Early the next morning, Wang Tui took Liu Chang back to his hometown. The adoptive parents knew that they were coming back, and they specially invited the village chef, and the family wanted to marry a daughter-in-law. The leaders of the county and town have been waiting at home for a long time, which makes Wang Tui deeply surprised, and it is difficult to say anything. It was already very clear on the phone, don't alarm the local leaders, not even the village cadres. I didn't expect them all to come.

The adoptive parents were all new, with a smile on their faces, and when they saw their car coming, someone had already run home to deliver the letter. As a result, the alley was crowded with people, and the adoptive parents and leaders of the county and town were waiting at the door. As soon as I got out of the car, crackling firecrackers rang out. A cordial handshake. Seeing her mother-in-law's kiss, she personally stepped forward to support her daughter-in-law, with a look of concern, asking for warmth. Wang Tui let all the guests into the house, handed cigarettes and served tea, and was polite. Most of the county's leaders are familiar with it, and there are many new faces.

It was not until about three o'clock in the afternoon that the leaders left. When I saw so much alcohol and cigarettes in the house, I knew that the leaders brought it. Although Wang Tui was unhappy in his heart, how to say such a thing, he couldn't see each other a few times a year.

My father seemed to have a hard time talking, and he seemed very reserved when he sat together and spoke. Wang Tui gave him three thousand yuan, he said a few polite words, took it and put it on the table.

"Stay, I haven't lived in many years, your mother has prepared a room for you, the stove is on early, it's warm. The quilts are all new, and when the weather is good, they are taken out to dry every day," said the father, and the words were like a prayer.

Wang Tui couldn't bear to refuse, but he still said: "The New Year is very busy, and there are some visits and condolences." ”

So, my father stopped saying anything, squinted his eyes and smoked vigorously, a cloud of smoke surrounded him, and he coughed a few times from time to time, and the phlegm in his throat sounded thick and heavy.

Wang Tui said: "Smoke less, smoking too much is not good for your health." ”

He quickly extinguished the cigarette and agreed.

The younger siblings also came up to talk to him, it was clear that he was born, and he said something as if he had thought about it for a long time before saying it, and he seemed so cautious.

Yes, the shadow of the past has always gathered in my heart, resting between them as if it were a wall, when I was a child, I was so ruthless to him, ruthlessly kicked him out of the house, it was also winter, the water outside the house dripped, and he sat at the door of the house for three days and three nights, and he was hungry for three days and three nights......

It is said that the family relationship has been broken and there is no relationship. Now, he is an official, and he is a very big official, anyway, he can come back twice a year to see them, and they are already very satisfied, and they dare not have any other luxury. Also, because of him, the work of the two children has also been solved. How difficult it is to find a job now, not to mention the local people, even many college graduates can't find a job and are unemployed at home. These, like a mirror in my heart, regret what I have done before, and regret that my intestines are blue. However, there is no face to talk about family affection.

Now, their life is very good, the brick house is very bright, the family has a dealership, and there is a mill, which was the former brigade, and there are many people fighting for it when contracting, but no one can compete with him, why, there are more or less his reasons in this, there are people outside the house, and they are big officials, and the neighbors say so, who dares to fight with his family. No good things in the village are indispensable to them, don't look at the good family background, the old couple is still eating subsistence, and the real five-guarantee households in the village can't eat. Both sisters and brothers work in the county, they are both good units, they didn't go to school, and they don't have any expertise, so they became farmers to non-rural people, and the rural people at that time were very yearning, that was to eat imperial grain, and the iron rice bowl was held, whose face was not his reason.

Of course, these kings are not clear.

The siblings were very respectful to their brother, who had been picked up and abandoned. The mother also came to talk to him, "The child has been born, you are busy with work, I will go and show you." Wang Tui smiled, Liu Chang responded, and everyone respected them as bodhisattvas.

It's getting late, it's time to go. As a result, they seemed to have thought of it, even if they were forced to stay, they couldn't keep it even if they knew. Before leaving, I stayed for them for many years, and even brought them the small quilt when the child was born, and sent them to the car, and the mother even turned her head to wipe her eyes.

Outside the village, a brand-new highway passed not far from the thatched house, and when he came, Wang Tui told Liu Chang. After passing here again, Wang Tui parked the car on the side of the road and said to Li Min: "Let's go, go to the thatched house and have a look." ”

The thatched house was in a dilapidated state, the door was unlocked, just wrapped in rusty wire, and the thatched house was surrounded by construction debris. Wang Tui looked at it, a sadness rose in his heart, and he even swallowed it even more.

Liu Chang looked at him, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, it's a little sad, I've lived here for more than 10 years. ”

"You've lived in a thatched house for more than ten years?" Liu Chang looked at him in surprise.

Wang Tui nodded, "There is also a dumb and strange old man, he meditates in the hut when he has nothing to do, provides me with food and clothing, and provides me with school." ”

"What do you mean, who is the dumb monster old man, and what does it have to do with you?"

Wang Tui didn't answer her, he gently pinched it with his hand, the wire broke, pushed the door in, and the room was as cold as an ice cellar, with dense cobwebs and thick dust, and everything was wrong. He placed two bottles of good wine on the former stove. The strange old man has no hobbies, so he likes to drink some wine, not much at a time, only one or two glasses. Once he dipped him with chopsticks and let him lick it, and he thought it was very spicy, spicier than chili.

A gust of cold wind came in and blew up a room of dust. Liu Chang waved his hand and clapped it, and walked out of the house quickly. Wang Tui came out and sealed it again with wire.

"You look sad," Liu Chang asked him.

"Yes, I think about things," Mr. Wang said.

"You don't think you've ever told me about that?"

"Let's go. ”

Liu Chang saw that he was in a very bad mood, although he was full of doubts, it was not easy to ask. In the car, he whispered: "I said that I would stay for one night, why do you have to come back." When you leave, your mother-in-law is secretly wiping her eyes. ”

Wang Tui didn't speak, his eyes were staring at the front, and he quickly turned his head and smiled at Liu Chang, "If you're not happy, you have to go, you see what the situation is today, all the leaders are rushing to us, this is not a good thing, it is better to really come back less in the future." ”

"Yes, this is really not good, and I will talk to my father and mother in the future, it will have a bad impact. ”

"Maybe they've been preparing for days. The current leaders can think of any method, they are pervasive, and they will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. ”

"But I suspect it, why are they here to curry favor with you?" asked Liu Chang with a smile.

"I'm also the deputy mayor of Pugu City, so they can't talk to me. ”

"You yourself say that it is in name only, don't they know? ”

"You have to ask them, you see how many gifts they give, everything. By the way, did your unit give you any gifts?"

"I have sent it, not much, it is a superior competent unit, if you don't send it, you can't do it, you can call it directly. For the convenience of future work, even if I am an iron rooster, I have to pluck a few hairs. However, I didn't send much, and it meant meant. You don't know that in our county, I heard that Gu sent several cars to the province. ”

"Now, gift-giving has become a trend, giving to superiors, giving each other, and it is also a beautiful name, in order to do good work in the future, this is for the public, and it is not put into your own pocket, and even helplessly said, it's like this, no way. What a wonderful excuse, as if single-mindedly for the sake of the public. But in the final analysis, is this really the case, this is bribery in disguise, if this wind cannot be stopped, let it develop, I don't know how many corrupt officials will be created. ”

Liu Chang shook his head, "Everyone understands, there's no way." You, it's more true, who doesn't understand the truth, but you have to say it, don't worry about the sky, just control yourself, clean yourself. ”

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