The lunar calendar of 1984 had two Octobers. The freezing leap October seems to double the cold, with the lowest temperature in Yangjiawan approaching minus 10 degrees Celsius, and the ground, treetops and rooftops are covered with a thick layer of hoarfrost every morning.

The day when the eldest brother came to Yangjiawan with the rich family coincided with the "heavy snow" in the 24 solar terms. The weather also follows the beat of the solar terms, the snowflakes fall from the air one after another, the silver-covered Maoershan quietly stares at the Yantai Mountain, a cold wind blows, and the big cat can't help but shiver.

Fu Shun was wearing a torn cotton jacket and was carrying cow dung to the pear tree to fertilize it. The snow sprinkled on the jacket like cotton wool from a torn patch.

Yang Zegui, who was making up the memorization, saw the rich and strong brothers, and quickly got up and beckoned the guests to sit down in the hall. Here pour some hot water from the thermos, and over there call Shufenniang to call Fushun back.

"Fu Wa'er, come back soon, your eldest brother is here!" Shufenniang put down the pig bucket and called loudly to the pear orchard behind the house.

The strength I once thought was suddenly shattered. A load of cow dung seemed to have become a jack, pressing on his shoulders and making him breathless. One stumbled, and Fushun sat down in the snow.

The snowflakes continued to fly, and the cold air under the buttocks soaked through the cotton pants and into the heart, then fermented into a burst of sourness, and then merged into a stream of hot tears, which came out of the eyes. The tears were quickly cooled and seemed to be about to freeze.

Yes, this family affection that has been waiting for eight years has come to me all of a sudden. He had imagined countless scenarios of his brother's reunion, but each time he had condemned his brother's ruthlessness and incompetence.

Fu Shun stood up in a hurry, he couldn't stand the cold ground. He dropped the bucket and shuffled towards his home. In any case, the eldest brother and his younger brother braved the heavy snow and rushed over from more than a hundred miles away, and they couldn't avoid it, right?

Smoke rose from the chimney of the stove, and the snowflakes that had stopped on the tiles around the chimney began to melt, and the dancing elves saw the smoke and bypassed.

At a distance of more than 100 meters, Fushun walked for almost ten minutes. He thought, in fact, what right do he have to blame his dear big brother? The "10,000 yuan household" in that report is a great and powerful person! What's more, the capable eldest brother also dragged his younger brother to school; For himself, isn't he also a friend who entrusted his father to his father according to his father's wishes?

"Shun'er ......" An almost unfamiliar voice passed through the bamboo forest and poured into Fushun's ears. Ah, big brother, that's the relative he's been looking for!

But Fushun didn't respond, and even wanted to turn around and run away. The snow soaked the padded jacket, blurred the eyes, stiffened the legs, and froze the throat.

"Shun'er...... Come here...... "The big brother in a suit and a big cotton hat looks like a landlord in a capitalist coat." The rich family stood next to the eldest brother, and the two brothers were almost tall. The younger brother wears a leather jacket with long fluff on the collar.

Fu Shun pulled the torn cotton jacket that had been buttoned off, shrunk his head into his neck, and walked towards the house with his head down.

"Sit down at the top of the house!" When Fu Shun walked past his eldest brother and younger brother, he said a cold word. He didn't have the courage to look into the eyes of these two relatives who lived well, he just wanted to hurry back to the house to escape the biting cold wind and the embarrassment in the cold wind.

Yang Zegui took out some charcoal from under the bed, put it in a rotten iron basin, and lit a fire in the hall. Fu Shun sat straight on the bench by the brazier and put his two hands on the fire.

The eldest brother took off his hat and reached for it. The burly eldest brother and the weak younger brother are no longer what they remember, especially the younger brother, if he is walking on the street, Fushun will only think that he is just a stranger passing by.

"Family, call the second brother quickly!" Fu Qiang entered the house, sat down on the chair opposite Fu Shun, and motioned for his younger brother to sit down against Fu Shun.

The rich family sat down with some reluctance - the cow dung on the second brother's clothes was roasted by the fire.

And I don't blame this thirteen-year-old. He was only five years old when his brothers separated; When I arrived in a foreign country, I suffered a lot with my eldest brother in the past few years; Later, the eldest brother opened a furniture factory, and the living conditions improved, and the eldest brother was used to his younger brother, and the "generous" rich family returned to school and became the domineering child king.

"Shun'er, you're so thin!" The eldest brother handed him a filter cigarette.

Fu Shun waved his hand, smiled a little contemptuously, and looked at the rich man who was covering his nose beside him. He didn't know how to answer his eldest brother, yes, he couldn't be so rich in food and clothing, how could he not lose weight?

"Sit down, I'll see if the next meal is cooked." Fu Shun stood up and walked to the kitchen, the bench cocked, and the rich family almost fell to the ground.

"Big brother, didn't you say that the second brother went to the big city to study and came back? Why is this set of spicy food (look)? The rich man moved to the middle of the bench and quietly asked the eldest brother.

Fu Qiang straightened his collar. "Family, maybe we wore the wrong clothes today! Hey, I've always told you, to be a farmer is to have the appearance of a farmer, and to be a student, you must have the appearance of a student! Your second brother is now a farmer, what he wears and what he does, you can't make a disgusted look! Did you hear that? ”

"Then ......" Fu Jia was about to speak, and Fu Shun took out three boiled eggs with an antimony basin. He handed it to Fu Qiang and the rich family, "Eat eggs, the rice is not cooked yet!" ”

"Good!" Fu Qiang picked one up and began to peel it off.

Fu Shun took one out of the basin and sent it to the rich family. The rich family didn't answer, and waved his hand like the second brother refused the eldest brother's cigarettes. Fu Shun looked at his dirty hands and put the eggs on the table with a red face.

Fu Shun sat on the bench again, facing these two guests, he always had to find something to talk about. "What kind of car did you come in?"

"It's so cold when you drive a motorcycle!"

"Where is the car parked? We're in the mountains, so we can't drive in! ”

"On the street! Shun'er, I know you resent me, yes, I did something stupid, do you have the money from the sale of the house? ”

As soon as Fu Shun heard that the house was being sold, his face was bruised, and his fists were clenched and released. "yes, why did you sell all the houses?"

Fu Qiang sighed, his face full of remorse and reluctance. "My Nahar is also too obedient, people tell me to move my household registration, I will move, and I will sell if I buy a house!"

"Have you ever been back to the muddy ditch?"

"Go back!"

"Haven't you ever been to your father's grave?"

"I went a few years ago, but I haven't been there in the past few years. I have offered them all to my shrine! ”

"The shrine of the Sun family?"

Fu Qiang, who had just swallowed the egg yolk, was choked for a long time before he regained his breath, and his big eyes dimmed. "Shun'er, do you know everything?"

"Big brother, I really didn't expect you to be this kind of person!" Fu Shun finally couldn't hold back his feelings and roared loudly. "Rich family, are you also surnamed Sun?"

"You are a person, what can you do with the surname Sun and Liu? My surname is Liu, and my eldest brother is also surnamed Liu, aren't you also surnamed Liu? The younger brother suddenly spoke, hugging for the frustrated eldest brother.

"Don't talk to your second brother like that!" Fu Qiang looked at the rich family and became a little angry, "You follow me, now that the conditions are good, you will forget your second brother?" Don't look at him covered in cow dung, you were like him in those years, picking up dog dung in the mud ditch! If you don't follow me, you're not a fart! ”

Fushun's mind came back to the past in the muddy ditch. Yes, the articulate younger brother next to him was still curling his tongue when he spoke, and in order to earn some centimeters, he followed himself to pick up dog feces in the ditch. At night, I didn't wash my hands and feet, and the three brothers fell asleep with each other hugging each other!

"Shun'er, yes, everyone outside calls me Sun Fuqiang, and I did change my surname to Sun on my household registration. But the rich family didn't, his surname was Liu. I also have the surname Liu in my bones. My father told me before his death that Uncle Yang was a good person, and when he passed away, he called me to pass you here, but I was reluctant to take you for two years. I really couldn't help it that year, your two brothers were about to starve to death, I really couldn't find a way out, I heard that the Wulong Sun family recruited a son-in-law again, I don't want to take the rich family to the door. As for you, I'm going to have to let you come here! When I arrived at Sun's house, I won't talk about what I ate and what sins I suffered, the rich family should still remember! ”

Fu Qiang wiped a handful of tears, and then said: "I'm afraid that you won't feel at ease, I really haven't come to you a few years ago." I came the year before last and said that you went to Jiangyun to study! It's good to read, I just suffered the loss of not reading, I want to wait for you to finish reading and serve the country's job, you have to recognize us, right? When the time comes, you'll have to pull the rich family ......"

Fu Shun's eyes were blinking with tears, and he put his hand on the back of the rich man's hand with his head down.

Shufen had already brought out the food. Fu Shun wiped a handful of tears, pulled the rich family, and beckoned the eldest brother to the table.

The meal is very simple, fried cabbage and choy sum, and the only thing that can be regarded as a meat dish is the poor plate of scrambled eggs!

It was almost five o'clock after lunch. Fu Qiang took out a thick stack of "Great Unity" from his pocket and handed it to Yang Zegui. "Uncle Yang, Fushun has caused you trouble in the past few years. I have only survived in the past two years, and you have this money, which is also a little bit of our Liu family's heart! He's supposed to graduate next year, right? In the past few years, the tuition fee has been enough for you to embarrass you."

"Big brother, I don't read anymore! I'm listening to Jiangyun, not reading! Only then did Fushun understand, it turned out that the eldest brother had always thought that Fushun was going to school, and the Yang family may not have explained it when he came last time.

Yang Zegui pushed the money back, "You doll, here you are again!" Look at your brother suffering here, isn't he? Don't you own a furniture factory? Bring your brother here! See if you have a way to live? Obviously, the second half of the sentence is a joke, which is also what Yang Zegui is worried about. But he concluded that Fushun would not go.

"Uncle Yang, you must keep the money. There is no problem with the furniture factory, it depends on whether Fushun is willing to go with me! Hey, it's better to read! Fu Qiang shook his head and put the money on the table that had just been wiped clean by Shufen.

"Dad, take it! They are not short of money now! Fu Shun looked at Yang Zegui, turned to the eldest brother and said, "I won't go with you, big brother, you can take the rich family with you!" Now this is my house, you can play when you have time! Now that it's convenient for you to ride, after the New Year, you can take the rich family back to the mud ditch to go to the grave! ”

"Hmm!"

Fu Shun looked at the already clear sky, and the snow delayed the fall of night. Fushun never thought that the brothers would be so dull when they met. In fact, he had so much to say, but he couldn't say anything.

"Rich family, you have to study hard. I know that you look down on your second brother, who is dressed in tattered clothes and covered in feces. If you look down on it, you have to get rid of the farm, the city outside is indeed too big, too good, and too beautiful, you have to save up your energy to study, go to high school, go to college! My eldest brother and I are stained with your light! Daddy's grave is shining! Fushun patted his brother on the shoulder and pulled her to the brazier.

Yang Zegui leaned on crutches and added some charcoal from the house......