In the evening of that day, Zhang Taiping had just come back from digging sweet potatoes in the orchard in the back valley, and the village chief walked with his hands behind his back and said, "Dashuai, someone just called to find you." Let you call him back in a moment. ”

Phone? Zhang Taiping thought about it and guessed that it was Yang Wanli calling. If Cai Xiaomei called, she would definitely not look for herself, but if she wanted to find her sister Cai Yazhi. The only one who can find himself is Yang Wanli, and only he will call him. At that time, I didn't have a mobile phone, and I didn't have a phone at home, so I left the phone number of the village chief's house.

"Oh, let's go now, then." Zhang Taiping replied.

Walking under the tree with the village chief, the village chief's steps were very slow, and Zhang Taiping also followed patiently with his steps, knowing in his heart that the village chief might have something to say to himself.

The village chief took out a dry tobacco bag, filled a pot of dry tobacco, and lit a match. He took a hard breath, and the bright and extinguished sparks reflected on his face, and he couldn't see the expression in his eyes clearly.

Sure enough, the village chief took a few puffs of dry cigarettes and spoke: "Handsome, I am the same age as your father, and our relationship was good back then. If you call me uncle, it's not cheap for you at all. ”

Zhang Taiping didn't speak, but listened carefully.

"Your father went early, the old man lives in the mountains, I really have a responsibility to take care of you, but what you have done over the years is really sad, I said a few times, you didn't listen at all, and I didn't bother to say that I was really ashamed of your father in the past few years."

"It's not your fault, it's just that I used to be too much of a bastard."

If you can say that, you really have a heart for repentance. I also see that you are reliable these days, and I know the Gu family before I say these things to you. You're not too young, so don't hang out with the ruffians in the town anymore, and you're not going to end well with those dogs. ”

Zhang Taiping was embarrassed for a while, the old village chief's words were really fierce, didn't he become a dog before?

"Well, this Uncle Hermes-epitek can rest assured." Zhang Taiping straightened up and said.

"That's good. As long as you are no longer like before, you can leave a good impression and encounter something, others will have the heart to help you. Seeing that Zhang Taiping answered so surely, the village chief said with confidence.

Zhang Taiping didn't speak again, just walked quietly. The problem of people's hearts cannot be changed in a day, and the impression left in the past is too bad, and I dare not hope that the image in people's hearts will be reversed all at once. But people's hearts are also bright, as long as the future deeds are seen, there are no more bad deeds, and when the time is right, there is something to benefit the whole village, everyone has no deep hatred, and what is not forgiven.

The village chief tilted his head slightly, stopped smoking a dry cigarette and said, "Then today's phone call?" ”

Only then did Zhang Taiping understand the crux of today's remarks.

It turned out that the village chief found that Zhang Taiping had changed a lot a few days ago, and through the observation of the past few days, he felt that he might have woken up and reformed himself, and the prodigal son did not change his money, and the village chief did not say anything, but the relationship with his father was still there, and he was still very happy to see this scene.

But today, someone from outside suddenly called him, thinking that it was those dogs who were trying to seduce Zhang Taiping again. The village chief originally wanted to just hang up and say nothing, but in the end he didn't do it. came to report to Zhang Taiping, but he was a little uneasy and said such a thing.

Zhang Taiping was still very moved when he heard it, it is already very good for an outsider to be able to do this, which is really regarded as a junior.

"Don't worry, the old village chief, this is not a ruffian in the town, but a serious friend. It was the friend who drove here last time, and I went into the mountains and met a bear, and even hundreds of thousands of Tibetan mastiffs and big dogs were injured. Zhang Taiping explained.

"That's fine, just don't mess around with those people anymore, nothing good will end. Your boss is not small, live a good life, and if you can use your uncle in the future, just ask. ”

Zhang Taiping nodded.

When I arrived at the village chief's house, I dialed it up according to the above, and a familiar voice came from there.

"Is it Brother Zhang?"

"Well, yes."

"But I'm waiting for you, I have to buy a mobile phone quickly, so that people can wait to die when waiting for the phone. Your village chief is so hard-spoken. Yang Wanli was scratching for a while.

"Hehe" Zhang Taiping snorted embarrassedly twice, diverted the topic and asked, "How is Ah Lei?" ”

"It's okay. The doctor said it was not a major injury, and he has now fully recovered. As soon as he talked about Ah Lei, Yang Wanli boasted, "A fight, although it is a bit dangerous and still makes people feel palpitations in retrospect, but Ah Lei has changed a lot, and ordinary dogs dare not approach now." ”

"It's okay. What's the wrong call today? ”

Yang Wanli pondered for a moment and said: "After I went back that day, I couldn't help but show off the incident of meeting a black blind man in the mountains in front of my friends, and let them see Ah Lei's injury. They have been shouting for a trip into the mountains these days, saying that they also want to witness the black blind man, but they can't stop it. There is no way, so I can only bother Brother Zhang again. ”

"There's nothing to bother or not, come if you want, it just so happens that I want to go into the mountain again." Zhang Taiping replied indifferently.

"That's really thankful Brother Zhang," Yang Wanli couldn't stop thanking over there. In his opinion, Zhang Taiping said that he also wanted to enter the mountain purely to take care of his own feelings, which was the righteousness of his friends.

Zhang Taiping was embarrassed by gratitude, he actually really wanted to enter the mountain again, so he agreed by the way.

"If you say thank you, you won't treat me as a friend." Zhang Taiping interrupted his thanks.

"Hehe, okay, don't talk about it."

"How many of you are there, when will you come, let me prepare in advance." Zhang Taiping asked.

"Five or six people, I'm not sure yet, this Friday afternoon will be over." Yang Wanli said: "With so many people coming over, the place where you live won't be embarrassed by Brother Zhang, right?" ”

The last time Yang Wanli came to Zhang Taiping's house, there was an accident, and when he came, the situation was urgent, and he didn't enter, and when he left, he was worried that Ah Lei was anxious, and he didn't enter the house to sit. Therefore, I don't know about Zhang Taiping's yard, so I have this question.

"Don't worry about where to live, it won't let you camp." Zhang Taiping said jokingly.

"Haha, there's nothing camping, I haven't experienced the night in the mountains yet." Yang Wanli also laughed and joked.

"I'm in the mountains, my children don't go to school, and I don't have any idea about the week. Tell me about the date. Zhang Taiping said rightly.

"Friday is the sixteenth day of November, and the afternoon passes and the night rests, and the seventeenth and eighteenth days go into the mountains. What does Brother Zhang think? Yang Wanli replied.

"Okay, no problem, so be it."

"Then hang up first, and then go to the nag in a few days."

Zhang Taiping hung up the phone. Once counted, time flies really lump, especially this month. Before you know it, it's the thirteenth day of November in the solar calendar, and it's the sixth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

It was supposed to be winter, but this year the weather is still very warm, and there is no sign of winter at all. This is also in line with the climate change law in Xi'an. Irregularity is her most ironclad rule.

When I was in college, there was a saying: Yanjing is a popular city, and it is played in turn throughout the year; Kunming is a literary and artistic city, like spring all year round; Xi'an 2B City, four seasons randomly played. It's normal to have this climatic phenomenon. It is estimated that tomorrow will suddenly snow heavily, and it is not very surprising, and the authentic Xi'an people will come to say, "This year's snow is so late, remember that it fell in April of that year."

Zhang Taiping went out of the room, took out a five-yuan bill, and handed it to the village chief.

The village chief didn't even look at the money, pressed the tobacco in the cigarette pouch pot with his hand, and said angrily: "Are you slapping your uncle's face?" As he spoke, he pushed Zhang Taiping's hand back.

Zhang Taiping didn't insist anymore. Although it is a small matter, it is a matter of attitude. Whether to give or not is one thing, and whether to give or not is another.

Back at home, Zhang Taiping told Cai Yazhi about it. The next day he began to clean up the side houses in the middle yard. These houses were originally intended to be guest rooms, and they will definitely be used in the future, so now take the opportunity to clean them and use them as guest rooms at home in the future.

The old man was an outsider back then, and he had no relatives in the local area, so he had no relatives, and after so many years, these houses have been idle. But I'm sure I'll need it later, so clean it up thoroughly.

Due to the fact that no one has lived on the walls of the house for many years, there is a lot of blackberry powder on it, and the lumps are ugly, which is a bit inappropriate to use to receive guests, so you have to find a putty to brush the walls.

I don't have this kind of thing at home, so I can only go out and borrow it. As a result, there was no one at the old village chief's house, and Zhang Taiping thought for a while that there were really not many people who remembered. This kind of thing is a rare commodity in the average family in the mountains, and it is possible only in the homes of perennial wall builders. But Zhang Taiping never cared about the affairs of the village, and he really didn't know whose man did this job.

The village chief also knew his dilemma, pointed to a path and said, "Are you really confused, or are you fake?" ”

Zhang Taiping looked at the village chief inexplicably, why did he say this?

The village chief knocked the cigarette pouch pot twice and said, "Who did you learn your carpenter's craft from?" ”

Zhang Taiping patted his forehead, he was really confused. It was the old man Qian who taught Zhang Taiping carpentry, and he only remembered that he knew carpentry, but he forgot that he was an excellent mason in his early years. There may be something that paints the walls.

After thanking the village chief, he turned around and walked towards Old Man Qian's house. Old man Qian's full name is Qian Zenghui, and he is now in his fifties, and I heard that he also lived in the mountains in his early years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a hunter. If it weren't for the sake of the old man of the Zhang family, there would have been no Zhang Taiping's carpentry skills.