decision after thinking about it for several hours in the room alone when Xiao Xian and Zhuo Feng were out.

Sister Lian's craftsmanship was praised by Zhuo Feng.Zhuo Feng is a typical urban young woman. She has never done farm work at home, nor has she ever cooked. Seeing Sister Lian busy in the kitchen, she served all kinds of dishes one after another in a short while, and couldn't help but shoot I'm flattering.

The three cold dishes are: the tender cucumbers picked from the melon vine within a few hours, washed with well water, smashed with the back of a knife, cut into easy-to-eat sizes, sprinkled with minced garlic and chili to marinate of salt water.

The unripe tomatoes were cut into petals with a knife and sprinkled with sugar.The marinated chicken feet bought in a small shop at the entrance of the village, when eaten into the mouth, the bones are crispy and rotten.

The hot dishes are much more refined. The big fat fish caught by the village chief was not steamed or stewed, but braised with distiller's grains after the scales were removed and the belly was dissected.That's the authentic farm way of eating. The grass carp has an earthy smell, but the meat quality is not bad.After cooking with the leftover distiller's grains, the distiller's koji makes the fish more fragrant and tender, and the earthy smell is completely removed.This dish is considered Sisters of Lian's specialty. As soon as the fish was served, not only Xiao Xian, but even Zhuo Feng, the "big naughty boy", couldn't control it, so he let go of his appetite and ate it.

The fish is delicious, and there is also duck soup with straw mushrooms. In summer, the chicken soup drys up the stomach, so Zhu Shijun asked Mrs. Lian to go to the neighbor's house to buy a three-jin old duck, with some straw mushrooms, and simmer it Before it comes out of the pot, I roll out the noodles by myself.Zhuo Feng ate three bowls in a row before he stopped, and could only sigh in vain at the pork cut that was served at the end.

Add a few slices of watermelon, and all the heat from the whole day will be driven away by the sweetness that stays on the taste buds.Zhuo Feng wanted to help wash the dishes, but was stopped by Xiaoxian again.

Xiaoxian was pressing water at the mouth of the well, swishing the pots and bowls, looking very skillful.Zhu Shijun turned on the radio and listened to the radio like he did hundreds of nights before Zhuo Feng came.

Xiaoxian poured the dishwashing water into the ground behind the house, the sound of the water startled the fireflies that were living on the melon vines, and they flew up one after another.Time gurgled by like the water flowing from the outlet of a hand-pressed well.Zhuo Feng only felt that the fatigue all over his body disappeared, and felt that such a life might not be bad.

"Miss Zhuo," Zhu Shijun had already finished listening to the radio, followed Zhuo Feng to look at the dots around the melons and vines, and there was some light in his eyes, "If you are interested, I will live in the mountains for a few days. I'll let Xiaoxian pack up and go down the mountain with you."

Zhu Shijun's words were finalized, and immediately stunned Zhuo Feng.

Zhu Shijun actually gave in?He who has been arbitrary and domineering all his life, was avoiding her two years ago and refused to confess Xiaoxian's whereabouts, so why did he change his temper after dinner.

"You want to bury your sister-in-law's ashes earlier?" This was the only reason Zhuo Feng could think of to make Zhu Shijun compromise.

"Miss Zhuo, I'd better call you Afeng. I heard your brother often call you that. I have been in business for more than 60 years. Thanks to the support of a few old comrades in arms, I was able to escape from prison. It is also thanks to my little brother. Xian is by my side. In recent years, my body has become much stronger than before. But time is merciless to old people. People like me may not wake up after lying down one day. It's the best arrangement for Xiao Xian to bring BJ back." Zhu Shijun's melancholy tone infected Zhuo Feng.

The same emotion will also appear in the mouths of Zhuo Feng's parents who often appear.People of all ages hope that their children will get married early, have a stable job, and be happy with each other.She is an unfilial daughter, and she became a member of the Beidiao family after graduation. Fortunately, she met her current husband and got married, which made her parents feel at ease.

The hostility was gradually weakening, and the wall of hatred that had been built in Zhuo Feng's heart was disintegrating little by little.

"Grandpa, what are you talking about? Come and have a look, there are shooting stars in the sky." The Eight Immortals Table has been put away, and Xiao Xian brought out two wicker chairs and a stool, and asked Grandpa and Zhuo Feng to come over and look at the sky.

In the sky, a few white lights streaked across the twinkling stars.

"It's August now, and the meteor shower in the sky should be the Perseids. If you look to the northeast corner, there are more meteors over there," Zhuo Feng still had a girlish dream. She loved watching it when she was in college. There was a meteor shower, and once I even took my classmates to the Great Wall to watch the meteor shower in the middle of the night.

"It's said that meeting a star blind man and making a wish is very effective," Xiao Xian muttered, taking advantage of a shooting star passing through the sky, he made a wish.When she was in Yunteng, she always referred to Meteor as Blind Star.The stars all over the sky stayed in one place, but the star-blind man couldn't figure out the direction and ran around.

After nightfall, Xiao Xian asked Zhuo Feng to sleep on the bed, and moved a mat to spread on the scrubbed ground. Anyway, it was summer, so sleeping on the ground was not afraid of freezing.

Zhuo Feng refused, and the two argued for a long time, and finally broke up, and both of them slept on the bed, lying sideways.Xiao Xian's bed was not big, about 1.3 meters high, and the two of them were in the air with their calves hanging out, so it goes without saying that neither of them slept well.

"Xiaoxian, I'm sorry, I've had the idea of ​​giving up on looking for you several times in the past few years," Zhuo Feng couldn't sleep, and put his arm on the pillow, speaking out what was in his heart.

"I heard what grandpa said behind the house tonight," although Zhu Shijun and Zhuo Feng lowered their voices at that time, but after being promoted to the bronze space, Xiaoxian's eyesight can reach night In the daytime, within a hundred meters, even a mosquito flapped its wings, and she was able to accurately determine the location by sound.

"Then you agreed?" Zhuo Feng sat up excitedly, although she was in the dark, her face was still shining brightly.

"Well," Xiaoxian knew that even if she insisted on staying in the village, Zhu Shijun would still persuade her repeatedly.Grandpa also said before she entered the house that she had to transport her parents' ashes back to her father's hometown.Bai Shan filial piety is the first, she has taken over "Xiao Xian"'s grandfather and her only remaining family relationship, so she must help "Xiao Xian" complete what a child should do.This is just one of Xiaoxian's reasons for leaving Ge Village. BJ is the place where Zhu Shijun was wronged, and it is also the place where "Xiaoxian"'s parents were forced to die. The truth, she never believed that Zhu Shijun was corrupt and perverted the law, and she wanted to make grandpa feel no regrets.

In the next room, Zhu Shijun's eyes glistened with tears, and his heart was full of sorrow.This decision was expected by him. Xiaoxian had grown up and was able to make independent decisions.She was a very filial child, and after hearing him tell the story of her parents' ashes and grandparents, she fell silent.As a grandfather, he should be happy that he can raise such an obedient and good boy.Don't be sad, don't be sad, it will be bad if Xiaoxian wakes up tomorrow morning and finds out.

Zhu Shijun walked softly into the room, and opened the nanmu box he brought from BJ.

The moonlight streaming in through the screened window illuminated the items in the box.A blue household registration book, a red passbook, and a yellowed party constitution with curled edges, opened the title page of the party constitution, and there were several signatures in different styles on it.

"In the future, it will be up to you to help look after Xiao Xian," Zhu Shijun received the three things at hand, planning to hand them all over to Xiao Xian tomorrow morning.

The conversation next door slowly subsided, and there were bursts of frog croaking outside, and Zhuo Feng beside him had fallen asleep, breathing evenly.

Leaving Gecun means saying goodbye to everything here, Leigong Mountain, Bailongtan, villagers, Yezi, Taozhi and Master Shanyin. Well, for four years, these people and places have more or less been installed in her heart.

It's better to get up early tomorrow morning, while the sun is not strong, go and tell everyone the news of leaving Gecun.Xiaoxian raised her hand, shook it slightly, and the little silver bell on Meilou made a crisp and pleasant sound.

The ringing of the bell has been passed through the layers of forests in the mountains, through the Bailongtan where the moon is shining slantingly, through the Black Mountain, and reached a stilted building in the southeast Miao Village.

"Xiaoxian still has an aunt? I haven't heard her mention it before. It looks like she's from the city. Get up early tomorrow morning and go find out what her aunt is doing in the mountains." Yezi thought to himself, how could he not Unexpectedly, this time Xiaoxian's aunt came to take her away.

(End of this chapter)