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Help people to the end, send Buddha to the west, Liu Handong went to the gas station to refuel, there is no Sinopec PetroChina outlets in the town, only a small private gas station, the boss is a stout man, and after looking at it for a long time, he said that this is not a plum.

It turned out to be an old acquaintance, Sister Mei stepped forward and chatted a few words in the local dialect that Liu Handong didn't understand, and the man reached out to pinch Sister Mei's buttocks, but she slapped it open, laughed and walked away, turned on the fuel dispenser to refuel Fukang.

"Say what?" Liu Handong asked.

"I asked him not to mix water, add real gasoline, and the small local gas station will cheat people when he sees a car from other places, not to mention the expensive ones, and he will also mix you with water, and if you don't have a good motive, you can be damaged." Sister Mei explained.

Liu Handong looked at his phone: "It's not early, let's go quickly after refueling, help people to the end, send the Buddha to the west, and I will send you to the door." ”

Sister Mei said: "Don't panic, today is a set, buy something first." ”

It was still early, Liu Handong borrowed a broom, swept away the dirt on the body, wiped it with a basin of water, and Fukang restored his original appearance, there was a breakfast stall opened by locals in the town, went to eat a bowl of porridge, a few fritters, and squinted for a while in the lounge of the gas station.

The market began, and villagers from various villages set up stalls to sell pork, agricultural products, firecrackers, fireworks, couplets, door gods, as well as cheap clothes and shoes, small hardware, plastic products, etc.

Sister Mei bought a pig's head, two elbows, some firecrackers and fireworks, as well as a few pairs of children's cotton shoes, pencil cases and stationery, etc., which were bought for the children in the village, and they were indispensable every year.

The snow has long stopped, today God appreciates the face, it is a sunny day, the market is bustling, the bus from the county town keeps honking, driving through the crowd into the bus station, a few motorized tricycles with canopy are parked outside the station, all of them are black cars running nearby villages, people returning to their hometowns often carry a lot of luggage, remote villages are not open to traffic, can only sit here.

Fukang set off again, through the lively bazaar, to Lantian Village, ten kilometers away, the branches on both sides of the road are covered with ice and snow, the scenery is pleasant, Liu Handong turned on the CD player, put Xu Wei's "Blue Lotus", and hummed along, a carriage came on the opposite side, the red horse spewed hot air, and there were several villagers sitting on the car.

Sister Mei patted Liu Handong on the shoulder: "Slow down, I've met an acquaintance, say hello." Then he lowered the window and waved his hand and shouted, "Little stone!" ”

The carriage stopped, and a thin man in a double-breasted polyester suit with at least three sweaters inside it lifted his glasses and shouted, "Ruohua, you're back." ”

Sister Mei, who shouted Ruohua, had a crimson face, full of shyness that only a girl has.

"Well, come back for the New Year, are you going to the market?"

"Go to the market, what is this?" The man looked at Liu Handong, who was driving.

"This is Officer Liu, a friend of my provincial capital." Mei Ruohua proudly introduced that Liu Handong nodded to him.

Huanxi also greeted: "Hello Teacher Shi." ”

"Then you guys go back first, I'll buy something in the fair." The man said.

"Okay, I'll see you later." Sister Mei happily waved goodbye to the man.

"Your first love?" Liu Handong asked.

"What nonsense." Mei Ruohua held her daughter in her arms: "Xiao Yan'er, why didn't you shout when you saw someone just now?" ”

Xiao Yan'er said, "I don't know him. ”

Liu Handong looked at Xiao Yan'er in the rearview mirror, and suddenly felt that he looked a little like the man, but he didn't say anything and buried this question in his heart.

Moving on, the road is not as difficult to walk as expected, at least for a remote village, a little too wide, Sister Mei explained that there is a coal mine in the village, and the road is crushed by trucks coming and going, and no one pays to repair it.

"There is a coal mine in the village, why are you still so poor." Liu Handong said strangely.

"The coal mine was contracted by the village chief's family." Sister Mei said.

"Oh~~~" Liu Handong understood.

After driving ten kilometers, I finally arrived at the destination, Lantian Village, under the low wall at the entrance of the village, there were a few old people basking in the sun, who could not see the torn cotton jacket and thatched wool shoes, and saw Sister Mei get off the car and shouted: "Hua Nier, you are back, your father has been talking about you for more than half a year." ”

They spoke the local dialect of Pingchuan countryside, Liu Handong could barely understand, he stepped forward to give the old man a cigarette, and the old people opened their toothless mouths one by one and laughed, put the cigarette on their ears, and shouted from afar: "His seventh master, the young girl is back." ”

Sister Mei's house is relatively high-grade in the village, the upper and lower two-story small western-style building, the outside is not painted, it is directly a red brick wall, the big iron gate is a mosaic shadow wall, there is a dog in the yard, Sister Mei's parents are honest countrymen, the old man is wearing a black tweed coat, his shoulders are full of dandruff, wearing a cadre hat with a hat ring oiled, the old lady is wearing a black cotton jacket, and she began to wipe her tears when she saw her daughter come back.

The outside of this house looks much more magnificent than the low bungalows in the village, but the inside of the house is not good, the walls are randomly brushed with a layer of paint, the ground is covered with a pungent smell of floor leather, the only household appliance is a flat color TV, the old couple is a little restrained, the old man keeps beckoning guests to smoke, drink tea, and turn over and over these two sentences.

Sister Mei said that there was still something to do, so she sent Huanxi home first, carried an elbow and a firecracker, asked Xiaoyan'er to talk to her grandfather and grandmother, and took Huanxi and Liu Handong out.

The smell of the New Year in the village is very strong, from time to time there are sporadic firecrackers, the children's little faces are red from the cold, running in the field in tattered clothes, the dogs see the raw faces, either barking violently, or wagging their tails and begging, from time to time there are one or two dirty fat pigs passing by, humming and chirping, probably not knowing that their lives are coming to an end.

Huanxi's home was on a dirt slope at the end of the village, three houses that were about to collapse, half brick and half adobe, the roof was covered with thatch, corn and peppers hung next to the crooked door frame, and a scrawny dog ran out of the yard and rushed straight to Huanxi.

"Rifle!" Huanxi squatted down and hugged the dog and shouted affectionately.

Laifu screamed, and a middle-aged man with a sallow face came out of the house, probably Huanxi's father, Mr. Lan.

"Nier, you're back, her sister, thank you for your hard work, who is this big brother?" Teacher Lan helped his glasses and said.

"Friends from the provincial capital, drive us back." Sister Mei talked and laughed and entered the house.

After entering the Lan family, Liu Handong knew what it meant to be a family with four walls, except for the black lacquered bacon hanging on the beam, there was nothing valuable at home, the bed was made of wooden boards and bricks, the bedding on it had turned black, and the smell of long-term bedridden patients permeated the house, and there was a thin woman lying on the bed, presumably Huanxi's mother who had been paralyzed for many years, she just smiled, even if she said hello.

Teacher Lan kicked the urine jar under the bed and beckoned the guests to sit down, but there was only a decent chair at home, and no one was embarrassed to sit on it.

Suddenly, a teenager ran in and shouted, "Sister! ”

"Brother." Huanxi saw his younger brother, he couldn't kiss him, the sister and brother looked similar, although the young man was thin, but his facial features were delicate, his skin was fair, his eyes were big, he looked like a girl, he was wearing a shabby Zhongshan suit, the rotten cotton shoes under his feet had exposed his toes, and his hands were full of chilblains.

Sister Mei put down her elbow and firecrackers and asked Teacher Lan, "Uncle, are you all ready for the New Year?" ”

"It's almost time to leave, the township leaders have come to condole and sent flour and soybean oil." Teacher Lan helped his glasses, and he was more excited, "The party's policy is good, we take care of these difficult households during the New Year's holidays, and when the two children have a chance, we must give back to the society and repay the party's kindness." ”

Sister Mei said: "Nier has been working in our beauty salon for a few months, and her appearance is very good, I am going to give her a salary increase, and after the New Year, I will also ask her to work with me." ”

Teacher Lan was happy: "Thank you, if it weren't for you Zhang Luo, the second boy's tuition would not have been settled." ”

Lan Mu on the bed also thanked her repeatedly: "It's really troublesome for you, Hua Nier, these individuals who go out of our village, you are the most promising." ”

"A village, this bit of care is not there, what, I'm going home, what do you need to say hello?" Sister Mei didn't want to stay longer, so she got up to say goodbye, Teacher Lan and Sister Huanxi sent it far away, and Laifu was also excited to spread joy next to her.

"Don't send it, send it again and you'll get home." Sister Mei said.

"Okay, go slowly, thank you." Teacher Lan thanked Sister Mei and Liu Handong again.

The two walked back slowly, and Liu Handong spit out two words for a while: "Really poor." ”

"Teacher Lan used to be a private teacher, but then the state quit all of them, and the primary school in the village was withdrawn, so he had no source of livelihood, and he had liver disease, and the hope of the family was on the second child, Nier's younger brother studied better than his sister, and returned to the first place in the school."

Sister Mei, who returned to her hometown, lost her coquettish charm in the past, as if she had really become the "beauty salon manager" and "the most prominent person in the village" in the eyes of the Lan family.

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Handong decided to go out immediately, Sister Mei said nothing, had to leave him for lunch before leaving, the pot house at home began to cook on the fire, boiling water to pluck the pig's head, croquettes, steamed steamed buns, the big girls and boys in the village all ran to visit the door, Sister Mei turned into a confidant sister, telling her younger brothers and sisters various jokes in the city, encouraging them to go out into the world.

Lunch was held at half past ten, and Sister Mei's father invited some people to sit with her, including Teacher Lan and Teacher Shi who I met earlier, who is said to be a teacher at the Township Central Primary School and a figure in the village.

Sister Mei boasted that Liu Handong was a police officer from the provincial capital, and everyone respected him very much, because he had to drive in the afternoon, no one poured him wine, and replaced the wine with tea, which was commonplace, and at the end of twelve o'clock, a group of people sent Liu Handong to the car and left the village.

Liu Handong drove Fukang out of Lantian Village, driving on the potholed road, and suddenly looked back, on the dirt slope, Huanxi was waving at him, and his figure was getting farther and farther away, smaller and smaller.

Under the guidance of mobile phone GPS navigation, Liu Handong quickly got on the provincial road, the snow on the road has begun to melt, and he galloped all the way, like an arrow.