There are several rooms built in the backyard of the small supermarket. The courtyard is paved with cement floors, which is quite clean and tidy.

Tang Feng led Tang Yi and others into a wing room. It was very warm with an earth-heated radiator. There were not many furnishings, a simple double bed, an old-style writing desk from the early days of reform, and two wooden chairs.

Tang Feng greeted everyone to "sit on the Kang", then took a set of orchid glasses from the iron plate on the desk, poured hot water for Tang Yi and others, and said, "You guys, are you from Yanshan?"

Tang Yi looked at the room silently and asked: "This is it?"

"Ah, this is my brother's room." Tangyi said sheepishly, Xiaoxiao, with white teeth and a beautiful smile, "He is very clean and lives with his parents-in-law.

Tang Yi nodded and asked: "Your mother-in-law?"

Tang Feng immediately said: "Actually, she is quite nice. It's not what you think, it's because I'm ignorant. Look, how warm is the heater in my brother's room? Coal prices are high now, and there are no people in town who use heaters during the day.

Some of them, my brother is not at home during the day, isn't it?

Don’t you have the courage to ask my brother to turn off the heating?”

After a pause, he added: "My brother eats here and pays 80 yuan for food every month. He also lives here and doesn't have to pay for gas. How can any mother-in-law tolerate it if it were in another house?

You said, right?"

Tang Yi smiled and said: "You are so kind to your brother." Looking at Tang Feng who said Tang Xiong had an unusually soft and beautiful smile, Tang Yi suddenly felt warm in his heart. This is his sister, an amiable and respectable sister.

Tang Feng said: "Yeah, I can't find my brother. If I don't treat him well, who can I treat him well? My parents have passed away again, and if I don't treat him well, who can treat him well?" Tang Feng's eyes gradually faded as he talked about his younger brother and parents.

Tang Yi was silent for a while and asked: "You, how did your parents pass away?"

Tang Feng sighed, his eyes a little confused, as if he remembered the most difficult time again, "Father, my father was hit by a car and died. Mother, after my father passed away, my mother seemed to be in trouble. She was diagnosed with the disease the next year.

cancer......"

Tang Yi nodded and lit another cigarette.

The room fell silent. Qi Jie just sat next to Tang Yi and gently held his hand. Shi San and Zhao Shan did not interrupt.

"Tell me, tell me about him."

Tang Feng looked at Tang Yi with a complicated expression. He wanted to hear the news about his brother, but was afraid that it would make him sadder.

Tang Yi was silent, his voice a little dry, "He, he was very happy, and there was no pain when he left..."

"Well..." Tang Feng was stunned. He suddenly covered his mouth with his hands and choked up sadly. His crying became louder and louder. Qi Jie glanced at Tang Yi, then came to Tang Feng's side and gently

Hug her gently to comfort her.

Seeing Tang Feng heartbroken, Tang Yi was in unbearable pain. He wanted to sit next to Tang Feng and comfort her, but he couldn't...

"Thank you, thank you..." Tang Feng burst into tears, "He, as long as he didn't feel any pain when he left..."

After finishing one cigarette, Tang Yi lit another one.

Tang Feng's crying gradually became quieter, and Qi Jie asked her in a low voice: "How about you sleep for a while?"

Tang Feng shook his head, slowly wiped away the tears on his face, lowered his head and whispered: "I, I'm fine."

After a while, Tang Feng finally raised his head and looked at Tang Yi: "You, I want to visit his grave."

Qi Jie said: "Let's wait until we have time. It will definitely not work in these two days."

Tomorrow morning Tang Yi will rush back to the provincial capital to attend the Provisional Standing Committee meeting. It is Tang Yi's initiative. He will naturally implement the appointment of Yanqing Municipal Party Committee Secretary before going to Africa. Tomorrow afternoon, Tang Yi will lead a government delegation to Africa.

.

Tang Feng grumbled and said, "I'll go out for a while. You guys sit down, don't, don't leave." Finally, he looked at Tang Yi and Qi Jie anxiously."

Tang Yi knew that she was very sad. After calming down for a while, he nodded and said: "Don't worry, I also want to meet your brother. Can I be considered your mother's family?"

Tang Feng was slightly startled, and then said happily: "Of course, Xiaoyi, Xiaoyi also hopes that we can be a family, right?"

Tang Yi forced a smile: "We are a family."

Tang Feng was a little surprised, but she didn't know why she felt close to Sugarcoat. It was like, she didn't know what she thought of, and her eye circles suddenly turned red again. She nodded and said: "You guys sit down, you guys sit down first."

!" He quickly walked out of the compartment.

house.

Looking at Tang Yi who was looking out the window silently, Qi Jie shook his hand hard and said softly: "Don't be too sad." Although she was a little puzzled by Tang Yi's abnormal behavior, Ailang seemed cold and even cold.

To say that it is becoming colder is just old age.

The mask of a person in a high position. In his heart, Ai Lang is actually very emotional. Perhaps, he had a really deep relationship with the little Tang Yi who passed away!

Tang Yi nodded slightly without saying a word.

It was already more than half an hour later when Tang Feng came back again. Her eye circles were red and swollen, and she had obviously cried again, but she was in much better spirits than before. She raised the cotton curtain and came in and said embarrassedly: "You've been waiting for a long time.

,I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong.”

Tang Yi stood up and asked: "Do you have time? I want to visit your parents' graves."

Tang Feng was slightly startled, then nodded and said, "Yes, I should go and see it."

The music on his mobile phone suddenly started playing. Tang Feng took out his mobile phone from the pocket of his down jacket. Nowadays, as long as they are not in remote mountainous areas, most rural people have mobile phones. At least the heads of households basically have them. Tang Feng has a mobile phone.

What is rare

Strange things.

After answering the phone and saying a few words, Tang Feng's expression changed. He hung up the phone and said urgently: "I have to go out. Please wait a moment. I'll be back soon?"

Seeing her panic, Qi Jie asked with concern: "What's wrong? Can you tell us?"

Tang Feng hesitated for a moment and said: "It's my brother. He was fighting with someone. He is at the police station. The police station asked me to pick him up!"

Tang Yi frowned, why does Tang Xiong always have his sister to worry about? He just lives in his sister's house, how old is he, but he still has to fight and cause trouble.

It was not convenient to say much at this time, so I just said: "Take them together, our car is outside."

Tang Feng hesitated and finally nodded.

When they were passing through the small supermarket, Tang Feng's mother-in-law spoke very rudely, "Tang Feng, are you done with your older brother? How long has your younger brother been dead? You are asking for random kisses, and you don't even know how to fight.

What idea do you have! Call a taxi even if you drive a broken van..." The following words seemed to be muttered by oneself, but Tang Yi and others heard clearly. The mother-in-law glanced sideways at Tang Yi and others, looking extremely wary.

Naturally, Tang Feng told his mother-in-law about his younger brother on the way and begged her mother-in-law to forgive her and give him some time. As her mother-in-law was from a wealthy family and was a well-known person in the town, she naturally had learned from past mistakes and was afraid of her daughter-in-law's kiss coming to eat at a wealthy family.

When rural people see a van, they

It is normal to be a low-end product, not to mention that these days, well-dressed city people come to the countryside to cheat money and sell things. There are too many people who are deceiving people and engaging in pyramid schemes. Especially the two-year pilot program in Kuancheng has greatly increased rural incomes.

Scammers from the city are like crucian carp crossing the river.

At this time, Tang Feng naturally did not dare to say that his brother was at the police station. He lowered his head and said, "I, I'm going to do something." He rushed out of the supermarket. As for being scolded by his mother-in-law when he came back, he didn't care.

After getting into the Citroën, Tang Yi frowned and asked, "Tang Xiong often goes to the police station?"

Tang Feng said anxiously: "No, that's why I'm worried. My brother, Teacher Ke, has never caused any trouble. You'll know it when you see him. Why did you go to the police station today? It's not like something big happened, right?"

Tang Yi nodded.

As if aware that Tang Yi and others might have a bad impression of Tang Xiong, she hurriedly defended: "Don't think that my brother is ignorant. He has always said that he is moving out. I want him to save more money. I want him to

I begged him to endure it, so he endured it at my mother-in-law's house. If I endure it for another year or two and borrow some money, my brother can build three new houses and marry Xiaoling."

At this point, Tang Feng just smiled and said, "My brother is twenty-eight, and Xiaoling is only twenty. She is several years younger than me, but he just likes my brother."

Xiaoling is also beautiful. She works in a garment factory in the town. If my brother is not a good person, can Xiaoling follow him wholeheartedly? Xiaoling said that she likes that my brother is down-to-earth and can endure hardships." Speaking of Xiaoling,

Tang Feng was obviously happy. It was obvious that in her depressing life, her brother's romance and marriage with Xiaoling was the most exciting thing for her.

Seeing that Tang Feng was gradually regaining his energy, Tang Yi smiled with relief and stopped saying anything.

In front of the majestic compound of the police station, stood a young girl wearing a yellow down jacket. She was quite beautiful. When she saw Tang Feng getting out of the car, the girl hurriedly ran over. Before she even got there, her eye circles were red, and she grabbed her

Tang Feng raised his hand and said with some fear: "Sister, Tang Xiong is still inside, it's all my fault. Sister, I, I'm afraid..." After saying that, he lowered his head, blah blah blah

shed tears.

Tang Feng was stunned. He hugged her to comfort her and asked her what was wrong.

Xiaoling just said "I", when she saw Tang Yi and others beside Tang Feng, her face turned red and she stopped talking.

Tang Feng said anxiously: "Tell me quickly, what's going on? There are no outsiders here!"

Xiaoling then started talking intermittently. It turned out that Tang Xiong was fighting because of Xiaoling. A small foreman in Xiaoling's factory had an affair with Xiaoling before. Later, Xiaoling felt that this man was unreliable.

So I broke up with him. Today, for some reason, that worker was sitting at the same table as Tang Xiong in the restaurant, talking about Xiaoling, and even drank.

Somewhat tall, the foreman began to show off that Xiaoling had kissed him, and vividly described how sweet Xiaoling's tongue was. When Tang Xiong heard this, he became angry and started fighting with the foreman on the spot. Everyone pulled away and the two of them

They started fighting again, and finally someone from the police station came to mediate. The two still fought fiercely, and finally the police from the police station got angry and took them away in handcuffs.

Xiaoling blushed, grabbed Tang Feng's hand in fear, and said, "Sister, he, he doesn't want me anymore, right?"

Tang Feng laughed, thinking it was a big deal. He finally breathed a sigh of relief and hugged Xiaoling to comfort him, "How could it be? If he dares to abandon you because of this matter, I will be the first to not spare him!"

Tang Yi and Qi Jie looked at each other and smiled. Even in rural areas, simple girls like Xiaoling are rare nowadays.

Tang Yi even felt that it seemed that Tang Feng and Tang Xiong had a difficult life, but in fact Tang Feng's cousins ​​all had their own happiness, which was not something outsiders could judge.

Tang Feng entered the police station by himself. Xiaoling greeted Tang Yi and others shyly, but Qi Jie took her hand and whispered a few words. Soon the two of them started scolding each other and whispering something.

After a while, a tall and strong man followed Tang Feng out of the courtyard. The man was tall and upright, with his head drooped, following Tang Feng. Tang Feng didn't know what he was saying to him.
To be continued...