In the morning, the whole family ate corn and hazelnuts, Wei Guo carried the bundled bedding to his back, and carried the heaviest duffel bag in his hand, Dongmei picked up Nana, who had just turned three, and her mother-in-law led the six-year-old Taotao, and the rest of the luggage was carried by her father-in-law in his hand. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The whole family has to walk for more than an hour to a highway called "third line", there is a passing sedan car, Wei Guo wants to take a family of four, take a car from the third line to the provincial capital, and then stay for one night, and the next day take a long-distance sedan car from the provincial capital to the base of the unit, a place called Malingchuan Road.

The dirt road in the countryside was very muddy after the snow melted, and the family walked for two hours to reach the third line.

At the moment when the car started, the mother-in-law standing under the car cried through the glass, and she said to Taotao: "Don't go, my doll, stay, grandma will take care of you, okay?"

Although grandma loves Taotao very much and is very spoiled by Taotao, but after all, her mother is a mother, and Taotao still got into Dongmei's arms and said, "No, I want my mother." ”

The sedan chair car was speeding on the bumpy road, and Dongmei looked at the grass and trees outside the window, and the corners of her eyes couldn't help but moisten.

Although I have thought about it thousands of times to get rid of this kind of day when I face the loess with my back to the sky, work hard every day, and end up empty-handed, but when it is time to part, I find that I still have a hundred attachments to this piece of yellow land that gave birth to and raised myself.

The sedan car ran through potholes, twists and turns on the narrow road for most of the day, and finally arrived at the provincial capital in the afternoon.

Getting out of the car, Dongmei hugged Nana, feeling dizzy, she thought to herself that one day it would take only an hour to get from the county seat to the provincial capital.

But when she turned her head and thought about it, it was just her wishful thinking, how could she reach it in an hour after such a long distance, and she smiled at her innocence.

In the evening, the family found the cheapest hotel and stayed overnight.

The next day, I embarked on the journey to Longdong.

Compared with the flatness of the train to Xinjiang a few years ago, on the way to Longdong, the most impressive thing about Dongmei is the winding mountain road that will never be completed when she goes up the mountain and goes down the mountain for a while.

In the evening, the base of the unit was finally reached.

The base is located in a small township in Longdong, compared with the surrounding low bungalows, a fenced, very large residential community rises from the ground, white buildings and green trees, the modern community and the surrounding rural lines have become a stark contrast.

Wei Guo enthusiastically introduced Dongmei, and he told Dongmei that this is the logistics base of the unit, which has schools, hospitals, gymnasiums, swimming pools, and many residential areas.

Dongmei looked at the base community is very clean, the greenery is very good, listening to the people around her speak a clear Mandarin, she can't help but envy the work of Weiguo, she smiled and said: "It's good to work here, ten million times better than the base in Xinjiang a few years ago." ”

Hearing Dongmei's words, Wei Guo's psychology was bitter for a while, and he said with a wry smile after a while: "This is just a logistics family area, and the place where I work is still on the mountain in the distance, and I only pass by here whenever I go home." ”

Dongmei's eyes widened, and she said in surprise: "Even if we settle our home here, can't we live together in the future?"

Wei Guo said embarrassedly: "No." ”

Dongmei lowered her head and walked forward silently.

The base of the unit is built on the mountain, entering from the gate and going inside, it is always climbing, and at the end of the slope is a small mountain.

Dongmei looked at the mountain in the distance, bare, and what surprised Dongmei the most was that halfway up the hill was still covered with cow felt bungalows, where workers lived.

Wei Guo took Dongmei around the undulating base, and finally stopped in front of a two-story white building.

Dongmei pointed to this building and asked Wei Guodao: "Are we home?

Wei Guo didn't dare to look at Dongmei's eyes, and said in a low voice: "This is the staff guest house of the unit, and I don't have a house in the base of the unit." ”

Dongmei couldn't cry or laugh, she didn't seem to believe her ears, she frowned and said: "You are a cadre who has been admitted to the unit for seven or nine years, a huge community, tens of thousands of households, and there is no house for you?"

Wei Guo swallowed a mouthful of spit and said, "No." ”

Dongmei said helplessly: "Then are you going to let our mother live in the guest house for the rest of your life? Since you don't have a house, why do you want to take us out." ”

Wei Guo said aggrievedly: "You asked me to take you out, I can't help it." ”

Hearing Wei Guo's words, Dongmei didn't cry or laugh, she silently walked into the guest house with the child.

Only you know the bitter water of defending the country.

What Dongmei didn't know was that there were many monks in the unit and few porridges, tens of thousands of employees, and only a few thousand houses in the family area, which was a serious imbalance.

In that era when houses could not be bought and sold freely, a worker ideally had a house, and could only pin all his hopes on the distribution of the unit, some old workers began to apply when they were young, applied for a lifetime, until they retired, and did not wait for the unit to allocate their own houses, still lived in a staff dormitory with six or seven people in a house, and lived a life of separation with their wives and children.

The guest house is very clean and bright, but the only drawback is that the two-story guest house has only four large rooms, divided into male and female accommodation, and there are more than 20 wire beds in each room.

There is no way, so Wei Guo can only lead Taotao to live, Dongmei leads Nana to live, and the family lives in different rooms on the same floor.

For half a month, the days were quite comfortable, living in the guest house every day, eating in the staff canteen, and other sisters living in the same room with the same disease, inevitably had a lot of common language and sighs.

Living in the bed next door to Dongmei is a fifty-year-old woman, surnamed Wang, Dongmei affectionately calls her Sister Wang, and the two have endless words every day.

Sister Wang is an honest rural woman, she married her husband and worked alone in the family farm, with children and serving her in-laws, from a young age began to look forward to the day when the husband who ate commercial grain outside can take himself out of the countryside and go to the unit to live a good life, but this wait is more than 30 years, until the children have gone to work, to the mother-in-law and father-in-law Dai filial piety to the end, the husband's house in the unit was finally allocated.

Now she lives in a guest house for a few days, and when the old house is repainted, she moves in.

On this day, Tao Tao and Nana were running and playing in their mother's room, and Sister Wang gave Tao Tao Nana the bread sent by her husband to eat.

The two children who had never seen bread from the snack steamed buns, let alone eaten bread, devoured the bread given by Sister Wang, and pestered Sister Wang to eat, which was embarrassing for Dongmei next to her, one was uncomfortable for not educating her own children, and the other was sad for the pity of her children.

Dongmei hurriedly pulled Nana, who was close to her bed, to herself, and then reached out to pull Taotao, the boy is a boy after all, and ran to the other end of Sister Wang's bed with a dodge, Dongmei raised her hand and said to Taotao: "Auntie is reluctant to eat her own bread, I will eat it all for you, you still want it, it's too uneducated, and if you want it, see if I don't spank you for a while." ”

Sister Wang hurriedly pulled Dongmei's hand down, protected Taotao and said to Dongmei: "You can't be too provincial to the child, otherwise the child will be poor when he grows up." ”

After saying that, Sister Ma actually went to the store below to buy bread for Taotao and Nana to eat.

Dongmei was in a hurry now, thinking how could she spend other people's money, so she stopped Sister Ma and said, "How can I let you buy it, I'll go down and buy it for them." ”

After speaking, Dongmei got up, but before she reached the door, Dongmei retreated again, she touched her whole body, and all the money added up to only four cents and seven cents, how could this be enough to buy a few pieces of bread.

She walked up to Sister Wang with a wry smile, clasped her hands together awkwardly and said, "Sister Wang, I don't have enough money on me, you borrow me some money, and when my husband comes back in the afternoon, I will return the money to you." ”

Without hesitation, Sister Wang took out thirty yuan from her pocket and handed it to Dongmei.

Dongmei took the thirty yuan in her hand and felt heavy, because she had never had so much money in her hand, and she felt that Sister Wang had lent her too much.

However, when I turned my head and thought about it, in addition to buying bread, it was time to buy a basin, the guest house only provided a basin, during this time, the whole family washed their faces and feet with a shed, and again, they also had to buy a few pencils and notebooks for the children, and it was not a matter for the children to play every day.

After the bread was bought, Dongmei looked at Taotao and Nana greedily eating bread, and suddenly felt very uncomfortable, she thought to herself, if one day, it would be great to let her children eat bread every day, but when she turned her head and thought about it, this is just her wishful thinking, bread is such an expensive thing, where can there be so much money, buy bread for children every day.

Although the days of the guest house are comfortable, it is not good to do this every day, and the day of the child's school is approaching, so you can't live in the guest house for a lifetime.

On this day, Wei Guo, who has always been shy, finally under the persuasion of Dongmei, went to the office building to find the leader to ask for a house, although he knew that this was an impossible task, but in the face of Dongmei's expectant eyes, the child's innocent and bright smile, he would rather be scolded by the leader, or be kicked out of the office, but also go.

As soon as Wei Guo came downstairs, before he took a few steps, the naughty Tao Tao chased after him from behind, and he would rather follow his father to play, but he couldn't, Wei Guo took Tao Tao with him, and Wei Guo frowned all the way, and didn't say a word.

But Tao Tao jumped up, looking east and west, buildings, basketball hoops, football fields, swimming pools, all became the freshest things in Tao Tao's eyes, he walked all the way, asked all the way, what is this, what is that, but the defender of the country is silent in the pain of about to talk to the leader.

When he arrived downstairs, Wei Guo settled down Taotao, touched his head and said, "Dad go up to do something, you wait below, don't run around, I'll come down in a while." ”

Tao Tao blinked and looked at Wei Guo and said, "Well, I'm here, waiting for you without running around." ”

After Wei Guo went upstairs, Tao Tao stood alone under the downstairs of the organ, he used the numbers he had just learned, counted the floors, a total of three floors, each floor has ten windows, he knows the trees planted around the building, when he was in his hometown, his grandmother taught him, this is a pine tree.

The most curious thing is that the panda trash cans set up on both sides of the gate, the black and white panda faces, and the two black, erected ears, are simply too cute.

Time flies quickly, an hour has passed in a blink of an eye, but I haven't seen my father come down from the agency building, at this time, Taotao, who has never left the adult, has the kind of child abandoned by adults in his heart, and the unique sense of fear arises spontaneously, he stands alone at the door of the agency building, and his heart is very afraid.