A large area of ​​land at the entrance of Zhangjia Village has built a three-story western-style building. The houses are facing north and south, and the roads are equipped with east-west sidewalks. Trees are used on both sides of the road. Every family has a courtyard, and a unified pipeline is also drained. The tap water pipes from the county are uniformly connected to the water. The layout of the wires is the same as the poles erected in the county, and they are hung high with poles.

Zhang Shaoping and Zhang Shaoan were stunned and relaxed. They had not been home for only a year. Unexpectedly, their hometown had become earth-shaking. The current situation is much better than ever. The two brothers were happy and happy to see these changes in the village.

Zhang Shaoping and his younger brother Zhang Shaoan rushed home with their luggage. Li Jianmei was feeding chickens at her doorstep. Zhang Youcai sat on the stone trunk and was leisurely smoking a dry tobacco. When Shaoping and Shaoan walked to the doorstep, Zhang Youcai stood up from the stone trunk and looked at the two big grandsons in front of him, and couldn't stop his mouth.

"Shaoping, Shaoan, why are you two back?" Zhang Youcai said with a smile.

"Grandpa, the school is on holiday, so I'm back," the two brothers said in unison.

"Okay, okay, okay, just come back. You miss your grandpa so much. Your dad is busy every day for the livelihood of every household in the village and has no time to nag me. All the affairs of all the family are handled by your mother. Grandpa, I am not only bored and suck our dry tobacco bags to relieve my boredom, grandpa, I feel so uncomfortable!"

"Grandpa, we two brothers are back, don't feel bad, let me relieve you," said Zhang Shaoping.

"Okay, okay, okay, with you two brothers, grandpa will not be bored, otherwise I will feel so nervous."

"By the way, grandpa, when Shaoan and I came in from the entrance of the village just now, we found that our village had bungalows built, which looked very similar to the houses in the county."

"Facing with that, those bungalows were designed and built by your father and Uncle Jianguo, but they looked so beautiful. It was the first time I had seen such a beautiful house in my life."

Just as Shaoping and grandfather Zhang Youcai were having a happy chat, Zhang Fugui and Zhang Jianguo came over. Fugui saw his two babies coming home on holiday, and he was very happy and smiled endlessly.

The whole family hasn't seen each other for a year, and the whole family is sitting on a stool chatting, and only the wife Li Jianmei is making fun in the kitchen.

Talking about time always passes by inadvertently, and the sky gradually darkens. The whole family gathered at the dinner table and laughed. Li Jianmei made a table full of dishes and placed them on the dinner table.

"Shaoping, Shaoan, how about you two try this dish?" Li Jianmei took two pairs of clean chopsticks, picked up a little of the fried pork plate, and put it in their baby bowls.

Shaoping and Shaoan took the bamboo chopsticks and began to pick up the food in the bowl. They hadn't tasted this familiar and friendly taste for a long time. The two brothers ate it with relish.

After Shaoping quickly finished the food in the bowl, he walked into the main hall and found the books An Yuran gave him during the farewell from his luggage. Shaoping roughly flipped through it. During the process, Shaoping flipped through it and found a note from a book. The white note flashed in his eyes like a dazzling lightning, making him dizzy!

He carefully opened the note. When he saw what was expressed between the lines on the note, he seemed to feel a huge warm current in his chest surging. His eyes were a little dizzy, and the corners of his mouth smiled unconsciously. He held the note tightly and ran out of the main hall.

The bright starry sky shines the earth, and the bright full moon makes him feel relaxed and intoxicated, but this warm and happy torrent soon retreats in his heart.

He immediately returned to the real life he was in. All this was simple and clear: it was impossible for them to be together!

Yes, it is impossible. How could a rural countryman and farmer be together with a woman who lived in the public since childhood? I also heard that some college students and educated youth went to the countryside to marry farmers, but this is still a very unique phenomenon. Shaoping felt that he and Yuran were too extravagant to be friends, let alone being with her. Although the family's conditions have improved a lot in recent years and the situation has become better and better, rural people are rural people after all, and they are not as pampered as she lives in the city, and have various high-quality resources.

After thinking about it, Zhang Shaoping felt that he was not worthy of Yuran. The more he thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable all over. He felt his heart hurt like he was stabbed by a needle. From the corner of his eyes, he saw that there was no one around, so he hugged his head and cried bitterly. He felt so happy and unfortunate that the beautiful An Yuran could actually write him such a letter, but he could not agree to be with the person he loved (the "good" here refers to becoming a boyfriend and girlfriend, which is what we call falling in love now). Because he knew that he could not bring the happiness she wanted.

Since then, Shaoping has always helped his mother Li Jianmei with housework alone, and he has not said much in a day. Whether it is his family or the villagers talking to him, he always finished what he should say, and there was no extra word.

Some people in the village who were as old as him joked with him, and he would show a feeling of disgust, which made people very embarrassed. Everyone felt that he had changed and became more and more unfamiliar. No one knew what had happened to him. Even his younger brother Shaoan, who had been with him since childhood, was a little confused.

After running out of water at home, he carried a bucket to a well outside the village. On the hills far and near, the green of the trees was no longer bright, and it looked gray. The crops in the ground looked a little better. He carried two buckets of water on his shoulders with a shoulder pole. He shook his shirt when he walked, and sweat soaked his shirt.

The long and short holiday left quietly without realizing it. During this holiday, Zhang Shaoping not only buried himself in his head and did housework silently, but also found a quiet place to read the books given to him by An Yuran. He first read Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet", and Goethe's "Faust". These books allowed him to relieve the deep pain in his heart. When he looked at these books, he couldn't let go of his eyes as if he was treating ten thousand taels of gold.

The mountains far and near, the crisscrossing gullies, the flowers, plants and trees in the fields and mountains all seemed a little desolate and old. The dusty mountain paths were filled with fresh air. The two brothers Zhang Shaoping and Zhang Shaoan continued to pick up their bags and return to the county No. 1 Middle School. This campus that has been in the city for more than a year. The school started almost a week, and Zhang Shaoping never talked to An Yuran. An Yuran thought that he had done something wrong and made Shaoping angry, so he didn't take it seriously.

But half a month passed, Zhang Shaoping went to the library and read books alone, and An Yuran stayed in the library, but the two of them always looked at each other for a while and then looked at their own books.

An Yuran was a little puzzled. She didn't know why Shaoping ignored her. She knew that Shaoping was intentionally trying to avoid her. She thought about it but couldn't find any reason.

However, the understanding An Yuran guessed that Shaoping might have something to do at home, so he ignored her. Because he was upset, he was unwilling to talk to her.

But when Shaoping looked like something was wrong at home, on the contrary, Shaoping was more persistent in studying than last year. In the classroom where she was in class, she always saw Shaoping talking and laughing and playing with other classmates, but she was indifferent to her.

An Yuran felt very uncomfortable. Could she not deserve him? An Yuran silently guessed in her heart.

She felt that she felt uncomfortable no matter how she thought. She had never felt so uncomfortable since she was a child. She wanted to ask Zhang Shaoping why she ignored her.

She was embarrassed to look for Shaoping directly, so she told Shaoan to ask his brother Shaoping to wait for her at the river bank at dusk, and she had something to say to him.

In the evening, on the river bank outside the county town, An Yuran came to the shore alone early. She looked at the sparkling water and felt a little relieved. When she was focused on the mountains in the distance, Zhang Shaoping walked over.

An Yuran felt that there seemed to be someone standing on her back, so she turned her body carefully. When she saw Zhang Shaoping, there were some tears in the corners of her eyes, because she didn't know if he could come. When she saw Shaoping coming here as promised, her heart was mixed.

"You, you, you are looking for me, is there anything wrong?" Zhang Shaoping stammered.

An Yuran didn't know where to start with him, but just raised a smile on the corner of her mouth and said, "Zhang Shaoping, you have changed, and I don't even know you anymore. Why don't you talk to me after school has been in full swing? Why do you pretend not to know me? This makes me feel like I'm a stranger. Why is this?"

Zhang Shaoping didn't know how to answer Yuran, but since Yuran asked him, he would give her an explanation no matter what. He took a breath and said, "Yuran, I'm very happy to meet you. It is the greatest luck in my life to come to study in the county, but, but..."

"But what, you said!" An Yuran said in a whimpering voice.

"But I don't think we are suitable. I, a rural country bumpkin, cannot deserve you. If you are kind to me, you will ruin your future. I don't want to see you give up all the quality resources you have in the county town because you thought I was. Thank you for the letter you wrote to me. This is the first time I have received such a letter since I was a child."

"Zhang Shaoping, then do you like me?"
Chapter completed!