Chapter 281
Compared with the intercity bus, the bus from Xinhong County to Humiao Town is particularly dilapidated.

The car was filled with the unique dull smell of cars, which made people twist their noses.

The interior space of the car is narrow, the leather seats are worn out, and the windows often make a broken "bang" moaning sound during driving, as if they are about to disintegrate at any time.

There were not too many passengers, Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning sat in the penultimate row.

The seat in front was a bit caved in and leaned back a lot, but Xue Yuantong's petite body was not affected.

For a distance of 30 kilometers, the bus fare is 6 yuan.

Xue Yuantong said in a low voice: "The bus is contracted by a boss. There are many of them, and they are responsible for commuting between counties and towns."

"In the first year of junior high school, when I went home, the bus charge was only 5 yuan. Later, the price was raised to 7 yuan, but many people in the town resisted, so the boss dropped it to 6 yuan."

Jiang Ning didn't say a word. They also have this kind of bus in Guyang County, which is also very dilapidated, and the color and model of the vehicle seem to be the same model.

He remembered that in 2019, in Yuzhou City, private buses to various townships were banned, and later buses were used uniformly.

The bus was heading out of the county, and every time it passed a bus stop, the conductor stood at the door and yelled.

However, even though it was about to leave the county seat, the bus was still not full of passengers, so a strange operation came. Before leaving the county seat, the bus turned into the county again and circled around the road just now...

Thanks to the hard work of the conductor to solicit customers, all the seats are now full of passengers, not only that, but there are also many people standing in the car.

The bus was finally sent to Humiao Town.

Just out of the county seat, I only heard the conductor shout:
"All standing passengers, all squat down, all squat down, there are cameras in front of you to check!"

"Squat down, squat down!" She said in a hurry, as if commanding people to fight.

In the chaos, although the passengers complained, they knew the seriousness of the matter and squatted down in cooperation.

They didn't stand up again until they passed the surveillance area.

Four 10 minutes later.

When the bus arrived at Humiao Town North Station, the conductor stood on the bus and yelled:
"The North Station is here, everyone get off!"

At this time, there were only seven or eight passengers in the car, and the others all got off in the middle of the village.

Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning were the last two to get off.

The station in Humiao Town is an open station, that is, there is no station.

After getting off the car, the two stood on the side of the road.

Xue Yuantong looked at the familiar environment, and the look in his eyes suddenly returned.

There are no high-rise buildings in Humiao Town, the surrounding area is [-] meters, and the tallest building has only three floors.

There are many bicycles and motorcycles on the road.

There were several passenger electric tricycles parked on the side of the road, and my aunt stood by the car and shouted:
"Where are you going, whether you take a tricycle or not!"

Xue Yuantong waved her hand and refused, she pulled Jiang Ning forward, tens of meters away, a straight river stood horizontally, fifteen or sixteen meters wide.

Xue Yuantong boarded the arch bridge, leaned on the stone railing, and took a breath of fresh air.

There are a few fishermen on the east bank of the river, and to the east is a large piece of green farmland.

Xue Yuantong pointed to the river and said reminiscingly: "When I was young, there were many people swimming in this river. At that time, my mother and I stood on the bridge and watched them plunge into the water, and it took half a minute for them to emerge.'

Looking at the gray river, Jiang Ning asked, "What about now?"

Xue Yuantong sighed: "Now the river is dirty, and I have never seen anyone swimming again."

Jiang Ning believes that the countryside is not as beautiful as many people imagined, especially in the central towns, where garbage management is not in place, and the level of education is generally not high, so the phenomenon of garbage being thrown everywhere is quite serious.

It will not be improved until a few years later when large green trash cans on the roadside become popular.

"Is your neighbor's house far away?" Jiang Ning asked.

"It's not far, it's only ten minutes away."

"That's good."

Xue Yuantong looked at the roadside tobacco and liquor store: "I want to go buy something."

She came to her hometown this time to visit patients instead of her mother, and her mother told her not to empty-handed, but to buy some milk and fruit gifts, which looked much better.

Xue Yuantong bought a box of walnut milk, a box of pure milk, a bunch of bananas, and a pack of big apples, which cost her a total of 160 yuan.

After shopping, Xue Yuantong looked at the pile of things on the ground, subconsciously worried, how should I carry them?

She doesn't have much strength, and she is very tired carrying a box of milk, not to mention that the village is more than one kilometer away from the town.

She looked at the passenger tricycle on the side of the road, planning to call for one.

Jiang Ning didn't let her worry. He bent down, picked up a box of milk with both hands, and picked up the fruit. This weight is not a big deal for Jiang Ning.

"What are you doing in a daze, lead the way." Jiang Ning looked at Xue Yuantong.

"Oh, oh." Xue Yuantong came to his senses and led him forward until he crossed the road.

Her thoughts are quite complicated, and Jiang Ning can easily solve many things that she can't do.

In her past life, she could only rely on herself and her mother.

"Jiang Ning, I'm carrying fruit." She volunteered.

Jiang Ning ignored her, the fruit weighed several kilograms, she must have struggled to carry it.

He said: "You don't need to help me."

Xue Yuantong rarely spoke back.

After crossing the arch bridge, the east side suddenly opened up, a long asphalt road stretched out, and large fields on both sides came into view.

Within 500 meters ahead, there is only one power supply building.

"That's the only power supply station in our town." Xue Yuantong introduced.

The area occupied by the power supply is not small, and Jiang Ning's Body Tempering Lightning Art made a faint tremor.

There is an empty concrete field in front of the power station.

A tractor stopped there, making a powerful roar, surrounded by a group of adults and children.

The women picked up the bag and poured corn kernels into the opening on the tractor.

Everyone stared at the machine in front of the tractor in unison.

The children who were supposed to be chirping were unexpectedly quiet, and there was only the roar of the machine for a while.

Soon, strips of 'Jumian sticks' were squeezed out of the machine, and a slight aroma came out.

The gluttonous children suddenly let out a cry of joy.

The women skillfully wound the Jiaomi sticks into bundles and distributed them to the children.

The children held the burnt rice sticks and bit them in their mouths, making a clicking sound, forming a beautiful picture of the market.

Xue Yuantong beside him murmured, "That's great!"

It was the same when she was a child.

Xue Yuantong surrounded them without disappointment, and she and Jiang Jing passed by quietly.

……

100 meters ahead, Xue Yuantong got off the asphalt road.

In front of me was a dirt road leading to the south, with no end in sight.

There are fields to the west, fields to the east, and a village to the east.

Xue Yuantong walked for a while, when she suddenly stopped, raised her face with a smile on her face:

"Jiang Ning, I'm not bragging. I've walked this road many, many times. Even if I close my eyes, I can still get home."

Jiang Ning: "Really?"

"Hmph, of course it's true." Xue Yuantong was full of confidence, "My primary school is there, look and see!"

She turned back and pointed to a three-story building in the distance to the north.

"I've been doing this for six years!"

Jiang Ning observed the terrain. To the east of the village, there is another road into the village. That road is a cement road.

If you go to school on the cement road, the distance is obviously closer.

"Why didn't you go that way before?" Jiang Ning asked.

Xue Yuantong smiled unabated: "I like quiet."

That's what he said, but Xue Yuantong couldn't stop feeling melancholy in his heart.

Her father passed away very early, and her mother never remarried and brought her up.

Children of this kind of family are prone to strange eyes in the village.

Sometimes when Xue Yuantong was on her way to and from school, people from the village would stop her and ask her about her family.

Some aunts took her to talk, and they talked for a long time, saying that they were orphans and widowed, and their lives were sad. The aunts talked, maybe thinking of their own suffering, or from the heart, the aunts cried to themselves ...

She stood on the side, neither walking nor not walking, standing stiffly.

Xue Yuantong knew about their good intentions, but she didn't like it.

Later, in order to avoid meeting people in the village, she always carried her schoolbag and went home along this remote dirt road.

At this moment, Xue Yuantong was also carrying his schoolbag, and was heading back to the village along this dirt road.

Just like a few years ago.

Xue Yuantong never passed on bad emotions to Jiang Ning, so he didn't let Jiang Ning know, she was always a cool little girl.

In the fields of the countryside, you can see raised mounds of earthen graves everywhere. If you pass this dirt road late at night, the average timid person may be quite frightened.

Xue Yuantong asked Jiang Ning if he was tired after a while, and if he was tired, she would carry the milk instead, but the answer he got every time was that he was not tired.

On the country road, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, Xue Yuantong is walking and jumping:
"Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning, look, this telegraph pole is crooked, so funny."

Jiang Ning looked up, and at the junction of the dirt road and the field, a utility pole stood at an angle of 60°.

Xue Yuantong ran to the electric pole, stretched out her shoes, gestured twice, and said arrogantly:

"Jiang Ning, believe it or not, the whole village has no electricity today!"

Jiang Ning: "Is this how you repay the people in your village?"

Xue Yuantong ran to the middle of the road again, continued to move forward, turned a corner, and walked east.

In this way, Xue Yuantong led Jiang Ning into the village.

The name of their village is 'Xue Xiaozhuang', which is easy to associate just by hearing the name. Why is it called 'Xiaozhuang'?

In fact, to the east of Xue Xiaozhuang, there is another village called 'Xue Dazhuang'.

After entering the village, Jiang Ning released his consciousness and observed a family.

"I'll drop off your stuff at your neighbor's door for you, and I'll wait for you in town," he said.

Hearing this, Xue Yuantong suddenly remembered that she went back to the village to visit her neighbors, not her own home. It seemed unreasonable to take Jiang Ning to someone else's home like this.

When the neighbor asked, how should she introduce Jiang Ning?

Xue Yuantong made a decision: "You go with me. I won't stay for lunch. We will go to the town to eat. There is a delicious Mala Tang in front of the middle school. I invite you to eat."

Jiang Ning: "Are you sure you don't want to stay?"

Xue Yuantong said decisively: "No need!"

Jiang Ning stopped at the door of her hometown with milk and fruit.

"Come here."

Xue Yuantong struggled to move the gift, and when she entered the neighbor's house, she repeatedly told Jiang Ning:
"Don't run away, you must wait for me to come back~"

Jiang Ning said: "Ang, let's go."

Xue Yuantong turned his head every three steps, and reluctantly entered the neighbor's house.

Jiang Ning's consciousness opened up, lingering around Xue Yuantong.

Instead of waiting where he was, he went around the village. Sometimes when people in the village saw him as a stranger, they often looked at him twice, but they didn't come up to talk to him.

Jiang Ning turned to the ditch. The ditch was oval, about [-] meters long and wide, and the water in the ditch was almost dry.

Two children were fishing barefoot at the bottom of the ditch, a little boy and a little girl.

He watched with relish.

The little girl touched it for a while, and when she touched an ugly toad, she threw her hand away in fright, and immediately threw it out.

There wasn't much water in the ditch, and the little girl always found nothing when she fished, so she said angrily:
"We get the water out, if you don't believe it, you can't touch it."

After all, the two children started to splash water with a basin.

At the beginning, the two were very careful in splashing water, fearing that the water would get on their clothes. Jiang Ning couldn't enjoy watching it, so he shouted:

"Hurry up, haven't you eaten yet?"

When the two children heard this, they immediately regained their spirits.

Although they were children, once they splashed water seriously, their momentum was astonishing. The sky was filled with muddy water, just like a Songkran festival.

Children seem to have endless energy, and after splashing, they even compare each other, comparing who splashes farther.

Especially the little girl, who splashed water extremely hard.

She splashed half a basin of muddy water, first took a hard look at the little boy, and then cast her complacent eyes on Jiang Ning.

Looking at this scene, Jiang Ning raised his hands and applauded them slowly.

Seeing someone cheering, the two children splashed water even harder as if they were rewarded.

In the end, the two children were covered in muddy water and turned into mud monkeys.

Jiang Ning was very satisfied with her appreciation.

At this time, a woman walked quickly in the distance. She stood by the ditch, looked at the two mud monkeys, and was so angry that the seven orifices were filled with smoke, and she screamed:
"Xiaoyou, what are you doing!"

The little boy was fine, and didn't react much, while the little girl trembled with fright, as if she had encountered a great terror.

"Xiaoyou come up to me!" The woman shouted with her eyes wide open.

The girl named Xiaoyou turned around, looked directly at her mother, and said confidently:

"You've got the wrong person, I'm not your Xiaoyou!"

The woman picked up a branch and chased after it, and Xiao You ran away like crazy.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Ning turned and left silently.

After a while, Xue Yuantong came back.

Her hands were empty, and all the gifts she brought were given away.

"Jiang Ning, I'm hungry."

Now at [-]:[-] noon, I have been running around since [-]:[-] in the morning, changing trains all the way, which consumes a lot of energy, and it is normal to be hungry.

"Go to town first."

When the two left the village, they happened to see the woman coming back holding the little girl.

Xue Yuantong was dumbfounded: "Aunt Hua, is she Xiaoyou?"

Aunt Hua was so angry that she didn't even pay attention to Jiang Ning: "This girl is pissing me off!"

"Watch me go home and kill her!"

After saying a few words, Aunt Hua said again: "Why did you leave and didn't stay for dinner?"

Xue Yuantong said, "I'll go back to the city next time."

The two chatted for a few words. During this time, Xiao You, whose face was covered with muddy water, stared at Jiang Ning resentfully. If it wasn't for this big brother, she would still be splashing water happily.

Saying goodbye to Aunt Hua, Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning went to the gate of the town middle school and ate a bowl of 7 yuan Mala Tang.

After eating, the time is twelve o'clock at noon.

The bus to Xinhong County departed at [-]:[-], which was still early.

Xue Yuantong suggested: "There is a peach garden in the south of the town, let's see the peach blossoms!"

April is the season when peach blossoms are in full bloom.

The two headed to Taoyuan, amidst the gorgeous fragrance of flowers, Xue Yuantong shuttled happily, her pink skin matching the peach blossoms.

Jiang Ning took out her mobile phone, took a picture of her, and recorded this moment.

Xue Yuantong exercised a lot more than usual today. Jiang Ning didn't feed her any elixir. After the excitement, she was tired and listless.

Xue Yuantong walked out of Taoyuan with heavy steps.

She looked at the North Station in the distance, and thought about the long way home, and sighed:
"Jiang Ning, I'm so tired!"

Jiang Ning found a bench: "Stop and rest when you're tired, don't force yourself."

He and Xue Yuantong sat on the bench.

Xue Yuantong stayed with his head against Jiang Ning for half a minute, when a sense of drowsiness hit him.

"Jiang Ning, I want to sleep." She told.

"Go to sleep."

"Then why are you sleeping?"

"I am not sleepy."

"Jiang Ning, tell me, how nice it would be if I lay on the bed at home as soon as I woke up?" Xue Yuantong rested his chin and imagined.

"You don't need to drive the car, woohoo."

Jiang Ning smiled: "Go to sleep, maybe it will be realized when you wake up."

"Oh, I'll sleep then, remember to call me!"

Xue Yuantong hugged Jiang Ning's arm, lay down on him, smelled Jiang Ning's fresh breath, calmed down, and closed his eyes.

After a while, Xue Yuantong fell asleep, breathing warmly, scratching Jiang Ning's neck.

Jiang Ning let her sleep for a while, then, he looked at the nearby Taoyuan, and suddenly opened his hands.

A formation enveloped silently, and his and Xue Yuantong's figures disappeared into everyone's senses.

Jiang Ning flicked his fingers, and the spirit boat popped out of the storage ring, floated in the air, and then swelled in the wind.

He leaned over and hugged Xue Yuantong, feeling her soft body, Jiang Ning stepped onto the spirit boat step by step as if stepping on an invisible ladder.

The mask that comes with the spirit boat is activated, and Jiang Ning drives the spiritual power.

A blue light streaked towards the sky.

(End of this chapter)

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