This is a hot summer. In the busy farming season of "double robbing" in rural areas, Long Yunhui helped members of the production team dress up as grain and insert fields. After a hard day's work, he was as sore as a broken frame. As soon as he got home, he didn't even wash his feet, so he fell asleep on the mat in the horizontal room.

Long Yunhui's mother helped the members of the production team go home and was busy cooking dinner. Although she is too tired, she will cook a family dinner. Who is not tired of "double robbing"? Long Yunhui is still a teenager, but his height is 1 m 72. He is tall and big. He can help the members of the production team to play the role of grain on the rice thresher and do the hardest farm work. After stepping on a rice thresher all day, it must be fake if you are not tired. Long Yunhui's mother is in her thirties this year. She is a short, tired and thin rural woman. She took her son to help the members of the production team at home. The purpose is to help others first, and then ask others to help them harvest the rice in the responsible field. This is called helping workers return to work and helping each other.

In the early 1980s, in the early days of reform and opening-up, rural areas had just implemented the contract of joint production and distributed fields to households. The production team distributes collectively owned paddy fields to households, and members are free to cultivate. The harvested grain belongs to them and is no longer managed by the production team. Contract production and land distribution to households have greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of farmers. However, in the busy season of "double robbing" in spring, members of the production team help each other and unite and cooperate. It was a common phenomenon in rural areas at that time to grab and plug in electricity. After all, collective labor is still in people's minds. It is not feasible to fight alone in the countryside. It is an inevitable choice to help workers return to work and cooperate with each other to engage in double robbing.

Long Yunhui's father is a truck driver of a collective unit, who drives and pulls goods for the unit and has almost no rest days all year round. Long Yunhui's mother does heavy work, rough work and dirty work in the countryside. Long Yunhui's father couldn't find time to come back to help even the hardest spring sowing and double robbing in the countryside. Thanks to Long Yunhui's mother, she took her 14-year-old son to the production team to help, and then asked others to help her harvest and seed, and her family had more than two acres of responsible farmland.

In Long Yunhui's impression, the father who was a truck driver never came back to help his mother dig fields and dressed as food. I seldom go home at ordinary times, and even if I do, I don't like to stay at home. I like to chat with members of the production team at home and don't go home at midnight. The next morning, Long Yunhui didn't get up, and his father left home for work. Long Yunhui has no deep feelings for his father. He has lived with his mother since he was a child. In the era of large collective, he was short of food and oil When sweet potato was the staple food, he lived a hard life with his mother. His father works in the company and seldom cares about his family.

After the rural land is divided into households, it is the most difficult to have no male labor at home. Long Yunhui's mother is a strong rural woman. In addition to managing the affairs of the whole family, she has to cultivate more than two acres of responsibility fields, and in the spring, she has to "double-rob" Long Yun Hui to help the production team, so tired that she doesn't get a stool on her ass and her feet don't fall to the ground. When they come back from work, they want to eat supper, pull pig grass, cut pig grass and cook pig food. These are all hard work, and Long Yunhui's mother is taking care of them alone.

Long Yunhui just entered junior high school and can't help. He went to the home of the production team members for a day's work in the "double snatch" season. He was so tired that he fell asleep on the mat as soon as he got home. Long Yunhui's mother was cooking in the kitchen. She was busy for a while and got three dishes on the table. Then she went to the horizontal room and called Long Yunhui: "Hui Yazi, get up and eat supper."

After shouting several times, Long Yunhui opened his eyes and said, "Mom, I'm so tired! My back is killing me! " Long Yunhui's mother said: "Hui Yazi, my mother helps others like you, and her back hurts as much." But we grew up in the countryside and had no choice but to eat. After getting up for dinner, we go to bed early. " Long Yunhui reluctantly stood up from the mat and followed her mother into the kitchen.

Long Yunhui's home is five adobe houses newly built in the late 1970s, which are seven-shaped, with three main rooms and two horizontal rooms, with the kitchen behind the horizontal room. The kitchen is not big. Beat a firewood, put a cupboard, and just put a small square table for a family of four to eat. Zhuo Zhuo is like. Long Yunhui also has a teenage sister. His father works as a truck driver at work and seldom goes home. He usually eats at home with his mother and sister.

The small square table is placed across the room against the wall. There are three bowls of vegetables on the wooden table, a bowl of fried peppers, a bowl of eggplant and a bowl of loofah soup. After Long Yunhui's mother's helper came back, she went to the vegetable garden near her yard to pick it temporarily. Now all the vegetables are freshly cooked. Long Yunhui's mother is very diligent. She opened a vegetable garden next to the yard of the house and planted vegetables such as pepper eggplant, wax gourd and pumpkin to meet the needs of the family. Living conditions are bitter, and the fruits and vegetables in the vegetable garden have helped Long Yunhui's family a lot.

When Long Yun Hui just picked up the bowl and prepared to eat, the sky outside suddenly became overcast, with thunder and lightning. His mother quickly opened the door of the horizontal house, looked out of the door and shouted to Long Yunhui, "Hui Yazi, you eat your rice slowly first, and come with me to Sunguping to get those dry valleys back. When there is lightning and thunder in the sky, there will be heavy rain. " When Long Yunhui heard his mother calling him, he quickly put down his chopsticks, went to the first room to pick a laundry list, followed his mother to the sun-dried rice field behind the house, put away the newly-dried rice, put it in the laundry list, and then carried it home with tender shoulders. Long Yunhui's sister also helped her mother collect dry food, and the three of them were drying the grain and taking the dry food home. "crack!" It rained cats and dogs from the sky, and the rain on summer nights came violently and violently. After a while, I saw mountain torrents rolling and the river surging. The river near Long Yun Hui's home suddenly rose.

It was very hot in the summer night, and it rained heavily, which drove away the summer heat and became extremely cool. After Long Yun Hui helped her mother collect the dry food, she felt her stomach growling, and she didn't feel tired or hurt. Eating is the most important thing. He came to the table, picked up the bowl three times five divided by two, and ate three bowls in a row. His mother called him, "Huiyazi, eat slowly and stop choking!" " "

It's raining heavily outside. At this time, several people hurried to Long Yunhui along the country road in the rain. They are cadres of Long Yunhui's father's unit. It's definitely not good to come to Long Yun Hui's house at night during the "double robbing" season. Long Yunhui's fate changed in this stormy night, and unfortunately it came to this ordinary rural family.

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Just after the rainstorm stopped on a summer night, several cadres soaked to the skin walked into Long Yun Hui's house. After Long Yunhui's mother recognized them as people from the unit, she quickly asked them to sit down, made a few cups of tea and handed them to the cadres of those units. Those who are drenched like a drowned rat look serious. After meeting Long Yunhui's mother, they were very unnatural. After they took the tea bowl, they put it on the small square table and didn't even bother to drink tea. Long Yunhui's mother asked them to sit down, and they didn't have the heart to sit down. One of the fat cadres wearing a white dacron coat said to Long Yunhui's mother, "Master Long, can we talk aside?"

Long Yunhui's mother looked at Long Yun Hui and his sister and told them to go to bed first. Long Yunhui was too tired to help the members of the production team engage in "double robbing". Sleepy people come early and want to sleep after dinner. When his mother urged him to sleep with his sister, he jumped three feet and climbed into bed to rest. Long Yunhui has no idea what happened in the horizontal room. Later, he vaguely heard his mother sobbing in a low voice, and people in his father's unit had been comforting her. The rain stopped completely in the summer night, frogs buzzed in the field, and a cool breeze blew gently. On a cool summer night, Long Yunhui can have a good sleep.

Long Yunhui's mother walked into Long Yunhui's bedroom from the horizontal room and woke him up. "Keiko, are you afraid to stay at home with your sister tonight?" Long Yunhui asked his mother, "Mom, where are you going tonight?" Long Yunhui's mother replied: "Your father's company came and said that he was very ill and asked me to accompany him." Long Yunhui asked, "Mom, Dad is ill. Do you want me to accompany you? " Long Yunhui's mother said, "You don't have to go. You can take care of your sister tonight." Long Yunhui nodded well, and his mother left with those units.

After his mother left, the room was immediately deserted, and the moonlight spilled in, making Long Yunhui feel lonely. Fortunately, the sleepy man came again. Long Yun Hui saw that her sister was sleeping soundly. She turned over and fell asleep again. That night, in Long Yun Hui's father's unit, all the people didn't sleep, and all the people stayed by Long Yun Hui's father's side, including Long Yunhui's mother. She saw a husband who used to drive Hexi. Long Yunhui's father died in an accident.

Early the next morning, Long Yunhui was awakened by a knock at the door. He got out of bed, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and then got out of bed to open the door of the horizontal room. "hey!" When the wooden door was opened, Long Yunhui saw that it was the same people who called his mother last night. They are cadres of his father's unit. What are they doing here? Long Yunhui looked at them doubtfully. "Is your sister up?" Ask Long Yunhui's father's cadres. "No." Long Yunhui replied timidly. "Wake up your sister and come with us." The cadre on Long Yunhui's father's unit said. "Do what?" Long Yunhui asked. "When you go, you will know that your mother asked us to pick you up." The cadre on Long Yunhui's father's unit said.

Long Yunhui turned into the room, woke her sister up from the bed, helped her put on clothes, washed her face briefly, locked the horizontal room and followed the people who came up from her father's unit. When Long Wu Shuang arrived at his father's unit, he heard his mother's heartbreaking cry. Grandpa, uncle, uncle are all here. They are very sad, very sad. The pillar of the family fell down. How can they not be sad? Like a puppet, Long Yunhui was called to his father's body.

Several experienced old people are doing the final plastic surgery for Long Yunhui's dead father. According to the rural custom, they put the shroud of the old man on the Dragon Games. Long Yunhui's father is very fat, and the shroud looks like Long Yunhui's robe. Long Yun Hui stood beside his father's body and looked at his kindly pale face. His heart is cold, but he has no tears. He didn't believe that his father, who was in his prime, had left their home and left them like this. When those old people told Long Yunhui to take off his shroud and call him Dad, Long Yunhui mechanically shouted, "Dad!" " "There are no tears in his eyes, and his body is at the mercy of others like a puppet.

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Long Yun Hui spends less time with her father and has little communication at ordinary times. Long Yunhui is particularly naughty. He pounded the bird's nest in the tree and stroked the fish and shrimp in the river. Climbing in the mountains, waves in the water, is a fearless wild child. Active by nature, mischievous, and scolded will definitely be indispensable. Long Yunhui's father works as a truck driver in the unit. There are very few drivers in the unit, just a Jiefang brand truck. Father was allowed to be a driver only after strict selection by the unit. Long Yunhui's father's unit home is dozens of miles away, and he seldom goes home. He eats and lives at work. Yang Yunhui's home is in a large living room. There are several big families, dozens of people and many children. They make noise every day and make the whole bay hall fly around like a dog.

The old man said: children are not naughty, but they are not smart when they are older. People in Dawantang take a tolerant attitude towards naughty children and never scold them. Long Yunhui's mother is kind and gentle. Even if he comes back from something outside, he just scolds him and never hits him. There are many children in the production team, and quarrels, conflicts and even fights will inevitably occur when they get together. On one occasion, Long Yun Hui and the little girl next door were chopping wood on the mountain, and there was a fierce conflict. He gave the little girl a good beating, and she was black and blue, and ran home to complain in tears.

Long Yunhui's beating of the little girl immediately caused a sensation in the production team, and dozens of people immediately gathered around his home to get justice. In fact, they took advantage of the little girl's beating to tell her mother about it. On weekdays, Long Yunhui's mischievousness has already aroused their dissatisfaction, but he has never found a chance to complain. Long Yunhui hit the little girl on the mountain, and they immediately attacked him, saying that his mother didn't teach her son well and connived at his quarrel. In fact, Long Yunhui is just active and naughty. He doesn't steal, rob or do bad things. How can he say that it is not good for a mother to teach her children? The people in the production team are really unreasonable.

The little girl's mother is even more unreasonable. While accusing Long Yunhui's mother, she also reached out and hit Long Yunhui. Long Yun flew into a rage. As soon as she opened her mouth, she bit the little girl's mother's arm and spat at her, calling her a bully. This is a great disaster, and the little girl's mother will try her best to die in the home of Long Yun Society and play tricks. Long Yunhui's father came back from the holiday in the bay hall. He has always been strict with Long Yunhui. He is not as gentle and kind as his mother. He is a naughty wild boy. Teach him with sticks. As long as Long Yunhui makes mistakes, he will be beaten.

Long Yunhui's father suddenly came home and saw the room full of people, complaining a lot. The little girl's mother tried to die again in Long Yun Huizu Hall. Long Yunhui's father was so angry that he took a wooden stick and rushed at him. "No, my father is going to hit people. Run. " Long Yunhui saw his father coming at him with a wooden stick, shouting that it was not good, and instinctively ran away.

As a result, a scene was staged in which a teenager ran wildly on the mountain road, followed by a tall man in his thirties. Just like a cat catching a mouse and a policeman catching a thief, it's exciting. Dozens of people in the production team chased them out, watching Long Yunhui break through behind, but no one came out to stop them. In order to avoid being beaten, Long Yunhui ran hard, but he ran faster than his strong father! On the verge of catching up, Long Yunhui jumped down from a high ridge.

The ridge is several meters high, and Long Yunhui has no way to go. His heart was pounding and his father jumped down. The little mouse was caught by the cat, and then it was beaten. Long Yunhui was beaten bloody with a stick, and even his mother shed tears when cleaning the wound, calling his father too cruel. Long Yunhui's father simply said: Without strict discipline, there will be no dutiful son under the stick. Long Yun Hui stood beside his father's body, but his mind was reminded of the past when he was beaten by his father. The estrangement between him and his father began at that time, and his father was the image of a tyrant in his heart. His relationship with his father is also incompatible, just like a strange close relative, neither too hot nor too cold.

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"You are the son of a dragon master. Your father was a great man. He would rather die than give up himself to save others. It's a pity. " Someone came to Long Yunhui's father's coffin to offer condolences. By the way, I asked Long Yunhui who met him in front of the coffin. "Uncle, do you know how my father died?" Long Yunhui asked timidly. "Yes, your father died in a car accident, but it's a pity that he has a good driver!" Undertaker said this and left. People came to the mourning hall of Long Yunhui's father in an endless stream. They all praised Master Long as a helpful and diligent driver, and he has a good reputation in the company. The unfortunate death of Long Yunhui's father is deeply regrettable.

Long Yunhui listened to people's comments in the mourning hall and remembered the father-son relationship that was incompatible with his father. He felt deeply guilty. Facing the portrait of his father in the mourning hall, he kept shouting in his heart: Dad, why did you leave like this? What will our family do in the future? Long Yunhui's father will never hear his son's call, and his portrait will never have any expression in front of the coffin. Long Yunhui remembered the first time he went to pull ammonia with his father. It was the summer vacation when he was ten years old. The "double robbing" in rural areas has just ended. Long Yun Hui and her mother have worked hard for half a month, so they can have a good performance. Mother asked Long Yun Hui to stay in her father's unit for a few days to see the outside world.

That day, Long Yunhui's father went home to take him to work. My father pulls goods for the unit and goes to the county town three times a day. He gets up early and is greedy for the black, which is busier than the "double robbing" in the countryside. Long Yunhui clamored to go home after playing for two days. Have fun at home with strangers in a strange environment. Long Yunhui's father asked him to get off with him and go to Lengshuijiang Ammonia Plant to pull ammonia water. On the morning of driving with my father, it was just dawn and my father woke him up from bed. Yang Yunhui wiped her eyes and asked, "Dad, you left so early!"

Long Yunhui's father said, "Hui Yazi, it's getting late. I leave after five o'clock every day. Get up and wash my face. " After getting up, Long Yunhui simply washed himself and followed his tall father to the garage on the unit. Long Yunhui's father opened the cab door, took off a rocker, walked to the front of the truck, inserted the rocker into a hole and shook it a few times. "da da da!" As the motor sounded, the engine of the truck began to run.

Long Yunhui's father opened the door of the passenger cab and shouted, "Hui Yazi, get on the bus and start." Long Yunhui climbed down a pedal to the passenger cab and looked at everything in the cab curiously. This is his first time to take a bus, which is quite fresh. Long Yunhui's father is very tall. As soon as he reached out, he got into the cab, held the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator and drove the big truck out of the garage. Driving with my father for the first time, Long Yun Hui was very excited. From time to time, he looks at his father who is absorbed in driving and thinks he is very capable. It's amazing that such a big truck can run fast on the road with the steering wheel. There were few trucks at that time. The whole commune is a big truck, and Long Yunhui's father is a truck driver. Long Yunhui felt that his father was really something for the first time.

However, the bad feelings between Long Yun Hui and her father have always been there because of that chase. Even in a van with his father, he seldom talks to his father. Curiosity belongs to curiosity, and silence belongs to silence. His father has to concentrate on driving and has no time to talk to Long Yunhui. The air in the cab seems to be solidified, only mosquitoes buzzing in. Long Yunhui's father drove all morning before arriving at Lengshuijiang Ammonia Plant, where there was already a long queue. One truck after another came to the ammonia plant to load ammonia water and unloaded it from the plant to the side of the road. Long Yunhui's father had to follow a Dongfeng truck, and there were more than 50 cars waiting in line in front.

"Hui YaZi, we have to wait in line for ammonia here. Let's get off and get some air. " Long Yunhui's father parked the truck and opened the cab door for Long Yunhui. Long Yunhui got off the truck and saw the farmland on the roadside and asked, "Dad, why is this place as rural as our home? There are just planted farmland everywhere."

Long Yunhui's father said: "For safety reasons, the ammonia plant was built in a rural area far from the city, so it is similar to ours." Long Yunhui asked, "Dad, are all these big trucks in front of us here to hold ammonia?" Why do so many people use ammonia? "Long Yunhui's father said:" Yes, after the "double robbery" in the countryside, ammonia water is needed in the farmland. It's all trucks coming all the way here to wait for ammonia. "

Long Yunhui asked curiously, "So many cars wear ammonia, why not build more ammonia plants?" Long Yunhui's father said, "It's not that easy to build a synthetic ammonia plant." Long Yunhui gave a "Oh" and got off to play by the side of the road. At noon, the sun is shining and burning. The heat wave is rolling on the road, and no one can sit in the cab of the big truck. Long Yunhui's father got two snacks from somewhere and squatted in the shade under the big poplar tree to eat them.

Long Yunhui didn't know if he was hungry, but he still thought the food outside was more delicious than that at home, so he ate it three times and five times and divided by two. His father put down his chopsticks after only two chops, poured the rice in the bowl to Long Yunhui and asked him, "Hui Yazi, is the rice enough?" Long Yunhui finished his father's bowl of rice, touched his bulging belly and said, "Enough, enough, dad, I'm full." Long Yunhui's father showed a loving smile, took a military kettle to the cab, unscrewed the lid and said, "Huiyazi, it's hot, have a drink."

Long Yun Hui just had enough to eat and felt thirsty. He took his father's kettle and drank half of it. His father watched him drink water and said with a smile, "Drink slowly and don't choke." There was not much water in the kettle, and the weather was hot. Long Yunhui's father was so thirsty that his mouth smoked, but Long Yunhui didn't know that much, so he only cared about thirst and drank the water in the kettle. Father was so thirsty that he had to pick up an empty kettle and go to a nearby pond to draw water to quench his thirst, giving Long Yunhui all his father's love. In the evening, Long Yunhui's father's big truck went to the ammonia factory to load ammonia. From five o'clock in the morning to leaving Lengshuijiang Ammonia Plant at eight o'clock in the evening, Long Yun Hui and his father almost spent time in a van. His father didn't even eat a meal, and he was starving.

Waiting in line to dress in ammonia water is the hardest work, and drivers can't live without vans. Because you have to move the car at any time, follow the cars in line and walk slowly, and the trucks in line at the back will catch up slowly. Long Yunhui is almost boring and not funny at all. I followed my father out to see the world, but I saw a truck lined with ammonia. After Long Yunhui returned to his father's unit, it was already twelve o'clock at night. His father sent a load of ammonia water to the designated ammonia pool and didn't come back to rest until the ammonia water was discharged. After a tiring day, my father took a simple bath and fell asleep on the bed. Father's work is too hard, even harder than the "double robbery" in the countryside.

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On the day of Long Yunhui's father's funeral, it was raining lightly in the sky, and people attending the funeral for Long's father came in an endless stream from all directions. Long Yunhui's father is very kind and helpful. People say that he is a good driver, teacher and great man. They spontaneously came to see the driver off for the last trip. Long Yunhui walked out of the mourning hall with his father's portrait. He walked to his father's grave without tears. Long Yunhui's legs seem as heavy as lead. I don't know if the teenager is not sensible, or if his father's sudden death gave him a blow, as if the sky had fallen and the burden was on his shoulders. In a word, Long Yunhui is ignorant.

The mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk. 16 strong laborers trudged behind the Long Yun meeting, carrying heavy coffins. Drums and firecrackers resounded through Shan Ye. Behind the coffin is a long funeral procession. They are relatives, friends, neighbors and members of the production team of the Hui family in Long Yun, and more of them come to the funeral spontaneously. They are grateful for the kindness of Long Yun Hui's father and all he has done for people.

In Long Yunhui's heart, his father who died unfortunately was so strange and heartless. What he can't forget is his father's sternness, his son's filial piety education method under his stubborn insistence, and how much flesh and blood he suffered, especially the chase, which Long Yunhui will never forget. Living away from my father for many years will produce a sense of alienation, just like a relative who has not moved for a long time. After a long time, they will feel strange and not so close.

Holding his father's portrait, Long Yunhui's brain was blank, and the rain all over the sky soaked his hair, clothes and his inexperienced and ignorant young mind. The undertaker said, "This Dragon Rider is so ignorant. His father died without even a tear, so he must pretend to be such a person. "

Long Yunhui doesn't want to cry. He can't cry. His feelings with his father are not close, and there is a strange gap, just like a strange relative, close but not close, close but not close. After Long Yunhui's father was buried, he also dropped out of school and left the countryside. Later, Long Yunhui learned the cause of his father's car accident. That's when his father went to the county to pull goods. At the sharp turn of Huangguo Mountain, he met a man riding a bicycle retrograde. When Long Yunhui's father was in an emergency, the truck rushed out of the road and turned into the ditch below. The steering wheel of the truck was pressed on Long Yun Hui's father's chest, and he died shortly after being taken to the hospital.

Long Yunhui heard many stories about his father's work at work. His father is warm, kind and diligent, and he is awarded the title of "advanced worker" in his unit every year. This is completely different from Long Yunhui's father. Long Yunhui's father seldom smiles, and he is unsmiling and serious when he gets home. Being serious in front of Long Yun Hui, let Long Yunhui see his father, just like a mouse sees a cat. What is the reason? Long Yunhui can't figure out why his father is at home, but he has two personalities and two looks at work. He is a good man at work and a tyrant at home.

Years later, when Long Yunhui grew up and gained experience in social life, he realized the reason why his father was strict with him. Long Yunhui is naughty and stubborn. How can a father be trained to be a useful person if he is not strictly disciplined? Yang Yunhui's father's education is very strict, and the cultivation of his children is also very strict, which makes him a tyrant in the eyes of his children. In fact, Yang Yunhui's father is a kind man with an open mind, talking and laughing, and a kind and helpful driver.

After the estrangement between Long Yun Hui and his father was eliminated, every year when Tomb-Sweeping Day visited his father's grave, he would always whisper to him for a while. Whether his father can hear in another world or not, Long Yunhui will say that he is a strange close relative and a father forever.