Fushun's desire to go to the outside world to see is getting stronger and stronger.

Because he had a strange dream on this not-so-warm plank bed. In the dream, it was a particularly prosperous place, not only with cars that were difficult to see in the stone bridge, but also with six or seven stories of high houses, and in the dream I vaguely saw my brother pulling the rich family through the bustling crowd, and disappeared again for a while, he searched and searched, and saw them get on a big boat, and called them vigorously, and the two relatives were as if they had not heard.

He woke up, lit the kerosene lamp, took out the money locked in the small box and counted it. He always felt that it must be the manifestation of the wish-making Huangguoshu, suggesting that he was going to a place bigger than the stone bridge to find his brother and them, right?

Early the next morning, he pulled Shufen to the thatched hut, "Shufen, you said Chengdu must be big, right?" ”

"Uh...... It's huge! Shufen, who hadn't woken up yet, finally took a lazy nap in the first month, and replied rubbing her worried eyes.

"How old? How many stone bridges are there? How tall is the building there? Fu Shun stared at this "knowledgeable" sister with wide eyes.

Shufen laughed out loud, "Hundreds, all the brigades in Shiqiao plus all the brigades in Chahe have a total of Chengdu Da!" Shufen didn't know how big it was, so she replied, it should be similar to this description, she thought, "The building is also very high, it must be as high as Mao'er Mountain and Yantai Mountain!" ”

"There are not many places as big as Chengdu in China, except for BJ?" Fushun has developed a particularly strong interest in geography today.

Shufen was a little impatient, "It's a lot, brother, what are you going to do?" SH, GZ, and TJ are all very big, bigger than Chengdu, and Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Xiamen are all being developed as mentioned in the newspaper! You wait for ......" Shufen simply went back to the house and found a copy of the "China Geography" textbook and the newspaper that Uncle Seven had brought them from the city, and threw it to this "diligent and inquisitive" brother. "I really don't understand, yesterday I still liked physics and geometry, and today I made up geography, hey, if he goes to study, he should be a nerd!" Shufen muttered to herself and walked away.

Fu Shun flipped through these materials in the magic land, and was deeply attracted by a "map of China", oh my God, it turned out that China was so big, and the small stone bridge could not be found on the map, and he had a lot of effort to find the name of the county seat, and the Tianjin and Guangzhou that his sister said were so far away from the stone bridge. This clever young man actually used a wooden ruler and the scale on the map to calculate the distance between the county seat and the outside world, what a vast world it was, he rubbed this colorful map, as if across thousands of mountains and rivers, galloping in the vast land of China.

But which city will my brother be in? Where would the ship in the dream be? It must not have been the small boats in the Shiqiao River and the Cha River, because he didn't see anyone paddling in the big boat in his dream, it must be a place where there is a big river or the sea. Fushun read his sister's textbook carefully, there are too many places in China with big rivers and seas, where should he go?

Fu Shun had this secret dream, and no one dared to tell it, not even his favorite second sister, because only she knew that he still had four hundred yuan in his small box.

The Lantern Festival in Shiqiao is not particularly different, with the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, everyone lit firecrackers to send away the god of the stove, and also ushered in the spring busy.

In the real sense, the "package production to households" was officially implemented, the hats of the rich peasants and the poor middle peasants were all removed, and the land and mountains and forests were all redistributed according to the population, and the fields of the four Yang Lao families were less than half of the before, but they still occupied the most fertile areas of the village group, but there were more mountains and forests.

The old wizard exclaimed, "The sky has changed", but Yang Laosi unexpectedly received a late "Spring Festival condolences" from the township government, and at the same time issued him a "certificate of honor", what else to apply for a disability certificate, this "old accountant" who had been lame for ten years finally waited for this day, he took a heavy certificate, stroked the right leg sawn off from the knee, and breathed a long sigh of relief, a "radical adventurism" hat he wore for ten years!

Fu Shun, the main laborer, should have been very excited about the reduction of land, but he didn't dare to affect the feelings of the whole family, not to mention that there were more and more secrets in his heart, and now at present, what he has to do is to repeat last year's farm work with the old cattle!

Shufen is still a small braid and flower clothes, even if she patches it, she can sew chic jasmine flowers by herself! The old ox also received special preferential treatment because of this little hostess, and it was hardly taken out to graze again, and she always went to pick the tenderest grass and cut it for it. This old scalper of the production team was sold to Yang Laosi when he was dying, and Yang Laosi saved its life, how could it not compensate for it?

Fu Shun wanted to tell his lovely second sister some other secrets in his heart several times, but he was afraid that his plan would fail - on that map of China, he used a pencil to outline the route of "escaping" from the stone bridge, and he even swallowed it several times to the old scalper, in case this spiritual guy sued others!

After a hard day's work, Fushun came home, ate two red sticks and went back to the house. He quietly tore off the small map of China, and he pondered again, he can't go in this still cold season, or there is no place to spend the night, like I can't stand it that night in the muddy ditch, it's easy to do in the summer, I don't need to bring any clothes, but I don't know how long it will take to go out to find the eldest brother, what if the money is not enough? Whatever, let's go out first.

Fushun is a little reluctant, Shufen is getting bigger and bigger, she is definitely the most beautiful girl in the whole Yangjiawan and even the whole Shiqiao, it is estimated that many people want to marry her? This girl will sing mountain songs again, maybe a young man from a family will sing right with her? Why don't I take her with me, so many city people came to our country a few years ago, and now it's time for us to go to the city, they can learn our work, and we can learn their work! What's more, the people in the city will not all be scholars, they will also make furniture and repair houses, maybe I will take Shufen there, and I can still provide her with education when I earn money?

"Slap ......" Fu Shun slapped himself, "I can't find my brother and the rich family anymore?" "Hey, Shufen's matter will be put aside for a while, and I'll talk about it when I find my eldest brother.

Besides, how could Shufen go with me?

Fu Shun also felt that Shufen didn't like him, because this beautiful sister had to go to the scene every time she was in the market, and she was smiling every time she took the newspaper. But when I came back from the scene yesterday, I hid in the house alone in a sullen mood. When Fu Shun returned the geography book in the past, Shufen was crying whining, and Fu Shun, who was at a loss, put the book there and came out, and Shufen didn't speak to this day.

Fushun knew why, the bespectacled teacher Tian was about to marry another elementary school teacher with glasses, and Mr. Tian asked someone to bring a message and invite Accountant Yang to have a drink!

"Hey, forget it, Shufen probably prefers intellectuals with glasses!" Fu Shun looked at the mud on his feet and ran to wash his feet by the water tank.

The early summer in Ishibashi is particularly hot. A small ear of rice sprouted from the field, and he didn't dare to show his body; The mulberry trees in Tiankan drooped their mulberry branches under the scorching sun, and the mulberry leaves rolled into cigarette rolls; The frogs jumped on the ridge and then hid in the rice paddies, and they could not find a cool place. At night, there was no room for anyone to stay in the house, and no one was selling electric fans in the stone bridge, which had just been electrified.

The Fushun family spread out a few large dustpans in the stone dam under the eaves, turned on the street lamps on the pillars very luxuriously, and each of them fanned the wind with Yang Zegui's bamboo basket fan, and also played mosquitoes - there are not many mosquitoes in summer.

Shufei pestered her sister to count the stars in the sky and tell the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Yang Shuzi fanned the fan and smoked the leaf cigarette, wanting to talk to Fu Shun-

"Fushun, you probably recognize a lot of words now?"

Fu Shun was also counting the stars with Shufei, and his eyes were all flowered. "I can't recognize everything, there are a lot of words I don't recognize when I read the newspaper."

"The second sister has a dictionary there, in fact, it's very simple, when we recognize words, we memorize a thousand words and read the three-character scripture. This dictionary, it has pinyin, you can pronounce the words in pinyin, and you will remember it when you read it. I also learned pinyin later, and it was not difficult. Yang Zegui hopes that his son can know more Braille, after all, his seventh uncle is still a cadre in the county, in case there is a useful place!

"Oh, I know, Shufen has taught me lately!"

"Shufen, all your books are for Fushun to see, and the books you asked someone to buy back from Chahe, my father didn't let you go to school, you still have to study by yourself if you have the chance." The father interrupted Shufen's story, sighed and continued—

"Fushun, I see what physics and geometry you are reading, those books are all at the junior high school level, can you understand it?" The father asked Fushun and also looked at Shufen.

"Oh, I can understand some, there are a lot of things I don't understand!" Fushun replied truthfully. Although he didn't understand, he was glad to have this rich spiritual food!

"Don't look at me, you know that I'm biased, liberal arts are okay, and science is directly ignorant!" Shufen also answered her father truthfully.

Yang Zegui is so pleased, these children are so fond of learning, if it weren't for this stump leg, the children would definitely be better than his seventh uncle. "Also, Shufen has recently brought back some newspapers, so let's read them when I'm done! Shufei, go, get a copy and read it to me! ”

Shufei pouted and took the newspaper, "I can't see the lamp, don't blame me for reading it wrong!" Shufei muttered as she walked.

Fushun didn't bother to listen to the newspaper at this time, looked at the vast starry sky, thought about the beautiful story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and wondered if his father and two mothers had also turned into a shining one in the sky? I hope so, just look at them like this, look at them quietly wherever you go!

Summer is coming so soon—Fu Shun looked at the low houses with some wistfulness, and the looming stone path of Mao'er Mountain opposite.