When the donkey cart arrived at Yantan, the sun was already setting in the west, and Yang Liufang asked the old man to drive the donkey cart directly to the vegetable farmer's uncle's land. He jumped out of the car, and before he could speak, the vegetable farmer uncle had already come out of the shack.

"Xiao Yang is back?"

"Well, (uncle), (I) am back."

"Done?"

"Look."

"Wow! So much. What do you buy these woodworking tools for? Do you know how to make your own furniture? ”

"Yes, Uncle (Uncle), I studied carpentry in my hometown for two years."

"Oh, yes! This young man is not simple. ”

"Suo (uncle), I have to trouble you to help me carry the goods to the donkey cart and pull them to the bus stop with the carpentry tools. Wait for Brother Qin or his comrades-in-arms to come over and give me a while. ”

"Well, that's good, Emon (us) can move quickly. Brother, please help Emeng (us) keep an eye on it. As he spoke, the vegetable farmer handed over a cigarette.

"Okay, okay, I need help talking." The uncle who drove the donkey cart took the cigarette and said.

"No, not much, Emeng (we) can move it ourselves."

The two of them divided the goods stored here and loaded them onto the donkey cart. The donkey cart man led the cattle to turn the head of the cart and hurried to the side of the road. As soon as I arrived at the station, a military truck drove by. But it's not Brother Qin, it's one of his comrades-in-arms, very young. He opened the car door and jumped out of the car with ease.

"Hello, who is Xiao Yang?"

"Hello, big brother of the People's Liberation Army, I am."

"Oh, hello, I'm Qin Jiajun's comrade-in-arms, he went on a mission, and I was entrusted by him to take you from here." The young warrior spoke clearly and to the point.

"Thank you. What do you think we do? ”

"Let's do it, part of it is for the co-pilot, and part of it is stuffed into the connection of the tanker." As he spoke, he began to move the goods, and Yang Liufang and the vegetable farmer uncle also moved. Quickly moved and stacked. Boxes or pockets were stacked on the co-pilot's side, and long tools such as saw blades and saws were stacked at the junction of the carriage. When the vegetable farmer was stacking the goods, he went to the vegetable field to pick half a snakeskin bag of spinach and brought it over, and stuffed it into the junction of the carriage, and Yang Liufang hurriedly thanked him.

After paying the fee to the uncle who was driving the car, he said goodbye to the vegetable farmer, got into the car from the main driver, and sat in the middle of the main driver and the co-driver. Qin Jiajun's comrades-in-arms also got into the car, closed the door, activated the military card, and drove towards the oil field. Along the way, both of them were more restrained, and they didn't talk much, and the air was a little frozen. Yang Liufang had nothing to say.

"Hello, you and Brother Qin are both from the transport team?"

"Yes, Brother Qin is our platoon commander."

"Oh, I see."

"He didn't tell you?"

"No, he took me three times, I only know that he came from Henan to be a soldier."

"Yes, our platoon commander is very good." The two chatted with each other, and soon arrived at the oil field, and Brother Qin's comrades-in-arms gave him one more paragraph. It is estimated that Brother Qin had an explanation, sent him to a place where it was easy to take a ride, put it down, and helped him stack the goods before driving away.

Yang Liufang successfully caught a tractor pulling bricks here, no need to ask, from Hongclay Village, because the red bricks of Hongclay Village are used in Xizhou and even several surrounding cities, and it is said that the red bricks burned out are as strong as iron. He could only send Yang Liufang to the three-way intersection, Yang Liufang was very grateful, took out a cigarette and saluted, the master helped him load the goods into the car, and the two headed towards the three-way intersection.

When we arrived at the three-way intersection, the stone village chief was already waiting here. When I saw the tractor coming, I greeted it from afar, and sure enough, the car was carrying Yang Liufang.

"Hey, but I'm back, and I've welcomed three cars."

"Thank you, Brother Shi."

"You're welcome. Let's move the goods. Wow, that's a lot. ”

"Well, there are also some carpentry tools for the replenishment. There is also a half-bag of spinach for our family, which was given by Uncle Yantan vegetable farmer. ”

"That's so embarrassing, I've never met people, and I always eat other people's food."

"It's okay, Brother Shi, it's all your own people. Here, here you go. Yang Liufang handed him another pack of cigarettes.

"Look, this, I didn't want to finish the last pack. Come, big brother, you draw one too, thank you for sending (my) brother back. ”

"It's okay, the villagers help each other." The driver also began to help, and soon moved the goods and tools to the donkey cart of the stone village chief. At this time, it was already dark, and with the light of the car, the stone village chief lit the horse lantern sent by Yang Liufang. I usually look at the bright horse lights, but I am a little overshadowed in front of the car lights. After the tractor left, it took a long time to get used to it, but as the night began, the lights became brighter and brighter.

"Brother Shi, I met a salesperson when I was buying tools, and she said that her mother is the principal of Hanwangchuan Middle School."

"Oh, Principal Wang? Her daughters have graduated from college and worked? ”

"Oh, I see."

"Of course I do, she taught me math back then. Alas! He's a good person, but his life is a bit bitter. ”

"Oh, it's a hard life, what's wrong with her?"

"She's a big city girl. Shanghainese, whether it is 58 or 59 years, we have been in the queue here. ”

"Educated youth? How did you become a teacher again? We also have educated youths there, and according to my parents, they all work with everyone. ”

"Yes, it's the same when they come to us, when the educated youth in Emeng (our) village lived in Emeng (our) village, and Teacher Wang often came to play together, oh, Teacher Wang is the current Principal Wang. She graduated from high school and is proficient in reading, singing, math, painting, and playing the accordion. The stone village chief introduced incoherently, and lit a cigarette.

"But intellectuals! They are powerless and not good at farm work, and according to the Buddha, they don't earn enough to eat themselves. Because every year, educated youths come over, and they can't live in the house. Later, I divided them into three rooms and let them live in them by themselves, oh, it is the current house in the village, and every village here is doing the same. They will be many, and Emeng (we) will go to see the freshness when they are old. ”

Later, Hanwangchuan Primary School lacked teachers and asked Mr. Wang to substitute for teachers, because of the good teaching, and later was transferred to Hanwangchuan Middle School as a teacher, (I) caught up, and she taught primary school mathematics and junior high school mathematics. Hehe, it's just that (I) am too stupid to study, and I disappointed her. ”

"Then she also taught Wang Shan and Yinhua?"

"Of course, Teacher Wang, she has taught many children in Han Wangchuan. Count it up, you said that her daughter was classmates with Wang Shan and his daughter-in-law Yinhua, who had not passed through the door. ”

"Indeed, she said it herself."

"Well, that should be, 65 years, it's 65 years, somehow Mr. Wang and they joined the team at the same time, it is said that the man's family is a capitalist faction, and he is in the red clay village, and he is not good at work, and he is lazy to do it. Not long after getting better, Mr. Wang became pregnant, and there was a lot of rumors at that time. Teacher Wang gave birth to a child in 66, and when I graduated from junior high school, she didn't teach me. ”

Later, in 77 or 78, I heard that he and the man took the college entrance examination, and then the man was admitted to a prestigious university. Teacher Wang, because there is too much delay in taking care of the child at home, she was only admitted to the Xizhou Normal College, she took the child to finish the book, because of the matter of settling down for the child, her own household registration has also fallen on us, and the teacher college she reads, so she can only be assigned to Emon (us) here as the principal, and there is no news about the man. ”

"So this kid has never had a father?"

"The world of intellectuals (we) don't understand, anyway, Teacher Wang has always been the principal here in Ezon (us), and the man never came back, so she raised the child alone. Later, I heard that the child went to college in Xizhou, but I didn't expect that he had graduated and was assigned to the supply and marketing cooperative. ”

"It's a tragic story."

The two chatted and chatted, and before they knew it, they arrived home. The mother-in-law of the stone village chief has been waiting for them with Gawa, Gawa and Yang Liufang are no strangers, by the light of the horse lantern, when they saw Yang Liufang coming in, they came to hug his legs, and the village chief's mother-in-law said: "Look at this baby, kiss him (uncle)." I'm going to get you food. ”

"Sister-in-law, there is spinach brought back, you choose some scrambled eggs, let's eat together, eat more spinach to supplement iron and vitamins. I also asked, in the future, I will ask the vegetable farmer uncle for some spinach seeds, and we will plant some here. ”

"Oh, that's good. Thank you in advance, big brother. "The village chief's aunt went to stir-fry, and the two of them ate hot potatoes and scrambled eggs with spinach, which felt very delicious.

After eating, the two unloaded the goods and tools and loaded the buckets on them, so as not to delay the stone village chief to fetch water the next day. Yang Liufang also gave Shi Village Chief and his mother-in-law a toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste, telling them to brush their teeth every day in the future and be civilized and hygienic.

"Hey, I only saw you brushing your teeth with those educated youths before, but I didn't expect that Emeng (we) would also become civilized people."