In a blink of an eye, before the National Day, before the holiday, the air was filled with a light joy.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Lao Ma carried a pink scooter on his right shoulder and two pork buns in his left hand, swaying all the way to his home. I ate a bowl of spicy soup for five yuan - I was not full, and when I came back, I passed by the bun shop, so I bought two pork and green onion buns for six yuan.

In the early years, the old horse always carried a hoe to the field early in the morning, and now, he carries a yo-yo and a scooter home - who makes the baby like to go to school. In order to become a confused fairy, the old horse can only grieve himself. Thinking back to the Yangyang on the road all the way singing, driving forward, so festive, at this moment looking at the straight Meilong Road, I also feel that the scenery is beautiful, the grass and trees are bright, the pedestrians are pleasant, and it seems that the plants in the south are not so ugly.

Suddenly, the phone in his trouser pocket rang, and the old horse put down the scooter and dialed the antelope.

"Hello?"

"Hey! Uncle! "It turned out to be Ma Xingcheng, the son of Lao Ma's third brother.

"Xingcheng! Why are you calling? The old horse was pleasantly surprised and surprised.

"Uncle, I'm going to have something to do with you, my father-in-law is gone—yesterday!" Xingcheng's speech was low and short.

"Huh? Huh! Oh my lord! How did your father-in-law leave? Didn't he send your mother jujube two years ago in the Mid-Autumn Festival! The old horse was shocked, standing on the street with his white hair and his scalp tingling.

"Yes, yesterday morning he drove to the field alone, drove to the edge of the hill, and overturned! My mother-in-law had already died when she found out! ”

"Oops, my lord! What the hell is this! You hurry up and pack up, and let Yanyan (Ma Xingcheng's wife's name) go back to help immediately. Yanyan and his brother, who have no experience in the city all the year round, I'm afraid you two will have to work hard this time! ”

"I know, I know! We are both here in He Xian Village (the village where Ma Xingcheng's father-in-law is located), and her brother is now on a business trip in Shanghai, and he will be back in the early morning! ”

"You call your sister Xingxing and the third (Ma Xingcai, the eldest son of the second brother of the old Ma) and the fourth (Ma Xingbo, the second son of the second brother of the old Ma) to help! Ask Xingbo to buy a coffin, ask Xingcheng to deal with the car in the field, and ask Yanyan to hurry up and ask the grave in Hexian Village! How to arrange the mourning hall can spend money to invite people, I have a phone here, and I will send it to you later! You must spend money to rent a large freezer and freeze your father-in-law first, so that it will not be so ugly in the future! The old horse crossed his waist with one hand and held up the phone with the other, and from time to time some cold air leaked from between his teeth and some heat came out of his nostrils.

"I know, but my third brother and my fourth brother have a big shelf...... Not yet ...... I don't have to call it yourself! "Xingcheng is honest, and he can't stand out in front of these brothers.

"It's done, it's done! Bo immediately called them. In addition, ask your mother and your second mother (the dialect name of the second aunt) to quickly fry the hemp sugar ring (a necessary decoration at the funeral in Shaanxi), and ask your brother Xingsheng to help go to the meeting to buy things - used at the banquet, filial piety clothes and white hats, and hospitality ...... Your brothers make a list together, and then find a cousin from your father-in-law's house and go to the house with your brother Xingsheng! There is also a self-music team that plays suona and sings the Qin dialect, waiting for Uncle Hui to give you a few calls...... Hey, by the way, I don't have enough money to ask your fourth brother for it, he has spare money in his hand; Your second brother also sold a lot of piglets before he was prosperous, and he asked for a cooperation..."The old horse pointed at the flowers on the street.

Lao Ma's third brother Ma Jianji gave birth to two daughters and a son. The eldest daughter Ma Xingxing and the female Ma Xinghua, one runs a tailor's shop and the other runs around, and the middle son Ma Xingcheng plants an orchard in Tunli to support two children and an old mother. Ma Xingcheng is less than forty this year, one year older than Gui Ying, Fu who did not go to school went out to work early, and after having a child, he began to work on the orchard at home.

The old man spoke for more than forty minutes in a hurry, a little short of breath, hanging antelope words, the old horse carried the scooter in his left hand and shook the meat bun, and held the phone in his right hand and began to explain the tasks to these nephews remotely. I have to say that in terms of funeral, Lao Ma Yirao's experience is no less than any professional funeral team in Fangyuan. After an hour, Lao Ma, who had finished explaining to others, finally talked to his son.

After talking about the funeral, Xingsheng suddenly: "Big, Erhuang (one of the four dogs of the old horse, ranked second) seems to be sick, several, not good to eat, lying on the edge of the trough without moving, I tried all kinds of methods, even the village of Uncle Gongzi (the old veterinarian of Majiatun, more than seventy years old, used to treat cattle) looked at it and waved his hand. ”

"Hey, it's old! You prepare a special mat for it - cardboard boxes, old clothes, etc., and bury the mat when you leave in the future. When the time comes...... Use a straw basket to mention Yingge Valley, and bury it under the southernmost row of sour jujube trees at the bottom of the valley, don't be disturbed by the villagers, and don't disturb the villagers. If there's meat, feed it more meat, hey, it's been expensive lately...... Forget it, let it be fate. "The old horse is finished, and there is a long sigh.

Ma Xingsheng nodded, and opened his mouth to mention another matter: "Our neighbor Wanwan opened a clinic in Lanzhou, the licensed kind, and then my Uncle Minwa cleaned up the things at home - selling, sending, throwing, and throwing away, and followed Wanwan to Lanzhou to live on the high-speed train last week!" ”

I have been in Shenzhen for three whole months, I never thought about what my departure meant to others, and now I heard that I have been a lifelong neighbor's baby to live in Lanzhou, and I don't plan to come back, Lao Ma's heart is empty, and I don't know how to respond.

Seeing that his father was speechless, Ma Xingsheng continued to himself: "The school in our village is also closed - in September, the dolls in the village were sent to the town. The school in the town has a school bus, one round trip and two pick-ups, and the fifth and sixth grades have the kind of boarding school, the price is different......"

Ma Xingsheng wow wow wow wow Talking about the antelope, the unhappy old man unscrewed a new bottle of Xifeng wine, when he fought with the old principal Fu Mingli, who had been in Majiatun for decades, when he played a game of gambling and drinking with the old neighbor's residents, and when he was free from the old man of the third brother's in-law Zhao Zhigang, who was 1.5 meters old......

The old horse has raised so many dogs, but this Erhuang has been beaten the most and worried about it the most. Why has this Erhuang been with him for eight or nine years...... No! It's been ten years. Erhuang is very naughty, he doesn't like to call but loves to bite, he doesn't like to disturb people and he doesn't like people to disturb it, and the four paws are always clean no matter where Lan is, which the old horse appreciates very much. Eat less in vain, eat more at night, and pee forever in the west corner of the backyard, it's useless to scold, it's useless to fight, and the old horse can't get a toilet for it in the west corner. Erhuang is a very sleepy dog, but when it comes to sleeping, it is the most unrealistic. When I sleep, I always shake my legs or tremble my mouth, sometimes I snore when I sleep, and occasionally I sleep with my eyes half-open. Lao Ma's favorite thing about this Erhuang is that it is the favorite to listen to Qin Yan among all the yellow dogs that Lao Ma has raised, let Lao Ma put Qin Yan's voice how loud, how noisy and sad the singing is in that play, it is never annoying, and always lies at Lao Ma's feet to listen to the play with him. Poor for his Erhuang! Bye-bye, his Erhuang!

In fact, when Lao Ma was the village head, the town already had the intention of closing Majiatun School, but he was reluctant and reluctant, so he found a reason to prevaricate. About forty or fifty years ago, when he was building Majiatun School, he also contributed coolies and money, and later thought that the school was going to be closed in his hands - the old man was reluctant. Fortunately, Ma Baoshan is a new generation, he doesn't have such a deep affection for Majiatun School, and he has little intersection with the school's principal and teachers.

The death of the second brother's in-laws, the departure of the old neighbors, the illness of Erhuang, and the closure of Majiatun School, so much bad news came at once. After drunkenly groping on the rocking chair, Ma Jianguo, the old Shaanxi man, couldn't help but open the Qin cavity.

Xifeng is matched with Qin dialect, a fortunate thing in the world!

"Since the establishment of the emperor in Xichuan, Mr. Kong Ming, who has a diploma, has settled down, and the five tiger generals of Wu Ping have been in full swing, since Guan Zhang and the two people were promoted, although there are a few people in the court, all of them are ministers who eat and treat the old, and they cannot make meritorious contributions. Only my two tiger nephews secretly went out of the camp without asking for military orders, and slashed Tan Xiong and captured Xue Ding. This is a great achievement, there is wine in the Yellow Dragon Tent......"

Some civilizations rise and disappear, some cities are built and fall, and some people come and go...... It won't be long before a new dog comes up in the house, also named Erhuang, according to his rules; After a few years, Prosperity will meet new neighbors; In another seventeen or eighteen years, Ma Xingcheng will become a stranger or have a new in-law...... After the spring grass blooms, it bears fruit in summer, the seeds ripen in autumn, and wither in winter, and the old roots sprout again in spring, and new flowers are drawn from the new shoots......

There are beams of oblique light on the greenway from time to time, the golden light is revealed in the shade of the trees, every morning and dusk, pulling the ripples to walk on the Nanguo Street to enjoy the autumn time, the old horse almost forgot the scenery of Tunli. The flowers at the head of the village should be carrying heavy seeds at this time, whether the briquettes for the winter are ready at home, and the leaves of the grapevines in the yard are almost gone......

The white sesame seeds in the self-cultivated field on the south slope have been harvested, the thatched hut in the east water field to see if the melons have been demolished, the neem tree in front of the house is waiting to bear fruit at this time this autumn, and whether there are still people sitting there on the stone shaft on the west side of the gate and smoking hookah...... In the past 70 years, in the first October, Lao Ma was not in Majiatun.

With wine as energy and Qin as the express car, the old horse traveled to his childhood on the magical boat of time and space. Only to see the Yingge valley, there is a young man, his back against the straw basket, pull up his trouser legs, his feet hang down in the valley, swinging a cool breeze in the ditch, the round sunset opposite, at this moment, is looking down on the young man with a warm smile...... The most beautiful appearance of Yingge Valley has always been hidden in his heart.

Unconsciously, I couldn't believe that I had been in the southern metropolis for three months.

In the morning, when lunch was approaching, colleagues began to whisper and laugh. Manager Ma walked out of the office and looked around, not knowing what was happening. At this time, Long Shisheng walked towards her, his eyes were smiling, his head swayed slightly, and after entering the office, the two sat down together.

"Big things are not good!" Long Shisheng tapped Ma Guiying's desk with his index finger, nodded his head slightly, and kept notching.

"What's wrong? Collapsed or collapsed? Gui Ying glared at him, and Ren matched his surprise and mystery.

"A few old men have just finished a meeting, and the secretary revealed that the magazine is going to be closed!" Long Shisheng, whose face was bigger than a basin, was still nodding and didn't stop.

"Impossible!" Manager Ma lost color.

"How could it not be? Mr. Qian has decided, Sister Li knows, don't you believe it, send WeChat to ask her now! ”

"Forget it! Sister Li has been hospitalized for a viral cold recently, and I don't want to disturb her! Gui Ying refused, but was shocked that the magazine was suspended. The development of Ankezhan originated from this magazine, because it was able to be attached to the Ministry of Public Security because of its advanced standards, and it has been hanging for 25 years, and now it is going to be suspended, which does not mean that it has lost its owner or backer.

"What about the electronic version?" Manager Ma asked Long Shisheng.

"The electronic version can't be done! No one watches and has no ads, and the long story can't do the fragments of the new media. The long-term imbalance of income and expenditure, raising such a large editorial department in vain, and losing money for several years in a row, who in the company does not know? Long Shisheng's eyes were full of mockery.

"Oops! The business of those editors and magazines...... Isn't it going to be cut? Manager Ma sighed.

"Isn't that right? At most, a few reporters or editors will be left, and the salesman will definitely be ...... Feel free to stay! ”

"In fact, in the past few years, the magazine business has nothing but old customers!" Manager Ma leaned back in his chair and reached out to scratch his hair.

"No! The company is not a charity, and usually those reporters with bigger shelves are more bullish than our business! Right now...... Huh! ”

"So, those people out there are talking about this?" Manager Ma asked, raising his chin.

"Yes! I heard that the suspension of the publication will be publicly announced at the exhibition! Turbulence, recently, hey...... "Colleague, I talked until the afternoon."

In order to cooperate with the convening of the exhibition every year, the magazine will publish the corresponding journal - the special issue of the exhibition, and the reporters and editors will collect materials extensively during the exhibition and widely report the latest developments of advanced figures, advanced products or enterprises in the industry. Exhibitions and magazines have always been related to the relationship of reciprocity, and the loss of one party will implicate the other, not to mention that this time it is suspended! I just don't know what month the magazine was closed. Manager Ma is pondering in the office, who wants to rise again and again.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Cheng Group publicly issued a news of layoffs on the company's website, laying off 800 people, and the industry was in an uproar, and the media rushed to reprint it. The layoffs ranged from R&D and marketing to non-core departments, including a number of middle-level leaders, and several departments were cut across the board. I don't know if Manager Li Guanping, who is in charge of the exhibition, will be laid off.

Cheng Group has booked 60 booths this time, with an exhibition area of more than 500 square meters. Before Lao Qian always adjusted the unit price of the booth and the salesman's rebate, Ma Guiying could earn 70,000 or 80,000 yuan by relying on the single order of the Cheng Group, and now, she can get 40,000 or 50,000 yuan under the same booth area. You know, a big customer is top of ten or even twenty customers.

Ma Guiying's mind was buzzing and swollen, and she wanted to call Li Guanping, but it was not appropriate at this moment. It is not only Cheng Group that has laid off employees recently. Yueteng Technology, an old customer of Huahai, closed two production lines, and Zhihui Company abandoned the old system and is now developing a new system; Mr. Wan of the company, who has a very good relationship with Mr. Qian, just retired in June, and the company laid off half of its employees at the end of September......

In the past two months, every time Manager Ma went out of the office to fetch water or go to the bathroom, he saw the salesmen gathering in groups of three or two or who were sitting on someone's desk and shaking their legs, and secretly thought that it was bad news. Each salesman has more than a dozen or even forty or fifty large corporate customers, economic fluctuations affect the efficiency of enterprises, in turn will inevitably affect the participation of enterprises, so the exhibition industry and the exhibition industry salesman has become the pioneer of the economic river water cold or warm, but also the market is facing a warm spring or winter prophet. It is undeniable that the news about corporate layoffs and industry decline is about to drown Ankezhan, and the movement of employees discussing layoffs is stronger than discussing the momentum of the stock market soaring and then plummeting a few years ago.

Manager Ma was restless, with insomnia last night and a fire at the moment, he saw a big and hard pus on his forehead. What to do? Now that Sister Li is here, Gui Ying didn't have time to think about it, and went straight to Sister Li's office. The two chatted for a long time, from the suspension of the magazine to the big layoffs of the Cheng Group, from the layoffs of the Cheng Group to the luxury of the 30th anniversary celebration of the Cheng Group some time ago, and from the changes in the Cheng Group to the exhibition in November...... No matter how capable Li Yubing is, he is helpless in the face of such a momentum. Fortunately, she proposed to visit the Cheng Group with Gui Ying after the National Day, and met Song Dong, after all, the last time they met at the anniversary celebration, Ma Guiying's bold personality left a lot of impression on them.

"It is more able to walk and jump, take a bite that is suspected of being a needle, and walk up the collar to the waist of the pants. Well...... Well...... "At about four o'clock in the afternoon, He Yiyang, who was out of kindergarten, began to recite the poems that her grandfather taught her, and forgot about it by memorizing.

"Look!"

"If you can't hold it, how can you make a living? What about coming down? ”

After teaching the road from school three times, no less than fifty times, and still not remembering, the old horse reminded her in annoyance: "Do a somersault!" ”

"The somersault is gone."

"Recite it again."

"It is more able to walk and jump, take a bite that is suspected of being a needle, and walk up the collar to the waist of the pants. I can't hold it, how can I get my body out? The somersault is gone. But grandpa, what is a flea? Yang Yang pulled his grandfather's finger and raised his head to ask reverently.

How do you explain to a city baby what a flea is? Yang Yang has never even seen a mouse in real time, let alone the worm that used to grow in human hair—fleas. The old horse was stopped by this question, and then shyly roared and snickered.

"Flea ...... It's just fleas! The old horse covered his mouth and laughed.

"And what is a flea?" Yang Yang asked with two eyebrows.

"Flea ...... It's a jumping bug! Oh, don't ask, continue to recite the poem, "Song of the Flea", start - "The old horse taught Yang Yang as the teacher taught him when he was a child."

""Song of the Flea" - can walk and jump, take a bite of a suspected needle, and walk up the collar to the waist of the pants ......"

Where the grandfather and grandson have walked, there will be a hundred flowers smiling and thousands of birds crying. The sorrow of the first half of the old horse was almost cured by a ripple.

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