"It's all here!" Then he looked at Aunt Mei all of a sudden, squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and said in his mouth: "This is not... Xiaomei! Oh! It's Xiaomei!" Holding Aunt Mei's hand with both hands.

"Auntie! It's me! Auntie!" Aunt Mei also grabbed Grandma's hand excitedly.

"Xiaomei! You have been away for more than 20 years! Oh, you are so old."

"Mom, let's go into the room and talk!" Aunt persuaded.

"Come, come, come in and talk!" Grandma took Aunt Mei's hand, and we all rushed into the house together.

At this time, grandma asked Mei Ziqiu: "Is this your child?"

"Well, it's my daughter."

"Oh, I became a mother in a blink of an eye! It looks like when you were your age!" Grandma said, and went into the sleeping room. After a while, she came out with two more red envelopes in her hand, one thick and the other thin.

"Son, take it." Grandma handed the thick one to Mei Ziqiu, and the thin one to Lu Min'er.

Lu Min'er happily took it: "Thank you grandma!"

Mei Ziqiu looked at the red envelope, which was obviously thicker than Lu Miner's, with some surprise flashing across her face, but seeing that everyone including her mother was smiling at her, as if encouraging her to take it, she bowed to grandma at once. Bowing at ninety degrees, he raised his hands above his head to receive the red envelope, and said, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you..."

Grandma was taken aback by this posture, and hurried to help Mei Ziqiu. Seeing that the old man helped her up, Mei Ziqiu bowed quickly.

"Is this a Japanese rule?" Grandma asked in bewilderment, startled.Everyone was amused.I couldn't help laughing at this funny scene.

"It's a Japanese tradition to bow. Our Chinese tradition is to kowtow. But the reform and opening up..." Lu Miner just wanted to say

There is no need for it anymore, there are not so many rules or anything, I saw that Mei Ziqiu had already knelt on the ground with a slap, supported the ground with both hands, bent down, and wanted to kowtow.

Now my aunt and grandma hurried to help her up.

Lu Min'er also went to help, and quickly said: "No, it has been abolished long ago!"

"It's okay, it's okay to kowtow to grandma!" Aunt Mei put her arms around grandma to let everyone not panic.

Seeing everyone's excited reactions, Mei Ziqiu thought she had done something wrong, felt very embarrassed, and looked at her mother at a loss.

Her mother touched Mei Ziqiu's head very gently, saying that it's okay.I watched this scene, and suddenly felt a stab in my heart.They started drinking tea, eating melon seeds and chatting about the daily life. Lu Min'er signaled Mei Ziqiu and me to go out, and we followed Lu Min'er to the yard.

At this time, white snow fell in the yard, and the fields and wasteland in the distance, the people's rivers, and the whole poor village were covered with snow.The world is gray and the sky is getting darker.

"It's snowing," Lu Min'er said, "but it hasn't snowed yet. Xiao Chu, let's dig some sweet potatoes and roast plums for ourselves."

How is autumn? "

"There are at home."

"That's boring! It's fun to dig by ourselves. I haven't done this for a long time, and I came out of the mountain again to play with Mei Ziqiu!"

I think Lu Min'er wanted to play, and seeing Mei Ziqiu looking forward to it, I agreed.I went to find a flashlight, three umbrellas, and a bag.The three of them headed towards the evening, the snowy fields.

On the way, Lu Min'er shamelessly told Mei Ziqiu that it is an excellent tradition in China to steal something to eat from the fields in the countryside during winter and summer vacations.The key is that Meiziqiu really believed it.

When I arrived in the field, the ground was already covered with a thin layer of snow, and the warm yellow house illuminated by the lights in the distance was small and warm, but my heart felt empty again.

I turned on the flashlight, started looking for sweet potatoes, and then started digging.

"Mom was like this when she was a child!" Mei Ziqiu said suddenly.

"probably!"

"She has always been homesick and missed this place. But for my father and me, she had to leave here and live with us in Japan."

Listening to Mei Ziqiu talking half to himself and half to us, I can't help but wonder if my parents are also homesick.

"Aunt Mei left without me and Xiao Chu. Hey, this sweet potato is really big!"

Mei Ziqiu also dug up one, gently tried to remove the soil from the sweet potato, held it in the palm of his hand and looked at it for a while, wondering what is the difference between the sweet potato here and the Japanese sweet potato, so beautiful?

We didn't dig too much, we only dug seven or eight and packed them in bags.At this time, the snow began to get bigger and bigger, gradually like a goose feather.We started rushing home.

"There is an idiom in Chinese called goose feather heavy snow for such a big snow."

"Well, it really looks like a goose feather."

A gust of wind blew by, and everyone shrank their necks from the cold.

Chapter 3

When I got home, my grandma started serving the dishes.I helped carry the bench.Everyone gathered around a table and started eating.

"Brother and sister, it will take half a month to come back?" Uncle asked.

"Yeah, it's been like this for the past two years." Grandma said.

"Xiaomei, I remember that when you were young, you loved the potatoes I made the most. It's not a good thing, but you can't eat it outside. Come, try it." Grandma greeted Aunt Mei.

Aunt Mei ate very happily, while chatting with her aunt, uncle and grandma.From their conversation, I learned that Aunt Mei is the only daughter in the family, and her parents have passed away.

"How is it? Are you used to eating?" Lu Min'er asked.The three of us sat together.

"It's delicious!" Mei Ziqiu replied.

Her bowls and chopsticks were neatly placed in front of her, and she sat upright.The dishes served are relatively bland.

No one is drinking tonight.Uncle's rice was finished quickly, and grandma naturally took his empty bowl and cheerfully filled him with more rice.

I saw that Mei Ziqiu was quite surprised this time, and Lu Min'er also noticed it, and explained: "When parents see that their children are willing to eat vegetables and eat a lot, they will be happy to provide extra meals for their children."

Mei Ziqiu nodded blankly, it seemed that she still couldn't accept it for a while.But probably in order to make adults happy, she also speeded up her food.

When grandma was happy to add food for her, she was very uncomfortable and fidgeted and said thank you.Grandma praised Mei Ziqiu for being polite, don't be polite, eat more.

I had almost eaten and left the table.The buildings here are like a hall when you enter the door, and a room is the main room, which is used for receiving guests and eating.There is a bedroom on the left and right.In addition, if you want a bedroom, you can build a separate house. The kitchen is a small room, which usually leads to a bedroom.Plus a pigsty, usually connected to the toilet.Almost everyone is like this.

The cauldron in the kitchen is the kind that uses a chimney to light the fire. Few people use it now. It is convenient and safe to use gas.

So I went to tidy up the dusty Guotang. Although Mei Ziqiu has always been humble and polite, I was still worried that the messy kitchen would cause me to be looked down upon by Mei Ziqiu from abroad.After checking that the old wood can still be used, add water to the pot and prepare roasted sweet potatoes for use.

After a while, Lu Min'er came over with Mei Ziqiu.

"Let's bake sweet potatoes!"

Mei Ziqiu looked at the ancient cauldron curiously and said, "Do you use this?"

"Well, yes. I've heard of the cooking smoke, it's from here." Lu Min'er pointed to the chimney and said.

"In the past, when farmers saw the smoke coming from the roof, they knew it was time to eat, so they went home to eat."

"really interesting."

I had already started the fire, and I hadn't fired a cauldron in years, so it didn't go very well at first.I lit it twice, but the fire didn't start.

"Oh, be smart!" Lu Min'er complained.

The more I wanted to do well, the more flustered I became, and I felt that Mei Ziqiu was watching expectantly beside me, making me even more flustered.

Finally, the fire was lit, and firewood was slowly added to make the fire flourish.

"Let me try it?" Mei Ziqiu said to me.

"Oh, good!" I moved to the side, and Mei Ziqiu sat down.

"Is that so?" Mei Ziqiu threw a piece of firewood into the pot hall.

"Yes." I adjusted the position of the firewood with the tongs.

Lu Min'er had already brought raw sweet potatoes and squeezed them next to Mei Ziqiu, so that Mei Ziqiu was closer to me and was already attached to me, or Mei Ziqiu was sandwiched between Lu Miner and me.Mei Ziqiu was half a head taller than me at the time, and I began to worry that my hair was not clean enough.I don't know why today, I always blush.

Lu Min'er threw the sweet potato into the pot hall.I use tongs to adjust the position of the sweet potatoes.

"what is this called?"

"This is the poker."

"That's good!" Lu Min'er threw all the sweet potatoes into the pot, then took Mei Ziqiu's hand and said, "I'll show you the cooking smoke."

He pulled Mei Ziqiu to the door of the kitchen, pointed to the sky, and showed her the warm white smoke rising from the cold night sky, and the smoke was mixed with white snow. It was also a beautiful scene.

After watching for a while, they huddled together in front of the pot hall to keep warm.It's getting colder outside.

While waiting for the sweet potatoes to be cooked, Lu Min'er found a Japanese textbook from her bag and gave it to me.Mei Ziqiu first taught me the fifty-sound chart. In order not to lose face in front of Mei Ziqiu, I concentrated my energy and exhausted my wisdom to learn the pronunciation of the fifty-sound chart from Mei Ziqiu.

After learning about twenty, the aroma of sweet potatoes came out.

"Learning so fast!" Mei Ziqiu said in a surprised tone.I was also worried that I might not learn well, and Mei Ziqiu thought I was stupid, so I was secretly relieved when I heard her say that.This is much more nervous than when the teacher pulled his back to ask questions during the exam.

"Oh, I'm so envious of people with good brains!" Lu Min'er looked at me and said.

"Me too!" Mei Ziqiu looked at me and said.

I quickly lowered my head and smiled embarrassedly: "No." Then I took out the sweet potato.

Lu Min'er said it smelled good.I use tongs to transfer them to a large bowl and leave to cool.Lu Miner left three

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