At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Lao Ma and Yangyang were playing checkers at home, and suddenly Zai Zai came back with two classmates.

It used to be that the English teacher in the make-up class lived far away, and there was a section of the road that could only be taken by bus, but today's road is full of tree branches, and the bus can't run at all. The teacher took a leave of absence, and the students had two classes early. Seeing that the opportunity had come, Tsai Zi took a lot of effort to invite Handian and Shu Yu to his home as guests.

As soon as he entered the door, he briefly introduced his classmates to Lao Ma, and saw a chubby one wearing square-framed myopic glasses, and the other thin and white wearing a short skirt and a ponytail - it was a girl. The old horse was curious and glanced twice. After saying hello to his grandfather, he led the two classmates to the restaurant to eat fruit snacks. In the restaurant, He Yiming pointed at his grandfather from time to time and squeezed his eyebrows at Gu Shuyu, and Gu Shuyu squinted his eyes and secretly looked at the legendary old horse from a distance.

After a while, Tsai Tsai led the two friends into his room, gave Handian a set of toys, gave Gu Shuyu a book, and then the three of them laughed and chatted in the room.

"You're living with your grandfather now!" Han Dian asked.

"Uh...... It's only temporary, my grandfather will be gone after a while! Tsai said as he quietly kicked his dirty socks.

"Your grandfather is so neat! Look at your side! Gu Shuyu smiled and pointed to the bottom of the bed.

"He used to be more messy!" Hu Handian patted Tsai's shoulder and teased.

"Why! It's not that messy! Besides, which boy's room isn't like this? He Yiming's neck turned red with embarrassment.

"Your grandfather is so tall!" Han Dian whispered.

"He's my grandfather, so we have to call him grandpa! Bar not? Tsai Tsai looked at Han Dian with a smile, and then glanced at Shu Yu's face again.

"Where's the idol in your room?" Han Dian asked.

"I was dragged off by my sister, hey...... Super speechless! Tsai shrugged and spread his hands.

"You've got a lot of books on your desk!" Shu Yu looked around.

"His dad used to be a teacher – a high school teacher! More books in his dad's room! Han Dian said while peeling walnuts.

"Your sister is so cute! I tilted my head when I looked at me just now, and I was super cute! Gu Shuyu said with a smile.

"Really? It's annoying! Didn't this just break my computer and me off! "Tsai Tsai sold badly with a broken computer.

"I'd love to have a sister! My brother is also a brother! It's a pity that we don't have both! Han Dian looked at Shu Yu and said.

"Huh! I have two computers, do you want them? One is my cousin's, he graduated from high school in June and gave it to me, if you want it, I'll bring it to you tomorrow! ”

"Yes!" The boy was overjoyed and dodged with his eyes.

The old horse couldn't hear what the children were talking about outside, so he saw the boy striding out every once in a while, going to the shelf to get this and the refrigerator to get that, the red and nervous look the old horse had never seen it. Yangyang wanted to peek at the young lady, but the old horse stopped and didn't let her go—he didn't want the child to disturb the good things of the older child.

Ten minutes later, Gu Shuyu was worried about her father's urging and offered to go back, so the boy went to deliver it, not only out of the door, but also on the subway. When I came back, I walked happily and my body was floating. Lao Ma is an understanding person, he has already seen through his thoughts, and laughs a few times from time to time.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Zhiyuan came back with the dishes, and the old horse had been waiting for him. I don't know what the streets look like today, but the old man wants to go out and take a look.

"Zhiyuan, I'll go out for a walk with Yangyang." The old horse changed his clothes and came over to say hello to Zhiyuan.

"Let Tsai accompany you, it's not easy to walk on the road!" Zhiyuan said in the kitchen.

"I asked, he didn't go, I just want to go for a walk." When the old horse changed his clothes, he saw that the boy was holding the mobile phone as if he was holding the gold, and he couldn't listen to a word of three words, and his mind was all on the girl.

Seeing the two of them go out with their good things, Zhiyuan went back to the kitchen to prepare food, wash rice and prepare dinner. Lao Ma is not familiar with the surrounding environment, and he remembers clearly the road at the gate where Tsai took him yesterday. The glass of the opposite building is reflected on the greenway, and the little girl in the red dress is holding a small flower umbrella in the golden light, humming a playful nursery rhyme. The old horse followed, as if sixty years younger.

There are far fewer fallen leaves and branches on the street today, the thick branches have not moved much, and countless cleaners in orange overalls are cleaning up everywhere. They swept the deciduous branches into piles of trees, one at five or six metre intervals. The sewers were dripping with water, and the leaves above their heads were dripping a few droplets when the wind came, and the leaves of the large trees lying on the side of the road were still shiny...... Seeing that this section of the road was good, the old horse put the scooter in his left hand on the ground and shouted to the rippling singing and playing with the umbrella in front of him.

"Bao'er, put away the umbrella and ride your bike!"

"Okay!" Yangyang took the small flower umbrella, handed the one-foot-long umbrella to his grandfather, and then grabbed the front of the car with both hands and slid up.

"Woo-woo-woo-" The doll for a ride has its own tone.

There are so many branches and leaves on the ground, and the air is filled with the rare fragrance of grass leaves, and at this moment the old horse seems to be walking in his own Yingge Valley. On the street across Meilong Road, more than a dozen people wearing orange and yellow and fluorescent green vests gathered around a big tree. The group of people swept and sawed, sawed, and lifted in an orderly manner. The old horse had only been distracted for a few minutes, and suddenly disappeared. The old man quickened his pace to look for it, only to see Yangyang standing in front of a tree waiting for him. The tree was crooked yesterday, but today it was uprooted and fell on the road.

When the old horse approached, Yang Yang flipped over the tree, and the old horse lifted the scooter over, and then sat down on the tree and twisted himself over. The grandfather and grandson then walked on, and a middle-aged woman came on the opposite side, the man was pushing a stroller, and the old horse swept his hands from the man's face, and swept his hands into the car, and in the car was a big dog and not a child! The old horse was so shocked that he didn't dare to look at it, there was really a big dog in the carriage!

When the woman was gone, the old horse looked back and saw that it was not the usual stroller, it was a small carriage for walking the dog. It's strange, the old horse secretly wondered. The big yellow dog that has been raised for half a lifetime, no one has seen such a raiser, in the early years, people could not even eat and could not eat, and the number of starvation deaths was countless, and now for a dog to buy a colorful three-wheeled car - with a shed cover. The old horse laughed silently - the people in this city really know how to play!

After crossing the overpass, the old horse looked at Yangyang from afar and stepped on the scooter without moving, his little face twisted to the right. The old horse walked in and saw that it was two young men standing under the bridge. They were all sturdy young men in their thirties, wearing colorful tight shorts and shorts, helmets and gloves, and backpacks for going out, and two brand-new bicycles parked behind them, with a piece of paper torn from a cardboard box in front of the front wheel of the bicycle, which read:

"I rode here to catch the typhoon, I have no savings, and I hope that my enthusiastic friends will give us some money to manage a meal, so that we can continue on the road."

The old horse stood and looked at it for a while, then looked at Yangyang, and was also puzzled when he saw Yangyang.

"What are you two doing?" The old horse asked, pointing to the piece of paper.

One of the fat men said, "Uncle, we are traveling by bicycle. We set off from Beijing and rode to Shenzhen for two months, and we just encountered a typhoon here, and we had no place to live or eat! ”

"Oh! Then you can go to work! I earn a hundred or ten yuan a day as a part-time job! I see you're in good shape! Mom looked the two up and down.

"We mainly don't have time to ......" Before the fat man could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the tall man: "We haven't eaten for two days, how can we have the strength to work!" ”

"Oh......" The old horse held the cane in both hands, and thought secretly: It is estimated that a person will get fifteen yuan for a meal—the least, so he thought about giving thirty, but it is not easy to find a meal of fifteen yuan around here. The old horse was helpless, and took out his wallet to find forty yuan. Looking around, the change was not enough for forty, and in the end there was no way, so the old man reluctantly gave fifty yuan.

"Thank you, uncle! Thank you, uncle! Thank you, uncle! Good people are rewarded! The two took the money and kept thanking Lao Ma.

"Humph!" Suddenly, a sneer came from under the bridge.

When they saw it, a beggar sat on a mat wrapped in a sheet, and covered himself with a cleaner's broom, dustpan, chair, and other things.

When the man saw that the old horse was looking at him, his face changed, and he took out an aluminum basin and said to the old horse, "Okay, okay!" Give me some too! ”

Lao Ma and Yangyang looked at each other and had nothing to say. The old man guessed in his heart that the man was deceiving through the beggar, stared at the man for a long time, turned his head to Yangyang and said, "Bao'er, let's go!" Yang Yang then slid his scooter across the overpass. The "beggar" may be pitiful, but Lao Ma doesn't like a person to beg for money without dignity, not to mention that he is not disabled.

There was fifty less in his pocket, and the old horse was distressed on the road. Fifty yuan could buy two or three hundred catties of wheat thirty years ago, but now it can only manage one meal for two people! The old horse shook his head, times have really changed.

After crossing an intersection and an overpass, an old lady walked on the opposite side. The old lady looked about the same age as the old horse, with a bamboo pole on her right shoulder, and in the plastic bag in front of her were various drink bottles, oil cans, and garbage cans, and behind the pole was a bundle of things strung with nylon rope - drying racks, bamboo baskets, soap boxes, small benches, shoe racks, and small buckets...... There were so many things that the rickety body could barely hold up, and from time to time I could hear the sound of something mopping the floor, and the old woman was thin and short, and when she came over, the people and the flat shoulders were all swaying.

The old horse couldn't bear to look at it more, so he lowered his head and passed by her. When I looked back again, I saw the old lady's European-shaped legs, blue cloth clothes, narrow trousers, and white hair in a bun - an old style. The old horse respects her in his heart - she is still self-reliant at such an age; Take pity on her—she has to come out and pick up the junk when she's so old.

Xingbang is away from home all year round, he understands; Xingsheng doesn't have any great skills, it is enough to take care of the family's orchard, serve him soup and water, and send him to the end of his life; Although Gui Ying is in Shenzhen, she is solid in her hands and filial piety. In any case, I am much happier than this old woman, I should be happy! Be happy!

After the grandfather and grandson climbed over the big tree that was in the middle of the street yesterday and overwhelmed the railing, they crossed another overpass and reached another traffic light intersection. Yangyang didn't dare to cross the street and wait for his grandfather, Lao Ma saw that the road across the street was not only full of obstacles, but also that there was a construction site, and the fence outside the construction site looked crooked and untidy from afar, he was a little worried, so he could only shout Yangyang and go back.

After walking for about ten minutes, I saw a wild flower that was very golden and beautiful, and the old horse bent down and bent his knees to pick the flower, tied it with a flower vine, and then shouted to Yangyang: "Bao'er! Boa! ”

"Huh?" Yangyang stopped the car five or seven meters away and turned around to ask.

"Grandpa picked a handful of flowers for you, pin them on the front of your car!" After the old and the young met, the old horse stuffed the bouquet of flowers into a plastic basket with a larger front pocket.

"Giggle...... "Giggles" Yang Yang smiled and blossomed, and then Xiao Tanhua slipped in the wind and enjoyed the flowers.

The boy who slipped the car, the smiling old man, the hurricane that is rare in 50 years......

At half past seven in the evening, the whole family went to a Chaoshan restaurant to eat Chaoshan food. After entering the store, Lao Ma looked left and right, and saw that the other tables were full of insect-like vegetables, and his heart was rough and weird. It's not that he hasn't eaten insects, he knew that he had eaten Xingbang in his early years, and the sparrows roasted by the third brother were nothing more. I have long heard that southerners love to eat all kinds of insects, and it is true.

After taking a seat, the husband and wife chose dishes and ordered nail fish balls, mille-feuille meat, beef fried kale, pork kidney soup, and sour and hot oysters. After the dishes were served, Lao Ma tasted good, especially the plate with the shell - the sauce was good, but he couldn't taste the meat. The children love to eat shells, and the old horse doesn't want to eat one after eating one.

"Hey, it's only half of our company at ten o'clock this morning! Anyway, getting out of the subway is like going over the mountains all the way! Gui Ying said while eating.

"When I saw off Tsai Tsai in the morning, I saw that there were not many buses on the road!"

"It's scary!" The old horse grinned in amazement.

"Aren't you going back? Can you do it! Gui Ying rolled her eyes at the old man.

"Eh, let me ask you something, why are there so many red, red, yellow and yellow cars smashed on the road?" The old horse asked as he ate.

"Grandpa, you're just finding out now!"

"Your grandfather hasn't been out much! Dad, that's a shared bicycle, you scan the QR code with your mobile phone, and then you can ride, half an hour to collect five cents a piece! ”

"Oh! Nobody cares? Aren't you afraid of stealing? ”

"How do you steal so much? You didn't go to the subway entrance, there are hundreds of shared bicycles at almost every subway entrance in Shenzhen! Shenzhen's eight subway lines and 200 subway stations share 780,000 shared bicycles - can he steal it? Gui Ying shrugged and smiled.

"Oh! The country is so capable! The old horse nodded and sighed.

"Also the country! Hehe...... "Tsai and his parents looked at each other and smiled.

After eating a bowl of rice, Lao Ma asked, "I encountered something today, you can help me analyze and analyze." There were two young people passing by and ran out of money, so I gave some money, coincidentally! There was a beggar on the side, and the beggar also asked me for money, and I thought that he was a liar, so I didn't give it. Earlier, I heard from you who said that many beggars in the city are liars! Is he a liar or not? ”

"Definitely a liar! Within a radius of three kilometers around our house, where are the beggars frequent, what time they go to work and what time they leave work - I already know! Grandpa, you're right that you didn't give it! Tsai said with a mouthful of oil.

"Isn't it?" The old horse stared at the boy.

"You said you met a young man who had no money, what's going on?" Gui Ying asked vigilantly.

"The two of them came to Shenzhen on bicycles, they came from Beijing, caught the typhoon, and had no place to live and no food! I think poor ......."

Before the old horse could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the three of them.

"Liar! Grandpa, you've met a liar! ”

"Village Chief Ma, Village Chief Ma, that's a big liar! You've been fooled! ”

"This liar is still piling up!" Zhiyuan laughed.

"No, no, I don't look like it! The two of them were wearing the car on their backs, not like they were cheating money! The old horse frowned and waved his hand and shook his head.

"Look, grandpa! It's called a 'Traveler Scam'! "Tsai Zai opened the mobile phone webpage and searched for it, clicked on the picture search of "Traveler Scam", and swiped out a lot of similar pictures!

"Impossible! No way! Lao Ma held his mobile phone and looked carefully from half a meter away. A pair of presbyopia is so hard to see, I can't wait to have a pair of reading glasses to help him argue the truth and falsehood.

"Look! I didn't believe it if I was deceived! Gui Ying sarcastically mocked the old horse.

"I'll take a look tomorrow, I don't believe it!" Lao Ma returned the mobile phone and still shook his head frequently.

"People have already changed places!" Gui Ying pulled the last note.

"Dad, that's really a liar, specializing in deceiving the elderly!"

"They didn't ask me for money, I took the initiative to give it! They didn't take the initiative to talk to me! Lao Ma said to Zhiyuan.

"Then after you talked to them, did they say that they only need to pay for a meal, only one or twenty yuan?" Gui Ying confronted.

When the old horse heard this, his body was stunned, his eyes widened, and he stopped talking.

"Believe it, right? That's called wanting to get away with it! Write a sign to attract people, and then win sympathy, and wait for someone to ask him before he speaks! Gui Ying explained.

"Why? Those two young people are in good shape - why? The old horse didn't understand, and stretched out his chin to ask the bottom of it.

"Liars cheat, why do you ask me?" Gui Ying looked at her husband and son speechlessly.

"It's good money! Someone will give money to that station, and you don't have to kneel and dress badly! Don't work! No shame! Changing a few places a day can easily deceive hundreds or more! Zhiyuan said while eating.

The old horse wrinkled his face, his nostrils were wide open, and he couldn't say what he wanted to say. Everyone ate their own food, and looked at the old horse's expression and felt funny.

"So...... Grandpa, how much did you give? Tsai asked with a grin.

"Not much...... Oh, what's the time for? Isn't the city full of work? Why do young and middle-aged people also come out to cheat! The old horse tapped the table in disappointment, remembering his fifty dollars, and could no longer eat.

After the adults finished eating, Gui Ying fed Yangyang to eat, and Zhiyuan chatted with Zaizai. The lost old horse remembered something incomprehensible again, so he spoke: "Oh, there is! There is an intersection in this city less than a mile before and after the road, why do you have to build a bridge on this road? I've walked several times in the past two days, and on your Meilong Road, there is a traffic light at three or four hundred meters, and there must be a bridge within three or four hundred meters! Isn't this a waste? Zhiyuan, explain to me why this is? The old horse bounced on the table and begged for answers.

"Uh...... Ha ha...... This ......" Zhiyuan and his wife and son glanced at each other first, and each smiled helplessly.

Seeing that Dad didn't answer Grandpa and waited again, the young man patted the table and said, "Grandpa, I'll explain it to you!" Does it cost money to build a bridge? At least a few million—I'll count it at a million! Assuming that twenty bridges are built along the Meron Road, the cost is ...... Twenty million, right? Do you know that the money spent and earned by our country - all the money must be included in the government work report? ”

The old horse nodded sincerely.

Tsai then said, "Isn't that all there is to it? Isn't it possible to write in the government report how many billions of dollars have been invested in the Huimin project, how much money can be written into GDP by the workers hired to build bridges, and how many materials can be written into GDP for building bridges and buying enterprises...... Wouldn't building bridges, building houses, and building parks add up to GDP in this way? ”

Seeing that his father and mother bowed their heads and did not speak, the grandfather looked at his round eyes and was silent, and the young man continued to speak: "What is it to build a few bridges, the road at the door is repaved every two years, isn't it a waste?" Railings, tunnels, bridges, gardens...... Which is not wasted? Waste can boost government revenue! Grandpa, I have to reuse the A4 paper ten times like you! According to your meaning, if a bridge and a road are not repaired or replaced for twenty or thirty years, how will the country's economy develop? ”

The husband and wife looked around, but the old horse, who had carried the obligation of an iron shovel to build a road in the south of the village thirty years ago, was silent.