One night in the past few days, Liu Bin carried two bags of Northeast rice to the Lin brothers in the dark. Vertices

Brother Lin raised the kerosene lamp to illuminate the room, and Sister-in-law Lin opened the bag and grabbed a handful of rice and put it in her hand, every grain of rice was full and beautiful, completely different from the rice made from the local rice.

The Lin brothers were reluctant to eat the rice with white flowers, so they secretly exchanged coarse grains with acquaintances in the factory, and the taste was not delicious, but the coarse grains exchanged for were heavy and could be eaten for a longer time.

Newspaper news reports every day that there are bumper harvests in various places, there are no natural disasters and no **, there are fewer and fewer people who can believe it, and every household is trying to find a way to store grain.

Lin Xiaoxiao has no food crisis, and the family eats well and goes out. Ordinary people eat with vegetables, but they are full of red faces, and they look like people who have never been hungry.

Lin Xiaoxiao was afraid of arousing suspicion, so she would smear a layer of powder on her face every day before going out, which looked more like a sickly paleness. She not only made her own powder, but also forced Liu Bin to make fans every day, only Niuniu was not good at letting her be powdered, but it was easy to explain to the outside world. The family's rations are only for the children first, and it is normal for the children to be well raised.

Lin Xiaoxiao was afraid of being seen through, so she didn't even go to the canteen at noon, and brought two rice balls for lunch every day, and sometimes replaced the rice balls with pancakes and other foods. She and Liu Bin don't go to the canteen to eat, and the external statement is to save food.

She said that most of the rice balls are wild vegetables, and the pancakes are also made of worthless things such as bean dregs, but in fact, the bread is good. These outsiders don't know, but they really only eat their children as husband and wife, but they don't know how to make more people sour.

Everyone in the factory knows that Niuniu is not Liu Bin's daughter, and he is so good to the child, but Lin Xiaoxiao has not been able to give birth to a child for several years, and he doesn't know what this woman is going to do.

Lin Xiaoxiao and Liu Bin both knew some of the rumors behind them, but since the couple hadn't heard them in person, it was difficult for them to explain anything publicly, let alone find the person who spread the rumors.

Lin Xiaoxiao and Liu Bin are not in a hurry, outsiders are anxious for them, and the people of the Liu family are even more anxious about the children's affairs. Liu Bin hasn't been home for the New Year in the past few years, he has been out for a long time, and his relationship with the family is average, and he has an older brother and a sister at home.

His parents have a brother to take care of him at home, and he only needs to go back with pension money every year, not that he is not filial, but that every time he brings it home, his parents stop him from going back. The parents in his hometown asked him to directly exchange the train ticket for money, and it was the best filial piety to mail it to his family, and how much money did he waste when he went back.

After Liu Bin found out, he could only touch his nose and go to the post office to send money, which is also a good thing to spend money without worry and effort. He thought it would be difficult to meet his relatives back home, but who knew that this day would come very suddenly.

There was an event in the factory on May Day, and the workers went on vacation to participate in the celebration organized by the government, and he and Lin Xiaoxiao took the initiative to stay and be on duty.

After lunch, when he was resting in the office, the people from the factory security department found him, saying that someone was looking for him outside, and that it was his eldest brother and nephew.

Liu Bin has not been back in the past few years, but the credible mail has not been broken, of course, every time he sends a letter, he will prepare the return envelope and stamps, otherwise the people in his hometown are reluctant to spend money to write to him.

He had received a letter from his hometown the day before yesterday, and the letter did not say that someone from his hometown was coming, so he walked to the guard room with questions in his heart.

Outside the guard room stood a father and son, both of whom had similar facial features and figures, the only difference was their age. The older one is obviously old, and the younger one looks young and old, and the two of them are about the same in the same place, they are both thin, and their faces show a cowardly look.

Liu Bin searched in his memory, and only then did he confirm with doubts that the older one was indeed his eldest brother, and the younger one was of course his nephew.

The father and son on the opposite side stared at Liu Bin after he came out, Brother Liu looked at a clean and neat dress, and then looked at the leather shoes on his feet, unconsciously retracted his feet, and covered the patches on his pants.

Liu Feng also looked at Liu Bin stupidly, and he didn't know how to call someone first.

Liu Bin found that Brother Liu was embarrassed: "Big brother, why don't you say it in advance if you want to come over, I will pick you up too."

"Second child, my father and mother asked me to come over to join you." Brother Liu blushed and explained.

Liu Bin didn't want to ask much in front of outsiders, so he could only take people home first and then ask in detail: "Big brother, you are tired from taking the car, if you have anything to say, go back and talk about it." ”

"Okay, Xiaofeng, hurry up and call someone, this is your second uncle." Brother Liu remembered that his son was still stupid and didn't speak, so he slapped him hard.

Liu Feng was beaten so hard that his back hurt, and he smirked and showed his yellow-stained buckteeth: "Second uncle." ”

It was the first time Liu Bin saw his nephew, and he nodded and said, "Let's go, let's go home first." ”

Before Liu Bin left, he didn't forget to ask the comrades in the guard room to help Lin Xiaoxiao and say that he had left beforehand.

Liu Bin pushed the bicycle and asked Brother Liu to put his luggage in the car, and the three of them only had one car and could only walk back. Along the way, Brother Liu followed Liu Bin nervously, for fear that he would disappear if he walked slowly. Liu Feng was busy looking at the various scenery on the street, and fantasized in his heart if he could go in and have a look, and it would be better if he had time to play.

Niuniu also went to participate in the theatrical performance, but no one was at home, Liu Bin asked Brother Liu and his nephew to put down their luggage first, and he went to the kitchen to cook noodles.

Liu Bin is also a person who often goes into the kitchen, and his skills are not as good as Lin Xiaoxiao, but cooking a bowl is not a problem.

Brother Liu walked around the yard uneasily, and waited until he took the noodles in Liu Bin's hand before he asked carefully, "Second brother, who usually cooks in your family?" ”

"Whoever is free cooks."

"Dad, there's eggs." After Xiaofeng mixed it, he found that there were still eggs lying at the bottom of the bowl.

What Brother Liu was about to say was interrupted, he looked down at the noodles in the bowl: "Second brother, where are the rules for men to cook, you see that you can't cook and mess around, this high-quality white noodles shouldn't be cooked, this is a good thing to keep for the New Year to eat or go to relatives, you still waste eggs, let's just eat coarse grains." ”

"Big brother, there are still at home, you can eat with confidence." Liu Bin wanted to appease Brother Liu's heart, but the other party thought he was polite.

Brother Liu held the bowl and asked, "Second brother, what do you usually eat?" ”

Liu Bin thought for a while and understood: "Big brother, I usually eat like this at home." ”

"Dad, you hurry up and eat, if you don't eat noodles, you're going to be lumpy." When the brothers were talking, Xiaofeng had already eaten half a bowl of noodles into his stomach.

Brother Liu still didn't believe that Liu Bin could eat noodles every day and put eggs and vegetables, and there were still clumps of oil flowers floating in the bowl. Even the village cadres in their village can't live such a life, and the second child eats better than the village cadres in the city, why does his father say that he is not as good as an ordinary worker.