Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

The moon and the moon come out from the mouth of the east cliff, and the sun is only a pole high on the top of the west mountain. The chimneys on the houses that look like fallen birds emit wisps of smoke, which does not overwhelm the golden autumn evening.The appearance of gold at dusk is the most textured signal of the change of seasons.When Yueyue entered the street, she rode very slowly on purpose, and said hello to the lady who was cooking with grass on Tun Street.When she arrived at Uncle Zhiliang's shop, she jumped out of the bike and ordered a plate of yogurt.The old uncle said that Huo Hua is really a lucky child, so many people spoil her.Yueyue laughed, and Yueyue said that the sparks were too small, so she was used to her.

When Yueyue saw Huo Huo in the yard, Huo Huo had a strange expression. She squatted beside the wooden trough where the chickens were fed, watching the chickens pecking intently, and ignored Yueyue.Yueyue stretched out the yogurt to her lap, but she didn't express her joy as usual.She only raised her head, blinked her small eyes twice, and then watched the chicken pecking seriously again.The attitude of sparks made Yueyue a little terrified, and that vague shadow instantly crawled into Yueyue's mind.Yueyue put down the car, looked at the sparks, and wondered if you, a strange thing, knew something?Yueyue tried her best to recall whether the sparks were on the street when she left the house at noon, but she couldn't remember no matter how she thought about it.Yueyue said that sparks are you unhappy?Sparks nodded, pointed to the room with one finger, and asked Yueyue to look into the room.Yueyue's scalp tensed suddenly, she walked in, the main room was deserted, as if her mother-in-law hadn't cooked yet.Yueyue walked to the east, and saw her mother-in-law lying on the kang, her loose buttocks folded into a high hill, Mom, are you sick?Yueyue said.Gu Shuping opened his eyes, saw that it was Yueyue, and said expressionlessly, hurry up and cook, I can't eat ready-made food today.For a period of time, the mother-in-law has always been exaggeratedly docile and kind, why did she suddenly change her face now?Yueyue's panic turned into panic and panic when she saw her mother-in-law's gloomy expression, she hurried to the Westinghouse to change her clothes and get grass for cooking.Yueyue thought that her mother-in-law must have known something from Huo Hua.

In fact, Gu Shuping's emotions have nothing to do with Yueyuexiashang's betrayal of the Lin family.In the afternoon, Lin Zhibang got drunk at Zhang Shoushan's house, and started to vomit as soon as he entered the hospital.After Lin Zhibang retired, Zhang Shoushan’s daughter-in-law broke up and separated. He couldn’t wait for his son who was working outside to come back. He was so angry that he forced Lin Zhibang to drink. He vented it out, but he was afraid that Zhang Shoushan would drink too much and quarrel with his daughter-in-law, so he cleverly maneuvered himself to drink two more cups, not wanting to get himself drunk.After Lin Zhibang vomited and vomited, he lay down on the wooden bench next to him. Gu Shuping dragged him into the room, but he refused to enter. go.The drunken state of Lin Zhibang made Gu Shuping pick up the fear of the man's body that had always been suspicious in her heart. She left the man angrily, went back to the house, and picked up the sweater she had been knitting in her hand—this sweater from Lin Zhibang. Gu Shuping's worries and worries have been woven into Xia Lai, her son is sick, the man is abnormal, and the sparks make her scalp tingle at the sight of them.But Gu Shuping had just knit two stitches when he saw Huo Hua wiping the man's body with a towel on the well platform, and the man was rubbing up and down by the sparks like a child.The closeness between Spark and the man made her see the abnormality of the man again, and once again aroused her hatred of Spark.So Gu Shuping put down the sweater, opened the high and low cabinet drawers, took out twenty yuan, wrapped it in a handkerchief, changed into a floral eggplant-colored shirt, and left the house.

The superstitious belief of the people in the villa towards Zhang Xiazi is outdated.Ten years ago, Zhang Xiazi was the witch god in the hearts of the people in Xiema Villa. Whose son could not find a wife at the age of thirty, whose daughter-in-law would get sick as soon as she came in, and whose life was always hard to endure. Ask Blind Zhang for advice, and the story of his fortune-telling success has been passed down by the people of the villa.More than ten years ago, Hou Jisheng, the car handlebar in Xiahekou, fell asleep until midnight and suddenly became paralyzed. After the wife found Zhang Blind and told her birthday, he plucked an old string and said, "There is a dead man buried in the stinky ditch in your house." A hundred-year-old stone mill, the stone mill has been stained with human spirit and blood for a hundred years, Hou Jisheng cultivated forty-three shovels of soil, even though he was seriously ill at the age of forty-three, went back and asked him if it was true, dug out the stone mill and put it on a high place , to keep your body alive and well.When the mother-in-law came home and said, Hou Jisheng suddenly remembered that after the production team had a grain mill, there was nowhere to put the stone mill, and he buried it at the bottom of the ditch at the door to prevent the road from collapsing.So he asked someone to dig out the stone mill and put it in the center of the garden. Hou Jisheng immediately stood up.Of course, there are times when it is not considered effective, but the people in the villa have always only passed on stories of success.The people in the villa are willing to create a kind of god as a support to pass the difficult days.Ten years later, a fox fairy in the upper reaches of the reservoir possessed a woman who had been ill all year round, and Zhang Xiazi stepped down from the altar.Unexpectedly, in recent years, fox spirits from all walks of life have repeatedly possessed their bodies. They made some money in the hot March and May, but their fairy aura retreated, hurting the simple hopes of the people in the villa.

The old house where the Godman lived was dilapidated, the courtyard walls collapsed, and the rotten corn stalks on the ground gave off a musty smell.When entering the room, Gu Shuping's heart suddenly felt tense, and a cold aura rushed towards his face along with the stench.The old man was lying on the kang, two eyesless black holes opened towards Gu Shuping.Hearing someone coming, he moved, and then slowly climbed up with his hands on the kang like an old cow turning over.God, I'm asking you to figure it out.Everyone in the villa called Zhang Blind Old God.The old god sat still, his chin trembled like a toad's belly, and then he reached out and touched the erhu with only a single string on the top of the kang.Gu Shuping said, born on the sixth day of the fifth lunar month in 2043, it was Yinshi at sunset.See if there is any disaster this year.I saw the old god pinching his fingers like a chicken pounding rice, and then plucked the solitary string. The sound of the thumping string was like crying deeper in the middle of the night, which gave people a fascinating feeling.The old god said that someone with a foreign surname rushed into the house and caused disaster, and there was no way to escape it.Gu Shuping couldn't help shivering, "Old God, please help me escape."I have done good deeds all my life.The old god said I was right?Gu Shuping thought, Huo Huo is a person with a foreign surname, and she was full of fragrance the day she picked it up, so it couldn't be more correct.The old god said that the rouge can't see the water or the rain, and it will disappear sooner or later, but you have to believe in your fate, it is a disaster in your life, and you can't escape it.Shen Xi will not be able to hide from the sun this year or next.

Coming out of the old house in Tumengou, Gu Shuping was a completely different person, with a gloomy expression and staggering steps.She thought that for the Lin family, she was also a foreigner, so she went straight to the Hetao downstream of the reservoir, took a deep bath in it, and rubbed her face and neck again and again.Women in their fifties in the village don't wear powder. Lin Zhibang came back from the city five years ago and bought her a box of foundation cream.After washing, she put on her clothes, and Gu Shuping returned home.It just so happened that Lin Zhibang was not in the yard after he sobered up, and Huo Huo was playing with water and mud on the well platform.She grabbed Spark and ran downstream of the reservoir.

Flushing Spark's body is not the main purpose of pulling Spark from home this time.After Gu Shuping took off Huo Hua's clothes and washed her, he led her to her natal family's cemetery in the south of Xiema Mountain.As soon as Gu Shuping arrived at the cemetery, she snuggled up in the grass and cried loudly.Because there is an elm forest all around, the cries are surrounded by leaves and cannot be heard very far.Gu Shuping's cry is neither lamentation nor grief, but a soft and lingering narration. Because this cry drags a long and flexible rhyme, it conveys an air of ignorance, which makes it sound like rainwater falling into the ground The air of water is in the sky, and there is a unique melancholy charm, which is the easiest tune for women in the villa to grasp.Gu Shuping said, why am I in such a difficult situation... How can I be today if I don't do good deeds... Father and mother, how can I do good deeds and do wrong ones? ... Father and mother, you know that I raised her because I did good deeds, and the sky should not repay me... What should I do, the second elder said quickly... Gu Shuping knew that the second elder could not speak, so he did not give the slightest gap, She knelt down while holding the sparks with one hand, and grabbed the red leaves growing tall in the cemetery with the other hand, dragging a long rhyme like a Western song, saying what she wanted to say and what she should say.Gu Shuping didn't shed tears at first, because the purpose of running here at the beginning was to tell, not because of love.However, while talking, Gu Shuping really burst into tears.Her tears did not seem to come from the suffering that was about to come, but were moved by her six years of hard work and dedication.Crying and talking, Gu Shuping stopped abruptly, the sudden stop of the rhyme was like a broken string on the piano.The sound stopped, Gu Shuping squinted her ears, she heard the voices in the grove approaching from far away, so she hurriedly stood up, pulling the sparks into the woods in the opposite direction of the sound.Gu Shuping walked with a trot, the skirt of the yarn-woven gown floated to both sides, like a butterfly fluttering in front of her chest.Although there was no beginning and end, her kindness connected the world, and Gu Shuping was very satisfied with herself, as if all the troubles had been wiped out.On the way back, she led Huo Huo into her big field, got into the dense field, picked up a handful of pig vegetables to cover it, and returned to the village.

A few women gathered in front of Liu Wenbin's house in Tun Street, with pink and green gowns speckled with spots.As Gu Shuping approached, Liu Wenbin's daughter-in-law Yu Min shouted from afar, "Auntie is picking up pig vegetables?"Gu Shuping said to pick up pig vegetables.Gu Shuping stared and opened his red eyelids from crying.Yu Min said, what is Teacher Weng doing at home and not coming out all summer?Because Yu Min is a teacher of Shanzhuang Primary School, he immediately brought the topic to Yueyue.In fact, they gathered just now to discuss Yueyue, because someone saw Gu Shuping walking out of Tun Street with sparks in a hurry, and felt a little strange, so they began to discuss from Gu Shuping's whereabouts to Yueyue's marriage for more than half a year. Pregnant with a child, discussing every month behind closed doors.Lin Zhiliang's woman often sees Yueyue, and she says that Yueyue is too thin because of the illness of the national army.So some people said that since Yueyue entered the Lin family, there have been many incidents, such as fires, illnesses, and downfalls.The women called Lin Zhibang's withdrawal from the village and called it the downfall.Some people say that people should not earn too much black money. There is not a single contractor in the world who is not black, and those with black hearts will be punished sooner or later.Seeing that he was in front of Mrs. Lin Zhiliang, the speaker stuck out his tongue and quickly retracted it.The outspoken Zhiliang woman hurriedly removed the obstacle for the other party, saying that I dare to say that he is black, black is black, or the sister-in-law never visits the house, she knows the man black best, and is afraid of being told, if he is not black, he will fall down. When the old villager comes to power, can he give it to a kid from outside?Just as they were talking, someone discovered that Gu Shuping was leading the sparks down the western hillside, and Yu Min turned the discussion behind his back into a kind of open and honest concern from a distance.Yu Min said that Teacher Weng can really sit, but I can't. I'll be bored to death after the winter and summer vacations, and I want to talk about chickens and ducks as students.Gu Shuping said, there is no old saying that when a daughter-in-law follows her mother-in-law, she does not want to join the group after she follows me.Zhiliang women are willing to join the group, so they immediately answer the conversation as if being exposed by others, straight people are willing to join the group, and talk about family matters, my sister-in-law's family is not willing to talk about important things, in fact, it is no different from saying nothing , the eyes of the masses are discerning.Gu Shuping's face flushed immediately.She is gentle and gentle by nature, and she never speaks hurtful words. Over the years, because the man has always been the head of the villa, she deliberately hides from everyone for fear of being hurt. She used the language of the age of class struggle to treat women, which made her back As soon as it was cold, it seemed that Zhang Blind had figured out those things and was seen.She faltered, saying that there was nothing to be afraid of. What did the crowd see?The Zhiliang woman is unyielding, and she is not afraid of human affairs, so why can't Yueyue conceive a child?How did you lose weight like this?My brother has fallen, why do you feel like the spark is dead?Let me see that either the spark is the cheapest, or the moon and the moon is the cheapest. If Yueyue has not been through the door, your house is safe and sound. If you want to say that the moon is the cheapest, the little fire spark is getting more and more spooky and frightening. Tell me to see it twice. Not a single good thing is expensive.Gu Shuping's heart suddenly swelled up, as if another pustule bulged out of the pussy pustules that had just been pierced.Yueyue, yes, it's Yueyue who is the master. She has no children for more than half a year after entering the house. How come she never thought of Yueyue, and thought that the Lin family owed her.Gu Shuping's face turned from red to white, then yellow, and finally, he whispered, the child is late, I went back to ask my wife, her mother was sure that the child was late, so she left the crowd with her eyes wandering.

When Gu Shuping returned home, he threw himself on the kang, and the misfortune was caused by sparks and moonlight.The slanting sunlight gradually changed from watery white to leaden gray. When Gu Shuping's eyes were filled with leaden gray color, her soft mother-in-law's heart suddenly hardened. However, Yueyue didn't give Gu Shuping a chance to shake off her mother-in-law's prestige.The mother-in-law seemed to see everything indifferently, so she made four dishes and one soup carefully and nervously, and bought two bottles of beer at the small shop.Yueyue came to the east room again and again while cooking, hoping that her mother-in-law would ask herself when her father-in-law and the national army did not come back—even if she broke herself, she should not be in front of everyone or the national army.She was prepared in the hustle and bustle of the main room. If the mother-in-law really found out the truth, she would tell the truth to the plaintiff, and she would secretly leave the Lin family and never come back.Of course she won't tell—she won't tell anyone about the illness of the national army, she will always protect the national army.At this time, Yueyue regards her feelings for Maizi as the reason that the national army is sick.However, the mother-in-law kept silent. When the family gathered at the dining table, Yueyue had no choice but to come to the east room with dignity and awe, calling mom, mom, eat in a soft and sweet voice.Hearing the call that was closer than her own daughter, Gu Shuping sat up, she said Yueyue, how old is your mother this year?Yueyue said that she was seventy-six years old.Gu Shuping said, how old is your eldest brother?Yueyue said she was fifty-five years old.Gu Shuping said, how many years has your mother been married and you have your elder brother?Yueyue thought for a while, sweat dripped from the tip of her nose, my mother got married at nineteen, and my elder brother didn't come until twenty-one.The heart that was originally as soft as a peach melted away at once, and Gu Shuping suddenly ate with brows stretched.Gu Ben finally decided to contract the largest piece of sand in Houchuan Yutouzui.It was a bright day after the Beginning of Autumn. Five members of the village committee of Xiema Villa—maizi invited Lin Zhibang, but when Lin Zhibang didn’t arrive, the captains of all the teams arrived one after another. Land contract on-site meeting.The first time was when Lin Zhibang first took office, Gu Ben contracted the hillside behind the house. The difference between this time and the previous one was that the contract date was chosen in the early autumn when the crops had not yet been harvested.In Xiema Mountain Villa, even the women are well aware that no matter whether the land is divided or exchanged, it is usually in the spring when the ice and snow melt. At that time, the cultivation has not yet started. in early autumn.The condition that Gu Ben negotiated with Maizi was that if he wants to contract, he must not wait until after autumn and spring, and must do the original owner's work well, take back the immature crops immediately, and he will make up for the loss a little.Maizi was puzzled at first, thinking that it was Gu Ben who deliberately used sophisticated means to make things difficult for the immature him, so that he could understand how difficult it is to serve the villa. The people who got the sand in Chuan wished they could give up the land for nothing, only then did they know that was not the case.When Maizi reported the situation to the village committee, Liu Hai, who had been acting like an officer in front of Maizi for a while, immediately clapped his hands, success!Gu originally wanted to be able to make a scene on the sand, and if he counted back the ancient water, then our villa had to accept it.Liu Hai's grandfather used to work as a transporter for Gu Ben's grandfather, Gu Xingtian. Although he was honest, kind and hardworking and never beaten, he had a macroscopic hostility towards the Gu family for many years. When he contracted the sandy land, Liu Hai subconsciously hoped that His failure——Liu Hai always thought that the success of contracting an orchard must be balanced by another kind of failure, just like being a village cadre would inevitably bring black eyes to his family.Liu Hai understands the performance of the land. No matter whether it is in the collective era or after it is distributed to individuals, the sandy land has not brought much harvest to the folks.After the field is divided, those who do not have a spare corner of the ditch will be given a large area at the price of ten. In the first year, according to the experience passed down by the elders, the owners joined hands to plant onions and melons on the sandy land, hoping to use more than a large pot of rice. A hundredfold enthusiasm created miracles, but after the young seedlings were unearthed shyly, they began to grow deformed when they were less than half a foot high. A thick phimosis protruded from the part of the green onion leaves that separated the heart of the onion. Red sphere.The deformed creation of the sand land that has remained unchanged for many years has dealt a powerful blow to the enthusiasm of the owners just now. Fortunately, the people who have not been assigned to the sand land can only plant ten catties and eight catties on the side of the ground in a year The owner of the sandy land didn’t make trouble with the team leader and the village chief, but there was one case where they no longer gave enthusiasm. Before the man from the sandy land owner’s family left as a migrant worker, he told the woman: leave the sandbag alone and throw it away.As a long-time resident of the villa, Gu Ben didn't know that the land was barren. His prowess was all due to the expansion of the arrogance of the Gu family who had been criticized for failing - the harvest of the orchard inflated his arrogance. If you can't eat shit, wolves can't change your nature of eating people!Liu Hai clapped his hands and the village committee understood, and everyone unanimously approved and advocated to hold an on-site meeting with great fanfare.

There was a tacit understanding between the on-site meeting and Maizi's original intention. Although Maizi lacked experience in rural work, he often heard reports on TV about deepening reforms in the countryside.Maizi hopes that such contracting can be promoted in all teams, and it will pave the way for the rural industrial society he envisioned-if someone contracts a large number of land, it will save people to invest in his village industry.The important thing is that he wants to revitalize the stagnant water in the modern countryside that has lost its rural nature due to the loss of labor.

Villagers surrounded the sandy land, and the corn seedlings with fat leaves and small branches in the ridge showed the unwillingness of the owner of the sandy land to give up.Maizi said, this is 50 mu of sandy land, and Guben will rent it at an annual rent of 60 yuan per mu.The village department will repay 60% of the rent to the original landlord, and the other 40% will be reserved for the village department to accumulate.The whole audience was silent, and because they couldn't figure out the pros and cons for a while, they didn't react at all.After a while, someone figured out that sixty percent of one thousand yuan is six hundred yuan, and the six hundred yuan will be distributed to twelve households, and each household will get fifty yuan a year. ?Gu Ben, who has been silent for a long time, started to talk. This year is half, and if there is anything in the field, it is half. I will pay now.It's just that the voice is very high and open, not like a little old man's voice.People were silent again, and people looked at the place where the sound came out in surprise. Gu Ben took out a dozen old man's tickets from his dirty pocket. Liveliness and excitement rarely seen in this season.The villagers were very excited when they saw that Gu Ben got the new coins from Gaga.Pan Xiuying's daughter, Jin Ye, squeezed from back to front, her eyes were straight and bright when she shot at the coins, and her lips were trembling on her chin.Her man left last spring and went to Russia as a migrant worker. People say that he became rich immediately after he came back.Gu Ben remained calm, took out the money and still stood still, looking at Maizi.Mai Zizhi asked the accountant Sanxi to come and get it, and Sanxi walked out of the crowd of village committee members like an actor. Seeing this scene, Liu Hai felt a pang of anger in his heart, but he swallowed hard.After the accountant took the money, he called the original owners of the twelve sandy lands and counted them one by one.At this time, Pan Xiuying stepped forward and said in a joking tone, "Brother Gu, you can cover up our team."Everyone booed for a while, like singing a big show, saying yes, it's all covered, you will be the big landlord and I will be the leader.Gu Ben walked out of the crowd at this time, the sarcoma in the corner of his eye trembled, let’s talk about it, whoever disagrees, I don’t cover it, I get the money back, I cover it, no one suffers, let’s not talk about it, I Gu Ben Don't cheat people like me, this is not the old society.Pan Xiuying dared to speak and was willing to speak in the villa, but she always said pleasant words, and today she said something that made Gu Ben compete with her, so she was very dissatisfied with herself. .Gu Ben took a look at this exquisite woman, and left the crowd without saying a word.I just heard Maizi yelling, whoever can’t figure it out, now bring it up to the face, if it’s approved, the contract will be recognized, and the deposit will be made, and the land will be covered for five years. The town supports this, and other villages do the same Come on, this is called deepening reform, and Gu Yuan was the leader of our villa. Shugu was originally a role model for farmers, something he planned to do before he became the village head. Once I see clearly my position in the changing stream, I will be really motivated to engage in industry and other industries, just like I knew at the beginning that a cave dwelling is all that this world provides for him to live, and he has something to eat The farm life with clothes needs to use two hands to make something out of nothing. After wrapping the sandy land, the village department was in full swing to prepare for the brick yard. Because of the large-scale production of Yanwei bricks, Maizi asked Liu Hai's daughter and his mother to accompany him, and went to the city by himself.Three years ago, when he was selling wild goose tail bricks at the market, he once met a foreigner with a Chinese face who threw down a business card and said that he could use him to find him at the address on the card.Maizi was very surprised at the time, how could he, a city cadre, throw away his business card casually.Maizi cherished this business card for three years, until one day Qingzhu left that lingering sentence, which gave him a will that he had never dared to think about before, and he knew that it might be useful to him.It was already noon to find the Planning and Design Office of the Municipal Construction Committee according to the address on the business card.In the design office, a white and slender woman like Yueyue, but more foreign-looking than Yueyue, Tingchao Lu Linsen smiled, and personally sent the buyer to the room with the address of the director's office.Lu Linsen was taken aback when he saw a dark farmer coming into the room, and then his single eyelid blinked. Dang Maizi reported his name in Mandarin, saying that I am Cheng Maizi who burns Yanwei bricks in Xiema Town. A smile suddenly overflowed on the face of the bright Chinese characters in the impression.The Chinese character face didn't let the smile overflow on his face, he put down the document in his hand and stood up immediately, led Maizi to the reception room in the back room, gave up his seat and poured tea for Maizi, he said he wanted to see me?Maizi wiped the sweat off his brow, and said that I am now the village head of Xiema Villa in Xiema Town, and I want to set up a brick yard with one kiln and 10,000 bricks in the village, and ask you to help open up the market.The single eyelid on Guozi's face was lowered, he didn't look directly at Maizi, and shook his head inexplicably.Maizi was suddenly nervous, Maizi took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and when he was about to hand it over, Guo Zilian had already taken a cigarette from the coffee table and lit it himself.Director Lu, Maizi calmed down for a while, and started to talk, Maizi said, Director Lu, I don't make things difficult for you, it's okay if it doesn't work.The Chinese character face straightened up, and the single eyelid flipped from bottom to top, well, I probably can't help you.Director Lu's chest voice is very heavy, almost every word is critical.Maizi said, "It's nothing, Director Lu. I would be grateful if you could give me a business card back then. If I can't help you, I won't embarrass you. However, I would like to treat you to dinner."When he heard that Maizi couldn't help and wanted to invite him to dinner, his Chinese face finally couldn't help stretching out, and smiles came out from everywhere again.Okay, let's go, let you treat me to dinner. After going downstairs, Director Lu suddenly grabbed Maizi and dragged him behind him, come on, buddy, let me treat you, let's go, this is our own restaurant, let me treat you.Although Maizi didn't know how big director Lu Linsen was in the city, Maizi was a little shocked that a townsman wanted to invite him, a country bumpkin with no relatives or family history.Maizi went to the restaurant and followed the restaurant as the Romans did. The seductive waitress surrounded Director Lu attentively. After he sat down, he poured wine into the wine glass and smiled affectionately at Maizi with a Chinese face. Cheng Maizi, I read you right. , my eyesight is really good.Maizi stared blankly at the inexplicable look on Guo Zi's face, his unexpected concern was like a stranger asking how your mother is when they meet.Director Lu said, you are not a primitive person, you are a modern person in the village.Maizi was even a bit covered, the cave was dug deep in the countryside, how did Director Lu know?Maizi smiled unnaturally, his white teeth glaring brightly.Director Lu said, do you know why I gave you my business card in the first place? Why? At the beginning, the Municipal Construction Committee wanted to start a catering project in the three counties in the south and north of Liaoning, and asked me to go to the countryside to check out the spots. When I went to Xiema Town, I had nothing to chat with the director of the guest house. He said that there was a primitive man who lived in a cave in our town. I said he would take me there. Look, he said he was selling bricks at the market, so we went to see you, to see your purpose, I wanted to save you during the construction of the project, but after I met you, I told the director that there is no need to help He, this kid will wake up sooner or later, it won't take a few years. Director Lu stopped here, deliberately creating a mysterious and mysterious atmosphere.Maizi's face showed simple impulse, what did Maizi say?Director Lu said with a smile, it's very simple, firstly, there is a kind of stubbornness in your expression, and secondly, the shape of your goose tail brick is vivid and smooth, which expresses your will and creativity. Maizi said thank you for your high opinion, I am actually very reckless. No, if you are aggressive, you will eventually achieve great things. Hearing that he can achieve great things, Maizi suddenly felt his cheeks getting hot, and thinking of the hard things that first surged in his heart that night in spring, which were contrary to his ideals, Maizi said, it’s nothing, in fact, some things are not You can control yourself, just like coming to you today. Director Lu didn't understand Maizi's inner monologue, and Maizi couldn't express his heart clearly at all. Director Lu said that you can achieve things because you always have things that can't control yourself. Maizi was speechless for a moment, and raised his glass gratefully.Maizi said, Director Lu, thank you, I sincerely thank you. Director Lu raised his wine glass, his Chinese character face was filled with smiles, just like a wine glass was overflowing with wine, he said that I didn't give you any benefits, why thank me? Maizi said it's not important, you value me more than anything else. Director Lu said, come on, primitive man, I still can't remember your name, so I will call you primitive man, let's bump into each other. When the two wine glasses collided, Maizi found that there seemed to be a sentence in the other's eyes and the wine glass, a sentence that was very important to him, because Director Lu's smile was back, and Director Lu's small eyes wrapped in single eyelids The eyes of the wine glass and Maizi moved back and forth. After a long time, he drank the wine and said solemnly, "Let me tell you, your stubbornness and creativity are very important to me, but what is more important is your knowledge Zhiyi, I rejected you, but you still invite me to dinner, which shows that you are a person who knows and understands righteousness. For the sake of your knowledge and righteousness, I decided to help you. It seems that this sentence was made by the smile just now, because the smile disappeared completely as soon as the words came out, and the Chinese character face was rarely serious.Director Lu went on to say, I decided to help you, but I use the bricks to pave the streets of the city, not your courtyard walls in the countryside. Pass the test, as long as the quality passes the test, I will guarantee your life for three years in one word. Maizi smiled immediately, with uncontrollable excitement showing between his white teeth. "Thank you" and "You can rest assured" like the rain hitting a copper basin.After drinking for three rounds, Maizi took out a paper bag from his waist, slowly opened it on the table, pushed it to Lu Linsen, and said, Director Lu, this is an ancient coin I brought from home. The bicycle is from the Warring States Period. It is very expensive. I will keep it for you as a souvenir. Lu Linsen hesitated for a moment, looked at Maizi, as if he wanted to complain, but for some reason he didn't.He didn't bother to look at the ancient coins, but just picked them up and put them in the letter bag naturally, saying that I don't want to be polite to you, just accept it if you give it to me, and thank your father when you go back.Maizi didn't explain that his father was no longer alive, he just took a deep breath, smiled and raised his glass again. Maizi bid farewell to Lu Linsen with the raw material formula of the floor tiles, and the joy after success quietly tampered with Pushkin's poem "Happy Banquet" that he had been familiar with for many years when he was about to go to Xiema Town: I love the noon banquet. There, happiness is the director, and friendship, the idol I worship, draws benefits at the table, and there, although there is only one sentence of "cheers", it drowns out all the singing; But in the verses, I came into contact with something that I hadn't touched after my father died - pride.This proud posture is not a bursting and rolling, but a faint and quiet one, like the grass under the rock finally being removed by someone, and it is slowly branching and recovering.When Maizi came into contact with the pride that made him feel dizzy and empty, but also made him heavy and powerful, he also saw a scene that was rarely seen at home. Maizi walked back to the courtyard and it was already time to light the lamps. If he hadn't been worried about not going home for a day, he would not have found Liu Hai's daughter. Of course, Liu Hai was implementing the decision of the village department, and taking care of his mother for the village chief was a volunteer.But Maizi panicked when he entered the yard and the house. Liu Hai's daughter was not there, and there were three women sitting beside his mother: Lin Zhiliang's woman, Liu Hai's woman, and a woman he didn't know.There was a puff of warm smoke in the house, and the smell of cooking in the main room was fragrant. Maizi thought that his mother was seriously ill, so he frantically looked for his mother's face. Her hair was clean and tidy, and her eyes shone with a rare light.She said that you are back, and your aunts have been waiting for you for a while.When the three women saw Maizi, it was as if they were seeing a rare visitor, and they scrambled to talk to Maizi.Because the words came out at the same time, Maizi didn't know who to listen to, but he finally understood amidst the noise. The woman Lin Zhiliang and the unknown woman came to ask Maizi to take her son into the brick yard, and the woman Liu Hai was to introduce someone to Maizi. This family has never been so lively. When I came back from Heilongjiang a few years ago, the villagers saw the old relationship with their dead father 20 years ago. They used to send vegetables, rice, and meat to each other. However, the relationship is mutual. Because of the long-term inability to pay, and the long-term lack of human relationship with the folks, the bitterness of living alone is as endless as the distant sky.Every new year, the old mother lay on the window sill, and many lively past events were played out in her dull eyes. Maizi deliberately sang loudly and talked loudly, disturbing the lonely courtyard... After Qingzhu appeared, the lonely small courtyard suddenly became quiet. The child seemed to be planted into a sun, it was so bright that people could not open their eyes, and the old mother shed tears of joy when she saw Qingzhu.After Qingzhu left, the sun set and the old mother thought that her paralysis ruined the marriage, so she refused to climb up the window sill again. If Lu Linsen’s affirmation and the pride he helped to discover were cold and faint, then the light ignited in the old mother’s heart by the scene of the crowds and crowds in front of the door made the buyer’s pride suddenly enter a state of burgeoning and reeling. .Maizi kept calling Auntie, and his enthusiasm, which was already full, burst out an atmosphere stronger than the aroma of vegetables in the main room. He said don't worry, the village industry will accept all the young people who have just finished school in the villa; he said When I marry a daughter-in-law, I first ask if I can serve the elderly. I can't marry a daughter-in-law and let my mother suffer. That night, Maizi saw off the guests and came to Yueyue's house alone. He especially wanted someone to share his joy at this moment, and this person should naturally be Yueyue.However, he stood stiffly on the street, looking at the window blocked by the red curtain, thinking of what Yueyue said when they broke up that day, he felt remorse again.