innocent year

Chen Lei went out and walked around the yard with his hands behind his back all afternoon.Finally, he found a step for himself in the place where the briquettes were stored between the north wall of Li Yandong's house and the corridor in the yard.

In the afternoon, he called a few brothers over, and the four of them sized up each other in the corner, chatting with each other in full swing.

Seeing outsiders coming to the courtyard, Xu Minghai dragged Qiushi out to watch the fun.

"What about you godfather?"

"Why? I'll study how to build a house for you!"

"Why did you think of building a house for me?" Xu Minghai went in without knowing.

"You fucked." Chen Lei said while passing cigarettes to the brothers.

Xu Minghai felt that he was swearing.

"Brother Lei, we only need to extend a meter outside, and we can build up this small house and make room for a stove." A man with a Lei Feng hat on one side poked his head around, with a look of envy on his face, " Not to mention, compared with other courtyards, your courtyard is really clean, I want to live here."

"As soon as the cement, sand, lime, bricks and tiles are ready, we will start. Anyway, we are not outsiders, so we will spare no effort." Another person continued.

"I'm causing trouble with my brothers." Chen Lei patted their shoulders one by one.

Only then did Xu Minghai realize that Chen Lei was for real.

"Xiaohai, after the building is finished, Guozi and his mother will move to your current house, and you can move here. Is that okay?" Chen Lei asked.

"What's wrong with that? If you don't throw me out of our yard, I can sleep anywhere!" Xu Minghai set the bottom line very low.

"But there is no place for you to put a small desk, you have to go to your parents' big house to do your homework." Chen Lei added.

"It's okay, I'm too lazy to write anyway." Xu Minghai turned his head to look at Qiushi, and said earnestly, "Guozi, after school, you must study hard and improve every day, and try to help my brother complete all his homework in the future."

Qiu Shi silently nodded, and Chen Lei sighed softly.

Li Yandong finally affirmed the proposal of picking cakes on flat ground.Right now, the housing shortage is a problem faced by all the big guys, and the per capita living space of urban housing is pitifully small.Therefore, picking up a place in front of one's own house to solve the housing problem by oneself is not considered private construction.Judging from the current trend and the general situation of several nearby alleys, if the trees are not cut down, the sub-district office will turn a blind eye.

"But what if there is a wind blowing in the street one day, and I suddenly remember that it needs to be dealt with? When the time comes, the house will be picked up as soon as it is built. Isn't our work in vain?" Xu Yong was cautious in the work unit. I am used to being afraid of wolves before and tigers later.

"If this house is built, no one will try to pick it up," Li Yandong said decisively, "I see who dares to reach out to meddle in my aunt's business?!"

Therefore, Li Yandong came out, and Chen Lei came out.As soon as Sunday comes, three times, five divisions and two divisions, one day's work, watching a small house rise from the ground.

There is a saying that what you are afraid of will come.During the process of building the house, Aunt Qian from the neighborhood committee of the street came to pick her nose and eyes.This old guy compares himself to Wang Xifeng, and usually likes to show off.She passed by and saw strangers coming in and out of the gate, immediately flew into the hospital and began to argue.Aunt Qian put on the posture of assisting the Ningguo Mansion, and kept saying that it was "broken the rules" to build random buildings without informing the neighborhood committee.

Li Yandong immediately rushed forward and began to fight with him.The two exchanged their tongues and greeted each other's ancestors from eight generations, which made the little brothers who helped build the house feel ashamed.

In the end, it was Chen Lei who was so quick-witted that he asked someone to call the old lady's youngest son, Weight.This kid was also a troublemaker who recruited cats and dogs in his early years, and Chen Lei helped him shovel a lot of things.

The weight came and took a look, and quickly stretched out his arms to support his screaming mother.At the same time, I did not forget to criticize the old lady, saying that you are sick?Anyway, no one built a house in your yard, and the neighborhood committee is not the housing management office. Is it your turn to interfere here?Hurry home and cook!A fire broke out in Aunt Qian's backyard, and the prestige was swept away. She secretly wrote down a black account against Chen Lei, and vowed to retaliate.

After finally sending the old lady away, everyone continued to work hard.When it was dark, the electricity in the house was connected, and the fluorescent tubes lit up when they pulled the cord.I saw square windows embedded in the four-white floor-to-ceiling east wall, and new light blue curtains were hung on both sides.The bed board was dismantled and moved in and reassembled.Once the mattress, sheets, pillows, and quilt are put on, it immediately feels like home.

The scraps left over from building the house were used by Chen Lei to save up a bedside table for Xu Minghai, which can also be used as a shelf.A layer of varnish was painted on it, and it was put on the side of the bed, exuding a faint breath of knowledge.The new stove and tin chimney were also installed properly one after another. After the fire was lit and burned for a while, the cabin was as warm as spring.

After everything was tidied up, Li Yandong looked up and down at the house in front of him and joked with Chen Lei: "Put two happy characters on it to make it a new house, and it will be enough for Xiao Hai to take a wife in the future."

"It's really far-sighted," Chen Lei also laughed, "Isn't this something that will happen more than ten years later?"

"How did you sing in Red Lantern? 'It's a hundred years in a blink of an eye'." Li Yandong changed from his usual bluffing style at this moment, and said with emotion, "When you think about what happened more than ten years ago, doesn't it seem like yesterday? occurring?"

"Who says it's not?" Chen Lei responded.

"As for the house, as a mother, I have to thank Xiao Hai for his godfather. It can be regarded as your contribution to his marriage." Li Yandong rarely said something pleasing to the ear.

"No," Chen Lei hurriedly waved his hands, "Where is this going? In the future, your family will definitely be able to move into a two-bedroom apartment with lights and telephones upstairs and downstairs."

"I accept your auspicious words." Li Yandong smiled immediately, then pulled his neck and called Xu Yong and Xu Minghai, and was about to drag Chen Lei and the brothers who helped build the house to the Shaguo Residence.

Xu Minghai looked at his "new house" and felt beautiful in his heart, so he really couldn't bear to go out, so he hesitated for a long time and refused to change his clothes.Li Yandong knew that he would not be hungry, so he stopped forcing him to go with him.The group of people pushed their bicycles and went out in a mighty way.

As soon as the adults left, Xu Minghai immediately started "moving to a new house".He put the big jeep that he had brought on the bedside table, and then stacked the little books neatly on each floor.He stood at the door admiring Gu Fang for a while, then ran to Zhou Yingying and pulled Qiu Shi over.

"Guozi, what do you think of Brother Dabieye?" Xu Minghai was triumphant.

Qiushi looked inside and out, and then took off his shoes and went to bed habitually.He knelt down and felt around, and finally expressed his opinion: "It's pretty good, but it would be even better if it was a heated kang, and it can also hatch chickens."

"Then I'll get an egg, can we put it by the stove?" Xu Minghai thought it would be very interesting to hatch chicks.

"Not all eggs can hatch," Qiushi thought for a while, then sat on the bed and explained, "You have to have rooster eggs at home."

"why?"

"I don't know either, but adults say so."

Xu Minghai figured it out after a little thought, and summed it up: "That is to marry a wife to the rooster, and then the eggs laid by the hen can hatch the chicks."

"Why?" Qiushi asked this time.

"Just like a human being," Xu Minghai pointed to himself while teaching Qiushi, "Look, I was hatched by my mother and father. You," he pointed to Qiushi, "you are your mother and you Dad hatched."

When the word "your dad" came out of Xu Minghai's mouth, he saw Qiu Shi's eyes dim instantly, like black and white snowflakes every time the TV couldn't be adjusted.

"What's wrong?" Xu Minghai asked hurriedly.

Qiushi didn't speak, and lay on the bed with his body in the shape of "big", looking at the high roof, breathing in the smell of wood that hadn't had time to dissipate.

"Hey, I'm asking you." Xu Minghai knelt down beside the bed, put his elbows on the mattress, stared at him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Qiu Shi held back for a long time before muttering: "My father... my father is not a good person."

Xu Minghai opened his mouth without thinking, "Hey! My mother said that in today's world, good people don't live long, and disasters last for thousands of years. Whoever is said to be a good person is scolding him. Why is he broken?"

"He played with money, drank, beat people."

"My mother beats me all the time," Xu Minghai scratched his head, "Didn't you see it? That fight!"

"Not the same, not that kind."

Qiu Shi shook his head, not knowing what to say, and finally turned over and lifted off the little blue sweater that Zhou Yingying knitted for him.A part of his waist was exposed without any notice, and a large, wrinkled and ugly scar was biting his white waist, which was shocking.

Xu Minghai only felt his head buzzing when he saw it, and his stomach cramped inexplicably, so he blurted out a dirty word: "Fuck!"

Subconsciously, he gently placed his hand on the scar, as if trying to cover it up.

"Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Qiu Shi put down the sweater.

Xu Minghai asked: "How did this happen?"

"My dad scalded it with charcoal," Qiushi turned over and whispered, "My mom has it too, much worse than mine."

Xu Minghai immediately understood what Qiu Shi meant by "different".In this comparison, every time Li Yandong beats someone, it is at most to show her amazingly loud voice and vigorous vitality.

"Your dad is full, why are you doing this to you?" Xu Minghai thought to himself, if it was Xu Yong, of course, his dad would never have done such a thing.Assuming that, Li Yandong had to stuff Xu Yong's mouth with red-hot charcoal and let him swallow it.

"It's all like this, so no one cares?!"

"He beat us, no one cares. But he beat someone else, the police came to the house and arrested him." Qiushi rubbed his eyes and asked Xu Minghai, "I was hatched by him, so am I also a bad person?" The Erya from the neighbor’s house said that I will be arrested in the future too.”

"Listen to them farting!" Xu Minghai's reaction was astonishing, "Have you read all the books for nothing? Is Yang Guo hatched by Yang Kang? But it doesn't prevent him from becoming a Condor Hero!"

Xu Minghai was categorical, and Qiu Shi felt relieved when he found another way to comfort him.

At this time, Zhou Yingying called them to eat from outside.Xu Minghai pulled Qiushi up from the bed, helped him put on his shoes, and turned his back to him: "Come on, I'll play the role of the divine sculpture, and you play the role of the hero."

Qiu Shi looked at Xu Minghai's narrow back, then wrapped his arms around his neck, and put his legs around his waist.

Xu Minghai got up slowly, took a step forward, kicked open the door with pride, and shouted:

"Fly! The Condor took the hero to fly to eat~~~"