It's over, the festival has passed, although the flavor of the year has not dissipated, but it has begun to get busy.

On the morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, forty carriages were assembled, although the spring (Lichun) had been played in the solar terms, and everyone had finished eating the radish, but as the old saying goes, "don't be happy in the spring, there is still a month of cold weather".

Especially in the morning and evening, it is similar to counting nine cold days. The car owners were all dressed in similar attire: dogskin hats on their heads, sheepskin on their bodies, and Ula shoes on their feet, and they sat on the left side of the wheel, all of them in good spirits.

On top of each car, there was a stick of young men, a total of more than 80 people. In the first car, there were fat men and Lin Qingshan, as well as pigtails Qiqi and Yaya, Yaya wanted to go back to Beijing, and the pigtails sent her.

According to the agreement made a year ago, I first went to the brick factory in the county to pull bricks. The brick factory itself does not have a delivery vehicle, and it can't afford to deliver so many bricks a year, so it is all trying to pull it by itself. Units can be liberated with large emancipation, generally mostly with walk-behind tractors and four-wheeled. There are no backers for either of these things, so they simply use a big carriage to go into battle.

Forty large carriages, discharged two or three hundred meters, mighty and mighty, left the backing mountain. The fat man sat on top of a sack, his body was upside down, and he chatted with Lin Qingshan with a match.

The sack is filled with forage, and it takes a full day to go back and forth from the backing mountain to the county seat, so the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first.

The sound of horses' hooves clattering, and on the big trees by the roadside, flower magpies chirped and pouted their tails, and then flew down from the trees to the ground.

It is said that the magpie is an auspicious bird, so there are few disasters, and they are generally not afraid of people. Qiqi looked at the black and white magpie with its tail cocked, as if it was unsteady on its feet, and couldn't help but laugh, and muttered in his mouth: "Flower magpie, long tail, married a daughter-in-law and forgot her mother"

At this time, a few big birds flew in the distance, all black, with one mouth, hoarse voice, and extremely ugly, it was a group of black elders.

The big whip of the car boss exploded in the air. Frightened, the black crows flew away. All that was left was an unpleasant croaking sound.

Although the size is about the same size as a magpie. But. Crows and magpies are treated very differently. Magpies are loved by everyone. The raven is a broom star. Anyone who meets it feels frustrated.

But there are exceptions. The fat man hey hey twice. Then he said to the boss of the car: "Uncle boss." This crow is also a good bird. Can't judge a book by its cover. Crows have the virtue of feeding. It's better than marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting to spend a magpie on the ground. ”

The car boss is happy: "I just heard it scream badly." I'm afraid that we won't go out well. ”

The two little girls pointed at the boss and grandfather with their little fingers together: "Superstition!"

Kiki even got up from the car. Waving his little arms. A few crisp shouts in his mouth. The crow, which had already flown away, spun around again. One of them is still slowly landing. And then it fell into the hands of Kiki. Rolling his eyes to look at Kiki.

The fat man knows that among birds, the intelligence of crows can definitely rank among the top few, and one look at this guy's eyes knows that it is said that some crows will also use simple tools, such as straw sticks or something.

This crow's feathers are black and shiny, and if you look closely, it looks very beautiful, it belongs to the black and beautiful, and it is in Qiqi's hand, and it seems that he doesn't want to leave.

"Qiqi, you don't want to raise crows, do you?" Captain Li was also a little worried, the common people were a little superstitious, if the crows fell to anyone's house, they would feel frustrated, and they would definitely not be welcome.

"Fly" Qiqi raised his arm, and the crow fluttered its wings and flew up. It reluctantly circled a few times before flying to its companion in the distance.

"Yes, Kiki is so well-behaved and beautiful, and if you want to raise a parrot, you have to raise a parrot and talk. Captain Li immediately began to praise Qiqi for his selfless approach.

Qiqi blinked: "Yes, Xiaobai is too heavy and too big, it's just right to raise a parrot." ”

"Haha, Daddy Ye has it at home, I'll call him and ask him to bring it to you. "Yaya calls Ye Haibo also called Dad, but in order to distinguish it from Lin Qingshan, she called him Dad Ye.

The two little girls immediately put their heads together and began to discuss. The fat man scratched his head: I'm afraid that the team at home will grow again, but it seems that it is not bad to raise a few birds.

In the backing mountain, there are also many half-sized children who raise birds. Every year after the snow falls, there will be yellow birds with yellow feathers flying over, and Su birds, whose belly and brain melon tops are red, are very beautiful.

Birds have special cages, woven with sorghum stalks and bamboo strips, like a small house, with two small bottle caps inside, one for water and one for millet.

When catching birds, a special rolling cage is used, and an old bird, commonly known as "old oil", is used to tempt the birds outside.

The cage is more elaborately organized, with an activity mechanism on both sides, and you can roll down when you step on it, and put the greedy bird in the cage.

After the snow, you can see the half-sized children carrying cages and racking birds, going to the tree, hanging the rolling cage high on the tree, and at the end of the day, there is always a harvest.

These birds are not very temperamental, and they can be fed with some food and drink. Some of them don't, such as the old thief (sparrow), if you put it in a cage, you won't eat or drink, and you will die of anger in a few days.

Hearing that Qiqi wanted to raise birds, Captain Li immediately patted his chest and promised that he would definitely give Qiqi the best bird cage.

Qiqi shook his little brain: "Captain Grandpa, it seems that you don't need a cage." ”

"Yes, who are we Qiqi, how can we be with those stinky little ones. Captain Li laughed and laughed all the way.

The carriage galloped all the way, passing by some villages and towns, and some people would come out to see the excitement, and they all said noisily: "There are so many carriages to send relatives!" and then began to look for the bride and groom, and they dared to think that it was a convoy to send relatives, but to their disappointment, there was no red turban on the car they were looking for.

The fat man sat in the car, and the big pigtails were so embarrassed that his face burned, and she was a big girl in the car, so most of everyone's eyes stayed on her.

"Fatty, when you get married, we'll marry you in forty wagons. Captain Lee also joked.

"Forty is enough, you must find eighty. The car boss flicked the whip, and the crisp sound looked like the material for the first car.

The pigtail finally couldn't sit still, and pulled Qiqi and Yaya to shift their positions and go to the car behind.

After walking for more than five hours, I saw the county seat. The brick factory is located in the northeast corner of the county, at the edge of the city, so except for the car owner who drove the carriage to send the pigtails to the three people, the other carriages turned around at the east gate of the county and turned to the brick factory.

Lin Qingshan picked up the girl and pressed her little face, her eyes were full of love: "If you want to be a father, write a letter." ”

Yaya nodded, tears welling up in her little eyes: "Dad, I'll come during the summer vacation." After speaking, he hugged Lin Qingshan's face, kissed him fiercely, struggled to the ground, and left in the car.

Lin Qingshan watched the carriage go away, and muttered in his mouth: "Yaya, you won't blame your father for being ruthless."

When I saw the brick factory from afar, the first thing I saw was the big brick kiln, good guy, hundreds of meters long, standing majestically. There is a large sand pit in the distance, and the deepest part is several feet.

In this season, the bricks are afraid of freezing, so they cannot be produced, and the New Year has just passed, so the brick factory does not have a few vehicles to pull bricks, which seems relatively deserted.

The carriage stopped first, and the bosses pulled down the straw bags and fed the horses. Lin Qingshan led the fat man and Captain Li and went straight to the office.

The office is a red brick house, which is estimated to have been newly built last year. It is surrounded by brick walls, neat and beautiful.

Brick factory, the last thing that is lacking is this thing.

Inside, the ground is also paved with red bricks, Lin Qingshan has been here, familiar with the road, and went directly to the factory director's office.

Pushing open the door, I saw a middle-aged man with a square face, standing up from his desk, and a newspaper was placed on the table. As soon as he looked at Lin Qingshan, he hurriedly said hello: "Here, hehe." Obviously, Lin Qingshan made a deep impression on him, originally, if there was a man with a long head in these years, there would be no few people in the whole country.

As soon as the fat man saw the big face of the factory director, he nodded secretly: At first glance, it was from the brick factory.

Lin Qingshan shook hands with the factory director, and then introduced to everyone: "This is Director Hu." ”

Captain Li and the fat man stepped forward to shake hands with Director Hu, and Director Hu saw that Captain Li had not reacted yet, and when he saw the fat man, he also thought in his heart: This backer is quite talented, with a long head and a big fat man, one is more strange than the other.

So he coughed and said to Lin Qingshan: "It's really unfortunate, I just received a notice from the Construction Committee, telling us that several major projects will be built in the county this year, and a large number of red bricks are needed, so your projects in Shantun will be in the back row." There is no way, we have to take care of the state-run units first. ”

Captain Li was anxious when he heard this: "We have forty big carriages outside, just waiting to pull bricks, why don't you talk and count!"

Director Hu looked embarrassed: "This is also a national need, and our grassroots units can only implement it as required." ”

The fat man scratched the back of his head, and then happily said to Captain Li and Lin Qingshan, "You guys go out first, and I'll talk to Director Hu alone." ”

Captain Li glanced at the fat man, and said: Fat man, calm down, don't stretch out your hand.

Lin Qingshan shook his head, his eyes blazing: "Director Hu, this matter really has nothing to do with the brick factory, but I already have the approval of the Construction Committee, and it also has your signature on it, I am ready to go directly to the provincial capital to petition, or to the central government, you can take a look at this." ”

After speaking, he took out a piece of paper from his coat pocket, folded it in a boxy shape, unfolded it, and handed it over. Director Hu took it and took a look, only to see that the big red characters of "General Office of the State Council" were particularly dazzling, and when he looked at it again, it turned out that Lin Qingshan was invited to go there to work for an order.

Director Hu's head was a little dizzy: Didn't you say that this person was from the mountain, why did he run to the State Council all of a sudden, and there was a difference of several levels in the middle?

The fat man smiled secretly in his heart: What a big brother Lin, it turns out that he will also pull the tiger skin to pull the banner, but didn't he refuse to work there?

"Then I'll give you another call. "Until now, Director Hu didn't dare to make the decision, so he could only ask his superiors for instructions.

The fat man was more knowledgeable, and he knew that there might be something greasy in this, so he led Captain Li and Lin Qingshan out first, which was also convenient for others to speak.

When he got to the corridor, the fat man asked in a low voice, "Brother Lin, what's the matter with your order, didn't you go back?"

Lin Qingshan smiled, and his face even showed a little cunning: "Hehe, of course you have to keep a hand, in case your kid is not interesting enough to me, I will leave immediately and throw another high branch." ”

The fat man said twice: "It's strange that you can go, unless you carry Daqingshan away." ”

At this time, the door of the factory director's room opened, and Director Hu poked his head out from inside: "Several, please come in." ”