1959Siheyuan, a Turnaround

Li Weiguo walked and stopped along the way. After leaving Deshengmen, he had to walk another ten miles north.

Keep walking along the dirt road, and before you get far you will see militiamen standing guard with guns at the edge of the field.

In this day and age, there are people standing guard when crops are planted in the fields. It is really impossible not to stand guard.

Although it is dry now and it is not certain that anything can grow in the fields, someone still has to watch over the plants once they are planted.

If you don't believe it, you can try it. There's no one watching and someone will even pick out the seeds for you to eat.

If a child enters the fields, he will be slapped in the face. If an adult enters the fields, the militia will really dare to shoot!

The situation in Sijiu City is relatively good, at least it is at the foot of the mountain, there are several big rivers, and the Miyun Reservoir has been dug. The situation in Shandong, Henan, and Hebei is already barren land for thousands of miles, and is quite serious.

Li Weiguo avoided the militiamen while thinking about all sorts of things.

He felt scared when he saw the guns those people were carrying. He came from a peaceful era and had an instinctive fear of guns.

Half an hour later, rolling mountains appeared before our eyes, and Lijia Village was at the foot of these mountains.

The road here began to narrow, and the trees on both sides of the road were towering, and the leaves rustled when the wind blew.

When Li Weiguo walked alone, he felt a little scared. This was only during the day. Even if he had two courages at night, he would not dare to walk alone.

Soon he finally walked out of the forest path and saw an open area in front of him.

There are dozens of houses sparsely built across the field. If it were in the previous life, this would definitely be a good place to build a villa.

It is surrounded by mountains and water, with a quiet environment and mountains on three sides.

Haha! Lijia Village, here I come!

He held a dogtail grass in his mouth and a small flour bag in his hand. He took out two fish from the space and threaded them with the grass, then walked towards the village humming a song.

"Wumeng Mountain, connected to other mountains..."

As soon as I walked into the village, I saw three or two old men and women gathered under a big tree at the entrance of the village, with a group of naked children around them.

The children were chasing each other and playing, and the old people's eyes narrowed into slits when they looked at the children.

"That's Weiguo!"

An old lady saw Li Weiguo, stood up suddenly and shouted in surprise.

"Grandma, it's me. Why are you sitting here?"

Li Weiguo was also surprised. He didn't expect to see his grandmother as soon as he entered the village.

"Your grandfather thought you would be here soon, so he asked me to come here every day to wait for you! Let's go home!"

Grandma Li walked forward holding Li Weiguo's arm, and turned to her companions and said, "Brothers, sisters-in-law, our Weiguo is here. Let's talk about it another day!"

"Go! Go! Weiguo doesn't come here often, go home and spend some time here!"

Several old people looked at the small cloth bag in Li Weiguo's hand with shining eyes. When they saw the two lively fish in his other hand, they became envious.

"That's it! Gone..."

Grandma Li smiled and took the small flour bag from Li Weiguo's hand and said to him, "Why are you carrying two live fish? Did you just catch them?"

Li Weiguo knew that Grandma Li would definitely ask, so he had already thought of an excuse.

"I exchanged it with someone else on the way. Grandma, is my grandpa okay?"

"Okay, it's fine!"

The two grandmothers walked home talking and laughing. They saw many villagers on the way, and the villagers greeted Grandma Li warmly.

At the same time, he did not forget to praise Li Weiguo.

Who made him hold two live fish in his hands today? In this age of material scarcity, fish is also meat!

Needless to say, Li Weiguo is now the most handsome guy on the street of Lijia Village.

Li Weiguo's grandparents lived in the same courtyard as his second uncle's family. His grandparents lived in one room, his second uncle's family lived in two rooms. The middle room was the main room, and the other room used to be where Li Weiguo's family lived.

Li Weiguo and his two brothers also lived here when they were young. Later, Li Dajiang arranged jobs for them, and the brothers went to Sijiu City with their mother Wang Guifang.

His younger sister, Li Weihong, is the only one in his family who has never lived in the countryside.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw two boys rushing towards me.

These are my second uncle’s two sons, Li Weidong and Li Weijun.

The eldest brother, Li Weidong, is ten years old this year, and the second brother, Li Weijun, is only eight years old. They were playing in the mud in the yard just now, and when they saw their eldest brother coming in, they couldn't wait to run over.

"Brother, you're back! I missed you so much!"

The two children raised their muddy palms, and Li Weiguo was so scared that he took a step back. He had just changed his clothes today and he couldn't get them dirty.

"Ah, look at your hands! They are covered with mud."

"Hey, big brother, let's play firecrackers!" The two brothers giggled and picked the mud off their fingers.

"What? Throwing firecrackers!!!"

Li Weiguo's voice rose several degrees.

These two words carried a unique flavor in his memory; behind the "bang" sound was the smell of urine.

"You guys aren't going to be pissing and muddy, are you?"

"Yeah! Big Brother, isn't the village full of pee and mud?"

The two brothers looked up at their eldest brother with confused expressions.

Isn’t this how all the kids in the village play?

"Okay, both of you go wash your hands, or you won't be able to eat this!"

After saying this, Li Weiguo raised the two live fish in his hand, and his meaning was very clear: if you don’t wash your hands, you can’t eat the fish today!

"Fish! Really eat fish?"

Both of them started shouting.

Li Weijun rubbed his eyes with his hands in disbelief. Now it was really lively and mud was all over his face.

"Ha ha····"

Li Weiguo was so amused that he couldn't straighten his back when he saw his brother smearing mud and urine on his face.

"They are really two mud monkeys. Weiguo, don't bother with them. They will just think about these things every day."

Grandma Li took the things from Li Weiguo's hand and walked into the house alone.

"Weidong, Weijun, go wash your hands and faces. I'll give you some candy later!"

"There's still candy? Big brother, let's go wash our hands now!"

The two brothers rushed to the wash basin as fast as they could.

The two of them fumbled in the wash basin: "Brother, I'm done! Look, it's clean."

"Brother, there's me, there's me..."

The two little guys were like two little sparrows, chirping all the time.

"Remember, don't pee in the mud anymore, okay?"

He still wanted to emphasize this point, that peeing in the mud must be stopped in the future.

"Um...can I use someone else's urine?"

Li Weijun still didn't understand why he couldn't pee and make mud. Even if he made firecrackers out of water and mud at home, they wouldn't make any noise!

What the hell!

His own urine isn’t even good enough, and he wants to use someone else’s?

Do you still want this younger brother?

"That's even worse. Anyway, you can't play with pee and mud anymore, understand?"

Li Weiguo opened his eyes wide and stared at his youngest brother in disbelief.

"Ow..."

Li Weijun was obviously unhappy because this was the only game he could play at home.

"Here, two White Rabbit candies each. Is this considered compensation for both of you?"

The expression on Li Weijun's face suddenly changed from cloudy to sunny.

"Okay! Big brother, I promise I won't pee in the mud anymore!"

Alas! White Rabbit Milk Candy is still the most attractive!