Chapter 1 The Last Residential Alley

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1. My name is An Daben, born in the 80s, living in a megacity called "Wuxi", chatting with netizens on the Internet, when it comes to the city where I live, they will always ask me with a confused face: "Where is Wuxi?" "I always have to reply to them countless times, Wuxi is next to SH, next door to Suzhou, and it is the number one city to live in.

They were still suspicious of whether I was telling the truth or not. In the end, he said, "I don't know, can you tell us about your most famous attraction or something?" I racked my brains and thought: Yuantou Zhu, after all, there is Guo Moruo's poem "Taihu Lake is wonderful, after all, it is in Yuantou". When he said it with interest, he responded: "I don't know." "Oumaiga, what should I do?

Liyuan, Plum Garden, Yinyuan, Huishan Park, or don't say it, it's even more shameful to be provincial. When he looked back at the cabinet kitchen, there was a Buddha's hand pillow brought back by Lingshan, and blurted out: "Lingshan Giant Buddha Holy Realm." Only then did the netizen suddenly realize: "Oh, it turns out that you are from over there, right by Taihu Lake, such a beautiful scenery, such a shocking Buddha... "I listened to her talking there alone, my heart was so sad, it turned out that in the eyes of outsiders, we Wuxi is only equal to the big Buddha, nothing else. What about so much of our time-honored culture? Forget it, don't talk about it, let her talk nonsense there.

2. No matter what, I still love my hometown Wuxi, even if it is just an unknown small city in the eyes of others, I still love it. As long as people who have been to Wuxi, they will naturally have a love for it, and they feel that this is really a city suitable for life, and it is not too much of a rhythm.

People live according to their own attitude to life, there is no pressure and sense of urgency of "Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen", and they feel that there is not enough time every day, and the roads here extend in all directions, and it is the only city in the country with an airport, high-speed rail, bullet train, light rail, and subway.

When Wuxi people are sometimes crowded in the city, "Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen" all began to sigh, saying that you must not have been to those big cities, if you have been, you will never say such a thing. So we know how good our travel situation is.

Wuxi is a city that falls in the "sugar tank", there is no one, the people here are addicted to sugar, it seems that they are not happy without sugar, and even have reached the point of perversion. But the strange thing is that it is such a love for sweets, and the rate of diabetes here is not the highest in the country. Therefore, it can be concluded that diabetes is not directly related to sugar craving.

3. This is all the old concept, Wuxi is also an open city, when spicy hot pot, ZQ skewers, Cantonese tea restaurants, or all kinds of snacks from the southeast and northwest come here, they are also popular among the locals, in addition to sweet, salty, bitter, spicy, and even sour, here, all of them are integrated into everyone's life. Therefore, we are willing to recite the "sweet" label, but we are stubborn, and we resolutely refuse to admit it.

Wuxi people are still quite quiet, restrained, someone wrote a public account to compare Wuxi to a wealthy family next door, obedient and sensible, do things without crossing the line image, I feel very appropriate. Wuxi is such a city, not arrogant, knows how to be measured, so it has also been favored by many places.

Wuxi is also a place that never discriminates against outsiders, nor does it worship and envy "Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen" or even foreigners, but silently do their best and face everything plainly. Whether it is a local or a foreigner, they all live in harmony in this land of survival, which is not generous and tolerant that no one can do.

4. So many people say that this is a place where they don't want to leave, because there are beautiful scenery, harmonious people, and a life that is not so stressful, so everyone can live calmly.

This is the city I live in, and I have never left it. I'm used to everything here, and I don't want to leave.

Okay, you're going to ask me about my job? Well, I am a post office courier, up earlier than the chicken, get off work is far away, mainly in the past two years of rapid development of the express delivery industry, private express delivery companies wages have risen rubbing, our post office is still decades like a day, once thought about changing jobs, but my stubborn parents always say that this is also an iron rice bowl, come and go, the age is older, will do it.

My father was a laid-off worker, who used to work in a large local state-owned enterprise, and one day after a few decades, he was notified that he had been laid off, and he dragged his belongings home, closed the door and lay in bed for several days and nights, without eating or drinking.

Then one day he finally went out, and he didn't come home until late every day, and we asked him where he had been hanging out every day, and he didn't come back to eat, and he didn't answer us for a long time.

5. Later, one day he came back with a tricycle towing a cart of tools, saying that he would do it himself at home. We later learned that he went out day by day to look for a job, and other people in the factory either thought he was too old, or thought that his skills were not enough to be able to handle the ever-changing technology, so they politely dismissed him.

He thought that he had worked hard in the factory for more than 30 years, and he had actually lost his job, he couldn't figure it out, but now where is it so easy to find a job outside? I couldn't stop, so I found a colleague and made a batch of vices, files, hammers, and chisels that no one else wanted, and I was ready to make something myself. But the facts have proved that this nonsense is just for their own fun, and there is no result, and the pile of scrap copper and rotten iron at home is a witness.

Ideals are always good, and ambitions are also ambitious. But you can't figure it out, good fellow, the tools are piled up all over the room. For a while, it became the fuse lock for the quarrel between my father. My mother always had to count the numbers on the side, and he always wouldn't let her say it, and when she said it, the war was about to start.

6. No, you see, they started arguing again, why? Just put a broken bench at the kitchen door to prevent her from getting in and out. So in the first 500 years and the last 500 years, they began to quarrel, but no matter how fierce they quarreled, they never saw them say a word of "divorce".

I am the only child in the family, we live in the city center, the first ring area, and the house price is over 30,000 yuan. If you want to say that it is a local tyrant, then you are wrong. We still live in a house hundreds of years ago, and you have to say it again - cool, it must also be the local aristocracy that declined before. Then I'm going to say it, I want to 。。。。。 back then The door next door opened, and he said, "What do you want to do back then, you want to be floating in the air back then." ”

Yes, yes, this is my best friend, buddy, my playmate who peed and mud since childhood, and sometimes thinks, what if I don't have him in my life? His name is Gu Xiaoming.

Gu Xiaoming grew up with me, it should be that after Uncle Wang next door left, the son of the Wang family sold the house to his family, and he entered my life, and I knew that there was such a person since I was a child, and he has always been with me.

7. But when I went to college, there was a buddy who was bullied for his girlfriend, so he went to block the family at night with that friend, and beat the kid fat, but he didn't expect to beat the other people to be disabled for life, so he entered the bureau for three years, and after coming out, the girl had already followed the disabled brother, and the world was unpredictable. I helped the brother to die back then, and after he got out of the game, he had a meal, saying that he was grateful for his help back then, and then this kid evaporated from the world and couldn't be found again.

Because of this incident, he couldn't go to college, so he simply stopped going to school, dropped out and didn't go back, and went to his second uncle's factory as an apprentice, but what he didn't think was that the most expensive machine in the factory was broken. But this is his nephew, he can't be asked to compensate, his second uncle asked his mother to take him back to the house directly. His mother cried and wiped her tears, saying how good this is, she doesn't even have a job, how will she live in the future. It was his father, who was very optimistic: "If you don't do it, don't do it, that dangerous thing, I really don't know when I don't put my life into it, this time it's a big luck." His mother wanted to have a few words with his father, but when she saw that he was drinking, she didn't bother to say more, and went back to the kitchen to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

8, Gu Xiaoming also has a sister named Gu Meili. is five or six years older than Gu Xiaoming, and he couldn't go to school for love, so he followed the oath of others, but he didn't expect that within a few years, her sister came back, saying that the man had a family, a wife and children. His father couldn't help these back then, and his son also went in, so he was very breathless. I asked the man for clarification, but I didn't expect to be beaten by that family when I went, and I blinded one eye.

After that, he no longer paid attention to the idle affairs of his son and daughter, and when he had nothing to do, he drank with himself. When he drank Dafa, he said that he was a bad breed, gave birth to these two uncompetitive children, and sometimes stomped his feet and beat his chest, saying that he was useless and useless. The son was uncomfortable, and the daughter was even more uncomfortable, if it weren't for himself, the father wouldn't have gone to others to theorize, and he was bullied by others.

I rented a house outside to live, lived alone, and went back home every once in a while to visit my parents, and when I came back, I rushed to wash and wash up, and I looked at An Daben's mother and the neighbors' aunts with envy, and now there are really not many children like this, what a good child.

9, Gu Meimei's marriage is not happy, but the work is very smooth, she graduated from five-star electrical appliances to work, starting from sales, after several years of hard work, has been the sales manager of the electrical appliance shopping mall outside the victory gate, and the natural salary is also indispensable. Her parents don't need her to raise her, and she is also very filial to buy Wang Ba, soft-shelled turtle, lobster, and crab every once in a while to honor her parents, and her mother is smiling on her face, but her father will always have a cold face and never smile at her. Maybe she really broke his heart.

That year, his father and his mother begged her bitterly at the mouth of the alley not to go, not to go with the man, she made up her mind, saying that she would go down the road she chose, life and death depended on the sky, and they didn't need to care, just because they didn't give birth to her daughter. After saying that, she got into the car and walked away, maybe from that moment on, her father's heart had already been cold.

But one rainy day, when Gu Meili was standing at the door of the house with her luggage soaking wet, his father had no expression, no more reproach, no more complaints, and hurriedly asked her mother to welcome her back to the house, and his father boiled water outside, boiling kettle after kettle, just for Gu Meili to take a hot bath.

In the evening, Gu Meili came to Gu Jianguo, and Gu Jianguo only waved her hand and told her to go back to the house.

10. Because of this incident back then, it became even more difficult for Gu Xiaoming to find a job after he came out, and basically people shook their heads and denied it when they saw his resume. Gu Meili really worked hard to repay her family. wanted to introduce a job to his younger brother Gu Xiaoming, but his younger brother always thought that this was not good, and that was too low-level, so he dragged it out and dragged it out, and he didn't go to work for seven or eight years since he came back from prison, and he relied on her sister to help him.

Gu Xiaoming may really have that good life, and there are constantly women in his life. At the beginning, Gu Meili saw that her younger brother was not too young, and her mother always asked her to help her take a look, but she really took things seriously and introduced him to several times, but it didn't work out. Later, Gu Meili found that Gu Xiaoming always took different women home every once in a while, and sometimes she spent the night directly at his house, Gu Meili really couldn't look past it, and talked to Gu Xiaoming, where did Gu Xiaoming still listen to her sister's words, and poked at her sister's pain point in one sentence, didn't you also run away with others back then, you didn't say all about me. When her mother heard this, she slapped Gu Xiaoming in the face.

Gu Meili has never said anything about her brother since then, she should come back as she should, she should give money as she should give money, sometimes her mother said not to be so used to her brother, Gu Meili didn't say a word, but she talked less and less with her brother.

11, Gu Xiaoming has to talk to An Daben every day that he is going to get married, but if he interacts like this, he is not sure. I've been listening to him say this for at least ten years, and I'm still a single dog. Gu Xiaoming also always made fun of An Daben: "After so many years, haven't you forgotten her?" ”

An Daben said: "Who, who, who do I have a relationship with?" ”

Gu Xiaoming said with bad intentions: "Cai Wenhuan from Xiaolou Lane." “

"She, I've forgotten what she looks like, I don't know if I'll know her when she's standing in front of me now." An Daben said.

"Oh, you forgot about her, I know, you have a wife, you like the new and hate the old." Gu Xiaoming said.

An Da Ben hurriedly came over and said, "Who, who, why don't I know?" ”

Gu Xiaoming said: "Isn't it Ye Qing next door." ”

An Daben's mother patted Gu Xiaoming's shoulder violently, "Nonsense, people are still yellow flower girls." ”

Gu Xiaoming hurriedly shouted: "Stupid mother? It hurts, are you always through your hands, why does it hurt so much to beat someone. ”

12, An Daben's mother said: "It doesn't hurt, you don't have a long memory, Ye Qingke is still a yellow flower girl, you can't talk nonsense about her." After speaking, he left with the vegetable basin, still muttering: "But that girl is really good, big ass, giving birth to a son, people don't have so many hearts, it's good to be stupid to my family, and people are still working in the hospital, and it's easy to find a relationship if you have a headache and brain fever in the future." ”

An Daben's mother was chattering, and An Daben shouted her name: "Han Xiuzhi." ”

An Daben's mother hurriedly came back: "Who is calling me?" An Daben reminded her with her eyes to say less, she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand and went into the kitchen.

At this time, Ye Qing hurriedly ran into the courtyard from outside, came in with a box of sesame cakes, and hurriedly ran into the kitchen, only to hear from inside: "Big stupid mom, I just came back from the unit, this is the sesame cake issued by our unit, you taste it, it's delicious." ”

Gu Xiaoming looked at the sarcastic look on his face: "You still say no, look at it, as soon as you come home, you won't come back, so I'll send you sesame cakes, it's so sweet and funny." As he spoke, he made a gesture that his teeth had fallen down.

13, An Daben hurriedly rushed into the kitchen, threw the sesame cake into Ye Qing's arms, and said: "As soon as I come back, I won't go back to my own house, so I'll come here, people don't see it well, your brother doesn't like sweets the most, give him something to eat." ”

Ye Qing wanted to shirk it a few times, but when he saw An Daben's angry appearance, he said, "This is for Auntie, not for you, what are you excited about, it's really." ”

The big stupid mother next to her fell there and persuaded: "Really, Renqing, you brought me sesame cake so kindly, what are you fierce to others, you are really a child who doesn't understand things." ”

An Daben told his mother to shut up and shouted, "Mom-"

Ye Qing put the sesame cake into Han Xiuzhi's hand, and didn't say a word to An Daben, so he ran out, and there was Gu Xiaoming standing at the door of the kitchen, Ye Qing happened to crash into his arms, and knocked this Gu Xiaoming into a big heel, Ye Qing didn't come back to greet him, and ran out of the yard.

"Okay, this size, how can my small body withstand her, stupid, it seems that you are choking enough, forget it, don't look for her, I'll help you find one."

14, the big stupid mother hurriedly said: "Don't be, we are stupid you are looking for, we can't stand it, you can get up and go back." After finishing talking about Gu Xiaoming, she was counting the big stupid again: "You said you, the girl is kind, why don't you appreciate it?" ”

Da Ben hurriedly said, "Mom, didn't I always tell you Mom?" My brother and I, as well as Xiao Ming, we are all buddies who have played since childhood, and we have long regarded his sister as my own sister. ”

Xiao Ming had already gotten up at this time and said: "Brother Big Stupid is right, what is the relationship between us and the Tao family, we are brothers, brothers for life, her sister is our sister, this can't cross the line." They both looked at each other and smiled. The stupid mother was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "I can't control you, let it be", and walked out of the kitchen with a plate of tomato scrambled eggs.

kicked away the lead bucket that a big stupid dad put at the door, and complained in his mouth: "Putting things in a mess again, what kind of habit, this is." There is an old and a young in this family, and it is difficult to serve. "I just heard the sound of a lead bucket hitting the ground on the ground, which was a bit harsh.

15, the stupid grandfather who was sitting in the yard listening to the radio said: "Why are you so angry early in the morning, don't be angry, An Daoquan will come back to talk to him, don't be angry with the weather, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, what do you care about so much leisure?" The old man seemed to be talking to his daughter-in-law, as if he was talking to himself.

That Han Xiuzhi is also An Daoquan's anger has risen after being laid off in the past few years, and she has never been like this before. Especially for my father-in-law, I have a lot of respect, why? Because this An Da stupid grandfather An Tianbao is also a cultural person, and he has been to private school since he was a child.

At that time, the family was still well-off, some of his brothers and sisters went abroad, some went to the revolution, and only the youngest was left in Wuxi. I still respect Han Xiuzhi, a cultural person, because she has never gone to school, and she can't even recognize the characters of Douda, but she can learn to calculate, and her life skills are not pulled down, and she runs the whole family.

An Tianbao also always said: "Anyone can do without this family, but it can't be without Xiuzhi." This seems to have given Han Xiuzhi the greatest encouragement, because she felt that her grandfather had spoken out about her importance in the family. So I didn't dare to have half a word of dissatisfaction with my grandfather. Grandpa just spoke, and she listened like this, silent.

16, Gu Xiaoming whispered to An Da Ben: "Da Ben, it seems that your father is going to be criticized when he comes back." The big stupid said: "It's okay, my dad is thick-skinned, just say it, it's okay." ”

Gu Xiaoming's mother on the other side was shouting: "Xiao Ming, where did you die early in the morning, come back for breakfast, your father has to eat." ”

An Tianbao listened to Xiao Ming's mother talking, and said: "Yufen, don't keep saying that you can't die, it's unlucky, it's even worse to say this early in the morning." ”

Yufen hurriedly turned her face to Tianbao Ye, and her tone was obviously a lot softer: "Yes, yes, it's unlucky, just say less in the future, oh, no, don't say it, don't say it, say more auspicious words." ”

Xiao Ming hurriedly ran back from the door of the big stupid kitchen, and that Yufen had already hidden in the house. Gu Xiaoming didn't forget to give Tianbao Ye a thumbs up. said: "Tianbao Ye, praise, really praise, no one in this courtyard is your opponent, you are invincible." ”

Tian Bao Ye grinned: "This courtyard? Don't say it. In this whole alley, no one in the alley dares to do anything to me. Grandpa was very confident in his status, and after thinking about it, he hurriedly said, "Boy, you called me to kill Lingna, and hurriedly threw the cigarette butt towards Gu Xiaoming." Then Gu Xiaoming turned around and went into the house.

17, An Daben hurriedly walked over: "Grandpa, why do the people on this street and alley respect you so much?" Why, exactly? An Tianbao said with a smile: "It's a long time to talk about this matter, and I'll talk to you when I have time in the future." ”

An Daben said: "No, you say." An Tianbao said: "That's it, I'll talk about it briefly." This matter also has to talk about the time of the Anti-Japanese War, when Wuxi fell, I was the president of the maintenance association in this area, and when the RB people came, they asked us to do things for them, and we couldn't disobey the order at that time. There are dozens of underground party members in our area, and we rely on the little power in our hands to protect them and let them carry out their work. What I didn't expect was that I didn't know what they heard, saying that we were protecting the underground party and secretly sabotaging, so they arrested me, tied me to the stage at the entrance of the alley in the cold winter, and didn't allow me to eat, so they forced me to say my name. The underground party transferred them smoothly. Those RB troops really didn't catch me with anything, and then they removed me from my post, I saved dozens of lives, even the lives of the people in this area, if so many underground parties were caught in this place, then the local people would definitely not be able to get rid of it. Since then, the local people have known about my deeds, and it didn't take long for us to be liberated. Later, the state gave me a certificate of merit. ”

18, An Daben listened to his grandfather talk about the thrilling things, and said with emotion: "It turns out that grandpa is still a patriot." It's no wonder that the elderly people around here have so much respect for grandpa. An Daben feels that he has also been sublimated, and he also wants to be a patriotic person and a person who is beneficial to the people.

The big stupid mother in the house was shouting: "It's time to eat, it's time to eat." ”

An Daben helped his grandfather into the house.

This is the yard where I live, and I have grown up in this yard day by day since I was born. Everything around here is pretty much the same, the city is still dominated by old houses, it was in the 80s, and in the 90s, the roads began to be widened and new houses were built, and we still lived here at that time, and in the new millennium, it has changed even more. At that time, it seemed that the front warehouse gate and the north warehouse gate were still old houses, and then those once familiar houses disappeared overnight, and the current Poly Plaza was built, and the auspicious place over there also created a street of pedestrian bars in front of the station. At that time, we were still living here, and it felt like the old and the new were changing, and we didn't know when the house we lived in would disappear in an instant, just like them, or maybe it would be forever.

19. Look at the ancient town outside now, isn't it just a house like ours and a street like this? Under the rapid transformation, in fact, what we miss is our previous living pattern, which is the place of life.

Later, the place where we lived was submerged in the concrete forest, and the tall and tall buildings were erected one after another, Suning Plaza, Hongdou International Plaza, Hang Lung Plaza, and Sky 360, each taller than the other. To this day, we feel that we have become the alternative and antique in the city to survive in the cracks, no matter what, no matter how luxurious the construction is, it is just the atmosphere of the city, we are still small people, we only take care of our own food, drink and Lazar.

If it doesn't affect us at all, it's not, after all, we are convenient, but there are still many troubles, troubles, and when it rains for days, we become a pond here, and those tall forests block our sunlight, and there is a sense of depression.

We also have a conflicted feeling, we hope that it will be demolished as soon as possible and can move into a spacious and bright house, but we still rely on this place, a brick and a tile here are the same as we have feelings, and it is difficult to give up everything here.

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