As the sun sets, the sound of squeaky donkey carts moves along the long loess road, and the sun stretches their figures into the hills on the other side of the road. Sitting in the car and looking at it, the Loess Plateau in the distance is vertical and horizontal, chaotic and complex, occasionally you can see people who are busy harvesting, as a southerner, Yang Liufang is a little ignorant of the grains in the north, but there is a harvest that will give people hope.

"Brother Shi, why don't you make a waterlogging dam like Wangshan and their village?"

"Emeng (our) conditions are not allowed, it used to be the old road of the Yellow River, the land is seriously desertified, and it will collapse if it is not dug well, and when Eda was the head of the village, he took people to dig it, and buried people in half of it, and then no one dug it again."

"Oh, the Yellow River, is the Yellow River far away from us?"

"You haven't seen the Yellow River in Xizhou City?"

"No, I'll take a look when I get a chance."

"Well, let's go and see, the iron bridge, the sheepskin raft, and the rolling yellow soup, very beautiful." Northwesterners speak humorously, and a few words outline a beautiful picture. At this time, a wild goose chirped to interrupt the small talk between the two, Liu Fang looked up, a row of herringbone geese flew over in the vast sky, spectacular and orderly, the autumn geese knew the cold, lined up to return to the south, and returned to Wenzhou to apply for an ID card. I don't know if I've done the turnaround? Did you see the note you left with Boss Zhou?

Yang Liufang was worried about the strange brother Li Tongfu in Xizhou, and Li Tongfu, who went south to apply for an ID card, was also worried about Yang Liufang, after all, he came up with the idea to let people go to Xizhou with him to sell shoes to make a living, but it backfired. Even if the police don't look for him, he will feel guilty and scared for the rest of his life. So as soon as he returned to Yongjia, Wenzhou, Li Tongfu first went to the public security bureau to apply for an ID card, and went to the household registration department under the guidance of the police.

At that time, it seemed that this kind of certificate was needed for everything, Li Tongfu ran up and down to complete the formalities, sent it to the household registration department to take a photo, and filled out the ID card registration form as required, and the police in charge of handling the ID card told him that the ID card would be handled within 15 working days, and he would collect it himself, or by the village committee of his hometown. Li Tongfu's parents have passed away, except for an uncle in the family, there is no one in the family, and he has no capital to start a business, so he also sold his family's ancestral home. Selling ancestral homes in the countryside of Jiangnan is a great rebellion, commonly known as "ruined son". Li Tongfu also didn't want to suffer the white eyes and gossip of the villagers, and he almost never returned home for so many years. I simply told the police to pick it up myself in 15 days.

And within 15 days, I have nothing to do, just go to Yang Liufang's house in Yang City, Yueqing, Wenzhou to see, maybe this kid has no money, no work, can't stand it and comes back, and I can rest assured when I see people. So I bought a ticket to Yueqing that afternoon and went to Yangshi Town several times. When he got here, he didn't know how to go, he just knew that he was from Yang Shizhen when he was chatting with Yang Liufang, but he didn't know which village, and suddenly remembered that once he heard Yang Liufang say that he had learned carpentry. I wanted to go to the place in town that sells wood and furniture.

In the past one or two years, due to the emergence of a number of low-voltage electrical workshops such as Yongtai Electric Appliances and Refinement Switches in Yangshi Town, Yang City has been upgraded from a commune to a township and then to a town, but it will take a year or two. Therefore, compared to the bustling and busy scene here in other towns, all kinds of shops are not closed as early as in other towns and villages without industry. Yang Liufang asked along the street where there was a lumber yard and furniture store, and then asked the owner if he knew a 17-year-old carpenter named Yang Liufang.

was really asked by him, in a furniture store in the west of the town that often sells Yang Liugen, Li Tongfu asked Yang Liufang, the shopkeeper hadn't spoken yet, and his old wife opened the vernacular first like a long-tongued woman:

"Ah, you're talking about Yang Liugen's little apprentice who hooked up with his junior sister! Oops, this person is so shameless. His master took care of him to eat and drink, treated him like a son, and hooked up with other people's daughters while the master was not at home..... "The woman was chattering to herself and was interrupted by the shopkeeper.

"Shut your mouth, you girls are really idle, it's not necessarily true or fake, everyone is ruined by you and ran away from home." The shopkeeper scolded.

"Oh, I know the Yangliu Fang you mentioned, it's quite capable, it was blown away by a typhoon two months ago, and there has been no news until now. Have you seen him? ”

"Boss, I've seen it, I've seen it, he originally went to the northwest with me to sell shoes, but then we got separated, I don't know if he came back?"

"That's not clear, it's been two months, and his parents are still looking for it at first, because there are some things happening with his sister, there is a lot of gossip, and his family is not rich, so his parents rarely go to the street, and now they are even less likely to come out."

"So, boss, do you know where his house is? I want to go and see it, and if I come back, I will be relieved to see someone, and I will be relieved that I can't see someone to bring a message to his parents. ”

"Oh, he's from Liunan Village, you can find a motorcycle on the street and take a look."

"Mo's? What is it? ”

"Oh, it's a soliciting motorcycle. Master, master, this little brother went to Liunan Village. At this time, a motorcycle happened to come by, heard the boss's shout, and immediately braked and stopped.

Li Tongfu thanked the boss and took the motorcycle to Liunan Village. Due to the limited land resources in the south of the Yangtze River, the villages and towns are located very compactly, Liunan Village is in the west of the town, and it is only five or six miles away from Yangshi Town, and it takes more than ten minutes to get there. After Li Tongfu got out of the car, he asked Yang Liufang's family again, only then did he know that Yang Liufang was actually a "famous" person in their village, a notorious person, and the scene that happened on the day of the typhoon two months ago had already become the talk of the villagers after dinner. Yang Liufang is famous, and after a villager told Li Tongfu the location of his house, Li Tongfu went straight to him.

Yang Liufang's house is a typical Jiangnan house, maybe something bad happened, and the villagers rarely socialize with his family, hearing the knock on the door, Yang's mother came out in a panic to open the door.

"Hello, Auntie. My name is Li Tongfu, and I am friends with your Yang Liufang. ”

"Hello, hello, friend of Ah Fang, please come in, please come in." Walking into the yard, Li Tongfu saw that although he was not wealthy, the yard was still cleaned up neatly. When Yang Liufang's father heard this, he also hurriedly ran out and asked excitedly:

"Kid, come in, come in, have you seen Fang? How is he? ”

"Yes, yes, uncle. Liu Fang is very good. Li Tongfu replied comfortingly, while thinking, Yang Liufang must still be outside and has not returned home. And Yang's mother was busy making tea and pulling a chair for Li Tongfu to sit down.

"Where are you from? Where can I see my family? ”

"Uncle, I am a native of Yongjia in our ironing (Wenzhou), and I met Liu Fang when we were selling shoes in Wulinmen Square in Hangzhou." Li Tongfu told the experience of the two from acquaintance to meeting to sell shoes, and then to squeezing the train and getting separated. Yang's father listened silently, while Yang's mother shed tears while listening.