The sun was hanging in the west sky, shining a patch of light into the house, making it warm.
Liu Xinghua chopped cabbage and pork fat to make stuffing, wrapped it in white and soft dough, and then rolled it into the shape of a steamed bun.
Qian Chuan, with a five-month-old belly, sat at the table to help Liu Xinghua make steamed buns. Liu Xinghua called her several times, asking her to put down her hands and go out to bask in the sun, but she just sat there and didn't move, insisting on helping Liu Xinghua make steamed buns.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law kept each other company, talking while working, which was not boring.
After the steamed buns were made, they were placed in the steamer, and under the steamer was a large pot of boiling water. Liu Xinghua used the clean wet cloth to seal the seams of the steamer, and sat behind the stove to continue to light the fire and steam the steamed buns, while Qian Chuan still sat beside her and talked to her.
After steaming two baskets of white and plump steamed buns, the sun also set behind the mountain top, and the sky in the west was full of rosy clouds.
Qian Chuan stood up with his waist in his hand, wanting to go to the toilet, but just as he walked to the door, he suddenly saw a group of five children from the city almost reaching the door, and several of them had some luggage in their hands.
Ruan Xi and the others naturally saw Qian Chuan and shouted, "Auntie!"
Qian Chuan smiled happily, "Finally you're back."
Liu Xinghua heard the voice and asked behind the stove, "Who's back?"
Qian Chuan stood in the door frame and looked back at her, "Who else could it be? Your five grandchildren."
Hearing this, Liu Xinghua quickly put down the half-washed basket cloth in her hand and came out. Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie, and Ruan Hongjun just happened to arrive at the door, and they had to greet them as grandma and auntie again.
But since they had been here last year, they were much more familiar with each other this time, and there was no need to introduce them back and forth.
Liu Xinghua led them into the house, and gave them a big steamed bun that had just come out of the pot. She smiled and said, "It's filled with Chinese cabbage and pork fat. It's greasy and delicious. Come and try it. You must be hungry on the road."
After two days of walking on the mountain road, it was rare to eat something hot. Ruan Hongjun took it without hesitation and took a big bite. He bit into the stuffing inside, so he groaned again because it was hot.
Qian Chuan smiled and continued to go to the toilet. When she came back, she ran into Ruan Zhigao and Ruan Changsheng. Ruan Changsheng saw her and ran over to support her, calling her his darling and asking her to be careful.
Qian Chuan was a person who loved to crawl around outside. She didn't like the coquettish style. She opened Ruan Changsheng's hand and said to him, "Don't shout. Xiaoxi and Xiaojie are back. The three who came last year are also here."
Ruan Changsheng was not surprised at all. He still supported her and said, "They came back last year. They will definitely come back this year. Xiaoxi and Xiaojie are two good children who grew up in the countryside and have deep feelings for us."
He was not in a hurry, but Ruan Zhigao immediately quickened his pace and hurried home.
When he entered the house and saw five children in the room, he smiled with joy.
Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie and others greeted him one after another, and all said, "Grandpa is back."
Ruan Zhigao found a place to sit down and asked them with a smile, "How are you? You must be tired on the road." Ruan
Hongjun liked to eat stuffing with oil-dregs and Chinese cabbage. He took a big bite and said, "It's much better than last year. We walked faster. It's not even dark now. It was dark when we arrived last year."
Just as he finished speaking, Ruan Changsheng came back with Qian Chuan.
Ruan Hongjun jumped up from the bench, rushed to Ruan Changsheng and said, "Fifth Uncle! You are finally back!"
Ruan Changsheng glanced at him, helped Qian Chuan to sit on the bench, "What's wrong? Do you miss me so much?"
Ruan Hongjun nodded desperately at him, "I miss you so much, I have been missing you for a year!"
Ruan Changsheng stretched out his hand and rubbed his head twice, like rubbing a dog's head, "It's not in vain that I told you so many stories."
The atmosphere became more lively with more people in the house, and everyone talked without stopping.
In contrast to the extremely lively atmosphere in the side room, the main room of Ruan Changgui and Sun Xiaohui was deserted. If the children didn't come to say hello to them, they would be embarrassed to lick their faces, so they could only do this.
In the past two years, they have lived neither good nor bad, because Ruan Yuejin also went to dig for work points, and there are only four people in the family, and there is no child to go to school to spend money, so there is no problem with eating enough.
But compared with the life of Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua, it is still far behind. After all, Ruan Changsheng can do the work of two people, and Ruan Cuizhi is the only tailor on Fengming Mountain, and she can make a lot of money every year.
Because of Ruan Cuizhi's craftsmanship, the family has meat to eat from time to time, and they live a very comfortable life.
Ruan Changgui and Sun Xiaohui were jealous of the good life in their hometown, and they also regretted that they had made a fuss about splitting up the family. They also tried to curry favor with Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua, but Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua were hard-hearted and ignored them.
They were annoyed, so they scolded Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua behind their backs for being partial, cruel and unworthy of being parents. They
were all their children, so why did the eldest and the fifth child live a good life, while he, the second child, had to live a hard life!
Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua could not hear them, so they could make up stories and scold them behind their backs. Anyway, they were the ones who made a fuss about splitting up the family, and they were not the parents who kicked them out, so how could they say they were not right.
Ruan Xi had been at odds with Sun Xiaohui since she came here, and her relationship with Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua was not good, so she naturally did not take Ruan Hongjun, Ye Fan and Ruan Qiuyue to greet them. After dinner, she went to the tailor shop to sleep.
Ruan Jie was very afraid that Ruan Changgui and Sun Xiaohui would keep her and tie her up, so she stayed away from them and didn't even give them a chance to make eye contact. Anyway, they didn't raise her, so she didn't feel guilty.
After walking on the mountain road for two days, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were very tired, so they took Ruan Hongjun, Ye Fan and Ruan Qiuyue to the tailor shop and slept. The next day, she slept until she woke up naturally, washed up and went home for lunch. Ruan Cuizhi happened to come back.
During the meal, Ruan Xi asked Ruan Zhigao, "Grandpa, has Ling Yao's father been rehabilitated?"
Although Ruan Zhigao is no longer the brigade secretary and raises chickens and ducks and takes care of his private plot at home every day, if there are any important matters in the village, the cadres will still tell him everything. After all,
he has been the brigade secretary for decades and is old, so he still has the most say in the village.
He nodded to Ruan Xi, "Yes, the higher-ups issued a notice, rehabilitating them."
Ruan Xi asked again, "Have they returned to the city?"
Ruan Zhigao nodded again, "They left. We intended to keep them in the village for the New Year before they left, but they were told that they had to make some work arrangements and deal with many things, so the family of three returned."
Ruan Xi took a deep breath and said with a smile, "That's good. They finally made it through."
Liu Xinghua said, "It's really not easy for a family of three to have lived here for so many years. I remember when they first came, Zhou Xueyun was still like a grown-up girl, but when they left, she had a lot of white hair."
It's really not easy to think about it. A city dweller who is used to a comfortable life has wasted seven or eight years here. If you just look at their appearance, they will definitely feel that they have aged more than ten years. Ling Zhiyuan's change is greater than Zhou Xueyun's, and he looks more haggard.
Although Ling Yao's family has left, Ruan Xi still went to the hanging building after lunch. When he got there, he saw that the wooden door was locked. Looking in from the window, it was full of miscellaneous items from the production team.
She walked around the stilt house and went up to the hillside where Ling Yao often released the pigs. As she walked there, she thought to herself that Ling Yao was probably like this every day, quietly and lonely, going back and forth in this mountain.
Ruan Xi sat alone on the hillside for a while, and seemed to understand more and more how he felt staying here alone, every day. So she felt more and more that it was good that he left, and he shouldn't have lived such a depressing life here.
Ruan Xi took a deep breath, and the cold winter air filled her lungs, cool.
This time, it's really goodbye.
You have to be happy.
There are many people and children in the family, especially with Ruan Hongjun, this lively treasure, and the atmosphere of the New Year, it is extremely lively. Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua were grinning from ear to ear, wishing these children were around them every day.
Under the same sky, the atmosphere in the two-story building of Ruan Changfu's house was almost frozen.
The weather was cold, and even the New Year's Eve dinner felt cold in their mouths.
They finally survived New Year's Eve and spent the rest of the year in a cold and lonely atmosphere. On the first day of the new year, they did not go out to visit other people to wish them a happy new year, and no one came to visit them to wish them a happy new year, as if they had a tacit understanding.
The only one who came to wish them a happy new year was Su Mengmeng.
Ruan Qiuyang saw Su Mengmeng coming over, and she didn't want to stay at home in the cold. Besides, it had been three months since Ye Qiuwen's incident, and it was no longer a fresh topic in the compound, so she went out with Su Mengmeng.
As soon as Ruan Qiuyang left, Ruan Hongbing could no longer stay and ran out to play with his classmates.
So only Ruan Changfu, Feng Xiuying and Ye Qiuwen were left at home. After all, they were a family. It was not that they did not talk to Ye Qiuwen, but now they only said necessary words and there was almost no unnecessary gossip.
The relationship between Ruan Changfu and Ye Qiuwen did not seem to have eased, mainly because Ye Qiuwen's attitude was a bit hard, and Ruan Changfu could not soften first. She made such a mistake and lost such a person, and she still expected him to coax her?
She was coaxed to the point of not knowing east from west, north from south, and only then did she have the courage to do those things.
The relationship between Feng Xiuying and Ye Qiuwen has eased recently, and it is not as stiff as before. But there is also a gap and a knot between the mother and daughter, and they cannot return to the state of getting along as before for a while.
Good or bad, anyway, it's all in the past, so let it be.
Ruan Changfu didn't have any other requirements for her now, as long as she behaved herself and no longer had any connection with Lu Yuanzheng.
Ruan Qiuyang and Ruan Hongbing went out to play, and Ruan Changfu went back to the house. Feng Xiuying didn't go near Ruan Changfu, but sat down in the restaurant, tidied up the kitchen and the restaurant, and picked vegetables to prepare the next meal.
Ye Qiuwen probably felt suffocated, so she wrapped her scarf and put on a hat and went out for a walk.
She didn't walk far, just walked around outside the compound and came back.
When she came back, she passed by the mailbox at home. She accidentally glanced at it and saw that there seemed to be something inside, so she went to open the mailbox and take a look. Seeing that there was indeed a letter inside, she opened the mailbox and took it out.
The recipient could be seen on the letter as Ruan Xi.
Seeing that it was a letter from Ruan Xi, Ye Qiuwen felt a little depressed and stuffed the letter back.
But just as she stuffed the letter back into the mailbox, her fingers hadn't left the envelope yet, and she suddenly stopped. After a pause, she took the letter out again, held it straight and carefully read the sender's information on the envelope.
After reading it, she muttered softly: "Ling... Shenhai..."
She looked at the sender's information and thought - when did Ruan Xi know someone whose family lived in Shenhai?
After standing in front of the mailbox for a while, she rolled up the letter and put it in her cotton coat pocket, pulled the scarf on her face and went into the house. After
entering the house, she went upstairs directly, locked the door in the room, and took out the letter again.
After taking it out, she sat on the bed and tore it open, taking out the letter inside and unfolding it.
There was nothing shameful in the letter. It was just that this boy named Ling in Shenhai told Ruan Xi about some of the situations after he returned to Shenhai, such as his parents had resumed work, and he would also go to school this year. The
letter talked about all kinds of trivial things.
But after reading it, Ye Qiuwen was stunned by the address on the envelope for a long time - so after Ruan Xi arrived in the city, she was hanging out with Xu Zhuo, the commander's son, while using letters to hook up with a boy whose home was in Shenhai?
And this letter was the first letter that the boy wrote to her after returning to Shenhai.
The address on the envelope was infinitely magnified in her eyes.
After a moment, she blinked twice and reached out to take out a box of matches from the drawer of the desk.
The match head slid across the tinder, and a red flame jumped up.
The flames licked the edges of the letter paper and envelope, and the brown paper quickly turned into ashes, which fell to the ground in the wind.
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