Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

In recent years, it can be said that Yangjia Village has been changing day by day. The old thatched and adobe houses are now basically invisible. The most common old houses are the red brick and large tile houses that are the envy of other villages. In the market

Several small three-story Western-style buildings appeared, and others were bungalows of a higher level than large tile-roofed houses.

Compared with last year's market, this year's market seems to have expanded a bit. In addition to people from the village and nearby villages who come to sell things, some vendors from towns and villages will also come to Yangjia Village to set up stalls while they are at the market. The whole market gives people a sense of excitement.

A prosperous scene.

After entering the village, Yang Dongxu didn't sit in the carriage anymore. He was almost frozen due to the cold wind along the way. So when he got to the village entrance, he jumped out, smiling and saying hello to the fellow villagers, and giving a speech to the people he met.

Those who arrive pass cigarettes.

"Where's your brother, Xiaoliang?" After walking around, Yang Dongxu found that except for the families who had business in the market, there were basically no other strong laborers in the village. Young people like Xiaowu who were over eighteen years old were not seen.

I didn't see many.

You must know that every time he came back, his playmate was very excited and ran to the entrance of the village early to wait for him to come back.

"I went to work in the south. I called back and said I wouldn't be back for two days." Xiao Liang said.

In fact, the most commonly used method of communication now is to write letters. Among the eight villages in ten miles, Yangjia Village has the advantage of having a phone. You can contact your family in time if there is anything.

"Gazi and the others have all gone to work?" Yang Dongxu asked, thinking that he had hardly met any of his playmates of the same age.

"Hmm, my brother also said that Ga Zi will bring a wife back." Xiao Liang said mysteriously.

Children aged fifteen or sixteen basically already know about men and women, but they only know about the impulses of adolescence, and they still don't know the difference between emotions and so on.

Nowadays, marriages in rural areas rarely talk about relationships. Blind dates only focus on the first impression. Relationships are something that is cultivated after marriage. In addition, divorce is definitely a shameful thing nowadays. Once a family in the village gets divorced, the whole town wants to know about it.

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So on the surface, these families who developed relationships after marriage are doing pretty well. At least the divorce rate is not as high as in later generations, and the relationship between men and women is not as chaotic as in later generations.

"Really?" Yang Dongxu was stunned for a moment.

Gazi is one year older than him and is now 19. In future generations, nineteen is still an age when you don’t even know how to go to school. But now, after sixteen or seventeen, you are basically considered the breadwinner of the family, and you will get married at seventeen or eighteen.

Examples are very common not only in rural areas, but also in cities.

So Yang Dongxu was not surprised that Gazi found a partner. He was surprised that Gazi actually brought a partner back from abroad. Compared with later generations, long-distance brides were rare in this era.

One is because traffic problems hinder communication between regions, and the second is that everyone maintains an instinctive vigilance against outsiders, and men and women are even more wary.

To talk about this, we have to talk about the educated youth in the chaotic era. At that time, many city people went to the countryside to join the queue and made many marriages. However, in the past few years, the educated youth returned to their hometowns and broke up many pairs of mandarin ducks.

In this era of extremely low divorce rates, many single-parent families are caused by the return of educated youths to their hometowns, and they definitely account for a certain proportion of the total number of single-parent families.

Therefore, if a foreign man wants to fall in love with a local girl, the first thing that the other person will think of is not to play with the girl and then leave as soon as she returns home during the Chinese New Year.

Similarly, when a girl from out of town marries a local man, the first feeling of the man's family is not that they are happy, but that they wonder whether the girl can be raised and whether she will run away in a few days.

Therefore, this has resulted in the phenomenon that today's emotionless families generally want to have children as soon as possible, because in most people's perception, whether they are men or women, as long as they have children, they will feel at ease, no matter what happens.

After conflicts and fights, they will reconcile for the sake of their children and continue living together.

"Of course it's true. I'll bring it back tomorrow with my brother and the others. It's said to be from Yunnan. Is Xuzi Yunnan far away from us? My brother said they have big mountains and wild boars...

...." Xiaoliang said with bright eyes.

Half-year-old children are always full of longing for the outside world, and every time Daliang calls back, although his parents worry about the phone bill and don't let him talk too much, their few words still make Xiaoliang, who has only been to the local Chengwang City, open to the outside world.

Full of curiosity.

"It's quite far away. It's in the southernmost part of our country. There seem to be a lot of mountains there, but the more mountainous you are, the poorer you are now."

"How can people be so poor in the mountains? There are a lot of wild boars, as well as sika deer and the like. If you take a few of them and sell them, you'll get a lot of money." Xiao Liang scratched his head in confusion.

His understanding is actually the current understanding of the mountains. The mountains are indeed rich in products. In the opinion of many people, the closer to the mountains, the richer they should be. It is like families close to the rivers have endless fish all year round.

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In fact, the situation is exactly the opposite. Mountainous areas have always been synonymous with poverty even in later generations. Unless they are tourist attractions, mountainous areas are synonymous with poverty.

Similarly, although the fishermen next to the big river have fish to eat, they are not as wealthy as farming. At least due to the shackles of transportation, the fish they catch cannot be transported out. However, the local people have no shortage of fish to eat, so their lives are relatively difficult.

It's a bit more poverty-stricken than farming.

"When there are more things, there are fewer people to buy them. For example, if your family is going to kill a pig this year, will you still sell pork?"

"If you kill your own pigs, why do you still need to buy pork?" Xiao Liang felt that Yang Dongxu asked this question inexplicably.

"So there are so many wild boars, and others can hunt wild boars, why should I buy your wild boars?" Yang Dongxu said with a smile.

"It seems to be the case, but the locals don't buy it, so they sell it to us. I haven't eaten wild boar meat yet. If someone sells wild boar meat at a low price, I will definitely buy it. But is it any good?" For those who understand,

Li Xiaoliang is undoubtedly more concerned about whether the wild boar meat is delicious.

"I've never eaten this, so I can't tell you."

"You haven't eaten it before, either?" Xiao Liang looked surprised.

Just as a college student should know everything, in Xiao Liang's opinion, Yang Dongxu, who went to school in Yanjing, should have eaten everything and seen everything. It was the capital of the motherland, what kind of food was there? What weird things were there?

can not see?

"I really haven't eaten it yet. If I have a chance to meet you in the future, I will buy some and share them with you to try together."

Although he is surrounded by Mr. Xuan and Mr. Yi, two people who are very particular about eating, Yang Dongxu has eaten game for many years. But most of the game is not large, and the main ones are wild rabbits, pheasants and the like. He has eaten it before.

In recent years, the country has begun to pay more attention to wild geese and swans. Old Man Xuan no longer has to hunt with traps for three meals a day, so he never ate them again.

So when he heard about wild boar meat, Yang Dongxu was a little excited. He thought about finding an opportunity to get some back and give it to his family to try. Anyway, this thing is not uncommon now, and it is still a hazard in mountain villages. In addition to the traffic,

In addition to the inconvenience and transportation costs that may be higher, the price itself is not high.

On the first day back, as usual, Yang's mother cooked a large table of dishes. My aunt and grandma came over to help, and the family sat together and had a big meal.

After the family is separated in the countryside, either relatives who support us come to visit us, or we seldom sit down to eat together during the holidays.

There are many factors that cause this phenomenon, but the most important factor is only one - poverty.

Nowadays, rural families are generally poor, so there is a way of entertaining guests by putting steamed buns into the bowls of relatives who come to eat. The reason why they put steamed buns into the bowls of relatives is because they are afraid that the relatives will not be full because they are too polite and they will not be able to entertain themselves.

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Because everyone is poor and cannot have enough to eat, it is easy for families to argue over trivial matters. Later generations often say that the richer people are, the stingier they are, but they will also become stingy when they are poor enough, and they will also be stingy about trivial matters in life.

This makes poor families have to be careful and care about everything.

However, this reason obviously does not apply to Yang Dongxu's family. Since her rebirth, except for the cereal noodles that she ate for a period of time in the first two years, her life has become better year by year.

Therefore, the reason why we rarely eat together with our grandparents after they separated is naturally because they are now two families. Although they are still one family, there are already differences.

Unless there is a festival or something happens, if we always eat together, we won’t quarrel over less food, but it will become awkward. So when we celebrate something good, the family will sit together and have a meal together.

Everyone eats what he wants at his own time.

The meal ended successfully. Mother Yang and others were busy in the kitchen cleaning up the dishes, while Grandpa smoked his pipe and went to look for someone to help him. Usually nothing happened. Father Yang rarely chatted with his uncle Shengli. Although they are brothers, they are still young.

The two elders spend less time chatting together, and they don't exchange as many words in private as at the wine table.

"What happened to the vegetables in the greenhouse that my uncle said before?" Yang Dongxu asked.

"What else can happen? I'm jealous." The uncle snorted very dissatisfied.

Rural people rarely borrow money to develop anything, especially when one borrows a huge sum of 10,000 yuan. Many people will not be able to sleep after borrowing so much money, so although many people are interested in building vegetable greenhouses, it is really

The only ones who did it were the grandfather and his family, not to mention the pig farm. Only the Yang brothers did it.

It stands to reason that you won’t be beaten, and no one will beg you or force you to do anything. But as winter comes, the grandfather’s family begins to produce vegetables, and each kind can be bought at a good price. The pig farm of Yang Dongxu’s family

Not to mention, there are hundreds of big fat pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

As a result, those who did not grow vegetables in the greenhouse felt bad. At first, they were talking behind their backs. Later, they simply harmed others and did not benefit themselves. Someone cut a big hole in the vegetable greenhouse of the two grandfathers' houses.

The vegetables next to them were all frozen and wilted. Fortunately, they were discovered early, otherwise the loss would be even greater.

The angry uncle's wife and daughter-in-law jumped and cursed at the entrance of the village, making the whole village unhappy. The people in the uncle's family did not have a good sleep these days. They patrolled all day and night for fear that someone would cause trouble again, which made the whole village unhappy.

Seeing that the vegetables sold at high prices at the end of the year were wasted.