Qian Aishu carried a simple bag on his back. He stood outside the door of Li Hongdou's house, raised his fist, and the fist was there, he didn't even have the courage to knock on this door. Hesitated for a long time. In the end, he didn't knock on the door that separated Li Hongdou from him inside and out. His hands hung down and his fists loosened.

After standing for a long time, Qian Aishu turned around and left. He had a hundred dollars on him. He didn't know how far the hundred dollars could support him, and how long he could wander. But he thought about it, since it was a wandering, then maybe money was not so important. He walked through the city, away from the direction of his home, away from the mountains, and he said to himself, "I want to go as far as I can, and the farther the better."

Man is born destined to wander. It's just a matter of time. Even a man who has never stepped out of a mountain will wander his mind, if he still has a mind. Even if he no longer has thoughts, his chaotic soul will one day leave his body and fly out of the mountains to wander. Qian Aishu felt that he was just one step ahead.

He walked aimlessly, and on the way he came across a team of bicycles. A total of 8 bicycles, parked on the side of the road. The riders were young lads with long hair and strange dresses. Qian Aishu walked over alone, and they all leaned on the seat of the car and squinted at him. Qian Aishu greeted one of them, and the person immediately responded. "Come with us." He glanced at the burden on Qian Aishu's back and said. Qian Aishu thought about it and felt that he had no goal, so he asked them where they were going. Just now the man said that they were going to the Yellow River to investigate the customs and customs along the Yellow River, and he was the captain of their team. His surname is Zhao. The other surnames are: Qian, Sun, Li, Zhang, Wang, Liu, and Deng. From him down, everyone is sorted by surname like this, the eldest, the second, the third...... Such a name. Qian Aishu told them that his surname was Qian.

Then Qian Aishu asked, what if I don't have a bicycle?

This is easy to do, the boss said to get on the bike, you sit in the back, and I will take you to pick up the car.

The boss rode back to the city with Qian Aishu, and then rode into a narrow and dark alley. Turning around, the boss suddenly stopped. "Don't make a sound." The boss cautioned him. The boss parked the car behind a small building and told him to stay out of the way. He agreed. The big cat tiptoed downstairs. There is a small carport on the side of the building where a few bicycles are parked. Qian Aishu realized what the boss was going to do. "Hey! What are you doing? He shouted in a low voice. Hush! The Boss winked back at him, then jumped into the carport, which was locked. The boss picked up one and ran. Qian Aishu pushed the cart and followed.

The bicycle clanged on the boss's shoulder, so that the owner of the bicycle heard it and chased it out of the house. "Stinky boy, don't run!" The man just said that, shouting over and over again. The boss didn't go back and ran desperately. "Second brother, don't panic, help me block it." Qian Aishu could guess that the boss was calling him. Later, he understood that the reason why the eldest called him the eldest second child was because his surname was Qian and ranked second among their surnames, and because they already had a second child, they called him the eldest second child, and this "big" may be to sound better.

Qian Aishu was panicked, but he was also crooked, when the man ran past him, he was scared, for fear that he would see that he was a gangster, so scared, his legs were weak, his hands were crispy, and he fell in the middle of the alley with the bicycle. The man couldn't dodge, and was tripped to the ground by Qian Aishu.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry!" The man couldn't get up, but he was still struggling to get up.

The man tried several times, but couldn't get up. Every time I tried, I didn't do anything other than scream a few more oops. Qian Aishu's condition was not much better, he felt as if his calf bone had been broken. He barely stood up, limped over, and helped the man to his feet. I just saw the boss twisting his ass at the other end of the alley. "!" Qian Aishu hated it so much that he didn't care about the leg pain, so he rushed over and punched the boss in the face. The boss didn't know if he was stupid, stunned, or too unexpected, in short, he was like someone had clicked on the acupoint, and after a while, he screamed hysterically: "Are you crazy!?" ”

Because of his anger, Qian Aishu's head began to hurt again, and he rolled on the ground with a headache in his hands. The boss must have thought that he was pretending, and he came up and kicked Qian Aishu, although not very hard. This made Qian Aishu even more angry, and his head hurt even more, and he couldn't breathe in pain. Then Qian Aishu foamed at the mouth. Now the boss was frightened. He looked at his toes, maybe he felt that the reason why Qian Aishu was foaming at the mouth was because he kicked too hard. The boss stopped running away, and he shouted to the man he was chasing, "Hey! Come and help, I'm going to die! When the man heard this, he immediately became as if he had never been injured. Running over.

"Stinky boy! Stinky boy! ...... "That man came over to see what was going on with Qian Aishu. He had a good fight against the boss. The boss just dodged around, but he didn't fight back.

"Dad, are you finished?" The boss's words made Qian Aishu stunned, and the headache disappeared immediately. He stared at the cow's big eyes. Killing him, he couldn't believe that the pair in front of him was father and son. "He's my dad......" said the Boss.

In the end, Qian Aishu and the boss rode away on their bicycles. "How did you steal your car?" Qian Aishu asked the boss.

"I fell out with my dad, and to be honest, I ran away from home...... "The boss replied to the question, muttering to himself, "They don't care, there is no more of me in the family, and there is no less of me." ”

The other riders, needless to say, have run away from home. So does money love books.

"Heaven and earth are ours!" The boss clenched his hands into fists with a serious expression and shouted to the sky, "Freedom is ours!" ”

Perhaps this is the difference between people in the city and people in the mountains. Running away from home is such a helpless thing for Qian Aishu, he even refuses to admit that it is running away from home, and has always wanted to find a high-sounding reason. He kept emphasizing to himself that I was just going out for a walk and that my head wouldn't hurt so much. This is one reason why he thinks it's important for him to run away from home.

However, for the boss, they don't need a reason to run away from home. If there is one reason for this, it is "running away from home".

"I never distinguish between cause and effect, and I do what I have to do."

But in Qian Aishu's view, the boss's so-called "do what you have to do." It's better to say, "Do whatever you want." Perhaps, these are mixed up in themselves, and the boss is right. It's all runaways, it's the same.

The problem with the car was solved. The boss said that he wanted to give the "convoy" a vigorous name. It was proposed to call the "Prodigal Son" convoy. The rest said, it's too cheesy! It's just vulgar! What's that called?! The proposer's neck was red, and the green tendons on his forehead were bulging. "It's no match for the stupid hat, so it's called the stupid hat team?" "Silly hat!? You can't die if you die! The boss looked like he was going to slap someone, "I said it earlier, don't come out if you don't want to, if you come out, you have to have a heart!" The man bowed his head.

Later, Qian Aishu knew that the person who lowered his head just now was "the same family as him five hundred years ago" - because he was called the second child, Qian Aishu was called the eldest second. Knowing this layer of relationship. Qian Aishu had a preconceived psychological sense of closeness to him. I always want to talk to him.

The name of the team was never decided. But it doesn't matter. Everyone's purpose is to escape, it doesn't matter if you have a name or not. The boss took out a large map from his backpack and spread it out on the ground, and everyone gathered around in a circle. The boss's eyes are quite sharp, and he saw the Yellow River at a glance, and he pointed it out to everyone - look, this is the Yellow River! - Everyone knows that it is the Yellow River - this is where we are going, and the boss continued, we are going to cross the Yangtze River. Qian Aishu looks at the second, the second looks at the third, and the third looks at the fourth...... Look back at the boss - so far! They said in unison.

"Isn't that exactly what we need?" The Boss said, "The farther away the better!" ”

The farther away the better, Qian Aishu thinks the same way. But to really go so far, can "escape" support him to go so far? Under the sun, there are dark and invisible shadows. The Boss pointed to a road, looked up for the direction of the sun, discerned the direction it was leading, and after careful consideration, the Boss said, "This is it!" ”

That's it, indeed. Everyone rode along this road and kept riding forward, as if there was no end to the road. That's right! The boss said that such a lofty goal should always follow this path, there is no end, there is no end, there is never an end!

It's going to happen! There will be an end to the day. The second reminded the boss. There was a melancholy in the boss's eyes that could not be replicated. The oncoming wind crackled in my ears like firecrackers. The boss stomped on a few feet and scurried forward.

On the way, they stopped at the edge of a small village. Everyone squatted under a large locust tree at the edge of the village. The sun is very poisonous, and the long sun exposure will almost roast them into bacon. The boss asked Qian Aishu to go with him to the village to "beg" for a pot of tea. Qian Aishu stood up and followed the boss. The second child chased after him and said, "Boss, you go and rest, I'll just go with the eldest second." The boss looked back and forth, okay, then you two go and come back quickly.

Qian Aishu and the second child went to the village. This is still at the edge of the village, and there is still a paddy field across the village from the place where the residents live, and a small river runs through the paddy field. Connecting the two sides of the river is a small bridge made of wooden stakes and planks – the kind often seen in Wang Wei's landscape paintings. Suddenly, an egret fluttered out of the paddy field, and the egrets on the other side of the river also responded, flying out in the east and west....... Looking up from the small bridge, I saw the willow trees with soft branches at the head of the bridge, and there were faintly a few columns of light cooking smoke, like a faint brush in Chinese painting, in the blue sky, it is a coordinated color.

The river water is clear and rippling, and a few gray ducks and white geese in the middle, with red anthuriums, plucking clear waves, come slowly. Qian Aishu and the second child went on the wooden bridge, and the second child stood in the middle of the bridge with a solemn expression. If a third person saw it, he would definitely see that compared to the second child, Qian Aishu's expression was numb.

"Let's go, don't spoil such a good view." Qian Aishu pushed the second child and said.

"It doesn't matter, the sky is still the sky." The second half looked up, "I don't know what my mother is doing now?" The second child paused, "I miss my mother so much." ”

"Then why don't you go back?" Qian Aishu asked the second child.

The second child didn't speak for a long time. Finally, he said, "I can't live with my mom and dad." ”

"What's so sorry, call dad and mom, don't everything be over......"

"You don't understand......" The second child snatched Qian Aishu's words.

"Brother." Qian Aishu shouted.

The second child looked at Qian Aishu and nodded, his eyes told Qian Aishu that he had a lot to say, and Qian Aishu listened quietly-

"When I was busy planting rice in the paddy fields, I was sweating profusely, and the glasses hanging on my ears were dangling, and when I bowed forward, it retreated back to the bridge of my nose, and I stepped backwards, sometimes in a hurry, and it hit my forehead. It kept changing perspectives, tormenting my eyes, and slowly I felt like I was swinging. The two strands also began to tremble and unsteadily. I threw the seedlings that I was about to break at my feet, walked to the ridge, and sat down to gasp for air. I looked up just in time to see the fifth aunt coming over. What's wrong? Reading man, I can't bear it, listen to my aunt, go back and rest, what kind of reading person did it? It's not so stupid, doing so much farm work for them, and their faces are tanned...... The fifth aunt teased me. If you can, you can help, and I'm not usually at home. I replied to Aunt Five, and then laughed habitually. The fifth aunt was followed by the sixth aunt. The sixth aunt also told me, nephew, can you see it when you take off your glasses? You can see, I'm not blind, I'm just a little short-sighted. I say. Both of them nodded and walked past me. After walking a dozen or so steps, I could vaguely hear them talking,...... Tsk, my eyes are blind. If you don't get into college, you won't be able to do farm work, and you're really wrong at both ends...... I didn't have any idea because my mom said that to other people. I said that too. Students who can't get into college have to be told like this. ”

"Your village is at least better than ours, we have been decades, and I am a high school student." Qian Aishu interjected into the second child's words. The second child smiled faintly, and then told his story:

"The friends I grew up with playing with mud are now married, and the eldest son is two years old. Among several partners, the one who has the most nourishing life is Qian Liu. He didn't finish junior high school and went home to plow the fields. But don't call him stupid, he's been the best playful among us since he was a child. I'm curious about everything.,When you see something new, you always want to figure it out.。 I remember that at that time, the situation of my family was still very good in our village. When I was 87 years old, my family bought a radio, and the first time I saw 'household appliances' made me very happy. Every day after school, I don't follow my partner to the mountain stream to fish for shrimp and crabs like before, so I go straight home, and then move a stool and sit down respectfully to listen to the radio. My family bought a radio because my parents told me not to talk too much to outsiders, so as not to steal it at night; That's why I never mentioned it to my friends. Although I would love to mention it to them. Surely they don't know what a radio is. However, later, somehow, the news was known to Qian Liu. When we both came home from school that day, Qian Liu was sullen all the way, and I asked him what was wrong, and he told me that his dad had beaten him that morning. Then he suddenly grabbed my arm tightly and said, I don't dare to go back. As he spoke, his hands were shaking. Then, Qian Liu said that he wanted to borrow it for one night at my house. I was embarrassed to refuse, so I took Qian Liu home for a night. The next day we went to school together. In the afternoon, Qian Liu returned to his house. Something went wrong and the radio was gone. I didn't dare to tell my parents, and then hurried to find Qian Liu. I'm sure he stole the radio. The radio had been stolen by Qian Liu—I found the radio's corpse under his bed—a bunch of broken things that couldn't be put back together. Hehe, Qian Liu is like this, he wants to take everything apart and take a look. In the past few years, he has dismantled diesel engines and tractors, and he will dismantle whatever new things enter the village. Hehe, he really let him take out the door - the year before last, he started a self-employed maintenance job. Not only in our village, but also in several neighboring villages, this technology is unique. Money six natural sources of wealth rolling. Among my childhood friends, only one of them was admitted to college like me, and the other two were just like me. If you are admitted to university, you don't know what good life he will be able to live in the future, bless him. My brothers, who are in distress like me, wear a pale face that is extremely incongruous with the countryside every day. Looking at the dark faces of the villagers, our feelings are mixed. What is the use of reading this book? Is this kind of education useful for rural areas? Perhaps, children from the countryside went to the city through reading, but did this help the countryside? May be harmful. I'm also useless, and I'm going to do nothing but escape. ”

The second child's words stop here.

"We still have a mission, we still have to cross the bridge." Qian Aishu pushed the second child who looked a little dazed, "Let's go, the boss is waiting for our water." ”

They went into the village and made four pots of tea with the villagers, thanked them, and then went back to meet the boss.

After drinking the water, everyone took a break and continued on their way.

"The road is long, I will go up and down and seek!" The boss is the soul of the team, and there are bold words at all times.