Sun Guodong listened to Xiaohong's mother's words, carelessly put the cigarette bag and pot in his hand on the edge of the kang, knocked hard, after he emptied the cigarette ash inside, put him in a small gray cloth bag, and gently put it on the pillow, and then he turned his head in, his feet outward, his hands folded behind his head, planted on the pillow, and put himself into a big herringbone, and then he was motionless.

In the dark, he opened his bloodshot eyes, stared hollowly at the unlit ceiling, thinking about many unbearable memories of the past, and had thousands of thoughts and mixed feelings in his heart. These knots, like an entangled mess, have been haunting his mind, making his new trend unable to calm down. He lay upright, not closing his eyes for a long, long time.

Aside from others, in terms of talent alone, Sun Guodong is many times stronger than his brother, but in order to go home to support his parents, he gave up his great future in the army and calmly returned to the village to work as a farmer willingly. Compared to his current brother, he didn't know if the sacrifice was worth it. However, when he went home to support his parents, he did so with a clear conscience.

But his return to inaction did not create a comfortable living condition for his parents. Compared with the days of his brother's fine clothes and food, there are many children in the family, excessive work, and perennial exhaustion and busyness, maybe he is not even ordinary, but his wife and son are filial, and he does not feel ashamed, because he has done his filial piety and supported the old man as much as he can, and he can still straighten his waist in front of everyone.

On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, the weather was gloomy, and suddenly a cold wind blew in the air, blowing coldly in the alley, and large pieces of snowflakes flew down in the air, they were overwhelming, floating with the wind, and in the blink of an eye, this remote village was shrouded in a snowy color.

The alley was unusually quiet, almost no one wanted to go out and walk around, and some playful children had changed their usual madness and hid in the house. Their arrival seemed to dye this disturbed world into a blank in an instant.

It was almost noon, and an ultra-luxury off-road vehicle slowly turned into the alley. In the snow and fog, the visibility of the headlights is very low, and it can only shine a few meters away. When it slowly drove to the door of Xiaohong's house, it came to a steady stop. The canopy of the car was covered with snowflakes, like a village man in a cloak, pulling a haystack and returning from the field.

After the car stopped, the driver got out of the car, he ignored eating a few snowflakes, looked around at the light to discern the direction, felt that there was no problem, turned around and opened the back door, nodded and said hello to the people inside, and when there was a sound inside, he stood aside respectfully, quietly waiting for Brother Sun Guodong to get out of the car. Snowflakes fell on his head like a layer of white foam, and then the wind ran away. In the cold wind, he wiped the snowflakes from his face with his hands, still with a modest smile.

When the people in the alley heard the horn of the car, they all heard the sound, and a group of people came to hula in seconds. These idlers who are good at onlookers, their ears are so smart that they surround the gate of Sun Country in between gasps. They stood at the door, all with a pair of curious eyes, like a flock of goofy geese, tiptoeing, like looking at rare animals, looking into the car in surprise, all wanting to see how clever this man who had returned home was.

People are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong. The people in the village are real, and they don't pay so much attention to it. There is one thing to say, there is two to say, they have long had ideas about Sun Xiaohong's uncle, and even some people in the alley who know about it don't know where to get the gossip, so they stand in front of the car completely and make a lot of noise. Because of the lack of restraint, they pointed behind their backs without any scruples, adding branches and laughs. Their sharp eloquence, like news commentators, does not know who gave him the right, and it is a meal of gibberish to tear open their throats and crack their mouths. Between the words, there were strange movements in the ear, and he watched the movements in the car with bated breath.

After the car door was opened by the driver, a tall middle-aged man walked down, only to see him combing his shiny back, a pair of sunglasses on his eyes, and a gray-black cashmere coat on his body. This person is Sun Xiaohong's uncle, and his arrival has added a lot of consumption to the family who usually saves money.

The people in the alley didn't feel surprised when they saw this sanctimonious look, they came to watch, just to see what kind of person this wealthy business guy was. However, the next scene made them all completely disappointed.

After the eldest uncle got out of the car, he did not immediately go to the yard, but turned around and carefully helped out a middle-aged woman who was full of hair from the car door. The onlookers sighed again, for this pampered old woman, who was being helped to walk as if no one was around, it was the first time for everyone to see it.

Immediately afterwards, another girl who was very handsome also walked out of the car door. These two people are gorgeously dressed and have bright faces. One is his wife who roars in Hedong, and the other is his pampered daughter. They arrogantly despise everything, like the faces of villains. Some in the crowd began to pout, and some even said harsh things to attack them. They also looked indifferent, and then swaggered to the front of the car, and stopped with their chests held high.

After the driver closed the door, he ran to the rear of the car and opened the trunk. He took out a black suitcase from inside, placed it on the ground, and quickly closed the trunk. Only then did he nod and walk in front, he stretched out his hand to push open the courtyard door, and then stood by the door and pointed to the courtyard, and only after the family entered the courtyard once did he drag the suitcase in.

These people don't seem to be enjoying themselves, although they didn't follow up in the courtyard, they didn't stop outside the courtyard, and their voices of criticism could be heard for ten miles in the wind.

Under the guidance of the driver, the family went straight into the yard. As soon as they walked into the courtyard, Sun Guodong's family also came out. In the eyes of all, there is no harm if there is no comparison. They were originally brothers, but the degree of difference is very different. After the two brothers met, they exchanged a few words of greetings, and they were both humble, and then they walked into the house. Because they hadn't seen each other for many years, they didn't know what to say, and they became strangers to each other.

The driver followed silently, and after quickly sending the suitcase in his hand into the house, he cautiously retreated. He walked quickly to the outside of the courtyard, quickly opened the car door, kicked his feet, and quickly got into the car, and then, holding the steering wheel with both hands, and poured the car out of the alley little by little, he saw the rear of the car swaying for a while, and the car quickly disappeared into the vast snow and fog.

Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of laughter outside the courtyard, and there were people who had something to talk about, and they began to gossip unscrupulously. Every family sells soju, and they are not good at it. Their arguments with each other are nothing more than speculation.

"The eldest son of Mrs. Sun's family came back for the New Year, I heard that he made a lot of money in the provincial capital, and the family lived like the palace, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and wearing foreign high-quality goods, and I also heard that their family's ordinary meal can top the annual income of ten families in our village, which is really amazing. You see, they have a special car to pick them up when they go out, and a nanny to serve them when they go home, which is really pie! We don't make a lot of money in our lifetime when we live ten lives, so we must have come back to see our parents, right? He is also quite filial, he has so much money in his pocket, when he comes back for the New Year, can he throw less money at his brother? It seems that Sun Guodong bumped into such a God of Wealth this year, and he doesn't have to work hard this year, he can make a small fortune! ”

There was a commotion in the crowd, and some people were still whispering. Their imagination is so rich that what Sun Guodong didn't even dare to think about was depicted vividly by their tongues, which shows how evil the people who spread rumors should be in their hearts.

"Well, isn't there just a few stinky money? What is there to show. Money is a thing, you don't bring it in life, you don't bring it in death, you can get it if you spend it, and earning so much is a curse. Some people can get rich one day, and some people can get poor one day. Be careful that it's hard to load the car, envy what to do, there is so much money in the waist, I heard that I haven't come back for more than ten years, such a son, what can I do if I raise it, I can't borrow any strength, it's better not to raise, don't look at how beautiful it is now, he doesn't even have a parent, I think it's also a Japanese player to finish calf! It's like playing monkeys, look at what they're doing, they have this kung fu to catch their breath and be even, and go! It was the voice of a middle-aged woman, and when everyone looked back, she had already turned away.

As soon as she left, someone picked up on her words and continued:

"It's not, looking at people and dogs, I didn't expect to look like people, but it's a pity that it's not as good as livestock, and I still have the face to go home for the New Year, and I'm not afraid of people laughing off my big teeth, I'm really drunk! I think there are limits to such people, if they don't die, they can catch up, and see how far he can go. This was an old man's voice, and as soon as his words fell, many people in the crowd began to feel unhappy, and if it weren't for the affection of the neighbors, someone would have dared to rush out and accuse him. Scolding and scolding, hating and hating, they are all a family when they close the door, why are they holding grievances for Sun Guodong, and they are all outsiders.

Everyone saw that the door of the Sun family had been firmly closed, so they did not stop, and they scattered in a hurry in the ridicule of sentence by sentence. Silence immediately returned to the alley. Wisps of cooking smoke rose from the chimneys of each house, and these white smokes, like long dragons, rolled to the sky, gradually melting into the vast sky......