Among the things that Shi Zhen bought for the New Year, there were no fireworks and firecrackers. Most of them were for food, and he ate a lot.
This is for fear of an accident.
Driving a tractor with a carload of fireworks and firecrackers to the mountains, what should I do if a bumpy accident occurs
All you buy is for food, and there is another advantage, that is, even if you can't sell it all over the New Year, you can keep it and sell it slowly.
After the summer, he no longer sells popsicles in Guan Jianguo, but he has always sold soda, and in the future, he will sell candy, which is nothing.
As for couplets or something, it won't be a problem if you sell them next year.
Near the end of the year, some people are idle, but some people are busy.
Guan Guangguo and Zhang Xiumei are very busy.
They cleaned the house and went to town to sell chickens by themselves, and they had no time to spare.
But by the end of the year, the price of chickens went up, and they didn't lose money.
Guan Jianguo is very idle.
After selling the tractor to Shi Zhen, Guan Jianguo planned to buy a ship in partnership with others to drive.
The ship he bought was really not cheap. It cost more than 80,000 yuan. He and his friend used up their savings and borrowed some foreign debts to come up with the money.
But this ship is bought... It's not ready to be driven right away - other people's shipyards, they can't start building until someone buys it!
Guan Jianguo now has nothing to do except occasionally go to see his unbuilt ship. He just sits in front of the house every day, holding the fragments of red bricks, teaching his daughter to write and draw.
In the end, he was disliked by his daughter, saying that his paintings were not as good as those of his mother.
Then Guan Er's grandma will catch Guan Jianguo to give birth, and let Guan Jianguo and his wife have another one.
In Changxi City, family planning is strictly controlled. There are almost no super-births, and no one does B-ultrasounds. However, according to local policies and rural household registration, the first child born by the couple is a daughter, and they can have another one.
The elderly generally still want sons, and families with only one daughter will inevitably be born.
Most people will have another one, and those who insist on not giving birth are generally women who have a job and have the right to speak.
Giving birth to a child is hard work. It is not necessarily a man to have another child. Many women are not willing to have another child.
As for men... When there are more and more people around without sons and only daughters, most men don't care.
Otherwise, what else can we do? You can never get a divorce.
In the end, many people began to think about letting their daughter's future children have their own surnames.
At the time of Shi Zhen's death, young men and women in Changxi City got married and had two children, one with the father's surname and the other with the mother's surname.
Guan Jianguo belongs to the kind that doesn't care if he has a second child or not, but his wife doesn't want to. Guan Er's grandmother talks about it all day, but it's useless.
When Guan Jianguo took his daughter to paint on the drying yard, Shi Zhen split the bamboo and tied it to both sides of the tractor to make the shapes of arches.
Immediately after, he covered the plastic film on it and tied it with rope to ensure that there was no wind or rain.
In the tractor's compartment, he had already cleaned and washed, and then a small half was used to load goods, and the other half was covered with mats and quilts for people to sit on.
For long periods of time, it is more comfortable to sit on the ground against the cargo or tractor car with your legs straight, rather than sitting on a bench.
If Zhao Meiyun's waist is uncomfortable, she can still lie down.
Shi Zhen and the others did not set off until three days before the New Year's Eve.
Zhao Dongjuan had said long ago that she would not go back, and only Shi Dalin, Zhao Meiyun, Zhao Qiujuan, Shi Ting, Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu would go back.
Shi Zhen prepared a deck of cards and let others sit in the carriage to play cards while he drove in front.
The riding experience of the tractor is actually very bad. It is very bumpy and noisy when driving.
But Shi Dalin, Zhao Meiyun, and Zhao Qiujuan are all fascinated by tractors. Once they get on the tractor, they feel that they are different.
So, when the tractor started to move forward, Zhao Meiyun complained with a blushing face: "Alas, there is a shed behind this car, so I can't see clearly from the outside."
"It's too cold to not build a shed." Guan Baiyu said.
"Isn't it just blowing the wind, what's the matter, now that no one else can see us." Zhao Meiyun was a little disappointed.
Guan Baiyu: "..." So she wants to be seen
"This day, tsk tsk, if someone from my hometown saw it, I would definitely say it." Zhao Meiyun said again.
They all took off their shoes and sat on an old quilt.
On their feet, they wore thick socks without holes, and even more than one pair.
In the past, my hands and feet were always chapped, and sometimes they cracked so badly in winter that they would bleed. This year, I only had a few small openings. Now I have applied oily glycerin, which is smooth.
Their stomachs were also full of oil and water. Zhao Meiyun squeezed her own stomach now and was able to grab a handful of fat.
That's it, there is a basket in front of them with a few candies, a packet of walnuts, a packet of peanuts, and a packet of melon seeds for them to eat when they are bored on the road.
Half a year ago, Zhao Meiyun would not dare to eat such a good thing.
Much better now, though, she peeled a candy, put it in her mouth, and started playing cards.
The five of them didn't know how to play poker, so they played very simple solitaire. After the cards were dealt, they put the seven in the middle first, and then went down one by one... They even enjoyed it.
Shi Zhen was walking on the national road. There was no navigation these days, so he did not dare to take the small road.
Speaking of which, there is a reason why he drove the tractor back—he had driven back like this more than once in his previous life.
At that time, the people who followed him on the construction site were almost all people from their village. By the end of the year, everyone would naturally go home together.
It is not cheap to go back by car, so they simply crowded into a tractor or a van and drove back by themselves—in the beginning, Shi Zhen only had a tractor, and later he had a van.
This road stone has been driven a few times, and although I can't remember it, I can still drive it down.
There are few cars these days, and no one investigates overloading and drunk driving. Shi Zhen passed by and encountered a lot of strange things.
For example, five or six people are crowded in a small tricycle.
Another example is a tractor with five pigs and four people locked up.
There are also some tractors or trucks with a lot of cargo on them, looking precarious.
Shi Zhen was worried that those cars would fall over.
Compared with those cars... His tractor looks empty, too, the weight of his family and the goods is estimated to be half the weight of bricks.
On the side of the road, there are broken cars from time to time, and the driver is repairing it himself.
Occasionally, there will be people waving to stop the car, wanting to take a ride.
When encountering the latter, Shi Zhen kept going.
In the 1990s, it was not uncommon for drivers to be robbed and killed while driving out.
At the same time, there are countless incidents where drivers hit people outside and hit and run without hesitation.
After the tractor was running for three hours, Shi Zhen found a place to rest, and also let the people in the car get down to the toilet and move around a bit.
Then he went on.
On the way, the car broke down once, but Shi Zhen was prepared and repaired it soon.
In the afternoon, Shi Zhen also found time to let others get off the car to eat, and slept in the car for half an hour.
He couldn't stand it without a break.
The speed of tractors is far less than that of cars, but before taking long-distance buses, they needed to go back and forth, and they often waited for several hours at the station.
In the evening, Shi Zhen stopped in a town along the way, found a hotel, and asked for two rooms.
This kind of hotel has just appeared in the past few years. It is mainly for people who drive long-distance cars passing by. There are Datong shops and small single rooms. There is nothing in the small single room, only one bed. To use the toilet, you must go outside. .
But the price is cheap.
Shi Zhen opened two rooms, and it only cost six yuan. If he sleeps in Datong, it costs one yuan per person.
In these two rooms, he let Guan Baiyu and Shi Dalin live in one, and let Zhao Meiyun, Zhao Qiujuan and Shi Ting live in one, as for himself, he plans to live on the tractor.
In the last life, when they went home, no one looked at the car, but after a sleep, the contents of the car were stolen.
It doesn't matter if it is stolen, some people will take all the oil in the car's gas tank!
There were a lot of things on the tractor, and it was very troublesome to move them all down, so Shi Zhen planned to sleep in the car and guard it.
Shi Dalin didn't think there was anything wrong with what Shi Zhen did. The car really had to be watched, but Guan Baiyu was really worried: "Brother, if you sleep on the tractor, will it freeze?"
"With a quilt, it won't freeze." Shi Zhen said.
Guan Baiyu said again: "Then let me sleep in the car with you.
"There's only such a spot in the car, you and I, I can't even turn over."
Shi Zhen didn't let Guan Baiyu sleep in the car, urged Guan Baiyu to sleep in the room, and said, "My dad is old, and his hygiene habits may not be very good, you can bear with it."
The day before returning to his hometown this time, Shi Zhen had already taken Shi Dalin and the others to the bathroom in the town to take a bath, and spent a dollar alone to rub his body clean.
At that time, he followed Shi Dalin in, and rubbed a layer of mud on Shi Dalin's body.
After Shi Dalin and the others entered the winter, they didn't take a bath. They just wiped it with a hot towel at home... Naturally, a lot of dirt was accumulated.
But even if he was washed, Shi Dalin was still a middle-aged man. He asked Guan Baiyu to sleep with him, he was afraid that Guan Baiyu would not be able to adapt.
But opening a room for Guan Baiyu alone would also make Shi Dalin and the others uncomfortable.
It's just that for one night at night, the quilts are separated, and Guan Baiyu doesn't feel that he needs to endure.
Seriously... He felt that the room was much dirtier than Shi Dalin.
However, no matter how the room is, it is definitely better than sleeping in the car.
Shi Zhen waited for Guan Baiyu to leave, then lay down to sleep.
As a result, not long after he lay down, Guan Baiyu came again, and brought a hot water bottle: "Brother, this hot water bottle, you put it in the bed."
"Okay... go back to sleep." Shi Zhen smiled.
Guan Baiyu then went back to sleep.
Shi Zhen took the hot water bottle in his arms and put his hands over his eyes.
The current Guan Baiyu is much more dazzling than the Guan Baiyu he knew in his previous life.
Guan Baiyu is studying in the best high school in Changxi City, he will definitely go to college, he has started a business with his friends, and girls like him...
I don't know when he will leave himself and spread his wings.
Shi Zhen continued to drive the next day.
Today... their tractor broke down again.
Shi Zhen was used to this for a long time, and repaired it in three or two times, and finally arrived at the county seat where his hometown was that night.
They rested for the night in the county seat and could go into the mountains tomorrow.
In the past, it was all about walking to get into the mountains, but since the 1980s, roads have been built, so the tractor can drive to the place where Shi Ting was in junior high school.
Before they came out of the mountains, they all took tractors here.
As for the way back, they have to go by themselves. Their village is a bit remote, and they have to walk for more than two hours on the mountain road.
When they walked from the county town to their village, Zhao Meiyun and Shi Dalin didn't want to be stuffed in plastic cloth anymore.
They rolled up the plastic sheeting that Shi Zhen used to shield them from the wind, and sat on the iron plate next to the tractor carriage, looking at everything around them happily.
This is where they lived for many years.
Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan don't like to go out, and they don't know many people. Shi Dalin is different... He is very dull now, and he was similar to Shi Zhen when he was young. He likes to run around and knows a lot of people.
The road here is not as good as the road in J City. The tractor drives very slowly, and Shi Dalin stares at the people walking by the road, and then calls out their names.
Hearing someone shout, these people will come over, and when they see Shi Dalin, they will be surprised and happy: "It's Shi Dalin! You came back from outside?"
"You're dressed so brightly!"
"I've never seen this tractor! Is it yours?"
"It's your son who is driving, Shi Dalin, your son is very promising!"
…
When Shi Dalin heard these words, he was very happy, his face was full of creases, and he also revealed one of his dentures.
After Shi Zhen told him about wearing dentures, he went to find a place to install some dentures for himself.
He chose the cheapest dentures, which looked very fake. At first it was uncomfortable to put them in his mouth.
But now, he has been running in with the dentures, and he has noticed that the dentures are good, and now he is deliberately letting people see his dentures.
Here, few people wear dentures!
Shi Dalin, who is not good at words, tried his best to say hello to everyone who passed by. Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan were sitting side by side, feeling that they were different.
In Anshan Town, their family is considered poor, and they can't compare with the people around them, but back here... The clothes they are wearing now are among the best here!
When Zhao Qiujuan was in Anshan Town, she went out to set up a stall in the morning. She didn't bask in the sun much, so she became whiter. In addition, she washed her face with soap every day, her face was much cleaner, and she ate well... Her appearance Much better than before.
Before she came back, she also bought herself a red woolen coat, wearing a turtleneck sweater she knitted herself... Although it was a bit cold, she felt very good.
Zhao Meiyun felt even more elated.
Before, she had always been the object of sympathy, and many people said her life was miserable.
But now? She was wearing new clothes!
She was embarrassed to wear a red woolen coat, but she tied a red silk scarf around her neck!
Because of her broken leg and being kept at home, Zhao Meiyun has become whiter and fatter... She looks much younger than before, so many people who see her are particularly surprised: "Meiyun, you are much younger. ."
"Your new clothes are so pretty."
"Meiyun, I'll go to your house in two days and talk to you!"
…
There was no expression on Zhao Meiyun's face other than a smile.
Not to mention Shi Ting, she dressed up this time!
It's a pity that she is too young, not many people know her, and no one pays attention to her...
Shi Zhen saw the reactions of his family members, and he couldn't help laughing.
But he can also understand them.
Back then, he also had such a mentality, and he was overjoyed because of the envy of others.
At that time, many of the people who went out to work like him lived frugally and were reluctant to spend a penny. When they came back to their hometown, they were very generous, just to let others know that they had a good life.
People are so vain sometimes.