The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

In recent years, Yangjia Village can be said to be different every day. The old thatched houses with adobe are basically invisible now. The most old houses are the red brick and large tile houses that other villages envy. There are even a few small three-story western-style buildings, and others are bungalows higher than the big tile-roofed houses.

Compared with last year's fair, this year's fair seems to have expanded a bit. In addition to the people who came to sell things in the village and nearby villages, some vendors in the townships will also come to Yangjia Village to set up stalls during the fair. A thriving scene.

After entering the village, Yang Dongxu didn't sit in the back of the car, and was almost frozen to death by the cold wind along the way. So when he was at the entrance of the village, he jumped down, greeted fellow villagers with a smile, and handed cigarettes to people he met.

"Where's your brother Xiaoliang?" After walking around, Yang Dongxu found that except for those who had business in the market, other people in the village had hardly seen the strong laborers. Young people like Xiang Xiaowu who were over eighteen years old Didn't see a few either.

You must know that every time I came back before, this 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, and I called back and said that I won't be back until two days later." Xiao Liang said.

In fact, the most commonly used method of communication now is to write letters. Shilibacun only has a phone in Yangjiacun to take advantage of it. If there is anything, I can contact my family in time.

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

"Yeah, my brother also said that Gazi is going to bring a daughter-in-law back." Xiao Liang said mysteriously.

Fifteen and sixteen children basically already know about the relationship between men and women, but what they know is only the impulse of puberty, and they still don't know clearly about feelings.

Today's rural marriages seldom talk about feelings, blind dates are based on first impressions, and feelings are something that is cultivated after marriage. In addition, divorce is absolutely embarrassing now. Once a family in the village gets divorced, the whole town would like to know about it.

So on the face of it, these families that develop 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 froze for a moment.

Gazi is one year older than him and is already 19 this year. Nineteen years old will be the age at which no one knows how to go to school. But now after the 16th or 17th, it is basically considered the pillar of the family. Examples of getting married on the 17th or 18th are very common in cities, not to mention rural areas.

So Yang Dongxu was not surprised that Ga Zi had found a partner, but he was surprised that Ga Zi had brought a date back from another place. Compared with later generations, brides from different places in this era are rare.

One is that the communication between regions is hindered by traffic problems, and the second is that everyone maintains an instinctive vigilance towards foreigners, especially between men and women.

Speaking of this, I have to talk about the educated youth in the chaotic era. In that era, many urbanites went to the countryside to jump in the queue and made many marriages. However, the educated youth who returned home a few years ago did not know how many couples broke up.

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

Therefore, if a man from a foreign country wants to fall in love with a local girl, the first thing the other party thinks of is whether to play with other girls as soon as they return to their hometown for Chinese New Year, pat their ass and leave.

Similarly, when a foreign girl wants to marry a local man, the first thing the man’s family thinks is not happiness, but whether the girl can be raised and lived, and whether he will run away in a few days.

Therefore, this has caused the phenomenon that families without feelings generally want children as soon as possible, because in most people's cognition, no matter whether it is a man or a woman, as long as they have children, they will feel at ease in their hearts. After conflicts and fights, they will also reconcile for the sake of the children and continue to live.

"Of course it's true. I'll bring it back tomorrow, and I'll come back with my brother and the others. I said it's from Yunnan. Is Xuzi Yunnan far from our place? My brother said that they have mountains and wild boars." Xiao Said with bright eyes.

The half-grown child is always yearning for the outside world, and every time Da Liang calls back, although his parents are distressed about the phone bill and won’t let him talk too much, the few words still make Xiao Liang, who has been to the local Chengwang City as far away as possible, speak 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 now the more mountains there are, the poorer we are."

"How can there be poverty in the mountains? Didn't it mean that there are a lot of wild boars, and sika deer and so on. It's a lot of money to pull a few of them and sell them." Xiao Liang scratched his head in confusion.

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

In fact, the situation is quite the opposite. Mountainous areas have been synonymous with poverty since the dawn of time, even in later generations. Unless it is a tourist attraction, mountainous areas are synonymous with poverty.

Similarly, although those who fish beside the big river have fish to eat, they are not rich enough to farm. At least under the shackles of transportation, the fish cannot be transported out, and the local people have no shortage of fish to eat, so their life is relatively poor compared to farming.

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

"I have butchered a pig, why do I 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, so why buy yours?" Yang Dongxu said with a smile.

"It seems to be such a reason, but the locals don't buy it, so they sell it to us. I haven't eaten wild pork. If someone sells wild pork, I will definitely buy it. But is wild pork good?" The truth is that Xiaoliang is more concerned about whether the wild pork is delicious or not.

"I haven't eaten this, so I can't tell you."

"You haven't eaten it either?" Xiao Liang was surprised.

It's the same reason that as long as you are a college student, you should know everything. In Xiaoliang's opinion, Yang Dongxu, who is studying in Yanjing, should have eaten and seen everything. That's the capital of the motherland. Do you have anything to eat? What weird things can't be seen?

"I really haven't eaten it. If I have a chance to meet in the future, I will buy some and give you some to taste together."

Although he was surrounded by old man Xuan and old man Yi, two people who were very particular about food, Yang Dongxu did not eat less game all these years. But most of the wild game is not big, and the wild rabbit and pheasant are the main ones. I used to eat wild geese and swans, but in recent years the country has started to pay more attention to them. Old man Xuan didn't have to go hunting for three meals a day, so he didn't eat them again.

So when he heard wild pork, Yang Dongxu also felt a little twitchy, thinking about whether he should find a chance to get some back and give his family a try. Anyway, this stuff is not uncommon now, and it is still a disaster in the mountain village, except for the traffic. Inconvenient transportation costs may be higher, the price itself is not high.

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

After the separation of families in the countryside, if it wasn't for the close relatives who came to the door, or the family members seldom sat together for dinner during the holidays.

There are many factors that cause this phenomenon, and there is only one heaviest element—poor.

Nowadays, rural families are generally poor, so there is a way of hospitality that will press steamed buns into the bowl for relatives who come to eat. I just put the steamed buns into the relatives' bowls, because I was afraid that the relatives would be too polite to eat and I would not entertain them well.

Because poor people don't have enough to eat, it's easy for families to argue about trivial matters. Later generations often say that the richer people are, the more stingy they are, but they will also be stingy when they are poor to a certain extent. The trivial matters of life make poor families have to plan carefully and become haggling.

But this reason obviously does not apply to Yang Dongxu's family. Since she was reborn, except for the fact that she ate whole grain noodles at home for a period of time in the first two years, her life has been getting better every year.

So the reason why I seldom eat together with my grandparents after the separation is naturally because the separation is already two families. Although they are still one family, they have already been differentiated.

If you don’t have a holiday or encounter something, you always eat together, although you won’t quarrel over eating less, but it will become embarrassing. Therefore, when a good event is celebrated, the family will sit together and have a meal, and at other times they will have their own meals.

The meal came to a successful conclusion. Mama Yang and the others were busy in the kitchen cleaning up the dishes, while Grandpa was smoking a cigarette and looking for someone to put him on the horse. Usually nothing happened. Papa Yang seldom chatted with Uncle Shengli. The two elders spend less time chatting together, and they haven't exchanged as many words in private as at the wine table.

"Uncle, what happened to the vegetables in the greenhouse?" Yang Dongxu asked.

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

Rural people rarely borrow money to develop something, especially a huge sum of tens of thousands of yuan. Many people will not be able to sleep after borrowing so much money, so although many people are tempted to build vegetable greenhouses, the grandpa's family is the only one who really does it, let alone the pig farm. alley.

It stands to reason that you don't get pulled down, and no one begs you or forces you to do anything. But with the coming of winter, my grandfather's house began to produce vegetables, and each kind can be bought at a good price. Not to mention Yang Dongxu's pig farm, where hundreds of big fat pigs are waiting to be slaughtered.

As a result, those who did not grow vegetables in the greenhouse felt uncomfortable, and at first they were talking behind their backs. Later, they simply hurt others and benefited themselves. Someone cut a big hole in the vegetable shed of the first two grandparents. All the vegetables next to the hole were frozen and wilted. Fortunately, they were discovered early, otherwise the loss would be even greater.

The angry grandpa's wife and daughter-in-law jumped and cursed at the entrance of the village, which made the whole village unhappy. These days, the people in the grandpa's family didn't get a good night's sleep. Seeing that the high-priced vegetables sold at the end of the year were ruined.