Huang Lu and Luo Qiang have known each other for several years.

At the beginning of the new year of 2013, there was no ban on fireworks in small cities. Almost from the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the sound of fireworks can blow up the entire fifteenth day of the first month, and there is no regularity at all. Sometimes it starts at night, sometimes it starts in the middle of the night, and what is even more outrageous is that it starts at five o'clock in the morning one day.

At that time, the houses on this side of the farm community had only just been built, and most of the people living in them were locals. Locals have been in this place for several lifetimes, and they can turn around and take pictures at will, and all they meet are acquaintances, and a mess of relatives can pull out a large list of random ones. In this case, there is a little red and white celebration in the village, and almost the whole village is boiling together.

Huang Lu tossed and turned on the bed for almost half an hour, and the original residual sleepiness gradually disappeared as the noise outside became louder and louder, and when the loudspeaker at the entrance of the village finally sounded, he completely gave up sleeping.

The sky was still cloudy, and the fog enveloped the dark night that had not completely dissipated, covering the entire village with a dark blue filter. But this did not stop the enthusiasm of the villagers, and the bustling crowd on the newly repaired cement road seemed to be a gala.

Huang Lu stood by the window and watched for a while, howling angrily at the wall.

It's not just as simple as getting up and getting angry, there was a customer service who didn't go to work yesterday, and it happened to be the busiest time, Huang Lu came back from running the factory and forced back to Want Want News back to two o'clock in the morning. After only three or four hours of sleep, he was woken up by someone, and no one could stand it.

In the mirror, the dark circles under his eyes were deeper than before, Huang Lu held his eyelids and raised them in a self-deceptive manner, and after taking a cold shower, he completely sobered up. Even when I went out with it, I couldn't help but shiver all the time.

"Huang Lu, are you up?" Li Chang was exercising downstairs, comparing Tai Chi with others, and when he saw Huang Lu coming down, he casually said hello.

"Ah, get up. Huang Lu couldn't help but wonder in his heart: If I didn't get up, could it be that I was still wandering around here like a wandering ghost?

"Today's weather forecast says that it will heat up today, why are you wearing so much?" Li Chang happened to finish a set of punches, and when he changed his posture halfway, he turned his head and saw Huang Lu who was still wrapped in a down jacket, and frowned unconsciously.

Even he only wore a sweater and went downstairs to exercise, how could a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen still look so weak.

"My weather forecast was sidelined, telling me it was going to rain today. Huang Lu finished speaking seriously, put his hands in the pockets of his down jacket and trembled away.

Li Chang stood in place, looked at each other suspiciously with his friends who were exercising together, and hesitated to speak: "The weather forecast is still targeted?"

"Where do you know? Wait a minute, go back and search the Internet. ”

"That's probably a mistake. This sesame-sized thing is searched on the Internet, and there is really nothing that can't be done on the Internet. ”

"No, even now you can buy clothes online, you say there's nothing you can't do. ”

"Yes. Oh, by the way, the young man who just walked over was Huang Lu, who opened an online store to sell clothes, and it seems that he is doing quite a lot. ”

"Is it the one who made thousands of clothes in your factory in one go last year?"

"It's him," Li Chang shook his head with emotion, and said, "In today's society, there are really new things." You can sell things without leaving home, at home or in the factory every day?

"Let's see, in a few years, what the world will become. ”

"yes, we'll have to take a look, too. In Tingting's words, even at our age, we still can't stop charging. ”

"Yes, yes, yes, you have to recharge. Having said that, the smartphone that my daughter bought me yesterday is really unusual. I tinkered with it for a while yesterday afternoon, and I didn't have much electricity today. I don't have electricity at all, and it's so expensive, it's not as good as my straight machine. ”

"Hey, isn't this a fresh picture? ”

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Huang Lu, who had already walked away, heard the chatting sound that gradually disappeared behind him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: He really deserves to be Li Chang, a person in his forties, who can still talk better than him. Any topic you can catch can spread infinitely for you. is not like his daughter Li Ting at all, no matter what he talks to her, the other party will always roll his eyelids, and there is a smile on his face that seems to be a smile but not a smile, and he almost directly wrote the five big words "When are you going to get out".

But if Li Ting has half of Li Factory, the business of the clothing store will not be so deserted.

Today, two of the two families on the community farm are having a happy event, and now it is a little brighter, and almost the whole village is awake. Everyone was moving, and the noise was more than twice as loud as before.

Huang Lu wandered aimlessly around the community for a while, and finally came back to his senses completely. Huang Lu raised his hand and glanced at the time, and then planned to wander over to buy something to eat.

Huang Lu's village is still full of locals, and there are many outsiders living in the small villages in the back and the villages in front. At this point, it is the time for many factories to change shifts, and there are many small carts parked at various intersections in almost all villages, selling food from all over the world. Whether it's breakfast for people to go to work, or "dinner" for people who have just left work, from noodles to fried skewers, you can think of almost everything.

Not only the people who commute to work, but even the people who live in the village or nearby will come over to buy something to eat. Huang Lu is the same, almost three meals a day are stationed here, sometimes the time is about the same, and he will pack a few more copies to bring to the studio.

After a long time, many small stall owners here have known him.

"I woke up early today, so I finished my noodles. The noodle stall owner was busy working, looked up and saw Huang Lu, and hurriedly said hello at the top of his throat.

"Forget it, next time. Huang Lu also replied with a loud voice: "I've been eating noodles for almost a week, and I have to change my taste today." ”

After walking around for nearly a while, Huang Lu walked to another familiar stall and stood still, and said, "Boss, come to a bowl of mutton noodles." ”

"How do you sell this powder?"

As soon as Huang Lu's words fell, he heard someone ask with an incomparably strong dialect accent.

Hearing the voice, Huang Lu subconsciously moved to the side, and after giving him a place, he glanced back casually. He was a young man with a dark face, an embarrassed and timid smile on his face, and a clear defensiveness in his eyes.

Huang Lu raised his eyebrows, and his professional habits made him subconsciously move his gaze to the other party's clothes. It's just that the sky is still a little dark now, and I can't see the specific style and color of the other party's padded jacket. It's just that intuition tells Huang Lu that even if he can see it clearly, it is estimated that it is a very ordinary and basic style. In other words, it's just a piece of clothing, and it doesn't have any beauty or style at all.

It was also on this side that Huang Lu saw that there was a girl of about the same age behind the young man. His half-tied hair looked a little messy, and he kept his head down and followed behind the young man, so restrained.

Huang Lu retracted his gaze, and he already knew it in his heart.

The other two obviously just came to work from home, and there are a lot of men and women of all ages like this, and there are a lot of men and women every year after the Spring Festival. Introduced by relatives and friends, they come from thousands of miles to find a job in this completely unfamiliar city, and the first choice is usually these rural factories.

"There's no lamb left. The boss glanced back at the bucket of mutton soup and said to the people in front of him, "I guess it's only enough for one bowl." ”

"Oh. The lad glanced in the direction of the barrel, and then at his side, evidently hesitant.

"How much is a bowl? The young man asked again, but the speed of the question was a little slow, and even his own thick accent was not so obvious.

The girl next to him gently tugged at his sleeve, but it was estimated that the cotton clothes were too thick and stiff to be pulled.

"But he came first, and the bowl was given to him. The boss took the spoon and gestured in the direction of Huang Lu, and said impatiently: "Seven yuan a piece." ”

Huang Lu was a little surprised, and glanced at the boss quietly.

People who can set up stalls here for a long time have very good tempers. No matter who you face, you can talk enthusiastically all over the world. It was the first time that Huang Lu had seen this stall owner so impatient.

"Oh. The young man nodded and glanced at Huang Lu hesitantly.

"It's okay, give it to him, I'll eat something else. Huang Lu's tone was relaxed, he glanced at the stall and said, "Then change it to haggis for me." ”

"Okay. To Huang Lu, the stall owner immediately looked happy again.

"Then help me cook a haggis ......" The young man stumbled in a non-standard Mandarin, "Oh, mutton powder." ”

"Hmm. The stall owner nodded, and then reluctantly grabbed a handful of powder and put it in the boiling pot.

Huang Lu was inexplicably a little embarrassed, cleared his throat and began to talk to the stall owner: "Business is so good today, why is there no mutton soup early in the morning?"

"One of the pieces of mutton I bought yesterday was brought home only to find out that it was not good, so I didn't cook it. My daughter-in-law went to buy it early this morning, and is cooking it in the house, so I'll bring it later. ”

"I just said, I didn't see my sister-in-law today, and I thought she was resting. ”

"We don't have any days off, we all work when we open our eyes. In terms of work, your sister-in-law is much more diligent and capable than me, and she will not think about resting no matter what. ”

"With such a hard fight, it seems that we will be able to open a share next year, but we still have to pay attention to our body and take it easy. ”

"I can't get it on, mainly because I'm too busy. The stall owner smiled and said, "This is not to save more money, and I can bring the two children of the family to go to school here next year." ”

"That's fine, otherwise I wouldn't see it a few times a year, and I would have thought it would be weird. ”

While speaking, the stall owner boiled the flour and handed it to Huang Lu, who took it to the small table next to him. The same was true of the couple, who carried the bowl together to the very edge.

Huang Lu was still here with the stall owner talking nonsense, and when he got up after eating and was about to leave, he found that the couple just now didn't know when they had left.

"Eh," Huang Lu looked around as he paid, leaned forward deliberately, and asked as if unintentionally, "Why did you just treat people so fiercely, this is not like your style." ”

"I'm not cruel to anyone. The stall owner immediately denied it.

"Let's cover it up. Huang Lu smiled and said, "The bad guy is still your fellow villager in Guizhou." ”

The stall owner sneered with disdain: "It's our fellow countryman, so I don't want to deal with it." ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Huang Lu looked at him meaningfully, and the stall owner also realized that he had leaked his mouth, so he could only pull the corners of his mouth in embarrassment.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

"I don't think they're good people. The stall owner cautiously spoke, and after making sure that no one around was noticing this, he hesitated and continued: "The two of them started to wander around here before dawn, and it doesn't feel like they are doing anything good. It's a shame for our fellow countrymen, you should be careful of the two of them in the back, maybe it's something to step on. ”