After all, it's not easy for people, in the middle of the night to see two ghost-like guys wandering on the road, who dares to stop and carry?

The driver turned to look at Louis and said, "You don't remember me?" It's me! It's cold, right? Come on, wipe it clean, hehe, the towel is a little dirty. ”

"It's fine." Lao Lu took the towel and dried his hands and hair.

Louis also wiped his hands and hair, and asked suspiciously, "This big brother, I really don't have an impression." ”

The driver turned on the lights in the car and asked, "Do you know?" ”

Louis suddenly realized, "You are, you are the eldest brother Yuan Xiong in the delivery room!" ”

Louis had to admit that he and Yuan Xiong were quite fateful, but he didn't know what fate was.

Yuan Xiong smiled, "Yes, I thought you forgot me!" But the hospital where you took my wife to give birth went smoothly. Come on, smoke a cigarette first. ”

Louis trembled his hands, took the lighter given by Yuan Xiong, lit it for Lao Lu, and then lit it for himself tremblingly. Taking a hard breath, the cigarette pulled his soul back to the world, and it was good to be alive.

Then Yuan Xiong handed over two more bottles of black iron energy drink, "Do you want to have this?" ”

"I can't get used to what you young people drink." Lao Lu refused, and Louis also refused, but he drank a lot of lake water.

Yuan Xiong asked curiously, "Where are you going in the middle of the night?" ”

"When I went out fishing, who would have thought that the wind and rain would be heavy and the boat would capsize. It was blown here from the Liuqing River, and fortunately escaped this catastrophe. ”

Yuan Xiong said, "Brother, you are such a good person, God will not accept you!" ”

"Yes. Thank God. Big brother, are you also from us? Don't you have a similar accent? Louis wondered.

Yuan Xiong's face tensed, and then Tairuo naturally said, "I follow my wife, she is from here." I work in the city, and I just came back from buying some supplements from the city. ”

Six kilometers away, less than ten minutes to arrive, I said, "Big brother, my house is here, you must come to my house to sit!" ”

Yuan Xiong looked at the heavy rain outside the car window, "No, my wife hasn't slept all night, waiting for me at home." I'm still in a hurry to go back, our green mountains don't change, the green water flows forever, if you need help, call me, 24 hours on standby. ”

Yuan Xiong put down Louis and Lao Lu, stepped on the accelerator and drove away.

Louie took off his shirt, rolled up his trouser legs, and was shirtless. Walking home from the asphalt road, I saw that the house was dark, so big thunder and lightning, it should be out of power. The wind blew the crops and trees to the ground, and they fell one by one.

"Let's go." Lao Lu urged.

A figure ran towards them, it was her mother, Li Hongmei, who was soaking wet.

The pain of the father and son could not speak, it was quiet and could not be touched, and the pain was unbearable.

The three of them hugged each other, feeling the warmth of loneliness and guarding the bleak night, and the pain that clasped each other's hearts and couldn't breathe.

The tears had already been touched by the sadness, and the tears that could not be stopped were slowly sprinkled like rain, and the heart was unwilling, but tears flowed down his face, and sadness lingered in his ears.

The family returned home, but there was still no electricity, so they had to light candles temporarily.

The mother said, "I haven't encountered such a big storm for so many years. ”

Lao Lu looked at his mother and sighed, "It's good that you didn't go, if you go, maybe we won't be able to come back alive." ”

The mother heated a few more dishes, and the family sat around. What a wonderful thing to come back from hell to the world of fireworks.

"Dad, don't go out fishing in the future, it's too dangerous."

Lao Lu didn't say anything, and lowered his head to eat the food.

"Dad......" Louis wanted to say something, but was interrupted by his father.

Lao Lu yelled and scolded, "What do you know! Can every day be like tonight? I haven't seen such a storm in decades! ”

"Don't blame your dad, after all, we still have to make a living from this." The mother wept.

Seeing that Lao Lu was so stubborn, Louis had to change the subject: "Dad, I see that many people also like to buy fish raised in ponds." ”

"Well, the pond here is by the lake, which is cleaner than the pond in the fields. The ponds in people's fields are dirty, and dead pigs, chickens and ducks are thrown into the pond to feed the fish, and the guests don't like to buy them.

And the fish that come out of the pond are brought into the big city to sell, and the people in our county and town like the wild fish in the Liuqing River and the pond fish by Wanyang Lake. Wild fish are caught by hand, which is expensive, and pond fish are cheaper. ”

Louie's head was very bright, "Dad, why don't you like this, fence these pieces of land next to it, and ask the excavator to come and make a pond." The pond should be beautifully made, and in addition to raising fish, it can also be used for fishing. ”

Lao Lu also came to his senses when he heard this, and said with a twinkle in his eyes, "I also thought so for a long time, mark how much price each hour, and let the guests fish." ”

Louis nodded and said, "I have to do it with the catering, the location here is also good, and it's good to be a farmhouse." In this way, it is better than you and your mother going to the lake to fish every day. ”

"Xiao Yi, we have also thought about what you said, but where did you get so much money. What's more, we still owe a bunch of debts to our neighbors and haven't paid them off...... "My mother is still sad.

Louis patted his chest and said, "I will find a way to implement the money as soon as possible, and you can rest assured." ”

He knows that farming is hard and fishing is dangerous. Invest in the fish pond of the cooking village, make more and earn less for the time being, the picture is a peace of mind.

In fact, Louis knew that his father had always hoped in his heart that one day he would raise his eyebrows so that others could look at him differently. He never bowed his head in front of people, but Louie knew he was under a lot of pressure. Gossip and squinting made their families unable to raise their heads.

In the early morning, as soon as Louis got out of bed, he saw his mother Li Hongmei busy in the kitchen, and the smell of rice made people full of appetite.

The rusty shovel and basket of wild vegetables at the kitchen door caught Louie's attention.

It turned out that my mother went to the mountains early in the morning to dig wild vegetables, such as lettuce, camellia, purslane, knotweed, xanthium, etc., and a basket full of them, but it was a bumper harvest.

If this had been put on hold in the past, both the powerful and the common people would have the habit of eating wild vegetables, but because of backward agriculture, green vegetables could not be eaten in the wrong season. The second is related to faith. But now, with the widening gap between the rich and the poor, wild vegetables have become a necessity for the poor to fill their stomachs, and the rich don't even know what wild vegetables look like.

Seeing this basket of wild vegetables, Louie's eyes suddenly moistened. Because the autumn wind is fierce at this time, the autumn wind in the mountains is even more fierce. The coolness of the earth blows on the cheeks and ears and pours into the neck, and there is a bit of winter cold.

"Xiao Yi is up, why don't you sleep for a while." Mother smiled softly.

"Mom, I'll help you make a fire." Louis said as he walked to the kitchen.

I struck a match and lit the firewood, and a large handful of dead branches and leaves crackled and ignited.

Lighting the fire and washing the pot, Louis is very skillful in doing it. He glanced at the pyre in the corner of the kitchen. The firewood pile is normal, and it is stacked very high in the corner. It was cut down by my mother on the mountain a few days ago, and her palms and shoulders were worn out for it.

Every time Louis saw them, he felt like a knife in his heart, and he couldn't bear to look at them directly. It was the same today, when he entered the kitchen with his head tilted, trying to restrain himself from looking at the damn firewood.

Louis walked to the rice jar with a sigh and a clay pot, but when he lifted the lid of the pot, his face changed.

It was empty, and not a grain of millet could be found.

In the first half of this year, there was a severe drought, and the harvest in the fields was not very good. As a result, before the autumn harvest began, Louie's family was already out of food. As soon as the grain harvest fails, most of the poor people have to tighten their belts to get by.

This is the helplessness of the poor, and survival has become the biggest problem.

"I'm sorry, Xiao Yi, you wait for a while, your dad will bring back the rice in a while." The mother knew that Louie's heart was uncomfortable, so she walked over and patted Louis on the shoulder and said.

Louis remembered the 1,000 yuan reward that Yuan Xiong gave him yesterday, he left 300 yuan, and handed over the rest to his mother, "Mom, this is the rest of my salary, you can buy some rice and noodles first, you can't be wronged in eating." I'll send my salary home every month. ”

The mother wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and nodded, squeezing out a smile.

In the silent kitchen, Louis silently lit a fire and added firewood...... The red fire reflected his originally handsome, but extremely twisted face at the moment......

After a while, Lao Lu came back with a tattered and patched cloth bag.

"This is two catties of millet rice, let's get it out of the pot first."

Louie frowned, "Dad, how did you get this food?" ”

"Two days ago, the Li family in the east was digging a ditch, and I went to dig it all morning, and then I got this grain...... I went to get rice this morning, so let's go cook, don't you dare to go hungry!"

When Louis heard this, he felt very uncomfortable. It's autumn and winter, and my mother goes to the back mountain to dig wild vegetables, and it's very cold just by blowing the mountain breeze. In such a cold day, my father had to go into the water to dig a ditch......

Louie's eyes were red, this kind of thing should be done by himself, but his parents couldn't bear to suffer this sin, so they insisted on carrying it themselves, which really hurt them......

In the kitchen, pots and pans, a busy moment, a total of three dishes. Stir-fried peanuts, cold wild vegetables, potato soup, the staple food is porridge.

After a simple breakfast, Louis said goodbye to his parents and returned to the city.

However, accidents are also frequent, and the second-hand motorcycle was scrapped halfway through.

Just when he was at a loss, Louie saw an acquaintance.

"Brother Baocai, where are you going?" Louis greeted him, and the person who came was the treasure of driving a tractor, and they had grown up playing with open crotch pants since childhood.

"Xiao Yi, didn't I go into the city to get some fodder, what are you doing here?" The honest and simple treasure smiled.

"I'm going into town, who would have thought that this motorcycle would be so bad on the road. Brother Baocai gave me a while. ”

"Hey, your motorcycle belongs to Uncle Wang's family, it's basically a scrap product, and it's useless at all. Let's go, get in the car! ”

The potholes and mud roads were bumpy, and Louie felt very uncomfortable sitting on the tractor, and he really hoped that he would have a good life in the future, and he would pay for the road to be repaired at his own expense, just like in the city, and made into an asphalt road.

Baocai playfully hummed a small tune, controlling the tractor, and no matter what the road was, it was driving suddenly, and the two of them were talking and laughing along the way, but it was not monotonous.

Two hours later, Bao Cai slowed down and shouted for him to come down.

Although it is autumn, the city is very different from the countryside, and the residual heat of summer does not seem to have dissipated.

The sudden change is really a bit incredible, and Louie's mind is still a little chaotic and trance-like, like a scratch lottery, and he always dare not scratch it all at once with apprehension.

Where do we go from here? Maybe this is a chance given by God to start over.

This autumn is a deep memory for Louis, he was twenty-two years old, a confused age, but even more confused than this is the unemployment just after graduation. What's even more tragic is that my girlfriend ran away with another man.

After many unsuccessful job searches, he started a food delivery business.

Digging into his pocket, Louie pulled out an envelope, which was a long, old-fashioned design with a red frame, and the handwriting was still straight and round, and he didn't know how old the letter was decades old.

Before leaving, Lao Lu also specially told Louis that if you have difficulties, you can rely on this letter to ask the second uncle for help.

said that it was difficult to find the second uncle for help, but the second uncle in Louie's impression was a ghost and always liked to go outside. The second uncle has never come back since he went out for a stroll after the end of the 08 Olympics. Some people say that he has become a stand-in for a well-known martial arts star (playing a dead man), and some people say that he joined a pyramid scheme organization and went to prison.

With a sigh, Louis walked slowly through the park. There are a few lampposts along the way, and there are always advertisements such as "call 13 for gas", "20 years of professional toileting", "rich woman begging for seeds" and so on.

At a convenience store, he bought a five-dollar pack of General White cigarettes, and Louie tiredly leaned against the wall and lit one. There is no hope in living, and there is no reason to want to die. To hell with the ideals of the past, every day lives like the walking dead.

Halfway through, Louie caught a glimpse of an unlocked Alipay shared bicycle, and when there was no one around, he quickly rode on the shared bicycle and rode three miles in one go.

The business of Yunwu Restaurant is really booming, even if it is not a meal, there are still many people who order takeout. In just two hours, Louis traveled dozens of miles and delivered nine takeaways.

Returning from delivering the order, Louie leaned against the hallway outside the dining room and smoked a cigarette. According to the proprietor, the hall was the perfect place to dine for distinguished guests, and Louie, a cheap man dressed in yellow sweat, did not deserve to enter.