Network New Liao Zhai

Chapter 258

Xiao Ou led the way, and Guo Qiqi and Xu Feng followed into the village.

A stone-paved path winds forward and upwards, and walking on it is like climbing stairs.

No wonder Xiao Ou said the car couldn't drive in.

The village is built on the hillside.

The road is also winding.

There are wooden stilted buildings and stone tiled houses in the village, which are connected together according to the mountain.

In the quiet village, there were occasional dogs barking.

Xiao Ou: "All the young people in the village have gone out to work, and the rest are old people, women and children. Most of them go to bed early in this cold weather. My house will be here soon."

Xiaoou's house is a three-story wooden building on stilts.

Guo Qiqi: "Xiaoou, your house is an ancient building."

"This is all left by my grandfather. Grandpa is a carpenter in the village. He earned enough money to repair this building with his craftsmanship and left it to my dad. It's a pity that my dad died early because of illness, otherwise our family would not..."

"The next door is Ah Hui's family, and their conditions are worse than ours."

The next door is a stone house with no buildings, and the roof is covered with tiles.There was a faint light coming from the windows in the room.

"Well, it can be seen from the houses. Those who build small western-style buildings at the entrance of the village must be the first to get rich. Those who have houses on stilts in the village are considered ordinary families, and those who live in these stone houses must be the most wealthy. poor people."

"Correct, hehe."

Xiao Ou went to the next door and knocked on the door.

"Aunt Axiang, Aunt Axiang..."

"It's Xiaoou." A surprised voice came from the room, and then the door opened, and a woman came out.

"Xiao Ou, you are back...so fast..."

She looked over Xiao Ou's head and looked behind, probably thinking that Tan Afang and Ahui were following behind.It turned out that it wasn't. She was vaguely disappointed, but she covered it up in a blink of an eye, and said with a smile, "Xiao Ou has brought the guests back. Come in, come in."

The three of them were welcomed into the main room.

It was warm in the house.

A middle-aged man warmed himself by the fire while peeling corn.

"It's Xiaoou who's back."

Bracing to stand up.

"Uncle, Uncle, it's not convenient for you to get up, and you're not an outsider."

"Well, there are still guests here."

Finally, with the help of Ah Xiang, he stood up and greeted Guo Qiqi and Xu Feng.

Xiao Ou introduced them: "This is my Uncle Shengchang, and this is Aunt Axiang. This is my brother and sister Xu Feng and Guo Qiqi from the university."

Guo Qiqi and Xu Feng: "I'm causing you trouble."

"Where is there, welcome, welcome...you are rare visitors... please sit down, come and enjoy the fire, isn't it cold on the road?"

"good."

Ah Xiang helped Shengchang to sit down.

On the way, Xiao Ou had already introduced the situation of Ahui's family. Ahui's father, Yang Shengchang, had injured his leg a few years ago and couldn't go out to work. The family relied on Aunt Axiang to farm the land to feed pigs and dig medicine to collect fungi to sell. Otherwise, the young Ah Hui would not be allowed to go out to earn money.

Guo Qiqi and Xu Feng sat down around the firepit as promised.

Aunt Ah Xiang: "Have you guys not eaten yet?"

Xiao Ou: "Not yet?"

"Then I'll get you something to eat."

"Okay, cook the noodles, I'll help you, aunt."

"I don't need you, hurry up and talk to the guests."

After speaking, I went to the kitchen.

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl came out of the house, looked at Xiao Ou and said in surprise: "Miss Ou, it's really you, I fell asleep just now, it sounds like you... Ha ha……"

"Xiaoqin, what are you doing up, go back to sleep."

"Hehe, I can't sleep anymore. Miss Ou, is my brother back yet?"

"Your brother...he...not yet."

Yang Shengchang interjected: "Your brother is going to work, and it's not a school holiday. How can you just leave as soon as you say, and you have to wait until work is suspended before you can come back. Right, Xiao Ou?"

"Yes……"

Aunt Axiang, I heard Xiaoqin's voice.came from the kitchen and said.Girl Qin, you're up, just in time, turn up the fire.Later, I will go to set up the firepit at your sister Ou's house.How else can people live at night? "

Xiao Ou said, "Auntie, let me go."

"Don't worry about it and let her go. Fortunately, we have cleaned your house yesterday and the day before yesterday, so you can live in it."

After speaking, I went back to the kitchen.

Xiaoqin took the tongs and pulled it into the firepit a few times, pulled out some black things and said to Xiao Ou: "Sister, good stuff, you can eat it."

Xiao Ou picked two of them with a stick and gave them to Guo Qiqi and Xu Feng, "Come and eat, be careful of burning."

"what is this…"

"Potato."

Xiao Ou added some firewood to the fire pit and said: "The winter here is cold, and the villagers hardly do farm work in winter. They just gather around this kind of fire pit to roast potatoes, roast sweet potatoes, crack peanuts and melon seeds all winter, and enjoy the whole year. In the rare leisure time, talk about the income of the past year, talk about the way the east and the west, and imagine that next year's harvest will be better than this year, and generations will survive like this."

Guo Qiqi carefully opened the dark shell of the potato, revealing the floury mashed potato inside. Take a bite, it's really delicious!

"Is it delicious?" Xiaoqin looked at them attentively, waiting for an answer.

Guo Qiqi nodded.

Xu Feng's mouth was full of potatoes, and he agreed vaguely. "Yeah, um, it's delicious..."

It is true that I am hungry.

After receiving the answer, Xiaoqin smiled with satisfaction, and even Yang Shengchang, who was sitting there peeling corn, also smiled, as long as the guests like it.

"I'll bake sweet potatoes for you guys tomorrow."

Xiao Ou: "Our high mountain potatoes and sweet potato powder are super delicious."

Aunt Ah Xiang: "Don't eat all that, the noodles are cooked, Xiaoqin, bring the small dining table here."

Xiao Qin moved a small square table and put it there. Xiao Ou had already gone to the kitchen to get the bowls and chopsticks. Aunt Ah Xiang brought out a bowl of noodles and put them on the table. "There's nothing to entertain. It's warm to eat some noodles."

Guo Qiqi saw that there were six poached eggs in the basin.

"This... still boils so many eggs."

"Not many, just two for one person. This is from my own chicken. I thought that Xiaoou and the others would come back soon, so I kept them all. Eat, eat."

Xiao Ou knows that eggs are usually sold for money, and only this month when the holiday is coming soon, Aunt Axiang will save the eggs and wait for her mother and herself to come back to eat.

"I'll just eat one."

Xiao Ou scooped up an egg and some noodles from a bowl and brought them to Yang Shengchang, "Uncle, it's already midnight, and I must be hungry too, so you can eat some too."

Yang Shengchang: "Here, here, I've had dinner and haven't done any activities, so I'm hungry."

Xiao Ou: "Eat it, Uncle, this won't support you, hehe."

Guo Qiqi: "One is enough for Xu Feng and I. We have to ask Aunt Axiang and Sister Xiaoqin to do the eggs for me."

Aunt Ah Xiang: "You guys...Xiao Ou, look at you..."

"Yes, it's fun when everyone eats together."

Aunt Ah Xiang wanted to say something else, but Yang Shengchang said: "Okay, let's not give way, let Xiaoou and the guests finish eating early and go to rest."

After several people finished eating the noodles in silence, Xiaoqin brought a clay pot, put some burning firewood into the pot and said, "Sister, I'll go over and light the fire first, and you can come back when it's almost done. "

Xiao Ou: "I'll go with you to clean up."

After speaking, she opened the door, and a gust of wind blew in, making her shiver involuntarily.

"Yeah, it's snowing."

Sure enough, it was already snowing heavily outside.

Ruixue is a prosperous year.

Aunt Ah Xiang also went to help, and Guo Qiqi, Xu Feng and Yang Shengchang were left in the room chatting while warming up.

"You have come all the way to this backcountry, you are not used to it, you are really negligent."

"No, no, it's good. It's so far away, it's rare to have such a peaceful place."

"We are here to experience life. Don't treat us as guests."

Yang Shengchang was still peeling corn in his hand, Guo Qiqi and Xu Feng also took one and learned to peel it.

This is the corn recovered in autumn. It has been dried and peeled slowly when I have free time.

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