Chapter 9: Apricot Yellow (9) (3)
With Mao Xiang's words, Mao Sheng relaxed a little. He casually asked, where are you messing around these days? No one knows the details of you, not even the full moon.
Mao Xiang replied, "I'm used to running outside." If you always squat in one place, you will be bored. I've been running a lot of places this year. I've been to big cities, and I've been to small villages. Whatever business is convenient, you can do whatever business you want, and you are quite comfortable.
Mao Sheng said, you are at ease, but you are bitter about the full moon. A woman's family is busy at home, and she has to be busy outside, and she is used by a male laborer. You don't know how distressed you are. If you want me to see, you don't have to run out anymore. Just looking for an errand to do in the village is not a hundred times better than starving and having a full meal outside. When I take the time to intercede with your sister-in-law, it is only right that I can find another errand in the factory to do, and I will also collect my past ambitions and live with the full moon in peace. Apricot is also older, and it is time to make a concerted effort to settle him. Don't dare to let him go wild outside. If you are blind, it will be difficult to change it.
Mao Xiang smiled slightly and said, I am not going to leave, just find a way to make money in the village. I don't go to the factory, so I do it alone, and I can't make a mistake.
Maosheng asked, what is the way, what are you doing alone?
Mao Xiang said, inspecting it. If it doesn't work, you'll know in a few days. These days, you don't have to worry about Xingzi anymore. It's all right. For some things, I still have to go out for a run, and then I will ask about the whereabouts of Xingzi by the way. If he can't find it, he will definitely come back after a few days when he gets tired of running away.
Mao Sheng listened to Mao Xiang's words, but he didn't do anything*. He didn't have anything to talk about with Mao Xiang, so he left the west slope and returned home in disbelief.
At this time, it was the time for Jin Lian to make offerings as usual. A faint aroma wafted from the neat courtyard. In the afterglow of the evening sunset, it shows a more and more warm mood.
Mao Xiang sat quietly on the dirt slope not far from the courtyard, looking out at the small and loose village. Listening to the sound of chickens, dogs, geese and ducks in the village, and looking at the wisps of white cooking smoke rising from the small courtyards of the farmhouses, I felt a little worried in my heart, because I was worried about the apricot boy's reluctance. However, he still believes in Xingzai, and he won't get lost for no reason like this. As for the source of this self-confidence, he can't explain it clearly.
Now, on the contrary, he feels very comfortable in his heart. I am full of confidence and expectation for my future life and career.
Mao Sheng did not go out to look for Xingzi for the time being, but waited anxiously at home. He didn't quite believe Mao Xiang's words. In the decades of grievances between the brothers, he has always rejected Mao Xiang in his heart. I feel that any of his words cannot be trusted, and there is an inexplicable insidiousness and crisis hidden in any action, and there are ulterior thoughts and intentions. The reason why he was able to sit and lie restlessly and barely stay at home was completely due to the persuasion of Xylophone and Jing'er.
When Xylophone returned from outside the mountain, it was the morning of the second day after Mao Sheng and Mao Xiang had talked.
At that time, Mao Sheng had just stepped on the road out of the mountain, and he was confronted by a large truck of a foreign company galloping with dust and smoke all the way. When he came to Maosheng, he braked suddenly, and the dust swept from behind the butt of the truck threw Maosheng to a stumbling ground. Almost flashed Maosheng into the ditch outside the roadbed.
In the cab sat a xylophone and a wood, and in the carriage there was a grizzled stick baby. The foreign company jumped out of the car and asked Maosheng where he was going. The xylophone also looked through the driver's seat and asked where Maosheng went. [End of Chapter]