Fun Micro Pocket Weekly No. 68
A selection of novels
Spring to pear blossoms
●Camels
Since that time my father came to bring me pears, he has not come to the town again.
I understand Father. The "pear delivery incident" made his heart dust too thick. I have repeatedly warmed his wounded heart with white lies, but to no avail. I don't think my father will like this little city anymore.
As you might expect, my father knocked on my door one winter morning.
Father said, you come forward, go and tell your second sister, now she doesn't even give me face, she just wants to listen to you.
Father was obviously angry. Father's intention was that he would wrap up the pear orchard of the second sister. Ergu married to the mountain opposite Cangxi County a few years ago, and the family planted dozens of acres of pears. The second sister's whole family runs their pear orchard like his father runs his own pear orchard.
The second sister obviously would not easily agree to her father.
Father said, count me hurt her in vain.
I called the second aunt to intercede, and the second aunt's answer made me stunned, and my father's approach was even more incomprehensible! Father said, if you don't agree, I will go to the temple and live!" Father knew that I was a good-looking person. I had to promise to help him, and I would do it! Father smiled with satisfaction.
Father suddenly became mentally active. He called back his cousin and cousin who were migrant workers, and called back a few strong laborers from his hometown, and began to serve the pear orchard. My father paid them ten yuan a day at a price ten yuan higher than the wages of several of their migrant workers, and everyone was naturally very happy and very hardworking.
Father's craftsmanship in the pear orchard, I will not worry. But my father next wanted to rent the second aunt's building, and neither the second sister nor I agreed. Father then used his killer skills. My second aunt and I were speechless. I know that the second sister generally does not let the father be too embarrassed, she has been carried by her father since she was a child, primary school, middle school, marriage, basically by the father to worry, several sisters, the father also loves the second aunt the most. Father said, you will be embarrassed, I will go to the city to rent you a house to live in. Rent, I'm out!
The second aunt compromised, she left enough room for herself, and the rest was left to her father to toss. Tossing, is the second sister said. The original words of the second aunt are, let the brother toss it, all people in their sixties, such as when my pear orchard has not harvested for several years.
Father had a smile on his face. He immediately gave us four chapters of the Law: before next spring, we are not allowed to step into his pear orchard for half a step; this year's Spring Festival reunion is canceled; no matter who it is, we are not allowed to inquire and leak half a bit of news in the pear orchard; the second aunt and I, each lending him thirty thousand yuan, the interest is settled quarterly according to the bank interest!
I don't know how I spent those months. I inquired about my father's news several times, and my second aunt shook her head and sighed. The second sister said that this time, brother, I am afraid that I am evil...
Just as I was living like a year, one early morning in February, my father knocked on my door. Father stood at the door and raised the piece of paper in his hand and said, Go, put it in your newspaper a few times, this money, you pay it. Moreover, my father said, no matter how high the level, you are not allowed to change a word of mine! After saying that, the father turned and left.
What my father wanted me to board was a few words: When spring was open, I wanted to walk in Tianbatou, so I came to the mountain opposite the city, where there were many flowers; when I was tired, I went to my house to rest my feet, and there was very good tea at home; when I was hungry, I could eat at my house, and there were fragrant meat dishes at home. The money is the father's name, the address is the second aunt's house, and there is a phone number...
No way, I went to the advertising department and paid for it, and in our newspaper I truthfully took a few pictures of my father's words.
I'm going to talk about it another way.
I want to talk about what happened seven years after my father took over the pear orchard of the second sister:
Next to the building of the second sister's family, there are now three more buildings.
The mountain where Ergu's family was located is now called Lihua Mountain (formerly known as Zhangjia Mountain).
The mountain where Ergu's family is located is now the largest and most lively group of farmhouses in Cangxi County.
The farm where the ergu family is located was named the "first farm" in Cangxi County.
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I asked my father many times how he could think of running a farm, and he always looked at the small town across the mountain for a long time without saying a word.
Or my second sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law who said that my father was afraid of being evil, untied the knot in my heart.
He said, don't ask, ask the brother will not tell you. I reckon that my brother made up his mind after he sent pears back to you that time, and if he had told me this earlier, I wouldn't have stopped him, and he wouldn't have been so bitter in the past few years.
The second sister said, brother's meaning, I understand, the people in the city look down on him, he wants to do everything he can to make people look at him squarely.
The image comes from the Internet
About the Author
camel
Post-70s, writer and editor, member of the Novel Committee of Sichuan Writers Association. He is currently serving in the Sichuan Writers Network of the Sichuan Writers Association, and the executive vice president and secretary general of the Sichuan Small Fiction Society. A number of small fiction works have been included in more than 30 provincial and municipal middle school examination and high school chinese examination papers, and have been included in nearly 100 kinds of secondary school chinese teaching aids.