Time flies, and it is the summer of seventy-nine years in a blink of an eye.

Song Yunhui's letter arrived as scheduled, and Song Yunhui already knew about his sister's marriage, but he couldn't help but ask his sister in the letter about whether he would continue to take the college entrance examination.

In order to avoid estrangement between husband and wife, Song Yunping took the initiative to show Song Yunhui's letter to Wang for re-reading.

Wang Zhong took the letter and said, "What did Xiaohui say in the letter?" ”

Song Yunping said: "You can know if you don't see it yourself." ”

Wang Chong's eyes also fell on the letterhead, in addition to the most common thoughts and greetings, Song Yunhui learned about many current events in school, as well as some of Song Yunhui's views with his classmates, and finally suggested that Song Yunping go to college.

Wang Zhong put the letter away and handed it to Song Yunping.

"What do you think?"

Song Yunping smiled calmly and said, "Didn't you say that even if you don't go to college, you can still get ahead?" ”

Wang Chongdao: "Of course, college just makes your starting point a little higher." ”

"But it is undeniable that going to university is indeed the easiest and fairest way for us poor people born in rural areas to change their fate."

"But going to college isn't the only way out."

Song Yunping said: "Didn't you say that the torrent of the times is coming? ”

"Didn't Xiaohui say in the letter, at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, the reformists have gained the upper hand, and the will to reform is about to lead us on a new path."

"The torrent of the times is coming, and all bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods will be drowned in this torrent."

"Will the old also be drowned in the torrent of the times?" Song Yunping looked at Wang Chong and asked with some expectation.

Wang Zhong said: "Of course! ”

"Didn't you notice that the old man's words in the town are getting less and less weighty now?"

Song Yunping nodded thoughtfully: "It seems to be true." ”

"At the beginning, Lao Qian was so targeted at you, if it was before, where would Xiaohui still have the possibility of going to college, but what was the result? The county didn't beat your sister and brother to death, and finally let Xiaohui go to college. ”

Song Yunping nodded again and again when she heard this, and to this day, she has long been relieved of what happened at the beginning.

Wang Zhong said again: "Let's see, it won't be long before the reform will begin." ”

Song Yunping looked at Wang Chong with curiosity and admiration in her eyes: "How do I feel as if you know everything?" ”

Wang Zhong stretched out his middle index finger, pointed to his eyes and said: ""Warring States Policy" and "Touching the Dragon and Talking about the Empress Dowager Zhao" said: The beloved son of parents has far-reaching plans, and the three-year-old should look at the ten-year-old things, and the ten-year-old should look at the twenty-year-old things. ”

Song Yunping was stunned for a moment, then reacted, her pretty face was slightly red, she raised her hand and gently hammered Wang Chong, and said a little shyly: "Where did we come from, child." ”

Wang Zhong grabbed Song Yunping's soft pancreas and said with a smile: "Won't it be there soon!" ”

Song Yunping turned her head sideways, not daring to look at Wang Chong: "Who wants to have a child with you!" ”

Wang Chong stretched out his hand to take Song Yunping into his arms, and said with emotion: "People have no foresight, there must be near-term worries, although we don't have children yet, but we will always have them in the future, we have to live a hard and tired life, but we have to give the children a better growth environment." ”

"The general trend of this country and the torrent of the times seem to be far away from us, but it is actually closely related to our lives."

"The days to come will only get better and better!"

Song Yunping looked up at Wang Chong, who was full of confidence, and only felt an unprecedented strong sense of security, so she subconsciously raised her hand to wrap her arms around Wang Chong's tiger waist, leaned her head on Wang Chong's thick chest, closed her eyes, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.

"Brother Wang Chong!"

"Sister Xiaoping!"

The exclamation broke the tranquility of the small courtyard, and also broke the beautiful moment when the two of them quietly embraced each other.

"Xiao Yang Xun?" Song Yunping followed the prestige, and saw that on the village road outside the fence, Yang Xun, who was carrying the burden, was waving at them with a smile on his face.

"Sister Xiaoping! Brother Wang Chong! ”

"Why are you here?" Song Yunping enthusiastically opened the door and welcomed Yang Xun into the courtyard.

"It's such a hot day, sit down and rest!" There is a loquat tree in the yard, the fruiting period has long passed, but the branches and leaves are very luxuriant, which is a good place to cool off in midsummer.

Under the tree, there is also a stone table hewn out of bluestone slabs that Wang Zhong himself took from the mountain, and four stone benches.

"Take a sip of herbal tea!" On the stone table was a wooden teapot, a teapot and a stack of open white porcelain bowls that were upside down on the tray.

"Rest Sister Xiaoping! It was a hot day, and I was so thirsty. Yang Xun wiped the sweat on his forehead and face with a towel hanging around his neck, took the tea bowl and thanked him with a smile, then swallowed the bowl in a big gulp.

In just a moment, a bowl of herbal tea all entered Yang Xun's stomach.

Wiping the water stains on the side of his mouth with a towel, Yang Xun smashed his mouth and said, "This tea is really delicious." ”

"Drink more if it's delicious, the tea tube is enough." Song Yunping carried the teapot and smiled to help Yang Xun fill the tea bowl.

"How's business going?" Waiting for Yang Xun to eat two bowls of herbal tea in succession, Song Yunping asked.

Yang Xun said with a smile on his face: "Business is very good, and I earn more every day than when I used to sell steamed buns." ”

Song Yunping said: "That's good, but you still have to be careful, although it is not as strict as before, but you still can't relax." ”

"Sister Xiaoping, don't worry, I can find this road with my eyes closed, if someone really comes to catch me, I will run into the mountains, find a ravine and throw the burden away, get into the old forest, and keep them from finding me."

"You!" Song Yunping looked at the smiling Yang Xun, and felt like she was facing her younger brother.

"Pride makes people complacent, humility makes people progress!" I think you're overconfident. ”

Although he said this, the smile on Song Yunping's face never broke, Yang Xun is not very old, but his mouth is sweet, he is also smart, his brain turns quickly, and his ability to observe words and emotions is even more powerful than many ordinary people in their thirties and forties.

In just a few words, Song Yunping was coaxed into laughter.

"By the way, there aren't many duck feathers harvested today!" With that, Yang Xun walked to the edge of the bamboo basket and lifted the gauze covering the bamboo basket, revealing the fertilizer bag that was stuffed inside.

"It's all here."

"I still have some at home, and I'll bring them together tomorrow."

"There's no hurry!" Song Yunping said: "The duck feathers you sent over last time haven't been used up yet." ”

Since Yang Xun stopped selling steamed buns and changed to selling sugar, Song Yunping began to cooperate with Yang Xun, and the chicken feathers and duck feathers that Yang Xun recovered were sold to Song Yunping, and Song Yunping and Song Mother used these chicken feathers and duck feathers sent by Yang Xun to do tailor work.

In addition to processing chicken feathers and duck feathers, Song Yunping and her mother often pick up some pasty boxes, matchboxes and other bits and pieces of work from the county to supplement the family.

"I'm going out every day anyway!"

"You haven't eaten yet, have you?" It was noon, the sun was scorching, and the weather was very hot.

Yang Xun said: "I brought dry food. ”

"Save the dry food for tomorrow! It just so happens that we haven't had lunch yet, so you can sit down for a while and eat some later. ”

"No need, Sister Xiaoping!" Yang Xun hurriedly stood up and waved his hand to refuse.

"What, don't you give my sister face?" Song Yunping deliberately kept a straight face.

Yang Xun immediately said with a bitter face: "Sister! ”

"Okay, my sister didn't treat you as an outsider, and you don't treat yourself as an outsider, my sister's family doesn't miss you for this mouthful, besides, my sister still has to rely on you to help collect chicken feathers and duck feathers, this general is not a hungry soldier, you help my sister do things, how can my sister make you hungry."

"Okay, just listen to Xiaoping." Wang Zhong also helped to speak.

Yang Xun couldn't resist these two people, so he could only stay and eat.

The next day, Yang Xun sent all the chicken feathers and duck feathers saved by the family to Wang Chong's house, and Song Yunping and Song's mother immediately got busy and cleaned up the chicken feathers and duck feathers that had just been recovered.

Wang Chong went out to collect medicine with Song Jishan early in the morning with a basket on his back, a firewood knife and a medicine hoe.

Although there are many ways for the family to make money now, the most profitable ones are the medicinal materials concocted by Wang Zhong and Song Jishan.

In the past, when the two of them fought alone, they had to go up the mountain to collect medicine, and they had to process and concoct, and the output was naturally not high, but now the family worked together, Wang Chong was responsible for collecting medicine on the mountain, and Song Jishan was mainly responsible for leading his daughter-in-law and daughter to concoct medicinal materials at home, and occasionally followed Wang Chong up the mountain together, and with full cooperation, the output was nearly twice as high as before.

At the beginning of the year, Wang Chong applied with the county medicinal materials station, and asked the medicinal materials station to come forward and ask for a piece of land from the village to plant medicinal materials for Wang Chong and Song Jishan, but the medicinal materials are different from ordinary crops, the varieties are different, and their growth cycles are not the same.

In summer and autumn, it was the high-yield period of medicinal materials, as well as the chicken feathers and duck feathers that Yang Xun retrieved, the family was very busy, and Song Yunping's original plan to visit his younger brother in the provincial capital was broken.

In the blink of an eye, it is more than half a year, the cold winter wax moon, snowflakes flying, and the world is vast.

"Xiaoping, Xiaohui is writing again." Song Yunping was carrying the meat she had just bought from the town, and when she passed by the team headquarters, she was stopped by Secretary Yang.

"Xiaohui's letter?" Song Yunping hurriedly walked into the team site.

"No!" Secretary Yang handed the envelope to Song Yunping and asked, "I heard that you have saved a lot of duck feathers, and you also used duck feathers to make a padded jacket for your father and mother?" ”

Song Yunping said: "Isn't cotton too expensive, our cotton yield here is not high, so it's not as cost-effective as duck feathers." ”

"Do you have any more duck feathers there?" Secretary Yang asked expectantly.

Song Yunping said with an embarrassed face: "Originally, there was still a little more, but yesterday I discussed with my mother to make a padded jacket for Xiaohui, and there was really no superfluity." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll ask, just ask." Secretary Yang said.

Song Yunping suggested: "Secretary Yang, this is the New Year, you must kill ducks at home to eat!" When the time comes, you save up the duck feathers, and find a way to get some, and I'll make another one for you? ”

"Wouldn't it be too much trouble! According to your mother, that duck feather is not easy to deal with. Secretary Yang was a little embarrassed.

Song Yunping said: "Look at what you said, what's not troublesome, anyway, my mother and I have to deal with those chicken feathers and duck feathers every day, and when the time comes, you can bring the duck feathers you have saved, and my mother and I will help you clean them up." ”

"That's it, then I won't be polite to you." Secretary Yang had a bright smile on his face.

"You're polite with me!" Song Yunping also said with a smile.

Holding Song Yunhui's letter, Song Yunping only felt that her steps were much lighter, and she trotted all the way home, put the meat in the kitchen when she got home, and carefully scrubbed her hands clean, so as not to stain the letter with oil on her hands, and then carefully opened the letter.

"What's on the letter?" Mother Song stood beside Song Yunping, rubbed her hands, and asked excitedly, her face full of expectation.

The letter was not long, only two pages were written, but Song Yunping read it very carefully, word by word, for fear of missing a word.

"Mom!" Before she finished reading the letter, Song Yunping looked up at her mother excitedly and said, "Xiaohui is coming back!" ”

"Come back!" Mother Song didn't react at first, but after a while, she came back to her senses, and immediately looked at Song Yunping excitedly, but she was still a little incredulous: "Xiaohui said he wanted to come back?" ”

Song Yunping nodded and said, "Xiaohui said that when the winter vacation is over, he will come back by train." ”

"Really?"

"No, Xiaohui said it in his letter, I don't believe it." Song Yunping showed the letter to Song's mother.

Song Mu said: "I'm illiterate, you hurry up and look down, what else did Xiaohui say?" ”

Song Yunping read the letter to her mother word by word.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day when Song Yunhui came back, early in the morning, before dawn, Song Yunping and Wang Chong got up, simply had breakfast, and the two of them dressed tightly went straight to the town.

Take the earliest shuttle bus to the town station, all the way to the county, and then go straight to the train station.

The two waited at the train station for a whole morning, until two o'clock in the afternoon, when the train stopped and the two squeezed onto the platform.

"There are too many of them!" Song Yunping looked at the surging crowd in front of her, stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck, but she still couldn't see the front.

Wang Chong leaned into Song Yunping's ear and whispered a few words, and before he finished speaking, Song Yunping's face turned red: "Under the public, it's too much." ”

Wang Chong said: "What's this, the more conspicuous it is, the sooner Xiaohui can find us." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Song Yunping to be entangled, Wang Chong directly grabbed Song Yunping's willow waist, threw it up hard, and threw it on his shoulder in Song Yunping's exclamation.

"Sit tight!"

Song Yunping subconsciously kept Wang Chong's head, fortunately, Wang Chong's shoulders were very stable and did not shake at all, but after a while, Song Yunping got used to it, holding Wang Chong's hand with one hand and Wang Chong's head with the other.

Standing high and seeing far away, sitting on Wang Chong's shoulder, Song Yunping suddenly took in the situation in front of him.

In a moment, the doors opened, and the passengers got out of the car one after another.

"Xiaohui!"

"Xiaohui!"

"This way!"

Song Yunping's eyes were sharp, and she found her younger brother Song Yunhui after a while, and even though she was waving, she shouted loudly, where was she still a little embarrassed.

(End of chapter)