"Squeak....... Squeak......."

Although the weather in all parts of the country has been relatively abnormal in recent years, the snowfall in the northern mountainous areas is still more than that in the urban areas.

Back in Lu Hua, the wind is still quite strong, blowing the snowflakes like sand on the upper layer of the snow, it is inevitable that snow will blow into the shoes, melted by the feet, and wet the socks, and now Lu Ze is in this state.

Because of the snow, Lu Ze could only carry his suitcase and move forward slowly, fortunately, this road was renovated by Lu Ze's funds, or it was still so potholed, and walking for a few miles could really exhaust a person.

The cripple looked a little sluggish because he had never been to such a cold place, and he was tired all the way, hiding in Lu Ze's coat, only showing his head and looking outside, as if he still had a great curiosity about the snow.

I haven't been back to the village for more than four years and almost five years, the population here is getting smaller and smaller, and it should have been time to eat at noon, but the chimneys on most of the houses no longer smoke from the cooking, and I heard my mother say that there are less than 200 people left in the village, and those who are left behind are either incapacitated, and the life is at the bottom, or the old people who are really not used to the urban living environment.

Walking into the village, the road was inevitably a little icy and slippery, and even Lu Ze accidentally fell and squatted, got up and patted the snow on his buttocks, and soothed the frightened lame.

"Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee......"

The ridicule of Lu Ze came from not far away, the voice was childish, Lu Ze glanced in the direction where the voice came from, a five or six-year-old child cat was behind a red brick wall, only a small head was exposed, and the fingers holding the wall were dirty, and it was a common free-range child in the village.

"Don't laugh! What kind of family are you? Come here, I'll clean up for your father. ”

Seeing Lu Ze training him, the kid was not afraid, saying that it sounded like a good thing, but in fact it was a lack of beating, and he still laughed endlessly, and then disappeared behind the wall, but shouted: "Dad!

"If you beat you, you will beat him, you can't suffer a loss in this matter of fighting, cut him, I will see who beats you....... When did you come back? You ...... Why didn't anyone pick you up when you were carrying a suitcase? ”

The figure in the green military coat walked out after walking the wall, and when he saw Lu Ze, his expression was particularly surprised, he looked around, and after making sure that there was no one, he hurriedly walked over and picked up the box, but was politely rejected by Lu Ze.

This person's name is Lu Fangwei, two years younger than Lu Ze, is the grandson of Lu Ze's second grandfather, that is, Lu Ze's cousin, graduated from junior high school, and followed Lu Ze in Zhaojia Bangzi Middle School, the master of fighting with children in neighboring villages all day long, and later he was also naughty, his grades were okay, but he chose to drop out of school, and now I heard that he was working as a migrant worker in the provincial capital.

"Give it to me, it's okay, give it to me, you haven't had anyone to help you carry things for several years, can you get used to it? Give it to me, I fell just now, it's all Lao Lu's family, what are you polite to me?"

Lu Ze has calluses on his hands, and he is not small, but compared to Lu Fangwei, it is completely insignificant, as soon as the two of them touched, Lu Ze felt like touching the heel of the old man.

And the sharp eyes found that Lu Fangwei's eldest mother's belly was very shiny, and the fingerprints had been worn out, the last time we met, his hands were not like this, it seems that he has suffered a lot in recent years.

"Then I'm not going to be polite to you, are you working at home now? Not going out? Is this your son? The last time I came back, I was only two months old, and I was very naughty, just like when you were a child. ”

"When I was a child, I wasn't as naughty as him, I still had to go out to work, and it wasn't winter, and the construction site couldn't work, so I went home early. ”

"I remember if you didn't do home improvement?"

"I haven't done home improvement for a long time, squatting in the pit and waiting for live cats and dogs for a day, and now I do tooling, which can earn less than home improvement, but it is stable, and I build the inner wall, and the weather is too cold to do it. ”

Having a child is destined to be much more tired than before becoming a father, and only after becoming a father can you feel the pressure that exists all the time, and you can be regarded as a truly mature man.

Lu Ze can understand, and he didn't ask who the child lives with now, raising a child is not only to raise him, but also to accompany him to grow up, there is nothing wrong with high-income families, but for people living at the bottom of society, it is already a very great thing to be able to raise a child smoothly.

"Dry workwear is not better than dry home improvement, you have to be more careful than before, now there are old and young, you must pay attention to safety, don't be so anxious to save money for your son to get a wife." ”

Lu Ze has been productive for a few years, but in fact, he has not brought any earth-shaking changes to the old Lu family, and they have not begged Lu Ze to find a decent job, it seems that in addition to Lu Ze's presence, which can make their waists harder, they only have the capital to brag with their friends.

Lu Ze actually didn't help them too much over the years, except for building a road and funding the government-built Hope Primary School to improve the teaching facilities, and Lu Ze took 50,000 yuan for his three grandfathers with cerebral hemorrhage.

The two chatted while walking, and the children around them also knew that this person was his uncle, and they became a lot quieter, there were many rules in the village, and they had to be beaten by hanging trees with their elders.

It wasn't until the two of them walked to the side of the fish pond that Lu Ze looked at the fish pond that was already overgrown with weeds, frowned, and asked Lu Fangwei about the person who hadn't been asked for several years.

"Where is Lu Qiang? Isn't it contracted to fish ponds? Why is it all barren like this, and it doesn't matter?"

Lu Fangwei also expressed considerable disgust for this cousin, but it was inevitable that he was a little melancholy, took the cigarette handed over by Lu Ze, and took a look, it was no longer the grade he smoked back then, but for him, it still belonged to the kind of famous cigarette that he might not smoke at the banquet, so he was a little reluctant to smoke it, put it behind his ear, and took out a yellow red plum from his pocket and lit it.

"Fish pond? Lu Qiang is also honest for half a year, and then made a mistake, and then played money, I heard that it was out of the old thousand, was beaten and disabled, his fingers were cut off, his leg was lame, and the loan shark still owed more than 200,000 yuan, and was chased to the village, and then the village people and the people who asked for accounts got up, and the fight was very big, and there were many people in ten miles and eight villages who came to help, and there were more than 1,000 people in total, and they choked enough to ask for accounts, and they knelt on the ground and kowtowed. ”

"And then?"

"Later, the police station came, the second master asked the sister-in-law for help, and the matter was settled, the boss knew that the sister-in-law was the daughter of the second master, and he didn't ask for the principal, so forget it, Daqiang raised in the village for three months, and left after the injury was healed, and he walked for several years and never came back. ”

For Lu Qiang, Lu Ze has no mercy, if he wasn't afraid of making the fourth uncle angry to death, Lu Ze wouldn't help him at all, at that time, he was thinking that if Lu Qiang could change, he would also recognize this relative, after all, no one has done anything wrong, but this time he still has no face and no skin, it doesn't matter whether he is dead or alive, and he won't help collect the body when he dies.

As for the sister-in-law, she is the only big official in their village, she works in the Provincial Public Security Department, and her husband is in the army, nearly twenty years older than the sister-in-law, so I won't say how powerful it is, anyway, the little aunt is not close to the old Lu family.

"What about the fourth uncle, how are the old couple now?"

"Fourth Uncle...... It's okay, after all, Daqiang has also called back a few times, everyone knows that he is still alive, it would be good to be alive, it is the fourth aunt, after Daqiang was beaten and disabled, his eyes cried, and he was ...... last year I can't see anything. ”

In addition to the evil, Lu Ze has no other evaluation of Lu Qiang, the fourth uncle carried the mountain on Lu Ze's coffin, the mountain was particularly shaking, it was still a heavy snowy day, after resisting the fourth uncle, several of them all lay on the kang and rested for half a month, this kindness Lu Ze remembered, Li Yumei and Lu Weiguo didn't tell him about Lu Qiang, but now he knows, after he gets home, he still has to go and see.

walked all the way to Lu Ze's house, looking at this country mansion, Lu Ze was quite relieved, at least the house that his parents also liked very much was left.

As soon as she walked to the gate of the courtyard, she saw Li Yumei carrying a basin of steaming dirty water ready to pour it outside, and felt that there was someone at the door.

"Oh Ze, ......."

Li Yumei's tears came down immediately, and she hurriedly walked down the steps and ran towards Lu Ze, wanting to reach out and touch Lu Ze's face, but because she had just finished cutting the pork, her hands had not been washed, and she just stretched out her hand and put it down again, but the tears were dripping down.

In Li Yumei's thoughts, Lu Ze must have been wronged a lot, but he has never told her as a mother, she has been carrying it by herself for so many years, how can you make her feel distressed?

"Mom, it's okay, why are you crying? David is still here, Dad. ”

may have heard the sound, Lu Weiguo also walked out on crutches, with his hands behind his back, looking a lot older than the last Chinese New Year, obviously, Lu Ze also caught fire in this matter, nodded, did not respond to Lu Ze's words, slowly walked to the basin, and quietly picked up the basin.

Lu Weiguo didn't want to mention his son's wound again, so as not to add unnecessary pressure to Lu Ze, since the matter has passed, let it pass.

Lu Ze took the luggage and put it at home, so he invited Lu Fangwei to come in with the child to sit down, but Lu Fangwei and his son came out to buy seasonings, and the dishes at home were all cooked, Lu Ze was really not good to stay, and in the end he could only let him bring his wife and children to have a meal tomorrow.

Before leaving, Lu Ze took out his wallet, rummaged through the small amount of cash in it, took out two hundred and stuffed it into the child's hand, and in the face of Lu Fangwei's refusal, Lu Ze's attitude was tough this time.

"It's definitely not as good as before, but I can still take out two hundred, not for you, it's for the child to buy food, don't refuse, now I can do it, that's all." ”

“.......”

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