In a blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is coming, I hesitated to go home for the New Year, but I didn't expect that on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, Brother Wei Min came to the factory to find me and asked me to go to the hospital. Aunt Guan seems to have a tumor in her brain, and she lives in the provincial hospital, waiting for surgery. I knew that it was a big deal, and when I asked for leave from class, I simply connected it with the Spring Festival holiday. I rushed to the hospital to see Aunt Guan, who was fine during the Spring Festival last year, but now her face has collapsed, she is thin, and her eyes are no longer visible. Brother Wei Min said that he wanted to go home and get something, and asked me to accompany him in the hospital, and left after a few words

Aunt Guan's surgery was scheduled for the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, and Aunt Guan was embarrassed, and told me that she was so busy in the New Year, and she had to trouble me and delay me from going to work: "Tomorrow Weimin comes back, you can go back to work, what are you doing here?" It's all so busy. ”

I comforted her and said that there was no work in the factory, and it was early to take a holiday. Hearing me say this, Aunt Guan was relieved: "Oh. ”

Aunt Guan has been suffering from a fever and can't go away, four or five ice packs are turned back and forth from the refrigerator at the nurse's station to change for her, and her lips are dry, I sit next to her, and every once in a while I wet a cotton swab to wipe her. Aunt Guan fell asleep for a while, and when she woke up, she said a few words to me: "Have you got an object?" ”

"yes, there it is."

A smile appeared on Aunt Guan's face: "If you are well, we old people can rest assured." ”

"Got home to see your mother?"

“……”

"Go back and see her. She's a good person. ”

“……”

"Still mad at your mother?"

"Xiao Nan."

"Huh?"

"Do you know what Wei Min is doing when he goes home?"

"I don't know."

"I told him to go back and get me old clothes."

"......, auntie, what are you doing here? With such a big hospital, what disease can't be cured? ”

"Alas, people, sooner or later, you have to pass this level, nothing, if you can't get off the operating table, you can't walk naked, right?"

"Xiao Nan."

"Hey."

"Go back and see your mother."

"Hey."

"There's one thing, the eldest mother has always wanted to talk to you, the eldest mother can't open her mouth, and if she doesn't say it now, I'm afraid I'm going to take it to the coffin."

"You say, I'll listen."

"Do you still remember that I and your mother worked as a consignment point?"

"Remember."

"People and other stores have left the extra money and food stamps, I there, your mother is serious, all handed over, people say that the handed over are all handed over by Lao Luo to his own home, later, I discussed with your mother, I don't pay it there, quietly save up, wait for a good leader to hand it in, we will be in charge of it separately, your mother is in charge of the food stamps, I am in charge of the money, a total of one hundred and eighty-four yuan in my hand, I take it."

After talking too much, Aunt Guan slept again, I waited for her, woke up, and she asked me where I was? I mentioned it to her, she continued.

"Lao Luo was sentenced, when the new leader came, your mother asked me to go to the public society, my family of four, the two boys of the guards, not enough to eat, I added to the family little by little. I didn't hand it over, I felt that I didn't get it at the time, and you handed it over again. ”

"She said that she was a party member, and if something like this happened, she had to be responsible, and she said that she had saved enough money, and we would pay it together."

"At that time, the family was just enough to eat, how could they have money to save? Hard squeeze. ”

"I don't agree to hand it over, I'm afraid something will happen to it."

"She saved alone, she saved enough, and the food stamps were invalid again, so your mother paid 300 yuan in party dues."

"It's not that your mother can't stand you, it's that your aunt can't stand you! How good it is to go to school. ”

Guan Damiang did not die on the operating table, but after the doctor opened her cranial cavity, he found that it was already full of tumors, and the operation could not be done. The rest is to wait.

I was with the guards in the hospital with Mrs. Guan. On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, firecrackers rang out outside, and the sound came through the window of the ward, and Mrs. Guan said clearly: "It's another year." From then on, until he passed away in the third year of junior high school, he didn't say anything again. According to custom, the deceased should stay at home for three days, and the guards found a car to send Aunt Guan home. I went straight to the bank, took out all the 800 yuan I had saved in my passbook, and took the car home.

I didn't come back for a whole year, I found that the family has changed a lot, the original basically abandoned backyard, leveled out a vegetable field, although there are no vegetables planted, but the ditch is neatly made, next to the house wall with bricks to build a chicken coop, a few chickens scattered in the yard during the day, cooing and wandering. The inside of the house is cleaner and neater than before, and a brand new dual-purpose recorder has been added, which is placed on the dining table in the outhouse. I took out the money and gave it to her, but she didn't want it, let me put it away, it turned out that the petition letter written many years ago had a reply, and there were several cases like my mother, all of which uniformly implemented the policy, retired old enough, treated according to cadres, and arranged suitable jobs for those who were not old enough. My mother was old enough to go through the retirement procedures.

"Enough to spend."

My mom also took out the New Year's clothes she bought for me from the closet, a red turtleneck sweater, and a pair of beige trousers: "Don't just dress so plainly, wear something bright, dress up." ”

It's the first time I've ever heard the most human sentence ever from my mom's mouth, and I think she's changed, how do I say it? Getting old, slow, kind.

At night, my mother and I stacked gold ingots for Aunt Guan's funeral under the lamp, and my mother bought a lot of gold and silver paper.

"Your Aunt Guan has been poor all your life, and when you go over there, you can't suffer in money anymore."

My mother folded it very carefully, flattened each edge vigorously, and scraped it again with her fingernails, lest it be done inconsiderately so that Aunt Guan couldn't spend it.

"It's not good after the New Year, and if you don't go to see it, it's not that you're afraid of spending money."

"Rabah is finished with the young, and after serving the old, it is time to enjoy the blessings, and he has this fatal disease, why is he so unblessed."

"I came to this world to suffer this crime."

I silently folded the ingots and listened to my mother's nagging, she didn't seem to say it to me, but to Aunt Guan.

When I returned to the factory after the holiday, the squad leader had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as we met, he pulled me into the house, closed the door, mysteriously took out a shoe box tied with tape, and asked me with a smile: "Guess what's inside?" ”

"Shoes."

The squad leader shook his head: "The shoes still need to be guessed!" Guess! ”

I took the box, felt the weight, shook it again, and realized that it was not full, and there was space.

"Can't guess!"

"Then ......" the squad leader pointed to his face, and I attached a kiss. This way. He turned his face away, and I kissed it again.

"That's pretty much it!" The squad leader took the scissors to unpack the tape on the box, and the moment the box was opened, I was so shocked that I almost screamed: there are so many neatly bandaged big solidarities inside!

"Where did you come from?"

"Earned! Deng Zhen and I sold 60 cobalt, more than 600,000 yuan! ”

"Earn so much, what percentage of your commission is?"

"One hundredth."

"One percent, six hundred thousand is ......" I didn't understand for a while.

"Little fool, 600,000 machines, isn't one percent of them 6,000?"

"How much is here? One, two, three, four......"

"Don't count, twenty thousand."

"That's so much, didn't you say six thousand?"

"If you want a commission, Deng Zhen and I have 6,000 each, let me tell you, we found a company, and from there, after deducting taxes, Deng Zhen and I shared a small 30,000."

"Huh? Is that okay? Does the factory know let? ”

"What are you doing, how can you let the factory know. Even if you know, the contract is stamped with the seal of someone else's medical device company, and it has nothing to do with us, right? Now the factory runs sales are doing this, you know that the director of our office can not go to the office several times a year, play at home every day, at the end of the month, on the railway station exit and wait, there is no reimbursement of tickets, he will buy three or five yuan, go home and paste on the reimbursement form is money. ”

“……”

"I gave my family 5,000 for the Chinese New Year, you can find a bank to save these, let's."

When the spring is warm, I take the car home on weekends, and sometimes the squad leader comes back from the office, so he asks him to accompany me back. At night, I slept in the same room with my mother, and the squad leader slept in my single bed.

I can't sleep and talk to my mom. I told my mother that he was the one who sent the clothes back then, and my mother scolded me with a smile: "Dead girl, you knew it at the time, and she was still arguing with me!" ”

"Guess about it. I don't dare to admit it even if I guess, just your temper at that time! ”

"Hey, it's good, I think he lets you go, he has a good temper, a bit like your father."

"My dad has been angry with you all his life, so I will bully and bully him."

"Alas! In order to retire back then, I can't remember how many battles I fought with your father, and I felt that it was wrong, so I had to take it aside, and I didn't know how to turn back when I hit the hole in the south wall, and I didn't know how to turn back, and now I think about it when I'm old, in this life, how can there be a person who doesn't make a mistake in his life, can there be one in 10,000 people, right? Besides, it's so rare, why do you want to run into it? ”

"I think your enlightenment back then was almost one, right?"

My mom heard me teasing her and laughed and hit me.

"Don't say it, I was also thinking like that at that time, one is one, two is two, what mistake can I make? In the end, it doesn't work. ”

"What did you do wrong?"

“…… It's all gone. ”

I can see that my mother doesn't want to say it, and I can't break it.

"Mom, I've grown so big, I haven't seen you criticize yourself once, the first time, just seeing you criticize us, until now, I still remember my dad bowing his head and confessing his guilt."

"Alas! When I get over there one day, I see your dad and give him a good company. ”

"Forget it, you haven't been soft on my dad in your life, the transformation is too fast, and you will scare my dad again."