One day, the sun seemed to come out of the west, and a group of pedestrians paid the bridge toll, and walked about fifty meters away, when suddenly a horse with a long face and silver hair caught up, shouting, stop, I just collected your toll, and now I will return it to you. Everyone wondered, didn't understand why?

Some said, don't return it, just pay the money, and don't pay the money next time you cross the bridge? Some said, give it back to me, and I will receive it, and these four yuan can buy a few catties of salt! Anyway, Ma Yinfa returned the money to them one by one.

I also saw Ma Yinfa take the ladder up to the wooden frames on both sides of the bridge, and took down the original two signs and replaced them with two new ones. It was handed to him by Ma Yinxing, who was standing there, and the sign read: From today onwards, all pedestrians will be exempted from bridge tolls.

Everyone looked carefully, as if they didn't believe their eyes, until they were sure that it was true, and then they left satisfied, discussing along the way, but they didn't understand why the Ma family, who had been collecting bridge tolls, was kind. Why is this so, at first even Ma Yinfa is not clear. After he changed the brand, he asked Ma Ginkgo, sister, why didn't you charge a penny for the bridge toll? Isn't it okay to charge a little less?

Ma Yinxing smiled bitterly and said the reason: Long Lai fell ill at school again, Principal Tian called your brother and asked to send Long Lai to the hospital, I asked your brother to take Long Lai home to take a good look at it, and let me go to Baota Mountain to ask Daoist Tan if there is any way to treat it, if there is no way to treat it, it is not too late to send him to the hospital to see a doctor.

I went to Pagoda Mountain this morning just to find Tan Daoist, before I spoke, Tan Daoist knew my intention, he reprimanded me with a straight face, saying that our family funded the construction of a pontoon bridge on the Longpan River, to facilitate the people to cross the river, this is a good thing, but should not charge people's bridge tolls, just because of this reason, offended the tower god, the tower god is angry, the dragon will be sick, and this kind of madness, the doctor is also difficult to cure.

Hearing this, Ma Yinfa said very suspiciously, I don't believe it, Longlai's illness is the reason why we collected bridge tolls, and now we have stopped collecting bridge tolls and returned the money we received to others, is Longlai's madness really cured? If it's not good, I think it's better to continue to collect it.

If not, the bridge toll cannot be collected. Ma Yingxing stood on the pontoon bridge and looked at the river flowing quietly under the bridge, as if her mind was quietly being baptized. She resolutely said that even if Longlai's illness is cured, she will not be able to accept it in the future, and if she does, maybe Longlai's illness will attack again.

Sister, don't be too superstitious, don't charge bridge tolls now, I'll go home with you to see if Long Lai's illness is cured, if it is better, I will believe what Daoist Tan said, if it is not good, what Daoist Tan said is doubtful. As soon as Ma Yinfa finished saying this, she heard the music ringtone on Ma Yinxing's mobile phone in Kun's bag, and saw her take out her mobile phone and put it in her ear and scream, saying What's wrong? Oh, that's a good thing, it means that I listened to Daoist Tan's words to stop collecting bridge tolls, and I have been forgiven by the tower god.

A smile appeared on Ma Yinxing's face, who answered and replied. After hanging up, she put the phone back in Kunbao, looked at Ma Yinfa and said, Yinfa, your jumping brother called and said, Long Lai's illness is cured, and now your jumping brother is sending Long Lai to school!

Oh! Ma Yinfa couldn't help but believe it. When he walked to the pontoon bridge, he looked back at the pontoon bridge and said, "After that, he will no longer collect bridge tolls, and it seems that there is really merit in making merit."

After that, Xia Gao and Long Lai worked hard in school, and after a month, they basically caught up with the class level, and then went to high school and university, and it was a matter of course to assign jobs after graduation. It's just that Xu Sijin didn't make it in the end, when he recovered from his illness and mixed up with the school, he really couldn't catch up with the class level, and dropped out of school again, but he didn't dare to go to Baota Mountain anymore, but followed Hu Yingzi to do some farming things such as hoeing, weeding, planting fields and cutting grains in Qijiazhuang.

After a few years, he was 18 years old, and he was even bolder, so he said goodbye to his mother and stepfather, left Qijiazhuang, and went to the city to do work. Due to the lack of technology, I can only go to the station dock to do some transportation work, which is difficult and the salary is small. He found that very few young people were doing it, most of them were middle-aged men and elderly people who were not well-dressed, and their homes were near the city, no more than he came from a remote countryside.

He began to come to the city to do this kind of hard work, and it was a hot day, because he could not afford to live in a hotel, and at night he mostly went to sleep on the benches in the waiting room of the station, or lie down, which was quite peaceful.

Late one night, he was woken up by someone while he was sleeping soundly, and he didn't want to open his eyes, but said, what are you doing? I slept well, why should I chase away my sleepiness?

You open your eyes and see, who am I? The voice of a middle-aged woman.

Xu Sijin opened his eyes and saw that it was a female inspector of the railway station with a railway sign hanging in front of her, she had a beautiful face, but her attitude was serious, seeing that Xu Sijin did not speak, she continued to ask, you take out the ticket you bought and let me take a look. Where does Xu Sijin have a ticket? He deliberately groped left and right on his body, and when he couldn't get the ticket, he lied and said, comrade, my ticket has dropped?

The female inspector asked again, which shift did you take? Where are you going? Because Xu Sijin was not prepared, he didn't say it.

The female inspector shouted unceremoniously, what are you doing, I see you sleeping on the bench here every night on duty, but I have never seen you ride with passengers, you confess, what are you doing?

I...... Xu Sijin still didn't answer, of course he couldn't tell the details of how he slept here every night. At this moment, he did not feel sleepy at all, but sat up from the bench, then stood up, and looked at the female patrol officer a few steps back, holding the large satchel that was so dirty that it smelled of oil. The female inspector yelled again, you get out of here, someone in the station reported that you sleep here every night, you know? This is not a place for you to sleep, but a place for passengers to wait for the bus.

Okay, I'll go, I'll go. Xu Sijin rubbed his eyes and wanted to tell her, can you let me stay in the waiting room for the last night tonight? Find a place to sleep tomorrow. But when she saw that the female inspector looked very fierce, she swallowed back the words that ran to her mouth, but she stood still, as if she wanted to rely on it and not leave.

The female inspector raised her face again and said that if you don't get out yet, I will ask the people in the station police office to arrest you. Xu Sijin had no choice but to walk outside the waiting room, although there were lights outside, it was relatively dim, as dim as his mood.