all the way

Liu Xia returned to Rongze on the last day stipulated by Ma Qianli.

He finished all his work after three o'clock in the afternoon, missed the bus from Nanchen to Rongze, and came back by the Wuling trailer of a young couple who sold cabbage in Nanchen. The couple's family is from Gucun. On his way back, he passed by the Color Gold Factory, where Liu Xia transferred to a car bound for Yuancheng, and got off at Rongze Old Town.

He first sent a page to Liu Chuan at the newly opened canteen at the gate of Rongze High School, and then went to discuss with the uncle who was watching the gate, asking him to let him in.

The uncle just got this job and cherished it very much, so he stood firm and resolutely refused to open the door for him.

Liu Xia had no choice but to report the names of Wang Zhanjie and Su Xiaohui.

The uncle told him: "Principal Wang is not here now. He was the director of the Education Bureau the day before yesterday. The papers came down, and he hasn't come to school for the past two days. Teacher Su? If you know Teacher Su, I will call you."

Liu Xia had no choice but to say: "Thank you, go and call." Then he watched the uncle trot back, rubbing his face and bouncing around to keep warm.

He was jumping up and stretching his neck to look into the campus, when someone behind him patted his right shoulder hard: "Boy, are you back?"

Liu Xia turned around and exclaimed in surprise: "Third brother? Why are you here? Why are you here at this time?"

Liu Chuan said: "It's almost like this for the past few days after you left. I come home to cook after I get off work, and the cat eats here after school, and the two of us will go to sleep with you.

Today, Xiao Rui took the five-subject league selection exam. After the exam, he went straight to school. Today he didn’t have to go to self-study at night. He was exhausted from preparing for the exam a few days ago, and he went to bed right after eating. I don’t have to pick him up today, he’s at home Waiting for the cat, have you finished all your work in Nanchen? "

Liu Xia nodded excitedly, and patted his left chest again: "Well, here is the check, I will go to the bank to exchange it tomorrow, and take the commission for Sister Wang, and the battle is over."

Seeing his happy look, Liu Chuan couldn't help but want to rub his head with his hands, Liu Xia hurriedly hid: "It's all soot, don't touch it on you."

He was riding on the trailer of a Wuling car, without even a shed, just a bare iron trailer that rattled and swayed very violently when the car was running. Liu Xia had to hold on to the side of the car with all his strength. Won't let himself roll freely in it, and Nanchen has coal all over again, he's covered in soot all over his body now.

Liu Chuan said with a smile: "Nanchen is really a place where coal made his fortune. If you go there, you have to bring back a whole body of coal ashes." What Xia said, he hesitated for a while and held back.

Liu Xia sensed Liu Chuan's strangeness, and felt nervous: "Brother, what's wrong with you? What's the matter? It's not a cat, he's being bullied, right?"

Liu Chuan hurriedly smiled and shook his head: "No, no, that monkey is like that, it's good if he doesn't bully others, and with your third sister-in-law and Xiaowei here, who would bully him? It's just something else Small matter, you just came back, I will tell you tomorrow."

Liu Xia was in a hurry: "Brother, tell me now, what happened?"

Liu Chuan looked around the campus, but he couldn't see the shadow of the cat. He tentatively said, "Yaoer, I want to ask, do you really like that Tan Huiling?"

"Ah?" Liu Xia froze for a moment: "No, if you don't tell me, I'll forget about her. The time is a little tight these days, I, I really forgot about it, what's wrong?" Brother? It won’t be that I go out for a few days, and she will talk to someone else, right? "

Seeing Liu Xia's reaction, Liu Chuan had no scruples at all: "Then let me tell you, this woman is no good. You can go to Du Tao tomorrow and find a suitable excuse that you don't want to."

"Oh, this matter," Liu Xia relaxed, "Have you found out what bad habits or deeds she has?"

Liu Chuan shook his head: "No. On the day you left, when the cat called you after school at night, I parked the car and came back to wait for the cat, and I happened to hear what Du Tao's wife said to him.

His wife said, as soon as you come back, ask Du Tao to find a way to ask you from the side, when will the cat leave, saying that she has never heard of a nephew who follows his uncle all day long, and what she means is Tan Huiling asked her to..."

"Fuck me!" Before Liu Chuan finished speaking, Liu Xia jumped up violently: "She just told me a matchmaker, who does she think she is? He just wants to make irresponsible remarks about us cats ;

Tan Huiling?I said how could the woman who answered the phone say that the cat was staying with me? It turned out that Shi Ruiling told her so, and she only met me once, and she just wanted to get rid of it. Let's go cat?

What does she think she is?Isn't it just how fucking beautiful she is, thinking that the world has to revolve around her?Even if it's true that the earth revolves around her, I won't revolve around it..."

"Uncle——, aha——Uncle, you're back..."

Liu Xia turned around and saw the cat galloping this way, Liu Wei carrying a schoolbag, Su Xiaohui, and the gatekeeper trotting behind.

The cat flung itself on the side door, and Liu Xia held his face through the railing: "Haha, stinky cat, do you think I'm about to cry? Hey, I'm really about to cry? Hehehe, baby cat, baby cat... ..."

The cat turned back anxiously and called to the uncle who was watching the door: "Run faster, hurry up and open the door."

As soon as the door was opened, the cat jumped up and hung on Liu Xia's body: "Ah—uncle, why didn't you come back until now?"

Liu Xia was in a hurry, not knowing what to do: "Hey, my body is dirty, it's full of coal, you, you... oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, uncle knows you miss me, and I miss you too Be good...hehe, the soot is rubbing against your face, be good..."

Liu Wei patted the cat's butt: "Baby, you are usually like a little grown-up, why did you become a confinement baby when you saw Uncle? You want to cry if you don't hug and shake."

Mao'er hugged Liu Xia's neck, and smiled proudly at Liu Wei.

Liu Xia hugged the cat with one arm and Liu Wei with the other: "Boy, is it almost 1.8 meters? I'll catch up with my uncle soon."

Liu Wei turned back and hugged Liu Xia and Mao'er together, hugged him hard, and then let go: "Uncle, I miss you all the time, come out to see you, I still have class, I dare not delay, old Leng , you and the baby should go back to eat quickly, I'm going back."

Liu Wei has reached the final sprint time of the college entrance examination. Although Liu Xia came to pick up Mao'er every day, because Liu Wei has one more night of self-study than Mao'er, he can never meet him. Liu Xia also misses him very much.

"There is a famous donkey meat shop in Nanchen. I bought a few catties. You should eat more when you get home from school, my boy. You are nervous about studying, and you will be fat this time. You need to increase your nutrition."

Liu Wei smiled and slapped the cat's butt again: "Middle, uncle, third uncle, you should hurry home, I'm off to class.

Mao'er, my uncle is back, let's go home to celebrate the New Year, and make up for all the grievances of the past few days. "

Su Xiaohui had asked for leave for Mao'er and herself, and they returned to Liu Chuan's place. Liu Xia and Mao'er ate at high speed, and Liu Chuan sent them home.

The bathhouses of the hydrographic team usually close before nine o'clock. If Liu Xia can't catch up, he won't be able to go to bed covered in soot.

Mao'er refused to leave Liu Xia for a second, so he followed suit in the bath, the two of them rubbed each other's backs, took a very happy and comfortable bath, and got under the covers as soon as they got home.

The cat didn't put on his trousers immediately after taking a bath, and when he got home, he took off his clothes and jumped on the bed. Liu Xia leaned against the head of the bed with a quilt, half-lying happily, watching the cat and the fish It seems to be slippery and greasy on his body casually, from time to time rubbing his chin that he forgot to shave today a few times, listening to him exaggeratedly laughing and screaming to express his happiness, my heart is ironed like a breeze in May, warm The comfort is indescribable.

The cat had had enough tossing around, and turned into an octopus and stuck it on Liu Xia, babbling to him about the family affairs these days: "Last Monday, the coal shed was divided, and I was not allowed to choose. The office was allocated, so I said It is the principle of proximity, we are the fourth from the south, 300 yuan, I have already paid.

We only have more than 100 yuan of coal left. On Sunday, Chu Hao’s father called a car and said that last time their family bought this man’s coal, but it was easy to burn. I will share it with them. The coal shed is gone, we can buy a little more each time, instead of buying 1000 yuan each time as before. "

Liu Xia said: "Okay, from now on we will buy a car for 2000 yuan each time, and we won't have to buy another car for half a year."

"By the way, Uncle Wu has a letter, but I won't show it to you now, I will show it to you tomorrow, hehe, you have to look at me now.

Uncle Wu sent the photos in a parcel this time. We sent a copy of all the photos we took, and also sent a group photo of him and Uncle Zhenbei. Our photo album is not enough. "

Liu Xia said: "It's okay, let's buy more, buy more; what did your fifth uncle say in the letter?"

"I won't tell you, you can see for yourself tomorrow.

The fourth uncle's business license and the third uncle have all been completed. I thought everything would be fine and started working after the machine was adjusted.The third uncle asked someone to find someone from the power supply bureau, called the people from the Wangning power supply station, and said to set up a special line for the fourth uncle's factory, or the fourth uncle's factory would have to be the same as the stone factory where the uncle worked. Same, work stopped every three days. "

Liu Xia was worried: "Your third uncle will definitely have to invite people to dinner. Now Rongze is in this habit. Looking for someone to do something big has to treat guests. It is still a big deal to get a dedicated line! On the day of paying the rent, I will take your third uncle's money." Even the bottom copy, your third aunt and the others must be very nervous recently, what should I do?"

Mao'er also worried: "I don't know, third uncle insisted that he didn't spend any money on the treats, even if he invited third uncle, he wouldn't admit it.

Uncle Xiaohe’s original school stamped him. Uncle Xiaohe came to No. [-] Middle School last Monday to report to teach mathematics for the second year of junior high school. He and Uncle Fenghe wanted to invite Uncle Third to dinner, but Uncle Uncle refused to go. Uncle's home, bought a lot of things, the third uncle almost pushed Uncle Fenghe out to prevent him from entering the house. "

"Then...for sure, the third uncle can't accept gifts from anyone...their two."

"Both Ma Pengcheng and Chu Hao signed up for the five-subject league selection. Ma Pengcheng said that his father said that he deliberately wanted to embarrass his father. I don't understand why Ma Pengcheng signed up. He is not good at studying. Chu Hao said He was chasing after a girl in his class, and when that girl signed up, he also signed up, and then showed her courtesies."

"This... brat, you have a really thick skin."

"Oh, there was a fight in your unit two days ago, it was Uncle Wan and Ding Hongliang.

It seemed to be at the gate. Ding Hongliang and Yuan Xiuhua had a quarrel for some reason. All the aunts said that Ding Hongliang was a man, and no matter what, he couldn't swear at others. Ding Hongliang was not angry, but he didn't dare to say Chu Hao's mother and Aunt Ou, so he just said Aunt Guo. Auntie has the ability to take care of herself.

I heard what Chu Hao and Ma Pengcheng said, and I don't know what happened. It seems that when Ding Hongliang turned his head and walked away, he said that Aunt Guo was a broken shoe. Aunt Guo threw vegetables on his face and scolded him. Ding Hongliang scolded Guo back Auntie, Uncle Wan heard about it and came over to beat Ding Hongliang..."

"Um……"

"Ma Pengcheng's family got a gas tank. He was very happy. He said that now his family can cook quickly. The most important thing is that he doesn't have to carry coal upstairs. He also said that his father is actually a stepfather. I wish I could cut off the meat from my thigh for my son to eat, who would be willing to let my son carry coal...Uncle? Uncle..."

Liu Xia didn't respond.

Mao'er nestled her face against Liu Xia's, rubbed it lightly, sat up slowly, and looked at Liu Xia.

Liu Xia fell asleep, with his head tilted slightly, the corners of his mouth still curled up, as if listening happily.

Mao'er rolled over and knelt there, hugged Liu Xia and lifted him up a bit, and carefully pulled out the quilt he was leaning against.

Liu Xia muttered something, turned over, and stretched out his arms to hug the person: "Well... good cat, cover... cover the baby." He hugged the cat in his sleep, and pulled the cat behind him Quilt.

Cat lay down with his strength, tucked the quilt behind him, turned off the light, squeezed into his arms as usual, put one leg around his waist, and looked at Liu Xia's face in the dark.

My uncle never forgot to let him drink milk before falling asleep, and he never fell asleep while he was talking.

"I knew that when you called me every day, you must not be lying on the bed in the hotel, you must be working until midnight every day, I know you are not obedient at all, but I can't help you.

I can't do anything now, I can only eat, I can only spend your money, I can only... miss you when I have nothing to do..., it's useless... miss you! "

Mao'er stuck her head in Liu Xia's neck, listening to his even and long breathing, felt extremely sad and depressed.