4. Telephone

Meng Zhaodi is also jealous of Meng Qingqing, not only jealous that Meng Qingqing studies better than her, but also jealous that Meng Qingqing's uncle, uncle and sister-in-law are all working outside, and they are also jealous that Meng Qingqing's father is a high school student, and he gave Meng Qingqing such a beautiful and foreign name, unlike her, Meng Zhaodi, who is a very earthy name when she hears it, and often makes her classmates laugh. But although Meng Zhaodi is also jealous of Meng Qingqing, she is smart, not too explicit like her mother, she is more hidden than her mother.

Meng Qingqing picked up the water three times before the water tank was full, because she began to do this kind of work every day when she was seven years old, so she didn't feel tired, grandma's noodles were cooked, grandma also specially beat an egg for Meng Qingqing, Meng Qingqing ate the noodles, and saw that the time was already seven forty o'clock, so she said to her grandmother and hurried to the village office.

From Mengjia Village to the village office, it will take half an hour for adults to take at the earliest, Meng Qingqing couldn't wait to hear his father's voice, and ran all the way, so he arrived at the village office in more than 20 minutes.

Meng Qingqing panted and said to the people in the village office that he had something urgent to call.

The people at the village office knew that Meng Qingqing was from Mengjia Village, shook their heads and said: "In other villages, there are more or less two families who have installed telephones at home, but in your Mengjia Village, you can't even install a telephone."

Meng Qingqing thought that her father had long wanted to install a landline at home, but their Mengjia Village was too remote, and there was only one family, and the telecommunications bureau was reluctant to pull the line. So every time I called, I had to travel a long way to the village office.

Meng Qingqing didn't explain, when it came to Mengjia Village, people nearby knew that Mengjia Village was the poorest and most backward.

Meng Qingqing dialed the phone, excitedly eager to hear her father's voice, telling her that she wanted to see him, he was sick in bed now, and he also wanted to hear her voice!

But the person who answered the phone was an uncle, and Meng Qingqing was no less familiar with this voice than his father's voice.

"Uncle, why are you holding my father's phone? What about my dad? Let him answer the phone. "Although she hates this beast-faced person now, Meng Qingqing can't fall out with him all of a sudden, now she is still young in the eyes of others, and she can't take on many things.

"It's Qingqing! Your dad is busy with work these days, he left the phone here with me, what is the matter with you, I will tell him. ”

Obviously, his father is now lying in the hospital, and Meng Zijian is still perfunctory to her like this, even if he finds out later, he will find a reason not to tell her in order not to worry her, but he doesn't let Meng Qingqing know that his father is already lying on the hospital bed, his real intention is not to let her contact with her father, and to know how much property her father has.

It seems that from Meng Zijian's mouth, he can't ask about his father's situation, and his father's phone is in Meng Zijian's hands, so he can only go to his father's side in person to know the true situation of his father. She had to do her best to save her father's life, and she couldn't let her father's property fall into the hands of Meng Zijian and his wife.

Meng Qingqing also said casually perfunctorily: "Uncle, it's nothing, I just miss my father, so give him a call." Since my dad wasn't there, I hung up. ”

Meng Qingqing put down the phone, thanked the people at the village office, and hurried home, she had to find a way to persuade her grandmother to let her promise to go to the provincial capital of Nanshi to find her father. In her previous life, she was twelve years old and didn't know that her father was sick, and she didn't know where her father was, of course she didn't dare to go so far to the provincial capital to find her father alone, but now she knows that her father is now in the hospital, and she also knows that she is in the ward of that department of that hospital. So even though the uncle didn't tell her, she knew and was able to find it.

Meng Qingqing thought about it while returning home, but her grandmother was not at home, she might have gone to the field. In the countryside, there is always endless farm work. In her previous life, Grandma fell to the ground.

Meng Qingqing ran to the ground, grandma was really there, Meng Qingqing patted her chest, bent over and panted and said, "Grandma, give me a little money for the travel expenses, I want to see my father."

Grandma was weeding in the grain field, she put down her hoe, beat her waist and said, "You called your dad?" What did he say? ”

"Grandma, my dad said, let me go to the provincial city to play for a few days." Meng Qingqing lied.

Grandma shook her head, "How can you go alone?" It's that far away, and it takes several trips! "There are more than 30 kilometers of mountain roads from Mengjia Village to the town, more than 70 kilometers from the town to the county seat, and more than 10 hours by bus from the county seat to the provincial capital. Grandma has never been to the provincial capital, but she heard that there are so many people and cars in the provincial capital that they are as dense as trees on the mountain, so many people and cars, how can her granddaughter find her father?

Meng Qingqing could only continue to lie to her grandmother, "Grandma, my uncle just happened to be going to the provincial capital, so he sent me there by the way." ”

Grandma was really relieved when she heard this, "It's good that your uncle will go with you, but I also want you to walk alone to the town to take the car, ask if anyone is going to the town today, you can go together." ”

Grandma carried a hoe and returned home with Meng Qingqing, grandma washed her hands, went to the house and turned out three hundred yuan for Meng Qingqing. "Qingqing, this is the travel fee, and the money to buy food on the road. When you arrive in the provincial capital, don't run around, I heard that the provincial city is very big, and if you get lost, you can't find your way home! ”

Meng Qingqing has lived in the provincial capital for more than ten years, and she is already very familiar with it, of course, there is no problem of running away and not finding a home, but she still nodded seriously and agreed to her grandmother. I used to be ignorant, I always thought my grandmother was nagging, and after becoming an orphan, how much she missed her grandmother's nagging, no one nagged in her ear, and no one cared.

Meng Qingqing carried 300 yuan in her arms and went on the road with her grandmother's instructions. Accompanying her all the way was the village chief, Uncle Mouse. He went to the town to run errands, Uncle Mouse because he grew a sharp monkey cheeks, thin and small, people called him Mouse, although this Uncle Mouse did not look very good, but a straightforward and cheerful person, in the previous life, after the death of her father, this Uncle Mouse helped her and her grandmother a lot. So Meng Qingqing had a good impression of him.

Uncle Mouse's steps were big and fast, and Meng Qingqing had to trot to keep up with him.

PS: Happy Lantern Festival, everyone!