Today I got off the night shift. When I walked out of the workshop with the flow of people, I saw that the branches of the sycamore trees on both sides of the road in the factory were already full of tender green buds.

Bathed in the bright spring light, the warm spring breeze blew on my face, and a rhythm appeared in my heart, "Qingming is here, the birds are noisy, the willow leaves grow, and the spring is pretty." When my grandmother was alive, she sang this nursery rhyme every Qingming Festival. I remembered the incident of going out for a picnic with my master and Yin Hong. In a blink of an eye, a year has passed, and the reeds in Wolong Lake should sprout again, and the wild birds flying south should be back, right? By the way, for the next two days to rest, why not make an appointment with Senior Brother Xiao Cai to go to Wolong Lake to relax. Thinking of this, I stopped, turned around and walked back, caught off guard, and almost ran into several front spinning wheel workers behind me.

"Oh, Wu Ping, what are you trying to do?" A young girl pretended to be frightened, covered her chest and screamed in shock.

"You Wu Ping, you have been in the factory for more than a year. You have learned bad things now. Want to eat my 'tofu'?" A young wife chuckled, thrusting her tall breasts towards me.

"I'm sorry, I... I suddenly remembered something, I have to go back to the workshop quickly." These stingy female workers started to joke, and my face turned a little red.

I returned to the workshop against the flow of people and came to the front of the security class and pushed the door in. There were only squad leader Xu and Xiao Li in the room. Perhaps the rest of the people went out to work. Squad leader Xu and Xiao Li were biting their ears and saw me poking in, and I was a little surprised.

"Xiao Wu, are you doing something?" Squad leader Xu stood up and greeted me enthusiastically.

"I'll find Senior Brother Xiao Cai, and I want to tell him something about it." I stood by the door and replied.

"Come in and sit down. Xiao Cai and Fatty Zhang went to the machinery workshop and got the parts they processed yesterday." Xiao Li blinked his little eyes and waved at me.

I walked into the room and habitually sat on the earthy sofa left by the master. Xiao Li quickly came over and sat next to me.

"Do you know? Lao Cui may be back." Xiao Li looked at me with a proud look.

"Old Cui? He...he is coming back?" I felt a little surprised and looked back at Squad Leader Xu.

"I heard that after reviewing the above, he had no major problems in 10 years. He just had a quarrel with others. It was a cognitive problem. The organization's conclusion has been reached." Xu Changjiu nodded affirmatively with his nostrils.

"Organization? Do you mean my master or his mother? What did they do to Mr. Cui?" I was filled with anger for a moment and asked, staring at Xu Changjiu's red eyes.

"What are you talking about? Don't Cui Laoba, Cui Laoba shouted, Secretary Cui has treated you well, you can be what he is today without him? You shouldn't be ungrateful." Captain Xu's face pulled down and he stared at me dissatisfiedly.

I felt very uncomfortable when Squad Leader Xu's words were about to refute him, Fatty Zhang and Senior Brother Xiao Cai came back one after another. Fatty Zhang shook his hands easily in front, and Senior Brother Xiao Cai behind him was sweating profusely. He walked into the door panting with a freshly processed accessory.

"Senior Brother Xiao Cai, I'll have something to do with you." I ignored Squad Leader Xu and Xiao Li anymore, stood up and winked at Senior Brother Xiao Cai.

"What's the matter with me?" Senior Brother Xiao Cai was pulled out of the door by me and asked a little puzzledly.

"I just finished this night shift. I have been on the night shift these two days, and it will be Sunday the day after tomorrow. Don't you have a long-term shift?" I said hurriedly.

"If you have something to do, don't just talk about it." Senior Brother Xiao Cai misunderstood what I mean.

"It's not that you want your help. It's Qingming Festival soon. Let's take Li Qin with you the day after tomorrow and go to Wolong Lake for a picnic. How about it for a day?" I suggested excitedly.

"Okay - Li Qin is in a bad mood recently and always has a quarrel with me. She just happened to take her to relax." Senior Brother Xiao Cai responded happily after hearing my words, "But, their weaving workshop is busy trying to weave corduroy according to Lao Hou's wishes. I wonder if they can take a leave."

Are you going to transfer to someone else’s class? No matter how you take her, you are a man, you should be gentle and considerate to the little girl, and be more romantic." I hurriedly helped Senior Brother Xiao Cai to help me.

"Don't just talk to me about the big reason. You have never been in a relationship, so you read something from the book and thought you had obtained some true scriptures." Senior Brother Xiao Cai looked disdainful and silenced.

"No matter what, do you want to go?" I said with a red face.

"Go! Why not?" Senior Brother Xiao Cai slapped me.

Early on Sunday morning, I rode an old "Flying Pigeon" (a famous bicycle made in Tianjin) out. The car was borrowed from Master Liu yesterday. The sun just showed his head and the morning glow reflected the red sky in the east. I came to the ancient bell tower in the center of the city. After waiting for a while, I saw Senior Brother Xiao Cai riding his big "permanent". Li Qin was wearing a beautiful plaid jacket and happily sat upright in the back seat of the car. She was both energetic and beautiful in tidying up.

"Didn't you say it's hard to take a leave? How could Li Qin come?" I was joking with Senior Brother Xiao Cai.

"He doesn't know what he is thinking?" My words caused Li Qin to complain again, "You men are all like this. When you don't get it, you talk sweetly all day long. Once you get it, you slowly start to get bored and think about how to get rid of it."

"Others do this, but I promise that Senior Brother Xiao Cai will never do it. He will be crazy to leave you." I quickly opened the smooth flow for Senior Brother Xiao Cai.

"It's good if you don't bother me." Senior Brother Cai glanced at Li Qin and lowered his head.

"Look at how good the weather is, let's go quickly." I was afraid that the two of them would squat again, which would ruin their mood for travel, so I quickly interrupted their conversation.

The three of them left the Nanmen Bridge, crossed the Grand Canal from the ferry, and then followed the high Dawei and headed eastward toward Wolong Lake. On both sides of the road, towering poplar trees danced in the wind, making a "rustling" sound. Outside the Dawei, the green wheat straightened its back and swayed its heavy head. In the river beach where the grass sprouted, pear blossoms and peach blossoms competed for beauty, red like beating flames, pink like baby's face, exuding an intoxicating atmosphere.

"Senior Brother Cai, we have made an appointment in the future. We come to Wolong Lake for an outing every spring. What do you think?" I was in a happy mood and suggested sincerely.

"Okay, we come every year." Senior Brother Cai happily agreed.

"Now we will come by ourselves. When we get married, we will bring our wives and children together. When we get old, we will bring our grandchildren here, hunt birds, fish, and fly kites." I had a big idea and looked forward to the future.

"You are all wishful thinking. Even if you have children and grandchildren in the future, they may not be willing to come with us. Besides, will our children and grandchildren be here for the rest of their lives?" Li Qin's mood became cheerful and bright in the beautiful spring.

"Yes, Li Qin is right. If they don't come, we will do it ourselves. We must live a good life, live a comfortable and interesting life." I originally wanted to say "life romantically", which I learned from books, but when I talked about it, it was changed to "life interestingly", because in that era, "romantic" would be described as the petty bourgeois mood.

"Wu Ping, your mind is bigger than us. In the future, you will not leave our small county town like Lu Yu." Because you are a good friend, Senior Brother Xiao Cai knew what I think on weekdays.

"Yes - if I have the ability, I will leave here and go to a big place." Because it was in front of my friends, I was full of passion and couldn't help but speak out loudly.

"Wu Ping, you can definitely do it, I believe you." Li Qin's eyes were as charming as silk, and she couldn't help but praise her. Senior Brother Cai had a little jealousy in his eyes.

As we walked up the canal wetland, we were talking and laughing, and the journey of more than 30 kilometers was coming in a blink of an eye. When I stood next to the vast Wolong Lake again, the scene of coming here with my master and Yin Hong was still vivid in my mind. Looking at the reeds, lush cattails, and the grass beach surface of Xinhe several miles, everything seemed to be yesterday, but things had changed.

Seeing my empty eyes, Senior Brother Cai looked into the distance blankly and asked in a little confusion: "Wu Ping, what's wrong with you? Why are you stupid?"

"Oh... the scenery in front of me is so beautiful." I came to my senses and withdrew my gaze, "Let's go and go down the beach to catch birds and fish."

According to my vague memory, I took Xiao Cai and Li Qin in the reeds and found the dry highland, locked the two bicycles together, and took out the slingshot given to me by my master. Senior Brother Xiao Cai also took off a long cloth bag on his back and took out a few fishing rods from it. We made an appointment with one to catch birds and one to fish, and we got here to barbecue at noon. Li Qin had to follow me to go to the birds, but I said there was a water snake in the swamp, which scared her, so I could only follow Senior Brother Xiao Cai to the waterside. I watched Senior Brother Xiao Cai pick up the fishing rod, put down the water nest to lure fish, and threw down the hook and started fishing. Then I held the slingshot and walked towards the depths of the reeds.

Stepping on the soft and wet beach, I carefully searched for prey. With my skills I had learned since childhood, I soon harvested more than a dozen "Zhuntian sticks" and three or four fat wild pigeons. As the food at noon was settled, I began to get tired, smelling the fragrance of flowers all over my nose, and strolling in search, thinking about whether I could get some other prey.

I sat down by a lotus pond, watching a large group of dragonflies playing among the green lotus leaves, thinking about the sprouting spring to the hot summer, and passing the skillful autumn, and then passing the subtle winter. Soon after, graceful lotus flowers stood shyly and smiled, and couldn't help but be filled with endless sighs. I took out a cigarette and lit it, sucking it comfortably. Under the warm spring sun, my eyelids were a little astringent, and the graceful lotus leaves in front of me gradually turned into a charming face, "I hit it! I hit it!" The bright red twisted her slender waist, and the silver bell-like sound echoed in my ears again...

With a "scream", a yellow figure jumped up from the reeds and jumped towards the grass beach in front. The hare, a fat hare, was thrilled all over, jumped up, chased two steps, pulled the bow and shot. Just as the silver steel balls caught up with the hare, with a crisp sound of gunfire, the running hare fell head-on in the tender green grass.
Chapter completed!