The sky was gray, as if it was going to snow, and Zhao Yunfei ran thirty or forty miles in the sky, but he didn't feel hungry or tired at all—the deep helplessness and frustration only made him feel that life was worse than death. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Diagonally opposite the health center is the only post office in the town, through which all the postal services of all the villages under the jurisdiction of Wulongshan Town are transferred.

"Post office!" Zhao Yunfei's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought to himself: "Since my mother didn't send money two months ago, I haven't gone to the village committee for many days to see if there is a remittance slip, could it be that it was delayed on the road, maybe it has arrived now, and the remittance slip for a few months may be played!" Thinking of this, he had strength again, spread his legs and ran in the direction of the village.

When I arrived at the village committee, the village cadres had already gone home from work, the big iron door of the village committee had been locked, Zhao Yunfei couldn't take care of it so much at this time, and turned over directly from the gate, there was a broken basket on the windowsill of the mailroom, and the villagers' letters were all placed in the broken basket.

This time he was completely desperate and stood in the compound of the village committee.

Two thousand yuan may not be a large amount for others, but for Zhao Yunfei, a teenager from a remote village, this amount is enough to kill him.

Coming out of the village committee and returning home, Zhao Yunfei looked at the only big wardrobe in the house, and a broken round table, these are all made of plywood, worthless, thieves are too lazy to steal, there is no decent furniture in the house, and there is only this yard left that can be sold for some money.

It was getting darker and darker, and night was approaching.

The smoke of cooking stoves rises in the village, most of the families are cooking dinner at this time, the rich smell of polenta in a big iron pot lingers in every corner of the village, and the smell makes the hungry feel even more hungry, and the television screens flicker with images, and the warm light shines through the glass windows and casts onto the street, which makes the desperate feel even more sad.

The cold wind is biting, the sky is overcast, and the snow grits fall from the sky, which immediately melt into cool water droplets when they fall on their faces, and even people who are in a good mood will feel inexplicably depressed in this kind of weather.

Zhao Yunfei stood at the door of his house, looking at the gate of his house, the courtyard and the half-new red brick houses, he was stunned for a moment, and then turned around and came to the gate of Li Lanfang's house in the front yard, knocked the door a few times, and heard Li Lanfang's delicate voice: "Who?

Li Lanfang opened the door, saw that it was Zhao Yunfei, and said, "I went to your house just now to deliver ......."

She wanted to say "go and deliver food", but the words came to her mouth and swallowed back, she knew that Zhao Yunfei had a strong self-esteem, and the words "send rice" implied the meaning of charity, she was afraid that Zhao Yunfei would be unhappy when she heard this, so she quickly changed her words and said: "Why are you and Xiao Ji not at home?

Zhao Yunfei's thin face had a cold expression, and he didn't answer Li Lanfang's question, but asked, "Are your uncle and aunt at home?"

Li Lanfang paused for a moment, then nodded mechanically and said, "Yes, it's all there." ”

Zhao Yunfei entered the house, Li Lanfang followed behind, she already felt that Zhao Yunfei had something, but she couldn't guess what it was, and her heart was like fifteen buckets of water - seven up and eight down.

"Uncle, aunt!" Zhao Yun flew into the door.

"Yunfei is here!" Li Zhong beckoned.

"I'll discuss something with you!" Zhao Yunfei said, his tone like an adult.

"What's the matter?" Li Zhong pointed to an old-fashioned chair on the left side of the Eight Immortals Table.

"I want to sell my yard, you can buy it!" Zhao Yunfei said.

Hearing Zhao Yunfei's words, Li Lanfang's family's expressions instantly froze, and after a while, Li Lanfang's mother said, "Yunfei, what's wrong?"

Hearing this question, Zhao Yunfei's tears suddenly poured into his eyes, he held back and didn't let the tears flow, in fact, the scene of him holding back his tears has been clearly seen by Li Lanfang's family.

Zhao Yunfei took a deep breath, tried to make his voice as steady as possible, and said, "My sister is hospitalized in the town's health center, and the doctor said that it was pneumonia and it would take two thousand yuan to cure, and I ...... now I don't have any money......"

Li Zhong listened to Zhao Yunfei's words, grinned and laughed, took out a cigarette himself, lit it and took a puff, and then said: "You stupid boy, as the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, we live in the front and back yards of our two families, why don't you just say that Xiao Ji is hospitalized? You sell the homestead for so much money, where do you live if you sell it? Besides, why do I have to buy yours if I want to buy a homestead? Give some gifts to the village party secretary, and I can approve a new homestead without even using a thousand yuan." ”

Li Lanfang pursed her lips on the side, and said unhappily: "Dad, Xiaoji is hospitalized, how anxious people are, you still have the heart to laugh!"

Li Zhong was afraid that his daughter would complain, so he hurriedly said to his daughter: "Okay, good, I don't laugh, let's talk less nonsense, hurry up to the health center, I'll go with your mother, and you look after the house." ”

Li Lanfang pouted: "I'm scared at home alone, I'm going too!"

Li Zhong was a wall grass in front of his baby daughter, and immediately changed his words: "Then your mother will take care of the house, Yunfei and the three of us will go!"

Li Lanfang clapped her hands happily and jumped up, and immediately realized Zhao Yunfei's mood at this time, and quickly stopped her elated joy.

Zhao Yunfei stood up, suddenly a wave of dizziness hit, and his body was crooked, but fortunately, Li Lanfang's mother was close to him, and he didn't fall down.

"What's wrong?" Li Lanfang asked in horror, and also stepped forward to support Zhao Yunfei.

"This kid must have been in a hurry for a day and didn't eat. Li Lanfang's mother said in a word.

"Let's help him to lie down on the bed for a while and feed him some water!" Li Zhong said.

Everyone helped Zhao Yunfei to the bed, Li Lanfang hurriedly poured half a cup of hot water, mixed half a cup of cold white water, and handed it to Li Zhong, Li Zhong held Zhao Yunfei's head and sent the water cup to Zhao Yunfei's lips.

Zhao Yunfei's lips were already chapped, he opened his mouth and took two sips, with some spirit in his eyes.

Li Lanfang secretly wiped a handful of tears, and without waiting for the adult's instructions, she obediently went to the kitchen to cook instant noodles for Zhao Yunfei.

A big bowl of hot instant noodles, with three white and tender eggs lying in it, Zhao Yunfei ate this bowl of noodles with tears, Li Lanfang's family couldn't bear to look at it, and they all hid outside the house.

Li Zhong pushed his Qianjiang motorcycle out of the carport, lit the fire, Li Lanfang rode in the middle, Zhao Yunfei rode at the end, and rushed to the town health center at a gallop.

When they arrived at the health center, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, they hurried straight to the ward, pushed the door and looked, only to see Xiao Ji was infused with fluid, and the doctor who treated Xiao Ji was guarding Xiao Ji's bedside, Xiao Ji was sobbing and crying, and the doctor was comforting him.

When the doctor saw them come in, he stood up and said, "You guys are here, your sister woke up and saw that you had been crying for a long time, and I couldn't persuade you!"

When Xiao Ji saw Zhao Yunfei coming in, he cried even more, and said while crying, "Brother, where have you be......en?" I thought you didn't want me anymore!"

Zhao Yunfei rushed to Xiao Ji's side, grabbed Xiao Ji's hand tightly, choked and said, "How could my brother not want Xiao Ji?

Xiao Ji cried: "Brother wants Xiao Ji, why doesn't my mother want Xiao Ji? Why don't you send us money? Is it because Xiao Ji is not well-behaved and always sick?"

Li Zhong took the doctor's hand and thanked him repeatedly, took out a cigarette to salute it, and said, "Thanks to your help today, I haven't asked your surname yet?"

The doctor pushed and said, "My surname is Liu, smoking is not allowed in the ward, I got off work at six o'clock, and now it's past eight o'clock, I have to go home quickly!"

Li Zhong hurriedly took out the money and returned the money advanced by Dr. Liu, Dr. Liu was not polite, accepted the money, and said when he went out: "Tomorrow morning, you think about paying the hospitalization deposit, I am still responsible for letting the child be hospitalized without authorization today, the liquid is added to the antipyretics, the fever should be able to subside soon, you go to the restaurant on the street to buy some millet porridge for the child, and then buy a boiled egg to add some nutrition to her!" After speaking, he turned around and walked out of the ward door.

Zhao Yunfei chased him out and said sincerely to Dr. Liu: "It's really troublesome for you today!"

Dr. Liu waved his hand to Zhao Yunfei and rode away.

After Xiaoji recovered from his illness, Zhao Yunfei knew that he might not be able to count on his mother's remittance slip anymore, and owed money to Li Lanfang's family, although Li Lanfang's family would not come to collect debts, but from his point of view, he must take the initiative to repay it, and he must not wait for others to ask for it.

He began to use all his free time such as Saturdays, Sundays, winter and summer vacations to load trucks in the brick factory outside the village to earn money, and began to learn to farm by himself in the spring ploughing season, following the other villagers, following in the same direction, preparing the land when it is time to prepare the land, sowing when it is time to sow seeds, applying fertilizers, watering, spraying pesticides, harvesting, threshing, drying, bagging, storing, selling grain, and then preparing for the next stubble sowing......

In winter, heavy physical work squeezed every drop of water in Zhao Yunfei's body, seeped into the cotton clothes, and froze cold......

In the summer, the scorching sun in the field burned the skin off his back layer after layer......

The blood blisters from the hands broke and grinded, and grinded and broken......

worked hard like this, saved money, and it took him more than a year to finally pay back more than 2,000 yuan owed to Li Lanfang's family.

Without childhood amusement, without innocent laughter, some are all endless work!

Although it was extremely hard, Zhao Yunfei never complained, let alone shed a tear because of this, not for anything else, just to let his young sister eat, wear, and have money to see a doctor, so that she could live her life.

Zhao Yunfei, a rural boy, used his immature body and thin shoulders to support this stormy home.

......

The experience of Xiao Ji's illness still makes Zhao Yunfei feel palpitations, "Now is the time to be short of money again, Xiao Ji must not get sick!" he prayed silently in his heart.

However, Zhao Yunfei is completely different from two years ago, he is older and more mature, and he already knows how to deal with things when he encounters them, and he will no longer be blindly anxious.

Sometimes Zhao Yunfei thinks of those things in the past, and he feels ridiculous about his immaturity, but now he also understands that it is the inevitable experience of growing up, as long as it is a living thing, how can he grow up and mature without experiencing the tempering of wind and rain!

In any case, let all those childhood memories go with the wind!