The Happy Garden was opened, and it became a gathering place for children, and almost all the children in the village would come here to play during the day, and Feifei and Meimei were here to have fun with children of the same age under the leadership of their grandmother.

Katsuko's parents Mao Sui recommended that they also come here to help grandma take care of the children, and grandma said: That relationship is good, and it just so happens that Tie Dan also has a companion.

Grandma said to grandpa: "The newly built house is good everywhere, but there is a strange smell of paint and decoration, I think our family is still crowded this year, it is better to wait for the spring of next year to move in." ”

Grandpa said, "Okay, I'm still used to sleeping on our earthen kang." ”

Since Aunt Yan became pregnant, her grandmother persuaded her several times: "Don't go up the mountain, you are at home with your four sons, if you can't let your sister-in-law go up the mountain, you will raise the children honestly at home." ”

Aunt Yan thought for a while and said: "Yes, running so far every day, then let my sister-in-law stop going to the canning factory, I asked my fourth sister Xing'er to go up to help her, Xing'er didn't want to go to high school anymore, saying that she was not the material for studying, she went up even if she was a small worker, just give a money." ”

Grandma was very happy when she heard that Aunt Yan agreed, so she said: "Then how can it be done, Xing'er also works when she goes up, it's all the same, and dividends will be given at the end of the year, and our family is not divided into three, six, nine, etc." ”

Yan Gu said: "Mother, my idea is to let Xing'er study for a few years, and when she is older, let her open a store independently, she will not marry sooner or later, right?"

Grandma said, "That's the same way." "Grandma's most reassuring thing is that she can guard Aunt Yan every day.

Kang Kang has been gone for almost two months, but the middle-aged man and his family have not brought Kang Kang back once.

My sister had already shouted to see Kangkang, and my sister hugged her mother's thigh and said, "Mom, please take me to see Kangkang once, I have dreamed of Kangkang several times, and I dreamed that Kangkang kept calling me, and I cried so much." ”

The father next to him looked at his well-behaved and sensible daughter so loving, patted his thigh and said, "Dandan, if it's okay next week, call your brother Shengzi and let's go see Kangkang together." ”

My father knows the address of Kangkang's house, although he has not been there, he does not know the specific location of the specific village, but he still knows the general direction, there is a mouth under his nose, I still don't believe that I know the name of the village and I can't find the place.

As soon as he said it to Shengzi, Shengzi immediately agreed happily: "Uncle, it's okay, isn't it just two hundred miles of land, let's go see my little benefactor together." ”

On the day I went, the minivan was full all of a sudden, and Sister Katsuko and Sister Xiaoru, plus my father, sister, Feifei, and Meimei, stuffed me and the bastard.

When Feifei and Meimei knew that their sister Dandan was going to see Brother Kangkang, the two of them shouted vigorously, "Sister take me, sister take me!" "We also want to see Brother Kangkang!"

Several people get together to play every day, and the feelings are naturally needless to say. My sister said, "Okay, okay, let's go together!"

I and the bastard were added to this team, and Katsuko said with a smile: "It seems that we have to change the big car, and I can't sit down if I want to go out to play in the future." Wife, do you agree?"

Saying that, looking at Sister Xiaoru sitting in the car, Sister Xiaoru smiled: "Okay, listen to you!"

When Shengzi heard this, he jumped on the spot: "I'm finally going home, listen to the first day of the new year, I'll treat you at noon, you two can order it casually!"

The bastard and I chimed in: "It's settled! Eat eight big bowls!"

Although it was a little crowded along the way, they were all children, so they were still in high mood and full of interest, Katsuko drove, his father sat in the co-pilot, and we and Sister Xiaoru were singing and laughing all the way in the back row.

We went out at eight o'clock, and Katsuko said that it would take more than three hours to be in a hurry on the road, and my father said that we would invite their family outside to rub it and eat eight big bowls.

Katsuko said: "Where do people still know if there are eight big bowls." ”

Sister Xiaoru said: "Then go eat braised pork, Kangkang's favorite! As soon as Kangkang eats braised pork, he shouts 'meat' and 'meat', and his expression is so cute!"

The lively road is not far away, almost eleven o'clock into the county boundary of Kangkang's hometown, we began to inquire about the advance, fortunately, soon found the Weijiazhuang.

As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, my father saw several elderly people getting together to play chess, almost the same as in our village.

Katsuko stopped, and his father went down to inquire.

My father asked an old man who was standing next to him watching chess, and said, "Uncle, ask about someone." ”

The old man turned around, looked at his father, and said, "Who do you want to inquire?" The father hurriedly reported Kangkang's father's name.

When the old man heard this, he asked with a puzzled look, "Who are you?"

When the few people who played chess heard this name, they all turned their heads to look at their father, as if something was wrong.

My father noticed something strange about a few people, and said, "We are his distant relatives." ”

When the old man heard this, he smiled: "Where does he have any distant relatives, all his relatives are in this village." ”

Katsuko also heard and saw the scene in the car, and got out of the car, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed them over one by one, and said in his mouth: "We are relatives who are not close to each other." ”

As he spoke, he took out one and put it in his mouth, and he was going to take out a lighter for everyone.

At this time, several villagers were happy, and one of them said: "He is not only looking for relatives in the village, but also looking for relatives outside." Everyone laughed.

The father and Katsuko were embarrassed, and they didn't know what the reason was, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

Or the old man before, he lit a cigarette and said, "You are not any relative of him, are you here to ask him for debts?"

The father hurriedly explained: "No, no, we are indeed his relatives, not related by blood, because of their children." ”

The old man asked, "Because of his stupid son?" and the father nodded.

The old man took a puff of his cigarette and sighed, "No wonder. ”

Then he said: "It's very simple if you want to find his house, go east at the third street entrance of the village, which one is the most broken, I'm afraid that the roof is about to collapse." ”

My father thought to himself: Why is it really so miserable? Didn't you say that the house was sold and rented in the village?

The old man said, "Even if you go, you can't find anyone, and you haven't been back to the village for many years." Several people playing chess also chimed in.

The father said, "But he told us that he lived in the village." ”

The old man said: "Speaking of him, it's enough to attract hatred, forget it, you better go to him, according to others, the two of them are doing small business in the city, and no one has seen the specific place, and they don't want to see the two of them." After saying that, he took care of himself and started to smoke.

Katsuko and his father looked at each other, but they didn't expect to encounter such a situation after coming.

Katsuko was a little unwilling, so he leaned forward again and said, "Uncle, you see that it is not easy for us to come all the way, can you tell us where their family is?"

After speaking, he pointed to the van he was driving.

The old man also glanced at it and said: "Foreign license plates, it seems that they are not close, I really don't know where they live, didn't I say it just now, I haven't seen them for several years." If you don't believe me, go into the village and have a look, and maybe someone will know. ”

The father and Katsuko thanked each other, got in the car and drove in the direction the old man said.

After a while, we came to the dilapidated house, and our group got out of the car, and when we saw the scene in front of us, we couldn't help but be disappointed, and the good wishes we had when we came disappeared without a trace.

In front of me is a dilapidated and declining scene: the door is a few wooden fences more than one meter high, tied with iron wire, and a rusty iron lock hangs on it, the fence is also made of loess, which is not higher than the wooden fence, the yard is covered with half-meter-high barren grass, several adobe houses are mottled everywhere, the wooden windows are not a single piece of complete glass, they are covered with cobwebs, and there are black holes in them that cannot see anything, and they have been uninhabited for a long time.

Looking at this dilapidated scene, we are all stupid, what kind of home is this?

Just when a few of us were at a loss for what to do in front of the broken house, the neighbor's door opened more than ten meters away, and a young couple walked out.

They just stood in front of their house and looked this way, and did not take the initiative to ask.

When my father saw someone coming out, he took the initiative to walk over there, and we all slowly wanted to gather over there.

Before his father could get near, the young man spoke: "You have come to look for this family? ”

As he walked, the father asked, "Big brother, do you know where the family has gone? ”

Young man: "I don't know where they went, what are you doing?"

The father approached and gave a brief account of the situation, and the young couple said, "You have run away in vain, and my village hardly knows where they are going." ”

The father asked curiously, "Then he has no other relatives in our village?"

The young man said, "Relatives, it's relatives who don't have any contact, this family, isn't it ......" Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by the little daughter-in-law next to him, and he changed his words and said, "We don't know anything." "I wanted to go home.

Sister Xiaoru suddenly spoke: "Then where does the village chief's family live?"

After listening to this, the young man readily pointed out the direction of the village chief's house.

When my father, Shengzi and Xiaoru entered the village chief's house, we obediently stayed in the car and waited for them.

The village chief's house is wafting with the smell of stir-fried vegetables, and the meal has not yet started. The well-informed village chief received them warmly, and my father felt that this matter was not so simple, so he told the village chief the ins and outs.

The village chief listened silently until he spoke, "Did they take the children back? ”

The village chief said 'oh' again: "I understand. A few months ago, he came back suddenly one night, just like a few years ago when he begged me to help him get a marriage certificate, he also came at ten o'clock in the evening, I knew that he had no face to see the villagers, and came in the middle of the night to beg me to help him. ”

As he was talking, the village chief's wife came in and said, "The food is fried, you can eat it here." ”

The three fathers hurriedly excused themselves, saying that there were several of us here, and there were a few children in the car, so it wouldn't be troublesome, but it was too abrupt to disturb your family.

The village chief smiled and said: "Forget it, old woman, you eat first, I don't have any preparations at home, let's not be polite, I'll go out to eat something with my eldest brother after speaking." ”

The village chief didn't wait for the three fathers to speak, and then continued: " It is said that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, today for the sake of you who have adopted Xiaojinshan, I will count down my distant relatives who are not angry, alas, according to the generation, he should call me uncle, saying that he can be Ling because when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, his father and his mother died of illness one after another, and he left such a son, who had not graduated from junior high school at that time, most of us in this village were surnamed Wei, all relatives and relatives, all of whom had no father and no mother, and the village sent rations to his house every year, and he was also the owner of the west family There is no shortage of food。 As soon as his father and mother died, he stopped going to school, and he could support himself by guarding a few acres of land at home. In the first few years, it was good to be lazy, but when he was eighteen or nineteen years old, the child suddenly changed, no one knew what the reason was, he was idle all day long, and the land was not planted, so it was so barren, and his relatives who were closer to him persuaded him, he couldn't listen, or he was a lobby brother who couldn't stand it and helped him farm, and when he had a harvest, he also kept a part of it as a labor reward, and the rest was given to him. But he became less and less of a worker, stealing chickens and dogs in the village, eating and drinking on credit in small shops, borrowing everywhere when he ran out of money, and no longer able to sell rations. The most annoying thing is that I often peek at the big girl and the little daughter-in-law on the thatched house, take a bath, and be caught a few times, at first everyone still sympathized with him and scolded him without a father and mother, he didn't confiscate a little bit, and didn't care about relatives, neighbors, climbed the wall in the middle of the night and hid under the window to eavesdrop on the life of other couples, which can make everyone angry, just beaten I don't know how many times, and then almost every household in the village has a dog, not to guard against foreign thieves, but to prevent this family thief. ”