Zhang Weifang will be 70 in a year, and the old lady will be 90 soon. People tend to miss home when they get old, so recently, she has been wanting to go back to her hometown to see her mother.
The weather in October was just right, neither too cold nor too hot, suitable for traveling. Hu Zi drove Zhang Weifang back to her hometown. This time she came back alone, and she wanted to stay for two more days.
Shuanglong Village is currently undergoing new rural construction. A small second-floor building has been built at the entrance of the village, and all the main and small roads in the village have been paved with neat and clean cement roads.
At a glance, the fields in the distance are full of golden color. They are ripe corn fields. The breeze gently blows the corn leaves, making a rustling sound, as if telling people the joy of the harvest.
On the paths between the fields, farmers were busy walking around, holding sickles and skillfully cutting down the thick corn stalks.
Golden corn kernels hang heavy on the branches and emit an enticing aroma. In this busy scene, everyone is filled with happy smiles.
Zhang Weifang hadn't seen this kind of scene for a long time. She searched through her memories for a long time, and found it strange yet familiar.
The roads in the village are well-connected, and Hu Zi drove his car directly to the doorstep of his home.
The wrinkles on the old lady's face had deepened a lot, but she was still smiling and in good spirits. When Zhang Weifang arrived, she was sitting at the gate chatting with her neighbors.
Zhang Weifang took two steps forward and shouted:
"Mom, I'm back."
"Hey, Weifang, why are you back at this time? Let's go home first."
The old lady stood up, took her daughter's hand and walked home. As she was old, her hearing was a little poor, so she spoke very loudly. Zhang Weifang supported her and echoed her words, which made the old lady laugh.
Hu Zi was walking behind with something in his hand, and his expression was so serious that people were afraid to approach him.
After being a policeman for a long time, Hu Zi unconsciously exudes a sense of majesty, making people feel difficult to approach him. In fact, Hu Zi is a very easy-going person.
After returning home, the mother and son chatted happily. Zhang Weifang also called her two younger sisters and asked them to come to her house for a gathering when they had time.
In recent days, everyone has started the autumn harvest, so both of them are quite busy, especially Zhang Weishuang, who has a lot of land planted at home, and Gou Xiao's land is also planted by the old couple.
Although Zhang Weifen moved to the county town, life in the city was not as good as they had imagined. Rural people went to the city, but they had no jobs and no land, and they had to buy everything with money, making it difficult for everyone to adapt.
Their new home was ten miles away from their old village. Although the village had been demolished and coal mining had begun, there were still some fields around it that had not been mined. So Zhang Weifen and his wife selected an acre of land and planted some millet and corn.
Li Baoneng bought a tricycle and took Zhang Weifen back and forth to farm every day. He was also busy harvesting millet these days.
The millet they grow themselves has a high yield, enough to meet their family's food needs for a year, and the corn can be ground into fine cornmeal for the whole family to eat.
In this world, there is a kind of people who live with the land all their lives and regard the land as their life.
Even though they have now moved into high-rise buildings, deep down they still believe that only by owning land can they feel stable and satisfied.
Zhang Weifen and his wife are such people. Although they have moved away from their former village, their love for that land has never changed. So they work tirelessly every day to travel back and forth between the old and new places.
Zhang Weibao was very welcome to Zhang Weifang's arrival, after all, she was his relative, but Wang Fuzi felt rather conflicted.
Wang Fuzi has been quite proud all his life, but he also has a deep sense of inferiority in his bones.
Her mother passed away last year and her father was in poor health, so she and her sister took care of the old man separately, and her two younger brothers provided them with living expenses.
It was originally a very good thing. Mr. Wang was now living at home, and Zhang Weifang even went to see him with gifts.
However, in Wang Fuzi's view, this matter was particularly against the rules. She didn't want others to know that her father lived with her husband's family. This was a very embarrassing thing.
In rural areas, most people take care of their parents in their old age, so Wang Fuzi was afraid that others would laugh at her for bringing her father home.
Normally it was fine because the people in the village knew each other well and were all acquaintances, so no one would say much. However, Zhang Weifang had just returned from outside, and Wang Fuzi didn't want her to look down on him.
If she had known that Zhang Weifang was coming back, she would have asked her sister to take the old man away so that others would not laugh at her.
In fact, these were all Wang Fuzi's fantasies. Zhang Weifang didn't care about these things at all. Besides, she thought filial piety was a virtue and there was nothing shameful about it.
But Wang Fuzi didn't think so. She was in a very difficult situation these days, so on the third day after Zhang Weifang came back, she sent the old man to her sister's house.
However, what Wang Fuzi didn’t know was that her sister Wang Xiangzi had a fight with her husband because of this matter.
The two sisters had originally agreed to send the old man to Wang Xiangzi's house after the autumn harvest, but now, Wang Fuzi sent him there in advance without saying hello, causing great trouble and inconvenience to the family.
Wang Xiangzi's family has more than ten acres of land under cultivation. Every autumn harvest, it takes the couple more than a month to pick, shred and thresh the corn. They are so busy every day that they don't even have time to eat. Now that the old man has come, they have to have someone to serve him specially. Isn't this a waste of time?
But no matter what, Wang Fuzi just put the person down and left. She didn't consider her sister and her husband at all.
After seeing the old man off, Wang Fuzi breathed a sigh of relief. In addition, Zhang Weifang would give her money every time she came back, so these days, she served her with delicious food and drinks every day and never got tired of it.
Zhang Weifang looked at her sister-in-law in front of her, and a warm feeling welled up in her heart. Her sister-in-law cared for her and did her best, which made her feel extremely warm and touched.
Every time her sister-in-law served her tea or water and asked about her well-being, she could feel the sincerity and kindness.
This meticulous care made Zhang Weifang deeply appreciate the warmth of family and the preciousness of kinship.
She decided that when she left, she would give her sister-in-law some extra money so that her kindness would not be in vain.
Zhang Weishuang and Zhang Weifen made an appointment, and both of them came to her parents' home on the third day.
The three sisters, who were already in their sixties, lay side by side on a kang again. They lay quietly, as if they had returned to the past, recalling every detail of their childhood.
They talked about what had happened and shared each other's feelings and experiences. Every detail made them feel extremely intimate, as if time had never left this place.
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