Sun Xiaohong has never seen her uncle, and she has never seen her grandmother so sad. It seems that there is still something wrong with the uncle's character.

She had also heard her mother say that during the period, her eldest uncle worked in the provincial government, and later he was sent to a labor camp, and her aunt was also persecuted at that time. The reason for her persecution is ridiculous, that is, because she permed her curly hair, she was targeted by a group of fierce Red Guard rebels, and their leaders took the opportunity to lead people to break into the house, grabbed her aunt's hair, and ripped it off from the sixth floor. The poor aunt, who was helpless, was brutally dragged from the top floor to the bottom floor, and before she could touch the ground, she was crushed and fractured, and she collapsed to the ground and fainted. Seeing that things were not good, the leader of the Red Guards threw her to the ground and hurried away.

The neighbors hurried to see this shocking scene and were stunned. Everyone carried my aunt upstairs with all their hands and feet, and helped find a Chinese medicine doctor to pick her bones, and she finally picked up a life. It stands to reason that in extraordinary times, she should keep a low profile, and she is still hot on the wind, isn't this deliberately looking for trouble, and as a result, she hurt herself.

Before my aunt's injuries were healed, I went to the labor camp with my uncle. Later, her temper became extremely irritable and extreme, and when something went wrong, she was extremely arrogant, and she covered the sky at home, and her uncle couldn't do anything about her.

As a result, the daughter and four-year-old son of the family, because there was no one to take care of them, the uncle sent them back to their hometown and fostered them in a rural courtyard to be taken care of by their grandmother. But that's three or four years. Three or four years was neither long nor short, and the two children waited until their uncle was rehabilitated before they were picked up. Thinking about this, grandma was even more sad.

Later, my uncle was transferred from the province to the bank, and after he was promoted, he had no contact with his family. Some people say that the official body is involuntary, and loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, that is all prevarication. The tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, the child wants to raise but does not wait, the minimum morality of being a man is to honor his parents. What is the use of a person who does not even honor his parents, no matter how big an official is.

But there are sad children in the world, but there are no sad fathers and mothers. The son of an official raised by his grandmother is known to everyone in the village, and no one knows it, which can be described as a glorious ancestor. However, counting the age of my grandmother, she is now nearly eighty, and there may be no tomorrow with today. But the uncle has always ignored the two old men, maybe he is really busy, maybe he deliberately avoids it, and his news disappeared without a trace as if he had lost contact from the earth.

Sometimes when my grandmother thought that he couldn't sleep at night, she secretly complained about her uncle. Helpless, people don't want to return to this poor family, for fear of losing face, and she has no choice but to be a mother.

"The mountain magpie has a long tail, and he forgot his mother when he married his daughter-in-law!" This is an old saying in the village, don't look at the uncle's position and status are higher than his father, this sentence is appropriately used on his body, and it is not impossible. In front of outsiders, grandma never said this, she was afraid of other people's jokes. But when there is no one at home, grandma often talks about it and complains to grandpa, and it's fine.

"I can't help my children!" If you swallow this tooth in your stomach, it will only rot in your stomach and become moldy. Seeing the particularly depressed expression on her grandmother's face, Sun Xiaohong also had a great prejudice against this uncle, whom she had never met.

Sun Xiaohong had never met her uncle, she had only heard of this person from her parents' words, but she had never seen her father have any contact with his brother, who held an important position. It's as if the title uncle is just a synonym for blood in her head, and it's easy to be overlooked. In Sun Xiaohong's world, his father is a very well-bred person, no matter how hard and tired he is, he never dislikes his grandparents for dragging him back, after all, that era of black and white reversal failed to show his talent.

He feels that it is good to live such a day, people live steadily, do not act with conscience, and do not have nightmares at night, which is also a kind of kindness. He didn't want to compare himself to his uncle, or that their lives weren't comparable.

Over the years, grandpa and grandma have been living with their parents, and although life is a little harder, they are also content. What kind of person is uncle, Dad has never told Xiaohong. Their family history does not need to be publicized, and everyone in the village knows it.

As the head of a provincial construction bank, although he is in a high position, he does not even have his own biological parents, which is no different from forgetting his roots and being unjust. No wonder my father's face was very ugly when he read the letter just now, it turned out to be related.

This letter, like a pebble stained with filth, fell on their originally peaceful life, and immediately stirred up a thousand waves. When the calm was over, the whole family fell silent. It's not that they don't welcome their uncle's family back for the New Year, but they are spoiled, and they are not qualified to come back to see the parents and villagers in the village.

"It's the first time they've come back in years, isn't it just a matter of having a few meals? If they want to come back, they will come back, anyway, he also knows the conditions of our family, what is there to eat at home, he asked me to set up a banquet and feast to entertain them all day long, and we can't afford to spend that money, if they feel unaccustomed, they have to leave without talking, they are all children born to a mother, let's not worry about them! This is what my mother meant, and when she saw that her grandmother sighed all day long, she hurried out to relieve the siege.

"Humph! is as knowledgeable as him, and he doesn't know how to die when he is angry. Who could someone like him have in his heart? He has his wife and children! For so many years, the two old people in the family didn't even ask, they hid far away if they wanted to, and what face did they have to come back for the New Year? Over the years, we didn't say that he should support the elderly, I was so scared that he didn't even write a letter, as if we wanted him to do something, anyone can live without him this year, and I don't ask him to borrow him, the old donkey and the old horse are still looking forward to the New Year's Festival, why did he run back for the New Year and block the whole family? Dad sat on the edge of the kang and smoked a bag of dry tobacco, looking very unhappy.

"People come back to see the elderly, not you, what right do you have to not let people come back for the New Year? Besides, they see that our family conditions are not good, so they will stay here for a day or two and then leave, you have to hold on, don't talk nonsense when the time comes! Mom disagreed with Dad's statement, and she retorted.

"Don't let him pretend to be a person, if he still has an old man in his heart, he can ignore it for so many years. During the years when he was sent to Xibeitun, the two children were placed under the table in our house for two or three years, and neither of them took good care of him, if it wasn't for our whole family to help them, I'm afraid they would have been finished long ago. It's good for him to let him help take care of our children, but he sent the eldest girl to his second sister-in-law's house as a nanny, is this a human thing? Bah! What kind of brother is he, not even the second brother of the West Courtyard, and he shamelessly has the face to go home for the New Year, it's not that I look down on him, he came back for the New Year, and all the delicious things are fed to the dog, which is better than giving him food, and the dog is still shaking his tail when he sees people, what can he do! ”

"Then you can't talk about your brother, not to mention your sister-in-law and children! Don't let people speak. In two days, they will be back, and when the time comes, don't throw your face at others, as if we don't want to entertain others. Don't look for trouble, save yourself from extraneous branches. ”

"He likes to think about it, listen to the rabbit bark, and he doesn't need to plant soybeans! I don't believe what he can do to me. As soon as Sun Guodong's stubborn temper came up, his face turned purple with anger.

"It's okay, it's just that I'm afraid of outsiders' jokes. There are rumors, everything is said, all look at it, let him go out, let's not stuff his teeth with him. Xiaohong's mother was afraid that the more he said, the more outrageous it became, so she diverted the topic, but when Sun Guodong heard this, he was even more annoyed, and still said coldly:

"Outsiders, if he knew that outsiders would talk about him everywhere, he wouldn't do it. He has today's status, and he can't even see a figure all year round, so he thinks my younger brother is something. I thought, he is his official outside, I plant my land at home, we both do not interfere with the water of the river, we don't ask him to borrow him if we know, and those who know say that I am interesting enough to him, and if you don't know, do you think I want to befriend him? I thought of him as an older brother, but he didn't treat me as a younger brother. ”

"That's not the same thing, he's so busy all year round, and some things may be unthinkable and hard to say. Why do you say that you are also brothers, everything is over, and what are you doing with those useless things? Xiaohong's mother said disapprerovingly.

"The president of the country is still busy, when it comes to the New Year's Festival, remember to see your father! I think he is just pretending to be confused, there are five or six people outside, and he usually can't even give up a penny to his parents, no matter how big an official he is, he is not respected by others, and he is not as good as a farmer, what is the big deal, I just think too highly of him! Sun Guodong said sullenly.

"What's the way, they want to come back, we can't sweep his face, although the family doesn't have much money, what to prepare and what to prepare, at most it's usually tight, the poor man is looking forward to the coming year, it's a big deal for the elderly, our family will have a few more acres of eggplant, isn't it just to do more work, and it won't be tiring! Besides, family ugliness should not be publicized, and outsiders should not be laughed at at any time. Even if he doesn't care, we still do! "Xiaohong's mother is right, people have left a name, geese have left a voice, leave an infamy, and they will not be able to live in peace if they die.

"Hey! It's so unbelievable! Sun Guodong sighed faintly and stopped talking. He took one puff after another, and the sparks in the pot flickered and flickered, and the room was soon covered with a layer of blue smoke.

"They came back this time to see their parents, what's the use of you worrying, sleep well, there is still a lot of work waiting for you to do tomorrow!"