Jean Love

"Mao Ya, when should I come down? It's been another week." My father called me.

"When I find a house and I can live there, I'll call you right away."

After I got off work, I went around to ask if there was any house to rent. I asked my friends to help me find out. A few days later, one afternoon, I was chatting with an old vegetable seller at the street stall across the road from the factory gate. A woman behind me patted me on the shoulder. : "Do you want to rent a house?" It was the proprietress of Shiduodian.

"Yes." I was surprised.

"Don't you have a house to live in, and you still want to rent it?"

"This one is not enough, I want to rent a bigger one, do you have it?"

"There is a flat over there, two bedrooms and one living room. My fellow townsman just quit the lease. I wonder if you like it?"

"Where is it? Go, take me to see." I was overjoyed.

Not far away, across the road on the left hand side of our company entrance, the distance to the company is similar to the distance between the original house and the company, very close, just beside the road, the building has a total of three floors, the landlord lives on the second and third floors, and the first floor For rent, there is a concrete space in front of the door, a strip-shaped flower garden in front, two trees on the side of the road, a jujube, a mango, and a prickly cactus next to it. There are some weeds growing under the tree. It's not weeds. The landlord's aunt said it's herbal tea, which can be boiled in water to get rid of dampness.

The building has two storefronts with two rolling gates. The right side is the entrance and exit gate of the landlord’s own house, and the left rolling gate is raised. When the two storefronts were built, there was no wall between them. Now they are fixed with splint fir and iron nails. Separated to form a strip-shaped hall, the walls are pasted with half-person-high ceramic tiles, a ceiling fan with cobwebs looking up, the tiled floor is smooth and flat when looking down, a few worn-out wooden stools and chairs are placed randomly, some The confetti garbage that has not been cleaned is spread on it, as if the owner of the house has just moved out and has not had time to clean it in the future.

"Do you want to live? Okay, okay, I'm at ease if I rent it to you, but I'm most afraid of renting it to those rascals." The landlord is enthusiastic, and seems to have a little preference for me.

"I'm a fisherman too, auntie." I smiled and gave her a serious look.

"Aren't you the one who runs the breakfast shop there? I recognize your family." The landlady raised her finger and pointed in front of her, and also gave a hearty smile.

"Let's take a look first." I told her to take it in, and she told me to look at it myself.Pass through a one-meter-wide path in the strip-shaped living room. On the left hand side of the path, there are two bedrooms connected with each other. They are about the same size, about ten square meters. One of them has a bed, and the other one doesn’t. It is the kitchen and the bathroom, the kitchen on the left, and the bathroom on the right. There is a large space between the kitchen and the bathroom, which is specially used for washing, washing and cutting vegetables, which is very convenient.

"How is it? Is it okay?" The proprietress and the landlady of the Shiduo store said in unison.

"Yes, how about the price?" I asked the landlord aunt.

"I'll rent it for 550 yuan. If you really want it, I'll charge you [-] yuan. As long as you are honest and don't bring any dubious people."

"Don't worry about this. We have lived there for two years. You can see it if you are an honest person. How about it? I rent it, but I don't live in it. I will call my mother and my brother later. The daughter-in-law will come and have a look, and the rent will be confirmed for you at that time, okay?"

"No problem, you can ask them to come and see at any time."

Later, my mother and Xiaojing thought it was okay. Although the price was 200 yuan more expensive than before, we knew in our hearts that the price was really not expensive. It is not easy to rent such a house in this neighborhood for a while. Big, Xiaojing likes that it has two separate rooms, and her mother likes that there is a good drying place in front of the door, and the kitchen is big enough.

On the day of the move, Zhao Xin also came over. I borrowed a cart from the factory, and the whole family moved all kinds of furniture, big and small, over there. During the day, Chen Quan went to school, and Brother Xiao Wu followed Zhao Xin, take a low plastic stool, go back and forth, sit in the cart when coming, like a little prince, and follow Zhao Xin when he comes back, like a little tail.

Because the landlord has a good wooden frame bed inside, and we have two more, we put one in the living room, hang mosquito nets, draw curtains, and put a dining table and a tea table in front of it, which is spacious enough for drinking tea and eating.

After renting the house, I called my father to buy a ticket, and my younger brother went to pick him up at Jiaokou Station.I remember that I had a lot of things at hand that day, so I didn’t bother to pay attention to the time. At two o’clock in the afternoon, my brother called me and said that my father had come to Foshan and had dinner, and now he was at the door of my company. Come out of the Nagato.

Standing there, my father looked particularly eye-catching, with a thin figure, a slightly hunched back, a weather-beaten face, fine lines all over his face, clear bags under the eyes, cloudy eyes, dry hair mixed with some white strands, and a clean-shaven beard. , opened his mouth, revealing two rows of smoke-stained teeth, and smiled happily. The fine lines on his face and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes became clearer. He was wearing a blue-gray Chinese tunic suit, and inside was a white and yellowish-washed diaper. Old black trousers, the toe of a pair of leather shoes has turned up a bit, and there is an obvious wrinkle on the upper

"Boss, are you at work?" My father asked me, his eyes kept looking into Nagato: "Your factory has so many cars today?"

"Dad, are you tired from the car?" I approached my father.

"Not tired, sleep in the car, sleep all the way, the car shakes and shakes, and falls asleep without knowing it."

I stood outside the door and chatted with my father for a while. I went to work, and my father went back to the renting place. On the third day, after dinner, I said, "Tonight, I will take you to buy some clothes in the night market." Looking at my father .

"No need? That's enough." Left and right shoulders, looked up and down the collar, and then said: "That's fine, I just brought two clothes and two pants."

The night market street in the general market is once a week. At night, workers from nearby factories, men and women, old and young, are in pairs. After dinner, they rush towards the market. It is quite lively. Most of the daily necessities are purchased by my mother and Xiaojing, including fruit and snacks, and I just sit back and enjoy.That night, with my father, we walked on the road one after the other. On both sides of the narrow country road, many people were already walking back, carrying big bags and small bags in their hands, with smiles on their faces.

With his hands behind his back, his steps were light, his eyes were everywhere, and he seemed to be in a good mood. When he walked halfway, he approached me and said, "Oh, your Uncle Wei Ming said when I came down, now it's up to you to go down and enjoy yourself."

"What kind of blessings are you enjoying? This is also called enjoying blessings?" I didn't know what it was like, and looked at my father with a serious face.

In this era, prices are soaring, and working outside is a job. In fact, Alexander can't give his elders even a little bit of space to take care of him. His mother works as a free nanny here. It is regarded as a blessing, and I feel a little sad, is it his sorrow?It is my sorrow, the sorrow of my powerlessness.At around nine o'clock, we walked around the small night market for several times, and I said, "Dad, you can see for yourself, whichever one you like, and which one you like, just say, it's suitable, and we'll buy it."

"Forget it, let's not buy it. When the time comes, it seems that I don't like these things very much, and they are so expensive." Father scratched his head, unable to make up his mind, and walked around a few more times.

"Hehe, let me choose. I just said that I enjoy the blessing. You won't let me buy clothes that cost tens of dollars. What a blessing." I'm a little anxious, I can't concentrate on it, maybe I'm absent-minded when I come.

Later I bought a pair of trousers, three tops, a polo neck, a round neck and a polo according to my father's figure, and my father himself was in a leather shoe stall with a loudspeaker on I picked out a pair of cheap black leather shoes, tried them on on the spot, and found them suitable, so I bought them for 25 yuan. My father thought he was getting a good deal, but he didn’t know that he got what he paid for, and he had worn those shoes for less than two months. It peeled off, and the surface was peeled off in pieces, which was very ugly.

"He won't wear this, he won't wear this." Back at the residence, my mother looked at the clothes and trousers I threw on my father's bed, picked out the round-neck long-sleeve and the polo-neck short-sleeve, firmly said.

"Hey, this one is short-sleeved? I never wear short-sleeved clothes, and this one looks like this. It wraps around my neck, making it uncomfortable." My father found out after being picked out by my mother. "Take it and return it," said the father.

"It's not an obvious quality problem. How can you be ashamed to return it? Try it on and wear it if you can."

"He is more than 50 years old, and he has never worn short sleeves and round necks. He doesn't like it even more." My mother knows my father very well.

"Try to change it, well, there is no scar on the arm, what are you afraid of, how cool are the short sleeves." I looked at my father.

"Let's put it away for now. I'll talk about it when the time comes. If I tell you to take it back, you're afraid you'll be embarrassed."

"Hehe, I'll wear it then."

My father had been to Foshan in [-] years. During the summer vacation, he came with Nianer, and he was going back after the summer vacation. At that time, he was tearful and reluctant.This time I came here to find something to do, and I came to live here permanently, and I have something yearning in my heart, and I feel more comfortable.