The courtyard of the Chen family was already crowded with people watching the excitement, and some people brought melon seeds and peanuts, pointing at the people around them while watching. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Chen Chuan's grandmother sat on the bench with a gloomy face, and next to her stood the third aunt Chen Chuan, who also had a bad face, and the uncle and grandfather who were smoking pipes squatting a little farther away.

Chen Xiangqian struggled for a long time to squeeze through the crowd, bending over to hold his knees and couldn't breathe, and after a long time of breathing, he said intermittently: "Brother, Chuan, Chuan'er is back!" ”

Chen Aiguo, who was originally sitting on the threshold with a cold face, stood up, his two thick eyebrows were about to be twisted together, and he asked in a rough voice, "What are you talking about?" Chuan Wa'er is back!? ”

Chen Chuan only arrived home at this time, and walked in while wiping his sweat, and the people around him automatically gave way when they saw him. He ran all the way behind Chen Xiangqian like the wind, and only then did he feel tired, and now he was tormented when he walked a step, and his lungs were burning with pain, and he couldn't breathe, and his breath seemed to be bloody, and he was drenched as if he had just been caught up in the water.

"Grandma, third aunt......" Seeing the two women looking at him, he stopped and said hello first.

Grandma stood up from the bench with a bang, as if an electric horn had been installed in her throat, and her voice was loud: "Chen Aiguo, Chuan Wa'er is also back, just here to talk about things!" She snapped back and sat back, patting her thigh angrily, and shouted in pain: "Your personal mother-in-law, you can't get medical treatment, you want to rely on your mother's house, I tell you, from ancient times to the present, there is no such ......."

The third aunt sneered, she slowly changed her legs, squinted her eyes and only looked at Chen Chuan and said: "Chuan Wa'er, your father can be very good, your mother wants to be treated, and she can't get out of the ......."

Chen Aiguo ignored her, slowly sat back on the threshold, he took out a crumpled cigarette from his pocket, planned to light it, thought about it and put it back into the cigarette case lovingly. Only then did he look up at Chen Chuan, frowned and said, "Why is there so much sweat?" ”

Chen Chuan didn't expect his father's reaction at all, and now he didn't know what to do, Chen Aiguo asked again with some impatience, and he replied in a daze: "Ran back." ”

Chen Aiguo pointed to the water pipe in the corner of the courtyard and said, "Go wash your face first and wipe your sweat." ”

Chen Chuan didn't move, pursed his lips and looked at him.

Sighing rarely, Chen Aiguo finally took out a cigarette and lit it, took two puffs, snuffed out the red plum cigarette in his mouth and stuffed it back into his pocket, and said again with some impatience: "Call you to wash your face." Didn't you hear? ”

Chen Chuan said a little timidly: "I'll go in a while......"

Before Chen Aiguo could speak, Chen Chuan's grandmother couldn't sit still and walked over and grabbed Chen Chuan, she swung her head, and her silver-white hair tied behind her head was scattered: "What are you going to do!" You just stay here and look at your father, what does it mean not to do personnel! ”

Chen Aiguo said calmly: "Why don't I do personnel? ”

The third aunt of Chen Chuan pointed at Chen Aiguo's nose and scolded: "You are a batch of Ha'er (stupid), **** rubbing, you should be thundered by the sky, and my mother-in-law is crazy, and I still think of picking money from my mother-in-law's house!" Curse your turtle son not to die well! The chubby woman thumped her chest and sweated.

Seeing the buzzing discussion in the lively crowd, there were a few neighbors who were good friends with Chen Aiguo's family frowning and pointing at what Aunt Chen Chuan was talking to and the people next to her.

Third Aunt Chen Chuan scolded at the crowd: "Haven't you seen it?!" What to say! There were a few laughs from the crowd, and some bold people shouted, "Yay, I can't say it!" ”

The woman simply tore her throat and scolded: "I didn't have to be strangled to give birth to a son!" Talking about housework in other houses, it's so foreign! ”

The crowd suddenly had some commotion, and some men couldn't help but scold back: "You will never (scold) again!" You're a fellow! ”

Chen Chuan's grandmother pulled her daughter and lost her eyes.

Chen Aiguo sat on the threshold as if he hadn't seen it, took out the cigarette that he had just extinguished and smoked, and took out a box of matches. He drew a cigarette and took a deep breath.

A few hens who had just been scared away ran under the corridor and pecked at the dirt in the cracks of the bluestone slabs. The chicken baby, which had just come out of the shell for a few days, followed behind and chirped.

A muffled voice could be heard from the swarthy room. Chen Aiguo occasionally glanced back and looked in.

Chen Chuan suddenly felt that he had calmed down. The illusion of pain like a contraction in the heart caused by excessive anxiety subsides, and the cool mountain breeze takes away the sweat from the face, and the whole body is refreshed. He pulled his wrist out of his grandmother's hand with a little force, and then he felt the weight of a large bag of things in his left hand.

He carried a bag weighing more than a dozen pounds and ran from the foot of the mountain to the halfway point of the mountain in one go. It's only now that I feel the weight again.

The heavy bag made the phalanges white. Chen Chuan turned his head and whispered to his grandmother, "I'll go put things in first." After a pause, he said, "Grandma, I won't go, and neither will my father." ”

Grandma smiled awkwardly and pulled her hair back. "I know that Chuan Wa'er is the most filial." She smiled as if she wanted to hide something, "Find a lot of money in the future......"

I don't know what to say after two sentences. I had to keep my mouth shut.

Chen Chuan nodded and shook his head: "That's my mother, I definitely have to honor her." ”

Grandma looked at him like that, and she didn't know what she was thinking, so she had to laugh twice. Shriveled and without any moisture.

When Chen Aiguo crossed the threshold, he didn't reply and said, "You go to see your mother." ”

Chen Chuan paused, and then let out an "oh".

There were no lights on in the house. Only sunlight filtered through the cracks in the tiles overhead, and dust could be seen drifting up and down in the light. There used to be a window, but one time Chen Chuan went crazy and smashed all the glass, Chen Aiguo simply wrapped some mortar in old bricks and sealed the window.

Chen Chuan didn't rush into the house, waited until his eyes adjusted to the darkness, put the bag in the corner of the wall, and then walked towards the figure who was shrinking in the corner. He skillfully avoided obstacles that might trip him, and whispered, "Mom, Mom......"

Then a weak voice responded to him: "Chuan Wa'er......"

Chen Chuan was stunned for a moment, and then rushed over like crazy, no matter what he kicked in the middle, he hugged his mother twice, and shouted one after another: "Mom, Mom, I'm Chuanwaer, I'm Chuanwaer......"

A thin, gnarled hand slowly stroked his back.

Chen Chuan stumbled out, completely ignoring the people around him, only knowing that he grabbed his father's hand and shouted excitedly: "Dad, old man!" Mom, Mom recognizes me! ”

Chen Aiguo lowered his head, and then said, "Go to the hospital......"

Chen Chuan was so happy that his mouth was trembling when he spoke: "Dad, let's go see a doctor for Mom!" Go to the hospital! ”

Grandma came over and shouted urgently: "See a doctor? Where's the money? It's not our house yet! Chuan Wa'er, your father can't tell the difference! Now you want to call us again! Personally, you see, the last time the medical money, hundreds of hundreds, all of them were paid by us! ”

Chen Chuan looked at his father at a loss, and then looked at his grandmother.

The third aunt took a few steps behind her grandmother and said in a weird manner: "I'm still a man, and I can't even pay for my mother-in-law's medical expenses, so it's so good!" ”

Chen Aiguo ignored Chen Chuan's third aunt. He looked at his son's excited face and nodded slightly.

The woman intervened and roared with a white face: "Chen Aiguo, don't you point to my house, you don't get any points!" "The hair that was originally tied in a bun at the back of the head was loose, and the messy hair was brushed on the face, mixed with oily sweat, like a mad demon.

Someone in the crowd couldn't look at it: "You can be a sister, and my sister doesn't pay for medical treatment." ”

Grandma couldn't sit still, and still wanted to explain: "It's not difficult for us to go to the house..."

"Brother Chen, call the secretary of the brigade to come. This matter at the head of your house, call the brigade to get it! "Someone is giving Chen Aiguo advice.

The third aunt was furious, turned around and scolded the crowd: "Which **** is rubbing and collapsing (wordy)!?" ”

The most feared people in the countryside are not reckless men, but shrews at most. Because she is so idle that she can come to the door every day, making your whole family chickens and dogs jump. Not to mention touching her fingers, even scolding can make women roll around at your door and cry and mourn, so that the whole village can see the joke.

The villagers pay the most attention to the rules and face, and let the shrews come to the door, even if they are justified, they lose face.

Li Dongmei, that is, the third aunt of Chen Chuan, is a very famous woman in the villages within a radius of dozens of miles. There was once a glorious record of blocking the gate of people's houses for three days and three nights. Others taking advantage of her a little bit can make Li Dongmei scold from the beginning of the spring of the first year to the Spring Festival of the second year.

The crowd was silenced. There was another thing to say, the person on the side tugged at his sleeves, and he shut up when he remembered this woman's glorious past.

When Chen Chuan heard this, he heard it in his heart. He asked his father: "Does the secretary of the brigade care?" ”

Chen Aiguo replied with some hesitation: "It seems to be in charge...... he has been honest all his life, and he has never had any communication with an official, even if he is a sesame petty official like the secretary of the brigade.

Later, Chen Chuan and Song Jia talked about this incident and said with feeling: "Reading changes fate." ”

Chen Chuan, who has been in high school for two years, even if he is still a student who does not know much about laws and policies, knows that sometimes even a straw is better than sinking into the water. Not to mention the law that the villagers call the law of heaven in awe according to custom. He told Chen Aiguo that he would go to the secretary of the brigade to take care of his family's affairs.

Li Dongmei didn't do it at first, she knew her brother-in-law too well, she couldn't beat a fart with three sticks, and she had never blushed with the villagers for decades. Nephew Chen Chuan is like his father again. She once said to her good sisters: "It's a stuffy brain that doesn't open his mind." ”

As a result, Chen Chuan asked a few words, and then walked in the direction of the team headquarters, seeing that this posture did not look like a scare person, but he really planned to say something.

She panicked a little, and opened her mouth several times and didn't know what to say. In the end, he scolded hatefully: "A ghost baby......"

In the rural areas of Bashu, the most grassroots cadres are usually the most respected clan elders and villagers in the four townships and eight villages. No matter how difficult it is to rectify women, they only have rules in front of them, but if there is a trace of undignified, men who dare not speak out on weekdays can immediately untie the belt on the waist of their trousers and whip it hard.

The secretary of the brigade is surnamed An, and he has been a secretary in this village for more than ten years. He was smoking in his office when he heard someone knocking on the door and shouting, "The door is unlocked, come in." ”

"Secretary An."