The reader wants to know what I do on the brick machine? The work of squeezing bricks usually requires several fillers, two brick-lifters, three wet-drawn blanks, and two slabs.

Wang Fuhai saw that I was not small, so he arranged for me to wet the billet. I'll be honest with you, I'm a lazy bug. I am the youngest in the family, and the farm work in the field is done by the eldest brother and the second brother. My sister and I can't even hoe. And then there's the fact that I think I'm a writer.

Didn't I have a novel that was asked to go by the Ministry of Information in Jiangxi? The reason why they refused to return the manuscript to me for a long time just shows that they have taken a fancy to that novel. Maybe they're looking for a publisher. When the publisher published my book, I became a veritable writer. A writer, doing your kind of work, won't he lose his identity and lose his value?

That is, I spent that month unwillingly. Still, I only counted a few dollars when I was settling the accounts. Despite this, Li Youliang also said that he put a lot of money on me.

He told Wang Fuhai how much money he spent on buying oil, salt, sauce and vinegar for me and Zhang He, how much money he spent on briquettes, and how many noodles he used up, etc. When he said these words, even Zhang He shook his head when he listened to them.

However, I was a little homesick, and a few dollars was not enough for the fare, so I tried to find a way to go home. When I told Wang Fuhai about this idea, he came up with a good idea for me.

He asked me to write a letter to my family first, and then send it back with my forever address and name, and ask my family to help me send me some fares. He said that he could give Fu an explanation forever, which would be much more convenient.

I said, okay. "But where are I going to eat these days while I'm waiting for the letter?" I asked Wang Fuhai. "Go to my house. Wang Fuhai said.

So, I followed Wang Fuhai to his house for dinner in those days. Of course, sometimes I also help him with some farm work. I remember that at that time, it seemed that the weather had already been handed over, and those who had reserved spring land had already begun to sow seeds. As soon as the field is busy, there will be no one to do the brick machine.

Three old tiled houses, against the backdrop of neighbors' buildings, shy hide under two tall poplar trees. Attached to it are two more modest houses. The dilapidated courtyard does not even have a courtyard gate. This is my home.

At that time, the situation in my family also changed a little: my eldest brother was married and had two sons. Among them, my little nephew was fined 3,003 for family planning. As a result, the situation of the eldest brother's family is also very poor.

My sister married into a family in Daolin Village that was not wealthy. The second brother got married three times for various reasons, but it didn't work out, and the people in the village suspected that he had the terrible disease of a man, and he felt faceless, so he went to Hainan alone.

After the second brother left, my family's life became even more embarrassing, and my parents did not know how to farm scientifically, so the harvest of the dealer was always not as good as that of other families. In this way, our family was considered to be the poorest family in the village at that time.

Of course, there are also a few wealthy "top families" in the village, some because there are many girls and they are good at growing cotton, some because they know how to trade (such as carpenters), and some because their children have a way to work outside the home.

On the first day I ran away from home, my parents thought I had gone to a relative's or friend's house, and at first they didn't care. After another three or five days, there was still no sign of me, and my mother couldn't help but be worried.

She consulted with her father and eldest brother. The eldest brother said: "The third child used to like to run away from home, but he came back after going out for a day or two, and this time it was too long. As he spoke, Yoshi-su came to my house.

When the eldest brother saw him, he hurriedly grabbed him and asked, "You came just in time, I was just about to look for you, Jianming has been missing for several days, and I don't know where he went?"

"That's what I came to do," said Liangxiu, "and he came to me a few days ago, borrowed money from me, and said he was going to Jiangxi to read his novels." I didn't want him to go, so I didn't want to lend him money, but he talked about my army, and I couldn't help it, so I gave him the 35 yuan on my body. After he got the money, he probably left the next day. ”

"Then why didn't you come and tell us the next day?" the eldest brother asked. "I was going to come, but I was delayed. "How far are we from Nanchang here?" the eldest brother asked Liangxiu. "Who knows. It must be a thousand miles or two. Yoshisu said.

"In that case, if we are delayed on the road, plus tossing back and forth, we may not be able to come back so soon, so let's wait. The eldest brother looked at his mother and comforted. The mother thought that the eldest brother was reasonable, so she stopped dwelling on this matter. But after all, I still don't feel at ease, and I always nag in front of my father. Her father advised her not to worry and wait.

However, after another three or five days, I still didn't hear from me at all. Mother began to think crankily. She told her father, did our baby run out of money and had no face to beg for food and starved to death outside; or followed the bad guys to learn the bad ones, steal and rob and was arrested by the police; or was killed by the wrong enemy-

All kinds of possibilities, to name a few, my mother thought of them, and when she thought of them, her mother was worried and burst into tears. A few days later, I didn't think about tea and dinner, and I couldn't eat or drink. Despite his father's best of comfort, it was to no avail.

There was no way, her father told her: "You torture yourself like this, it's better for us to go to that place in Jiangxi to find our baby together." When my mother heard this, she was in good spirits, and she packed her bags that day and prepared to set off—

This novel is from Reading Rim