all the way

The cat was wrapped in two cotton coats into a ball, with only its head exposed, sitting in the driver's cab looking out at the outside world through the glass window.

At this time, the Yellow River does not have the freshness and romance of the poet's pen as if it is seen from a distance among the white clouds, and there is no melancholy beauty of an isolated city or the deep coolness of thousands of high mountains around.

As far as Liu An can see, everything is bleak, thick clouds are dark, and the vast and mighty Yellow River flows slowly, shining with delicate and soft light, extending infinitely with the boundless soil and yellow sand on both sides, and intersecting with the thick and thick sky in the distance. It constitutes a lonely picture that seems to be the beginning of chaos.

In this ancient prehistoric wilderness, there are a few small black dots, sometimes still, sometimes fluttering, compared with the vast world around them, they appear so small, almost like dust.

In Liu An's later life, which he thought was very short, he often saw this scene. Many times, he couldn't tell whether it was his clear memory with his eyes open, or a dream in a hazy nap at noon or a deep sleep at midnight.

But every time, he could clearly remember the way that person was pleasantly surprised when he saw him, and then hurriedly took off the cotton coat to wrap him up and hug him, as well as the temperature of the person on the cotton coat and the unique feeling of that person. The smell of a person, that person's bruised cheeks, reddish nose tip and white icy mist on eyelashes, that person's hands that are so cold that they can't even fasten his buttons, that person's cold forehead, that person's warmth and love eyes...

When I got home at night, Mao'er carried the thermos bottle to the bathroom for Liu Xia to wash his face. He ran over and pulled the quilt away before he hurried to cook.

Liu Xia came out after washing his face and saw the quilt on the bed, he was startled for a moment, then walked into the small kitchen, where the cat was stirring the batter to make sweet egg soup.

Before the water in the pot boiled, Liu Xia took the bowl in Mao'er's hand and put it on the chopping board, pulled Mao'er out, and then sat him on a small chair with him, making him face to face with himself.

Liu Xia said: "Hey, as you can see, we have twelve people doing that work, and now there are six other teams doing fieldwork outside like us. The work we do may not be exactly the same, but it is also It's almost the same. The uncle you saw doing this today, before the uncle came, other people have been doing it.

Be good, my uncle actually likes my job very much now. I am very glad that I chose to study surveying and mapping. Otherwise, I might have to be like that Uncle Xiaohe every month. It really only costs more than [-] yuan a month. , I don’t have money for my grandparents, and I don’t have money to buy new clothes for our baby cat..."

"I don't want so many new clothes, I don't want you to go outside to be cold." Tears circled in the eyes, Mao'er interrupted Liu Xia and whispered.

Liu Xia stretched out his hand to wipe it, the cat's tears fell on his hand, Liu Xia gently held him in his arms, rubbing his chin against his forehead, eyes, nose: "little fool, everyone is like this Ah, think about it, your third uncle and his colleagues, no matter what the weather is, must go out when they should go out to work, and often work overtime at night; while we, if the weather is too bad, we can rest at home casually. How nice it is to be too hot to go to work for days.

When my uncle is at work, he earns more in one day than your third uncle and the others earn in five days. Uncle just runs the mountain road every day, which is harder than my uncle's one day's work, but he only earns more than one yuan a day.

Sometimes when I ran to Fujiazhuang, there was no electricity, and I had to run home again. I ran down the mountain road for dozens of miles, but I couldn't earn a penny.

The same goes for your fourth uncle, who runs so far, often turns around day and night when he is busy, and often cannot rest for a month. He earns less than me for a month in half a year.

Uncle, this is already the best, you know how good you are? "

Mao'er shook his head, put his arms around Liu Xia's neck, and said after a long time: "I know, but I just don't want my uncle to work in such a cold."

Until he got into the bed after eating, Liu Xia found that the cat's mood hadn't really recovered. He refused to let Liu Xia read to him, saying that it was too cold to hold the book, so Liu Xia hugged him and watched TV. But after watching for a while, I found that the cat didn't speak. Liu Xia saw that the little guy's eyes were looking in the direction of the TV, but his eyes weren't focused on one point, and his little head was obviously thinking about something else.

Liu Xia squeezed his face, and he hugged Liu Xia tightly, exactly the same as when he was young when he was afraid that Liu Xia would leave while he was asleep.

Liu Xia was very worried that the cat would ask to follow him to the Yellow River beach the next day, so before he fell asleep, he kept thinking about how he would refuse the request if the cat made the request tomorrow morning.

But the cat didn't. He obediently watched Liu Xia get in the car and leave the next day, and he went home with the milk by himself.

When I got home, Mao'er sat on the edge of the bed for a while, and then poured out ink, and took out two newspapers to practice calligraphy.

This has become a habit of his. He can write when he is happy or unhappy. When he is happy, it is easy to find the feeling when writing, breaking through the perception that he thought he had reached the end, and realizing certain situations; when he is unhappy, writing is easier. You can forget about your troubles.

Put the inkstone well, spread the newspapers, and the cat is sitting upright, holding up its hands in front of its eyes and looking at it again and again: grandma said, even chickens have two claws, as long as they are willing to paw and pull diligently, they can always Find bugs to feed themselves.

But now, my little claws are useless at all, and I rely entirely on my uncle to feed me, and my uncle always wants to raise myself the best. In order to raise myself well, my uncle has to live the worst life every day. good life.

I want to be admitted to the best university, and I must take a major that can earn a lot of money, and I can finish my work without leaving the office or at home every day after work, so that my uncle will not have to work so hard to earn more bonuses If I go out to work, I can't spend all the money I earn;

If my uncle misses me, I will be there, he can find me at any time, instead of being like me now, no matter how much he misses him, he is not there.

The cat slowly put down its hand, picked up the pen and began to write.

He didn't ask to follow his uncle to the construction site, because he knew that he wouldn't be able to help him even if he went. The most important thing was that if he went, his uncle wouldn't be able to eat hot meals when he came back at night.

Both Ma Pengcheng and Chu Hao came back yesterday. The cat had just written for a while when he heard Ma Pengcheng's cry from below. You can play for an hour and a half if you go down, it won’t work any more.”

Ma Pengcheng was so angry that he crossed his hips and stared up.

The cat waved his hand, turned and went back to the house.

Every day from now on, the cat will go down to play with Ma Pengcheng and the others for an hour and a half in the morning and one and a half hours in the afternoon, and will go home when the time is up. Ma Pengcheng, Chu Hao and the others will yell and hurt him at the back, but the cat will not hear it. Same:

He wants to go home to cook for his uncle, he wants to practice calligraphy, he wants to finish his homework early, and when his uncle is on vacation, when he is with him, he can think about other things and concentrate on being with him Play.

Ma Pengcheng taught the cat to rollerblade. After the cat fell on the buttock three times, it was able to slide unsteadily along the concrete road to the end. It only took two days for the little guy to be able to walk along the side of the house. Slide it to Liu Xia.

Liu Xia now has delicious meals waiting for him every night when he returns home. He has eaten dumplings for two days. After he came back, he went to the bathhouse to take a shower and came back with steaming dumplings.

The dumplings made by Mao'er are a little bit smaller now, usually around ten Liu Xia are just full.

The team also distributed several kinds of dried vegetables such as golden needles, fungus, and yuba. On the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, another person distributed [-] catties of big meat.

It just so happened that Liu Chuan's unit also delivered new year's goods, and Liu Chuan drove home to deliver them.

In the past, every year on this day, as long as there were no accidents in the weather, Liu Kui would take a cart to see the time when Ning picked up Liu Chuan and sent him back. This year, Liu Xia will be added.

Mao'er kept a small part of what he and Liu Xia needed, and loaded all the rest into the car.

When Liu Xia came back in the evening, he ate dumplings with dried locust flowers, and listened to Liu Chuan angrily scolding those two bastards from the Wangning Township Civil Affairs Office.

Compared with his peers, Liu Chuan, who has been baptized by a short war, has a very mature mentality, and he has inherited Liu Changqing's generosity and open-mindedness. When interacting with people, he can always be considerate of each other's situation, so although his personality is straightforward and tough, he usually He rarely loses his temper, and this is the first time Liu Xia has seen such an intense emotional outburst like today.

Today when Liu Chuan delivered things back, he thought that Liu Kui would wait at the place where he could park on the north slope of Shangyao like the previous two years, but Liu Kui and Liu Hai were waiting for him at the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative this year: After returning the things, Liu Kui had to go to the township civil affairs office to urge relief food.

It turns out that the Civil Affairs Office first said that the relief food they applied for this year was distributed in early December. Later, it said that there was a major event in the county, and that the relief food would be distributed later, probably at a later date. It will be distributed in late December, before New Year's Day at the latest.

Later, because of the snow, it was delayed until after New Year's Day. At that time, Liu Kui and the leaders of several other brigades were also sympathetic to the bad weather and the difficult roads. Frequent reminders from the countryside.

But when the weather turned better, Qianhe Mountain was no longer a problem to open to traffic. When they asked again, the people from the Civil Affairs Office said that they had to wait, saying that the higher-level civil affairs department had a lot of things to do, and it was impossible to keep them in mind. thing.

Then Liu Kui and the others began to rush back and forth as in previous years, and until today, the relief food still hasn't arrived.

According to the practice of previous years, tomorrow will be the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. Although the village did not say that it is a holiday, it has actually become a holiday. to arrive.

Liu Kui was very worried, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, or he didn't want to think about it.

Liu Chuan was on a whim at the time, and insisted on going to the Civil Affairs Office with Liu Kui, but Liu Kui couldn't resist him, and with Liu Hai, the three brothers went together in a cart.

As a result, after Liu Chuan and Liu Hai heard that the two young men from the Civil Affairs Office were speechless when asked by Liu Kui, they played the role of state workers, or rascals, and looked at Liu Kui and others with disdain. Five or six impoverished brigades in the deep mountainous areas in the south of the country went to the person in charge of food relief and said, "I just don't count what you can do? The food is left in the warehouse. What can you do if I don't give it to you?"

It's okay for a dick to be poor and beg for food, who owes you?You are so powerful and capable, you can grow enough food for yourself, you want me to look at your face even if you reach out to ask others for something?Who do you think you are?

People in other offices have been free for a long time and go to the streets to prepare things for the New Year. I am doing civil affairs and met you, a group of unlucky dicks.

Let me tell you clearly, tomorrow is the New Year's Eve, and I will be on vacation. No one has time to meddle in your business until the New Year's is over.

If you dare to make trouble here again today, I won’t send it to you after the New Year. If you have the ability, you can sue me and see if anyone cares about you. "

Liu Kui was trembling with anger, and the leaders of the two brigades were about to leave, mumbling and cursing. Liu Kui went up and grabbed the collar of the young man who was acting rascally just now: "Listen to me, kid, I They represent hundreds of commune members in my brigade to apply for state relief food, not to come to your house to beg for food. If you didn't work in Wangning Township Civil Affairs Office, I wouldn't come to you.

For a person like you, kneeling in front of me and calling you grandpa, I would feel ashamed to have a grandson like you.

Tell me the truth today, do you have relief food, or not? No, I will go to the Rongze Civil Affairs Bureau to ask now. Believe it or not, I'll knock out your mouth full of dog teeth with one fist? "

The face of the young man caught by Liu Kui turned red, but the one who was suppressed by the cruel look on Liu Kui's face only dared to break Liu Kui's hand holding his collar with his hands, but did not dare to speak.

Another young man pointed at Liu Kui and yelled: "What are you doing? What brigade are you in? Damn it, you don't even look at yourself, what kind of thing are you? How dare you attack the country staff member?"

Liu Chuan stretched out his arm to stop Liu Hai who was about to rush over, walked over by himself, pulled Liu Kui away, and walked up to the young man who was shouting: "He just dared to beat the state staff, what can you do? Good, come on, take off your pants and let me have a look, how long is your dick so that you can be arrogant like this, taking the salary of a national worker, doing your mother's bastard that is punished by God. "

As Yanagawa spoke, he dragged the young man to him, and pulled off the belt around his waist as soon as he stretched out his hand.

The young man grabbed his trouser waist with both hands, and Liu Chuan was wearing a police uniform. He didn't dare to shout as arrogantly as he did to Liu Kui, and said very shortly: "What are you doing? Let me tell you, I'm a regular worker. You If you hit me..."

"I'm not going to hit you, I'm just looking at you," Yanagawa said unhurriedly, throwing away the belt and reaching for the young man's pants: "Didn't you say that my brother's dick is not good? I just look at it How good of a dick you are, I told you to be like this, taking the salary of a state employee and not doing personnel work, come on, everyone come and see how good the state employee is." Liu Chuan greeted the person next to him The heads of several brigades.

A few people from the township government compound who were standing by to watch the excitement ran over and stopped Liu Chuan:

"If you have something to say, you have something to say. If young people are ignorant, don't be like them. I will definitely talk to them later."

"Brother, turn off the fire, turn off the fire, don't be as knowledgeable as these kids, they only come here to work, they don't know how to do things..."

.........

Yanagawa let go of the young man's clothes with a sneer, but reached out and patted his face and said, "Boy, you are still young, don't look down on others like a dog, you just took over a class and came to this town Compound, what do you think you have become?

Let me tell you, just like you, if you were born in my place, you wouldn't even be eligible to come to this compound to apply for relief food, but even though my place is poor, it can't produce a dick like you . "

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Liu Xia said angrily: "Those turtles really put the food in the warehouse and let the mice spoil it and don't give it to us? Tomorrow is the New Year's Eve. My uncle, my elder brother, they can't live in peace. This will take at least three days of tossing." ?”

Liu Chuan said: "This year, our autumn crops are not too old, and the relief food we applied for is small, and it will be shipped back in two days. Your fifth and sixth brothers are all at home. At least our uncle doesn't have to run back and forth with him."

Mao'er carefully put the two freshly scooped hot dumplings into Liu Xia's bowl, and then sat down with the rest: "Third Uncle, isn't the food distributed to us by the state? Why leave it there for nothing and not give it to us?"

Liu Chuan said: "I don't know about it either, now it's not just them, Rongze can be the same with many units, they don't seem to know that they are a national unit, and they do what they do. Go to their unit to do errands, and do it for you if you are happy, but if you are not happy, you can find a lot of excuses.

There are people like this in my unit. It’s obviously a small matter, and it should be done by others. It can be done with a little effort, but I can sit there and chat, but I don’t want to do it. , In the end, I had to find an acquaintance to do it. "

Liu Xia suddenly remembered their discussion about bureaucracy between 219 and Huang Youguang, and said angrily: "I only now know what bureaucracy is. Bureaucracy can really kill people."

Liu Chuan sighed, and looked at Liu Xia guiltily: "Boy, you have already taken care of everything after only a few months of graduation. From now on, please don't mention it in advance, you are not allowed to take care of our family's purchase of food. , I asked you to buy everything, and the third brother felt sorry for you, and felt that he was useless."

Liu Xia gulped down a few mouthfuls of dumpling soup: "What are you talking about, third brother, how many years have you been buying for our family? I just bought it this time because you didn't leave home this year.

Third brother, my salary and bonus add up every month, which is more than you and my third sister-in-law combined. I buy it once, why do you feel sorry for me?If you still think you are useless, then I am even more useless. The last time I came back from college, I started to make money. What have I done for our family? "

On the third day after Liu Chuan reported to the Yuancheng Police Academy, Liu Xia wrote a note, together with 200 yuan, and asked the cat to hand it over to Ma Xiaojun. The note stated the type and quantity of food that needed to be bought.

The food had already arrived at Liujialing at the end of November.

Mao'er continued, "Third Uncle, my uncle just wants you to save some money. There are so many people in your unit that they live in high-rise buildings. My uncle said that I have to ask you to save some money to buy a house."

Liu Chuan stood up and said, "What kind of house should I buy? It's spacious enough for me to live in now. It's still close to your third sister-in-law's school. If I buy a house here, your third sister-in-law will go to work every day before dawn. Don't worry!

Okay, I'm leaving my baby, you should go to bed early too, Yao'er, your job sounds good, but it's really not free. "

On the 23rd of the lunar calendar, Liu Xia and the others returned to the unit at two o'clock in the afternoon: Today the unit will hold a plenary meeting to compete for posts and optimize the combination.

Mao'er couldn't calm down while writing in the afternoon, and kept listening, hoping to hear the sound of the meeting ending soon.

At 04:30, he finally heard the commotion outside, put down his brush and ran out to look east. Groups of people were talking and walking this way, but there was no Liu Xia inside.

Wan Jianye came back and looked very happy. He said to the cat who had been lying on the concrete railing and looking out: "Your uncle may have to wait a while to come back. I just walked outside the auditorium. I heard someone from the office notify He went to the captain of the horse."

The cat asked: "Why? Did you tell my brother-in-law to go alone, and no one else told you?"

Wan Jianye said: "If everyone is notified, Captain Ma might as well just say it at the plenary meeting. Liu An, don't worry about your uncle. It must be a good thing. I have always wanted to let me know. It’s time to go back, but it’s not my turn!”

Half an hour later, Liu Xia came back. After closing the door, he pulled the cat and sat on the bed: "Come on, little Grandet, let me make you happy."

He took out a large amount of money from the right pocket of the down jacket, and took out a red envelope that was a little smaller than ordinary envelopes from the left pocket and put it in front of the cat: "It's all yours, count how many. Look at the envelope first, I don't know how many are inside!"

The cat's mouth was so grinning that it almost went behind his ears. He picked up the envelope: "You don't know? You didn't read it?"

Liu Xia nodded: "Ma Pengcheng's father said that this is the captain's red envelope, and he only gave out ten. This is what many foreign bosses in Shenzhen do now. They will personally give red envelopes to the employees they think are the best. The money in the red envelopes is all It's different, but everyone only knows how much they've got, not everyone else's."

Mao'er pulled out a wad of money, grinned and said, "Ma Pengcheng's father is quite foreign, hehe, there are so many, I'll count them..."

Ma Qianli's captain's red envelope is 388 yuan, which is really enough for the employees who have just been in the unit for half a year and are still in the internship period. If he only has salary every month like Chu Xiaohe, it is equivalent to his four The monthly salary is more.

The other big one is Liu Xia's salary and bonus in January, as well as the year-end bonus. Liu Xia is the only newcomer with a year-end bonus. His bonus is [-], which is the highest year-end bonus in the three technical subjects Half of Yue Desheng.

The year-end bonus is public. When Liu Xia signed to collect his own money, he accidentally saw Zhang Shubao's, which was only less than 100 yuan more than Liu Xia's.

Liu Xia didn't know the specific calculation method of the bonus, and he hadn't thought about it. He felt that the unit must have a fixed calculation model for this matter. It was useless for him to think too much. Give him some points, he just needs to do his job well.

But Liu Xia knows that their bonuses are definitely not just calculated according to the attendance time, and the section chief who manages them has a lot of say.

Two money fans, one big and one small, sat cross-legged on the bed and counted the money several times, both of them were happy from ear to ear.

Mao'er put the thick stack of money neatly, and stuffed it back into the red envelope: "Uncle, with the money in our bank, Uncle Six won't have to beg for food on the street when he arrives in France." ?”