The "homely meals" of Uncle Seven's family are unusually rich. But Yang Zegui's father and daughter didn't eat a few bites, but Qiao'er was so happy that they tasted more than a dozen dishes on a table, and came to the conclusion that the dishes fried by grandma were better than those fried by mother. The old lady Chen, who was retired at home, was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut, and she was trying to pick up vegetables for her baby granddaughter!

Yang Laosi, who was embarrassed to move his chopsticks, drank a lot of wine. No one can persuade the county magistrate, Wuliangye is cup after cup. From models to farmers, from in-laws to distinguished guests, there are all things that the county magistrate said. Accountant Yang's former demeanor in the brigade is gone, holding a glass and saying "thank you", and then pouring the wine into his stomach!

The wine is definitely good wine, but Yang Laosi is uncomfortable drinking, if it was ten years ago in Shiqiao Commune, not to mention your county magistrate, even if the big leader of the region came, he would have been able to take it. But now it's different, I'm just a grass farmer, not to mention that the county magistrate in front of me is still my relative, the seventh brother's father-in-law and boss. Whether it is the parent official or the leader of the seventh brother, it is always right to say "thank you"!

The meal time is not long, but it is indeed torment for Shufen, Uncle Seven occasionally gives her some food, she buries her head and shaves a small bowl of white rice, looking at the "Eight Horses" on the wall, I really want to become the galloping horse, galloping to the foot of Yantai Mountain overnight!

"Fourth brother, shall we go out for a walk? I'll show you the night view of this small mountain town! The old man had already seen that the fourth brother was uncomfortable, and hurried to relieve the siege after his father-in-law was full of wine and food.

"Uh, let's go!" Yang Zegui also wanted to talk to the seventh brother, and turned around to get the crutches against the wall. I saw Qiao'er take the wooden crutch aside, put it on the ground to make a "wooden bridge", and was stepping on it.

"Mingxiu, shake the phone, you ask your hospital to send a wheelchair over, it's convenient for your fourth brother to go out!" County Magistrate Chen instructed his daughter who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks!

"No, I ...... Don't go out! Yang Zegui looked at the little girl who was having a good time, and didn't know what to do.

Shufen, who came back to her senses, suddenly got up and walked to the little girl. "Sister Qiao'er, this is the crutch of the fourth uncle, we have to go out, please return it to us!"

"What crutches? This is the wooden bridge I just built, don't give it! Xiao'er ignored the cousin at all, and continued to jump around in the gap of the crutches.

Shufen looked at the county magistrate who was picking her teeth, as if she was conniving at her granddaughter to bully a disabled person, and the tall image on the rostrum in the morning was gone.

Shufen was a little annoyed. "This is someone else's leg, how can anyone use a human leg to build a bridge, are you ......" Shufen swallowed her words back, she originally wanted to say "Su Daji", but she immediately felt that she couldn't understand this to such a little child, after all, she was still the daughter of the seventh uncle and the granddaughter of the county magistrate! Shufen picked up the crutches and handed them to her father, who was still talking to the county magistrate!

The little girl burst into tears! Yang Zegui glared at Shufen fiercely, jumped over on one leg, put the crutches back in place, and then jumped back to sit down. When Qiao'er saw the four-man jumping on one leg, she suddenly burst into tears and laughed, and kept repeating "Big with broken legs!" in her mouth! ”

Yang Ze, who had just come out of the bedroom to change his clothes, came in and out and saw this scene, he was furious, snatched the cane, slapped his daughter twice, and handed the wooden crutches to the fourth brother.

"Let's go, fourth brother, little baby, don't be sensible, don't get angry!" Yang Zejin picked up the fourth brother very guiltily, took Shufen's hand and walked out. "Dad, let's go out for a walk and be back in a while!"

The grandmother, who was busy in the kitchen, came out to pick up Qiao'er, who was crying, and cursed her "ignorant" son-in-law......

"...... just now" Yang Zegui wanted to apologize to the seventh brother for the "mistake" just now!

"It's not right just now, the children's families are all used to their grandparents! Hey, if only Shufen could be so sensible! ”

"Qiao'er is still young, Uncle Seven!" Shufen hurriedly added, although she was still very uncomfortable.

"Boss, I'm afraid you'll be embarrassed......"

"It's okay, just get by! It's cold at night, don't go shopping, tomorrow weekend, I'll go shopping with you, let's go to the guest house......"

"Doesn't it live in your house? You also explained that the show bed was packed up in the afternoon......"

"No, just stay in the guest house, I'll send you there!"

The government guest house is not far away, a few hundred meters out of the compound. Yang Zejin opened two rooms for the fourth brother and Shufen, and sat down in the fourth brother's room.

Yang Zegui looked at this younger brother who had become a cadre, and he didn't know where to start with so many words. "Boss, dad will burn seven tomorrow, shall we go all the way back?"

"I can't go back, there are still some things tomorrow!"

"Didn't you just say it's a weekend? Also, aren't you in charge of repairing the power station? Why haven't you been back for so long? ”

"Oh, there's a meeting tomorrow afternoon! The matter of the hydropower station is in charge of someone else! ”

"I heard Township Chief Luo say that you are going to be promoted?"

"Hmmm......"

"What are you doing?"

"Water Bureau!"

"Director?"

"Hmm!"

"Okay, it's a good thing, old man, you haven't been able to get a few brothers, you are angry, work hard, you can't burn seven, and your father can't blame you!"

"Fourth brother, I'...... Hey......" Yang Zejin had a bitter stomach, but he couldn't pour it all to the fourth brother.

"I know you care what other people say. This is normal, you have an old man who is the county magistrate, and everyone will talk about it. Then you have to work harder, do a good job, make achievements, and use real skills to block gossip. And your own words and deeds, you can't just take the county magistrate's car just because we're here, we are farmers, and you are cadres. Cadres cannot spoil their work style because of their peasant relatives, nor can they speculate and turn their heads down because they have county magistrates! Yang Zegui finally expressed what he wanted to say concisely, he really hoped that the seventh brother would listen to it, although the last idiom of "speculation" was not very appropriate.

"Well, I know, Fourth Brother! Going to the Water Conservancy Bureau is also related to the last time I came back for flood relief and disaster relief, and my own major is also related to water conservancy. Also, my husband and wife...... He has been transferred to the secretary of the county party committee, and it is not very convenient for me to work in the county party committee! Yang Zejin was reluctant to talk to his family about his work and the complicated interpersonal relationships in the compound, but in front of his most respected fourth brother, he still mentioned something.

"Oh!" Yang Zegui simply responded to the whole life, and while pondering, he took off his clothes and went into the quilt.

Yang Zejin looked at the dove-shaped man in front of him. Before he reached the age of confusion, he was older than his eldest brother in his fifties, his sparse white hair had already occupied half of the country, and his protruding cheekbones made his sunken eye sockets even more rugged. The obviously oversized tunic was draped over the bony body, and the armpits had been worn by wooden crutches with several layers of patches.

Yang Zejin felt indescribably sour in his heart. The old wizard always said, my mother left you at the most difficult time, and I was going to raise the youngest Zejin to others, but your fourth brother didn't let me, saying that I couldn't support him to raise him. Since I can remember, the fourth brother has cared for himself meticulously, although the money for school is paid by several brothers, but the tuition and living expenses of the fourth brother are at least half. In the year he got married, the fourth brother, who was an accountant, took out all the pork and grain for the New Year, and married Mingxiu in the city beautifully. Later, the fourth brother broke his leg and was hospitalized in the administrative hospital, and he had just joined the work, and he was engaged in "conference battles" everywhere, and he didn't even look at it......

Yang Zejin took the fourth brother's "other leg" - this is the wooden crutch in front of his father. The thick green pole tree of the wine glass is cut from the middle, the bottom is set aside for about ten centimeters, tightened with an iron hoop, and then reinforced with steel wire, the handle in the middle is connected with a strong cypress wood on both sides of the trunk, and the top is connected with a piece of wood. Now this wooden crutch, the position of the handle and the bracket has been polished smooth and dented by one or two centimeters, and the lower part of the originally thick iron hoop has a thin layer of skin left - Yang Zejin looked at this "new crutch" that the fourth brother had been pestle for less than three years, and guessed how many kilometers the fourth brother had traveled with this "leg" and how many catties of grain had been supported?

"Fourth brother, now that the medical treatment is developed, I will ask Mingxiu to contact the regional orthopedic hospital and give you a prosthetic, right?" The old man pulled the quilt over and covered the fourth brother's broken leg, he knew that the wheelchair was really useless to the farmers who climbed the slopes in Yangjiawan.

"Forget it, I've heard Dr. He say that that thing not only costs money, but the key is that it is inconvenient in the ground, my wooden shelf, even if it is stuck in the mud, I can pull it out when I sit there!"

"Oh, I'll find out more!" Yang Zejin also took off his shoes and put his legs in the quilt as he spoke, "I asked Mingxiu to order a pair of iron crutches for you in the area, and I will send you a shuttle bus tomorrow!" ”

"Okay! Lao Wei Mingxiu! "Yang Shuzi is grateful, don't look at the simplicity of the wooden crutch, but it can really be used well for three years without breaking, and now I can't find such a person in Shiqiao!

"Don't say that! Fourth brother, Fushun has nothing to do in Jiangyun! It was a case of embezzlement of public grain, and now the whole province is arresting it, and we even studied it the day before yesterday. By the way, the guy on the dock you asked me to inquire about last time has already inquired......"

"Is it the same?"

"It shouldn't be, it's not clear yet, the name is inconsistent, but he also has the experience of 'educated youth' here......" Yang Zejin told the fourth brother everything he had learned, and then changed the topic: "There is an agricultural technology training class next month, the teacher of the regional agricultural school will come and do it in the Chahe area, I asked the head of Luo Township to register Shufen, and she is not busy during this time, and she is called to study, and now she advocates the opening up of the rural economy and invigorates it, I think it is a good sign." Shufen, this woman has a clever brain, maybe she can really make a difference in the 'vast world of the countryside'! ”

"Good!" Yang Zegui also became excited, and replied categorically.

The two brothers talked freely for half a night, from the economic reform in the county to the comprehensive implementation of the contract of joint production, from the major policies of the state to the personnel changes in the capital, a peasant in a mountain village and a cadre in a small county town, talking about family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, and then fell asleep in the same bed......

Shufen lived in a guest house for the first time, but I don't know if it was because of a new environment or because of excitement, I couldn't sleep. She thought of the scene after scene at Uncle Seven's house at night, from excitement to anger, and her good impression of the city and the city cadres plummeted, she thought, let's be a peaceful countryman, at least in Yangjiawan, no one will look down on her father so much......