When he said this, my dad's tone was not only embarrassed, but also a little guilty.

Lao Chai Tou didn't care, waved his hand at my father, and said, "It's all from the villagers, I can help with this little help." ”

My dad stood in the doorway, not knowing what to say for a while.

My mother wiped her tears, stood up and smiled gratefully at Lao Chai: "Uncle Chai, go into the house and drink a glass of water before leaving." ”

Lao Chai Tou sent me back, my mother was grateful, and she would definitely find a way to repay her afterwards, but now in the middle of the night, she said that she would let Lao Chai Tou go into the house to drink saliva and then leave, but it was purely out of politeness.

But Lao Chai Tou didn't refuse, said "yes", and went straight into the yard.

Lao Chai Tou's actions can be regarded as judging the two of them in normal times, but this time, my parents are muttering.

I have lived in Wangzhuang for more than half a year, and my parents have not been in contact with Lao Chai Tou in this period of time. Who is Lao Chai Tou? In my uncle's words, the old firewood is an old stone in a public thatched house, smelly, hard, and stubborn.

And the most stubborn thing about Lao Chai Tou, in my opinion, is that he almost never casually enters other people's doors, and sometimes, even if someone begs him to come to the door, he has to find an excuse to excuse himself. The last time he went to my uncle's house to save me, and since then, every time he passes by my uncle's house, my parents beckoned him to come to the house for a drink, and he always waved his hand, turned around and left.

Once, Wang Er Mazi in the village got married, because Lao Chai Tou saved his life when he was a child, and Wang Er Mazi was also a person who remembered the old kindness, seeing that the happy event was coming, he secretly went to Lao Chai Tou's house without his daughter-in-law, and sent an invitation to the past.

Why did Wang Er Mazi hide this kind of thing from his daughter-in-law? Don't forget where Lao Chai Tou lives! According to the saying in our place, people like Lao Chai Tou will not invite them to such happy events as marriage and full moon wine.

But that time, Lao Chai Tou accepted the invitation, but he still didn't go to Wang Ermazi's house to drink the wedding wine, but just asked someone to help him bring the wedding money.

Once the uncle joked and asked the old chai head: "Uncle Chai, you have received all the invitations, why didn't you go to drink the wedding wine?" Could it be that you think that Wang Ermazi's banquet is not up to grade? ”

My uncle, who speaks like this, doesn't care about Lao Chai Tou, just says: "Hehe, people like me, they don't come to the door if they have nothing to do, and there will be something when they come to the door." "When I was talking, Lao Chai Tou also glanced at me, and then my uncle stopped talking.

Later, I heard my uncle say that Lao Chai Tou said that there must be something wrong when he came to the door, which was profound, because my uncle remembered at that time that every time Lao Chai Tou entered someone else's house, that family must have encountered something extremely bad.

This time, Lao Chai entered the door without saying much nonsense, which means that something happened to our family.

The first reaction was my uncle, who didn't say a word, and quickly took the watermelon from the well and took it to the kitchen to cut it. Then my mother quickly boiled the water with her hands and feet, and took out the Biluochun that was originally going to be kept for the New Year (I didn't know that the tea still had an expiration date at that time).

Only my father, sitting in the house, smoked with Lao Chai Tou, and the room was full of particularly choking smoke, during which neither of them said a word, just smoked sullenly. At that time, I was standing beside Lao Chai Tou.

I just experienced tonight's incident, and I was still scared in my heart, and only when I stayed by Lao Chai Tou's side could I feel a little more at ease. But my actions made my dad frown, but my dad didn't say anything, just let me stand next to Lao Chai Tou.

After a while, my mother and my uncle entered the house, and my uncle gave me a piece of watermelon and poured a cup of tea for Lao Chai Tou.

The watermelon had been stored in the well for a while, and it was cool inside and out, but when my fingers touched the skin of the melon, the chill reminded me of what had happened before, and I lost my appetite and put it back on the table.

Lao Chai Tou glanced at the cup of tea, and didn't seem to be interested, so he simply picked up the watermelon I put on the table and nibbled on it silently.

The room was surprisingly quiet, only the sound of the old firewood eating watermelon could be heard, to be honest, the appearance of the old firewood eating watermelon was not an exaggeration to describe it as "miserable", like that, as if he hadn't eaten for many years, the watermelon water dripped along the corner of his mouth onto his clothes, and he didn't pay attention to it.

Uncle estimated that it was the first time he saw Lao Chai Tou eating, and he was also frightened by him, so he couldn't help but persuade: "Uncle Chai, eat slowly." ”

Lao Chai ignored my uncle, gnawed the watermelon cleanly, and then threw the melon skin away, and smoked dry cigarettes.

From the moment he entered the door to the present, Lao Chai Tou didn't seem to have the meaning of saying a word, and his expression was dull.

Or my uncle, seeing that it was not a matter to be so silent all the time, he asked Lao Chai: "Uncle Chai, I just heard you say that Yangyang was frightened, what is going on?" ”

Lao Chai Tou glanced up at my uncle, and after a while, he said sullenly: "What's the matter?" Nuisance! ”

After saying that, he didn't do anything again, just smoked sullenly.

When Lao Chai Tou calmed down, my mother and uncle became a little cramped, wanting to ask things clearly, but they didn't know whether to speak now.

In fact, I only learned later that that night, Lao Chai Tou's mood was the same as that of my mother and my uncle, and there were some things that he wanted to say, but he didn't know whether to say it or how to say it.

After a long time, Lao Chai Tou extinguished the smoke pot, took out a palm-sized red cloth bag from the pocket of his old military uniform, held the cigarette stick in one hand, and handed the cloth bag to me with the other: "You can hold this lucky bag, maybe you can block it." ”

Block a gear, block what?

I wondered in my heart, and subconsciously reached out to pick it up.

But at this moment, my father, who has never cared much about me, stood up, snatched the lucky bag from my hand, and stuffed it into the old firewood, while glaring at me and saying, "Yangyang, how did your mother usually teach you, don't take other people's things indiscriminately, have you forgotten?" ”

When the word "others" was mentioned, my dad's tone was very heavy.

This seemed to me nothing, but Lao Chai Tou's face suddenly became embarrassed, and he hesitated for a moment, but still took the lucky bag from my father's hand and put it back into his pocket.

After that, Lao Chai Tou got up to say goodbye, and when my mother sent him out, he also said something to my mother, but Lao Chai Tou's voice was very small, and no one could hear what he said except my mother.

My uncle stood by the window, watching Lao Chai Tou go away, and then turned around and asked my father: "Patriotic, what are you doing?" From the moment I entered the house, I felt that something was wrong with you today. Uncle Chai is not also for the good of Yangyang, why are you ......?"

At this time, my dad snuffed out the cigarette butt and spit out the secret he had hidden in his heart for more than a year: "Uncle Chai, he wants to accept Yangyang as an apprentice." ”

Hearing my dad say this, my uncle stopped talking. Presumably, for the uncle, it is also an unacceptable thing for me to follow Lao Chai Tou to see the grave in the future.

At this time, my mom came in, and my dad lit another cigarette. Although my dad has a habit of smoking, he is not very addicted to smoking, only three or four cigarettes a day, but this is the fifth cigarette he smoked tonight.

My dad took a puff of his cigarette, couldn't help coughing lightly, and continued: "I also know that Uncle Chai is a person with real skills, and it is not necessarily a bad thing for Yangyang to follow him to learn art." Uncle Chai said that Yangyang has a special physique, and it is easy to provoke those things, but ...... But I have inquired, a master of cultivation like Uncle Chai has five disadvantages and three deficiencies in this life. Look at Uncle Chai, at such an age, I don't even have a family, I don't want Yangyang to be like this in the future. ”

Hearing my dad's words, my mom probably understood what was going on and urged me to go to bed. I wanted to stay and listen to what my dad had to say, but I couldn't resist my mom flashing her "iron sand palm" at me, and although I was reluctant, I had no choice but to go back to the south house to sleep.

After a night of tossing, I was already sleepy, and as soon as I lay on the bed, I fell into a deep sleep.

I didn't wake up until noon the next day, and the first thing I did was to find my uncle and ask him what my dad had said last night. Uncle said, I discussed me with my mother, Lao Chai Tou saved my life, and had a great favor to our Zuo family, he was lonely and pitiful, so he planned to take him to our house, let me worship him as a godfather, and give him a pension in the future.

As soon as I heard that I was going to take Lao Chai Tou to live in my house, I was not to mention how happy I was, and there was nothing else to be happy at that time, but I was thinking about the novelty gadgets in Lao Chai Tou's hand, by the way, and the bowl of fragrant broth that Lao Chai Tou boiled.

But that afternoon, when I followed my parents to the Mass Grave Mountain to invite Lao Chai Tou, I had a closed door.

At that time, my father led me and stood outside the door of Lao Chai Tou's house and knocked on the door for a long time, and Lao Chai Tou answered in the house at first, but after hearing that the person who came was my parents, he never opened the door.

My dad has a quick temper, and he is not good at speaking, so he knows that he knocks on the door with his head stuffy, and the louder he knocks, the more he knocks, the more urgent he knocks, and I feel that the old wooden door of Lao Chai Tou's house is about to be broken by my dad.

Later, my mother couldn't stand it anymore, so she took my dad's arm and persuaded my dad: "Son, dad, let's come back another day." ”

My dad ignored it, he kept knocking, he was such a person, he never changed since I was very young.

Later, my father's hands were red, and I heard Lao Chai Tou say in the house: "Don't knock, I know what you think, but I can't agree." Yangyang recognized me as a godfather, and I got a grandson, but I was going to lose the inheritance. Let's go back. ”

My dad's raised hand stopped in mid-air, and the expression on his face was indescribably guilty and worried, and he didn't know what he was thinking.