It's easy to finish the work, and we stink from head to toe. Seeing that it was twelve o'clock at noon, when he returned, Lao Li drove the car fast and returned to the city center in less than half an hour. The car turned around again and again, and soon came to a quiet street. This is a high-level residential area, and the "Garden Street" is unattainable for ordinary people, and there are few opportunities to walk into it. This street is not yet a thoroughfare, and ordinary people don't even have the opportunity to pass by sometimes. Because it is unreachable, outsiders can't be casual, and may not dare to enter, and usually, the street is full of high-end cars coming and going, so the "Garden Street" always seems deep, quiet, and has a layer of mystery.

From the point of view of location, "Garden Street" is different, close to the "Garden Hill" in the urban area. The mountain is not too high and not too big, but it is a beautiful place for us locals to relax and play. From the architectural point of view, this place is even more unusual, it is a separate courtyard. The yards are almost the same size, half an acre in size, and they are all enclosed with thick wooden strips that are more than one bundle wide and more than two meters high, painted with black paint, and the upper ends are cut into thick strips of wood in the shape of red tassel guns. The big red lacquered iron gate is exactly the same, and there is a small door on the gate. The center of the courtyard is exactly the same Soviet-style building facing south, all of which are large houses with skylights and attics, like buildings but not buildings. Although it is also a red brick house, it is all specially made of red bricks. It may be that the firing process and materials are different, this kind of brick is more delicate than ordinary workmanship, and it looks fine, hard, and has the luster of ceramics.

As soon as the car drives into this street and looks at the large houses on both sides, for some reason, you will suddenly be overwhelmed by the sense of superiority or hierarchy that emanates from here, and you can't help but want to hold your breath, and you don't dare to breathe. However, Lao Li seemed to be against someone on purpose, deliberately lowered to the lowest gear, coaxed the accelerator hard, and made the car roar like a cow. Although this street is a little rambling, the pig is not heavy, and it is estimated that you can rush up with third or fourth gear.

"Pull pig here? Is there a place to use pig here?" I may have been infected by Lao Li and returned to normal, said in surprise.

"yes. There's no need for pig here, where there's dirt, there's. Changqing said meaningfully.

The car stopped in front of a large courtyard in the middle of the street. Lao Huang and Lai Zi both got out of the car and walked over and knocked on the door. I knocked for a long time, but there was no response inside. As soon as Lai Zi looked up, he found that there was a button on the top of the small door, and hurriedly said to Lao Huang: "Don't knock, people have already installed the electric bell." As he spoke, he reached for the button on the door.

"Let me come!" Lao Huang said as he pushed Laizi aside. "!" he said on tiptoe, unable to reach the button on the door.

"Hahaha. Hahaha. A few of us burst into laughter.

"I don't believe that my old Huang can't reach it!" must have stimulated one of his nerves with our laughter, Lao Huang said not to be outdone. He looked at the button

, jumped up, reached out to press, but didn't press accurately. He jumped three times in a row, but he couldn't press it accurately.

At this moment, the small door on the big iron gate was suddenly pushed open! Lao Huang didn't dodge, and was almost slapped on the heel. Out of the door came a girl of eighteen or nineteen. This girl is round all over, her arms and legs are bulging, not too ugly and not too attractive, anyway, there is something different. Probably using the word "circle" can summarize her appearance.

She went out, pinched her waist and stood up, and shouted at us angrily, "What are you doing, what are you doing?"

"Whose girl is this?" I whispered to Changqing.

"The old girl of the manager's house. He whispered, too.

"Our manager can live in this house!

"Don't you know, he used to be a big official, but then he made mistakes and came down little by little. ”

"Ah, I've heard that I always make the mistake of 'basicism'. His former official was really not small!"

"Your name is Hongxia, and your nickname is 'Yuanbao'. Your mother gave birth to you at 12:30 in the middle of the night in 1966, and she almost lost her life because of a difficult birth! You haven't found a suitable job yet, and you want to go to the army. Laizi stood opposite her, pinched her waist, her mouth was very slippery, she didn't pause, and said in one breath.

"Huh. Who are you? How do you know so clearly? What are you pulling in the car?" the girl seemed to be attracted by Laizi's knock, and said to Laizi with anger. Her round face was painted with a change of color, full of innocent laugh lines.

"That's a good thing! don't you smell it yet?" Changqing jokingly shouted at her.

"What is it? it stinks!" she felt as if she had a feeling, twitched her nose a few times, and then screamed!

"Girl, this is pig we pulled, for your house to use on the ground?" Lao Huang hurriedly walked around from behind Laizi in front of her, and said with a grin.

"What's that? What are you doing here? Pull me away! I don't need any in my house! Disgusting or not?" she said with disgust as she glared at Lao Huang.

"Dead girl, this is for the ground, there is no smell of incense, that master, hurry up and pull it in." A woman in her fifties stepped out of the small door, she scolded Hongxia, waved her hand at the car again, and then turned around and went back.

She looked like a very ordinary housewife, and if she hadn't come out of such a big house, everyone would even think that she was an old rural lady. If you have to find anything strange about her, you can only say that the bulge behind her is very strange! In the way Raiko describes a woman, that place can accommodate a dog.

"This is our manager's wife?" I asked Changqing in a whisper as she returned.

"yes. Changqing also replied in a low voice.

"It's not a good match, isn't it?"

"What's the wonder? What's wrong with the mismatch?

"Then why should we, a big cadre, make the mistake of 'fundamentalism'? After we divorce her and find a great beauty, won't our hearts be stable?"

"Rest a fart! Can a cadre take the lead in family splitting? After a divorce from her, he will be stable! Can the girls and children left behind be stable?" Changqing seemed to be very disgusted by my last sentence, and he raised his voice sharply and said as if arguing.

Fortunately, at this time, I only heard the big iron door "clang" and "squeak, twist" open, and the people under the car would not pay too much attention to what he was arguing about. The car drove into the yard and came to the back of the house. This backyard is not small, and it is an idyllic scene inside. There are grape trellises, pumpkin trellises, and a few plots of land in the courtyard. There is a two-story chicken pen against the wall of the house, and dozens of chickens are raised inside. Lao Li parked the car, and when he got out of the car, he shouted: "I'm hungry, I'm hungry." He glanced at the old hostess of the Huo family who was standing aside, and deliberately asked in an accentuated tone: "Sister-in-law, it's a little bit more now, right?"

"Well, it's only twelve o'clock. She said casually. Maybe she didn't have enough mind to comprehend the deep meaning of Lao Li's question. Maybe people are wise and stupid, and they are not prepared to understand the words of those of us who work.

"Unload it now?" Lao Li asked again in a further accentuated tone.

"Yes, yes. I'm really sorry to trouble you several times and delay you to go to work after unloading? I'm tired, I'm tired. She said kind words again and again, but she still didn't catch Lao Li's stubble.

"Then unload, obey the order, listen to the command!" Lao Li waved at us, and said with a resentful face. After saying that, he turned around and got into the car building, rolled up the window glass, and took the small red plastic book from the "hand pick" and looked at it.

"Unload it. You all find a place to rest, I'll just come by myself!" Changqing also waved his hand in the car, and said loudly with a wicked smile on his face.

"Unload it, unload it! I'll do this work with Changqing, you all stay away, don't splash pig!" I immediately understood Changqing's intentions, and said loudly in the car.

"Well, you all smoke, don't you? I don't smoke either, but forget about it! I'll get you some cigarettes. The hostess of the Huo family suddenly remembered this etiquette and said to us with excessive enthusiasm. Then she trotted around to the front of the house.

Yoriko opened the carriage board underneath. Changqing and I picked up shovels, stood one at the end, and first picked up an empty space to stand firm. Then with all his strength, shovel after spade, throw far away, high and high. Pieces of half-dry and half-wet pig, some of which were thrown to the ······ Some were thrown into ······ It's sticky all over there.

"Oh, these two little masters are so energetic! Throw them slowly, don't get tired. Let's come down and smoke a cigarette first?" It took a long time for the hostess of the Huo family to return, and she yelled at me and Changqing first. She held a few cigarettes in her palm, and Changqing and I ignored her. Lai Zi and Lao Huang each took one, and Lai Zi carefully looked at the name on the cigarette roll, and said in surprise: "Ah! Our manager is really a good cadre of the party! He only smoked a box of 'big production' for more than five cents!" He lit the cigarette, took a puff, and hurriedly threw it on the ground. He swallowed a few mouthfuls of spit, and said very uncomfortably: "Auntie, our manager smokes this kind of cigarette covering more than five cents all day long?"

"Ahh When she said this, her eyes dodged, apparently knowing how long the cigarette had been gone. Maybe it's because she doesn't smoke, so she can't be sure if she can put her cigarette down?

"Don't listen to him. 'Big production' is good! It's not smelly, it's old!" Lao Huang retorted on the side, and he deliberately took a few puffs of cigarette as he spoke. But as soon as the woman of the Huo family turned around, he threw the cigarette on the ground and was about to step on it with his feet.

"I'll your wife! If you don't finish your cigarette, I'll throw you in the dung heap!" Raiko said, pushing him away, picking up the cigarette and stuffing it into his mouth.

"Smoke it, big brother often smokes cigarettes, let's be proud of this!How?" Lao Huang said smugly.

Changqing and I worked hard and quickly unloaded most of the pig. After unloading the car, Changqing was noisy and thirsty. I didn't rub my shoes with Changqing, and I didn't take pictures of my clothes, so I was not polite at all, and I broke into the house to ask for water. Lao Huang hesitated for a while, and followed the two of us into the house. He may have been brave enough to follow us into the house to satisfy his curiosity, after all, it was a fairytale dream for him to walk into such a big house.

Changqing and I entered the house with a big grin, and we wanted to make a big move all the way, sticking whatever we could. But though the room was spacious, and the layout was unusual, with halls, spiral staircases, and unorderly doors, it was not as bright as we had imagined! This is a strange kind of smell, although it is not pungent, and it does not directly cause us to resist the reaction, but in terms of the concentration of the smell, as long as anyone walks in, they will involuntarily want to resist but can't resist, and fall into a state of plausibility. However, people who are accustomed to it will think that this is the original smell in the house, and the smell is strange elsewhere.

Changqing and I only walked around the house for half a circle before we hurried out, and we didn't even drink water. The two of us originally had bad intentions, and wanted to go in to shake off the smell of shaking off our bodies and smoke the people in the house, but we didn't think about it, but they were smoked out. To put it mildly, the smell in the house was better than in the pigsty. Lao Li, Laizi, and Youjing didn't even enter the house. When walking back, Lai Zi blocked the door of the car and said that he would not ask Lao Huang to enter the car building, so Lao Huang had to stay in the car.

We went back to the yard and it was already a little past. In the past, when we came back late at noon, Aunt Wang always put our vegetable boxes and lunch boxes on the lid of the small boiler in the water room, and when we came back to eat, the food was not cold. But when we came back today, the food was still in the jar, and although there was a lid, the heat in the jar had long been cut off, so the food was already cold. As far as my feeling is concerned, Aunt Wang came back from "sick leave" and seemed much more lazy than before. She talks a lot, but when she sits in one place, she doesn't like to move the nest, unlike before, she is always not idle, she always touches this mechanically, does that, and sometimes helps us wipe the lunch box.

Aunt Wang was not in the water room, and the coal fire in the hearth had been sealed by her. Changqing poked the stove again, penetrated it thoroughly, added coal again, and burned the stove vigorously, firstly, to boil some hot water to wash it properly, and secondly, to heat the food by the way. I just took out everyone's lunch boxes and put them on the stove lid. Lao Li and Lai Zi walked in one after the other. Lao Li was carrying a bottle of liquor in one hand, all of which were the same porcelain bottle "Four Specials". Lai Zi is carrying work clothes in his hand, to be precise, holding it, the buttons of his clothes are all tied, and there seems to be something covered in his clothes, and he is still a living thing!

"Okay, that's good! It's all hot? Let's have some drinks together in a while! Anyway, I don't have any work in the afternoon, and I won't do any work!" Lao Li saw that Changqing and I had heated everyone's meals, and nodded appreciatively.

"Don't worry, you guys heat it first, and when it's hot, let's pad it first. Wait for me, buddy, to get you something to eat!" Raiko said Shinto. Then he turned around and walked out.

"Li, Master Li, this is ······ today." Si Te'ah, I have to buy it with foreign exchange papers?" Changqing looked at the wine Lao Li was carrying, looked at him in surprise, and asked incoherently.

"I'm happy today! You two are like gentlemen! What's wrong with the manager? You can't use people for nothing, right? We're not afraid of offending him! What if we offend him? Let's just work hard, and he can still pull us out and kill us?" Lao Li put the wine bottle on the wooden shelf, waved his hand again, and said to me and Changqing with emotion.

"That's a dick thing? Don't talk about the manager, what about the director? We don't want to take care of him, we don't take care of him! Li, Master Li, I still want to ask again, is such a good wine really willing to give us a drink?" Changqing also became emotional, and said with Lao Li. However, he quickly suppressed it and asked suspiciously.

"What kind of wine is this? Go to my house another day, I still have Moutai wine, all of which are special offerings! But these 'four specials' are not bad! This is still when I was in the fertilizer factory, I went to Jiangxi to visit my old comrades-in-arms that year, and it is also a special wine!" Lao Li picked up a bottle of wine and looked at it carefully.

"Why didn't I know there was such a good wine in the garage?"

"Can you know, boy? I snuck it into the wooden box under the bed in the library. The garage is like a cellar, and I'm going to cellar it for another ten years before drinking. Let you kid know, you have already stolen into your stomach, right?"

"Hey, hey, have you seen the director?" at this time, Lao Huang walked in and asked us. He had just gotten out of the car, and while biting on the dry bread he had bought on the way, he went to the director on an errand, and now he still had half a loaf of bread in his hand. When he saw the wine in Lao Li's hand, he paused for a moment, and then asked: "Isn't it Moutai from a porcelain bottle?"

"You said the director, did he drink it?" I said as if to Lao Huang, and as if to say to myself. Actually, I'm guessing as well. Just now when we passed by the small metalwork factory down the slope, I saw that it was still very lively, and every now and then a gang of men came out of that doorway. They were of all different heights and styles, but their little faces were red with drunkenness, and most of them were pinching matchsticks and picking their teeth. Usually, the men who pose in this posture are full of wine and food, in a happy mood, and a little unfinished.

When Lao Huang heard this, he looked at me ignorantly. I wanted to tease him, so I pretended to be mysterious and said, "There will be something delicious, even soup and water! Why do you want to eat some bread yourself?" As soon as I landed on the ground, I heard a "sudden" sound outside the door. After a while, Xiao Jiang rode a motorcycle, carrying the director behind him, and slipped through the door of the water room unhurriedly. The director's little face was also red from drinking, and he was also holding a matchstick, picking his teeth unhurriedly.

Lao Huang still looked at me ignorantly, didn't reply, turned around and walked out. He is a man who has never been with us, and of course we can't be with him. When the food was hot, we put the table in the water room upright, put on the kang on one side, and brought two old chairs from the lounge and put them on the other. We had just put the vegetable box on the table, opened the 'Four Specials', and were about to start drinking, when Xiao Jiang walked in. He carried a cloth bag in his hand, and when he entered the door, he smelled the smell of wine, and snorted vigorously a few times, and said, "What wine? It smells so good!" He leaned over to the table and looked at it, and immediately clicked his lips a few times, and said, "What a good wine! What a good day today! The bowl contains fried peanuts and a bundle of sausages, both of which are appetizers. Several of us looked at him with question marks on our faces, and we all looked at him suspiciously, could he pinch him! Knowing that we were about to drink, I deliberately put the icing on the cake to deliver the food? I suddenly realized something, and was about to open my mouth to point out who delivered the food. Xiao Jiang glanced at us back and forth, and no longer held back his appetite, he smiled and said, "Brother Qi came up at noon, originally to invite a few of you and the director to drink, but you haven't come back yet." When I sent the director back, he specifically instructed me to bring you some snacks and snacks. How much is a mind?".

Hearing this, I secretly nodded in approval! Ever since Boss Qi took turns with an iron pickaxe and quelled a fight that was about to cost people a few moments, I felt that this man must be a character if he could succeed in the future! He is a gentleman, and if he wants to achieve something, spitting and foaming is a nail! What he has said must be fulfilled, and he must break through the sword mountain and sea of fire in front of him! In fact, I already had a premonition just now that the dish was sent by Boss Qi, but it happened that today Lao Li suddenly had a whim and was full of pride, and took out the good wine that he had treasured for many years, and he wanted to drink it happily. Xiao Jiang said "a few of you", Changqing and I both knew in our hearts who we were referring to, and Lao Li naturally understood it. Although Xiao Jiang didn't pull him down, he also said it to him out of tactfulness, but Lao Li was still a little embarrassed. In order to cover up this embarrassment, Lao Li grabbed Xiao Jiang's arm and said irrefutably: "Do you still want to leave today? Come and drink together!"

"Good wine has to have hard dishes, I'll go to Brother Qi's to get two good dishes!" Xiao Jiang smelled the aroma of wine on the table again, and said without being tempted. After speaking, he broke free of Lao Li and turned his head to get hard dishes.

There were no wine glasses, no bowls or anything else, so we poured the wine into the lid of the lunch box. This wine is so fragrant! It has been cellared for many years, and it is clear and thick when poured out, and the aroma is tangy, long and not strong. After pouring the wine, we all opened our respective food boxes.

"I brought the garlic and fried meat. I said.

"I brought the eggs. Changqing said.

"You don't have a taste for what I bring, it's meat tofu!" His food box is as big as a lunch box.

At a cold glance, his vegetable box was indeed filled with tofu, white, piece by piece, and trembling, but when I looked closely, it turned out to be a box full of white meat! I didn't add anything, and I didn't even put green onions and ginger! Changqing and I were very surprised, such delicious, it is really difficult for ordinary people to enjoy. However, Lao Li often does things on a whim that ordinary people can't imagine, so the two of us are used to it, and if we dig deeper, we may get more bizarre answers.

"Look at what Laizi brought?" Changqing said as he opened Laizi's lunch box. Laizi brought a lunch box today, which should be a mixed package of meals, all ready-made. The lunch box contains two sugar cakes on the top, and the bottom is a section of meat that looks like pork fat sausage, but it doesn't smell like meat. Maybe it's the most fragrant meat, but we've never smelled it before, so we can't tell what it is, whether it's a smell or not?

The wine was so delicious that we were reluctant to drink it, so we took small sips of it. As soon as he drank a box of lids, Laizi walked in with a small pot with a lid. I don't know why, but when we smelled the delicious dishes in the small pot with soup and water, we felt that it was very fragrant! So we all shouted the same sentence: "Fragrant! It's so fragrant!"

"Hey, hey, you didn't eat the meat in my lunch box, did you? Who of you would dare to eat it except me?" Lai Zi first glanced at his lunch box and said strangely. He put the small pot on the table, and said triumphantly: "The little widow killed and stewed, that is called a neat one! Finally, I put on a bunch of pine mushrooms! I have lost my body and committed a loss today! Eat and drink, and you have to appreciate it?"

"Well done!" Changqing said with a thumbs up.

"Haha. As soon as you enter the house, I will touch the chicken pen, see a big one, and choke my neck!"

"What about dogs?"

"No problem! Stealing chickens and dogs, chasing ducks, digging graves, and kicking widows' doors, I'm pretty good at it!"

"What kind of meat is in your lunch box?"

"Human flesh!".

A few of us started drinking while talking nonsense, and as soon as we got to the top of our heads, we heard the sound of Xiao Jiang's motorcycle. After a while, Xiao Jiang also carried two lunch boxes tied together and walked into the house. Just now he broke free from Lao Li and left, we thought he had made an excuse to slip away, but we didn't expect him to really get us two boxes of delicious food, both of which were hard vegetables that we had never eaten before! And they were all game from the mountains, a box of robe meat, and a box of pheasant meat. Xiao Jiang said that these wild meats were originally used by the leaders in the hospitality area, but they were afraid that there would be too many people and mixed eyes, and the impact would not be good, so they did not come to the banquet. First, these wild meat will change their flavor after a long time, and the boss of Qi will give the nearest and help to work hard, everyone will share a little, and secondly, a few of us are really blessed, catching up with today's good day, so we can enjoy the rare deliciousness!

Good wine, good food, good friends, we really had a great drink that afternoon! Two bottles of wine were not enough, so I went to buy two more bottles and drank them until dark. It turns out that Lao Li's amount of wine is not small, and it is estimated that a bottle of liquor will not be able to put him down, and with the strength of the wine, he told us some glorious and disgraceful past. Xiao Jiang is also a person who blushes when he sticks to wine, but he didn't drink less that day, and he also used the strength of the wine to tell me a lot of strange things in the ravine.

As the so-called drunken confession, men can increase their understanding of each other by drinking together, but after the drinking game, some of them get closer and closer to each other, and some of them become more and more detached, becoming both familiar and strange to each other forever.