Text/Zhang Jie
Li Laohan's house is halfway up the mountainside, three earthen houses built in the 1980s, close to the left side of the newly built building of the eldest son Mao cai the year before, and the left side of the 500-meter northwest bend is the three-story house of the old second Mao Fu, the old three Mao Gui bought a commercial house in the market for his children to study, but Li Lao Han still lived in three old mud houses.
The three sons are all working in other places, and their income is not too high, because they all have crafts, and the income of migrant workers is also at the middle and upper levels, and they can still maintain the family's food, clothing, and housing. The brothers and sisters gave Li Laohan living expenses on time every year, ranging from two to three thousand yuan. This is also a basic manifestation of filial piety in the countryside. However, there is disagreement about which son's family Li Laohan lives in. Moreover, the old man has a strange temperament, that is, he does not want to live in his son's house.
Everyone said that he was going to keep the old house, to keep a little thought of his son and mother—his wife had been dead for ten years.
Li Laohan's old mud house is old, every autumn rainy season, there are always a small number of houses leaking rain, the outside is big, the inside will be small, moreover, the back cornice ditch due to the accumulation of mud and poor drainage, these things make the village cadres can not put down.
Village cadre A told village cadre B that this year there was a lot of rain in autumn, and Li Laohan always lived in an old earthen house, which was not a problem.
Village cadre B said that in fact, Li Laohan said that he wanted to guard the old house and keep a little thought about his wife, which was also justified; but there must be a particular and said in this -
When Li Laohan's wife died, the family meeting said that the two young sons had difficulty in starting a family, and the mother's burial was responsible for the elder Maocai, and the remaining two thousand Yuan wu bai yuan cash, one thousand yuan was left to Li Laohan, and the remaining one thousand Wu Bai yuan brothers were divided equally. It's one such thing. For this matter, the eldest Mao Rich Daughter-in-law's heart is always not hot, and she has been uncomfortable in her heart.
The eldest elder daughter-in-law's mother-in-law died, and the elder Mao Cai saddled the food before and after the horse, and paid for it; because the three brothers-in-law of the boss had poor conditions and the uncle's mother and son were unwilling to save energy, this called the daughter-in-law of the old Mao Cai cold. I really want to come to think of it, and the eldest daughter-in-law also has a new idea for her husband and father to live alone in the old house.
The former old man Mao Cai built a new building, the two mouths a total, build three two-story houses, after the son becomes a family, there is a happy new home; but the old daughter-in-law thinks again, the husband and father are not easy, can not always call him to live in the old mud house that leaks rain, simply add two small bungalows on the right side of the new building, so as not to solve the husband's housing problem? But the eldest daughter-in-law asked her father-in-law if it was okay, and Old Han Li said that it was okay, but he also had to ask the second elder Maofu and the third Maogui to pay more than ten thousand yuan each, otherwise he would be uneasy in his heart when he lived in it. After the family meeting, the brothers also had to be silent.
Until the autumn of this year, the old second Mao fu watched the old third Mao Gui's actions, and the old third Mao Gui looked at the old two Mao Fu's deeds, and dragged on for two or three years, and did not give the old man Mao Cai an explanation.
These, Li Laohan remembered in his heart, he was not good to talk about. How could he move into a new house?
When the rain was thick this autumn, the village cadre A and the village cadre B were combined, and the two of them were doing the ideological work of the second and third elders and their daughters-in-law separately, explaining the mood and original thoughts of their eldest sister-in-law, explaining the difficulties of why his father did not move into the new house, and explaining the filial piety that should be done for the son of man and the daughter-in-law of man... The two families also said that they would make up the money that should be given to his eldest brother and sister-in-law to build a new bungalow as soon as possible.
In the middle of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the rain lasted for two more days, and the village cadre A was still worried about the leakage of rain in The tile house of Li Laohan's old earthen house, so he came to Li Laohan's residence again and said to Li Laohan carefully and kindly, The sons all agreed that you should move to the new house built for you.
Old Han Li will believe that the letter will be suspicious...
Village cadre A said to Li Laohan: If you don't believe me, I will dial the phones of your three sons and my three old watches, and listen to what his brothers and sisters have said.
Old Han Li nodded in acquiescence.
Village cadre A dialed the phone one by one, and the three brothers all said: You are old Mo, move quickly; if you can't move, there are village cadres and neighbors at home to help, is it okay?!
The elder Mao Cai said to his father: "Mao Fu and Mao Gui have transferred money through mobile phones, and they have already transferred seven thousand yuan to me first, and the remaining few thousand yuan will be given to me next year..." At that time, the tears in Li Laohan's eyes went straight out, and then he laughed again.
The rain was still falling, and the atmosphere of the mountainside seemed to add a bright light to the mountain village - by noon, Li Laohan, with the help of village cadres and neighbors, finally moved into the new house built for him by his sons.