village assistant

Chapter 54 Going out with Tang Diwei (2)

There is also an old man and an old woman in the house. Their faces are the same color and their hair is more white than black.

In the middle of the dilapidated house, there were some unexpected new appliances, and "Latent" was playing on the TV.Tang Diwei chatted with the old man, his face was not as cold and serious as usual, but full of happiness.

"Dad, the Chinese New Year is almost here. I bought some New Year's goods. This is the chocolate that Yin Yin likes. Come on, Yin Yin." Tang Diwei took out the Ferrero Rocher he just bought and handed it to the little girl, "Do you like it?"

Yin Yin jumped out of his arms, took the chocolate into his arms, and never let go.Only then did Su Xiaoye find out that Tang Diwei's two boxes of imported chocolates were originally intended for this little girl, and she felt increasingly guilty.

Tang Diwei chatted with them for a while, and the woman suddenly glanced at Su Xiaoye and asked a few questions.Tang Diwei shook his head, and the old woman had a disappointed look on her face.Su Xiaoye remembered Tang Diwei's instructions, didn't speak, sat obediently, and kept smiling the whole time.

They sat for about an hour. Later, when the grandfather and grandmother saw that Su Xiaoye did not understand Hakka, they switched to Cantonese to communicate.In this way, Su Xiaoye was finally able to strike up a conversation. She had a lively nature and it was not difficult to get along with others.

The clock pointed to 09:30 in the evening, Yinyin yawned, and Tang Diwei said: "We are leaving."

He took out his wallet and counted the bills: "Dad, Mom, this is the holiday money."

He gave 5000 yuan to each person and another [-] yuan to Yinyin: "Yinyin, this is what your uncle bought you for school supplies. You have to study hard, you know?"

"Okay, uncle."

Yinyin promised, but her little hands were wrapped around Tang Diwei's waist and refused to let go.

Grandma said: "Yinyin, uncle is leaving. Why are you still holding uncle?"

"Let me hug uncle for a little longer." Yin Yin refused to listen, and her little head went straight into Tang Diwei's arms.Grandma said a little angrily, "Yin Yin! Why are you disobedient!"

Tang Diwei said: "It doesn't matter, come on, let's lift it three times. Then uncle will go and make money to build a new house for Yinyin, okay?"

"it is good!"

Tang Diwei pinched Yinyin's armpits, turned her face outward, pulled her up like a carrot, and raised her high above her head.The little girl laughed happily.He lifted Yinyin three times, and she kept her promise and let him go.

Grandma refused to accept the money, so she kept two pieces of money and handed the rest to him: "Mom, you don't have to spend so much money. You can keep the money to marry a wife."

"Mom, I have money." Tang Diwei pushed the money back, "I am a screenwriter now, and the money comes very quickly. I can earn 10 yuan by writing a movie."

Grandpa said: "Can you write a movie? Like "Insidious"?"

Tang Diwei nodded and said matter-of-factly: "Yes. My next movie will be released soon. Then I will invite you to the cinema to watch the movie. I can make a lot of money now."

Su Xiaoye was sitting nearby and heard them talking and couldn't help but interrupt: "Tang Diwei, don't you write novels? When did you start writing movies? You don't even draft a lie..."

She speaks whatever comes to her mind, without any twists and turns, and her emotional intelligence is touching.

Tang Diwei rolled his eyes at her, his eyes were sharp, she was so frightened that she swallowed the rest of the words in a gulp, thinking what was so great, let's tell the truth.

She couldn't bear to see the old man being coaxed by Tang Diwei's sweet words, so she stood up and said, "I'm going to the car."

When he got out of the yard, he habitually kicked away the pebbles in front of him. The pebbles flew past in an arc in mid-air, but unexpectedly hit Tang Diwei on the side of his hip as he came out of the door.

She was so strong that the stone hit her hip hard, making a loud noise.Tang Diwei gave her a cool look, "Let's talk in the car."

What? Nothing is right with Tang Diwei tonight.Su Xiaoye got in the car, looking at the iceberg-like handsome profile, thinking, so what if he was handsome, who could stand such a bad temper?

Tang Diwei stared at her again.

She pouted and said, "Can you please stop looking at me like this? Did I say something wrong?"

"Don't talk so much about things you don't know."

Tang Diwei said coldly and started the car.

"If you are so disobedient again, I won't take you anywhere."

Su Xiaoye said unconvinced: "Could it be that I want to follow?"

Then I thought about it, and it turned out that she was the one who followed him shamelessly. She was in the wrong, so she didn't say anything.

The atmosphere in the carriage became increasingly dull. Su Xiaoye thought about what she had just seen in the room. The old couple and the little girl named Yin Yin appeared clearly in front of her as long as she closed her eyes.

"Who are they? Why do you call them mom and dad?"

Su Xiaoye simply broke the casserole and asked what happened.

Tang Diwei drove the car, looked straight ahead, and said, "They are the parents of my comrades. Yin Yin is his daughter."

The amount of information in just one sentence was huge. Su Xiaoye choked and tried to digest it, imagining the story behind it: "Did your comrade die?"

"Dead, but not on the battlefield. His name was Shotgun. He changed jobs earlier than me and was assigned to the Maritime Safety Bureau. It's the Xijiang River outside us... There are old Duanyan pit stones at the bottom of the Xijiang River, and people dig them out every year. . When they encountered illegal diggers during routine patrol, he couldn't help but take action. As a result, he was pulled into the water by the frogmen. There was a speedboat behind that couldn't stop and hit them. It was later determined to be an 'accident' , I didn’t get any compensation.”

Tang Diwei spoke very slowly and calmly. Su Xiaoye became more and more sad as she listened, and said sadly: "So you come over regularly to see them and give them money?"

"They are my parents."

She remembered that her grandparents looked at her with a strange look just now, and said, "Why did they look at me like that just now?"

"My parents are old and have bad eyesight. They think you are Yin Yin's mother."

Su Xiaoye puffed and almost hit her forehead on the car, "Yinyin's mother?! Me?!"

"I told you, they have bad eyesight. Whenever I see a long-haired woman wearing a short skirt and flat shoes like you, I will think that Yin Yin's mother is back..."

Su Xiaoye looked at her outfit today, a white linen T-shirt, a light blue skirt, and flat shoes.This is the fashionable dress this year. Seven or eight out of ten young women on the street are wearing this.

She was speechless and said, "What about Yin Yin's mother?"

"After Shotgun died, he ran away. He should have been married by now!" Tang Diwei said coldly.

Her husband died unexpectedly. It is indeed difficult for a young and beautiful woman to use moral standards to ask her to guard her young daughter and elderly parents-in-law.Everyone has the right to pursue happiness - even if this practice is despicable.

Su Xiaoye's heart felt like a big stone had been pressed down on her, and the heavy and depressing feeling lingered.

Tang Diwei probably felt the same as her, because he also spoke less than usual.

"If, and I mean if., their village wasn't so poor, wouldn't their lives be easier?"

They had returned to the community and were climbing the stairs. Su Xiaoye asked.

"It will definitely be much better. To be fair, the town and village over there take good care of his parents. But it's hard for a good woman to make a meal without rice." The answer was very honest, "Don't talk about anything else. Elderly people over 60 years old in Z City can receive monthly 100 yuan in fruit gold. There is no such thing in Q City. Because there is no money there."

"But even if there is money here, it won't be able to radiate over there."

"Administrative measures are of course not possible, but private mobility is certainly possible. Didn't you see that Qingfeng Town, which is close to F City in the east, is richer than ours? The industrial relocation of F City has moved all the factories here, and everyone in Qingfeng Town You can earn five to six thousand a month by working casually, and you can spend less on food and living at home.”

Su Xiaoye added in her heart: "That's why the children over there don't study either."

After saying this, there was an extra light in front of my eyes.

Although I still can't grasp or touch it, there is light after all.

　This chapter is a bit long, but it wouldn’t be complete if I cut it off, so I simply put it together.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)