"Big sister, where are you from?"
The others also pricked up their ears and listened attentively.
After being out for so long, Xinxin had grown more cautious. She first glanced at Song Shiwei, making sure she smiled at her, before speaking: "We are from the north, and this time we are also here to visit relatives. My aunt is over in Kadazi Mountain!"
One of Old Man Wang's daughters-in-law laughed.
"No wonder you don't look like locals. Your accent sounds just as good as the announcer on the loudspeaker! So you're from the north. Then what kind of relatives are you to the Yang family's daughter-in-law?"
Xinxin looked at Song Shiwei, who pursed her lips and smiled, "Well, to be honest, the Yang family's daughter-in-law is my distant sister. I am the granddaughter of her great-grandmother's daughter's aunt's family! This is my mother, and this is my father. My grandmother's generation fled famine to the north and got married there. My mother met my father, and now we all live there!"
As soon as she finished speaking, not only did Old Man Wang's family fall silent, but even Zhao Huili and Song Zhiyong were stunned.
Everyone is thinking what is the connection?
Old man Wang's daughters-in-law thought about it. They didn't know many words to begin with, and now after hearing what Song Shiwei said, it was like listening to a foreign language.
Finally, Old Man Wang's wife slapped her thigh and laughed, "Well! Anyway, you are all distant relatives of Yang's wife! Since we are all relatives, we are family! Come and eat, eat, eat!"
Everyone started laughing.
"Yes, yes, we are all relatives!"
"Yes, yes, yes!! Come and eat, eat!"
The atmosphere seemed to become lively all of a sudden.
The people on the wall seemed to be whispering as well.
"So he's a relative of Yang's wife!"
"Yes, a relative of the Yang family's daughter-in-law!"
"Come on, stop looking, go back and eat!"
“Go, go, go!”
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Old man Wang's wife held Zhao Huili's hand and smiled with wrinkles on her face.
"Oh, sister-in-law, this is like going home!"
Old Man Wang also laughed: "Right, right, right, let's go back to our own home! Don't be polite! Old lady, clean up the room and put on a new mattress!"
Zhao Huili and Song Zhiyong were a little overwhelmed by their sudden enthusiasm.
He looked at Song Shiwei and saw her winking at him, so he smiled and nodded.
"Yes, yes, go back home! Big sister, you don't have to be so polite!"
When these words were spoken, Song Xinxin covered her mouth and laughed.
Her mother's explanation made her grandmother look like she was from Guizhou Province! She even had to change her ancestral place of origin!
Seeing her giggling, how could Zhao Huili not know what she was thinking? She secretly pinched her with one hand.
Xinxin laughed even more happily.
Song Shiwei took a look at the food at Old Man Wang's house: wild vegetable dumplings, multi-grain pancakes, and the only dishes except for a cold cucumber, fried eggplant and fried beans. None of them looked oily, and at the end, there was a turnip pickled in salt.
Normally, since Old Man Wang's family delivered food to the guesthouse, their life should not be too bad. But even so, it seemed that their life was not very good.
I picked up the dish and took a bite, and it tasted nothing but salty.
Zhao Huili and Song Zhiyong also looked at each other in surprise.
Not to mention that Song Shiwei and Song Wenlin have made money in recent years and the family has no worries about food and drink, even when the children were young and she and Song Zhiyong lived on their wages, they had never lived such a poor life.
Old Mrs. Song knows how to enjoy life. If the food at home is not tasty, she will complain about it for several days.
Although you can't put a lot of oil, the taste is still good.
The dishes in front of me obviously didn't even have soy sauce, let alone other seasonings.
When they think about the mountains here, it is not easy to go out. They have been walking for so long and haven't seen even a town. Even the villages are pitifully few. It is definitely not convenient to buy things.
Their living conditions here are not as good as those in Beijing in the 1960s and 1970s, or even far worse.
Things are like this here, Zhao Huili doesn't even dare to imagine what life is like for her little girl over there.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but ask Old Man Wang's wife.
"Big sister, I want to ask, how is it over at Kadazi Mountain?"
Hearing her words, Old Man Wang's wife smiled.
"Sister-in-law, are you worried about your little girl?"
Zhao Huili nodded quickly.
At this time, Old Man Wang suddenly put down his chopsticks and sighed.
"Sister-in-law, I'm not saying anything bad about Kadazi Mountain. It's not an exaggeration to say that it's a poor, mountainous place with bad water. The roads there are very difficult to walk on, and they're all rugged mountain roads. Look! It's right over there. Just climb over two hills and you'll be there!"
Zhao Huili and Song Shiwei looked in the direction of his finger, and what caught their eyes was a towering mountain with several small hills next to it. The mountain was towering into the clouds. Although it was getting dark, it didn't seem too dark here, probably because of the high altitude.
A faint yellow glow can be seen on the other side of the mountain.
Old Man Wang's wife said, "Sister-in-law, to be honest, the mountain road is difficult to walk on. I'm afraid you can't climb up. Besides, you don't know the way. If you don't have a local to lead you, it's easy to get lost in the mountains! Although we usually don't get into trouble in this deep mountain forest!"
"But, I'm not trying to scare you. There really are wild animals in these mountains! Last year, two women went into the mountains together to pick herbs to sell. They went in and never came out again. The villagers went to look for them, but all they found was a pile of shredded clothes and a pile of broken bones! We have no idea what wild animal ate them!"
When she said this, Zhao Huili, Xinxin and even Song Zhiyong all turned pale.
Song Shiwei thought of his experience in Death Valley, and he still feels scared when he thinks about it now!
At the beginning, they were trying their best to save Zhou Tingyue and didn't care about being afraid at all. But now thinking about the wolves, the swamp and the poisonous miasma, if it weren't for Old Li, they might have really died in there!
Pursing her lips, she asked, "Auntie, I want to ask how we can get to Kadazi Mountain? If we find some locals to follow us, can we get there?"
Old Man Wang's wife nodded. "That's really the only way to get in. Or maybe someone from over there will come pick us up. These wild animals are actually afraid of people. As long as there are enough people and they don't get lost deep in the mountains, we can usually get through! Except for wolves, those wild animals are solitary. As long as we go in a group, they will hear the noise from afar and run away!"
Old Man Wang looked up and asked them, "Is there anyone coming to pick you up over there?"
Zhao Huili shook her head and looked at Song Shiwei nervously, her eyes red.
Song Shiwei knew that she felt bad. One reason was that she didn't know how they were going to get through, and the other was that she felt sorry for Song Shimiao, who had insisted on coming to the mountainous area to teach and had been away for several years.
Her daughter doesn't miss her, but as a mother, how could she not miss her own daughter?
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