Lu Yao, who was disheveled and sweating profusely, took a lot of effort to get out of the impenetrable human wall. He raised his left hand to wipe the sweat off his face, and then used a few fingers to comb the wet hair stuck to his forehead a few times to the back of his head, and after distinguishing the direction, he lowered his head and looked at the roll of banknotes that had been soaked with sweat that was still tightly clutched in the palm of his right hand, and then squeezed around the fence under a cement lamppost on the north side of the Qujiang Railway Station Square.

Lu Yao took several deep breaths in a row, and said breathlessly to Ning Hao, who was sitting on a rucksack and munching on the steamed buns: "There are too many people, I can't squeeze into the area where I queue up to buy tickets! I finally squeezed to the entrance of the iron horse guardrail, and a wave pushed me out." I tried three times and all the same result. And the crowd was getting bigger and bigger every time, and my feet basically didn't touch the ground, and I was squeezed outside. ”

"Huh, what about the two buttons on your shirt? Damn, this is terrifying, isn't it? Not only are you soaking wet all over your body, but even your white shirt has turned into a gray shirt. Lu Yao, you sit down and rest for a while, nibble on a steamed bun to satisfy your hunger, and I'll try it again. ”

After Ning Hao finished speaking, he swallowed half of the roasted bun he was holding in his hand in a few bites, took out a ten-pound white plastic pot from a snakeskin bag (nylon woven bag) he pressed under his feet, unscrewed the lid twice, raised his hands, put his mouth to the mouth of the pot, and drank a few large sips of tea made with Kuding tea, and then handed it to Lu Yao.

"We need to save some steamed buns and tea, we have only been at the train station for half a day today, and we have consumed half of the steamed buns and tea brought by home. In case we can't buy a train ticket today, we won't have anything to eat or drink until tomorrow. No, we're going to go home again. Lu Yao took the plastic kettle, tightened the lid, and put the kettle into the snakeskin bag, while saying with a sad face.

"Don't say discouraged, we came out of the house this time, and we made up our minds, we must buy a train ticket and go to Yunhai City to join your cousin. When we get over there, we must make a difference, and after we get ahead, we will go home in a beautiful way! At that time, we must let those who once looked down on us and bullied us bow to us, nod their heads and call us uncle!" Ning Hao said categorically.

Lu Yao looked at the travelers around him and looked at them with strange eyes, he hurriedly approached Ning Hao, lowered his voice and said, "Get ahead, scenery, I definitely want to." Let others bow to me, and nod and shout uncle, I don't want to, and I can't afford it. Okay, let's wait until later, the most important thing at the moment is to buy a train ticket. You're taller than me, and you have more muscles than I do, so go try it again, I'm here watching the luggage. ”

Ning Hao stood up suddenly, pulled off the black crewneck T-shirt covered with white sweat stains on his body, and then bent down and stuffed it into the rucksack he had just sat on.

Before they got on the bus in the county, they sorted their luggage. Lu Yao's rucksack contained the clothes of the two of them, and Ning Hao's snakeskin bag contained food and tea.

Ning Hao took the soaked roll from Lu Yao's hand, which was rolled up into a little thumb-sized volume, stuffed it into a small pocket with a hidden buckle inside the black belt, and then tied the belt around his thick waist, and squeezed into the human wall shirtless.

Lu Yao and Ning Hao grew up from childhood to adulthood, and they were like siblings. They all live in a village called Longfengzhai 200 kilometers away from the Qujiang Railway Station.

Longfeng Village is a particularly closed village in the western mountains, surrounded by towering and steep mountains thousands of meters high, and there is only one sheep intestine trail leading to Quanshui Town, which is 60 kilometers away. It was almost impossible for the people of the stockade to make a day trip to the town, because they had to cross two rivers that were not too wide but had to be fast-flowing with the help of wooden boats.

Lu Yao is 20 years old this year, with a three-seven-haired style, a height of 1.75 meters, and he looks very thin and white, and the people in the village call him a white-faced showman.

He has grandparents in their 60s, parents in their 40s, and an older brother in his 22th year, who is still married, and two younger brothers and a younger sister between the ages of 10 and 15. Two younger brothers are in junior high school, and the only younger sister is in elementary school. Due to the large population of the family, the lack of arable land, and the lack of other side income, the family has to rely on the help of relatives every year to avoid starvation.

Lu Yao has been sick since he was a child because of lack of food and clothing, lack of nutrition, so he develops later than children of the same age. The body is very thin, weighing only about 100 pounds.

Although Ning Hao and Lu Yao are the same age, one of them was born in the first month of the beginning of the year, and the other was born in the month of the year, so Ning Hao is nearly a year older than Lu Yao.

The situation in Ning Hao's family is similar to that of Lu Yao, the only difference is that Ning Hao is the eldest among the four siblings. But he has been more domineering since he was a child, and he likes to play a little clever, so he rarely starves. His body is much better developed than Lu Yao, and he weighs nearly seventy pounds more. With a height of 1.83 meters and a weight of nearly 170 pounds, it seems that he is strong and vigorous. Because of his dark skin, the people in the village called him the black-faced little bully.

The two of them have been playing together since they were children, and they like to dance with guns and sticks. When he was in the first semester of the third grade of primary school, Ning Hao borrowed a book of Xiaohongquan from other classmates, and Lu Yao only spent one weekend tracing all the routines in the boxing book. Since then, they have practiced Little Red Fist every day according to the tracing routines.

After a few years of practice, their physical strength and reflexes have improved greatly. In school, they occasionally encounter senior classmates bullying them, and they can easily deal with them using the skills they have cultivated.

The two of them often learn martial arts in private, but Lu Yao, who is frail and sickly, wins more and loses less. The main reason is that his body is light, his reaction is quick, and his feet move flexibly, he is not only fast, but also very accurate in hitting the weak parts of the opponent's body, Ning Hao has suffered a lot in this regard.

Although Ning Hao was tall and strong, he was slow to react and moved slowly under his feet. In the martial arts world, where there is no fast and unbreakable, it is not dominant. But he is infinitely powerful and explosive, as long as he is grabbed by both hands, it is difficult to escape one of his tricks - hugging and falling. Even Lu Yao, who reacted very quickly, was no exception, and he was thrown to the ground by Ning Hao in minutes and couldn't get up.

They went from elementary school to junior high school together, and their grades were at the top of their class. After graduating from junior high school, they were all admitted to the county senior high school together with excellent results. Because their families were too poor to pay the tuition fee of 30 yuan a semester and the living expenses of 50 yuan, they had to drop out of school and go home to work as a farmer after only one semester of high school.

During the more than four months they were in high school in the county seat, they learned from other classmates that several coastal cities in China had been opened up, and many peasants near the county seat had gone to work in those cities.

It is said that those open cities are the world of young people and a paradise for dreams to come true. As long as you have the ability, you will have a place to use, and you will have endless money. They also heard that some people have been out for less than two years, and when they return to their hometowns, they have become 10,000 yuan households, and they can build new houses and marry daughters-in-law.

In their village, young men who usually reach the age of 20 are basically married. Because Lu Yao and Ning Hao are very poor, there is no matchmaker to speak for them until now.

After the two of them are busy with the family's farm work every day, they still meet together as always, dancing guns and sticks, practicing Xiaohongquan, and passing the boring time.

Just after the Spring Festival this year, Lu Yao and Ning Hao, who were not satisfied with the status quo, each borrowed 20 yuan from their relatives and came to Qujiang Railway Station together, wanting to buy tickets to work in Yunhai City. This is the city they chose two years ago, and they often hear about it on the radio of their neighbors, and it is the first choice for many migrant workers.

They stayed in the square of the railway station for two days and one night, and finally squeezed into the ticket window, but the conductor told them that there was no train directly to Yunhai City, only to Nanguang City, the neighboring provincial capital, and then transfer to a bus to Yunhai City, the fare was 45 yuan.

They each looked at the seventeen yuan in cash that they clutched tightly in their palms, and with a feeling of extreme loss, they squeezed out of the railway station square and returned to their stockade.

At the end of last month, Lu Yao received a letter from his cousin. In the letter, the cousin said that he had found a job on a construction site in Yunhai City, and was currently working on slope protection and drainage ditches on both sides of the road, and that in a short time, he would go to work at the airport under construction in Yunhai City. The cousin asked Lu Yao to rush over as soon as possible, and he could introduce Lu Yao to the contractor to enter the construction site to do small work, including food and housing, and a salary of five yuan a day. Later, if you do a big job, you will have a salary of ten to fifteen yuan.

Lu Yao was overjoyed when he read his cousin's letter, he immediately told his parents the contents of the letter, and asked them to hurry up to find relatives to borrow travel expenses, and he was going to Yunhai City to find his cousin and work as a construction worker.

When his parents heard this, they were also very happy, and promised to immediately go to relatives to borrow money and send Lu Yao out to work. According to the salary mentioned in his cousin's letter, it only takes a year for Lu Yao to go home to build a new house and take his daughter-in-law.

In the 80s, in Lu Yao and Ning Hao's village, five new tiled houses were built, and 300 yuan was enough. Except for masons and carpenters, as well as stonemasons who were paid, all other workers were interchangeable with the neighbors in the stockade. The building materials are all locally sourced, and there is no need to spend money to buy. The bride price for a daughter-in-law has not exceeded twenty yuan in their village. Ask the matchmaker to talk about the matchmaker until she marries her daughter-in-law, and two hundred yuan is enough.

Lu Yao took advantage of the night when his parents went to find relatives to borrow travel expenses, and he told Ning Hao the news that he was going to go out to work.

Ning Hao didn't say a word when he heard this, he rushed directly into the house, pulled up his father, who was already asleep on the bed, and asked him to go to his relatives to borrow travel expenses, and he wanted to go to Yunhai City with Lu Yao to work.

Lu Yao and Ning Hao's parents helped them find relatives and friends to borrow travel expenses, which also took a lot of trouble. It wasn't until the evening of the fourth day that Lu Yao's parents borrowed forty yuan, and there was still five yuan missing to buy a train ticket to Yunhai City.

And Ning Hao's father only borrowed fifty yuan, which was only enough for Ning Hao to take a farm car from the town to the county seat, and then transfer to a bus to Qujiang Railway Station and buy a train ticket to Nanguang City.

In the early morning of the fifth day, before dawn, Lu Yao's parents got up early, carrying lanterns and preparing to go on the road, they were going to the next town to find Lu Yao's aunt to borrow money. The two old men had just opened the wooden door of the hall, but they saw a panicked Ning Hao standing at the door with a snakeskin bag.

Without waiting for Lu Yao's parents to ask, Ning Hao gasped and shouted impatiently, "Uncle, aunt, you don't have to borrow money." I raised 70 yuan, plus the 40 yuan you borrowed, which is enough for me and Lu Yao. Lu Yao: Get up, let's go!"