twenty-six
The current yard of Brother Ertian's family is just the same as the eaves of the old house of Brother Yunke's family. It is surrounded by buildings or bungalows that have been built up in recent years. The old house is lying in the middle, looking lonely and lonely!
The second brother of Yunke was young, and this small courtyard was once noisy! On summer mornings, I am often awakened by the combined sound of sawing, planing, axe cutting, and hammering from this small courtyard! The corners of the yard were full of all kinds of broken materials. You can smell the fragrant smell of wood chips from afar! The second brother was always bare-chested, 'Whoops... Hum...' the ground was busy cutting. Beads of sweat oozed out of the dark, shiny skin, and a drop fell down!
Yunke's second brother and sister had five brothers, except for Sister Li, who was married to Cheng Zhuang, who was closer. Although Big Brother Yunmu is adjacent to Brother Yunke, he lives closer. But he is more stuffy, always with a straight face, and meeting is just a trick. The two brothers have a more cheerful personality and even sympathize with children. My cousin Ling You and I can no longer mess with her! I never really got really angry. If you are in a hurry! Always closing his eyes, shaking his hands, shaking his head, and saying: Two little guys, this temple is small, can't accommodate your two true gods! Let's get out of here! The second brother is always laughing on the side! Of course, we are not useless. Sometimes he also helps them carry and transport them. The second sister-in-law also did not let us both work in vain, Xiao Shangwei and Hua Ni brothers and sisters of the snack food, no less let us taste fresh!
At that time, Cheng Zhuang Li Sister's family Gangzi still followed suit to learn the craft. Ling You doesn't deal with Gangzi and always pesters him! He took a drill with a drill hole and dangled it in front of Okako's eyes: "Nephew come, tell your uncle, how to use this play?" Okako had a cold face! His eyes widened. Casually threw the drill bow at his feet. "Hey, what's the matter! Still don't want to teach? Ling You stabbed the second brother with his arm, "See, our nephew's shelf is bigger than yours!" "The second brother 'Hey hey...' laughed! Then he rushed to Okako and said, "Tell him to go over there and help punch his eyes." Gang Zi silently made a demonstration, and Ling You tried to drill two. Euphoria said, "Yes! Yes! Busy with yours, nephew come! ”
Ling You took advantage of their lack of attention and shouted at me to take cover. He took the drill and drilled a hole in the bottom of the two urinal basins, one large and one small, placed in the corner of the wall! He blocked his eyes with wet mud. After doing badly, he came to the house without a word, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and found the biscuits that Little Hua Ni had eaten. We ate a few slices, dried the stored sweet potatoes, cut them into the shape of a biscuit with scissors, and stuffed them back! Pack it in a box and seal it and put it back in place.
In the courtyard, the second brother is busy with the heat! I slipped behind my second brother and sat in the shade, tucking saws on my second brother's back, dripping beads of sweat, little by little! When the second sister-in-law saw it, she sniffed her face and grabbed a broom and chased after us...
The second brother's family built a new tile house six or seven years before my family. At that time, the second brother's craftsmanship gradually became useless. In the late 1990s, aluminum alloy doors and windows, emerging furniture gradually occupied the market, and the old carpenter also fell! Most of them turned careers. The second brother's alcohol consumption has grown, and the second sister-in-law's words have also increased... I know that the second brother is greedy for alcohol, from the time when he was once called to go to the construction site to help. In the morning, I rode a motorcycle in front of his house and saw him dangling out. Carrying a plastic bottle full of 'water'. "Why don't you use a kettle on a hot day, is this enough to drink?" I asked him. The second brother grinned! Without answering, he raised his legs and stepped into the car. After completing the name at the work site, the assignment work is completed to another construction site, which is more than ten miles. As I was leaving, I saw that the bottle of 'water' had not yet moved. When I got out of the car at the construction site, I smelled him full of alcohol! Suddenly realized: "You are bringing wine?" The second brother blushed! Just 'huh' laugh...
Although the second brother is an old carpenter, carpentry in the construction industry is very different from traditional woodworking. He has not been converted, plus he has been drunk all day! Fewer and fewer people called out to him to help. Later, the second brother had to go to the labor market and wait for work.
Shang Wei got married, a spacious, bright big house, naturally left to the little children! People are old and can't make any money! The two brothers moved back to the old house, and the wine was getting more and more obsessed!
It is said that the environment changes people! When my wife decided to integrate into this noisy city, she was doomed to endure more hardships than others and sacrifice more comfortable lives! If I had to choose again: I would prefer to be like my second brother and two people - even if I live in a dilapidated old house, I can support each other! Slowly grow old... Sadly: life doesn't give me another chance to choose! Look at the reality, the sea of people camped, for the name of the profit to fight, painstaking! I can't help but wonder: Are they really happy and happy? Eventually, we'll find out that there are actually some things that really don't matter to us!
The wall skin of the old house cannot withstand the erosion of the years, and has been mottled and peeled off, appearing convex and uneven! Very similar to an old man with a rugged bone, he was isolated in the wind and rain of Xiao Xiao. The courtyard wall, which was built of rubble, was low and swollen. Glowing cyan cold in the sun! Together with those lonely days, sinking into the bottom of my heart, always lingering!
"Standing here, I always think of the lively scene of your house sawing and axe chiseling!" Gazing at the old mansion, he couldn't help but say to the second sister-in-law: "Are we really old?" ”
"Cut! The second sister-in-law said, "Don't say that the second sister-in-law is still sitting here, you look at me..." Said, the second sister-in-law lowered her head full of white hair! Then he said, "Fifty years old!" How old are you? ”
The second eldest lady looked at me, stunned! "Forty?" Or forty-one, right? ”
"That's it!" The second sister-in-law said, "Only forty!" This is called old? Don't say, he is half a size child that will, no less to do good things for me! With that, a red glow rose on the second sister-in-law's face! It's like going back to youth.
"What do you do?" The second lady asked after her.
"You listen to me..." The second sister-in-law said urgently: "At night, Shang Wei and his father took the urinal to get up at night." I felt hot in my legs! Hurry up and discipline him: where do you pee with your eyes closed! You know his strength. Urn sound urn angry: can't hear the 'huh' sound in the basin, pee on you! I even hurried to turn on the light to see: the two bears had no urine left, and they were all on the bed! hey! The empty urinal was happy! Toot: It was Ling Xiao and Ling You, two bad boys, who did it! And that's not all, there's a more infuriating one..." The second sister-in-law was furious! Glancing at me, he said, "The cookie that Little Hua Ni ate, you two little bad bears ate it!" If there is no more, let's buy it again! He poured two good: he stole it and pruned it with dried sweet potatoes to count! The little girl just can run 'Babble...' can't tell! I was holding a 'cookie' and crying out of hunger..."
"The two children who seem to be honest and honest have done this!" The second lady 'huh...' laughed! Jerked! A trace of sadness flashed across her face again! Dark Ran said, "But that child is also chaotic and chaotic..."
The second sister-in-law's face also showed a look of pity! Dao: "What did the Third Sister-in-Law's family xu provoke?" There were one accident after another! First Ling Li, and then Ling You, only a few years of work! ”
The second lady groaned and half-groaned! Yu Yu said, "Ling Li's little niece is too real!" Just know how to blindly save those two hard money. Sick can't bear to see! Drag big hair! That little bit of money is not enough for hospitalization! Xiao Nizi is very concerned about home! It's gone..."
The second sister-in-law said: I am a... Silent and silent!
I sat there and let the reverie go wild! His gaze fell on the lonely second sister-in-law, and the weak, slightly awkward back of the second brother flashed in his mind! Leng Bu said, "The second brother has been so many years, it is not easy!" Don't scold him all the time, be nice to him..."
"He's not easy? Who's easy! "The second sister-in-law is very much like a resentful woman!" He gushed: "People who are older than him are still looking for something to do." He's a, drinking some wine all day, and can't do anything! All day long around the two acres of land! What's going on? ”
As he was speaking, Brother Nita opened his arms and rode his motorcycle into the courtyard "suddenly".
The second eldest lady stood up and said: I will go to the hot meal. Turned and went into the kitchen.
The second sister-in-law also said, "I still have to make that goods!" "I went on my own."
"It's hot! Can't stand it! In the afternoon, no one is dry..." Brother Ertian soaked his clothes in the basin of water in the shade, wiped his body with a towel, and said, "You can rest this summer and do it again, it's too much of a crime!" ”
"With whom?" I asked.
The second brother said curtly, "Daqing." Say it's not easy to find people these two days! Let me temporarily help top two days, cash! "Oh,... the second brother said, "your motorcycle is sold!" 2500 bucks, didn't say yes..."
I took it and said, "It doesn't matter... money... You keep it for now. The money on the construction site over there can't be returned to you for the time being. ”
"Exactly! I lacked money in my hands these two days. The second brother asked again, "You came by yourself?" ”
"Shang Yong and grandpa came, and I was worried that I couldn't go back!" A layer of foggy water is in my eyes! Darkly said, "I thought I could!" Wanted to take him out for a walk. But in the heart... But it's not a taste yet! Later, you can send him back! I'm alone... It's better! Despite the efforts to suppress it, tears spilled out!
The second eldest lady stood aside and said, "It's still too short!" Originally, three people came together, one piece back, got used to it! This is disconnected at first, which can not flash panic! The child is not small, it is time to let go! Let him exercise and exercise on his own. Can't be like... Keep it so tight! If not, when will he grow up? ”
The second brother made two cups of hot tea and shouted that it was too hot in the house! He sat down again under the old locust tree.
This old locust tree is thick and tall, silently carrying the traces of time. It stands on the south side of the west room of the old mansion of Brother Nita. Close to the wall root of Yunmu Big Brother's house. The second lady couldn't tell, who planted it and when? The old house has collapsed! Some remnants of the wall are left there! The old locust tree is still strong, the branches are staggered like a cover, the radius is nearly ten meters, and the breeze is cool! Witnessing the ruins of the broken wall, I couldn't help but think of it: the second uncle had a teacup next to him, and he sat there with a solemn expression! Stare at the picture of Brother Ling Qiang doing his work! Time flies, inadvertently changing roles, and renewing new sorrows!
This year, the wife returned from the old locust tree and petaled some poplar flowers. Golden yellow locust flower cake, crispy taste! Sealed in memory, it seems to be new! ... The phone rings in your pocket! The joyful voice of Brother Zhong's voice came from his ear: "The money of Shanghai Construction Engineering has been implemented!" Take your card to the formalities on Monday! Or are you right, a few years of running is not in vain..." Lao Zhong said again: "When Lawyer Kong went to execute, he had to go to four thousand yuan, saying that it was travel expenses!" Two thousand of us. Seeing that you had something to worry about, I didn't tell you. I gave it to him along with it. At that time, he said let us both go with us - you can't go! I can't live without it. Just give two bucks and let them toss and turn. You say no? "My mouth should be, and my heart ripples with Mo Ming's sourness!" Lao Zhong gushed again: "It's been a while since things passed, don't be bored!" Come to the construction site to do something, after all, the family still has to live..."
Putting down the phone, the second brother was eager to ask: "What?" Lao Zhong lived there, and urged again? ”
"No, Shanghai Construction Engineering owes us that money down!" Saying that, the tears still did not hold back, and fell down!
"How much does it cost?" How much more do you have? The second brother asked.
"Alas! Sighing, Qi Ran said, "I am 110,000, and Lao Zhong is less than 160,000." ”
"Oh! That's not good, just..." The second brother wanted to stop talking!
"I'm a baby! Now you don't have to worry! Your brother's money can finally be repaid..." The second eldest lady shook the fan tightly and murmured, as if following the wind...
To be continued...