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In the evening of midsummer, people from the village slowly gather at the mouth of the alley where the wind is relatively strong.Some people have breakfast early, and have already found a windy and comfortable position by leaning on the wire pile with their rice bowl in hand.Shao Gan carried a hoe and followed his brother Shao An slowly back along the deep alley, still thinking about the scene he saw just now.

Just when weeding in the field, the hoe hooked the corn row, and a nest of little hares appeared so unexpectedly.It should be just after the full moon, so I came out to enjoy the cool while the rabbit father and rabbit mother were not at home.One by one, they were lying there with their bellies turned over.When Shao Qian poked the corn away with the hoe, he turned over and stared at him with dark eyes.The human rabbits looked at each other for a long time, and then the five little gray rabbits rushed into the hole in a panic like waking up from a dream. One of them got stuck in the head by the crowded team, and kicked its hind legs outside the hole for a long time.Shao Gan was in a hurry to go home, thinking of drawing the nest of naive little hares as soon as possible.

"The big one must be nearby, you just want to let it go. It can cook a pot of meat." Shao An complained.

"They ran away as soon as I moved them." Shao Gan smiled. He and his brother hadn't eaten meat for almost the whole summer vacation.At first, the raccoon cat at home would pick up wild rabbits from time to time, but since he was beaten up for stealing someone else's chicken, now it only picks up mice.

"Tomorrow, I'll go to the embankment to have a look, and come back after catching some fish."

"No, it has been raining a lot for the past half month. I heard that something happened to a child in the village who went into the river." Shao An glanced at Shao Gan, "I will go to open up wasteland tomorrow, and the brigade will give me two acres of wasteland."

"Can't pay the grain? When the time comes, you will pay more than you received."

"The branch secretary of the brigade said that our father's accident happened because of the village. His land should not be taken away. This is to compensate us."

"Hmm." Shao Gan lowered his head and slowly frowned.

The previous generation in the family was a rich farmer who owned almost all the fertile land in Nandi Village. Although the family worked hard to earn it, one day suddenly, it was gone.Grandpa was first blacked out by bandits, and then his home was ransacked. Now the two-story building has been refurbished, and it still stands in the middle of the village, but it has become the Nandi Village Brigade.

Shao Gan was born in the spring of 1969, and it was the winter of 1969 when the gale of magnitude [-] or [-] hit this remote village.He had no chance to experience the panic at home at that time. When he could remember, the family was already wearing patched clothes and living in an adobe house at the head of the village.The only big item in the house is a rattan chair with a broken leg that was carefully reattached by Shao's father.It was the only toy he had in childhood. He remembered lying on the wicker chair, lying on the wicker chair, sitting on the wicker chair...almost used all the postures.His father would sit on the rattan chair and hug him, while his elder brother would stand aside and listen to his father telling stories in a low voice.Occasionally, the two of them will be taught to draw on the ground.Every time Father Shao came home, he would go to the sign hanging around his neck first, and then he would hunched over and hug him, with the same sentence every time, "Go ahead, bless Dad."

Father Shao died in the winter of 77, seven years behind his mother.When Nandi Village organized people to transport grain to the other side of the embankment, he walked in the front with his back hunched.Eight-year-old Shao Gan was squatting by the Yellow River. Shao's father said, "After the food is shipped, I will take you to dig ice and catch fish."Father Shao was cautious when he said this, even though it had been two years since he picked up the sign that said "Shao Huaigu" and "Down with the Landlord Lao Cai" upside down, he still couldn't escape the panic that he might be arrested and criticized at any time.

Shao Gan remembered standing by the Yellow River with his hands in his sleeves, quietly waiting for his father to bring back the grain.He watched him walking in the front, and hopped and shouted, "Dad, hurry up."

Father Shao hunched over and dragged a whole raft of grain, turned his head and waved and smiled at him, then suddenly disappeared from his sight.Shao Gan stood there and waited for a long time before he heard someone shout, "Old Shao has fallen into a hole in the ice!"

Shao Gan blinked his slightly astringent eyes, and the words his father said tumbling out of his mind again.My father said: "Shao'an Shaogan, do you love this land? If one day your father is gone, you can go as far as you want. Dad has never seen the sea, but your mother said that the sea It’s blue, there are bearded and blue-eyed foreigners living on the other side of the sea, there will be no criticism, no harm.”

As a result, he and his brother still live on the land.Fortunately, in the process of going to school again and again, he, a rich peasant, got the protection of the old party secretary and the current township head He Weiye, and he did not take root in this area like his elder brother who failed to finish junior high school. land.

Although He Weiye had always been kind to the Shao family when he was the branch secretary, but since he went to the village and changed to a new branch secretary, what the family can get like other families has changed back to zero.

What is the relationship between Shao's family and He Weiye's family?It's just that He Weiye and Shao Huaigu were friends, but they had already drawn a clear line when Shao Huaigu was knocked down.He Weiye's son, He Dong, has a good relationship with Shao Gan, and they are in the same class in elementary school.Later, He Weiye went to the township to be the head of the township, He Dong entered the township No. [-] middle school, and Shao Gan also passed the exam, and the two were still in the same class.

He Dong once crooked his neck and said, Shao Gan, my father saw you and beat me because of your perfect score in the re-examination. Believe it or not, I will cripple you!

Of course Shao Gan was not abolished. After getting full marks in mathematics in another preliminary exam, He Dong pulled him out of the school secretly, stole a few sticks of corn nearby, dug sweet potatoes, and the two ate a meal of roasted sweet potato corn in the field. .

Even so, He Weiye was transferred, regardless of whether he was promoted or not, the newly appointed village party secretary would not continue to take care of the Shaoan brothers for his sake.When the land was redistributed (land redistribution), because there are only two brothers left on the household registration, the former father's land was also taken back, and the only two acres of good land in the family was replaced with third-class land, and eight Part of the saline-alkali land.The village party secretary suddenly gave two acres of wasteland, which made people think more.

"Isn't it time for your notice? What did your teacher say when I went to school yesterday?"

"Ang." Shao Gan smiled, "The head teacher said it's okay, so let Anxin wait. When the notice is issued later, someone will send me a message. Brother, do you want to retake the college entrance examination?"

"What should I try? Look at your brother, he didn't even go to junior high school."

"Actually, the content of junior high school is quite simple."

"I'm not that material. Besides, I'm already so old. I'm 24 years old and I'm still in the same class as your little doll? You study hard, and you can get into a good university in the future, and let my brother slap your face."

Shaoan is 24, and will be 25 in winter.At this age, you should be married.Shao Qian wanted to say that 24 is not too old, and the teachers at the school said that we should live to the old age and learn the old age.But looking at Shao An's rough hands, he opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.

It's not that he doesn't want to, if it's possible, he can go to junior high school and high school again when the college entrance examination is resumed.With his intelligence, Shao Gan believed that he would be admitted to a good university.They have such an excellent father, how could they be poor?But he has to take care of his younger brother, working from dawn to dusk for his younger brother's tuition.The saddest thing is that his younger brother has been carefully taught by his father, and his paintings are not so beautiful. He needs a lot of white paper that is more expensive than ordinary paper, more pencils, and many people can't afford it. watercolor paints.

"Hey, Shao Gan!" A brand new bicycle was placed in front of him, and He Dong brushed back his drooping hair, and said with a smile, "I found you halfway across the village."

Shao An put down the hoe on his shoulder, "Why is He Dong back? Your dad is here too?"

He Dong's family has been moving away for three years, and he only goes back to the village every Qingming to burn paper at the old grave.

"No. I'll come back and play with Shao Gan." He Dong patted the back seat, "Let's go, stroll on the embankment."

Shao An snatched the hoe from his younger brother, pushed him and said, "Go, don't go into the water."