Early the next morning, Wu Xiaojun and Qin Meixiang got up lazily, came to the opposite square to eat a bowl of chaos, bought some fruit, and reluctantly parted. Suddenly, Qin Meixiang shouted behind her, "Xiaojun, don't leave yet, forget something." ”

Wu Xiaojun stopped and hurriedly turned around, "What's the matter?" ”

Qin Meixiang said, "It's not convenient to go to your house if you have something, so let's do it, if you have anything to do with me, just call home, and you can write down the phone number in the book and forget it." ”

Wu Xiaojun took out his notebook and opened the last page and handed it to Qin Meixiang, "It's better for you to write, but what if I call and you're not at home or your parents answer and hear that it's me?" ”

Qin Meixiang smiled mysteriously, "I usually stay home before nine o'clock in the morning and after six o'clock in the evening, so it's best to call at this time." If my parents answer the phone, you don't speak, just hang up, three times in a row, I know, you wait for me at the south gate of the department store, more than half an hour don't see, don't wait, remember! ”

Wu Xiaojun joked, "The instructions you gave are more spiritual than the holy decree, and you will never be mistaken." How do I feel like an underground worker, a sneaky joint, when will I be able to be liberated, swaggering in and out of your small courtyard openly, and also being a real person again. ”

Qin Meixiang smiled and said, "The road is long, the water is long, the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard, it is still necessary to do it when it is time to be a ghost, look ahead." ”

It was already past nine o'clock when Wu Xiaojun returned home from the county seat. As soon as the mother met, she asked eagerly, "Chen Yijian, Ji Fanxing, they have already come back, saying that you went to Ning County, and I don't know if it's true or false, I'm about to worry about me and your father to death." ”

Wu Xiaojun said, "I went to Xinning County to conduct a survey of students rescued by the Hope Project, and I rushed back as soon as it was over." Where's my dad? ”

"Now there is nothing to do in the field, he went to the east to catch the dog and play mahjong after eating, every day."

"How is my father's health now, he didn't commit stomach problems."

"The first spring is not bad, and now it has recovered, otherwise how can a piece of wheat be recovered."

"Did you and my father harvest all the wheat, did anyone help me?"

"Who is willing to help, your father spent a few small amounts of money on the two families in the family to see a doctor, often talking nonsense, one by one uncomfortable, watching the two old lives toss day and night, none of them came out to help, they all chatted and joked under the big tree. The most hateful thing is that your father had just raised a wheat crop that day, and before he could put them together, suddenly it rained heavily, and your father and I didn't finish cleaning it up with great effort. Qiao Na passed by, didn't even look at it, like no one else, watching Huang Tengteng's wheat in hand being washed away by the heavy rain for two or three hundred catties, and she felt distressed when she thought about it. ”

Wu Xiaojun listened to his mother's story, his mood was quite heavy, and at this moment, a little calf jumped over from outside the door and asked, "Mother, whose calf is this?" ”

"Our family, born in early February, grows very fast, they are all so big, you haven't seen them yet."

Wu Xiaojun felt that his home was no longer lifeless, a little vigorous and energetic, and there were great changes and improvements compared to the Spring Festival. There was nothing to do at home, and Wu Xiaojun didn't go anywhere, so he took advantage of this free time to sleep beautifully for a few days to eliminate the fatigue of running around for many days.

On this morning, Wu Xiaojun came to the second sister's house, and inadvertently found that he had lost several novels for the past two years on the table in the hall, and was very surprised, how could they appear here. Picked up "Romance of the Moon and Tang Dynasty" and "Wagang Heroes" and flipped it over, except for some broken places, his name on the seal engraved with plastic is still clear.

Wu Xiaojun asked the second sister Xiaomei in confusion, "Sister, how did this book get here, you know, in the spring of the previous year, my whole leather bag of books was stolen at night in the Xitou house." ”

Wu Xiaomei said angrily, "These books were brought back from Hangzhou by your brother before harvesting the wheat, and there are four or five copies at your uncle's house. You're not at home, and I haven't made any announcements, so I'll put it away and wait for you to come back. After listening to the second sister, the events of two years ago immediately came to mind.

When Wu Xiaojun began to study in junior high school in the county, his first contact with storytelling and novels was at half past twelve at noon every day, and a few students who did not go home squatted under the electric poles on both sides of the county street to listen to the small radio, and the first novel he listened to was "The Legend of Nurhachi", followed by Zhang Quanheng's long stand-up comedy "Officialdom Fight", which felt particularly interesting and attractive, and gradually became fascinated, out of control, until he insisted on listening to it.

During the summer vacation, the third brother Wu Xiaosen brought back a Yellow River brand radio from Pingxi, Wu Xiaojun was like a treasure, and every night with his father Wu Pingshun listened to Shan Tianfang's "Yanwang Sweeping the North", Liu Lanfang's "Yue Fei's Biography", etc., and the army was so girly that he had to smash the radio. Later, Wu Xiaojun felt that listening to half an hour was too slow and not enjoyable, so he went to Xinhua Bookstore to find a book, and saw a thick copy of "Bao Gong's Case", and wanted to buy it back, but there was no money on hand, so he saved the run from the pocket money given by his father and mother, and finally got his wish, bought the first extracurricular book, and read it without sleep for three days and three nights in excitement.

Since then, Wu Xiaojun not only often went to the bookstore to buy novels and commentaries, but also memorized books alone in his spare time, including more than 200 pages of "The Biography of Yue Fei", Tian Lianyuan's 100,000-word "The Romance of Sun Bin", and "The Great Trouble in the Mansion of the Times", "The Case of Peng Gong" and "The Romance of the Five Dynasties and Ten Popular Romances", etc., which can be memorized before and after 4.5 million words, reaching the fanatical Cheng dù.

When I was in high school, due to the pressure of studying and the time was too tight, the enthusiasm for the obsession with storytelling slowly decreased, and it became only a collection and had no time to read, accumulating more than 40 books. Fearing that the villagers would see that they would lose it, break it, or not return it, they added a cover to the cover of each book with a cloth, and then put it in a large black leather bag, pulled the zipper, and hung it on the wall of the food house.

On a Saturday afternoon in the first three months of last year, Wu Xiaojun came home from the county high school and accidentally found that the leather bag was missing, and his mother said that no one took it. Wu Pingshun didn't know what was going on when he came back, he thought about it and said, "It must have been stolen by someone, the morning before yesterday I was going to put the 1,200 yuan from selling cattle in a leather bag containing books, but I felt unsure and unsafe, so I just opened it and hung it on the wall again." ”

Xiao Junniang interjected, "I also scrambled eggs yesterday morning, I should have come to steal them last night, I don't think it will be a distant person, maybe the person who stole things knows that you played mahjong at someone else's house overnight, and you came to steal it when you were not at home." ”

Wu Pingshun said, "That's right, someone must have been worried about the money from our family's cattle sales, thinking that the money was in the bag and took the bag." ”

Wu Xiaojun said, "Maybe that's the case, don't make a noise about it, we just need to know it ourselves, and most people don't throw away or destroy books like novels." The book has my name on it, and sooner or later it will come out, and then you will know who did it. ”

Except for his own people, no one outside or neighbors knew that this had happened. Unexpectedly, it really came true, and in less than two years, it surfaced, and it was finally possible to find out who stole it. Thinking of this, Wu Xiaojun said, "I didn't make a noise at that time, but I didn't expect it to come out of Sanwa." It's all before and after the village, don't you know Sanwa's family, let's go to Zhangzhuang to find Sanwa in a while. ”