Chapter 224 – He Xiyuan’s Home (1/2)
When we drove a bit further, even the dirt roads were gone, I really don’t know how much did my dad pay that driver when he called a cab, the driver was actually willing to run on these sort of road.
Under He Xiyuan’s guidance, we went around twist and turns. If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I would not believe that there were such backward villages around the prosperous Songjiang city!
We finally arrived at Yanhe Village at noon. When we entered the village, we catch the attention of the villagers, this was the first time three cars arrived in the village at the same time! The villagers were all very surprise, what day was today, a small car had just arrived, and now there are three more.
After we entered the village, we couldn’t drive any further, since it was a meter wide dirt tracks everywhere, the cars couldn’t fit, and there were also a lot of ducks, geese etc. running around on it. So, we could only stop the car at the village entrance.
“Yi? Isn’t that Old He’s family’s chick?” A village in plain clothes pointed at us and said.
“Oh yeah! The person just now came for Old He’s home, did Old He’s home get some kind of awesome relative?” A villager with a hoe said.
“That might be it! It seems like Old He’s family is saved, look at these people’s cars, we can’t afford it even in several lifetimes! The plain clothed villager said.
“Don’t just say stuff! Be careful of the village chief hearing you!” The villager with a hoe reminded.
The plain clothed villager immediately shut up upon hearing that, and didn’t’ say anymore.
I ignored them as well, and hurried in the direction of He Xiyuan’s home behind her.
He Xiyuan’s home was that kind of mud house built with yellow mud, the roof of the house was built with a mixture of plastic, PP bags and a bit of straw, it wasn’t even tiles!
When we got to their home, He Xiyuan immediately ran into the yard. In the yard, a middle-aged woman washing vegetables raised her head, seeing He Xiyuan, she immediately put down the work in her hands and stood up, and said in a rather worked up manner, “Xiao Xi, you came back?”
“Mom! Is Uncle Liu here?” He Xiyuan didn’t bother to greet, and asked anxiously.
“He came, he came! Your Uncle Liu is chatting with your daddy in the house, I’m making a few dishes, it’s been a good number of years since your daddy has been so happy!” The middle-aged woman said both happily and sadly.
Hearing that, my worried help finally relaxed, it seems like my dad didn’t have enough time to go and argue with Jia Daguo! I checked out the middle-aged woman, she faintly had He Xiyuan’s appearance, but was unusually old! Her yellow and thin face was filled with wrinkles, if I estimated form He Xiyuan’s age, this woman wouldn’t even be forty, but from the look of it, she looked at least fifty something! You can imagine, He Xiyuan’s mother have aged beyond imagination under the defilement of time, perhaps she was already worried sick just from the thing about the fruit garden on the mountain.
“Aiya! I was too busy chatting with the chick Xiao Xi, I forgot that we have guests behind her! This one is dimei right!” The middle-aged woman said passionately to my mom. “Come in quickly, Xiao Xi, go and brew tea for our guests!”