Without much effort, Chen Qiaoshan finally saw the old Yi mentioned by Zhang Ergui. It was a bit different from what he thought. In front of him was a very energetic old man.

His face was vicissitudes but he did not wither. His back was slightly hunched, but he could not see any depression. He had a half-new Zhongshan suit on his body, and there was a hole in the front, which should be the traces left by the burning cigarettes.

It is rare for a lonely old man in his sixties to see that he is not sloppy at all.

Looking at the old man in front of him, Chen Qiaoshan felt a little moved. This is the legendary Yi Daixing.

"Lao Yi, someone is looking for you." As soon as he arrived at the place, Zhang Ergui shouted carelessly.

The charging place where Yi Daixing is located is at the entrance of the alley next to the station. At the end of the alley is the public toilet. It is said to be a toilet, but in fact it is just guarding the entrance of the alley from afar. This is a comfortable job.

"Who is looking for me?" The old man's ears were very aware. When he heard Zhang Ergui's words, he stood up from the chair and moved two steps towards the door.

Only then did Chen Qiaoshan see clearly that the old man had some problems with his left leg and he walked a little inconsistently, so he couldn't see anything else.

"It's this person, a college student from Yanjing, who comes to find you." Zhang Ergui acted as the introducer, pointed at Chen Qiaoshan and said, then said to Chen Qiaoshan: "This is what I'm talking about Lao Yi."

Chen Qiaoshan stepped forward and said, "Hello, Mr. Yi, my name is Chen Qiaoshan. I came from Yu Province. I want to find you to know the situation."

Yi Daixing was a little surprised. He looked at Chen Qiaoshan up and down, and then said, "I have been to Zhengzhou and Luoyang in previous years. I don't know which part of you are from?"

Chen Qiaoshan was delighted. It was obvious that the old man was quick-thinking and did not hide the facts of his early years. It was a good sign: "I am from Deng County. Have you ever been there?"

Yi Daixing thought for a moment and shook his head, "I don't remember that I don't walk much in Henan Province, but I have been in central Shu and southern Yunnan for a long time."

Chen Qiaoshan could hear that Yi Daixing obviously had a little Sichuan sound. It was not surprising to think that he was stranded in Shu for more than ten years.

"Young man, are you asking me?" Yi Daixing said, taking out a pack of cigarette from his shirt and pocket, pulling out one, and lit it directly.

Before Chen Qiaoshan could make a sound, Zhang Ergui first ran it: "Lao Yi, you are so unkind. This place is your territory. If you have smoke, you only care about smoking yourself and don't know how to disperse it."

Yi Daixing was not angry, and pinched the spark-burning cigarette butts and said, "There is no filter for this cigarette, so you young people are accustomed to smoking it."

When Chen Qiaoshan saw this, he found that it was true. When he looked at the old man's clothes, he didn't look like a rich man. Of course, the rich man naturally wouldn't come to see the toilet.

Zhang Ergui was just a joke. He didn't want to stay longer at this moment. After a few words, his heart felt like grass was growing. An old man who was looking at the toilet had nothing to talk about, "Hey, college student, this person has been found, so I'll leave first."

Chen Qiaoshan smiled and said, "It's done, thank you today."

Zhang Ergui rubbed his hands and smiled and said, "You scholars are poor and particular, and thank me, they are not real at all. We usually don't care about those." After nagging, he lost the intention of leaving.

Chen Qiaoshan just pretended that he didn't understand and said, "I have something to do with this, I guess I have to trouble you."

Zhang Ergui looked alert. He suddenly remembered King Chen Yan's fear of this young man and asked suspiciously: "What are you going to do?"

Chen Qiaoshan smiled and said, "I came here to conduct research this time. The school doesn't give much subsidy. I have to stay in Xinhua for a few days. I am not familiar with the place and want to find a guide for 100 yuan a day. Can you help introduce a more reliable person?"

Zhang Ergui looked surprised. He only earned more than 1,000 yuan a month when he went out to work. He helped others lead the way and was 100 yuan a day. Where can I find such good things? He hurriedly said: "I often run around the countryside and the city. I am very familiar with you. Don't look for them, I will do it."

Chen Qiaoshan said: "Then we agreed to see you at the lobby of Xinhua Hotel on Yingbin Road at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning."

Zhang Ergui nodded quickly and agreed, as if he was afraid that Chen Qiaoshan would regret it, so he wanted to leave his cell phone number again, so he turned around and left.

Chen Qiaoshan said to Yi Daixing: "Old man, I'm here this time and I want to ask you about the situation back then."

Yi Daixing was a little surprised, but he didn't rush to say anything. He dragged out a small stool from the corner and handed it over, "Sit down and talk." After that, he walked back to his original chair.

Chen Qiaoshan was not polite, so he sat down on the stool and told him what he wanted.

After hearing this, Yi Daixing was a little silent. After a while, he asked, "What do you want to ask?"

Chen Qiaoshan was busy: "Old man, you have a brother, right?"

Yi Daixing took a sip of cigarettes and then said, "Yes, but I have been away for many years."

Chen Qiaoshan was stunned. He didn't expect this to be the case. From this point of view, Mr. Yi is likely to be alone.

"Then can you tell me, in which year I went out to travel?"

"The spring of 1960s." Yi Daixing answered very simply, and after that, he fell into memories.

"My family used to have bad ingredients and their lives were tight. Later, three years of natural disasters, and they couldn't eat enough for hunger. My brother and I, as well as a man named Zhang, ran out together."

"My ancestors were cultural people. Although we brothers had never attended foreign schools, we started practicing seal carving skills since childhood. My master taught them step by step, so it was no problem to read and scribble. But in that year, we couldn't get anything to eat, so we could only sell our strength."

"I remember it very clearly that we went north and west first, around half of China, and finally entered Sichuan and Shu."

Chen Qiaoshan asked, "Where did you learn the skill of repairing mechanical typewriters?"

Yi Daixing couldn't help but smile, "Is it just in Sichuan? At that time, my brother and I were repairing steel plates in the People's Bank of Fuling. We happened to encounter their typewriter broken. We looked at it and went up and take a look."

"I remember very clearly that the positioning of that machine is not accurate, and the bankers can't repair it. They want to find out the problem first, and then ask experts from other places to come over to repair it. They keep typing, hoping to see some problems."

"My brother and I were all around to watch. The locator can be adjusted, but the locator is not accurate. If we hit it, we won't ring it. If there is no reminder, if we type again, we will ruin it?"

"I understood at a glance, but those people from the bank don't know. I told them that we two brothers can repair this machine. We not only repair the steel plate, but also the typewriter. The people in the bank were skeptical. I took the kicker and tweaked it for a while, but in fact I didn't move anything. I finally calibrated the positioning bell."

Speaking of this, Yi Daixing chuckled a few times, "You don't know, I was sweating at that time. After all, it was a foreign thing. I saw it for the first time, for fear of something going on."

"Fortunately, it was really a problem with the positioning bell. After repairing the machine, the bank leader personally led us to the guesthouse and had a good hospitality. When we were about to come, we were given another 45 yuan. This is a subsidy for asking experts from other places to come."

"You don't know that it was 62 years. In a first-class area, the salary of a level 30 cadre was only 24 yuan a month. It was the first time I had earned so much money when I grew up."

"It was from then on that time that my brother and I started to repair the typewriter."

Chen Qiaoshan looked incredible, "You don't have a master, nor have you learned to repair it, just repair the typewriter for others?"

Yi Daixing smiled and said, "What's the problem? If the bank has repaired it, the surrounding machine is broken, so I'll invite us. It's not too late to invite an expert if we can't repair it well. It's okay to be on call."

"It didn't take long. We relied on these bad typewriters to learn the complete set of mechanical typewriter maintenance techniques. We no longer had to go out to repair steel plates for people, and we earned a lot of money."

"It's only one or two years before and after. Both of our brothers have a wife. The next year, my brother also gave birth to a big fat boy."

After pondering for a while, Yi Daixing seemed to be silent. After a while, he said in a sigh: "Compared with seal carving, repairing a typewriter is really too simple."
Chapter completed!