Chapter 2: The Big Surprise
Once, when he was admitted to China University of Political Science and Law and got the admission letter, his father was also so proud.
The workers all said that his father was going to be happy, and that Kawako would graduate and become a lawyer and judge in the future......
Looking back on his father's support for him along the way, he can finally repay it.
The house they rent now is built in the nineties of the last century, although it is relatively dilapidated, but the cost of living is low, the mother does housekeeping and cleaning outside three days a week, and the father because of the labor intensity of the previous work on the construction site, the lumbar spine is not good, and now he can only do some odd jobs, and go to the nearby community to work as a night guard at night.
Pan Qingchuan often persuaded them not to go out to work anymore, but their parents always smiled and said that they were only in their early fifties, and they were used to snacking, but they were uncomfortable when they were idle.
In fact, he heard his mother and father talk about it, they wanted to make more money, and when Chuanzi got married in the future, he could be decent.
There is no property and it is an open community, and all kinds of small advertisements in the corridors are stacked on top of each other like dog skin plasters, and there are old furniture stored by residents in the narrow corridors.
Pan Qingchuan took out the key to open the door, but there was a wall full of bookshelves in the ten-square-meter small living room, all kinds of books on astronomy and geography, all accumulated by his father for more than 30 years, every time he moved, his parents' clothes could be loaded with only a 60L sorting box.
There are patches on the clothes, and later the mother does housekeeping, and the employer will give some worn clothes, and the mother will wash the clothes cleanly, and then iron them evenly, even the old clothes will be worn decently.
The moving book has to be packed in five or six large cardboard boxes.
Because his family was poor, Chuanzi's father Pan Aiguo only went to elementary school for three years, but he fell in love with reading, and as long as he could borrow books, he would copy the books and read them repeatedly, and he could memorize all the books he had read.
Coming to the city to work, although doing the hardest and most tiring work.
But whenever he is free, he will change into clean clothes and go to Xinhua Bookstore to read books.
Later, every time he opened his salary, he would be eager to go to the bookstore and buy the book he wanted to buy the most this month, as if touching the cover of the book, which was the happiest time of the month.
Pan Qingchuan felt that although his father had not gone to school, his spiritual world was vast.
The smell of red oil and spicy chicken has wafted in the kitchen, and my mother is a must when she makes spicy chicken, and the pot of red red oil and spicy chicken that has been boiled for several hours is a mouth-watering taste bud impact.
Pan Qingchuan saw that it was still early, and his father should not have returned from the construction site, so he shouted to his mother, "I'm back!" ”
After changing my shoes and washing my hands, I was ready to help in the kitchen.
Mother Liu Yu is flipping the spicy chicken in the pot on one side with her hands and feet, and cutting some cooked food on the other side.
She instructed Pan Qingchuan: "Chuanzi, peel a head of garlic!" ”
This garlic is put into the red oil spicy chicken before it comes out of the pot, and the garlic fragrance bursts out, which complements the fragrance of the red oil spicy chicken.
Pan Qingchuan peeled the garlic, thinking of the new house that could be delivered at the end of the year, thinking of the surprise of his parents when they saw it, the corners of his mouth unconsciously rose, and his heart was happy, several times, he couldn't help but tell his mother that he had saved money by saving money over the years and had saved up for the down payment on the house.
But, holding back the smile again, he wanted to surprise them.
In life, work and interests coincide, and every day is tireless and happy.
Sprinkled with garlic, Pan Qingchuan lit the small alcohol stove on the living room table, brought the spicy chicken pot over and continued to feed it over low heat.
The aroma makes the saliva water.
He looked at the spot, and his father Pan Aiguo was about to come back.
So he started to serve rice, his parents loved to eat rice noodles on weekdays, and only when Pan Qingchuan was at home did he make rice.
He hummed the song of the Five Rings in his mouth, and the corners of his mouth rose with irrepressible joy.
The doorbell rang, and her mother Liu Yu went to open the door, and found Pan Aiguo standing outside the door sickly.
Liu Yu asked with concern: "Lao Pan, the fever has not gone away after taking the medicine!" ”
Only then did Pan Qingchuan know that his father had been having a low-grade fever for the past few days.
But because he has a lot of work in the studio these days, he tunes until the early hours of the morning every day, and he lives in the studio.
After finishing the work, I collected the final payment, which was just enough to pay the down payment on the house.
Pan Aiguo took the canned bottle handed over by Liu Yu, which was full of boiled water, raised his head and drank it, and said: "It's okay, it's just a low-grade fever, it's just that the person who burns is a little dizzy!" ”
looked at Pan Qingchuan and continued: "Drink some wine with Dad tonight!" ”
Pan Aiguo likes to drink the wine brewed in Moutai Town, every time he goes to buy a big jar and comes back to drink it slowly, he is not greedy for a cup, every time he just drinks.
At the dinner table, Pan Aiguo began to talk with Chuanzi about the past and the present, from Yao Shun to the Tang and Song dynasties.
After eating, Pan Aiguo was going to work the night shift in the community, Pan Qingchuan saw that he was not in a very good state, so he persuaded him to ask for leave and not go.
Pan Aiguo waved his hand and said, "It's just that a low-grade fever doesn't get in the way, don't worry!" As he spoke, he put on his coat and prepared to go out.
Looking at Pan Aiguo's somewhat hunched back, Pan Qingchuan thought that he would work harder and make them stop working.
Pan Aiguo knows that he has no academic qualifications, and he has been doing odd jobs and coolies all his life, so he has always been very supportive of Pan Qingchuan in the process of studying.
Pan Qingchuan was helping Liu Yu clean up the dishes in the kitchen, and he asked, "Mom, if we have our own house, how do you want to decorate it?" ”
Liu Yu said with a smile: "It's very good to live here, the landlord is good, and the rent hasn't been raised for five years!" ”
The landlord is an old couple, this house is divided into units in the early years, it is said that the urban planning may be demolished in a few years, they have already moved into the villa area, looking at Liu Yulisuo clean, taking good care of this house, so she will take care of the house, and the rent will not increase until the demolition.
Liu Yu is also very grateful, and when he has time, he will go to the courtyard of the old couple's villa to prune the grapevines and pepper trees.
Pan Qingchuan continued: "We can't rent a house forever, we will always have our own house. ”
Liu Yu said with a smile: "You have to ask your future daughter-in-law what kind of decoration she wants, and when your father and I save enough money to buy you a house, we want to go back to our hometown to live, your grandmother is almost eighty years old, she is getting older and older, and she needs someone to take care of her." ”
Pan Qingchuan is still single in Chinese New Year's Eve today, although Pan Aiguo and Liu Yu have never urged him, but they are also anxious.
Pan Qingchuan looked at her parents as matchmakers, in a remote and closed countryside, she got married at the age of eighteen, her father's spiritual world mother didn't understand, and she was also with her father for a long time before she gradually became literate.
She is a hard-working, simple and proper person.