It snowed heavily at night in Tongjia Town.

The night will be bright.

A few days ago, the thin flakes of snow turned to the size of a goose feather, and suddenly fell on the snow that had accumulated a little half a foot thick, without making a sound. The light of the morning broke free from the shackles of the night little by little, like a gentle hand slowly holding the silver-covered Tongjia Town, and the snow was slightly yellow.

"Squeak."

The branch of the old tree in front of the police station shook down violently, shaking all the heavy snow that had accumulated overnight to the ground.

"Ho, the snow has been so hard this night!" The fat man on the left under the tree was caught off guard by the snow on the tree, and hurriedly took off his thick burrowed winter hat and slapped it.

"Ruixue Mega Year...... Good sign. Xu Rui on the side looked at Tongjia Town, which was wrapped in the white vastness, and felt a little emotional.

Adjutant Xu laughed. Tongjia Town is full of hard rocks, and there are very few places where you can grow food, so there is no good year. Lao Yang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Just ask for two less snowfalls, so that the coal saved by those poor households in the town is enough to survive this winter." ”

Xu Rui glanced at the town that had not yet woken up, and was silent and did not speak.

Today is the agreed departure day, and there are seven or eight heavy locomotives in the garrison office, and there is a long queue in front of the security station, because the temperature is too low at night and the engine is warming up. The three of them stood in front of the pure black locomotive, looking in the direction of Central Avenue from time to time, as if they were waiting for someone.

Lao Yang took a deep sip of the cigarette butt in his hand that was about to burn out, and then threw it into the snow under his feet and stepped on it. He looked at the fat man on the left and asked, "When?" ”

"Three minutes and six o'clock." The fat man on the left rolled up his thick cotton sleeves and looked at his wrists.

The three of them looked up at the same time and looked at Central Street again. After a while, two figures turned around the corner, carrying their luggage and stepping on the early morning light and shadow towards the security station.

"I'm sorry Adjutant Xu, there is a lot of luggage, and it is difficult to pick up ......" Hugo walked up to the three of them, and changed his heavy luggage bag with some embarrassment.

"Well, I knew I would have checked it again last night before I went to bed...... I didn't bring such an important thing with me......" Sister Hong behind Hugo was also carrying a few large luggage, she babbled and followed two steps, and stuffed the two kitchen knives in her hand into Hugo's bulging backpack.

"Just the two of you, little boss? What about the guys in Canglanju? Xu Rui looked behind the two of them again and asked.

"Adjutant Xu doesn't know, I discussed it with the little boss two days ago." The fat man looked at Hugo and said: "This trip back and forth will take more than a month, and the little boss and I are not in the town, and no one takes care of the business." There are few people in Canglanju, so they simply merge the two families. The guys in Canglanju stayed behind to watch the two shops, and there were many people who needed to help the cook, and they all came out of my food. ”

Hugo nodded, pointed to a red and blue heavy motorcycle with a refrigerated compartment that slowly drove at the end of the convoy, and said to Xu Rui: "The guys are all in the last car, and this car is for my own use in Canglanju on weekdays." ”

Xu Rui looked at the end of the convoy when he heard this, the car slowly stopped at the end of the convoy, and a head was poking out of the huge locomotive window, waving at several people, and the red nose in it shook conspicuously.

The left fat man coughed lightly and put on his fur-rimmed winter hat again, and waved his hand at the red nose from a distance, and the latter quickly retracted.

"To tell you the truth, there is a lot of space in the car in addition to the guys you want to bring. It is usually difficult for us to go out of the boundary, but this time it is rare for the security department to help us go out of the border and prepare to bring in some fresh fish. The fat man on the left did not hide it, and said in a fifteen-ten: "Say it in your head, so that you can know." ”

"You didn't have any contraband in the car, did you?" Xu Rui waved his hand and summoned two guards to prepare for inspection.

"It's been inspected by our security department just now, and there is no contraband." Lao Yang hurriedly stepped forward and said.

After getting the confirmed news from his cronies and subordinates, Xu Rui seemed to be relieved, nodded and said, "You originally opened a restaurant, so it's understandable to buy some ingredients by the way." On the way out of bounds, you must be cautious in your words and deeds, and don't cause any trouble. He suddenly seemed to remember something, and told the three of them: "During the journey, your car will drive to the middle of the convoy, so as not to fall behind." After saying that, he supported himself with one hand and turned over into the cab of the first locomotive.

……

The sky is bright, the snowstorm is beginning to stop, and a round of red sun breaks through the wind and snow and rises.

"The two shopkeepers." Lao Yang looked at Hugo and Zuo Fat Man sitting in the red and blue locomotive under the car, lit a cigarette and took a deep breath and said: "It's not too early, be careful along the way, everything in the town has me, don't worry." ”

"Director Yang, then please leave it to you." Hugo nodded, remembering the road he was about to embark on, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly and smiled.

After staying in Tongjia Town for a few years, the bones on his body seem to be a little rusty...... Hugo subconsciously straightened his shoulders and neck and moved twice, temporarily putting aside those doubts and doubts that he had no suspicions, looking at the vast snow field ahead, and feeling a little excited in his heart.

"I'll be back in a month!" Hugo suddenly stuck his head out of the car window, and shouted at someone, his voice full of the vigor of a young man.

Zuo Minglei, who was groping around to find something, was taken aback, "Who is this shouting about?" ”

Sister Hong was not surprised by Hugo's occasional infatuation, she glanced at Zuo Minglei, picked up the water cup hanging on her chest and took a sip without speaking.

Lao Yang turned around and walked to the front of the convoy, stretched out his hand in his coat pocket and waved, signaling that the convoy was ready to go.

With the roar of the locomotive engine, a group of eight locomotives slowly drove out of Tongjia Town along the central avenue, and the hard tires more than half a person high crunched and made two neat dark gray traces in the snow.

The people of Tongjia Town, who got up early, were rushing to work, squatting in front of the door or under the wall in twos and threes with bowls of rice, and raised their heads when they heard the voice, and watched the convoy gradually moving away swallow the gruel in their mouths and sighed: "I have to gnaw on steamed buns for another month......

At the top of the back wall of Canglan Ju was riding a middle-aged man in sloppy clothes, who heard Hugo's shouting from a distance, sat on the wall and was stunned, and said to himself while looking at the distant convoy: "It's only a month, and I won't empty your store......"

Out of Tongjia Town and further north, the terrain turned higher, although there was a little less cold and wet, the snow on the road was getting thicker and thicker, and gradually accumulated the axles of the locomotive.

Seeing the wind and snow getting tighter, the pure black headlights flashed rhythmically a few times before stopping, signaling the team to take a break. The guards got out of the car to trim and clear the snow from the tires and axles of the locomotive.

"Where's the triangular pole?" Under the chassis of the red and blue locomotive lies a man lying on his stomach, with only his legs exposed.

As he spoke, he poked out from under the car and waved a hand with thick cloth gloves, which was stained with engine oil.

"Give." Sister Hong, who was squatting next to the tire, handed the tool to the hand and said, "Tong Wu, what's going on with your nose?" Why is it always so red in spring, summer, autumn and winter? ”

"Alas......" Tong Wu, who was under the car, heard the words and used the support bar to lift the axle, sighed while sweeping the snow on it, and said.

"When I was a child, I often ran in the snow with my bare butt and bare arms in winter, and as a result, my nose was frozen, and I couldn't be cured when I was old. Now there is a big red nose, and the object is not easy to find. Tong Wubang knocked on the axle of the car, shaking down the snow that had accumulated in the crevices and was difficult to clean.

"I think it's quite festive......" Sister Hong pursed her lips, leaned down and pressed against the ground, holding a broom in her right arm to help Tong Wu sweep out the snow cleared. What kind of girl do you like? Sister will introduce you to one. ”

Tong Wu's face turned red and seemed to be a little embarrassed, and he didn't say a reason for squirming for a long time. Sister Hong didn't give up, and said that she would let Tong Wu stretch out her hand to do a divination for him, and see where his wife in his previous life had been reincarnated, and Tong Wuyi was even more embarrassed to come out when he heard it. The two were in a stalemate by the car for a long time, and the guys who were happily resting and smoking on the side laughed and bent over.

Not far from the convoy there was a small snow slope that blocked the view, and Hugo and Fat Left were relaxing behind the slope. The hot urine stirred up the snow, and the exposed teeth were covered with snow and mud.

The left fat man shook and lifted his pants, took out a box of cigarettes from his arms, opened his mouth, and stretched out to Hugo.

"I don't smoke." Hugo straightened his legs and didn't finish urinating, and hurriedly said when he saw that the fat man on the left was about to hand over the cigarette.

"It's good if you don't smoke......," the fat man said, picked up a cigarette in his mouth, and skillfully lit it and took a deep breath.

"Once you learn it, it's hard to quit again......" said the fat man Zuo shook his head, and slowly exhaled a long white gas against the wind.

"It's better to smoke less, didn't the federal government just issue a smoking ban?" Hugo lifted his pants and stomped his feet on the spot, moving his thighs, which were a little sore.

"Bullshit smoking ban, how can anyone supervise us in Ye, don't you see that Lao Yang smokes more cigarettes than me in a day? If you really enforce the smoking ban, I'm afraid that you will suffocate a bunch of old smoking guns. The fat man took off the cigarette from his mouth, looked at Hugo and grinned: "But the way you persuade people to quit smoking reminds me of my daughter, when she lived with my wife, it was more powerful than the smoking ban......"

"Speaking of which, why have you never seen your wife and children?" Hugo was a little curious, in the past few years in Tongjia Town, he had never seen Zuo Fatzi's family, but he had heard that he had a wife and daughter.

"Tongjia Town is too poor and too remote, and there is not even a school. My wife and daughter are both in Xia Ye City, and I bought them a property there when my precious daughter was old enough to go to school a few years ago. The fat man said and put the half-smoked cigarette to his mouth, took out a photo from his arms and handed it to Hugo.

Hugo took the photo, which was a group photo of the Fat Left's family of three. The fat man on the left looked fatter then than he is now, standing on the far left, smirking and hugging his wife on the right. The little girl in the middle is about five or six years old, with a tugging on the back of her head, revealing two little tiger teeth and a sweet smile.

"This kid looks like his mother."

The fat man on the left took back the photo and looked at it, his eyes were full of sweet love. He carefully put the photo in his arms and asked, "By the way, I also have a matter, I wanted to ask you a long time ago, and I haven't been able to keep my face open......"

"What's the matter?"

"Why are you in the Canglan Habitat able to build a channel for the purchase of goods from those nomadic tribes outside the Heavenly Dome? These nomadic tribes are controlled by the military and difficult to deal with, and they rarely deal with us small merchants. The restaurant I used to have in Xihai asked people to change hands several times, but they didn't succeed. ”

The two slowly walked up the snow slope at this time, and Hugo looked at Sister Hong, who was still squatting next to the locomotive and amusing the guys, and smiled.