When the meal was almost finished, Wang Weidong suddenly said: "Dad, I'll go find a house tomorrow, and then I'll move out with my grandmother." ”

The room was silent again.

After a long time, Wang Haifu asked: "You don't even have a job now, how can you live by renting a house outside?" ”

"Dad, you don't have to worry about it, my brother has the ability, he must have a good time when he goes out!" Wang Xianjin said in retort.

"I have hands and feet, and I can support myself and my grandmother." Wang Weidong replied.

When he went to bed at night, Wang Weidong could only spread the mattress he brought back on the concrete floor.

"There's one more night, and tomorrow will be loose!" Wang Xianjin deliberately said loudly.

Wang Weidong lay down and closed his eyes and said: "Wang Xian, you remember, you will not be my brother in the future, you don't have to say hello when you see me!" Also, grandpa's bicycle was left for me, and I will take it with me tomorrow! ”

When he got up the next morning, Wang Weidong rolled up his luggage and ran outside to look for a house.

The 20,000 or 30,000 people living here are all from the Xiangyang Chemical Factory, and they are very familiar with each other, and it took Wang Weidong more than two hours to learn about a suitable house from an old lady.

"Lao Sun's son was admitted to university, and his daughter was admitted to secondary school, and now the westinghouse at home is empty, and he said he wanted to rent it out a few days ago." The gray-haired old lady said to Wang Weidong.

Seeing that the time was about to get off work at noon, Wang Weidong stood at the door and waited.

An hour and a half later, the man and the woman of the house returned home one after another.

To say that the most complacent in the Xiangyang Chemical Factory is the male owner of the family, Sun Youcai, and the hostess Xie Yulan, the son was admitted to the Dalian Institute of Technology in the second year of the national college entrance examination, and the daughter graduated from junior high school and was admitted to the province's famous Mushi Preschool Normal School.

Now wherever the two of them go, they are greeted with envious eyes.

Both of them had a vague impression of Wang Weidong, and when Wang Weidong mentioned the names of his grandfather and father, both of them suddenly realized.

Sun Youcai touched Wang Weidong's head and said, "The original Wang Haifu's second son has grown so tall!" Come back and do a good job! How good the national policy is now, young people have a way out! Serving as a soldier, taking over, going to university, all roads lead to Rome. ”

When Sun Youcai said the three words of the university entrance examination, he deliberately accentuated his tone, and the glass buzzed.

"There is a kang in the west room, you and your grandmother live just right, and the cabinets and tables in the house are reserved for you. The pot that connects the Westinghouse earthen kang is left for you to cook, the tap water is from the factory, it doesn't cost money, and I pay for the electricity, you just give four yuan a month. Sun Youcai continued.

Now electricity is lighting, and at most a radio.

"Okay, uncle, I'll give you money on a monthly basis in the future, and I'll give you two months first." Wang Weidong nodded and said.

The house was negotiated, and Wang Weidong immediately went back to pack his things.

He used a bicycle to move the pots and pans and bedding of his grandfather's house one by one, and the last time he did not use a bicycle but carried his grandmother Huang Guiying on his back to say goodbye to the old ladies in the courtyard and turned away.

"Alas, this old lady pulled her grandson up with a handful of and urine, and it didn't hurt in vain." An old lady looked at the backs of Wang Weidong and Huang Guiying and said with emotion.

There is hardly a daughter-in-law and mother-in-law in everyone's family who are like mothers and daughters, there is no tongue that does not touch teeth, and it is very good to have a filial grandson.

When it was time for dinner, Wang Weidong took two large bowls and ran to the state-run restaurant to buy four steamed buns and a plate of dried tofu with sharp peppers.

While eating with his grandmother, Wang Weidong said: "Tomorrow I will borrow a small cart to buy half a ton of coal in the coal yard and come back, and then go to the mountains to collect a few bundles of firewood, and I will cook in the future, you can't see that you have to stay away from the stove!" ”

At night, the grandparents and grandchildren were lying on the kang, and Huang Guiying stretched out her thin hand to touch her grandson's broad back and felt very steady.

"It's good that your grandfather's old immortal died two years late! He is the deputy director of the workshop, and the problem of your work will be solved by him. But you don't have to worry, tomorrow I will go to the factory to find your grandfather's apprentices, many of them are section chiefs, and I have to solve your work with my old face, and I can do the big collective first. Huang Guiying said.

"Don't worry about it, I'll solve my own affairs!" Wang Weidong said.

"Every time the director of the factory saw me, he got off the bicycle and chatted with me, but he was enthusiastic. His daughter is about the same age as you, and she has polio—" Huang Guiying said to herself.

Wang Weidong couldn't help but turn over and sit up and said, "Grandma, don't say it anymore, and don't do things behind my back!" I repeat, my own affairs are solved on my own! ”

"You're just as disobedient as your grandfather's dead ghost!" Huang Guiying muttered.

Huang Guiying used to be a very strong woman, Wang Weidong's father Wang Haifu was introduced to Wang Weidong's mother Li Yufeng, and the two were very satisfied with each other, but Huang Guiying said that he didn't agree to anything, and finally Wang Weidong's grandfather nodded and agreed to the marriage, and Wang Haifu and Li Yufeng finally got married.

Now that Huang Guiying is old, her husband is dead, and she can't see with her eyes, so she can only live with her son, that is, in the hands of her daughter-in-law Li Yufeng.

Thanks to this time, Wang Weidong's precious grandson came back.

After a while, Wang Weidong said: "I want to go out and make more money, and I will cure your eyes first!" ”

It doesn't cost money to see a doctor in a factory hospital, but the doctors there can't do such a complicated operation as removing cataracts, and to do such an operation, you have to go to a big hospital in Harbin City, which may cost a lot of money.

"I'm almost seventy, how many years do I have to live? What are you doing with that unjust money? If you have money, you have to save it, and wait for you to marry a daughter-in-law in the future! Huang Guiying said.

From the next day, Wang Weidong was busy buying coal, collecting firewood, and handling the household registration and grain book, and it took four or five days to complete it.

After more than two years of educated youth life, he has only saved more than 100 yuan in total, and now there are less than 100 yuan left.

When Wang Weidong got up early in the morning, after cooking and eating with his grandmother, he rode his bicycle and rushed to the river with a fishing rod to fish. After tidying up the fish float, putting on the earthworm and throwing the hook into the water, Wang Weidong smoked a grape brand cigarette and waited for the fish to take the bait.

A bicycle bell rang, a bicycle quickly rode to the side of the wooden bridge by the river, saw someone fishing by the river, the cyclist got off the car and walked to Wang Weidong and said: "The fish in the river used to have an old nose!" Now 666 and DDT are used more, and there are fewer fish in the river. ”

Wang Weidong handed out a cigarette and asked, "Big brother, don't you have to go to work?" ”

It is now 1978, and there are still three or four years to go before the implementation of the large-scale contract work in Northeast China, and the peasants must go to work collectively on time.

"Go, at five o'clock in the morning, I will send the vegetables in my own field to the county market and sell them cheaply, and now I will go back to order some money and deal with it for a day. Brother, I'm gone! ”

After saying this, the man got on his bicycle and rode over the wooden bridge to the village in the distance.

Looking at the back of that person, Wang Weidong's eyes lit up.