Chapter 28: Returning Home

  The car drove for four hours and arrived at the town, but the road in the mountain was much more difficult to walk. After more than an hour, Jinhu and Yueye were still wandering around the foot of the mountain. The saying "looking up at the mountain and running to death" is not a white talk. Moreover, this small path along the mountain is just enough for four wheels wide, so the car can't go fast. If it goes fast, it may fall into the ditch. It wasn't until 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon that Jinhu finally drove the car to the middle of the mountain.

  Now Jin Hu is staying in a place that is not near Tun Mountain, but in the old house called Menzi Mountain. It's like two big gates of a big mountain, and there are two small paths side by side on the mountain, which is the road leading to the big mountain.

  Jin Hu stopped the car in front of a small shop on a small earthen platform, where there were two or three households. Before liberation, this was the checkpoint for entering the mountain, and it was inhabited by sentry personnel. Originally, there was a tall stone pedestal on the earthen platform, which served as a simple beacon tower. Now, the stones on the beacon tower had been dismantled and turned into three stone houses. In the past, the few families of sentries lived here, but now they were no longer sentries, but instead ran a small shop. People entering or leaving the mountain could come here to take a drink of water and rest their feet.

  As soon as the car was parked on the side, two little boys wearing split pants with their birds exposed came over and started touching the car with their dirty hands, leaving a small handprint.

  "Hey, little melon seed! Where's your dad?" Jin Hu asked with a smile to a small boy with a shaved head and greenish hair.

  The little girl sniffled and wiped her nose, while another little thing with a shaved head looked at Jin Hu for a while before asking uncertainly: "Uncle Hu?"

  Jintiger walked forward, stretched out his foot and lightly kicked the little boy's buttocks, which were exposed for more than half: "Son of a bitch, you only recognize your uncle now!" After that, he took two big bags of candies from the car and handed them to the two little boys to hold in their arms.

  The mountain gourd seed hugged the sugar bag, one hand wiped his nose with the back of his hand, and a bright streak was immediately pulled out on his entire dark little face. He turned around and ran towards the door: "Dad, Huer is back, driving a big truck!" In the mountains, half-grown children call cars "trucks".

  Upon hearing the cry of a child, a man in his thirties walked out of the house, followed by a stout woman. The man saw Jin Hu and was taken aback: "Tiger cub?" He looked at Jin Hu and nodded, then turned to look at the car and said, "You've become wealthy now."

  "My car will stay here, I'll head home first and come back to pick it up later." Jin Hu opened the car door, pulled out a cigarette from inside the car and tossed it over to the man.

  The man took over the cigarette and pinched it in his mouth: "You can rest assured to go, nothing will happen".

  The pumpkin seed looked at Jin Hu wanting to close the car door, twisted and came over: "Uncle Hu! I want to go up and play!" Before he finished speaking, his butt was kicked by the man, immediately becoming a earth dumpling: "Play an egg! No quiet time all day".

  The little boy got up from the ground, rubbing his butt, not crying or making a fuss, just smiling foolishly. He peeled a piece of candy and put it in his mouth. The woman saw the candy in the child's hand and took it away: "You can have two pieces a day, I'll keep the rest for you."

  The doll immediately stopped: "You received it and it's gone, Uncle Hu'er gave it to me." Seeing the woman raise her hand, she immediately hugged her head and retreated two steps, staring at her own mother from a distance.

  Jin Hu smiled, opened the car door: "You can play, but only use your hands, don't use knives or sticks. If I come back and find out, I'll hang you up and whip you!" After finishing speaking, he put two large travel bags on his back, one in front and one behind: "Then I'm leaving!" He said, walking towards the mountain trail.

  These kids in the mountains are really something, now with this weather, the young masters and princesses in the city are all wearing long pants and long sleeves, but these little brats are still running around with their shirts off, they're not afraid of the cold at all, if you don't say anything, once things get into their hands, they'll be ruined.

  Carrying two large packages, I walked along the mountain road for more than two hours until it was almost dark. Only then did I vaguely see the smoke and fire in the distant village. Luckily, there was a storm of type seven, otherwise, carrying these two big packages would have killed me. If it were before, I would have pushed a wheelbarrow to Xiao Tupingzi to pick myself up.

  Carrying a flashlight, wrapped in moonlight, walking towards his own village, after almost an hour, he finally arrived at the entrance of the village. Before entering the village, the big black dog lying at the dark entrance of the village was barking frantically at Jin Hu, immediately causing all the local dogs in the village to bark. Jin Hu shouted at the big dog: "Bark your soul out! Big Black".

  The big black dog heard the sound, stopped barking, wagged its tail and came over, stretched out a hand to rub the big black dog's head, Jin Hu carried his bag and walked into the village, just two steps away, the door opened, a man in his fifties stuck his head out: "Who?"

  "Uncle Gan! It's me, Hu Die!" Jin Hu said to that person.

  "Hey, little tiger! How come you're back today? Didn't hear your parents say anything?" Old stick opened the big door and said with a smile: "Come in and sit for a while?"

  "No way! I'll head home first." Jin Hu waved his hand at Lao Ganr, then pulled out a cigarette from the big package in front of him and handed it over. Lao Ganr smiled and accepted it. That's how mountain people are - if you give them something, they'll take it; no need to be polite or decline.

  Jin Hu walked along the way, every household stretched out their heads to take a look. Jin Hu greeted these uncles and aunts, nephews and nieces while handing out gifts from his hands. When he arrived at the door of his home, the large travel bag in front of him was already half empty.

  Not yet at the gate of their own home, his old father and mother were already standing at the door. The moonlight sprinkled on the shoulders of the two, making them look a bit hunched. The two faces with wrinkles were all smiles. His mother smiled while gently wiping away tears from the corners of her eyes. Jin Hu hastily took two quick steps forward, stood in front of his parents, and his nose turned sour but he couldn't say a word.

  The old woman stretched out her hand, took Jinhu's hand and patted it twice in the palm of her hand, then lifted her hand to touch Jinhu's face: "My son has lost weight."

  Jintiger mumbled twice and couldn't say anything, letting his mother's dry hand touch his face. After thinking for a long time, he finally squeezed out a smile from his face: "How could I lose weight when I eat and drink well?"

  The old man was still calm, lit a pipe and took two puffs: "You woman, as soon as your son comes back, he stands at the door and starts wiping his nose with beans, aren't you afraid of being laughed at? The child just came back, probably hasn't even eaten yet."

  After listening to Jin Guangfu's words, the old mother smiled and wiped her face: "Go inside and talk" After finishing, she pulled Jin Hu's hand into the house. The dozens of watt bulbs in the house emitted a yellow light, flashing from time to time, and the voltage was very unstable.

  Upon entering the house, Jin Hu put down the large package and sat down on a small wooden stool. His mother immediately began to prepare food for him.

  Jin Guangfu looked at Jin Hu and said, "Tell me again about the grudges you've made with others, be careful." After finishing speaking, he stared at Jin Hu with a stern face.

  Jin Hu recounted the process of his feud with Xu Mao in detail, leaving out nothing except for the matter of the warship. Jin Guangfu listened to Jin Hu's account while smoking, then asked him: "What are you busy with now?"

  Jintiger said to his own father, "I'm preparing to collect some crystals and transport them abroad, and also import some knives from abroad for sale!"

  Jin Guangfu listened, tapped his tobacco pouch on the leg of the bench, and then poured another pot. He asked Jin Hu: "How much can these two jobs earn in a year?"

  Jin Hu thought for a moment, and said: "The crystal doesn't make much money, and the knives and other things, adding up to the most I can squeeze out of my work as a knight, I'd say around 20 million or so per year."

  "That year can't take out eight hundred thousand?" Jin Guangfu looked at Jin Hu and said.

  Jin Hu listened to his father's words and was stunned for a moment: "To be used at home?"

  "Mind your own business! Just say whether you can take it out or not!" Jin Guangfu said to his son.

  "That's no problem! If you want, I'll go back and bring it over to you." Jin Hu looked at his father and said: "The houses in this family should be repaired properly too. Also, get two diesel generators for the village, this voltage is really not good!"

  "Then this time you go back and get me some money, to pay for the electricity in the village, and also for the kids' school fees," Jin Guangfu said to Jin Hu.

  "How much money is that?" Jin Hu nodded and asked. He followed the Knights' Regiment for a trip, and at least he had enough to spend for five years in the village.

  Jin Guangfu nodded after listening, stood up from the small stool: "I'll go find your third grandfather to discuss things, you eat breakfast and sleep".

  Jin Hu listened and stood up from the stool: "Then I'll go too, I have something to bring to Third Grandfather."

  "Just stay at home, I'll have Third Grandfather take the things to you." Jin Guangfu said to Jin Hu, "Give me the things."

  Jin Hu listened to Lao Zi's words, opened the large travel bag, took out seven or eight things, and Jin Guangfu picked up a slightly yellowed supermarket plastic bag and carried the things out of the door.

  San Ye's surname is Shan, pronounced as Tongshan. San Ye's father was the paternal uncle of Jin Hu's great-grandfather and also the second-in-command of the bandit den. San Ye is also the paternal uncle of Jin Hu's grandfather and currently the oldest person in the Jin family village. The emotional ties between the two families over several generations are no different from those with Jin Hu's own father. Now, the oldest people living in the village are all his nephews and nieces. The old man not only serves as the master of the Jin Guangfu household but also as the master of the entire village.

  Jin Hu looked at Lao Zi leaving the door and sat down with nothing to do, so he took out the things he bought for his own family and put them on the table.

  She had just finished arranging everything and her mother came in with a bowl: "Hurry up while it's still hot!"

  Jin Hu took it over, squatted on a small stool, and sucked along the edge of the bowl. His mother was still like this, every bowl was full, with four boiled eggs in water, some green vegetables, a bit of oil and salt, and two drops of sesame oil on top. A big bowl of soup, that's all there is in the mountains, if you want to eat something else, it's not available. Jin Hu picked up his chopsticks and ate big mouthfuls, feeling more delicious than what the head chef at the restaurant made.

  After dinner, Jin Hu followed his mother to try on the new clothes she had just bought. The two of them chatted while waiting for Jin Guangfu to return, but after more than an hour, there was still no sign of him, so his mother urged Jin Hu to go back to the house and rest.

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