little uncle

Li Yanhua snorted coldly, pointed at the chunky brother's nose with one hand, pinched his waist with the other, and said in a loud voice, "What about our Zhou family has something to do with you?"

The chunky brother was not to be outdone, "Who doesn't know about your virtues and neighbors? It's about your Zhou family. Today you are the Zhou family, and tomorrow you will be the Wang family and the Li family."

Li Yanhua's face was powdered, and she couldn't tell whether it was red or green, and she was about to continue scolding him, but was interrupted by Cheng Yu, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, stop arguing in front of the children, stop arguing. "

Cheng Yu was extremely embarrassed, he just wanted to find a crack in the ground to sneak in, and the eyes of the neighbors almost pierced him, making him feel ashamed.He has been away from Zhou Town for too long, and he has long forgotten the special 'style' rooted in his family.

Li Yanhua gave him a blank look, and then said to the short and fat brother, "See, I don't appreciate you!"

The chubby brother reached out and grabbed Cheng Yu's arm, and said, "Xiao Yu, you don't remember me? I'm your neighbor Wei Shen!"

Cheng Yu took a closer look, and then through the tight facial features and dark skin, he could vaguely distinguish a familiar face, and quickly said, "So it's Brother Wei."

Li Yanhua sneered again, "Your brother's bones are still in the morgue, so you called someone else's brother."

Cheng Yu's face turned red from being robbed, and he lowered his head. No matter how much annoyance he had, it was all wiped out by Li Yanhua's bitter words, and in the end there was nothing left in his heart at a loss. Who was it when he and his mother ran away? fault?

After a lot of tossing, neighbors and half-baked relatives all left one after another, and Li Yanhua also dragged Zhou Hongyuan into the house.It is certain that they cannot live at home. Cheng Yu walked out of the yard, worried about having nowhere to go, but saw Wei Shen waiting for him at the door.

Seeing him coming out, Wei Shen quickly grabbed him and said, "Come on, follow me to my house for dinner."

Cheng Yu took a few glances at him and said, "It's too much trouble for you..."

Wei Shen smiled honestly and said, "Hey, what's the trouble? After you've been gone for so many years, my mother and I miss you."

Wei Shen's family is similar to Cheng Yu's family, they both make a living by opening a small shop in front of the house, but Wei Shen's family is hardworking and thrifty, and they live affluently. The house has floor tiles and air-conditioning in the house. It is not like a building in a town, but like It is a villa in the city.

Wei Shen's mother looks to be in her sixties or seventies, her hair is mostly gray, but her hands and feet are nimble, and she doesn't let go when she sees Cheng Yu. "Reunion after a long absence", but I was a little moved in my heart, not to mention that this aunt was so worried about herself.

Wei Shen's mother has been cooking all her life, and her skills are excellent. Although they are all common meals, they are delicious in color and fragrance. Cheng Yu's life is rough, and the housework is sparse and ordinary. Afterwards, I never tasted such a delicacy again. Thinking of my dead mother and my brother who just passed away, my throat choked up, and my heart was hard to calm down.

Seeing that he was in a heavy mood, Wei Shen and Mrs. Wei stopped talking, and after eating, they each rested.

Cheng Yu lay in the room, listening to the insects screaming one after another outside, and stayed up all night.

As soon as the sun came out, Cheng Yu went to the ATM machine in the town against the crowing of the rooster, took out the remaining savings, and returned to his former home.

The guest of honor has arrived, and a solemn mourning hall has been erected in the yard. On the front of the mourning hall is a flower card. On the flower card are a few grassy whole flowers, with a few shriveled yellow flowers tied on it.Right in front of the flower card is the mourning table, on which Zhou Yunwei's black-framed portrait is safely and securely placed.In front of the mourning table is a wreath arranged in a horoscope, which was arranged by the master.

Cheng Yu felt a little ridiculous in his heart.Zhou Yunwei lived the most undeserved life in his life, yet he was hanged squarely in front of people after his death, which is ironic no matter how you look at it.

Zhibin greeted Cheng Yu to change his clothes, lifted the curtain, went into the mourning hall together, and gave a salute.Li Yanhua was wearing white clothes, it was rare that he didn't make a noise to snatch him away.Zhou Hongyuan knelt quietly in the mourning hall, returning the salute to the guests, with a distressing appearance.

Later, the chief financial officer set up the accounting table, Cheng Yu was the first to present and put the thick envelope on the table, followed by the aunts and relatives.

When Cheng Manhong passed away, all the funeral ceremonies were kept simple, but when they came to Zhouzhen now, they were repeated and lengthy.Neighbors and distant relatives mourning, juniors returning gifts, shrill female voices crying...

After finally going through the funeral, at noon, the restaurant that contracted funerals brought tables and chairs, and set up a feast in the not-so-spacious yard. The waiters carried the plates and served the dishes one by one. The soup along the way was sparse. fell to the ground.

At the table Cheng Yu was at, apart from Li Yanhua's mother and son, they were all cousins ​​whom they hadn't seen in more than ten years. , Throwing a basketful of words one after another, Cheng Yu didn't want to argue with them, and because of his gloomy mood, he kept his head down, and when others spoke, he just faltered a few times, neither explaining nor replying.In this way, those distant relatives and neighbors with pantothenic acid had no choice but to have bead curtain shells, but no way to vent their anger. They only turned their grief and anger into appetite, scrambling to pull plates of dishes to them, not forgetting to verbal Modestly, "Zhou Yu, why don't you eat?"

Zhou Yu ignored these embarrassments and only immersed himself in his grief.

After the banquet was withdrawn, the funeral was over, and the neighbors and relatives left in twos and threes. The chief financial officer handed over the account books and gift money to Li Yanhua, and left with the guests.In a blink of an eye, only the waiter who moved the tables and chairs was left to come and go.Cheng Yu saw that the contracted restaurant was understaffed, so he went up to help in a hurry. When the yard was tidied up, he turned his head and saw his little nephew, Zhou Hongyuan, looking at him eagerly.

Cheng Yu squatted down, shook Zhou Hongyuan's shoulder, Zhou Hongyuan shook his head slightly, looked at his shoulder, Cheng Yu subconsciously let go of his hand, and then looked at his oily hand, which was covered in Zhou Hongyuan's white coat. left a deep stain on it.

Cheng Yu smiled, lowered his hand embarrassingly, and said, "Hongyuan, be good, listen to mother from now on."

Zhou Hongyuan immediately lowered his head like frost beating an eggplant, and then shook his head.Seeing his appearance, Cheng Yu felt a little closer. Seeing his bitter face, he felt sore, and said, "Hongyuan, you are the little man in the family now, you can't make mom angry, you know?" ?”

"Pa", tears the size of beads dripped on the ground, Cheng Yu wiped his hand on his clothes, then lifted Zhou Hongyuan's face, gently wiped away his tears, and asked, "What's wrong? Why did you suddenly start crying?" gone?"

Zhou Hongyuan sniffed and said in a trembling voice, almost inaudibly, "Mom, mom is gone."

Cheng Yu didn't realize it for a moment, and asked, "Go? Where are you going? Your mother is probably out to see off guests."

Zhou Hongyuan didn't say anything, just cried.At the beginning, I was still trying to control it, but in the end, my whole body was shaking violently, making people worry that they would fall to the ground in the next second.

Cheng Yu couldn't bear it, so he took Zhou Hongyuan into his arms and said, "Don't cry, don't cry, mom will be back in a while, Hongyuan is good..."

Zhou Hongyuan put his hands on Cheng Yu's chest at first, unwilling to get close to him. Slowly, the successive grief made him lose his grudge against this young uncle who came from afar, and he was hugged tightly by Cheng Yu .

This embrace was so warm and secure, it almost made him forget who's funeral was today, and who was fleeing. For a moment, he didn't know what night it was.

Cheng Yu originally planned to leave after the funeral, and there was really nothing worth commemorating here. He booked a ticket for the provincial capital at the station that evening, but the child in his arms was really pitiful. He waited from afternoon to night, When the night was dark and the dew became darker, there was no sign of Li Yanhua entering the house.

Cheng Yu thought to himself, this situation is not right, how can there be any reason for a newly widowed widow to leave her son at home and run out alone?Heartbroken, under the leadership of Zhou Hongyuan, they came to the back room.

Cheng Yu hadn't been to this room for more than ten years, the room was full of stale and damp musty smell, when he entered it for the first time, he only felt chest tightness and shortness of breath.

Although Cheng Yu didn't want to set foot here, let alone spy on the lives of Li Yanhua and his deceased brother, but today something went wrong, so he had to bite the bullet and go into the bedroom of his husband and wife.

Zhou Hongyuan just glanced in, then shook his head and said, "All her things have been taken away."

It was only then that Cheng Yu realized in a daze that there was no trace of living in this bedroom, and all the bottles and cans that were commonly found in women's bedrooms were gone.

Zhou Hongyuan opened the cabinet, but only Zhou Yunwei's clothes and a few old women's clothes were left.

The answer was obvious, and for a while, Cheng Yu lost his mind.

Uncles and nephews, one big and one small, were sitting on the sofa slumped. In the living room, the old-fashioned clock was moving around in circles, making "click" and "click". When the clock rang ten times, Cheng Yu scratched her head and said, "You have to rest first for big things, Hongyuan, you go to bed first, and the rest of uncle can figure out a solution."

Zhou Hongyuan did not follow.Mom can run away, how can this cheap uncle who only appeared for two days be reliable?There was light in his eyes, and after a while, Cheng Yu shook his head.

Although Cheng Yu looks rough on the outside, his mind is delicate, and he knows Zhou Hongyuan's worries well. He stroked Zhou Hongyuan's hair, and said in a warm voice, I'll be watching you from the side, tomorrow morning, you can still look at me .

Only then did Zhou Hongyuan drag Cheng Yu to his bedroom.

When Cheng Yu first entered Zhou Hongyuan's room, he was startled. He thought, Hongyuan's bedroom is obviously much cleaner than the living room and his brother's room. The books were neatly piled up on the table, and the clothes were folded and placed next to the pillows. Although the room was small, it was clean and tidy. It was obviously a cement floor, but it made Cheng Yu feel a bit "spotless", and couldn't help but tsk sigh.

Cheng Yu sat on the edge of the bed in three steps, while Zhou Hongyuan stood on the edge, frowned slightly, but did not speak.

Cheng Yu rubbed his head and said, "Go to bed."

Zhou Hongyuan frowned again, he leaned over, picked up the big underpants and undershirt beside the bed, and glanced at Cheng Yu again.

It was only then that Cheng Yu realized that Zhou Hongyuan wanted to change clothes. He thought to himself, this little guy is not young and knows a lot. While thinking about it, he left Zhou Hongyuan's bedroom for the time being.

After guessing that Zhou Hongyuan had finished changing, he walked in swaggeringly, "Why, you're still shy with uncle."

Zhou Hongyuan didn't say a word, curled up under the quilt, and put on a pitiful appearance again.

Cheng Yu's heart softened, he moved a stool and sat by the bed, and said, "Go to sleep, don't think about anything, uncle is here for everything."

Zhou Hongyuan didn't like having strangers around while sleeping, but he was alone and helpless at this time, and the only thing he could catch was this cheap uncle who had only met twice.He didn't dare to fall asleep, let alone open his eyes, even the sound of breathing was cautious.

Cheng Yu saw his unnaturalness, moved the chair and sat a little closer, put a pair of dry and warm hands on Zhou Hongyuan's narrow shoulders, patted each other lightly, and said in a low voice from time to time, "Don't be afraid, I'm always here."

"When you open your eyes tomorrow, you can still see me."

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