Time passed, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, four years have passed, and what Chen Hui asked us to help him do has finally been completely completed.

There is a way that there is no banquet in the world, farewell to Chen Hui, Qiang Shun and I carried our luggage, and came back from the dust.

After four years, time has passed, but our small village has not changed much, except for a few new houses, it is still the same as before, our family, has not changed much, grandma is healthy, my father is still in his welding shop, my mother is still taking care of the housework, everything seems to be the same as when I left four years ago, but my younger brother is no longer the primary school student and child in my memory, he has become a tall high school student, nearly 1.8 meters tall, standing in front of me I have to look up.

There hasn't been much change in the village and at home, but Qiang Shun and I have changed greatly, not to mention that the two of us have lost weight, we have gone through countless transformations in the past four years, both physically and psychologically, we are much more mature and stable than our peers at this time.

Looking back on the experience of the past four years, it is really like a different life, like a dream, that dream has danger and warmth, bitterness and sweetness, everything in the world, all kinds of life, we have experienced, for those who have not experienced it, it is unimaginable in a lifetime.

To this day, what we have gained in the past four years, we can't say clearly, the only thing we are fortunate to be happy about is that we are still alive, we have survived, we have really grown up, matured, shed childishness and brought vicissitudes, no longer crying little farts children, no longer truant junior high school students, just like the pool water that precipitated after a storm, a pool of tranquility.

However, what we have to face next is how we should survive, how to continue to survive in this materialistic and money-obsessed society.

Half a month after returning home, Qiang Shun's father Wang Sihe came to my father at night, Wang Sihe discussed with my father, let me and Qiang Shun follow him up the mountain to open stones together, although the two of us also brought back some money when we came back, but we are almost twenty years old at this time, we can't always stay at home and sit and eat.

My father originally wanted me to learn iron welding with him, but in the past two years, the business of his welding shop has not been very good, let alone the business of iron making.

My father listened to Wang Sihe, and finally agreed that I should go up the mountain to open stones.

A few days later, I went to the north of the mountain with Qiang Shun, which is about ten miles away from our house, a little closer than the rose spring that left our house in the past, and a little southeast of the rose spring, which is still a mountain in our village, but in recent years it has been contracted to an individual, and it is enough to pay a little contract fee to the village every year.

As mentioned a few times earlier, what is the purpose of opening the mountain, the purpose of opening the mountain is to sell stones, and the stones that are driven down from the mountain are crushed by the crusher, and made into stones and stone powder to be sold out, and the people here call them "stone slag factories". This gravel factory can be said to be a million profits, in the past, those gravel factory owners are now rich, and many people are black and white, hands and eyes, but they have a common characteristic, that is, ruthless, rich and unkind.

This piece of the mountain in our village was contracted to a man named Li Sanyuan in our village, this person is really not a good thing, Wang Sihe because he has been working in the mountain for many years, and this Li Sanyuan has a little friendship, Li Sanyuan agreed to me and Qiang Shun to work on the mountain.

Wang Sihe originally planned to let the two of us follow him to shoot the hole and set off explosives, who knew that Li Sanyuan thought that the two of us were unstable and unstable, so he asked us to carry a sharp ash rod and a round ash rod sledgehammer to smash stones, this is a chore, those who pick up a sledgehammer to smash stones, either two hundred and five or lack of tendons, is what we say here, eight layers of familiarity, eyes can't do the work, you can make a little bit of effort.

Although I have experienced a lot of ups and downs with Qiang Shun in the past four years, this kind of solid physical work is a little unbearable as soon as I come into contact. But neither of us complained of any suffering, which was a far cry from what we had suffered in the past four years.

At this time, Xiaoqing and Xinjian two, after Xiaoqing graduated from junior high school, he no longer continued to go to school, he was also the same as us, in fact, he was tired of school, after graduating from junior high school, he entered a factory as a "worker" called our envy, and it is possible that in the future it will turn into a "citizen" that we envy even more.

In our city, that is, those who learn to drive and repair cars also learn to repair cars, but that is all the process of walking, mainly to call you teaching fees, and after three years, I will issue you a driver's license, but his family has money, and he is an only child, and he doesn't care about the tens of thousands of yuan in tuition.

When I just came back from other places, my mother handed me a letter, I looked at it, it was actually written by Hu Huihui, there was nothing special in the letter, first some greetings, and then said her own life and situation in the school, coincidentally, she actually built a new school with her, by the way, and my cousin, also in that school. Don't forget, my mother and my father are a change of kinship, my mother is married to my father, my aunt is married to my uncle, and my cousin is equivalent to the son of my aunt and my uncle, who is a year younger than me, and is a monkey. I also have two cousins, and I'll slowly mention them later.

In the letter, Hu Huihui's handwriting became more and more delicate and cute, but after reading the letter, I looked at the payment and smiled bitterly in my heart for a while, why, the letter was: Your tablemate Hui'er, October 1996, and when I got this letter, it was June 1999, after three years!

Three years, three years, how many three years can there be in life, who knows what a person will become after three years, just like me, the changes are almost earth-shaking, except that the feelings for Hu Huihui have not changed.

However, this letter at that time did soothe my longing for her in the past four years, and this letter shows that she also has me in her heart.

In the letter, there was also a phone number, which was the landline number at their home, at that time, there was no mobile phone, what QQ, WeChat, not to mention, I hadn't even heard of his mother. Today's young people, it's really a fucking good time, if I had a mobile phone at that time, QQ or something...... Forget it, let's not talk about it.

One night, I drank a few of them with Qiang Shun Xiaoqing, and finally the wine was bold, I went to our village commissary to call her, very lucky, she answered, but what we talked about that time, I basically forgot, anyway, I didn't say I miss you, I like you and so on, just remember that she didn't go out to work, specializing in cooking at home, or specifically staying at home to get married.

After that, I called her again, and every time it was lukewarm, but as long as I listened to her voice, I was satisfied. That's if you have a mobile phone, QQ, forget it, don't bother with this.

To the second month of the mountain opening, it is the golden autumn September, at this time, the country has a sense of environmental protection, it seems that there is no return to the forest or something, I don't remember clearly, but the upper intends to protect the mountains and forests in our area, but there is a policy, there are countermeasures, during the day is not called to release explosives to open the mountain, then open at night, every evening when the mountain is busy, shoot the hole, put explosives, generally at 11 or 2 o'clock in the evening, boom boom a few explosions, in our home can be heard.

One night, there was a shortage of manpower in the field, Wang Sihe called me and Qiang Shun, Wang Sihe's meaning, told us to exercise, so that we could follow him to shoot eyes and fire guns in the future, this life has a certain technical content, more decent than smashing stones with a sledgehammer.

The book says briefly. At that time, Qiang Shun and I had been smashing stones for a day, and we were tired enough, so Wang Sihe told us to rest in the dormitory for a while, and then call us when the cannon was fired, because most of the people under the mountain had not slept at this time, and it was a little early to light the cannon.

When it was almost twelve o'clock, Qiang Shun and I both fell asleep in the dormitory, Wang Sihe came to wake us up, and we followed him into a small house in a daze, which was a stone house very strong, and there was nothing in it, just some wires or something, this is where they lit the cannon.

What about the tools for firing the artillery, have you seen those war movies, there is the kind of explosives that after putting the explosives, the sapper carries a small box in his hand, and puts the line in the trench at the same time. It's this box, there are two wires on it, one red and one blue, when it is fried, connect the wire to the positive and negative poles of the small box, there is a handle on the small box, lift it up and twist it, and then press it down, the thing that lights the cannon on the mountain, it is exactly the same as this, but the wire is very thin, what is it called, now I have forgotten, it is as thin as a needle.

Wang Sihe put a hollow small tube in each of our mouths, told us to hold it, he went outside and shouted a few times, lit the cannon, lit the cannon, went back to the house and picked up the box and lifted it and twisted it, instantly, boom and boom, deafening, followed by a while, the stone powder foam rushed into the house like a flood that burst the embankment, the choking nostrils itched, and the electric lights in the house instantly turned into a dim color, just like a street lamp in the fog, and only a small piece of light around the lamp could be seen.

After a while, the dust had almost fallen, Wang Sihe patted the stone powder on his body and took us out of the door. In fact, at this time, not only the three of us, but also one person, what is the name of that person, I can't remember it now, anyway, it is a relative of Li Sanyuan's wife, a relative of Li Sanyuan's wife, I heard that it is his wife's cousin, many people here call him "brother-in-law" behind their backs, and the brother-in-law scolds people here because this person is not good, and he likes to say bad things about Li Sanyuan's co-workers, informants or something.

After letting go of the cannon, for the sake of safety, we had to check the cannon hole again, and we each went out with a flashlight.

When I arrived at the root of the mountain, it was already unrecognizable, and a large piece of the mountain was blown off, and it looked as if it had been bitten by something.

Holding the flashlight and stepping on the rocks, we walked towards the blast hole, but before we reached the blast hole, Qiang Shun next to me sniffed his nose, at this time the dust from the explosives had not completely fallen, and the front of the flashlight beam was still foggy and dusty. After Qiang Shun sniffed twice, he sneezed hard, and then wiped his nose with his sleeve and whispered to me: "Huanghe, do you smell anything?" ”

I glanced at him and asked, "What do you smell?" ”

Qiang Shun said: "I smell a smell of barbecue, do you remember that two years ago, we roasted pheasants with Chen Daochang in the mountains, it was very similar to that smell." ”

I looked at him suspiciously, is this kid hungry? I sniffed my nose cautiously, not to mention, it really smelled of roasted meat, and it was baked, just like burning hair.

The more you go to the blast hole, the stronger the smell becomes, and finally, Wang Sihe and Li Sanyuan's brother-in-law also smelled it.

The brother-in-law greeted us, "Quick, it may be a fried wild boar or something, who can find whose it is." ”

Although Qiang Shun and I have not been here for a long time, but the people here, we all know seventy-seven eighty-eight, because we have followed Chen Hui in the past four years, not only fighting with those ghosts, but also fighting with people most of the time, but whenever we come into contact with a person, first look at the quality of this person, and then look at this person's behavior, to see if this person is worth believing and trusting.

When Qiang Shun and I heard this, we looked at each other, and I said in my heart, whoever finds it is yours, and I don't know what virtue you have. Qiang Shun thinks the same as me, the two of us walk slowly at the back, saving us from discovering it first, and then giving him a dog to take it away. Wang Sihe didn't go fast at this time, and he obviously didn't want to provoke this brother-in-law.

The brother-in-law was very excited at this time, like a dog, and passed after smelling it. After a while, he saw his flashlight stop on a pile of rocks in front of him, and after shining the flashlight on the ground a few times, he shouted at us: "I found it, I found it first, and none of you should fight with it." With that, he put down his flashlight and put it on with his hands.

When we got to him, he was dragging something out of the rocks, maybe because of excitement, or maybe because of the amplitude of his movements, and the flashlight hit him to the side, and it was pitch black.

Wang Sihe walked to him first, I followed closely with Qiang Shun, Wang Sihe raised the flashlight and shone at the thing that the brother-in-law pulled, I took a look at it with his flashlight, it was not a wild boar, it was a scorched black human arm!

(Thanks to the crown of the "im_maximus" friend for the tip.) ）