At that time, university admission letters were sent to the school, and the first batch of admission to the key universities generally received in early August. The day before Scarface was about to get the notice, Tiezhu asked Scarface to prepare some good wine and food, and asked him to call the village chief, Shi Hu's parents, and Yang Liankui and his wife to the house for dinner.

Scarface asked, puzzled, "We don't have much friendship with them, so what do we ask them to do?" This money saves you money on medicine. ”

"You just go and call me, I have my own arrangements, the things in the past two days have just been collected, I am not so busy, I guess they are all at home." Tiezhu did not answer directly.

"Hmm" Scarface said yes and went out, and after a while, five people came one after the other.

Liu Yan entered the house with a smile, sat on the kang as soon as she lifted her big fat cheek, looked at Scarface and asked Tiezhu: "Uncle Zhuzi, prepare so many delicious foods, is it that the family is about to go to college, and the marriage between him and our second girl will be decided in advance before leaving." Scarface's age is similar to Yang Jing's, but the age difference between Liu Yan and Tie Zhu is more than ten years, and Liu Yan is used to calling Uncle Tie Zhu. The others watched Liu Yan and Tie Zhu joke and laughed as well.

"Lao Liu, I'm asking you to come over as a witness, these are the two agreements I wrote, can you see it?" Tie Zhu ignored Liu Yan's joke and said to the village chief.

"Well, I'll see it's okay, it's the same as what I said two days ago, let the two of them see if they have any opinions." Village elder Liu said.

"None of our two families are literate, it's useless to see it, let my son-in-law read it, I believe my second son-in-law won't lie to his mother-in-law" Liu Yan joked while handing two pieces of paper to Scarface, and Shi Hu's parents should also be with him.

Scarface saw that the content was that they had contracted their family's land to Yang Liankui and his wife, 300 yuan a year, and paid rent once a year. It's been contracted to their family since last year, and it's not strange, but it used to be a verbal one-year package, and now it's a five-year contract signed at one time, and it's not a big deal, and Tiezhu's body doesn't seem to be able to handle this little bit anymore.

The second agreement was to sell their house to Shi Hu's family for 5,000 yuan, and he also knew that Shi Long and Shi Hu had married one after another, and Shi Hu's house could not live in it, and he had been thinking about building a new house for the past two years, but he had no money, so he asked who in the village was going to move out and prepare to buy a house cheaper.

"Great, you sold our house, where do we live?" Scarface asked, puzzled.

"Your mother and their hometown have come to talk, let our father and son go to Sichuan to live, your grandma misses you, I think you don't need this house after you go to college, just sell it to keep some money, go over there and be harder, I will do my filial piety for your mother." Tiezhu said.

"I still have a grandmother, why don't I know, when I talked, I don't know at all, and besides, it's a problem for you to take care of yourself now, how can you do your filial piety for my mother." Scarface feels even more inexplicable.

"No, your mother can still jump out of the rocks." Liu Yan took over the topic with a quick smile.

"I talked about it some time ago, when you were preparing for the college entrance examination, I didn't tell you, and I didn't think about it. I've figured it out in the past few days, I've been much better in the past two days, and I'm basically better after drinking the medicine for the past two days, but I guess it's not good to do heavy work. As he spoke, Tie Zhu took out a piece of paper from under the kang mat, with an address written on it, and he didn't look at the long series of scarred faces behind Wenchuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, but he was always skeptical, but he felt that there was no need to lie to him, so he didn't ask anymore.

"Brother Lu, I'm really sorry, I want to buy a house, but I can't get that much money at one time, the two little grandchildren are just born, you also know the conditions of our family, I will give it twice." Shi Hu's father is less than fifty this year, so he has always been called Brother Tiezhu.

"Take half of it first, give me 2500 early tomorrow morning, let my baby save enough tuition, and we will come back to ask for the other half during the New Year's winter vacation, what do you think." Tie Zhu knew the situation of the Shi family, and he had already made a plan in his heart.

"Then it's no problem, you can come back after you go to Sichuan, and when our conditions are better, thank you, brother." Shi Hu's father said with relief.

"You have to come back every year to ask for money, how can you not come back, it's not cheap for you." Tie Zhu said with a smile.

Several people pressed their handprints on the agreement, and after eating the sumptuous meal prepared by Scarface, several people happily went home. Liu Yan didn't forget to joke about her cheap second son-in-law when she left, "Our second girl is thirteen this year, and when Jiazheng University graduates and her job is stable, you can hold a ceremony, don't be Chen Shimei and don't want us to be second girl", after speaking, he giggled and went back while humming a song and twisting his big fat belly.

The next morning, Scarface took the earliest shuttle bus to school, and almost jumped for joy when he looked at the admission letter of Ben Cheng University. I also met a few people who went to get the notice, and some of them haven't come down yet, but the ones who went to the past few days have done well in the exam, and the relationship with Scarface is still reasonable, and a few people gossip for a while and go home.

When Scarface rushed into the courtyard gate with the notice, he didn't see the smiling face of the anticipatory Zhongtiezhu, which made Scarface a little disappointed, and he thought that he would be standing in the courtyard and looking forward to it. Pushing open the door of the house, he found Tie Zhu sleeping on the bed in brand new clothes, Scarface also thought, when he went to grab the medicine two days ago, Tie Zhu ordered to buy a bottle of sleeping pills, saying that he was worried about his college entrance examination results and did not sleep well these days, and now he can finally sleep well. Scarface withdraws his right foot, not wanting to disturb Da's sleep. But after a while, I felt wrong, I slept and snored loudly, why was it so quiet today, and it turned out that even during the day, I stripped naked and slept with a cloth sheet, how could I dress so neatly today.

Thinking about Da Da's weird behavior in the past few days, the smart Scar Face seemed to understand something, and his head "buzzed" and became bigger. He rushed into the house and shouted "Wake up", but the iron pillar didn't react at all. There was a piece of paper next to the head of the iron pillar, on which was the letter written by the iron pillar to his son. Only then did Scarface know that Tie Zhu had long known that his illness was incurable, and it was only a matter of time before he left his son. Scarface has been arranging his future life when he is preparing for the college entrance examination, and he doesn't want to be a drag on his son...... In addition to the full love and infinite nostalgia for his son, the letter is to encourage him to face the future life bravely with a positive attitude, and he is already a real adult.

Scarface read the letter with tearful eyes, and silently hid the passbook left by the iron pillar with grief. I don't know where the address of Sichuan got the iron pillar, I don't know if it's true or not, in short, Scarface kept the paper with that address written on it, and if he had the ability in the future, he would have to take a look, and he chose to end his life in this way in order to fulfill his college dream.

On August 3, 1995, Scarface, who was about to celebrate his 19th birthday, held a simple funeral for Tiezhu with the help of the surrounding villagers, and buried Tiezhu next to Silly Sister according to Tiezhu's last wishes. I didn't close my eyes for two days in a row, and when I saw off all the people who helped, Scarface went home and fell asleep as if he had been evacuated. After a whole day, I got up to go to the toilet, then hastily ate a few bites, and washed my body with some water. Anyway, there was never an outsider at home, and I didn't bother to wear clothes, so I pulled a list and covered my body and began to sleep again. From the beginning of the third year of junior high school to the past four years, he has not slept so soundly.

In his sleep, he dreamed of a very busy figure and a simple smile, dreamed of a silly girl, dreamed of a tethered brother when he was a child, Meng Haijiao, Zhao Di ......, dreamed that he became the Condor hero Yang Guo, and found Liu Zitong, who was incarnated as a little dragon girl at the bottom of the desperate valley, and the two finally became a fairy couple. Tie Zhu, Silly Girl, Meng Haijiao...... left him one after another, and the whole world abandoned him, only the little dragon girl still hugged him tightly. He entered the dream that he had often had over the years, the difference was that the original dream was very illusory, but this time the physical feeling was very real. He and the little dragon girl held a simple wedding in the thatched house at the bottom of the desperate valley, the cave room was full of candles, the good night was short, the little dragon girl hugged him tightly, and interacted with him frantically, just when he woke up from his dream, it also reached its peak.

The little dragon girl in the dream was gone, but it was replaced by Liu Yan, who had a long face and a big mouth, panting, lying on his body with a flushed face, and looking at him with those big watery eyes.

"Poor child, how long has it been holding back, it has been more than a minute, and this foam has not been vomited yet" Liu Yan said with a smile and touched Scarface's head. Scarface tried to push her away, but the refreshed sensation didn't make him exert much effort.

"Good son-in-law, don't move yet, I haven't felt this way for more than ten years, let my aunt feel it first" Liu Yan hugged him tightly.

"Aunt Liu, what are you doing here" Scarface closed his eyes and reminisced about the sweet dream just now, and asked as he moved his hand to the two big fat bodies behind the person on his body.

"Go, go, go, I'll take care of our son-in-law for our second girl." Liu Yan said with a smile like an old hen, and she also felt the strength on Scarface's hand increasing. And Scarface had completely come out of the dream at this time, and as soon as he touched the big plate with his hand, he remembered the scenery he often saw, and soon reacted again. As soon as he turned over, he transformed all the grief and anguish in his heart into powerful actions, and he applied all the knowledge he learned from Yang Jing back then to practice, and let Liu Yan take care of him again with different tricks.

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Early this morning, Yang Liankui took the vegetables to the town to sell, and Erya was going to go back to his hometown Suide to go to junior high school this autumn, preparing his own things, and leaving in a few days. The wheat in the field has just been harvested and put into the warehouse, which is the most idle few days in the busy summer. Liu Yan thought that Scarface had never been out since Tie Zhu's death, and she was worried that she wouldn't be able to think about it anymore, so she came over to take a look. When I came in, I saw that Scarface was still asleep, and was about to turn back, but the thin quilt was like a flag fluttering in the wind, attracting this old well that had not been moistened by rain for nearly ten years. His eyes were fixed on the flagpole for several minutes, and after much hesitation, he finally decided to replace the person in Scarface's dream. So she went out and locked the courtyard door of Scarface's house, and when she returned, she couldn't wait to engulf the flagpole with her old muddy well.

"In the end, he is still a young man, and he is really energetic," Liu Yan said with satisfaction after taking care of him. Once the story begins, the plot behind it is much the same, and Liu Yan finds time to take care of Scarface for several days in a row. Scarface feels like the walking dead at his mercy, but he doesn't refuse this cheap attention. The whole process was Scarface without saying a word, and Liu Yan kept calling her son and son-in-law, starting with Liu Yan taking the initiative to take care of her and ending with Scarface's favorite way. He gave back all the skills that Yang Jing learned from action movies and taught him back then, and gave them back to Yang Jing's mother.

During this period, Scarface also asked why she wanted Erya to go back to Suide's hometown to go to school, Liu Yan said that she could only go to Qidong No. 3 Middle School here, this school was too poor, and she was afraid that Erya would follow the old path of Daya. Yang Liankui's sister on Suide's side lives in the city, the conditions are not bad, the school is good, and there is a daughter who is the same age as Erya, and the sisters can take care of each other. Scarface also thinks that Erya is different from the people in their family, Wenwen is studying quietly, and Yang Liankui looks like a beauty, and the atmosphere here is really bad, maybe it will be better if you change the environment.

In mid-August, according to the time on the notice, there was still a month to report to the university, and Scarface's inventory for the past two days had been depleted, and his interest in this kind of thing gradually waned. Thinking that the property that Tiezhu left to him was less than 5,000 yuan, and that he should be fine in the first year, and that he would have to find a way to work and study by himself in the future, he was ready to take advantage of the fact that he had not yet started school and worked odd jobs for a few days, and how much he could earn, so he went to the county seat to find a job.

He knew that in a labor market in the county seat, there were bosses who came to hire people to work for part-time jobs every day, so he squatted in the labor market with the old peasants and waited for the high-spirited bosses to choose. For two days in a row, watching the people around him who were with him being picked up one after another, and there were constantly changing migrant workers of different ages around him, but no one took a fancy to him, and Scarface began to feel a little anxious.

At this time, a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses came, this middle-aged man he had seen in the past two days, talked to several people, and never took any of them. The middle-aged man also noticed Scarface for two days, paying attention to this young man who looked like a middle school student, and after observing it for two days, he felt that it was the person he was looking for, so he came over to talk to Scarface.

"Where's the guy, how old are you?" asked the middle-aged man.

"19 years old, Scarface of Houshan Village" lied, he knew that for strangers, some things could not be told truthfully, and if something went wrong, it would leave hidden dangers.

"Why do you work, what do you know, what have you done before, what skills do you have, what kind of job do you want to find, long-term or temporary, do you know if you come out to work?" The middle-aged man knew that Houshan Village was the farthest village from the county seat, and that people there were the poorest places in the whole county because they depended on the sky for food, so they asked a few questions in a row.

"The first time I came out to work, I had nothing but strength, my parents died, I just got admitted to university this year, and I just worked for ten days and half a month to save some travel expenses. There are no requirements, as long as the salary is more, I am willing to do any work" Scarface still wants to continue lying, but feels that the more miserable he says, the more he can arouse the sympathy of others, so he tells the truth.

"Oh, you look quiet, you are still a college student. I need a few part-time jobs, twenty a day, all hard work, do you want to do it? The middle-aged man asked

"Why, where is your construction site and what are you doing there?" Scarface knew that twenty yuan a day was already very high at that time, he was a big craftsman, and he only worked twenty or thirty a day, and it was already very high for a small worker to give fifteen.

"I run a brick factory, and the factory is in the easternmost part of Nanshan Village, so if you agree, you can come with me," the middle-aged man said.

"Hey, it's just me?" Scarface knows that Nanshan Village is also far away from the county seat, about ten kilometers, and Houshan Village is one south and one north, both of which are the most remote villages in Fangshan County.

"Well, it's hard to find the right person, we think we're too biased there," the middle-aged man said, letting Scarface sit on the back of his hand-held tractor for delivery.

With the loud noise of the tractor, "Sudden, sudden, sudden" bumped all the way to the middle-aged man's brick factory.