The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 74

Autumn is the busiest season in the countryside. After corn and sweet potatoes are harvested, the land will be plowed and wheat will be sown.

However, after the autumn harvest is over, it will be a long and leisurely winter.

Before the reform and opening up, everyone's economic awareness was still very weak. Once the winter came, the rural people really had a lot of time to rest.

At that time, every alley in every village will have a sunny place, and there will also be a person who can tell stories. In winter, as long as the weather is good, there will be people around the storyteller to listen to the story.

Wu Laoer of Taohualing Village is the one who is the best storyteller in Taohualing Village.

Even in the 90s, the economic awareness of many rural people had not yet awakened, and in winter they still chatted, joked, and basked in the sun as before.

However, slowly, after watching those people in a hurry put on sharp suits, drive brand new cars, and build a two-story building with bright tiles, all the leisurely people can't sit still up.

Sometimes Wang Shaodong really hopes to live the life of those people before, but he can't, because that era has passed.He wanted to hear stories, but Wu Er Er still had to herd sheep.

After the awakening of economic consciousness, it is very difficult for ordinary people to live the days of eating this meal and not wanting to eat another meal a few days ago.

In fact, the reason is very simple, because most people have no money.If someone is as rich as Wang Sicong, would he still get angry every day and frown on how to make more money?

Therefore, Wang Shaodong understands a truth, if he wants to live a comfortable and comfortable life in the future, he must first earn money.

After the autumn harvest is over, the weather is getting colder, and there is nothing to do on the farm. The market price of live chickens is getting lower and lower every day, and there is no improvement. No one in the whole chicken farm has a smiling face.Wang Shaodong decided to take a walk outside to relax, and also inspected the live chicken market.

On November 2002, 11, Wang Shaodong chose a very special day, bid farewell to his parents, and embarked on the road to investigate the market in surrounding cities.

Because the last time Wang Shaodong went to Sidian Town to find chicken seedlings, Wang Fumin was quite at ease about his son.

Investigating the live chicken market?

This is simply a joke. Does this market still need surveys? The current market is colder than this winter, so what is the point of surveys?What everyone has to do is to raise chickens well, and then wait for another three months. When the end of the year comes and the market warms up, the Wang family will quickly dispose of all the chickens. Now, everything will be fine.

In the new year, the barrage was built, the reservoir was built, and the entire Wujiayuzi was contracted. The life of their Wang family, like the sesame blossoms, is getting higher and higher day by day.

Wang Shaodong knew all this and saw it clearly, but he couldn't explain it to his parents.

What he has to do is to go to various places to inspect the market, and then go back and tell everyone that the surrounding market is neither good nor bad, and the situation is not as everyone imagined. If he persists, this winter will pass.

Wang Shaodong asked his family for 1000 yuan, which was enough for him to live outside for ten days and half a month.

In 2002, the rent around Qilu Normal University on Wenhua East Road in the provincial capital was only about 30 yuan a night, but if you went to other remote places, it might cost as much as [-] yuan a night.

As for travel expenses and food expenses, if you have time to take the green leather train, the cheap fare will make you suspicious.

From Daoquancheng, Luzhong City, it costs about 22 yuan by car, but only 7 yuan by train.However, the speed of this train is a bit slow.It takes less than three hours to arrive at the station in Quancheng by car, but if you take the train, you will get on the train at 130:[-] in the morning and you will not arrive at Quancheng Railway Station until [-]:[-] in the afternoon.In just [-] kilometers, the green leather train will take seven hours to run.It's not that the green leather train is running so slowly, the main thing is that the train has to stop at every station, and before walking two steps, it will stop again.

Those who are in a hurry are not suitable to take the green leather train, but Wang Shaodong was not in a hurry this time. Before 06:30 in the morning, he arrived at Xujiazhuang Railway Station, which is three miles away from Dazhai Village, Dazhai Township.

Because there are too many stops, the time when the green leather train to Quancheng arrives at Xujiazhuang Railway Station is not certain, but it will arrive at seven o'clock at the latest.If it is early, 45:[-] is also possible.

After the train arrives at Xujiazhuang Station, it will stop for a few minutes.

Some passengers who are bored on the train will get off the train and smoke a cigarette when they stop at the station.Then when the train whistle sounded, everyone got on the train again.

At 55:[-] in the morning, the train to Quancheng arrived.

Today the train is 3 minutes later than yesterday, but it is also within the normal time frame.

The conductor at the station hurried into the car and connected with the people on board.Then there were two off-duty station workers who wanted to take this train back to Quancheng, and they also got on the train.Besides them, the only person who got on the train at this station was Wang Shaodong.

After getting in the car, Wang Shaodong walked into the car.

There are empty seats everywhere in the carriage, so you don't need to be seated according to the number, just sit casually.

Moreover, because Xujiazhuang Station stops earlier and there are fewer people, when boarding the train, there is not even a ticket checker on board.In fact, sometimes the villagers of Dazhai Village would take advantage of this loophole, get on the train from Xujiazhuang Station, and then get off at the next stop, Lianhuachi Station, without buying a ticket, and no one checked the ticket, so it was very convenient to visit relatives.

In fact, buying a ticket is not expensive. It is only a dozen miles away from Xujiazhuang Station to Lianhuachi Station, and the fare is only [-] cents.

As he was walking, suddenly Wang Shaodong's eyes lit up, and the girl sitting on the seat at the rear of the carriage looked very familiar.

It's Wang Meina!

Wang Meina also saw Wang Shaodong, and waved at him excitedly.

"Why are you here, where did you get in the car from?"

In 2002, the fifth speed-up of railway passenger transport has not yet started, and it will not start until 2004, and many stations of the green train from Luzhong to Quancheng have not been cancelled, only in Gangcheng County Inside, there are three sites.

"Get on the bus at Zhangbaqiu Station, where are you going?"

"Go to Quancheng." Wang Shaodong sat down.

Wang Meina looked very excited when she saw Wang Shaodong. She nodded vigorously, looked at Wang Shaodong and said, "What a coincidence, I'm going to Quancheng too. Brother, what are you doing in Quancheng?"

The two had chatted on QQ for more than a month, and they called each other brother and sister, which was also a common phenomenon in that era.

"What are you going to do? Let's go play for two days." Wang Shaodong frowned and thought.

Wang Meina looked at Wang Shaodong, smiled, and nodded vigorously: "Yeah, I'm going to play for two days, let's go together."

Wang Shaodong was happy in his heart, it was a good feeling to be accompanied by a beautiful woman.

(End of this chapter)