Chapter 0028 – Give me some pork stew with sauerkraut (1 / 2)

Early spring in the northeast is still relatively cold, the ground has not yet melted clean snow and ice ballast, cold wind blowing on the face like a knife cut, piercing pain.

Xiang Yu hugged his shoulders tightly wanting to warm up, the cold of the Northeast is very different from the cold of the Terminal South Mountain, in the winter of the Terminal South Mountain, when the snow flies there are still hermits sitting in the snow wearing only thin clothes to meditate, this group of hermits in addition to the bitter cultivation, but also feel not too cold, but in the Northeast whoever sits on the ground will not be long before they have to freeze and cramp.

Shenyang North Station got off the train, Xiang Yu carrying a canvas bag out of the station, found a nearby coach station and waited for nearly more than an hour before getting on a bus to a remote mountain village more than two hundred kilometers away from Shenyang.

By now it was a little after 1:00 p.m. and it would take more than three hours to get home.

After getting on the bus, Xiang Yu, who had been tossing and turning for most of the day, hunkered down in the back and dozed off, the last few days had tossed him a little lousy.

Xiang Yu’s home is a village surrounded by mountains on all sides, the village is not big on more than a hundred families, mostly to the family name of mainly, basically all the relatives with the family, grandparents live here for more than a hundred years, Xiang Yu’s parents are alive and well, his grandparents also live in the village, he also has two sisters, one older than his four years old and one older than two years old, a few years ago, the two were married.

The eldest sister married a small boss in Shenyang open auto parts repair, the second sister married a small civil servant in a nearby prefecture-level city, generally speaking to the family’s life is not bad, not rich and wealthy but certainly not worry about food and drink.

Except of course for one thing, the whole family hadn’t seen Xiangqi, who had been away from home since childhood, in twelve years.

Two married daughters are very filial, although they married out but not far from home, two or three hours drive, so the New Year’s holidays when the eldest sister two sister family with children will come back to see, every time home to the lack of parents are quite happy, but happy while the eyes will also show a trace of bleak color, do not know more than ten years have not seen his son is now how it is.

At five o’clock in the evening when it was completely dark, the bus stopped, and the conductor told the people in the car at the top of his voice to the end of the line, and Xiang Yu got off the bus and stood staring and surveying the place for half a day, and then he was a little confused.

Now the scene around him is different from when he left home, this black light he simply does not know where he should go, all sides are covered with snow in the fields, a glance to see not a bit of light.

Where the hell are we going to go? We’ll lose ourselves if we go out there.

Xiang Yu hurriedly pulled a man next to him and asked, “Big brother, inquire about the road, how do I get to Xiangjiatun?”

The man sized him up a few times and asked in surprise, “Going to Xiangjiatun? What are you doing?”

“Going home, I’m from Xiangjiatun.”

The man frowned and came up to Xiang Yu’s face, looked at him for half a day before saying, “Going home? How come I don’t recognize you, I’m from Xiangjiatun, I know everyone in the village, which one of your children.”

“Hey I go, relatives ah” Xiang Yu suddenly excited, a hand pulled the man’s hand and said, “Big brother, I’m the third son of the village’s east end to the honest family ah, I also have two sisters, the eldest sister is called Xiang Yulian, the second sister is called Xiang Yuping.”

“Huh? What did you say?” The man was a bit confused, searching for half a day before asking a bit uncertainly: “The third son of Xiang Laoshi’s family? You don’t say, his family did have a kid ten years ago, but then somehow that kid left the village and never came back, that’s you?”

Xiang Laoshi is the nickname of Xiang Yu’s father, because he is too honest, not much heart, and does things honestly, so the people in the village call him Xiang Laoshi.

Xiang Yu busily nodded his head and said, “Uh-huh big brother, I’m Xiang Laoshi’s son, who went out to work before coming back.”

“Little brat, you fucking poor generation, call me old uncle,” the man slapped on the head to the lack of a slap, said: “I’m with your father in terms of seniority is a cousin, we are a grandfather, you tube me called what big brother, you have to call uncle understand?”

“Ai, understand, understand, old uncle” Although the frozen head was a bit numb and received a slap, but Xiang Yu felt that the heart was old and hot.

Two people stepped in the snow “crunch, crunch” walked four or five miles, over a small hill, the light began to appear in front of them, the outline of a village loomed, this is Xiangjiatun.

Into the village, the man pointed ahead and said: “I have not been home for quite a long time, first go home to see, and then go to your home tomorrow, you follow the path forward to see the three brick houses that is your home, this point your parents should be at home.”

“Well, thank you old uncle, hurry up and come over for a drink sometime tomorrow haha.”

Xiang Yu said hello and hurriedly jogged toward the east end of the village, twelve years away from home he returned to the heart of the arrow.

Ran three or two minutes to the lack of stop, the front by the left side of the road there is a three brick house, outside the set of courtyard walls, the house has a lighted lamp blocking the curtains, seems to have heard a movement, the yard came from the barking of the dog.

Xiang Yu slowed down his steps, walked to the front door carefully scrutinized, the place is still the old place, when he left home when the family is still thatched hut, did not think that more than ten years did not come back to become a brick house, it seems that the parents have been living these years is not bad, Xiang Yu heart is not so too hard to bear at once.

“That bad old Taoist did not pit Master Lack, said that after taking me away the family will get better and better, the days are definitely getting better and better every day, count on him to have a point in his words, if he lied to me, he must go back and fix him properly.”

Xiang Yu stretched his neck and looked for half a day without realizing where there was a doorbell, so he shouted at the top of his voice, “Open the door, there’s someone inside, right?”

After a few shouts, the door to the room opened and a man came out slowly with his coat on and asked, “Who is it?”