Xu Chenghou's hometown is Yinkuangzi Village, Qingshangou Township, Kuandian. Going there from Fusong, you have to pass through Hunjiang River, Tonghua, Huanren, and then to Qingshangou.
There are no expressways in these days, so driving is actually not fast.
Besides, there are many young and old in this group, how can they keep driving forward?
So in the afternoon, everyone stopped in Tonghua and found a hotel to stay for one night.
There were five cars at once, and the people at the hotel thought they were some kind of cadre, and treated them very warmly.
This group of children, except for Xu Haiyuan, were all traveling far away for the first time, and every one of them looked at everything that was new.
They slept in the car during the day, but they didn't want to sleep at night and had to go out for a walk.
"What's there to see this late at night? Let's all have a good rest.
We will stay here when we come back, and then we will take you to the Yuhuang Mountain Zoo to see the animals."
In order to coax the children to stay in the hotel, Xu Shiyan could only promise to come back and take them to play.
When the children heard that they could go to the zoo, they became happy and stopped clamoring to go out. They all stayed in the hotel.
Early the next morning, everyone continued to set off from Tonghua to Huanren.
Although Qingshangou Township is under the jurisdiction of Kuandian, it is actually closer to Huanren.
Everyone found a place to rest in Huanren, ate, bought some things, and then continued walking.
Not far after passing Huanren, we arrived at Qingshangou.
In these days, Qingshan Valley has not yet been developed for tourism. It is actually quite poor. You can see along the way that the houses are not very good.
Ever since he beat Huan Ren, Xu Chenghou had been looking out the window.
At that time, he could not survive in his hometown, so he had no choice but to take his wife and children and leave his hometown for Fusong.
Who would have thought that one day he, Xu Chenghou, would come back in glory?
"Old lady, when did I come back that year? Shiqin didn't seem to be in school, right?
It’s been so many years, but it seems like nothing has changed in my hometown?”
When the car passed Qingshangou Township, Xu Chenghou looked at the scene outside and talked to Zhou Guilan.
Xu Chenghou did come back once, but Zhou Guilan never came back since he left that year.
Looking at the familiar scenery in front of her, Zhou Guilan could hardly control her tears.
This is also the place where she was born and raised. How is it possible to say that she doesn’t want to leave after so many years?
“It’s changed a bit, it seems like there are more residents than before, but this house is still quite old.
Hey, the land in our place is poor and we can't produce food.
The few pear trees and hawthorn trees planted in every household cannot be sold. They just eat and drink all year round. How can they develop?"
Zhou Guilan looked outside and muttered.
The car continued to drive forward, passing Yinkuangzi Village, and a short distance further in, we arrived at Shijiagou.
At the mouth of Shijiagou, there is a large stone monument.
It is said that when Liu Yong came to inspect the area, there was an old man slumped on the kang and wanted to see Mr. Liu.
His son carried him on his back and walked out of Shijiagou to the county seat.
When Mr. Liu saw the son carrying his father to see him, he felt that he was quite filial, so he erected a monument to his filial son at the mouth of Shijiagou.
"The elders say that the local atmosphere of Shijiagou is suppressed by this monument, so it is getting poorer and poorer.
Shijiagou, Shijiagou, it’s not a good idea to put a monument on the stone?”
Walking in from Yinmeizi, the road conditions got worse and worse, and it was quite bumpy. Finally, we reached the entrance of Shijiagou, but it was impossible to drive in.
So everyone got off the car, and Xu Shiyan and the others found a place to park without being blocked on the road.
Xu Chenghou pointed to the stone tablet and told his grandchildren the origin of the stone tablet.
Even though the children had been riding in the car for such a long time, they were all in good spirits.
At this moment, everyone's eyes widened as they listened to Grandpa's story, listening with great interest.
"I heard from the elders that the monument could not be erected even after it was erected twice.
Later, the person who erected the monument asked the son, saying that if the monument of filial son cannot be erected, it must be because you have done something unfilial in the past.
The boy thought about it and finally remembered that when he was a child, he once hit his father with a broom."
Xu Haibo and Xu Haitao helped Xu Chenghou move forward, and Xu Chenghou continued to tell stories to the children.
"Someone gave the boy an idea and asked him to kneel down and kowtow to his father to apologize. After that, the monument was actually erected.
Look, this is the monument." Xu Chenghou pointed to a big stone standing next to the mouth of the ditch and said.
Everyone looked at the big stone and saw a big black stone with some moss growing on it.
You can vaguely see that there are indeed words engraved on it.
However, due to the age, wind, rain, and moss cover, many characters are difficult to read.
Walking in from the mouth of the ditch, everyone finally understood why this place is called Shijiagou.
The ground is really full of rocks, all stone cannons, and there is no road.
Xu Shiyan looked at the stone cannons in front of him, but what he was thinking about was other things.
In fact, he came back twice in his last life. In 1983, in order to get that bastard Xu Haichao, he came back specially to issue a certificate.
In 2016, Xu Shiyan and his brothers made a trip back, fulfilling his old mother's last wish.
When Zhou Guilan got older, she always thought about her hometown and wanted to go back.
But until she passed away, she never had the chance to go back to her hometown to visit.
In 16 years, Xu Shixian and others were already quite old.
The brothers discussed it and said that they should come back to take a look while they could move, even if they were coming back for their parents.
At that time, Xu Haibo drove a taxi, and Xu Jinping also owned a car for traveling.
So the brother and sister took the four brothers and drove back to Shijiagou to have a look.
The stone cannon under my feet had become a cement road at that time, so it was easy to walk.
The houses are also different from those in front of us. They are all brick and tile houses, which are quite regular. How different from today, when they are still made of stone and earth.
It was difficult to walk through the stone cannons all over the ground. It was only a little over a mile, so everyone had to go in with great effort.
There are only a few households in Shijiagou, and the Xu family's old house is close to it.
"Our home was here back then. The lower part of the ridge was our home, and the upper part of the ridge was your grandpa's house."
Xu Chenghou walked to the old house. The stone house back then was already dilapidated.
The old man pointed to the stone slope behind the house and told the children.
"Did you see the trees over there? The peach trees and pear trees belong to our family.
When I was pregnant with your father, my grandma loved to eat green peaches, which are small fruits that have just fallen from the peach tree.
It’s sour and astringent, I don’t know how she can eat it?”
Xu Chenghou said these words to Xu Haibo.
Seeing the scene in front of him, the old man's mind was filled with things from the past, and he couldn't help but tell the children about the past.
"You ate up all the fruits on that peach tree before they even grew up.
I thought she loved peaches, so when the peaches were ripe, she picked a basket of big blood peaches from our peach grove.
In the end, she didn't eat any of it." The old man said and laughed.
"Come on, let's go up. Your uncle's house is ahead of us.
Alas, your eldest grandpa and grandma were gone a few years ago, and now only your eldest uncle and eldest wife are left here."
Xu Chenghou pointed to the house on Kaner and said.