Seeing that they were all dressed in coarse cloth and didn't look like bad people, I let them take my bag and go to the car sent by Xiangfan to Zaoyang. As soon as I sat down, two stout-looking men sat down next to me, one on the left and one on the right.

"Dude, we just gave you a favor, let's get some hard money. "I thought you were a living Lei Feng, helping people do good deeds. "I'm telling the truth. When they first started helping me with my luggage, I really thought they were living Lei Feng.

"Don't bother with that, do you want to take it or not?" said one of them, a dark-looking man, to me fiercely. As soon as he finished speaking, two more people rushed up from under the car.

As soon as the two men got into the car, they came up to me and surrounded me in the middle with the other two men. As the saying goes, break the fortune and eliminate the disaster. I reached out and twisted it in my pocket, and when I felt that there were two pieces of ten, I took out one and stuffed it into one of them.

The four of them didn't argue too much, and got out of the car immediately after getting the money. Not long after the four of them got off the bus, a woman came up: she held the ticket holder in her hand and said to me, "Did you give money to those people just now?" I said. "How much was given?"

The woman asked me. "Ten pieces. I said. "You have money, you don't give it to them, they can't do anything about you. "However, with so many people surrounding me just now, I was really a little scared. ”

"What are you afraid of? The sky is blue and the sun is bright, you haven't robbed or robbed, what are you afraid of?" "But-" When I was about to defend myself, the conductor said "Nest." ”

At this time, I can't help but think of Yang Xinguo's second uncle, Rong Wazi's father. I think he may be an old man, and he can see with his discerning eyes that I am a timid man. Yes, I'm a timid person. Well, he was right not to let his daughter marry me. Who made me a scumbag man?

In this way, I came home with only five dollars left. When I got home, I described my situation in Zhongxiang to my parents, and they said that my luck in the past few years was at a low ebb. My mother also took me to a nearby village to see the goddess, and they said that I was not suitable to go out for the past two years, so I had to stay at home.

One day in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, a lion puppeteer in the village came to my father and told my father that the township had found him and asked him to find another group of people who were engaged in literature and art, and they would go to the county to welcome the PLA soldiers who had returned from the flood fight.

He came to us because he heard that my family had a dry boat. Said that he would go for 400 yuan a trip. My father said yes.

It turned out that as early as two years ago, my father, who likes literature and art, suddenly organized a general dry boat performance team on a whim. Every Spring Festival, we take the performance team to go door-to-door to ask for seals. My family's dry boat is also famous in the neighborhood, so that person thought of us.

As the saying goes, fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders. My eldest brother, sister, father, and two singers came to the county seat in a special car from the township. We went down to a junction on the left side of the Xinye bus station to beat gongs and drums to prepare for the PLA.

However, we knocked for a while, and the military vehicle had not yet come. After a while, I saw a small truck driving up, with a small red flag on the front of the car, and several people standing in the compartment without military uniforms.

As they walked, they directed the crowd on the side of the road and told them to lean closer to the side of the road.

At this point, our leader pushed through the crowd, put us at the front, and urged us to start beating the instrument with all our might. I know that the People's Liberation Army is coming, how can I calm down my excitement? A heart is almost jumping to my throat. So he picked up the drumstick and struck it fiercely.

After a while, several small black cars slowly drove by. We're knocking harder.

It didn't take long for us to see one after another military vehicles covered with green tarpaulins, with holes in the back, and inside were our loveliest people, the People's Liberation Army, who had returned from the flood relief.

At this point, we stopped beating under the command of the leader. There was an instant silence on both sides of the road.

At this time, the people who had already prepared threw cigarettes, apples, snacks and fruits into the military vehicles. The fighters said "thank you" in unison as they shook hands with the people on the side of the road. Because of the proximity, I was lucky enough to touch the hand of a warrior.

The fighter saw me with a drum hammer in his hand and smiled at me. What kind of hand was that! It was cold, not a little hot. "Maybe it's been soaked in water for a long time to become like this?" I thought.

Thinking of this, and recalling the touching stories broadcast on TV, I couldn't help but have a sour nose and moist eyes. I turned my head casually again, and saw my sister and two other women singing, and their eyes were also soaked with tears—

On the way back, I asked my sister, why are you crying? The elder sister said that when she saw the fighters were dark and thin, some of them were still childish, and they looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, she cried at the thought that their parents would be worried about their safety at home.

Then my sister asked me again why I was crying, and I said I had touched the cold hand of a warrior. When we went home, we couldn't share the money given to us by the township, so we went back to our homes.

During the autumn harvest, the residual heat did not subside, and I slept in the rice field at night. Insert the two handles of the cart into the wheat straw stack, put down a chair behind the cart, lay a straw mat below, change a thin sheet on the top, tie a thin bamboo pole to each of the four corners of the cart, and hang a small mosquito net. That's my bed.

In the dead of night, looking at the starry sky and listening to some chaotic sounds coming from the wilderness and villages, my mind will also be cranky. Sometimes I think of literature, sometimes I think of women, sometimes I think of the future.

Yes, what will happen to me at the age of twenty-five?

No matter whether you are troubled, uneven, or upset, you have to live that day by day. After the autumn harvest is completed, the winter wheat is planted, and it is time for the farm to be slack. I had nothing to do, and suddenly remembered the advertising paper I took from Yang Xinguo to Zhongshan Town this spring.

I picked it out. Then I called the phone number on the advertisement.

It was a childish voice that answered the phone. I told him that I was from Henan, and I saw the advertisement he posted in Zhongshan Town, and I really wanted to be his agent.

He was on the phone and asked me to go to his place. I asked my father for money and said that I wanted to go to Zhongxiang, but my father wouldn't give me the money. So I went to my mother, and she gave me a hundred dollars.

I didn't leave when I got the 100 yuan given by my mother, and I planned to sell our local products or products produced by local enterprises to Zhongxiang.

Thinking about it, I thought of several things: First, Longtan rice wine. The Longtan rice wine is brewed in the name of Diqing Lake, and it is also a famous specialty of our place. Second, plastic granaries. The plastic granary factory is in our Lihepu Township, not far from the school where I used to go to high school.

Since I'm close to Longtan, I'm going to go to the granary factory first. I dressed up that day and put on a pair of leather shoes. But my broken bike was a shame.

How can you ride it like a dealer? After thinking about it, I finally figured out how to do it.

I still ride that broken bike to the plastic granary factory, but I leave it on the street and walk there on my own, saying I'm coming by car.

I was greeted by a boy about my age. After the guests sat down, I said that I wanted to help them go to a friend in Hubei to sell the granary. He said that if I wanted to sell it, I would have to pay a deposit of 1,000 yuan, and then he could give me a few granaries, and I would take them to my friends and see if I could sell them there.

The reader knows that I was a poor ghost, and I could not be my father's family at that time, and when I heard the word "money", I was discouraged. But I was afraid that the factory director would know that I was a poor ghost, so I gossiped with him. For example, what to use dry boats to help them publicize, find singers to help them publicize, and so on.

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