Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 601 Wang Xun’s scrap station

The first breakfast on the train was quite enjoyable for everyone. Gao Mingcheng ate the side dishes and rice dumplings brought out by Deng’s mother, and Gao Mingcheng also brought out the food he brought to share with them.

Zongzi is usually eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, but for people traveling far away, bringing zongzi is more delicious and convenient than bringing food.

Because the taste of cold rice and cold dishes is not as good as cold rice dumplings.

Gao Mingcheng ate a sweet one and a salty one. They both felt pretty good.

After breakfast, the whole carriage was filled with the smell of food, because everyone was eating, mainly the food they brought with them, and only a few people would go to the dining car to buy food.

Gao Mingcheng deliberately wanted to open the window for ventilation, because the windows of the green leather trains at this time can be opened, unlike later trains, the windows are fully closed and cannot be opened at will.

As soon as a gap was opened, a large amount of cold wind rushed in and blew on the faces of people around him, so someone quickly called Gao Mingcheng to close the window.

But in fact, even if the windows are closed tightly, it is still chilly in the car, because the connection between the car and the car is not completely closed, and cold wind still pours in from there.

The car was quite boring, and it was inconvenient for passengers to move around, so some people continued to take a nap, others were reading on their beds, and others gathered together to chat.

Gao Mingcheng chatted with Deng Wanwan and the others for a while, and praised Deng's mother for making delicious rice dumplings.

Gao Mingcheng was eating an ordinary meal, thinking that there are many beauties who don’t want to travel far away. Now traveling far away is actually suffering. When the train speed increases in 97, it will be much more convenient to go out, and various domestic services Infrastructure construction has also begun.

In the morning, he listened to the erhu to pass the time. In the afternoon, Gao Mingcheng saw the young man opposite his bed reading a book, and there were several books piled beside him.

After a minute, he silently put down the book in his hand.

After hearing the sound of the erhu, the chatter stopped talking and listened quietly to the music. After the little girl finished playing one song, someone called her to play some more songs.

The young man wore a pair of glasses. He first pushed up the frame with the back of his finger, showed a shy smile, and said politely: "I can lend it to you, but you may not understand."

At noon, someone came with a dining cart selling rice. Naturally, Gao Mingcheng didn't want to eat bread three times a day, so he bought a meal.

While chatting, melodious music suddenly sounded. Everyone followed the sound and saw a young girl with pigtails sitting on the bed and playing the erhu seriously.

The little girl who dared to play the erhu in public was naturally not a shy person, so she agreed with a smile.

Looking at the young man opposite, his eyes are full of admiration for the top student!

Those books were basically advanced mathematics and physics. With Gao Mingcheng’s academic qualifications, I really couldn’t understand them!

On the morning of the third day, Gao Mingcheng woke up early as usual. After he washed up, people started to get up and wash up. Gao Mingcheng ate all the remaining snacks and bread, and planned to find a restaurant to eat well after he got off the bus. a meal.

Throughout the morning, people in this carriage were immersed in the music.

The speed of the train is not fast, and the scenery along the way is panoramic. It wasn't until it got dark at night that Gao Mingcheng became happy. After waking up, it was time to arrive in the capital!

So some people complained that those who were reluctant to spend money would rather eat the dry food they brought. Gao Mingcheng, who once traveled all over the world, understands that it is not easy to cook on the train. There are few supplies on the train and the kitchen space is small. When cooking in this environment, it is good to be able to cook all the meals. !

As soon as these words came out, Gao Mingcheng became even more curious, so he reached for a book and started reading.

Later, he was so bored that Gao Mingcheng could only stare out of the car window.

Nowadays, the rice dumpling leaves in the mountains are not bright and wide enough, making it more troublesome to wrap, so each rice dumpling is not very big.

Wang Xun and the others were doing the same thing. They were destroying those rice dumplings. Mother Deng was afraid that everyone would not have enough to eat, so she specially made a big bag.

So Gao Mingcheng asked someone to borrow a book to pass the time.

Gao Mingcheng didn't do much research on the music, but when he heard it, he felt that the tunes were very smooth, and they were all songs he was familiar with and liked, so it was good to pass the time.

The food on the train has two characteristics: one is that it is expensive, and the other is that it tastes bad.

Mother Deng smiled and said: "If it were the Dragon Boat Festival, the rice dumplings I made would be more delicious! Although there are still rice dumpling leaves in the mountains at the moment, they are not growing very well."

After the Zongzi was eliminated, they had less luggage to carry with them and could feel more relaxed when they got off the bus.

At ten o'clock in the morning, a conductor asked them to exchange tickets, so Gao Mingcheng got the train ticket again. This train ticket needs to be shown to the ticket inspector when leaving the station.

So he put the ticket in his pocket so that he could take it out easily.

Although the station is about to arrive, no one in the carriage is in a hurry to pack their things, because the terminal station of this train is the capital, and when it stops in the capital, everyone in the carriage will have to get off.

Therefore, it was not until the train was about to enter the station and the speed of the train began to slow down that everyone took their luggage with them and waited at the train door. After a while, there was actually a long queue.

When Gao Mingcheng saw this, he simply stopped queuing and refused to fight for a minute or two.

Finally, under the expectation of everyone, the train stopped steadily at the platform, and then the conductor opened the door and let the passengers get off.

When Gao Mingcheng saw everyone starting to get out of the car, he followed the crowd. The moment his feet touched the ground, he felt top-heavy.

It is said that if you stay on a ship for a long time, your body will not adapt to the ground. But in fact, if you stay on a train for a long time, your body will not be able to adapt to the ground in a short period of time.

When people are on the train, there are noises all the time, and the car body is shaking and unstable. The whole state of the person is not much different from that of riding a boat.

After getting out of the car, Wang Xun asked Gao Mingcheng to follow him closely, and asked his two children to hold his clothes to make sure he didn't get lost.

As for Deng Wanwan, she has to take care of her parents.

At the station, at a glance, you can see the backs of people’s heads. Everyone is wearing different clothes, but they all have big and small bags. There are also many people like Deng Wanwan who are raising families.

Gao Mingcheng saw someone carrying a bed on his back, a filled bucket and a fertilizer bag in his hands, and even a small cooking pot hanging on his chest. He knew that this person was going to the capital to work. .

In addition to these people, there are also a few people who are beautifully dressed and have very little luggage. These people probably live in the capital.

Following the moving crowd, Gao Mingcheng finally exited the station.

Standing outside the station, I saw an unfamiliar environment.

After leaving the station, Wang Xun also breathed a sigh of relief. He began to take Gao Mingcheng and the others skillfully to take the bus. Although there were a lot of people here, the capital was the capital after all, and the buses looked quite new and big. Gao Mingcheng followed Wang Xun and the others and took several trains and transfers along the way before finally arriving at their destination.

After getting off the last bus, Wang Xun said happily: "Are you hungry? I'll take you to a restaurant to eat first! Just order whatever you want to eat later!"

A few minutes later, the group finally sat down in a restaurant. Since it was very close to where Wang Xun lived, he and the restaurant owner were quite familiar with each other. As soon as they sat down, they struck up a conversation.

Wang Xun ordered a lot of dishes, but Deng Wanwan's parents were elderly. Although they were very hungry, they had little appetite after a bumpy ride. The same was true for the two children. They only moved their chopsticks a few times and didn't want to eat anymore.

However, Gao Mingcheng was in good condition. Seeing that no one was eating, he simply opened his belly and ate the rest of the food.

Seeing that the elderly and children at home were in poor condition, Wang Xun had no choice but to take them back to rest.

This night, Gao Mingcheng was also left to stay.

Standing in the yard of Wang Xun's house, he felt that it was quite simple.

This is already a suburb. Although the land Wang Xun bought is relatively large, the houses built are very ordinary. There is a scrapyard in the front, the middle yard is where scraps are piled, and only the row of rooms in the back is for people to live in.

Because I had planned in advance to bring the elderly and children over, the room they lived in was enough, and I could free up one room for Gao Mingcheng to stay temporarily.

Wang Xun was introducing his scrap station to Gao Mingcheng and said with a smile: "Collecting scrap requires a place to put things. I have no choice but to buy land in such a remote place."

This place is indeed considered remote now, but Gao Mingcheng knows that when the capital develops, the land prices here will rise.

Many years later, this piece of land alone can make Wang Xun quite wealthy!

So he smiled and said: "This place is very good. Although it is a suburb, it is spacious and comfortable to live in. There are fields nearby, so it is convenient to buy groceries and so on."

Wang Xun originally thought that Gao Mingcheng would dislike this place. After hearing what Gao Mingcheng said, he immediately became happy: "Yes, that's what I thought! Although my place is a bit biased, the price I charge for scraps is higher than elsewhere." Two cents a pound! So many people come to me carrying scraps to sell!"

During the conversation, I saw someone coming to sell scraps. The man was riding a modified tricycle with a large compartment filled with various scraps, including a large amount of waste paper and a broken black and white TV. and electric fan.

The casing of the electric fan has been broken, exposing the copper wire in the base. The materials used in electric fans nowadays are very real. Each electric fan uses a lot of copper wire. These copper wires are expensive and can be sold for a lot of money. of.

The scrap station in front was open. Although Wang Xun took Deng Wanwan back to his hometown for the New Year, he still hired someone to do the work.

Therefore, when someone comes to sell scraps, Wang Xun does not need to step forward. He only needs to stand aside and watch like Gao Mingcheng.

After a short time, the tricycle of the scrap seller was emptied. He took the money he just got and left happily.

After seeing the person leave, Wang Xuncai stepped forward to look at the scrap he had just received, and then said to Gao Mingcheng: "This electric fan was smashed by someone! Tsk tsk, people in the capital are really rich. If the people in our county , I’m so precious about the electric fan at home!”

The electric fan is an electrical appliance that is needed in summer. When it is not needed, it will be covered with a cloth so that no dust will fall.

There wasn't much dust on this electric fan, but the cracks were obviously caused by being dropped and smashed.

Wang Xun squatted on the ground and tinkered for a while, and then said: "The motor is probably not broken. After selling it, we can make a lot of money!"

Even so, Wang Xun soon stopped paying attention to those broken TV sets and electric fans, because although he learned a little from his cousin and understood more or less, he was not very good at repairing them.

What he is best at is picking up leaks!

"Mingcheng, let me take you to see my treasure!" Wang Xun knew that Gao Mingcheng also collected old things in the county and asked him to buy two pictures of horses, so he happily took out the key and opened the warehouse.

Some waste products of little value are piled in the open space in the yard, such as paper shells, plastic bottles, etc.

Some expensive scraps naturally have different treatments. They are all put into warehouses by category and locked.

Of course, Wang Xun would not put the most expensive items in the warehouse, but would hide them in the room where he slept, and would not easily take them out for others to see.

After opening the door of the warehouse, the first thing that comes into view is a pile of old redwood and a pile of Taihu stones.

Gao Mingcheng did not take a closer look at the mahogany and Taihu stones, but looked at the items on the surrounding shelves.

Wang Xun made shelves on three walls of the warehouse, with more or less things piled on them.

As soon as he entered the door, Wang Xun stretched out his hand and began to introduce: "There are some things I like here. Mingcheng, look at this - a stamp album! But most of the stamps in this stamp album are used Yes, I peeled them off one by one from the discarded envelopes. The value is not that high, it is purely a personal hobby!"

"There is also this pile of old newspapers, which I also specially collected. I planned to collect all the newspapers after the founding of the People's Republic of China by year, month and day. Of course, I haven't collected them all yet!"

"These are newspapers from the Republic of China. The paper is yellowed and brittle, but I'll keep it for now. It's a hobby anyway."

"These are notebooks. Some of them have quite famous owners, but most of them are not famous. I don't even know who the owners are. But I thought the contents inside were interesting, so I kept them for now."

"And these are all kinds of books. They looked pretty good to me, so I kept them for now. I plan to show them to my children in the future, or sell them if I have a chance."

"These are the old things I collected. There are all kinds of bottles, cans, cups and bowls. There are also some makeup boxes used by women."

Following Wang Xun's introduction, Gao Mingcheng looked over one by one.

He opened the stamp album and saw that there were indeed many stamps in it. Because this was the capital, Wang Xun had collected stamps from all over the country, and even stamps from abroad.

But because they were pulled out from scraps, these stamps were naturally used and had a stamp stamped on them. Some of them were even not removed properly and were somewhat damaged.

Therefore, it is not valuable, but it is not bad as a personal collection.

"Brother Wang, can I take a look here?" Gao Mingcheng asked. He didn't want to just take a quick look, but wanted to look through it to see if there was anything precious in it.

Wang Xun naturally agreed to this request.

(End of this chapter)