101 A Man's Monologue

Zhao Guodong slowly put Aunt Mei's clothes into the grave he had dug by himself. "Mother, you can rest here, and when I'm done with my affairs, I'll take you to find the fourth uncle and the dog baby."

Zhao Guodong sprinkled soil into the pit one by one, and when the last handful of soil buried Aunt Mei's clothes, Zhao Guodong couldn't suppress the pain in his heart, "Ah——! Oh my mother——! ”

"Guodong, Guodong, okay Guodong." Zhang Dabao stepped forward and grabbed Zhao Guodong, "Okay Guodong, the old lady has rested in peace, you can rest assured, we will go back, we will go back." What are you watching, haven't you seen enough of the excitement? Zhang Dabao pointed to the villagers who seemed to be old-fashioned, but their hearts were full of pedantic, "It's all you people, keeping your broken rules, sooner or later, one day, you will all die in the hands of this broken rules, from today on, I, Zhang Dabao, am not the village head, my future children and grandchildren are not allowed to be officials, and everything that happens in Zhao Village in the future has nothing to do with my Zhang family." ”

Zhang Dabao's words were loud, and all the villagers were stunned, not understanding whether the old man had taken the wrong medicine.

No one is wrong, Zhao Guodong is not wrong, the villagers of Zhao Village are not wrong, the mistake is that the human touch has been thinned in this world, and it is so thin that it is transparent.

Zhang Dabao helped Zhao Guodong back, and asked Zhang Jun to take back the land rented out by Zhao Guodong and his family, and also made a rule, no one can move the land of the Zhang family and the Zhao family, even if they die, they can't move it, and no one in the Zhang family will help them in the future, and they don't need anyone's help.

Zhao Guodong was on crutches, looking at the coffin in front of him, this is not his own mother who is better than his mother, "Your old man has been staying in this Zhao Village for most of his life, and in the end it has not been good, but it's okay, you can't see it, so you won't be upset." Zhao Guodong patted the coffin, "I'll take you away and leave this place." ”

Zhao Guodong borrowed a cart from Zhang Jun, as well as two ropes, and with the help of Zhang Jun, Zhao Guodong lifted Aunt Mei's coffin to the cart, and then tied it tightly with ropes.

"Gordon, where are you going?" Zhang Dabao watched Zhao Guodong busy for a long time and didn't understand what Zhao Guodong was doing.

"I'll take my mother to a place where no one cares, I'm bothering you these days Uncle Zhang, and Brother Jun, thank you, I don't have anything, just this yard is still Aunt Mei's house, and now Aunt Mei is gone, so I'll leave it to you, the yard of Xiao Yingzi's house, I don't dare to call the shots, and the land, it's all good land, it's all given to you." Zhao Guodong was on crutches, tied the rope to his body, and prepared to go out. "By the way, Uncle Zhang, didn't I borrow a house from the village, and now I can pay it back together."

"That house was returned a long time ago, and now it's left for another family to live in." Zhang Dabao said.

"Okay, then I'll go."

"Guodong, where are you going, I'll go with you." Zhang Dabao also followed, and of course Zhang Jun followed.

Three people, one normal person, and the remaining two are either crippled or old men. The three of them dragged the cart on the potholed country road, walked two steps and moved forward one step back, and circled the whole village.

"Okay, Uncle Zhang, go back, you're so old, you're tired enough these days, go back and rest early, Brother Jun, take Uncle Zhang back, it's going to be dark soon, and the road will be even more difficult to walk." Zhao Guodong and the others stopped at the entrance of the village, and the kerosene lamp hanging on the car gang was already lit.

"If you don't let Junwa follow you, your legs and feet are inconvenient, and it's convenient to have a care or something." Zhang Dabao knew that he was also a burden to follow.

"No need, Uncle Zhang, you better go back and rest, Brother Jun will take Uncle Zhang away." Zhao Guodong said.

"Are you doing it alone?" Zhang Jun said.

"The rest of the road is flat, don't worry, I can do it alone, isn't there still my mother with me." Zhao Guodong touched the coffin on the cart.

"Where are you going to pull to?" Zhang Dabao asked.

"It's better to be there than to stay in this village, as long as it can fulfill my mother's dying wishes, you can pull it there." Zhao Guodong said, "Go back quickly, I'm going to leave too." ”

"Slow down on the road, can't you walk tomorrow?" Zhang Dabao said.

"Uncle Zhang, go back, I can do it alone." Zhao Guodong crutches, then straddled the rope to himself, adjusted the position of the rope, poked himself on the ground, and the other leg was forced, the whole body leaned forward, and when the car stopped, Zhao Guodong continued to repeat the action just now.

Zhang Dabao watched Zhao Guodong pull the heavy cart, moving forward step by step, and he couldn't hold back the muddy old tears.

"Dad, if you don't go back, I'll help Guodong." Zhang Jun said.

"No need, he has his dignity, he is sending his old sister the last ride." Zhang Dabao said.

"Mother, do you remember the woods in front of you?" Zhao Guodong took a breath and continued to pull the cart forward with a soybean-sized kerosene lamp, "Over there, the woods, I often come here to play with the dog, at that time you didn't let us come here, saying that there are beasts here, children, just curious, the two of us played in it with energy, and secretly built a small room inside, as far as the two of us know." ”

Zhao Guodong wiped the beads of sweat on his face, "I know that you must know that we have a room in this woods, otherwise we forgot the clothes in the house, how could we hang them at home, at that time I also made a bet with the dog, the dogboy said that the wind blew over, I said that the fairy helped us, in fact, this fairy is you." ”

"At that time, you did your best to make us delicious, what kind of roasted fish, roasted crabs, steamed crabs, what kind of loaches to do, not only the two of us like to eat, even the other children in the village also like to eat, our brothers deliberately took crabs, small fish, dried loaches in front of them, let them be greedy, and then let them ride a big horse for us, whoever rides a big horse for us, we will give him a little dried fish, just this is still rushing for someone to come, one is more positive than the other, hehehe, At that time, my brother and I didn't have to take care of other people's children. ”

Zhao Guodong took the kerosene lamp off the car, walked forward and looked at it, and then came back and said: "Mother, there is a small slope ahead, not very high, wait a minute, it is estimated that there will be some bumps, you sit firm." ”

The breeze blew as if Aunt Mei had promised Zhao Guodong. Zhao Guodong bit a piece of rope into his mouth, and tightened the rope on his body, supported the ground with one crutch, and with the other leg, the car moved, uphill, Zhao Guodong tried to let his body lean forward as much as possible, and kept one of his legs standing firm, supporting the ground with crutches, moving up little by little.

"Can't go down, can't go down." Zhao Guodong gritted his teeth, his face was flushed, the green tendons on his neck burst out, the hand holding the crutches crutches creaked, the crutches had sunk deep into the soil, and the other foot was also nailed to the ground, not wanting the scooter to slide down, "Can't go down, get on!" ”

With Zhao Guodong's roar, using up the most powerful strength in his body, Zhao Guodong pulled the cart up the small slope, "Mother, let's come up, rest for a while, your son can't compare to you, hehehe." ”

"As I told you, it's not okay to be old. I remember when I was a child, you carried a burden, a basket with me, a basket with a dog, just like this to the field, I seemed to be only five years old at that time, the dog baby was only one year old, all the way kept crying, kept crying, you just shook the flat burden, he stopped crying, he didn't shake he sat in the basket and cried. From then on, you take a basket with you wherever you go, and then put the dog in the basket, and whenever he cries, you shake it, not to mention that this trick works. ”

"I remember at that time I said, I want to carry you on my back when I grow up, but until now I haven't taken your back seriously, and I will carry you once today."

Zhao Guodong untied the rope that tied the coffin, then opened the coffin, carefully carried Aunt Mei to his back, tied it tightly to his body with a rope, walked on crutches, picked up the kerosene lamp and walked forward.

"Mother, you said that your current dress doesn't look like you were carrying me on your back at that time, I think it's like, but it's all my blind guessing, I don't remember anything at that time, don't you often say that I don't have a brain. But now I'm different, I have your granddaughter to help me remember, she has a good memory, otherwise I can get the first place in the exam. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Guodong stopped and looked at the road, and said, "I don't know how this girl is doing with Lao Lu?" ”——

I'm the dividing line – late at night.

Lu Fangjun slept on a simple bed made up of stools, Xiao Yingzi fell asleep on his bed, with a curtain in between, the child didn't say a word from when he came to him, didn't eat anything, fell asleep in the afternoon, and was still crying and shouting in his dreams.

"Grandma, grandma, don't go, grandma, don't go." Xiao Yingzi was crying again, Lu Fangjun hurriedly ran over to see, Xiao Yingzi was just talking in a dream, and didn't wake up, Lu Fangjun took a towel and wiped the tears on Xiao Yingzi's face, put his little hand into the quilt, and covered it carefully, seeing Xiao Yingzi was sad like this, what is Zhao Guodong like? Lu Fangjun looked out the window and was deeply worried-

I'm the dividing line—"It's here, it's finally here." Zhao Guodong finally reached the top of a mountain after a lot of hard work, "Mother, didn't you say that you should also see the best place when you walk, this is it, you took us here once when you were a child, to worship my father and mother, so it is best for you to go on the road from here." ”