Smoke rises in the village, most of the families are cooking dinner at this time, and the rich aroma of corn porridge boiled in a big iron pot comes from every house and lingers in every corner of the village, and this fragrance makes the hungry feel even more hungry; The TV screen flickered with images, and the warm light peeked through the glass window, which made the desperate feel even more sad.

The cold wind is biting, the sky is overcast, and the snow grits fall from the sky, which immediately melt into cool water droplets when they fall on their faces, and even people who are in a good mood will feel inexplicably depressed in this kind of weather.

Zhao Yunfei stood at the door of his house, looking at the gate, courtyard and the half-new red brick houses, he was stunned for a moment, and then turned around and came to the gate of Li Lanfang's house in the front yard, knocked the door a few times, and heard Li Lanfang's delicate voice: "Who?" Come on! ”

Li Lanfang opened the door, saw that it was Zhao Yunfei, and said, "I went to your house just now to deliver it."

She wanted to say "go and deliver food", but the words came to her mouth and swallowed back, she knew that Zhao Yunfei had a strong self-esteem, and the words "send rice" implied the meaning of charity, she was afraid that Zhao Yunfei would be unhappy when she heard this, so she quickly changed her words and said: "Why are you and Xiaoji not at home?" Is Koji's illness better? ”

Zhao Yunfei's thin face had a cold expression, and he didn't answer Li Lanfang's question, but asked, "Are your uncle and aunt at home?" ”

Li Lanfang paused for a moment, nodded mechanically and said, "Yes, it's all there." ”

Zhao Yunfei entered the house, Li Lanfang followed behind, she already felt that Zhao Yunfei had something, but she couldn't guess what it was, her heart was like fifteen buckets of water - seven up and eight down.

"Uncle, aunt!" Zhao Yun flew into the door.

"Yunfei is coming!" Li Zhong beckoned.

"I'm going to talk to you about something!" Zhao Yunfei said, his tone like an adult.

"What's the matter? Sit down and say. Li Zhong pointed to an old-fashioned chair on the left side of the Eight Immortals Table.

"I want to sell my yard, you can buy it!" Zhao Yunfei said.

Hearing Zhao Yunfei's words, Li Lanfang's family's expressions instantly froze, and after a while, Li Lanfang's mother said, "Yunfei, what's wrong?" Want to sell a homestead? ”

Hearing this question, Zhao Yunfei's tears suddenly poured into his eyes, he held back and didn't let the tears flow, in fact, the scene of him holding back his tears has been clearly seen by Li Lanfang's family.

Zhao Yunfei took a deep breath, tried to make his voice as steady as possible, and said: "My sister is hospitalized in the town's health center, the doctor said that it was pneumonia, and it would take two thousand yuan to cure, and I have no money in my hand now." ”

Li Zhong listened to Zhao Yunfei's words, grinned and laughed, took out a cigarette himself, lit it and took a puff, before saying: "You stupid boy, as the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, we live in the front and back yards of our two families, why don't you just talk about Xiaoji's hospitalization?" You sell your homestead for almost so much money, where do you live if you sell it? Besides, why do I have to buy yours if I want to buy a homestead? Give some gifts to the village party secretary, and you can approve a new homestead without even using a thousand yuan. ”

Li Lanfang pursed her lips and said unhappily: "Dad, Xiaoji is hospitalized, how anxious people are, you still have the heart to laugh!" ”

Li Zhong was afraid that his daughter would complain, so he hurriedly said to his daughter: "Okay, good, I don't laugh, let's talk less nonsense, hurry up to the health center, I'll go with your mother, and you look after the house." ”

Li Lanfang pouted: "I'm scared at home alone, I'm going too!" ”

Li Zhong was a wall grass in front of his baby daughter, and immediately changed his words: "Then your mother will take care of the house, Yunfei and the three of us will go!" ”

Li Lanfang clapped her hands happily and jumped up, and immediately realized Zhao Yunfei's mood at this time, and quickly stopped her elated joy.

Zhao Yunfei stood up, and suddenly a wave of dizziness hit, but fortunately, Li Lanfang's mother was close to him and held on to him so that he didn't fall.

"What's going on?" Li Lanfang asked in horror, and also stepped forward to support Zhao Yunfei.

"This kid must have been in a hurry for a day and didn't eat." Li Lanfang's mother said it.

"Let him lie down on the bed for a while and feed him some water!" Li Zhong said.

Everyone helped Zhao Yunfei to the bed, Li Lanfang hurriedly poured half a cup of hot water, mixed half a cup of cold white water, and handed it to Li Zhong, Li Zhong held Zhao Yunfei's head and sent the water cup to Zhao Yunfei's lips.

Zhao Yunfei's lips were already chapped, he opened his mouth and took two sips, with some spirit in his eyes.

Li Lanfang secretly wiped a handful of tears, and without waiting for the adult's instructions, she obediently went to the kitchen to cook instant noodles for Zhao Yunfei.

A big bowl of hot instant noodles, with three eggs lying in it, Zhao Yunfei ate this bowl of noodles with tears, Li Lanfang's parents couldn't bear to look at it, and they all hid outside the house

Li Zhong pushed the Qianjiang motorcycle out of the carport, lit the fire, Li Lanfang rode in the middle, Zhao Yunfei rode at the end, and rushed to the town health center at a gallop.

When they arrived at the health center, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, they hurried straight to the ward, pushed the door and looked, only to see Xiao Ji was infused with fluid, and the doctor who treated Xiao Ji was guarding Xiao Ji's bedside, Xiao Ji was sobbing and crying, and the doctor was comforting him.

When the doctor saw them come in, he stood up and said, "You are here, your sister has woken up and seen that you have been crying for a long time, and I can't persuade you!" ”

When Xiao Ji saw his brother come in, he cried even more, and said while crying, "Brother, I thought you didn't want me anymore!" ”

Zhao Yunfei rushed to Xiao Ji's side, grabbed Xiao Ji's hand tightly and choked and said, "How could my brother not want Xiao Ji?" Isn't this coming back? ”

"Brother wants Xiaoji, why doesn't mom want Xiaoji? Why don't you send us money? Is it because Xiao Ji is not well-behaved and always sick? "The mother who has not heard from her has undoubtedly left a terrifying shadow on Xiao Ji's young heart.

Li Zhong took the doctor's hand and thanked him repeatedly, took out a cigarette to salute it, and said, "Thanks to your help today, I haven't asked your surname yet?" ”

The doctor pushed and said, "My surname is Liu, smoking is not allowed in the ward, I got off work at six o'clock, and now it's past eight o'clock, I have to go home quickly!" ”

Li Zhong hurriedly took out the money and returned the money advanced by Dr. Liu, Dr. Liu was not polite, accepted the money, and said when he went out: "Tomorrow morning, you think about paying the hospitalization deposit, I am still responsible for letting the child be hospitalized without authorization today, the liquid is added to the antipyretics, the fever should be able to subside soon, in the morning, you go to the canteen to buy some millet porridge for the child!" With that, he turned around and walked out of the hospital room.

Zhao Yunfei chased after him and said to Dr. Liu: "It's really troublesome for you today!" ”

Dr. Liu waved his hand to Zhao Yunfei and rode away

After Xiaoji's illness recovered, Zhao Yunfei knew that he might no longer be able to count on his mother's remittance slip, he began to use Saturdays, Sundays, winter and summer vacations to load trucks and work as small workers in the village's brick factory......

In winter, heavy physical work squeezes every drop of water in the body, seeps into the cotton clothes, and freezes cold

In the summer, the scorching sun in the field has sunburned the skin on the back layer after layer

The blood blisters on the hands broke and grinded, and grinded and broke

worked hard like this, saved money, and finally paid back more than 2,000 yuan owed to Li Lanfang's family in more than a year.

Zhao Yunfei used his shoulders, which were not thick, to support this stormy home.

Without childhood amusement, without innocent laughter, some are all endless work!

Although it is extremely hard, Zhao Yunfei is never lazy, never complains, not for anything else, just to let his young sister eat, wear, and have money to see a doctor, so that she can live her life

The experience of Xiao Ji's illness still makes Zhao Yunfei palpitate, "Now is the time to be short of money again, Xiao Ji must not get sick!" He prayed silently in his heart.

However, Zhao Yunfei is completely different from two years ago, he is older and more mature, and he already knows how to deal with things when he encounters them, and he will no longer be blindly anxious.

Sometimes Zhao Yunfei thinks of those things in the past, and he feels ridiculous about his immaturity, but that is the experience of growing up, how can he grow up and mature without experiencing wind and rain!

Let the childhood memories go away with the wind!