Ronin: Start with the cotton

Chapter 259
"Is this what you said..."

Teacher Jiang He, who had been silently listening to Qiao Shan and Hao Han's quarrel, suddenly took out a stack of newspapers from upstairs, and found an old and yellowed newspaper from inside.

"These are left by the former old teachers. When I was tidying up the office, I found them at the bottom of the cabinet. Inside were the newspapers that the island had run over the years. Sometimes when I was bored, I would dig them out and have a look. .”

Ma Haohan looked at the fuzzy newspaper with a black and white photo in Jiang He's hand, completely speechless.

It's been so many years, why is this still there?
Well, this time it's really dead!

……

"Brother Haohan! You were so good when you were young? I never climbed the flagpole!"

As if he had discovered a new continent, Hu Sheng took the newspaper in Jiang He's hand curiously, and read it aloud word by word:
"News from our newspaper: Class 78, Grade [-], Erdan Ma, a classmate from Mr. Ma's family, accidentally climbed up the flagpole of Central Primary School yesterday and was unable to get off. The teachers and students of the school actively organized emergency rescue work, sharing [-] mats, schoolbags [-] of them, three sets of the teacher's quilts, successfully saved the life of classmate Ma Erdan..."

"All right, all right!" Ma Haohan grabbed the newspaper.

After admiring his majestic figure of "a bird hitting the sky", Ma Haohan put the newspaper on the side with a dark face, and said in a bad mood:
"You say you are a people's teacher, look at what these parents are doing!"

Turning his head and glaring at Qiao Shan, Ma Haohan changed the subject and asked, "Jiang He, has your assignment been settled? When the time comes, we will send you to take up your post together!"

"I just came down today." Jiang He was stunned, waved his hands and smiled wryly, "But this time the assigned place is far away, so I can go by myself."

"How about that!"

Ma Haohan stared and said: "We have been brothers for so many years, this time I must send you off!"

"Besides, isn't it just distribution? How far can it be? Now that the traffic is so convenient, it will take a few hours at most!"

Jianghe Road: "Bayi Town, 3800 kilometers away."

Ma Haohan:? ? ?
Depend on!so far?
Hu Sheng counted his fingers on the side, and whispered silently: "One kilometer is equal to 1000 meters, ten kilometers is equal to ten thousand meters, and one hundred kilometers is equal to..."

……

"It's okay! I have a car!"

Ma Haohan swallowed his saliva, patted his chest hard, and said: "Anyway, we are going to move out, and it happens to be an instant trip! Don't worry, I have friends everywhere outside!"

"Your transport vehicle is too big." Jiang He said seriously.

"Who said I'm going to drive you in a transport truck!" Ma Haohan snorted, stretched out his hand and wanted to touch the cigarette in his pocket, but held back forcefully, and then put on an unfathomable gesture and said:

"Hmph! You will know when the time comes!"

In the past two years, he has been driving a transport vehicle in Pudong City, which is the closest city to the island, and he goes back and forth between the port and the urban area every day, mainly transporting some fishermen's catches.

But now with the progress of the "relocation plan", his transportation work has also failed.

He suddenly looked at Qiao Shan, his eyes lit up, and he bewitched, "Dashan, do you really plan to stay on the island and be a fisherman for the rest of your life? Let's go out and start a career together while sending Jiang He to the post this time!"

Since Ma Haohan finished his technical secondary school, he stayed on the island honestly for four years, accompanied Qiao Shan and Hu Sheng to go fishing together, and took care of his elderly and handicapped grandfather.

After the death of Mr. Ma, he immediately ran to land.

Driving a taxi, working as a security guard, doing odd jobs... Every time Ma Haohan came back, he persuaded Qiao Shan to go out and see the world with him. Although he couldn't make a lot of money, life in a big city was much richer than life on a small island.

It's just that Qiao Shan smiled lightly every time, but never agreed.

……

"Dashan, you said that Master Hu has passed away for so many years, and Hu Sheng is also 24 years old. What are you still doing on the island? Now fishing is not like before. The money earned is small and tiring. Do something better than this!"

Once persuading Qiao Shan, Ma Haohan felt unable to stop.

Qiao Shan lived on the main island of the East Pole since he was a child. He just started elementary school when his whole family died at sea just like his father.

Therefore, Qiao Shan was taken care of and raised by Master Hu who came from outside.

Master Hu is said to be a boxer on the mainland. Because he offended someone, he moved from the mainland to Dongji Island to live in seclusion.

But Master Hu has been dead for seven or eight years.

Hu Sheng was an orphan picked up by Master Hu by chance when he went out. After Master Hu passed away, Qiao Shan took care of Hu Sheng after his surname.

This is also the reason why Qiao Shan had always rejected Ma Haohan before.

Hu Sheng was still young at that time, if Qiao Shan left, Hu Sheng would not be able to take care of himself alone.

But now that Hu Sheng has grown up, although his brain is still not very smart, but at the age of 24, there are a lot of people who are married among his peers. This time, it is a big deal to take him out together!
Thinking of this, Ma Haohan felt that he was very confident this time, and the depression of being relocated was much less. He looked at Hu Sheng and asked:
"Hu Sheng, do you want to go out with us to do great business!"

……

"Yes I do!"

Hu Sheng nodded with a simple look on his face.

But he quickly said angrily: "But, apart from going fishing with Brother Qiao Shan, I don't know anything else!"

"Don't you know how to ride a bicycle and drive a car?" Ma Haohan said disapprovingly, "I remember Dashan said, didn't you get your driver's license in Miaozi Island the year before last? I used a driver's license to go to the mainland to become a Taxi driver!"

"You can earn a little money by fishing, and now you can drive a taxi transport truck casually, and you can earn four to five thousand a month!"

Hu Sheng: "But last month, brother Qiao Shan went out to sea five times and earned [-] yuan selling fish."

Ma Haohan: "..."

"Depend on!"

He looked at Qiao Shan, envious and jealous: "I really doubt that you are the illegitimate child of Dahai. I only earn [-] yuan a month for transportation outside, and the fishermen on our island only earn [-] yuan a month selling their catches." Two or three thousand, how can you earn so much every time?!"

"Hu Sheng, what treasure did you catch last month?"

Ma Haohan asked with a toothache.

Another reason why he didn't have the confidence to persuade Qiao Shan to go out with him was that Qiao Shan could catch some good things every time he went out to sea, even if it was some ordinary fishing goods, he was also full of harvest.

But he can only envy this, because the fishermen on the island know that Qiao Shanshui is very good, and he goes to sea very far, especially in bad weather, and often runs to hidden reefs, diving down to touch lobsters, sea cucumbers, shells, etc. good stuff.

Ordinary fishermen don't have this kind of ability, and they don't dare to.

……

Qiao Shan said with a smile: "I touched a pair of prawns weighing four catties. I heard that they were famous wild species. I sold them to Manager Tang who came to receive the goods. His restaurant specializes in high-end seafood. Lobsters are the signature dish, so I gave them money. Very refreshing, sold for 6000 yuan."

"Damn! That fat man must have lowered the money!" Ma Haohan cursed in a low voice.

"Dashan, it's very dangerous to go to sea! You don't know how many people on our island went to sea and never came back. Not to mention your family members, didn't my father also go to sea and have an accident and was taken away by the typhoon!"

"Listen to me, change to a safe job!"

Ma Haohan sincerely persuaded him.

Fishermen tend to become less timid and superstitious the longer they go to sea.

But Qiao Shan was an exception.

He was really afraid that whenever he came back, he would hear the sad news that Qiao Shan and Hu Sheng were buried in the sea.

Qiao Shan still smiled lightly, neither agreeing nor refusing:

"let me think again."

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(End of this chapter)