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"Creak...Creak..."

Although the weather across the country has been relatively abnormal in recent years, the amount of snowfall in the northern mountainous areas is still more than that in the urban areas. After returning to the countryside, the snow on the road is probably in the center of the shoes, and it will make some noise when you step on it.

It may be an uncomfortable sound for some people.

Back in Luhua, the wind was still quite strong, blowing the sand-like snowflakes on the upper layer of the snow. It was inevitable that the snow would blow into the shoes, melt by the feet, and make the socks wet. Lu Ze was in this state now.

Because of the snow, Lu Ze could only carry his suitcase and move forward slowly. Fortunately, this road had been renovated with Lu Ze's money. Otherwise, it would still be so bumpy that walking for several miles would be really tiring to death.

The lame man looked a little depressed because he had never been to such a cold place and was tired from the journey. He was hiding in Lu Ze's coat, with only his head exposed and looking outside. He seemed to be very curious about the snow.

Heartfelt.

I haven’t been back to the village for more than four years and almost five years. The population here is getting smaller and smaller. It should be lunch time at noon, but the chimneys on most houses no longer smoke. I heard my mother say that they are still here.

There are now less than 200 people in the village, and those left behind are either incompetent, living a miserable life, or old people who really cannot get used to the urban living environment.

Walking into the village, the road was inevitably icy and slippery. Even Lu Ze accidentally fell down and squatted down. He stood up and patted the snow on his butt, comforting the frightened lame man.

"Hehehehehe..."

The ridicule towards Lu Ze came from not far away. The voice was childish. Lu Ze glanced in the direction where the voice came from. A child who was only five or six years old was sitting next to a red brick wall.

Finally, only a small head was exposed, and the fingers scratching the wall were dirty. At first glance, he looked like a common free-range child in the village.

"Don't laugh! Which family are you from? Come here, I'll take care of you for your father."

When Lu Ze lectured him, the kid was not afraid. To put it mildly, he was weak, but in fact he deserved a beating. He still laughed endlessly, then disappeared behind the wall, and shouted: "Dad! Someone wants to hit me!"

"If he's going to hit you, just hit him. You can't suffer in a war. If you kill him, let's see who hits you...Daze? When did you come back? You...carry a

How come no one came to pick you up from the box?"

The figure wearing a green military coat walked across the wall and came out. When he saw Lu Ze, his expression was particularly surprised. After looking around to make sure that no one was around, he quickly walked over and picked up the box, but was politely rejected by Lu Ze.

This man's name is Lu Fangwei, two years younger than Lu Ze. He is the grandson of Lu Ze's second master, who is also Lu Ze's cousin. He graduated from junior high school. He was also the main character who followed Lu Ze at Zhaojia Bangzi Middle School and fought with children from neighboring villages all day long.

Son, he was also naughty later. His grades were good, but he chose to drop out of school. Now I heard that he is working as a migrant worker in the provincial capital city.

"Give it to me, it's okay, give it to me, give it to me, you haven't had anyone help you carry things for several years, can you get used to it? Give it to me, you just dropped it, they are all from the Lu family, why are you being polite to me?

?”

Lu Ze had calluses on his hands and he was quite small, but compared to Lu Fangwei, he was completely dwarfed. As soon as their hands touched, Lu Ze felt like he was touching the heels of an old man.

And with a sharp eye, he discovered that Lu Fangwei's big hand belly was very shiny, and the fingerprints had been worn away. The last time we met, his hands were not like this. It seemed that he had suffered a lot in the past few years.

"Then I won't be polite to you. Are you working at home now? No going out? This is your son? When I came back last time, he was only two months old and very naughty, just like you when you were a child.

"

"I wasn't as naughty as him when I was a kid. I still had to go out to work. It's not winter anymore and the construction site can't start work, so I went home early."

"Did I remember you don't do home decoration?"

"I stopped doing home decoration a long time ago. I spent my days waiting for cats and dogs. Now I work in work clothes. I can earn less than home decoration, but it's stable. It's too cold to do interior wall building."

Giving birth to a child is destined to be much more tiring than before becoming a father. Only after becoming a father can you feel the pressure that exists on you all the time, and you can be considered a truly mature man.

Lu Ze understood, and didn't ask who the child was living with now. Raising a child not only means raising him, but also accompanying him to grow up. There is nothing wrong with a high-income family, but for people living at the bottom of society

, it is already a very great thing to be able to raise a child successfully.

"Working on work clothes is no better than working on home decoration. You need to be more careful than before. Now there are seniors and young children. You must pay attention to safety. Don't be so anxious to save money for your son to get a wife."

The past few years that Lu Ze has been promising have not actually brought about any earth-shaking changes to the old Lu family. They have not asked Lu Ze to find a decent job. It seems that besides having Lu Ze around, it can make their waists stronger.

Besides, all that's left is bragging rights with friends.

In fact, Lu Ze didn't help them much in these years. Apart from building roads, he funded the Hope Primary School built by the government to improve the teaching facilities. Lu Ze, the third uncle, had a cerebral hemorrhage and received 50,000 yuan.

The two of them were walking and chatting. The children around them also knew that this man was their uncle, and they became much quieter. There were many rules in the village, and those who messed with their elders would have been beaten from a tree.

It wasn't until the two of them walked to the fish pond that Lu Ze looked at the fish pond that was already overgrown with weeds, frowned, and then asked Lu Fangwei about the person he hadn't asked for in several years.

"Where is Lu Qiang? Didn't he contract the fish pond? Why are you not caring about it when everything is so desolate?"

Lu Fangwei also expressed considerable disgust for this cousin, but he was also a little melancholy. He took the cigarette that Lu Ze handed over and took a look. It was no longer the same level as the one he smoked back then, but for him, it still belonged to that level.

Even if you are having a banquet, you may not be able to smoke famous cigarettes. I was a little reluctant to smoke, so I put it behind my ear, took out a yellow and red plum from my pocket, and lit it.

"Fish pond? Lu Qiang has been raising it honestly for half a year, but then he got into trouble again and started making money. I heard that he was a con man and was beaten and disabled. Three of his fingers were cut off and his legs were also lame.

I got a loan shark and owed more than 200,000 yuan from a loan shark. I was chased to the village. Later, the villagers started fighting with the debtor. The fight was quite big. Many people from eight villages in ten miles came to help. A total of one person

More than a thousand people knelt down and kowtowed after being beaten hard by the debt collector."

"What happened next?"

"Later, people from the police station came, and the second master asked my sister-in-law for help and settled the matter. The boss knew that my sister-in-law was the second master's daughter, so he didn't ask for the principal, so he just let it go. Daqiang was raised in the village for three months.

After recovering from his injuries, he left. He left for several years and never came back."

Lu Ze didn't have any sympathy for Lu Qiang. If he hadn't been afraid of making his fourth uncle angry to death, Lu Ze wouldn't have helped him at all. At that time, he just thought that if Lu Qiang could change, he would recognize this relative. After all, everyone would

He did something wrong, but this time he was still shameless. It had nothing to do with Lu Ze whether he was dead or alive. Even if he died, he would not help collect the body.

As for my sister-in-law, she is the only high-ranking official from their village. She works in the Provincial Public Security Department. Her husband is in the army. He is nearly twenty years older than my sister-in-law. I won’t say how powerful she is. Anyway, my uncle and the old Lu family are also

Not close.

"What about Uncle Fourth? How are the old couple doing now?"

"Fourth Uncle...it's okay. After all, Daqiang has called back several times. Everyone knows that he is still alive. It's good to be alive. It's the Fourth Aunt. After Daqiang was beaten and disabled,

My eyes are so full of tears that just last year... I couldn't see anything."

Lu Ze had no other comments about Lu Qiang other than committing evil. When his fourth uncle carried Lu Ze's father's coffin up the mountain, the mountain was extremely shaking and it was snowing heavily. After fighting against his uncle, they all lay down on the kang to rest for a long time.

Months later, Lu Ze remembered this kindness. Li Yumei and Lu Weiguo didn't tell him about Lu Qiang, but now that they knew about it, he had to go and see it when he got home.

Walking all the way to Lu Ze's house and looking at this country mansion, Lu Ze was quite relieved. At least the house that his parents liked very much was left behind.

As soon as she walked to the door of the yard, she saw Li Youmei carrying a basin of steaming dirty water and preparing to pour it outside. When she felt someone at the door, she turned around and threw the basin and the dirty water on the ground.

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"Daze..."

Li Youmei's tears immediately fell down. She quickly walked down the steps and ran towards Lu Ze. She wanted to reach out and touch Lu Ze's face, but because she had just finished cutting the pork, her hands hadn't been washed yet. As soon as she stretched out her hand, she put it down again, but

Tears dripped down.

In Li Youmei's mind, Lu Ze must have been wronged a lot, but he had never told her as a mother that he had been carrying it all by himself for so many years. How could you not make her feel distressed?

"Mom, it's okay. Why are you crying? David is still here, Dad."

Perhaps because he heard the noise, Lu Weiguo also walked out on a cane, with his hands behind his back. He looked much older than the last time he celebrated the New Year. It was obvious that he was also angry about Lu Ze's incident. He nodded, no.

In response to Lu Ze's words, he slowly walked to the basin and quietly picked it up.

Lu Weiguo did not want to mention his son's wound again, so as not to add unnecessary pressure to Lu Ze. Since the matter was in the past, let it go.

Lu Ze took the luggage and put it at home, and invited Lu Fangwei and his children to come in and sit down. However, Lu Fangwei and his son were out to buy seasonings, and the food at home was all cooked. It was really hard for Lu Ze to stay, so in the end he had to leave.

Let him bring his wife and children to have a meal tomorrow.

Before leaving, Lu Ze took out his wallet, rummaged through the small amount of cash inside, took out two hundred and stuffed it into the child's hand. Faced with Lu Fangwei's rejection, Lu Ze's attitude was tough this time.

"It's definitely not as good as before, but I can still spend the two hundred, not for you, but to buy food for my children. Don't refuse. That's all I can do now."

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