July 10th, midsummer.

Zhang Fan's hometown is more than 1,000 meters above sea level, with beautiful mountains and rivers, and it is also a poor township.

As cars pull from the national highway onto a rural dirt road, the road becomes more and more bumpy.

The taxi driver lit a cigarette and began to complain to Zhang Fan.

"If I knew the road was so bad, I wouldn't have agreed. ”

Zhang Fan didn't argue with him, after all, his life was in the hands of others.

I put the phone back in my backpack, and there was no signal here.

Not a single square.

Fortunately, this section of the road is not long, and Zhang Fan said: "Just stop at the intersection in front." After the middle-aged driver finally stopped his whining.

Looking at the two hundred-yuan bills handed to him, he had the first smile on his face again, and even took the initiative to help Zhang Fan take things out of the trunk.

Since it was his cousin's drinking banquet, Zhang Fan naturally couldn't come empty-handed, so he went to the Walmart supermarket to buy cigarettes, alcohol and supplements before leaving.

Because it took a lot of time to buy these things, when he came to Uncle Zhang Youde's house, half of the Eight Immortals table full of earthen dams was full.

A white earth dog was tied to a pine tree at the mouth of a bowl with an iron chain, and when he saw Zhang Fan, he barked and wagged his tail quickly from side to side.

Zhang Fan remembered the dog's name the moment he saw it, and grinned at him. "What a little white, you don't know me anymore?"

The white dog suddenly "whined" twice, and it seemed that it still remembered Zhang Fan.

A young man in a suit was adjusting the speakers, and he raised the microphone to say "Hey, hey!" twice, followed by a high-pitched and piercing noise.

Zhang Fan didn't see his cousin Zhang Zhenzhen in the courtyard, but he saw his cousin Zhang Wenbin.

Zhang Wenbin saw Zhang Fan almost at the same time, and immediately walked over after seeing Zhang Fan carrying things in both hands.

"Zhang Fan, why did you come at this time? ”

"There was a delay on the way. After Zhang Fan finished speaking, he handed the things in his hand to Zhang Wenbin. "You can keep the ones you bought for your uncle and aunt. ”

After Zhang Wenbin took it, he looked behind Zhang Fan again. "Uncle and aunt didn't come?"

"They can't leave. ”

"Oh. ”

"Where's your sister?"

"She helped out in the kitchen. ”

Zhang Fan did not rush to see Zhang Zhenzhen, but came to the living room to hang on to the place.

Zhang Youde's first words after seeing Zhang Fan were: "Is your father here?"

"No, he has something to do in his unit. ”

Zhang Fan told the truth, now the city is the hardest to create a Weicheng management bureau.

Even Zhang Youwei can't touch the fish anymore, and he has often worked overtime in the past half a month.

Zhang Youde didn't say anything more, he was also a little wrong with Zhang Fan's mother Lu Jing.

I feel that Zhang Fan's mother is too particular and has to take everything seriously.

Every time I go to my younger brother's house, my brother and daughter-in-law have to pose for a dish.

Zhang Fan put his hand into his trouser pocket, groped for a count, and then took out ten hundred yuan and handed it to the person who was keeping the account.

Last night, Lu Jing gave Zhang Fan 400 yuan, 300 yuan favors, and 100 yuan for the fare.

When Zhang Fan left this morning, Zhang Youwei quietly gave him two hundred yuan. "You just hang up 500 yuan, your cousin has been admitted to Western Union University, we should send more. ”

Southwest Associated University is the third-ranked university in the country, behind Aoki University and Jingjing University.

Zhang Fan has now added another five hundred to it, and if it weren't for the impact, he would have wanted to add more.

At least another thousand!

Zhang Youde has also been paying attention to this, and after seeing Zhang Fan take out this stack of money, he couldn't help but ask, "Your father asked you to send so much?"

"Well, he said that his cousin was his eldest brother's daughter, and he was not an outsider. Zhang Fan said.

Zhang Youde looked at Zhang Fan, his throat moved, but he still didn't say anything, just patted him on the shoulder. "It's about to start, go find a seat and sit down!"

After Zhang Fan walked out of the living room, someone asked Zhang Youde, "This is your little brother's baby?"

Zhang Youde had a smile on his face, revealing his yellowed teeth. "That is, his parents were not available, so they let him come. ”

"Your little brother's family has made money, and the shot is a thousand. "There are people with sour and envy.

"His family actually doesn't make much money, mainly his own brothers, not outsiders, and I will return favors in the future. Zhang Youde waved his hand, but he didn't know that his words had offended the people in the house again.

When the old neighbors around saw this scene, the corners of their mouths sneered. "I don't know that you have a good paddy field and a house to occupy at the beginning, and give your brother a little dry land, and the two brothers dragged up a hoe and fought. ”

It's just that he didn't say it.

Zhang Youde also realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he found an excuse to go outside the house to work.

After he left, everyone didn't shy away from it, you and I talked about it, and all versions came out.

However, they all thought that Zhang Youde couldn't see his younger brother well, so he deliberately said that his family was average.

"Can a family that can give a thousand gifts be poor?"

I saw that in the account books, except for this one thousand, the rest of the highest ones were only fifty, and most of them were twenty and thirty.

Zhang Fan saw Zhang Zhenzhen in the simple kitchen built in the corner of Tubazi, she was sitting on a small wooden bench and bending down to wash dishes.

Even though it was close to noon, she was still wearing the old school uniform, her hair was disheveled, and there were some dry pine branches and leaves on it, and it seemed that she had burned firewood before.

Zhang Fan walked across from her and paused, looked at her sweaty head and asked in a low voice, "Why are you here to wash the dishes?"

After Zhang Zhenzhen saw Zhang Fan, she couldn't help but smile on her face. "The family is too busy. ”

Then he asked, "Where's your little girlfriend?"

After saying that, she stood up and glanced back, she always remembered it

This is the eldest aunt Li Hongmei came over, wiped the sweat on her forehead with the back of her hand, and said to Zhang Fan with a smile: "Xiao Fanzi, why did you come here, why don't you hurry up and find a good place to sit up, otherwise you will have to eat the second table." ”

Zhang Fan was closer to his aunt than his uncle in his previous life, so he also laughed. "Hello aunt!"

Said hello first, and then explained, "I'm coming to see my cousin." ”

"What's so nice about her washing dishes, wait until you finish eating and ask your cousin to take you to the river to play, don't you like to carry crabs the most?"

After Li Hongmei finished speaking, she glanced at Zhang Zhenzhen again, and said angrily: "Hurry up and wash, you will have to go up and speak later." ”

Then he walked back to the kitchen and brought Zhang Fan a braised chicken feet. "You eat first, I remember when you were a kid you liked to nibble on chicken feet the most. ”

Zhang Fan took it, and some vague memories became clear again.

In the heart of the eldest aunt, the order of cousin "self" cousin has never changed.

Whether it's someone who was beaten after a childhood quarrel, or what's happening now.

Although Zhang Fan actually didn't spend much time with his aunt.

At this time, a slight wind blew, but Zhang Fan couldn't help but shiver.

He suddenly thought of the white rabbit toffee on the table of the Eight Immortals, and his grandmother's face covered with ravines.

[You may not believe it, but I have been writing this chapter since half past seven in the evening, and I have written three versions, and this is final. 】