"Ava ......"

"Ava ......"

The old lady who was said to be eccentric and had been said like this all her life, at the moment of leaving, she didn't look for Xia Aiguo in front of her, and she didn't pull her little granddaughter Xia, who had been eccentric for half her life, but suddenly stretched out her withered hand and grabbed the air.

She wanted to reach out and touch it again, to touch the eldest son who was now sweaty, his hair was half dyed green by the years, and he was crying loudly in the toilet of the train.

Uncle Xia stood on the squatting position of the toilet with his feet apart, he didn't want to go to the toilet, he just stood like this and shook his shoulders crying in the small space:

"Mother, wait for Aihua, Aihua is not filial! Aihua, the boss, is unqualified! Aihua knows that you like to stay in the village, there are acquaintances you can talk to, but Aihua doesn't support you! ”

Xia Aiguo's sad voice sounded in the old lady's ears, he held his mother's head and held the old lady's hand that was struggling to grasp the air:

"Mother, my eldest brother is coming soon! And the piano and the iron pillar! You wait, just wait a while! ”

Ye Boxuan helped Old Man Xia, he didn't care about stepping forward, he had to observe Old Man Xia's situation intently: "Grandpa, grandpa? He also had to use his spare eyes to take a look at the summer who cried in Su Meimei's arms.

……

The old lady wanted to promise everyone, she really wanted to say yes.

The old lady is not at ease!

The old son and the old daughter are all doing well, but only her eldest son is old and old. Who cooks? Who can hold on to each other and hand over a pill when he's sick?

It is said that the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, and it is said that the ten fingers are still divided into lengths. But in a mother's heart, she only favors the one who is relatively bad, and she prefers whoever has a bad life at any stage.

Can be finally ...... Man, there is this day.

The old lady still didn't wait for Xia Aihua, and didn't tell her eldest son a few words in person.

clenched his fists and cried to the world, starving, earning money, competing, pulling out his children, and only when he left did he really let go. Let go of everything that is so-called.

The door of Xia's house was slammed open. The three people in the dust cried in unison: "Mother! ”

The sound echoed over the small courtyard.

……

In the year when Ye Boxuan was just promoted to major general, the Ye family, one family and three generals, for New China, three generations of people were on the battlefield as handsome talents. Old Man Ye left this world without regrets and with a smile.

Turn the year. It's like the scene where Grandpa Song hugged Ye Boxuan when he was a child. Grandpa Song was in Ye Boxuan's arms, his face was calm, and he let go of his great-grandson Ye Xin's hand.

The last words he left for Ye Boxuan were: "I went to find your grandmother and uncle." Don't think about me. ”

In order to be more filial by his parents' side, in the same year, Ye Boxuan refused to go to a foreign military region to be the chief, and in Ye Zhiqing's disapproving eyes, he chose to stay in the Kyoto Military Region.

And now in the year of the thirtieth year of the summer, the Xia family also sent the old lady away.

In this life, what is shown to outsiders is beautiful, in order to get the praise and evaluation of others, "you look at who's house, who's who...... For the sake of this goal, the sad efforts behind it have been kept silent and forgotten as I get older.

The public spectacle of success to outsiders seems to be the birth of a newborn, the wedding of a child, and the death of an old man.

When the old lady of the Xia family died, who borrowed the most was Ye Boxuan.

At that time, although Xia's boss Xia Aiguo had some money, he couldn't make connections;

At that time, although he was promoted to director in the summer, it was not enough to look at it in front of the Ye family, which had deep roots.

And the Ye family has done a lot in it.

After Ye Zhiqing bowed to the old lady, he commanded his staff officers to help with the arrangements before and after, whether it was the hearse or the layout of the scene.

Song Yaping also always accompanied Su Meili and carried medical first-aid supplies with her in case of emergency.

When the family members replied, there were many high-ranking green uniforms, and many people came forward to shake hands with Ye Boxuan, leaving a sentence: "Please mourn and change." ”

This time, Ye Boxuan wanted to be in front of everything and did everything, and as his grandson-in-law, he was immersed in sadness in the Xia family, and he supported everything alone.

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Early nineties......

The unique carving technique depicts the lines of the furniture, which are clear and full of life.

With peach-colored furniture and a classical Chinese decoration style, this room that looks thick and elegant is a room that Xia Aiguo asked the masters to build for Old Man Xia.

With the character of the old man Xia, he should find some old men who can talk to come to the house, show off and let everyone visit.

But now the old man Xia doesn't like to go out of the house anymore, since the old lady left, he has slowly become silent.

In such a room, there is a mirror hanging on the wall, which looks out of place and so abrupt.

Summer pushed open the door of Old Man Xia's room, and when he walked in, he happened to see Old Man Xia wiping the mirror with a towel, and the gift with the name of the person in the half mirror written on it.

"Grandpa, this mirror is still a gift that those distant relatives of our Xia family bought with money when I got married, right?"

Old man Xia smiled and looked out the window with cloudy eyes: "Well, you remember." I asked Boxuan to come, and he said he didn't throw it away...... It's good that you didn't throw it away!"

After speaking, Old Man Xia finished wiping the mirror and hung it on the wall again, and his big hands covered with age spots picked up the photos scattered on the cabinet one by one, and then pinned the scattered ones on the mirror.

In those photos, everyone in the Xia family had one each, and Xia picked up the photo of her wearing a military uniform when she was a recruit and looked at it, and she listened to Old Man Xia's words with a lot of emotion.

"Our Xia family's ancestors have nothing good to leave for you. But I think I'm okay.

In that starving era, it was the village chief, which means that your father and none of them will starve to death.

When you got married, those relatives came to participate in the donkey cart and ox cart and leg climbing the mountain, and I was also popular.

Seeing this mirror, I can also think about what happened when I was young, or I would have forgotten about it. ”

After speaking, Old Man Xia looked at the photo of the old lady: "We don't live in vain, your grandmother is old, so old, she wears four golds." Even a gold bracelet can be hung on the arm. ”

……

This is the current old man Xia, he has reached the age where he can say whatever he wants, and when he is sober, he will answer a few words, and he will often fall into his own thinking.

Summer barely made her voice choked:

"Grandpa, do you want to go back to the Northeast? Let's get those relatives together again, and you and those grandfathers in Lishu Village will play chess again, sit on the big stone at the entrance of the village, and then smoke cigarette bags and pots and talk to them about the situation in the country. ”

"You're all busy, forget it."

Xia stepped forward and grabbed Old Man Xia's arm, she looked at the cloudy eyes seriously:

"Why forget it? We didn't have a busy day. But I can stop and accompany you at any time!

Grandfather. My granddaughter will accompany you back to Lishu Village to see my uncle's farm, my two nephews, and my brother-in-law, County Magistrate Zhao. Good no good? ”

Old Man Xia's eyes suddenly burst into light. Delaying your granddaughter's work? Should it be delayed or not?

Summer smiled. The smile was particularly bright, just like the moment she saw Old Man Xia take out the egg from the sleeve of his padded jacket before, she smiled and smiled. Tears slipped down her cheeks.

In the summer of laughter and tears, she grabbed the arm of the old man Xia and supported her grandfather who had bad legs and feet, and she said coquettishly:

"Grandpa, look at you, you have to make me cry!"

……

This trip, the summer of many years of work for the first time used the privilege, as an assistant to the minister of the summer, in the nineties the rank of director was the level of director.

The female leader at the department (bureau) level, with her grandfather, sat in her special car, and passed through any city and county, and they would settle down in the local area to rest. In case Old Man Xia is too old and his body can't bear it.

Xia originally planned to accompany Old Man Xia back to Lishu Village by herself, but she didn't want to, Xia Aiguo, Su Meili, Xia Qiu, Xia Dong, Xia Ling, including Xiao Mao, who had everything on her hands, everyone decided to go back to their hometown together.

Go for a walk and take a look...... The way home.

And this summer's high-profile trip is also the first time to prove in front of her family that she has grown from an ordinary female soldier to now, full of wings and already strong.

When Xia stood in front of Zhao Tiezhu and shook hands with other leading comrades in the local county one by one, Zhao Tiezhu said: "Welcome leaders to visit our county to inspect and guide the work...... Summer waved his hand and said: "Brother-in-law...... You're really, really shabby. ”

With a smile, Xia turned around and said to the comrades in the county who had just shaken hands:

"This time I came back for personal reasons, I can't talk about other aspects, that's it, what should you be busy with, the fallen leaves will always return to the roots, I just go back to my hometown to see."

……

Uncle Xia looked at the crowd outside the farm, and he almost fell on his heels after running a few steps: "Dad? Father! ”

While running, he said other people's names: "Patriotic, Reiko, Tiantian......"

And Zhao Tiezhu, who was next to him in the summer, had already begun to praise Uncle Xia to everyone:

"Big brother has been able to do it in the past few years! Since I completed those procedures for him, he is now really open up with Xia Wen and Zhang Qiao. Pigs, dairy cows, laying hens, broiler chickens, ......"

Old man Xia wiped the corners of his eyes with the sleeve of his clothes: "The boss is okay." ”

Uncle Xia, who has white hair, looks nearly twenty years older than Xia Aiguo, but his wrinkled expression makes him embarrassed in front of Old Man Xia:

"Dad, let's go, I'll kill you a stupid chicken." And he called the others:

"Patriotic, let's go, today the eldest brother personally uses a big iron pot to make chicken stewed mushrooms!"

……

The Xia family in Lishu Village, whether it is Uncle Xia's family or Xia Aiguo's old house, was originally renovated, and later asked someone to tear down and rebuild, one with three floors and one with two floors.

In summer and autumn, summer, summer and winter, the three of them looked at the rooms one by one, and they all thought of the big kang in the past.

It seemed that the large kang was in front of him, and the kang was separated by one wall of fire after another, and their father tried his best to buy them rooms in order to make a few more private rooms so that his children would not be disturbed.

Xiao Mao looked at the spacious kitchen and the tile wall, and she said to Su Meimei: "Mother, there are more rooms now, but they look deserted." I still like my cottage in the kitchen, which is warm. ”

And today's old man Xia looks very energetic, and he talks more, as if he hasn't walked out of Lishu Village yet, he is wearing a coiled Tangzhuang, standing on the road that has been widened at the entrance of the village, surrounded by people.

"Is this wood?"

"Hey, Lao Wang's handlebar style, your body is fine! Well, it looks pretty hard! Why didn't my brother Xu look at it? ”

"No, not in the first two years, happy and mournful! At our age, it's all joy and sorrow! ”

Another old man admired Old Man Xia: "You are still the old village chief, you are blessed!" I've become an old man in Kyoto! ”

Old man Xia looked at the familiar faces, and he touched the cigarette pouch and pot on his waist: "Yes, I can have today, it's worth it if I die!" ”

……

Zhang Qiao is old, and her tanned skin that runs around to make money looks very down-to-earth.

What is a relative? After many years, I met and kissed, broke my bones and tendons, and I didn't feel unreasonable to come to the house and eat directly with a rice bowl, this is the kind of relationship.

"What? Old aunt! How much does it cost? Why do you invite the whole village to eat and drink? ”

Su Meili was full of confidence: "No, I have to invite those relatives of my mother's family in Sujiatun." Let you go to Zhang Luo, which is so many why! ”

Just when Zhang Qiao was ordered to leave, thinking that he would have to go back to the farm to catch the pig lamb and kill it, Su Meili asked again:

"How is Xia Feng? Didn't Li Qunfa go to the south to work? Do you have a letter? "Zheng Sancai is gone, and she, who is an old aunt, has to help worry about it.

Zhang Qiao snorted:

"I wrote two days ago. That Li Qunfa and the old Wang family, Wang Xiaofang, went together, and Wang Xiaofang married a bicycle repairer, and disliked people and went directly to the south to live with Li Qunfa!

My eldest sister is stupid! This time, it's okay, she doesn't leave, people leave her, she's still so old, she's choked enough, why do you remarry?! ”

Xia Aiguo smoked for a moment, and his smile disappeared, and he looked at Uncle Xia. But Uncle Xia said with a gentle expression:

"What are you afraid of? Can a living person suffocate urine? Leaving him, it just so happens that I can give Feng as much as I want, and it's good to take the child by myself. It's just the same, you can't get back together without it! ”

Xia Aiguo thought, if he can't take it away this time, he will take his eldest niece away, change the environment, broaden his horizons, and shouted to Xia Ling: "Lingzi, go and tell your eldest sister about your years." ”

And it didn't take long for Xia Feng to follow Xia Ling, Xia Feng also rushed to Kyoto, she didn't work as a worker, Xia Feng, who had been honest all her life, gave Xia Aiguo the control of the treasury, and then married a widowed carpenter, and lived a very contented life.

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Summer held Xia Xiaogu's hand: "It's okay, An An will review again if she doesn't pass the exam." I'll do it when I go back, let him go to Kyoto to repeat his studies, isn't it just that he wants to be a soldier when he goes to military school? ”

"He's not a learning seedling! Forget it, Tiantian, my sister-in-law is not difficult for you. ”

Xia Aiqin, a leather wholesaler in the Northeast under Liu Yun, feels that it has been difficult enough for her second brother's family in recent years, and she has always pulled her sister. From the iron pillar to her, always troublesome them.

"Sister-in-law, you sent me to be a soldier back then, and today I send An An to be a soldier. That's it! ”

Zhao An suddenly stood in front of Summer: "Sister, I won't embarrass you and my brother-in-law, I will definitely be able to pass the exam this time!" ”

……

The four village cooks set up a shed from the entrance of the village, and a stove was built in the courtyard of the Xia family.

The three-day flowing water banquet served all the villagers of Lishu Village, and after eating a dish, a new dish was immediately served.

In the sound of firecrackers, Old Man Xia stood in front of the men, women and children of the whole village with a microphone, and when he saw the familiar faces, he remembered the scenery when he was a village cadre......

Uncle Xia and Xia Aiguo stood on the left side of the stage, leaving everything behind, tossing for three days, seeing the excited old man Xia at this moment, the brothers only felt: "It's worth it!" ”

Xia Aiguo said, "Big brother, what do you mean? I all said I spent money. ”

"Your money is not blowing in the wind, I don't have as much money as you, but I am the boss, my father and mother have been with you all these years, you also give me a little face for my eldest brother, and when I go back to the Northeast in the future, I will love the country and have to be arranged by my eldest brother!" (To be continued.) )