Wild chrysanthemums bloom in the wind

□ Zhao Chunmei

"Lady boss, cut me a pork head." From the sound of a full voice, I guessed that the man behind him should be around fifty years old. But I turned my head and saw that the man was different from what I had imagined. I saw that his dark cheeks were full of crisscrossing wrinkles, and his deep eyes were somewhat sunken, looking more than seventy years old. The old man wore an old-fashioned T-shirt in army green, a pair of dark blue crumpled trousers underneath, a pair of cloth shoes full of yellow mud on his feet, and a big thumb was exposed.

My husband just called me to bring some brine dishes home when I came home from work at noon, so I came to this brine stall and picked out a few vegetarian dishes for the boss to weigh me. Since the construction of a new construction site began next to the neighborhood where I live, the business of this meat stall has been somewhat hot, and at noon, the meat stall is full of migrant workers from the construction site.

It can be seen that this old man is a migrant worker on the construction site. At this time, I have some doubts that the owner of this construction site is a black-hearted boss, how can I recruit workers over sixty years old? I thought again, maybe this old man's son and daughter-in-law are not filial piety, so that the old man is so old that he still goes to the construction site to work.

I bought the marinade and did not walk away, but stood by and observed. The old man walked over with his porcelain cup, which contained pork head meat, and the old man ate it as he walked, which was very useful and satisfied. The old man's eyes were a little cloudy, and he glanced around, found an empty seat on a cement prefabricated board, and sat down. Just then, I saw a wild chrysanthemum grow out of the cracks in the staggered prefabricated plates, swaying in the wind. The old man's hands picking vegetables were a little clumsy, the skinny hands were exposed, the finger joints were thick, and the chopsticks looked a little incongruous in his hands.

It was nearly noon, some heat, many workers crowded around the elderly to eat, they either stood or sat, just like when they were eating under the yellow kudzu tree at the head of the village, eating and chatting, eating hot, some fan the wind with their sleeves after eating. The small wild chrysanthemum seemed to be cooperating with their fan wind, and the newly opened chrysanthemum was shy and timid.

A co-worker brought a meal to the old man's side, and the old man sat on a prefabricated board, the old man's ass moved to the side, after the worker sat down, the pair of chopsticks reached into the old man's bowl, clipped a piece of pork head meat, smiled and threw it into his mouth, the old man pretended to be unhappy with chopsticks to knock the migrant worker, the worker stretched the bowl to the old man, said, you also clip the lean meat in my bowl to eat. The old man laughed and said, I don't eat your lean meat, I can't chew it. The old man smiled very kindly, and for a moment, I felt that the old man's wrinkled face was like the small wild chrysanthemum that bloomed in the sun, yellow and brilliant, dyed the unique color of this autumn.

I saw that the two of them were very harmonious, but I felt that the two of them were not from the same place because I heard their conversations.

"Old brother, are you seventy?" The co-worker asked.

The old man replied unhurriedly, "Do you see if I have seventy?" Tell you what, I'm seventy-six. ”

The worker said, "Then how can you eat and consume?" ”

The old man said: "You and I are both rural people, can't do this work on the construction site?" ”

The co-worker said, "Yes, too." ”

The old man said: "While you can still work, work for a few more years, save some money for yourself and your wife, so as not to cause trouble to the younger generations in the future." ”

The worker said, "Junior? To which junior? Do your children leave you alone? ”

The old man said, "No. Children also have children's troubles, they also have children, they also have mortgages, car loans, reading expenses, we try not to find trouble for them without adding trouble to them. ”

The worker said, "The old man thinks really thoughtfully, how many people are there in your family?" ”

The old man said: "There are three children in the family, two sons and a daughter, they all bought a house in the city, they also let me go to the city many times to live and enjoy the happiness, I don't go, I would rather do some small work on the construction site, make some money, you think, we earn three or four thousand yuan a month What is wrong?" And the work also exercised. You say ha, our generation does not want to play, do not want to be idle, want to do something, as long as there is something to do, the heart is solid. ”

The worker finished eating, wiped his mouth, and sat on the prefabricated board in a daze.

A ray of sunlight fell from the gap in the steel frame of the building, and happened to be cast on the old man's face, and the sunlight flowed like water, flowing to the old man's face, flowing in the flower bud of the wild chrysanthemum, brilliant and shining.

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