Chapter 5 The Granddaughter of the Landlord's Family
"What is the boss busy with" is always the same beginning, and every time I text me, the first message is this sentence.
"How are you doing at the root of the tree?" I replied.
"I went to the beach to play for a while, picked up a few conchs, it's best not to sit under the roots of the big tree, the dog always pees there" Lao Wu usually speaks like this, which makes people feel heartwarming.
"Rub, how are you and Er, and Big Bird doing work, and you still have the heart to go to the beach to play" I stood up from under the tree and sent hair as I walked.
"Hehe, the big bird got a job, he and the second went to a supermarket to apply for an advertisement, the supermarket manager didn't want him, the big bird he wanted, he was depressed, this doesn't have to pull me out to relax" I feel that there is some schadenfreude between the lines of the old five.
Big Bird is also a man of God, when he went to college, he did not pay a penny to the school for the tuition fee given by his family, every day when the lantern was first released, he would carry a bath bag to the place where the warbler and the swallow were played, and the most frequent visit was a bathing center called Jinhui, I heard that as soon as I entered, there was a row of small flower bones at the door that only wore a belly pocket triangle for you to pick, but the price was not cheap.
I have always had a thief's heart, and the second next door who didn't have any money to steal money ate instant noodles for three months, bought a box of viagra before graduation, and the eighth child in his bedroom funded him with a children's intestine and two quail eggs, and ran to the bread all night, and when he came out, he said that he was possessed by a gorilla. However, after eating soft noodles for three months, even if he has the help of viagra, he doesn't know if it will really work.
The second next door will also make a computer system, at that time there are not many people who can do a computer system, often people ask him to help make a system, so that the next door two have always felt good about themselves, I didn't expect to apply for the job this time, it is not as good as a big bird that has always been regarded by him as a big bird who can't do anything, which can be imagined as a blow to him.
"How much is it a month, how is your job" When I heard that Big Bird had found a job, my heart tightened, and I suddenly felt the urge to go out.
"Eight hundred and five a month, living in that supermarket, no food, I am also contacting a decoration company now, and I will go for an interview tomorrow. ”
I put down my phone, walked to the house with a heavy heart, and Xiao Huang, who was happy when I was full, ran to my feet and circled back and forth, kept smelling and smelling, seeing that I ignored it, I ran to the root of the tree where I was sitting just now, lifted it up and retreated and poured a soak of urine.
Damn! I subconsciously wanted to use my hand to pull my buttocks, but my hand stopped halfway through, shook my head, and wanted to go into the house to change my pants.
At that moment, the sound of motorcycles came from the road outside the courtyard, and when I looked up, a girl wearing a white shirt, blue jeans, and a pair of white sneakers rode into the courtyard on a motorcycle.
The girl parked the motorcycle in the yard, got out of the car with a stride, saw me standing in the yard, and smiled at me.
A cheerful-looking girl, about the same age as me, with long shawl hair as black as ink, a long face, slender eyebrows, small eyes, but a beautiful smile, like a crescent moon, a small beauty mole on her red lips, and a very fair skin exposed.
The girl combed the hair blocking her forehead with her hand, her fingers were slender and white, and her nails were pointy, it seemed that she usually lived a good life, and people who worked often would not keep long nails, even if she wanted to, she couldn't keep them.
Seeing the beautiful woman smiling at me, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, smiled at her with a stiff expression, and subconsciously stroked the glasses on the bridge of my nose with my hand.
Just when I thought the girl was going to talk to me, the girl shook her head and walked into the house, I couldn't help but be stunned, and followed in, only to see her take out a convenient bag from her trouser pocket, go straight to the kitchen and squat under the cabinet for a while, pull out a coarse porcelain jar from it, open it and put her hand in, in a burst of rushing water, from the inside out of three salted duck eggs put in the bag, stand up and walk out of the house, ride a motorcycle and go away from the dust, it is really dusty, the floating soil in the yard is scattered under the friction between the wheels and the ground。
"Mom, who is she!" I asked in surprise as I returned to the house.
"It's the landlord's eldest granddaughter, and she always comes to her grandmother's to get something to eat," the mother said, fiddling with the broken TV on the closet in the house.
"I don't look old," I said with a little weakness, and secretly glanced at my mother, seeing that my mother's energy was still focused on the broken TV, I couldn't help but let go.
"I'm two years younger than you, and it's been two years since I got divorced," my mother said casually.
"It's been two years since I'm divorced" I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in my heart.
"I also married from a rural village, from another village, and went out to work with my husband for less than a year before returning to my parents' house, and I was going to divorce if I was alive or dead" My mother fiddled with the antenna for a while, and the TV screen was still full of "snowflakes".
"You're not right, go a little to the left," Dad said impatiently, seeing that Mom couldn't get it right.
"You can do it, you come to the whole thing, what are you commanding blindly!" The old mother who had a big temper just quit it.
Dad had to drop the cigarette butt and go fiddle with the TV himself.
"Why are you still divorced" For beautiful women, men are very gossipy.
"What else can you do, there is no money to make trouble, you look at the way she dresses, you know that she is not a person who can endure hard work, on weekdays, his grandmother also said that she doesn't do any work when she goes home, you know that she rides a motorcycle around, the motorcycle runs out of gas, and asks her grandmother for money to buy, his grandmother is so old, it is very difficult for her to live, so she points to the rented out piece of land to live, and she is reluctant to put more oil when cooking, a little delicious, she is reluctant to eat and put it in the cabinet, and the girl turned it out and took it away after a few clicks" The mother was a little indignant on her face.
"Oh," I nodded noncommittally.
"Also, she is sick and can't have children," the mother said mysteriously, lowering her voice.
"That's the man's family doesn't want her!" "Ordinary families can't accept daughters-in-law who can't have children, let alone rural areas.
"No, that man always came to her and asked her to go home, and she sometimes came to her grandmother's house to hide, and I met it twice" Mom's face, if you don't believe it, I'm going to swear an expression.
"Okay, don't talk about other people's affairs, take care of your own family's affairs" Dad finally got the TV ready, and heard me talk to my mother endlessly, and said with some disgust.
Mom glared at Dad and didn't speak, and I walked out.
Listening to my mother's story, this should be a girl who is easy and hardworking, and has no filial piety, but her shadow still flashes in my mind, I don't know when I can find a beautiful object like her, it seems that there is some truth in the statement that women say that men think about women with their lower bodies.
The grass is finished, the fat has come up to a certain time, and every day I squat in the house to play with my snake, I didn't feel that this game was fun before, but now I feel that I have become obsessed with it.
The landlord aunt often goes out to drink, the biggest hobby of this Tunzi person is drinking, which may be related to their ethnicity, I heard my dad say, last summer my family hired an old man of the Da tribe to help release water (rice as the name suggests needs to be kept in the water, but the water in the rice pond often penetrates into the bottom, which requires a pump to pump the groundwater up, and inject it into the rice pond by using a ditch dug in advance, which requires someone to watch day and night, many friends in the city do not know, explain it here).
The old man of the Da tribe is an errand runner (no old children), I have to ask my family to settle his salary every day, after the settlement, he will take advantage of the time to buy a box of beer, a bunch of chicken feet or something, carrying it at night, with a spade against the big white moon, drinking wine, singing, and putting water, in my opinion, it is a bit of a movie artistic conception, but my father said that he always drinks, afraid that he will drink too much and fall into the pool and drown, so he will dismiss him, the old man does not want to go, saying that he is old and can't do other work, so he will help my family release water!
But my dad still resolutely dismissed him, it's not that my dad doesn't have sympathy, it costs money to hire him, my dad in order to save money to pay my tuition, he carried a shovel to the ground to release water, think about my dad did a day's work during the day, and he had to release water at night, my heart hurts.
In the blink of an eye, August came, and one day the landlord's aunt and an old lady, and a young man, who looked unopened, and looked like little lice, sat on the kang in her house and drank, and the three of them pushed their glasses and changed the lamps, and spoke in a language I did not understand, and when they drank to the climax, the three of them sang a ballad.
The song, at first, felt unpleasant, but when I listened to it, I felt that it was full of true feelings, and the landlord and the old lady both began to cry, and the song became intermittent, mixed with choked and sobbing, like an old animal in the forest reminiscing about its last years.
I don't know what they are thinking, maybe they are thinking about their dead wife, if their husbands are still there, at least there is someone who can shelter them, maybe they are lamenting their poor fate, if there is a good way out, they don't have to live in this little tun full of mud and cow dung, maybe they are lamenting their youth that will never look back, if their youth is still there, they don't have to falter.
I was disturbed by this bleak singing and had no intention of sleeping, put on my clothes and walked outside, sat cross-legged in the grasshopper's car pocket, looking up at the starry sky, I had a feeling of wanting to get drunk and rest, I hadn't drunk for a long time, when I was a sophomore, I went out to drink with my dormitory classmates every day, and I had an addiction to alcohol, and I couldn't sleep without drinking three bottles of beer every night.
But now I want to drink not because of the worm wriggling, but because I think of my future, I don't have a job, and when my parents get old, what am I going to do, can I be an otaku for the rest of my life, and be an errand runner that everyone laughs at.
I don't know when they stopped singing, but I saw the little lice in the car pocket holding the old lady who had come to visit.
When I returned to the house, I heard the sound of broken porcelain in the landlord's house, and I looked to see that the landlord had fallen from the kang to the ground, and the kang table was pressed against her, and her whole body was covered with all kinds of oily vegetable soup.
The old lady seemed to want to get up, but she couldn't get up because of the strength of the wine. I could only lie on my stomach in the debris and leftovers of soup and vomit, and suddenly a sour smell worse than a pit filled the whole house.