At six o'clock on Friday morning, the old horse woke up from the floor in the living room as usual. After two pots of smoke, I came to the show. Thinking that he was going to a banquet today, the old man was even more energetic. He first went to the hygiene room to wash, wiped his neck and armpits clean, repaired his nose hair and messy hair, and washed his crutches and towels. When he returned to the house, he changed into his classic outfit - good trousers, a light-colored short shirt, new sneakers bought by his daughter, and a retro peaked cap that he had worn for many years...... After changing his clothes, the old man came out with his phone, hookah, fan and other bits and pieces.

At eight o'clock, Gui Ying went to work after saying hello, Lao Ma was preparing a handbag for gifts, and Zhiyuan changed his shoes and went out to buy breakfast. At nine o'clock in the morning, Lao Ma, Zhiyuan, Tsai Tsai and Yangyang had breakfast together in the restaurant.

"Today's birthday banquet of your Uncle Ma is set at twelve o'clock, the address is in my mobile phone, let's finish breakfast at ten o'clock, let's pack up and go, your Uncle Zhong will come with us." The old horse commanded.

"yes, okay." Zhiyuan nodded, then raised his head and said to his son, "Zaizai, you can watch your sister at home today." ”

"Why!" Tsai plays a high tail note.

"I'm not at home with my grandfather, who are you not watching?"

Tsai put down the soy milk in his hand, opened his voice and said, "Have I had two days of solitude since the summer vacation?" I'm going to cram school this weekend, can you give me two days to be alone? My classmates asked me three or four times and I refused, not because I was at home after completing my studies! I was finally able to go out to play today, and you asked me to take her again! Am I her parent or her guardian? ”

Tsai Tsai confidently pointed his index finger at Yangyang, who flashed his black and long eyelashes, and his eyes showed grievance and sadness. Zhiyuan was also angry, and his eyes glared at his son.

"If you don't want to see it, you don't want to watch it, why do you say so much?" The old horse slowly blurted out, suppressing the anxiety at the dinner table.

"I say so much to tell you, whose business is responsible, don't pull me for everything!" Tsai left the table after speaking.

"Since childhood, have we paid less for you? Let you see what's wrong with your sister? How can you be so angry at such a young age! The father who was hit by his son shouted at the back of the boy.

"What you have paid for me will be repaid to you in the future when you are old, why should you be involved? I said I didn't want to force me! Tsai Tsai looked back and said.

"Forget it, let's take the child with you." Lao Ma comforted Zhiyuan, but he was entangled in his heart for this pair of little brothers and sisters.

"This kid is getting harder and harder to manage now!" Zhiyuan frowned and complained.

"It's okay, it's summer vacation, let him play for two days." The old horse left the table after speaking.

After the three of them went downstairs with their things, Zhiyuan went to drive. When the car arrived at the entrance of the community, he got out of the car and moved the rippling child seat to the co-pilot's seat, so that the two elderly people could sit together and chat today. At half past ten, the three of them arrived at the farmer's market, and Zhong Neng was waiting at the gate of the market with his things. After a few words of greetings after getting in the car, the car drove in the direction of the Shaanxi Pavilion.

Ma Tianmin's family got up early in the morning and began to prepare, the whole family changed their clothes happily, and the old birthday star put on the brand-name new clothes specially bought by his son. After the whole family packed up, they brought good wine and cigarettes to the Shaanxi Pavilion. Tianmin's son chose an excellent three-table private room, and then set the menu, match the table, select the longevity peach, and decorate the private room environment...... At this time, the old birthday star sat alone on a chair and watched the juniors busy, and he only looked forward to his guests coming soon.

In the farmer's market, Zhong Neng walked for a while, and Hyosung just arrived on the back foot. When she entered the market, she saw a lot of people in front of her shop from a distance, and Hyosung was happy, so she slowly took two steps closer and watched with a smile for a while, only then did she see the protagonist of the crowd - Xuecheng. Gakseung wields a big iron spoon and picks beans for a group of adults. He calmly and skillfully scooped the beans, bagged them, weighed them, counted them, and counted the accounts...... As a mother, Bao Xiaoxing saw this scene and precipitated in his heart.

Zhong Xuecheng - his son grew up in this shop, and the farmer's market is his home. The efficacy of each bean in the shop, the price of each dried dish, the process of all buying and selling, how to please customers from beginning to end, and how to answer customers' doubts...... He's not even born, I'm afraid he's heard it hundreds of times. The adults who buy cereals prefer to buy from children, and the innocence and skill of the eight-year-old children in turn attract many customers, so much so that for most of the half hour after Zhong Neng left, there were many individual customers queuing up outside the shop to buy groceries.

Hyosung's heart sank as if she had fallen into a glacier, and what made her heart sink was not that there were no adults or children in the shop to carry the burden, but the smile on Xuecheng's face—the kind of smug smile that had a good business and sold for money. Hyosung is ashamed of her life as a seller of miscellaneous grains, but she is really uncomfortable to see her son so happy for a little business at such a young age.

As a father in his forties sleeping on the second floor and a son in his eights doing business downstairs, Bao Xiaoxing saw a certain sadness and irony — sadness for the next generation and irony for this generation. Of the two that change her own destiny and change the fate of her own next generation, it is the latter that makes her more angry and impulsive. She strode over through the crowd and wordlessly snatched the large iron spoon from her son's hand. She can grieve her whole life for the sake of her children, but her children should not harbor their lives for the incompetence of the previous generation.

Bao Xiaoxing did not believe that the curse of poverty had fulfilled her previous three generations, and that she would continue to plague her next three generations.

"Where is the sickness of the heavenly people? I've been hearing from people, but I don't know what it is. The old horse asked Zhong Neng in the car.

"Cancer—it's terminal!" Zhong Neng patted the old horse's thigh.

The old horse was surprised, and then asked, "What cancer?" ”

"It's either bowel cancer or stomach cancer, anyway, I heard people say it's in the stomach. The last time I saw him, the family said that they drank porridge every meal, and that they had to eat slowly, and that they had to pay attention to the cold, hot, hard, and soft food, and that their son had money, otherwise I would have passed long ago! Zhong Neng joked.

"I know his son is capable, I don't know what his son does?" The old horse asked.

"I heard that he was a leader in a large company, and Xingxia told me that Tianmin's son's annual salary of hundreds of thousands or millions a year was still a few years ago."

"His son was common when he was a child, and he never saw him again when he went out, so he is also a talent in our village." The old horse agreed.

The Shaanxi Pavilion is in the city, and after entering the city, there is a traffic jam, and the driving speed slows down. The two old men were chatting, and suddenly the car stopped.

It turned out that Zhiyuan didn't know if he had run over a stone or something just now, and suddenly felt that the body was not very balanced, dangling, and the steering wheel was not sensitive, I didn't know if it was a tire problem or a machine problem, but it was certain that the car had a problem. He slowly parked the car on the side of the road, got out of the car and squatted down to check, sure enough, the left rear tire burst, fortunately this section of the road is slow, otherwise it is really a bit dangerous.

The heat outside was more than 30 degrees - it was too hot, He Zhiyuan opened the car door, sat in the car again, turned to the old man behind him and said, "Dad, the tire burst!" It could be that it was too hot in July. ”

"Hey, my God, it's lucky to be stuck here, it can't be so scary on the highway!" The old horse peeked out of the window.

"So what should I do?" Zhong Neng asked.

"I ...... I'll call and deal with it! Zhiyuan raised his mobile phone to signal, and then dialed the rescue number.

Lao Ma waited for Zhiyuan to finish the phone call and asked, "When will they come?" ”

"Uh, an hour, maybe ...... If it's blocked, it'll take an hour and a half. Zhiyuan speculated.

"Uh......" Zhong Li shifted his body, trying to say something but couldn't say anything.

"You put the tripod out first! Otherwise, the car behind you will know if you are parked here in a traffic jam or parked here when the car is broken! The old horse stretched out his index finger and commanded.

"Oh I forgot, get it right away." Zhiyuan got out of the car and hurriedly took the warning tripod, and then carefully placed it five meters behind the car.

"You're the first to drive a car in our circle, right?" Zhong Neng asked the old horse.

"Pretty much, but my car...... Now I'm old, more than ten years! "The old horse misses his old baby, Santana.

"It's a little stuffy!" Zhong Li is looking for a conversation in the car.

"Oh my God, when is this going to be?" The old horse was so anxious that he wiped his sweat, and when he saw that it was already eleven o'clock in his watch.

"People start at twelve o'clock, let's go to two o'clock in the afternoon! Hehe...... "The old horse is sarcastic."

Three minutes later, Zhong Neng answered: "It's okay, maybe the rescue will arrive in forty minutes, and now is not the peak point for commuting." ”

Ten minutes passed, Zhiyuan got into the car after finishing the warning frame, the three of them and a child sat dryly in the car, looking at the traffic next door passing rapidly, they were like sitting on the hot Mars, wiping sweat, shaking the fan, the two old men chatted from time to time, and Zhiyuan and Yangyang glanced at each other from time to time.

Twenty minutes later, none of the four people in the car could be elegant, writhing, sighing, frowning, and calling...... The old horse was no longer reserved, took off his hat, rolled up his sleeves, unbuttoned two buttons, and was so angry that he was silent; The ripples are even more noisy, babbling and shouting like wild crows on the mountain; Zhong Neng was helpless, sighing and complaining twice from time to time; Only He Zhiyuan sat quietly in the driver's seat, and he didn't breathe.

"How old have you been in this car?" The old horse suddenly asked Zhiyuan.

"It's been six years!"

"You don't have a spare tire for this car, do you?" The old horse looked out the window.

"Uh...... There is one! That one...... Yingying will get it, she has changed it once, I won't change it! Zhiyuan scratched his hair.

"Huh...... I just don't have a spare tire! Zhong Neng suddenly burst out laughing.

As soon as the old horse heard that there was a spare tire, the oil pot in his heart was like a drop of mercury, and he couldn't help but point to Zhiyuan and yell: "You have a spare tire, you don't know it!" Just this sound frightened Yangyang, and Xiao Bu held his breath and didn't move. The old man looked out the window angrily, if Gui Ying was here, he would have to scold this elm pimple a few times.

"I ...... I don't know how to change it! "Zhiyuan Zhiwu.

"Oh, it's good to have a spare tire, do you have tools in the car?" Zhong Neng asked with a deliberate laugh.

"The tools are there! Yingying used to buy a set, specifically for backup on the road. After speaking, Zhiyuan secretly glanced at the old horse from the rearview mirror.

"You have everything, you don't say a word? Just waiting for someone to come! Not to mention the time, this person wants two hours to come, so let's wait here for two hours? The old horse grimaced, not hiding his anger and disgust.

"Okay, it's good to have tools! I'll change it, I changed it on the road once last year, Zhiyuan, you help me with the handle, the tires are heavy! Zhong Neng glanced out the window, ready to open the door and get out of the car, thinking about quickly breaking away from the two of them.

"No, no, no, Zhong Neng, don't go! Let him get it, I'll teach him! Change the tires of a car you a big man will not! Yingying will not you! What rescue call do you make when you have a spare tire and tools? Laugh to death! After Lao Ma finished speaking, he opened the car door with half-squinted eyes and got out of the car, and Zhiyuan also got out of the car.

Zhong Neng and Yangyang, who stayed in the car, looked at each other, the old man was embarrassed, and the child was unhappy.

After getting out of the car, the old horse stood on the side of the road with crutches, and went to the trunk to get a spare tire and tools. The old horse saw Zhiyuan swaying like a duck holding a tire, and he didn't know how much he had said in his heart. Zhiyuan was so thin and weak that his hands were weak and his body was weak, and he knew that his father-in-law was angry, so he only lowered his head and listened to orders. After taking the tools, Zhiyuan glanced at the old horse with both eyes, waiting for instructions.

Lao Ma told Zhiyuan to go to the jack first, but this high school Chinese teacher and master of literature had never done this kind of work! How to support a jack - I haven't seen it before. Helplessly, the old horse pointed to a prompt, and Zhiyuan struggled to move, the action was twisted, dull and stupid, and he couldn't even recognize the most basic tools. Lao Ma saw that this son-in-law was not as stupid as the second horse, and the old man standing on the side of the road was as dumbfounded as a foreign devil watching a play, and he was speechless. The fear and rejection of the middle-aged literati for the big machine were all on their faces, and the dislike and anger of Gu Xiyue's incompetent son-in-law were also all on their faces. For twenty minutes, Zhiyuan, a cultural talent, supported a jack.

Then it was to unload the tires, and the old horse first asked Zhiyuan to screw it. Zhiyuan, a clerk, did physical work, how to see how not to open up. Lao Ma held up a black and evil face of Song Jiang, and his facial features were crowded together, forming an angry word. Yang Yang in the car watched his grandfather angry at his father, the little man was very annoyed, his little face was wrinkled, and he looked at the old horse angrily.

Zhong Neng saw He Zhiyuan screwing in the car, and he didn't have the posture that he should have to work at all, so he was so anxious that he couldn't sit still, so he only knocked on the window to get down. After getting out of the car, Zhong Neng asked for tools several times and planned to get started by himself, but Zhiyuan, who had the avenue in his heart, refused to let him. The two old men each wiped their sweat and looked down at the weak scholar for more than ten minutes, and the two screws were not removed.

"Stop, stop! Let your Uncle Zhong come! The old horse knocked on the tires with his crutches to stop He Zhiyuan.

Zhiyuan only then raised his body, only to see that the clothes on his chest were all soaked, and his face was sweating profusely, he reluctantly handed the tool to Zhong Neng, and flashed aside. Lao Ma squinted at his son-in-law's crepe appearance, and ten thousand sighs in his heart converged into a "hum" from his nose.

Zhong Neng took the tool, spat twice into his hands, and walked with a bowed horse, unscrewing the remaining screws in less than three minutes. Then Zhong Neng and Zhiyuan worked together to unload tires, change tires, put on screws, collect jacks, collect tires, and test drive......

After the modernization of agriculture, farmers have cars, whether they are bicycles, motorcycles, cars or agricultural trolleys, tricycles, harvesters, once the machine breaks down in use, farmers are always the first repairers. After a long time, most of the family members will repair a motorcycle and sort out three wheels. Even if you don't know anything, you can go to the repair shop a few times and understand it, and it is really a piece of cake in the countryside to change tires and repair tires.

The old horse has been in the countryside for 70 years, unless there is a big problem or a root failure, I haven't seen anyone with a broken wheelwheel or a tricycle that has a problem and calls for rescue directly! Literary talent, being able to speak is ability, and the strength in the body and the skills in the hands are also abilities. Maybe the times have changed, if people in this era call for help as soon as they encounter a tire burst, then Lao Ma may even despise and despise this era.

Times are not always progressive, and how many beautiful, exquisite, and shocking things or skills of the past teenagers can only be reproduced in books and dusted in history in the end - isn't this a kind of regression? The vanity and utilitarianism, fragility and violence, narrow-mindedness and perversion of an age must have its roots—the roots of the deepest and supreme.

Yang Yang squinted at his grandfather in the car, and for the first time he was vaguely aware of a higher level of power beyond the power of his parents. She didn't understand, and she wasn't afraid, she just hated the person who trained her father from the bottom of her heart.

After everything was in order, the two old men got into the car, and there was silence in the car all the way. At half past twelve, everyone rushed to the Shaanxi Pavilion, and after entering the restaurant, the waiter led them to the box on the second floor.