Wang Ziren looked at Qian Yongqiang and asked, "The story is too long, do you have the patience to listen to it?" ”

One thing that has been held in his heart for a long time, Wang Ziren didn't say anything to anyone, but today in the face of this year-old friend, he couldn't help but want to vomit.

"Of course I want to hear it!" Looking at Qian Yongqiang's expectant eyes, Wang Ziren told him how he rescued the foreigner and how he learned from his mentor back then.

It turned out that the stranger huddled in the haystack came from the distant capital Beijing. In that turbulent era, as an intellectual with an unclear history and overseas connections, he had to take risks and flee if he wanted to survive.

The train that relied on pulling coal came out day and night, and came to this poor country in the dark.

He was exhausted from all the dry rations he had brought with him, the money and food stamps he had with him, and the endless interrogation he had to endure at all times, made him exhausted, and at this moment, he could no longer move forward.

In this cold and dry winter, there is a possibility of freezing to death at any time. He saw a haystack, and he ignored it and plunged into it.

At that time, Wang Ziren was startled when he saw this scene, and he was about to shout loudly. But seeing the frightened and pleading eyes on the stranger's face, he opened his mouth and didn't shout half a word.

Bold, he slowly approached the stranger and saw an unkempt and dying middle-aged man.

He softly spat out a few words from his mouth: "Help me!" ”

Wang Ziren hurriedly ran home and brought water and a few pieces of boiled yams. When the middle-aged man saw the food and water, his dim eyes suddenly brightened, and he devoured it, and after a while, he stuffed all the food into his stomach, and finally, he touched his mouth, wiped his hands, and said:

"I thought I'd freeze to death here today! Young man, it was you who saved me, thank you for your kindness, if someone can escape this catastrophe, he will definitely repay him in the future! ”

The prince smiled shyly, shook his head and said, "It's nothing, whoever encounters it will do it!" ”

The middle-aged man didn't answer, looked at the kind-hearted child approvingly, nodded, combed his unkempt hair with his fingers, flicked the grass clippings on his clothes, sat up cross-legged, and slowly closed his eyes.

After a while, the middle-aged man slowly opened his eyes, and then exhaled a long breath. Wang Ziren looked at this strange middle-aged man, and his heart was full of curiosity.

The middle-aged man looked at Wang Ziren, sighed, and said, "I never dreamed that I could come here in this life—it's all for survival!" ”

Then he asked Wang Ziren: "Young man, where is this, and what is the name of the village?" ”

"My village is called Wangjiaao, more than 60 miles away from the county seat. You're from the city, aren't you? It's cold and snowing, it's hard for you to go so far. - What did you come to me for? Why don't you buy something to eat on the way? ”

The farthest Wang Ziren has ever been to is the county seat. When he was ten years old, he followed his father to the city selling vegetables.

In his childhood memories, the county seat is desirable: high-rise buildings, bright lights, delicious snacks, delicious sodas, toy guns and balloons;

Clean streets, neat trees, people are dressed in nice and neat clothes, and rich people are riding bicycles in leather shoes, shuttling through the streets.

Wang Ziren dreamed of being a city person. At that time, there were only two ways out of the rural area: to be admitted to university or to become a soldier. Wang Ziren didn't think about these two roads.

After graduating from primary school, because his family was too poor to provide for him to go to middle school, this broke his desire to jump out of the farm through the college entrance examination;

And because he graduated from elementary school, he didn't even want to be a soldier.

Despite this, Wang Ziren was still unwilling, and every day when he was plowing the fields with pigweed and oxen, he still thought about the world of flowers in the city.

At every opportunity, he hid from his parents, ran to the city with his feet scattered, and sat on the side of the asphalt road to watch the traffic and people coming and going. Because of this, my ass was whipped by my father's soles.

The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "I came from far away, and I was going to go to the county seat to find a classmate, but because I used up all my money and food stamps along the way, I haven't eaten for four or five days." I thought I was going to freeze to death here today, thanks to you for saving me! ”

"Although it is not far from here to the county seat, it has been snowing too much recently, and the ditches and ditches are filled with snow everywhere, and you can't even save your life if you accidentally fall. At this time of year, we don't travel far away! ”

Wang Ziren looked at the middle-aged man's thin body and looked embarrassed.

"No problem, I've come thousands of kilometers here, as long as there is a stutter, this bit of snow can't stop me." After eating his stomach, the middle-aged man was quite confident, looking at the white snow in the distance, and he was suddenly full of pride.

Wang Ziren pursed his lips secretly, thinking, "Thousands of kilometers? It's up to you, this is a bit big. "There are still stutterers", it seems that he is hungry and afraid, and he does not leave eating in three sentences. Foodie one.

The middle-aged man obviously noticed Wang Ziren's demeanor, and said, "You may not believe it, I'm from Beijing!" ”

"Beijing?" Wang Ziren was stunned, still a little unconvinced. I thought, "Beijing? It's so far away, and it's a snowy day, how is it possible? ”

Seeing that Wang Ziren looked suspicious and didn't quite believe what he said, the middle-aged man's face was slightly unhappy, and his nostrils snorted softly.

Because of the softness of the hands of people and the short mouth of eating people, I have just eaten Wang Ziren's potato, and my mouth has not been wiped clean, and it is not good to get angry.

Hearing that the middle-aged man was from Beijing, Wang Ziren was always skeptical.

In his impression, most of the people in the county town wore leather shoes and rode bicycles, and this person was wearing shabby clothes that were much worse than the local villagers, so how could he be a person from Beijing, who was many times more advanced than the county seat.

He asked, "What do you do in Beijing?" ”

"Are you strict about checking the blind stream here? Do you have to register if you come to a stranger? The middle-aged man did not answer Wang Ziren's question, but asked him two questions worriedly.

"That's a city business, and we don't have anyone here to care about it. We're coming and going here with people from neighboring villages. Besides, there's no blind stream here—"

As he was talking, Wang Ziren quickly closed his mouth, and said in his heart: "Isn't this a blind stream in front of you?" ”

"You're from Beijing, so what are you doing here on this cold day?" In order to break the awkward atmosphere, Wang Ziren took the initiative to ask.

"I can't stay in Beijing anymore, so I'm here to take refuge with an old classmate." The middle-aged man said with a sad face, "I am a middle school teacher in Beijing, and now the students are not in class, and they are crazy every day, even we teachers do not let go, some of us are tortured to death, if I don't leave, the end will be very miserable!" ”

Wang Ziren nodded, and began to believe what the middle-aged man said. Because the middle-aged man said that the young people in the city were making trouble, he had also heard about it from a friend in the same village a few months ago.

That little friend is Wang Ziren's elementary school classmate, and later came to the middle school in the county, a few days ago when he came back from the county seat, when he met Wang Ziren, he said: "Don't run towards the city at every turn in the future, now the whole county is in chaos."

"What's wrong, the county is in chaos?"

"Yes, even our school is in chaos, the classmates are out of class, they mix together every day, set up some 'headquarters', fight with dissidents, and almost kill people a few times, I was scared, so I quickly ran back to the village and hid!"

Wang Ziren began to believe the words of the middle-aged man.

"Yes, one of my elementary school classmates went to school in the county and didn't go for a while." Wang Ziren nodded and said, "Your surname is Zhang, and you are a teacher, then I will call you Teacher Zhang." ”

Seeing that the middle-aged man in front of him was dressed in tatters, but his speech and demeanor were crepe-he looked like a teacher.

"Didn't you go to school in the city? Considering your age, you should be in high school, right? ”

"When I was still in high school, I didn't go back to school after graduating from elementary school. One is that the brain case is too stupid, and the other is that the family really has no money. At the mention of reading, Wang Ziren's face darkened.

"It's a pity, I have to graduate from high school!" Teacher Zhang let out a long sigh.

"It's all gone, don't mention it. Most of the people in our village are like me, who have graduated from primary school, or have not yet graduated, and have started to work in the family farm, and I feel that it is useless to study! Wang Ziren didn't want to mention whether he could read or not, so he diverted the topic and said:

"It's so late, you can't leave, although it's warm in this haystack, it's not suitable for accommodation, you better go home with me, and I'll be there for the night."

"No, I'll deal with it here all night. If people see it, I'm afraid there will be trouble, and it will also bring you unnecessary trouble.

"As long as you don't tell anyone about this, I'm grateful!" After a pause, he added, "Don't talk about it to your parents." ”

"No one saw it, our village is big, and my house is at the head of the village, several miles away from other people's homes. You don't have to worry about my parents, my father is a carpenter, and when he is not working, he works outside and does not return home all year round;

"My mother - my mother died when I was eight years old。。。。。。"

After all, he was a half-grown child, and when he talked about his mother, Wang Ziren gradually choked up.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know about your mother. Let's go, I'll go home with you. But aren't you afraid that I'm a bad person? ”

Teacher Zhang was touched by the simplicity of the villagers, but Wang Ziren was still a child after all, so he went home with him like this, and there was no adult in his family, which always made him feel a little inappropriate.

"Where are there so many bad guys? My dad works in the countryside all the year round, he often says that he relies on his parents at home, relies on friends when he goes out, and tries his best to help people who need help! ”

Wang Ziren thought to himself, don't say that you are not a bad person, even if you are a bad person, as thin as a hemp stick, I will have no problem dealing with three or five people alone.