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Chapter Seven Small Town

It has been about two or three days since I returned to the county town. I still clearly remember the look of my fourth uncle when he left. Of course, I mostly recall the look of my fourth aunt crying loudly. Yes, my whole life ended so simply.

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I didn't go over to ask the fourth aunt or anything. She was a hard-working rural woman who wanted her husband to be healthy and strong to support the family. Like many rural daughters-in-law, she secretly took money from my grandmother when she was still alive.

Her steamed buns were given to Fourth Uncle. But all this has passed. In one day, she already looked much older. My ignorant cousin Gouzi could not go back to give his father a bun in the end.

Xiang, sometimes I also wonder, what is the purpose of this life?

Before I left, my fourth aunt put me in the car listlessly and told my fourth uncle to close his eyes and ask her to tell me that if he met a dog somewhere, he should go home. It would be difficult for his mother to be alone at home.

I nodded silently. Although I had a lot of questions, it was obvious that I couldn't ask them at all. My fourth uncle had only talked to me very little before, and there was no trace of the root cause of the disease. Why did he leave just like that?

, this look reminded me of the old man’s death, almost exactly the same, that is, he took a nap, leaving the old lady alone.

What the hell happened all of a sudden? I screamed from the depths of my heart.

The cat has noticed that I am not in a very good mood recently, and often sneaks out to play, and appears in front of me as little as possible. I am indeed very troubled by what happened recently, but I will not take it out on him, but I am happy to be alone.

After returning from my fourth uncle's place, Mao'er and I stayed in a hotel in the county town. Our county town is actually not big. I remember when I was very young, I asked the old man why there were no buses here? There are buses in Beijing.

The old man chuckled and told me, in a county where it takes fifteen minutes to ride a bicycle, would anyone take the shabby public transportation?

I recall the old man's humor at that time, but now the place is indeed connected by bus, but the old man did not have the opportunity to see it with his own eyes.

I called Brother Peng to see when he planned to return to Beijing and chat about some historical issues. It turned out that Brother Peng was very busy recently and had no time to take care of me, so he asked me to wait with peace of mind.

I have lived in this small town for more than ten years, through elementary school, junior high school and high school. I can't even call it a stranger. It's just that the past few years have changed so much that my feelings for this small town have become indifferent.

I was also idle and panicking, so I went downstairs and walked on the street. The year I left, when I was in junior high school, the land under my feet was still full of wheat. The teacher organized our spring outing, and this is where we came. At that time, I didn’t know who shouted

Remember to collect the specimens! Then hundreds of students began to tear the green wheat. A large piece of wheat suffered a disaster, and the teacher had to be patient for a long time.

Nowadays, it has become the city center, with many governments, courts and high-end residential areas. There is also a large shopping mall not far away, which makes it more and more like a big city. Not far from the south, there are various hotels and restaurants.

Everything is complete, and there is really no way out of the mountains and rivers, and there is a bright future in another village. Keeping a close distance with all major administrative units, it seems that these bosses have a good vision.

In fact, I feel that no matter where I go in Chinese cities, there will be a People's Square near the government, big or small, and completely empty. I was a little tired from walking, so I sat in this mini People's Square and started thinking wildly.

Not long after, I noticed someone patting me from behind. When I turned my head, there was nothing behind me. Damn, who was playing a prank? When I turned around, I only saw a big belly blocking my face.

"What the hell?" I yelled.

"Brother Fei, it's me!" the pot-bellied owner replied.

"Who are you?" I looked at her belly and couldn't recognize her.

"Damn it, you haven't recognized me since we haven't seen each other for a few years?" the owner of the belly said angrily.

"I'm sorry, you look really unfamiliar. If it's convenient, can you let me see your face?" I said to my stomach.

The big belly said "Oh" and then took a few steps back. Slowly, I saw that huge face.

"Fuck, old gourd! Why are you so fat now?" I shouted in surprise.

Calabash is my classmate in high school. He can eat well and sleep well, but he used to be as thin as me. Now that he is so fat, how can I still recognize his belly that used to have four-pack abs?

"It's hard to put it into words. It's all caused by this society. I said, you haven't come back to see your brother in a few years. Where did you get rich recently? Is there any way to introduce him?" Hulu said very rudely.

"I was begging for food in Beijing recently. I almost lost my life when I went out to play in the first time. Now I am really miserable. I am not coming back to join you." I said jokingly.

"Fuck you uncle, I want to go to Beijing to beg for food but there is no way. You can travel to places where you will die if you want to beg for food. In a poor place like ours, if you want to jump into a river, you must be in good condition and be one meter tall.

It is difficult to drown if you are above 4."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, find a place to sit for a while?" I asked.

"No problem, let's go, a pot of fragrance."

Yi Guo Xiang'er was a place we often went to hang out in middle school. We didn't drink much at that time, and the owner here knew us. Every time, the pot was always full of donkey meat, which was enough for four or five people to eat.

It’s cool. Nowadays, it’s really a different experience to travel to the old place.

Hulu called his old friend Lao Ma and Jin Dou to keep him company. They were both good friends whom he hadn't seen in many years. Naturally, he had a lot to talk about.

Our county has a lot of wine, and every scene is inseparable from wine. Moreover, we drink very fiercely and love to play games. Generally, if there are only one or two people at a table, it is not considered a good drink. When I was in school, I would often see people on the street.

It is not uncommon for people to fall asleep and freeze to death on the roadside in unlucky winters.

As the next generation of flowers in the county, we are not to be outdone. Since the introduction of non-vegetarian food, my alcohol consumption has increased year by year. I used to be considered a good drinker after two bottles of beer, but now more than ten bottles are no problem.

When the second bottle of Laobaigan was opened, our conversation started.

After graduating from Hulu University, he had nothing to do. He looked for a job in the city where he went to university, but he hit a wall everywhere. The design major he studied was useless. In the end, he worked as a tally clerk in a supermarket. After working for a while, he suddenly realized that he had the strength to survive.

There was nothing he could do, and the money from the supermarket was too little. So the prodigal son turned around and returned to the small county where he was born and raised, and worked in the field. These days, managers really don’t make as much money as workers. Over the past few years, there has been so much

With savings of more than ten or two hundred thousand, he is now a foreman and living a well-off life.

Lao Ma is a bit of a jerk. He travels all year round, running here and there. One day he’s still in Jiangxi on the phone, but tomorrow he’ll be too far away. He suffers all the year round, and by the end of the year he hasn’t saved any money. He was so fat that year.

He looked like a talented man, but now he is black and skinny, and he is farming at home looking for a wife.

Jindou is okay, I studied geological exploration, and my main task is to discover and exploit oil. During college, I often went to the mountains and old forests, knocking all kinds of stones. I can tell from the sound and color that this stone is from the Cretaceous period.

The one is from the Triassic. Sadly, he worked for four years, and after graduation, he was assigned to the offshore exploration department of CNOOC through connections. Just like the ancient exile, a small boat was sent to take you back to the ocean.

On an isolated island, he looked at various oil extraction machines and could not return to the mainland for a long time. Now he has excused himself from going to sea to take the postgraduate entrance examination. I am studying at home.

Not to mention, the gnawing old clan, relying on the old man’s savings during his lifetime, bought a property in the n ring of Beijing, and made do with it to support themselves, they are also the moonlight clan. This is not what happened after the Kanas experience.

I rely on Xiaoxue's charity for work, and I still have tens of thousands of dollars in hand, which I have to share with Mao'er.

As they talked, the four of them fell silent. Damn, this atmosphere was a little bit wrong.

"I said Hulu, you were very good at geography back then. Why don't you learn some address prospecting like Jin Dou'er?" I wanted to liven up the atmosphere.

"It's not that I didn't want to. In fact, I wanted to apply for an engineering design major at that time. I was afraid that I wouldn't get enough marks, so I chose interior design just in case. The size can be considered engineering. But in the end, I should never have obeyed the adjustment, and I just gave it.

It's divided into advertising design. This damn major is really useless. It's just a school, but there are a lot of outstanding people." Hulu picked up the cup and drank it in one gulp.

"It's useless to study geological prospecting. There is no place in China where you can knock out rocks. Even if you knock out the stone, the credit belongs to the leader. Should you be a soldier or a soldier? You won't get any shit credit at all." Jin Dou'er stammered.

, it seems that he can’t measure it.

Lao Ma sat there without saying a word, drinking sullenly.

"What are you doing, Brother Marco?" I asked.

"It's nothing. You are all pursuing careers. At least you still have something to look forward to. Now that I have graduated from college, I am still a farmer. I have studied for so many years in vain." After saying that, he actually started crying.

Drinking something like wine makes people easily emotional and makes them vulnerable. We understand his inner thoughts. In the final analysis, he still makes too little money. If a sum of money really fell from the sky, who would work every day to marry him?

Daughter-in-law, I am worried about building a house. This is a material world, and people are more realistic than others. Otherwise, only friends from school days are real friends, because there are not many interests between the two.

relation.

"Don't be sad, buddy. You are short of money, but I am even worse off than you. My life may be in danger now." In fact, I felt that I was a little drunk at the time, but I really couldn't control myself.

mouth.

"Why?" the three of them asked in unison.

So with my mouth bald, I gave a general summary of what happened before. I was surprised that I even skimmed over some key parts, and heard the three of them open their mouths wide and unable to close them.
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