"Baby, Dad is gone." Zhao Guogang came out of the room, smelling of smoke.
Yuan Yuan handed him a folder and said, "And this, you forgot it at home."
Zhao Guogang took the folder without looking at it, put it in the bag, thought about it, took it out again, and said, "You can call Uncle Lin and ask him to come over at night and take it to our company by the way."
Yuan Yuan took the folder into the room indifferently. He knew that Zhao Guogang was afraid that Shu Yan would find this thing, so it would be safest to send it to the company first. He also knew that his father meant that what should be given to you will still be given to you, so don't say anything.
"Don't mess with my room." Zhao Guogang smiled, poked his finger on the far head, and said, "Dad is coming back to stay, and he will be back in a few days."
Yuan Yuan hummed, Zhao Guogang stood at the door, slowly let out a breath, and said, "Shu Yan."
Shu Yan got up, smiled reluctantly toward Yuan Yuan, and said, "Xiao Yuan, come to my house when you are free. The address is given to your brother. Don't stay at home all the time during the summer vacation."
Xiaoyuan said lightly: "Okay, we will leave in a few days. We won't go to Happy Valley. Let's get back together again."
Zhao Guogang opened the door and walked out. He seemed to want to say something. The four walked through the corridor and took Zhao Guogang and Shu Yan to the elevator. Yuan Yuan suddenly said, "Auntie."
Shu Yan smiled, and Yuan Yuan said, "I want to remind you of a few things."
Zhao Guogang frowned slightly, what Yuan Yuan said was obviously a precursor to finding fault, and when he was about to say something to ease up, Yuan Yuan said: "First: My dad doesn't usually sleep well, but he's used to sleeping alone. He wakes up easily in the middle of the night, and his voice is quiet at night point."
Shu Yan smiled knowingly and replied, "I see."
Yuan Yuan said again: "Second: Don't let him drink tea on an empty stomach when he wakes up in the morning. Third, he always goes home late at night, remember to remind him to have a late-night snack. He often drinks, and sleeps hungry after vomiting empty stomach. not good."
Shu Yan smiled and said, "He won't go home too late in the future."
Yuan Yuan raised his eyebrows to look at her, and after a long time replied, "Oh."
With a ding sound, the elevator door opened, Tan Ruikang pressed the door button, Zhao Guogang slowly let out a long breath, turned to look at his son, raised his left hand slightly, but Yuan Yuan didn't give him a chance to hug him, he said with a smile: " Dad, I wish you happiness and come back when you have time."
When the elevator door closed, Zhao Guogang unloaded the burden of being a father and left his distant home.
In the afternoon, Tan Ruikang said, "Xiaoyuan, when are we going back?"
Lying on the dining table, Yuan Yuan only felt that nothing was good, and he said, "Whatever."
Tan Ruikang spread out a passbook and three cards on the table, and now there are only the two of them at home. Income and expenses, life, etc. have to be discussed.
Yuan Yuan has never had any plans for money. If Zhao Guogang hadn't left, he might not have any plans in his life and spend as much as he earns. However, it is no longer possible to ignore it now, so I have to cheer up and look at these money-saving things one by one.
"Why are there so many?"
Tan Ruikang picked up a card and said, "Uncle said that the money in this card was saved for you to study at university and go abroad when aunt was still alive. Aunt saved it for five years, and after her death, uncle did as she said, Every month, I deposit a few hundred to a thousand dollars in it, saying it is your education fund. Now it is transferred to your name, and this card is your name. "
Yuan Yuan vaguely remembered that Zhao Guogang had mentioned this matter. If this was the case, they would be much more comfortable in their studies.
Tan Ruikang asked: "Can you control it reasonably?"
"Forget it." Yuan Yuan said boringly, "You can help me take care of it."
Tan Ruikang said, "Then let me keep it for you first?"
Yuan Yuan sighed, the passbook was 20,000 yuan left to him by Tan Ruikang's parents, and there were two cards, both given by Zhao Guogang, Tan Ruikang said: "These two cards were opened by the uncle's name, and they are ours respectively. There are 60,000 yuan in each account, 20,000 yuan in tuition fees, and 40,000 yuan in living expenses.”
Yuan Yuan said, "Don't move either of these two."
"Well, I don't think I can move it." Tan Ruikang said, "I just wanted to give it back to my uncle, but he didn't accept it."
Yuan Yuan: "Don't pay him back yet, let's talk about it later."
120,000 is not a small sum of money. If it was returned to Zhao Guogang, Shu Yan might have to keep it for safekeeping.
"This piece was saved by me before." Tan Ruikang was very depressed, Yuan Yuan was worried about not having enough money, but Tan Ruikang was worried about having too much money, and said, "I want to give it back to my uncle, but he won't accept it, hey..."
Yuan Yuan asked, "How many?"
Tan Ruikang said: "Since living with you, I saved 1600 per month when I was in school, nine months a year..."
Yuan Yuan couldn't help but be moved, and said, "There are also tens of thousands."
Tan Ruikang said: "Well, more than 40,000. What should I do with this money?"
Yuan Yuan compared his living expenses, and was surprised to find that he had spent so much money! Don't say anything to repay Zhao Guogang without a million in the future.
Yuan Yuan said: "Spend it, hey, if you don't spend it for nothing, you will save it for his younger son. What's the savings?"
Tan Rui was overjoyed and said, "Then..."
"You are in charge of the money, and you are in charge." Yuan Yuan said, "I just need to ask you for the money."
Tan Ruikang said, "Well, if you want the money, just ask me to get it. I'll take care of it for you."
Yuan Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Or take some money and invest in stocks by the way."
Tan Ruikang licked his lips and remained silent for a long time. Yuan Yuan knew that Tan Ruikang was afraid of losing money, so he said, "It's not a good time yet, let's take a look."
Tan Ruikang nodded, and the two began to officially head the family.
The next day, Tan Ruikang went to buy a ticket, and the two went to buy new clothes. They tidied up and went back to their hometown to burn paper for Tan Ruikang's parents. Tan Ruikang also made two copies of the admission notices, ready to go to the grave to burn them. Look at the deceased parents.
This time, I don’t have much to worry about when I go back to my hometown. I’m free to stay for a few days. Yuan Yuan has longed for freedom since I was a child, but I’m always under the control of Zhao Guogang. All are packaged and handed over to Tan Ruikang for decision.
When he returned to the county seat, Yuan Yuan was surprised to find that the place had changed a lot, and it was much more prosperous than when he first came here three years ago. Internet cafes have opened up, restaurants have also increased a lot, tractors have been reduced in the past, and electric vehicles have also become popular.
"It is said that the province has policies." Tan Ruikang said: "It is supporting the development of the hometown."
When they returned to their ancestral home, there were still a lot of bricks piled up at the entrance of the village, and they said far away, "Is there going to be construction here?"
Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "This should be someone else's own family to marry a wife and build a house. Come, take this."
distant:"?"
Tan Ruikang opened the door, took a bamboo pole and hung up firecrackers, Yuan Yuan couldn't help but stunned.
boom! boom! There was a loud crackling noise, and the smoke filled the front of the house, which immediately alerted the neighbors, and they all went out to see.
"We are admitted to university!" Tan Ruikang laughed, "Come back and set off firecrackers."
There was a sensation in the village. There were no college students in the village for several years. Neighbors came to congratulate each other. Tan Ruikang insisted not to accept red envelopes, and said with a smile, "Enough is enough. My dad reminded me to ask for wine before he died. Today I am with you. Xiaoyuan invites everyone to drink."
The Tan family's children and nephew were admitted to the university, which is still a national key university! After the news spread, Yuanyuan received a lot of food, but insisted not to accept red envelopes. That day, Tan Ruikang went to hold a banquet and fulfilled his father's last wish. All the neighbors came and invited three tables. During the banquet, they were full of sighs, and they were all talking about the past.
The next day, Tan Ruikang took Yuan Yuan up the mountain again, and with a smile, he burned a copy of the notice on his parents' grave. Yuan Yuan was still beside him and said, "You burn the original, if you have the ability to burn the original too."
Tan Ruikang shook his head just as he was laughing, such a big man with a monkey-like demeanor, poured wine and incense, and bowed three times. He let out a long breath.
"Dad, mom, Xiaoyuan's dad..."
"Don't tell them." Yuan Yuan stopped Tan Ruikang and said, "It will make my dad sleepless."
Tan Ruikang laughed, sighed, and said, "Tan's family is your mother-in-law's house. Originally, it was your mother-in-law's housekeeping in this matter... Hey, it's my brother's useless, I can't speak."
Yuan Yuan touched the head of Tan Ruikang, who was kneeling in front of the grave, and said, "Isn't this an adult? My uncle's family can only manage until he is fifteen or sixteen years old. Don't think about it, let's go."
Yuan Yuan knew that Tan Ruikang always blamed himself for this matter. It is true that according to the customs in almost all parts of China, when the father renews the string, there should be a man in the mother's family to speak. . But Tan Ruikang is the only one in the Tan family, and the only cousin has passed away. Tan Ruikang relies on others to eat Zhao Guogang's and use Zhao Guogang's. It is normal to be speechless.
In fact, this is not a big contradiction. In the end, Faraway used a method that was not a solution and solved it by himself.
Tan Ruikang borrowed a bicycle and rode Yuan Yuan with his feet on the back seat of the car. The footprints of the bicycle wheel curved to and fro, forming an S on the country road.
"Can you do it!" Yuan Yuan said.
Tan Ruikang smiled and said, "Yes, yes, it's been a long time since I rode a bike. I used to take my classmates to school! Don't worry."
Yuan Yuan said, "Where are you going?"
Tan Ruikang: "Is it ok to go to my junior high school teacher's house? If you don't want to go, you can find an Internet cafe to surf the Internet. My brother will come out to pick you up after a chat."
Yuan Yuan said: "It doesn't matter, let's go together."
They came down from the mountain, turned another path, and went to the edge of the county town. Tan Ruikang said, "I heard there are wolves in this mountain."
Yuan Yuan said: "I guess it will be gone in a few years."
Tan Ruikang nodded and said, "I hope my hometown can develop, build a resort or something, then our house and land will be valuable."
The two went to the home of Tan Ruikang's junior high school head teacher to announce the good news. The head teacher is a man in his thirties. He taught Tan Ruikang for three years. When he was young, he often played football with half the children, and his relationship was the best.
"Hello, teacher." Tan Ruikang bought a cigarette and a bottle of wine and sent them to the homeroom teacher.
"Old... Hello, teacher." Yuan Yuan smiled awkwardly. It was during the summer vacation, and the head teacher was still preparing lessons. When he saw Tan Ruikang coming, he immediately said: "Ruikang! I knew you could be admitted to university! Come, come, Let the teacher see which one it is!"
Tan Ruikang introduced Yuan Yuan to him and said with a smile, "I originally wanted to take the Tsinghua exam, but I fell short of three points, hey."
Yuan Yuan thought that you should be shy, Tan Ruikang and his head teacher talked and laughed loudly, and the wife came back from buying wine and snacks, and the two had a lively conversation in the living room. Yuan Yuan was listening, and suddenly remembered that he never seemed to go back to see the teacher.
The relationship between teachers and students in big cities is very different from that in the countryside as a whole. Various values, news, and education systems are more standardized. Teachers are paid as civil servants. Teacher's special feelings. When I was in junior high school, I also knew that Zhao Guogang gave their head teacher a shopping card and a red envelope, so that Yuan Yuan would be less scolded in the class. In the long run, every time Yuan Yuan graduated, there was nothing to worry about about the relationship with the head teacher.
On the contrary, some teachers who are especially good to Yuanyuan have not received Zhao Guogang's gift.
When I was in junior high school, there was an English teacher who was a super teacher - an amiable old lady. She liked Yuanyuan very much in the first year of junior high school and praised him in front of the whole class for his standard and fluent English and a large vocabulary. Yuan Yuan also likes him very much. This kind of encouragement is very important, which makes him interested in English in the three years of junior high school, forming a virtuous circle and learning better.
The shadow of being punished by the physics teacher to stand for half a class in the first year of high school is that the whole high school hates physics a bit.
"Dad, give me a dictation!" said the younger son of the head teacher's family.
Yuan Yuan said: "I'm coming, you are only in the third grade to learn English?"
He went over to the small folding table, gave the child a dictation, and taught him to look up words in a foreign language dictionary, saying, "You can develop the habit of explaining English words in English sentences. I said, guess what?"
While he was dictating to the children, he listened to Tan Ruikang and his head teacher talking about the past.
It turned out that Tan Ruikang's father was seriously ill, and Tan Ruikang didn't go to school after graduating from junior high school. A year later, the head teacher came to his house specially. At that time, there was only one old lady left in the Tan family. The head teacher told her that Tan Ruikang's grades were very good. As long as he studied hard, he would definitely be admitted to university. Don't let him drop out of school.
After hearing this, my grandmother ran to the town and called Zhao Guogang. Tan Ruikang reviewed it for another three months, and then picked up a long-distance bus to the south with a pile of tattered luggage.
There are no women in Tan Ruikang's family, and his father went to the stone factory to make money. As a result, he was left unattended for a long time, and his clothes and socks were torn and never repaired. Fortunately, he still studied hard and did not follow others through the entire junior high school.
"Pink." Yuan Yuan said, "Pink, let's see what's written in your textbook... God, you can't mark it like this."
Yuan Yuan turned to the front, and erased all the Chinese pronunciations under the English words in the children's textbook with an eraser. What a dead father, enough, Barna, I erased them all, marked them with similar pinyin, and said, "You Can you read?"
Yuan Yuan taught him all his previous true biographies, and made a table to compare the Chinese pinyin and the different words in the International Phonetic Alphabet in detail. He looked into the child's eyes and said, "After you can read them, replace them. Go up, including 'θ', 'ε', 'α', they are very similar. Can you understand?"
The child nodded and said far away, "Too smart. Today's children are smart."
The child smiled embarrassedly and re-phoneticized the words.
The head teacher said in the living room: "...You can stand up for yourself in a big city, it's not easy to get lost in the luxuriant life. When you say that you go to high school, I think so, it's bad, if you don't study hard, it's better Go to vocational high school to study crafts…”
Tan Ruikang laughed heartily in the living room and said, "I was also very confused when I first arrived. Fortunately, my uncle is a very powerful person. He started from scratch in the 1980s..."
"...Xiaoyuan has given me a lot of help..."
That day, Tan Ruikang and Yuan Yuan stayed at the head teacher's house for dinner, and the head teacher opened a new bottle of wine, and Tan Ruikang's face was flushed.
The head teacher said, "Sleep here, I'll make a bed, and the two boys will squeeze."
Tan Ruikang said hurriedly: "No, no, I want to go back, the house has not been cleaned up, and the door is not locked when I go out in the morning."
Yuan Yuan and Tan Ruikang went downstairs, and Tan Ruikang agreed to visit the teacher after graduation, and happily collected the two collections of poems that the teacher gave them.
Yuan Yuan: "Is it okay to drink and drive?"
Tan Ruikang shouted: "No no no! I'm not drunk yet! Come up!"
Yuan Yuan sat in the back with his feet on the ground, holding the seat with both hands, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, looking at Tan Ruikang's staggered appearance, he said, "Forget it..."
Tan Ruikang got angry and said, "It's okay! Let's take a shortcut back! From the mountains... through!"
On a cool summer night, Tan Ruikang rode his bicycle like a juggling monkey, swaying to and fro, stopping after a while to signal the distance and so on.
distant:"?"
Tan Ruikang leaned over the tree and vomited violently.
Distant: "… "
After vomiting, Tan Ruikang urinated and woke up quite a bit, then came over to signal for Yuan Yuan to get in the car.
The dark clouds covered the starlight in the sky, the surroundings were pitch-dark, there was no idea what was calling in the distance, and the sound of insects had stopped.
Yuan Yuan was a little scared, Tan Ruikang rang the bell twice, and the ding ding sound came out far away.
"Xiaoyuan, are you afraid of ghosts?" Tan Ruikang
Say.
"No... I'm not very afraid." Yuan Yuan is really not afraid. Near here is the top of the mountain where my grandfather and grandmother were buried. The ancestors have spirits, so what are you afraid of? He was just afraid of snakes and robbery.
"Don't be afraid." Tan Ruikang said drunkenly, "Brother protect you."
Yuan Yuan laughed, thinking of an iron rod in Tan Ruikang's schoolbag when he was in middle school.
Tan Ruikang sighed again and said, "Xiaoyuan, I'm sorry for you."
Yuan Yuan said: "What are you talking about. No, what did you do to hurt me? Tell me now!"
Tan Ruikang shook his head and thought for a while, and suddenly a gray shadow rushed to the side of the road, knocking their bicycles down!
"Little..." Before Tan Ruikang finished speaking, the two of them fell down the hill together with their bicycles.
A burst of wild barking, the dog's roar resounded through the night sky, Yuan Yuan directly hit the stone, a loud bang, humming sound in his head, and then Tan Ruikang hugged him tightly, Yuan Yuan's whole body was in severe pain, and his arm was scratched by the stone The pain was burning, and I heard a mad dog barking again.
"Wang-wang-"
A big black dog half-human height rushed down from the top of the slope!
At the same time, the two rolled down a hillside of nearly 30 meters and slammed into the ground. Yuan Yuan only felt severe pain in his muscles and bones, and he almost vomited blood when he fell. But his head hit Tan Ruikang's elbow instead of hitting the ground directly.
Yuan Yuan was thrown into the stars, and said loudly: "Tan Ruikang! Tan Ruikang! Brother!"
Tan Ruikang suddenly rolled over and vomited, Yuan Yuan was about to pull him up, and suddenly he barked again. The black dog chased after him, making a dangerous screeching sound in his throat. Yuan Yuan instantly realized his fear, is this dog a mad dog? !
Its eyes were blinded on one side, and it slowly leaned over.
"Fuck!" Yuan Yuan cursed, and after the fear disappeared, it was almost uncontrollable mania, the dog rushed over, and Yuan Yuan picked up a stone without looking at it, grabbed it and smashed it hard at the dog!
The black dog went mad when it was registered, and when it landed, it took a step back, revealing a mouth full of white teeth, and roared several times at Yuan Yuan, and Yuan Yuan roared again: "Go away!"
Yuan Yuan grabbed a fist-sized gravel with fear in his eyes, and the dog barked again immediately. Tan Ruikang vomited all over the floor and struggled to get up. The vicious dog seemed to be stimulated again, let out a roar, and rushed towards Tan Ruikang!
"Go away!" Yuan Yuan slapped the rock hard, hit the dog's head, and slapped it into its mouth, the dog rolled on the ground in pain, Tan Ruikang said: "Go! It's a mad dog, don't let it rub against it! "
The dog had gone mad, and Tan Ruikang couldn't help coughing and said from a distance, "I can't climb up!"
The slope was too steep, the dog jumped down again, Tan Ruikang grabbed Yuan Yuan's arm and dragged him, holding his hand and ran wildly in the other direction, Yuan Yuan had never experienced such a thing in his life, both of them ran very fast, The heart almost jumped out of his mouth, the mad dog chased him all the way, Yuan Yuan staggered and almost fell, and was pushed into a wooden house by Tan Ruikang.
"Go in!" Tan Ruikang shouted.
The two fell in, and the dog rushed up frantically and growled at Tan Ruikang.
Yuan Yuan couldn't help screaming, Tan Ruikang rushed forward and pressed his shoulders against the door tightly, and put the black dog's head in the crack of the door. Yuan Yuan grabbed whatever he picked up and slashed at the door, and the mad dog retreated. , Tan Ruikang slammed the door shut, latched it, and with a bang, the two were locked in the dark.
Yuan Yuan collapsed, and they fell to the ground gasping for breath.
In the darkness where you can't see five fingers, the wooden house is very narrow.
"Xiaoyuan...Xiaoyuan...Are you all right?" Tan Ruikang groped over, touched Yuanya's hand, and the two hugged tightly.
Yuan Yuan gasped and nodded, buried his head on Tan Ruikang's shoulder and panted for a while. He felt a warm liquid on his neck and was startled, and said, "Are you bleeding?"
"I have a hole in my ear." Tan Ruikang trembled and said, "Is the lighter still there? Let me see you."
Yuan Yuan shivered and took out the lighter, Tan Ruikang took it, and after a soft sound, a faint light of fire jumped between the two.
Tan Ruikang's left face was covered in blood, and they looked at each other quietly. He put his palm on the distant side face, looked at him seriously, and muttered, "Fortunately, you're fine, you're not broken."
There was blood on his face, and his eyes stared into the distance without blinking, at his eyebrows, at his eyes.
The two watched silently, and each could feel each other's hot breath. Tan Ruikang was relieved, closed his eyes, laughed, and said, "It's alright, it's alright."
Tan Ruikang's handsome smile seemed to ignite the fire in Yuan Yuan's heart. At that moment, Yuan Yuan didn't know why he wanted to bring his face up and kiss his lips.
He held his breath and suddenly remembered a word he had read many years ago—
- Love doesn't know where it started, and it goes deep.