Chapter 45: Returning Home on New Year's Day

Mom this trip with the car, has been gone for more than two months, it seems that has come back, I have been home once, they have not come back, my brother lives directly at the third aunt's house at night, with my cousin and cousin in a room, the time I went home, when I went to bed at night, I found that my brother's arm has several more cigarette scars burned with cigarette butts, he also learned to smoke, and the smoke is very diligent, a day to smoke several more than me,

My mother wrote to my third aunt a few days ago, saying that the onions were not selling well over there, and the business might lose money, and they wanted to transport the onions to the hawkers over there and sell them, so that the hawkers could set up stalls in the market to sell, but there were several big carts in the field, transporting onions to the past, and the hawkers couldn't eat so many goods.

It's New Year's Day soon, and there will be a small long holiday on New Year's Day, and I just took advantage of this small holiday to go home. From Hongxing Town to the eight groups have not yet opened to traffic, there is a car from Yansong to Hongxing Town in the morning, and when passing through the eight groups, it will stop at the entrance of the village for a few minutes, if someone wants to Hongxing Town, they have to wait for the bus at the designated location at more than 6 o'clock in the morning. This train runs once a day, leaving in the morning and coming back in the evening. When I was in middle school in Hongxing Town, I rode my bicycle by myself, and since I went to the county key high school, I have taken a tricycle every time I come back. Most of the time I go home now when I'm on long vacations, so I can be with Huang Rong every time, and every time the two of us take a car, the fare is evenly shared. In Tunzi, our two families are the front and back yards, the two families move around more, our mother is a card friend, always play three difficulties together, so the two of us have been compared, it is strange to say, from primary school to junior high school our academic performance has always been the front and back feet, the parents of the two families, of course, including the two of us, although they don't say it, but secretly are more energetic. Originally, I wanted to take the secondary school entrance examination after graduating from junior high school, and I didn't want to be compared, but by mistake I was sent to high school. Most of the time her test scores are better than mine, and she gets good grades, her mother will show off when she plays cards, my mother hears it when she plays cards with her mother, and she will talk when she goes home, and what makes me even more difficult to accept is that I made some mistakes in school, if Huang Rong knows, she will go home and tell my mother? So although Huang Rong was very beautiful at that time, I didn't have any feelings for her, and even hated it, and I didn't like to be with her very much. If it weren't for the fact that I went home to take a taxi, there was a person who could share the fare, I didn't want to have any intersection with her, every time I took a taxi home, it was the kind of tricycle that could sit for two people, every time I took the car home, I sat in the middle of the saddle, she was sitting sideways in the innermost, when I was in elementary school, I felt that she was very tall, and at that time I started to fight with her, and I couldn't make any cheap money. But since I went to high school, I took a taxi home together, I sat outside and blocked her inside, I felt that she was so small, I also thought about it many times, we grew up together, it was really called a childhood sweetheart, if something can happen between us, there is no need to be vigorous at all, as long as I say it to others, others will feel so romantic, but I really don't feel anything about her.

Huang Rong and I got off the tricycle and walked to the tunzi together, there were not many families in the tunzi, the sky was starting to get cold again, so there was no one to see on the road, Huang Rong's parents knew that she would come back at this time, so they greeted her at the gate, I said hello to Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang, and continued to walk forward, passing through the Fangshan head of Uncle Huang's house, you can see our house. I wish my parents could stand at the door to pick me up, but I knew that if the four of us wanted to get together again in the future, we might not even have a chance.

A few days ago, there was just a snowfall, no one swept the snow in my yard, just started from the door of the foreign object to the gate, cleaned out a passageway, half a meter wide, just able to pass through one person, through the two inverted doors, the pile of firewood at the head of the house mountain has no firewood, on the wooden pier on the ground, there are a few chopped half of the firewood and an axe, I understand at a glance, this is now chopped and burned, it seems that Uncle Wang is not a person who lives a life, when my father was at home before, which time it snowed, The yard is not cleaned, when is the firewood chopped and burned? There was a nameless fire in my heart, and I really wanted to turn around and go back to school.

There is no fire in the house, the temperature is very low, when I walked in, my mother and Uncle Wang walked out of the East House together, when Uncle Wang lived in my house, the East House was specially prepared for him, my mother still wanted to come over to hug me as before, touch my face, and said in my mouth, my eldest son is back, Uncle Wang also stood behind my mother, and asked me with a smile Is it cold outside? I replied to Uncle Wang's words, and at the same time pushed away my mother's hand that wanted to touch my face.

I found an old pair of white gloves on the windowsill and turned around and walked out of the house, and my mom asked me what I was going to do in the back. I didn't look back, I just threw down a sentence, I went out to sweep the snow in the yard, so that people can see that the yard is not even swept with snow, how embarrassing, people won't gossip behind their backs, won't they laugh? The mother said in the back: Look at what my eldest son said, who will laugh? Besides, if you can't keep it all in this winter, it will have to snow again tomorrow. I replied to my mother: Then you have dinner this morning, you don't eat tonight, Uncle Wang saw my displeasure, he also found a pair of gloves, and began to clear the snow with me. It was already dark during the meal, and I didn't say a word, they always asked me a question, and I answered.

It wasn't until after eating and finally getting off the table that I said to them: Mom and Uncle Wang, if you really want to be together, then tell the world openly, now you two have no name and no points, stay in the East House for a day, what's going on? Aren't you afraid that the people in the tun will chew their tongues behind their backs? Mom, you bring the letter to call Dad back, since the two of you both have tacit intentions of divorce, then make it clear, last time he went to Guangyi Coal Mine, I went back to school, we walked together, I talked to him about this on the road, he said that he didn't want anything out of the house, call my dad back, if you two want to divorce, then go to the police station to go through the formalities, and make the ownership of me and my brother clear, if you don't want me to go to school again in the future, then I can not go. Uncle Wang hurriedly said: Admiralty, don't worry, even if I am with your mother one day, you should go to the photo, your Uncle Wang will also provide you with college even if your head is arched, and I will treat you and your brother like a father.

I interrupted Uncle Wang with a gesture and said: Uncle Wang, you listen to me, I have been in school for so many years and I am so old, I don't want to be an ignorant child and block among you, that is not good for anyone. But what I want to say is that we live behind closed doors, we must have a way of living, first of all, the outside yard must be cleaned, and firewood can't be burned and chopped, right? Uncle Wang, I have to admit that you are better than my dad in talking and doing things, but if you really get together with my mother, you will have to live a better life than before, right? Of course, I'm not referring to how much money you bring in, I'm referring to the attitude towards getting by.

I've heard before that you had a son awarded to you when you got divorced last time, you can't let him live outside alone, and if you get together with my mom in the future, let him come too.

My mom cleared her throat and just wanted to say something. I got up and left my seat, not giving her the chance at all.