It didn't take much effort, Chen Qiaoshan finally saw the old Yi in Zhang Ergui's mouth, which was a little different from what he expected, Yi Daixing was a very spiritual little old man.

The face is vicissitudes but there is no withering, the back is slightly rickety, but the whole person can not see the slightest depression, a set of semi-new and not old Zhongshan suits on the body, and there is a hole in the front placket, which is obviously a trace of cigarette burning.

A lonely old man in his sixties can't see half sloppy, but it's rare.

Looking at the old man in front of him, Chen Qiaoshan sighed with some emotion, this is the legendary Yi Daixing.

"Lao Yi, someone is looking for you. As soon as he arrived at the place, Zhang Ergui shouted angrily.

Yi Daixing sat at the toll office at the mouth of the alley next to the station, and at the end of the alley was the public toilet.

"Which one is looking for me?" The old man's ears were very bright, and when he heard Zhang Ergui's words, he got up from his chair and moved two steps towards the door.

Only then did Chen Qiaoshan see clearly that the old man's left leg was a little wrong, and his walking was a little uncoordinated, and he couldn't see anything else.

"This is the person, a college student from Yanjing, who came to look for you. Zhang Ergui acted as an introducer, first pointed to Chen Qiaoshan and said, then looked at Chen Qiaoshan and said, "This is what I said about Lao Yi." ”

Chen Qiaoshan stepped forward and said, "Old Man Yi, hello, my name is Chen Qiaoshan, a native of Henan Province, and I want to find you to know more about the situation." ”

Yi Daixing was a little surprised, glanced at Chen Qiaoshan, and then said: "I have been to Zhengzhou and Luoyang in previous years, I don't know which part of you are?"

Chen Qiaoshan was overjoyed, it was obvious that this old man was quick in thinking, and he did not shy away from talking about his early years, which was a good sign: "I am from Deng County, have you ever been old?"

Yi Daixing pondered for a moment and shook his head, "I don't have an impression, I don't move around much in Yu Province, but I have been in Shuzhong and Southern Yunnan for a long time. ”

Chen Qiaoshan could hear that Yi Daixing obviously had a bit of Sichuan accent, and it was not surprising to think that he had been stranded in Shuzhong for more than ten years.

"Young man, what do you want to ask me?" Yi Daixing said, took out a pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket, took out one, and lit it.

Before Chen Qiaoshan could say anything, Zhang Ergui squeezed first and said: "Lao Yi, you are too unkind, this is your territory, and if you have cigarettes, you only care about smoking them yourself, and you don't know how to take a break." ”

Yi Daixing was not annoyed, pinched the sparkling cigarette butt and said: "This cigarette has no filter, you young people are used to smoking." ”

Chen Qiaoshan looked at it, sure enough, and then looked at the old man's dress, he didn't look like a rich man, of course, rich people naturally wouldn't come to see the toilet.

Zhang Ergui was just joking, he didn't want to stay longer at this moment, after a few words, his heart was like grass growing, a bad old man looking at the toilet, what was there to talk about, "Hey, college student, this person has also been found, then I'll leave first." ”

Chen Qiaoshan smiled: "It's done, thank you today." ”

Zhang Ergui rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "You people are just exquisite, thank me, we usually don't care about those." With that, he prepared to leave.

Chen Qiaoshan was busy: "Wait a minute, I still have something to do." ”

Zhang Ergui looked wary, he remembered King Chen Yan's jealousy of this young man, and asked suspiciously, "What are you going to do?"

Chen Qiaoshan said with a smile: "I came down to do research this time, and the subsidy given by the school is not much, I still have to stay in Xinhua for a few days, I am not familiar with the place, I want to find a guide, a hundred yuan a day, can you help introduce a reliable person?"

Zhang Ergui was pleasantly surprised, he only earned more than 1,000 a month when he went out to work this year, helping people lead the way, 100 yuan a day, where to find such a good thing, he hurriedly said: "I often run around in the countryside and the city, and I am very familiar, don't look for it, I have it." ”

Chen Qiaoshan said: "Then let's talk about it, see you in the lobby of Xinhua Hotel on Yingbin Road at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning." ”

Zhang Ergui nodded in agreement, wrote down the phone number again, and then turned around and left.

Chen Qiaoshan said to Yi Daixing: "Old man, I came this time to ask you about the situation back then. ”

Yi Daixing was a little surprised, but he didn't rush to say anything, he dragged out a small stool from the corner and handed it over, "Sit down and talk." With that, he walked back to the same chair.

Chen Qiaoshan was not polite, sat down on the stool, and told his intention as it was.

After listening to this, Yi Daixing was a little silent, and after a while, he asked, "What do you want to ask?"

Chen Qiaoshan was busy: "Old man, you still have a brother, right?"

Yi Daixing took a puff of cigarette, and then said: "Yes, it's called Yi Daiyu, and it's been gone for many years." ”

Chen Qiaoshan was dumbfounded, he didn't expect this to be such a situation, according to this view, it is very likely that Old Man Yi is really alone.

"Can you tell me what year you went out on a trip?"

"The beginning of the sixtieth year. Yi Daixing replied very simply, and after that, he fell into memory.

"My family used to have bad ingredients, and the life of the family was tight, and then after three years of natural disasters, I couldn't eat enough to eat, my brother and I, and a person surnamed Zhang, ran out together. ”

"My ancestors are cultural people, although our brothers have not been to the foreign school, but a seal carving craft is a small start to practice, my grandfather taught by hand, literacy and hyphenation is not a problem, but in that year, this can not be exchanged for food, can only sell the strength of the arms. ”

"I remember very well that we first went north and then west, rounded around half of China, and finally entered Sichuan and Shu. ”

Chen Qiaoshan asked: "Where did you learn the craft of repairing mechanical typewriters?"

Yi Daixing couldn't help laughing, "Is it in Sichuan and Shu, at that time, the two of us were repairing steel plates at the People's Bank of Fuling, and we happened to encounter their typewriter broken. ”

"I remember very clearly, the positioning of the machine is not accurate, and the people in the bank will not repair it, I want to find out the problem first, and then ask experts from other places to come and repair it, so I have been typing, hoping to see some problems. ”

"My brother and I just gathered around there to watch, the locator can be adjusted, the positioning bell is not accurate, when it hits the head, it won't ring the bell, there is no reminder, and then typing, won't it be repeated?"

"I understood it at a glance, but the bank people wouldn't, I told them, saying that our brothers would repair this machine, we would not only repair steel plates, but also repair typewriters, and the bank people would be suspicious, and I took the screwdriver and tinkered with it for a while, but in fact nothing moved, and only finally calibrated the positioning bell. ”

Speaking of this, Yi Daixing chuckled a few times, "You don't know, I was also sweating at the time, after all, it was a foreign thing, the first time I saw it, I was afraid that something would go wrong." ”

"Fortunately, it was really a problem with the positioning bell, after repairing the machine, the leader of the bank personally led us to the guest house, treated us well, and gave us 45 yuan, which is a subsidy for experts from other places. ”

"You don't know, it was 62 years, in a class of areas, the salary of a level 30 cadre is only 24 yuan a month, and it is the first time I have earned so much money. ”

"That's when my brother and I started fixing typewriters. ”

Chen Qiaoshan looked incredulous, "You don't have a master, and you haven't learned to repair, so you just repair typewriters for people?"

Yi Daixing smiled, "What's so difficult about this, help the bank repair it, there are machines around it that are broken, just invite us to go, we can't repair it and then invite experts, don't delay things." ”

"It didn't take long for us to rely on these bad typewriters to learn a whole set of mechanical typewriter maintenance techniques, and we no longer had to go out to repair steel plates for people, and we made more money. ”

"It's only been a year or two before and after, and both of us have found a daughter-in-law, and the next year, my brother has added a big fat boy. ”

After a moment of silence, Yi Daixing's whole person seemed to fall silent, and after a while, he said with a sigh: "Compared with seal carving, repairing a typewriter is too simple." ”

Chen Qiaoshan was a little puzzled, where did this start, these two brothers have a family history, and they have been learning seal carving since they were young, how difficult it can be?