A spring snow swept across the Huaibei Plain. After the continuous white snow, the whole world was replaced by silver. Due to the delay of the wind and snow, Ergoudan's family and my little sister lived for five days, exhausting my monthly salary. I was heartbroken and anxious to get angry. I went to the bus station every day to ask if the return bus was opened.

Sister Hong and Xiaozhuang came back only after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in my infinite expectation. When they appeared in front of me with fatigue, I held the mother and son in my arms and hugged them tightly on my chest. I felt my eyes a little wet, and the joy that seemed to be reunited for a long time almost made me cry.

The people living in the guesthouse left, and we moved back to the room on the second floor. The heat from the large electric stove kept emitting warmth in the space. Xiaozhuang followed his mother to sit in the bicycle for a day and fell asleep early.

"Sister Hong, are we getting married?" I looked at Sister Hong's clear eyes with anticipation and expressed my wish for thinking about the Spring Festival.

Sister Hong's eyes floated for a moment, and her sweaty skin was filled with the orchid-like fragrance after the enthusiasm: "Brother Wu Ping, I know your thoughts, but I am older than you, married, and have a child. Will your parents agree?"

"I'll find a wife myself, I care about their affairs. I just want to marry you." I sat up and patted my strong chest.

"You are still young and will definitely have a future. Xiaozhuang and I will become your burden." Sister Hong flashed her long eyelashes and glanced at Xiaozhuang who was sleeping.

"I am happy. Only when you and Xiaozhuang are by my side can I feel that everything is meaningful and that life is happy. I will not let you leave me, and no matter what strength it is, I cannot separate us." I said fiercely to Sister Hong, more like myself.

A drop of crystal tears, with sweet bitterness, fell to the corner of my mouth, and my heart couldn't help but jump up.

The short spring cold was just a flash in the pan, and the snow daughter went home reluctantly. The increasingly strong southeast wind blew over the plains and hills, shaving off the pine snowballs on the branches and leaves of the woods, melting the shriveled snow on the trunks of the sycamore trees on both sides of the Renmin Road, leaving countless clear trickles, and also bringing back the chirping swallows in the air.

This spring is different from previous years, full of uneasy restlessness. As the legs of men and women grow inch by inch, on the streets at night, several young people wandering around carrying "shoe boxes" suddenly appeared. I heard from the workshop that the "shoe boxes" with soft songs played by the electrician team was a tape recorder smuggled from the south. A few months ago, it just became popular in the city and has now spread to our county.

In front of the yarn mill, there were originally some idle young people who like to wander. Now that they had fashionable things like "shoe boxes", they became even more arrogant in groups. The security department in the factory has reported to the police station several times. The people in the police station and these guys are acquaintances, so they don't like to care about such idiots, saying that this is liberalization and should be managed by the cultural department, and it has nothing to do with them.

It was the weekend, and Sister Hong went on duty early in the morning. I simply finished my lunch, picked up Xiaozhuang and went out, sitting in the corridor upstairs to silence the sun. Xiaozhuang had already started to learn to speak. After he could call "Mom", he began to look at me with his head tilted. I originally wanted to teach him to call me "uncle", but I felt a little unwilling to teach him to call me something else, but I felt inappropriate. Although I proposed to Sister Hong, her attitude was always ambiguous. What should I do if Xiaozhuang called me? I really didn't think it through for a while.

The afternoon sun was warm and lazy. After eating the milk powder, Xiaozhuang squinted her eyes and began to wilt a little. I looked at the sprouts of the old ginkgo tree and felt drowsy, but at this moment, the iron gate of the small courtyard was knocked on by someone.

I hugged Xiaozhuang downstairs, came to the iron gate, and asked in a little puzzled manner: "Who is it?"

"Wu Ping, it's me, Xiao Cai." The voice of Senior Brother Xiao Cai sounded outside the door.

I opened the gate of the courtyard and welcomed Senior Brother Xiao Cai in. I was puzzled by the fact that he had arrived at him for a moment: "Why are you here today?"

"Wu Ping, you kid are so happy. You have lived a life of a warm kang with your wife and children." Senior Brother Xiao Cai did not answer my words, but sighed with envy.

"Who made you not be successful? Li Qin was pregnant, so you even asked her to run away." I glanced at him teasingly. Senior Brother Xiao Cai was embarrassed by me, and his narrow face was slightly red.

"How can Li Qin compare with Yin Hong? Ten Li Qins are not as good as Yin Hong. To be honest, I have watched so many movies, and there are only one stars in it, but none of them are more beautiful than Yin Hong. In theory, you are just a little preservation worker in a yarn mill. Although you are tall and handsome, you have no job, power, family status, and money. You really don't count anything in society. But I don't know what skills you have used to make a fairy like Yin Hong follow you. I really can't figure it out until now." Senior Brother Cai's eyes were full of jealousy and sighed.

"This matter...it's really hard for you to figure it out." I was very proud, but I said casually, "You think all women love money and power like Li Qin. Sister Hong and I are really hard to see true love."

"What are your hardships? Stop bragging, isn't it just that your master has left and his man has sacrificed again. You took advantage of others' danger and took the beauty into your arms. You can succeed with such a trick. I think it must be Yin Hongyan who is eager to seek medical treatment, so you can make you a fool, and you won the big prize in one step." Senior Brother Cai actually doesn't understand Sister Hong, and I have never told him about Sister Hong in depth, so he can only guess randomly based on the understanding of ordinary people.

I didn't want to tell him about myself and Sister Hong anymore, so I turned around and asked him: "You come here to find me, you won't just talk nonsense, what's wrong?"

After hearing my question, Senior Brother Cai's expression tightened suddenly. He hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Wu Ping, I am going to suspend my salary and stay in my job and go to the south to do business. The procedures will be completed soon and I will leave this month."

Senior Brother Xiao Cai's words surprised me: "You are going to the south? What are you doing there? What can you do if you are not familiar with the place?"

"I went with a cousin in my family. Last month, he met a boss from the south on the train. The two of them had a very speculative chat all the way. The boss invited him to take a few people to help him, saying that he could make a lot of money." When Senior Brother Xiao Cai said this, his eyes couldn't help but shine.

"No...No, I wish you a fortune in the future." Looking at the longing look of Senior Brother Xiao Cai, my heart felt like I was disturbed by the water, and suddenly there were waves. "However, the south is not that easy to mess with. It turned out that Master Liu, who was in the electrician class, quit his job after being transferred back to his hometown in the south. He said that he now works in a club and enterprise, which is several times more than in the factory. He also called me to invite me."

"Then why don't you go?" Senior Brother Cai's eyes widened.

"The main reason is that I have no confidence. We are in good state-owned enterprises and are guaranteed by the state. Didn't you even want to go to collective enterprises?" I felt a little nervous and lost confidence when I spoke.

"I think you are an excuse. Now you are talking about state-owned enterprises. The old monkey has finished tossing the cloth room. I heard that we have to spin it before. Do you still expect him to do it well?" Senior Brother Cai stared at me and said disdainfully.

I felt very embarrassed for a moment and didn't know how to answer. However, the rare arrogant look in my senior brother Xiao Cai's eyes: "Hmph... At that time, I will definitely let Li Qin see it and make her regret it to death."

He still didn't let go of Li Qin, and I couldn't help but feel sad for him: "Did you go for Li Qin? I saw her during the Chinese New Year this year. Now the red sleeves have been replaced with big blocks, and they have become applauded (sector leader). They are living a prosperous life and will never regret it for you."

I didn't want to shirk my interest from Senior Brother Xiao Cai, but I couldn't help but say this.

Senior Brother Xiao Cai pondered for a moment and sighed with a sad look: "What do you say? If you say you have nothing to do with Li Qin, this is definitely wrong, but it is not all for her. Wu Ping, you know that I have lived a cowardly life since I was a child. This time I made up my mind and wanted to live a human appearance."

"If you have such cruelty, you will definitely be able to get things done. If you make a lot of money and become a big boss in the future, I may go to surrender to you. At that time, don't ignore me, a poor brother." I cheered him up half-truth.

"That's certain. We are brothers and good buddies. How could I forget you?"

The first time I saw Senior Brother Xiao Cai speak with such confidence, he was immersed in his fantasy of the future. At that moment, none of us actually knew what our future would be like.

"Then... we'll just say that." When I said this, Xiaozhuang cried twice. Perhaps our conversation affected his regular sleep at noon every day, and protested a little unhappily.

Senior Brother Xiao Cai looked at Xiaozhuang in my arms with a sympathy and said with a little regret: "I originally wanted to mobilize you to go, but now it seems that you not only hugged a fairy every day, but also had all the children, and suddenly fell into the gentle land, and you must have no intention of flying away."

"I don't have the ambitions like you. I'm not as good as yours. Who will take me to make a lot of money? It's up to you in the future." I felt a little sad and couldn't help but laugh at myself.

"We will not meet when I come back for the New Year. Oh... By the way, if you still need to use a bicycle, just go to my house to push it. I have agreed with my family that you can go anytime." His words made a warm feeling in my heart.

After seeing off Senior Brother Xiao Cai, I closed the yard gate, carried Xiao Zhuang upstairs, coaxed him to sleep, and put him back into the room, then walked out alone and lay on the railing on the second floor in a daze. Senior Brother Xiao Cai's words just now deeply touched my nerves. I remembered the master's sigh when he was drunk, and also the expectation when Yuan Yuan bid farewell. A trace of thoughts that were sealed in his heart started to sing uneasy like the grass in spring.

I remember that on the last night in the regional training class, I read "Lu Xun's Collection" myself. The old man who looked like an owl once said in the book: "The most painful thing in life is that he wakes up from a dream and has no way to go. The dreamer is happy; if he doesn't see the path he can walk, the most important thing is not to wake him up."

Have I been woken up by Senior Brother Xiao Cai's words now? However, I really felt sad that I didn't know where to go.

In the fields outside the wall, the laughter of children came faintly. A few colorful kites fluttered and rose, flying higher and higher under the magnetic blue sky, as if they were about to hit those cool white clouds. I don’t know if it is everyone’s dream, like this floating kite, which requires one’s own efforts to keep moving upward. In fact, what can I do if the line breaks? It’s considered a congenital deficit, a bad luck, and finally I can’t reach the paradise of my dreams. The whole process of hard work seems to be happy.

That afternoon, I lay on the railings on the second floor for a long time until the setting sun flowed gold, and the return birds penetrated the forest, and the cold wind gradually rose, and the wandering kites also melted into the bloody sky light.
Chapter completed!