The radio of the Yanxiang Village Committee broadcast Yan Yuxiang's name over and over again, because he was the only one in the village who did not claim the money from the sale of the coal mine.

Although there were quite a few people in his family's household registration book, which seemed to be a windfall in the village, Yan Yuxiang told his family that they didn't want the money, and explicitly forbade his family to go to the brigade to collect the money.

In the past few days after being discharged from the hospital, Yan Yuxiang has not gone anywhere, and even the factory rarely goes, he has been staying at home, and he always feels that physical weakness is a reason, and more importantly, he is unwilling to see people, which may have a lot to do with Yan Cheng's fucking death.

finally got Yan Cheng's mother buried, and under the continuous persuasion of his wife, Yan Yuxiang took advantage of the sunshine to walk out of the house and go to the village. But what really made him want to go out was a casual thing in the morning.

Early this morning, Yan Xiuping carefully cooked a bowl of porridge for her husband, and with breakfast, it looked very appetizing.

Yan Xiuping used a small bowl to hold a bowl for her husband, when Yan Yuxiang stretched out his right hand to pick it up, he didn't know why, seeing that his hand had touched the bowl, but he heard a "pop" sound, the bowl fell to the ground and shattered, and the porridge was also scattered on the ground.

Yan Xiuping looked at her husband resentfully, but she didn't blame, stood up, and said as if talking to herself: "Sick is sick, why are you so delicate, you can't even hold a bowl." As he spoke, he went to grab a broom and swept out the broken bowl.

Yan Yuxiang didn't know what was wrong with him today, listening to his wife's complaints, he wanted to get a bowl again, but his right leg seemed to be numb after sitting for a long time, and he couldn't move.

Yan Xiuping said: "You better sit down, I'll just serve you another bowl." So saying, Lisso filled him another bowl and put it on the table.

Yan Yuxiang reluctantly sat back on the table, looking at the bowl of millet porridge in front of him, there were two red dates floating on it, boiling very carefully, when he went to get the spoon on the side, he found that it was really his physical problem.

His right hand seemed to be disobedient, and it was numb when it was on his right leg. Yan Yuxiang comforted in his heart: This may be the reason why he just woke up in the morning, and it would be good to be active after eating.

He tried hard not to let his wife see that he was different, and forcibly picked up the spoon, which was a small thing, but Yan Yuxiang seemed to use a lot of strength to lift him up.

He leaned down and kept his mouth as close to the bowl as he could, so that it would not be so difficult.

Yan Xiuping also served herself a bowl, and said while eating: "Are you still planning to go anywhere today?"

Yan Yuxiang said: "It's okay, where am I going!"

Yan Xiuping asked, "Don't you go to the factory either?"

Yan Yuxiang said "um" and said, "There's nothing going on in the factory now, so it's okay if I don't go." ”

Yan Xiuping thought about it for a while, and said unwillingly: "That's it, there is almost no noodles at home, you go to the supply and marketing cooperatives and ask them to send a bag." ”

Yan Yuxiang refused: "You just need to make a phone call, why do you have to ask someone to run in person!"

Yan Xiuping saw that she couldn't move him, and finally tried to say: "I heard that Yan Yuming's family is gone, do you think that Yan Cheng didn't come to kowtow to you, and you don't want to go out?"

Yan Yuxiang said: "What does it matter to me if she dies her! Don't mention this matter to me in the future!"

Yan Xiuping slurred her tongue and said, "Then why are you? When I took out the garbage this morning, I saw that one after another hook machines (excavators) were driving towards the back mountain, and you can't stop this matter, besides, this matter has nothing to do with us, if you don't want to take the money, you don't want it! ”

Yan Yuxiang straightened up, sighed, and said, "Alas...... I blame myself! In the past, we didn't understand, so we had to dig a small coal kiln in the back mountain, if we hadn't done this, the coal in the back mountain would still be safe and secure......

Yan Xiuping interrupted him and said: "Hey, hey, what do you say about him, wasn't he poor at that time, as the old saying goes, 'people are poor and short-minded, horses are thin and long', if we hadn't come over little by little, would this family have become like this!"

Seeing that she still didn't convince her husband, she said: "Besides, Yan Yuxiu is not a member of the Yan family, but a member of the Yan family knows that there is coal in the back mountain, and this is not something that you alone don't know, so this matter has come to this point, and it has nothing to do with us, I think you just worry about it every day!"

Yan Yuxiang looked at his wife, the years have also drawn wrinkles on the face of this thrifty housekeeper, he wanted to stretch out his right hand to hold his wife's hand, but now this move is extremely difficult for him, he can only smile and say, "Okay, okay, I won't say it, okay?"

Yan Xiuping said: "Then you go out for a walk today, I'm not lying to you, the doctor said, if you are lazy, you can't do it, exercise more and move more." ”

Yan Yuxiang thought of his symptoms this morning, and heard his wife say this, so he had to say, "Okay, I'll go out for a walk today." ”

After breakfast, Yan Xiuping explained a few words to him, and then hid in the kitchen to clean up.

Today, Yan Yuxiang also deliberately changed into a new dress, which Xia Er bought for him, and the three girls have been working outside in the past few years and know how to be filial, so he and his wife's new clothes have never been broken. It's just that he has to drill in the factory every day, so he doesn't have much time to wear, and now there are several new clothes in the cabinet at home!

Yan Yuxiang walked around the house a few times, and felt that the numbness in the right half of his body had improved a lot, so he said hello to his wife and went to the village.

The reason why I describe it like this is not to praise its beautiful scenery, but that more than ten or twenty years have passed, and both the buildings and the characters are unchanged, as if they are frozen.

Yan Yuxiang came to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the village, which is one of the activities of the villagers, and people who have nothing to do like to gather here to play poker and chat. This is especially true for those who are old and consider themselves to be old. Therefore, this place is also nicknamed by the villagers: the activity center for the elderly.

Yan Yuxiang pushed the door in, and the people inside raised their heads, saw that it was him, and said enthusiastically: "Ouch, it's Yuxiang, why are you here today." So saying, he made a stool for him to come out.

Most of them here are Yan Yuxiang's elders, although their seniority is higher than Yan Yuxiang, their status in the village is far worse.

Yan Yuxiang also smiled and said, "I'll order a bag of noodles, Uncle Yuhuai, my aunt is tough, right?"

The man replied, "Okay, well, she's getting better, and the older she gets, the more energetic she becomes." ”

Another person next to him quipped, "Didn't the children call you 'old and immortal'?" ”

Yan Yuxiang turned his head and saw that it was a familiar face who spoke, it was Yan Jiancheng, the old village chief of Yanxiang Village, and Yan Shuangzhu was also here, sitting next to Yan Jiancheng.

After Yan Yuxiang and everyone said hello, he went to the counter and ordered a bag of noodles, saying that he would send them over in the afternoon.

Yan Yuxiang finished his business and sat back again, he didn't want to be with this group of people, but where could he go if he wasn't here!

Yan Shuangzhu said: "Yuxiang, the brigade called your name every day, and you didn't go?"

Yan Yuxiang didn't expect to talk about this as soon as he opened his mouth, only to see him say: "Well, I won't receive the money." ”

Yan Shuangzhu patted him on the shoulder, gave him a thumbs up, and said, "Alas...... You're kind of backbone!"

The other put down the cards in his hand and said, "Alas...... Poor people can't live! Money and backbone are compared to a fart! It's better to lose money or Yuxiang mix, and it can be regarded as a lesson for those people in the brigade. ”

Yan Yuxiang hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Hey, that's not the case, if you don't make some contribution to the village, you can't be considered a good mix!"

Yan Shuangzhu said: "Yuxiang, don't worry about this matter, you are still young, unlike us who are old and immortal, I think, your future is great." ”

Everyone laughed when they heard him follow Yan Jiancheng's "old immortal" stubble.

Yan Yuxiang said: "I can't do it either, I still have to look at young people now." ”

Another human: "Young man, Brother Yuxiang, do you mean me? haha, or do you mean Guo Qisheng and Yan Yuxiu?" The person who spoke was also Yan Yuxiang's younger brother, but he was not the same person.

When everyone heard this person's words, they pointed at Guo Qisheng and Yan Yuxiu, and they didn't dare to answer, they understood that Guo Qisheng was supported by Yan Yuxiang, Yan Yuxiu was Yan Yuxiang's younger brother, and said in front of him that the two of them were not, didn't this offend Yan Yuxiang.

And the people in the village tacitly believe that Yan Yuxiang didn't take the 1,000 yuan just to show the villagers, if Yan Yuxiu didn't get Yan Yuxiang's support, he wouldn't dare to sell the back mountain for anything, and even said that in the middle of the night, he saw Yan Yuxiu carrying a bag of things to Yan Yuxiang's house, which was a bag of money!

Yan Yuxiang didn't know these rumors, but the people in the village had the same idea as him, and they were unwilling to sell the coal mine in Houshan.

Despite this, Yan Yuxiang still smiled and answered: "Qisheng and Yuxiu are always a little better than you, right?

Everyone said in unison: "That's it!"

The man was not ashamed when he saw that everyone had counted him, and shouted, "Two!" and then with a "snap", he threw out two cards, and the table rang out.

The teller of the supply and marketing cooperatives said loudly: "Hey, hey, hey, you take it easy, do you have any money to pay if you break the table?"

The crowd burst into laughter.

The man ignored the teller's words, but said to Yan Yuxiang: "Brother Yuxiang, we all know that you are a sincere person, we talk about it every day, and I happened to meet you today, I want to ask you, how much did you say our coal mine was sold?"

Yan Yuxiang said: "I don't know, I haven't been to the brigade since I came back from the hospital, and you know more about this than me." ”

The man said: "You haven't been to the brigade, but I saw Yan Yuxiu go to your factory a few days ago, didn't he go to report to you? We don't have to make trouble with our village chief, it's just that the young people in the village are discussing to figure out this matter! I heard that the southern Yankees are very good, don't deceive us!"

After hearing this, Yan Yuxiang was a little angry, he hadn't spoken yet, only to see Yan Shuangzhu scolding: "Stinky boy, play your cards well, you can do whatever you want, what's the matter with your brother Yuxiang!"

Yan Yuxiang patted Yan Shuangzhu's back with his hand, so that he didn't have to be angry, and then said: "Yuxiu did go to my factory, but we are our own family, he went to his brother's factory to see if it was nothing, right? Besides, after he went, he told me about this matter and let me scold it, you can ask him about it." ”

The man simply stopped playing cards, threw the poker in the middle, and said: "Brother Yuxiang, I didn't mean anything at all, but a few of our brothers have asked Yan Yuxiu, he didn't say that you scolded him, what he said was that you supported him to do this!"

At this time, everyone saw that the two of them were stunned, and they all stopped talking, as if they wanted to watch a good show quietly, and they also seemed to be telling Yan Yuxiang, but he didn't think so alone, we all thought so!

Yan Yuxiang was a little angry, stared at the man, and said, "You are deliberately trying to find fault with me, aren't you? I haven't even received a thousand yuan, which doesn't explain my attitude?"

The man smiled and said, "Brother Yuxiang, I heard that you have only been discharged from the hospital for a few days, don't be angry, I'm not short of money like you, I really don't have the money to compensate you!"

Yan Yuxiang snorted and did not speak.

The man said reluctantly: "Brother Yuxiang, we originally thought that this matter had nothing to do with you, but you said that as soon as Yan Yuxiu sold the mine, you hid in the hospital, and you came back after the village paid the money, and then the brigade urged you to get the money again and again, who do you say will have trouble with the money? But you didn't go, haven't you heard a sentence called: There are no three hundred taels of silver here?"

The more he spoke, the more he felt reasonable, stood up, and continued: "Brother Yuxiang, this is not me alone, everyone in the village says that Yan Yuxiu is just the one who sets off the cannon, and you are the one who loads the cannon!"

After hearing this, Yan Yuxiang was angry, but also stood up and scolded: "What the fuck are you, call me here, I have to report to you if I have a disease?"

The man said: "Hey, speaking of this disease, who doesn't know that you Yan Yuxiang is famous for his iron bones, this disease has reached the level of hospitalization, and he can get better so quickly like no one?" But I don't understand that you rich people, do you have to go to the hospital if you have a cold?" He was obviously out of his mind today, and he didn't even call Yan Yuxiang brother.

Yan Yuxiang knew that people's words were terrible! This bane had already been planted since he supported Yan Yuxiu and Guo Qisheng in the previous leadership of the village committee! Everyone guessed that Yan Yuxiu was instructed by him to sell the coal mine, and in addition to the series of things such as hospitalization and receiving money, people chewed their tongues, and it seems that this time he jumped into the Yellow River and could not wash it away!

Speaking of which, Yan Yuxiu is also to blame for being too greedy, and only after selling such a big back mountain, he gave 1,000 yuan to each household in the village, you know, there are less than 500 people in this village!