My dad asked Ji Guanxin: "Are you hungry? Do you want to go have breakfast first?"
Ji Guanxin said: "I can do it, it's up to you and auntie."
My mother asked me: "Zijin, what do you want to eat?"
I said, "I got up too early and I don't want to eat anything."
My mother said, "Then just wait until you go to your aunt's house to eat." "You can't drive your car here. The chassis is too low. It may get stuck before it reaches it." "
Ji Guanxin said: "If I had known I was coming here, I would have bought a four-seater."
I deliberately invited my mother to tease Ji Guanxin: "Mom, have you heard what a trench is?"
My mother turned around and smiled lightly: "Guan Xin, are your family members particularly obsessed with you?"
Ji Guanxin smiled and replied: "It's okay, my mother is quite fond of me, but my father still talks about me sometimes."
I raised my eyebrows and said, "I'm just saying that my mother still beats me."
Ji Guanxin glanced at me and suddenly said: "That's your fault too."
My mother laughed out loud and asked, "Guan Xin still knows what the meaning of "噌se" is."
I said, "Not only does he know what ise is, he also sang a Northeastern duet for me last night."
My parents both laughed now and said Ji Guanxin was down-to-earth.
Yes, he is indeed the most down-to-earth rich kid I have ever seen, pure wealth, pure **.
While he was talking, under the gaze of the villagers along the way, my dad parked the car in front of a small mud house that was not high. The four of them got off the car from both sides. After getting off the car, my dad walked straight towards the trunk.
Ji Guanxin also helped my father carry things and luggage. My mother came over and said, "Guanxin, you put it down, I don't need you."
Ji Guanxin said: "It's okay, Auntie."
I said, "Mom, put it down and let him take it. If he, a grown man, doesn't take things, why should we take them?"
My mother glanced at me, and I looked like it was natural.
It must be because there are very few outsiders from the countryside driving over, and many locals gathered around the roadside to watch us. I stood next to Ji Guanxin, and he walked in with big bags in his left and right hands.
My great-aunt's house also had a small earthen house with a large yard. Before entering, we had to go into the yard. There were some chickens and ducks in the yard. When the chickens and ducks saw us strangers, they couldn't help but stop eating and looked up at us.
I curiously asked Ji Guanxin in a low voice: "Are you shocked? This is what we call countryside. Do you think Liangcheng City is rural enough?"
Ji Guanxin's eyes became confused and wandering from the moment he got off the car. Like a curious baby, he kept looking around. Hearing my question, he smiled a little reluctantly. After a few seconds, he nodded slightly and said, "The environment here is pristine and the air is pretty good."
I had a smile on my face and felt that Ji Guanxin’s day of suffering was coming.
The front door of the small mud house is made of wood, and the door is surrounded by rags and cotton wool to keep out the wind. My mother came to the door, opened the door of AA's room, and said loudly: "Auntie."
Ji Guanxin and I were the last two to go in. When we looked down, we saw that the kitchen floor was made of red bricks with earth, not even cement.
Ji Guanxin couldn't help but look around. He must have never imagined that in his world, there would be people living in such a place.
"Is Xiaoli here?"
Not long after, an old lady came out of the back room. Although she was already stooped, she was neither short nor small. This is my great-aunt. It has been many years since I last saw her, but I can still recognize her at a glance.
She is old, I heard she is in her eighties this year, with white hair on her head and wrinkles on her face.
My mother and my father greeted her very loudly, and I guess she was deaf.
"Auntie, look who's here"
I smiled and stepped forward: "Auntie, I am Zijin, do you still recognize me?" I really shouted with my neck stretched out.
My aunt smiled and took my hand and said aloud: "Zijin has grown so big that I can't recognize him anymore. He was only this tall when he was a child."
She gestured with her hands in front of her.
My mother pointed at Ji Guanxin with a smile and teased my aunt: "Auntie, look at this."
My aunt looked at Ji Guanxin in confusion, and after a few seconds she said, "Is this your brother's little treasure?"
Xiaobao is my cousin. My mother smiled and said, "No, how can Xiaobao be so old? This is Zijin's friend. He happened to come to Yecheng to visit her, so I brought him here with me."
Ji Guanxin came up to say hello to my aunt. My aunt was also very interesting and said with a smile: "Zijin, please come in, come in."
I said, "Auntie, he is my friend, not my boyfriend."
"What?" My aunt came forward and added: "My aunt is deaf, you have to speak louder."
I said loudly: "Auntie, he is my friend, not a boyfriend, a friend, or a friend."
"Well, my aunt knows that this is your boyfriend."
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My mother smiled and said, "Okay, let's go inside first."
A group of us huffed and puffed from the outer room into the inner room. To the left of the entrance, the entire open space was built into a whole earthen kang. My grandpa said that four or five people could lie on it. I looked at the length, and it was suitable for six or seven people. The individual is not the problem.
The hut was not big, with an earthen kang taking up most of it. The remaining space was only enough for a dining table, a wardrobe and a wooden TV cabinet. The TV on the TV cabinet turned out to be a black and white TV set from more than ten years ago, which I have never seen before.
My dad and Ji Guanxin put the things they had brought aside, and my aunt said, "Just come, why are you buying so many things?"
My dad smiled and said: "It's okay, old lady, it's just some meat and vegetables. My uncle is not at home these two days, let Xiaoli take care of you."
My aunt smiled: "How can Xiaoli know how to cook? I know."
My mother laughed awkwardly: "Auntie, I don't cook well, but I can still cook."
I complained about my mother: "Her cooking was so unpalatable that when my body was at its best and most capable of eating, I lost three pounds."
My dad turned to look at Ji Guanxin, who was sitting on the edge of the kang, and asked with a smile: "Can Guanxin cook?"
Ji Guanxin paused obviously, and then replied with a smile: "I learn quickly, so I asked my aunt and Zijin to teach me later, and I learned it quickly."
I pursed my lips, thinking that he had never even touched a knife.
The five of us sat in the room and chatted for what seemed like half an hour. My dad looked at his watch and said, "I'll leave now. You can prepare lunch later."
Ji Guanxin asked: "Uncle, won't you live with us?"
My dad smiled meaningfully and replied loudly: "I still have something to do at home. You stay here with your aunt and Zijin for a few days, and I will pick you up later."
After seeing my dad off, my aunt said she was preparing lunch. Naturally, my mother couldn't let an eighty-year-old woman take care of us, so she said very openly: "Auntie, you go and rest in the house, I will do it."
My aunt said: "Xiaoli, you don't know how to cook."
My mother said: "I know how to do it now, and I will show you my skills at noon today."
My aunt was pushed into the back room, and my mother asked me to go to the outer room to help. Ji Guanxin was left inside chatting with my aunt.
The outhouse is the kitchen. There are no induction cookers or electric woks here. The only large pot that can be used for cooking is wood-fired. My mother stood on the adobe floor and hesitated for a minute, then turned to look at me and said, "Zijin, do you know how to make a fire?"
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and replied speechlessly: "Mom, you don't even know, do you think I know?"
My mother was also quite confused and muttered to herself: "If I had known I couldn't have let your dad go so early, I should have let him light the fire."
I said: "Forget it, my dad doesn't do anything at home, you can count on him."
In fact, I didn't expect my mother either. I said to her, "Wait a moment. I'll go change my clothes and I'll light the fire."
After that, I turned around and entered the back room.
Inside the room, Ji Guanxin was sitting on the edge of the kang, and my aunt was sitting on a chair under the kang. The two of them stared at each other. Seeing me coming in, Ji Guanxin stood up quickly and said, "I'll go help auntie. You can chat with me."
I took off my coat and whispered: "What's wrong?"
Ji Guanxin turned his back to my aunt and replied in a smaller voice: "I can't understand what she said, and she can't understand what I said. We can't talk today."
I burst out laughing, looked at him and asked, "Do you still have someone you can't talk to?"
Ji Guanxin winked at me, so I had to say loudly to my aunt: "Auntie, sit inside the house while we go out to make a fire and cook."
My aunt stood up, hunched over and asked me: "Can you make a fire?"
I forced a smile and said, "Yes, there is no man here, he can."
Ji Guanxin also forced a smile on his face and said loudly: "It's okay, I can."
I took Ji Guanxin out together, and my mother was still standing in front of the pot, looking helpless with it. Turning around and seeing Ji Guanxin, my mother quickly said: "Why is Guanxin out? Come in, you are not needed here."
I said, "Mom, can we stop being such a mouthful? You can light a fire for me and let me take a look."
Ji Guanxin rolled up his arms and sleeves and said, "Auntie, let me come."