1. Advent

Yi Shaofeng announced the failure of his second venture today, and he had quit drinking for a long time, so he picked up his glass again, this time he wanted to get drunk.

He had a strange dream in which he died of alcoholism. Relatives and friends who have not been in touch for a long time, either sincerely or falsely, show a sad expression, ready to send him off for the last time. When his crying wife, daughter, and father who were crying silently next to him appeared in the dream, although he was in the dream, he still had unbearable heartache.

He sat up from the bed with a scream, but his eyes were not on the bed at home, but in an unfamiliar environment. A small room, with white walls, easily recognizable not the color of latex paint, but lime, a wooden sealed window, a long nail on the wall at the head of the bed, a bottle of salt water hung from it, and looking down the slingpipe, the needle was piercing his hand.

The moment he saw his hand, he almost screamed again, this was not his thick, short and thick hand, it was obviously a child's hand, he lifted the sheet covering his body, he touched his whole body with his right hand that did not hit the hanging bottle, and finally he could be sure that he was back when he was a child, but he didn't know how old he was now?

"Xiaofeng, are you awake?"

A crisp country voice came into his ears, and then a slightly chubby figure walked in, and saw the mother's still young and beautiful face. He was still deeply immersed in the emotions of longing just now, and he became excited all of a sudden. In his previous life, his mother, when he was thirty years old, died suddenly, causing him a deep blow, and if it was true now, he vowed to make up for some regrets.

"Mom", "Mom"

He called out, followed by another confirmation.

"The doctor said it would be fine to wake up. ”

"Mom, what's wrong with me, what about my dad and sister?"

He has two older sisters in a family of five.

It turned out that it was because he was naughty, and he went up to the tree with a few children to dig out the bird's nest, but there was a fork of the tree with insects, and he didn't pay attention to it, and he fell off the tree and fainted on the spot. The doctor in the town is also wonderful, because there is no examination equipment, and told my mother that he should be hospitalized for observation, if there is any bad reaction, he will be sent to the provincial capital, and he will not be able to hear this explanation, and when he really has a reaction, it is really difficult to say if his little life is still there.

However, this incident also let him know that he returned to May 1990, because he had memories of this period in his previous life.

My father and the village chief went to the county seat because they saw that this year's agricultural tax was about to come down. This year's rapeseed harvest is not good, it is estimated that half of the village is not paid, and my father and they went to the county to see if it is possible to apply for a partial reduction.

"Shouldn't the town be in charge of this?"

He was a little confused, this matter should have gone to the town first, and the town should report it, so why did he go directly to the county. It is not a trivial matter to skip the level of reporting, and even if the county passes at that time, the town may still borrow other names to make it difficult.

"I've been to the town, but the town says it doesn't matter. Your village chief said that there were people in his county, so he called your father and went to the county. ”

Mom complained in her tone, this is a matter for the whole village, there is no reason why only Dad should follow.

He knew that this time the two of them might run in vain, and in his memory, except for the flood of 91, the family was exempted, and there were no years before and after until the agricultural tax reform was exempted. And many people in the village don't seem to have paid all the agricultural taxes last year.

The doctor came in to check on it, confirmed that it was fine, and asked my mother to go through the discharge procedures, that is, pay the fee and leave.

The town is not far from the village, almost 3 kilometers. Now there is not even a bicycle, the most common means of transportation in the countryside is legs, and the advanced point is to use an ox to pull a cart.

My mother came to the hospital on her back, so she could only rely on her legs to go back.

Walking on the dirt road home, it is like walking in an old image frame, a house with mud walls, with slightly whitish straw on it, this is not a sense of age, this is a real era.

When I got home, it was already evening. The eldest sister has not come back yet, and the second sister, who is a little squeamish, and the other two girls are jumping with rubber bands at the door of the house. Mom began to be busy cooking, he moved a stool and was in a daze at the door, although he figured out a lot of things, his brain was still a little confused, and he needed some time to digest it.

After dinner was cooked, the eldest sister also drove the goose back. The eldest sister is very capable, and she also cut a lot of grass back with the geese to feed the cows.

When the clock hand of the antique grandfather clock pointed to 8 o'clock, my father had not yet returned. The old mother beckoned the three of them to eat, but they were all hungry. Two dishes, a thousand fried pickles, and a steamed green pepper in bean sauce. Yi Shaofeng is a person who has no meat and is not happy, and now he has finally found a reason, when he was a child, he lacked too much meat, so when he grew up, seeing meat was like seeing his fate.

When they were almost done, Dad came back. Seeing that my father is still upright, with black hair on his head, although he is not handsome, his whole body is full of strength. He is really happy in his heart, sometimes he has experienced it, and he knows to cherish it, just like the song sings, I am willing to use everything I have for you to stay for a long time.

I took a simple bite of the leftovers, put down my chopsticks, lit a cigarette and smoked. Seeing this, none of the family stepped forward to ask questions, and the forehead of the Sichuan character fully explained the result of the trip.

"Xiao Feng fell from the tree today, and I was scared to death if you weren't there. I woke up in the afternoon at the town hospital, and the doctor said it was fine. ”

Mom said as she cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks. There was an indescribable meaning in his calm words, he knew that this was a precursor to his mother's outburst, he had experienced too much when he was a child in his previous life, and occasionally he would have a friendly match with his father.

Dad continued to smoke, his original wrinkled face was not nervous at all, he knew his mother, if something happened to his son, she would not be in this tone now.

He was worried that his parents would really get up, so he interrupted and asked:

"Dad, how about you went with the village chief today?"

Dad may have held back for a long time, but no one asked him the result when he came back, and when he saw his son asking, he pretended to be casual and said:

"Your village chief has found someone, and the man works in the county government, and said to help us ask and ask us to wait for news. ”

Waiting for notices and news has become an inherent culture of rejection in China.

"Before leaving, I said that the man couldn't count on it, so you should go to the village chief on the pole. ”

"What do you woman know, he can't count on it, can he count on you?"

Dad was stimulated by the word "on the pole", Dad has a good relationship with the village chief, and he is considered small, so the village chief will look for him. But by my mother's word, the meaning was changed.

Seeing that his mother was about to make a fortune, he stood up, pretended to be an adult, and said:

"That person can't count on it, and the village chief can't count on it, you can count on me. ”

His parents interrupted him, so they didn't continue to talk about it, but they didn't take his words to heart.

Since his rebirth, he has his first goal, to get the whole village out of the current situation in one year.