"Uncle Li, Uncle Li!"

Uncle Li was awakened by the scream, turned his head, and saw Xiao Chen.

"Oh, it's Xiao Chen." Uncle Li said hello vaguely, and was a little distracted.

"What are you doing standing here? Throwing out the garbage? Xiao Chen asked, glancing at the trash can.

"Uh-huh...... You're busy, I'll go back. Uncle Li nodded hurriedly and walked home.

"I'm with you. I'm looking for Aunt Li. Xiao Chen took a step and caught up with Uncle Li.

"You're looking for her, huh? She's at home, playing with her phone. Uncle Li said casually, and the person recovered a little spirit.

"I know. I just talked to her on WeChat. Xiao Chen said with a smile, "There is an event in the neighborhood committee, and the building team leader is going to hold a meeting, isn't it my informing people one by one?" ”

"Oh." Uncle Li nodded, not caring much.

This kind of thing at home is all done by Aunt Li. She was very capable when she was young, and she almost single-handedly did everything in the house. Uncle Li is to pay his salary every month, take care of the homework of his three children, and be a hands-off shopkeeper at other times. If Aunt Li asks him to do something, he will do it, and if Aunt Li doesn't say it, he doesn't know what to do. This was true of most husbands and fathers in that era.

Their family's unit was subdivided by Aunt Li. At that time, Uncle Li's unit was going to be divided into houses, and there was a big-bellied woman in his unit, who wiped her tears every day in the factory director's office, and the room that should have been given to Uncle Li was assigned to the big-bellied woman. Later, he gave birth to a big fat boy, and he was happy all day long. Aunt Li got angry at home and looked at Uncle Li for several days. After a few days, she rushed to his unit without discussing with Uncle Li and asked the factory director to open a note for her to prove that Uncle Li couldn't get a house here. Uncle Li still heard from his colleagues and knew that she had come to the factory. When I went home and asked, Aunt Li had already taken the slip and applied for a room in her unit. The next day, Aunt Li commanded Uncle Li to move and live here. At that time, the upstairs and downstairs were all people from Aunt Li's unit. Later some moved away, some remained, some moved in, and those who moved in, some left......

Xiao Chen moved over later. She and Uncle Li are not too familiar, ask Uncle Li how his health is, how his son and daughter are, after three or two sentences, enter the building, get on the elevator, there is no more topic to talk about, and talk about herself.

“…… You and your aunt are in good health. Alas, my parents couldn't. Last year, I also got cancer and had chemotherapy. Younger than all of you. I was so busy running at both ends ......," Xiao Chen sighed.

Uncle Li thought for a moment, "Oh, that's it...... Your Aunt Li said that. I didn't see you much last year. ”

"yes. I wasn't on duty last year, and they were all on duty. My dad is in better health now, and I'm on duty more this year. ”

The elevator stopped and the doors opened.

Uncle Li's house didn't close the door, the door was open, and I heard the meaty lines of the TV series inside.

"Xiao Chen is here." Uncle Li shouted into the house.

"Xiao Chen is here? Come in, come in! I watch TV. This mother is too bitter......" Aunt Li came out and took two steps, holding her iPhone in her hand, talking about the content of the TV series.

Xiao Chen smiled and changed his shoes into the door, and sat on the sofa in the living room with Aunt Li.

Their conversation, Uncle Li naturally couldn't interject. He also doesn't watch the mother-in-law dramas that Aunt Li watched. Usually at this time, Aunt Li watched TV, and he read books. It's not a new book nowadays, it's all his old books, I don't know how many times I read it when I was young, and then I don't read much when I reach middle age. When I retired, I picked up the books again. When he was tired of watching, he watched TV for a while. They also have a TV in their bedroom. His son got him some war movies and old movies, and he went over and watched them several times.

Today, Uncle Li neither reads nor watches TV.

With his hands behind his back, he walked to the study, turned on the light, and reflexively closed the door.

The conversation between Aunt Li and Xiao Chen was cut off from the door.

Uncle Li turned on the lamp on the desk and took out an old book from the bottom of the drawer.

This book is not my grandson's previous homework book. The paper inside the notebook was yellowed, and the edges were rubbed to the brims. The handwriting on the page is the same as Uncle Li's old one, and the paper is scratched in some places. This is the diary of his youth. However, there are not many young people's sadness or inner secrets, most of them are bookkeeping, work projects, study notes, and some personal matters are some schedule records.

This book was originally crammed into a corner of the house. When the pipes and elevators were re-laid in the community, the son and daughter planned to take them over to live and renovate the home. When they are old, such as toilets and bathrooms, they should be equipped with some safety facilities, and some old floors at home are also more dangerous. And the protruding corners of the furniture, which could hurt them. For this reason, the children helped to clean up some of the old things in the house. Some of Uncle Li and Aunt Li's things from their youth were turned out like this. He was flipping through the pages at the time, reminiscing about the past, and telling his grandchildren stories about his youth. As a result, at the beginning, he was interrupted by Aunt Li, disgusted that he didn't work, and dragged others to delay his work. Uncle Li's full of emotions was gone. When the daughter asked, he said don't throw things away, and he didn't look at them carefully. When the house was simply renovated and they moved back, these things were also moved back together. It's all sorted out, but I don't have the heart to look at it anymore.

Uncle Li wore reading glasses and looked at his past years page by page, and the feeling in his heart rolled again.

"Old man, Xiao Chen is leaving!" Aunt Li shouted, interrupting Uncle Li's emotions.

Uncle Li looked up at the clock on the wall, and before he knew it, more than an hour had passed.

He put down his journal and took off his reading glasses as he walked out.

"Auntie, don't call me uncle. I'm leaving! You remember the meeting. ”

"Don't worry, you can't forget it. I've got it all in my phone. ”

"Don't give it away."

Uncle Li walked to the living room and saw Aunt Li and Xiao Chen standing inside and outside the door.

The voice-activated lights in the hallway turned on and off.

Xiao Chen's phone rang. She pulled out her phone and looked at it. As soon as the phone screen was opened, the light shone on Xiao Chen's face, illuminating her face miserably.

"Look for me on the 39th, I have to go back to the neighborhood committee soon."

"Oh, that chubby one?" Aunt Li lowered her voice.

"That's him."

"Then you go quickly. You're late, and he's going to curse again. Aunt Li pushed Xiao Chen, "The elevator is coming." ”

When the elevator reached the floor, the sound lights turned on with the sound of the door open.

Xiao Chen waved her hand, and the phone swayed in her hand. She also said goodbye to Uncle Li before entering the elevator.

Aunt Li turned around and came back, closed the door, and didn't forget to gossip a few words with Uncle Li about the chubby old man in Building 39.

Uncle Li didn't bother to listen to this, so he went back to the study.

“…… You old man, you don't listen to you. Aunt Li muttered in the back, but she didn't care much about it and continued to watch her TV series.