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    The old house is the last one deep in the alley.  Separated by a wall on the opposite side is the Nanqiao County Party Committee Family Courtyard. In the noisy county town, this area is rare and quiet.  The door is mottled and the lock on it is also rusty.  Li Rui took out the key and inserted it into the keyhole. It was awkward, but it opened after turning it twice.  After my grandfather passed away, no one has lived here for more than three years and nearly four years, and the yard is in a mess.  Halfway through the trellis, the vines were still alive. Due to lack of pruning, the dense canes were crawling in a mess.  On the ground paved with blue bricks, grass grows in the gaps, and the walls are as tall as a person.  This is a typical courtyard house with three main rooms, two wing rooms, and two wing rooms on the left and right sides.  Behind the main house, there are three back rooms against the back wall. One of them has only ruins of walls, and half of the roof of the other one has collapsed.  Although the yard is dilapidated, the situation is much better than when Li Rui came. That time, the house repairs were basically pushed to the end.  At least now the doors and windows of the main house and the wing are still intact, the paint is just peeling off.  "Who are you?" Li Rui turned around and saw a middle-aged woman standing at the door, Aunt Fang next door.  When my grandpa lived here, Aunt Fang took good care of me, helping with cleaning, grocery shopping and so on.  Later, after Li Rui renovated the house, he hired Aunt Fang to look after the house. She came back to stay for three or four days occasionally a year. It was clean inside and out.  At this time, Aunt Fang was only in her early forties, and she still seemed to have some charm.  "It turns out it's Xiao Rui! You haven't been back for several years, and I almost don't recognize you. The door is open, I wonder who is here?" Aunt Fang stared at Li Rui for a while, clapped her hands and said in surprise.  When Li Rui was in college, he basically lived with his grandfather during the winter and summer vacations. The last time he came here was when his grandfather passed away and sorted out his belongings.  "Aunt Fang, you don't seem to have changed much after I haven't seen you for several years?" Li Rui greeted with a smile and complimented habitually.  "You kid, you have become so good at talking after being away for a few years, but I am getting old." Aunt Fang touched her temples with some embarrassment.  The smile on her face is even thicker. Women of any age like to be complimented by others.  "Xiao Rui, I heard that you are working at Yenching University, are you coming back this time?" Aunt Fang then asked curiously.  "Oh, I have been transferred back to Pengcheng to work. I came back this time just to take a look and renovate the house." Li Rui said.  "After Dean Li left, I didn't see you come back. The last time it rained heavily, there was a loud bang in the middle of the night, which scared me so much. The next day I found out that the house behind your house collapsed. I even asked someone to bring you a message.  Uncle." Aunt Fang patted her chest, pretending to be frightened, and then pointed to the yard and lamented: "It turns out that the house is good because it is not popular. If you rent it out, it will only cost a few hundred yuan a month.  "Aunt Fang is a widow. Her husband used to be a state-owned coal miner. She suffered a mining disaster in the 1980s. She had been living a tight life with her son.  However, her son failed to live up to expectations and was idle. Li Rui remembered that a few years later, he was sentenced to life for causing death in a fight.  However, Aunt Fang was a nice and enthusiastic person. Li Rui later hired her for this reason and also helped her by the way.  "Yes! I came back this time to renovate the house and come back to live there when I have time." Li Rui nodded.  He used to feel a rare sense of peace every time he came back to stay for a few days.  While the two were chatting, there was a sound of "chuuk chu chu" coming from outside. The sound of a motorcycle came from far away and turned off at the door next door.  "It's my boy who's back." Aunt Fang said.  "Fang Qiang is back from the army?" In Li Rui's impression, Fang Qiang was a thin boy, but later he learned that he had joined the army after graduating from high school.  By the time Li Rui came back again, Fang Qiang had already been sentenced and arrested.  "I'm back. I was demobilized last year. I haven't found a decent job. Now I'm hanging out with a bunch of young people in the county. They don't do their jobs properly and cause trouble. Sometimes they don't even listen to what I say. I really don't know what to do.  ?" Speaking of her son, Aunt Fang's face suddenly showed a hint of worry, and she shook her head helplessly.  "Mom! Mom, where are you?" Fang Qiang, standing next door, shouted loudly in the yard.  "I'm here, your Grandpa Li's house." Aunt Fang responded loudly, looking at Li Rui and saying apologetically: "Xiao Rui, you see it's rare for you to come back, so I won't invite you to sit at home. It's almost time for dinner.  , I will have dinner at Aunt Fang¡¯s house today.¡± Li Rui raised his hand and looked at the time. It was already past eleven o¡¯clock, and he smiled politely without saying anything to Aunt Fang: ¡°Okay, it¡¯s been a long time since I tasted Aunt Fang¡¯s cooking.  , then I won't be polite." "I just killed a chicken today and put it on the stove to stew in the morning.Come back for lunch.  "Aunt Fang also laughed. " Walking out of the courtyard while joking, there was a burly man standing at the next door. He was about 1.8 meters tall, with a short head, a black vest on the upper body, beach pants on the lower body, a pair of big slippers on his feet, and his arms  times thicker, with bulging chest muscles, and a sense of vigor and rebelliousness between his brows. ¡°Qiangzi, do you remember, this is your brother Xiao Rui.  Your Grandpa Li¡¯s grandson.  " When he saw Fang Qiang, Li Rui was stunned. It was difficult to connect the thin boy in his memory with the burly man in front of him. " You haven't seen each other for about five or six years, right?  When Fang Qiang came back from serving in the army for three years, I was also shocked. He had been developing late and was as weak as a stick before he became a soldier.  It¡¯s just that he¡¯s just tall but not smart, he¡¯s already in his twenties, and he doesn¡¯t even have a girlfriend.  "Although Fang Qiang didn't live up to expectations, it can be heard that Aunt Fang is still full of doting on this son. "Mom, you can't say that about your son!  "Fang Qiang was very embarrassed to be told by his mother, and he made a loud growling sound in his throat. "Fang Qiang, hello!  If it hadn't been for your mother's introduction today, I definitely wouldn't have recognized you.  "Li Rui came forward to greet him enthusiastically. Facing Li Rui's enthusiasm, Fang Qiang seemed a little overwhelmed. Although the two families lived next door, their economic conditions and social status were completely different at first. In addition, the previous  Li Rui is very aloof, and the two of them rarely communicate. Fang Qiang has always been envious of Li Rui, who has a good family background and is good at studying.  A teacher in college?  "However, Fang Qiang can now be regarded as a figure on the street. He is no longer the young boy he used to be. He immediately came back to his senses and grinned. "Teacher?  I am not a teacher. After graduating from college, I stayed in the school youth league committee and did some administrative work.  But now I have been transferred back and work in Pengcheng.  "Li Rui explained with a smile. "Qiangzi, why are you blocking the door?  Xiao Rui will have dinner at our house today. You go to the alley entrance to buy a few bottles of cold beer and come back. You two can have a good drink.  "Aunt Fang was very happy to see that the two of them were not alienated at all as they were when they were children. She was just worried that her son would not learn well and wished that Fang Qiang and Li Rui had more contact. But of course she doesn't know that Li Rui is in Yanjing and Pengcheng now.  "Glorious deeds", otherwise I'm afraid Fang Qiang is a simple and good boy. Although Aunt Fang's family is also a single family, it is much smaller. There are two rooms in total, and a five-six-square-meter kitchen is built on the east side.  The loofah stand occupies most of the yard, and a lush acacia tree as thick as a bowl is planted beside the well platform. Together with the loofah stand, it blocks the scorching summer sun. Aunt Fang took a folding table out of the house and unfolded it under the shade of the tree.  , then he brought out two small chairs and picked a few loofahs, "It's cool outside, you sit down first."  I'll fry two more vegetables.  " "Aunt Fang, don't be busy. Eat whatever you have.  "It was quite cool in the yard. Li Rui pulled up a small chair and sat down. He took out a cigarette and lit one. It was very comfortable. Fang Qiang came back soon and bought a box of beer and some cooked vegetables.  Four bottles of ice are placed on the table, and the rest are put into a net bag and sunk into the well. When there is no condition to buy a refrigerator, the well is a natural refrigerator in summer.  "Fang Qiang opened two bottles with his teeth without using a wrench. "How many times have I told you not to open beer bottles like this.  It hurts so much!  You'll know when you get older.  "Aunt Fang complained from the kitchen while carrying a basin full of chopped chicken. "It's okay!  Fang Qiang laughed nonchalantly and said, "When I was in the army, everyone called me Wan Tou."  " With two full glasses of beer, Fang Qiang picked up one first and said in a Jianghu accent: "Brother Rui, we have grown up together, and we are meeting for the first time in so many years. I respect you, the younger one, go first!"  " With a gurgle, a glass of beer was consumed in an instant. This guy's throat was very thick, so he poured it directly. Li Rui also drank it in one gulp. It was very refreshing, and his spirits were lifted.
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