One day, the sun seemed to come out from the west. After a group of pedestrians paid the toll to cross the bridge, they walked about fifty meters away. Suddenly, a man with silver hair and a sinewy face caught up with him, shouting, "Stop, I just accepted you." All tolls will be refunded to you now. Everyone is puzzled and don’t understand why?
Some people say, don’t refund it, just pay the money and forget about it. Wouldn’t it be enough if you don’t have to pay again when you cross the bridge next time? Some said, "I will receive it as soon as I return it. How many kilograms of salt can I buy with these four yuan!" No matter what, Ma Yinfa returned the money to them one by one.
I also saw Ma Yinfa taking the ladders to the wooden frames on both sides of the bridge, taking down the two original signs and replacing them with two new ones. It was handed to him by Ma Yinxing who was standing there. The sign said: From today onwards, bridge tolls will be waived for pedestrians.
Everyone looked carefully, as if they didn't believe their eyes, and they left with satisfaction only after they were convinced that it was true. They talked about it along the way, but they didn't understand why the Ma family, who had been collecting bridge tolls, had good intentions. Even Ma Yinfa didn't know why it was like this at first. After he changed the brand, he asked Ma Yingxing, "Sister, why don't you charge a penny for the bridge toll?" Can't you charge less?
Ma Yinxing smiled bitterly and told the reason: Long Lai fell ill again at school. Principal Tian called your brother and asked to send Long Lai to the hospital. I asked your brother to take Long Lai home first and take good care of him. I went back to Baota Mountain to ask Taoist Tan if there was any way to cure it. If there was no way to cure it, it would not be too late to send him to the hospital for treatment.
I went to Pagoda Mountain this morning and happened to find Taoist Tan. Before I even opened my mouth, Taoist Tan knew my purpose. He scolded me with a straight face and said that our family had funded the construction of a pontoon bridge on the Longpan River to make it easier for people to cross. The river is a good thing, but people should not be charged bridge tolls. For this reason, the tower god is offended. When the tower god is angry, the dragon will fall ill. Moreover, it is difficult for doctors to cure this kind of madness. .
Hearing this, Ma Yinfa said with confusion, I don't believe that Long Lai's illness was the reason why we collected bridge tolls. Now we have stopped collecting bridge tolls and refunded the money received to others. Long Lai Is your madness really cured? If there is no improvement, I think we should continue to collect the bridge toll.
If it is not good, the bridge toll will not be collected. Ma Ginkgo stood on the pontoon and looked at the quietly flowing river under the bridge, as if her thoughts were being quietly baptized. She said resolutely that even if Long Lai's illness was cured, he would not be able to take it away in the future. If he did, Long Lai's illness might relapse again.
Sister, don’t be too superstitious. There are no bridge tolls now. I will go home with you to see if Long Lai’s illness is better. If it is better, I will believe what Taoist Tan said. If not, Taoist Tan will What he said is questionable. As soon as Ma Yinfa finished saying this, she heard the music ringtone ringing from Ma Yinxing's cell phone in Kun's bag. She took out the cell phone and put it to her ear and screamed, "What's the matter?" Oh, that's a good thing. It means that I listened to Taoist Tan and stopped charging bridge tolls, and I have been forgiven by the tower god.
A smile appeared on Ma Yinxing's face as she answered and replied. After hanging up, she put the phone back in her bag, looked at Ma Yinfa and said, "Yinfa, your brother Yuan Lai called to say that Long Lai's illness has recovered, and now your brother Yuan Lai is sending Long Lai to school!"
oh! Ma Yinfa couldn't help but believe it. He walked to the pontoon bridge and looked back at the pontoon bridge. He said that from now on the bridge toll will no longer be charged. It seems that doing meritorious deeds really has merit.
After that, Xia Gao and Long Lai worked hard at school, and after a month they basically caught up with the class level. Later, they entered high school and went to university. After graduation, they were assigned jobs naturally. It’s just that Xu Sijin was useless after all. When he recovered from his illness and was mixed in school for a while, he really couldn’t keep up with the class level and dropped out of school again. He just didn’t dare to go to Baota Mountain to mess around anymore, but followed Hu Yingzi to do some hoeing in Qijiazhuang. Farming tasks such as weeding, planting and cutting grain.
After working around for a few years, he turned 18 and became more courageous. He said goodbye to his mother and stepfather, left Qijia Village, and went to the city to find work. Since I have no skills, I can only go to the station and dock to do some moving work, which is difficult and the wages are low. He found that there were very few young people doing it. Most of them were middle-aged men who were not well-dressed and old people who were in good health. Moreover, their homes were all near the city, and they were not from remote countryside like him.
He began to come to the city to take this kind of hard work. It was a hot day and since he couldn't afford to stay in a hotel, he spent most of his nights sleeping on the bench in the waiting room of the station, which was quite peaceful and comfortable.
Late one night, while he was sleeping soundly, he was woken up by someone. He refused to open his eyes and only said, "What are you doing?" I slept well, why do you want to drive away my drowsiness?
Open your eyes and see, who am I? The voice of a middle-aged woman.
Xu Sijin opened his eyes and saw that she was a female railway station inspector with a railway sign hanging on her front. She had a delicate face but a serious attitude. Seeing that Xu Sijin didn't speak, he continued to ask, do you want to buy it? Take out your ticket and let me take a look. Where can I get tickets for Xu Sijin? He deliberately dug around on his body and couldn't get out the ticket, so he lied and said, "Comrade, did I lose my ticket?"
The female inspector asked again, which bus did you take? Where to go? Xu Sijin was hesitant and did not say anything because he was not mentally prepared.
The female inspector yelled rudely, "What's your trick? I see you sleeping on the bench here every night when I'm on duty at night, but I've never seen you riding in a bus with passengers. Tell me, what do you do?"
I...Xu Sijin still didn't answer. Of course he couldn't tell the details of how he slept here every night. At this time, he was not sleepy at all, but sat up from the bench, then stood up, holding the big dirty satchel that smelled like oil, and watched the female inspector take a few steps back. The female inspector yelled again, "Get out of here. Someone at the station reported that you slept here every night. Did you know?" This is not a place for you to sleep, but a place for passengers to wait for the bus.
Okay, I'm going, I'm going. Xu Sijin rubbed his eyes and wanted to tell her, can you let me stay in the waiting room for the last night tonight? Find a place to sleep tomorrow. But seeing that the female inspector looked very fierce, she swallowed back the words that came to her lips, but she stood still, as if she was refusing to leave.
The female inspector got angry again and said, "If you don't get out, I'll ask the people from the station police office to arrest you." Xu Sijin had no choice but to walk outside the waiting room. Although there were lights outside, they were dim, as dim as his mood.
