godfather

Besides, that monkey boy Meng Xiaobei really had a happy New Year.

It is an enviable new thing in the compound to have wealthy relatives from Beijing bring things to visit.The parents of many young people work hard or are old, and they don't have time to visit in seven or eight years. It is good to send a postal package occasionally.

The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren gathered together, extremely happy and happy.Meng Xiaobei ate enough in the past few days. He ate a lot of fried bacon with carrots made by his mother. For the first time, he felt that even the carrots became fat.His grandmother also took the two grandsons to Qishan County to find a tailor to make a new set of polyester card material for each of them.

Grandma once said that when I ran into someone who robbed goods in the mountains, your grandma took the soles of his shoes away.There was a very kind-hearted comrade in the People’s Liberation Army who personally drove the mules to send us in...

At night, a large family of five huddled in the only room.The dormitory area is a red brick building with heating, and the room is warm and full of home atmosphere.

Meng Xiaobei has always been dishonest in his sleep, hitting Meng Xiaojing with his elbow.

Meng Xiaojing pinched his brother's elbow carefully with two fingers, moved it away, and then tucked in his quilt, sleeping comfortably.

After a while, Meng Xiaobei threw another flying kick, which landed on his bed partner!

Meng Xiaojing picked his ears and asked in a low voice: "Meng Xiaobei, what are you dreaming about? Can you not do the fifth radio gymnastics in your dreams!"

Meng Xiaobei closed his eyes, drowsily happy: "Dreaming to grab meat from you... Hey! Where are you running! Give your bacon to Grandpa Xiaobei!"

Meng Xiaobei got out of bed that night, wrapped in a padded jacket, wearing big woolen trousers, his stomach was eating comfortably, his bladder was full of urgency, and he was screaming, so he didn't go to the urinal. It was so hot, I stepped on the bed and went up to the window sill next to it, and opened a small gap from the third floor window.

Coincidentally, that same night, someone touched the downstairs of his house.

By chance, some people are destined to meet each other.

If Meng Xiaobei hadn't gone to the window to pee that night.

If Grandma Er Meng didn't show off the bacon and liquor the night before.

If that group of young people hadn't robbed that Dao back then!

A platoon of soldiers from a certain army drove a large truck to help the workers in the factory pull logs.In a factory engaged in military industry, the factory is very close to the army leaders in private, and often recruits free young men from the army to come and go.

He Shaotang jumped out of the truck from the driver's seat, and said, "Platoon leader, you guys go first."

The platoon leader was also unambiguous: "You come back to me, what are you doing?"

He Shaotang said, "Smoke a cigarette."

The platoon leader knew this person too well: "You smoke for me in the car."

The corner of He Shaotang's mouth twitched, and he laughed so hard that he couldn't buy it: "I go to the latrine to smoke and shit, and I'll take the car for you when I'm hungry?"

The platoon leader waved his hand: "Hurry up and get out."

He Shaotang straightened the belt around his waist, smiled and left, his walking posture showed a "wave" vigor.Ban Xiaobin, who was sitting in the car, poked his head out to tease him: "Tangtang, it's an appointment! I'm going to the family compound to meet your good friend!"

He Shaotang turned his head and pointed at Xiaobin, his eyes menacing: "You know?!"

Xiao Bin grinned: "Take it easy! Don't get angry and roll into the cornfield! Don't make mistakes in your life style!"

He Shaotang bit the corner of his mouth and replied disdainfully: "I can make mistakes?"

The platoon leader, Lao Zheng, is their boss.Several of them are sworn brothers, and Shaotang is the fourth eldest.

He Shaotang was familiar with the road and walked all the way to the downstairs of Meng's house.

When he looked up, he could see the bag of delicious bacon hanging from the window on the third floor from a distance, and there might be Erguotou.He is a wolf, his nose can smell the fragrance!

He Shaotang was a scout, and he was the best at this job.During the exercise, he was able to steal the radio station and the remote control away from the Red Command and let all the Red Commanders catch them blind. Isn’t it just for nothing that I let you have a bag of bacon?

And I don't take your things for nothing.He Shaotang took out two paper notes from his trouser pocket, pressed them lightly between his lips, and kicked off the wall for strength, let's go!

In winter, he was dressed thickly, but He Si was quite agile.Gently climbed up to the window sill on the first floor, climbed up to the second floor, grasped it firmly with both hands, and exerted strength on the waist, like a big cat, hung on the window edge of the third floor without making a sound.

Grandma Meng's kind eyes flashed in front of his eyes, and she babbled and cared all the way... He subconsciously touched his chest again and took out a fuel ticket.Although this is regarded as "forced buying", it is not very authentic to say it, but it is definitely not "stealing", and it can be regarded as "righteous acquisition".

As soon as he hesitated, the window creaked and opened a thin crack!

There are people in the window.

Meng Xiaobei slept soundly, his eyes half-closed, his belly pressed against the window, and he took out a penis from his sweater pants!

wow——

Whoops.

Hungry day!

He Shaotang was poured on the chest of the military uniform by a trickle of water, and he couldn't hold it firmly, and almost folded back. Fortunately, he had rich experience in climbing and rolling, and hung it between the third floor and the second floor.

After Meng Xiaobei finished urinating, he carried the chick up and down a few times, controlled it skillfully, and almost hummed a little tune.He then stuffed the baby back into the woolen pants, then rolled back to bed on his back, unconscious.He was holding his breath in the middle of the night, and there was a big bubble of boy's urine, not a drop was missing, and the master under the window caught it all.Inside the winter military uniform is a sweater and woolen trousers, which are completely transparent now, and it is chilly...

"Who?!"

Hearing his son's opening the window, Meng Jianmin poked his head out, asked vigilantly, carefully moved the bacon back into the room, and closed the window.

That night, an old wolf fell into the hands of a little wolf cub.He Shaotang rolled on the ground when he landed, his whole body was wet, and he didn't dare to scold his mother.

The key is, Lao Tzu's money and gas tickets!

My money and gas tickets were caught on the window, and they fell into their house, and I can't get them back! ! !

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Meng Xiaobei woke up the next morning and slept comfortably. He had no memory of urinating outside the window last night, and he urinated all over his body.

He and his brother had a bit of a fight, and they didn't do anything else these days, they just grabbed peach cakes and fruit dan skins, and they were gnashing their teeth, two vindictive buns.

The granary knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing are enough to know the honor and disgrace.Don't blame the child for being ignorant, just blame him for being so big and eating high-quality peach cakes, fried noodles, and big steamed buns with bean paste stuffing.Once, in a hurry, Meng Xiaobei snatched Meng Xiaojing's candy. Although Meng Xiaojing was tall and long-legged, he was not fierce enough to fight, so he was far from being the opponent of the aggressive Meng Xiaobei.The two brothers squatted at the door of the house, staring at each other, Meng Xiaojing felt wronged, and went up to take a bite!

With this bite, the younger brother bit off a small piece of meat from his older brother's back shoulder.

The rabbit bites when it gets anxious, but Meng Xiaojing is fair and clean, so he is two points stronger than the little white rabbit.

Meng Xiaobei's back was bleeding through the padded jacket.He roared: "Meng Xiaojing, you bite me, you belong to a dog!"

Meng Xiaojing did not show weakness: "Meng Xiaobei, you, you rob me of Tangtang, you are a wolf!"

Being bitten, Meng Xiaobei didn't bite back.

However, at noon, while the adults weren't paying attention, he put half a cup of wall gray water into the glass bottle Meng Xiaojing used to drink milk, and acted like a fool...

What a precious thing milk is. The factory provides special supplies to veteran workers, and only those who have children issue milk tickets.Each household is only given one ticket per day, in other words, it is only for your family to raise one child.Your family?Sorry about that, you can figure it out on your own.

Therefore, for Meng Xiaobei, his difficult childhood memories of those few years were that he and his younger brother took turns grabbing milk, and when his younger brother drank it, he would have nothing to drink and just be greedy.

Meng Xiaobei was out of his mind for the whole afternoon. He came back halfway to play in the snow by the river, and opened the door to see his brother.

Did Meng Xiaojing drink the bottle of milk mixed with wall ash?

drink it.

Did you really drink it?

My brother won't drink and have diarrhea, right?

Don't drink this melon egg, I must have diarrhea tonight, this brother must be stupid...

Meng Xiaobei is not an insidious bad boy in his heart, he would feel guilty first if he did something bad, and would murmur in his heart.

In his eyes, his younger brother Meng Xiaojing is just a soft and squishy white dough, who speaks softly and acts sticky.He can tease his younger brother, cover his younger brother, and take him out to run wildly every day.Snatching food belongs to snatching food, the ones that are snatched are more delicious. He doesn't hate Meng Xiaojing.

In the middle of the night, when his mother was cooking, she handed Meng Xiaobei an aluminum basin for washing vegetables, and asked him to go to the cooperative to buy tomatoes.

Meng Xiaobei deliberately went to the window sill to look, and sure enough his brother emptied the bottle, not a single drop was left.

Didn't this silly white rabbit smell like wall skin?

When Meng Xiaobei went out, he turned the corner of the building and saw a few children in their courtyard chasing and beating Meng Xiaojing!

Meng Xiaojing was alone and alone, and was chased so hard that he ran with his head in his arms, and fell forward suddenly, his pants were torn, and the tender skin on his two palms was torn, and blood gushed out.

Meng Xiaobei held the aluminum basin: "What are you doing?!"

Those children yelled: "Meng Xiaojing is playing tricks!"

"We're not playing with him anymore!"

"He lost and he relied on our foreign paintings!"

A child threw a marble in his hand and hit Meng Xiaojing. Meng Xiaojing let out a "wow" and burst into tears!

Meng Xiaobei picked up the basin and went up, without saying a word, an aluminum basin pinched the child's head...

Meng Xiaojing is one who can cry, and his last move was to roll all over the floor and cry, which shook the heavens and the earth.Behind their compound is a pile of red bricks that were burned out to build a house, and they were built into a city by the children.In the following plot, Meng Xiaojing is sitting on the red brick city wall, crying while watching his brother fight for him!

Meng Xiaobei went down a few times and dented the aluminum basin in a daze...

"Don't bully my brother!"

"Dare to come again, come again? You come again?!...Watch me beat you!"

Meng Xiaobei roared, two pale lights appeared under his thin eyelids, very fierce.

The children next to them were all frightened by this momentum, the two brothers of the Meng family fought in very different ways.Meng Xiaobei turned around to look for the red brick and eat a brick from your grandpa Xiaobei.When he turned around again, a group of children were scared away by him, who would dare to pick him up!

"Meng Xiaojing, stop crying, everyone has run away."

Meng Xiaobei rolled his eyelids and shook his head, looking like a boss.

He took Xiaokubao's hand, put the basin on his brother's head with a smile, and went to buy tomatoes together.The aunt of the cooperative is off work, and the tomatoes are sold in piles. For three cents, I bought a pot full!

"Brother, I'm dead, I can't move."

"You have to take it back if you don't move it. Three cents, don't waste it."

"Ouch, arm, my arm..."

"I'm so exhausted, I'm so tired that I want to pee!..."

The two younger brothers held an aluminum pot of tomatoes in four hands, and walked home step by step.

Meng Xiaojing: "Oops, ooh! Oops, the tomatoes are falling!"

Meng Xiaobei: "It's broken, our mother's aluminum pot has a big hole."

Meng Xiaojing: "You leaked the basin just now."

Meng Xiaobei: "Oops, this basin is so precious! Last time my mother exchanged the food stamps she saved with others, and only two catties of flour were exchanged for this basin."

Meng Xiaojing: "What should I do, brother? It hurts my mother to beat someone."

Meng Xiaobei: "Don't tell our mother, just say that the tomatoes are too heavy, and the pot is so heavy that there is a hole leaking, remember?"

Meng Xiaojing still had tears in his eyes: "Haha, how can tomatoes make a hole out of the pot, hahaha!"

The two of them laughed all the way until tears came out, one was at the front, the other was chasing after the butt...Meng Xiaobei always thought that as long as his brother didn't compete with him for his parents' limited energy and love, he would be a good boy. Very cute brother.

That night, as expected, Meng Xiaobei was punished by his mother to stand at the door of the bathroom with the missing basin at his feet.He was beaten and punished to stand and eat, with his back against the wall, his left leg striding forward, his right leg put on his left knee, his hands clasped together, in the posture of Amitabha meditation, enjoying himself.His younger brother looked at him through the crack of the door, amused.

Childhood was originally pure and carefree, and the color was as pure as the sky.At that time, Meng Xiaobei also liked to climb to the back of the mountain, whistle with grass leaves, chase after the sheep in the neighboring villages and shout, help the village brother drive the sheep in the sunset, or lie face up on the mountain ridge, counting the wild geese among the clouds , the heart follows the geese to fly freely in the air, until the sunset melts the last ray of sunshine, Xigou is his home...

Meng Xiaobei didn't know at the time that the family's dispute concerning the fate and future of the two brothers was happening quietly.

In the final analysis, Qishan, a big ravine, cannot satisfy young people's vision and desire for knowledge. It is a place where young people can be boiled into middle age, and middle-aged people can be boiled into old age until they die without seeing their anger.The manufacturing plant is supported by the military, and there is no shortage of infrastructure funds. Their large factory buildings and dormitory areas are all buildings with white walls and red bricks. In the 60s, there was sufficient power and heat. In winter, heating and hot baths are used.But there is one thing, once you get in, it is very difficult to get out again.At the beginning, the lofty ideal and sacred mission of socialist large-scale production that obeyed distribution and served the country was gradually worn away by the passing years, and people's hearts fluttered.Going back to the city is an indelible longing in the heart of every middle-aged man and woman born early in life, and he thinks about it day and night.

There is no shortage of money or food in their place. Even if there are three years of natural disasters, the people in the military compound will not go hungry, but even if they have money, they can't buy anything.There is a lack of non-staple food, vegetables and fruits in the ravine; the canteen cooks potatoes with carrots and minced pork with pickled vegetables all winter. These two dishes can be eaten for three months in a row.What is missing in the valley is the flow and activity of the population, the excitement and charm of the big cities, and the passing years are pale and boring.Whoever has relatives from Beijing or Shanghai is a big event for the whole hospital, and every family is so envious that they come to "watch the ceremony".If they wanted to go out by themselves, it would take more than an hour to enter Qishan County by long-distance bus.There is a tooth festival every new year and festival, and it takes several hours to go to Baoji by car before eating a restaurant.

Adults can't move the nest, can children go?

Meng Jianmin has never been so serious. The head of the family has the backbone and can handle things.His daughter-in-law had never been so fierce, and the posture of the lioness protecting her cub was almost unrecognizable.

Meng Jianmin said: "I can't afford two, so my mother will pick one and take it away."

Ma Baochun said: "Which one will you take away? Which one would you be willing to let your mother take away?"

Meng Jianmin said: "Holding in the ravine has delayed my son!"

Ma Baochun said: "What is delay? If he is not with his parents at such a young age, it will be fine to let his grandparents take him?!"

Meng Jianmin: "Why can't my parents bring it? It's not as good as yours? Besides, my father's salary is also high, not short of money, and I will give them more money!"

Ma Baochun: "I didn't mean that, I didn't say that our mother can't take care of it well, it's different from my real mother..."

Meng Jianmin got into an argument and said, "What can you do, mother? You are on duty in the reception room from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm every day, or else the shift will be from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am. It's ten hours a day. , you can have time to take care of them?!"

As soon as this sentence hit the uncomfortable spot, Ma Baochun sat cross-legged on the bed with a helpless and unwilling expression, biting his lip and shaking his teeth, and suddenly wept, wiping away his tears.

"I, I'm sorry for my son."

"I didn't take care of the child well. The child has a bad personality. It's all my fault."

"Meng Xiaojing took a bite of Meng Xiaobei, and the meat came off, just to grab a peach cake!"

"Then Meng Xiaobei poured something into his younger brother's bottle. I saw it and I couldn't bear to talk about the child. Is it easy for the child to take milk, isn't it just that he wants to eat but can't eat!"

Ma Baochun burst into tears.The flesh that falls from the mother's body is fundamentally different from that of the father's.

She cried and said, "We all survived three years of natural disasters. I'm not afraid of being hungry. I can't let my son go hungry."

"Children like to eat meat, so I give them all the meat. Our Meng Xiaobei loves mutton the most. Isn't the mutton we buy every time for him? Do you think I have eaten it?!"

"Last year, my mother came all the way to see me and asked me how I was eating. I didn't dare to tell her for fear that she would scold me! I usually go to the cafeteria to order some oil residue left over from the oil refining, fried beans with oil residue , I will go back and forth, and I will pick up the leftover big oil residue and eat it!"

……

Ma Baochun cried out, feeling much more at ease, and finally gave up: "Give it away, let mom take one away, and keep one for me."

On the same day, he also caught up with the baby and his grandmother took the two grandchildren to the house of Mr. Zou, the chairman of the trade union in the compound next door, to give gifts to others, which is a commonplace.Master Zou's family made a big steaming basket of yellow steamed buns, and Meng Xiaobei was ordered to run errands to bring the steamed buns back to his parents for dinner.

He staggered step by step, holding steamed buns that had just come out of the pan in his hand, breathed non-stop, turned his left hand over his right hand, right hand over his left hand, and stood outside the door with fragrant white steam in the winter.

The words that my parents had held back for two years finally poured out, but unexpectedly, by coincidence, the boss heard them.

Ma Baochun hesitated: "Which one do you want to send away?"

Meng Jianmin: "The two are bigger anyway, and it's time to go to elementary school soon. It doesn't matter which one you go."

Ma Baochun: "The second child is good, obedient and easy to play. The boss has a big heart and a temper."

"The second child eats everything and is not picky. The eldest is a picky eater. He doesn't like to eat any dishes, but loves to eat fried garlic sprouts and mutton. He has been thin since he spit up milk since he was a child, and he is willing to drink milk when he grows up. He has nothing to drink. It is too difficult to raise ..."

Meng Jianmin heard the voice, weighed for a long time, and said with difficulty: "Let the boss go."

"The second child stays with us, it's easy to take."

"Meng Xiaobei is a child with lively interests. He is the kind of person who is restless and does not accept his fate. It is a pity to be in a ditch. Let someone take him away. He can take him wherever he likes. Going anywhere is better than staying with me. .”

Meng Xiaobei lost his obedience, didn't listen to the whole thing, only heard the last few words, "Second brother stay with me, easy to take, let the boss go."

"Take wherever you like, it's better than staying with me."

Meng Xiaobei stood silently outside the door, with a glimmer of light under his narrow eyelids, dazed, unwilling to believe it.

The steamed bun seemed to stick to his hand through the plastic bag, and his palm was almost blistered, but he didn't respond, his face was expressionless.

His parents are thinking about how to get rid of the burden of the eldest, and leave the second child behind.

He is disobedient, he is narrow-minded, he loves to fight and fight, he is not likable. Knocked out two teeth by jumping into the ditch and got a fever, and last month...

He was not good-looking when he was born, with a scar on his forehead, and he was not as beautiful as his younger brother.

The younger brother is like a domestic child, he is like a wild child, his parents don't want him, and they want to dump him to others, and he will never eat mutton dumplings again.

……

That night, the little boy bit his lip and turned away from the house, with his head down all the way, huffing and puffing.Meng Xiaobei didn't go the right way again, climbed the big iron gate and slipped out of the family compound, his thin figure disappeared into the dark night.

He is small but has a big temper. He ran away from home!