Chapter 244 High School Classmate
On a summer morning, it gets up very early.
Just after five o'clock, the sky brightened up, and the small town was awakened by the sound of cocks crowing and dogs barking.
Chen Ling got up very early. He was not in a hurry to go home, so he packed up the debris in the small courtyard in the south of the city.
The electric wires here are a bit old and in disrepair. I am here today to clear out the debris and replace them with new ones.
At this time, there were few places to use electricity, just a light bulb and nothing else, and there were few wires, so it was easy to get rid of.
After cleaning up, Chen Ling saw that it was still early, so he took advantage of the coolness in the morning to go out for a walk, herd the cows, and have breakfast.
Go out and see the slightly humid bluestone streets, the clear sky, and the cool and fresh air.
Chen Ling led the cow around behind the middle school and slowly stepped onto the old and mottled stone bridge.
The little white cow walked on the long stone bridge with cheerful little steps, looking everywhere with its black eyes, and stepped on the stone bridge with its hooves, making a crisp sound. Under the bridge is the rushing river.
It's Nansha River.
Chen Ling led the cow down the stone bridge and came to the embankment. The willow trees on both sides were blown by the morning breeze, and their branches were flying gently.
Under the tree are slightly tangled flowers and plants that are too vigorously growing.
On one side of the stone bridge, he found a path down the embankment. Chen Ling walked down slowly, and the little white cow slowly followed behind him.
"Giggle..." As soon as he walked down, a large number of water birds flew up in the grass. Chen Ling looked around and found a small boat from under the bridge. This boat was a flood control command boat. Anyone can use it if I put it away recently, just put it back after use.
Untie the boat, board it and paddle forward in the river. The little white cow slowly steps into the river and swims behind the boat. When it becomes more playful, it will push the boat forward with its head from time to time, or flap around. I got into the water and chased the ducks and waterfowl on the river in the distance, and had a lot of fun.
Chen Ling couldn't help laughing that it looked like a dog.
One person and one cow played from the west of the city to the east of the city, and then from the east to the west of the city. It was a great time, but it only attracted people passing by to stop and look, and some shouted and talked to him and asked him. sentence.
"Wealth, wealth..."
Back to the stone bridge in the west of the city, someone on the shore called him again. When he looked up, he saw Liang Yuemin.
"You came to Nansha River to play. My mother asked you to go back for dinner. I went to look for you in the south of the city. The door was locked there. I thought you had gone home."
Liang Yuemin walked from the embankment Walking down, he looked at the little white cow slowly walking out of the water, and said with a smile: "Your cow is more fun."
Chen Ling smiled, parked the boat, and walked up to talk to him .
Although Liang Yuemin was as cordial and enthusiastic as usual today, he was always a little uncomfortable.
After saying a few words, and when the two of them walked back together, he hesitated and spoke about his family's affairs.
"What? Uncle Qin and Aunt Hongyu were getting divorced before?"
When he told the whole story, Chen Ling was really surprised. He didn't expect it at all.
"Well, you should be able to tell something from the fact that Xiao Ming and I are both surnamed Liang."
Liang Yuemin gave him a wry smile: "My dad is our People from Qinwan here, my mother is from the capital and came to the countryside. I won’t tell you how they met. Anyway, getting married is equivalent to my father stepping in.”
“These things. Years ago, especially after the reform, people in my mother's family treated him like a nanny, and he had to take care of all the cooking. My mother may have said last time that some family dinners even had my father as the cook, and he didn't even call me Mom always uses "you", although it is common in Beijing, but how can this be done between husband and wife? ”
"You can't do it without shouting, otherwise the elders will teach him a lesson if they find out."
"I don't want to say more about other things until last year when my dad couldn't stand it anymore and planned to divorce my mom and return to my hometown..."< br>
Chen Ling was stunned and surprised when he heard: "You have such a big business now, and your family can't talk about it?"
"Oh, you really can't talk about such a thing, I don't know you Do you understand? In short, my surname is Liang. This business naturally relies on the support of my mother's relatives, friends and elders to achieve this state."
Liang Yuemin shook his head: "But I am still in the capital. I can’t stay any longer. I’ve been worrying about it for so many years, but it’s hard to spend any money. Didn’t Huanhuan and Huanhuan return to our city to develop last year?”
Chen Ling didn't know what to say.
Since the two of them started chatting about this matter, they stopped going back to eat. Instead, they found a breakfast stall near the county hospital and sat down to eat and chat.
The little white cow sat obediently under a big tree not far away, calmly looking back and forth at the passers-by.
"Well, in short, without you, my dad and my mom might really get divorced. Although my dad is soft-tempered, he has been like this for most of his life and has already had enough. He said that he Now I don’t want anything, I just want to live a comfortable and pure life for a few years. Maybe this is the way to be strong without desire? My mother can’t stop him no matter how much she does, and it’s useless to lose her temper, so she has no choice but to follow him back.”
"No, after I came back, I stayed for only a year, that is to say, I stayed with you, played some interesting things, and ate some delicious food every day. The two of them are much better now, and they both told me in private. , living better than Beijing has in decades.”
Liang Yuemin looked at Chen Ling with complicated eyes and said with emotion: "Now the atmosphere in my hometown is much more conservative than outside. If you are able to accept interacting with strangers like us and sincerely, your family will be rich and prosperous. I really want to thank you."
After hearing this, Chen Ling smiled and waved his hands, saying that it was nothing and that he was right.
If you meet someone who is arrogant and looks down on country people, he won't be able to say a word to you.
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The two were chatting while eating, when a group of people came over on bicycles and stopped in front of the breakfast stall.
"Good guy, the white buffalo is so beautiful."
These people looked at the little white buffalo, praised it, and then noisily asked the boss to weigh the steamed buns for them.
Chen Ling and Chen Ling were almost finished eating. Seeing so many people crowding in, they quickly drank the last two mouthfuls of soup, got up and left.
But when he took the little white cow and was about to leave, a voice suddenly stopped him.
“Hey, is that Qian Niu’s descendant Chen Ling?”
Chen Ling looked up and saw a young man with a dark red face, a square face and small eyes. He had short hair and was not tall. He stared at it for about ten seconds before he recognized who it was.
"Are you... Dial Qingbo?"
"Hahaha, my mother, you still remember my nickname."
The young man laughed loudly, walked up to him and patted his shoulder enthusiastically, "You are tall, white-faced, and very young now. I thought you were from a good family."
< br>This man was nicknamed Dial Qingbo because his name was Zhao Hongbo. When he was in school, his classmates used the phrase "Anthurium Dial Qingbo" to joke with him. After calling him, he got the nickname Dial Qingbo. Later, The teacher also shouted.
In high school, he and Chen Ling were in the same dormitory. He had a warm and cheerful personality and was a very loyal male classmate.
"Hahaha, I'm born to be white. I can't help it. I can't get tan even if I work."
Chen Ling also smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "I haven't seen him for several years. , what have you been doing recently?”
“I’m building a factory with my uncle in Huangni Town. A new factory is being built there, and the wages are high.”
Zhao Hongbo said with a smile. "What are you doing? You're leading the cow so early in the morning and you're moving to the county seat?"
"Ah, I haven't moved, but I bought a small yard opposite Xinlingzhong. I will move it later."
Chen Ling pointed in that direction and said.
“Oh, that’s amazing, your kid must have made a lot of money.”
Zhao Hongbo stared in surprise, picked up the towel on his neck to wipe the sweat, and shouted .
“What makes big money? Where can farmers go to make big money?”
Chen Ling smiled and said, "Didn't this just add a baby to the family? To make it easier for him to go to school in the county in the future."
"Oh, we already have a baby, okay, kid."
Zhao Hongbo smiled happily after hearing this, and then said: "You dropped out of school in your senior year of high school and stopped contacting us. This year, you have time to go out for a drink during the Chinese New Year. The people in our dormitory are all good-tempered and don't have such trouble." This point is clear. Ling agreed. At first, the most they could do as a group was climb over the wall, wash in the river, pick up scraps from the construction site and sell them in exchange for a few cigarettes, and buy some drinks and dishes. Everyone got along well with each other and there was no trouble. contradiction.
“Okay, let’s set a date when the time comes and we can still have one drink a year like we did when we were in school.”
"Hahaha, your kid still remembers it. Okay, we can have one meal a year. When we can find a good time, I will write to you. We even talked about you coming last year."
On the other side, Liang Yuemin Watching Chen Ling talking to others, I felt relieved.
Because of his drunken gaffe yesterday, he was scolded by his parents when he got up in the morning, for fear that Chen Ling would think too much about it.
In fact, they were too guilty, and they were overly worried when they were startled.
After more than a year of getting along with each other, Liang Hongyu also knew that Chen Ling was not the kind of person to climb high, and he never took fame and wealth to his heart.
But fame and fortune are one thing, and family ties are another. No one can say for sure about his son and his mother.
What if Chen Ling knew about it and really wanted to find her? Not to mention whether the process was difficult or not, given Chen Ling's mother's temper, she has not come back for so many years. You can imagine her attitude.
Liang Hongyu was afraid that if her son was wronged and her mother was cold, she would hurt her nephew.
Now that Chen Ling's mother has cut off contact with both of their families, she simply doesn't talk to Chen Ling anymore. It's good for each of them to live their own lives, so as not to be upset.
Liang Yuemin has also been reminded many times by Liang Hongyu and Liang Hongyu. He is usually very careful, that is, he was happy after drinking yesterday and did not keep his mouth shut.
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"We have a long way to go and can't afford to eat. Come here and make some steamed buns to eat on the way, otherwise we won't be able to start work in time."
"Let's go, Old Chen."
< br>"Okay, take your time on the road. There are mud pits outside Huangni Town, making it difficult to walk."
"I know."
Zhao Hongbo waved back while riding on the car and followed a group of men away in a lively manner.
After Chen Ling watched him leave, he and Liang Yuemin and his son changed the wires at home in the morning. At noon, they had a meal in the small courtyard here and had some simple wine and food.
Because the door was open, Liang Jinke, who came to change shifts at the school, walked in directly. When Chen Ling saw that it was this teacher, he took him to sit down to drink and eat.
During this period, when he talked about meeting Zhao Hongbo, Liang Jinke was full of emotion: "The atmosphere in your dormitory is better. In recent years, there are many people who make some money but look down on this and that. Follow me. This teacher talks in a weird way, and his tail is raised to the sky."
"Only those in your dormitory are prosperous, and they still miss the teacher and classmates."
"Let's get together more often. It's not a bad thing to come and go often."
"Well, I didn't catch up with you in the past few years, so I will get together with everyone this year."
Chen Ling He was pretty good at school before, mainly because he had a lazy temperament, didn't fight for anything, and didn't make people annoying. He had a good relationship with both his male and female classmates.
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After working in the county town, Chen Ling returned home in the afternoon, and Liang Yuemin and his son also came over. The cowshed was built yesterday and was ready to pick up the two cows.
When we arrived at the farm, Wang Cunye was herding sheep in the orchard with a whip in one hand and a hoe in the other.
“What’s wrong, dad, what are you digging for?”
Chen Ling frowned when he saw his father-in-law walking around, stopping from time to time to dig twice with a hoe. , his face didn’t look very good, so he walked over quickly.
Liang Yuemin and his son also quickly followed.
“The thorn-pulled rice seedlings. I don’t know what’s going on, but there are so many thorn-pulled rice seedlings popping up in the forest.”
Wang Cunye pointed to something on the ground and showed them, "This thing is very harmful. It can grow into a large area at will, but we can't let them grow everywhere."
"Isn't this a creeper?"< br>
Qin Rong first leaned over and grabbed a thorn seedling, looked at it, and said.
"It's not an ivy, it just looks a bit similar."
Chen Ling said, "This thing is a harmful weed. The ivy can be used as a medicinal material. They are not the same."< br>
In the wild, thorny seedlings and paper mulberry trees often grow together, growing together. These two guys are very easy to live, and their vitality is beyond imagination.
The paper mulberry tree is okay, at least the leaves can be used as livestock feed. The thorns are of no use. Compared with the paper mulberry tree, it is even more hated.
Prickly pull seedlings, also called Lala seedlings in some places, have a very nice and domineering name, called the five-clawed golden dragon. They look very similar to a creeper, but there are countless little ones on the leaves and vines. As long as a person touches the barb, a long bloody mark will be drawn.
If it gets into clothes, it will be more uncomfortable than wheatgrass, itchy and prickly, and it will be very painful.
Chen Ling originally thought this thing was an invasive species, but he didn't know it was native. It was just a real harmful plant.
In the early years, this thing didn't grow here, and it only appeared sporadically about ten years ago. It's getting longer and longer now, and it's a bit like overflowing.
The growth rate of spinach seedlings is extremely fast, and it can cover a large area once it climbs.
And they have tendrils that allow them to climb on any terrain they encounter.
Stones, big trees, walls...
Especially in old houses, if no one takes care of them, the yard can be overgrown in just two or three years.
Plants entangled by it are difficult to survive, including large trees.
Chen Ling can ignore it, but this thing must be destroyed.
Wang Cunye obviously knew that this guy grew in a fruit forest, and there were only disadvantages but no benefits, so he dug down while tending the sheep. Now they are just grown seedlings, so just dig out the roots.
"Oh, it turns out this thing is so bad. It's okay, it's easy to handle when it just grows. I'll go get my cow out. Fugui, give us two hoes and we'll help you. Plane." Qin Rongxian said.
So Chen Ling and Liang Yuemin went to get hoes, and then the four of them started working in the woods together.
"Uncle Wang, it's quite fun to dig up this thing. I won't take the ox back for now. We'll come back tomorrow."
I don't know if it was because he had two oxen behind him, but Liang Yuemin actually dug out Got interested.
Wang Cunye couldn’t laugh or cry when he heard this. Damn it, you treat work like a play. Only rich people can say such things.
The weather was not very hot today. The four of them worked and chatted for more than an hour and were not very tired. However, Gao Xiulan asked them to take a rest and go back to drink some water.
The four of them responded and walked to the farm. As they walked, when they encountered thorns pulling out seedlings, they would still wield their hoes, dig them down, and throw them on the grass by the roots to prevent them from growing. There is a chance to re-root.
"Eh? What's buried in the grass?"
As he was about to reach the bamboo forest, Liang Yuemin saw a piece of thorny rice seedlings beside the ditch. He swung his hoe and smashed them all down. After a large area was cleared, he suddenly saw a tail in the grass.
Out of curiosity, he poked it gently with a hoe, and saw a thick snake lazily crawling out from the grass, black and yellow, which immediately frightened him.
“Good guy, it’s a snake, such a big and thick snake.”
Chen Ling and the other three followed and looked over and found that it was a grass-headed snake, also known as a king snake. It was very It was thick and long, but in addition to being thick and long, this grass-headed snake also had large bulges in its body, making them immediately uneasy.
"What a fool, this is just a thief, hiding in the grass and stealing our eggs."
(End of this chapter)