Ordinary people's rice bowl

Chapter 37
Back in the yard, Lao Mu was still thinking about Zhang Gongyun's words. Although the two villages were not too far apart, they didn't know each other before. They didn't come out to see him last night because they were afraid that he might misunderstand. According to someone who knew him well in the village, Zhang Gongyun had read books for several years, and he could be regarded as a person with ink in his stomach in the countryside. Coupled with the sincerity shown in thanking him when he came to the door today, Lao Mu decided that Zhang Gongyun was also a friend. people.

Not allowing Mu Zhen to stay at the school was the decision of Lao Mu who would not be able to bring back even ten cows. Zhangji Village is close to the school and there are many students in the village. Borrowing a place to live there is the best choice. In front of the predestined Zhang Gongyun, he really couldn't say anything, and he had to think of a way to deal with Mu Zhen's accommodation in the new semester.

Old Mu sighed just now, but he just felt that Mu Zhen's accommodation could not be solved nearby, and he should stay at home temporarily, and it would not be too late if he found a suitable place to stay.

Old Mu thought for a while, but he didn't seem to have any idea, so he walked to the kitchen door and said to Mu Zhen, "I don't want you to live on campus after school starts!"

"Go home to live?" Mu Zhen, who was reading a book, looked up at Lao Mu and responded.

"Yes, come back and live for a while, and then think of a way, riding a donkey to find a horse, there will always be a way!" When Lao Mu said these words, he showed a little helplessness.

When Mu Zhen heard that he was coming back to live, she felt a little reluctant, which meant that Lao Mu had to pick him up every night.From Xiaowangzhuang to the school is not separated from the village, but the night road for more than three miles, not to mention the dark lights, especially in the middle of the two places, there is a mound left by the Peach Blossom Temple, which later became a word of mouth death For many years, although people have never seen anything, the ghost stories told from the mouths of the old people are enough to make your scalp tingle when you walk there at night and think of these ghost stories.Many people know that they are just scaring themselves, but if it is really their turn to walk by at night, they can't help but think of those stories that scare themselves.If it rains again, the muddy road will be even more miserable.

Although Lao Mu is educated and doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, he dare not walk alone at night. When he first came to Binhu Middle School, every time he went to pick up Mu Zhen who came back from school at night, he always asked Xiuhua to accompany him. Especially in windy and snowy weather, it is not an exaggeration to use the word "suffering".This is what Mu Zhen is very reluctant to see, so Mu Zhen is not willing to do this, but with only one child, she really can't think of a better way.

Mu Zhen nodded. For so many years, Mu Zhen could understand Lao Mu's intentions from Lao Mu's eyes.

"Just now, it was your classmate's father who came here just now!" Old Mu hesitated, because he was only thinking about his own thoughts just now, and forgot to ask Zhang Gongyun's son's name, so now he is communicating with Mu Zhen, like a power-off horn, stuck .

"I know, his son's name is Zhang Ran!" Mu Zhen added as she watched Lao Mu remain silent.

"How do you know it's Zhang Ran's father!" Lao Mu was a little surprised.

"As soon as he entered our door, I looked familiar. When you mentioned my classmate just now, I immediately thought of who it was. They look very similar!" Mu Zhen said very easily. His home is in the east of the village, away from the school. Just a few hundred meters. "When Mu Zhen mentioned this, she was a little excited and forgot all the unhappiness just now.

"Can I live with him?" Old Mu asked Mu Zhen tentatively.

"Well, I really don't know. You can ask him when we meet. He treats me very well!" Mu Zhen replied very easily.

Old Mu was silent. Why didn't he ask a question just now?He blamed himself for his hesitation just now. Where is the courage to "open your mouth for three points" that the old man said more than once?Mu Zhen's affection for Zhang Ran naturally gave Lao Mu a reassurance, and his worry that Mu Zhen didn't like was a bit redundant.After thinking about it, Zhang Gongyun had just left, and it seemed a bit abrupt to catch up and ask him. Maybe he would make people laugh at him for being reckless, so he might as well think of another way.

Mu Zhen has long hated the dormitory environment in the school, but felt that it was hindered by old Mu's ideas, so she didn't raise any objections. When she contracted the terrible mange, he once thought of leaving that ghostly place, but when he had a skin disease , Naturally, he stopped talking. Now that the illness has been completely cured, and his father also agreed to the matter of staying overnight, he thought of many classmates who were close to the school, and screened them one by one in his mind. He wrote in Among the five names on the paper, the last one——Liu Xuchang, suddenly brightened her heart. Mu Zhen once went to the two huts where Liu Xuchang lived in Zhangji Village. Mu Zhen was deeply impressed by the big elm tree in front of the house, its crown was as big as an umbrella, and it almost completely covered the earthen house. The big bed is just an old-fashioned desk. If he can live with him, he will also solve his problem of studying at night. This is definitely killing two birds with one stone.According to Liu Xuchang, there is a new house at home, where his parents and older sister live, and he and his younger brother live in this small earthen house.

Thinking of this, Mu Zhen wished she could fly to the school immediately, meet Liu Xuchang and discuss about staying overnight.

Regarding the treatment of scabies for the whole family, Mu Zhen thought that if she wanted to solve her lodging problem, the whole family had to work together.Mu Zhen got up and walked out of her bedroom, came to Lao Mu, and said to Lao Mu who was standing and smoking in the courtyard: "Big, I have a classmate, I live in two old houses with my younger brother, I want to live with him, Can you see it?"

Old Mu frowned, and responded: "What's the situation in his family? How is his study?"

"Study is okay, the situation at home!" Mu Zhen hesitated for a moment, then continued: "I don't know!"

"You can find his house. Let us go visit now!" Mu Zhen was a little stunned by Lao Mu's sudden idea, and really couldn't figure out why Lao Mu went to a classmate's house in such a hurry.

"This, this..." Mu Zhen really didn't know how to answer, so she faltered.

"You don't think it's okay. Let us go to his house to see. If you go to live in his house, I should meet his parents too!" While talking, he rolled out the "Old Taishan", stuck it in the yard, and then proposed The basket of eggs brought by Zhang Gongyun was hung on the handlebar.

Lao Mu felt that solving the problem of Mu Zhen's accommodation for the new semester was the most important issue for the whole family, and he couldn't delay for a moment. If he missed it in the morning, he couldn't stop working hard this time.

After all, the road is not too far away, and the father and father arrived at the entrance of Zhangji Village without saying a few words. He entered the village according to the road Mu Zhen pointed out, and soon found the two old earthen houses. The doors of the houses were open. He shouted at the door: "Liu Xuchang, Liu Xuchang!"

"Who called me?" said a childish child with a round face who ran to the door and stuck his head out.

"Mu Zhen, you came to see me?" The boy felt very surprised, ran out and grabbed Mu Zhen's hand.

"This is Liu Xuchang." Mu Zhen took Liu Xuchang's hand and said to Lao Mu who was standing under the elm tree.

Lao Mu nodded and asked, "Where are your parents?"

"They're in the new courtyard, I'll take you there!" For Liu Xuchang, he didn't know what Mu Zhen and his son wanted his parents to do, but he just felt that his classmates were kind to him.

When the three of them stood in front of a courtyard with red bricks and red tiles, Liu Xuchang said excitedly: "This is my new home!" Looking at this courtyard, I suddenly felt that the owner of this house was indeed extraordinary, and this courtyard was one of the best in the whole village.

"Come in, sir, our house has guests!" Liu Xuchang yelled at the father in the room while calling the old Mu and his father to come in.

The yelling obviously alarmed the adults in the room. A middle-aged man came out of the room, just in time to see Lao Mu who was pushing the cart in, with a suspicious expression on his face: "Are you? You look very familiar!"

"My son and your son are classmates!" Lao Mu saw that Liu Xuchang's father looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he met him.

"Come in quickly, come in quickly." He said as he made way for Lao Mu, who had plugged in his bicycle, to enter the house.

"I'm just in front of Xiaowangzhuang. I heard my son mentioned your son today, and I want to visit you!" Old Mu said politely.

"Where can I visit? I have been a classmate for a lifetime and have been a relative for three lifetimes. You are too polite. As soon as you walked in, I saw your familiar face. I suddenly remembered that you graduated from No. [-] Middle School, right?" Liu Xuchang's father asked.

"Yes, the fifth and sixth class! You too?" Old Mu Ruo realized something.

"Yeah, I'm from the [-]th class, I graduated two years later than you! My name is Liu Xuefeng!" Liu Xuchang's father said.

"We talked back then, but we forgot it for so many years!" Liu Xuefeng said politely.

"That's right, my name is Mu Kegui. It's not easy for us to remember it after so many years!" Lao Mu felt that the junior in front of him was living a good life, otherwise how could he build such a decent house in the village.

"How can I forget those passionate years, I will never forget them in my life!" Liu Xuefeng sighed.

"That's right, we participated in large-scale production work together at school!" Lao Mu went on to say, Lao Mu felt that it was a matter of course to talk about the past before talking about the business.

"That's right, I remember that you were still the class leader in the class, and you led the whole class to shout chant!" Liu Xuefeng obviously had a deep impression on Lao Mu back then.

"That has become history! It's been so many years now, and you can still remember so much, it seems that we are also destined!" Old Mu intentionally brought to the point.

"It's fate. Although we are not in the same grade, we are also alumni of the same school. Now that the children have become classmates again, we are also getting closer!" Liu Xuefeng continued.

"I came to see you today, and I really need your help with something!" Lao Mu heard Liu Xuefeng's approaching words, and felt that it was time to get serious.

"Did you see that you are an old classmate? If you have something to say, I will spare no effort to help!" Liu Xuefeng patted his chest and replied simply.

"My son Mu Zhen has lived in the school for a year. He doesn't want to live in the school because he is not in the same town as you, so he is the only one who studies in this school. It is inconvenient to go back to live at night. I want to stay at your house. Look at this Is it convenient?" Lao Mu felt that it would not be abrupt to bring up the reminiscence at this moment, and as Liu Xuefeng said, those who can help will naturally agree.

"There is no problem with this. The child lives in two earthen huts. I wonder if you dislike it? If you don't dislike it, it is a good thing, and the two brothers can help each other!" Liu Xuefeng answered quite decisively.

Lao Mu immediately felt relieved like a heavy burden, and he didn't have time to say anything.Liu Xuefeng continued: "Although the house is a bit old, I cleaned it up very well. It turns out that the eldest and second child live there. When your son comes, I will let the second child live in the new courtyard. Don't worry, my family My child, you can say anything!"

Lao Mu felt that Liu Xuefeng in front of him really helped him a lot. This problem that has been harassing him for several days did not expect to be solved here, and he felt a little ecstatic.

"Then thank you so much!" Lao Mu didn't know how to be grateful, so he said it with [-]% sincerity.

"You don't need to be too polite, our classmates and the children's classmate relationship are all fate accumulated over several lifetimes!" Liu Xuefeng said a little excitedly.

Old Mu nodded and said, "Look, I've let go of the burden in my heart. We'll talk again when we have a chance, and I have to go back to do some school things." Old Mu was about to get up and leave.

The child standing aside listening to the two of them said nothing, and seemed a little excited at this moment. Liu Xuchang took Mu Zhen's hand and said, "We will live together in the future, so it will be more convenient for me to ask you any questions!"

For a year, Liu Xuchang admired Mu Zhen very much, as if he was a teacher of the same age in his heart. Now when he heard that Mu Zhen lived with him, he naturally jumped up for joy.

Mu Zhen also nodded happily, and then stood up and walked out of the house. Liu Xuefeng followed closely behind, busy hanging the eggs brought by Lao Mu on the handlebar: "You look and carry things, let me I feel embarrassed!"

"For the New Year's Eve, bring some gifts, and it's considered to be a visit to the elderly at home!" Lao Mu felt that the relationship with Liu Xuefeng was getting closer at this time, so he said the words of looking after the elderly.

The two gave in to each other again, and in the end it was Lao Mu who insisted, leaving the eggs at Liu Xuefeng's house, and then brought his son back home.

(End of this chapter)