On May 18, 1979, Lu Li carried his luggage, pushed a small car with camphor wood boxes, walked out of the Tian (Tianjin) Railway Station, looked at Xu Yunjian standing beside him, and the two looked at each other and smiled, "I'm back!" ”

"yes, five years, almost five years, right? I'm cao! Xu Yunjian looked up to the sky and scolded bitterly, and the people around him frequently looked sideways, but they didn't think it was rude, but instead brought out a sympathetic and tolerant smile: It's two children who came home from outside! Such a young man has seen too much in the past year, and has suffered a lot of sins outside!

"Let's go," Lu Li pushed the cart, and the two of them crossed the Haihe River along the road, crossed the pedestrian-lined Duolun Road, and entered the alley, "Let's go, come to my place to rest first." ”

There was a bicycle bell behind them, and the two of them flashed to the side, but the people behind stood still, stretched out their feet to support the ground, and asked in disbelief, "Little?" ”

"Cao Xun?" Xu Yunjian screamed, pounced on it, and even knocked down his bicycle, "I'm cao!" Dude, what a coincidence! ”

Cao Xun got up from the ground with a scolding grin, and gave him a punch with a smile, "Oops, I really didn't expect this!" Xiaoxiao, came back today? ”

"Just got out of the car." Lu Li looked at him, Cao Xun came back earlier than them, before leaving, he made a detour to Angezhuang, several people had a big drink, and their eyes were red during the banquet.

After returning to the city for a few months, Cao Xun was darker than in the countryside, wearing a postman's hat on his head and a uniform on his body. A dark green bicycle, issued by the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, with two large pockets on a coat hanger at the back, containing letters and newspapers. "Why are you so dark?"

"It's not comparable to you, you are born white, I ......, can you not be black? Running in the wind and rain every day. Hey, don't talk about me, tell me about you two brothers, what are your plans to come back? Let's buddies looking for a chance to get together? ”

"No problem, wait until we settle down." Luli said, "You still live there, haven't moved?" ”

"Nope." Cao Xun pushed the bicycle and patted Xu Yunjian, "Let's go, send you home, send Xiaoxiao first, and then send Xu Yunjian." ”

The three of them talked and laughed, and when they entered Wangjia Hutong, Yu Fang was sitting in the shade at the door, holding a small doll in his arms, a little boy, quite white, but very thin, raised his head, waiting for the woman to give him melon seeds, "Auntie, I'm back." ”

"Tiny?" Yu Fang stood up in one step and took the little one out of the way, "Grandma?" ”

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Xiaoyun, don't call me uncle?"

The child is Zhao Yunsheng, the child of Zhao Jianguo and his younger brother, who is four years old this year, and has just returned to the city from Xishuangbanna with his parents, less than three months -- in order to return to the city, 50,000 educated youths from the agricultural reclamation have gone on strike! The 28-member petition group headed by Ding (Huimin) even went to Beijing to file a complaint, which alarmed the country's top head and staged an earth-shattering drama! (Note 1)

After returning to the city, the younger brother replaced the deceased grandfather and worked in a grocery store on Nenjiang Road, while Zhao Jianguo replaced his mother and worked in a sewing machine factory. The child was brought by the younger brother, nominally, but in fact it was handed over to Yu Fang, Nenjiang Road was a stone's throw away from home, and she would go home for dinner at noon.

Lu Li has seen Zhao Yunsheng, but most of the children have short-term memory, only people who meet every day are familiar with it, Lu Li is no different from strangers in his little heart, timidly hiding in his grandmother's arms, and secretly aiming at him, "Call people?" Lack of morality, disobedient grandma beats you? ”

Lu Li is very funny, and his aunt has no other skills, just beating and scolding, this is the same for himself, and the same for his grandson? "Uncle...... Uncle. ”

"Good boy." After saying hello to Yu Fang and putting all the luggage and other things into the house, it was time for Xu Yunjian and the two to leave, "Then let's go first, wait for you to rest,

Just come to me. ”

"Okay." Seeing the two go away, Lu Li washed his face with water, turned his head and talked to his aunt, "What about the eldest sister?" ”

"She and your second sister will come over to eat in a while." Yu Fang looked at Lu Li in his early twenties, and was a hundred satisfied! It's better to raise a kid by yourself, better than those two aunts! "Grandma?"

"Wait, grandma and your uncle talk." Yu Fang patted the child's head, grabbed out a handful of melon seeds, and stuffed them into his little hand, "Xiaoxiao, come back this time, won't you leave?" ”

"I'm not leaving."

"Okay, when I go to the office with your second sister in the afternoon, I will register my account first. Then ask your second sister to think of a way for you to find a job. Oh, I remembered an incident, the street said, the incident of your father's life, has been rehabilitated. Yu Fang said: "In addition to what documents, there is also a retroactive salary, and I will give it to you in the evening." ”

"Leave it to you, I won't need it."

"What's the line? It's ......"

"Auntie, don't you know me? Say put you there, you just take it, do we still need to share? I'll ask you when I really need money. ”

"That's fine, Xiaoxiao, it's a lot of money. There are more than a thousand dollars. ”

"Whatever, I don't care, you keep the flowers anyway."

Yu Fang nodded with a smile and received the child's filial piety, "Wait a while, your second sister and they will come and talk about work, what do you think?" ”

Lu Li washed his face, moved a bench, sat next to his aunt, hugged Zhao Yunsheng and gnawed a few bites first, the child squeaked and screamed, but he ignored it, teasing it all the time, and it took him a long time to let go, "Auntie, I thought about it, don't trouble the second sister about work-I want to do it myself." ”

"Do it yourself? Why do you do it yourself? What are you doing yourself? ”

Lu Li didn't have time to explain, and Zhao Yunsheng cheered, "Mom, second aunt!" "It's my brother and sister who have come back.

The younger brother picked up his son who was hobbling and kissed him, "Are you hungry?" Is it good to be good with grandma? Is there any disobedience? ”

"No,...... Well, Mom, there's a ...... New Arrival...... Uncle, he always bullied me. ”

"Your uncle is back?" The younger brother looked up and saw that Luli was smiling at his two sisters. Looking at the younger brother who had grown up Chengren, the two daughters felt sour and sweet in their hearts, "Xiaoxiao, are you back?" Why don't you say a word, let's go pick you up? ”

"It's fine, no luggage." Lu Li looked at his two sisters, his heart full of peace and joy. My brother is fatter and whiter than when I saw him last year; Brother Zhao didn't change much, wearing a blue police uniform, and the hat on his head was removed, revealing a short black hair, "Eldest sister, second sister, are you all good?" ”

"Good!" Looking at his younger brother, who was much taller than him, the two sisters' eyes turned red, "If Dad and Grandpa are here, how happy would we be if our family is reunited?" ”

"Alright, crying? Recruit younger brother, take Xiaoxiao to the office in the afternoon, and put the household registration on the list. This has to be done tightly. ”

"Hey, I see."

The family happily had lunch, and the younger brother put the child to sleep, turned his head and came out, and the younger brother was talking to Yu Fang in the small courtyard, "Mom, there is something I want to discuss with you." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Xiao Liu's brother is back, with his wife and three little boys, and he can't live at home......"

Yu Fang glanced at her, "What are you doing?" Why do you want to start a gang in our house? ”

"No, Xiao Liu said, can we move over and stay for a few days. He has already reported in the unit and asked for a house. It may be approved. ”

"You've got it!" Brother Lai sneered, "Brother Zhao, it's not that I said you, you take care of people every day, and he is stupid now!" Can't even say a word, do you want a room? Do you know how many people are asking for a house? What do you know to get the keys? First of all, you have to be popular in the unit, what kind of popularity do you Xiao Liu have? And dumb! ”

It is very easy to recruit a brother to discipline her husband, and her words are ruthless, but she can do this, it doesn't mean that others can, "What do you call this?" What's wrong with our Xiao Liu? How good are you in the country? Chatterbox! ”

"That's it!" Yu Fang took a sip, "What's the trouble?" It's noisy every day, and you don't get too tired of panicking? Tiny, what do you say? ”

Of course, Lu Li agreed with the second sister's family to move in, there were only three people in the family: himself, Yu Fang and Wu Ting, it was a little deserted, how many more people came, how lively was it? But the previous situation is unclear, so it is still not appropriate to talk nonsense, "Auntie, family affairs, you can make up your mind." ”

"Mom, if you let them move in, Jianguo and I will also move in! It's all your daughter, but you are not allowed to be eccentric. ”

"Mom, what's biased? You and Xiaoyun eat here every day, and sometimes sleep here, I just moved in, and you coaxed me? Brother Zhao was disgusted by his sister's behavior when he saw interests, "The establishment of the country is not far from here, and there is no shortage of housing, what are you coming back to squeeze?" Not afraid of prickly heat in the hot weather? ”

"I'd love to, you know!"

Yu Fang was so angry that she slapped each of her two daughters hard, "Okay." What are you guys messing about? Isn't it just about the house? I can tell you, don't think about any of you! This house is mine for one day, and one day I turn my head (meaning dead), so I give it to Xiaoxiao, and he is a little boy at home, you fight, fight for you m b! ”

The two brothers were really angry when they saw their mother, and they didn't dare to mess around anymore, "Mom, what did I just say?" ”

"Okay, let's come back and live, but it's okay, you can't move your hukou to me."

"Okay, that's it."

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In one afternoon, after completing things such as household registration and food relations, Lu Li put his mind at ease, the first step has been solved, and the next step is to look at the problem of work. But there is no need to worry at the moment, he has just returned home, and plans to rest for a few days and meet with friends, classmates, and teachers. Riding the bicycle, the horse spun on the reins.

According to his original idea, he really planned to take root in Tangshan for the rest of his life, but the development of the facts was somewhat unexpected, from the outside, it has become a trend for educated youth to return to the city, and the word "educated youth" is about to become history - the provinces have even canceled the educated youth office, and he has lost the foundation of his life; From the internal reasons, the newly merged Angezhuang has no longer returned to the clean and pure temperament of the past, instead everyone is trying to go crooked, for a place in college, the educated youth exhausted their efforts, and threw the finances they usually saved up like a bottomless pit into the pockets of the captain and the branch secretary, including Shang Kang!

After the catastrophe of 76 years, Shang Kang said that Piran changed, and he was cold and selfish! Lu Li occasionally put himself in his shoes to think about it, and he was really aggrieved, all his life was clean and upright, and in the end he only ended up alone, he originally had to give his eldest son, but he later knew that this eldest son was not his own, but remarried with his mother. When my wife was alive, I didn't have anything to say, but now that my mother died due to a disaster, the relationship is naturally not so close.

Shang Kang said that because of the accumulation of various reasons for Chen Chenxiang, he was very unaccustomed to his previous things: What are you doing honestly? Whenever a red-headed document is issued in other villages, allowing educated youths to be selected, return to the city, go to school, and join the army, the branch secretaries of each commune are as beautiful as the New Year! I can't wait to receive the above notices and documents every day, but I am honest and well-behaved, and I demand myself according to the standards of the old Communist Party (industry) members everywhere, what is the final result?

Because such thoughts lingered in his mind, Shang Kang said that he simply broke the can, became more and more greedy, and became more and more ruthless! Even Luli is not immune!

The college entrance examination was resumed in 77, and Lu Li won a place for Liang Xin with the little power he had left in the village. In 78, Lu Li couldn't speak well, and he came to the door several times, and Shang Kang said that he was official, and that appearance was obviously perfunctory. forced him to have no choice, so he had to send the watch left to him by his uncle, and Liang Xin was able to make the trip.

But this time, Luli said to him, "If you can't pass the exam again, you will simply die of this heart, and honestly give me to be your educated youth, do you hear?" ”

Liang Xin knew that he had sent the watch over, and he was so excited that he cried, "Little brother, don't worry, if I can't pass the exam, I won't come back to see you!" It seems that sincerity touched the heavens, and he was admitted.

In the past, Lu Li had to choose to leave gloomily, but now it seems that returning to the city may not be smart!?

Note 1: This paragraph is a historical fact, but it has nothing to do with the story, so it is omitted.