2020- 12-23

Lu Zheng packed his luggage and moved from his small building to the living room downstairs. When he heard the banging of pots and pans in the kitchen and knew that his wife had finished washing the breakfast bowl, he said to Zheng Xiaodou, who was playing with building blocks, "Xiaodou, dad went to work in the county." You should be sensible at home and study hard. I'm leaving. "Say that finish, back luggage out of the door. He knew this had reached the kitchen, and his wife Zhang Hongmei, who had been in the cold war for more than ten days, also heard it.

When he walked to the roadside outside the door, he suddenly stopped again. Looking back, abortion stood at the door with his mouth open, staring blankly at himself. Lu Zheng waved to adzuki bean. Adzuki bean began to wipe away tears, then raised his little hand. At this time, Lu Zheng saw Zhang Hongmei go to adzuki bean and looked at himself with some doubts and confusion. He immediately turned his head and walked quickly towards the station.

Today is only the eighth day of the lunar new year, and he went out. If it is in previous years, he usually has to wait until after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. At that time, he needed to bear the heavy burden of preparation and work, and set off for distant coastal cities with the expectation of the whole family for one year. This time, he only went to a county not far away. He just wants to leave this house as soon as possible, the sooner the better. After leaving home, he felt as if he had got rid of the thick dark clouds hanging over the house and even breathed a lot more smoothly.

1、

Lu Zheng is a mason. For more than ten years, he has been working on the construction site of developed coastal cities with the fat Zhao in the village. For the same job, the salary in the field can be much higher than that in the local area. He works hard to make money. After paying his salary every month, he only left a little basic living expenses, and all the rest were transferred to his wife's bank card.

He worked hard outside for many years, and got a house built by himself, and it was built by the road near the township street, which made their whole family very proud. This small building has two floors and eight rooms. Lu Zheng's parents said it was more convenient to do farm work in the old house, and they didn't move to a new house, and Lu Zheng didn't come back until the Spring Festival, so only Zhang Hongmei and Adzuki bean lived in this house at ordinary times, and most of the rooms were empty.

Even if the house is empty, it looks substantial to Lu Zheng.

But in a few years, it is out of fashion to build a small building in their hometown, and many migrant workers have bought commercial houses in the county. This gave Lu Zheng a new direction of struggle. He told Zhang Hongmei that he would also work hard, earn more money, buy a house in the city in the county and live the life of an uptown.

He tried his best to find more work outside and wanted to earn more money and deposit it in his wife's bank card. It is also economical for a wife to take care of her children at home. Every time Lu Zheng hears his wife talking about the increasing number of bank cards on the phone, it will make him excited and make him full of enthusiasm and motivation for his work.

Before the Spring Festival this year, Lu Zheng took the Spring Festival travel rush train for more than 50 hours and got home on the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month. His wife and son are very happy. He bought a set of building blocks for his son and brought back dried seafood with coastal characteristics to his family and relatives. In the afternoon, Lu Zheng asked Xiaoyue to call her grandparents in the old house. When the old man came over, he brought a few strings of freshly smoked bacon and sausages. In the evening, the whole family got together and had a reunion dinner happily. In the evening, Abortion's mother-in-law grandpa is leaving. Lu Zheng said that she can stay here and go back without getting dark. The old man insisted on going back to look after chickens, ducks and rabbits. Lu Zheng can only send the old people back to their old houses. When I came back again, adzuki bean, who had been excited all day, was already sleepy. As the saying goes, a long separation is better than a new marriage, and the young couple lingered until late at night before falling asleep.

The next day, he brought some sausages made by his parents and gave them to fatty Zhao in the same village. Fat Zhao is the foreman of the bricklayer's team in their coastal area. He arranged for his wife Ada to do some simple work on the construction site, but her salary was not less than others. Just yesterday, the couple came back from the coastal area with Lu Zheng. They are very cold at home and want to have a lively Spring Festival in their hometown, but they haven't come up with anything yet. Seeing that Lu Zheng has brought some good things, I'm glad to invite him to my house.

Fat Zhao handed the cigarette and waved: "You know I don't smoke at ordinary times."

Fat Zhao said, "You just know how to change money!"

Zheng Lu said, "Thanks to you this year, you have arranged more work for me than others. In this way, if I work for another year, I can mortgage a house in the county with a down payment of 50%! "

Fat Zhao: "Ha ha ha, ok! Lu Zheng, I know you are willing to do it, but you should also pay attention to your health. Usually eat better and keep up with nutrition. " Leaders like people who can work hard.

Ada also came over and said, "Lu Zheng, you have worked hard to earn money to buy a house, but you also have to keep your money tight so that people can't spend it indiscriminately."

Lu Zheng thought there was some truth in Ada's words and asked, "Liu Yaner, how do you say this?"

"Ah, I heard Zhou Jia's daughter-in-law tell me yesterday. She said that your daughter-in-law Hongmei-well, forget it, it's just hearsay, not necessarily true, stop it. "

"No, no, no! Liu Yaner, tell me anyway! You must say it! " Lu Zheng some anxious.

"Ah, you also don't take it to heart. Just because you have a good relationship with our fat man, I hope you can grow a mind's eye, "Ada looked at Lu Zheng with a dignified face, or squeezed words through his teeth. "Zhou's daughter-in-law said that she said that your wife often associates with Zhang of the township government-"

"Liu Yaner!" Fat Zhao interrupted and snapped, "What are you talking about?"

"What are you implying to me? I don't know. I heard it from someone else. Aunt Wang also told me about it last night. They said that Hongmei bought some new clothes this year and often went to see Liu. She is wearing a necklace, and I don't know if she bought it herself or gave it to Zhang. " When she came back, she looked pale and said, "I did it for the good of the Zheng brothers!" "

"Well, don't talk nonsense again!" Zhao fatty still think Ada said this inappropriate.

He looked down at Lu Zheng, trembling with anger, and hurriedly handed him a cigarette. Lu Zheng didn't answer.

Fat Zhao said, "I believe Hongmei has been with our Zheng brothers for more than ten years, and has saved enough money for her family, so she can buy a house in the city soon. Such a good woman is hard to find with lanterns and torches! " He handed the cigarette to Lu Zheng again, and this time Lu Zheng took it. Fat Zhao was about to turn on the lighter to light a cigarette, but immediately stood up and said in a low voice, "Thank you, I should go back!" "

"Sit down for a while and eat here at noon!" Zhao fatty retain way.

"No need." Lu Zheng said.

"Brother Feng, I don't think it's true. Don't take it to heart!" Yan Liu see Lu Zheng a sullen immediately out of the door, and said, "Lu Zheng, you must just hold your horses-"words didn't say that finish and disappeared.

Fat Zhao glared at Ada angrily and said, "What a big mouth! Look what you have done! "

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Lu Zheng heard from Zhang Hongmei last year that a new person named Zhang Jing came to the town government, who was her junior high school classmate. He didn't care at the time. Unexpectedly, they dared to do something secretly behind their backs. This matter, absolutely can't stop there!

Lu Zheng rushed into his door and shouted, "Zhang Hongmei, come out with me!"

Zhang Hongmei heard her husband's voice in the kitchen. I don't know what happened. I hurried to the living room. With doubt, I nervously asked, "What's the matter?"

Lu Zheng went up to him, 1 of "pa", long slap ruthlessly fan in Zhang Hongmei's face, suddenly that white face to five red fingerprints. She was completely at a loss except to cover her painful face with her hand. Lu Zheng pulled up her collar and asked savagely, "Necklace! Where's your necklace? " Zhang Hongmei shook his head with tears in his eyes. Lu Zheng pulled the collar of his coat twice and tore several buttons of some clothes inside and outside. There is no necklace around the white neck.

At this moment, Zheng Xiaodou ran downstairs after hearing the rude voice, saw his mother being bullied, came over and held Zhang Hongmei's thigh, and looked at the opposite person with frightened eyes-a person who can eat people alive, who is not at home all the year round, which is a bit strange but can only be called Dad.

"You take out your passbook, hurry up!" Lu Zheng shouted to Zhang Hongmei. Zhang Hongmei shivered and reached into the innermost pocket of the torn coat and slowly took out a small red book. Lu Zheng immediately reached out and took it, which was all their savings. He took this temperature passbook and quickly turned to the last two pages. When he saw that there was no doubt, he immediately folded it and put it in his pocket.

"This family won't let you manage it!" Lu Zheng yelled again, "If you have a good place to go, get out early!" He put his hand out of the door and found that several neighbors and watching children had gathered on the road outside.

Lu Zheng rushed to the second floor again, kicked open the bedroom door and opened the bedside table, but he didn't find what he was looking for. And open the drawer of the wardrobe, which is a string of white pearl necklaces. Holding this string of things, he stomped downstairs, pointed his finger at Zhang Hongmei's face and shouted, "What did you say? What else did he buy for you! " She still shook her head with tears in her eyes

The son held her thigh and trembled with fear.

Lu Zheng angrily tugged at the necklace with both hands. At first, it didn't break Then, after another effort, it finally broke. He threw the whole necklace to the ground with a hard fall, and the bounced pearl particles jumped up on the floor tile.

It's a pity that Zheng Xiaodou saw so many pearls jump away. He immediately let go of his mother and squatted down to pick up the beating beads around him.

At this time, Lu Zheng was so angry that he kicked abortion's ass and scolded, "Son of a bitch, you have to pick it up!" Adzuki stumbled, fell down, hit his head on the corner of the TV cabinet next to him, and suddenly began to cry.

With Lu Zheng's feet, Zhang Hongmei screamed. She quickly picked up her son, touched his head with her hand and saw red blood on one hand. She cried with a "wow" in her arms. She put the cut side of her son's head on the clothes on her chest and held his head in her hands. She thought it would stop the bleeding. "You kill me! Don't take it out on the children! You shot me! Wow ... "Zhang Hongmei shouted.

Lu Zheng was dumbfounded at once. He didn't expect to hurt his son today. Because I can't see my son at ordinary times, I can only go home together during the Spring Festival. My son always has a certain sense of distance from him. He always wanted to be close to his son, so he never hit him. At this time, he had some regrets and felt that the child should not suffer in the middle.

His son's injury ended his impulse to get along with others, but his long-standing anger did not subside. Amid the cries of his wife and son, he thumped upstairs and slammed the bedroom door. Seeing some colorful wife clothes hanging in the open closet door, I took out two pieces and threw them on the ground. Still not convinced, he took out two pieces and threw them away ... Soon, his angry face turned into a depressed face. He collapsed on the bed like an inflated balloon, and then collapsed on the bed feebly, and his inner pain made him short of breath.

Later, he heard a fading cry from downstairs, and then the sound of closing the door. He knew that his wife and children had gone out. Where they will go, he doesn't care at the moment. Recalling the past, falling in love, getting married, building a house, having children, moving to a new home, life is getting better and better. Today, however, all this has become illusory. He felt that this home as a spiritual pillar had collapsed, and he wanted to cry without tears.

I don't know how many hours later, he drifted off to sleep in anger, fatigue, pain and hunger. He dreamed that he had finished a hard day's work on the construction site and was preparing to go to the canteen with his rice bowl. The knock at the door suddenly woke him up from his dream. He swished out of bed and opened his eyes to see a dark room, but he couldn't remember where he was at the moment. "who?" He asked loudly.

The door of the room was gently pushed open. Because it was dusk, he finally saw that the little man standing in front of the door was his son Zheng Xiaodou, and remembered that he was lying at home. "Dad, mom, make a phone call, go downstairs and eat." My son's voice was timid and small, and he paused several times before finishing his sentence.

"Don't eat!" Lu Zheng was obviously angry.

He saw his son turn around slowly, revealing the white gauze just wrapped in the hospital on the back of his head, which was dazzling white under the screen color.

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Lu Zheng was still hungry and sad, so he went downstairs quickly, but he went out without looking at his wife and children who were eating at the table. He walked towards the old house in the dark.

The two old men saw their son go straight into the house in a sulk, sat down at the table, crossed their hands and bowed their heads without saying a word. They seem to understand their son's mind and don't ask. The old man only asked the old woman to get some dinner, so he smoked a cigarette himself. After a while, the old woman brought the food to the table, and her son ate it silently.

Finally, the old woman said, "We heard that you had a conflict this afternoon." She paused. "We also heard some rumors before. In fact, in this village, no one likes to say that some parents are short-lived, but most of them are catching shadows. "

Lu Zheng just looked at the bowl in his eyes and kept eating. The old mother continued to say earnestly, "Most young people nowadays are working outside the home. Those who stay in their hometown are mainly the elderly and some left-behind children. There are too few young people like Hongmei. It is boring to stay in this isolated small village for a long time. Sometimes she wants to talk to her peers or have some close contact, which is human nature. Some people's behavior is a little frivolous, even if some mistakes have not crossed the bottom line, I think they can be forgiven as long as they can be corrected in the future. I think it's good that she can stay and watch the house for you. You should think more about her good side. "

At this time, the old father knocked out the burnt-out ash in the tobacco rod. He took out two more tobacco leaves from his pocket, rolled them and said slowly to the cigarette rod, "The times have developed, and the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves before. The living conditions in your country are much better than those in our past. However, the happiness of life is not only the improvement of material conditions. If a family is incomplete, what is the significance of material conditions? "

The old man carefully rolled the tobacco leaves and then inserted them into the head of the tobacco rod, in no hurry to light them. He looked at Lu Zheng and said, "Sometimes there are some problems and contradictions at home, so don't expand them. Expanding contradictions will only tear the family apart. Can't a person have a home if he can earn money? A man without a home is like grass without roots, wandering all his life. What's the point? Also, have you ever thought about adzuki? He is too young. How will he grow in the future? Where is the future of your family? " After that, he lit the tobacco leaves.

The road sign of full stomach and the words of elderly parents have calmed the original bad mood a lot. The old mother next to her said, "Can you consider working in a nearby place? Look at Liu Sanwa in our village. He works in this county, and he can earn money. It may not be as good as working in other places to earn money, but he can take good care of his family, and it would be great if the family can be together often. "

Lu Zheng certainly knows Liu Sanwa. He has long known that Liu Sanwa works under a labor service company in the county. The boss of the labor service company is his primary school classmate Zeng Xiaobo.

While Lu Zheng was still sitting and thinking, the old mother said, "Go home. It's time to go back to your home. " They know they can leave him here in the old house at ordinary times, but now their husband and wife have just had a conflict today, which can't lead to their separation.

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Lu Zheng went home and lived alone in a room. When his son asks him to go downstairs for dinner, he usually goes downstairs. He hardly says anything, at least he never talks to his wife. Tell your son something once in a while. Go upstairs as soon as you lose your chopsticks after dinner. Lu Zheng spends most of his time watching TV alone in his bedroom, occasionally looking into the distance from the balcony upstairs. He took the cigarettes that he had intended to distribute to the guests at home and smoked them himself. After smoking, he asked his son to go out and buy it for him. He didn't go out again He doesn't want to see the eyes of acquaintances around him.

Zhang Hongmei is in charge of all the life in the family. He also uses adzuki beans to do his homework and watch adzuki beans play. She has also become less likely to go out, except occasionally to buy some food in the street. Adzuki's mother-in-law grandpa sometimes sends them some side dishes to eat.

During the Spring Festival, the countryside is more lively than the city. Every family should have a family reunion dinner, visit relatives and friends, drink and play cards. However, this year, Lu Zheng's family was abandoned. They didn't go out and walk around, and no other neighbors and relatives came to visit, as if they were deliberately avoiding this strange family. During the Spring Festival, children like to set off firecrackers, set off fireworks and chase and play, but Adou can't go out to play with other friends, as if the scar on his head always reminds him that this year's Spring Festival is different from previous years.

Until the fourth day of Lunar New Year's Eve, Zhang Hongmei saw Lu Zheng go downstairs to have breakfast, changed into a new suit, and his beard was clean-shaven, thinking that he was going to make a makeover and start a normal life with himself or his son again. But Lu Zheng still just ate and didn't say a word. Only after dinner, he didn't go upstairs as before, but went out.

Lu Zheng went to the home of his primary school classmate Zeng Xiaobo. It takes four or five miles to get to Zeng Xiaobo's house. He bought a good cigarette and a bottle of good wine in the shop on the road. He just wants to find a job with Zeng Xiaobo this year. Zeng Xiaobo told him that the wages in the county town here are low and can't compare with those in big cities. Lu Zheng said he didn't care, as long as he was close to home. Zeng Xiaobo said that there are so many bricklayers in his hand that it is difficult to arrange them. Lu Zheng said he could be a handyman. Let's just say that Zeng Xiaobo is short of a porter here. I think for the sake of old classmates, I'll arrange for you to work in the ninth grade. Lu Zheng thanked him repeatedly, and finally left cigarettes and good wine to go back. This job is only one-third of his salary when he worked in the coastal area, but he feels very satisfied.

During this time, he didn't tell anyone in his family about it.

On the morning of the eighth day, when he left home resolutely, when he saw the expressions of his son who had no communication with him and his wife who had not spoken for a long time, he also had some nostalgia for this family. But in the end he stubbornly left.

Maybe this is just an escape when he is helpless, but he only thinks it is also a very effective way to get rid of it. He wants to let his wife know his anger and principles in this silent way.

This time, he chose to work in the county. He wants to re-pay attention to the dynamics of their family and rethink his direction with that family in this place not far from home.

On the construction site, he quickly adapted to the new environment. Compared with all kinds of local accents and nonstandard Mandarin in the working environment in other places, he still feels that his hometown dialect is more cordial and pleasant to listen to. What he is doing is heavy manual labor, and he has a strong desire to do it. He feels that this kind of work is more comfortable, enjoyable and hearty.

After work, he often thinks of his home, his wife and children. Gradually, he played down the ambiguous relationship between his wife and another man, perhaps because he hoped that he could forget everything he might have. He knows that his wife is still very family-oriented and has deep feelings for this family. He is eager to go back to the past and have the warmth and hope brought by family of origin again.

Yesterday, the weather suddenly cooled down and there was a late spring chill. Lu Zheng didn't bring much clothes this time. He didn't feel cold during heavy physical labor, but when he rested, he felt cold. Tomorrow is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. He plans to ask Zeng Xiaobo for leave tomorrow so that he can go home and get some clothes. He also wants to take this opportunity to go back to spend a New Year's Eve holiday with his family, and then return all the bank passbook saved at home to his wife. He thinks this is a good opportunity to repair family relations.

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Lu Zheng's job today is to cooperate with tower crane workers to transfer steel bars. On the ground, the road requisition forklift will transport the iron basket full of steel bars to a certain position. The tower crane operator sent the empty basket down from the tall building. He took it off the hook, hung four steel ropes on the hanging basket equipped with steel bars on the hook, buckled the safety buckle, retreated to a safer place, made an upward gesture to the tower crane operator at a high place, and then the tower crane lifted the hanging basket and transferred it to the working face of a tall building, even if the transfer of steel bars was completed.

The loading and unloading basket is located next to the steel processing shed. Today, the task in the steel shed is particularly busy. All kinds of machines and tools are fully turned on. Motors, cutting machines, grinders, benders, electric welding machines and so on are very noisy. Moreover, there are road rollers nearby to level the construction road. It is difficult for workers who are close to each other to hear clearly what they are saying. Of course, there is no need to shout between the road sign and the tower crane driver. It is the whole process of communication at work with gestures.

This time, when Zheng Lugang took the empty hanging basket from the hook and piled it aside, he suddenly saw two familiar figures, one big and one small, outside the wrought iron gate of the construction site 50 meters away. Take a closer look, it's your wife and son! My son is waving a small hand. Although the noise at the scene has completely drowned out his son's shouts, he knows that he is affectionately calling him "Dad". His wife is carrying a backpack, and he knows there are clothes in it to keep out the cold. He doesn't know how his wife got here. He never imagined that she would take the initiative to find it. At this time, his wife was smiling at him, and all the old bad feelings in his heart were suddenly erased and he felt the warmth of his family.

He thought that after hanging this hanging basket full of steel bars this time, he could have a rest and go to the door to tell his wife where he lives and let them wait for him there. He also smiles at his wife and children. Maybe this smile has been useless for a long time, and it has become a little stiff. But there is an indescribable excitement and excitement in his heart.

He put the four steel ropes of the hanging basket full of steel bars on the hook one by one. He turned to look at his wife and children again. Mother and son are holding on to the iron bars at the gate, as if they were prisoners waiting to be released. He thinks he's here to save them. Their family's wish to get back together will come true soon. After putting on four steel ropes, he grabbed a safety buckle, quickly stepped back two steps and raised his hand to the sky, as if to guide his future direction.

Today, Zhang Hongmei searched many times, and it took a long time to find this website. Unexpectedly, at the gate, Abortion recognized her father through the wrought iron gate. Her son called "Dad" happily, and she also felt her son's desire to see his father. Although his son was pushed and injured by his father not long ago, it did not reduce his feelings for his father. She was also infected. She looked at Lu Zheng and smiled from the bottom of her heart.

Although she still felt uneasy when she went out today, she wondered if her husband would be left out in the cold again when he saw them. At this time, she saw her husband smiling at her. She knew that the hard ice between them had melted and a better life was coming for them in the future.

After Zhang Hongmei saw her husband's handsome gesture, the steel rope on the hanging basket was gradually straightened, and then the hanging basket slowly rose. She saw her husband take off his gloves at the bottom of the basket and looked at the door, ready to come over.

Suddenly, the hook on Zheng's head shook and the heavy hanging basket trembled. Zhang Hongmei was stunned by this sudden danger. The safety buckle on the hook was not fastened properly because of Lu Zheng's carelessness. A steel rope slipped out of the hook instantly, and the shelf full of steel bars in the hanging basket suddenly tilted in the direction of the steel rope.

Zhang Hongmei hurriedly shouted, "run! Quick-"she stretched out her arm and pointed to the front.

Lu Zheng took off his gloves and looked at his wife and son outside. He suddenly saw his wife in a hurry, pointing to the front of their side and shouting at herself with her mouth open, but all he could hear was the busy sound of various machines and tools from the steel shed.

Zhang Hongmei stamped his foot and shouted, "Run! Come on-"she watched a large bundle of steel bars instantly tilt down from the hanging basket in mid-air and hit the place where Lu Zheng stood. ...

Lu Zheng looked sideways at the front under the guidance of his wife, but he saw nothing. He looked back at his wife doubtfully and found that she stamped her foot even harder and her mouth opened wider. When he saw his son suddenly squat down, his face was buried in his face, and his eyes turned black instantly, as if the sky were falling, and he was pressed to the ground, out of breath. The world was dizzy and frantic. Suddenly he heard his wife's cry "Run-"and his son's cry "Wow-"

He was going to run in the direction his wife directed, but he couldn't. He can only let a bright red liquid flow slowly over there. At this time, he wants to get rid of everything and run to his wife and son, but he can only turn into other bright red liquids and flow along the direction of the gate. Until the blood cools down hundreds of cold steel bars and slowly condenses. ...