Back to the Northeast 1970

The old Yan’s family encountered so many things one after another, and the family didn’t have much time to prepare for the New Year. During the few days when Yan Baoshu was in a coma, Yan Yongxing took the old father and his eldest brother Yan Yonggui to find a place for them. Burial, the cemetery is the cheapest, and this juncture is not the time to be ostentatious, so the burial of Mr. Yan and Yan Yonggui is urgent and simple. No one dares to burn paper, kowtow, and cry. On the night after the burial, Jin Guiqin took a few children and secretly burned some paper in the yard of her home, without daring to cry.

The dead are dead, and the living still have to look forward after all. It's just that after the old Yan's family lost the backbone of Yan Yonggui, everyone seemed to have no energy, and the depressive atmosphere lingered wantonly in this dilapidated family. Only Yan Baoshu gradually "woke up" after a serious illness.

Yan Baoshu was able to get off the kang for activities on the third day after waking up. The cotton-padded jacket he was wearing had also been retouched by Yan Yufen and Jin Guiqin. You could clearly feel the increase in thickness when wearing it, and the padded jacket and trousers were re-waxed This layer of cotton was also taken out of Yan Yonggui's old clothes. In Jin Guiqin's words, "Wear warm and let your father bless you by the way."

Inexplicably, Yan Baoshu felt that Jin Guiqin was scaring him, but the warmth was really warm. This morning, Yan Baoshu took advantage of Yan Baofu's departure, so he said, "Brother, wait for me for a while." Yan Baoshu turned his head and said Jin Guiqin, who was cleaning up the dishes, said, "Mom, give me some money. I want to go to Captain Li."

Jin Guiqin was right when he thought about it. Captain Li saved his two sons at once. He should go and thank him out of emotion and reason. You can't let others poke your spine from behind, right?Jin Guiqin didn't hesitate, and didn't even look distressed at all. She took out a piece of floral cloth from her pocket, opened it, and carefully counted two yuan. "Go to the supply and marketing cooperative to see what you can buy. Our family is not rich. It looks like it’s the Chinese New Year now, and I have to save some New Year’s goods.”

Yan Baoshu understood and understood Jin Guiqin's difficulties, and then only took one yuan from her hand, "This is enough."

Jin Guiqin was surprised and said, "This...isn't it a little bit?"

Yan Baoshu smiled and said, "It's quite a lot based on our family's conditions." After speaking, Yan Baoshu took the satchel from the table, stuffed the change into the bag, and said to Yan Baofu who was waiting on the side: "Brother, let's go , you take me directly to Captain Li’s house, do you know it’s in Nagada?”

"I should know." Yan Baofu still has a little impression of where Captain Li lives in his memory, "Why don't you go directly to the production team to find Captain Li?"

Yan Baoshu laughed and said, "How can Captain Li accept our 'thank you' in front of so many people in the production team?"

Yan Baofu smiled wryly and said: "Look at my brain, I can't think of anything now, it's all covered in that elm bump."

Yan Baoshu and Yan Baofu arrived in the yard. When Yan Baofu took his bicycle out from Pian Shazi, the door of the old Yan’s house was suddenly pushed open. Yan Baoshu looked at the door curiously but didn’t see anyone coming in. The head of the cotton hat poked in, and Lu Xiangbei bared his white teeth and smiled, "Why, you have to go out."

Yan Baoshu nodded with a smile. During the period when he was recuperating at home, Lu Xiangbei and Gu Jun came to see him almost twice a day, and every time he came back, he had to bring something fun, such as the cigarettes Lu Xiangbei collected. The box is over, the red dates that Gu Jun bought for him from the grocery store, or Lu Xiangbei had two pairs of new socks that he didn't want to wear, so he gave them to Yan Baoshu.

The socks that Yan Baoshu was wearing today were brought by Lu Xiangbei, they are made of good material, and they are very soft to wear.The moment Yan Baoshu saw Lu Xiangbei's smiling face, an imaginary heat spread directly from the soles of his feet to every part of his body, and finally reached the bottom of his heart.

Gu Jun poked his head out after Lu Xiangbei, and asked with a smile, "Why are you not at home to rest this early in the morning?"

Yan Baoshu said: "I've been bored with my family for several days. I wanted to visit Captain Li of the production team first, thank him for saving his life, and then go to you and Xiangbei." Yan Baoshu was talking, Yan Baofu has already pushed out the bicycle parked in the Pianshazi. Since the death of Mr. Yan, the Pianshazi has become a warehouse, which not only raises chickens, but also parks the bicycles of Yan Baofu and Yan Yufen. Even some rags were moved in.

"Xiang Bei and Gu Jun are here!" Yan Baofu had gotten acquainted with these two boys in the past few days. After all, he was older than Lu Xiangbei and Gu Jun, so there was nothing wrong with calling them by their names.

"Yeah." Lu Xiangbei just opened the door and came in now, the bag in his hand was bulging, "Brother Baofu, go to work, send the treasure book to Captain Li, then Gu Jun and I will send it to you." Bar."

Yan Baofu looked back at Yan Baoshu, "Is it okay?"

Yan Baoshu nodded with a smile, "Okay, there's nothing wrong with it, brother, go to work quickly."

"Okay, I'm leaving, you ride slowly on the road, the roads have been completely icy in the past two days." Saying this, Yan Baofu pushed his bicycle out of the yard.

Yan Baoshu looked at the bag in Lu Xiangbei's hand, and asked with a smile, "What did this bring me?"

Lu Xiangbei said proudly, "Guess?"

Yan Baoshu deliberately joked, "Don't you bring the underpants you didn't wear?"

Lu Xiangbei sighed, "It's fine if you can still fight with me." Lu Xiangbei and Gu Jun walked over together, hooked Yan Baoshu's shoulders from left to right, and said while shaking: "Gu Jun and I Jun always said these two days, I'm really afraid that the things in your family will make you feel too uncomfortable, when the time comes..."

Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Yan Baoshu asked, "What's the matter? Are you afraid I'll be devastated?"

"It's not a big deal." Gu Jun looked up to the sky and sighed, "It's just me and Xiang Bei who have been coming to your house these days, looking at your mother, looking at your brother and sister, and now even the heartless Yan Baolong They're all listless, do you think we can stop worrying?" As he spoke, Gu Jun turned his head and glanced into the room, "Where's that boy Baolong? Did he make you angry?"

Yan Baoshu shook his head, "No, Baolong is more honest than anyone these days, and he didn't say that Yufang Yuxiang is a girl's movie when he was eating." Although Yan Baoshu was sick in bed after waking up, he was not idle , I am always thinking about how to renovate this "home". The first step is not to eat at separate tables. Girls and boys all sit at the same table, and eat whatever you want. Isn't it good to respect and love each other?

In the past, the girls of the old Yan’s family either ate on the floor table or squatted in front of the stove to eat a bite. Now, this family no longer has any kang tables and floor tables, and all of them are on the kang. Although Yan Yonggui passed away, the whole family The emotions are not very high, but Yan Baoshu believes that it is only a matter of time. After the grief of the death of their loved ones gradually fades, they will definitely be able to find out what it looks like to be a family twisted together.

"Let's not talk about this, okay?" Lu Xiangbei stopped the continuation of this topic, but picked up the bag and shook it in front of Yan Baoshu's eyes, "My mother's big meat buns are delicious, and Gu Jun made six in the morning. Can you believe it?" Lu Xiangbei laughed loudly: "He couldn't even walk because of it."

Yan Baoshu went to the bag and sniffed it, "Well, it smells so good, but I've finished my breakfast, so I really don't have room to pack it."

"That's easy to handle. Put it at home and ask Aunt Jin to feed you some food in the evening." Lu Xiangbei seemed to have entered his own house, and kept opening the door to the outbuilding. It happened that Jin Guiqin was washing the dishes and saw Lu Xiangbei enter the door She finally had a smile on her face, "Come to the north, Baoshu and his brother are out."

"Aunt Jin, Baoshu is out there. I let Brother Baofu go to work, and I will take care of going to Captain Li's house."

Jin Guiqin sighed, "Xiangbei, you are such a good boy. You said that Baoshu is a blessing to know such a good friend like you."

Lu Xiangbei rubbed his nose embarrassingly, "Aunt Jin, don't praise me, I can't help it." After speaking, Lu Xiangbei walked over and put the bag on the cutting board, "Aunt Jin, this is my Mom’s meat buns, she knows that Baoshu likes to eat, so she asked me to bring some over.” Lu Xiangbei spoke in front of Lao Yan’s family either with thorns or with guns and sticks, and what he said just now was obviously telling Jin Guiqin, you only cared about the news that your youngest son treated Yan Baoshu badly.

Jin Guiqin's face flushed, and she didn't smile or not.

"Aunt Jin, I'm going out with the treasure book. Don't worry about his safety. I'm here." After all, Lu Xiangbei is a straight-hearted person. Although he should not take care of the old Yan's family affairs as an outsider, he really can't understand his own. The brothers were treated by this pair, and their hearts were full of flesh. Everyone outside of him knew that he loved Yan Baoshu. Why are you parents so careless?

After leaving the house, Yan Baoshu slapped Lu Xiangbei on the shoulder mercilessly, and said with a smile, "You have shown your insinuations again."

Lu Xiangbei patted the front of the bicycle and said with a smile, "Hurry up, don't we have to go to Captain Li's house?"

Yan Baoshu got into the car, and the three of them chattered as they moved forward, "Baoshu, don't blame your brother for speaking upright, you said your father beat you up, what will happen to this family? It depends on your brother or your sister?" Gu Jun said It's just a fact, a fact that everyone would consider, "Oh, by the way, I heard that Brother Baofu also has Brother Baoshan? What about others?"

As soon as Yan Baoshan was mentioned, Yan Baoshu seemed helpless. Yan Baofu went to the post office to send a telegram to Yan Yonggui, but there was no reply from Yan Baoshan until the day after Yan Yonggui and Mr. Yan were buried. There was a reply from Baoshan, with only a handful of words, "There is a lot of work on the farm, and I can't get away from it."

Jin Guiqin was so heartbroken when she held this telegram, she kept scratching her legs and said, "Baby Baoshan hates his father. How long has it been? He can't get over this hurdle in his heart." .”

Yan Baoshu didn't ask about Yan Baoshan's going to the countryside at that time. I heard that the city he went to the countryside was not too far away from his home, and he could get there by train overnight. However, Yan Baoshan did not come back, just as Jin Guiqin said, Yan Baoshan hates Yan Yonggui, and in this family, he is the one who hates Yan Yonggui the most.

"I'm busy over there, my elder brother can't come back."

Lu Xiangbei secretly glanced at Gu Jun, Gu Jun quickly shut up and didn't dare to mention it again.After that, Lu Xiangbei picked up a topic and chatted casually. When he arrived at the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative, Yan Baoshu jumped out of Lu Xiangbei's car, and spoke to Gu with a very small voice while Lu Xiangbei locked the car. Jun said a word, "I agree to cooperate with you."

The author has something to say:

Yan Baoshan, the invisible big brother, was dragged out by me. I will spoil it here in advance. Yan Baoshan will be one of Yan Baoshu's best helpers in the near future, the master who earns a lot of money.