After Tian Runsheng left Huangyuan in a car, it was still difficult to calm down all the way. The thin and weak young man looks very comfortable driving this behemoth; But it is still beyond his power to control some things in life. With the fervent heart of young people, he rushed from the distant desert to Huangyuan City, trying to reconcile the broken feelings of his sister and brother-in-law. Given his age and his position between the two men, this move is undoubtedly courageous. Only from this point of view, he is a descendant of Tian Futang.

To tell the truth, even Runsheng himself was a little surprised at his behavior. This is often the case with young people of this age-one day, a clear line is suddenly drawn between children and adults, which surprises others and themselves. Now, he returned to the original west with a feeling of failure and frustration.

He turned the steering wheel with both hands and crawled on the winding mountain road. A thin face under Huang Jun's hat looked grim and his eyes had no phosgene. He rolled down the glass next to him and let the warm spring wind blow into the driving building. Although Shan Ye is still vast and desolate, some trees along the road have begun to turn green. From time to time, there are clouds of green in the yellow eyes. The pheasant is quacking, and the river in the sun is as bright as silver. Alas, spring is so beautiful, but his heart is so gloomy!

Before arriving in Huangyuan, Runsheng's whole sympathy was on his brother-in-law's side. After arriving in Huangyuan, he immediately felt sorry for his sister again. Yes, my sister was also tortured. She is as thin as that! His face is haggard and his eyes are wrinkled. He now sympathizes with both his brother-in-law and his sister. But who should he complain about?

Why are you doing this? Can't you come together and live in harmony? Brother-in-law, since you are so miserable, why don't you try to transfer to Huangyuan and run to my sister more often? You have more contact with her, and my sister will get to know you, and maybe she will like you ... Sister, why don't you try to live with your brother-in-law for a few days first? Adults often say that one day husband and wife, a hundred days of love. If you live with your brother-in-law for a few days, maybe you will like him, too! Sister, brother-in-law, how I wish you would stop suffering; How nice it would be if you lived together ... Runsheng kept talking to his sister and brother-in-law in his heart all the way. He will make up his mind to mend their relationship. He wants to go to Huangyuan. He will take pains to persuade his sister to let her live with her brother-in-law.

Although Runsheng's first mission to Huang Yuan did not achieve any results, he still felt some kind of spiritual comfort for this action. As a younger brother, he has begun to do something for his unfortunate brother-in-law and sister. If he can make his brother-in-law and sister happy, he will feel happy himself. Come to think of it, he should have done so long ago. Dad is old and in poor health; As an only son, he should take responsibility for his family like a man.

Ladies and gentlemen, in our impression, Tian Futang's son seems to have always been mediocre. For an old man who is in his twilight years, we can make some kind of judgment about him; But for a young man who has not grown up, it seems that it is not advisable for us to make some conclusions too early. Young people are flexible, they change at any time, and even we can't recognize his face. Now, it's time for us to revise our views on Runsheng. Of course, in this way, we don't think this young man can be a great person. He is still an ordinary young man, but we can't underestimate him any more.

Half an afternoon, Tian Runsheng drove into the original West County.

About ten miles away from the original boundary of Xixian County, there is a meeting outside a big village. The crow crow crowded a large crowd, which seems very lively.

Tian Runsheng couldn't help but park his car on the side of the road, thinking of gathering for fun.

He took off his gloves and left them in the driver's building, locked the door and walked into the crowded crowd. Not far away, there was a singing opera. He listened, and it was Shanxi Bangzi. A large crowd crowded under the stage. Most of the people attending the theatre are farmers. Although it is spring, they are still wearing bloated cotton-padded jackets and trousers. Outside the theater, a circle of vendors selling food and drink was scattered around. These rice sellers are also from the countryside; They temporarily set up pots and pans on the clay yard, and they kept shouting. The gongs, drums and strings and the noise of the crowd make up a noisy world. The yellow dust from the cultivators and the smoke from the earthen stove hung over the whole earthen field.

Runsheng was going to go to the front to watch the play for a while, but the crowd was too dense to squeeze in, so he had to stand in the distance and listen for a while. The play is Lapras, the False Husband, and he has seen it elsewhere, so he is not interested.

It wasn't long before he discovered that a newly built small temple stood on a hill behind the stage. He was greatly surprised that now that the policy is wide, someone dares to set up a temple!

An irrepressible curiosity made him leave the theater quickly and headed for the hill mouth.

This is indeed a newly built temple. It seems that there used to be a temple here, but I don't know when it collapsed-almost every village in the Loess Plateau used to have a temple; There is also one on Miaoping in their village. However, there are not many intact ones. Now, the brave villagers here have built a new temple, which is really incredible! Don't the county and the commune care? If we leave it alone, maybe all the ruined temples will be rebuilt. Won't the temple fair in their village be rebuilt?

Runsheng entered the temple courtyard in a novel way. In front of a small brick house, many red cloth plaques were hung on the recessed windows; On the cloth plaque are written the words "Respond to God's grace" and "Be responsive", with a gong hanging in the right corner and an iron bell hanging in the left corner. Runsheng doesn't understand what these two things are for. There is a couplet written on both sides of the temple gate, which seems to have two typos; When you enter the Dragon Palace, the weather is good, and when you leave the Dragon Palace, the country is too (Thailand) bright (people) safe. He knows this is the Dragon King Temple. Probably because of frequent droughts in the Loess Plateau, most of the temples here are dedicated to the Dragon King.

Runsheng entered the temple with a curious mouth.

The walls of the temple are painted in many colors. The wooden sign dedicated to the shrine is placed on the concrete platform, there is a incense ash box in front of the shrine, and cigarettes are floating around the shrine-the whole temple is filled with the smell of mosquito repellent incense. An ever-burning lamp stands still by the incense ash box. In the corner of the ground, throw a pile of rags to see the old man in the temple; During the temple fair, people kept giving alms, so someone had to monitor the "three hands". There are five main gods painted on the main wall of the temple house. Run Sheng can see from the tablet that the names of these gods are the Five Sea Dragon King, the Medicine King Bodhisattva, the Worm Lang General and the Rain Dragon King-a god on the side is unknown. On the two walls of the temple are soaring auspicious clouds, and many gods riding colts in Lapras are galloping in the clouds. Run Sheng thought: You should also draw a car!

He couldn't help laughing and walked out of the small temple. He doesn't believe in god, but he thinks all this is very worrying.

Run Sheng looked at the temple and returned to the theater. In addition to opera fans, it seems that many country people are here to catch the fire; They wandered around, seeking a kind of happiness from each other by crowding and bumping. Some rural girls posed shyly in front of the photo booth, waiting for the rascally photographer from the city to press the shutter.

He now turns to the circle of people selling tea and rice, and wants to eat something, but after looking at it, most of them sell mutton, and the mutton soup cooked in the pot is as dirty as the dish-washing water next to it. The cultivators squatted on the ground one by one and ate with relish. There is a disgusting smell of mutton in the air.

He stopped at a stall selling mutton dumplings. The rice seller is a young woman with a child strapped to her back. She is bending down on the ground and blowing fire with her mouth. The stove is a small heatable adobe sleeping platform dug temporarily on the spot, which only emits black smoke and does not catch fire. Run Sheng decided to eat something here, and he saw that the dumplings pinched next to him were relatively clean.

He was about to say hello to the woman who blew the fire, but the woman looked up first and asked, "How many taels?"

Runsheng suddenly froze.

The woman also froze.

Oh, my God, this is Hao Hongmei!

Why is she here?

We will never forget that when she was in high school in the former West County, this girl from a landlord family once performed several unforgettable life dramas in her class. As we know, at first, Sun Shaoping had emotional entanglements with her. Later, she fell in love with the monitor, Gu Yangmin-this is a well-known fact. However, now that Gu Yangmin is studying in a medical college in the province, how can she sell tea and rice in such a place? Didn't she become a teacher herself? Whose is the child on her back?

Runsheng and Hao Hongmei stood at each other, because it was too sudden, for a moment, I didn't know what to say. They were old classmates in the same class for several years. Although they didn't have much contact with each other at that time, now they meet in a foreign land, but there are some collections of mixed feelings. Run Sheng saw that Hao Hongmei's face was even haggard than his sister's, her hair was scattered over her forehead, and her ill-fitting clothes were stained with firewood and dust. It's completely like a rural woman. When Runsheng graduated, he knew that Hongmei and Yangmin had established a relationship-he couldn't imagine that Gu Yangmin's fiancee was so shabby now! However, at this moment, he seemed to understand what had happened to her ... "You ..." Runsheng didn't know what to say.

"I ... live in the opposite ditch, ten miles from here ..." Hao Hongmei's face was filled with an unspeakable shame.

"How did you come here?" She asked Run Sheng.

"I was passing by ... you?" He still doesn't know what to ask her. "Alas ... my situation is a long story. I got married here the year before last, and just gave birth to a child last year. The man was crushed to death when he hit the kiln ... "

Ah, so that's it! That is to say, her relationship with Gu Yangmin has long since broken up.

From a few short conversations, Run Sheng confirmed Hao Hongmei's misfortune. Unfortunately! He swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty and didn't know what to do. He was too embarrassed to ask her anything.

"I'll give you jiaozi!" Hongmei didn't react, and hastily picked up the cooker.

"No, no! I've just eaten, I'm full! " Runsheng quickly stopped her. "I don't believe it! Old classmates are still strangers! "

"Really!" Run stiff don't let hongmei pour jiaozi into the steaming pot. Alas, he still has what idea to eat this jiaozi!

"Is the road to your village wide and narrow?" He asked.

"Shelf car road." Hongmei wondered why he asked this, and stared. "Can the truck get in?"

"Can. People in our village who are in a good situation use cars to pull charcoal. " "Then wait for You're screwed., I will send you back by car!"

"Are you driving?" Hongmei asked in surprise, and her look immediately became like facing a big shot.

"hmm." Runsheng pointed to the car parked on the side of the road. "Oh, our old classmates are all promising!"

"In fact, I am still a farmer, and I am racing with my brother-in-law."

"Anyway, drivers in our mountainous areas are the most popular!"

Really, for a rural woman, a car driver is a great person.

At that time, the child on the back of Hongmei began to cry.

She untied the child, held it in her arms, and did not avoid embellishment. She lifted her clothes and pulled out a plump * * and stuffed it in the child's mouth.

Tian Runsheng blushed and said shyly, "You are busy first! I went to the front to see the play for a while; When you finish, I'll send you home. "

"I'm afraid I'll miss you!"

"Don't miss! I just need to get to our original Xicheng today. "

"You eat a bowl of jiaozi before you go!"

"I'm full ..."

With that, Runsheng left Hongmei, his eyes absently walking towards the crowd in the theater.

He tried to squeeze into the crowd so that others could block Hongmei's sight.

He stood in the crowded crowd, without looking on the stage or listening to what was sung on it. A terrible taste blocked his throat. In the past few days, he witnessed the misfortune and suffering of the living people around him one after another, which made him mentally exhausted and filled his heart with pain. From now on, his understanding of life won't be so superficial ... He peeks into the distant place through the gap in his head in the theater. At the moment, he saw Hongmei tied the child on her back again, and began to hurriedly greet the cultivators for dinner ... Unfortunate people! She endured humiliation and toil in this dusty place for a few dollars to buy oil with salt. He saw her turn her back and wiped her face with her cuff. Is that wiping sweat or tears?

Tian Runsheng's eyes got wet. A strong desire immediately rose from his heart; He wants to help the unfortunate Hongmei and her poor child! At that time, he felt that people who had studied in the past, regardless of the relationship at that time, met a piece in the future that was so kind ... Runsheng had been secretly watching Hongmei sell all jiaozi in the crowd before he squeezed out of the theater and walked over to her.

At this time, the sun will set.

Hongmei said thank you words in her mouth, while putting away the cooker with him. She told Run Sheng that her father-in-law had carried the cookers to this place in the morning.

Runsheng put these furniture on the carriage and let Hongmei sit in the driving building with her child in her arms.

The motor roared with great boldness of vision.

He skillfully drove the car off the road, turned into the river bend, and then drove to the ditch diagonally opposite-the road in the ditch just slipped past a truck!

The sun set behind the mountain. Runsheng turned on the headlights and drove carefully. Hongmei held the child in her arms and sat quietly beside him without saying a word. From time to time, she turned her face and looked at him with surprise and admiration ... The car stopped on the bank of the river at the bottom of the village, and it was already foggy. Some people in the village had lights on their windows.

Runsheng helped Hongmei move the cooker to her home. Hongmei wants to keep him for a meal-she has prepared dumpling stuffing and dough.

Runsheng couldn't dodge it, so he had to stay. He saw that nothing was put in Hongmei's kiln-obviously a poor family. Until now, he still doesn't understand why Hongmei has fallen to this point!

He generously shared jiaozi with her. The two men talked a lot about the school and class in those days. Hongmei also asked him about other students in recent years-Runsheng didn't know much. However, she avoided mentioning Sun Shaoping and Gu Yangmin.

After dinner, Hongmei picked up the child and sent him to the car on the bank of the river ...

Tian Runsheng returned to the original West County at night.

He left his car in the parking lot, and without saying hello to his brother-in-law, he went to a private restaurant in the street with an indescribable emotion. He ordered two taels of soju and a plate of salted peanut beans, and drank slowly by himself. After a few drinks, his insides seemed to catch fire. This is the first time he has made an exception to drink. Young man! It seems that you will be not only your brother-in-law's assistant, but also his drinking partner.