The fifth child sits on the chair, lies is holding the chin on the table, in the pen plug cock, listless, she always thought that the most bored matter was studies. 老五坐在椅子上,趴在桌子上托着下巴,笔杆子塞嘴里,无精打采的,她始终觉得最无聊的事情莫过于读书了。 She is very depressed looks at Li He, every year is hoping he comes back, came back to have delicious, had amusingly, there is pretty clothes shoes, may also mean similarly her auspicious day to the end, has worked some people to manage, moreover manages stubbornly. 她很是郁闷的看着李和,每年是盼着他回来的,回来了就有好吃的,有好玩的,也有漂亮的衣服鞋子,可同样也意味着她的好日子到头了,做什么事都有人管着了,而且管的死死的。 Li He comes back, she wants to go out to play expected. 李和一回来,她想出去玩都是奢望。 Thinking that she resents, must make his Li Laoer know one day, in this family/home is not his Li Laoer person decides! 她愤恨的想,总有一天要让他李老二知道,这个家里不是他李老二一个人说了算！ His Li Laoer cannot hoodwink the public! 他李老二不能一手遮天！ But Li Laoer also said that you filled 16 years old to say again, you arrived 16 years old to make me manage you, my being disinclined managed you! Also is not rare manages you! 可李老二也说了,你满了16岁再说,你到了16岁想让我管你,我都懒得管你！也不稀罕管你！ She breaks off the finger to calculate, leaves 16 years old also to miss for three years! 她掰着手指头算,离着16岁还差三年呢！ How this may boil! 这可怎么熬啊！ Too unendurable! 太难熬了！ Living that more wants more to think did not have the love, the head droops to the table on directly, set the example to read does not want to do. 越想越觉的生无可恋,脑袋直接耷拉到桌子上了,连做样子看书都不想做了。 „Reads well, doesn't want to study really?”, Li He must not exposed to this. “好好看书,是不是真的不想念书了？”,李和见不得她这样子。 „Studies! Studies to be useful!”, Fifth child weak is slanting the head response. “念书！念书有什么用！”,老五无力的斜着脑袋回应。 „Does not think of actually well, economizes, beginning of the spring did not need to go to the school”. “不想念倒是好,省钱啊,开春就不用去学校了”。 „Really?”, The fifth child is very happy saying, cannot think that comes happily so quickly, making her a little be caught off guard. “真的？”,老五很是高兴的说道,想不到幸福来得如此快,让她有点措手不及。 „Naturally real, since does not want to study, goes with your Third Brother, look is studies tired or farms tired”, Li He initially does not want to farm makes a determined effort to study, in his opinion, studies the farm is more relaxed than were too many. The book read does not farm to call to work at farming well, the book read to farm to call the farmhouse. “当然是真的,既然不想念书了,就跟你三哥下地去,看看是读书累还是种地累”,李和当初就是不想种地才发狠去读书的,在他看来,读书比种地轻松的太多了。书读不好去种地叫务农,书读好了去种地叫农家乐。 „I will turn the soil tomorrow, goes with me, when has exercised ahead of time”, Li Long in a side yard brick, inserted such a few words. “我明天去翻地,跟我去吧,就当提前锻炼了”,李隆在旁边码砖头,也插了这么一句话。 One hear must farm, fifth child numerous sighing, „I study”. 一听要去种地,老五重重的叹口气,“我还是念书吧”。 Li He does not know true understanding what to do with this fifth child, to see with own eyes was not far from 3 rd, is impossible to make her junior middle school directly leave class, but depends on this result to test into the high school? 李和也不知道真的拿这老五怎么办了,眼见离初三就没多远了,不可能真的让她初中就直接下学的,可是就凭这成绩能考上高中吗？ It is estimated that only if Sun hits the west side to come out! 估计除非太阳打西边出来！ He holds relations also to be able the fifth child to deliver to the high school to drift along, but did the high school mix also to have the university? 他托个关系也能把老五送到高中混日子,可是高中混完了还有大学呢？ To be many, his strength from hoping. 想多了,他也力不从愿。 Liu Laosi sending two leaves of pig meat, Wang Yulan surface politely two, has met finally, her thoughts are very clear, do not have our sons, your Liu Laosi does not have today, an old bachelor, now not only had the family/home to have industry, but also mixed a wife. 刘老四给送来了两扇猪头肉,王玉兰表面客气了两句,最终还是接了,她的心思很清楚,没我俩儿子,你刘老四也没今天,一个老光棍汉,现在不但有家有业了,还混了个媳妇。 Li He said, „walks, transfers the revolutions to the river bank on, I stay at home putrefied”. 李和道,“走吧,到河坡上转转,我在家都呆的发霉了”。 „That definitely does not have in the city lively”. “那肯定没得城里热闹”。 Two people got up the river bank, Li He have pointed at the distant place to ask, „two sides shacks did open?”. 两个人上了河坡,李和指着远处问,“两边的窝棚都拆了？”。 The shack that on some river both banks originally many ships others or beforehand fleeing from calamity others build, he discovers many now already not. 河两岸原先都有不少船上人家或者以前逃难人家搭建的窝棚,现在他发现好多都已经不在了。 „Has opened much, must build the stream bank again, many people moved to divide, the child must go to school”, Liu Laosi says with a smile, „before , had the teacher to be willing to embark, now mostly the teachers do not want, under the child on ship wanted the shore”. “拆了不少,要重新修河堤,好多人迁了下来分了地,孩子也要上学”,刘老四笑着道,“以前还有老师愿意上船,现在大多老师都不愿意,船上的孩子就要下岸了”。 „Is business what kind of?”. “生意怎么样？”。 „Also good, continuously very embarrassed”, Liu Laosi , since the financial circumstance is good, the time present back of speech was straight, said again wife, the wear appearance was no comparison between them with the past. “还行吧,一直都挺不好意思的”,刘老四自从经济状况好后,说话的时候现在腰杆都直了,再说有了媳妇,穿着打扮跟以往都是不可同日而语。 Li He said that „before me, has said that this business had no way to form a partnership to do, disbands is also good. Also, disbanding was they profits, you had any embarrassment”. 李和道,“我以前就说过,这种生意本来就没法合伙做,散伙也是好的。再说,散伙是他们俩占便宜,你有什么不好意思”。 „I do not get a grip after all, has not thought can mix present this day, this year the age has also been able to look for the wife, the wife has also cherished the baby, now closed one's eyes does not have the resentment”, Liu Laosi said was very sincere. “总归我心里不是那么得劲,就没有想过能混到现在这日子,这年龄了还能找上媳妇,媳妇还怀了娃娃,现在闭眼都是没得怨气了”,刘老四说的很是诚恳。 Li He said that „a radish pit, even if I have not straightened up you to receive tattered, this wife should also fall to your family, you sigh with emotion any vigor randomly”. 李和道,“一个萝卜一个坑,哪怕我没拾掇你们收破烂,这媳妇也该落到你家了,你乱感慨什么劲”。 Liu Laosi's earnest saying, „in brief I must thank you”. 刘老四认真的说道,“总之我还是要谢谢你”。 „Was too polite”, Li He does not know that an effect of environment on person big, present Liu Laosi did not have the means to shrink Liu Laosi, whole body trembles to superpose with that winter in memory. “太客气了”,李和不知道环境对一个人的影响到底有多大,眼前的刘老四已经没办法跟记忆中的那个冬季里畏畏缩缩、浑身发抖的刘老四重合了。 Liu Laosi expressed the thoughts that one must go all out, „in our county was too small, how many scrap copper and iron can have, I want to go to the provincial capital, did you feel what kind of?”. 刘老四表达了一番要大干的心思,“咱县里还是太小了,废铜烂铁能有多少,我想去省城,你觉着怎么样？”。 „Have you gone to the provincial capital?”. “你去过省城了？”。 „Has gone, in Bee County does not know that is better many”. “去过了,比县里不知道要好多少”。 Li He says with a smile, „coast must go to go, Pujiang and Shenzhen, the provincial capital does not have any big development”. 李和笑着道,“要去就去沿海,浦江、深圳都可以,省会也没什么大的发展”。 Has not had the feeling regarding this provincial capital, Li He is also incapable of spitting the bad, except for having several nice universities, probably really not nice. 对于这样没有存在感的省会,李和也是无力吐糟,除了有几所像样的大学,好像真没像样的。 With the provincial capital of Holland is also pair of fellow sufferers, a two brothers not prospect, two do not have the feeling in the economic status the central agricultural big province and population big province... 跟荷兰的省会也是一对难兄难弟,哥俩没一个出息的,两个在经济地位上毫无存在感的中部农业大省、人口大省… „I have not gone to that far place”, saying of Liu Laosi worry. “那我还没去过那么远的地方呢”,刘老四不无担心的说道。 Li He said, „is all right, under oneself consideration, to go for two years to go”. 李和道,“没事,自己考虑下,要想去就过两年去吧”。 At least from the economical degree, geographical position, exits to do business compared with keeping native place. 起码从经济程度,地理位置来说,出去做生意还是比留在老家强。 He sends off Liu Laosi, the person's bored taking a stroll in stream bank. 他把刘老四送走,一个人在河堤上无聊的溜达。 Motorcycle gust rolls by from him, the motorcycle just had not run far, stopped, unexpectedly the trailing wheel soars, the front wheel was flinging the head the automobile body for the zero point, came toward him, fierce brakes, steady anchoring before him. 一辆摩托车一阵风似的从他面前驶过,摩托车刚没跑多远,又停了下来,居然后轮腾空,前轮着地处为原点把车身甩回了头,朝他这边过来,猛的一个刹车,稳稳的停住在他面前。 „You came back”, the person on vehicle was very pleasantly surprised calling out. “你回来了啊”,车上的人很是惊喜的叫道。 „I said that is , does your girl, ride a motorcycle to need such fiercely?”. “我说是谁呢,你一个女孩子,骑个摩托车需要这么猛吗？”。 Who this is not what Zhaodi is, she puts on male funds the black jacket, the design color with Li He is the same, for on the trouser legs coverings probably windproof ties up the kneepad that has hidden to make. 这不是何招娣是谁呢,她穿着一个男款的黑色夹克,款式颜色和李和还是一样的,裤腿上大概为了防风绑了一块皮子做的护膝。 „All right, was used to it, I rush to time”. “没事,习惯了,我赶着时间呢”。 „Where on your this comes such mud?”, Li He sees on all her is the spots mud, on the automobile body does not have one cleanly, the car(riage) wheel hub has crowded the mud. “你这身上从哪里来这么泥？”,李和见她身上全是斑斑点点的泥巴,车身上也是没有一块干净的,车轮毂更是塞满了泥巴。 what Zhaodi says with a smile, „front that section of hollow road some people turn on the water, the road is wet, hardly does not rush. You or try my this car(riage), but was energetic, I buy newly”. 何招娣笑着道,“前面那截子洼路有人放水,路都是湿的,不就硬闯过来的呗。你要不试试我这车,可带劲了,我新买的呢”。 Li He says with a smile, „, does not try”. 李和笑着道,“不了,不试了”。 „Is very easy to study, with riding the bicycle is the same, I can teach you”. “很容易学的,就跟骑自行车一样,我可以教你呢”。 Li He said, „I will ride, does not need to study, I have the motorcycle”. 李和道,“我会骑,不用学的,我自己有摩托车的”。 „”, what Zhaonan covers disappointedly, but continues saying that „has in your native place? You must use a vehicle you to ride, I occasionally go to the county to buy the cable uses on, usually does not use”. “哦”,何招难掩失望,不过还是继续道,“在你老家不是没吗？你要用车你就骑去,我就偶尔去县城买缆绳用的上,平常不用的”。 Li He sees his back seat really to tie up big bunch of green cables, „good, must tell you with me”. 李和见他车后座果然绑着一大捆的绿色缆绳,“好,要用我跟你说”。 „Did I walk first? I went to change shifts with my younger sister”. “那我先走了？我去跟我妹换班了”。 Li He said, „that you go busily”. 李和道,“那你去忙吧”。 Looks that what Zhaodi drives the far form gradually, he has thought in own main house gate crazy spinning, that motorcycle that goes around in Lizhuang crazily. 看着何招娣逐渐驶远的身影,他又想到了在自己家门口疯狂的打转,在李庄疯狂绕圈的那辆摩托车。 A lot deviated his scheduled track, 1987 the Spring Festival, he should lead Mabel Cheung to come back to cross, then after Spring Festival, sees her parents with her. 很多事情已经偏离了他预定的轨道,1987年的这个春节,他应该是带张婉婷回来过得,然后春节以后跟着她去见她父母的。 At that time they married should have a half year. 那时候他们结婚都应该有半年了。 The long journey, the transportation is inconvenient, the work is also busy, the body is also uptight, where can be so convenient was seeing the parents before the wedding open and aboveboard? 山高水远,交通不便,工作又忙,身上又拮据,哪里能那么方便在婚前堂堂正正的见父母呢？ They are the same with young people who places remote majority, but simple in the parents to the family/home has sent a telegram: Must marry. 他们跟大部分身处异地的年轻人一样,只是简单的给家里父母拍了个电报:要结婚了。 Wang Yulan has mailed two bed new cotton quilts, but the father-in-law, does not have a reply from beginning to end. 王玉兰寄来了两床新的棉花被,而老丈人呢,自始至终没个回信。 Mabel Cheung a little blows hot and cold, at this time old Big Sister of trade union said, your 25 and 27, where can also drag again! 张婉婷有点摇摆不定,这时候工会的老大姐说,你们一个25、一个27,哪里还能再拖啊！ They have gotten the card simply, invited two banquets carelessly. 他们才简单领了证,草草请了两桌酒席。 That day of preparing a banquet he remembers that very clear was 1986 National Day, he after the son was born, for a memento wants to give a name to call the National Day to the son, has encountered Mabel Cheung's opposition, Mabel Cheung said, thanks to you said you were study, such uncouth name where can see the person, on the avenue shouted that a throat name, in ten people guaranteed has one to turn head certainly. 办酒席的那天他记得很清楚是1986年的国庆节,他在儿子出生后,为了一个纪念就想给儿子起名叫国庆,遭到了张婉婷的反对,张婉婷说,亏你说你是个读书的,这么个俗气的名字哪里能见人,大街上喊一嗓子这名字,十个人里面保准有一个回头的。 ( To be continued.) (未完待续。)