The Era of Hard Work

On Saturday morning, Lu Dong picked up Song Na from the university town and took her to Lu's Village.

"Is my clothes okay?" Song Na was a little nervous: "If you see something inappropriate, tell me in advance."

Lu Dong turned his head to take a look. Compared to school, Song Na was wearing a lot more plain clothes. She wore a gray woolen coat, jeans and sneakers, and her long bob hair, which was usually scattered behind her head, was combed up and tied into a short ponytail.

"Very good." Lu Dong said casually.

Song Na was still worried: "Be serious."

The first time I went to Lu Dong's house, I was definitely uneasy.

Lu Dong freed his right hand, patted Song Na's hand lightly, and said, "My mother, my uncle, and my sister-in-law, you have met more than once, why be so nervous."

Song Na took a deep breath: "Can this be the same as before?"

When the Santana car came to the highway bridge hole, Lu Dong immediately slowed down the car. Not only was the bridge hole low, but the bottom was even more potholed.

Song Na grabbed the armrest tightly and looked curiously: "Is there no one to care about?"

Lu Dong shook his head: "Who cares?"

It can only be said that everything has its two sides. The highway is convenient for large traffic, but the bridge holes below have become a big disaster in the countryside. Since there is no supporting drainage, whenever it rains, it is like a vast ocean.

As for maintenance? Lu Dong heard a lot of news every year. The local government thinks that the expressway group is in charge of it, and the high-speed group thinks it is a local road.

Song Na was growing up and had seen a lot of bad things. Even though Lu Dong didn't elaborate, she understood roughly what he meant.

When she came to Liuwan intersection, Song Na glanced at the village on the east side of the intersection, and asked, "Is this Liu Zhaodi's village?"

Lu Dong responded, "This is Liu Wan. Liu Zhaodi's father is the brigade secretary."

Song Na hummed, looked straight ahead, and there was a village in front of her. The last time Lu Chun got married, she came here once, but her experience was completely different from this time.

How to say? I feel more anxious than looking at the results of the college entrance examination. .

There is no sign at the entrance of the village. A north-south road leads directly to the north. As the distance gets closer, you can see that the northernmost river bank is separated from the middle, revealing a bridge made of stone.

"We're here!" Lu Dong reminded, "This is Lu's Village."

Song Na looked at the left and right sides. Unlike other villages, the most common slogans on the wall were not "Only one child is good", but words such as "Education is the foundation of a century-old plan" and "Work hard to achieve common prosperity".

When they came to the butcher shop in the village, Iron Rooster came out with his bag in hand, just in time to see Lu Dong's car approaching, and waved to him.

Lu Dong stopped the car and lowered the window: "Uncle Tie!"

Iron Rooster ignored Lu Dong and looked at the co-pilot through the window: "Xiao Song, here we come."

He often drives to the university town to deliver goods to Lu Dong, and he also knows Song Na.

Song Na smiled and called out, "Uncle..."

"Go!" Iron Rooster waved the hand holding the small radio: "Hurry up and go home."

When Lu Dong raised the car window, Song Na heard the singing on the radio and hummed along.

"Love is just one word, I only say it once, promise for a lifetime, hold on to it, it's never too late to pay..."

Come near the elementary school, turn west from the intersection, enter the East-West Road, not far west, and then go north, you will arrive at the old street of Lujia Village.

As soon as you enter the old street, it is completely different from what you saw before.

There are basically red brick and tile houses in front, and the old streets are full of blue brick and blue tile buildings. You can see yellow weeds on the walls and roofs. The old-fashioned architectural style and old buildings make time seem to go back decades. .

From a distance, Song Na saw Hu Chunlan, Fang Yan, and Lu Dong's aunt standing at a door on the side of the street, and knew that it was Lu Dong's home.

It's not the first time meeting anyone, so she adjusted her mood a little so as not to be too nervous.

In the past year or so, Song Na has gained the most, besides knowledge and business experience, is self-confidence.

As soon as the car stopped, without waiting for anyone to come, Song Na hurriedly opened the door and got out of the car, and called out to people: "Aunt, aunt, sister-in-law..."

Hu Chunlan couldn't close her mouth with a smile: "Xiao Song, here we come."

Lu Dong got out of the car and opened the trunk, Song Na went to get things, Fang Yan came to help.

Hu Chunlan and Li Min also followed: "It's fine if people come, what to do with things."

Song Na smiled and said, "Just order peanuts, walnuts and melon seeds, which I grow at home."

Fang Yan took two bags, and Lu Dong took another box.

Many people on the street knew that the person Lu Dong was talking about came to the door today, and the neighbors in the neighborhood inevitably came out to watch.

Seven or eight people came over, and Lu Dong could only introduce them next to each other: "This is the second grandma, this is the aunt, and that is the aunt..."

Fortunately, in broad daylight, most people go to work in the factory, and there are not many people on the street.

Song Na originally came from the countryside, and knew a lot about the neighbors in the countryside, so she didn't need to talk about it, just follow Lu Dong's introduction and called people next to each other.

Second Mistress said: "It's cold outside, Chunlan, take her home quickly, don't freeze."

Hu Chunlan and Li Min led Song Na to the house.

When she came to the door, Song Na looked up and saw the wooden sign with red background and yellow letters on the door beam. This is a glorious family. Lu Dong strictly demands herself, and doesn't want to discredit his father for the family, and she will do the same in the future.

On the street, Aunt Jianshe watched everyone go in and said, "The man Dongzi is looking for is pretty and has a sweet mouth. It's pretty good... hey, it's just dark."

Second Mistress said, "White than Dongzi."

Another aunt answered: "That's right, Dongzi has been dark since she was a child."

Entering the east room with the stove on, Fang Yan was busy making tea and pouring water, while Hu Chunlan and Li Min took Song Nala to do the housework.

It is inevitable to ask about the situation at home on the other side.

Chinese people's search for a partner has never been a matter of two people, but a matter of two families.

As for the economic conditions, Hu Chunlan didn't even ask. On the one hand, she didn't care, and on the other hand, she knew that Song Na was doing business last year, and today she opened stores one after another, and the business was not small.

Especially Song Na, like Fang Yan, is a serious undergraduate college student, Hu Chunlan and Li Min are very satisfied.

Hu Chunlan said: "Dongzi is studying, your old classmates, Xiao Song, you know better than me. After entering high school, if you want to compete for the bottom two, you have to wait for others to play. From childhood to big, people worry about it. If he studies well It would be nice to have half of you."

Song Na said: "This is much better than before."

Li Min couldn't help it either: "These three brothers, one counts as the other, and the academic performance is counted from the back."

Lu Dong continued, "My elder brother has a college degree."

Li Min glanced at Fang Yan: "It's all thanks to your sister-in-law. If you want your elder brother to learn by himself, you still can't learn the year of the monkey."

Fang Yan made tea, and Lu Dong hurriedly took the teapot and poured water for everyone. Fang Yan moved a chair and sat at the table, and said, "Xiao Song is also supervising Dongzi's studies, and he often goes to the Provincial University to attend lectures with him."

Song Na smiled: "The main reason is that he is willing to go."

Hu Chunlan also smiled: "That's good! Learn more, and there will always be something that can be used in the future. Dongzi, I'm not talking about you. You should be active in your studies. Just say that in our factory, there are a bunch of forty or fifty Yes, those who hold books and read all day long, and those who analyze equipment manuals, there are many."

She said to Li Min: "Sister-in-law, there are too many cultural differences in our generation, and we know too few things."

Li Min nodded: "Who says it's not, you are still in junior high school, and I went to work after finishing elementary school."

There were footsteps outside. Hearing the sound of mopping the floor, Lu Dong knew who was coming, so he got up and opened the door.

Sure enough, Uncle Qi turned around from the aisle of the gate and came to the door.

Song Na quickly stood up and shouted, "Uncle Qi."

"Don't come out." Lu Jianren waved his hands and said to Li Min and Hu Chunlan, "Sister-in-law, today you little black..."

Seeing Hu Chunlan's eyes, Lu Jianren smiled embarrassedly, and quickly changed his words: "The last time I told Song Na about the characteristics of our village, I brought some delicious food."

As he spoke, he handed the bag in his hand to Lu Dong: "It's all done, just eat it."

Lu Dong was not polite to Uncle Qi, took it and looked at it, it was a jar of salt-baked itchy peppers: "My uncle will come over in a while, Uncle Qi, would you like to stay for a drink?"

Although Lu Jianren was not stingy and knew Song Na very well, he knew that today was not the right day: "Farewell, I have something else to do, I have to help third uncle."

He went out, and three juniors, Lu Dong, Song Na and Fang Yan, escorted him out.

When they came back, Hu Chunlan and Li Min went to pack the food. Song Na wanted to help, so they pushed them away and asked them to stay in the room to talk.

Fang Yan could tell that Song Na was very curious, and said to Lu Dong, "Dongzi, take Xiao Song to have a look at home."

Lu Dong said, "Okay."

The two came out of the east room, Song Na saw the sandbag hanging between the screen wall and the toon tree, and asked, "You hit this before."

Lu Dong smiled: "I used to be fooling around."

At that time, he didn't understand anything. According to Yuan Baoshan, it was his luck that he didn't play well.

Entering the main room, Song Na saw Lu Jianjun's photo frame, and bowed respectfully. According to the custom, Lu Dong also returned the gift to Song Na.

Song Na didn't say anything, because she had a similar custom there, after all, she was strictly an outsider.

Looking at the calligraphy and paintings hanging in the main room, Song Na asked, "You used this to make a thousand dollars?"

Lu Dong told the truth: "My grandfather's handwriting, the expert said in a daze that it was the work of ancient calligraphers. In the end, I sold them a few porcelains for 1,000 yuan. Without the 1,000 yuan, I don't have so much money to buy later. Set up a stall."

Song Na followed her into the West Room. This is the room where Lu Dong slept. The furnishings inside were very simple. There was a table, a bed propped up by wooden boards, and an old-fashioned large cabinet. The green bricks inside.

Lu Dong said: "The old house has not been repaired for several years, and the whole street will be repaired together in the future."

Song Na sat on the edge of the bed, the bed was hard, and looked at the pillar and Brother Tian attached to the head of the bed, which was also the only thing attached to the wall.

"When we were eight or nine years old, the TV station played this all day." Lu Dong said simply: "Boys like it."

Song Na also watched it: "I remember, Transformers was popular at the beginning, and later it was Saint Seiya." She saw a photo album on the table: "Can I see it?"

Lu Dong nodded: "You can take whatever you want to see."

Song Na took the photo album and opened it to look. Most of it contained photos of Lu Dong when he was a child, and there were a few photos of Lu Dong's naked buttocks when he was three or four years old.

According to Zhao Juanjuan, if a man is willing to let you see pictures of his infancy, it means that he accepts you sincerely.

There are also some photos from school days, but most of them are two people, Lu Dong and Li Wenyue.

In junior high school, one person was gradually added, and if I'm not mistaken, it should be Liu Zhaodi.

Song Na remembered that the three of them had been classmates since the first day of junior high school.

After watching for a while, Uncle Lu Dong came over, and the two went out to say hello, and dinner was served soon.