The scorching heat of the midsummer sun makes the leaves wilt, the cement floor hot, and the people dizzy.

Li Chuanlin, a tall man wearing a white shirt, gray trousers, and shiny leather shoes, sat in the security room of the air-conditioned Huarong Electronics Factory with a high-end black handbag, holding a pack of red 'Marlboros' rewarded by the boss, and giving cigarettes to several security guards he knew. This is a good cigarette, usually everyone smokes two or three yuan of 'Zhongnanhai' or 'peony', and only those rich bosses can afford to smoke a pack of red 'Marlboro' for more than 20 yuan.

The security captain's surname is Gong in his forties, and he is a good friend of Li Chuantian, who is lively and can speak well, and took the cigarette and said with a smile: "Ah Lin, call Ah Tian's two in-laws (husband and wife) and Ah Feng at night, let's go to a party together?"

Li Jiaming's father, who already has a bit of success and manhood, thanked a little security guard for the ignition, and said with a smile: "Brother Long, I can't do it today, I have to go to Chang'an with our boss at night." I heard him say that a friend of his spent a lot of money to buy a set of Huanghuali old furniture, and the chair legs were a little problematic, and he wanted me to repair it. ”

"Alin, you're really capable!"

"Well, Brother Lin does have real skills, but he is a little bit worse than picking up girls. ”

"That is, if I were Brother Lin, I would have made that beauty's belly bigger. Isn't it just that there are children at home, what is this? A man with ability, which one is not one in the family, but several outside?"

"Brother Lin, I really don't understand you. You just want to play really, that's also remarrying, and you're not raising a child outside, as for dragging it like this?"

The three security guards no longer mentioned the dinner at night, but joked about Li Chuanlin and the beautiful worker. It is not easy for everyone to make a living outside, although a person like Li Chuanlin, who relies on his real skills, is also jealous, but he is more respected and envious, not to mention the stinky problem of his broad face before he has achieved his ambition. Look at the cigarette in your hand, even if everyone usually goes to ask someone to do something, they are reluctant to buy this cigarette. But people get good cigarettes from the big boss, turn around and send them to themselves to try them, not at all like those small people, who respect the boss and boss for good cigarettes, and send the cigarettes to their friends to smoke.

Li Chuanlin, who went out to rely on friends and was addicted to furniture making, was not used to this kind of joke, but he also laughed happily, and his brother's friends made fun of him. As the saying goes, what kind of Lao Tzu has what kind of son, Li Chuanlin is actually a smart person, but he has been loyal to his duty since he was a child in the closed countryside, and he has not been in this flower world for a few months, and he has not been stained with bad problems, but his ability to deal with the world is improving rapidly.

After a while, Li Chuantian drove a big truck to the door, kicked open the door of the security room, and scolded: "Eunuch Gong, hurry up and check, Lao Tzu is going to Foshan." Third brother, why are you here?"

"Check the fart, hurry up and fuck off!"

scolded like this, after Captain Gong on duty finished scolding, he hurriedly went out with two of his subordinates, and went to check with the warehouse manager waiting outside, and there were only two brothers left in the cool security room. Of course, brothers are different from friends, Li Chuanlin, who can often be rewarded by big bosses, opened his handbag and took out a few packs of red 'Marlboro' and threw them to his younger brother. Li Chuantian was not polite to catch the cigarette, and stuffed it all into his trouser pocket, ready to honor his boss or help his friends.

Giving out good cigarettes to ordinary friends, that is done by people like Li Chuanlin, who often have free and good cigarettes, and ordinary people still count the money to spend?

"What's wrong?

"Oh, Ming Yan wrote me a letter, I can't read it. ”

Li Chuanlin, who specially asked for leave after receiving his son's letter, hurriedly took out a crumpled letter from his trouser pocket and handed it over, Li Chuantian opened it and glanced at it a few times, thought for a while and whispered: "Ming Yan and Sister Wen have no opinion, they both want you to marry them a stepmother." Third brother, Wen Mei has never seen her sister-in-law, and Ming Yan lost her mother when she was six or seven years old. He agreed to agree, but it must have been a little uncomfortable for him to say it himself, so he wrote it like this. ”

"That, that", Li Chuanlin stammered for a while, and put the letter back into his handbag with a red face.

Men chase women across mountains, and women chase men like a veil.

Li Chuanlin is a man who is physically and psychologically normal, but now that he has not only lost his breathless debts, but also receives a high salary that is twice the number of ordinary workers every month, how can he not have normal physical and psychological needs?

Li Chuantian knew that his brother was afraid of his nephew's (daughter) opposition and was thin-skinned, and now that the matter was finally about to be completed, how would he mind helping his brother again, saving good things and twists and turns, so he hurriedly whispered: "You wait for me for a while." ”

While his colleagues were inspecting the goods, Li Chuantian ran to his wife's cubicle, whispered a few words to her, and threw her red-eared, and ran back to the security room with a smile amid the laughter of the white-collar workers: "Third brother, let's go, I'll turn around in front and send you back to the factory." ”

"Oh"

After the security guards checked the goods on the shipping list, the two brothers left the electronics factory in a big truck, and after Li Chuanlin returned to the factory, he found his salary passbook and went to the bank. Li Chuanlin was a simple farmer and a loving father, and although he began to learn how to do business from his boss, a few months were not enough time for him to become a qualified businessman. For example, now, even if the children agree to him to marry again, the guilt in his heart can not be relieved, so he wants to send more money back to compensate for his poor children who lost their mothers since childhood. But he didn't think about whether it was appropriate to send so much money to his young children.

When the remittance slip arrived at the school a few days later, Li Jiaming was helping Mr. Wang correct his homework, and he was a little stunned when he looked at the list handed in front of him. 18,000 yuan, although my father's salary is high, but in addition to paying off the fourth uncle's money and his own expenses, I'm afraid it's all here, right?

Ah, Father.

Teacher Wang, who brought the remittance slip to Li Jiaming, was also taken aback by the numbers on it just now, patted Li Jiaming's head who was stunned, and reminded: "Jiaming, don't put so much money at home, and deposit it in the bank immediately after taking it out." ”

Li Jiaming, who came back to his senses, put on a smile and covered up: "Teacher Wang, this money is also under my hands, my Ye Ye (father) borrowed tens of thousands of yuan from Uncle Wang and my second uncle." ”

Li Jiaming's performance in the rest of the year has been extremely good, and Mr. Wang did not doubt it, and reminded: "Then hurry up and go to Principal Chen to issue a certificate and take the money out to your second uncle." Eighteen thousand, that's enough for my salary for four or five years. ”

As soon as Mr. Wang reminded him, Li Jiaming's heart suddenly moved, and he understood why his father did not send the money to the second uncle as usual, but directly to himself.

It's messed up, my father's heart is messed up, it must be his joy and guilt mixed together, and he instinctively wants to compensate his brother and sister for this confusion.

Sighing secretly, Li Jiaming, who had sour eyes in his eyes, had mixed feelings in his heart, took the remittance slip to the principal's office, and after issuing the certificate, he went to the construction site to call the second uncle, and the two uncles and nephews went to the post office together to take out the eighteen thousand yuan and send a telegram to Guangdong.

After typing the telegram out of the post office, Li Jiaming took out all the thick wad of money in his schoolbag and handed it to the second uncle, and whispered: "Second uncle, you take this money, beat the ground of our house into a concrete floor, and then paint the walls and windows." ”

The second uncle, who is an expert in doing these jobs, was silent for a while, and also whispered: "Jiaming, it's about a little more than two thousand, how much is there for your second aunt to save?"

Li Jiaming smiled bitterly in his heart, squeezed out a smile on his face, and whispered: "Second uncle, I have found a partner, I heard that it is from Luofang, and it is estimated that he will enter the door at the end of the year." There are a lot, you and Uncle Chuanzu help me buy some dowry and send it over, the woman's family is too poor, I want to help her support her face. ”

The second uncle knew that there was such a thing, but he didn't expect it to be so soon, seeing that although his nephew was laughing, he was laughing a little unnaturally, and hurriedly comforted: "Jiaming, with the second uncle here, no one dares to bully you and Sister Wen." I will let your second aunt save this money and keep it for your brothers and sisters to study in the future. ”

It's not bad if you don't bully others, the corners of Li Jiaming's mouth twitched, and he insisted: "Second uncle, no need, people's hearts are flesh and blood, you can help me buy a dowry." I used to promise my fourth aunt that as long as there is a good girl who is willing to marry me, my brother and sister will treat her as their own mother, and also treat her family as their grandmother's house. ”

"That's not that fast, is it?"

It's not fast at all, and you can live together if you are engaged in the countryside, let alone open Guangdong. The father is a carpenter who can only make furniture, and the other party is a yellow flower girl, and there is a fourth aunt next to him who is happy to see it.

It's just that Li Jiaming can't say these words, so he excused himself: "Second uncle, I have a lot of dreams at night, I'm thirty-five or sixteen, and it's the right thing to marry someone quickly." ”

The farthest place for the second uncle is to Xiushui, who knows how open Guangdong is, hearing what his nephew said, he also hurriedly echoed: "Yes, yes, I will go to your grandmother's house at night and discuss it with them." Your grandfather and maternal uncle have mentioned this before, and now you have to tell them about it and make them mentally prepared. ”

"Thank you, second uncle"

Li Jiaming's habitual politeness made the second uncle slap him on the back of the head, but he sighed with a complicated expression: "Mingya, it's hard for you." ”

'Hey, hey, hey', Li Jiaming put away the complicated emotions in his heart, and said with a smile: "Second uncle, there's nothing embarrassing, as long as I'm good, our brothers and sisters will be fine." ”

"That's good, that's good", the second uncle also smiled, his eyes glanced at the row of new brick houses with roofs in the distance, and he was glad that he didn't listen to his nephew at the beginning, and put the houses under the name of the third brother. He is not as optimistic as Li Jiaming, and he has seen a lot of stepmothers treating their stepsons (daughters) poorly, and even abusing them.

After the house is finished, you have to decorate all the rows of Jiaming first, this guy is too stubborn, in case he can't get along with his stepmother, he will move to the countryside to live. Anyway, the engineering team gave him a salary of 300 yuan a month, and there were three stores that could collect rent, so their brother and sister could live and study enough.

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