In the autumn harvest in August, after the middle rice harvest was completed, the plough and hoe were hung up, and there was basically no farm work. Zhang Yunqi finally lived the life of eating and waiting for death.

After living for two lifetimes, he can be considered to understand, he has not eaten and drunk anything, and he is lying on the bed counting the banknotes, but in the past two months, he has been getting up early and greedy for darkness, and he has tortured himself unadultly, his skin is black and not slippery, and his height is only one meter six or eight, and a big reason for this is that the conditions at home were not good before, which led to his extremely poor nutrition during puberty.

I remember when I was studying in secondary school, I watched my classmates who were shorter than me running up one by one, and I was unmoved, staying at a height that was positioned as a third-class cripple. Zhang Yunqi is particularly sad, he does not judge people by their appearance, nor does he judge himself by their appearance, the only regret is that it will bring great inconvenience to the pickle girls in the future, especially for tall girls, there is almost no way at all, and the tall girl is his favorite.

The regrets in life are all planted in adolescence.

In order to make up for this regret, Zhang Yunqi feels that his first priority now is to eat and drink well, insist on exercising, and pull up his head, so he still gets up very early as he used to sell flue-cured tobacco and climbs the mountain to exercise.

For many young people, getting up early is a painful thing, but he is different, and he has long been commonplace.

I remember when I was in junior high school, in order to read more books than others, I got up from bed at half past four in the morning every day, but there was no light at that time, so I ran to the toilet, smelling feces and urine, and reading by the light of the toilet, especially when I was close to the high school entrance examination, in order to get a good score, I was really crazy to remember every knowledge point like a nymphomaniac, not letting go of any type of woman, English words, Chinese paragraphs, and historical and political details that no one noticed.

At that time, I recited these things not to make new contributions to the construction of the four modernizations, but purely to betray the countryside and go to the city to live a good life. Looking back, I haven't had a good life, but I have developed a good habit of getting up early, and I wake up very early every day, which is more punctual than the rooster in heat.

There is a high mountain behind Yunxi Village, because the appearance resembles a person holding a sword, it is called General Ridge by the local people. Zhang Yunqi took a book and a notebook, and it took him almost two hours to reach the top of the mountain, listening to the wind blowing the bird forest, watching the sunrise over the sea of clouds, and his heart was peaceful.

When he was in the mountains, he would read some books on economics and reform, and write down some things that were important in the future and that he was afraid of forgetting, but most of all he thought about how to go in the future. Reading is one thing, but it must not be delayed to make money, make a lot of money, he wants to be a rich man, preferably the kind of rich man whose principal is put in the bank and the interest is enough for him to spend a year.

This is quite vulgar, but he has suffered too many sins in society, too many hard days, he really doesn't want to live the kind of life that has no courage to carry a mortgage or car loan, work hard for a whole year and even take his family out to travel once, he knows that only by achieving financial freedom can he have the freedom of life and be qualified to talk about ideals and ambitions.

In addition to climbing the mountain in the morning, Zhang Yunqi is very idle most of the time, and when he has nothing to do, he takes the fourth and fifth children of the family to Longwan Town to buy delicious food.

At this time, the old five Zhang Xiaoxiao was the happiest.

Once, Zhang Xiaoxiao was still squinting in bed, Zhang Yunqi said to take her to the market, she jumped up from the bed directly, wrapped her arms around Zhang Yunqi's neck and said sweetly, Second brother, you are so good! For this little girl, going to Longwan Town to catch up with Wei is equivalent to visiting the city, or it is equivalent to people in the city going to the park.

On weekdays, Zhang Yunqi still gives Ji Ling make-up lessons as usual, but most of the summer vacation has passed, and most of Ji Ling's homework has been completed, and there are very few make-up classes, many times it is playing, like in his previous life, doing things that only children will be happy to do.

Once, Ji Ling heard from Chunlan's mouth that Zhang Yunqi climbed Jiangjunling every day to watch the sunrise, she was very interested, and shouted that Zhang Yunqi would take her to climb once.

Zhang Yunqi told her: "It is difficult to climb the General Ridge, and if you want to see the sunrise, you have to get up very early, when it is still dark, and you have to use a flashlight." ”

Ji Ling said that it would also be climbed.

Zhang Yunqi nodded with a wry smile.

The next day, Zhang Yunqi got up on time at 3:30, and after washing, he ran to Zhang Xiaomei's house next door, the gate of Zhang Xiaomei's yard was not locked, he knew where Ji Ling's bedroom was, but after knocking on the door for about ten minutes, the girl came out with squinted eyes, and when she finished washing in ink, the two of them climbed the General Ridge with flashlights in the dark.

Along the way, Ji Ling made Zhang Yunqi look sideways.

She was very thin, tall and thin, looking like a little girl, but she was very energetic, and she only rested twice on the way, and then trotted all the way up the mountain, her delicate face was red, and there were beads of sweat on her forehead, and a few fine bangs were soaked with sweat and drooped on her forehead.

When he came to the top of the mountain, it was almost six o'clock, the sky was dark blue, Zhang Yunqi knew that he would be able to see the sunrise soon, he took Ji Ling to sit on an empty green grass, gave her the kettle, Ji Ling drank a sip of water and said: "You are usually not afraid to come up alone, it is so dark, you can't see anything." ”

Zhang Yunqi suddenly remembered the classic line in "The King of Comedy", and said with a smile: "There's nothing to be afraid of, although it's dark when you come up, it will be beautiful at sunrise." ”

"I haven't seen the sunrise since I'm so old, what is the sunrise like?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said that you will know soon.

The mountain wind was cold, the stars in the sky had gradually faded, Zhang Yunqi took off his coat and handed it to Ji Ling, this was the old coat his brother worn, big and old, Ji Ling sniffed it, wrinkled his delicate nose and said, "There is a smell." ”

Zhang Yunqi choked half to death, stretched out his hand and said give it back to me.

Ji Ling laughed, and said that he would not return it!

She put Zhang Yunqi's coat on her body, sat on the green grass, and looked up at the night sky, the stars in the night sky had disappeared, the color gradually changed from dark green to fish white, and there was a ray of golden light, which suddenly appeared from the depths of the sea of clouds.

"Sunrise!"

Ji Ling stood up suddenly, jumped up and pointed to the sky.

On the east mountain, there was a round of Phnom Penh, like a lighthouse, which kept getting bigger, and gradually turned into a big fireball, dyeing the sky red, blowing away the fog on the top of the mountain, shining on the green grass, the wind blew, and the dandelions blooming on the green grass flew around the girl, refracting a series of fine warm light, so that it was suffocating to see.

Zhang Yunqi smiled and asked, "Is it good-looking?"

"Good looking. ”

Ji Ling nodded, and said, "It's a pity that I don't know when I will see it next time, Lao Tie, my father called me yesterday, and he said that he would come to Yunxi Village to pick me up and go home tomorrow." ”

Zhang Yunqi said with a smile: "After staying in this poor and remote place for so long, you still don't get tired of it?"

Ji Ling said: "I think it's good here, but I'm afraid that I won't have time to come over until the New Year." Lao Tie, I am studying in No. 1 Middle School, and you are also going to the provincial capital to study at a secondary school, so it will be difficult to meet in the future. ”

Zhang Yunqi smiled.

At that moment, he wanted to tell her, "I should also go to No. 1 Middle School." ”

But he held back.

There is no need to be impatient about many things, it is best to come naturally, and now I haven't talked to Zhang Xiaonan, so I don't necessarily go to the No. 1 Middle School in the city, he said: "Why do you want to do so much, let's talk about it later, at least we are still sitting here now, watching the sunrise and the sea of clouds, the blue sky and white clouds, it's good." ”

Ji Ling squinted at the sky and said, "It's good, but I have a pimple in my heart, and I don't feel uncomfortable if I don't tell you." ”

"What?"

"My dad asked me on the phone to pay attention to you. ”

"Your dad told you not to play with me?"

"Not really. It's just that I want to know, are you giving me make-up lessons these days to get close to my dad? Don't lie to me, I can easily believe your words. ”

"It's true that I want to be close to your dad, and it's true that I want to be close to you. But to give you a make-up lesson, just because you are Ji Ling, so I want to give you a make-up lesson. ”

"That's a nice thing to say. ”

Ji Ling suddenly squinted and smiled, she leaned over to Zhang Yunqi's side, stretched out her hand to grab his hair in a mess, and said, "Lao Tie, let's go shopping elsewhere." ”

Ji Ling turned his head and left, his steps light like a deer.

Zhang Yunqi looked at her silently and watched her walk in the mountains.

The mountains are full of sparse green grassland, dandelions are blooming on the green grass, fluffy balls one after another, the wind blows them to the sky and slowly scatters, like the shallow mark engraved on Zhang Yunqi's heart, the wind blows away, there is nothing to miss, but at least at that moment, there is a simple friendship flowing in his heart.

I haven't felt that feeling in a long time.