Chapter 3 The Old House

Ren Feng went home, slept until he woke up naturally every day, ate and drank without worrying about anything, and walked around. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info is to ask what is going on with the black eye circles as soon as you meet someone, explain countless times, very annoying, and a few people have mockery in their words, saying that you are a college student who went to be a thug in the underworld or something. There is really no way, Ren Feng is bored, so he goes to the mountains where he can't meet people. In fact, the village is on the slope of the mountain, and it is surrounded by rolling hills, except for a dozen mountain villages on the way into the mountain like beads strung on a rope, and the fields between the villages. Walking through a mountainous area of wheat and rape, we entered the mountain, where the original path for cutting wood was still there, and on both sides it was overgrown with dense bushes and ferns, and the branches blocked the way horizontally. When walking, you must tear off some thorny rattans from time to time, otherwise you will hang your clothes, and if you accidentally step over, you may tear a big hole in your clothes. Along the way, there are a lot of unknown seeds attached to the clothes on my body, and sometimes I scratch my neck.

Climbing to the top of the first hill, there is a slightly sparse flat land, where there are bare rocks, and there is a place to sit and rest. Looking ahead, there are still continuous hills, and I don't know which one is the highest, and there is always a higher one in front of it; Looking back, there are relatively gentle hillsides and a few scattered villages. Now in the season, the deciduous trees are withered and yellow, the low shrubs and thatch are huddled together in patches of pale yellow, and the evergreen trees, dark green and black, give the whole mountain a mottled hue.

Actually, it wasn't like that before. When Ren Feng was a child, shrubs and thatch were cut down in autumn on the nearby hillsides for firewood, one was used to cook and boil water, the other was to heat in winter, and the third was to burn earthen bricks and tiles. Therefore, every winter, there are only large trees that can grow more than a foot in circumference, and only wooden stakes that are basically parallel to the ground are left. It was much easier to get up the mountain back then. In recent years, electricity has been used to boil water, cement bricks have been used to build houses, and biogas and straw have been used for cooking. So, no one cares about the firewood in the mountains, it is more and more difficult to enter the mountains, the farther places are too barren, people can't get in at all, it is said that some wild animals that have been very few have flourished, such as wild boars, muntjacs, rabbits, raccoons and the like from time to time. Others say that there are wolves and leopards in the mountains again.

Ren Feng looked at the village below the mountain on this small flat on the mountain, thinking wildly in his mind, he hadn't told anyone about quitting his job, and it was still unknown what he would do in the New Year, and he was full of confusion about the future. Sometimes it's a long time to be in a daze, and sometimes when I'm bored, I play a set of boxing taught by my grandfather, a set of boxing that I still haven't figured out what the name is.

Some classmates who used to study in junior high school together asked him to go out for a walk, and they went to a few classmates who used to have a better time. These people didn't get into college or didn't even study high school in the college entrance examination, and they worked outside early, and he used to listen to these guys boasting about how to play the supervisor and how to soak the chick when they were working, and he couldn't interject. Only in the end, the big guy remembered him, a college student, and said something envious, Ren Feng had a little face. This year, he also worked himself, and when he chatted, he found that compared with these partners, he was really inferior, whether it was status or treatment.

There is a classmate Jiang Yadong, who used to be naughty and mischievous when he was studying, and his grades were the worst in a group. When he went to his house to play, his parents would say to him in front of everyone: "Look at your classmates, and then look at you, why are you so unproductive?" He didn't take it seriously. But not to mention, people's luck is good, demolition and demolition to their village, his family has a lot of foundation, although it is not very decent, but the total area is large, the compensation plus the construction of the building, and he became a millionaire at once, and he was the first among his classmates to get rich. …,

These things made Ren Feng's heart even more unbalanced, and there was a breath in his chest, and he panicked.

But fortunately, such days are not long, and the New Year is coming soon.

On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, my father came back from Xisai City, near Honglu County, and he had been working at a construction site there for the past few months, disassembling and assembling formwork with others. The tuition and living expenses of Ren Feng's brothers and sisters are mainly the money from their father's work on the construction site, and their mother manages more than two acres of land at home, and when they are not busy, they also go to work as a sideline to earn some living expenses and gift money.

As soon as my father returned, the family was finally reunited, and they had the same warm feeling as before.

The day after my father returned, after dinner, he unusually asked Wenwen not to be busy with her homework and said that she was going to have a family meeting.

"Feng'er graduated from college and has a job, so it's no problem to take care of herself; Wenwen's tuition and living expenses for one person, your mother and I are not so difficult, if you are admitted to college next year, the cost of saving is almost the same, the bitterness is a little harder, we can't compare to others, everything is to save as much as possible. My father lit a cigarette and smoked it, and then said, "I discussed with your mother, our family has been building this old house for decades, and it was built by your grandparents. You are very competitive in your studies, and we two old guys are content to not build a house, so we didn't have this idea before, and in the future, you all go to the city to buy a house and rely on your own skills, and we can help this old bone if we can, and if we can't help, you can't blame it. However, you are not young anymore, and if you bring your friends to your house in the future, I am afraid that such a house will embarrass you. Just while the two of us old guys are still running, I want to demolish the old house on your grandfather's side, together with the cattle pen on the side, and build a small two-story here, anyway, it has always been empty, we don't pick it up, sooner or later it will collapse, and if it is demolished as soon as possible, the bricks and tiles are still usable. In this way, you will come back with a decent nest. ”

I looked at the brother and sister, both listening, as if in deep thought. After waiting for a few minutes, everyone was silent. The father said, "Whatever you have in mind." ”

Ren Feng thought for a while and said, "Building a house is a good thing, it should be." I haven't saved much money in the past six months of work, so I'll take 3,000 yuan out first, and I'll send some back when I want to use it......"

Before he finished speaking, his father waved his hand and said, "Building a house is the business of our two old fellows, you can save your own money, it is not easy for you to live in the city, and there will be many places to use money in the future." We're not old enough to move, and we'll talk about it when the time comes. ”

"Dad, I've grown up, I've earned money from work, and my family has a career, so I have to contribute no matter what!" Ren Feng argued.

"Building a house is not a day's thing, let me tell you first, if you have money, build it quickly, and stop when you are short of money, it won't delay much. You have a lot of places to use money outside, we are afraid that we will not be able to help much, money, you keep it for emergency use, if there is really any urgency for money, we will also look for you to get it. "Father still insisted.

Ren Feng knew that his father's decision would not be changed easily, so he didn't say anything more.

After waiting for a while, his father said to Ren Feng: "Your grandfather's old house has been empty since your grandfather passed away, and we occasionally go to collect and collect it, but we haven't sorted out your grandfather's relics." Before he passed away, he specially designated you to tidy up when you grow up. At the time, you were young, and we never told you. Just take advantage of these days at home, you go to clean up well, and after the New Year, you may have to find someone to demolish the house. ”

This was really unexpected news, and Ren Feng's heart was full of questions: "Why did Grandpa deliberately appoint me to sort out his relics?" I was only 9 years old when he died, and I was still ignorant. ”