After the meal, the head of the stone village smoked a paper cigarette sent by Yang Liufang, and his face was filled with a happy smile. He told Yang Liufang that he would go to fetch water early the next morning, and then send Yang Liufang to Wangshawan after distributing water to the villagers. Only then did Yang Liufang know that Chenshan's village was called Wangshawan.

Yang Liufang got up and went to the village department, and when he had nothing to do, he looked through the "People's Daily" placed in the village department, although it was already mid-October 1986, but the latest newspaper in the village was still in June 1986, which was the result of poor information circulation caused by inconvenient transportation. Yang Liufang read and read the news about the economy word by word, imagining how good it would be to be able to have money to do the agent sales of industrial products.

In March, the People's Daily published a news article entitled "Actively Resuming Traditional Business Contacts with Other Places, Jinghai County Opens the Unsalable Situation of Brooms" and a commentator's article "Starting from the Unsalable Brooms in Jinghai County", which touched him even more. Actively contact and communicate with the outside world, and take advantage of the information gap and time difference to sell goods and obtain profits, isn't it the basic skill that people like them rely on to survive? It also shows that the reform has been carried out from top to bottom, from the coast to the inland, and has truly benefited the public. This is also the reason why he is accustomed to reading "People's Daily" in the future, which is not only a state-level media, but also an authoritative source of information that cares about the national economy and people's livelihood. It's just that these newspapers have expired for half a year in the ravines of the Loess Plateau, where information is blocked, and now they are still lying in the village and have not played their function.

Near noon, the head of Shishi Village came back with water, distributed water to the villagers as usual, and then asked Yang Liufang to go back to eat. It's still steamed potatoes, which are the staple food of people here, but there are more dishes. In addition to making eggplants mixed with garlic that she learned from Yang Liufang, the village chief's mother-in-law also made a large portion of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

The village chief's mother-in-law and aunt still went to the kitchen to eat, and Yang Liufang and Shi Village Chief ate on the table in the cave, but the table was a little shaky. The village chief said that Gava was too naughty, and used this place as a ladder to climb up and down all day long, and it was about to fall apart. Yang Liufang promised the village chief Shi to come back to make furniture for his father-in-law's house, and to make a set of tables and chairs with Jiangnan mortise and tenon structure for him, so there would be no such problem.

After dinner, the two unloaded the buckets, loaded the goods, caught the donkey cart and headed for Wangshawan. The village chief also deliberately hung the new lantern in the most conspicuous place of the wheel, and at some point the village chief's mother-in-law made a protective cover for the lantern with red cloth to protect it. On the way, Yang Liufang proposed to settle the share with the head of the stone village.

"Brother Shi, look at the share of these two trips, I have to give it to you."

"Hey, brother, don't be ashamed of your brother. This can't be wanted. I used to think that you were like those merchants, coming today and leaving tomorrow, but I didn't expect that Emeng (we) would become brothers. You gave us so many things, the pancreas, the vegetables we ate, the new lantern, and the paper cigarettes that I smoked, and I and your sister-in-law didn't know how to thank you. Why are you embarrassed to ask for money! ”

"Brother, is this okay?"

"It works, it works!"

"Brother Shi, let's take a while."

"Tell me a while?"

"Hmm!"

The mule at the head of the road

The three lamps

Oops, that bell with you

Oh whoa, that sound

The white-necked pug

The one facing south

Oh, the one who drove the spirits

Oh, it's coming

If you're my brother/sister

Trick that hand of yours

You're not my brother/sister

Go the way you go

The village chief of Shi sent the willow fang and the goods directly to the village of Wangshawan, and Wang Shan's father was smoking dry tobacco in the warm autumn sun on the mill in the courtyard of the village department, and when he saw them coming in, he called Wang Shan to greet them. Wang Shan quickly came out of the cave, he was also very happy to see Yang Liufang coming, through the last time the two went to Zhao Machuan to sell goods, he liked to get along with Yang Liufang, who had seen the world and knew etiquette in business. After dropping out of high school, in addition to nesting in the village, I went to see my girlfriend Yinhua, after all, people who have read books and seen the city world don't have much to talk about in the village and those in the village who talk about their parents all day long.

The head of the stone village tied the donkey cart to give his father-in-law a cigarette, and the father-in-law took it and put it on his ear, saying that the paper cigarette was boring, but at a glance, he knew that it was sent by Yang Liufang, and he was also very pleased with Yang Liufang's sensibility. Wang Shan helped Yang Liufang unload the goods, and after unloading the goods, Yang Liufang took out two pieces of soap, two tubes of toothpaste, and two toothbrushes and gave them to Wang Shan, saying that they were for Wang Shan and his future sister-in-law. Wang Shan liked it very much, and said that it was just gone, so he didn't have to go into the city by himself, and thanked himself for Yinhua. Yang Liufang took out the only remaining pack of cigarettes and said to Wang Shan embarrassedly:

"Third brother, you see, I promised to buy it for you last time, but I bought less, so I'll give the rest of the bag to the old village chief."

Wang Shan nodded approvingly, Yang Liufang walked out with a cigarette, and saw that the package of vegetables he brought back from Yantan was also on the plate, and it seemed that Aunt Shi had not forgotten to share the good things with her mother's family.

"Uncle, I'm sorry for your trouble. You smoke this. ”

"Oh, good my baby, there's no trouble, this uncle can't ask for it." After several pushes, Yang Liufang finally put the cigarette on the grinding plate. When the old village chief saw Chen Shan come out, he asked him to take his brother-in-law and Yang Liufang to see the trees.

"By the way, call a few young people and make a ha(lower) mark. When you sell your goods and leave, I will arrange for them to cut down the trees. ”

"Yes." Wang Shan promised to take the stone village chief and Yang Liufang out of the village headquarters.

The village was in the middle of the village, and when I saw a young man coming back from the field after the autumn harvest along the road, he stopped and said, "Brother Wa, if it's okay, go with yourself to see the trees." ”

As a son-in-law, the head of the stone village hurriedly took paper cigarettes and gave them away, and the person called "Brother Wa" hurriedly took it very happily, and asked his mother-in-law to go home first, and he followed them to see the trees. Then several people happily took the cigarettes and lit them, and walked around the village with them, walking past the beheaded willows, and if the willows were in sight, they were asked to pick up a stone and put it under the tree or make a wedge with a wooden stick on the ground to make a mark. I saw a total of seven or eight willow trees with a thick diameter, and after making the mark, the stone village chief scattered the smoke again, and everyone dispersed. Wang Shan took Shi Village Chief and Yang Liufang home for dinner.

After the meal, the stone village chief wanted to go back to the village, and the old village chief asked Wang Shan to bring a horse lantern to his brother-in-law, and the stone village chief proudly said: "Big, there is a new horse lantern!" Xiao Yang sent the amount. ”

"Oh, that's good, you should pay attention on the way."

"Yes."

Since Yang Liufang wanted to go back to the village to sleep, Wang Shan took his brother-in-law and Yang Liufang to the village together. Seeing off the stone village chief, the two chatted in the village for a while before Wang Shan left.

The next day, Wang Shan changed into a brand-new blue tunic early and brought a cadre hat to the village headquarters. Yang Liufang was washing, a mouthful of toothpaste foam, raised his head, and when he saw it, he whimpered and said, "Third brother, you look like a boss." Then, Yang Liufang put on his blue overalls and sandals, which was really a bit nondescript. The two stood together, and the gap was immediately apparent.