Around the cold dew, the autumn harvest work is over.

The cotton and potatoes in the dry land were also harvested.

A season's hard work has made Zhenhua much darker and rougher, but his waist is straightened and his steps are strong. Pick up the burden, he can also be like Liu Zhigao, steady and steady, not slow.

And Zhenhua also found a sense of harvest and accomplishment in this hard work, and his heart became more steady. He found that he could also be a qualified farmer, so he was no longer at a loss.

The autumn planting work was very fast, and the wheat and rape of a few acres of land were all completed in about ten days.

Most of the paddy fields are empty after harvesting, and they are waiting for rice planting in the following summer.

After finishing the farm work, Zhenhua's father Zhao Chenghai immediately contacted the rice dealers in the town, sold more than 5,000 catties of rice, exchanged 1,000 yuan, and started his great business.

His great cause is naturally to build a house for his son.

For a lifetime, as long as a countryman builds a few big houses and asks for a wife for his son, his merit will be considered complete.

Zhao Chenghai first bought the big bamboo poles that made the rafters, then bought the wood for the beams, doors and windows, and then bought the small red bricks......

During the whole process, Zhenhua accompanied his father, bargaining, settling invoices, and looking for vehicles to transport.

A total of 21,000 small red bricks were ordered. More than a dozen carts of red bricks in front of them were successfully sent into the village and stacked on the threshing floor of Zhenhua's family.

But when the last three truckloads of bricks were pulled to the town, they suddenly encountered a torrential rain.

The big four-wheeled vehicle didn't dare to send it down, worried that it wouldn't be able to drive back after the dirt road was rainy, so the driver asked Zhao Chenghai, who was escorting the car, what to do, and whether he wanted to pull it back to the wheel kiln factory?

Of course, Zhao Chenghai was reluctant to send it back. Send it back to the wheel kiln factory, and you have to pay the freight and loading freight again. And the red bricks of that year were very tight, and you need to pay in advance to issue a ticket to buy them.

So, Zhao Chenghai waved his hand: "Just unload it on the side of the road, and when the weather clears, I will pull it back by myself." ”

The four-wheeler master nodded and asked the workers with the car to unload the bricks.

Braving the heavy rain, the workers unloaded the 3,000 red bricks into an open space on the side of the county road, forming a long queue.

Zhao Chenghai didn't expect that these 3,000 red bricks almost cost him his life.

That rain didn't stop for more than ten days.

In the past ten days, Zhao Chenghai and his son Zhenhua have been on duty in shifts, staying in the town five miles away from home, guarding the pile of bricks.

If no one guarded them, these bricks would definitely be stolen, and in the end, it would be a miracle that there were 300 of the 3,000 bricks left!

Fortunately, there were ready-made bricks, and Zhenhua and his father built a shack in a spacious area on the side of the road, one person high, about four square meters, covered with an oilcloth, and a fence bed was placed in it as a place to live.

Seeing that winter is about to begin, God still doesn't let the sun come out, it is gloomy, and it rains every three or five days.

The dirt road leading to Dongwan Village has been soaked in continuous autumn rain and trampled by countless passers-by, and has become a mud road. As soon as you step on it, the rubber shoes can sink into half a foot, and it takes all the strength to eat milk before you can pull out your legs.

Zhenhua ate breakfast every day, took his lunch, set off from home, and stepped on a five-mile-long muddy road to replace his father and let him go home for dinner.

After Zhao Chenghai returned home, he did some crop work and other chores, and then returned to the town at night, replaced his son, and let his son go home to sleep.

Zhenhua doesn't care, during the day, the cat is in the shack, playing chess, playing with himself, or bringing a book, casually flipping through it, killing time.

Those books, which Xiulian sent last time, didn't expect them to come in handy here.

That afternoon, it was raining heavily.

Zhenhua was in the shack, sitting cross-legged on the bed studying chess, a figure flashed in front of the door, a thin and tall middle-aged man, carrying a leather bag in his hand, bent over and got in, wet.

The middle-aged man saw Zhenhua and nodded and smiled: "Just got out of the car, borrow your place to hide from the rain." ”

Zhenhua also nodded and smiled, and moved his body inside.

The middle-aged man looked at the chessboard, took out a filter cigarette, threw one for Zhenhua, and asked, "Do you like to play chess?"

Zhenhua was in a panic, unable to ask for it, so he immediately nodded and beckoned someone to sit down.

The man lifted the corner of the quilt, sat sideways on the bare bed, and fought against Zhenhua.

Soon, the two sides completed the layout and entered a state of fighting.

Zhenhua found that this person's chess was not weak, far better than the methods of Gao Sanye and Lan Yushu.

The thin and tall man was also surprised by Zhenhua's chess skills, and while playing chess, he nodded again and again, which seemed to be a compliment to Zhenhua.

Half an hour later, the first set was won and lost, and Zhao Zhenhua narrowly won.

At this time, the heavy rain outside had stopped, but the thin and tall man was up to kill, set up chess and came again, and played the second game with Zhenhua.

The second game was a draw, and neither side won.

The third game started again, and after a fight, it was still a draw.

The tall and thin man looked at his watch, stood up reluctantly, and said, "Your chess is very good, are you still here tomorrow?" I came to play chess with you after dinner!"

"Okay, I'm here to look at the bricks, and I'm here during the day. I wasn't there at night, my dad was on duty. Zhenhua nodded and said.

"Okay, it's a word, I'll come to you tomorrow to fight!" The tall and thin man nodded, threw the remaining half pack of cigarettes to Zhenhua, turned around and walked out of the shack.

"I'll wait for you. Zhenhua smiled.

In the evening, Zhao Chenghai came over to change shifts, saw the filter cigarette butt on the ground, couldn't help but be stunned, and then bent down to pick up a cigarette butt, checked it in his hand, glared and asked his son: "You bought this cigarette?"

Zhenhua turned around and said, "It's a cigarette that a person smokes here to hide from the rain, I didn't buy it." ”

Zhao Chenghai still didn't believe it, stared at his son's back as he gradually walked away, and scolded in a low voice: "Loser!"

Early the next morning, Zhenhua came to change his father's shift again, and the cat was reading in the shack, bored.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, Qi Lei carried a quilt in a fertilizer bag and another bag to Zhenhua's shack.

Zhenhua was surprised, looked at Qi Lei's appearance, and asked, "Do you really want to go out to work?"

Qi Lei threw the quilt on the bed, sat down to take a breath, nodded and said: "Yes, the farm work at home is over, from now until the end of the year, it is all farming, I just went out to break through." ”

Zhenhua was silent for a moment and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go to Huainan and work as a bricklayer. Qi Lei said.

"Do you know how to be a bricklayer?" asked Zhenhua.

"Hehe, I've been studying for three or four days, and I'm almost there. After going out, I will hone and hone again, and I will be a master after the New Year. Qi Lei smiled.

Zhenhua also smiled, shook his head and said, "You just, you will learn to be a bricklayer in three or four days?" I heard people say that you need to study for at least three years before you can become a teacher. ”

Qi Lei snorted, put the quilt on his back again, prepared to go to the side of the road to take a ride, and said: "I'm different, I graduated from high school, an intellectual, and I learn faster than others!

Zhenhua nodded, handed the half pack of cigarettes that his tall and thin chess friend gave him yesterday, and handed it to Qi Lei, and said: "Just for your words, I will send you half a pack of good cigarettes to save face, when you go out, you can't be too shabby." I'm at home, and I'm free to write to me. ”

Qi Lei took the cigarette, was very moved, and patted Zhenhua on the shoulder: "When I make money and come back, I will bring you a cigarette like this!"

Zhenhua smiled, lifted Qi Lei's broken bag, walked out of the shack together, and accompanied him to wait for the car on the side of the road.

The bus came, Qi Lei got into the car, and waved his hand from the window: "Huazi, come on, come on, do it! The sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high and the birds fly!"

Zhenhua was most afraid that Qi Lei would sensationalize, so he hurriedly waved his hand: "I know, let's go, let's go, let's go......"

They all went home to farm, worked as a bricklayer, and were so civil, Zhenhua felt very ashamed.

"I'm born to be useful! Don't fall off the list, come on!" the bus went away amid Qi Lei's sensational roar.

Zhenhua only felt that his face was hot, and he was caught as a thief, so he swooped across the road and lowered his head into his shack.