"Kui Yong, Zheng Tong and Jiang Biyun, how are they doing in Shichuan Village?" Zhong Yuemin and Li Kuiyong sat and chatted.

"I've been busy earning work since you left, so I've been there once. Li Kuiyong said: "They put up the greenhouse you made back then, and you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, but you are a little depressed, and your popularity will be reduced by more than half as soon as you leave." ”

"Now you're selling vegetables again?"

"It's not as strict as before, and if they hang the brand of the production team, the county will turn a blind eye. Li Kuiyong replied.

"That's good, I can make some money. Zhong Yuemin said.

"Qin Ling left northern Shaanxi with you, did you do me a favor?" Li Kuiyong asked curiously.

"Why do you think of Qinling?" Zhong Yuemin said strangely.

"You and Qin Ling are like that, she is gone, you are not in a hurry at all, I thought it was your kid who did it. Li Kuiyong smiled, "Did Qin Ling come to Beijing with you?"

"Hehe, I happened to recruit female soldiers that year, so I asked her to go, and it was not easy to make a noise everywhere, so I didn't mention it to anyone. Zhong Yuemin didn't think about hiding it from Li Kuiyong, so he simply told the truth.

Li Kuiyong nodded and said, "It's good, you are more capable than me, and you can give the girl a good future." ”

"How have you been doing in the past two years, why are you so depressed when you come back this time?" Zhong Yuemin felt that Li Kuiyong had something on his mind and said with concern.

"It's not just bitterness!" Li Kuiyong shook his head, "People are poor and short-sighted, it's like walking into a dead end, if you hadn't sent me a telegram and let the street open a certificate, I really wouldn't have survived." ”

"What's wrong?"

"I'm in northern Shaanxi, farming harder than anyone else, in order to earn more work, I go to repair the reservoir in winter, and I can bear the tired work!" Li Kuiyong was a little excited, "But I can't give a girl a future, and I can't let people live a good life!"

"Have you talked about someone in northern Shaanxi?" asked Zhong Yuemin.

Li Kuiyong nodded, "When I met when I participated in the power construction team in the county, the girl from Xi'an, somehow met my eyes." ”

Saying that, Li Kuiyong still had a smile in his eyes, he really liked it. Zhong Yuemin didn't interrupt him and listened to him quietly.

"She has a very good personality, she is very aggressive, and she doesn't seem to have anything to worry about. I don't think I'm poor, and I don't think my family is burdened, people say they like me as a person. ”

Zhong Yuemin said: "That's not good, why did it collapse later?"

Later, her family dragged a relationship with him and asked her to recruit a job to return to Xi'an, but she was reluctant to let me go or die. Li Kuiyong said, "But what is there with me? I don't even have a cave, and I don't have a job when I go back to the city, so I can only suffer if I follow me!"

I like her, and I want to keep her by my side, but people can't be too selfish, it's not the business of the big men, so I broke up with her and let her go. ”

Li Kuiyong's tears rolled down, and after a while, his clothes were wet.

Zhong Yuemin has never seen Li Kuiyong cry so sadly, even the last time his father died, Li Kuiyong only had red eyes, Li Kuiyong cried in front of him, it was really sad.

"You've been delaying for so long for this, aren't you?" Zhong Yuemin patted Li Kuiyong on the back.

Li Kuiyong wiped away his tears, nodded and said: "When you telegraphed, she hadn't recruited a job yet, so I wondered what to do, take her back to the city with me, what if I don't have a job or a house? ”

Later, when her family gave her a letter and asked her to go back, although I was a little sad, I was really relieved. Li Kuiyong looked at Zhong Yuemin, "Yuemin, can you imagine? I was relieved to be separated from my partner!?"

Li Kuiyong's expression was hideous, he really felt pain and guilt for his true inner reaction, and he was angry with himself.

"You are also for the good of people, you are afraid of delaying others. Zhong Yuemin comforted.

"But I feel uncomfortable!" Li Kuiyong cried, "Really, Yuemin, if you cut my chest with a knife, my heart will definitely be dripping blood!"

Zhong Yuemin didn't know how to comfort Li Kuiyong, so he simply took out the money from his bag and spread it on the table, "How much do you think you want if you want your Xi'an girl to live a good life?"

Li Kuiyong was a little surprised, he looked at the money, ten yuan a piece, a full one hundred and fifty sheets, gray, spread on the table is particularly beautiful.

"You earned money by trading in the ghost market?"

"Yes, that's what we've earned in the last few months. Zhong Yuemin saw that Li Kuiyong stopped his tears and said with a smile.

"That's a lot of effort, you earn so much!" Li Kuiyong sighed, "This is almost worth the income of the entire village of Baidian Village for a year!"

When Zhong Yuemin heard him say this, he knew that he had misunderstood, and explained: "This is only a part, we earn more than this." ”

"That's more, how many? 3,000, 5,000?" Li Kuiyong guessed.

"Almost ten times. ”

"Ten times!" Li Kuiyong was shocked, "Isn't that fifteen thousand! What kind of things do you sell to make so much money?"

"It's food, bicycles, and some things that are difficult to buy, plus a little food stamps, cloth stamps, and industrial stamps. Zhong Yuemin replied.

"Where do you sell it?"

"Mainly outside the Chaoyang Gate, the big willow tree and the Pan homeland. ”

"That's all secretly sold in the middle of the night, right?" Li Kuiyong knew.

"Yes, it's called a ghost market, it starts at two or three o'clock in the morning and ends at five or six o'clock in the morning, if you go late, there is not even a ghost shadow. ”

"Then take me to see it tonight?" Li Kuiyong was a little impatient, he saw a golden strip and was ready to pounce on it immediately.

"Not lately, we've stopped for a month, and it's going to be a few months before you do it. ”

Li Kuiyong was puzzled, "Why did you stop making so much money?"

"This matter is determined by me, I always feel that something is going to happen, so I will talk about it after a while, and there is still a matter of He Dayong, wait until we finish cooking and see the situation. Zhong Yuemin said.

"No, Yuemin, you can't just give this thing by feeling!" Li Kuiyong was a little anxious, "You have lost a lot of money in the past few months!"

"Don't persuade me, I have my own arrangements, when we come back from Yunnan, things will be clear, don't worry. Zhong Yuemin said.

Li Kuiyong saw Zhong Yuemin's resolute attitude, so he didn't do much anymore.

Li Kuiyong asked: "Kuiyong, let me ask you, do you want a few hundred yuan, can you chase back your object?"

"Huh?" Li Kuiyong didn't expect Zhong Yuemin to ask this question again, "There are two hundred, you can rent a room." ”

Zhong Yuemin casually put a point on the table, "This is almost five or six hundred, you take it first, and when you come back from Yunnan, you will go to Xi'an and bring your object back." ”

"This, this is too much, right?" Li Kuiyong was stunned and held back such a sentence.

"It's not much, it's nothing for you to give it all, but we still have to go to Yunnan, and I don't know what the specific situation of Dayong and his sister is, maybe we need money." Zhong Yuemin said.

Li Kuiyong put back the money allocated in front of him, "Let's hold on to Sister Dayong first, I'll talk about it when I come back." ”

"That's fine, when we come back, we can earn it in a few days. Zhong Yuemin didn't shirk either, "Why hasn't this fat man believed it until now?"

"It's just nine o'clock, so let's wait. ”

Li Kuiyong was talking when there was a sound of brakes at the door.

Zhong Yuemin stood up, "It must be that the fat man is back, let's go out and have a look."

"Okay!" Li Kuiyong replied.

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Without waiting for Zhong Yuemin and Li Kuiyong to go out, Qian Fatzi and He Dayong had already rushed into the house, "Yuemin, hurry, get in the car!"

"What's the matter?" Zhong Yuemin said strangely.

"Get in the car first, let's explain!" said the fat man and carried Zhong Yuemin's luggage out the door.

Zhong Yuemin and Li Kuiyong glanced at each other, didn't say much, and quickly got into the car.

Qian Fatzi quickly started the car and drove away in the direction of the train station.

"There is a truck to Kunming at half past eleven in the evening, I have a buddy in the car, you two get on the car directly, all the way to Kunming. Qian Fatzi stepped on the accelerator and hit the steering wheel all the way, while explaining to Zhong Yuemin.

"Now it's three. Li Kuiyong answered.

"Three?" Qian Fat Man wondered, "Kui Yong, are you going too?"

"I'm going too, I'm idle anyway, I'm idle, blowing wind and sand in the north every day, let's go this time to see what Yunnan looks like in all seasons!" Li Kuiyong said.

"If I hadn't had to go to work, I'd definitely go!" Qian Fat Man said dejectedly, "Kui Yong, I'll be relieved if you go together." ”

"You put a hundred hearts, I will definitely be better than you to go. Li Kuiyong said with a smile.

"Hey, why did you hit me as soon as you came back!" Qian Fat said unhappily.

"Kui Yong, you really can't offend the fat man, you still have to drag him to take care of him at home!" Zhong Yuemin said with a smile.

Qian Fat Man said happily: "Yes, you still want to ask me to help you take care of your house!

"Believe it or not, the three of us will throw you out of the car!" Li Kuiyong said in a vicious voice.

"Count me in, the fat brother is too arrogant, he dares to threaten people, especially even Brother Yuemin!" He Dayong echoed.

"Don't count me! I'm one person who feeds the whole family and doesn't go hungry, and the fat man can't threaten me, what do you want, I just don't see it!"

"Don't!" Qian Fat Man panicked, Li Kuiyong and He Dayong couldn't deal with any of them, two at a time, he had no chance of winning.

"Then what are you going to do?" asked Li Kuiyong patting the fat man on the shoulder.

"Take care of your family like you take care of your own family, and you have to be good!" Qian Fat confessed.

"What if there's one hair missing?" He Dayong sat in the passenger seat and asked viciously.

"Take me for the first time, I'm responsible for missing a single hair!" said the fat man.

"Brother Kuiyong, that's pretty much it, right? Fat brother has a good attitude, why don't we let him go once?" He Dayong said to Li Kuiyong in the back seat.

"Well, the attitude is okay, let's do it first, let him wear the guilt and make meritorious service, so as to see the after-effects!" Li Kuiyong said.

Everyone in the car laughed, and the car was running on the empty streets of Beijing.

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The train was already full of goods, and it was filling up water and coal, and it was sitting on the final preparations before departure.

Under the response of Qian Fatzi's buddies, Zhong Yuemin and the others got on a stuffy tank carriage, which was filled with wooden boxes filled with goods, leaving only a small space for three people.

"This car of goods are to Kunming, you stay steadfast, to the place, I will pick you up and get off the station. The fat man said to them.

"Thank you, thanks to your help!" Zhong Yuemin thanked.

"You're welcome, you're a friend of the fat man, and you're also a friend of mine. I just want to tell you a few more words. "That's human.

"You say!" He Dayong hurriedly answered.

"Don't move these boxes, I don't know what's inside, but don't move them anyway, or we're all going to be out of luck. ”

Zhong Yuemin said: "Don't worry, we won't make it difficult for you, we have prepared food and drink, and we will never move anything else." ”

"That's fine, I'll come to see you in a while and bring you something to eat and drink, don't worry. And the man gave him orders, and went about his own journey.

"It's too small, and the three of them don't even have a place to stretch their legs when they lie down!" Li Kuiyong complained as he carefully surveyed the surrounding space.

Zhong Yuemin proposed: "The three of us take turns to sleep, and sit when it's not our turn." ”

"Okay, that's it. He Dayong agreed: "Brother Yuemin, you go to sleep first." ”

"You go to sleep first, I'm not sleepy now, I'll call you in the middle of the night." Zhong Yuemin told the truth, he was speeding all the way, and he woke up.

He Dayong gave way to Li Kuiyong again: "Brother Kuiyong, why don't you sleep first?"

"Okay, don't be humble, you can't sleep, let's talk first, and then talk when you're sleepy!" Li Kuiyong said.

"Hey, that's good!"

As they spoke, the train started, the loud sound of the steam engine, and the soot gas, no one could sleep, and they couldn't even hear each other clearly, so they had to shout, and they simply stopped talking, thinking about their own thoughts.

The train galloped all the way across the flat North China Plain, crossed the Yellow River in Zhengzhou, and the Guanzhong Plain was also a flat river, until it crossed the Yangtze River from Wuhan, and the terrain began to undulate, and more and more tunnels appeared through the mountains.

But this is already the tenth day after leaving Beijing, at this time the train is very slow, and the freight truck is even slower to set a new record.

Zhong Yuemin and others were tortured in the car, the space that could move was too small, and only a crack at the door could see the scenery outside, and several people took turns to blow the wind by the door to watch the scenery.

When the car was driving, it was okay, some wind blew in, and I didn't care about the smoke and dust mixed in the wind. The most painful thing is when you stop, sometimes you can stop for hours, stop on the railway without shelter, the sun is shining, and the temperature in the stuffy tank car can roast the pig.

A few people brought enough clothes, but there was no way to do it in the heat, so they could only take off their clothes, and everyone wore pants in the back, and the sweat on their bodies still couldn't stop.

"Hey, are you still alive?" came the sound of two short and one long taps outside the car door.