In recent years, it can be said that Yangjiacun 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 coming to sell things from this village and nearby villages, 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 stopped sitting in the carriage. He 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, smiled, said hello to the villagers, and handed cigarettes to the people he met.
"Where's your brother, Xiaoliang?" After walking around for a while, Yang Dongxu found that except for the families who had business in the market, there were almost no other strong laborers in the village. Young people like Xiaowu who were over eighteen years old were not seen. 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. 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 any of his playmates of the same age.
"Hmm, my brother also said that Gazi is going to 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 feelings and so on.
Nowadays, in rural marriages, love is rarely discussed. During a blind date, the first impression is all about. Love is something that is only 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.
So on the surface, these families who develop relationships only 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 later generations.
"Really?" Yang Dongxu was stunned for a moment.
Gazi is one year older than him and is already 19 this year. Nineteen-year-old is still an age that would be too old to know how to go to school in future generations. But now, after 16 or 17, one is basically considered the breadwinner of the family. Marriage at 17 or 18 is 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.
Speaking of 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 youth 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 the other party will think of is not to play with the girl but 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 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 and continue living for the sake of their children.
"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 yearning for the outside world, and every time Daliang calls back, although his parents worry about the phone bill and don't let him nag 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 over there, but now the more mountainous you are, the poorer you are."
"How can there be poverty in the mountains? There are a lot of wild boars, as well as sika deer and so on. If you pull out a few 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 mountains by most people. The mountains are indeed rich in products. Many people think that the closer to the mountains, the richer they should be, just like families close to the rivers have endless fish to eat all year round.
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 river have fish to eat, they are not as wealthy as the farmers. At least under the shackles of transportation, the fish cannot be transported out, but the locals have no shortage of fish to eat, so their lives are relatively poor compared to those who farm.
"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?"
"Why do we need to buy pork when we kill pigs at home?" 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 like this, 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 and it's not expensive, I will definitely buy it. But is it 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 like as long as a college student should know everything, in Xiao Liang's opinion, Yang Dongxu, who studied in Yanjing, should have eaten everything and seen everything. That's the capital of the motherland. Is there anything to eat? What weird thing can't you 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 Old Man Xuan and Old Man Yi, two people who are very particular about food, Yang Dongxu has eaten wild game for many years. But most of the game is not large in size, and is mainly wild rabbits, pheasants and the like. I had eaten wild geese and swans before, but in recent years the country has begun to pay attention to them, and Old Man Xuan no longer had 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, Inconvenient transportation costs may be higher, but 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 to help, and the family sat together and had a big meal.
After the family is separated in the countryside, either the relatives who support us come to visit, 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 they have a way of treating relatives who come to visit them by pressing steamed buns into their bowls when eating. The reason why I put the steamed buns into the bowls of my relatives was because I was afraid that my relatives would not be full if they were too polite and I would not be able to entertain them properly.
Because poor people rarely 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 get a little poor. The trivial matters in life make 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.
If there is no holiday or something happens, we always eat together. Although we won't quarrel over less food, it will become awkward. So when something good happens to celebrate, the family will sit together and have a meal, and other times they will have their own meals.
The meal ended successfully. Mother Yang and the others were busy in the kitchen cleaning up the dishes, while Grandpa was smoking a pipe and looking for someone to mess with him. Usually nothing happened. Father Yang rarely chatted with his uncle Shengli. Although they were brothers, they were still young. The two elders chatted less and less together, and they did not 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 if they borrow a huge sum of 10,000 yuan. Many people will not be able to sleep after borrowing so much money. Therefore, although many people are interested in building vegetable greenhouses, only the grandfather and his family are actually doing it, not to mention the pig farm. Only the Yang brothers can do it. alley.
It stands to reason that if you don't get knocked down, 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. Not to mention Yang Dongxu's pig farm, there are hundreds of big fat pigs waiting to be slaughtered.
As a result, those who did not grow vegetables in greenhouses felt bad, and started gossiping behind their backs. Later, I simply harmed others without benefiting myself. Someone cut a big hole in the vegetable greenhouse of the first two grandfathers' homes. All the vegetables next to the hole were frozen and wilted. Fortunately, it was 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.
