After a while, I heard the sound of the police car and the sound of the ambulance from far and near, it must have been a car accident, and at this time, the fat man also returned to the car, confirming my suspicion. He said that a large trailer loaded with chemicals overturned at the intersection in front of him, scattering chemicals all over the ground, and the driver was trapped in the front of the vehicle, and the road in front had been closed, so he had to turn around and walk back.

What can I do about this, it seems that I can't pass in two or three hours, hey, it's really not a good time to come out.

While talking, several traffic policemen came from the front to direct the traffic, and the vehicle behind us had turned around, and the fat man hit the steering wheel and started the car.

"Is there any other way back?" I asked.

The fat man thought for a while and said, "Yes, there is, but it takes a big circle, and it takes more than an hour, and the oil in the car is not enough." ”

"Aren't you going back?"

"It's going back, but you can't leave the car halfway, if you don't mind, let's find a place to eat, and then decide which way to go when we come back."

That's all I can do now, and I agreed.

We patronized a small restaurant outside the flower and bird market, which is frequented by fat men, and said that crayfish are particularly delicious, we ordered two catties, and it was really good, plus a bottle of cold beer, completely swept away the bad luck just now.

The fat man is not greedy, he drinks Coke, but the cigarette does not leave his mouth. Unexpectedly, he was silent at this time, as if he was still frowning about his life experience.

In order to ease his mood, I could only open the conversation again and tell him a more bizarre story, including a life experience that I had never revealed.

Since the incident of Xiaobao's father, the village has been relatively calm, but several things have happened: first, Shuize Village has officially entered the era of the People's Commune, and our identity has changed from a villager to a member, and the random flow of the population has been restricted. second, Xiaobao's father's condition deteriorated sharply within half a year after he came back, and he passed the New Year and passed away. Third, Runzi's father was preoccupied all day long, and he communicated with me more and more, almost snubbing Runzi, which made me very uncomfortable; Fourth, traces of the "third brother" have been found several times near the outside of the village, but nothing has been found.

I remember that in June of '60, Junzi and I were assigned to dig a river pond with the people in the production team, but in fact, this was the second time we went, and there were still some disputes here. According to the elders, this place is on the border of two villages, and twenty years ago it was a branch of a river, and our village and the next village were bounded by this. But after years of irrigation and fishing, the river has become a dead end, and in the summer it stinks and becomes a dump for waste. This year's excavation of rocks has completely intercepted the river, and this place is full of garbage and rubble, and it is not an easy job to dig a thousand-square-square pond, but for us, we can earn more extra work.

The most critical part of this work also involves another production team, the first time I went, the other party also took a fancy to this place, and we couldn't hold on, and finally under the mediation of the production team, we reluctantly gave it to us.

Although it was given to our production team, but its own conditions are insufficient, there are not many young and strong people, and there are only about 20 people who can pull it out, and the time given to us is only one month, which is sad for the captain, and in desperation, the old women are also called over to help, and they are busy for half a month before cleaning up this place, and the rest can only rely on our 20 people to dig the soil.

Early in the morning, Runzi came to ask me to start work, at that time, two meals a day, I had to solve it by myself in the morning, the public canteen was not served, I took a sweet potato from home as breakfast and went to the river, where I didn't see the usual sleepy-eyed members, but a group of people gathered around to discuss something.

Junko loves to join in the fun, and as soon as she trotted down, she squeezed in front of her, looked at me twice, and beckoned me over.

I still wanted to sit and take a nap, but I was almost disturbed by Runko's screams, and after eating the last bite, I hurried up to see the excitement, only to see a black cylinder as long as a palm and a wrist thick as an adult's arm emerge from the blackened river mud.

"What the hell is this, chimney, no, iron rod?" Dabao pondered.

"It doesn't matter what he is, dig it out and take a look, it looks like an iron thing, hand it over to the commune, we can still make a contribution!" Liu Damin, the deputy captain, made a quick decision, took the pickaxe and knocked twice on the black pillar first, making a dull sound a bit like a boiler running.

I thought to myself that I had been buried in the ground for a long time, and I didn't feel that a catastrophe was coming.

With Liu Damin's order, everyone took up the guys at hand, and dug deep one by one, only to dig a shallow layer, the sky suddenly changed suddenly, and the good sound of the day was cloudy in a blink of an eye, and the wind blew with a little drizzle and gusts of wind that gave people goosebumps.

The mud in the river was getting wet, with a slight smell of mud, and the feet were fluffy and softening, forcing us back to shore. A row of people sat under the temporary shed, and they didn't forget to talk nonsense.

Dabao said: "I said Captain Liu, if we dig out an iron lump, how much work can we give, I don't agree if it is ten points less, the big guy said yes?" ”

Everyone hurriedly coaxed and agreed.

"You are a fool, can you speak human words, you will work a whole day, you have more arms than others, or more legs!"

"How did this become my own business, didn't all the big guys take credit, and I didn't say that it was only for me!"

"Let me tell you the truth, this year's output value of our team is far behind, and if we do this, we have to be criticized, if we can dig out a big iron lump, how can we be more comfortable in the second half of the year, but the ugly words are ahead, if anyone is lazy and twitching, I will not be able to spare him." Liu Damin looked at us one by one, a little warned.

It is said that Liu Damin is in his forties, his daughter-in-law is an accountant in the production team, and she has been a poor peasant for several lifetimes. After the establishment of the People's Commune, he led more than 40 families in the village to form a production team, doing things with a tendon, specifically picking difficult work and tiring work, no one persuaded it, and other production teams took this thing for fun, but the bitter thing is that we would have starved to death if it were not for the captain of the production team to change twice in three days, and he would have to starve to death if he did not get tired of working under his hands.

Let's talk about it, everyone is shut up, we all know that it's the same to do more and less in these years, one gets work, one eats canteen, no one is much more than the other, who can be lazy who won't, just with the same advocacy, it will still change its taste after a long time.

After chatting for a long time, the showers stopped without warning, and the temperature returned to normal, and we didn't expect that the black pillars we dug were washed away by the rain, and we were shocked into a lot of cold sweat at first glance.