After Wu Yue made a special trip to Beijing to visit the company, no one in the county ever looked for me again, and my life returned to peace again.

The real estate business has improved, but it is also good and bad.

The company's financial situation has improved, and I have disposed of all the properties left by Dazhi when he left, and the house has become cash, and all of them have been transferred to the account he left behind.

Dazhi is still not heard from.

I tried to contact other classmates, and everyone was surprised that I would ask them about Dazhi, and in everyone's mind, if I couldn't find Dazhi, there might not be a second person in this world who knew his whereabouts, because I was considered Dazhi's best friend.

I also tried to contact Ah Peng.

Ah Peng is now in a marriage crisis with his originally loving wife in the south, and it is said that he has been in a cold war for more than a year.

His plight also made me sigh again at the ruthlessness of time.

Time can kill the so-called love, I think of the old story of Ah Peng's graduation from college and his unhesitating defection to his girlfriend for love.

However, all of this has changed completely.

Ah Peng grabbed my phone and complained about my suffering for an hour.

Perhaps it was the delicate air of the south that softened his edges and corners, and Ah Peng's words were already completely a gentle Hokkien accent.

His strange tone and hard-to-change local accent sound both familiar and unfamiliar.

Originally, I wanted to ask him if Dazhi had any contact with him, but in the end I still found nothing.

At the end of the conversation, we were both disappointed, he wanted to find sympathy and comfort in me, I wanted to get a little bit of information about Dazhi from him, but we didn't get anything for each other.

.....

The days returned to calm.

A few more years have passed.

......

Winter is coming.

I took Lin Xueer and my son back to the countryside together.

On our way to visit the fourth uncle in the town hospital, we went to the Yellow House by the way.

The fact that the Yellow Building, which carried too much youthful laughter in the past, has become a breeding farm makes me feel a lot of emotion.

Leaving the Yellow Building, I drove my wife and children back to the village on the way, and I chatted with Lin Xue'er about many old things from my junior high school days.

But I didn't tell her any stories about Ding Ling, Ah Hong, Tietou and the bald people related to the Yellow Mansion.

I think that maybe there are a lot of things and unspeakable privacy buried in everyone's heart.

There are many things about a person's past that even your closest people don't know in this life.

Experience is an asset, and everyone has their own ups and downs in the process of growing up.

However, how many people in this world can see through and understand their past lives?

Lin Xue'er seems to understand my plot of the Yellow Mansion.

In my intermittent narration, the expression on her face was sometimes sad, sometimes moved, sometimes happy, and her thoughts completely entered my teenage life.

Lin Xueer was in the car and listened quietly to me until the end.

Looking through the rearview mirror, I saw her looking at me tenderly, with a solemn expression.

Finally, she suddenly made a suggestion that surprised me.

"Big country, I have an idea, you like the Yellow House so much, why don't you want to do something for it?"

I was surprised, and turned to look at her sitting in the back of the car: "Your proposal is very good, but what can I do for Huang Lou?" ”

Lin Xue'er's expression still looked serious.

"Find the owner of the Yellow House Farm, inject capital into him, make the scale bigger, and make the Yellow House a brand, what do you think?"

I was so amazed by the thunderous advice that I slid the car out of the snow for a few hundred meters with one foot on the brakes.

Lin Xue'er leaned back and forth in front of the back seat laughing, and the tears of laughter flowed out.

I blackened my face and watched her laugh.

"What do you mean, I'm going to make a Yellow House brand egg? Yellow House brand duck? ”

Lin Xue'er, who had stopped laughing, trembled again.

"Giggle...... Great country, don't think too much, I think the original life in the Yellow Mansion you just talked about is too heavy, and it deliberately amuses you! ”

"Giggle...... I don't want you to invest in Huanglou chicken, duck or anything! ”

She wiped her eyes, and it seemed that she had really been laughed to tears by my last serious joke.

The son was on the side, looking at his mother, who was laughing breathlessly, although he didn't know what we were talking about, and when he saw his mother so happy, he also laughed with his mother.

The story of the hard years and hardships I experienced in the Yellow House when I was a teenager ended with the laughter of the two of them.

Laughing enough, Lin Xue'er returned to normal.

"Your Yellow Building, it's an old Yellow Calendar, a big country, you're really old!"

As she spoke, she looked at me with gray temples and a happy expression on her face.

"However, it shows that my husband is a nostalgic person, which is also a good thing, giggle......"

"Big country, do you know the country's plan to withdraw points and merge schools? In fact, the Ministry of Education has long been optimizing the layout of the school's educational resources. ”

"You see, when you graduated from college, Xiali and Jetta were both luxury cars, and now what? Mercedes-Benz and BMW are street cars, this is the progress of the times, it should be eliminated, it is destined to be eliminated, your yellow building is just a symbol of the times! ”

"I'm thinking, by the time our son goes to college, the conditions will be very good, maybe in a few decades, a hundred years, there will be no schools in China, all digital education, online education, everyone can receive education without leaving home, and the diplomas in the future will be all electronic diplomas, where is there anything about the Yellow Mansion you said!"

.......

Lin Xue'er said, her face full of longing and hope.

......

I know that what she is talking about is the actual situation, and the development of China today can be described as changing with each passing day, and the various hardships that our generation experienced in their childhood and adolescence will become less and less in real life, or even cease to exist.

What can I do for the Yellow House now?

The Yellow House is the persistence of my soul, and not forgetting the original intention is the best reward for the years of the Yellow Building.

The car continued to speed down the country road.

The road is very smooth and in good condition, and although there is occasional snow, the driving is relatively smooth.

Between me communicating with Lin Xueer, joking with my son, and thinking alone, it didn't take long for me to arrive home.

The changes in the village are not the same as they were 20 years ago.

The whole village has become clean and tidy.

The winding country road in front of the house was replaced by a straight asphalt highway.

I got off the road, parked my car in front of my house, rang the doorbell, and my mother's familiar voice came over the loudspeaker.

"The great country is back, come in quickly!"

With that, the door opened, and our group walked into the courtyard.

Twenty years ago, the image of me riding my bicycle home from the Yellow House came back to mind.

My mother stood at the entrance of the village, leaning against the low courtyard wall, looking at the figure waiting from afar, and the scene of my mother's worries for thousands of miles made me cry many times.

For this reason, I have vowed more than once that I must change the living conditions of my family by my own efforts.

Now, it can be regarded as having fulfilled his childhood wish, and the old mother's life is different from the original.

Moreover, the application of modern network technology has also benefited the home.

Now that I want to go home, I only need to make a phone call, and my mother can see the exact location of the car at different times in the navigation, and know when I will get home, and I no longer have to wait at the entrance of the village!

Such changes can be attributed to time, time has passed, everything is developing in a better direction, and the days are getting more and more hopeful.

As soon as I entered the house and sat down, the fourth uncle called from the hospital.

I told him that he had arrived home safely.

We chatted for a while, and the fourth uncle changed the topic and told me an amazing piece of information.

"Big country, do you remember the chef you used to be in junior high school in the Yellow Building?"

"There's just a big incident in town that has something to do with him!"

I remembered the greasy, fat round face, and the greedy eyes.

Coincidentally, we met just now, and I smiled heartily.

"Remember, Fourth Uncle, when I went to your hospital, after I came out, I went to the Yellow Building, and I saw him, he was working as a security guard in the breeding farm of the Yellow Building!"

"The old man seems to be in good spirits and looks to be in good shape! I just asked for a cigarette! ”

On the other end of the phone, the fourth uncle snorted coldly.

"I'm telling you, it's a coincidence, you said that you saw him just now and chatted with him, but just a few minutes ago, the old man was arrested!"

"Captured?" I was surprised.

"Why, what can he do as a security guard?"

I have the impression that this old man has indeed done a lot of bad things, but he is very cunning, and no one has been able to catch his handle.

So the old guy has been safe and sound so far.

"Why?"

The fourth uncle's tone was a little displeased.

"It is said that this old man committed a big crime this time, and he was secretly videotaped by his boss, and he stole the money from the farm with another security guard, and more than once, everyone got stolen goods, the amount is huge, and it is estimated that he will be sentenced to several years."

I understand why the fourth uncle deliberately mentioned the incident of the chef of the Yellow House on the phone, this kind of thing is a sensational news in the town itself.

A chef or a security guard can break the law, and it's shocking enough to be in a quiet and unpretentious town.

It seems that no matter how cunning the fox is, it can't escape the surveillance methods of modern technology!

The fat old man planted it quite miserably this time.

"However, he did all the bad things, and he deserved it, right?"

I can't help but think of the evil conversation between the chef and the security guard I heard in the security room of the Yellow Building with Da Gang more than ten years ago.

Although time has passed, it is difficult to guess whether it is true or false, but it is still difficult to let go of my heart.

......

The fourth uncle and I chatted for a while.

From the fat chef being arrested, he talked about some bits and pieces when he was going to school in the Yellow Building.

From the tone of the fourth uncle's dialogue, it can be felt that the chef's reputation has always been very bad in the eyes of the townspeople.

"Character determines fate."

It seems that God is still fair to everyone.

If a person does something bad, it means that there is a problem with the quality, and if there is a problem with the quality, something should happen sooner or later, which is also fate, right!?

The small courtyard in the mother's countryside has bright windows and a wide line of sight.

Standing in front of the window and making a phone call, you can clearly see the mountains in the distance.

Outside, a cold wind was blowing.

The cold wind whipped up the snow and beat against the high walls of the courtyard.

In my childhood memory, the jujube tree in the center of the yard has grown very tall.

On the dry branches of the jujube tree, a few gray mountain birds suddenly fell.

They "chirped" among the branches and jumped happily for a while.

Breaking the silence of the small courtyard.

Under the blowing of dust and snow raised by a cold wind, he flew away in a hurry.

In an instant, in the small courtyard, under the light of the warm winter sun, a brief calm was restored.

A scene of peace and tranquility.