In fact, Zhang Fugui didn't have no money, but he felt that the money couldn't be spent indiscriminately, and the money in his purse was still saved by his daughter-in-law Li Jianmei over the years.

The old man was still happy, and he agreed to Fugui in one breath and let Fugui sleep on the steps under the county party committee office building.

The night slowly deepened, the silence in the dark night sky was so quiet that no sound could be heard, the night air was mixed with a smell of asphalt, and the rich stomach also growled, he carefully took out a gray gauze wrapped tightly from his purse, he gently opened the gauze, and tore the steamed bun with his hand one by one, this cold yellow steamed bun tasted relatively stiff, not easy to chew, and could only be swallowed by putting it in his mouth and chewing it many times.

He stared wide-eyed as the electric light in the janitor's room flickered, the light shining in his face through the cracks in the door and the window, he saw through the window of the janitor's room that the old man in the janitor's room was cooking a bowl of fragrant noodles, he swallowed saliva into his throat from time to time, he ate the yellow noodle steamed bun he carried with him, his mouth was dry, how he wanted to drink a bowl of hot soup or the noodle soup that the old man in the janitor's room cooked.

But he could only think about it in his head, and for a moment he seemed to hear the old man ask him to come and share the bowl of fragrant noodles with him, but it was all his illusory thoughts.

At night in the county town, there was no sound of chickens and dogs barking in the township, and there was no sound of birds chirping in the mountains and fields, which had to make him a little sleepless, his mouth was thirsty, so he walked to the guard room with a shy face, and the old man saw him, and said to him with a smile: "Why, are you hungry!" ”。

Fugui responded with a smile: "Old man, my lips are thirsty and tight, see if you can ask for water to quench your thirst here", the old man smiled and said to Fugui: "Cough, I thought I wanted something, I don't have other things here, but this water is a lot of miles, you can drink it if you want to."

As he spoke, the old man filled a scoop with a scoop of water and handed it to Zhang Fugui, who took the scoop and poured it into his throat with a bang, and drank so much that he was very comfortable, and he burped a few times in his mouth from time to time.

After Fugui drank the water, he handed the ladle to the old man and thanked him, and when he was about to continue back to his stone steps, the old man shouted to him and said, "Old man, I have cooked a little more noodles today, if you don't mind, come and eat with the old man."

Zhang Fugui was very happy after hearing this, after all, since he was a child, except for his father Zhang Youcai, who has been good to himself, he has never seen an outsider who has been good to him.

Tears welled up in the corners of his eyes, and he looked at the gray-haired old man in front of him excitedly, and he felt that he seemed to be back in the years when he was a child and was cared for by his father Zhang Youcai.

After he accompanied the old man to finish eating the fragrant noodles in the bowl, he stood up and was about to walk to the stone steps where he was going to sleep tonight, when the old man shouted to him again, "I can't sleep much by myself, if you don't dislike the old man and me, you can squeeze with me tonight, although the night in July is not very cold, but it is still possible to be frozen in the middle of the night!" Even if you're still young, you can't freeze for miles, and if you freeze your body, it's not worth it."

Zhang Fugui was so moved that he couldn't speak, and his whimpering voice made him want to cry, but he still held back the tears rolling in his eyes.

As the night deepened, he leaned against the old man and fell asleep.

The next morning, when the sky was still light blue, a red glow appeared in the east, and the red glow slowly expanded, and in a short time it stained half of the sky red. After a few more moments, the little half of the sun's face appeared in that place. The sun seemed to be carrying a heavy load, slowly struggling to climb up step by step. At the end of the fireball, the sun finally broke through the clouds and jumped out completely, its color was lovely red, and it emitted a dazzling light that illuminated the earth. Everything in the world returns to the embrace of the sun.

After Zhang Fugui woke up, he walked to the street and bought a few steamed buns, and the old man in the guard room opened his eyes and couldn't see Fugui beside him, so he poked left and right, and muttered to himself from time to time: "This kid, don't say a word when you leave, this white-eyed wolf, leave him for a night and invite him to eat my fragrant noodles."

Zhang Fugui carried a few hot white breads in his hand, and when he walked to the bottom of the county party committee office building, he shouted into the guard room, "Old man, have you gotten up, I bought a few hot white breads."

The old man in the guard room heard the sound and looked in the direction of the sound, and saw Fugui standing not far from the door, holding a few buns in his hand, so he said with a smile: "I said! Where did you go early in the morning, it turned out that you went to buy steamed buns."

Fugui walked to the old man and handed the bun in his hand to the old man, and said with a smile: "Old man, although I don't have a lot of money on me, but I still have the money to buy a few buns. ”

The old man in the guard room smiled and took the hot white-flour steamed bun and said to Fugui: "Young man, just now the old man thought that you had walked a mile, but I didn't expect that you were going to buy steamed buns for the old man to eat."

"Don't blame Fugui for the elderly, Fugui is a villager and has no habit of sleeping lazy, so when he got up, his voice was quieter and he didn't say a word to you, for fear of disturbing your rest," Zhang Fugui said.

"It's okay, it's okay, I've not been so happy for a long time, but it's strange to say, I've lived most of my life, and I haven't talked to anyone so much, I didn't expect to say so many things to you, it's really rare, rare!" The old man said.

At this time, it was about noon, Zhang Fugui was a little anxious, after all, it had been a night since he came out of home yesterday, and the family didn't know if he was safe and sound, whether he had seen Uncle Wang, maybe at this moment, the wife and children at home were worried about themselves.

Just when Fugui was very anxious, a jeep slowly drove from the street to the front of the county party committee office building, and a white-haired man stepped down from the jeep, this person was none other than Wang Weiliang, secretary of the county party committee.

When the old man in the guard room saw the jeep, he said to Fugui: "Young man, Secretary Wang is here, what do you have to hurry up!" Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to get in after the secretary goes in for a while! ”

Zhang Fugui thanked the old man in the guard room and walked straight to Wang Weiliang, because he and Wang Weiliang, the secretary of the county party committee, had not seen each other for several days, when Wang Weiliang saw the young student in front of him, he always felt a little cordial, but he couldn't name it.

Zhang Fugui said to Wang Weiliang: "Uncle Wang, I am Fugui!" It's Zhang Youcai's son Zhang Fugui! Uncle Wang still remembers that I don't".

Wang Weiliang, secretary of the county party committee, suddenly realized after hearing this, and said to Fugui with a smile: "Yes, yes, you are the talented son Fugui, we haven't seen each other for many days, your uncle Wang and I are old, this memory is poor, I didn't recognize you at the first time, don't go to your heart!" ”

"Uncle Wang, Fugui knows that you are busy, and besides, our uncle and nephew haven't seen each other for several years, and it's normal that you can't remember it for a while, but Uncle Wang, your sideburns have grown gray hair, and Fugui almost didn't recognize it", Zhang Fugui said with a smile.

"Rich! Uncle Wang is busy these days! I always wanted to find an opportunity to go to the village to see how the situation in our village was doing, but I really couldn't get out of it! You also saw it, Uncle Wang also just came back from a busy day, and he didn't sleep well before he met you, you came to the county to find Uncle Wang, is there anything that Uncle Wang needs to help you solve! It just so happens that Uncle Wang also wants to know from you what is going on in our village, so you and Uncle Wang go to the office to chat and cheer for family life."

"Uncle Wang, it's good, the people in our village are doing well now," Zhang Fugui said.

"Okay, okay, let's not worry, let's go to my office and sit and chat slowly, uncle hasn't seen you for a long time, so I'll accompany my uncle to nag more", Wang Weiliang said.

Zhang Fugui followed closely behind Wang Weiliang, secretary of the county party committee, and walked straight into the office building of the county party committee, and the leading cadres in the building looked at Zhang Fugui and accompanied the secretary of the county party committee one by one to talk and laugh, and always felt that this future life was a little unusual, even the old man in the guard room was a little confused after seeing it, after all, he had seen the world for most of his life, and he had never seen the secretary of the county party committee and such a nephew in the township.

Zhang Fugui followed Wang Weiliang to the office of the county party committee, which was neat and clean, with a table full of red-headed documents and some office utensils, and a few big words "Serve the people wholeheartedly" on the wall.

Wang Weiliang beckoned Zhang Fugui to take a seat and asked his secretary Chen Ziang to make a cup of tartary buckwheat tea for Zhang Fugui, Fugui sat in the secretary's office of the county party committee office building for the first time, which made him feel a little uncomfortable, after all, it was the first time he had been treated like this.

Zhang Fugui found that his clothes and the shabby elastic shoes worn on the soles of his feet were always a little out of place with everything in the office, and the dust on the soles of his feet was all over the place from when he first entered the house, and he was a little embarrassed, so he bent his legs, for fear that others would see that the dust in the room was brought by him.