Don't buy hawthorn, want to buy hawthorn tree
When the security uncle received the call, he didn't react for the first time, and he was stunned for a few seconds before rejecting the caller's request to buy the old hawthorn tree.
Sorry, he is not short of this money, and this old hawthorn tree has a different meaning to him.
The uncle's surname is Li, and his name is Li Guoxin. His parents are the youngest sons of the family, which makes his seniority particularly high.
In that simple and ordinary age, the two young people did not change their ways and committed crimes. After they got married, they did all kinds of ridiculous things.
Even though the husband and wife were always fighting each other and mocking each other, Li Guoxin still gave birth to a younger brother when he was six years old.
You know, bad guys are still bad parents even if they become parents. In this world, not all parents love their children.
If when Li Guoxin was born, the couple was still afraid of their parents and older brothers and sisters and did not dare to mess around, then after Xiaopingan was born, there will be no one who should grow old and should be disappointed. Hope for this pair of scum.
So, the couple who let themselves go completely free threw the child casually at home. Li Guoxin hugged his younger brother, the owner made an excuse for porridge, and the west family raised him with rice.
Today the village said that the gangster from the Li family had touched someone's little widow's courtyard, and tomorrow the village will say that the Li family's daughter-in-law went to the cornfield at night to chat and laugh with others.
Li Guoxin covered his younger brother's ears to prevent him from hearing gossip, and even wondered why the two of them were not taken away, even if they were shot, so that he could live in peace.
When he was twelve years old, the village encountered a flash flood and rushed into the village unsuspecting.
Li Guoxin came back carrying firewood to exchange eggs for others, broke free from the obstruction of the same village, and ran back to his broken yard in a panic, but he did not see Ping An.
The flood swallowed everything, Li Guoxin climbed up the old hawthorn tree to escape, but did not see his younger brother who was washed away by the flood.
His mother, who had never looked at the child directly, disappeared after the flood. Later, I heard from a fellow villager that I saw a woman with a very similar appearance in Hong Kong who worked as a cleaner in a hotel.
His father, who probably didn't know where the door of the house opened, was caught by someone else's husband after the flood at night. He fell into the ditch and died when he ran away in a panic.
Li Guoxin lost Xiaopingan who was waiting for his elder brother to come back at home, so he didn't cause trouble to the village, so he packed his bags and went out to work.
Starting from the construction site, Lu became a contractor, and finally had his own construction company. Li Guoxin and Yu Dong are also old acquaintances. Many real estate projects over the years were developed through cooperation agreements signed by them.
It's just that Li Guoxin's child has gone abroad to settle down, and his wife has taken care of the child for the past two years, and he is not too busy with company affairs, so he simply found a leisurely job in the Jiuzhou community.
It's okay to talk to others in the guard room, chat with the residents who come and go, go to have a meal in the afternoon, and find a few chess friends in the community in the evening to play two games.
Li Guoxin is also the person in charge of the elderly activity group in the Kyushu community, and he often finds fun in his retirement life.
The young security guard in the guard room may have wondered why Uncle Li and Dong Yu are so familiar, and even the children of Dong Yu's family would obediently say hello to Grandpa every time they passed by.
There are big bosses who drive luxury cars for car appointments, and naturally there are bosses who are having fun in the guard room.
He is almost sixty years old, he has endured hardships and tiredness, even if he earns money to be a boss, he has not cultivated any extravagant hobbies, he likes to sip tea, listen to music, and play chess with two friends.
The children always miss him, and instead of enjoying the good fortune, they come to the community to work as guards for others.
Li Guoxin was not happy, saying that he was just working hard, and his health would only deteriorate if he stopped. Most of the properties in Jiuzhou Community are equipped with intelligent systems, which are mainly maintained by young people. His usual work is mainly to find people to chat with. Not tired.
Therefore, Li Guoxin was not short of money, and that old hawthorn tree had special meaning to him, so he would not sell it.
He built roads in the village to thank the fellow villagers who made up his luggage for him back then, and secondly, he wanted to buy this old hawthorn tree and keep it as a sign for Ping An.
Children who died young were not found dead. In Li Guoxin's hometown, graves are not allowed.
However, he couldn't bear to part with his younger brother, so he left the old hawthorn tree. A tree always outlasts a human being. Even if Xiao Ping'an's soul floats back one day, no one will be able to find him.
Li Guoxin's child is also named Ping'an, and he thought, maybe his younger brother's soul is floating, thinking that it would be good to live in his elder brother's house in his next life, and to have parents who love their children.
Then, come and be my brother's child!
The village chief hung up the phone, feeling quite embarrassed, and asked Long Mingan and his son if they wanted to see other fruit trees.
Their village was washed away by floods before. When rebuilding, everyone paid special attention to planting trees, especially fruit trees. As long as the trees survived firmly, the mountains and soil would not collapse so easily, and the floods would no longer go straight to the village.
They are all well-cared for fruit trees. If Long Ming'an and his son want to buy something else, the village head can also help and act as a lobbyist.
"Dad, I think that crabapple fruit tree is pretty good, why don't you buy it?" Long Jiaxin quite likes this small village. It is relatively modern, the roads are flat and the houses are tidy, and the vegetables grown in the yard are neat and tidy. , quite beautiful.
He felt that the crabapple tree was more beautiful than the old hawthorn tree, so he suggested next to him whether to change it.
However, this old hawthorn tree is the one closest to his memory in the past ten years.
Long Mingan looked easy to talk to, but he was actually quite stubborn when he did things. He still wanted to buy a hawthorn tree, so he asked the village chief if he could talk to the owner of the tree.
Long Mingan still remembered that when he was dragged away by his mother, everyone in the village exclaimed and screamed, saying that some kind of mountain god was angry, and he was taken away after struggling unsuccessfully, and he never saw his elder brother again.
When Long Ming'an thinks back again, he can deduce that the anger of the mountain god in the village at that time must have been either encountered by mudslides or floods, otherwise, everyone could not have been so panicked and went out without even leaving their homes. run.
His mother also took advantage of the chaos to run away with him in her arms, otherwise, if she left with a child, no one would have noticed.
Parents are blood relatives in name only, the one who supported Long Mingan through countless nights was his eldest brother who always hugged him when he was young.
Perhaps, the only good thing that irresponsible couple did was to allow the brothers to depend on each other for years.
Not everyone is hurting him or failing him, Long Ming'an's eldest brother is the reason for him to grit his teeth and live.
However, the two boys were not very old at the time, and Long Mingan didn't know how the half-grown children could survive the natural disaster with their father not at home, their mother stealing money and running away with no adults at home.
He survived the darkness and returned to a normal life. He met his wife and raised a child together. The characters of Long Jiaxin's letters are taken from the same pronunciation in the village people's big brother "Daxin".
But the eldest brother, he stayed forever on that night when he was a teenager.
Only the relatives who were good to him disappeared, and only the old hawthorn tree reminded him that when he was a child, he was carried by his elder brother, holding the hawthorn to watch other children show off that they could eat eggs, and then he deliberately turned his face away, hid behind his elder brother, pouted Mouth not envious that he also has hawthorn, the eldest brother just laughed.
Long Mingan can stick to all the chain stores and give hawthorn snowballs as gifts to every customer for more than ten years, but he can't go back to the night forty years ago, avoiding his mother grabbing his hand and shouting The eldest brother's name, the two brothers followed the villagers to avoid the wrath of the mountain god empress.
Therefore, Long Ming'an still didn't want to give up. He asked for the phone number of the owner of the old hawthorn tree from the village chief, and was going to sincerely explain his situation in a simple way, hoping that he could buy the hawthorn tree.
"Dad, why are you so stubborn?!" Long Jiaxin had no choice but to scratch his hair to express his depression. He was really afraid of his father's soft-looking character, but in fact he didn't hit the south wall and didn't look back.
The owner of the old hawthorn tree had the same personality when he heard the voice just now. He was not angry at anything, and was cheerful, but he just said that he was not negotiable.
You people with a soft exterior and a tough personality are simply devils.
Long Jiaxin saw his father made a quiet gesture to him, indicating that he was connected there, so he spoke in a gentle tone, trying to explain the situation on his side.
Oh, I know that this hawthorn tree is a cut off, but he really wants to find an old hawthorn tree, and he wants to find the hometown and the impression of his elder brother when he was young.
Long Ming'an was someone who pointed at his face and yelled at him, and could continue to reason well, but he didn't expect that the other side of the phone suddenly fell into silence, and he stopped talking at all.
This, how should I take this
Putonghua became a dialect, and Long Jiaxin was confused, but saw that his father's always cheerful smile was gone, he seemed a little nervous, and his voice was trembling, please repeat it.
This time, the conversation on the other side of the phone was much slower, and Long Jiaxin heard the other party say something in front of him, "... safe."
Forty years have passed, and there is no longer any familiar place in my hometown, and there are not many old people left who can tell what happened to the Li family back then.
Long Ming'an could no longer understand the dialect, and he might even be face to face with Li Guoxin without recognizing him.
However, that peaceful pronunciation and intonation immediately opened up Long Mingan's few childhood memories.
Who would forget their dearest brother and call their own name
"Dad? Dad! Come on, relax, and take a deep breath." Long Jiaxin immediately took out the emergency aerosol to prevent his father from being out of breath.
Two days later, Gu Yusheng and the others received a call from the security man asking for Huatang by name.
The uncle's usual slow tone was rarely rushed, and when he was talking to Hua Tang, his words were even out of order, and he was extremely excited.
Thinking about it, being able to call a black cat specifically is not something that can be done in a sane state.
Hua Tang also listened to the tip of her ear and was dazed, but she still understood the general meaning.
The old hawthorn tree was sensible, and brought Huatang unlimited hawthorn snowballs to eat as much as he wanted.
As long as Huatang goes to the restaurant again, he can eat hawthorn snowballs for free.