all the way

The entire unit of the hydrology team was off on the day of the stove sacrifice, but Liu Xia and the others went to work until after 26:[-] pm on the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month. After the end, they went back to the unit without eating.

From the team leader Luo Shuiwang to Wu Xiaolin who entered at the end, no one complained, so Liu Xia would not complain. Except for Wu Xiaolin and Du Tao, everyone else was married and had a small family. They all worked without complaint. Up to now, Liu Xia feels that he has nothing to say.

After getting out of the car, Luo Shuiwang said to Du Tao: "Xiao Du, if the office and Captain Fu don't give you any more work later, you will be responsible for sending Xiao Liu away."

Du Tao put his arms around Liu Xia's shoulder and said: "No problem, I have been a member of our team for the past two months, and no one will give me another job. I sent Xiao Liu back. Who of you still needs a car? You can call me, I will serve you all the way until your thirties."

Everyone joked and bid farewell to Liu Xia: "See you next year, Xiao Liu, happy Chinese New Year."

Liu Xia smiled and waved his hands: "See you next year, I wish all masters and brothers a great fortune next year!"

Master Zhao came over with two letters: "Xiao Liu, your letter, it should be interesting that people from all over the world often write letters?"

Liu Xia took the letter and glanced at it. It was really different, one from Mao Jianyong and one from Chen Zhenbei. He raised his eyebrows, smiled and said to Master Zhao: "It's very interesting, it's fresh."

Liu Xia walked back, took Chen Zhenbei's letter and flashed it twice: "He is really a good leader who cares about his subordinates in every possible way. Brother Wu has only been back for a few days, and the home visit letter has arrived."

Then he put the letter underneath, tore open Mao Jianyong's letter first, and read it as he walked.

Mao'er had already packed everything at home. He thought Liu Xia would not come back until dark today, so he didn't cook Liu Xia's meal. When he saw Liu Xia came back, he hurriedly prepared to wash vegetables and cook.

Liu Xia looked at the clean house and rubbed the little guy's head a few times: "Don't do it, uncle is on holiday, let's leave in a while, I'll wash my face and see your uncle Mao and Zhen Uncle Bei's letter, let's go down, call the third uncle and three aunts, tell them that Uncle Du will drive us away, then we will go eat stewed noodles, and leave after we finish eating."

When the cat heard that Liu Xia was on vacation and could go home immediately, he jumped up with a happy "oh hoo", hung it around his neck, then ran over to bring him hot water and put it in the bathroom, and went to clean up The last little thing ready to take home.

Liu Xia washed his face and sat on the edge of the bed to read the letter.

Mao Jianyong has nothing to do, writing letters to Liu Xia is still a cliché, complaining that the unit pays less money and is too strict; angry that the company in Europe has too strict qualifications for opening a specialty store, and the efficiency is too low; I feel jealous of Liu Xia's young age , No need to be forced by the family to go on a blind date.

It was the last item that Mao Jianyong resented the most.

Mao Jianyong, the only boy in his family, is only 22 years old and has been forced to start a blind date career. In half a year, he has been escorted by his mother, sister and aunts to at least ten girls. up.

For this reason, Mao Jianyong was not only jealous of Liu Xia's age, but also jealous of Liu Xia's large group of elder brothers who could carry on the family line. You can enjoy a free life to your heart's content, even if you can't be a fashionable DINK, it's okay to play casually until you are 40 years old and then get married and have children, but now...

Mao Jianyong lamented: Qi'er, your happy little mind can't understand it. A pure and kind man like me, Brother Wei, has to rack his brains every day to think about how to reject the infatuation of those beautiful women who hate to marry. What a painful life to live without hurting their delicate little hearts.

Liu Xia put the letter away, and said to the cat who came to take a look from time to time: "Do you know what it means to be cheap and behave well? Do you know what it means to be in the midst of blessings but not to be blessed? Your Uncle Mao is a living specimen. If he This letter is addressed to Liu Miao, what do you think will happen to Liu Miao?"

Mao'er said without hesitation: "Shoot him from the front."

Liu Xia nodded, and took Chen Zhenbei's letter: "That's right, I wrote back and told him that, if it doesn't work, let your sixth uncle make an illustration for him."

As Liu Xia expected, there were two stacks of folded paper in the envelope, and there was nothing on the outside of the envelope, and there were a few big characters written on it: Comrade Liu Ling received.

Liu Xia picked up the stack with writing on it and spun it around a few times in front of his eyes: "Heh heh heh, Comrade Chen Zhenbei, if Comrade Liu Xia accidentally took it away, what can you do?" He slapped the letter hard twice before putting down the letter: "Comrade Liu Xia is a gentleman, and a gentleman is careful not to bully the dark room, and I will let you go this time."

Then he picked up the unwritten stack of paper and opened it:

Hello Yaoer:

I haven't written to you alone for a long time, and I wish you little cat and third brother hello.

I have been hearing about you from your fifth brother all the time, knowing that you are working smoothly in the unit, you are valued by the leadership, and the benefits in the unit are very good, Brother Zhenbei's guilt can finally be reduced.

I saw in the letter to your fifth brother a few days ago, you mentioned that a colleague who was older than you in the department showed obvious resentment towards your treatment in the unit, and you fought back directly at that time. very good.

You have just arrived in the unit, although it is the best policy to keep a low profile, but when someone bullies you in the face, if you think so much, it will only make people think you are weak and bully.

Although this is just a trivial matter and it has passed for you, as a brother who is older than you and entered the society a few years earlier, I still want to tell you a little about my experience and understanding in this regard.

Because I think based on your situation, you will definitely encounter the same thing in the future, and the situation may be much more serious than this. It is better to have a psychological preparation. Of course, I hope that I just think too much. It's the best kind of preparation you'll never have a chance to use.

Yaoer, the human world we live in is actually the same as the environment in which other creatures live in nature.

Although you haven't seen many deserts, you should know something about them through books and other methods. The desert looks clean, but it is actually relatively clean, because there are very few species that can survive in it.

Because there are few species, there is less intense competition, and at the same time, more garbage cannot be produced; similarly, because there are few species, the desert is so dull and lifeless.

The vibrant and picturesque forest is the complete opposite of the desert. The most vibrant forest in the world should be the tropical jungle.

But when you really walk into the tropical jungle, you will find that besides all kinds of beautiful plants and animals you see outside, there are more things in the forest that make you feel sick and even terrified, all kinds of poisonous Plants and animals, all kinds of small things that are scary in shape and can actually kill people, make you unavoidable and unavoidable, and it is not easy to survive among them.

Life is like a multiple-choice question, desert and forest, if you choose simplicity, you choose boring; if you choose prosperity, you choose competition.

But for the same competition, you can choose different ways.

Your fifth brother has also encountered the same thing as you, but it is far more serious than you. You can definitely think of this. It is not normal for someone as outstanding as your fifth brother but without any background to be jealous.

The army is not a paradise, nor is it monolithic. The uniforms are the same, but what is wrapped under the uniforms are the same as anywhere else in the society, with all kinds of bodies and souls. A dirty and narrow-minded person will not because of Putting on the military uniform becomes a noble and pure person.

I admire your fifth brother's attitude towards those people at that time, neither humble nor overbearing, neither arrogant nor indulgent, relying on his own awe-inspiring righteousness and inner strength, armed himself into a horse that skimmed the grassland, and made those who tripped him behind his back The person who splashes the dirty water is regarded as the dung beetle hiding in the dark place under the grass and rolling the dung ball, stepping past, and finally leaving far behind, rushing to his goal without hesitation

This is what I want to tell you today, Yao'er, like your fifth brother, who has set his sights on his goal, has no distractions, and goes forward bravely.

Those things that bother and anger you today may only take a few years, and when you look back, you may just smile knowingly.

If you compare your life to a forest, the beautiful family and friendship you have are the big trees that make up the forest. With them, you will have a world of survival.

And those people and things that bother you are like those poisonous plants and small animals in the forest. Although you will feel in the way because of their existence, you may have to be careful about them every time you travel, but at the same time, because of their existence , your forest is more colorful and full of vitality.

.........

The last thing I want to say is that I originally wrote a letter to you and your fifth brother alone, but according to the weather forecast every day, Yuancheng finally has light or moderate snowfall. It's convenient, so I'll send you all together.

The time Liu Xia read the letter was signed ten days ago, that is, the second day after Liu Ling and Liu Hai came back, and the letter had been on the road for at least nine days.

Liu Xia couldn't help but smile bitterly. In those few days, snow was forecast every day, but the actual situation was that every day was so gloomy that it seemed that a heavy snow might fall at any time, but in fact there was not a single snowflake.

Liu Chuan had already made an appointment with Liu Xia, and they would take the morning car together tomorrow, and when he received a call from Liu Xia, he told Qiu Zhiwu that he would be leaving soon.

Qiu Zhiwu said: "Thank you, Chuan'er, you were able to go a few days earlier this year, but now you have made it."

According to the practice of the Public Security Bureau who went to receive training in previous years, Liu Chuan actually didn’t have to go back to work after he came back, but Liu Chuan was the deputy captain, and after he left, the bureau didn’t arrange a temporary replacement for him, so Liu Chuan came back on his own initiative. And he was on duty as soon as he got back.

Qiu Zhiwu lives with his parents. The two old people are both old and in poor health. Qiu Zhiwu is particularly worried when he is on duty at night, fearing that something will happen to the old man when he gets up at night. After Liu Chuan came back, he and his wife have been giving birth for him and his wife. Ma Xiaojun is on the night shift.

I haven’t come back for several months. As soon as the car turned on the branch road leading to Wangning, the cat excitedly lay on the glass and kept looking out. The mountain in the south howled like a wolf: "Oh, come back——, huh, huh, oh—"

Su Xiaohui said: "Cat, you haven't come back for three or four months, so what if one day you go abroad like your sixth uncle?"

The cat was puzzled and said: "Why do I go abroad when I have nothing to do? I don't want to leave. I will go to a good university and go to Kyoto. Anyway, I don't get motion sickness anymore. If I miss my uncle, I can come back by train. When I go abroad, I won’t see my uncle.”

Su Xiaohui laughed at him: "Then you can hang on your uncle's belt for the rest of your life. You're still in your teens and you can't live without your uncle for a day."

The cat ran over and hung it on Liu Xia, wrapping his legs around Liu Xia's waist: "Hey, look, just hang it on my uncle's belt."

Liu Xia slapped him on the buttocks: "Annoying boy, come down quickly, pack up your things and go, or you won't be able to go home when it gets dark."

The cat jumped down with a smile, and picked up his share as planned, and the four chatted and laughed on their way.

When they were approaching the top of the kiln slope, they heard the sound of "噗噗嗵嗵" on the other side of the mountain, which was mixed with the voices of several people.

The cat said, "It sounds like my grandpa and uncle."

Liu Xia said, "There are also my fifth and sixth brothers."

Liu Chuan also listened carefully: "There is also Brother Fulai."

Several people changed the things they were carrying on their shoulders, and struggled to climb up again.

As soon as they climbed to the highest place, they saw at a glance that on the edge of the road facing the Fengxi River, at a distance of about [-] meters, there was a row of stone piles with irregular shapes and a height of about [-] centimeters. , each stone pile is about one and a half meters apart, and two railings are nailed in the middle with thick, simply treated branches.

Liu Kui, Liu Yu, and Liu Haizheng each carried a wooden tamp, and compacted the soil around the three stone piles that should have just been planted;

Liu Changqing and Liu Ling, Liu Fulai and Liu Mao are working together to nail the railings;

Liu Changchun was pulling two branches towards Liu Changqing from below.

"Grandpa, Grandpa!"

"Uncle, brother..."

The cat let out a cry and ran down the cliff on the right, followed by Liu Xia, Liu Chuan, and Su Xiaohui.

Liu Xia and Liu Kui on the opposite side shouted at the same time: "Baby, slow down, don't dare to run."

All the people who were working stopped their work, Mao'er and Liu Xia grabbed Liu Changqing and tilted it a few times, Mao'er was picked up by Liu Hai and they bickered, Liu Ling took Liu Xia's things and wiped it for him sweat.

After everyone said a few more words, Liu Chuan took off his coat, took Liu Hai's wooden rammer and started working.

Su Xiaohui missed the two children so much, and after a few words, she went home alone, while Liu Xia and Mao'er, together with the others, smashed the remaining stone stakes and branches firmly before going home together , At this time, the sky was already dark and only the road could be seen vaguely.

Shangyao was still about ten miles away from Liujialing. By the time they reached Liujialing, it was already past seven o'clock, and it was already dark.

Liu Changchun, Liu Mao and Liu Yu stopped at the slope of their house.

The first few days when Liu Ling and Liu Hai came back, Liu Mao hadn't come back yet, Liu Changchun and the three of them ate up there, and after Liu Mao came back on the day of offering sacrifices to the stove, they all came down.

It was agreed that Liu Yu would go up after dinner, and Liu Xia and the others continued to walk back to their home.

When so many people came home, the house immediately became lively. The food had already been prepared and warmed in the pot. Su Xiaohui and Liu Wei greeted everyone to wash their hands and come over to eat.

Liu Rui ran over and pulled the cat affectionately to ask this and that. The two used to meet each other at school every day, and after a few days of separation, they felt panicked.

Although it was lively enough, Liu Chuan, Liu Xia, and Mao'er all felt that the quietness of the house was a bit abnormal, because Liu Yun and Liu Lei didn't run over to yell and make trouble. In her arms, the other was lying in Xiumei's arms, obediently motionless.

It's just that Sun Chang'e and Xiumei's right hands were stuck in the padded jackets of the two little guys and moved up and down.

Liu Chuan asked: "Mom, sister-in-law, what are you doing?"

He asked in a normal voice, and Sun Chang'e, who was sitting on the west end of the kang, leaning against the wall and hugging Liu Yun, hurriedly yelled at him softly: "Slow down, the baby wants to sleep."

Before finishing a sentence, Liu Yun groaned and twisted unwillingly: "Mmm~ grandma, scratch, scratch."

Xiumei also winked at Liu Chuan lightly, signaling him to keep his voice down.

Liu Chuan looked at it in surprise, and asked Su Xiaohui in a low voice: "What's the matter, why don't you even say anything?"

Su Xiaohui grinned, and said to Liu Yun's back in a low voice but gritted her teeth: "Do it, you don't even ask grandma to say a word now." Then she turned to Liu Chuan and said apologetically : "I'm so pissed off, I don't know if you didn't come back last week, and I don't want to learn from you, thinking that the problems of these two people will be corrected in a few days, and who knows, they will work harder.

When I came back last Saturday, I coaxed Xiaoyun to sleep, but he tried every means to stay awake, moaning and chirping, either saying it hurts here or itches there.

My mother said that I always panicked when I came back from such a long distance, so she took him and said to put him to sleep before giving it to me. The little turtle told my mother that his spine was always itchy, and our mother just scratched him like this He was sleeping, and Xiaolei saw him, so he had to ask his sister-in-law to scratch him, and just like that, the two really fell asleep after scratching.

Who knew that Xiaoyun would still remember this the next day, and when it was time to take a nap, he would start making noises again. He insisted on asking our mother to scratch his back to sleep, but I didn't even want to scratch him.

Liu Chuan, why do you think they are so annoying? "

Liu Kui washed his face and laughed, Liu Changqing also smiled and said nothing, but he didn't seem to think there was any problem at all.

Only the cat said, "I owe repairs."

Liu Chuan agreed with Mao'er's words very much, and he reached into Chang'e Sun's arms to bring Liu Yun over: "Mom, give him to me and tell me to hug him to sleep, and see if he dares to make trouble."

Sun Chang'e slapped Liu Chuan on the arm: "Climb over to eat your meal, but the child fell asleep just scratching an itch, so obedient, why are you making a fuss?"

Liu Yun turned his head and took a look at Liu Chuan, then lay down on his stomach again, Sun Chang'e continued to scratch his back, Liu Yun triumphantly twisted his little butt to deliberately annoy Liu Chuan.

Liu Chuan let out a sigh of relief, and sat on the kang.

The women and children in the family had already eaten, and they were the only ones left. Both Liu Changqing and Liu Kui said that their legs were a little stiff, and they didn't want to sit cross-legged on the kang, so they sat on the stone table below and ate.

Liu Ling and Liu Hai sat with them.

Liu Xia and Mao'er didn't see Sun Chang'e for many days, so they went to sit on the kang next to Sun Chang'e, and ate on the kang table with Liu Chuan.

Because the two little ones were about to go to bed, no one said a word, trying to put them to sleep as soon as possible, the room was very quiet for a while, even Liu Xin who was always by Liu Wei's side didn't say a word.

Who knows, after Liu Yun lay down obediently for a while, she realized that Liu Chuan had ignored her, unwilling to be reconciled, she turned her head to look at Liu Chuan several times, but Liu Chuan didn't notice.

Liu Yun didn't want Sun Chang'e to tickle her anymore, walked around Liu Xia and Mao'er, crawled over and sat in front of Liu Chuan, tilted her little head, and stared at him to eat.

Everyone in the room looked at him with restrained smiles, the little guy didn't feel anything, just kept looking at Liu Chuan's mouth, smacking his own mouth from time to time, it seemed that the saliva would flow down at any time.

After all, Liu Chuan was still the little boy's father, so he couldn't help laughing after a while, and picked out a piece of roasted tofu from the bowl and fed it to him.

Liu Yun chewed and swallowed, then crawled under Liu Chuan's arms and sat in his arms, with her face up, waiting for Liu Chuan to continue feeding.

Liu Chuan fed him another piece of roasted tofu, and Liu Yun swallowed it down, saying, "Father, it's delicious."

Liu Lei, who had been obediently lying in Xiumei's arms, everyone thought he was asleep, heard this, and turned his head with a "huh", and saw Liu Yun actually sitting in Liu Chuan's arms eating, and immediately quit: " Mother, give me a hug, dad feeds Xiangxiang."

As she said that, before Xiumei could stand up, she ran to the kang, trying to pick it up with hands and feet.

As a result, the sleeping atmosphere deliberately created by the whole family came to an end.

The cat immediately threw the chopsticks and crawled up to Sun Chang'e: "Grandma, do you miss me? If you don't go to Rongze to see my uncle and I, we will both miss you."

Liu Rui ran over and pulled the cat: "Hurry up and eat, baby. After eating, let's go and paste my award on it. I forgot to tell you. Brother Xiaowei and we moved to the eastmost room. Here is Xiaoxin." I went to sleep with us for a few days, but when we start school, the baby will come back to sleep with my mother."

Liu Chuan slipped Liu Lei up, and the little guy squeezed into Liu Chuan's arms, sitting side by side with Liu Yun, waiting for his father to feed Xiangxiang.

While feeding, Liu Chuan was worried: "You two are a snack, and you don't want to think about anything except eating. If you two grow up like this, how will your mother and I live!"

Liu Xia said: "Fifth brother, put the letter in Maoerli's schoolbag, shall I take it out for you first?"

Liu Ling ate the steamed bun and shook his head: "No, we'll talk about it when we go to our house. He just has nothing to do with his family and writes letters to pass the time. These few days his cronies and friends come back, and he goes out to have fun all day long. There is no time to put it there and pretend to be moaning without illness."

When Liu Xia was helping with work on Shangyaopo, he told Liu Ling about the letter from Chen Zhenbei. Liu Ling told him that after he got home, he had already received two letters from Chen Zhenbei, both at the same time. After Liu Xia's letter.

Liu Ling said, Chen Zhenbei didn't have any serious business, he just felt uncomfortable all over his body, and his best friends hadn't returned to the capital yet, so he could only talk to his sister's family every day. Children are bored, the age difference is too much, and the result is that the more they are funny, the more depressed they are.

Liu Xia was surprised: "Kyoto is such a fun place, Brother Zhenbei isn't just those few friends, why can't he find a place to play? He actually stays at home every day to accompany a few half-grown nephews to find trouble?"

Liu Ling said: "He has a different logic from normal people. He said he can't play with his classmates and friends because he is so handsome. When his classmates and friends saw him, his parents wanted to introduce him to beautiful girls, but He thinks those beautiful girls are not good enough for him, but he can't tell his friends, parents, so he just doesn't make trouble for himself."

Mao'er was very shocked and said: "Is there such a thick-skinned person as Uncle Chen in the world? I thought my Sixth Uncle had the thickest skin!"

Liu Hai said proudly: "I am the second most. Your Uncle Chen's skin is unprecedented. I blush for him even when he boasts about himself."

Liu Ling said: "The cheeky two letters are still complaining that I pushed him out of the car, he said that a large group of our family are all children, and there will be no such thing as girls being fascinated by him. , so it is safest for him to come to our house."

At that time, even Liu Changqing and Liu Kui were shocked by Chen Zhenbei's thick skin, but after Liu Changqing heard Liu Ling talk about his feelings about going to Chen Zhenbei's house, he said: "If this is the case, next time if he really wants to talk to you If you come back to play for a few days, let him come, and if you don’t play for a few days, let him go back when it’s time for the festival, so as not to delay his reunion with his family.”

When they returned to the cave where they lived, Liu Ling opened Chen Zhenbei's letter. After he read it, he asked Liu Xia to read it too.

There was really nothing serious in the letter, Chen Zhenbei seemed to be recording the running account of the two days when he returned home, so Liu Xia also felt that what Liu Ling said was right, Chen Zhenbei was free.

However, Liu Ling's prophecy that Chen Zhenbei would only spend his days and nights and have no time to write letters after Chen Zhenbei's friends returned home these days was not true.

Because of New Year's Eve, Liu Ling received another cheeky letter.