When Chen Yadong returned home, it was already afternoon, and his mother had already come back and was chatting with his father in the room, as if he was talking about today's election.

Chen Yadong approached him and asked, "Who are the people selected this time?" ”

"Alas," Yadong's mother sighed and said, "What are you chosen, this is the fourth election, and there is still no result, saying that it will be re-elected in a few days." ”

"The fourth time?!" Chen Yadong was a little surprised, the ability of this group of leaders to do things is really not flattering!

Yadong's mother said: "Zheng Nailin was originally selected today, but Mu Guihong was not convinced, tore up the ticket, and was taken away by the police station. ”

"It's Zheng Nailin again." In Chen Yadong's memory, this village chief has been a village chief for more than ten years! I heard from the elders that in an election a few years ago, Zheng Nailin was defeated, and a relative of his who had a relationship with the military called the township, and soon he sat in the position of village head. Although the masses complained and the peasants shouted and scolded, his position never wavered.

"Flutter." Chen Yadong smiled, smiling sarcastically. After the reform and opening up, the achievements made by New China are obvious to all in the world. The urban and rural areas have taken on a new look, their international status is increasing day by day, and their influence is gradually strengthening...... Therefore, as a Chinese, should we be complacent?

The country is strong, and the people are rich. However, beneath this beautiful surface, there is still too much dark side to our country. The four words "corruption" have eroded the social system into a thousand holes.

The leading group is cracking down on the high-pressure situation, and today's high-ranking officials are dismissed, and tomorrow's director will step down. Chen Yadong didn't feel much of it, he could only deeply feel that by his side, even a village chief climbed up by his own side. It is this group of moths that corrodes our homes. hindering the pace of China's development.

What is even more tragic is that most of the so-called rights are like a dead letter. Open the political book, as a Chinese citizen has too many rights, but in real life we have not felt it, let's just say that this right to vote is not at all decided by the peasants themselves, they are like cameos, tools to go through the motions, and the protagonist has long been stereotyped. As for the legendary right to be elected, not to mention, it is a joke in itself.

But who can change all this? China's ** is deep-rooted, the bane of the destruction of the country in the past dynasties, but it is like a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff, and can be inherited by all generations. From top to bottom, who is clear? Corrupt officials and corrupt officials are in the same stream, and the internal relationship is complicated, and it is so difficult to involve the whole body, and the officials protect each other and uproot each other!

Subsequently, Chen Yadong laughed at himself, the Chinese population is more than one billion, how many people of insight, experts and scholars, and political figures? There are countless geniuses, hundreds of times stronger than themselves, thousands of times, and countless people with better conditions. None of them*, so who are they to talk about? It's just whining when you're bored! Life is to laugh at others, laugh at yourself, and be laughed at by others, which is best reflected in Chen Yadong.

In the evening, the snow has completely melted the water, turn on the TV, watch the news, find some confidence, compared with the people of the world living in the water and fire, the Chinese people are really too happy.

Mom was preparing dinner, and suddenly, the phone next to the TV rang, Chen Yadong walked over and picked it up and took a look, it was his grandfather calling.

If Chen Yadong has been away from home long enough after signing up for No. 5 Middle School, it will be even longer since he went to his grandfather's house. Since I was in junior high school, I only went to live for a few days during the New Year's holidays, although the distance was not very far, but there was not much time.

Grandpa has always loved Chen Yadong very much, and when he saw the call from his grandfather, Chen Yadong was also very happy and said: "Grandpa, it's me, Yadong!" ”

"Oh, it's Yadong, you're home?"

The grandfather's voice was unusually flat, and there was no surprise because Chen Yadong answered the phone.

Chen Yadong didn't take it to heart, and said, "Yes, I came back yesterday afternoon." ”

"What about your mother, I have something to tell her."

In the past, when talking on the phone, my grandfather had to let himself listen, and he would talk on the phone. After going to No. 5 Middle School, he rarely called his old man's house, but he didn't expect that he would become so cold after not seeing him for more than a year. Chen Yadong didn't say anything, took the phone to the kitchen and handed it to his mother and said, "The phone call, my grandfather called." ”

"Oh," Mom took the phone, drying her hands on her clothes. Chen Yadong turned around and went back to the living room to watch TV with Zhao Yixiao.

"What?"

Suddenly, there was an incredulous inquiry from my mother from the kitchen, and after a while, my mother came out of the kitchen, faltering, as if she had lost her soul. Zhao Yixiao was the first to appear her strange appearance and asked, "Aunt Chen, what's wrong with you?" ”

Yadong's mother squeezed out a smile and said, "It's okay." With that, two lines of tears slipped down.

Chen Yadong stood up and asked, "What happened?" ”

Yadong's mother sat on the bench with her hands on the corner of the table, and said with tears in her eyes: "Just now your grandfather said that your uncle's younger brother is seriously ill, I'm afraid it will be over." Your grandfather told me to come over and see if we could see each other again......"

Chen Yadong was stunned, his uncle's family has a cousin, who is twenty years old this year, and his uncle has always hoped to have a son. But the sky does not follow people's wishes, and the eldest aunt gave birth to eight sons one after another, all of whom died in the womb. Five years ago, my uncle sold the family's cattle and let my aunt go to the hospital to go bankrupt, and finally had a younger brother. Although life is hard, every time I go to his house, I can always see a happy smile on his face.

However, what his mother said just now was like a hammer hitting his heart, and for a moment, Chen Yadong felt deprived of oxygen. I thought that this must not be as serious as my grandfather said, after all, the psychology of the old man is different!

Mom didn't pause, stood up, went to tell Dad, and then didn't change her clothes, and was about to leave with a flashlight, Chen Yadong hurriedly said, "I'll go too!" ”

Yadong's mother wiped her tears and said, "Don't go, take care of your father and smile at home!" ”

Chen Yadong said: "It's dark now, how can I rest assured that you go alone." ”

My grandfather's house is on the top of the hill opposite Chen Yadong's house, and it takes more than an hour to climb the whole way, and most of the way is forest, there is only one country road, and there are few people.

Yadong's mother said: "It's okay, I'm not afraid." If you go too, what will happen to your dad and Xiaoxiao? ”

Zhao Yi smiled and said, "I'll go too!" ”

Chen Yadong said: "Okay, Dad, I will come back tomorrow morning to cook." After that, I went to the neighbor's house next door to borrow a flashlight, and I had to follow it. Mom can't help him.

Walking out of the house, it was dark and cold outside. Along the way, Yadong's mother was in a hurry, and she hoped to step into her uncle's house and stay by the child's side. Chen Yadong can only keep up with fast steps.

Because she was so preoccupied with her brother that she didn't notice a stump at her feet, she was mixed and fell to the ground.

Chen Yadong and Zhao Yi laughed and were startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, and the latter choked up: "Aunt Chen, it's okay, it's okay, it's in a hurry to go slowly." ”

Chen Yadong looked at the flashlight, her mother was full of wet mud, she didn't care, pushed away the two of them, and continued to hurry, only to hear her sniffing and muttering something.

What was supposed to be a journey of more than an hour took only thirty minutes tonight. As soon as I walked into the village, a few dogs rushed up and barked non-stop, but people opened the door to take a look, and the whole mountain was quiet and quiet.

The uncle's family is very poor, which is better than his Chen Yadong's family, and some of the neighbors have moved to other places to build bigger houses. He was the only one who guarded the old house. And it's pitifully narrow, since the separation from my grandparents, there are only two rooms, and the inside is not good. The four walls of the house are still good, and it is still a wooden house in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Usually few people come in and out.

However, the moment Chen Yadong opened the door and entered, he was dumbfounded. I saw that in the messy house, the seats were full, and they sat in a large circle around the stove, and almost every household in the whole village had a representative.

More than 30 people crowded the room, which was not spacious in the first place. But no one made a sound. Everyone looked sad, looking like a mournful woman. Even if Chen Yadong's mother and son entered, everyone just looked back, and only one old grandmother choked up and said, "Yadong, you are here." ”

Chen Yadong nodded, raised his eyes and saw that his uncle was sitting on the sofa with a dull gaze. And the little brother is holding in the hands of the grandmother next door. Seeing his face, Chen Yadong's whole heart was clenched. It's been five years, but he still looks weak, only two or three years old, with his head drooping, his lips open and closed, as if he is saying something. The little face was white, and occasionally rested, and suddenly it seemed to be very uncomfortable, waving its little hands, trying to grasp something.

For just a moment, Chen Yadong couldn't hold back any longer, and tears fell down. Looking back at Zhao Yixiao, she had already burst into tears.

Such a depressing scene made the two breathless. Chen Yadong took her hand and walked outside. A cool breeze blows through it, which makes him feel better.

In that room, he didn't want to take another half step, he took Zhao Yixiao and went directly to his grandfather's house.

When Chen Yadong was very young, his grandfather's family was divided, and his grandparents lived in a new house, and there was a distance between them and his uncle's house.

said that it was a new house, or Chen Yadong remembered that it was built with a loan, and it has not been renovated until now, and many walls are covered with hairy grass.

When I opened the door and went in, I saw my grandfather sitting by the fire in a daze, he hadn't seen him for nearly a year, he seemed to be dozens of years old, and his hair was more gray. There are still undried tears in the corners of his eyes.

The sound of opening the door woke up his grandfather, he looked at Chen Yadong, and said hoarsely: "Yadong, you are here, have you gone to your uncle's house?" ”

Chen Yadong nodded and sat down on the bench with Zhao Yixiao. Then no one spoke again, waiting for news.

In the middle of the night, my grandmother finally came back, looking a little happy, and my grandfather tensed his nerves and asked, "How is it?" ”

Grandma said, "It's better now." I made some porridge, ate two bites, and finally fell asleep. ”

Chen Yadong and the three of them breathed a sigh of relief, and finally waited for a good news, seeing Zhao Yi smiling and yawning, her grandmother took her to the house to sleep. Later, I heard from my grandmother that my little brother had caught a cold a month ago, and my uncle didn't care about it at that time, so he took it to the village doctor to see him. But it didn't get better for a long time, and finally his condition worsened half a month ago, and the uncle woke up and sent him to the city hospital, but it was too late, and the hospital didn't take over, so he had to be sent to a bigger hospital. After a few days of treatment, it did not improve, but the cost of medicine was frighteningly high, and it was estimated that it would cost 70,000 or 80,000 yuan to be cured, which uncle could afford. As a last resort, I had to go home to the hospital, watch its creation, and let it perish.

As a rural person, sometimes I really can't afford to get sick or get a doctor!

Chen Yadong didn't know when he fell asleep. When he woke up, it was already the next morning, and he was woken up, and his grandfather and grandmother were talking about it, saying that his brother's condition had worsened at dawn. Grandma hurried over again.

Chen Yadong turned over and got out of bed, the temperature today was lower than yesterday, and there was goose feather snow flying outside the window. As soon as his grandmother left, there was no one to cook, so he had to call his uncle at home and ask him to take care of his father.

Because he had to take care of his grandfather and Zhao Yixiao, Chen Yadong didn't go to his uncle's house again, and he didn't want to go either. In the afternoon, my mother came to say that my brother's condition had eased again.

However, before everyone could react from the excitement, at about nine o'clock in the evening, my brother's condition recurred, and it was more serious than before.

In the end, the younger brother still couldn't escape the clutches of death. In the early hours of the next morning, the bad news came that he had passed away!