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"Brother, let me help you carry your things. I'm already hungry. Go home quickly. Mom has already prepared the meal."

Lu Ze did not refuse and directly handed the luggage to Lu Nan. If his sister was not allowed to work, there would be no point in being a brother. He even threw the schoolbag he was carrying to Lu Nan.

"Dad, it's so cold. Why are you out here? Let's go. I'll help you and go home."

Lu Ze reached out and took Lu Weiguo's arm. Lu Ze felt a pain when he saw the two missing fingers on his father's hand, and helped Lu Weiguo slowly walk home.

"I gained a little weight when I went out, which is good."

Lu Weiguo did not refuse Lu Ze's help because he had arthritis in both legs. When it snowed, his legs were so painful that he couldn't move. He usually had to use crutches when there was no one to support him.

Lu Weiguo is forty-eight this year, but he looks like he is fifty-eight. Only by taking photos of him when he was young can we see that he was in his prime and more handsome than Lu Ze now.

It's just that his fate was much rougher than his appearance. He dropped out of school at the age of fourteen and began to load sand into large trucks at the battlefield, using shovels to load large trailers one by one.

I got married at the age of twenty. Loading sand could no longer make up the household income, so I went to the lumberyard to fight trees from the mountain. The two of them had to bear the wood with their front and rear feet for the wood that was thirty or more in diameter. Lu Weiguo carried the wood down the mountain by himself.

Load it into a truck and drive it away.

Lu Ze still remembers his father wearing a hood when working, carrying a large piece of wood alone and sweating from exhaustion. Even now, Lu Weiguo's shoulders have calluses that are thicker than normal people's heels.

When he was thirty-eight years old, he quit his job of carrying wood because his knees had a lot of problems by that time. He had no choice but to leave his hometown with Li Youmei and go to the city to work as a migrant worker, finding a job at a construction site.

workers' jobs, and Lu Ze and Lu Nan became left-behind children.

Although working as a migrant worker was disgraced all day long, the income was indeed good, but the good times did not last long. Two years ago, Lu Weiguo made a mistake while drilling steel bars, and the ring finger and little finger of his right hand were cut off. This was not the most fatal thing, but the steel bar bullets.

He got up and poked Lu Weiguo's left eye.

The critical illness notice was issued four times, and even when he was first sent to the hospital, he almost couldn't be rescued. It was the darkest moment for the old Lu family. Although the compensation from the construction site covered most of the treatment costs, it could only cover the smallest details.

The cost is also something the family cannot afford.

I emptied my family's fortune, and gave seven acres of my ten acres of land to the brigade. Before the money could be exchanged for it, I gave it directly to the hospital, and owed hundreds of thousands of foreign debts.

Fortunately, when the family was about to reach a dead end, Lu Weiguo finally survived. However, part of the tissue between the two amputated fingers was lost due to the sawtooth cuts, and it could not be sutured back together. He also lost the sight in his left eye.

Because of this incident, Lu Ze had to drop out of school to work to support his family. It took him four years to finally close the foreign debt hole with interest.

But now I am relieved. I bought two machines with my spare money, one for threshing rice and one for grinding flour. When harvesting grain, I can earn 1,800 yuan a month in manual labor. Plus Lu Ze sent

The money I got back was barely enough to survive.

"I bought plaster in the box. You go back and put it on to see if it works. If it works, I will mail it back to you every month."

After supporting Lu Weiguo and chatting about home affairs, the three of them returned home. The snow in the big yard of their home had been swept clean, and smoke was pouring out from the chimney on the roof.

"Mom, my brother is back!"

Pushing open the iron gate of the courtyard, Lu Nan was not very honest and started shouting as she entered the courtyard.

"Can you look like a girl? Do you need to be punished?"

After giving Lu Nan a lesson, the girl pursed her lips and stomped her foot on the ground deliberately. Lu Ze was not used to her habit, so he stepped up and kicked her buttocks.

When I opened the door, I saw that the room was much warmer than outside. The two stoves in the east and west rooms were burning fires. The temperature should be 25-6 degrees, and it would not be cold even if I wore half-sleeves.

"Mom, I'm back."

Using a broom to sweep the snow off his shoes, Lu Ze saw Li Youmei working in the kitchen and said hello.

"We've just finished cooking. Let's serve it directly to the table. Xiaonan, hurry up and bring the rice bowl. Daze, do you want some sweet potatoes? Mom will bake two for you? The sweet potatoes with yellow flesh that are newly planted in the ground are so sweet."

"Okay, let's have some fun."

There was no feeling of boredom when I returned home. The whole family was not very good at expressing emotions verbally. Lu Ze didn't say much, but he just felt much more at ease at home.

He took off his coat and the long sleeves inside, opened the closet and rummaged through two old clothes to change into. Strangely enough, Lu Ze was 1.83 meters tall when he was in the third year of junior high school. Even the old people guessed that Lu Ze could grow up to two meters, but

In three years of high school, Lu Ze only grew one centimeter, and after graduating from high school, he didn't grow even one centimeter.

Every time when he went home, Lu Ze didn't want anything. He was just greedy for the rice cooked by Li Youmei, which was much more fragrant than the ones fried outside. He washed his hands, sat on the stool, and Lu Nan boiled white wine for Lu Weiguo and Lu Ze.

Wait for the chopsticks to be brought out and start eating immediately.

"How was the exam? Did you fail?"

After taking a bite of food, Lu Ze asked about Lu Nan's grades as usual. This topic has always been asked by Lu Ze. There was no need for the old couple to open their mouths. If they didn't do well in the exam, there was no need for their parents to do anything. Lu Ze would pluck Lu Nan's hair.

Drag him out and beat him up.

"You did well on the exam! You can get the scholarship this year, which is 6,000 yuan!"

"The family is not short of six thousand yuan now. If you take the exam, you can keep it yourself. Just don't spend it randomly. Come on, Dad."

Since Lu Nan's academic performance was passable, Lu Ze didn't ask any more questions. After all, she was a big girl and she deserved some privacy of her own.

After clinking glasses with his father, Lu Ze thought for a while and then brought up the next topic.

"When spring comes next year, I'll demolish the house and build another one. I'll be able to make some money after the year, enough to build a new house."

This statement surprised the three of them. Li Youmei was a little worried about money, and she really felt that the house at home was quite good and did not need to be repaired, so she raised objections.

"Why are you building a house? Your father and I are the only two people living at home. You two are out now. This house is enough to live in, so there is no need to build it."

Lu Weiguo didn't speak. He had become taciturn since the accident, but it seemed to Lu Ze that Lu Weiguo had the same attitude.

I took another sip of white wine. My family paid for the food and craftsmanship expenses, and asked a master winemaker in the village to make pure grain wine. It was strong, 56 to 7 degrees Celsius, and tasted good.

"That's what I think. Either I build a new house, or I buy you a flat in the city. All the capable people in the village have moved away. I actually want you to live in the city, but I guess you can't do it either.

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Lu Ze thought about this question carefully, is it really good to go to the city? Although many relatives have moved to the city, they are too far apart and there are no close people around them, so the old couple will indeed feel lonely.

Moreover, the houses in the countryside are well built, and the living conditions are no worse than in the cities, and are even more comfortable than in the cities. After all, with Lu Ze’s current financial resources, he cannot afford to buy a very good house. Waiting for the salary of "Empire Youth" to come down, according to the

The house price of more than 5,000 square meters per square meter in Lu Hua is actually enough to buy a house of about 100 square meters.

The most important thing is that my parents still have many acquaintances in the village. The neighbors on the left and right have lived together for decades. The relationship cannot be better. If anything happens, there will be someone to take care of me even if I go to the city.

They are all strangers, and few good neighbors will care about you.

"Anyway, I think this house is pretty good."

"Mom, believe me, this house was built by my father. It should have been built a long time ago. Just listen to me and I will take the money."

Li Youmei stopped talking now. Ever since Lu Weiguo lost his ability to work, Lu Ze was the backbone of the family. Even if Lu Weiguo had to call his son to ask for his opinion on anything, now Lu Ze has really made up his mind to say...

If you want to repair a house, let's do it. After all, it's a child's filial piety.

The meal was almost finished, and the father and son also drank a lot. Lu Nan poured tea for them, then picked up the table and washed the dishes.

"Xiao Nan, come out and play! Come out!"

"Brother, I didn't go out to play with them. You also know that I annoy them."

When Lu Nan heard someone shouting outside, she immediately panicked, fearing that her brother would beat her up, so she quickly distanced herself from the relationship.

Hearing Lu Nan's explanation, Lu Ze's face was not very good. He held a cigarette butt in his mouth and carried a coat and went out. When he opened the door, there was a brick on the ground. He picked it up and, regardless of whether it could really hit someone, he threw it at it with all his strength.

Throw it out outside the courtyard.

"Come on, come on, let's see who likes to play so much. What the hell are you doing? Come here and I'll come to your house to play with you! I won't take a leg off you, you bastard."

"Fuck, Daze is back, run away!"

A bunch of boys aged 18 or 19 have dropped out of school and don't go out to work, so they just stay at home and work as second-rate men. They know that the second child of the Lu family is pretty and often flirts. Lu Ze used to carry a stick and go from house to house and beat him.

Their parents were all acquaintances and had relatives in the village. As long as they didn't get damaged, they would sit on the kang and eat melon seeds while Lu Ze took care of the unsatisfactory boys in his family.

But even so, these grandsons were still shameless and always came to flirt with Lu Nan when Lu Ze was not at home.

When I saw Lu Ze come back this time, my psychological shadow broke out again. I got on the electric car, quickly turned off the subwoofer, and drove away as hard as I could.