Time: 2010-12- 13 18:33:50 Words: 3250
5. family
My daughter brought her classmates over for dinner. They made two dishes, and with the two for lunch, it was just enough. I had already eaten. Seeing my daughter's classmates eat so happily, I thought about how delicious they were when they were young. I felt so good that I laughed. After eating, she sent her daughter's classmate home. She was only at the gate of the neighborhood when the car to pick her up arrived. When my daughter went back, I accompanied my wife for a walk. As long as I spoke seriously, she would definitely jump up and speak sternly. What else could I say? I could only remain silent and be a loyal listener. I didn't say a word until the door opened.
Her daughter was watching TV and laughing alone. I walked into the room and sat in front of the computer. I composed myself and turned on the computer.
She had already written four chapters, so it was time to write about her family.
Early in the morning, the dust had settled and the air was really fresh. There were only people rushing to the market to sell vegetables on the street. I was admiring these passersby as I strode forward.
When he returned home, the door was already locked. I know where the keys are. I took off my mother's shoe from the tree hook and touched it. It was indeed inside. When he opened the door, the central room was filled with cotton husks. He might have heard a rooster crowing in the middle of the night. There was still some food on the table, but he finished it in a few bites.
After locking the door, he went to the field. As expected, his mother was picking cotton. His younger sister, Zhang Ping, was walking around the field with her niece in her arms. His eldest sister was picking cotton beside his mother. Speaking of my two younger sisters, they returned home to farm after graduating from junior high school. I knew that the family should have more than 1,000 yuan. This was a huge figure at that time, about the equivalent of a poor person now should have 100,000 yuan. In addition, I was admitted to a teacher's college. Although the country paid for it, I should have prepared my own travel expenses and pocket money. Therefore, when I was on vacation, my parents said that the person who wanted the money had returned. Then, he thought of ways to prepare 40 to 50 yuan for me even when selling pigs, chickens, and grain. He also asked his uncle and brother who worked in the Power Bureau to exchange dozens of catties of national food stamps for me so that I could have pocket money for a semester and not go hungry. Actually, I haven't used a single catty of my food stamps, and all my pocket money has been used to buy books. At that time, he bought a book and weighed it repeatedly. He went to Xinhua Bookstore a few times until the book was almost sold out. The salesperson was familiar with it and said,"If you don't buy it now, there won't be another shop after this village.”Only then did he take out the crumpled money and reluctantly buy the book. Then, he swore that when he had money in the future, he would definitely buy all the good books in the world. My two sisters have sacrificed for me. I know that I have brought a heavy burden to my family, but I want to leave the countryside. I want to read more books. I want to become a writer.
Thinking of this, she called out to her mother and walked into the cotton field to pick the cotton. I asked my mother,
"Sister-in-law, why did you send the child to the village? Doesn't the cotton mill in Sha City have a kindergarten?”
His eldest sister, Su Mei, said,
"She said that she had to work three shifts and was too busy. She also missed Fangfang and came back the day before yesterday.”
After plucking the head, we rested at the edge of the field. I took my niece from my little sister's hands. She stopped crying and babbled. I put her on the ground and held her hand. She really knew how to walk.
His mother said,
"Dong Sheng has already taken over Uncle Ming Yi's duties and is working in the factory. Uncle Cai Xiu's mother asked you to come over as soon as you came back. She said she needed your help.”
I've been thinking about Dong Sheng all morning. We were born in the same year, and our families had been neighbors for decades. We were in a daze together. I remembered that in the first semester, I was the one who carried the bench for the two of us to sit on, and in the second semester, he was the one who carried the bench for the two of us to sit on. In between, he had once contracted epilepsy and once was diagnosed with icteroscopy. At the end of his first year, many people who scored 100 points in politics skipped a grade to enter the third year. I seemed to have scored 92 points in politics and was in the second year. Dong Sheng failed mathematics and had to repeat his grade. He remembered that during the registration for the second year, the teacher told him to register at the first grade. He said,
"If Zhang Su Ning can study in the second grade, why can't I study in the second grade?”
She insisted on sitting at the same table as me, but in the end, she was pulled out by the teacher. From then on, he was always in the lower grades. Even if I repeated the third grade, he was still one grade lower than me.
During lunch, my younger brother, Zhang Bing, ran away after eating two mouthfuls of rice. I didn't see my father. I asked my eldest sister, Su Mei,
"Where's Grandpa?"
We called our father "Grandpa", and Mother took over and said,
"The brigade wants to set up a flour factory. They said that they want your grandfather to be the factory manager and went out to inspect.”
I asked,
"What fans?"
Zhang Ping interjected,
"What fans? The noodles we eat are made from peas."
We often refer to broad beans as peas. I laughed in my heart. It seemed that my father still couldn't forget the spirit of the party members. He wanted to lead everyone to work together like in the past. Now, it should be called running a large enterprise and getting rich together with everyone.
As soon as I put down the bowl and chopsticks, Wang Yulan limped in and sat down on the chair beside her. His mother bowed as a form of courtesy and asked,"
"Have you eaten?"
Wang Yulan said,
"I'm full of anger! Sister Yuzhen, I can't take it anymore! How shameless. You come to my room every two or three days. Just now, it happened again! I couldn't stand it and could only come to you. You can give me some ideas. What should I do?”
His mother had finished eating. She touched her lips and sat down beside Wang Yulan.
"Tell me, what did the reinforcement say recently?”
Wang Yulan looked outside the door as if she was thinking about something far away. She said slowly,
"He didn't say a word to me, but my mother scolded him. He said to his mother,'He doesn't look like a human. He doesn't know how to do things in the fields or at home. The vegetables he stir-fried are like pig feed. The rice he cooks is half-raw. The things in the house are piled up in a mess and he doesn't even clean up.'Sister, I'm a cripple. Can I move such a heavy thing? What kind of food is like pig feed and the rice is undercooked? Why don't the two children feel the same way when I eat it? I was still seduced by that b * tch. No matter what I do, it's wrong!”
Her mother comforted her,
" Men at this age are bound to do some bad things. They'll get better after this age. Take your time…"
I didn't want to listen to Wang Yulan's nagging anymore. Thinking of what my mother had said in the morning, I stood up and said to Wang Yulan,
"Please take a seat. I'm going out."
I strolled to the next room. Yuan Lan, Dongmei, and Cai Xiu's aunt were eating. When they saw me coming, they asked Dongmei to bring a chair and Yuan Lan to get rice. I said,
"Aunt, I've already eaten. I came back in the morning, so I came over to take a look. Dong Sheng didn't come back?"
Aunt put down the bowl and chopsticks and brought the chair to my side.
"Jianguo, you and Dongsheng are friends of the Nagas and grew up together.”
The word "Linga" in our country means childhood friends. It means friends who grew up wearing underpants. Friends who grew up together since childhood are called childhood sweethearts between boys and girls. I asked,
"Aunt, didn't he go to the factory to work? What do you want me to say about him?”
Aunt's expression became serious. She shook her head and said,
"The last time he came back, he brought two friends with him. They talked about 'father' and 'mother'. They were all hooligans. They were wearing bell-bottom pants and had permed their hair. If you meet him, talk to him and persuade him not to get involved with these people. I was afraid that he would learn bad things, but when I told Uncle Ming Yi about him, he said that it was good, but he wouldn't listen. I've thought about it and he's the closest to you and listens to you the most. Help me persuade him.”
I definitely have to agree to such a thing. In the afternoon, I didn't go to pick cotton. I decided to go to the grain machinery factory to look for Dong Sheng.
He had been to the grain machinery factory when he was a child. I remember that we climbed onto the tractor to watch a movie on the street. After watching for a few minutes, the power went out. After Er Sheng canceled the ticket, he took me to his father's factory for lunch. Dong Sheng was there too. There was also meat in the canteen dishes. It was really delicious. However, the rice steamed in the pottery bowl had a strange smell and did not smell good. After dinner, Er Sheng Dong Sheng brought me around the factory and pointed at some scrap metal.
"These can all be sold for money."
He didn't ask us to steal the scrap metal from the grain machinery factory. Instead, he took us to the machine tool factory, where there were more angle steel and round steel, and piles of scrap metal everywhere. Er Sheng said,
"We can't sell these neat pieces of steel. It's obvious that others stole them. We picked up these corners and they're all scrap. The people in the recycling department won't suspect anything after seeing them.”
We picked up the most valuable copper pieces and carried them in our arms. We walked out of the factory as if nothing had happened and handed them to Ersheng to sell. Then, we used the money to buy food.
Thinking of these past events, he unconsciously went down the embankment slope. The car bridge factory went forward and arrived at the grain machinery factory. When he asked the doorman where Dong Sheng worked, the doorman said,"
"We have three Dong Shengs in our factory. Which one are you looking for?”
I said,
"Xu Hongjie."
That person shook his head. I just remembered that Dong Sheng had changed his name to Xu Guojing. He remembered that when he was in a daze, his father said,"Our factory has a child called Hongjie. He keeps asking to be called Hongjie every day. He thinks this name sounds good, so let's call him Xu Hongjie.”After all, this was not a big name. A person's big name had to be associated with a faction. In this way, the Xu family to Dong Sheng's generation would be the "Guo" faction. His sister would be called Xu Guozhen, his brother's second generation would be called Xu Guowei, and his eldest sister would be called Xu Guolan. When it came to Dong Mei, he would be like our younger brother. His name would be very casual, and he would be called Xu Dongmei.
When we reached the sand workshop, there were only two people looking for something. I walked closer and asked,
"Master, is Xu Guojing at work?”
Without even raising his head, he said,
"It came out yesterday. We're resting today. Go to his bedroom and take a look. He might still be sleeping.”
I said,
"Then, where does he live?"
The man stood up and pointed at the door.
"If you don't leave the factory, go to the right. There's a four-story building. Go to the fourth floor and you'll know.”
I followed the direction that person pointed out and walked up to the fourth floor. There was a woman who was lighting a fire. I walked over and asked,
"Hello, which room is Xu Guojing staying in?"
The woman pointed to the side with the spatula. I went to push it. The door was locked. A man's voice said from behind,
"He went out. He left with two people who came to look for him early in the morning.”
I turned around and saw that the man had replaced the woman and was cooking. I walked over and said,
"When is he coming back?"
"That's hard to say. Sometimes he comes back in the middle of the night.”
I waited at the factory gate for a long time. I felt that I couldn't wait any longer, so I walked in the direction of Zengbutou Middle School. After passing Li Zhuhong's house, I turned in and wanted to invite him to go with me. His mother said that he had just left.
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