"This is the legendary little ghost, let the child's soul be attached to this dead baby, not wandering, you can also make up for the debt to the child, and at the same time let Yuan Peng pay the due price," Yunnan Wushan said this, with a cold smile on his face, this smile made people feel terrible. At this moment, Wen Hui's mother had a faint smile on her face, she stepped forward to look at the dead baby soaked in the glass jar, held the three sticks of incense in her hand, lit its green smoke, knelt down and inserted the three sticks of incense into the incense burner, exited and closed the door.

At about four o'clock this afternoon, Yuan Peng arrived at Shanghai Railway Station. On the way out, Yuan Peng found a shop and called his uncle. Yuan Peng looked up at the shop and walked in, and looked around. The shopkeeper looked at Yuan Peng who walked in and said, "Hello, may I ask what you are buying?" ”

"I don't buy anything, do I have a phone here?" I'm going to call," and then removed the pager from his waist.

"Yes, you can fight first," the shopkeeper took out the landline and placed it on the counter.

"Thank you," Yuan Peng put down the package on his back, as well as the one he was carrying, put it aside, then looked at the pager in his hand, dialed the number, picked up the phone and dialed the number, the other party said, "Hey, who are you looking for?" ”

"I'm looking for Yuan Kun, is he there?"

"Okay, I know, you wait a minute, I'll call," a middle-aged man walked out of the sentry box, facing these workers on the construction site, and shouted: "Yuan Kun, Yuan Kun," Yuan Kun stood up and turned to step forward, took off his helmet and clamped it around his waist, and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Your phone."

Yuan Kun walked out of the construction site, entered the sentry box, picked up the phone on the table, and said, "Hey." ”

"Uncle, I've arrived in Shanghai, and I'll call you in the shops next to the train station."

"Well, you just don't move around there, I'll be right over."

The foreman stood on the construction site and walked back and forth, watching them work, sometimes opening the drawings to watch, sometimes pulling the tape measure for comparison, squatting on the ground to draw some marks with stones, and standing up to direct the tower crane to slowly lower a bundle of steel bars. Yuan Kun stepped forward and stood behind the foreman and said, "**, my nephew is in Shanghai today, and he will take a day off tomorrow, including today's half a day." ”

"Okay, there you go," the foreman continued to turn and look at the site. Yuan Kun turned to leave, walked out of the construction site, walked slowly on the road, returned to the shed, held the iron fence in one hand, went up the stairs to his door, took out the key to open the door, walked in and put the helmet and iron hook under his bed, took off the muddy work clothes, took off the washkerchief to wipe the sweat off his body, changed into bright clothes and pants and went out. There are no residential areas or bustling markets, and there is no barren land as far as the eye can see. He had to walk to a small town and stand on the side of the road waiting for a bus, and then squeezed into the crowd to get on the bus to the Shanghai train station. After Yuan Peng walked out of the store, he put down the heavy package on his back, and sat on top of the package to watch the passers-by come and go. There were a lot of people sitting around him, or in groups of three or five, or sleeping on the ground on the spot, snoring constantly, and some were waiting for someone like him. After Yuan Kun came to the train station, he looked around, looked around, walked to the gathering place of the crowd, saw Yuan Peng sitting in the crowd, and walked forward and said, "Yuan Peng." ”

Only then did Yuan Peng raise his head, look at Yuan Kun standing in front of him, stand up, and said, "Uncle." ”

"You haven't eaten yet, let's go eat."

Yuan Kun walked into a hotel with Yuan Peng, and by the way, he found a place to sit down. The waiter stepped forward and stood in front of them, took out the menu, and said, "Two, what do you order?" Yuan Kun took the menu and looked at it, then pushed the menu in front of Yuan Peng, looked at Yuan Peng, and said, "Yuan Peng, order it casually, my uncle has a treat today." "This Yuan Kun in front of him, with a fat head and big ears, looks quite rich, if he didn't know, he would have thought that the local tyrant was coming. Yuan Peng ordered a few dishes by the way and handed them over. Yuan Kun took the menu and looked at it, and said, "Boss, are there any cold dishes?" ”

"Yes," Yuan Kun got up and stepped forward, stood at the window and sandwiched some pig ears and sauce-flavored beef, mixed them out and poured them into plastic bags. Yuan Kun walked forward with two cold dishes and put them on the table, then brought two bottles of beer, opened the cap and put one bottle in front of Yuan Qi, and said, "Eat, drink." Yuan Peng stretched out his chopsticks and took a slice of beef to taste it. Yuan Kun raised the beer bottle and said, "Come, drink." Yuan Peng then raised the beer bottle, and the two blew at each other.

"Yuan Peng, your father, your mother, the people in the family are okay."

"It still hasn't changed much, except for working in the fields every day, sunrise and sunset, and in my spare time, I go up the mountain to graze cattle and sheep, and my sheep have cubs again."

"Okay," and then Yuan Peng's ordered several dishes were served, and he saw that the beer bottle in front of him was empty. Yuan Kun turned around and said, "Boss, two more bottles of beer." ”

After a full meal, the uncle and nephew walked out of the hotel with their packages and got on the bus to return. They lived in a shack, carrying packages upstairs, and the stairs in the upstairs corridors and up the stairs were paved with iron plates, and the iron plates in the handrails and the narrow passageway above the stairs were rusty, and they walked with a "knock" sound. Standing in front of the door, Yuan Kun took out a bunch of keys to open the door, and when he walked in, he realized that the bed had already been made for him. Yuan Kun pointed to the bed and said, "You can sleep here at night, this is the bed made for you." Yuan Peng stepped forward and looked at the bed that had been made, first sat down to rest for a while, then stood up and hung the washkerchief on the rope in front of him. After a day and a night of travel, my body was indeed a little tired, carrying these heavy packages along the way, and my body was covered with the smell of sweat.

"Uncle, where is the bathhouse?" From the time he entered the shed to the time he went upstairs, there were only three or four of these tin houses, and he didn't see where the bathhouse was.

"I'm going to take a shower too, you come with me," After finishing speaking, Yuan Kun took off his clothes and pants, ** his body was only covered by briefs, stood up and squatted down, dragged out the basin, pulled down the washcloth and put it on his shoulder. Yuan Peng first looked at him and then looked out of the door, and said, "Let's just go out like this, if others see it, we won't be ashamed." ”

Yuan Kun looked at Yuan Peng's embarrassed expression, felt very funny, and said, "The big man is still shy, why are you wearing clothes like this?" ”

"Okay," Yuan Peng only took off his clothes and pants, and like Yuan Kun, he ** his body, only his briefs to cover his shame, walked to the door and looked left and right, and then walked out. At that time, there was no bathhouse in the living area of the workers, and the shower was an open-air natural bathhouse, the conditions were very simple, and there was no canteen, they prepared their own pots and stoves, bought some vegetables and squeezed them into a small space to fry vegetables, Yuan Kun felt that it was too troublesome to cook, and he went to the restaurant outside after work or during his lunch break, and there happened to be a small town near his construction site. Yuan Peng followed closely behind Yuan Kun, ** body, holding a basin in one hand, putting a washkerchief on his shoulder with the other, swaggering downstairs, standing in front of the faucet, twisting the water, the water came down in the basin, pouring the basin of water from the head, and a cool from the top down. When they were done, they were about to return, and at this time they had just finished work, and an aunt of about forty years old walked out of the workers. Yuan Peng looked at this aunt shyly, and immediately hid behind Yuan Kun. The aunt walked forward with her eyes forward, as if she hadn't seen it. Yuan Peng followed behind Yuan Kun, quickly went upstairs and walked into the room, closed the door, took off his briefs, and changed into clean clothes.

Yuan Kun threw a large pile of clothes into the basin and said, "Yuan Peng, go and wash all these clothes." ”

"Okay," Yuan Peng walked downstairs with this pile of dirty clothes with both hands, and under the faucet downstairs, he first cleaned the work clothes, because the work clothes were the dirtiest, and what came out of the cleaning was a basin of mud, and then he washed the other clothes, rubbed them with his hands, and then brushed them with a scrub, and the cleaning came out of a basin of sewage, and after cleaning, put them in the basin, pour laundry detergent, and wash them together until they were washed, and then wring them out. At this time, Yuan Peng was thinking that every year when they came back, they were dressed very brightly, but on the construction site were these dirty overalls, unkempt all day long. Yuan Peng held the basin of clothes with both hands, hung the washed clothes on the steel wire, and the water dripped down drop by drop.

Yuan Peng walked in with an empty basin, squatted down and put the basin under the bed, and then sat on the edge of the bed. Yuan Kun was already lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, faced Yuan Peng, and said, "Yuan Peng, go to bed early, and take you to see Shanghai tomorrow and see the world." "It's windy in Shanghai, and it's a little cold at night, so cover yourself with a quilt when you sleep. Yuan Peng lay on the bed and gradually entered his dream.

I don't know when, when they came back from work, they faintly heard footsteps walking in, turning on the electric light to illuminate the room. Sometimes I heard their voices, I don't know when, the lights went out again, and everything returned to silence, and sometimes there was the sound of a few people snoring and grinding their teeth or talking in their dreams. The night is so quiet, only the waning moon on the horizon is so lonely. The evening breeze blew, bending the weeds around the shed and the trees in the distance.

Before dawn, they got up and turned on the lights to cook. One of them was very kind, and stepped forward and said, "Yuan Kun, aren't you going to work today?" ”

Yuan Kun lay on the bed and looked at this person, and said, "I won't go to work today, so I'll go out with my nephew." ”

"Well, then you guys, let's go to work first."

Yuan Peng lay on the bed, opened his eyes and looked at these people without saying a word, they simply put on a bowl of noodles, then put on work clothes, took out the helmet placed under the bed, and walked out and closed the door one after another.

The sky gradually brightened, and they also took a nap, Yuan Kun sat up at the head of the bed and said, "It's time for us to set off too." ”

Yuan Peng sat up at the head of the bed, stretched his waist, yawned, as if he couldn't wake up, sat down for a while, put on his clothes and walked out, and slowly walked towards the town. They chatted as they walked, and there were some orchards on the side of the road, and there was a large area of greenery, and some grass huts were built in the midst of the large green trees, and sometimes they heard dogs barking, and the poplar trees on both sides stood upright, like guards on both sides, standing straight on both sides. They walked in the shade of the trees, looking around, as if everything was so fresh here, far from their homeland. There are no high-rise buildings around, just some four- or five-story bungalows, and there are no mountains around. There are very few pedestrians here, as if this is an undeveloped wilderness, only above the coastline, where a few fishing boats are docked, and they spread their nets to fish, and the surrounding houses are fishermen's houses, and there is a slight flow of people in the town, or more.

"Uncle, why are there so few people here?"

"It's just that it's not developed, and in a few years it will be a prosperous city."