Long years (61)

Xu Tian took his son, who kept his head down, and asked around in the county before finding the mineral water factory.

We were a little timid when we arrived at the door. It's such a big factory.

As soon as we arrived at the door, someone came over and asked, "Is this brother Xu Tian?"

This man was quite young. He smiled with big yellow teeth and said, "Let's go! Brother, the place has been arranged."

Go in through the gate, turn left, and walk straight forward until you reach the corner of the factory wall.

There is an inconspicuous little house there, hidden behind the rockery.

"This was the gatehouse on the original construction site. Later, those buildings were demolished, and only this one was blocked by a rockery and remained untouched. Later, some debris was put there, so it was not demolished. This place is quiet, and it is convenient for children to go to school. There are dormitories.

The building is at the end. If we lived there, it would take us twenty minutes just to go to school and walk through the factory area, which is too time-consuming."

The door opened. The inside was cleaned.

Xu was used as a concierge. Everything was complete. There were sliding windows on both sides of the outside. It was only six or seven square meters. There were two tables and two chairs placed against the windows, but nothing else.

Walking inside, there is a small room of five or six square meters, with a canopy bed inside. The bedding and bedding on the bed are all new and neatly spread. Under the bed are basins, towels, and hot water bottles issued by the factory.

There is a small bathroom of more than square meters with only enough room for one person to turn around.

This person introduced: "There is no faucet inside, there is one outside the house, which can be used at any time. There is a canteen in the factory for meals..." As he spoke, his voice lowered, "We now work in three shifts, 24 hours a day.

There is always hot water in the canteen, so you can’t afford to cook your own meals. It’s cheap and affordable, and definitely a good deal.”

Xu Tian smiled apologetically, this place was much better than expected.

I have never dared to imagine living in such a good environment.

After two days of familiarity, Xu Tian knew the benefits of this place.

This corner is next to the spare warehouse. It is a place where sundries or overstocked products are stored. The door is not opened once every ten and a half days. Workers in the factory rarely come to this corner. Living here, you can completely avoid the factory area.

The impact of vehicle entry and exit and machine roar.

After three days of settling down, on the last day of rest, Xu Tian called his son, who had been silent, "Let's go! Go out with me."

Xu Qiang still lowered his head, "Where are you going?"

There is no emotion in the voice.

"Go and thank your benefactor!" Xu Tian pulled Xu Qiang away without any explanation, "Don't be stubborn. When you grow up, you can go see your mother if you want. Now... you go... I will only call you mom.

Life is even more difficult..."

"Then why do you still ask my mother to live with that bad guy..." Xu Qiang shook off his father's hand, raised his head and stared.

Xu Tian knelt down and looked at his son: "I didn't tell your mother to live with bad people, it was your mother who thought bad people were more reliable than honest people!"

"Bad people are more reliable than honest people?" Xu Qiang looked at his father, "Really?"

"That's what your mother thinks." Xu Tian rubbed his son's head, "Then you see, if your mother has a good life in the future, then your mother is right. If your mother has a bad life in the future,

Then your mother is wrong."

"If my mother's life is good, I will be a bad person." Xu Qiang looked at his father and said word by word, "If my mother's life is bad, I will be a good person."

Xu Tian opened his mouth in astonishment and couldn't say a word. After a long time, he stood up. His feet were numb and he staggered a little. After he stood firm, he smiled reluctantly, took his son's hand and left. But in his heart, he thought

Now, in order for you to become a good person, does your father have to let you see that your mother is not doing well?

But your mother's life is not good, so you feel better?

This is a vicious cycle. The honest man Xu Tian turned over several times in his mind, not knowing what to do.

The child was still small when he left, but now he is so big.

"By the way, what grade should I go to?" Xu Tian asked, changing the subject.

"It's the first year of junior high school." Xu Qiang couldn't keep up with his father's long steps, "I'm thirteen this year."

Yes! I was three years old when I left, and I was thirteen when I came back.

They are all going to middle school.

"Already going to middle school?" Lin Yutong looked at the cautious boy in front of him in surprise and asked Xu Tian, ​​"Have you found a school? If not, just say something and I will help contact you."

"I was admitted to a key middle school in our county." Xu Qiang raised his head, glanced at the aunt who was speaking, and said loudly.

Lin Yutong laughed, this is a child with a very strong self-esteem, "It's so amazing. Then this is no problem, and it will be more important. Such children can't help but contact the school, and they are eager to receive more students like this.

Yeah. This kid is really up to date."

Xu Tian's back suddenly straightened up, "Don't praise him, he is a child who is easily arrogant."

We talked for a while about the children.

When we met for the first time, we didn’t tell them anything about what we wanted them to do. It was just the first time we met and we chatted casually. We don’t know each other well, so it’s normal to have an observation period.

Before leaving, I got some snacks and other things for the children and sent them back.

Fourth Master handed Lin Yutong an IOU written on the back of a child's exercise book, "Keep it..."

What I was probably pushing into the fourth master's hand just now, avoiding the child, was an IOU owed five hundred yuan.

Perhaps because of Xu Tian's incident, it took the third child very little time to adjust. When the child was about to start school, he came and said, "I still want to go south."

Who can stop it?

There's no way to stop this.

It's time to make up your mind.

He Xiaowan laughed twice and said, "I mean, it's good to drive a bus in the county. Now instead of contracting the route down to me, it's just a matter of saying hello to my sister-in-law's brother. He runs from the county to us.

The route to Ping'an Town. If it runs well and takes the early morning shift, you can also take the bus directly from Ping'an Town to the provincial capital at 4 o'clock. It must be the money maker. He has to do it. I asked the second brother and the second sister to do it.

He said, "I won't listen. He has to go south for life or death."

This is to live for the third child Zhang Luo behind the back of the third child.

As for the temper of the third child, in recent years, he has felt that he can't hold his head high in front of her family. Especially in front of his younger brother. He used to be a benefactor, but now he has returned to a role. Even if they don't do much, he feels that they are doing nothing.

It was as if he was showing favor to him. Besides, He Xiaowan's younger brother was indeed a person who didn't know how to speak or do things. He kept a dark face all day long and didn't like to deal with anyone. People also knew his own temperament and chose

The school is a relatively simple environment. The wife I am looking for is also a teacher in a middle school. The conditions there are better, so I hope my son-in-law has a stable job and is honest.

Ordinarily, this is nothing. For He Xiaowan, begging for her mother's brother is not even a beg. The siblings get along very well, and the sister-in-law is easy to talk to. She complained a few times, and the sister-in-law took over the matter.

Okay. It's a good thing.

But the third child's self-respect is causing trouble, and he is unwilling to accept favors from anyone, and he is not willing to continue to receive favors from his daughter-in-law's family.

Besides, I wouldn't have made the mistake of opening this mouth in the first place.

If she really wants to go out and look for work, it is easier to speak to the fourth child and Tong, and she is confident. Even if there is no fourth child, it is easier to speak to Tong than to her black-faced brother.

He is a people's teacher, and he used to call me brother when he met me. Now he probably feels that he has made a contribution to taking care of his sister and two children in the past few years, and he also feels that it is embarrassing for him to be in jail. So when he meets him, he

He just nodded and didn't say a word.

Speaking of which, she didn't even make a sound, but can't we feel it if this is intimacy?

Are you the kind of loser who can't support yourself without his help?

Why do you have to come to your door and ask someone to look at it with your lower eyes?

I couldn't say this to He Xiaowan, and the couple would start to argue. He Xiaowan would definitely say that she had no conscience, how difficult it was for her mother in the past few years, how much her brother had helped, etc.

I admit this to myself, so I can't speak. No matter how uncomfortable I feel, I can't say such heartless things.

Sometimes the favor you owe is such that it seems like you will never be able to pay it back in your lifetime.

The best thing is that I don’t rely on you, I live a good life, I stick to you backwards, and I won’t say it until others say it, and it’s not a loss for my father-in-law’s help in the years when he was away.

It would be okay if he didn't take the job he was looking for there and just took the job given by Lao Si and Tong alone.

What? You are separated from us! Your brother is the only one close to you, but not your brother-in-law?

Look! No matter what you do, people are always talking nonsense.

Just leave! Where can't you make money?

I have lived in the south before, and it is easy to make money there.

The third child was sitting here, even if he didn't say anything. After hearing He Xiaowan's words, the fourth master and Lin Yutong also understood a general idea. This made it even harder to stay.

The fourth master didn't say anything about going, he just said: "What do you want to do?"

"Anything is fine." The third child leaned back on the sofa and paid no attention to He Xiaowan pinching his waist from time to time. "Let's go and take a look. It has been several years since we came back from the south. Things have changed there.

It's been the same day by day, it's hard to say what it's like now."

Lin Yutong directly took out two thousand yuan and handed it over, "I come from a poor family and have a rich life. You can take the money. A phone has been installed at home in the past few days. If you have any trouble, just call back." The number was chosen early.

Okay, she wrote it down on a piece of paper and handed it over with the money, "It's just a matter of these few days to install the phone. If you call here when you get there, I'm afraid they will all go through. You can contact me at any time, and your family won't follow you."

Worry."

The third child was not polite and took the money, "Okay! Call home when you get there."
To be continued...