Rebirth Night Talk

Zhao Xuejun felt dizzy for a while looking at the banknotes that were regarded as ceiling paper all over the roof.He walked around the pile of grain in the house several times, and his head was in a certain state of confusion.

"Hey, hey, what are you looking at? I've called you... several times." The thick-browed kid held a jar in one hand, and vigorously patted Zhao Xuejun on the shoulder with the other.

Zhao Xuejun looked at him stupidly, and after watching for a while, with a silly expression on his face, he stretched out his finger to the ceiling, and asked loudly in an undisguised tone of excitement: "Can this be changed?!" Regretted, he looked at the other party carefully, for fear that the child would see something.

The thick-browed kid looked at Zhao Xuejun strangely for a while and asked him, "You want a roof for my house? What are you doing?"

Zhao Xuejun nodded: "Tell me, what do you want?" After saying this, he really wanted to slap himself a few times.Why are you so restless?

"Do you want this? What are you doing?" the thick-browed child continued to wonder.

Zhao Xuejun calmed down, his eyes rolled wildly, he brewed his emotions, and his expression was as sincere as possible: "The history teacher said, let me study ancient coins. This, this is homework!" After finishing speaking, he spurned himself.

The thick-browed kid smiled, sat down on the grain pile, turned the pot upside down, and immediately scattered a pile of copper coins: "Your history teacher is really kind, our third grade and first grade are in the temple together, Our teachers never give us extracurricular homework. Every year during the autumn harvest vacation, we have to help the teacher harvest corn, so it’s better to study in the city, homework is so fun.”

Zhao Xuejun calmed down, sat down slowly, and counted the copper coins one by one.But he was making up nonsense in his stomach, and his head was full of thinking about how to cheat this ceiling bank note.Soon, he counted the hundred or so copper plates, and took a pen to figure out how many pencils he should give. This time, he was very generous, giving three more, and an extra pencil sharpener for the sake of talking later.

The thick-browed child treasured the pencil and put it in the schoolbag beside him, and said with a burst of excitement, "Tomorrow, I will show them in class." Children of this age, children of this age, have the only knowledge of life. Show off and pursuit, it seems that these stationery.

Zhao Xuejun put away the copper plate, stood up, and was about to say something.But seeing that after thick eyebrows hung up their schoolbags, they followed the ladder on one side and went up to the roof.He climbed on the hook on one side of the corn ears, grabbed a corner of the ceiling, shook it a few times, and yanked it violently.Whoa!Bah ah bah!The smoke from this house was covered with dust that was at least ten years old and fell down.

Zhao Xuejun ran a few steps outside, and ran to the door, but a big mouse fell from the sky, and he screamed!

As the big mouse fell, the mouse family also fell and ran around.He screamed again and again, jumping like a fish out of water!

A woman in her 40s was disturbed by the noise, stood in the yard and shouted towards the second floor: "Dun! What are you doing with the above? Have you demolished the house?!"

Thick eyebrows proudly jumped off the ladder, strode forward, stepped on the tail of the running mouse, bent down, lifted the tail of the mouse without any fear, and came to the second floor and shouted: "Catch the mouse, take the ceiling down!" Are you coming down?"

The woman looked up at the struggling mouse, and muttered: "Pick up my mother's things." After speaking, she turned and went to the kitchen.I don't know whether to scold my baby or the mouse.

Thick eyebrows waved the mouse, and the frightened Zhao Xuejun backed up again and again, yelling a few times.Perhaps it was Zhao Xuejun's expression that pleased him, and after scaring him, he boldly faced the wall and threw the mouse to death in a very chic manner.This kind of overly quick behavior made the disgusting Zhao Xuejun even more frightened, his feet went limp.

"I (give) you, I won't exchange your stuff." Bending down with thick eyebrows, he folded the dirty banknote ceiling into several folds, and stood on it and jumped a few times.Zhao Xuejun was startled when he saw it, but he didn't dare to say anything.

"Give it to me for nothing? Why?" Zhao Xuejun didn't want to take it for nothing, and felt really embarrassed.

"You people in the city, it's not real. Every (given) you is just you. If you ask why, I know why I don't go to school and eat fried oil cakes every day!" Thick eyebrows helped Zhao Xuejun tie it up, carrying the bag The big bag of silver bills covered the ceiling, and the two followed each other to the stage.He helped Zhao Xuejun put away his things, then sat down on the tricycle and started gossiping.Nong Mei and Zhao Xuejun despised the storyteller on the stage for a while, saying that he hated this kind of thing very much, and it would be better to watch and sing an opera, dancing around with a big knife.

Zhao Xuejun's mouth was full of huh, huh, he did something wrong with his heart, and he was very guilty thinking about how to make up for others.Beside the stage, a smell of meatballs wafted over. He smelled the air with his thick eyebrows, swallowed a mouthful of spit and said to Zhao Xuejun: "My second uncle sells meatball soup, so you can pick it up! My mother said that his family farts." , turned into a ball and fell to the ground, I have to pick it up and clap the ashes, and then eat it!" After finishing speaking, he snorted, expressing that he didn't like meatballs at all.Zhao Xuejun ran over as if he had been redeemed, and asked for [-] cents for meatballs, and also bought a bean bag, holding it with both hands for thick eyebrows.

"Please mine?!" Thick eyebrows pointed at himself.

"En!" Zhao Xuejun nodded heavily.

"Then, then... shall we share the meal?" The thick eyebrow took the bowl, expressing his embarrassment to eat it alone.

"I don't like meatballs." Zhao Xuejun shook his head, in order to reduce guilt, he refused with a serious expression.

The storyteller held the drum board, and recounted the story of good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil. Zhao Xuejun pretended to listen to the book, wishing that it would end immediately, and put the thick eyebrows beside him, who were drinking well, Pushed out of the car, took grandma and left here immediately, and then...he will never come here in this life.

"You people in the city are good. You eat meat every day. I have to take an exam in the future. I have an urban household registration and eat meat every day. My mother said that people in the city make clothes every month, and every family has a bicycle sewing machine. , Do you have a sewing machine at home?" Thick eyebrows were also very guilty, and felt that they were taking advantage of it, so they found some topics to chat.

Zhao Xuejun nodded repeatedly with his heart beating faster.

"That's great, does your dad have a watch?"

nod.

"That's great, then your mother, do you have a bicycle?"

nod.

"Really rich."

Finally, after reading the book like a year, Zhao Xuejun went to help grandma get into the car, and the old lady looked satisfied.She waved goodbye to her old friend, saying that the next event was open, and she would still go, and her grandson would send her there as appointed.The old ladies expressed their envy, and the grandma pretended to be unconscious. She unintentionally lifted the hem of her clothes and opened them layer by layer. Then she took out a handkerchief bag from the embroidered waist pocket, and rewarded Zhao Xuejun with an old two-cent note. She just wanted to show those old ladies her theater equipment.

Corduroy coat, satin jacket, Dacron jacket, and the innermost vest is made of pure cotton.This is what the daughter-in-law insisted on doing. The old lady said disdainfully that she didn't like it at all, and the daughter-in-law forced her to wear it.Zhao Xuejun felt aggrieved for his mother.Turning over and stepping on the car, he looked at the thick eyebrows who were reluctant to give up. He hesitated for a while, then took out two manuscript papers from the schoolbag behind him and gave them to the thick eyebrows: "This is for you."

The thick eyebrows were stunned. He took the manuscript paper, looked at Zhao Xuejun, and stammered: "Well, thank you then. That! Then... I'll go home!" As soon as he finished speaking, he hugged the With two manuscripts, the girl ran away, as if she was asking for a big deal, and she was afraid that Zhao Xuejun would regret it.Seeing him running like this, Zhao Xuejun's heart was relieved. He laughed at himself, why he always judged the current world with the price concept of the [-]th century.Now at this moment, this matter, I am at a disadvantage, okay?After thinking about it, I spurned myself for a while, slowly fantasizing about the beautiful life in the future, the whole journey was extremely brisk, and even imitated a storyteller, singing a few times, the grandma who only provoked kept laughing and said: "Junjun Hey, it’s smart, so we’ll also be storytellers in the future.” Hey, my grandma only has this view of the world.

Today's book was finished early, Zhao Xuejun and grandma returned home, it was only ten o'clock at night.After returning home, grandma immediately sat in the kitchen and began to mend the broken clothes at home with the help of the light there.Zhao Xuejun, on the other hand, took the bag of banknotes and searched for a place to hide it all over the place. He climbed up a tree for fear of rain, dug a hole for fear of moisture, and put it on a beam for fear of rats. .In a hurry, he tossed and tossed for half an hour. After laughing at himself for a while, he wrapped the package with a clean sheet and put it in a wooden cabinet beside him. Spend money.

Taking out the big key around his neck, Zhao Xuejun entered the chicken coop and opened the big lock on the wooden box on the side.Zhao Xuejun turned his schoolbag upside down, closed his eyes and listened to the melody of copper plates hitting copper plates.With the sound of coins colliding, the money-losing look that was often seen on Zhao Xuejun's face disappeared. He was puzzled for a while, then stretched out his hand, tentatively touched the box, and was surprised!Touching down again, I was surprised again!

After a while of stumbling, he ran back to the house, took the gas lamp and lit it, Zhao Xuejun came to the chicken coop, looked at his future villa, high-end car, his wealth and life!Most of the copper plates of the cabinets are now less than two-tenths, leaving only a small layer of bottom...

"Wow... my copper coins...!" Zhao Xuejun cried. Although he didn't know how much the money was worth, he once linked the fate of his family with it. The money for parents traveling around the world to spend their whole life happily, the money for the second brother’s marriage, the money for the way of the boss, and the money for his own pension.Every night, I fantasize about a life without worrying about food and clothing in the future, and point to these copper coins... Now, who stole the future of this family?

Zhao Xuejun burst into tears, only to be surprised that the rooster on one side was shaking its feathers and bouncing wildly.

Hearing the cry of the youngest son, Zhao Jianguo ran out, and soon Gao Juzi also came with his grandmother.Grandma flicked her fingers, just now when San'er wailed, she stuck a needle into her middle finger, and now it hurts so much.

"San'er, what's the matter?" "What's the matter? What's the matter?" "Why are you crying? I'm not dead yet, save some tears, and cry when I die!"

Everyone asked a while, and Zhao Xuejun remembered that he took his grandma back and forth. During the period of wind and rain, one copper plate, one copper plate has been saved until now, which is even more bitter. He sat on the ground and sobbed softly. Feeling cold.

Holding the kerosene lamp, Zhao Jianguo looked down at the copper coins. Every time his youngest son acted like a baby, he would put his arms around his neck and say, "Dad, when you get old, I will sell those copper coins and send you to the United States or Japan." , go to Australia, you and my mother, don’t worry about money, you can eat whatever you want. I can buy you whatever you want, and you can wear whatever you want..." Although the behavior of the youngest son is very funny, every time I watch this Zhao Jianguo always felt flattered when Wa squinted his eyes and counted the copper coins, showing off his happiness to him one by one.

Shanxi is completely different from other provinces. There is a strange rule here that is different from other places. There are many villages and even cities in Shanxi.When the parents are old, they will naturally spend their whole life with the youngest son in the family, and the youngest child seems to have this kind of awareness of supporting their parents when they are born.This kind of rule is an unspoken rule in the blood, and it has followed Shanxi for many years and generations.So whenever Zhao Xuejun showed off, Zhao Jianguo was happy from the bottom of his heart.

Zhao Jianguo shook the box, turned the box around, and soon, an obviously man-made pry hole appeared behind the box.

"Animals! Animals! Animals! Thief! You have become a thief! One time is not enough, even stealing from your younger brother!" Zhao Jianguo turned around, picked up a stick, and ran out of the house.Soon, he grabbed Zhao Xuebing, who was shouting loudly, and came to the front yard. He threw him to the side of the coal pond and beat him with a stick.

Zhao Xuebing was bragging with a group of Faxiao at the farmer's market outside the backyard, and he was talking beautifully.My own father came over and hit his leg with a stick, followed by a burst of lifeless beatings.Zhao Xuebing, who felt that he had grown up, was very unconvinced, and kept asking: "What's wrong with me! What's wrong with me!"

When he got home, he was pressed on the coal pool again and continued to smoke. He turned his head and saw Zhao Xuejun sitting there crying, and then saw the open chicken coop and the wooden box pushed aside. This time he stopped crying.He even said with a sneer: "I thought it was something, but it turned out to be because of him." After finishing speaking, he sat down on the ground, took off his shirt, exposed his not fat body, bowed his head, and pointed to his back Back: "You kill me, kill me, it's just as you want. Anyway, I live or die, it doesn't matter to you and my mother, it's enough for you to have him alone gone."

Zhao Xuewen, who came back from the outside, originally wanted to hold his father, but when he heard Zhao Xuebing say this, it was very strange that he didn't move anymore. He leaned against the wall and stood there, looking at his father motionless. Look at Zhao Xuejun.

Zhao Jianguo beat him several times, but this time grandma didn't stop her, she just pointed at her son with the stick and sighed, "Hey, aren't you a father, and your father is like you too?" The old lady looked at the yard. The three brothers grabbed his daughter-in-law's hand, and dragged Gao Juzi, who looked anxious, into the house: "Don't worry about father and son matters, are you an old lady?"

Zhao Jianguo slapped Zhao Xuebing with a stick, but Zhao Xuebing didn't move, and cried softly with his arms around his knees.Zhao Xuejun stared blankly at his second brother, didn't speak, and didn't stop him like before.

After playing for a while, Zhao Jianguo felt that smoking was really boring, so he dropped the stick, pointed at Zhao Xuebing and cursed: "Look at you, playing truant, stealing money, cheating adults, what do you do every day outside your home? Your mother is too busy to take care of you, but she didn’t dare to ask you to wear a piece of dirty or torn clothes. Your grandma is already in her seventies, and she wakes up at 04:30 every day to cook breakfast for you. Your brother is only ten years old. You have to ride three rounds back and forth for forty miles to take grandma to listen to books and help us to be a filial piety...It's better if you don't help, now it's all stolen from my brother..."

"Then why did you give birth to me! Yes! The third one is good, what's wrong with the third one! Even if he farts, it's still delicious! Pooh!" Zhao Xuebing jumped up suddenly, his eyes glowed red, and after interrupting his father's words, Just an accusation.

"What am I? Pooh, Zhao Xuewen, Zhao Xuebing, they are dispensable to this family! If there is no child in the family, the parents are not equal. We are not as good as the third child, what are we? We don't Can act like a baby, can't be good-looking, can't massage, can't give my mother thrush!"

Zhao Jianguo stomped his feet in hatred: "Fart!"

Zhao Xuebing wiped his tears and continued with a sneer: "I have known with my brother since I was a child that there is only Zhao Xuejun in this family, no Zhao Xuewen, Zhao Xuebing. You see, when you buy a peach cake with your mother, you have to ask first. San’er, do you eat peach cakes? What are we, we just eat leftovers from Zhao Xuejun. If he doesn’t want it, it’s our turn.”

"Fart, isn't he small?"

"Small? He is smart. At the age of eight, he would trick me and the boss to do his homework and carry him to school. If there is a benefit, he will take it first. If we want to share it, we have to accompany the smiling face. We and the boss are just a little follower. It is said that the third child is kind, did you not see him bullying us?"

Zhao Xuejun stood up, leaned against the wall, and walked slowly to the low wall with no expression on his face. He quietly climbed up the wall, followed the low wall and climbed up to the roof.He wanted to lie on his back for a while, but he was so frightened by a black shadow that was already on the roof that he almost fell.The black shadow held back Zhao Xuejun and whispered in his ear, "Hush, it's me, Wang Xi."

Zhao Xuejun covered his chest and asked in a low voice, "Why are you here?"

Wang Xi hesitated and said, "I'm angry with...my dad."

"why?"

"It's about the same as... your family, not as serious as yours."

"Fart, stay on the roof of your house!"

"My roof is not easy to fix!"

Zhao Xuejun lay on his back along the tile surface, he looked at the stars in the sky without saying a word.Soon, Wang Xi also lay beside him. After lying down for a while, he probably felt that Zhao Xuejun didn't have enough clothes, so he took off his coat and helped him cover it.In the yard, Zhao Xuebing's accusations still came intermittently. He cried and talked for a while, and his voice was very clear in the quiet small courtyard.

"Since I was a child, my elder brother and I have to take care of the younger ones after school. Every time it rains or snows, we have to rush to the school gate... At the school gate, whenever it rains, there are always a lot of dads Mom. We know that there must be no parents there. The elder brother took off his own clothes and wrapped Zhao Xuejun in it. I had to carry the third student’s schoolbag to avoid getting wet and ran home together.

He loves to take a bath, so the eldest brother has to fetch water several times a night.My mother always thinks that Xiao San is thin, and puts poached eggs at the bottom of Xiao San's bowl every time. She thinks we can't see it, but we all know it.We are brothers, we are older, so we can only say nothing, but my brother is so tired every day, carrying water, training, he also needs poached eggs, right?Did my mom make one?No!not a single one! "

"Crack!" There was a slap in the face.

"Dad, stop beating!" The eldest brother came with a crying voice, begging for a while.

The voice of Zhao Xuebing not caring at all rang out again, he was not afraid of being beaten at all, and he was willing to go all out.

"My eldest brother and I take the first place every year. Every time we take an exam, we are either first or second. There is a box with the certificates, but look, in this house, only Zhao Xuejun's certificates are hung on the wall. It is not the fourth." , is the fifth. The first one, he doesn't have any!

You give money to buy things, my brother and I can guess, he is [-] cents, we are [-] cents.eat candy!Three yuan for him, one yuan for us.All right!We are brothers, don't care.How can you compare it.You are a real father.

Do you know why I run?Do you know why I go up the mountain?I just thought, I'm leaving, as you like, Dad.This family is not as good as me, not as good as my elder brother.Without us, you don't have to follow the teacher's ass to apologize, wipe our ass, and you don't have to be called to the police station in the middle of the night.I'm not a thing, I shouldn't steal your money.I shouldn't have run away, I shouldn't have stolen Xiaosan's copper coins and sold them in exchange for money to invite others to eat.Hmph, there is no warmth at home, why don't I go outside to find warmth?I have had enough of this home! "

"Shut up!"... "Crack!"

"I won't, I firmly defend my right to speak, you are a dictator!"

"Clap!"

"Death row prisoners still have the right to write suicide notes. I'm not a death row prisoner yet!"

"Clap!"

"Zhao Jianguo, you can stop the mouths of the working people, but you can't stop the bright eyes of the working people!"

Following Zhao Xuebing's roar, Zhao Jianguo didn't even bother to fight anymore. What's the matter? The Cultural Revolution came out.He stomped his feet, looked around, found a hammer and a piece of wood, and started nailing the box without saying a word.

Zhao Xuejun's body trembled for a while, he never knew that he would offend his eldest brother and second brother to such an extent.Wang Xi on the side looked at him, thought for a while, stretched out his arms, hugged him like his father, patted him and whispered, "Don't listen to him. It's not what you think." Zhao Xuejun began to cry , the endless crying, until Wang Xi's clothes were soaked.

In the yard, it was completely quiet, only Zhao Xuebing's crying came from time to time.

That night, Zhao Xuejun's eyes were wide open, staring straight at the roof, not feeling sleepy at all.He kept thinking, where did he make a mistake, which caused his brothers to hate him so much.When the cricket chirped again, grandma sat up from one side, got out of the bed, came to him, groped, and touched his face with calloused hands, and even touched tears.

"My Junjun doesn't cry, Junjun is a good boy." Grandma coaxed him, patting his belly.

Zhao Xuejun sat up, hugged his grandmother and choked with tears: "Grandma."

"It's not Junjun's fault, it's because they haven't grown up. They don't understand."

"I'm young too." Zhao Xuejun was depressed.

"Junjun is not small, grandma, she can't read, but grandma has a lantern in her heart, but it lights up, my army, I have a provincial city in my heart, a building in my heart, and a big ship. The commander of our army I’m going to take a boat for a long journey, and I’m going to take grandma to the south to see the big geese!”

In the dark night, Zhao Xuejun burst into laughter: "Grandma, the Antarctic is a penguin."

Grandma sat on the side of the bed, hugging Zhao Xuejun and still stroking him like that: "Baby, don't hate your brother, your father is a donkey, a stupid person can't be a father. You see, he is stupid and scolded him, but he just doesn't want to talk about it. I'm that stupid, I've suffered all my losses in this life because of that mouth.

Junjun, your brother, he doesn't understand.Don't know how to be a child, don't know how to be a brother, don't hate him.If he fell, he fell that day, and the evil would hurt him once, and he would understand immediately.Your grandfather didn't understand at that time either.He and his brother didn't talk for half their lives because of the two-point field.When he died, he wanted to find his brother, and said sorry, the second part of the land is nothing, but after he died, did he regret going there, and he could only be a cow and a horse in the next life.A good brother who doesn't speak for half his life, with a big disc (millstone) stuffed in his stomach, he can't go up or down.Drinking saliva, thinking of this, did he suffocate him to death?

Our army is not angry, let's ignore them and tell them to regret it, it is wrong, they are wrong, it is wrong for our army..."