When Sun Xiaohong returned home from work, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon. She rode her bicycle all the way, slowly turning into the alley, she thought about the series of events that happened during the day, and her heart was very depressed, although these things have nothing to do with herself, but under the sunny sky, some people lack a positive image, which is really rare. In these years, bad people are in charge, and it is difficult to be a good person, thinking of the scar on Mr. Geng's face, she sighed again and again.

The courtyard door was open, and the smell of food wafted from the chimney of the roof. It seems that there must be a guest at home. Sun Xiaohong pushed the bicycle and walked in quickly. She propped up her bicycle in front of the window, and was about to enter the door, when she heard someone talking in the room. Through the glass window, she looked into the room, and she saw an old man in his sixties, sitting cross-legged on the kang, with his head down, putting his hands on his knees, and chatting with his grandmother in a sullen voice.

This old man, Sun Xiaohong knows, she has called him grandfather since she was a child. He was a distant relative of his grandfather, and when his grandfather was alive, he was a frequent visitor to the house, and his parents did not treat him as an outsider, and every time he came to the house, he would entertain him with good wine and food. After my grandfather died, he rarely came back to the door. This lonely old man, with an aging appearance, strange behavior, and sharp speech, his vicissitudes of life seem to be written on his bronzed cheeks.

He has no fixed place, wanders around, works outside all the year round, everyone in the village knows him, and when it comes to his lonely life, he can only be completely described with the word sad.

When the old man was young, he didn't fall into the way he is now. A few years ago, the old grandfather had an older brother, and I heard that he died on the battlefield after he became a soldier. His four sons and daughters and his wife, who was suffering from tuberculosis, were left to the care of the old grandfather. Later, after the old grandfather's sister-in-law died, he saw that these children without fathers and mothers were quite pitiful, so he took them to live a difficult life together.

Among the four children of the grandfather, there are three daughters and one son. After all three daughters were married, his nephew was also admitted to university. After graduating from college, my nephew left with his partner, and I heard that he went to a big city, and then he stopped contacting his grandfather. People in the village say: mutton is subsidized to dog meat, and there is nothing wrong with it. In those years, in the days of half-starvation and half-hunger, the old grandfather raised all these nieces and nieces, and they all got married and started a business, and he was also old, and in the end no one cared about it. He lived such a day willingly, no one said for him whether it was worth it or not, he swallowed all the bitter water, and he stopped complaining in front of everyone.

Because of the drag of these people, the old grandfather missed all the good times, he never married a wife and had children in his life, and in his old age he was lonely and helpless. Later, his life became more and more difficult, so he went around to work and herd sheep, in order to make ends meet, a few years ago, he herded sheep for three years for a man named Judley in the village. He asked the old man to go alone to the wicker pass by the river to herd sheep, the wicker pass is a sandbar overgrown with artemisia grass and wicker, and the old man and a flock of sheep accompany him all year round, and he usually can't even see a ghost. During the day, the old man sat on the roof and watched the sheep graze leisurely in it, and at night, because there was no electric light, the old man put the sheep in the fence and returned to the house to meditate against the stars, like a man who had been sent to the army and finally ended up on a desert island.

The wicker lane is very closed, and if anyone wants to get there, they have to row a boat to get in. In this lonely wicker pass, even if someone can get in, if the waterway is not accessible or there is no one to navigate, it is easy to turn even in broad daylight, and it is difficult to get out.

The old man stayed in it for three whole years, and during these three years, the old man was fattened for many years, and he himself suffered from a lot of incurable rheumatism. The old man watched as the fat sheep were carried away by Judley in a boat, and then turned into colorful bills and put into his pocket, but he did not pay himself any wages, so he begged him for it. At that time, Judley didn't say no.

As a result, when it was time to settle the bill after the autumn, Judley secretly made a way, taking advantage of the dark and windy night, he led people to row, secretly lurked in the wicker pass, and stole seven or eight fat sheep, and when he settled accounts with the old man again, it turned out that he didn't give a cent of his three years' salary, and he also accused the old man of being a thief. In a fit of rage, the old man carried his luggage and left Wicker Pass, because there was nowhere to go, and he temporarily lived in the newly bought house of Sun Guodong's family.

Later, after being introduced, there is a fish boss under the camp, his family has a big fish pond, the fish pond is surrounded by fields, and it is far away from home, because he is too busy, he wants to hire an old man to watch the fish pond, so the boss asked someone to inquire, and then found the old man, because of the experience of the previous car, Sun Guodong inquired about the boss's personality, and felt that this person was not a slippery denial, so he drove the carriage to send the old man to where they were. The old man did a good job there, and someone personally sent him food and drink, and he was quite satisfied compared to the days in the wicker pass.

"Now that he has come to the house, he must have come to visit his grandmother!" Sun Xiaohong thought like this, and stepped into the house, "Grandpa, when did you come?" When the old man saw Sun Xiaohong coming back from work, he smiled honestly and said, "I just entered the house." Oops, it's really not a mess these days! You see, when I was at your house last year, Xiaohong was still studying in school, but in the blink of an eye, Xiaohong has gone to work, can we not be old? I can't help but mix, I can't help but mix! Let me live hard, it seems that I won't live for a few years! After listening to the old man's words, Xiaohong felt very uncomfortable.

The old man has suffered all his life, and in his old age he has to work for others, and many people in the village have avenged his grievances, and everyone has indignantly accused his ungrateful nephew in front of him. But what's the use of being angry, the young couple happily live the life they want, and they are a sloppy old man to add to the chaos of others. He can't carry the label of morality and tear up his nephew's happy life.

"Grandpa, don't say that, you are in such good health, you look like a longevity! You're just waiting to be blessed! Sun Xiaohong smiled and comforted him.

"You see Xiaohong, this child is really good at talking, sister-in-law, I really envy you, you have such a good granddaughter, watching the children be sensible and filial every day, you haven't lived in vain in this life! How can it be like me, I have raised children for a lifetime, and in the end I can't even see a figure, isn't this all in vain......" Speaking of sadness, the old man's eyes were red. Thinking that the ugliness of his family should not be publicized, he forcibly took back the tears in his eyes.

As they were talking, the door opened, and my mother went to the market to buy fish and came back, and when she saw Xiaohong coming back from work, she called her out: "Xiaohong, come out, my mother will tell you something." Xiaohong thought that her mother wanted to tell her about Ren Haoxuan again, so she hurriedly followed.

"Xiaohong, you are not too young, don't blame your mother for talking too much for some things. You don't object to finding the object's mother, but we don't know so much about Mr. Xu, the Ren Haoxuan she introduced to you, we don't know what kind of person he is, just went to the vegetable market to buy fish, I met the daughter-in-law of the old Wang family in the west of our alley, her mother's family and Ren Haoxuan are a tun'er, I think it's not, so I casually inquired about the situation of his family, guess what she said, she said that Ren Haoxuan's mother is amazing, covering the sky at home, like an ancestor, beating the old and scolding the young all day long, basically no one dares to provoke in the tunzi. You should also think about it, if it doesn't work, pull it down quickly, so as not to have too many dreams at night, and when the time comes, you will be bullied and cry and you can't find the tune! ”

When Xiaohong heard this, her heart moved, and she was a little shaken. Her standard for finding a partner is to look at people, not families. But what her mother said was right, although she didn't like it so much, how could she see her daughter marry into such a family.

Your grandfather came back to Kankan today, and he came to propose marriage to you! After speaking, Mom picked up the knife and quickly scraped the scales. When Xiaohong heard this, she was stunned, she opened her mouth, looked at her mother's hand with her eyes, and asked incomprehensibly: "Mom, I heard me right, how could my grandfather propose marriage to me?" He watched the fish pond in Dayian every day, and dealt with the fish fry all day long, and he came to the camp to propose marriage to me, how could this be possible? ”

Xiaohong is right, the people who usually come into contact with the old grandfather are either craftsmen or laborers, and then those who can farm, according to his standards, introduce Sun Xiaohong to the object, as long as they are willing to work hard, people who can live a good life are all good people. On this point, although Sun Xiaohong does not object, she does not reject it. Because the object that Teacher Xu introduced to her hadn't figured out what was going on, she had to bite the gold to snatch love halfway, and she really didn't dare to accept the practice of stepping on two boats with one leg.

"The object that your grandfather introduced to you is the nephew of their boss's wife. The proprietress has told your grandfather several times, and people attach great importance to this matter. When their family heard that you were teaching in the middle school under Kanxia, they asked her nephew to secretly go to the school gate to see you, and I heard your grandfather say that he went to see you several times. No, the boss specially gave your grandfather a day off, just to let him come to the house and talk to you about it. Your grandfather also said that if you have time on Sunday, let you go to their house and sit down. ”

"Mom, Mr. Xu hasn't let go of it yet, you let me go on a blind date over there, isn't this a mess? If this is known to the people in the alley, maybe how to arrange me! I think you just hate the poor and love the rich, who loves to go or not, anyway, I won't go! With that, Sun Xiaohong stood up angrily, turned around and walked out the door.

"You stop me, what's good about him Ren Haoxuan, I don't know the roots, and I don't know the bottom. You don't know anything, so you recklessly deal with others, I think you're obsessed. You use your brain to think about it, who is light and who is heavy, and then you weigh it carefully, what's wrong with your grandfather introducing you to this object? The family lives in a small building in three sections, a rice field in forty or fifty days, and the family also has a chicken farm, and this child works in the oil field oil production plant, not to mention anything else, it is this little family background, he has not worked for a lifetime, and he will not starve to death for two lifetimes. I haven't said anything yet, you don't agree, don't you know what to do? I have been reading for you for so many years, and I have read it in vain, and I can't tell the difference! Seeing that Sun Xiaohong was so uncompromising, her mother said so much in one go, it seems that her mother is really angry.

"Mom, you said, my grandfather came to the house coldly to propose marriage, and you didn't tell me in advance, I know what's going on? No matter how anxious their family is, it won't be bad these days, Teacher Xu, I have to have an explanation! You guys, if you don't ask me anything, you have to force me forward! Sun Xiaohong said aggrievedly, tears rolling in her eyes.

Xiaohong's mother threw away the carp in her hand, she stood up quickly, and was about to get angry, when the courtyard door rang, as if someone was coming.

"Ahh Xiaohong is off work! This teaching is just different from going to school, it's better to read more books, and you can use it anytime! As soon as the words fell, the fourth aunt walked in from outside. When she entered the house, she saw the old man sitting on the kang and quietly retreated. She looked at Xiaohong's mother's hands killing fish, cracked her mouth, and said with disgust: "Look at you, buy a fish and take it home to kill, it makes your hands full of blood, how dirty!" Why don't you let the fish seller finish it directly, and it will take two times to come back? ”

After the fourth aunt finished speaking, she raised her face to look at Xiaohong, and then at Xiaohong's mother, and saw that both of them were cheering, and said slowly: "What are you two doing here?" One of them stared at each other bigger than the other! Sun Xiaohong was not in a beautiful mood, and when she saw that the fourth aunt came to interrupt, she didn't like her to ask this and that at all, so she took the opportunity to go out of the door, and then found Sihuan to complain.