"Uncle Quanbao, it's not that my mother and my father won't take me to the south, it's that I don't want to go with them. Didn't you say that you wanted to be my godfather, Uncle Quanbao, why don't you want to! "I saw that my mother was a little sad, and I felt a little uncomfortable.

"Sister-in-law is going to the south, I heard Dunzi say that your eldest brother is doing a good job in the south." Shi Xiucui told my mother about my father.

I don't remember when I told her about my dad. However, when she and Guo Degui came here at 11 o'clock last year, they lived in Guo Deguang's old house, and I once eavesdropped on their conversation. I don't think they said anything nice about us here.

"It seems that you have also made up your mind to live here, we will help you live, you and Guo Deguang's affairs, just wait for Guo Deguang to come back and you will discuss it." You see, if you don't dislike it, you can live in my house, and I don't live here much anyway. Uncle Guo's house, ah, it's just that Guo Deguang's house has been uninhabited for a long time. It's still okay here in my house, and I will always come back every once in a while. "Mom said it very heartwarmingly.

"I don't like to hear that, but my brother Deguang has entrusted me with the care of his house. The house is under my care, and it can be lived in at any time, and I dare to pack a ticket. Liu Quanbao also has his own little calculations when he says this, and Guo Deguang asked him to show the house, which also gave him no less benefits. If Guo Deguang went home and saw that his little daughter-in-law lived in someone else's house, he Liu Quanbao would not be able to explain.

"I see, you should ask Dunzi to help you deal with his kang cave one day. I've heard you say that, like. When the child was born, it was almost October, and it should have been cold by then. If you really want to stay there, you have to prepare in advance. "Mom still thinks more long-term than us men.

"You can go with peace of mind, I thought you would enjoy it over there, but I didn't expect to go there to work, it's better to sell vegetables at home than that." Liu Quanbao began to be indignant again about my mother going to work in the south.

"Your brother won't let me go to work, I asked to go. I'm a person with hands and feet, except for a lower education, I really haven't taken work seriously. I may have left in June or July, and I talked to his dad before, and he said that the garment factory over there was looking for workers, and I could go over and try it. "Mom has always been so strong, and this time she is no exception.

"Sister Xiucui, you can stay here with me for the next two days, and in a few days they will clean up your house over there, and you can move in again! Dunzi will go to school tomorrow, and I will let him go back to live in the county by himself, and our family also has a house in the county. You can stay here with me today. "Mom saw that Shi Xiucui was a little angry with herself, and her tone was a lot more polite.

"Mom, I don't want to go back by myself! I'm going to live at Uncle Quanbao's house. I'll go back tomorrow morning with the food pick-up car, and I won't be delayed from going to school." "I really want Uncle Quanbao, and I don't want to go back alone. Since my mother decided to stay, of course I didn't want to go back.

"Yes, yes. Let the child stay here for a day, and look at the tired people who are tired from studying for Dunzi, all of them have lost weight, Dunzi? "Liu Quanbao is reluctant to let me go.

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Shi Xiucui lived in my house for a few days, and on the weekend, Uncle Quan Bao and I cleaned up the kang hole of Guo Deguang's house, and then lit a fire for two days to check that all parts were not leaking smoke, and then let Shi Xiucui move over.

Speaking of which, it is really necessary to introduce the ondol where I lived when I was a child. The fire kang in the northeast is referred to as kang, or big kang, which is a common heating device in the northern room, and it is said that this thing has also been applied for intangible cultural heritage by a certain country. I don't know if the kang in my hometown is the one that has been declared a World Heritage Site, but I regret that I didn't learn how to make a kang from the old people. If I really learn this craft, I will use this craft to work in a certain country, and I can travel by the way.

Uncle Quan Bao is a master of pankang, and many people in the township have asked him to help with the kang. He told me about the kang beams, columns, kang bottoms, kang noodles, kang stoves, stove chimneys, etc., but I basically didn't understand them. When I was in college, the university professor also told us about the ondol. He relied on various disciplines such as architectural structure, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, meteorology, etc., and his mouth was like a hanging river, and he felt that this fire kang god had gone.

Let's talk about the topic, when Uncle Quan Bao and I cleaned up the kang cave for Shi Xiucui, we found a big secret left by Guo Deguang's father Guo Carpenter.

Guo Deguang's father, the old carpenter, disappeared during the Chinese New Year, and Guo Deguang was in Bincheng to handle the college for his girlfriend Wang Yan. Guo Deguang didn't know about it when he went home, and Lao Guo couldn't wait for Guo Deguang to come back for the New Year together.

After taking care of the aftermath, Guo Deguang found that the bank passbook left by his father showed that he had taken out a few sums of money, adding up to about sixty or seventy thousand. Guo Deguang did not find the money at that time, and later there were other things, so he gave up looking for it.

It was a coincidence that Uncle Quan Bao and I cleaned up Shi Xiucui's kang that day, but Uncle Quan Bao didn't send me any work, he cleaned up the kang stove and stove outside, and asked me to lift a few pieces of the stone slab on the kang noodles to check if there was any blockage.

"Uncle Quanbao, I don't have anything blocked here, it's just a little gray or something." I shouted at Uncle Quanbao.

"My kang, there should be no big problem, you just go through the motions and see what you can take out of the kang road, right?" Uncle Quan Bao said to me with bad intentions.

"Uncle Quanbao, don't scare me, tell me what you have first, so that I don't have to be scared. Could it be that there are snakes in there! "The first time I cleaned the ondol, of course I had some scruples.

"Don't talk about it, maybe a snake got into it. But it's not a bad thing to have a snake in it, I heard the older generation say that when this woman is pregnant, if there is a snake in the hole in the kang, she will definitely give birth to a child. If a snake enters the kang hole when the object is engaged, this marriage will definitely be successful. "Uncle Quan Bao said it very seriously, but I didn't believe it.

"Pull it down, you look at me as small, tease me. I've seen it all, and there's nothing in it. I want to see how you explain this when Shi Xiucui gives birth to a boy. "I'm a little unforgiving.

"As the old saying goes, there are times when it's not accurate, so let's just chatter. Don't Guo Deguang, this kid can't give birth to a son, and I hope we two will come again! Liu Quanbao and I teased.

"Uncle Quanbao, why do I think that, that I should be called sister-in-law Xiucui, why do I look at her, it's just a little bad?"

"What's wrong with people, are they stealing people outside or raising men. I don't think you're a kid like you. "Uncle Quan Bao followed my words.

"I just think, you may be sympathetic to her, I heard her and her boyfriend, Uncle Deguang's cousin, and they said bad things about us when I was "Eleven" last year? "I was robbed by Uncle Quanbao, and I was a little unwilling.

"At this time and at that time, even if they say something, we can't be jealous of others for a lifetime. People are in trouble, and it's a little girl, so we can still help. "Uncle Quan Bao didn't get annoyed by my words, but I remembered what happened in their poplar forest that day.

"It's still a little girl, Uncle Quanbao, you don't know, I was still in the grove that day, in the poplar forest. saw Aunt Xiucui and his boyfriend, it was not the current Uncle Deguang, Aunt Xiucui and his boyfriend were doing that, so shameless. "Maybe I was rebellious at that time, the more Uncle Quan Bao said that Shi Xiucui was good, the more I said the opposite.

"Don't talk nonsense, remember the dunzi, other people's affairs, and try to say as little as possible if you know. It doesn't matter if we talk about it, if outsiders know about it, won't your Uncle Deguang lose face in the future! People's words are terrible, and the stars drown people! "I can hear that Uncle Quanbao's words are very serious.

"Uncle Quanbao, didn't my mother get married to my dad before she had other boyfriends?"

"What's wrong with a virgin boyfriend, but your mother shouldn't be with that little white face. It's so sad that people look at it,,,, why are you here again, hurry up and do your job. I have passed through the chimney, you can carefully clean the chimney bend, and the other places should not be a big problem. "Uncle Quan Bao once again avoided my concerns.

"Okay, don't worry!" With that, I started my cleanup.

After a while, I used a shovel to clean the black ash and some fine sand from the kang hole under the chimney. I didn't have much to do, but the place was so cramped that I still sweated. After the last shovel of ash was cleared, I was so tired that I sat on the stone slab of the kang next to me and gasped. After resting for a while, I stood up and tried to pour out the dust that had been placed in the basket. As soon as my feet stepped on the slate that I had just sat on, I felt that the slate was a little loose. I thought to myself that this is over, I haven't done much serious work, and then I stepped on the kang hole for others, this is Uncle Quanbao's craft? I didn't see how clever it was! Why is my kick so useful?

I placed the basket on the ground and looked back at the loose slate, which I had easily lifted. I looked at the yellow mud around the slate that was used as a seal, and it felt like someone had touched it before. Looking further under the slate, I found something wrapped in brown paper. When I opened the paper bag, I found a neat pile of 100 dollar bills inside.

That's the most money I've ever seen. I've seen my mother take a wad of money from the bank before, and she said it was exactly 10,000 yuan. I probably looked at the money in the paper bag, about 80,000 yuan.

I was about to call Uncle Quan Bao to come over and see what I found, but I suddenly remembered that Uncle Quan Bao had just told me not to care about other people's affairs, and when the words came to my mouth, I couldn't help but say nothing.