Shiyi Village is short of water, and the village chief has to rush back overnight to ensure that the villagers can have water to eat the next day. So after dinner, the two of them couldn't delay too long, so they had to get on the car and catch up with the donkey and rush back to Shiyi Village. The old village chief was worried that the road was uneven, so he asked his son Wang San to go to the team headquarters to take out the horse lantern in the team, pour some kerosene from his kerosene lamp, light it, cover the glass lampshade, and hand it to the stone village chief to hang on the wheel, and the two drove back. The dim lantern light illuminates the way forward, giving people a very warm feeling in the dark night. Yang Liufang lay on the rickety donkey cart and actually fell asleep.

When the two returned to Shiyi Village, it was already midnight, and the village chief asked Yang Liufang to go back to sleep in the empty cave, and he sent the donkey into the livestock shed by the light of the horse lantern, and added night grass for it before going to sleep.

After a night of silence, the next day as soon as it was dawn, the two of them got up early, worked together to install the oil drum containing water on the donkey cart, and set off together for the well. When he arrived at the well, Yang Liufang said goodbye to the stone village chief, and made an appointment with him to return in three days at the latest, so that the stone village chief could prepare a straw mat for him to sleep on at night.

Yang Liufang, who has been back and forth many times, is gradually familiar with this loess road, and can predict at which point in time to rush to the three-way intersection, and smoothly catch the tractor engaged in transportation, and strive to arrive at the vegetable field of the vegetable farmer in Yantan before the sun sets, so that he will not sleep on the streets of Xizhou at night. This time is different from the past, there is also a sick child at the head of Stone Village, who urgently needs medical treatment, Yang Liufang thought of this, and there seemed to be a sense of mission urging him in his mind, and he unconsciously accelerated his pace.

When I arrived at the vegetable field, the uncle was working, human nature was good, and I hoped that the people I had helped could be productive, and when I saw Yang Liufang coming, the uncle showed a happy smile on his face.

"Gava, come back early this time, and the group will be angry with you (what are you doing?) ）”

"Yes, uncle, the goods sold smoothly this time." Yang Liufang listened to the uncle's Xizhou dialect very well, and could only answer while guessing.

"Oh, that's good. Oh, last time you went (I) Buddha (said) I didn't want your money, and you put it on the bed again, but this time it's not allowed. ”

"That's the right uncle to pay, and besides, I can't thank you enough for letting me sleep in your maza bed."

"Go and get hungry, go and pick what you eat. The night fee (sleep) is here. (I) will go back in a while and let your aunt heat up the pot helmet. ”

"Thank you, uncle." The vegetable farmer uncle continued to be busy, and Yang Liufang went to the melon field to pick melons to eat.

When it was almost dark, the uncle came out of the field and called it a day early. He told Yang Liufang that he would not come in the evening, and he would ask his son to come and bring food. Yang Liufang hurriedly thanked him. Taking advantage of the faint light, Yang Liufang walked into the shack where he watched the vegetables, lit the kerosene lamp, and found that the indoor furnishings were still the same, but there was an extra military coat on the Mazha bed, and Yang Liufang remembered that it was already October, and the weather was cold.

"Brother, brother, (I) have brought you food." The little boy's crisp voice sounded, and Yang Liufang hurriedly greeted him.

"Thank you, little brother." Yang Liufang took a rice bag wrapped in a white towel, and the warm rice bag was full of aroma. Put down the lunch bag and ask the little boy:

"Little brother, how old are you?"

"I'm 8 years old, and you see that my forehead teeth are about to fall out." The little boy lifted his upper lip, and sure enough, one of the teeth next to his front tooth was touched, and the tip of his tongue was already moving.

"Oh. Really. Did you go to school? ”

"I'm in the second grade."

"How's it going?"

"Well, (I) took the first place twice." The little boy said proudly.

"Okay, next time I take the first exam, tell my brother what you like, and my brother will buy it as a gift for you."

"Really? Brother, Li Yingying in the Emeng (our) class won the second place in the exam, and her father bought her a stationery box for Journey to the West, which has three compartments and can hold pencils and erasers. I also want it, but I can take the first test, and I don't want to buy it if it's big. ”

"I bought it for you, my brother promised you."

"Nalagou."

"Well, pull the hook and hang yourself, and you won't be allowed to change for a hundred years."

"Hang yourself for a hundred years."

"Goodbye, brother."

"Goodbye."

Yang Liufang ate and washed the dishes and chopsticks. He took advantage of the darkness to take a bath in the pool, and sure enough, the water was much cooler than before, especially when he got up from the pool, a cool breeze blew, and it was so cold that his goosebumps rose. Hurriedly dried his body with a vest, and then squatted naked by the pool again to wash his clothes. Put on your wet shorts and go back to the shack in the field. I walked in and hurriedly took off my wet shorts, and before I had time to wipe my body, I wrapped myself in a military coat. Then he came out, hung his clothes on the stand that had stretched out to support the shack, and then went back to lie down on the Maza bed and slept.

In the early morning of the next day, the vegetable collection car sounded again, and the vegetable farmers began to noisily deliver, weigh and load the vegetables. After Yang Liufang got up, he took off his shorts and vest, although it had been blown by the wind all night, it may be due to the dew, his clothes were a little damp, and there was no change of clothes, so he could only put them on, and hurriedly went to the field to help the uncle move vegetables, weigh and load the car, and was busy.

After being busy, it was not yet dawn. Yang Liufang was sweating profusely, coupled with his already wet clothes, his whole body was as wet and sticky as if he was wrapped in oil, and he couldn't sleep when he returned to the Mazha bed in the shack. The uncle, who was lying in his clothes, felt a little reluctant and asked Liu Fang to go to the pool to wash, while he got up and went home to sleep.

Yang Liufang returned to the pool and washed his body again with cold water, shivering with cold. Simply lay down and use the vest as a towel to wipe your body from head to toe. Gritting his teeth and tensing his muscles, resisting the cold of early autumn, he washed his clothes again, wrung out the water, and then returned to the shack to wrap himself in a military coat, and lay down again, which was really much more comfortable.

After this toss, I no longer feel sleepy. simply opened his eyes and looked at the roof of the black cave shack, and let his thoughts fly.

From mid-September to now, it has been almost a month since I came out of my home, I wonder if Brother Tongfu has arrived in Xizhou? Mom and Dad, Master, Sister, and Sister, how are these relatives in the family?

Li Tongfu arrived in Xizhou by train the day after leaving Zhengzhou, and used the wooden stick given to him at the gate of the Zhengzhou Oleochemical Factory, carrying two travel bags containing most of the shoes respectively, walked out of the Xizhou Railway Station, and walked around the square a few times, hoping to see the little brother who came out of Hangzhou with only one or two yuan on him in a certain corner. The brother who is unfamiliar with life, has no money on him, and goes away for the first time, I don't know how he is doing now? Is it to beg in the square, or to work as a coolie.....

He carried the burden and walked around until his mouth was dry, and he didn't find Yang Liufang's figure at all, a little disappointed, and a little worried.