The story is read: He is a city person from the countryside, but he is so filial piety, is the city people like this?

Li Laohan lives in a ravine northeast of the village and has three sons and five daughters. In the 1960s, it was a "glorious home", and his wife was also named the "heroic mother" of the county. After the implementation of the package of production to the household, his daughters married away from home, and the eldest son, Egg Tiger, responded to the government's call to emigrate his family to the wasteland on the outskirts of the provincial capital to reclaim farmland. After graduating from junior high school, the second son, Erhu, first went to Xinjiang to work, and Li Laohan lied that he was critically ill before he tricked Erhu back from Xinjiang. Erhu returned to his hometown and has always wanted to be a businessman, from selling cattle and sheep skins to selling cattle and sheep and then selling fruits, running all day and rarely settling at home. The third son, the Three Tigers, is quite honest and does not talk much on weekdays. The Three Tigers lived separately from Li Laohan. It is said that they live separately, but in short, in the same yard, just two different houses, pot stoves are also built separately. The three tigers and the family of five live their own lives, Li Laohan and his wife live together, and the crop work is also done by the two of them, but when harvesting wheat, the three tigers and two families will help Li Laohan.

Since the death of his wife, Li Laohan himself can't cook, so he lives with the three tigers. But old Li Han still lived in his original dilapidated house. The three tigers and the two sons came out early and returned late for the family's time all year round, worried that Li Laohan had left home and gone, and often locked Li Laohan in the courtyard. That year, Egg Tiger took his fifteen or sixteen-year-old son to his hometown to visit his family, saw the Three Tigers family living in a spacious Ming Hall, and had a big fight with the Three Tigers, scolding the Three Tigers for not taking care of the elderly, and saying that Li Lao's wife was the Three Tigers family who suffered from exhaustion. The Three Tigers only stared, their legs trembling and could not say a word. The wife of the Three Tigers was also red-eyed. Egg Tiger taught the Three Tigers family a good lesson, and the Wife of the Three Tigers said: "We don't take good care of it, and the family is so poor, you take good care of it, you take care of your father." The egg tiger was gagged for a moment, and the squat stone mill crouched in the middle of the courtyard also smoked two cigarettes fiercely, and as soon as he bit his teeth, he pulled Old Han Li onto the bus to the provincial city.

Before the trip, the elderly people of the same age as Li Laohan in the village came to see them off. Old Han Li did not want to get on the car, stared at the three tigers with tears in his eyes for half a day, and then looked in the direction of his wife's grave, two emerald-like oil pines stood on both sides of the grave, like two great gods guarding and accompanying Li Lao's wife who slept. Sanhu said, "Father, you can go with your eldest brother with peace of mind, and if you want to go home, you can call me and I'll pick you up." Old Man Li smiled, and there were still tears in the corners of his eyes.

Li Laohan's playmate Zhang Laohan shook Li Laohan's hand and said: "Old man, go to the city to enjoy the blessings, what do we have in this ravine to linger on, you are also considered a city person, if I have the opportunity to go to see you in the future, stain your light." ”

Li Laohan got into the car under the eyes of the villagers, the villagers boasted that the tiger was a filial piety, and how much the life of the people in the city was enjoyed, high-rise buildings, cars and dragons. Some people also say that Old Han Li has been suffering for most of his life, and he has been blessed by his eldest son, and he has become a city person when he is dying.

The three tigers ran to the village committee to use the only phone in the village to call the egg tiger's home, the answer to the phone is always the egg tiger or the sister-in-law, the three tigers want to listen to the voice of Li Laohan, the egg tiger family always said, "Everything is fine in our place, you can rest assured." Later, as soon as the villagers saw the Three Tigers, they asked About Old Han Li, and the Three Tigers could only respond that "it was very good." The villagers still said, "Old Man Li is blessed." Zhang Laohan sighed in front of the Three Tigers many times, saying that if he had a son in the city like the Egg Tiger to live the life of a city man for a few days, how good it would be.

Zhang Laohan's grandson was admitted to a key university in the provincial city, Zhang Laohan said that he would send his grandson to the provincial city, Zhang Laohan said that he had friends in the city to visit the old brothers. The son was stubborn, but he could only take the elderly Zhang Laohan with him. Zhang Laohan saw the world now, and the security guard at the door of the egg tiger's home stopped Zhang Laohan. Zhang Laohan said that he wanted to find Li Laohan, Li Egghu's father. The security guard said, "Uncle, who are you to coax, Li Egghu has lived in this neighborhood for many years, and I have never heard that he has a father." "Zhang Laohan said that Li Egghu's father lives in the city, and you are mistaken!"

No matter what Zhang Laohan said, the security guard just didn't believe that Li Egghu had a father, and he didn't let Zhang Laohan enter the gate of the community.

Without seeing Li Laohan, Zhang Laohan's face was disappointed, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became: It would not be Li Laohan who died long ago. Ever since Zhang Laohan had this inference, his heart had not been happy. Follow my son in a bread-style taxi on the edge of the city. A dilapidated house in the city aroused the interest of Zhang Laohan. The driver was very enthusiastic, introducing: "The farmers who used to live here from the mountains have been moving them into high-rise buildings for some years when they are engaged in urban development, but there is a well-known nail household, and the demolition team always has no way to take him." The driver also said: "It is not okay to cut off water and electricity, and the man is also living pitifully." ”

Zhang Laohan asked the driver to drive slowly, only to see that high-rise buildings surrounded an isolated island, and on the isolated island stood a dilapidated adobe house, and the corner of the house had collapsed, and Zhang Laohan asked: "Can there still be people living there?" ”

The driver said: "There are people living in Li, an old man, their family members only deliver some food at night, you say what their family thinks, don't you want to share an extra set of buildings, let people of such an old age live in this broken place." ”

Zhang Laohan saw the figure under the broken room flash a little, and his heart was shocked. He asked the driver to stop the car, and under the support of his son, he staggered to the bottom of the "isolated island" and climbed the steps, and a dry and thin torso startled Zhang Laohan. The torso was more like a dry corpse. Zhang Laohan's shouts also alarmed the "dry corpse". The eyes of the "dry corpse" moved a little, frozen on Zhang Laohan's body, and the lips of the "dry corpse" were dry and cracked, and the breathing was very weak.

"Lao Zhang—" This faint voice emanated from the "mouth" of the "dry corpse."

It took a long time for Zhang Laohan to recognize that the "dry corpse" in front of him was his former buddy Li Laohan. Zhang Laohan wanted to carry Li Laohan back to his hometown, but Li Laohan could not leave, and Li Laohan said: "When I die, I will also give Egg Tiger a building." ”

Less than a week after Zhang Laohan returned to the mountain village, Egg Tiger hired a car to pull Li Laohan's body back to guangfeng and bury it. Villagers said that Li Laohan was "honored to return to his hometown and return to his hometown." Only Zhang Laohan shook his head and said nothing.

The Three Tigers also planted two glowing green oil pines at the grave of Old Man Li.

After that, the egg tiger never returned to the mountain village. Two years ago, during the Tomb Sweeping Festival, three or five strangers dressed in black knelt in front of Li Laohan's grave and cried in the dark. The only people standing in front of Li Laohan's grave over the years were the Three Tigers family, and the four emerald green oil pines.

Yang Runze's original novel, selected in the sina network grassroots blog "original base" (image from the internet)