The family had agreed to visit Yuan Fangmin's future parents-in-law before the New Year, but there were still two days before they went, so Yuan Fangguo and his family were not in a hurry.
The next day after returning home, Yuan Fangguo saw Erzhu in the village.
He originally planned to look for Erzhu again in a few days, but unexpectedly, Erzhu miraculously appeared in front of him right now.
Compared to the silly state he was in when they rescued him from the black coal mine half a year ago, Erzhu is now much more energetic. However, if you look closely, you can still see that he is somewhat different from a normal person.
"Fang Guo." Erzhu chuckled and took out a shriveled cigarette box.
The cigarette was already quite wrinkled, and Yuan Fangguo didn't smoke, but he still took the cigarette that Erzhu handed to him.
When Erzhu saw Yuan Fangguo accepted the cigarette, his face was as bright as a flower.
"Fang Guo, come here, I'll light the fire for you." Erzhu took out a box of matches and struck several matches with trembling hands before lighting them.
Normally, Yuan Fangguo rarely smokes, but now that his childhood friend Erzhu gave him a cigarette, there was no reason for him not to smoke.
Seeing the cigarette butt turn red, Yuan Fangguo couldn't help but take a deep puff. Perhaps because he took too much puff, he couldn't help coughing.
Seeing this, Erzhu's expression suddenly became a little unnatural, and he subconsciously patted his back.
After a while, Yuan Fangguo finally stopped coughing.
"Erzhu, when did you come back?"
"I just came back not long ago."
"Are you working outside?"
"Well, I can earn more than twenty yuan a day as a bricklayer on a construction site." Erzhu said as he stretched out two fingers, his face showing satisfaction and enjoyment.
"That's a lot." Yuan Fangguo said.
Erzhu nodded, "It's quite a bit. I saved about a thousand yuan when I went home this time."
"Is everything okay at home?" Yuan Fangguo took a deep breath this time.
Erzhu nodded, "Not bad."
When Erzhu said this, the expression on his face was still very unnatural. His wife ran away after giving birth to two children for him because his family was poor. Erzhu's father was also in poor health. He could ignore him when he was working in the illegal coal mine, but now that he has resumed his normal life, the burden of family life falls on him alone.
"Where do you work?"
Erzhu was not well educated, and he hesitated for a long time before he finally said a place name.
When Yuan Fangguo heard this unfamiliar place name, he didn't know where it was.
"It takes seven or eight hours by car. There are tall buildings everywhere, and there's a pointy thing. We are repairing that pointy thing."
After Erzhu said this, Yuan Fangguo suddenly understood that Erzhu was working for the construction company of Chengdu TV Tower.
The Chengdu TV Tower was contracted by a construction company affiliated with the Lin Huajun Group, Lin Yumei's father, so he was very familiar with this landmark building in Chengdu that was about to be built.
“Is it the TV tower?”
"Yes." Erzhu looked excited.
"That's not far from my school. I'll come find you when I have time."
"Okay, I'll treat you to a drink then." Erzhu became excited again.
The two were childhood friends, so they had a lot of topics to talk about. Yuan Fangguo was very happy to chat with Erzhu. On the one hand, he wanted to reminisce about his childhood stories, and on the other hand, he hoped to chat with Erzhu more to help the last bit of gloom in his heart return to normal.
While the two were chatting, several people of the same age in the village walked past them.
These people all greeted Yuan Fangguo and Erzhu. They had a natural respect for Yuan Fangguo deep in their hearts, but they seemed like different people towards Erzhu, almost treating him as their happy pill.
Erzhu was an honest man and just chuckled at this.
Yuan Fangguo couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but yell at those guys.
After this roar, those guys dispersed with smiles on their faces amid rumors.
The two chatted until noon. At noon, Erzhu insisted on taking Yuan Fangguo to his house for a drink. Yuan Fangguo had no choice but to go with him.
During the Spring Festival, every household in the Bashu region will prepare a lot of cured meats. Sometimes they will cook a large pot and just steam it for each meal.
Arriving at Erzhu's house, Yuan Fangguo discovered that the house was a real mess...
It's like a war has just been fought.
Erzhu's two children were dirty and smelled bad.
Erzhu didn't care about this. He asked Yuan Fangguo to sit down first, then went into the kitchen and started to light a fire.
When Yuan Fangguo saw the black bench, he began to look around.
I finally found a rag, but it turned out to be dirtier than the bench...
…
During the meal, Yuan Fangguo gave each of Erzhu's two children 200 yuan in New Year's money. Erzhu was determined not to accept it at first, but he could not resist Yuan Fangguo's insistence and had to let the two children accept it.
"Thank you, uncle." Erzhu said with his beard puffed and eyes glared.
The two children were rather withdrawn by nature, and after a while they timidly called out, "Thank you, uncle."
Yuan Fangguo laughed, but he always felt that his smile was very awkward.
…
After having lunch at Erzhu's house, I returned home at two o'clock in the afternoon.
As soon as I reached the door, snowflakes suddenly started falling from the sky.
"It's snowing." Yuan Fangguo knew that his fourth sister liked to watch the snow, so he couldn't help but shout loudly into the house.
The roar really worked, and Yuan Fangan ran out of the house with a pen in his hand.
Seeing the holy snowflakes in the sky, Yuan Fangan was as happy as a little bird, "It's snowing, it's snowing..."
Soon, the second brother Yuan Fangtai also walked out of the house. Looking at the snowflakes flying all over the sky, his brows suddenly tightened, and his mind instantly thought of the scene of sweeping snow at school before the winter vacation.
After the heavy snow fell and he returned to the dormitory, Yuan Fangtai discovered that the area below his calves was covered with ice.
"We can build a snowman tonight." Yuan Fangan jumped in the wind and snow.
Yuan Fangguo nodded, and Yuan Fangtai smiled slightly. Their respective experiences had made their feelings towards the snowflakes they longed for in childhood completely different.
The heavy snow fluttered in his heart, and soon dyed the quiet mountain village with a layer of frost white. The mist floated up without knowing when. Looking at the fairyland-like scenery in front of him, Yuan Fangguo fell into deep thought.
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