This deity is handsome and splits the sky

Meng Dalang put the money on the table and blew out the oil lamp.

The faint moonlight cast from the window outlines the thin and tired figure of the man.

Dong Sheng sat up from the bed with the quilt rolled up, and said coldly, "What did you do?"

Meng Dalang seemed to be taken aback, and patted his chest, "The baby is still asleep?"

Dongsheng stared at him gloomyly, Meng Dalang took off his bamboo hat, and smiled honestly at Dongsheng, "Your Uncle Zhang's house is building a new house, I'll go and help."

After finishing speaking, Meng Dalang rummaged in the kitchen by the moonlight, Dongsheng said: "Go and help, they didn't let you eat?"

Meng Dalang said with a smile: "There are so many people in Uncle Zhang's family, how dare daddy have the nerve to eat, is there anything to eat?"

"There is porridge in the pot." Dong Sheng took a deep breath, closed his eyes and said coldly.

Meng Dalang lifted the lid of the pot, and the porridge barely covered the bottom of the pot. Meng Dalang scooped up the porridge and drank it while praising Dongsheng for his filial piety.

Dong Sheng said impatiently, "There is no more rice."

Meng Dalang came back with the bowl, and while drinking the porridge, he pushed the copper coins to Dongsheng's side, "I just paid out the monthly money, and I'll go buy rice tomorrow, and you can buy whatever you want for the rest."

Dong Sheng frowned and looked at him, crawled over to see the money on the table, there were only scattered half pieces, and asked suspiciously: "Why are there so little left? How can we spend this money for a month?"

Meng Dalang swallowed the porridge, and Dongsheng suddenly became angry, "Who did you give the money to again? Is it the family surnamed Zhang? Or Lao Ma?!"

"Why do you talk like that?" Meng Dalang clicked his tongue, as if he were treating an ignorant child, and patiently persuaded Dongsheng: "Brother Zhang is a colleague of his father, so why don't good children respect their elders at all, don't yell of."

Dongsheng rolled his eyes and snorted coldly, "If they didn't look at you stupidly, who do you think they would care about you? To build a house, hire labor and pay money, not even food for you."

"What's so fussy about a meal, you kid..."

Dongsheng rolled up the quilt and fell asleep on his back.

Seeing that Dongsheng was angry, Meng Dalang sat on the side of the bed and stroked Dongsheng's back with one hand.Dongsheng pulled the quilt over his head.

Meng Dalang couldn't help laughing, and patted Dongsheng on the head, "Don't be bored, Dad didn't lend them any money."

"Father took a job today, and he took half a bribe to take it, wait..."

Dongsheng suddenly tore off the quilt covering his head, and stared at Meng Dalang vigilantly, "You must have been deceived again."

"What is cheating? Is father so stupid?" Meng Dalang pinched Dongsheng's nose, "I will leave tomorrow and come back in two days. Then we will have money. Father will build a big house for the newborn and make new ones." clothes."

Dong Sheng frowned more and more, "What are you going to do?"

"I can't tell." Meng Dalang shook his head, "But father can guarantee that we will have money when we come back. Father will pay off the debt first, and we will change to a new home."

Dongsheng felt that Meng Dalang had been cheated, "Who are you going with? Why do you have to pay someone else?"

"You don't know, there are so many people scrambling to go, Dad found an acquaintance, paid him to help him through the back door, and then he was registered." Meng Dalang smiled and said: "So it is useful to make more friends. You can also ask friends for help, multiple friends have multiple paths, and you can make more friends when you have a baby, don't keep a straight face all day long..."

"You count—" Dongsheng closed his mouth again, covering his head with the quilt, "whatever you like, don't talk to me!"

In the darkness, Meng Dalang looked at Dongsheng's back, and sighed sadly for this ignorant son.

The next day.

The sun rises.

When Dongsheng woke up, the house had been cleaned. There were two steamed buns and half money on the table, and Meng Dalang had disappeared.

Dongsheng ate the steamed buns in silence, and went out to buy rice with the money. Along the way, neighbors occasionally greeted him, but he also ignored them with a sullen face.After buying rice, the lady next door was sweeping the yard. Seeing Dongsheng passing by, she called Dongsheng to stop.

Dongsheng frowned and looked over, the neighbor aunt wiped her hands on her apron, took out two eggs from the chicken coop, stuffed them into Dongsheng's hands, and said with a smile: "Take them back, you two will steam them and eat them."

Seeing the eggs in his arms, Dongsheng was slightly taken aback, then raised his head to see the kindly smiling face of the neighbor's aunt, and suddenly felt a little warmth in his heart.

Dongsheng was silent for a while, and said awkwardly, "Thank you..."

The neighbor aunt smiled, "Thank you, they are all neighbors."

Dongsheng nodded, turned around and was about to leave, but the neighbor lady suddenly grabbed his arm and smiled a little embarrassedly, "When will your father come back?"

Dong Sheng frowned suddenly, and the neighbor's aunt smiled and said, "Isn't your father an official servant? I have something to do..."

"..." Dongsheng stuffed the egg back into the hand of the neighbor's aunt, and left without looking back.

As the sun sets and the moon rises, Dongsheng sits on the threshold bored, with a piece of grass in his mouth, staring blankly at the moon.

After a while, Dongsheng took out the remaining copper coins from his pocket and tossed them boredly. The night was getting darker and the autumn wind was getting colder. Dongsheng went back to the house and fell asleep wrapped up in the quilt.

The moon sets and the sun rises, and the sun rises and the moon sets. After several days, Meng Dalang still didn't come back.

At the beginning, neighbors came to ask where Meng Dalang had gone. The first thing they cared about was the neighbor's aunt. Dongsheng himself didn't know, and he didn't want to see their expressions that seemed worried but were actually gossiping, so they refused to answer. The neighbors saw Dongsheng's cold expression. I don't want to put my hot face on my cold butt any more, curse secretly for being unkind, and gradually no one comes to ask me any more.

A few days later, Dongsheng also became anxious, and began to knock on the doors of the people in the city one by one, asking if anyone had seen Meng Dalang, but he had treated others coldly before, and these people did not want to give Dongsheng any good looks. After asking around, all the answers were 'don't know'.

Old Ma... Yes, Lao Ma must know!

Thinking of this, Dongsheng ran wildly, past the row upon row of houses in the west of the city, and ran to the door of Lao Ma's house panting.

"Old—" Dong Sheng had just yelled, but suddenly paused, as if thinking of something, he gritted his teeth and said, "Is Uncle Ma here?"

Chuncai opened the door a crack, looked at Dongsheng kindly, "Dongsheng, what's the matter?"

"I'm looking for Uncle Ma, I want to ask..."

Chuncai smiled, "He's not here... Hey, hey, what are you doing, brat!"

Dongsheng squeezed through the crack of the door and got into the room. Lao Ma was squatting on the ground eating noodles with a bowl. Seeing Dongsheng coming in, he raised his head and kept eating noodles in a daze for a moment.

"Did you see my father? Where did my father go?" Dong looked at Lao Ma panting angrily.

Lao Ma swallowed the noodles and chewed, while Chuncai said, "Your father? I haven't seen it before."

"A few days ago, he told me that he was going to pick up a job, and then he disappeared. Do you know where he went?" Dongsheng was full of despair, and took a step towards Lao Ma, "My father will tell you everything. , you must know, or did he tell you anything before?"

Lao Ma said with a sullen face: "How do I know? You don't even know as a son, and it's even more impossible for me to know."

After saying that, Lao Ma kicked over, Dongsheng never expected that Lao Ma would make a move, and he couldn't avoid being kicked by Lao Ma.

"Your father, your father, I'm not your father!" Lao Ma picked up Dongsheng and threw him out the door, "Go away!"

The door slammed shut in front of Dongsheng with a bang.

Dongsheng sat at the door in a daze, before he could react. After a while, he got up and started banging on the door like crazy. Lao Ma's reaction was so strange, he must know something!

A moment later, there was a furious "Get out" from inside the door, and then Lao Ma opened the door, holding a stick in one hand, and looked at Dongsheng sternly.

"Where's my father!" Dong Sheng said angrily.

Lao Ma smacked the ground, and swung his stick to hit Dongsheng, "I don't know what I said! I can't cure you, little bastard!"

Dongsheng dodged narrowly, but Lao Ma didn't stop, and chased Dongsheng with a stick to beat him, "Crazy, aren't you? Come, let's see who is crazier!"

Lao Ma's offensive continued unabated, and Dong Sheng hurriedly dodged and ran away. He didn't catch up until he ran a long way, so Dong Sheng stopped and turned his head to look at Lao Ma full of hatred.

At dusk, maple leaves were flying all over the city, and Dongsheng walked slowly along the street in a daze.

"Fengcheng is such a big place, where can people go?"

"Don't be dead..."

The two people next to them were talking in a low voice, and their words did not hide the excitement of the troublemakers.

"Did he offend someone?"

"Meng Dalang is so honest, he can't do anything wrong..."

"Honest people are the scariest. Didn't you hear what his son said? He disappeared because of some job with others. What kind of job is mysterious, maybe he's doing something bad behind it..."

The next moment, the person who spoke received a fierce punch in the face, and Dong Sheng threw him to the ground, and the punch hit him in the face like thunder.

The other person was stunned for a while and hurried to stop him. Naturally, the two of them would not have any reason to beat a young man. After a while, Dongsheng was pushed to the ground by the two of them and beat him.

After a cup of tea, the two left cursing.

Dongsheng struggled to get up from the ground, the corners of his eyes and mouth were scratched and bleeding.

He sniffed, wiped his face with his sleeve fiercely, tears and blood stained his face, and wiped it carefully until there were no more tears on his face, then limped towards the house.

The afterglow of the setting sun in the sky reflected the young man's faltering back, showing a bit of loneliness and desolation.

After walking for a while, when I came to the door of the house, Dongsheng saw a circle of people around the house from a long distance away, pointing and pointing like watching a play and not knowing what they were doing.

Dad is back?

Dong Sheng was taken aback for a moment, then hurriedly limped over, pushed away the onlookers with all his strength and squeezed in, stunned.