Chapter 1: Going Home

The welfare of the Planning Bureau has always been good. During this year's "Mid-Autumn Festival-National Day" double festival, Lin Yuanfang not only received a bonus of 300 yuan, but also distributed five catties of Cantonese moon cakes, ten catties of soybean oil and fifty catties of Yuanyang rice.

Early on Saturday morning, Lin Yuanfang rode his Phoenix brand 28 plus heavy bicycle out of the dormitory and rushed home with moon cakes and soybean oil hanging on the two handlebars and 50 catties of rice on the back rack.

Lin Yuanfang is a native of Linzhuang Village, Gucheng Township, Pinan County, and was assigned to the Binan County Planning Bureau after graduating from university two years ago.

Out of the county seat, go north, about three or four kilometers, the wide and smooth cement road becomes a potholed asphalt road. It is now the autumn harvest season, and the road is full of corn, squeezing the originally short asphalt road to a sheep's intestine path. Fortunately, there were not many cars on the road, so Lin Yuanfang rode carefully, and it took more than 20 miles to arrive in an hour.

As soon as he entered the village, Lin Yuanfang saw his father looking down at the corn drying on the side of the road. "Dad." He parked his bike next to his father and rolled over and got out of the bike. Lin Yuanfang's family is relatively senior, and many villagers who are about the same age as his father Lin Quanzhi have to call Uncle Quan when they see his father, and his mother is naturally called Aunt Quan.

"Coming back?" Uncle Quan raised his head and looked at Lin Yuanfang, a hint of surprise appeared on his wrinkled face. Then his eyes fell on Lin Yuanfang's bicycle, and his face couldn't help but tense, and he complained: "I don't know how to save all day, why do you buy so many things?" ”

"It's issued by the unit, so it doesn't cost money." Lin Yuanfang knew that his father felt sorry for him and was afraid that he would spend money indiscriminately, so that he would have to explain to his family every time he sent something.

"Then you can keep it for yourself. You haven't finished eating anything you brought back last time. Uncle Quan still complained.

"Dad, you don't know, I eat in the canteen of the unit, what's the use of keeping these things?" Lin Yuanfang said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if you don't finish eating, keep it and eat it slowly." These things won't break for a while. ”

"There are a lot of things...... Uncle Quan looked at Lin Yuanfang's bicycle again, and said to Lin Yuanfang in a consultative tone: "Why don't you send oil and rice to Yuanli?" She was nervous. ”

Yuanli is Lin Yuanfang's eldest sister and married to Fangzhuang Village, ten miles away. Because his brother-in-law Liu Chengwen was not in good health and could not do heavy physical work, the whole family relied on Lin Yuanli to support him alone, and it was difficult for him to live. Uncle Quan and Aunt Quan felt sorry for their daughter, and they made up for it from time to time, so that Lin Yuanli would not be interrupted.

Lin Yuanfang had actually prepared a hundred yuan, ready to take the time to send it to the eldest sister, and when he heard his father say this, he nodded and said, "It's okay." I went to my eldest sister's house in the afternoon and brought her things. ”

"Okay, okay, let's go in the afternoon." Uncle Quan felt a little guilty on his face, "Alas, far away, I'm not partial, it's not easy for Yuanli!" ”

"Dad, what do you mean by that?" Lin Yuanfang said angrily.

"Yes, don't talk about it, let's go back!" Uncle Quan grinned, his face was full of smiles in the wrinkles, he leaned the bamboo rake against the tree next to him, and slapped the floating ash on his body with his rough big hand, and said, "I've ridden for more than 20 miles, are you hungry?" Go home and ask your mom to roll a bowl of noodles for you to eat! ”

"Okay!" Lin Yuanfang made a greedy look. He knew that in his father's eyes, his mother's rolled noodles were the most delicious meal in the world. In my father's words, put a thin leaf with vinegar, add some chili peppers, sprinkle some chopped green onions, and put a few drops of sesame oil, it is really for Huang Yanjing not to change!

The father and son were pushing their bicycles home, and they were confronted by a group of villagers.

"Yo, Uncle Quan, have you come back from afar?" The villagers greeted Uncle Quan, but their eyes were fixed on the items on Lin Yuan's bicycle, "Look at this kid, it's really filial piety, I bought you so many things." ”

"I didn't buy it. It's all issued by the government, so you don't have to spend money! Uncle Quan straightened his back, his eyes shining.

The villagers were even more amazed, their eyes were full of envy, and they said, "It's all from the government?" Obediently, it's terrible! Uncle Quan, you are so blessed to have raised a good son! You don't have to do anything in the future, just sit at home and enjoy the blessings of the distance! ”

"Our villagers, how can we do it if we don't work!" Uncle Quan shook his head with a smile, glanced at the distance beside him, and the moisture in his heart was written on his face: Yuanfang was not only the first college student in Linzhuang Village, but also the first national cadre in Linzhuang Village. Although there are also people in Linzhuang Village who eat public meals in the county seat, they are all factory workers, and they give out walnuts and dates during the New Year's holidays, which cannot be compared with the distance.

Lin Yuanfang didn't speak, just pushed the bicycle and walked forward. Since he went to work in the county planning bureau, every time he came back from the county seat, he would almost encounter the same scene, at first he still had a little fever, but after more times, his cheek was tempered, and he couldn't hear these words. And his appearance, in the eyes of the villagers, has become a reserved state cadre......

The road from the village entrance to the house is very short, three or two minutes away. As soon as he entered the courtyard, Uncle Quan shouted loudly to the upper room: "Child, mother, you're back from afar!" ”

"Ah, the far side is back?" A surprised voice came from the house, Aunt Quan greeted her happily, and when she saw the things on Lin Yuanfang's bicycle, she said angrily: "This child, come back when you come back, bring so many things!" ”

Lin Yuanfang smiled, didn't speak, and propped the bicycle under the eaves of the west wing. Uncle Quan said on the side: "These are all things that are sent from afar. I asked him to bring rice and oil to Yuanli in the afternoon. ”

"Old things, you'll sell them well!" Aunt Quan glared at Uncle Quan fiercely. Uncle Quan smiled and didn't speak.

"The rice and oil will not be moved to the house, anyway, I will send it to the eldest sister in the afternoon." Lin Yuanfang set up the car, stretched out his hand to lift down the four boxes of moon cakes on the handlebar, and said to Uncle Quan: "This is the Cantonese moon cake ordered by the unit from the Yangcheng Hotel in Tianyang City, a box of fifty yuan, you two elders want to taste it." ”

"We are reluctant to eat such a precious thing, so you can keep it as a gift." Aunt Quan took the four boxes of moon cakes, held the delicate packaging box and looked at it carefully for a long time, and then handed it to Lin Yuanfang.

"Gifts, to whom?" Lin Yuanfang laughed in his heart, now in this world, even his mother knows how to give gifts.

"To the big leader of your unit."

"Xiuqin, you!" Uncle Quan grinned beside him, "There are moon cakes in the distance, can his leader not send them?" People will scarce these things? ”

"I don't care!" Aunt Quan glanced at Uncle Quan fiercely again, "Anyway, I can't afford to eat such a valuable thing!" ”

"If you can't eat it, you can offer it." Uncle Quan waved his hand, "What are you doing standing in the yard?" Come into the house and talk. ”

Lin Yuanfang followed Uncle Quan into the upper room, put the moon cakes on the table of the Eight Immortals, pulled a small chair and sat down at the door, Aunt Quan followed up from behind, poured a teapot of water for Lin Yuanfang and handed it over.

Lin Yuanfang took the teapot and poured it twice, stretched out his hand to wipe the water at the corner of his mouth, and said in his heart that the well water at home is still delicious, unlike the water in the county, which smells floating.

Aunt Quan kept staring at the moon cakes on the table, and when she saw Lin Yuanfang drinking water, she hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Yuanfang, can I discuss something with you?" ”

"Mom, what do you say?" Lin Yuanfang said with an enamel teapot.

Aunt Quan pointed to the moon cakes on the table of the Eight Immortals and said, "This moon cake is so expensive, let me and your father eat it and waste it." Why don't you take them to the small shop at the entrance of the village and sell them? ”

Uncle Quan was squatting on the ground smoking with a dry tobacco pouch, and when he heard Aunt Quan say this, he opened his mouth and said, "Xiuqin, what kind of crazy dreams do you have in the daytime?" The village eats five-kernel mooncakes for two or three yuan a catty, and they have never seen these fifty yuan a box of mooncakes, who dares to buy them? Who wants to buy it? Don't scare them to death! ”

He waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't worry about the moon cakes, I've ridden more than 20 miles in the early morning, and I'm hungry, why don't you go and get a bowl of noodles for the child?" ”

"Ah, look at me!" Aunt Quan patted her thigh and said distressedly: "Far away, you wait, Mom will go and roll the leaves." So saying, he picked up his apron and hurried to the stove.

It didn't take much time, and Aunt Quan came over with a big bowl of fragrant and hot noodles: "Far away, come, hurry up and eat." Then he turned around and yelled at Uncle Quan: "Put yours on the stove and serve it yourself." ”

Uncle Quan smiled, knocked the cigarette ash on the sole of his shoe with a dry tobacco pouch, got up and was about to go to the stove room, but he heard someone shouting outside: "Is Lin Quanzhi at home?" ”

Who? Uncle Quan opened the curtain and saw that it was a cropper in his forties, very fresh, without any impression.

"I'm Lin Quanzhi." Uncle Quan asked suspiciously, "...... are you?"

"My surname is Liu, and I am from your son-in-law Liu Chengwen." The man said, "Your family has asked me to bring you a message." ”

"Sit in the house." Uncle Quan put the man into the house, "If you have anything to say, drink saliva." ”

"yes, let's go inside and have a drink." Lin Yuanfang and Aunt Quan also came to the door.

"No, time is tight, and I have to speak for others. Yuanli asked you to find a way to scrape together 400 yuan for her before noon. The man waved his hand, hurriedly left a word, and turned to leave.

"Please wait a minute." Lin Yuanfang went up and stopped the man, "What happened to my sister?" ”

"Hey!" The man raised his wrist and looked at his watch, stomped his foot and said, "It's not the damn Tyrius yet!" This year, the village's retention has risen very much, and many people have not paid it. The village set up a debt settlement team, stipulating that villagers who did not hand over the money must stay at home and not even leave their homes. He also said that the retention money must be handed over before 11 a.m., otherwise the village debt settlement team will take compulsory collection measures. I was just about to enter the county seat to run errands, passing by your village, Yuanli asked me to bring you a message, you should hurry up. It's too late, and the debt clearance team is afraid that it will be a pig! ”

After saying these words, the man stopped standing and hurried out.