godfather

Two weeks later, He Shaotang came to Meng's house again, with a key tied on a rope in his trousers pocket of the military uniform, hanging it directly around Meng Xiaobei's neck, and carried away Meng Xiaobei's bedroll.

People at that time were pure and kind, there was no child kidnapping, and they trusted each other very much.Meng Xiaobei moved to a building in Hongmiao, only two stops away from grandma's house.

Shaotang said, this is his room.

In the planned economy in the 80s, the houses were all allocated by the state. Houses were allocated according to a person's working years, age, and marriage status. Young and unmarried people generally had no houses.Or it is the real estate left by the elders in the family, there is no other way.

Xiaobei asked: "Godfather, are you getting married? Did the army divide your house?"

Shaotang explained: "No, my mother left it for me."

The house is also an old building in the 50s with a high ceiling. The room is simple and clean, with a large wardrobe, a desk, and a bed.

In the next few years, until his third aunt got married and Meng Xiaobei moved back to live with his grandma, before that, he lived here all the time.Every morning I take three tram stops to go to school, after school I go back to my grandma's house to eat and do my homework, and at night I go back to Shaotang's house to sleep.Later, it became more convenient, and Shaotang got him a bicycle. The 28 bike is too high, and my feet can't reach the pedals when I sit on it, so I ride a 26 female bike and take a shortcut to go to school every day, and I get there in 10 minutes.

Just in order for Meng Xiaobei to have a place to sleep, He Shaotang made a special trip to the General Senate compound, talked to his uncle, and forced him to come over the house key.

He Cheng sat across the table and said, "You can live in your army compound, why do you have to ask me for the key to the Red Temple house?"

Shaotang said: "I am useful, I will live with my eldest nephew."

He Cheng is very shrewd and has an occupational disease: "Who is your eldest nephew? Why didn't I know that my nephew had a nephew? Show me his profile photo. Do I know this person?"

Shaotang frowned: "Are you conducting a political trial? My nephew is my son."

He Cheng: "..."

No matter how meticulous and shrewd He Cheng's mind was, he still couldn't figure out the kinship relationship here. Which number is this?

He Cheng's first reaction was: "Shaotang, you haven't found a date yet, have you? Do you have someone in the Qishan Valley?... If you have a date, and the other party's political background is reliable, you don't have to hide it, I can give it to you right now." You decide, I will write you a letter of introduction directly."

Shaotang shook his head, annoyed, and frowned in denial, why did everyone think this matter in a wrong way!Why do you think that boy Meng Xiaobei came out of a good relationship with him in the ditch? !Are our grandfathers so similar?

He Cheng held the cigarette butt and drew in the ashtray: "Shaotang, it's like this... I arranged for my people to live in that room, and they often come in and out. It's not convenient for you to get a child in."

Shaotang: "Why is it inconvenient, you still occupy two rooms for me? My son only needs a bed."

He Cheng: "Inconvenient, very important person."

Shaotang's face darkened, and he was rude to his uncle: "Who does this house belong to? Did my mother leave it to me? I haven't been to Xigou for a few years, and now that I'm back, I still keep the house to marry and marry a wife." What do you mean, this house has changed hands now or has it been confiscated by the state agency?"

He Cheng immediately threw up his hands and gave up. I didn't want money to buy a house, just take it away!

Shaotang got the key, turned around and left.

He Cheng shook his head, your mother spoiled you so much!

Shaotang shrugged his shoulders, a small expression of shame appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the little mole on his lips was clear.Meng Xiaobei had never seen this kind of expression before, and He Shaotang only had this kind of virtue in front of his own parents.After all, no matter how old people are, they still have to show their childishness in front of their elders, and occasionally play a bear temper.

Before leaving, He Cheng asked meaningfully, "That child, is he someone so important to you?"

Shaotang nodded: "Yeah."

Get along too deeply, it's really like your own relatives.

He Cheng: "Doted on so much?"

Shaotang: "Yes, I like it. But let me get used to it, it's almost gone!"

The house in Shaotang also had two rooms. Meng Xiaobei lived in the big one, and in the small one lived several young uncles in their 30s and [-]s. They all had similar ordinary faces and were dressed in the gray-blue uniforms of ordinary office clerks. They came and went in a hurry. He has a gentle and kind attitude towards Xiao Bei, but he never talks in detail or reveals his identity.These uncles are often on business trips, and they lock their doors tightly when they are not at home all the year round.Sometimes Meng Xiaobei was curious and secretly tried to pry the door open, but it didn't work. He also wanted to climb the window from his room to the next door, but the window was closed and locked and could not be opened, so he finally had to give up.

This is one of the rare times that Grandpa Xiaobei wanted to do something bad, but he failed and failed!

Of course, when he grew up, he vaguely learned about the real identities of those uncles from his godfather. It is said that they were all soldiers who never wore military uniforms, engaged in secret fronts, a group of "uncle secret agents" under his godfather's uncle—— It's no wonder that I was so stupid when I tried to pry at other people's doors, but I didn't succeed!

This is a later story.

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Let's talk about Meng Xiaobei's study in Beijing.Although he immigrated to the imperial capital, his household registration could not be moved.A household registration system blocked the futures of many heroes in those days, as did Meng Jianmin's family of four. At the beginning, they were allocated from Beijing to Qishan Arsenal, and their household registrations were all moved to Shaanxi.Meng Xiaobei came to Beijing to study and was a transfer student.

He transferred to Balizhuang Elementary School in the second grade, and his family paid 80 yuan a year for him to study, of which [-] was given to the school and [-] to the district education bureau.

At the beginning, it was 80 yuan, and it rose sharply year by year, and it was several hundred yuan in the [-]s.

At that time, many educated youths sent their children back to Beijing and Shanghai to study, and the school was to control the source of foreign students. 80 yuan is not a small amount of money. Meng Jianmin cuts down on food and clothing in Xigou every year to save money for his boss's tuition, tuition and living expenses, and then remits the money.After Shaotang learned about it, he said, each of us will contribute half of the money.

Xiaobei's grandparents stopped doing it once they heard it, so what's the matter, we have the responsibility of raising the eldest grandson of our parents, no matter how you say it, we can't let you be an outsider to pay for the tuition.

Shaotang said to Grandma Meng: "You treat me as an outsider, so I won't come to see you in the future! I'm ashamed to come into your house as an outsider."

Grandma Meng was about to see the handsome and handsome Shaotang, and said anxiously, "It's not easy for you to save up an allowance in the army! Save yourself a wife and buy a refrigerator, sewing machine, and wardrobe!"

Shaotang smiled and showed his white teeth: "Where is my daughter-in-law, why don't you see her? I live and eat in the team every day, so I have no place to spend money. If I don't give it to Xiaobei, I will spend it elsewhere! "

"Meng Jianmin is his biological father, and I am his godfather. I can't let him call me father for nothing."

"Besides, Xiaobei will be promising and prosperous in the future, let him show filial piety to me in the future and give it back to me, even if he wants to forget about me, it won't work."

Shaotang said so at the time.

He Shaotang's regiment was transferred to Beijing, but instead of going to the field troops of the military region, it reorganized and formed several guard companies to take on important security tasks in the city.The compound of their squadron training dormitory is in Hujialou, and they are usually responsible for the security tasks of the nearby municipal party committee.He Cheng said, this way you are close, and I will stare at you.

Even if they are close, soldiers can't take time off to go home and look after their children.Meng Xiaobei can see his godfather basically once a month, and Shaotang sometimes finds time to come back for an afternoon to play with him, learn about his latest thoughts, or come back to sleep for a night.

Meng Xiaobei entered the school.He is a borrower from other places, without the cover of his godfather, he can still get along like a fish in water.

Since the first day he stepped into the school gate, he has never been a student with excellent grades.However, he is not afraid of going to school.

At that time, Meng Xiaobei had already begun to take the shape of a handsome guy in the future, with a sharp oval face, thin arms and legs, thin but not thick, showing a tough and masculine outline. It is said that compared with those boys with thick eyebrows and big eyes in the traditional aesthetic standards, they are not attractive.Therefore, as soon as Meng Xiaobei, who speaks Shaanxi-style Mandarin, entered the school, he was quite an eye-catching boy in their grade.

He played football with his classmates on the playground, borrowed money from each other at the school gate to buy curling a few times, and immediately became acquainted with boys and played together.The boys are all at the age of fooling around, and they don't have the concept of a small group of regions. Anyone who is interested can see whoever is interested.Meng Xiaobei has always been very popular among his classmates.

"Meng Xiaobei, take off the necklace around your neck! What do you look like!..."

The head teacher of their class is a 40-year-old middle-aged woman with a sharp tongue.

Meng Xiaobei lowered his head and felt the hard shell casing through his clothes: "This is not a necklace."

The head teacher said: "What is it if you tie a red string but it's not a necklace? The school rules don't allow you to wear jewelry."

Meng Xiaobei rolled his eyes and said, "This is my talisman, I prayed for it from the temple... I wear it to ensure my good luck."

The brass bullet casings of his bodyguard are covered in his clothes all the year round, sticking to his flesh, and he still wears a red scarf crookedly around his neck. The red scarf has never been worn straight!

This red scarf is worn after being stripped, and then worn again!Every time he made a mistake, he was punished by the teacher. The punishment was to remove the red scarf, hang the blacklist on the small blackboard for public display, write a thousand-character check, and make him stand at the door of the classroom... There were 72 sets of Chinese-style education methods in the elementary school, and Meng Xiaobei took them all back then. This trick is clear to him!

According to the head teacher, Meng Xiaobei must have ADHD!

"Meng Xiaobei, what are you doing under the table?"

"Meng Xiaobei, what are you having a little time with Sun Yuanyuan behind, what are you talking about?"

"Meng Xiaobei, did you tie Wu Weili's braid to the chair?!"

"Everything that fell from your desk is all over the place!!!"

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It is also impossible to say that the teacher has no psychological discrimination and dislike for the transfer students.

"Students from other places, why are they different from the local ones, with such wild tempers?"

"Your parents aren't in Beijing, right? If your parents aren't around, no one will take care of you, and we will leave it to our school. What does that sound like?"

"How is a child's family education? Our teachers know all about your school performance! Look at Sun Yuanyuan, her father is an intellectual and a professor at Beijing Normal University! Meng Xiaobei, what does your father do? Otherwise you To tell everyone?!"

Meng Xiaobei didn't speak, he lowered his head and stared at his trouser waist, his expression was half stubborn, half indifferent.

"Meng Xiaobei in our class, look at the math test scores! Thanks to these two students who transferred to this class, the average score of our class this time is the lowest in the whole grade! With these two students, the test scores Just like that weight, it dragged down the whole class score!"

The teacher said these words in the classroom, in front of the whole class, completely disregarding the boy's self-esteem.

At that time, and even now, in schools and classrooms, in many cases, in the eyes of teachers, underage students seem to have no face and dignity to maintain, and they can freely ridicule and judge family privacy at will.

"You say I'm done, what do you say my dad is doing? What's wrong with my dad?!"

The smirk on Meng Xiaobei's face suddenly disappeared, and he looked at the teacher.

The homeroom teacher was in a fit of anger, and was so angry that the bear child had committed menopause early: "Am I wrong! You are the most outrageous in the whole class!"

Every time he was criticized, Meng Xiaobei would coolly turn his face out of the window, looking at the big playground under the blue sky and white clouds, silently resisting, as if his mind was in another world...

The homeroom teacher had a terrible headache, let Meng Xiaobei sit in the front seat, he turned his head to chat with the people behind him, and performed in front of the whole class; let him sit in the back, he played with the girl's pigtails in front, and got along well with the whole class Iron, all kinds of fun in class, especially girls like it.

Finally, as a last resort, the teacher moved Meng Xiaobei's desk to the right side of the podium, separated from all the classmates, and couldn't reach the front, back, left, and right sides. His special seat!

At the same time, Shen Dawei, who received this treatment, sat on the left side of the podium.The two little scourges stood next to the teacher, one on the left and the other on the right, and were jokingly called the "two generals of Hum Ha" by the whole class of our second grade class one.

The class teacher turned his head and wrote on the blackboard.

Meng Xiaobei seized the opportunity, turned his gaze around the podium, and commanded with his mouth: Shen Dawei!glue to me!

A soccer ball flew from the playground, right into the classroom through an open window!

Meng Xiaobei has sharp eyes and quick hands, jumping up to catch the ball quickly, the teacher turned around and exclaimed!I saw Meng Xiaobei throwing the ball and kicking it with his foot, and then kicked it out of the window, splashing the playground and applauding, "Thank you for going upstairs!"

The head teacher glared at him: "Did you make a report!"

The students below all stared at the back of Meng Xiaobei's head with joyful and admiring eyes, and they especially liked this kid who would make the teacher go crazy.

The homeroom teacher reached out for the handout: "Hey...my handout...why can't I pick it up?"

"Who glued my handouts to the podium?!"

"..."

"Meng Xiaobei!!!!!!!"

"Call your parents over tomorrow. If your parents don't come, you won't have class tomorrow!"

The class teacher was angry.

Meng Xiaobei told the truth: "My father and mother are both in Shaanxi, why can't we come?"

The class teacher pointed at him with a pointer: "Then call your grandparents, who in your family can control you, who can be responsible for you?!"

When he returned to grandma's house after school, Meng Xiaobei listlessly did not mention the matter to his parents, he was afraid that his grandma would beat him with a broom again.

Go back to the house of the Red Temple at night, someone is back!

Meng Xiaobei opened the door with the key hanging around his neck, and it opened after only half a turn. He was suddenly excited, and rushed into the room. He put aside all the depressed and annoying things first, entered the room and threw down his schoolbag, and slammed into the room. Leaping into his godfather's arms...

"Godfather!!!... Mmm... Shaotang..."

Every time the two meet, there is a sense of urgency and excitement to reunite after a long absence. When they hug each other, it feels different from the feeling of hugging each other every day. Finally, they see their loved ones.Meng Xiaobei felt that even the material of Shaotang's uniform jacket smelled so good, the thick woolen smell also carried the smell of Shaotang's body, his nose was buried in it, and he couldn't smell enough.It's clearly the taste of the old happy days...

Moreover, Meng Xiaobei has been growing up slowly.

Boys run very fast, you don't feel it when you see them every day, and you can tell when you haven't seen them for two months.

He Shaotang pulled the head out of his arms and looked at it: "Stinky boy, your hairstyle has changed? You still have a little parting."

"Are you jumping around again? When you first came here, you didn't need to buy a ticket to take the trolleybus... Now it's all up to my chest."

Meng Xiaobei rolled his eyelids and smiled handsomely.The era is slowly opening up. In the past, it was the stereotyped old-fashioned educated youth haircut, or flat-inch haircut, and the small parted haircut was the hairstyle of traitors.Meng Xiaobei had already parted her hair in fours and sixes, and used a hair curtain to cover the scar on her forehead. She had a pair of thin and bright eyes, and the longer they grew, the cooler they became. According to later words, there are more and more "girl killers" in their school. style.

His godfather brought back a thermos bucket, which turned out to be ice cream, half of which had melted, and was full of soup.

Shaotang said: "I got it specially for you from our team. It's from the Arctic Ocean. Eat it quickly. If you don't eat it, it will disappear!"

Two people hold a spoon and drink ice cream soup with their heads together, which is also a kind of simple and peaceful happiness.

Meng Xiaobei didn't mention the matter to his parents with his grandparents, three aunts and sisters-in-law. In the final analysis, they were still not close enough.

No matter how much he pretends not to care about his appearance, a boy has self-esteem after all, and Meng Xiaobei also has it.He refused to accept being criticized at school, even embarrassing his father with him. The word "father" has a very special status in the hearts of young people, and it cannot tolerate contempt and ridicule, which makes him sad.Meng Xiaobei is currently in a period of growing up where the boy's emotions are very awkward. The more awkward his psychology is, the more he will go against the school's code of conduct.

At night, Shaotang got into bed on his stomach, supported his waist with one hand, stretched out for a while, then hooked his hands together: "Son, my back hurts, rub it for me."

Meng Xiaobei was flattering, and hurriedly rode on Shaotang's lap, rubbed his shoulders and beat his butt, with a very doggy expression on his face, and looked malicious.

Shaotang pulled down the waistband of his trousers, revealing a section of his lower back, which was muscular.Meng Xiaobei lifted up his godfather's tight vest, and kneaded from the dimples of the spine to the coccyx. He didn't have any technical skills, and his hands didn't have much strength, but it made his godfather enjoy and feel comfortable.

Meng Xiaobei cautiously probed: "Godfather...is he comfortable?"

Shaotang narrowed her eyes: "Mmm..."

Meng Xiaobei: "I'm very nice, will I be very close to you?"

The corner of Shaotang's mouth drew a satisfied smile: "That is, good son."

Meng Xiaobei: "You are also my father, you are wise and powerful, the number one hero in Xigou!"

Shaotang: "...hehe."

Meng Xiaobei: "Hi Dad, Hello Chief!!!"

At this time, Shaotang turned his face sideways, narrowed his handsome eyes, and snorted coldly: "You have something to say."

Meng Xiaobei had a laugh: "Dad, you are so handsome when you show your power!"

Shaotang: "Pout your ass, what the hell are you shitting on? Hurry up!"

Meng Xiaobei said quickly: "Dad, go to school tomorrow and hold a parent-teacher meeting for me. Our homeroom teacher invites you to her office for a drink of tea and a chat with her."