Tsai Tsai went out of the house and just walked to the corridor, Gui Ying came back! Mother and son looked at each other.

"Why are you going?" Gui Ying caught a glimpse of Tsai Zai's face was blue.

"I can't stay in this home!" Tsai Tsai looked aggrieved, and after speaking, he squeezed into the elevator that Gui Ying came out of.

"He Yiming, where are you going?" Gui Ying didn't react, and the elevator door was already closed.

Tsai Tsai did not reply.

When Gui Ying returned home, she saw the village chief sitting alone in the living room - his foot was injured and Erlang's leg was crossed! His eyes grew on his forehead, and he squinted at Gui Ying.

"What did you do to him?" Gui Ying changed her shoes and asked.

"You don't see him well?" The old horse lifted his chin.

"Why did he run away from home?"

"You'll have to ask him!" The old man clasped his hands on his chest, too lazy to take care of it.

Gui Ying saw that he was stubborn, and strode into his room to ask Zhiyuan. Zhiyuan didn't know the details, only talked about the sluice. The two of them came out to see that the sluice gate was closed, and then went to the bathroom to take a look, and the faucet under the bathroom sprinkler was broken - apparently broken.

Gui Ying strode into the living room with her hands on her chest, stood opposite Lao Ma and asked, "Why did you smash the faucet?" ”

"I didn't smash it, your son smashed it!"

"Why did he smash it?" Gui Ying said coldly.

"He takes a shower for half an hour, and he never turns off the faucet for half an hour, and I've been observing it for days! Yesterday I pinched my watch and calculated that your son would have to use at least half a ton of water for a bath - at least! Terrible is not terrible! Old Manu pointed in the air.

"So, what did you do to him?"

"He's such a big man, what can I do with him? I asked him to turn off the faucet but he didn't turn it off, I turned him off and smashed the faucet! Then I'll close the sluice! ”

"Na...... You closed the sluice, how did he take a shower? Zhiyuan asked.

"I don't care how he bathes!" The old horse waved his hand in the air.

Gui Ying was so angry that her facial features were wide open: "I told you yesterday, if the child has any problems, tell the two of us - you tell the two of us!" This is our child, it's not your turn to educate! I made it clear yesterday: you should never take care of children! Why are you meddling in this matter today? Why? Gui Ying was so angry that he kicked the old horse's dragon head crutch.

With a thud, the crutches landed three meters away.

Xiaotang heard the movement, helped Yangyang cover the sheets, and went out to explore the situation by himself.

"Ma Guiying, what are you doing?" The old horse stood up and asked, seeing that his most beloved thing was dropped again, and his heart was dripping blood in distress.

"What am I doing? What did you do when you came to my house? How many times have the two children cried for you! ”

"Blame me for looking at my phone in the middle of the night? Yangyang blames me for stealing money? You don't educate yourself properly, I'll clean up the mess for you! The old horse grinned.

"Who told you to clean up? What are you doing in my house? Are you the owner of this home? Gui Ying angrily pointed at the old horse.

"He's so wasteful of water! If he is ignorant, forget it, if you are ignorant, I will educate you! The old horse raised Guan Yu's eyebrows and glared at Zhang Fei's eyes - a fierce look appeared on his face.

"What do you want to do? Do you still want to slap and kick me at every turn like you did when you were a child? Gui Ying stepped forward and stretched out her face.

"Dad definitely won't hit anyone!" Zhiyuan reconciles from the middle.

"If you are not happy, you will scold, and if you don't make a mistake, you will be beaten - was I beaten less by him when I was a child?" Gui Ying asked Zhiyuan with teary eyes.

"Our family is happy to pay for this water - what? Do you love to smoke, have you ever thought about the cost of smoking, polluting the air and harming others? Why is it that you smoke and reason, and he can't use water in the bath? Why should everyone obey you! If you let you save water, you will save water, and if you let others change this, others will change it - who are you? Are you the president of a court or a high-ranking provincial official? Aren't you just an old peasant? Don't you have anything to change yourself? "The father is not kind and the son is disrespectful, and Gui Ying is so angry that he has already put aside the so-called filial piety.

"Don't talk nonsense, now talk about water! Don't you know where you're from? Have you forgotten how difficult it was to drink water when you were a child? You're in town - forget your roots! Your son has wasted more than ten years of water, and I point you out that you still bite me like a mad dog! "The old horse has a hideous face.

"Isn't it a waste of water to water the flowers and plants in the streets of the city? Isn't it a waste of money to beautify the greenery on the street every once in a while? Isn't it a waste of national resources to repave roads every three years? If you're a waste, don't stay here! Gui Ying pointed to her feet, and suddenly her voice was hoarse.

"No, no, Dad, Gui Ying didn't mean that, she was saying that modern people generally use ...... water" Zhiyuan intends to persuade peace.

"That's what I meant!" Gui Ying added viciously.

"Who rarely stays in your house, I have to look at your cold eyes, I have lived enough to suffer from your wretch!" The old horse stomped his feet in anger.

"Sister Yingying, why are you talking like that? Hurry up and apologize to Uncle Ma! Xiaotang pushed Gui Ying to the old horse, and Gui Ying burst into tears as soon as she turned around.

"In the past, when you didn't have money, you weren't willing to buy us clothes to wear, buy groceries and food, and you had to smoke by yourself, you can do whatever you want, and you can spend the money at home as you want! I don't have textbooks in school, and you don't lose your money for smoking and drinking! You have the final say on how to farm the land, my mother is a helper at most, and my second brother is also a helper, have you ever asked my mother what she wants to plant and eat? My eldest brother wants to open a factory next to you, how to use water and electricity depends on your face! Have you ever thought about why my eldest brother would never return to Shaanxi to develop, let me tell you, he just doesn't want to see you commanding blindly there! Village Chief Ma, you take yourself too seriously! Individuals have their own lives, why do the three of us have to follow your wishes? Are you always right? You are so capable, how can you be a small village head, not a county magistrate and a high-ranking official? You know how annoying you are? If it weren't for Zhiyuan and my eldest brother to persuade me to go home, I would never want to go back to your home! Gui Ying cried and said these words.

The old horse turned sideways to face Gui Ying, his chin was slightly raised, and he looked stubborn, but his heart was quietly listening to what Gui Ying said.

"Don't you waste it with such a good cane? Break one of the trunks of the tree at the head of the village and use it as a crutch! Do you eat meat and drink wine without wasting? Don't you feel bad to buy such a good shirt? My son is not unreasonable, you tell him what he can understand. Don't use the same method as the three of us to deal with my child, he is not your child, he can't stand your strange way of education - from a young age you are either beaten or scolded, your will is equivalent to the holy will! We are equal to the child, as long as it is conducive to his physical and mental health, we will never force the child whether he is happy or not! ”

Gui Ying wiped her tears, choked up with red eyes and continued: "Don't treat yourself as the emperor anymore, Majiatun will turn the same way without you, and my second brother will live better without you!" You don't have to worry about the affairs of the family anymore, okay? You're old! What do you want to do at the age of seventy? Isn't it okay to follow us with kindness and discussion? After Gui Ying finished speaking, she wiped her tears and covered her face and went back to the room.

When she returned to her room, she wailed and cried, and her grievances and sorrows swirled around in the living room. Xiaotang was about to comfort Gui Ying, who wanted to be awakened by Yangyang, shouting to his parents in the dark room, Xiaotang rushed over to comfort the child.

Aren't parents in the countryside like that for their children - Lao Ma didn't understand why Gui Ying had accumulated so much resentment towards him. There were many things that he couldn't remember, but she held on, and many things were true, but no one had ever said anything in front of him. The old horse bent down and melancholy recalled the past. Did he really do something wrong, he lowered his head, a little doubtful of himself, doubting that he had been proud of most of his life.

"Dad, why don't you tell me if the child is wasted? You told me, I told Tsai, and he would definitely listen. Zhiyuan saw that Lao Ma was full of doubt, and came to sit beside him.

"Hey, I'm in a hurry." The old horse sighed and looked at his right foot.

"Dad, if everyone in the city uses water like this, how are you going to deal with it? Let me be honest with you, the upstairs and downstairs, the entire community, and all the people who buy houses in Shenzhen, have an average of 400 water and electricity bills a month - at least! Our family's water and electricity bills are more than 500 a month, and Zhou's house is more than 800 a month. This is the basic reality of water and electricity used by urban households in this era and society. ”

The old horse turned sideways to Zhiyuan, not saying a word but listening.

This person can restrain himself, but don't use his own ethics to restrain others! Restraining others and trying to influence others is tantamount to condescending to deny, force, and enslave others, which is disrespectful to others, and will cause great things over time. The city is not the same as the countryside, and you can no longer use your rural concept to constrain the life of the city people. ”

"What's the matter? Was it my fault that I made him thrifty? The old horse turned his face away, his eyes wide open.

"Dad, you're not wrong, it's just that times have changed! In the past, people wore a piece of clothing for ten or eight years, but now it is different, everyone changes it every day, and he has professional and aesthetic needs; It's like eating with water. You said that our child studied in the classroom all day in the summer, from 6 o'clock in the morning to 10 o'clock in the evening, the time was long and stressful, and the exam competition was particularly fierce, he may take a half-hour bath at night and let the water rush very comfortable - the spirit is relaxed, it is the same as the village people taking a bath in the bathhouse or eating a good meal of beef and mutton steamed buns! Can you understand? ”

"It's not that I don't understand, but what......... Water is always a precious resource! You save some water, you save a lot of water over time, doesn't this also save money! Also, your son didn't just waste water, he used seventy-two pieces of scratch paper in five days – seventy-two! Not a single one is used up! There is more space for a piece of paper than for writing! When we were young, we couldn't even use palm-sized yellow straw paper, but now that he can use good paper, it can't be so bad! ”

"Dad, you're right! Now that I know about this problem, I will slowly communicate with my child to make him aware of saving. But Dad, you have to know that Tsai Tsai will never be able to live up to your frugal requirements. He was born in the city, he has been like this since he was a child, his friends around him are all like this, he has no experience of suffering for anything, he doesn't know the preciousness of water and paper, you tell him that he just thinks it's right, but he doesn't take it seriously! Saving - for modern children, it takes a process, you must not be in a hurry, don't think that he will change all of a sudden - that is impossible! Moreover, in addition to Tsai, you are the one who needs to change! Society has changed, 70 years have passed since the founding of the People's Republic of China, 40 years have passed since reform, and today's society is no longer the scene it was 40 years ago! You have to accept the fact that people in cities now use a lot of water! You can't use the same set in the countryside anymore, the same set twenty or thirty years ago! It's unrealistic, unfair, and incredible for kids! ”

Time has come to the second millennium A.D., and the development of science and technology is indescribably fast, but the earth is not flat, and the development of regions is not synchronized. Lao Ma was born in the year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he has experienced disasters and sufferings, and knows that white rice is delicious and difficult to grow in the field, and fish soup is delicious and difficult to lift. Although life is better now, for him, life seems to have stopped forever in the time grid of the late 80s and early 90s of the last century, and various policy support and scientific and technological development in the future are just icing on the cake for that era.

Lao Ma's personal experience and living environment made his vision stay in that era forever, and now he suddenly came to China's most developed city in 2019, as if he had traveled through time and space, he suddenly spanned more than 30 years of time, and the precious experience of agriculture and land gave him a lifetime was provoked and denied in every way in the city.

The old horse looked up and sighed, he could not accept the great changes in society, because this change proved his aging and marginalization, denied the status of agriculture, and devalued the peasants.

After Zhiyuan finished chatting with Lao Ma, he immediately called Zaizi. Tsai Tsai has arrived at the house of his good friend Hu Handian, who was his best classmate in the six years of primary school. Zhiyuan hung up the phone and was relieved, ready to comfort his wife. Xiaotang also came out at this time, Yangyang was already asleep, she saw that Lao Ma was the only one left in the living room, so she sat down next to him.

"Uncle Ma, are you still angry?"

"Nope." The old horse waved his hand with a bitter face.

"Uncle Ma, the apples in our house are one pound a piece, and the apples here are ten dollars a pound; The grapes in our house are three yuan a catty, the grapes here are more than ten or twenty-one catties, and the pears in our house are a few cents a catty, and when we get here, it is five or six yuan a catty...... The city is different from the countryside, and all the rural people who come to the city have to go through such a process of adaptation. Some people adapt to it in a year or two, and some people can't adapt to it in seven or eight years, and in the end they can only earn money to go back to the village to build a house and marry a daughter-in-law. ”

The old horse sighed and looked at the narrow sky on the balcony in a daze.

"The people in the city don't just waste water, they cost everything. There should be a new style of clothes every season, and you feel that you can't hold your head up in the company if you don't have a good dress to change in a summer; Cosmetics are bought in thousands, how can you do without makeup for girls? I bought a skirt and put on makeup, but also bought perfume and bags, this one bag is hundreds or thousands, everyone works under one roof, your bag is a hundred or dozens, so embarrassed that you can't even lift your head, who doesn't like to see jokes? The villagers compare, that is a small comparison, and the city people are vain, that is the big vanity. But if you think that the school, the hospital, the house, the job, and the living environment in this city are good, you have to endure these things, and you have to learn to adapt and accept. The weak will always follow the strong one. Xiaotang said these words to himself, and seeing that the old horse did not react for a long time, he also went back to the house to sleep.

What a frustrating day, Lao Ma lost his Majiatun, did he have to lose his perseverance as a farmer all year round? The city eats the town, the town eats the township, and the villagers eat the old barren village. If the city robs the villagers of their good food and food, should they still deprive the villagers of their freedom, play with their dignity, and define their personality? The old horse shook his head, he refused to accept this bullshit logic.

It was really an abrasive day, and at eleven o'clock in the evening, the old horse couldn't sleep when he was lying in bed, especially the sentence "You are already old!" emphasized by Gui Ying. What do you want to do at the age of seventy", he has been avoiding his age, avoiding age to make him forget the fact that he is aging, he is afraid that someone will expose him. Aging was a scar on his body that could not heal, and that scar grew bigger day by day until it finally consumed him.

At one o'clock in the morning, the old man faced the dark corner, alone and sad: the children were too old to control it; I'm old, and I'm nothing.