The blood-soaked sunset was slowly setting, and the sky was still glowing with a little red light.

The red light plated the green mountains and forests with a warm red color, He Xu stretched his tired body, breathed in the fresh air of the mountains and forests, and felt refreshed.

The time of two hours was fleeting, and Fang Yi led the villagers back with a full load.

Watching the villagers bring back the heavy books one by one, He Xu felt a feeling of suffocation in his chest, and he was a little panicked.

Thinking that books are the ladder of human progress and the essence of wisdom, he wanted to bring some books here, so that the villagers here can have a good knowledge, so that the children can enrich themselves, and one day in the future there will be a day to go out of the village, see the outside world, do not forget this village, and come back to build a good life.

But when he actually came here, he really realized how isolated and poor this place was, and maybe he took it for granted.

However, the villagers in the returned place were very appreciative, and they looked at He Xu's eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles.

In their opinion, He Xu brought these good things, even if they are poor, many parents in the village still hope that their children can study hard, and in their opinion, only by studying hard can there be hope in the future.

He Xu looked at the villagers smiling, and looked at the smiles on the faces of the children holding new school bags, pencil cases, and gel pens, and his heart was not even more delicious.

"Mr. He! Thank you so much! Fast! Thank you, uncle! ”

The folks who had just walked into the place carried a box of books with a smile on their faces, and said to a stunned little boy who looked like he was seven or eight years old.

The little boy was not idle, holding basic books in his arms, and carrying a brand-new schoolbag on his back, which was obviously full of stationery and books.

"Thank you, uncle!" The little boy looked at He Xu with clean glasses, nodded very seriously, and said.

He Xu nodded, suddenly thought of something, and saw Fang Yi coming to his side, so he asked, "By the way, where do the children here go to school?" ”

This doubt has been in He Xu's mind for a long time, this is a mountain village, barren along the way, even if you climb over the two mountains, you can't see the shadow of the school, it is still barren.

"I'm going to school in a small town." Fang Yi lit a Marlboro and pumped it up beside He Xu, as if talking about ordinary things: "It's just to walk out of the road when we came, and then walk along the highway for about half an hour, there is a small bag station, and it takes about half an hour to get to the town by car." ”

"But the past two years have been much better, I bought a bus and parked it at the mountain pass to pick up and drop off these children every day, which also saved a lot of time."

Fang Yi said casually, but He Xu couldn't help himself when he heard it, is it so difficult to go to school?

Even though it is much more convenient now, it still has to walk more than ten kilometers of mountain roads, and if the pampered children in the city live in this environment, I am afraid they will not be able to go to school for a day!

"Have you read a book?"

After He Xu's eyes were red, Fang Yi turned his head to look at him and suddenly asked.

"Of course!" He Xu suddenly felt looked down upon, thinking that he was also a top student in the Department of Finance back then, but he didn't want to work too hard, thinking of this, he shook his head and smiled, and said, "Not only have I studied, but I still graduated from undergraduate, okay?" ”

As for what the undergraduate was, he didn't say, and Fang Yi didn't ask.

"No wonder, although it is weaker, it looks polite." Fang Yi pursed his lips, smoked a cigarette by himself, and stopped talking.

The villagers talked and laughed and divided the books door to door, and when they came back, their faces were full of smiles, and they saw He Xu's continuous thanks, He Xu looked at the simple little faces, and the children's clean eyes had indescribable sadness in their hearts.

"Koga! Come on! Time to eat! Good stuff, you city people must not have eaten it! ”

Not long after, Fang Dacheng took two villagers and three people to bring up a big iron pot, and then many villagers also brought the subway pot, the iron pot was still bubbling on it, the aroma of mutton immediately overflowed, there were green mint leaves floating on it, the iron pot was placed in the middle of the dining table, and there were a few small dishes and sauces next to it, a total of eight or nine large iron pots, and more than a dozen villagers sat around a pot, looking at the delicious food in the pot, keeping saliva.

He Xu's saliva was about to flow out, he really hadn't eaten this kind of delicacy, greasy mutton and cool mint, a lot of greasy feeling, and a trace of special aroma, plus peppers, peanuts, sesame seeds and other ingredients, it tasted full of oil, but it was extremely delicious.

"Come, He Xu, let's have one, no matter what, thank you today for buying so many things for the village."

At the dinner table, Fang Yi picked up the bowl, and in the bowl was the plum wine brewed in the village, the wine was fragrant, and the degree was not low, He Xu also raised his glass and drank it all.

The villagers expressed their gratitude, brought a bowl, toasted to He Xu, He Xu did not refuse, a few bowls of wine in the stomach, already felt dizzy, plum wine wine is not strong, sweet and sour with mutton is very delicious, but the degree is not low.

If it was usual, He Xu would never let himself get drunk like this, but today is different, for some reason, he wants to drink a little, a little wants to get drunk.

That night, He Xu was so drunk that he cried only after he fell on the bed alone......

The next day, when the sun was shining, He Xu got up from the bed, the wooden planks were simply separated by a wooden plank, there was no window in the room, and when he opened his eyes, the surroundings were still dim.

He Xu patted his head with some pain, got out of bed and walked out of the room slowly, and saw Fang Dacheng's parents sitting on the sofa coaxing two little children, and the slightly older girls no longer read villain books, holding a copy of "Dream of Red Mansions" in their hands and looking at it with relish, He Xu also saw from the title of "Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden" that the book "Dream of Red Mansions" had been wrapped in newspaper and the book cover was neatly packed.

On a whim, He Xu told the little girl about "Dream of Red Mansions" and about Cao Xueqin's deeds, and the little girl listened to it with relish, and her eyes were full of yearning.

"Uncle!"

He Xu reads economics, and doesn't know much about classical literature, and the ink in his stomach has been emptied for half an hour, and as soon as he stopped, the little girl blinked her big eyes and said, "Can you tell me about the outside world?" ”

"The outside world?" He Xu was stunned for a moment, looked at the little girl's clean gaze, took a deep breath, and talked again.

High-rise buildings are lined up one after another, neon flashing lights, all kinds of big companies, all kinds of capable people, when the little girl's eyes light up obviously when she mentions the university, He Xu continued to tell the deeds in the university one by one in front of the little girl, and the little girl's eyes were full of yearning.

"Uncle, I miss college too!" The little girl's face was full of yearning, and then her little face was a little more lonely, and said: "But my parents said that girls read too many books and it was useless, and said that they wanted my two younger brothers to go to college......"

"Everyone has the opportunity to choose their own future, and you are no exception." He Xu looked at the little girl seriously and said, "As long as you can be admitted to college, I can lend you tuition, travel expenses, and living expenses for you to finish college." ”

"Really?" Although the little girl is not very old, she is obviously very sensible in some aspects, and she also knows the family conditions, so when she heard He Xudi's words, her eyes flashed and she immediately asked.

"Of course." He Xu smiled and spoke.

"That hook hanging, it won't change for a hundred years!" The little girl stretched out her little hand in front of He Xu and said with a smile.

He Xu also stretched out his hand and pulled the hook with the little girl, and after pulling the hook, the smile on the little girl's face became even stronger, and she danced happily in the room.

Time flies quickly, before you know it, it's night, Fang Dacheng and Fang Yi returned, the two talked and laughed, under the sunset, the two of them had a smile on their faces, obviously the mood of the two of them back in the village was also very good, and the matter of recruiting the construction site should be going very smoothly today.

"Koga! Come on, have two drinks with me! ”

At the dinner table, Fang Dacheng grinned, raised the bowl, and drank the plum wine in the bowl with He Xu.

"It seems that the recruitment process is going well." He Xu smiled and drank with Fang Dacheng, and then spoke.

"Of course! Arriving here is equivalent to going home, and everything goes smoothly! Fang Dacheng said with a smile: "Early tomorrow morning, a total of more than 100 villagers are ready to go to the city to work and join the Fumen contractor team, and our Fumen contractor team is growing again!" ”

"In the future, we will no longer have to work for others when we go to the city, let's be our own boss! Follow Mr. Lin, I can rest assured! Fang Dacheng drank two glasses of wine, opened the chatterbox, and suddenly couldn't hold it back: "Mr. Lin is really a good person!" She will not look down on us migrant workers at all, and take such good care of us, only here can we feel what equality and respect are, and we can get the remuneration we deserve! ”

Fang Yidi also had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and after eating two bites casually, he put down the dishes and chopsticks, smoking Marlboro, looking at Fang Dacheng's happy appearance, she also had a smile in her eyes, it seemed that she had never seen her father so happy since her mother left.

Tonight's meal is a little simpler than yesterday, but He Xu still eats deliciously.

After dinner, it was already eight o'clock, there was no entertainment in the village, Fang Dacheng had a color TV at home, the old couple turned on the TV, and the villagers sat here with melon seeds and peanuts to watch TV, most of the houses turned off the lights, and the mountains and forests were also dim.

Knowing the news that more than 100 people from Fumen Village were going to enter the city tomorrow, He Xu left the room in the evening, came to the courtyard, raised his eyes to see the bright full moon in the air, picked up the phone, and couldn't help but smile bitterly at the corner of his mouth.

In two days, he felt a lot, and wanted to find someone to talk to but found that there was no second candidate except Lin Xue himself, he shook his head with a wry smile, he still called Wang Yong and instructed him about the chartered car tomorrow.