Not long after he entered the room, a white-looking and chubby young man about his age came out with a bowl of rice, and as he went, he said, "You married people have no sympathy. I don't care about my fellow countrymen. Don't look at me as Sichuan, I'll take care of it. ”

With that, he and the driver led me into the room.

After I finished eating here with a young man from Sichuan, the young man took me into my fellow countryman's room and said to his face: "Lao Wang, you don't care about your fellow countryman, I take care of it, do you see that I have found a hair on my body?" How much can a meal be worth? ”

When my fellow heard him say this, he was so ashamed that he hurried out of the house. Later, I heard the Sichuan guy say that my fellow countryman is from our Henan Zhumadian. After I finished eating, I said thank you to the Sichuan guy and wanted to go back to Kashgar.

The guy who drove the car didn't forget to give me a section. I walked back to Kashgar. When I arrived in Kashgar, I thought, "The place where I picked up paper skins yesterday was obviously occupied by that old Uyghur man, and if I want to make a living by picking up waste, I have to find another way." ”

With that in mind, I wandered around Kashgar again, and of course I didn't forget to take the two poplar branches and snakeskin bags with me.

In this way, I carried two large snakeskin bags in my left armpit, and carried the poplar branch on my right shoulder around every street in Kashgar. Turning around, I came to a street.

It was a street that was not too wide, with goods on the left and right. Among them are socks, clothes, shoes, etc. I walked in.

However, there is also no paper on this street. So I walked out of the street and onwards. On the left side of a large road, another street, on the left and right sides of which were full of apples, oranges, and so on, I went in again.

In front of some stalls, I saw hard cardboard boxes. I wanted to pick up the cardboard box, but I was afraid that the owner would not want to, so I looked at the people with my eyes while holding the cardboard box with my hands.

Thankfully, none of them said anything against it, so I tore open the box and folded it. However, I didn't want to sell them at the time, and when I saw that it was getting dark, I planned to find a place to hide them, and then I would sell them tomorrow when I had saved more.

I finally found a very remote corner and surrounded the paper with stones and bricks.

After these things are done, I plan to go back to the original restaurant for dinner. The old lady happened to be there again, and as yesterday, I just wanted a small bowl of noodles, and then she brought me some of the leftover fried buns.

As a result, I have three dollars left. After eating, I plan to go to the brick kiln factory where I went in the morning and get a good night's sleep.

So, I carried a snakeskin bag and poplar branches to the brick kiln factory again. I was going to go to the Sichuan guy who was in charge of my meal at noon, but after thinking about it, I forgot it.

I walked around the brick kiln factory a few times, looking for a place to sleep as I went. At first, I was going to sleep next to the bricks. However, most of the notes were wet, and I didn't cover anything, so it would be cold at night.

So I gave up on the plan. I thought about the top of the kiln again, so I climbed up. The roof of the kiln was constantly steaming, but it was quite warm, but as soon as I went up, I was driven down by the people who were working on the top of the kiln. So I thought about the inside of the kiln and went inside.

Whether it is the place where the kiln is installed or the place where the kiln is released, there are many people who are busy there, and the soot inside is smoky. I'm a person who likes fresh air, and I can't sleep with so many people even without soot, so I gave up.

So I went around the brick kiln again. I thought as I turned. Spinning around, I suddenly had an idea. Do you know where I want to sleep?

"If I spread a piece of paper there, next to the kiln door at one end and outside the kiln door at the other end, and think that there is the heat coming from the kiln door to help me keep warm, maybe it won't be so cold in the second half of the night?" ”

Thinking of this, I searched around the brick kiln factory, and finally found a dry weed note, and then put it at the door of a kiln where the mud had been dried by the kang, and lay down with my clothes closed.

I first started to sleep with my head turned in, but I felt stuffy again. Then I turned my head again, with my head facing outwards and my feet on the side of the kiln door. I fell asleep after sleeping like this for a while. However, in the middle of the night I woke up from the cold.

There was heat from the door, but it only warmed my feet and legs. As for my thighs, abdomen, chest and head, I still feel cold from the cold wind outside.

"What can I do?" I think back to the scene in that small room at Wuchang Station when I was eighteen years old. "I can lean against one of the walls on either side of the kiln door and cross my legs and take a nap." I think.

I didn't expect such an arrangement to be not so cold. Although there is a cold wind blowing in from time to time outside the kiln door, the kiln door exudes heat from time to time. When the cold air and hot air are mixed, the temperature is just neither cold nor hot, just like a natural air conditioner.

I finally got a good night's sleep in that kiln factory. The next day, before dawn, I went to the wholesale fruit market again. When I got there, I couldn't help but be overjoyed. Because there were empty cardboard boxes thrown in front of those stalls.

The people who sell the fruit are also setting up fruit stalls early in the morning. So I walked to the stalls with a servile face, and as I did yesterday, I looked at the people and held the cardboard boxes.

If someone says that they won't let me take it, I'll put the carton down, and if the guy doesn't speak, I'll tear the carton open and fold it up.

Thankfully, I picked up one or two pounds of paper in one morning. So I took out the paperskins from yesterday, put them together in a snakeskin bag, and carried them with poplar branches to the scrapyard.

The acquisition station is still that beautiful woman. But there were a few more lads my age around her. The woman weighed my paper on a scale and introduced me to the boys.

Then she said, "Look at him, who is about your age, what sin has he suffered?" And a few of you don't want to do a good job, you are really born in happiness and do not know blessings. When the young men heard this, they pouted unconvinced.

One of them, a white-looking and handsome young man, seemed to sympathize with me, and came to me and asked, "Why don't you find a job to do this, young and strong?" "Where do you find work?" I don't have any acquaintances here. ”

"That's just as well." The young man said, "But don't you feel tired of picking paper with this poplar branch?" "I'm tired. But is there anything that can be done? I said.

The young man stood there and thought for a moment, and then said, "I don't know if you want to do this?" I have an old bicycle at home, and it's useless for me to put it there, so I'll sell it to you for 15 yuan, and you can ride the bicycle to pick up paper skins in the future, which will save a lot of effort. ”

"But I don't have that much money right now." "It's okay, you can take credit first and use your paper to offset the bill." "You're—" I looked at him, and then at the woman.

"He's my son, and these are my nephews." The woman said. I nodded. That day, I sold my paper for ten yuan, and I took out five yuan to pay for someone's bicycle first. The young man then left the scrapyard. In a few moments, he had already pushed a bicycle over.

I saw the bicycle, so I threw the poplar branch far away. So I found a few more ropes at the scrapyard, tied up two snakeskin bags, put them on the back seat of my bicycle, and rode the bicycle to the fruit market.

However, there were very few fruit markets in the middle of the night, and I waited until noon and evening, and I only picked up about one or two kilograms. At the time, I thought, "Maybe there's only paper here in the morning."

Then I don't have to work for a long time, just come and pick up the paper here in the morning. ”

Thinking of this, I went to the original restaurant to eat again. Of course, the old lady still gave me leftover pancakes to eat.

This novel comes from reading books