157. Energy
Hong Zuyan, who followed over, found the shovel placed on the door corner and slapped the quilt drying in the yard with the shovel rod.
"Sister-in-law, I'll keep you busy in the morning and clean up, now you can rest, I'll get it." The eldest sister stopped her aside and patted her with her own hands.
"It's light, you can't shoot the ashes, give you a shovel." Hong Zuyan smiled and handed the shovel to the eldest sister.
The eldest sister took the shovel and slapped it vigorously on the quilt, and under the sun, a layer of gray was refracted into pieces.
Hong Zuyan took Chen Weiwei's hand and walked upstairs and downstairs with a fist, constantly praising the magnanimity of the Ling family's house.
She was sincere, after all, Ling Er's house was not only the only mansion in the village, but also the tallest building in the village.
So far, except for the Ling Er family, none of the houses are more than two floors.
The eldest sister found the electric kettle and started boiling water, opened the tea can, grabbed a handful and smelled it, it was already moldy.
"I'll go get the tea." When he came back, Chen Weiwei saw Ling Er holding a large bag of tea and putting it in the car.
She went out of the house and went in the direction of her grandmother's house according to her memory.
At noon, no nap, all basking in the sun at the door and chatting, she expected people to ignore her and not stare at her, but people smiled at her, and she was embarrassed not to react, hugging and laughing.
She regretted taking the errand.
Fortunately, I met Lao Wu, who was playing with a group of children nearby.
Lao Wu is glamorous, standing in the middle of a group of children is particularly prominent, many children are centered on her, and she is finally no longer stingy to play with the children.
She saw her sister-in-law who had not passed the door, and before she could speak, Chen Weiwei had already beckoned to her.
"Can you help me get the car keys from your eldest brother, I'll take the tea." There was still a group of men drinking in the hall of Grandma's house, and she was reluctant to go in front of so many people.
"Okay." The fifth child ran in the direction of his grandmother's house happily, and when he ran out of the house, Chen Weiwei was already standing in front of the car behind the house.
Lao Wu opened the car door, and Chen Weiwei got into the car and found Ling Er's tea.
Halfway through, I greeted the eldest sister.
The eldest sister smiled and said, "I forgot, every family has a dog, don't scare you." ”
"It's fine." Chen Weiwei said with a smile.
Ling Er came back drunk, accompanied by a group of elders, is it okay not to drink?
If you don't drink it again, you have to pay a respect, one cup per person, which is half a catty.
When the elders go home again, they can't stop drinking, which is another half catty.
Once and again, this pound of wine must be drunk, otherwise it will not give face and look down on people.
China's unique culture is that wine and face are hung together, and piggybacking is also open to saying "no" and not knowing how to refuse.
If you have to say "no", try to be as subtle and tactful as possible.
Ling Daikun picked his teeth, followed behind Ling Er, who was being held by Huang Liyu and Ling Hu, and sneered, "What kind of wine, such a little wine is like this." ”
He casually counted a pound and a half, now his brain is sober and he walks steadily, if it weren't for his boss Ling Dailiang who opened his mouth and said that he couldn't drink again, he could still pour a pound into his stomach.
"Why can't I drink you!" Huang Liyu's biggest dissatisfaction with Ling Daikun is that he is addicted to alcohol, and she just wants to control him drinking now.
"Drink me to death? That's a lot of wine. Ling Daikun said confidently.
When he arrived at the door, Ling Er resolutely didn't need help from others, straightened up, then washed his face and feet, picked up a quilt that was drying outside, went into the inner room to make a bunk, and fell asleep when he lay down.
Chen Weiwei went into the house to take a look, made him a cup of tea, and then brought the door out.
Ling Yi proposed to play mahjong, Chen Weiwei did not refuse, her card skills were not bad, and no one let her play a few dollars of mahjong, and when she had dinner in the evening, she won about 20 yuan.
In the evening, Ling Er and Ling Daikun each had a meal, and Huang Liyu and Chen Weiwei were reluctant to follow, so they both ate at their grandmother's house.
It was his elementary school classmate who shouted Ling Er to eat.
Once in Ping'an Commune, in addition to the Ling family with four college students, the most famous is the mute family who has become the top student in science in the province.
His elementary school classmates are called Qi Hui, his father is mute, his mother is an intermittent psychosis, and he has two older sisters.
One of them is probably genetic, and his brain is not very bright, but it is just not bright, and there will be no too noisy things, marriage and children, children are normal, and life is good.
He is the eldest in the family, he can endure hardships and be tired, after Ling Er's car accident, when he came to see Ling Er, he was already a provincial party committee and department-level cadre.
Whether it was in the previous life or in this life, Ling Er and others were very good, just because the poor cherished each other.
This time, as soon as Ling Er came back in the morning, he came to the door in person.
Ling Er couldn't excuse himself, and he didn't drive, so he rode Ling Daishan's motorcycle, tied a box of liquor to the back, and went to Qi's house.
The Qi family is in the westernmost part of the village, with three large tiled houses, which were built by Ling Er when Ling Daikun took the initiative to lend money to the dumb man.
Qi Hui tied up a broom at the door, wearing glasses, Si Swenwen, saw Ling Er coming, and hurriedly greeted him.
"You kid still has this craft." Ling Er carried the wine into the house, and when the dumb man saw him, he babbled and waved his hands.
Ling Er couldn't understand it at all.
"I'll say hello to you and ask when you're back." Qi will translate on the side.
"Uncle, I only came back in the morning." Dumb and not deaf, Ling Er didn't deliberately speak loudly.
"Let you sit down." While helping the translator, Qi Hui took the teacup handed over by his Lao Tzu, took a closer look, and after seeing that it was not clean, he went into the kitchen to brush the cup again.
"You're not busy with work, how do you have time to come back?" When Qi Hui looked for him, he hadn't woken up yet, so he didn't have time to ask.
"It's a family affair." Qi Hui pointed to the old lady who was watching TV in the back room and said, "The old lady has been in poor health, and she lived in a courtyard in the provincial capital in the previous stage, and she was only sent back yesterday afternoon, and it just so happened that you also came back." ”
"Yo, it's a bit of a hassle." Ling Er handed him a cigarette and said with a smile, "How about it, if you don't have a tight hand, I'll give you some." ”
"Don't, I haven't paid you back the money for building a house last time, I can make do with it now, an old bachelor, there is no place to spend money, this hospitalization will at most put this year's savings into it." Qi Hui said with a smile.
Ling Er said, "Don't be polite to me, your identity is different now, and you have a handle when you borrow money from others." ”
"Don't worry, I'm not so stupid," Qi Hui pushed the brewed tea in front of Ling Er, "It's not that I can't get by, I think about it, wait for my eldest brother-in-law and second brother-in-law to go to the provincial capital next year, I will be cheeky to find someone to trust the relationship, arrange a job for them, and then let the old man and old lady follow them, I often go to the countryside and run around, I really don't have the energy to care about them." ”