While waiting to sell the remaining two fish, Tang Mingyao met an acquaintance again.

This time it's not adults, but a few little kids who are eight # or nine years old, all of whom are classmates of his younger brother Tang Lingfeng. Because they are all in the same school, Tang Mingyao also knows them.

A few little guys gathered in front of the stall, chattering, making Tang Mingyao a little unbearable, so he waved his hand and took out two yuan and gave it to his younger brother: "Buy your sour plum cake!" ”

Tang Lingfeng took the money and ran away happily.

After a while, the last two fish also had customers, and Tang Mingyao successfully completed today's task.

After calculating the accounts, the total income was 71 yuan, a little less than expected.

He didn't feel sorry for the difference, packed up the bucket, returned the scale to the "relative" next to him, and gave him a dollar for the use of the fee. The old man was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, and praised him for being sensible.

Now that he has money, Tang Mingyao can go and see philatelic tools.

In the past few days, he has been reading every morning, and he will see a few stitches in the afternoon and evening, reading for an average of four hours a day, and he has memorized more than 50 poems in "Three Hundred Tang Poems", plus the points of writing, a total of 83 points.

It's just that the fishing consumption is also large, fishing for two hours a day, and 60 points are used up in three days, and the two offset each other, and in the end there is only a balance of 23 points.

"I don't know if it's enough to buy a philatelic book."

Tang Mingyao shook his head and walked into the only stationery store in the bazaar and asked, "Boss, do you have philatelic books to sell here?" ”

"What philatelic book?"

"It's a booklet for collecting stamps."

The boss gave him a roll of the eye: "What is there to collect stamps?" It's not easy to light that thing, who would buy a booklet to put it in? No, no, you can ask somewhere else. ”

Tang Mingyao: "......"

When he met someone who didn't understand his hobbies, his beautiful mood was ruined.

He asked a little unwillingly: "Then do you know where it is sold?" ”

"You go to the post office, isn't it the post office that sends letters? I said you baby, you don't understand this at all, stupid. The boss said and drove him out like a fly.

Tang Mingyao stood at the door of the store, and wanted to cross his waist with one hand and point to the sky with the other, and say: "If you ignore me today, I will make you unattainable tomorrow!" ”

After thinking about it, I felt that it was too middle two, so I shook my head and gave up.

Then he came to the post office, which was crowded with people, and finally squeezed to the window, and just asked, "Hello, do you have any philatelic books for sale?" I was greeted with a cold "No!" "I came back.

He wanted to ask again, but he shouted directly: "Next!" ”

I didn't pay attention to him at all.

Tang Mingyao felt that the world was not friendly at all.

Didn't he just want to buy a philatelic book?

Why is it so tortuous!

In the end, he had to give up his plan to buy a philatelic book in the countryside.

In this poor and remote area, there are indeed very few people who have the leisure to engage in such a petty bourgeois hobby. Even if there are children who like to collect stamps, it is impossible for adults to spend dozens of dollars to buy them a philatelic book.

This kind of unmarketable stuff won't be sold here.

Tang Mingyao decided to wait until he finished taking the exam, and when the school started in September, he would go to the city to buy it again. There is a Xinhua bookstore in the county, and there is a large post office, and he once heard from his philatelist classmates that he could order stamps at the post office. Thinking about it, these two places must have what he wants.

After dealing with this matter, Tang Mingyao wanted to go home, but his younger brother Tang Lingfeng didn't know where to go at this time.

He didn't worry about people getting lost, after all, he hadn't been to this village once or twice, just like his own backyard. He just wanted to find the guy as soon as possible and go back on the boat together, because it was past nine o'clock in the morning and the sun was starting to poison again.

After looking around the entire market twice, Tang Mingyao finally found this group of playful guys in the dam behind the grain station.

Tang Lingfeng didn't go to buy sour plum cakes to share with his partners. When Tang Mingyao found him, he was sitting around with a few classmates, playing cards!

In front of everyone, there are several scattered banknotes, some more, some less. And Tang Lingfeng's two whole dollars have now become a pile of dimes and two cents of change.

Tang Mingyao: "......"

He couldn't imagine how a baby in the second grade of primary school could learn to play cards?

also took advantage of his inattention, gathered # bet!

His mind exploded, and he suddenly remembered what kind of disaster this younger brother, who looked silly and simple when he was a child, brought to his family in the next twenty years.

When Tang Mingyao went to junior high school, his mother went out to work with his father, and his younger brother Tang Lingfeng was fostered at his grandparents' house.

The elderly couldn't control the children, Tang Lingfeng quickly learned bad in the next few years, stealing family money, stealing money from the lonely and widowed old people in the village, chasing half a river in the river just to catch other people's ducks for barbecue, and fighting and hospitalizing classmates......

A series of bad deeds have made it famous far and wide.

His father went back to his hometown three times to transfer him to another school, just to separate him from his messy classmates. However, when a person learns badly on his own, where can he find a pure land to study with peace of mind?

A few years later, Tang Lingfeng did not graduate from junior high school, so he was taken to the south by his determined father and started a part-time career.

It's just that this guy's part-time job is not worry-free, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, none of them have been working for long, so he has been mixed for two years.

As soon as his parents saw that it was not a solution, they paid for him to take the driver's license, hoping that he would learn a trade and go out to drive a truck or a taxi to earn money in the future.

Well, this time, shortly after getting my driver's license, the whole person disappeared.

It wasn't until a few months later that the notice of the court session was sent to his hometown, and everyone knew that he was actually with his former classmates and went to another city to commit a robbery!

In order to snatch an old van worth 20,000 or 30,000 yuan and sell it for money, five people premeditated the murder of the owner, and then they were arrested without suspense.

First instance verdict, indefinite!

The second instance upheld the original verdict!

That year, Tang Lingfeng was just seventeen years old.

When Tang Mingyao first got the news, he was stunned.

He really can't imagine how stupid a person must be to rob and kill people for a car of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, and put his whole life into it!

My parents aged ten years overnight because of this major blow.

For more than ten years, they did not return to their hometown because they had no face to see.

The whole family has also fallen into a long-term haze since that day.

Until he was reborn, Tang Lingfeng was still squatting in prison.

When Tang Mingyao went to visit the prison, the 29-year-old covered his face and said, "Brother, I just changed the sentence from indefinite to 19-year fixed. I tried to behave well, reduce my sentence for a few more years, and get out before I turned forty-five. I did something wrong back then, I'm sorry for my parents, and I'm sorry for you. Take care of their bodies more outside, and honor them when I go out. ”

The words were sincere, and finally repented.

However, his repentance was exchanged for the life of a stranger and his own youth of more than twenty years.

The cost is enormous.

"In this life, we can't let this happen again!"

Tang Mingyao's blood surged in his head, he strode forward, kicked the field of several babies, and shouted: "Tang Lingfeng, what good are you doing!" ”