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The copper ring on the wooden door swept through the third uncle's rough big hand, making a slight collision sound, and then opened the door with a hoarse sound. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The musty smell that has not been opened for a long time, the smell of rotting piled wood, and the stench emitted by the moss in the corners of some walls are mixed and rushed out, smoking out Lu Xiaomei, who is about to go in.

The third uncle, Lu Youfa, lit a cigarette and stood at the gate, looking at the living room that lit up in an instant, and his usually non-angry and self-righteous face softened a lot at the moment.

Lu Ran on the side was subconsciously stunned for a moment, she had never seen such an expression on her father's face.

It seems to be reminiscing, it seems to be painful, and there is also a bit of remorse.

"Sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, Yuelan, you go to the wing room to see if there are any old clothes that can still be worn, shake two pieces out, and I will wear them to pick the yang ditch later." I went to the mill to see if there were any broken grains. "——The basket is a utensil made of bamboo strips in the countryside, which holds and carries things.

Lu Youfa exhaled smoke and walked towards the mill at the back.

Chen Rong beckoned the second aunt Guan Xuan, and the third aunt Shan Yuelan went to tidy up the old house, unlike the second aunt and the third aunt, this old house is calculated according to the division of the family, and it belongs to the eldest brother Lu Youcheng and Chen Rong's family.

But the three brothers didn't care about this, they all made a home outside, and their parents died early, and the so-called separation of the family did not arise between the three of them.

Chen Rong lived in this old mansion in Lu Youcheng's early years when his job was not stable, and he was much more familiar with it than his two younger siblings.

Lu Heng squatted beside the dam and watched this scene quietly.

It is said to be an old house, but in fact, it is just good.

A bluestone house, with gray tiles on the beams, nothing more than a master bedroom and two secondary bedrooms in his memory, plus a small living room, a livestock house with a mix of pigsty and cattle pens, and the mill where his grandmother loved to stay back then.

Lu Xiaomei and Lu Ran rarely came to the old mansion, even if they used to come to the New Year in a hurry, they came in a hurry, and they never paid attention to it.

At this time, seeing that the elders were busy with their work, they also became curious and began to walk around the room.

It's just that it didn't take long for me to feel bored, even the ground was paved with loess, and from time to time there were rats and cockroaches running out, which was really not liked by girls.

"Brother, my sister and I are going to go around the hillside behind, are you going?"

Lu Xiaomei shook her hand in front of Lu Heng and asked with a smile.

Lu Heng glanced at the hillside behind the old mansion, where there was a lush bamboo forest, as well as half of the bare peach and plum trees.

"I'm not going, you guys go, be careful not to slip when you go uphill. The bamboo leaves that have been piled up for a winter are particularly slippery when they are stained with water, and they do not hurt when they fall, but they are easy to dirty clothes. There is a possibility that I will have lunch at my uncle's house later, so be careful. ”

"Well, then we'll go!"

Lu Xiaomei happily pulled Lu Ran and walked to the back hillside, like a child in a big city who arrived in the countryside, and everything was fresh.

Lu Heng shook his head and smiled, maybe Lu Xiaomei, who grew up in the city, is from the city, but he is not, and he is still a rural hukou.

Of course, this is not a trivial matter, except for those Beijing and Shanghai hukou, in a few years, the rural hukou may be worth more than the urban hukou.

What if the land is expropriated? Millions in minutes!

Lu Heng squatted on the edge of the dam, quietly looking at this house full of childhood memories, occasionally the neighbor's chickens and ducks passed by the dam, hissed a few times, left a pile of fresh feces on the dam, and ran away happily.

After a while, the third uncle walked out of the mill with four baskets and threw them directly on the dam.

"It can still be used, but the wires are rusty and unreliable. Lu Heng, you go under your grandmother's bed and look for it, and see if you can find a few loops of wire. ”

Lu Heng nodded, stood up and stretched, and entered the house.

Stepping on the wet ground paved with loess, Lu Heng took off his coat, groped at the foot of the bed for a long time, found a circle of wire, and was tightly wrapped in a plastic bag, and there was not much oxidation.

"Third uncle, do you think this is okay?"

The third uncle glanced at it and nodded, "No problem, enough." ”

The third uncle sat on the stone threshold, took the wire from Lu Heng's hand, skillfully turned the wire out, twisted left and right to break the wire without using any tools.

Then in his big rough hands, layer after layer of reinforcing the basket.

Lu Heng squatted next to the third uncle, occasionally lit a cigarette for the third uncle, and then chatted with the third uncle without a match, but most of them were the third uncle, Lu Heng listened.

"In those years, before you were born, there were only three brothers and your grandmother in the family, and then your father went to Cangshou to study in high school, and your second uncle went to serve in the army, and I was basically the only one left in the family. I did all these miscellaneous things by myself, weaving baskets with bamboo, threshing grain, picking tofu and selling it in the town with your grandmother.......

Do you know why I don't like your uncle? Let me tell you, that old guy is a thief, and every time he buys tofu, he always has to cut two taels more and bring a pack of fresh soy milk. That is, your grandmother has a good temper and thinks that she is a relative, so she let him take advantage of it, I don't rely on it, you say it's okay once or twice, and you do it every time, or is it human?

...........

It's not that the third uncle bragged to you, the whole village and my peers were all beaten by me. You can see the peach trees and plum forests on the back slopes! Those little kids like to steal peaches and plums every summer, and when I catch him once, I chase him all over the hillside, and then he falls into the dirt and beats him to death, beating his mother to death. ”

The third uncle's hand movements did not stop for a moment, and he was still smacking a cigarette on his lips, while talking about the past.

It's just that the face that was radiant at the beginning became darker the further back it went.

"Then your grandmother became seriously ill, and you were young at that time, and your eldest brother had just graduated from college and was looking for a job in the city. The second brother came back from the army and transferred to the vehicle management office, and he usually didn't have much leisure, and I also went to the sea to dump goods in Guangzhou to make a little money. The house is so deserted, and I don't know how much my mother missed me at that time, every time I called, I obviously wanted to say a lot .......of things, and I thought the phone was expensive, so I hung up early."

"It's very difficult, I want to come back to take care of her, but your dad relayed your grandmother's words to reassure me that the family is fine. Later, I learned that at that time, the family had spent all the money in order to treat your grandmother, and your second uncle even borrowed a lot from a friend. ”

"What makes me most angry is not this, people, they are born, old, sick and die, I can understand. What makes me angry is that when your grandfather and your grandfather split up, they not only occupied the brick house in the center of the village, but when your grandfather died, he didn't put much effort into it, and he usually liked to take advantage of our family when he bought tofu. But when your grandmother was seriously ill and needed to borrow money for treatment, he insisted on pulling out a dime a dime, saying that he had no money!"

"I don't have any money, his son Lu Youqing's three-story tiled house was built the year after your grandmother died, did you earn the money to build the house in just one year?"

Even when he was sitting, the man with a straight waist had a depressed expression on his rough face and his eyes were slightly red.

He threw the cigarette butt on the dam and spat on the nail.

"What kind of Chinese is smoking, it's not as good as my Yuxi Shun throat. ”

(To be continued.) )