From J City to Changxi City, it takes 50 minutes by bus and the ticket is 4 yuan.
For Shi Zhen, whose entire fortune was less than 100 yuan, a total of 8 yuan for the two tickets was a lot of money.
Shi Xinghuo had finished eating the six buns in his hand, and looked out the car window happily.
Shi Zhen also silently looked at the scene outside the window.
City J in 1994 was far less developed than later generations, but almost all the houses on the roadside farmland were two-story buildings.
It's just that these small buildings are not as foreign as they were later, and most of them have the simplest appearance. The walls are only painted with white lime, and the tiles are also black.
He remembered that in the next few years, J City developed rapidly. In the past few years, people with some money in the countryside would demolish these houses and build small buildings with novel styles and tiles on the walls. The house built by other people is more beautiful than the villa in the urban community.
After arriving at Changxi City along the national highway, Shi Zhen took Shi Xinghuo onto a bus and went straight to Anshan Town.
The villages of J City are developing very well. Changxi City is one of the top 100 counties in the country. The towns below are also richer and more populated.
There is one bus from Changxi City to Anshan Town in half an hour. Get on the bus and buy a ticket for 3 yuan per person.
The bus stopped from time to time along the way, and people got on the bus one after another.
Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo's outfits were rather shabby, and there were not as many part-time workers in this year, so everyone looked at them curiously.
Shi Zhen hated this kind of gaze when he was young. At that time, he had high self-esteem and always felt that others looked down on him. So when he had some money, he thought about dressing well and using it all day long, but now he has long since given up.
The two took a car and soon came to Anshan Town.
Anshan Town has "mountain" in its name, but there are actually no mountains. It is a town in the south of the Yangtze River with dense water network and fertile land. It was even a county town in ancient times.
Guan Baiyu lives here.
Thinking of Guan Baiyu, Shi Zhen's heart trembled, and a sore, itchy, numb feeling spread from his heart to his whole body, making him unable to walk.
After he brought Shi Xinghuo to J City in his last life, he did not come to Anshan Town. He has been looking for a job in J City. Later, he really found it, that is, working as a "little worker" on the construction site.
There are many kinds of work on the construction site, such as masons, carpenters, plumbers and other jobs that require skills, the wages they get are higher, and they will be honored as "masters", those jobs that don't require skills, these are "" It is also called "doing a small worker" by going to the construction site to do unskilled work.
On the construction site, someone needs to move the bricks, someone needs to mix the cement, and someone needs to do all kinds of chores. Naturally, a lot of small workers are needed.
The work was hard and tiring. He and Shi Xinghuo worked as small workers at the construction site, working ten hours a day, and the contractor promised ten yuan a day's wages.
They have dug the silt in the river, moved bricks, demolished houses, and have done all kinds of work from morning to night, all of which are like this, and the contractors always deduct their money or delay it.
But Shi Zhen endured it.
He wanted to learn technology on the construction site.
He had already made plans, and when he had learned what he wanted to learn, he would go back to the village and pull some folks out to work.
He can't take on big projects, but in the countryside of J City, there are many people who want to build houses.
He can take over the construction of self-built houses from farmers.
There are also people in J city who help people build houses, but they are not enough at all. As long as they don’t charge too much, they don’t have to worry about work!
He thought well, but an accident happened.
That day, Shi Xinghuo was moving bricks, and suddenly a stack of bricks fell from the scaffolding, smashing Shi Xinghuo, who was not wearing a helmet, to the brink of blood.
Shi Xinghuo was rescued when he was sent to the hospital, but the contractor refused to give him a penny of medical expenses.
Although Shi Xinghuo is very stupid, there is actually no problem in life. He is very obedient and works very hard.
On the construction site, because of his honesty, he did more work than other small workers like him.
Now he was injured because of potential safety hazards on the construction site. Not only did the contractor not pay the medical bills, but he also protected the mason who didn't put the bricks away, because the mason was a fellow of the contractor.
Shi Zhen had to kneel down and beg for help for Shi Xinghuo's medical bills. As a result, the car was driving and the hotel was eating, and they only gave them a few hundred salaries owed to them. He kept saying that Shi Xinghuo was not careful. hurt.
Seeing that Shi Xinghuo had undergone a simple operation without follow-up treatment, he was about to die. He couldn't bear it any longer, so he tried to arrest the foreman, beat him up, and forced his family to take money.
The foreman's family called the police, and Shi Zhen was sent to the detention center on charges of kidnapping, extortion and wounding.
He kidnapped people for medical expenses, and he was not sentenced.
And the foreman, after losing fifty thousand yuan, continued to live his happy life.
He was young and energetic at the time, and naturally he couldn't bear a life and died like this. He made up his mind to take revenge on the foreman, and he also wanted to stand out, so that this kind of thing would never happen again.
After that, he followed his own plan and took a group of young people in the group to Changxi City, which is under J City, and ran around in the countryside around Changxi City to earn money by building self-built houses for others.
He saved the first pot of gold in his life. Later, when Changxi City and the surrounding small towns started to demolition, he took over some larger projects.
The competition in J City is so big that he can't do anything to others, but in a small place, he can mix like a duck in water.
He met Guan Baiyu in 1998.
He was twenty-two at the time, and he had some money in his hand, so he began to think about getting married and having children.
In the end, before getting married, I met Guan Baiyu first.
Guan Baiyu was brought to work on the construction site by a tiling master he knew.
The nineteen-year-old was particularly handsome, with red lips and white teeth. The first time he saw him, his eyes lit up.
However, he paid attention to Guan Baiyu, not because of Guan Baiyu's appearance, but because Guan Baiyu was incompatible with the construction site.
He was weak and weak, wearing a pair of frame glasses, he didn't look like he was doing physical work. When he had lunch at noon and rested, everyone else was playing cards, but he was reading with a book in hand.
Shi Zhen glanced at his book, but couldn't understand it at all.
He later learned that it was an adult self-taught textbook.
After Guan Baiyu dropped out of high school, he wanted to take the exam by himself and was reading at the time.
The people on the construction site respect the scholars, so everyone treats Guan Baiyu well and takes good care of him. He has more and more contact with Guan Baiyu, and looks at Guan Baiyu more and more.
He didn't know anything about homosexuality at that time, and he didn't know his own mind. It wasn't until he was drunk once that he hugged and kissed Guan Baiyu who sent him home, and then he realized that something was wrong with him.
After that, he only cared about his own happiness and coaxed Guan Baiyu to be nice to him.
In those days, the Internet was not developed, and people were strictly guarding against sex. Guan Baiyu was only nineteen years old and didn't understand anything. He was coaxed and deceived, and he was with him.
He lived like Guan Baiyu and his wife.
But he couldn't help Guan Baiyu.
At that time, he was very ambitious, and his thoughts were all about fame and fortune, and he just wanted to get ahead and become a rich man.
This thought cannot be wrong.
But he originally wanted to make money so that the people around him could live a good life, but as time went by, he had long since deviated from his original intention.
Because of the interests, the relatives and friends around him turned against each other, and because of the busyness, he and Guan Baiyu also got together less and separated more.
At that time, he had no sense of responsibility, he was clearly already with Guan Baiyu, and he still had the idea of finding someone to marry and have children.
It's just... Before he could do anything, something happened.
At that time, he had been with Guan Baiyu for six years. In the past six years, while J City was engaged in development and construction, his career soared.
Over the years, he has also acted a bit extreme. After he developed, he became the head contractor who refused to pay Shi Xinghuo's medical bills.
The two robbed workers, robbed projects, and fought for everything.
In order to hold that person down, he did a lot of things that he hated at first, and he eventually became a person he hated.
He won the fight.
As for the subcontractor, this man got rich too quickly and got into many bad habits, including gambling. He first lost a lot of money, and then he ran into a big bear market in order to turn over the capital. Investing elsewhere pays off...
But even so, because everyone in J City knows that this person is rich, this person can always borrow money to invest in various ways, or ask relatives and friends to borrow money from the bank for him.
The project under this man's hands has not stopped, and he insists on doing it.
But Shi Zhen went to trouble this man several times, robbed him of a project that he regarded as a life-saving straw, and made the news that he was bankrupt to the public.
The dignity that this man used to maintain disappeared in an instant, the workers who were owed wages by him, the friends who gave him a lot of investments, the relatives who were fooled by him to go to the bank to lend to him... Everyone came to him.
Shi Zhen felt a little uneasy when he thought of what happened back then.
He was beaming when he learned that the enemy was bankrupt, and even bought firecrackers to set off.
He is not dead, but Guan Baiyu is dead.
When Guan Baiyu met him, it was really bad luck.
He was coaxed by him to take a detour to be with the man, to wash and cook for him, to help him with his work, and in the end he lost his life.
After Guan Baiyu's death, he was in a daze for a long time, and he left the company's affairs to others to do. He stayed at home every day and read the books Guan Baiyu bought home.
When he was young, he couldn't read books. At most, he listened to martial arts stories on the radio. After Guan Baiyu's death, he read a lot.
The more he read, the more his mind changed.
Carrying the snakeskin bag, Shi Zhen walked out of the small Anshan Town bus station.
Everything in this era is small in his eyes.
The "bridge" with only two lanes is small, the spacious national highway is small in the eyes of others, and the bus station is even smaller.
After all, in the next 20 years, the entire J city will be demolished and built, which will change almost every year.
There are countless opportunities and a bright future here.
More importantly, there is a lively Guan Baiyu here.
Shi Zhen smiled, sincerely.