Zhou Zhi’s hometown is Zhaoqiao Town, Meizhou City. In fact, it is not very far from Rongcheng. If you drive, you can go to the market in the town in three hours and twenty minutes.

The bus needs to transfer and it takes four hours to get to Meizhou city.

There is a shuttle bus to Meizhou city in Dongmen Station in Rongcheng every day. You can get to Zhaoqiao Town in one and a half hours when you arrive in Meizhou.

Of course, you still need to take a motorcycle to drive for more than twenty minutes to get to Zhou Zhi’s real hometown.

Therefore, when Zhou Zhi arrived at Zhaoqiao Town that day, it was already 2:30 in the afternoon. At this time, the town was sparsely populated, and only a few large red motorcycles parked there in the shade of the trees beside the bridge.

This is the motorcycle. Of course, these motorcycles are not formal. They are all people who have nothing to do at home to go out and make extra money.

When Zhou Zhi approached, several people were smoking cigarettes and chatting.

"Will you go to Honghu Village?" Zhou Zhi asked directly.

When a few middle-aged men heard Zhou Zhi’s local accent, they immediately said, “Go, go immediately for ten yuan.”

"I only had eight yuan last time when I came back, why did I have to pay ten yuan this time?" Zhou Zhi did not get in the car immediately, but asked.

"Isn't this the oil price rising? Now there are ten yuan everywhere, not eight yuan, and the road to Honghu Village is still difficult to walk." The man immediately said with a simple face.

"I came back a month ago last time, but it didn't rise so quickly. It's 8 yuan. Besides, the road here is hard to go. I'm Honghu local." Zhou Zhi shook his head and said.

"The young man is from Honghu Village. That's eight yuan." The middle-aged man nodded.

"Thank you, Master." After saying that, Zhou Zhi took the middle-aged man's car directly into the back seat.

The motorcycle started quickly, and the distance was quite exciting, because it was difficult to walk to Honghu Village or all the villages under Zhaoqiao Town.

The roads from the village to the town are all yellow-nick roads. Fortunately, it will be a little dusty on sunny days. If it rains, it will be muddy.

Honghu Village is even more so. The roads in other villages do not have any slopes at least, but Honghu Village has large and small slopes.

From a distance, the road looks like a rolling hill or a winding snake, but there is no place to be smooth.

Therefore, it can be said that the road is very exciting.

"Why is the young man back now? He is not in the New Year or the Festival?" The master asked while driving the car.

"Come back to my hometown and take a look." Zhou Zhi turned his head and replied.

"Oh, it's good to come back and see. Many young people who have gone out have not come back for the Chinese New Year now. It's because we are too poor here. We are still like this for so many years. It's boring to come back. It's not interesting to come back. It's also delaying you young people. It's better not to come back." The master sighed.

"Yes." Zhou Zhi, who had not returned to his hometown during the Chinese New Year this year, responded embarrassedly and did not say much.

The sound of motorcycles drove all the way to Honghu Village, and soon arrived at the junction of Honghu Village and Hongyan Village, and the master spoke again.

"Where is the young man going to Honghu?" asked the master.

"Just on the stone bridge down the slope in front." Zhou Zhi took advantage of the uphill and pointed to the stone bridge path that could be seen vaguely in front.

"Okay, it'll be here soon." The master responded.

It was said that it was immediately but it was only five minutes later.

After getting off the bus, Zhou Zhi paid, the master rode on the motorcycle and turned around and left.

Standing on the old stone bridge, you can vaguely see a tiled house hidden in the bamboo forest on the slope, and it is the well-known hometown.

Under the stone bridge is a shallow river with shallow water and shining with silver light in the sun. Zhou Zhi also caught small fish below when he was a teenager.

"I haven't been back for a long time, but fortunately I have the key." Zhou Zhi touched the side bag of his backpack, and a clanging sound from inside.

"It probably hasn't rained recently, it's really sunny." Zhou Zhi walked slowly up the slope. The sun was very strong and the soil on the road was dry.

Zhou Zhi's home was about one hundred meters away from where he got off the bus. Although the distance was short, it was all uphill. So when Zhou Zhi arrived at the doorstep, he was already sweating profusely.

"It's finally here." Zhou Zhi reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked at the two closed wooden doors with some emotion.

The house in front of me looked very old at first glance, with the white gray on the exterior walls a little mottled, and the door facing the path was full of traces of time. The locks on it were still the same as old-fashioned, and the bottom was rusted.

The door was cooled down because of the door head and bamboo forest.

Zhou Zhi took out the key and opened the wooden door.

With a creaking sound, the wooden door was pushed open, and the purpose was to enter a wide cement yard. The sun shone, and the air was covered with fine dust. The corridor was covered with large pieces of stone, and some weeds grew tenaciously from the gap.

"Although it's a bit old, it's very clean. I have to thank Grandpa San later." Zhou Zhi said while walking in.

Yes, they rarely come back to the old house of Zhou Zhi’s family, but after all, it’s their own old house, so I asked my third grandfather’s family to take care of it when they have time.

Now when you see that Grandpa Third’s family is obviously very careful in taking care of it, otherwise there would be no clean and tidy place now, so I’m afraid it would have been overgrown with weeds.

The whole old house is a back-shaped building. The gate is opened on the side of the road near the bamboo forest. When you go straight, you will open the side door. One meter from the side door, and the water flows down from the mountains behind Zhou Zhi’s house.

The places near the exterior wall are pigpens and chicken coops, but because the well-known grandparents have passed away, their parents opened a snack bar outside, which has long been abandoned and only the place is left.

On the left and right sides of the door are four side rooms and two side rooms.

On the right side of the door are the kitchen and dining room, and the side room near the side door was used to pile up firewood and food.

Opposite the door were five main rooms, and in the middle was the house of grandparents. However, when they got older, they moved out and lived in a small side room near the kitchen, where they had been used to pile up well-known books and some uncommon, or unusable things.

The main room near the kitchen is where Zhou Zhi’s parents once lived, and they haven’t lived there for more than ten years. After all, Zhou Zhi’s parents went out to work not long after they got married.

Zhou Zhi's room was where his parents lived. Yes, Zhou Zhi was taken out by his parents when he was still in his infancy.

So I haven't officially owned my own room yet.

"Cruff" the old wooden door made an old sound, and Zhou Zhi opened all the doors in the room.

The kitchen is still a big stove that burns firewood, but some basic kitchen utensils are still there, while the side room near the side door is still piled with some firewood, and the food piled is empty. The five main rooms, except for the well-known things, all seem empty, but the five double-shelf beds inside are very conspicuous.

After all, it was a main room, and even if I couldn't live in it, I had to put the bed inside. Zhou Zhi stepped forward and pushed it with his hands, and found that the bed was still very strong.

"It's worthy of being a grandfather who has been able to bed with him personally, and he's still so strong for so many years." Zhou Zhi sighed.

Yes, when Zhou Zhi's grandfather was alive, he was a famous carpenter in the village. Everyone might not be able to react to the name for a while, but when he talked about Carpenter Zhou, he must be Zhou Zhi's grandfather, which shows that.

After seeing the condition of the room, Zhou Zhi called out the system in his heart: "This house belongs to me, the first task is already completed."

The system quickly replied to Zhou Zhi's question: "The task is not completed."

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Chapter completed!