The sky is cloudy, rainy and foggy, and the long streets and short alleys are not empty. The price of goods is cheap, and there is no deception of women and young men in buying and selling.

- Wang Zhiqing

"The third shipment was one day after another month." Lao Ma rolled his eyes upwards and recalled, "It was a bit hot that day, cloudy, and there was no wind, and the whole air was very stuffy. ”

"It's supposed to be hot in June." I interjected.

"Yes, some of the wheat in the field has been harvested, and the seedlings of the cobs have grown tall." Lao Ma is very familiar with farm work, and said, "When driving a car, I often see freshly harvested wheat drying on some roads. ”

"Sometimes it's dangerous, isn't it?" I said, "If you roll, will it slip?" ”

"Who's to say it's not, the Tao is very narrow. Luckily, my driving skills are okay. Don't dare to say anything else, just talk about driving, in our case, I say second, no one dares to say first. As soon as Lao Ma said that his driving skills lit up.

"Uh-huh, uh-huh." Ma Hualong couldn't listen anymore, "Dad, you're starting again." ”

"Okay, okay, I won't say it, but it is."

"But we still want to hear the story of your third shipment." I reminded him that he was off topic.

"Oh, okay, I'll go on." Ma Hualong gently cleared his throat and continued.

"That day should also be the day when the children in the third year of high school take the high school entrance examination," Ma Hualong seemed to remember everything again, "I picked up the goods from the second-hand car yard of Dabing, more than last time, and then walked along the original old road for a while, and then changed to a new road, you know that the country roads extend in all directions, and all kinds of trails are crisscrossed, and I can always choose some new roads to walk as I like." ”

"It seems that you are very familiar with the various roads." I say it with emotion.

"You know, I've been running cars since I was a teenager, and I've been running cars for nearly 30 years now, and I haven't touched any car, never walked on any road, and never seen anyone before." Lao Ma is proud when he talks about driving.

"You should be considered an old man." I smiled at him.

"The old rivers and lakes don't dare to say it, but at least they have seen some of the big world and know some sophistication." The old horse said.

"Look, look." Ma Hualong said to the old horse, "Come again, come again." ”

"Stinky boy!"

"Tell the story."

"When I passed through N Town, I happened to catch up with the countryside to catch up with the big market." The old horse shifted and continued to tell his story.

"Rural Daji, have you rushed it?" The old horse turned his face to me and asked.

"I've rushed over, I also came out of the rural area, and when I was a child, I often followed my parents to the market, and the rural market is still very lively." I explained. "Selling cattle and sheep, selling tables and chairs, selling toys, selling cloth, selling shoes and clothing, selling fish and shrimp, selling rice and grain, it was really one after another, and it was very lively. Eating, drinking, playing, and using, it's really everything. Some shout, and some wait; There are merchants, and there are also sitting. It is best described in a poem by the modern poet Wang Zhiqing - 'The sky is sunny, rainy and foggy, and the long streets and short alleys are not empty. The price of goods is cheap, and there is no deception of women and young men in buying and selling. Sometimes there are so many people that I want to go back now. ”

"What you said is true, but there are many people in this big set, and the road is not easy to walk, and there is no road nearby that can be detoured, turning the head of the car, going back and changing the route, it is very likely to delay time, so I can only drive forward at that time."

"It shouldn't be easy to go."

"It's one thing to have a lot of people, but it's also more complicated to have people in this big set. When there are many people, there will be thieves who take advantage of the crowd to do sneaky things, and they are even organized professional thieves gangs who go to and from the major markets. "The old horse seems to have a certain understanding of them.

"I've heard of these people, too. They are really annoying. The people in the countryside are all poor working people, and it is not easy to earn some money, but in fact, there is not much money. But they don't care about men, women and children, and even specifically pick the old, weak, sick and disabled, which is really infuriating. "I've heard a little bit about them, too.

"I was driving into Daji at a distance of fifty or sixty meters when I was stopped by a woman. The woman is not tall, wears a leopard print dress, fair and delicate skin, large wavy hair, eyebrows that are obviously shaved off and then painted, thin lips painted with bright lipstick, and a small black mole on the upper left side of the corner of the mouth. Stuck in front of my car, leaning on the hood of the engine compartment at the front of my car, pretending to shout 'oops, oops', while dangling back and forth on the front of my car with a gauze towel in his hand. ”

"Didi-Di-Di-" I honked my horn hard.

"'Press what.' The little black mole slapped the front of the car with his hand, "You hit the old lady, you have to compensate me." ’”

"'I'll accompany you, but I don't know if your husband is willing?' I opened the car door and got down and said to her. ”

"'Hahahaha...... Hahahaha...... 'When the passers-by heard it, they were laughing too. I thought she was touching porcelain, but in the end I didn't give her a dime, and when I saw that people were laughing, she left in a huff. ”

"Is it that easy? She didn't ask for a penny from you? Ma Hualong looked a little unconvinced by what his father said.

"I didn't really touch her, but she came to touch porcelain on purpose." Ma Jiaju explained, "At first, I didn't really understand what the hell she was doing, if you want to say that it was porcelain, I didn't give her any money." You have to say that it wasn't touching porcelain, it was indeed she who took the initiative to touch my car. It wasn't until more than ten minutes later that I understood. ”

"What happened next?" Ma Hualong was always anxious to know his father's story.

"As I drove out of the road, there were fewer and fewer people on the road, and all kinds of fruit groves – apple groves, hawthorn groves, peach groves and pear groves – kept appearing on both sides of the road, and there were more and more of them, and occasionally I could see a watermelon field. When I saw the watermelon, I felt thirsty, and I turned my face to get water to drink, but suddenly I found that the package on the back seat was missing, and my sweat came out as soon as I brushed it, and my brain was buzzing, and I thought, 'Oh no, it was a thief who stole it from me when I parked the car just now.'" I quickly turned the car around and looked back. As he was walking, he met a shirtless young man in a leather jacket riding a motorbike with a small black mole. ”

"'Squeak-quack' stopped right in front of my car."

"'You guys?' As soon as I was about to speak, I saw the woman take a bag from her back, which I had lost. ”

"The leather jacket stopped the car, took the bag, walked up to my car, put the bag on his head, bent down and handed it to me through the window, and said something to me that I didn't understand." I'm sorry, big brother, we didn't know you were from the Earth Dragon Society, I'm sorry. ’”

"I took the bag and patted the dust on it, and I could only pretend to be calm and say, 'What's inside hasn't moved, is it?'

'Didn't move, absolutely didn't move. As soon as I saw the logo on the bag, I didn't dare to move. ’

So you know what to do, right? ’

'Smack', the young man slapped his face fiercely, "Big brother, the younger brother has eyes and doesn't know Taishan, and he won't dare to do it again." ’

'Why don't you get out of here?' Actually, I couldn't pretend anymore, and my palms were sweaty. The old horse said and rubbed his hands unconsciously.

After the two of them left, I turned around and continued on the road. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this matter was strange: the habitual offenders and thieves who touched porcelain actually returned to Zhao because of the sign on a bag, and they paid it respectfully and carefully. What kind of organization is this Earth Dragon Society? The more strange I felt, the more curious I was about the contents of the bag, so I turned a few more corners and came to a secluded place, where I stopped the car and opened the package to see what it contained. ”

"What? What's in it? "The pony is impatient.

"Some old newspapers were stamped on top. When I opened the newspaper, I saw bags of white stuff underneath, which looked like rock candy when I looked at it, and when I looked closely, it looked like crushed ice cubes knocked off the ice. Packed in small plastic bags, each bag is about half a catty, and I don't count how many bags there are. ”

"**, according to what you described, it should be**." I was surprised and said, "A drug that is often seen in TV, movies, and especially some martial arts action movies. ”

"I didn't know what it was at first, but I knew that it must be worth a lot of money, otherwise it wouldn't have paid me that much."

"You're transporting drugs, it's a crime." I reminded him.

"yes, otherwise, how would we meet here today?" After looking at Ma Hualong, the old horse turned his face to me and said to me.

It seems that he has already accepted everything in his heart with peace of mind.

"How did it last this time?"

"Twenty-five thousand, five hundreds."