So Liu Zongyuan and I stayed at the fat man's house temporarily.

In the first few days, the fat man was still polite and entertained, and after a few days, there was green vegetables and tofu left on the table.

Everyone looked at each other with chopsticks, and they were embarrassed to say it clearly, so they had to make a muffled voice.

The fat man is a good-looking person, threw the bowl away, and said dissatisfiedly: "Mom, Lu Ming is my buddy, and Uncle Liu is a senior, don't you embarrass your son." ”

Ma's mother was also angry, and said in a sullen voice: "Eat things inside and outside, the old lady thought that she would send you to be a soldier and come back to support the family." I don't want you to go to the army for a few years, you haven't made any money, and you haven't got a job, do you know what your neighbors and neighbors say about you, and did you give it to your family? Tea, rice, oil, salt, don't want money. ”

The fat man was embarrassed, "Who doesn't have a friend in trouble when his friends are in trouble, is it difficult to sit idly by?" ”

"Hey, eat things inside and out, is it a friend or your mother? You say I've had an easy time all these years, I'm ......."

“……”

Between the mother and son, Liu Zongyuan had already finished eating, noticed a few grains of rice on the table, and swallowed them with his fingers. Then he smiled politely, "I'm full, you eat slowly." "Pick up the dishes and chopsticks you have eaten and put them down on the dishwashing plate.

Picked up the dry tobacco, moved a bamboo chair and sat in the yard, squinting his eyes, and exhaling the smoke lightly.

When the fat man helped my mother pack up her things, I sat down next to Liu Zongyuan and said with a dry smile: "I'm sorry, Liu Shibo." A few years after the fat man went to the army, his father died, and his mother was left to support the family independently, which was inevitably a little angry. I'll compensate you on her behalf. ”

Liu Zongyuan put down the cigarette stick, "The old man is now under the fence, the so-called cannibalistic mouth is short, and what compensation is not to talk about." It's not easy for me to see your friend, I have some money here, you can help me get it to him. ”

As he spoke, he took out a cyan handkerchief from his bosom, folded it squarely, and opened it to reveal a thick pile of hundred-dollar bills, with worn edges, and some old banknotes that were rare on the market.

My heart trembled, this was obviously one of Mr. Liu's few savings. The older generation doesn't like to keep their money in the bank, so they like to wrap it up like this.

"How is this going to work... In fact, the fat man is not without money, we only 'earned' Zhu Tianna two million some time ago, but it is not easy to take it out, and there is no way to explain the source, the fat man and his mother know, it is inevitable that the suspicious ghost is uneasy. ”

Liu Zongyuan said: "These are two different things, I don't care what you have done before, it's just that I, Liu, don't eat the food that comes from me, but I just want to be worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth, this money is a little compensation for my friend, if you don't accept it, you don't respect me." ”

"That being said, it doesn't take so much......

"Huh?" Liu Zongyuan lengthened his voice.

I knew that if I didn't accept it, this strange-tempered old man would definitely not be happy, so I had to accept it as he said.

Only then did Liu Zongyuan ease his face and smoke a dry cigarette leisurely.