"Is Fei (sleeping) okay?"

"Ah, uncle, why do you get up so early?"

"Hey! (I) am afraid that you will leave early, so I will pick some vegetables for you to take back. ”

"Ah, uncle, you haven't rested well on your way back and forth this night, and you're worried about me. I'll get you the money in a moment. ”

"Oh, don't you dare to give money. These are all garden vegetables, the vegetable sellers don't accept them, you can't sell them if you don't take them, except for Emeng (us) to eat them yourself, and if they are broken, they have to be thrown away. ”

"That's not good, the little nephew can make money now." Yang Liufang said confidently.

"It's just, uncle, what's a strike?"

"Oh, this season of fruits and vegetables is over, and Emeng (we) will next plant cabbage, spinach and radishes."

"Oh." Yang Liufang understood. After washing, he returned to the shack, took out two yuan and handed it to the vegetable farmer uncle, so that he must accept it, the two argued for a long time, but the uncle couldn't help it, so he had to charge a symbolic one yuan. When he was about to leave, because there were many goods and vegetables, and they were very heavy, Yang Liufang had to ask his uncle to help him move the goods and vegetables to the side of the road so that he could stop the car. The uncle was happy to serve, and the two of them finished moving in three trips, and waited on the side of the road for the car in the direction of the oil field.

Not long after, a military truck came, and the car stopped in front of them, and the driver poked his head out, and there was a familiar angular face, which was the soldier's brother Qin Jiajun, who had hitchhiked him twice. Qin Jiajun was also pleasantly surprised to see him, and opened the door to get out of the car while talking.

"Xiao Yang, I saw you from afar, but I didn't expect it to be you."

"Brother Qin, I'm so lucky to meet you, you see that I want to trouble you again." Yang Liufang said as he stretched out his right arm and pointed to his goods.

"Oh, business is getting bigger! Brother, there is a future. ”

"No, Brother Qin, it's still a little trouble, and when I met a village leader to help, I got some more."

"Then let's move in." As he spoke, Qin Jiajun quickly picked up two boxes of Analjin, walked around the front of the car and moved to the passenger seat on the left, opened the door, and put it in the passenger seat. Uncle Vegetable Farmer and Yang Liufang moved the rest and followed.

Qin Jiajun deserves to be a soldier, he did things in an orderly manner, took the same goods and stacked them neatly on the co-pilot, and put the vegetables in front of the co-pilot's seat. Let Yang Liufang get into the car from the main driver's seat and sit next to him. After getting into the car, Yang Liufang said goodbye to the vegetable farmer through the car window, Qin Jiajun started the truck, and the two headed for the oil field.

"I haven't seen you for a few days, I didn't expect your business to become big. Or you southerners are smart. ”

"Brother Qin, no, everyone is the same. It's just that the chances are different. ”

"No, you see that the reform and opening up began with Chief Deng drawing a circle in the south. Our north can only rely on the drive of the south to get rich first, and it has been so many years that the market has gradually opened up. Before everyone woke up, you came to occupy the market and do business. ”

"Where is Brother Qin in the north?" Regarding the major national policy of reform and opening up, Yang Liufang did not have the well-informed automobile soldiers who had been trained in the melting pot of troops like Qin Jiajun and traveled south and north, so he deliberately diverted the topic.

"I am a soldier in Henan, and I have been a soldier in Xizhou for five years."

"Henan?" Yang Liufang was surprised and delighted. I was shocked that I ran away from home on the day of the typhoon, and when I was desperate, I took a car from Henan, and in that era of two or three hundred yuan per capita salary, the master gave him a big unity to buy a ticket in addition to buying food before leaving. And now in this strange city, the soldier brother who has taken him three times without asking for anything in return is a native of Henan. The joy is that this place can finally have an outlet to express gratitude, even if only to people from Henan.

"How?" Qin Jiajun looked at Yang Liufang's smile and surprised eyes and asked. Yang Liufang told how he took the car on the day of the typhoon and how he met the Henan driver who helped him to Hangzhou. After hearing this, Qin Jiajun was not surprised, just smiled and looked ahead, and said:

"That's nothing, we Henan people have been simple, kind and enthusiastic for thousands of years." A mouthful of Henan dialect blurted out. Yang Liufang looked over, and Qin Jiajun's face was still filled with a kind of pride as a Henan person.

"Well, I will definitely go to find the honest Henan master when I have the opportunity in the future, and thank him well."

"Hey, I still know how to be grateful. Brother Xiao Yang, you will definitely be able to become big in the future, don't forget me! ”

"Brother Qin, that's definitely not going to be." Yang Liufang replied in the affirmative.

The two talked and laughed and went to the oil field, and Qin Jiajun sent Yang Liufang to the main road leading to the three-fork mouth in the oil field before putting Yang Liufang down, saying that it was easy to stop the car here. Yang Liufang took out a pack of cigarettes to thank Qin Jiajun, Qin Jiajun said that he would not accept anything, and said righteously:

"The people's army requires the soldiers not to take a stitch from the masses. If it weren't for the unit's regulations, the vehicles and people of the transport company must arrive at the designated place at the specified time, and I would have given you an extra section. Qin Jiajun said as he helped Yang Liufang move the goods down and stack them, and saw that it was convenient for him to move before leaving.

Yang Liufang waited for a tractor to come soon, stepped forward to stop him and said that he wanted to go to Shiyi Village, and trouble the master to take a section of himself. The driver promised him that he could only pull him to the three-way intersection, because he still had to go back to the village to hand over the wheat seeds.

"That's fine, master, thank you, someone will pick you up when you get to the three-way intersection."

"Well, come on then. What are you all this for? Don't spoil the wheat seeds. ”

"Master, it's antipyretic medicine and cooling oil, and some vegetables."

After Yang Liufang got into the car, with the help of the driver's master, he vacated a space in the rear of the car where he and the goods could be contained, and after loading the goods, he curled up and sat down. The tractor started, and Yang Liufang sat in the back and was knocked all the way, in pain, but he still protected the goods.

When he arrived at the three-way road in the evening, Yang Liufang was in pain all over his body and his legs were numb. Fortunately, the village chief of Shishi had already been waiting here, and when he heard the sound of the car, he jumped off the donkey cart and asked the master in Xizhou if he wanted to bring a young man back? Before the words fell, Yang Liufang shouted bitterly behind him:

"Brother Shi, I'm here, my legs are numb and I can't stand up."

The stone village chief thanked the driver, walked towards the back of the car, first moved the goods down, and with the help of the driver's master, Yang Liufang crossed his arms and erected down, Yang Liufang thanked the driver, and the master did not accept it, Yang Liufang's leg numbness improved slightly, and when the tractor was about to start, he hurriedly grabbed two cucumbers from the vegetable bag and stuffed them to the master to show his gratitude.

The village chief of Shi put the straw mat that was left for Yang Liufang to sleep on the donkey cart, and then stacked the goods on the donkey cart before letting Yang Liufang sit on it. In order to alleviate the numbness in his legs, Yang Liufang said that he would follow along for a while, and the village chief Shi also took the donkey and the two of them to move forward together. It wasn't until Yang Liufang couldn't walk anymore that they got in the car and returned to Shiyi Village.

When they arrived at the village chief's house, it was already late, and the village chief's mother-in-law lit kerosene lamps and prepared food for them by the dim light. Yang Liufang remembered the horse lantern he bought for the village chief of Shishi, took it out and gave it to him, and gave him a pack of paper cigarettes. The head of the stone village pushed him to accept it again and again, poured some kerosene stored at home, lit it and put on the lampshade, and the cave was instantly much brighter. Where there is light, there is hope, and under the bright light, Yang Liufang saw the stone village chief's eyes shining.