It's a very dilapidated village, like the enclosed villages in the old mountains in many places, or even worse, because of the backing of the mountains, most of the houses here are small thatched huts, and you can feel a strong smell of age from the old wood with almost no visible texture.

The ground is hardly groomed, just a little more tampered, so that it doesn't turn into a muddy swamp, at least on a rainy day.

At the head of the village, there were many people standing.

A few dozen people seemed to be all the people in the village.

Men, women, and children, all with excited expressions on their faces, the children's eyes widened, and the adults watched gratefully.

And all they looked at was Su Mei.

"Miss Su, you're here!"

"Miss Su, you're finally here!"

"Miss Su, are you tired on the road?"

"Sister Su, do you see that I have grown taller?"

The greetings and the words with a strong accent are laborious to listen to, but it is not difficult to understand the respect and excitement they express.

Su Mei smiled, she responded one by one, she would not be left out in the cold by everyone, she was different from her on weekdays, the expression on her face was very real at this time, her smile was very clean and simple, there was no intrigue, no deceit, Su Mei at this time was a simple and real person.

Squatting in front of a little girl who was about seven or eight years old wearing the kind of rustic polka-dot skirt that is no longer seen in the city, Su Mei reached out and touched her head, and said, "Xiaohua, do you miss your sister?"

Xiaohua nodded vigorously and hugged Su Mei with open hands.

Su Mei chuckled, stretched out her hand and picked up Xiaohua, didn't care about her dirty clothes at all, and said to her, "What about Dad and Mom?"

"Mom and Dad said my sister would come today and make a delicious meal. Xiaohua said crisply.

As she spoke, Xiaohua burst into tears.

"Sister, I miss you so much. ”

"Xiaohua is good, isn't my sister here?"

Xiaohua's attitude is the epitome of the villagers' mood, everyone looked at Su Mei with tears in their eyes, and the expressions on their faces were the kind of sincere and warm feelings that could never be faked, which contained too much complexity, and too much gratitude and respect.

And all this shocked Bai Junyi, he didn't understand what made these villagers respect Su Mei so much, and he didn't understand what kind of thing made a woman like Su Mei so worried about a backward mountain village in the distant mountains hundreds of kilometers away, and even rushed over on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, even every year.

"Sister, is this big brother your boyfriend?" Xiaohua, who was sitting in Su Mei's arm, looked at Bai Junyi and said curiously.

Su Mei glanced at Bai Junyi, smiled at Xiaohua and said, "Does Xiaohua know what a boyfriend is?"

"It's going to be Mom and Dad in the future!" Xiaohua said confidently.

These words made the adults in the village laugh.

Seeing that these children were all shrunk behind the adults around them, looking at him timidly and curiously, Bai Junyi hurriedly touched his pocket, and suddenly the expression on his face was happy, and he took out a package of candy with a beautiful package from his pocket, and said, "Divide the sugar, who wants to eat sugar?"

To Captain White's embarrassment, none of the children responded to him.

Su Mei smiled and said, "Big brother is a good person, and he is also a friend of my sister." ”

Bai Junyi hurriedly unpacked the package, took out a candy and gave it to Xiaohua, and said, "Xiaohua, is it? Big brother will give you candy." ”

Xiaohua glanced at Su Mei, then took the candy, and then said to Bai Junyi brightly: "Thank you, big brother!"

With one taking the lead, the rest will naturally follow, and soon Bai Junyi will be surrounded by children who want candy to eat.

In such a dilapidated village, the children's entertainment and snacks are pitiful, candy is difficult for them to eat, and even some children have never eaten sugar, so Bai Junyi, who came with sugar, quickly became a very popular person.

It's just that what embarrassed Captain Bai was that the bag of candy he brought was too little, which was as good as one for each child, and seeing that all the children were hiding the candy and reluctant to eat it, I don't know why Bai Junyi felt a little sad inexplicably.

A grain of candy may be the most inconspicuous thing in the eyes of children in the city, but when it comes here, it has become a treasure for these children, and even they are reluctant to eat it.

It's hard for people who haven't really experienced this feeling to understand.

When I arrived in the village, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening, and at this time, the third uncle came over and said that he could go to the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, so Bai Junyi walked with Su Mei to the largest courtyard in the village.

Said to be a courtyard, in fact, it is just a small fence built with stones very simply, most of the villagers disperse when they arrive here, Bai Junyi also learned from Su Mei's mouth that this is the third uncle's home, and Su Mei eats here every year's Chinese New Year's Eve meal.

The dilapidated thatched hut is full of the smell of burning firewood, Xiaohua is the granddaughter of the third uncle, and the third uncle's family includes himself, as well as his son and daughter-in-law, is a very honest man and a very simple rural woman, plus Xiaohua has a total of four people.

In the hall, the food was already on the dining table.

A chicken and a bowl of braised pork are the only meat dishes, and the others are mountain vegetables such as vegetable roots and bitter vegetables.

The third uncle's son is called Zhang Jianguo, and he is very foreign compared to a name like Tiezhu Da Niu, and he looks very burly and strong, and it can be seen that he still has a strong kind of rural people's honesty and restraint, seeing Su Mei and Bai Junyi, he was nervous and speechless, just said "Hello, hello" and other words, but simple words can also be seen that he has unparalleled respect for Su Mei.

Zhang Jianguo's daughter-in-law is a rural woman, in such a place is more hard work and farming, so there is no maintenance or anything, a woman in her thirties looks to be in her fifties, and her hands are rough, you can see that she is a very housekeeper and a very capable woman.

For the countryside, such a woman is naturally the best daughter-in-law.

At the dinner table, Xiaohua, who was still young, looked at the braised pork on the table with bright eyes, and kept swallowing saliva.

Taking advantage of the adults' inattention, she reached out to grab a piece of braised pork.

But the little hand was slapped away by the third uncle.

"I want to give it to Miss first. The third uncle said solemnly.

Xiaohua sat aggrievedly on the small bench.

When Su Mei heard this, she said to the third uncle: "Third uncle, Xiaohua is still a child, besides, what have you done so politely to me over the years." As she spoke, she moved the braised pork to Xiaohua, put a piece in Xiaohua's bowl, and said, "Xiaohua, eat it." ”

"Thank you, sister. Xiaohua said with a bright smile.

Sitting next to Su Mei, Bai Junyi didn't need to ask to know that a chicken and a night of braised pork on the table were probably because of the Chinese New Year, and on weekdays, he might only be able to eat some bitter vegetables.

He took out a cigarette, handed it to Zhang Jianguo and the third uncle, and said, "I'm bothering you today, so you deliberately made it so troublesome." ”

Zhang Jianguo stood up and took the cigarette handed by Bai Junyi with both hands, carefully clipped it to his ear and was reluctant to smoke, and said with a smile: "No trouble, no trouble, Miss Su's great kindness to us, this meal is nothing." It's just that there's nothing good to entertain. ”

Bai Junyi took a lighter to light a cigarette for the third uncle, but the third uncle immediately stood up and said that he didn't dare, Bai Junyi said a few words before lighting the cigarette, and Zhang Jianguo saw Bai Junyi holding the lighter to him, so he quickly struck a match and took the cigarette off his ear and lit it, he didn't dare to let Miss Su's friend light a cigarette for himself.

After taking a comfortable puff, the third uncle said with emotion: "It's still easy to smoke this cigarette." ”

"I'm pretty rare with that hookah. Bai Junyi said head-onto the topic.

"That hookah is not a good thing, the tobacco grown by my own family is very choking. The third uncle waved his hand and said.

"That's the pure taste. Bai Junyi said with a smile.

The topic was pulled away, and there was naturally a common topic of talking and laughing, and the third uncle also took out the wine brewed in his own countryside.

In fact, to be honest, the taste of the wine made with very rough grain is not very good, and it is very scary, and Bai Junyi already feels top-heavy after only going down to a pound, but this is a real pure grain brewing, and there is absolutely no water, so there is no need to worry about drinking too much and having a headache, and Su Mei is in a good mood today, and she also drank two more glasses with Bai Junyi for the first time, and went down to two or three taels, and two blushes flew up on one face, and there was a charm that people didn't dare to look at directly under the dim small light bulb in this thatched hut.

Zhang Jianguo didn't dare to look at it more, he kept his head down and drank, as everyone in the village thought, Zhang Jianguo felt that Miss Su was a god in the sky, otherwise how could she be so kind and so good-looking?

After eating a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Bai Junyi drank more than two pounds, and no matter rich or poor, young or old, all men's feelings were drunk on the wine table, so at the end of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Bai Junyi and Zhang Jianguo's relationship with the third uncle was already called brothers.

Zhang Jianguo and the third uncle think that Miss Su's friend is also a good person, and he drinks refreshingly, and the amount of alcohol is also very good, which is worth making friends.

Bai Junyi thinks ...... This wine is so fucking strong!

After eating, the third uncle asked Su Mei, "Miss Su, do you want to go over there to have a look?"

Su Mei nodded and stood up and said, "I'm going, I'll go back tomorrow." ”

The third uncle nodded, turned his head and picked up the flashlight and said, "Then I'll take you there, the mountain road is not easy to walk at night." ”

"Daddy, let me go. Zhang Jianguo said suddenly.

"Third uncle, let Jianguo take me away, it's inconvenient for you to walk. Su Mei said.

The third uncle sighed and said, "Okay, go ahead, come back early." ”

Su Mei whispered to Bai Junyi, who was blushing slightly: "Come with me, I have been there alone for so many years, and this time you will accompany me." ”