August after the beginning of autumn is the most beautiful time of the year for croppers. The temperature is neither hot nor cold, the melons, fruits and grains have ripened, and the autumn harvest has slowly kicked off: beating red dates, cutting middle rice, picking peanuts, and picking soybeans...... Everywhere there is a bustling rural idyll.

Zhang Yunqi has been resting at home, he has a leg injury, although it is not very serious, the wound will scab after a few days, but Zhang's mother did not let him participate in the autumn harvest.

Zhao Siping's arrest, he has already received the news, it is from the village gossip center.

At the Jiangchuan City Public Security Bureau that day, Ji Zhong called the leaders of the county public security bureau in front of him, but he didn't expect the county public security bureau to act so quickly, and launched an operation to arrest Zhao Siping the next day.

This time, Zhao Siping was cool.

Zhang Yunqi estimated that with the things he did, he wouldn't think of it in three or five years. In fact, these people who are engaged in tobacco are all clear, but they are innocent and hateless, and no one has reported them, but he has lived two lives, but he is not the master who makes people and pee on their heads, he told Ji Chong about this, and Ji Zhong raised a few words to the director of the Fengyang County Public Security Bureau, and the county economic investigation brigade launched an investigation.

This thing can be done so smoothly, to a certain extent, because he and Ji Chong have reached a tacit understanding, Ji Chong solved this trouble for him, and he also helped Ji Chong solve a big problem, it is estimated that Ji Chong has personally led the team to capture the suspect in the rape and murder case, and his officialdom career will definitely be able to add a glorious resume.

Zhang Yunqi told his eldest brother about the whole thing. Since he stayed in the Fengyang County Tobacco Management Office for one night, the eldest brother has a pimple in his heart, and his mother knows a little bit of the inside story, after all, he is injured and can't hide it.

The old mother was very worried, so she asked the two brothers to stop the business, the eldest brother did not object again, let alone Zhang Yunqi, he didn't want to do it for a long time, so the old Zhang family ended the business in advance, and the eldest brother worked in the town on weekdays.

At that time, there was a shortage of rural transportation tools, there was a tractor at home, there was nothing to do, five trips a day, sometimes busy all day without home, although the income was far less than the flue-cured tobacco business, but it was stable and long-lasting. It can be said that the eldest brother's new career has ushered in a new prosperity, and others are down-to-earth and motivated, the mother-in-law and aunts in Yunxi Village are full of thumbs up when they talk about it, and in the recent days, a slap to the introduction can not be counted.

The eldest of the family's relatives, Zhang's mother, is very attentive, and she has secretly inquired about the girls introduced by the matchmaker, and she has taken a fancy to the well-behaved and sloppy girl, so she blows the wind in Zhang Yunfeng's ears.

Zhang Yunfeng disagreed and rejected them all.

Zhang's mother complained, and as soon as she had time, she nagged beside him: "You don't like this, don't want that, what's the trouble! The golden phoenix in the sky can't fall to our family." ”

One day, the Zhang family was having dinner, and the youngest son of Zhang Jingui, the director of the village committee, called out at the door: "Uncle Yunfeng, I have your phone." ”

"Who called?"

"Aunt Xiaonan. ”

Zhang Yunfeng put down his job and went to the village committee.

Chunlan looked at her eldest brother's back and pursed her lips and snickered.

Zhang Yunqi stretched out his hand and patted her head: "What are you laughing at, don't think about it, little girl." ”

Chunlan snorted: "I'm not thinking about it, isn't it obvious." ”

Zhang Yunqi was speechless, Chunlan didn't seem to have anything wrong with what she said, this Zhang Xiaonan is also from Yunxi Village, but she is already a golden phoenix who flew out, and now she lives in Jiangchuan City, when she was a child, she and her eldest brother played together, and studied together to primary school, and later Zhang Xiaonan went to the county seat to go to middle school, and the eldest brother returned to the village to become a farmer because of his poor family, but she was still as good to her eldest brother as before. Later, she taught junior high school in Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, and every time she returned to the village, she would always come to their house and talk to her eldest brother.

The two can be regarded as childhood sweethearts, but Zhang Yunqi doesn't know what it is, they were not together in their previous lives.

In less than half an hour, Zhang Yunfeng came back.

He poured a scoop of water into his stomach in the water tank before saying, "Yunqi, your sister Xiaonan called to talk about your study." ”

Mother Zhang next to her was very curious: "What did you say?"

Zhang Yunfeng said: "Xiaonan hopes that Yunqi will go to Jiangchuan City No. 1 Middle School to study. ”

"The secondary school has been reported, and what else are you going to to the first middle school? ”

"It's okay, Xiao Nan said, he will go to that school with Yunqi's grades, and the admissions office of the city No. 1 Middle School also wants him to go very much. She also said that now that the country's development is getting faster and faster, what is needed in the future is no longer technical secondary school talents with basic skills, but highly educated talents, and it is the right way to go to high school and university. ”

Zhang's mother listened to the clouds, she didn't know what the difference between studying in technical secondary school and high school was, in her eyes, her son was studying to glorify his ancestors, and he could live a good life as a civil servant in the future.

Zhang Yunfeng said to Zhang Yunqi: "I think what Xiaonan said is also a little reasonable, but there are also benefits of reading secondary school, in short, I haven't studied for a few days, it's hard to say anything, you are not too young, take an idea for yourself first." ”

Zhang Yunqi said directly: "I don't want to study anymore." ”

Zhang's mother was stunned, and reached out to slap Zhang Yunqi: "What do you want to do if you don't study?"

Zhang Yunqi scratched his head with a smile: "Just kidding, Mom, books are meant to be read, as for going to secondary school or high school, let's wait for the people from the admissions office of the city's No. 1 Middle School to come." ”

He knew in his heart that it was impossible not to go to school, although the family was poor over the years, but his mother spared no effort to cultivate himself, the eldest brother graduated from primary school, although Chunlan had good grades, but at that time, the idea of patriarchy in the countryside was deep-rooted, to some extent, he was burdened with the hope of the whole family.

In fact, this summer vacation in his last life, many people from the high school admissions office also looked for him, after all, the brand of the top student in the high school entrance examination was placed there, and it was very popular, but at that time, the family was really poor and desperate, and he finally chose the technical secondary school in order to come out to work early to support his family.

In this life, he has long thought about not going to secondary school, so the only choice can only be high school, Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, as the best high school in the city, is naturally his best choice. Of course, this thing is begged by others, and he has to hold it, maybe he can fight for some benefits.

After lunch, Zhang's mother went to cut sweet potato vines on her own land, Zhang Yunfeng went to school to pull bricks, Zhang Yunqi had nothing to do, lying on the rattan chair in the yard to dry lice, Chunlan was cleaning in the kitchen, she saw that there was no one at home, so she said to Zhang Yunqi: "Second brother, I want to ask you something." ”

Zhang Yunqi drooped his eyes and said lazily: "What?"

Chunlan glanced at the door of the courtyard before lowering her voice and saying, "You know about our father, right?"

Zhang Yunqi's eyes opened, but there was no expression on his face, and he said to Chunlan: "Didn't you say that you went to work outside?" ”

"Go, I know. ”

"What do you know?"

"Anyway, I know, don't say it. ”

Chunlan returned to the kitchen angrily and continued to brush the pot, the second brother always treats her as a child, in fact, she has long known about her father's theft of power plant cables, but her father has been arrested for more than half a year, seeing that the family is getting better and better now, sometimes I will miss my father, so I want to ask the second brother.

The second brother was also present when his father was arrested that day, but he never mentioned what happened that day, and his mother was not allowed to mention it, this is a taboo topic in the old Zhang family.

Chunlan didn't dare to say anything about this at home on weekdays, but today when she was alone with her second brother, she couldn't help but mention it, probably because she has vaguely relied on her second brother recently, and she wants to tell him if she has anything in her heart, and he can always come up with an insightful idea.

This second brother is indeed different now and before, which makes the whole family more and more proud, thinking about the life of the family now, he can wake up with a smile when he dreams, but sometimes when he thinks of his father who is in prison, his heart is uncomfortable.