I know Li Tao's pager, I want to make a pager, thank him, there is no other meaning, I know that his pager is Hanxian, can receive Chinese characters, this red telephone on the cash register can make a public phone, I picked up the microphone of the red telephone, first called the pager, the microphone came out of the pager lady's beautiful voice, I told the pager lady, I want to call the window number, and then only said two words, thank you, and then added my surname, I didn't expect Li Tao to call me back, but it didn't take long, I was eating noodles with my head down when the phone on the cash register rang, and the boss picked it up and said it was looking for me. I walked over and picked up the phone, and it was Li Tao on the other end of the phone.

Xiao Bi, look at the phone number, are you still in Guangyi Coal Mine? Li Tao's voice came from the microphone, and the voice was the same as before. Why did you get over there? Do you have relatives over there? He then asked.

I said: Yes, my aunt's house is here, the two people who went with me yesterday, one is my eldest brother, the other is my brother-in-law, both of them are my aunt's family, thank you for yesterday's events, I will go back to school tomorrow, and I will thank you in person after I go back.

Li Tao said: I didn't help you yesterday, it's your kid who has good luck, why thank me?

I said, "Isn't it all up to you?" I can win 900 yuan, otherwise I will even lose all the capital, it is you who passed me the Morse code and I only pressed 300 yuan, if you didn't remind me, how dare I be so bold, this is the first time I have seen this kind of scene. Li Tao snorted and laughed: Dude, have you watched too many spy war movies, or have you read too much in secret agent books? I'll pass you the Morse code, do you have paranoia you, even if you understand, I don't understand it!

I kept my voice low, as much as possible not to let the noodle shop owner hear what I said: brother, don't pretend, you used a lighter to knock on the table 4 times, and then put the lighter horizontally on the table, four short and one long, this is what we learned when we were in elementary school, the civil telegraph is clear, you can rest assured, brother, my monthly living expenses are only 300 yuan, you helped me win three months of living expenses at once, I can't pick up all this money, I will be a man, I will definitely be satisfied with my brother when I go to school tomorrow. Li Tao was silent on the other side for a while, I heard the sound of a lighter, he was lighting a cigarette, and then I heard him spit out a puff of cigarette violently and said: Xiao Bi, you remember, this matter is over, I was not helping you at that time, as for you said that I used a lighter to hit the table 4 times, and then put the lighter horizontally on the table, I don't remember these anymore, if you are the wrong meaning of the meeting, the money you won, it is a coincidence, in short, don't mention this matter again, let alone think that I helped you at that time, you must have heard of it, Who's backstage at that venue? If I let others know that I eat inside and out, I will be cut off by others, and the consequences will be very serious. The money you win, you keep it yourself, don't think about me, I'm just a dealer, you remember, it's best not to go to this kind of occasion in the future, gambling means that the more gambling gets thinner, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, the reason why gambling is put in the end, it is also the most serious, it can make a person lose his nature, his family is ruined, and those gambling kings you see in Hong Kong movies are real, they can get any cards they want, and let whoever they want to win. After talking to Li Tao on the phone, I returned to my seat, and while bowing my head to eat noodles, I pondered what Li Tao had just said.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, he already had this meaning in his words, and the reason why he didn't admit it was because he was afraid, he was afraid of the boss in the background. I was able to win 900 yuan that day, and it seems that he was really helping me, but I can only rot in my stomach about this matter, and I can't mention it to anyone in the future, otherwise I will hurt Li Tao.

When I returned to my aunt's house after eating ramen, my sister-in-law had already come back with the child in her arms, and I asked my sister-in-law why she came back so early. My sister-in-law said that the relatives left in the afternoon, and there was no need to prepare dinner, so she came back early to make dumplings, just today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the bus to the county tomorrow afternoon is 2:30 p.m., and everyone is working in the mine at noon, and they can't go home to eat, so everyone eats dumplings tonight, and tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., I will take the car to the county by myself, and they will not send me specifically! I hurriedly said that I am such an adult, and it is not the first time I have gone out, so what are you sending me for? When the time comes, I will go to the passenger station to buy a ticket, take the bus and leave.

My sister-in-law asked me to help light the fire, she went to the garden to cut a handful of celery, scalded it with water, just now when I came back from my mother's house, I passed by the market and bought a piece of pork, put it together to make dumpling filling, and asked me if the dumpling filling tonight is pork celery, okay? I said of course, what a good stuffing, if you make dumplings at home this season, it must be leek egg filling.

I lit the fire in the pit at the bottom of the pot, and when I boiled the water in the pot, my sister-in-law was just finished picking celery leaves. I continued to look at the fire at the bottom of the pot, my sister-in-law put the freshly picked celery into the pot and scalded it with boiling water to soften, my eldest brother and sister-in-law just got married, my eldest brother is 6 years older than me, I seem to have heard before, my eldest brother is two years older than my sister-in-law, then my sister-in-law should be 4 years older than me, we should be considered the same age. I suddenly remembered the two girls I saw when I was walking down the road alone, the one with the number written on the soles of my shoes. So I asked my sister-in-law: Sister-in-law, let me ask you something, there was no one at home just now, I felt bored at home, so I went out for a stroll for a while, I walked along the road in the direction where I came, passed by a storefront, and there were two girls sitting at the door of the storefront, they were wearing slippers with numbers written on the soles of red paint, one foot was written 50, and the other foot was written 30, what was that for? My sister-in-law said, "That's called bright soles." I asked why the soles of my shoes should be shiny? The sister-in-law said again: I don't know the specifics, wait a while for your brother to come back from the mine, you ask him, I looked at my sister-in-law, and felt that her expression was a little unnatural. I helped my sister-in-law make dumplings together, until almost 6 o'clock in the afternoon, they came back from the mine one after another, at this time the dumplings were not bad, there was a fire in the stove pit, changed a pot of new water, and waited for the water to boil, then they could cook dumplings, and stayed in the mine for a day, their faces were full of ash, and they began to take care of themselves to fetch water to clean. I like this feeling of busyness, watching everyone busy, feeling down-to-earth, no rules and regulations, no one deliberately planning, no one directing, what do you have to do? If you look at them as a whole, then the whole works very regularly and perfectly. When the sister-in-law finished cooking the dumplings, they just finished washing, and the sister-in-law began to greet them, and everyone hurried to the table to eat, and the dumplings should be cold after a while.

When eating, my aunt vigorously put dumplings on my plate, let me eat more, and told me that at noon tomorrow, no one will send me, let me go to the passenger station alone to take the car, as long as there is time in the future, nothing will come often, I told my aunt no longer give me a clip, I have enough, and said that tomorrow I will go to the passenger station alone, I am not the first time to go out and send anything, and said that I will come often when I have nothing to do in the future.

I suddenly remembered something I wanted to ask my eldest brother, so I said: Eldest brother, let me ask you something, what is a shiny sole? When I asked this sentence, I noticed that several people at the table were looking at me strangely, and my eldest brother asked me: Then how do you know the words "bright sole?" I listened to my sister-in-law, I said. Then I saw the eyes that were looking at me just now, and they all looked at my sister-in-law together, and my sister-in-law's face instantly turned red, she didn't speak, just buried her head very low and ate dumplings. The brother-in-law swallowed the dumplings in his mouth and said, "Oh, sister-in-law, why is your face red?" You said that you too, he is still a student, you are a sister-in-law, you have nothing to talk to him at home, what are the bright soles? It wasn't my sister-in-law who took the initiative to talk to me, it was me who asked her, and I quickly said, why do I feel that the atmosphere is a little weird. The brother-in-law continued: Brother-in-law, let me ask you? There is a sentence that the last sentence is not as delicious as dumplings, what is the next sentence? When the words came to my mouth, I was just about to blurt out, and suddenly I felt that this occasion was wrong, this sentence could not be said, because the eldest brother and sister-in-law were on the side, I know, I know that the next sentence is, it is not as fun as the second brother of the sister-in-law. Dumplings can't stop your mouths, don't say anything, eat well, the eldest uncle said with a pale face. For the rest of the time, no one spoke until the meal was over, but the sound of my brother-in-law's mouth was getting louder and louder.