There is no electric light installed on the upper floor, so we turned off the flashlight, and we lay together. Just now, we saw the pots, pots, and rice barns around us. I was a little scared, so I moved closer to Brother Chen Hui, resting my head on his shoulder, or pulling an arm and resting it on my cheek.
"How many days have you asked for leave?" Brother Chen Hui moved his body a little, matching my little child's movements.
"Go down tomorrow." I said.
"Oh, so fast."
After a few seconds of silence, he asked again: "How is your brother now? He left in a hurry this time, and I didn't even have time to chat with him."
"It should be okay. In the past two years, he has been in Guangzhou and I have worked separately in Dongguan. I don't know the specific situation. When we came back together this time, we didn't pay much attention to each other's affairs. I just saw that he seemed to have lost a lot of weight. When we met last time, I lost a lot of weight, and my two eye sockets were very sunken. My mother also lost weight, but my mother may be overworked." I said while thinking about the appearance of my family members I saw this time.
"Oh, he might be thinking too much." After speaking, he turned his body again.
"Before, you were together in Guangzhou for so many years, you should know my brother better?" I suddenly wanted to know Chen Xiong better. Turning sideways, he took out a cigarette and a lighter from the pocket of his trousers.
"How should I put it? People change easily." He took my cigarette, propped up half of his body, lit it, and took a deep breath: "When we first came out, we were in different units, and we didn't often When I met him, I thought he was quite obedient."
"What happened next?" I was curious, and there seemed to be some twists and turns in his tone.
"It's nothing after that. It's just that I met more times and got to know him better. I always feel that he is a bit unrealistic and ambitious. Haha, I have been married for a few years, so it should be better?" Chen Hui turned to flick the cigarette ash again .
"Oh. Give me a specific instance or two."
Brother Chen Hui paused for a while, took a few puffs of cigarettes, turned his head, and said to me: "When you and your uncle came to Guangzhou to pay the training fee, he took great care of you. He entrusted us to treat you well. , to take care of you, saying that it is rare to come here once, it doesn’t matter if you spend some money, I want you to have a good look around, have fun, and don’t be too short on food. In fact, he has no money himself. His job was not good at the time, and he Unstable, and when you were studying in Beijing, you once asked him to buy a Walkman for you to learn English, and he bought it for you immediately. In fact, he borrowed money from me at the time, and told me not to tell you Borrowed money to buy, worried about affecting your study, it can be seen that he is still very good to you, very brotherly."
"Any more?" I asked.
"It's nothing else. He is a good person with a good heart. He just changes jobs frequently. He can't settle down, so he doesn't have any achievements." Brother Chen Hui hesitated for a while. After saying this, he stopped and stopped making a sound. It seems to be a summary.
I was silent for a long time, he thought I was going to sleep, he gently pulled out the arm that was under my head, rubbed it, and said: "Go to sleep, it's getting late." Then he turned his face to one side.
"Well, go to sleep." I also helped him rub the arm that I pressed just now, put a hand on his waist, wrapped around his waist, and listened to his gradual and even breathing, knowing that he had fallen asleep , I still don't feel sleepy. I began to search for some imprints left by my brother Chen Xiong in my mind.
When he first came out in 99, he started to live in Dongguan Shenghu Hotel and lived in their dormitory for a few days. I remember that every time he got off work, he always brought something back, such as coconut juice, fruit drinks like grape raisins, I took it out of my pocket and gave it to me, saying that the leftovers were left by the customer. He picked them up without touching them. That is my sister-in-law now.
Later, I worked in a plywood factory. At the beginning, I was worried that I might need help. In order to facilitate contact, he gave me his own BB machine. Once, the weather suddenly turned cold, and he stepped on his bicycle to deliver me a quilt in the drizzle. When I left, he gave me 100 yuan, and I said no, I still have it, but he insisted on me taking it, worrying that I might need it, and then left. In the cold wind and drizzle, watching his thin and frail figure gradually Going away, disappearing at the end of the road, there is a warm current in my heart.
This is my own brother, this is the first impression he left on me: as long as you are his relatives or friends, even ordinary friends, he can help you with what you need, and he will do his best, even if it is a loss Own.
But I'm not sure if he wants others to do the same because of giving, and believes that everyone is good because of his kindness, even though he sometimes doesn't know what people want, even if sometimes he is actually just stupid.
Not long after he arrived in Houjie that year, he knew that he had a girlfriend who hadn’t registered yet and was pregnant. He was going to tell his mother, but he was also worried that he would not be able to pay the bride price or have the money to hold a banquet, and was afraid that his mother would blame him.
What surprised me all the time was that my brother told me that he knew a foreign friend who often came to the hotel for dinner, so he was acquainted with him. He knew that he had a business nearby, and he wanted to borrow some money from him to help him start a business. It is used to improve the life dilemma that is about to be faced. Asked me to help him write a business agreement letter, I took out my English-Chinese dictionary and Chinese-English dictionary, put together some suffocating sentences, and wrote a full eight or nine pages, trying to borrow 5 to [-] yuan, but it came to my brother Both the sister-in-laws resigned, and the foreign friend didn't give a positive answer.
When I wrote it, I felt very unreliable. What kind of relationship?what kind of friends? In this economic society where money is paramount, two people who have no name, no distinction and no blood relationship would be so rich and generous. I won't try to kill him, but my brother strongly requested and planned a beautiful blueprint.
"At that time, we will take the money and go back to our hometown to open a quarry, and you will sit in the office." My brother said.
"What about Michael?" I wondered.
"As a shareholder, he just needs to make profits." He seems to have planned everything very well.
What is the concept of 5 yuan? At that time, I only knew that it was a lot of money, but whether it could be used to do many things as my brother said was unknown. I ignorantly assisted him. This incident has always impressed me deeply. Until now, thinking about it, I can’t say whether it’s ridicule or admiration. It’s just that sometimes, certain things, he dares to think and do, it has nothing to do with good or bad. This is a matter of personality. Maybe he really lacks a platform, a lack of Bole.
At the end of autumn, the night is dark, the wind and clouds are rising, and the moon is retreating. What's the balcony outside the window? The people around me are peaceful, there is no body odor, no snoring, no bondage and restraint hidden and grown because of love, I hugged Brother Chen Hui's waist, and gradually fell asleep. Dreaming about Lian Yu in the dream, there will be a morning erection in the morning, the sky is bright, and Brother Chen Hui is no longer by his side.
"Good morning, are you up? Mao Ya." The sister-in-law was chopping sweet potato vines in the hall, and had already cut a large basket.
"You are so early, sister-in-law. Are these for drying or cooking now?"
"I'm planning to get some sun. I wonder if there will be sunshine this day?" She touched the back of the knife and turned to look outside the hall. The sky outside the hall turned white, but there was no red glow rising, perhaps it was still early.
"There should be. It doesn't matter if it doesn't. As long as it doesn't rain, the wind will blow easily in this season." I looked back at the radish on the ground and glanced at my hardworking sister-in-law.
"That's right,..." She grabbed another handful of sweet potato vines, raised and lowered her knife, her eyes focused.
The new tomb on the barren mountain is my grandfather's new home. It is located on the mountainside three or four kilometers west of the village. The mountains are like heads and faces, the graves are like the wings of noses, the beard and hair are fluffy, there are many pine trees, and the grass is low when the wind blows, revealing large and small mounds, which are adjacent to grandpa, front, back, left, right, up and down.
The earthen tomb in my hometown is different from the cemetery in the city. It is a long, high mound, surrounded by red bricks and bluestones in front of a half-moon shape called dried noodles. There are handles on both sides, shaped like arms. There is an open space in front of the door. It must be flat and clean for future worship.
Rich people will make the vermicelli open and paste tiles, and the open space in front of the door is also covered with cement and tiles, like a small flower garden. Grandpa’s didn’t have these, and even the open space in front of the door was just a layer of sand and no cement pavement. My father said that it was almost enough, and my mother said that when you have money, choose a good day and auspicious day, and then renovate it.
Mr. Feng Shui and the older elders also said: "It doesn't matter what is going on outside, the key is whether the place where the old man is placed is a treasured place of Feng Shui, and whether it will bless the children and grandchildren...." Facing a valley with gurgling streams all the year round, there is a circular deep pool at the bottom. The water quality is clear, the fish swim gracefully, the bamboo branches are swaying, and the big trees are shady. Ridge, a ribbon at the foot of the mountain, is the main road connecting each village and each house. Grandpa asked Mr. Feng Shui before setting up the place, and set up a compass to choose the sitting direction, which should still be very good.
Withdrawing my gaze, I looked at a stele in the middle of the noodles, with words engraved on it, I squatted down, and the inscription on Grandpa's inscription was written in big characters: It shows the spirit of the old man Chen Wenli. There are also small characters next to it, with my father's name, our brother's name, and the names we will give our respective future sons. I will name my future son Chen Yu, Yu and Yu, with similar sounds.
I stand up and kowtow! I said silently in my heart: Grandpa, Chen Wu has already returned home, you can rest assured, he will come to Dongguan to help me look after the shop in a few days, you can rest in peace!
The sky was clear, and the mood of my family slowly relaxed. I waved my hands and packed my bags. I boarded the car going south alone.