Yin Changtian stretched out his hand to help Fourth Master up, "Get up quickly. Get up quickly."
Fourth Master took Yin Changtian's hand and stood up, "How have you been these past few years?"
"Okay, okay!" Yin Changtian couldn't help but look at the Fourth Master up and down, as if he still couldn't believe it.
"I said Lao Yin, let's get the children in quickly. It's so cold outside." The man helped carry the bags and led the people inside.
The house is not big, but it is divided into inside and outside rooms. There are kangs inside and outside. It is quite spacious for one person to live in. But it is also very cold in this room. It is like an ice cellar.
Yin Changtian glanced at Lin Yutong as if he had just discovered Lin Yutong, then turned to look at Fourth Master, "This is..."
"She is my son's wife. She will get married when she is old enough." Fourth Master said calmly.
Lin Yutong was thick-skinned and quickly said hello.
"Good boy." Yin Changtian patted Fourth Master on the shoulder, "Sit down, everyone, please sit down first."
The leader said: "I'll ask someone to bring you some food later. It's not easy for a child to come all the way. I still have firewood over there, so I'll bring it to you."
Lin Yutong quickly took out a bottle of Erguotou and said, "Uncle, take it. It doesn't bring anything good either. Don't dislike it."
This wine is not easy to buy these days.
The man rubbed it and held it in his arms, "I don't mind it, I don't mind it. This is good stuff. I haven't smelled the alcohol in several years."
The Fourth Master quickly smiled and said, "Uncle will come over to have dinner with me later, and we will have a drink together."
Yin Changtian smiled and said: "You can call me Uncle Zeng. Over the years, Old Zeng has been in charge of us people, and he is not particularly sad."
The Fourth Master quickly stood up and bowed to Uncle Zeng, "Thank you very much!"
Uncle Zeng quickly gave in, "What are you doing? Get up, get up." As he said that, he gave Yin Changtian a thumbs up, as if to praise him for raising a good son.
"I won't disturb you two talking anymore. We have a long way to go." He said and went back with the wine.
There is a small stove in this room. If water is often boiled for cooking, the room will not be cold. But looking at it like this, Yin Changtian is definitely not a person who cooks often.
There was not even firewood. There was only a little firewood and three or five firewood sticks at the door.
Lin Yutong first added water to the pot to light a fire. Yin Changtian quickly said: "I'll do it, I'll do it, you all have a rest."
"Father, please sit down." Fourth Master quickly stopped him, "Ask her to clean up." He said this, but still gave Lin Yutong the firewood to move in first.
The house was an adobe house and not very clean. The father and son sat cross-legged on the kang and didn't speak for a long time.
"Child...actually...you shouldn't have come..." Yin Changtian sighed. Being connected with him will inevitably lead to his being implicated. I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to make progress in the future.
The Fourth Master pursed his lips, "My son was young and ignorant back then. Over the years, he has been asking about his father's whereabouts. He finally managed to be independent, so how can he ignore his father."
Yin Changtian frowned, "I know your mother. She won't be happy for you to be involved with me."
"Where she is, I will send her money every month from now on. My son will definitely fulfill his obligation to support her." Fourth Master explained in a low voice.
Yin Changtian instantly understood that this child and his mother had not been having a satisfactory life over the years.
Lin Yutong saw that there was no drinking water tank in the house, only two bowls. He made tea in the bowls and brought it up and placed it on the Kang table.
As soon as Yin Changtian smelled the aroma of tea, he glanced at Fourth Master and said, "These are all good teas. Where did you get them?"
"A friend helped me buy it." The fourth master avoided the important issue and quickly changed the subject, "I heard that the conditions on the farm are difficult. How is it here?"
"There was a lot of trouble in the first two years. A few people actually died. The more educated a person is, the more confused they are." Yin Changtian shook his head, "I have died several times on the battlefield.
People like us can't live a good life. □□□□, we study when we are asked to study. We write self-reflection materials when we are asked to farm. We can't survive this. Later, someone from above spoke up, but they didn't
Don't dare to go too far. It's old Zeng who you have met. He is a smooth and good man. He is not difficult to do, and he can fool the inspectors above. He can live his life behind closed doors and live peacefully."
The fourth master breathed a sigh of relief and looked around the room again. He thought that he was reporting good news instead of bad news. Looking at the situation, it was not much better. He was definitely hungry, but he was also not full. More
Don't mention eating well.
Lin Yutong opened the flour bag next to the stove. It was filled with cornmeal mixed with wheat bran.
How can people eat this? Wheat bran is fed to pigs.
She turned to look at Fourth Master, "Yin Zhen, come and take a look."
The fourth master stood up and looked down, his face was blue.
Yin Changtian smiled and said: "I'll ask Lao Zeng to get some cornmeal later. Don't dislike this shabby guy. If it weren't for Lao Zeng, there wouldn't even be cornmeal in it. It's not sweet potato flour but wheat bran. Sweet potato flour and the others don't wash the sweet potatoes cleanly."
, or maybe the sweet potatoes were stained with soil when they were dried. Don’t even mention the noodles in your mouth. Wheat bran is stronger than that.”
Just as he was talking, Lao Zeng came in carrying a bundle of firewood and several kilograms of cornmeal.
Lin Yutong took it and quickly handed over two kilograms of food stamps.
"You kid, isn't this a slap in your uncle's face?" Lao Zeng insisted not to do so.
Lin Yutong stuffed it into his pocket and said, "Uncle Zeng, it's not easy for everyone. We have troubled you in the first place, but if you continue to do this, we will feel even more sorry."
Lao Zeng didn't take out the food stamps either, and smiled helplessly at Yin Changtian.
"Take it, Lao Zeng. I have taken advantage of your children's filial piety over the years." Yin Changtian said with a smile. He was still very satisfied with Lin Yutong's future.
After sending Lao Zeng away, Lin Yutong dug out the bacon. It was all pork leg meat, fried in a pot and it was very fragrant.
"It must have taken a lot of effort to make these." Yin Changtian looked at Fourth Master. How old is this child? I don't know how long it will take to prepare for this trip. It is not easy just to buy and replace these things.
"It's okay. The place where I jumped in line is close to Xiaoxinganling. There are many wild animals." The fourth master asked in a low voice: "Let's see if there are any uncles I want to invite. Tongtong is good at craftsmanship and has a few bottles of good wine. These
My sons are not around this year, so everyone’s help is indispensable..."
Lin Yutong didn't hear anything else the Fourth Master said. All he could think of was 'Tongtong' and 'Tongtong'.
We are an old married couple, but they were so distraught by the sound of "Tongtong" that they almost cut their hands.
When he came back to his senses, the father and son were no longer in the house. They had obviously gone to treat a guest.
Lin Yutong simply cut up the pork legs. Seeing pepper skewers and garlic skewers hanging by the door, he simply put them into the pot together.
Instantly, the room was filled with an alluring aroma.
The guests invited by the father and son arrived one after another. More than ten people crowded the table. They all brought their own chopsticks and bowls. Even the stools were brought.
Uncle and uncle shouted in a circle.
Fourth Master drank with these people. Lin Yutong went into the inner room and took out some noodles from the space.
Heat the oil pan and fry the chopped green onions. Then take it out and add water. One bowl of soup noodles per person is the staple food.
"This is a meal that can be eaten by everyone." A gray-haired but energetic old man shouted.
"Xu Dapao, please calm down." An old man with eyes ate slowly and elegantly, "You can scare that little girl again with that voice of yours."
The old man who was called 'Xu Dapao' laughed loudly, as if he could shake the soil off the roof, "It's not like one family doesn't want to enter the same house. This little girl is from Lao Yin's family. How generous!"
Not that tight-fisted naughty guy."
In these days, who is willing to serve meat and fine grains?
The old man wearing glasses snorted coldly, "I didn't give you a cigarette last time. Remember until now. Is it three years or five years? Who is stingy?"
Lin Yutong laughed. It was quite interesting for these people to get together and compete with each other.
More than a dozen people shared three bottles of wine, but no one was drunk.
Everyone left early to give the father and son space to talk.
At night, Lin Yutong lived in the inner room, and his father and son slept outside. They could vaguely hear voices.
"My eldest brother and eldest sister haven't come to see you all these years?" Fourth Master asked.
"I didn't ask them to come." Yin Changtian was lying down with his hand on the quilt, touching the brand-new sheepskin jacket covered by the quilt. "Your eldest sister also went to the countryside to join the queue. She is from a girl's family, and another is from the same family.
In Inner Mongolia, after riding a horse for a whole day, I couldn't even see a cigarette. How dare I ask her to run around blindly."
"When your eldest brother reached the age of going to the countryside, he went to northern Shaanxi. One of my guards happened to be working in northern Shaanxi. He found out about your eldest brother and arranged for your eldest brother to serve as a soldier. He went to Yunnan. He became a soldier.
It’s not freedom. Where did it come from?”
"Your second brother... he was only fourteen years old when I left. When your eldest brother also left home, I sent him back to his hometown. I don't know if your grandma is still there? If she were alive, she would be here soon.
He's eighty. I asked him to go back and serve your grandmother for me."
Yin Changtian's voice was choked with sobs, "But whether they are from the south or the north of the sea, knowing where they are makes me feel at ease. It's you...I haven't heard about you in these years...sometimes one night
I can't sleep at night...I don't know if you can eat enough or wear warm clothes."
"Now that I see you are well and well, I feel relieved."
Fourth Master asked: "Where is my hometown?"
"Shandong." Yin Changtian sighed. "When I receive letters from your brothers and sisters, I never reply. This place... it's better not to cause disaster for you."
Fourth Master breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but also felt aggrieved. When he first heard that no one came to visit, he felt unhappy. Now when he heard that it was really not easy to come to visit people from all over the world. This
I really can’t blame anyone. Who allowed us to just catch up with this world?
"When I left, my father gave me all these addresses."
Yin Changtian sobbed, "That's fine, no one comes forward to contact us anymore... this family... is really broken up..."