When the four seasons of the year are silently rotated, when the cold winter ends, the vibrant spring follows. The warm wind regained the lost ground and generally conquered the latitude lines, to the north, to the north, through the Crocodile Territory Peninsula at the northwest end of the mainland, and circled around a dozen newly built eight-story residential buildings a few kilometers south of Changteng Town, lifting up an old man's sparse white hair, and finally dissipating from exhaustion.

Lao Yugan supported his waist with one hand and beat his legs with the other, leaning on the windowsill outside the corridor at the entrance of the new apartment, looking at his two sons moving things in and out, his eyes couldn't help but moisten. But on this face, which has been furrowed by sixty years of wind and frost, the wrinkled eyes are like two dry wells, and the tear ducts that have been idle for many years barely work for a few seconds, and the little salt water oozing out can't even cover the bottom of the well full of dry and cracked yellow mud.

Flower, it would be nice if you could see all this.

The original name of the old dried fish was blue cheek, a side child of the Flying Fish family, the third of the five brothers and sisters, and the tenth among the nineteen cousins. is in the middle position that is most easily ignored by parents and elders, and there is only one link in the talent of water magic and his own unmotivated, and he was completely reduced to a transparent person in the family at the age of ten.

When I was young and ignorant, I used to be happy that I didn't have to work hard to fight to improve the number of rings, until the girl I secretly liked threw herself into the arms of others. And in the next few years, he realized a truth, when he doesn't work hard, he can still have a glimmer of hope, but when he really works hard and realizes his mediocrity, there is only despair.

And what made Blue Cheek even more desperate was that this small struggle did not attract the attention of the people around him at all, not a word of encouragement, not even a word of ridicule. In this way, he clenched his fists silently, released them silently, and then carried the stone plough and left Changteng Town to go to the surrounding 'free zone' to open up wasteland and farm land for forty-two years. By the way, I got the nickname of old dried fish.

However, I have to say that man is a realistic animal, and the slight resentment towards the family when he left home at the beginning has become complicated after seeing the lives of ordinary people around him. Not only did he rely on him to marry Ah Hua, the most beautiful ordinary person in the neighborhood, as his wife, but because of this strength, he also made several children barely have enough to eat.

"Dad, it's done, can you come in and have a look?" the second son's rotten words interrupted the memories of the old dried fish.

The old dried fish nodded slightly, slowly walked into the door, and asked, "How is the girl with broken scales?"

"Didn't I tell you, she went to the south for an internship and didn't come back. Besides, she is following Miss Flashing Scales now, so what else is there to worry about. "The rotten bones and face are full of the pride that is unique to the biological father.

Hearing the words 'eldest lady', Lao Yugan frowned slightly, but finally sighed in his heart, and did not correct it as usual, in order to avoid the relationship with the family.

"Dad!" The voice was a little silly, it was the ashes of the third son who was drinking water after moving things.

Lao Yugan had three sons and one daughter, the eldest son was sick and died early, and the second son and the fourth daughter were just ordinary people. Only the third son is a second-ring water magic warrior, but unfortunately his head is not good, although he is not completely mentally retarded, but he can't hide it from people after a few words.

In terms of marriage, this situation makes the old fish dry and hurts his brain. Even if he is mentally retarded, the water talent of the second ring can be picked among ordinary people at will, but the old dried fish who is obsessed with the number of talent rings is always unwilling, and wants to ask for a mother-in-law with a water magic talent for his stupid son, one ring and a half ring are fine, and even more stupid than a stupid son can be accepted.

With such thoughts, he directly boiled his stupid son to the age of twenty-six, but he didn't get his wish. Fortunately, the gray bones don't know much about it, as if the wolf who doesn't know the smell of blood without eating meat is still very happy to be single.

However, this situation changed last year. Unable to rely on fighting to improve the number of rings, the gray bone was introduced by the family to work in the power plant, and the specific job was to push the big roulette wheel with the ox, but people never expected that he not only became the only person in the family who earned copper coins, but even showed a certain cultivation talent, from the beginning of summer to the end of winter for most of the year, it actually rose from the second ring to the third ring, and there is a trend of breaking through the fourth ring.

In this way, the problem of marriage has become simpler, and under the contact of the family, many girls who are part of the water system and have given up cultivation are willing to marry, and the only remaining obstacle is a large dowry. With the current income of the gray bones, it will take about two or three years to accumulate, but considering the inevitable increase in wages and the additional income generated by the cattle guards of the first and one ring, one year is enough.

Lao Yuji, who has thought about these things countless times, saw the silly son's smile at this time, and involuntarily thought about it again, and thus got rid of the memory of his deceased wife, and his mood changed again, touching the silly son's erect short hair, like all old people, he only felt that no matter how big his children were, they were just children.

"Daddy! ”

Lao Yugan smiled and took the water scoop, took a big sip, and then handed it to the eldest son behind him, but remembered the recent posters on the streets and alleys about food hygiene, and took the water scoop back again, "You can't drink this, go get some boiling water yourself." ”

As an ordinary person, the second son also realized that he was rotten bones, took the bulky wooden shell hot water bottle, and went straight to the boiling water room in the corner of the first floor. In the corridor and on the stairs, I greeted a few acquaintances who were originally in the same village, but I was surprised to learn that fresh items were distributed at the entrance of the community, and each family had half a bag with a household registration book.

The father and the third brother only moved here today, but the rotten bones and their wives and children lived in the building as the first batch of demolition households as early as the first snow this winter, and they had a warm little home in the front building, and they were used to the phenomenon of sending things at the door of the community from time to time.

If you don't take advantage of it, you will suffer a loss, and this kind of thinking can be found everywhere. Touching the hard paper on his chest before he could put it away because he had not yet moved, the second son immediately rushed out of the residential building in three steps and two steps, and ran to the gate of the community. Queue up, ask for usage, stamp the household register, and fill the thermos to go home. In the old dried fish, he explained the reason, and made this fresh object called tea in a stoneware bowl.

After more than a dozen breaths, when the tea soup showed a yellowish brown, the stupid son pointed to the tea bowl and said, "Urine!" Without waiting for the second brother or father to refute, he sniffed again and added: "Fragrant, urine." ”

The old dried fish and the second son's rotten bones looked at each other, smiled bitterly, picked up the stoneware bowl and smelled it, blew it again, drank it, and chewed the tea stalk and swallowed it after drinking. Then with great effort, he finally taught his stupid son that this is tea, not urine, and poured the tea soup down.

The so-called well-known, although the tea is slightly bitter, but the aroma and fragrance still quickly conquered the father and son. After moving, when I rested and chatted, I squandered the small half bag of free tea.

And in the evening, when Lao Yu Gangan saw the price tag from the tea shop at the entrance of the community, he blushed on the spot, and went to his second son's house to beat the rotten bones with a cane, until the neighbors came to persuade him, and then he hated it.

However, when the neighbor heard that he had missed the tea giveaway and the price of tea, he turned around and left without saying a word, and soon heard the husband and wife next door arguing. To the effect that the mother-in-law who was at home with the child did not follow the requirements, she went to the gate of the community from time to time to visit and missed good things.

Although the old dried fish has not been discouraged, he laughed when he heard the situation of his neighbors. Seeing this, the daughter-in-law who had been shrinking in the corner of the wall hurriedly went to the hut to pull out the five-year-old son and send it to the old man.

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Early the next morning, the sky was bright, Lao Yugan got up to take care of his stupid son and dressed his bones, sent him away after a few words, then cooked and prepared lunch, and then picked up the shiny iron hoe, came to the second son's rotten bone house in the front building, and sent the little grandson to the nursery at the entrance of the community, and then walked to the original land, turning the ground and preparing for farming.

In fact, the second son and the couple can also take advantage of the work to send their little grandson to the nursery, but according to the theory I heard from the granddaughter Broken Scales recently, Lao Yugan thinks that getting up early will affect the growth and development of his grandson, so he takes over this errand. After all, the second son and his wife both work on a farm far away, and in order not to miss work, they go out before dawn.

Speaking of the old dried fish as a part of the water system, the physical strength is not lost to the prime of life, yesterday's move is not less than the second son, when the various factories in Changteng Town were recruiting, under the activities of the family, in several large factories, the small boss position of managing hundreds of ordinary laborers is at your fingertips. But because of the mustard in my heart and the habit of farming, I didn't report after all.

I thought that such a lack of knowledge would attract white eyes, but it was not. The family still showed the greatest sincerity and arranged the work of the rotten bone couple and the fourth daughter couple properly. At first, Lao Yugan thought that the family steward was overjoyed and spoiled his brain, after all, the current head of the family, his distant cousin was the second magical warrior in the family history to enter the Nine Rings. However, after more than half a year, I gradually understood that the family is planting people in all walks of life, but because of the lack of manpower, it doesn't matter if it is thirty-seven twenty-one, as long as it is related to the family, all the work will be arranged. At this point, some peace of mind and some relief, but deep down, the entanglement is still there.

I was very skilled in fighting with the land for a while, and I was eating lunch, but I saw a group of people busy on the road from a distance. Out of curiosity, the old dried fish took two bites to clean the sorghum rice, and hurried over to see the excitement.

A dozen or so water magic warriors with at least the sixth ring used huge shovels to dig up and expand the yellow mud road into shallow, wide ravines, followed by a floating double-layered iron tray, under the control of a white-haired little girl, slowly moving in parallel while 'spitting' a large amount of gray mud to fill the ravine. This thing has some impressions of old dried fish, and when the No. 8 community was built, I saw it once from afar.

Then there was a group of ordinary laborers, who used long wooden poles against pieces of wood to swing the surface of the gray mud into a smooth plane, and finally a few guys dressed as robed magicians solidified the mud into a hard pavement.

The old dried fish with a hoe looked at the long yellow mud road on the left, and there were two figures faintly in the grass on the side of the road in the distance, which were the old neighbors who farmed, the lazy shrimp father and son. Look at the long gray pavement on the right, and in the distance a rickety figure is lying on it studying something, it seems to be the old black brick bastard who lives in the village and owes two bags of grain for five years.

After looking at it for a while, he couldn't figure out why, and the old fish dried fish grabbed a kind-faced young descendant in the construction veterans and asked, "Little doll, what are you doing here?"

"Build roads. The latter replied with a smile, very kindly.

"Isn't the original road good?"

"In the future, you will have to take a big car here, and you can't do it on the yellow mud road. ”

Although he didn't think much of the so-called 'big car' in his heart, Lao Yugan still thanked him politely, bypassed the construction team, stepped on the hardened road, and prepared to find the old black brick theory, but he didn't want the guy to see him from a distance, and he disappeared into the wild grass with a smoke. Spit hatefully, the old fish was too lazy to chase it, and returned to his own land to continue working.

And when the sky was getting dark, the old dried fish saw the 'big car' with his own eyes, and immediately agreed with the words of the young descendant, the yellow mud road is indeed not good.

Two sturdy oxen pulled an eight-wheeled carriage twice as wide and three times longer than a traditional horse-drawn carriage, and drove quickly and smoothly on the newly built road.

The old dried fish who was about to return home from work saw several 'big carts' neatly arranged at the gate of the community, and he didn't care. But when he saw the lights of his second son's house turned on, he was shocked, and he thought he had entered the thief, and rushed upstairs to see a happy family of three, and asked in a daze: "Did you come back so early today?

"I came back by bus today. So it's early," the daughter-in-law explained with a smile as she pulled her father-in-law through the door.

"The cart outside?" the old dried fish confirmed.

The Rotten Bones couple nodded together.

Lao Yugan frowned, played a trick, and didn't ask if he wanted money, but asked directly: "How much does it cost to sit once?"

Rotten Bone ignored the eyes of the person next to him, and replied without much thought: "Ten tickets for one iron coin." ”

"Little bastard, waste of money!" burst into a loud shout, and the old dried fish raised his hoe, but changed it to the side of a wooden stick, and hit the second son's buttocks. After a while, the rotten bones explained that the husband and wife, as official employees of the 'Duke Enterprise', received tickets for free, which was a kind of employee welfare. The old dried fish who understood was a little sneering, put down the hoe, and changed the topic: "What about your brother?"

"You're old and forgetful. The place where we work is across the whole town of Long Vine, how do I know? Speaking of which, Rotten Bone saw that his father had a tendency to go crazy again, and hurriedly added: "Judging from the bus signs, there are also there over there, but the third brother shouldn't be able to use it, so he still runs back." So take the time to teach him tomorrow and the next two days. ”

Lao Yugan nodded with a serious face, he had just made a fuss, and he was embarrassed to stay, so he went back to his house and waited for his third son.