I saw that Zhang He had just jumped off the bed and fell to the ground, and before he could touch the doorknob, the door of the outhouse rang, and then he heard the aunts shouting one after another: "Dad, are you back?" "Dad, have you eaten?" "Dad, where did you come back?" "How did you talk to him?" Grandpa lost no time in appearing, which made Zhang He feel at ease all of a sudden, so he did not pull the door again, but retreated to the bedside to continue eavesdropping.

"Go for a hot meal. I only heard my grandfather whispering outside the house.

"I'll go. "I'll go with you. The fourth aunt hurriedly got up and went straight to the kitchen.

"What about the three bald boys?" asked Grandpa.

"I'm going to be asleep in the back room, right? As she spoke, the aunt was about to get up and push open the door.

When Zhang He heard this, he immediately lay down next to the "cave" and pretended to close his eyes.

"Yo, what is this for?" Suddenly, I saw Zhang He, but not my son's aunt, so I hurriedly went into the house and tore off the sheets on the umbrella to look inside, and then smiled: "Hehe, Dad, come here, look at what your three grandsons are doing." ”

The old man stood up from the table, looked into the room and smiled, "This is another demon." ”

"Mom, come and have a look!" said the aunt, leaning against the bed.

Grandma Zhang He walked into the back room when she heard the sound and said with a smile: "This kid is better than a girl." ”

"Are you panicking inside?" the third aunt also walked into the back room and stood aside.

"What a panic, such a thin quilt list, there are still seams!" said the aunt as she teased the door of the cave.

"Alright, let them sleep, close the door. Grandma Zhang He withdrew from the back room.

"Liqin. As soon as the aunt closed the door of the inner room, Grandpa Zhang He called her and motioned her to sit opposite her.

Seeing this, the aunt hurriedly sat on the side of the square table and asked in a low voice, "Dad, is there something wrong?"

"You get the 2,000 yuan back in two days, and tell Xiao Wu that we won't buy a color TV first. "The old man is serious.

"Why? What's wrong? Is it to settle the hospitalization fee? No, there is a unit for the hospitalization fee? What are you doing with the money? Oh, is there something wrong with Zhao Xihuan? I tell you, whatever he says, you can take care of him. Again, Auntie used her machine-gun-like speed and her shrewd brain.

"Sensee, you can get the money back in two days. The old man said coldly.

"What's up? Just take it back? What's going on? You'll have to tell me first. The aunt said anxiously.

The old man hesitated for a while before he said, "Your sister's house has come down." ”

The aunt turned her head to look at Zhang's mother on the bed, lowered her voice again, and said: "What's wrong with the house? What are you doing with the money? Who is it for? Their unit still has to pay the money? What did Xiao Zhao say? No, Xiao Zhao told you what he was doing? He asked someone to pay back the favor himself, what does it have to do with our family?"

The old man also turned his head to look at Zhang's mother, and then said: "I talked to him today, and he said that as long as Liyun divorces him and then gives him some money, he agrees to change the house he just divided into Liyun's name." ”

Although the old man's voice was very low when he said this, the aunt was like a cannon that had been ignited with a fuse, and in just one second it exploded, only to see her suddenly say in a loud voice: "I told you no! Give him money for anything, where does he collect money for the house assigned by the unit? Even if he is divorced, won't he have a second child if he doesn't change his name? He's poor and crazy? Divorce and blackmail the old man's money! This can't scold him for being a brute, not even a brute? How did you pick the second child? Do you know what he said to his dad today? He said that if he divorces you, he has to ask his dad to give him money! Listen, is this what the people say? Who the does he think he is? Male pet? Ran out and sold it!"

is worthy of being a person who has rectified people in a special era, this skill of intensifying contradictions out of context, and the degree of viciousness in his mouth are really not covered, and he can simply cut people alive. She was relieved, but how could the old man hear it? So the old man slapped the table with angry eyes and said, "Shut up for me! What do you say?"

The aunt, who knew that she was speechless, but didn't want to bow her head, immediately cried and said stubbornly: "Am I not right? How can there be such a divorce?

"What kind of money? Xiao Zhao wants money? He divorces our daughter and still needs our money?" Grandma Zhang He took the lead in "supporting" her aunt.

The third aunt, who was too anxious to speak out to see her father, saw her mother speak out at this time, and hurriedly echoed: "Give the girl money, and I'll go to their unit to find the girl tomorrow." He was paralyzed, did he think that there was no one in our family, and he was making a face here. ”

"What's the matter, what's the matter, who wants money? My second brother wants money? What kind of money do you want?" Aunt Zhang He, who heard the sound, asked everyone.

"Hey, hey, hey, it's time for you to change your words! If you are still the second brother and the second brother, you are going to divorce the second sister!

"Dad said that he wouldn't buy a color TV, and he wanted to give the 2,000 yuan to Xiao Zhao. Auntie said.

"Ahh

"2,000 yuan! That's enough for a year's salary plus a corner, he's poor. ”

"Dad can't give it to him, he divorced his second sister, and we didn't ask him for money, why should he ask our family for money. You first ask him to get back the second sister's salary over the years. ”

Seeing that his fourth daughter and youngest daughter also began to "force the palace", the old man simply didn't explain, and said directly: "You don't understand, shut up." Then he said to his aunt: "The day after tomorrow, Tuesday, half a day, get the money back." ”

"I won't take it!" the aunt said very firmly, and then looked at her mother with a look of grievance and said: "Do you know how difficult it is to get this TV number?

"Yes....." The rest of the people were just about to echo, but the old man interrupted: "Shut up, I will pay for how much Xiao Wu spent." ”

"Is this a matter of money? Am I worried about money? When have I ever felt sorry for money for our family? I don't want you to be led by the nose by the bastard. The aunt cried aggrieved.

"I said what to do, and I did it. The old man said very seriously.

From then on, no one in the house dared to speak, and the house was suddenly quiet.

And Zhang He, who had already secretly sat up straight and had been listening to the voices outside the house, suddenly seemed to be "frozen" at this moment, and his mind immediately turned over the scene when his grandfather proposed to buy the ancestral house in Guangqumen in 1990.

That time was also his aunts, with emotions several times stronger than this time, with "it's not worth buying a house", "you can't use so much money to pay for a house for decades", "if you buy a house, the house facilities are broken, the housing management office will not care, you have to spend your own money", "don't listen to the wind or rain, who knows if the policy will change for a while." and many other reasons that seemed to be for the sake of the family to stop Grandpa's decision, but the old man was as unmoved as today, and stabilized the situation in just a few words. In the end, they bought the ancestral house that they scrambled for at a price of 13,000 yuan.

"Why don't I have the quality of my grandfather? Why did I go in the 14 years I lived with my grandfather? Why was my grandfather so calm in the face of pressure, but I was always so entangled, and I would always find a thousand seemingly noble and high-sounding reasons close to my faith to persuade myself to compromise. Are all my regrets due to the "villain"? or...?"

The pictures of different time and space but not the same can't help but make Zhang He start to reflect. "It's me, I've been stupid, I've forgotten to "grow" under the protection of my grandfather's wings, it's me, I've blamed all my unsatisfactory on my aunt's ruthlessness, it's me, I take the initiative to choose to give up the struggle every time, and ruined the life that could have been smooth sailing; all because of my cowardice and pedantry. At this moment, he finally had an epiphany of enlightenment.

To get back to the point, the old lady saw that in the afternoon, none of her daughters dared to mention "money" and "room" again, and one by one they either leaned on the bed in the big house and chatted with themselves, or took the big iron basin to the courtyard to wash clothes, or simply went into the inner room to squint, or pulled Zhang's mother out for a walk, as if nothing had happened and nothing had been heard. This couldn't help but make the old lady very anxious, so she said goodbye to her three daughters after dinner, and let the remaining two daughters sleep in the east room, and the eldest grandson Zhang He next to her was silent. The old lady pushed the old man across Zhang He in the bed and said, "You haven't slept, have you?" Get up and learn from me, how did you talk to Xiao Zhao?"

When the old man heard this, he straightened his body and said expressionlessly: "This Xiao Zhao, I'm really not mistaken, he is just a house finch that can't be raised." ”

"What money does he want?" asked the old lady in a whisper.

"Hey, he didn't ask for it, I took the initiative to say it..."Before the old man finished speaking, the old lady immediately frowned and interrupted: "You took the initiative to say it? ”

"I want him to change the assigned room to our daughter's name. The old man said softly.

"He's stupid? The old lady said.

"Yes, so he didn't spit out at first, and he just said for a long time that even if he was divorced, it would be one person in one room. The old man said.

"Isn't that the end of it! One room per person, rightfully so. The old lady said.

"This is not a long-term solution!" the old man said and turned over, and rushed to his wife and said, "Have you ever thought about what to do in the future?" Don't you say that he has someone outside now, even if there is no one, you really rest assured that you will let our daughter live with him? If our daughter can't fight back and scold and don't fight back, can't be bullied by him? If he brings another family in the future, do you say Liyun can't stand it?"

"If you don't let Liyun go, it's over, let Liyun live with us in the future, anyway, the house doesn't have long legs, and you can't run, there will always be a share of our Liyun." The old lady said disdainfully.

"Don't you have a room?"

"He lives alone, let him pay for the house alone, what can we save?

"Is he likely to pay for you? Who paid for the house across the road after so many years?"

"Then lock up the house so that he can't get in. ”

"It's useless to guard against a gentleman and not a villain. ”

"Then what do you say? or we don't want it, let him give us money!"

"You are confused! How can you not want it? This Liyun will be with us in the future, do you have to feel a head shorter than her sisters and sisters, if there is no room again, there will be no us in the future, what will you let her do? Not to mention that there is still Beibei? This Beibei boy, when he grows up, will he have to get married and marry a daughter-in-law? Can this be done without a house? ”

Grandpa's words made Zhang He, who was already asleep, a little teary-eyed, but he didn't dare to make a sound, and he didn't dare to move his body, he just tried his best to control the ups and downs of his chest, swallowing and spitting heavily, so that the tears flowed to his heart as much as possible.

But the old lady couldn't notice the strangeness of her grandson, and continued to argue in a low voice: "Isn't there a road across the inner room?

"Is this comparable to your own room? Is the waist stiff? Don't you think that since you asked Liyun for this room, Liqin and the others have been yelling at Liyun all the time. ”

"I don't think so, why do you just shout five and six? Isn't it the same as before?"

"Hey-" The old man sighed, and then turned back and didn't speak again.

"You're thinking too much! They are all sisters, who can fight with Liyun for this? Liyun's life is so bad, who is willing to fight with her? They are married and have a house. ”

When the old man heard this, he immediately turned his head and asked, "You said this?"

The old lady replied casually: "I still need to say this, a few of your daughters have already told me, and none of them will think that you are a father because of this, and they all think that Liyun should not go to Xiao Zhao's house to squeeze his younger brothers and sisters." ”

"Hey, what if you didn't tell him in your heart?" the old man turned his head again.

"Oh, that's right. I've just woken up! After talking for a long time, have you seen their inner room? It's really a building, with a kitchen and toilet, where is it? Is it big?"

"I didn't see it, but I asked him today, and he said that in Octagon Village, the tower, the two-bedroom, there are more than 50 square meters, and he almost got the key. The old man couldn't help but sigh after finishing speaking.

"You said that this person who has suffered a thousand knives has been promoted to a fucking official position, and his salary is more than before, and his daughter-in-law is also better, and his son is also in elementary school, and this new house has come down! Why don't you know how to live a good life? What kind of divorce is it? I don't know how to live a good life? I don't know what to do?"

"Hey, this is Liyun's life!" the old man glanced down at Zhang He.

"Eh, then he finally agreed to change the house to Liyun's name, and how much did you promise to give him?" asked the old lady again after a moment of silence.

"He said he wanted 5,000. ”

"Ah?5000?, you let him snatch it!" the old lady raised her voice in an instant.

"Shhhh ”

"2,000 is more, how much money do we make in a month?" the old lady was displeased.

"Okay, two thousand is two thousand, isn't it all for my daughter and grandson!"

Zhang He, who couldn't hear it at all, "decisively" turned his body over and lay on the bed.

Seeing this, the old lady hurriedly stretched out her hand and patted Zhang He's back, and pressed the corners of his quilt, seeing that her grandson seemed to be "not woken up", she asked the old man again: "What about the things in the house?

"Give it all to him. The old man said softly.

"Are you going to talk to him, or are you going to admit it? My brother made all the furniture himself, so how can you give it all to him? I tell you I don't agree. Also, the TV and tape recorder in their house were also bought by our family trustees, and they couldn't be given to him. The old lady said again. (蹭: ceng three tones means to get angry.) ）

"Okay, it's better than anything else to be able to get married and divorce happily. ”

"You're good talking. Don't do this, don't do that, this is all bought by our family. ”

The old lady complained with displeasure, and then asked the old man, "Did he say anything else?"

"Hey-" The old man glanced down at Zhang He, sighed with a wry smile and said, "What our grandson said is not wrong at all, his father is using him as a disguise." As soon as I saw him today, I said that our family agreed to give Bei Bei to him, and then I asked him if he could leave the house to Liyun. Guess what's wrong with Xiao Zhao? He was anxious when he heard it, but he probably didn't know anything about it because it was me. Then he pretended to be embarrassed there for a long time before he said, or leave Bei Bei to our family, thinking that the child is better to follow us than to follow him. Discuss with me and say that if he really gives the house to Liyun, then can he not give Bei Bei child support in the future. ”

"Fuck..."Before the old lady became completely excited, the old man continued: "I said, your son, you can give whatever you want, it doesn't matter if you don't give it, we can raise your son well no matter what." ”

"Hey-" The old lady looked down at Zhang He, and was silent for a while before she said, "What's the matter?

"Let's go! Just like Bei Bei said, let his mother follow his father again, maybe something big will happen in the future!" The old man also glanced down at his grandson.

"Then let's leave, I'll go and persuade our daughter tomorrow. The old lady turned over as she spoke, and then looked at the ceiling and said to herself: "Actually, it's good to leave, and it also saves our daughter from being beaten and scolded in the future. The old lady choked up a little when she said this, so she turned over again and turned her face into the bed.

At this time, Zhang He suddenly "quietly" stretched out his two arms and gently put them on his grandfather's body one left and one right.