The Pentium Era - South to North

He Hongmei's parents invited Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao to dinner. He Dongmei and his wife also brought their son. The dining place was on the second floor of Huixian Building, with a large box and two tables for five children. The table, for ten adults, happens to be one table.

In a place where Niu Xiangchang is present, there is always a lively meal, and the conversation and topics continue. As we chatted, we soon talked about the current predicament of Xiao Zhao's parents.

He Hongmei's father said, "It's all the same, and so are we. This family wants to go back, but is afraid of going back, especially in the past few years."

When we are doing business outside, we have never experienced any hardships, and we have never lost face. To put it bluntly, outside, we can be said to live like dogs.

People in this city also look down on you. You don’t have a household registration. You have to ask for help for everything when your children go to school. Even those who come to the joint defense team to check your temporary residence permit will look at you and point to you.

Now that I'm back, people don't know what kind of life you have been living outside, so they just think you have a lot of money. Everyone respects you, and invites you to sit at the table wherever you go to eat. The way they look at you is... Others are different.

This feeling of being respected is something you can't get outside. You also feel that when you get home, your waist seems to be straight, your back is straight, and there is wind when you walk. You feel like a big shot. To be honest, this is the feeling I enjoy most when I go back.

But I'm afraid of going back. It's the same thing. You're so arrogant and like a big shot. Then someone asks you to do a small favor. Can you help? I asked you to borrow a few hundred thousand, would you like to borrow it? Even if you say you don't want to help or lend, you can't speak, and you don't deserve to be a big shot in the village.

Moreover, everyone in this village thinks that based on his relationship with you, this request is okay and not excessive. Looking at it one by one, it is indeed not excessive.

But what they don’t know is that if one person and a small matter are brought together to you, how much does it mean? Where can I borrow so much money?

Well, there will always be times when you care about the east but not the west. You still don’t know what’s going on, but they have separated themselves from each other. They say that you help others but don’t help them. You think highly of others but look down on them. .

Moreover, you helped him ten times, but failed to help him the last time. What he remembers is this last time, not the previous nine times. As a result, one person will offend everyone.

Also, they don’t go out and don’t know the difference between the city and the countryside. In the countryside, everyone asks each other for something and just talks to each other. But in the city, everything has to be exchanged. I promised to help them with a lot of things. When I came to the city to ask for help, the matter was taken care of, and the favor was owed, which must be repaid.

It can be said that when you go home, the first day is beautiful and happy. From the second day on, whenever someone comes to your door, you will feel panicked. You don't know if he will ask you for help when he opens his mouth.

It's Caesar.

He Hongmei's mother said, we first bought a house near the market, near Chaotianmen Wharf, but that house turned into a hotel. Everyone from the village came to live in your house when they came to Chongqing.

Sometimes when we have been doing business for a day, we are so tired that we don’t want to say another word, and we can’t even hold up chopsticks, so we just want to go back and fall on the bed, and get some sleep first before talking.

As a result, when I arrived at the door of my house, I saw someone sitting at the door with big and small bags, waiting. That person was so upset that he wanted to cry.

Well, you still have to cheer up, make food for him, make a bed for him to sleep in, and if you are lazy for a little while, he will say when he comes back, you look down on people. When he comes to your house, his face is dark, and the food seems to be wasting away. beggar.

Well, they are just sitting at your door, waiting to be the emperor.

"Moreover, at that time, I was most afraid that you would bring all the patients home, and spit out phlegm and other things everywhere. I didn't know what the disease was or whether it was contagious. Before I took a bath, I would Clean the bathroom first," He Dongmei said.

Do you think we are willing? Mother He rolled her eyes at He Dongmei, then continued He Dongmei's topic:

It's fine for those who see a doctor to live at home. What I'm most afraid of is that there are people who think that we are so far away that it's hard for us to go to Chongqing to see a doctor. If you don't go with us, we will die again. How do they know that the business in our stall can't be stopped even if they are unfamiliar with the place? How can they get away with it?

You take the fare and ask them to take a taxi, but they are unwilling. They don't know that we ourselves are usually reluctant to take a taxi.

Alas, I had suffered enough, so I had some money. I quickly told their father that we should buy a house and live far away. We like to live in a villa. Isn’t that villa also in the countryside? What's the difference between our houses in the country?

In fact, at that time, the prices there were cheap, and the transportation was not convenient. There were no buses, so they couldn't find it. We had to live on our own, where could we live in a market and be convenient?

Now that I think about it, their father and I did the most right thing, which was that we never told anyone when we went home which market we were doing business in.

Even the old people at home didn't say anything. Otherwise, if these people came to the stall and set up a dragon gate formation, there would be no way to do business.

"Wise!" He Hongmei gave her mother a thumbs up.

As soon as this topic was brought up, He Hongmei's parents talked non-stop, full of bitterness. He Hongmei's parents talked, and Xiao Zhao's parents kept nodding beside them. It seemed that they also understood it deeply.

"When I was a child, I hated going home the most. I would rather live in a deserted rental house in Chongqing than live in a lively place back home," He Dongmei said.

"Me too." He Hongmei said.

"You and I don't know yet. When we were studying, we always lied to our families and said that there was something going on at school and that we would not come back and would stay in Hangzhou. What would happen during the Chinese New Year? Teacher, don't you want to celebrate the Chinese New Year? I knew you didn't want to go back to your hometown. Go down."

He Hongmei's mother said, everyone laughed, and He Hongmei made a face at her mother.

"By the way, Dad, you hate going back so much, so why do you keep going back so actively every year?" He Hongmei asked.

"There are old people and ancestors at home. Do you think we don't even need our grandparents? We don't even need to visit the graves of our ancestors? This time we go back to earn face for ourselves and for the old people. After we celebrate the New Year Pat your butt and go, that old man will still have to live there, how can you not earn some face for them?" He's father said.

"Isn't it enough to take them out for the New Year?" He Hongmei asked.

"How to pick him up? We only lived in a bigger place at that time? Also, this old man doesn't know how to take a car or a boat. Don't you have to go back to pick him up? How could we have such time at that time? In the market They don't close until the 29th of the Lunar New Year. When they close, they rush home. Which year doesn't happen like this?" He's father said.

"How do these children know this? They know whether they like to do it or not. They don't know that there are some things that you have to do even if you don't like it." He's mother said.

Dad He breathed a sigh of relief: "Now that all the old people have arrived in Chongqing, they don't have to go home to celebrate the New Year. Do you think we don't feel relaxed? We go back every year during the Qingming Festival to sweep the tombs, and we go back and forth on the same day. We don't even stay in the village. I last year When I went back, I saw that a corner of the house in my hometown had collapsed, so I had to take care of it. If it collapsed, it would collapse. No one would go back to live there anyway."

He Hongmei smiled and said: "Well, what kind of meal is this? It has become a gathering of complaints and a meal to remember the bitterness."

"By the way, Mr. Zhang, do you have so many worries at home?" He Dongmei asked.

Zhang Chen thought for a while. Whether it was his own home or the pole's home, there seemed to be not so many things going on. Zhang Chen shook his head and said:

"Our family is from a town. Anyway, what we do outside is not so clear to others. Moreover, living in that kind of building, the relationship between everyone does not seem to be that close. In the past, neighbors would still talk to each other. We fight back and forth, report and expose each other, and we are all on guard against each other, and now everyone is used to not meddling in other people's affairs."

"Yes, we live in the township government dormitory, and it's like this." Auntie said, "It's not like down in the village, if you fart under the covers, the whole village will know."

Everyone at the table laughed.

"By the way, Xiao Zhao, I suggest your parents stop staying in the village and come out as soon as possible." He Hongmei's mother said to Xiao Zhao, "Otherwise, you will continue to suffer a lot."

"Yes, I think so too. The first thing I did when I came this time was to stop you and prevent you from going back. The second thing is this and that place. Xiao Zhao, your parents can't stay here any longer. .”

As he spoke, Mayor Niu turned around and said to Xiao Zhao's parents: "Don't be stubborn and don't be reluctant to part with it. Think about the money you don't have. You have been farming for your whole life and can't grow it, so there is nothing you can't bear to part with."

Mother He said you are right, brothers and sisters-in-law, please be more open-minded and there is nothing to be reluctant to part with. This person is just a matter of habit. As long as you step out and see the outside world, you will get used to it.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao's parents said: "Mom, Dad, why don't you come back to Hangzhou with us? There is everything there. My parents are also in Hangzhou. If you go there, you will have a companion, and we can take care of you." "

"That's right, come back with us, you don't have to bring anything else." Xiao Zhao said.

Xiao Zhao's parents looked at each other and seemed troubled.

Dad He saw something and said:

"Mr. Zhang, Xiao Zhao, I see that my brother and sister-in-law are all in good health. They haven't needed your care yet. It's good to go to Hangzhou, but to be honest, don't talk about them, even me." We are not used to it, the food is not good, and the climate is not used to it. For the elder brother and sister-in-law, there is another problem, that is, they can’t understand what they are listening to, and they can’t speak what they are talking about. What should I do?”

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao thought about it and realized that this was really a problem. Looking at the expressions of Xiao Zhao's parents, they also agreed with what Father He said.

"I have a suggestion, Mr. Zhang." Dad He said, "Why don't you just buy them a house in Chongqing, so that there will be no obstacles for them to eat, live, come in and out, etc. They are so close to each other like my aunt. Relatives, you can come and visit them when you have time, or live with them for a while. It feels like they are still connected to your home.

"If there's really something big going on at home, it's easy to rush there from Chongqing. You don't have to go all the way back from Hangzhou."

"Yes, that's good." Mayor Niu said.

Zhang Chen asked Xiaozhao's parents: "Mom, Dad, do you think this is okay? You are in Chongqing, and your younger brothers and sisters can also go to school in the city. The schools in this city are better than the ones below."

"That's right, you are very thoughtful. I haven't thought about those two little kids studying. What's so good about the schools in the countryside? The teacher can't even speak Mandarin well." Mayor Niu said, " It’s settled like this, don’t ask them, I’ll take the idea.”

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