Chapter 9 chapter eight

Like a snake in the dusk, it quietly slid down Li Longding, passed through the top of the jungle, jumped over the reeds and the wide, narrow, long, round... all kinds of leaves in the field, and slipped into the village courtyard where the smoke was curling up. Mysteries and mysteries are scattered in the boundless human world. The dusk is peaceful, the lights have lit the eyes of the night, and Xiaoyu is waiting quietly in the room called the "official residence" near the Maya River. At this hour of the sky, this poor official is still missing! The hut outside this isolated village was originally a place for spectators to stay.In the spring four years ago, it became the "official residence" of the contractor of Longquan Beverage Factory.After four years of earth-shaking, the "official residence" remains the same.Of course, mainly due to Xiaoyu's efforts, the falling walls and visible cobwebs and mouse holes in the house have been replaced by snow-white walls and flat ground.The towels on the single bed had just been removed, and a thin quilt that had been cleaned and washed was squarely stacked on the window side according to military specifications.A cotton pad and a small dog skin mattress were added under the quilt.It's next to the river, so it's humid, and Xiao Yun's sister-in-law asked Xiaoyu to bring this small and old dog-skin mattress-new and older people tend to make mistakes.There are several calligraphy and landscape paintings on the walls around the bed.In the most prominent position between calligraphy and landscape are two charcoal portraits of Xiaoyu and Leiguan.The portrait is made by an amateur painter. The exaggerated techniques and sharp black and white lines make Xiaoyu appear playful and dexterous, and Leiguan appear rigid and comical.

"Not good, not good! This painter is too eccentric! Why are you so handsome? How can I become a big bear?" When he got the portrait, Lei Guan yelled loudly. "You are just a big bear! Polar bear, it came out of the snow den, and you are dumb. Stupid, stupid! You don't move at all, 'Aw—'Scare me to death!" Xiaoyu moved a chair, and chose that place to hang it. up. On the desk opposite the portrait is the only luxury item: a lobster.The lobster is a foot long, its armor is like fire, and its red beard is flickering, so it looks mighty.It was a gift from Chu Shengli to his old classmates.Xiaoyu said that was exactly the image of a Leiguan: ambitious, with teeth and claws.Lei Guan regards it as a compliment and cherishes it even more.In front of this lobster, they eat together.Read books, discuss issues, and spend many tender moments together.

Now, Xiaoyu is sitting in front of the lobster, reading a book (National Economic Management).Next to the book, at the corner of the table, there is a tightly sealed insulated lunch box.Perhaps it was the smell from the lunch box that made her tempted. From time to time, her gaze fell on the Kun watch, and then turned to the outside of the house where the twilight was getting thicker. She made the dumplings, served her grandma to eat, and brought them on an empty stomach.It's time for dinner, and the wild boy hasn't returned yet.The dumplings will be cold when you come back late, and the stuffing of fresh eagle claw shrimp meat will become fishy!

Xiaoyu is an employee of the small mulberry garden, but it cannot be counted as an employee of the small mulberry garden.She has a bedridden grandma who needs care.She can only do her best to improve the cultural level of employees, learn new management methods for officials, grasp policy trends and various information, and do some work.How much she wants to be like others and contribute all her talents with enthusiasm!But she must continue to make necessary sacrifices for the sake of that loving grandma who is both mother and father. There have always been only two people who occupied her heart: grandma and Lei Guan.Grandma has settled down to rest, where is Lei Guan?

Four years ago, when she found out that Lei Guan had devoted his affection to Qiu Ling, her tender heart seemed to be bitten by a mouse.It was Yue Pengcheng's arrogance and Xiao Sangyuan's career that helped her snatch Lei Guan from Qiu Ling.Today, the feelings of the two people have merged into one. The pen and ink of the night smeared the color of the sky beyond recognition.From someone in the village there was a noise of fist-fighting orders; on the other side of the big stone strip in the middle of the street, people listening to and singing Peking opera were cheering and booing.And in the distance, on the other side of the sea at the end of the Maya River, the noise of the Sea Dragon King's play has also become audible.

What about the official?Maybe with guests?Maybe to the staff canteen? ……oops!I didn't tell him beforehand that dumplings would be delivered, so how could he come back! Xiaoyu pushed the book away and covered the lunch box with a towel.Lei Guan suddenly opened the door and entered.He was holding half a bowl of tofu stew in his hand, and he was holding a half-eaten steamed bun. "Ah! My little old lady, you are really difficult to invite!" Xiaoyu stared at her eyes in reproach, as if she had already sent dozens of invitation cards and sent dozens of sedan chairs. Lei Guan just smiled and put the tofu and steamed buns on a stool by the wall without hesitation, uncovered the towel, and aimed at the insulated lunch box.

"Ah! Have you ever washed your hands? You know what it is and just grabbed it?" Lei Guan hung a handle in the basin and wiped Xiaoyu's face without using a towel, then took her two small hands, pulled her into his arms, kissed her on the forehead, and said, "Yu'er, You haven't said anything yet, have you?" "Fuck you little official!" Xiaoyu seemed to push him angrily to the chair by the table. "Yu'er" and "Xiaoguanzi" are nicknames given by Mrs. Xiao Yun to them.When the two were together, they imitated Mrs. Xiao Yun's accent from time to time.

The lunch box was opened, and a gust of hot air sprayed on his face.Lei Guan quickly grabbed a dumpling and stuffed it into his mouth, followed by cheers: "Eagle claw shrimp! Fresh! Where did it come from?" Pengcheng is located on the seashore, and seafood is rich.In recent years, due to too much export and the increase in refrigeration capacity, it has become difficult for the masses to eat some seafood. "Where do you care! Grandma said today is a good day, and I have to reward you, a big star!" "Hey, it's weird! Grandma knows about those people coming?"

"You, you are so self-conscious! Your father kicked and scolded when he went back, and the little turtles ran towards the river in a row, and those little secretaries almost broke the sky—yo! I thought you were confused, but it turns out It’s intentional to block me and grandma! I see this dumpling, so don’t…” A dumpling blocked Xiaoyu's mouth.Xiaoyu swallowed it effortlessly, tears were almost squeezed out. Lei Guan was already half full, and seeing Xiaoyu eating slowly, he beamed while eating and told him about the situation in the afternoon. Xiaoyu listened quietly.With a beating heart, he followed Lei Guan to the town committee meeting room, the juice mill site and the orchard.Every word and every movement of Xing Lao and Zu Yuan, as well as the joy and noise of the branch secretaries, all clearly appeared in front of her.She is an imaginative girl, and the words of the officials pass through her brain and immediately transform into colorful movie screens.Her surprise, joy, excitement, pride...all of her emotions were seamlessly integrated into those "movie images".

"That boy Shengli is even more amazing! To establish the 'Northwest Film Consultation and Coordination Center', you have to encourage those boys to choose me as the director!" "Then you have to jump on the roof!" "Think good things! I mentioned 'Two Dragons Playing Pearls', they only played the score of 'Fruit One Dragon', which one did I fall for? " "They don't want to build a cement factory?" "Say it's a long-term goal! Don't care about the immediate!" "What did you say?" "Me? I think, there is also a little..."

"Oh! So you were the one who wavered first!" Xiaoyu said embarrassingly. The idea of ​​"Two Dragons Playing with Pearls" contains many of her wishes and talents. "This is not a matter of vacillation." Lei Guan argued, "Right now, the whole fruit industry is about to launch..." "Yeah! Still don't admit it? Isn't the fruit-making dragon planting fruit trees now? Ten days and a half months of hard work will pass? Besides, which village has no surplus labor?If you really want to do it, choose a place and invite a few engineers to come! " Lei Guan clapped his hands with his fists: "That's really the case! When those boys complained for a while, I just..." Shaking his head in self-deprecating manner, he thought about it and said, "So the key is still the loan. For a while, Victory kept yelling, saying that he has no money in his hand, and he doesn't even fart!" "Doesn't this show your supernatural powers?" Xiaoyu glanced half joyfully and half mockingly, then suddenly picked up the lunch box and said, "Do you still eat these dumplings? If you don't eat them, I will..." "Don't let the dumplings be eaten?" Facing Xiaoyu's provocative gaze, Lei Guan suddenly stepped forward and hugged Xiaoyu by the waist, spun around on the spot a few times, pouring out the tenderness and roughness of love at the same time.Xiaoyu became a docile cat, giggling and hugging Lei Guan's neck, immersed in a torrent of love that was so heart-wrenching. ... At the same time that Leiguan Xiaoyu was enjoying the love bath, Shuzhen was walking towards the "official mansion" with a bitter and broken heart. After dinner, Aunt Xu Xiazi found Shuzhen again, and the daughter-in-law persuaded her for a long time.It can be summed up in one sentence: bear with it!Tolerate?Am I, Xu Shuzhen, too patient for him, Yue Pengcheng?Let alone, he became a "star" In the past few years, how many things have you managed at home?How many times have you asked me and Yinping how warm and cold?In other people's houses, they sit at a table for dinner, chatting and laughing lively; I have cooked a meal, and several times I didn't wait, wait!Wait until it's cold, wait until he comes back belching or staggering.In other people's houses, the husband and wife are warm and happy at night; how many times do I still wait, wait!After midnight, and sometimes until dawn, there are still few shadows.How much loneliness, solitude, and pain caused by solitude I have endured, only Cowherd and Weaver Girl know!Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet each other on a magpie bridge every year. Even though they are separated by a river, their hearts are still stuck together.It doesn't matter if I, Shuzhen, didn't meet on the magpie bridge, the heart I was looking forward to, the heart I tried my best to protect, was all pretending to be deceitful and betrayal!Why should I bear it?How can I bear it! Even if I give up that plan for the sake of Yinping and this messy family, I still have to make him suffer enough to be punished! Let him honestly bow his head and plead guilty!Let him behave himself, and promise that he will never flirt with that coquettish vixen again in the future! The only way to achieve this goal is to tell the old man the truth of the matter, and in front of the old man, force Yue Pengcheng to slap his conscience, write a letter of guarantee, and sign a pledge. Shuzhen made up her mind and wanted to go to the old man's house several times, but stopped several times.She didn't know how to tell the old man, whether the old man would discipline her son according to her wish after he knew the truth... Only then did Shuzhen realize that her idea was not right.She needs someone who can vomit her bitterness and help her make up her mind.But where is this person?She thought of Lei Guan, and her son who had a close relationship with her.Although she originally had no intention of bringing her son into this kind of thing. After crossing the Maya River Bridge, the small "official residence" appeared in front of us. Above the windows of the "official mansion", a few beams of soft light shone through.That light warmed Shuzhen's heart a lot. Since Leiguan lived alone in this hut across the river four years ago, the hut and the lights in the hut have always touched Shuzhen's heart.In summer, I worry about mosquitoes and mountain torrents, and in winter, I worry that the wind will blow through the walls and the house will collapse due to heavy snow.The dreaming beverage factory caught fire, and the police car screamed strangely (it was the police car of Huang Gongwang's working group and the policeman wearing sunglasses!) and handcuffed the official Lei.In the middle of the night, she desperately waded through the waist-deep river to the door of the hut.It wasn't until he clearly heard the familiar breathing and dream eating in the room that he dragged his icy body and walked back step by step.I heard that Lei Guan and Yue Pengcheng were fighting to the death. He hated his husband for being too cruel and his son for being too stubborn.The son won, she felt sorry for her husband, and hugged her son so happily that she wept.Lei Guan has become a character, she is proud and satisfied, but she is worried that her son is too young and too sharp, and she can't tell when he will stumble... There has never been a second woman like this in the world: she must put her selfless heart, selfless heart Her love, broke into two completely different pieces; she must swallow the endless melancholy, sorrow, fear and bitterness brought by these two hearts alone! Now, the woman is finally free.Her heart and love were torn to pieces.She has only one piece of heart and love left, and that is her son and this little "official residence" where his son lives. Knock on the door, but there is no movement; push, and the door opens.The room was a little messy, and Lei Guan was wiping his face at the sink. "I thought I was asleep." Shuzhen said.After a day and a night of torment, she missed her son more than ever.At this moment, the son finally stood in front of him. Thinking about how to speak, Shuzhen sat on the chair by the table.The open insulated box by the table and the cold dumplings caught her attention. "Has Xiaoyu been here?" she asked. "Hmm." I had to deal with it. "Xiaoyu didn't mention your grandma Xiao's illness, have you gotten any stronger these days?" "No." It was so concise that it couldn't be more concise. "Why did Xiaoyu leave without a lunch box?" No echo. Shuzhen looked around strangely, only to find that Leiguan had a melancholy and dejected expression on his face. "What's the matter with you? Are you arguing?" Shuzhen asked.Since four years ago, Shuzhen has regarded Xiaoyu as her daughter-in-law.In her memory, Leiguan and Xiaoyu have always been close and harmonious, and this is the first time they have had a conflict. "What's the matter with you child? Tell mom what's going on!" Shuzhen became anxious. After all, the happiness of the son is the most important thing.Shuzhen put aside all her worries. Xiaoyu ran all the way out, and came home panting, and threw herself on the old persimmon tree in front of the door, feeling even more sad. The old persimmon tree supported her with its bruised and vigorous torso. After a while, her mood gradually calmed down. The unexpected situation almost made her dizzy.It has not been a day or two since she fell in love with Lei Guan.Since the common fate and career have linked them together, this love has also escalated.But she never allowed (and he declared he would never try) to cross the fortified road.It symbolizes the maturity of love and the warning line of a new beginning in life.What's the matter today? That damned bad boy went berserk for a while, and dared...Xiaoyu to enter the courtyard.The initial fear and annoyance passed away, and Xiaoyu only felt a tingling heat on her face. It is hard to tell whether the hotness is a kind of spicy or a kind of sweetness.Maybe it's the sweetness of the spicy\spicyness of the sweetness? Xiaoyu didn't want her grandma to see anything unusual, so she soaked the hot water on her face. "Yu, are you back?" Aunt Xiao Yun's voice came from inside the room. "Grandma, you're back." Xiaoyu quickly wiped her face dry, showing a sweet smile, entered the room, and came to grandma's side. Grandma has suffered untold hardships all her life.A widow at the age of twenty-five, he soon lost his only son, who was under three years old.She is a "fortress" when beating devils, and she is a "model supporter" when beating Lao Jiang.After liberation, he served as branch secretary for more than 30 years, and led the whole village to fight for more than 30 years.Huang Gongwang, the former secretary of the county party committee, once said at a "Three Yu" meeting: "In terms of merit and hard work, except for the martyrs who sacrificed, in Pengcheng County, including the leading cadres in our county , no one can compare with our Sister Xiao Yun!" His words once won waves of applause from thousands of people in the venue.Although this Huang Gongwang later forgot Mrs. Xiao Yun's situation—as a grandma, Xiaoyu wrote him two letters but got no reply—people remembered his words and regarded them as true. The most fair evaluation of Mrs. Xiao Yun. "Have you eaten all the dumplings? Did the little official squint his mouth?" Mrs. Xiao Yun caressed Xiaoyu's hand kindly. "Hmm..." Xiaoyu responded indiscriminately, asking how grandma felt. "My heart is still a little hesitant, and my heartbeat is much more stable than yesterday. You don't have to worry about me, go rest, ah!" Mrs. Xiao Yun gently stroked Xiaoyu's head.An old man who has been ill for many years, with so much love and affection in that touch, it seems that the pain and loneliness all over his body have been dissolved and dissipated. Xiaoyu brought water and scrubbed grandma's hands, face and body.Scrubbing, and talking about new things with grandma. "I went to the orchard today. Do you know how big an apple is? More than half a catty!" "It's nonsense again! I never heard that an apple weighs half a catty!" "Do you think it's Xiao Guoguang? Fuji! It's sweet and big, and it sells for 1.5 yuan a catty!" "That's not gold anymore? If you eat it, your teeth will still fall?" "They won't be able to grab it! - Uncle Fang from my country said, I'll send you a few the next day, so that you can taste the oriental fruit." "Don't! I still want to keep my teeth and eat pastries!... It's a mystery, that devil looks like a small pear, why are apples bigger than ours?..." Mrs. Xiao Yun has been worrying about the affairs of the village all her life, and now, even though her family is close to her, she still cares about the affairs of the village all the time.For this reason, Xiaoyu often told her strange stories and anecdotes in the village and short stories from her parents.Listening to this, sometimes it is better than taking medicine to treat Mrs. Xiao Yun's body. "Hey, what didn't the little official say? The big cadre from the province is here, is there any oil on the tip of his nose?" Xiao Yun's wife asked, and she must say about the poor official several times a day. "Him?" Xiaoyu was just about to roll her tongue, but smiled: "He wore a big red flowered jacket to accompany him!" "Is this the real thing?" Mrs. Xiao Yun was stunned, and then smiled: "You little bad girl! When I get better, see if I don't beat your ass!" A few years ago, young people in the village were in fashion to wear trendy clothes. One time, the officials wore a blue checked shirt. Mrs. Xiao Yun didn't like it at all, so she had to ask Xiaoyu to buy a new one for him.Unexpectedly, what Xiaoyu bought back was a Guangzhou product with a red grid and a blue pattern.This made Mrs. Xiao Yun very angry.However, the official Lei is very fond of that Guangzhou shirt, and sometimes he also wears it when he comes to see Mrs. Xiao Yun and Xiaoyu.In order not to make grandma angry, Xiaoyu had to let him temporarily change into a coarse coat and enter the house several times.Once, Lei Guan deliberately kept his back bare, saying that he had no clothes to wear, which made Mrs. Xiao Yun dumbfounded, and said, "Don't pretend! I don't care if you wear a red jacket!" That is a thing of the past, and Mrs. Xiao Yun is now It has also become more civilized.Xiaoyu brought up the old story again, just to amuse grandma. After tidying up for Sister Xiao Yun, Xiaoyu went back to the inner room.Xiao Yun's sister-in-law said again: "Yu, you have been very busy these days, so don't miss your homework, ah!" Xiaoyu gave up the chance to go to college, and Mrs. Xiao Yun always felt that it was her own fault.She didn't allow Xiaoyu to lose the homework she had learned, and she kept an eye on her even more tightly this year.For some reason, she always said that Xiaoyu would definitely go to college this year. "I can't miss it! Grandma." Xiaoyu responded, and opened the curtain of the back room. This is three rooms.The main room used to cook is in the middle.In order to take care of grandma, Xiaoyu asked Lei Guan to change the kitchen to the west room, let grandma live in a spacious room facing the sun, and squeeze herself into the inner room where grain and some sundries were kept. There are many and miscellaneous things in the room, but they are neatly tidied up.The bed is leaning against the wall facing the window. The quilt, sheets, and pillow covers are all selected and sewn by Xiaoyu herself, which is elegant and clean.Behind the mirror on the window sill, there is the only luxury item --- a jumping porcelain rabbit: Xiaoyu is a rabbit, with a gentle and cheerful temperament.It was a gift specially given to her by Lei Guan. Thinking of Leiguan, Xiaoyu's thin skin became hot again.She threw herself on the bed, and immediately got wet on the pillow towel that exuded a faint scent of soap. If Xiaoyu was an open-minded girl in the city, or a girl with no special trauma in her heart, the "madness" of Leiguan might not be considered a thing at all.However, Xiaoyu is a hard-working girl. One morning in early spring twenty-one years ago.It was foggy.The dense fog is like light blue paint: it melts the distant mountains and the near fields into a lake.At that time, Mrs. Xiao Yun, who was also the director of the Liancun People's Film, passed a post when she suddenly heard the cry of a baby in the grass by the side of the road.She followed the sound to find someone, and picked up a baby whose eyes had not been opened for three to five days.She shouted loudly, and in a trance, she saw a figure looking towards this side in the bushes, but when she ran, she saw the branches swaying slightly.Obviously, this is an abandoned child.Judging from the child's posture and swaddling clothes, it is not that poor people cannot afford to leave it behind. Xiao Yun's wife went to the Public Security Bureau, the Civil Affairs Bureau, and the Women's Federation with the baby in her arms, but finally failed to find the baby's parents.But she herself was caught by the baby's coquettish attitude, and she was determined to raise her as her own flesh and blood.Breastfeeding, one family once a day; going out for a meeting, if you can carry it on your back, you can carry it on your back, and you can't leave it to your relatives and neighbors.Thanks to her good popularity and kindness in the village, the child didn't suffer much.At the age of three or four, he looks smart and well-behaved, cute and cute.The name was chosen, and the address was grandma.Where is mom and dad?Dead, for the People's Commune, the Humaya River was washed away by the flood, that would be considered a hero.Xiao Xiaoyu is proud of her grandma, and also of her parents.When she was in elementary school, an aunt in a neighboring village who had nursed her accidentally told her the truth.She ran home, hugged her grandma's neck and cried loudly, crying so hard that grandma also wiped the acid water. "Yu, those are not decent men and women. A decent man and woman can't leave their own flesh and blood. You just treat them as dead. There have never been such two people in this world. Don't cry! Grandma is your biological mother and father, and you are grandma Your own flesh and blood! Grandma raised you up, and you will become a decent and promising person, like your little official brother’s grandfather! Yu, listen to grandma, don’t cry, ah!" Since then, Xiaoyu's affection for grandma has grown deeper.The old and the young depend on each other for life.When I was in middle school, someone went to find Xiaoyu, who was said to be a very big cadre working in Shanghai.Said that Xiaoyu was her daughter and wanted to see her.Xiaoyu immediately hid.The big cadre left behind his watch and a lot of clothes, saying he would come back the next day.Xiaoyu asked people to retreat overnight, and said firmly: She will never see that person even if she dies!If she gave any more, she would throw nothing left into the latrine pit to feed the maggots! Xiaoyu hated and was afraid.She hated the man who gave birth to her and then lost her.She was afraid that she would cry and soften her heart if she saw that person or took that person's things.But when that person finally didn't see Xiaoyu after living there for two days, and went away feeling disappointed, why didn't Xiaoyu burst into tears!Even that hatred has unknowingly turned into another taste. Xiaoyu's lifelong wish is to be a promising and decent person.She swore that she would never associate with such worthless and dishonest people all her life.How could she have imagined that the official whom she loves and trusts the most, actually... shed a few lines of tears, and Xiaoyu's mood gradually calmed down.Strangely, once she fell down, Lei Guan's voice, appearance and appearance immediately appeared, and soon occupied all the space in her heart. Is he one of those worthless and dishonest people?Do promising and decent people also have some kind of crazy behavior?His "madness" hurt himself, and his resolute departure would also hurt him? ... Xiaoyu's heart was filled with confusion and apprehension. There was wind outside the window.Xiaoyu washed her feet, undressed and lay down.When her hands touched her plump and elastic body intentionally or unintentionally, her thoughts soared again: Didn't she already regard her as the one who could give everything?Doesn't every girl have such a person, such a moment?That is the most precious happiness in a person's life!Maybe I shouldn't refuse for a while... Xiaoyu felt short of breath for a while, her face was red and her ears were hot.An indescribable torrent of panic, embarrassment, and intoxication rushed over her, she quickly pulled the blanket on, and covered her head together with the pillow.