"That's true, my 50 minivan hasn't been driven for so many years, it's a used car, I'm proficient in mechanics, and it's no different from a new car. ”

Xu Tao skillfully played the steering wheel, and the black Buick Regal walked out of the county briskly and headed east.

Guan Yalian smiled, "There is still a difference, this Regal has no noise at all, and the seat is comfortable." ”

Xu Tao also smiled, "I still don't think there is a sense of driving like this, listening to the sound of the wind outside and the shaking of the window glass, I have a feeling, people like me, I feel that the automatic transmission is not manual to drive up." ”

Xu Tao is a crazy lover of cars, he went to be a car soldier in the second year of high school, and his skills are more exquisite than the instructors of the driving school, and several classmates are Xu Tao's apprentices, including Gao Xiaodao and Guan Yalian.

The driver's license test was not as strict as it is now, and Guan Yalian's driver's license was obtained for a few hundred yuan more.

In fact, Xu Tao took the time to teach for more than ten minutes, and the next day Guan Yalian drove to Bo County alone, at that time, the convoy was still driving in the name of Cao Feng, and Guan Yalian went to Bo County to pick him up.

That road is really rotten, the big pits and small pits are filled with bricks, and the three gears bumped all the way to the big turntable of the high speed in Boxian County, and Guan Yalian, who is not very familiar with the road signs, went around it retrograde.

There happened to be five traffic police comrades on the road to check, and as soon as they stretched out their hands, they stopped them.

After looking at Guan Yalian's driver's license and the formalities of the car, she directly issued a fine of 200 yuan, and the fine at that time was with a late fee, and she later paid a fine of 400 yuan.

This is the first time Guan Yalian has driven a car on the road, and she is very impressed.

Immediately afterwards, Guan Yalian drove the car onto the desk.

The manual transmission was really too reluctant for Guan Yalian, when she drove into the team office at night, Guan Yalian kicked the accelerator, the glass door handle knocked off, and then knocked over the boss's desk, and the computer printers all fell to the ground, a messy pile.

The female neighbor who commanded on the side was dumbfounded on the spot.

Later, Guan Yalian drove even more foreignly, Xu Tao is her remote control coach, the road is slippery in winter, one foot of the brake, Buick Kaiyue's ABS is locked, no matter how you drive, I feel that the car sinks to the point that it can't work.

On the way, I called Xu Tao to ask if there was something wrong with the car.

Xu Tao didn't ask much and said: "Look at the dashboard in front, is there an ABS logo lit up?"

"It's really lit up. ”

"Just turn off the car and start it again. ”

……

"Xu Tao, why can't I drive my car key?"

"You must have stopped last night when you didn't stop right, the tires locked, and you turned the steering wheel and the keys. ”

……

"Xu Tao, it's dark, I can't find where the headlights are?"

"You see, there's a lever on each side under the steering wheel......"

With Xu Tao, a 24-hour online remote control coach, Guan Yalian also drove the car very slippery, and once drove to 160 yards on the highway.

Xu Tao and his family often asked Guan Yalian to go to their house for dinner, and Yanling was even more enthusiastic about people.

Xu Tao is a chess enthusiast, he often can't walk when he sees a chess stall, and his life is also very casual, and the life of the two of them is dull and fulfilling.

Yanling was in the water conservancy system, and after Xu Tao's army was demobilized, she was assigned to the supply and marketing cooperative, but the leaders of the unit did not give the implementation work, and she was always famous in the unit and did not receive a penny of salary.

Xu Tao bought a small truck by himself and has been running the transportation industry, and when his friend has something, most of them help not make money.

The two of them are very popular among their classmates, and after decades, they have also bought a house by themselves, and it is also a single hospital.

Guan Yalian sometimes feels that it is not bad to live such an ordinary life, but unfortunately life is like this, it is always irreversible.

Xu Tao said eloquently, "Yalian, I have paid the pension insurance this year, the state has preferential policies for demobilized soldiers, I only paid more than 10,000 yuan, and I will also have a retirement salary in the future." ”

Xu Tao's happiness is so simple, in the eyes of this veteran more than 20 years ago, the motherland will always be a sacred and inviolable existence, full of national honor, and know how to be grateful.

"Did you count all your previous years of service?"

I think the country's policy is getting better and better, and the country has not forgotten us. ”

"Anyway, you have also made contributions, and in the end, if you don't give you your retirement salary, I'm sorry for you veterans. ”

"Our country is still stronger, its international status is different from the past, and its welfare benefits are getting better and better. ”

Guan Yalian smiled, when it came to the country, Xu Tao was always gushing and full of pride.

"What is Yanling doing?"

She is still working in the unit, and now their unit has just been reformed, and the three units have been merged, so she is usually very busy. ”

"Actually, we are the same, I can't take half a day off, after the merger, I often work overtime, there is no overtime pay, and the unit funds have always been very tight. ”

"Isn't the tax office a good unit?"

"It's okay! Our director has always been like this, he is used to living a tight life, and he is always worried about the funds, and our local tax will be 5 yuan for three meals a day, and it has become 10 yuan after the merger, and the canteen said that the big rice cooker is not easy to use, and he wants to change it for a few hundred yuan, and the leader said that he will make do with it first. ”

"No, you collect hundreds of millions of dollars in fiscal revenue from the state every year, and the funds are tight like that?"

"We're pretty good, the former IRS comrades said, at that time, the canteen was 10 yuan a day, and often a big bag of radishes, cabbage and potatoes and other cheap vegetables were wholesaled, and there was basically no meat. ”

"Look at your leaders living their lives carefully. ”

"The aging of personnel in our unit is also very strong, I am not old, we also have a 53-year-old and a 56-year-old in our office, our second sub-bureau, starting from the merger, twenty-six people, ten people retired in more than a year. ”

"We're getting old, my knee hasn't been doing well lately, patella, and I can't exercise vigorously. ”

Xu Tao used to be on the basketball team of Luoshui High School, and he was also quite good in sports.

On both sides of the county road, there are small Chinese acacia saplings, which have sprouted tender green buds, and a little farther away, a piece of pink peach blossoms and white pear blossoms are blooming lively.

Guan Yalian opened the car window, the air in the wild was very fresh, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers in the air from time to time, and there was also the smell of grass.

Xu Tao said: "I still like the countryside, if I had to choose, I really want to stay in the countryside and live in the countryside for the rest of my life." ”

Guan Yalian smiled, she was not confused, and she still liked to daydream.

In fact, I never thought that in my parents' fruit tree field, I built a small tree house, and climbed up and down every day, like the princess in the cartoon "Wild Swan" when she was a child and her brothers in the small tree house in the forest.

In the blink of an eye, people will be in their forties, and they will retire in another ten years, let alone climb trees, as long as there are no physical problems, thank God.

This dream is destined to never come true.

Silently, Guan Yalian compared her life experience with Xu Tao and Yanling, and it is really true that an ordinary life may be the king, and those who love to toss may miss it one day.

As a result, Xu Taoyanling has a house to live in and a car to drive, and her life is still comfortable, while she has to have a headache for debts, and in the end she is alone and has nothing.

Xu Tao asked hesitantly, "How are you doing lately?"

Guan Yalian smiled bitterly: "I'm stuck in the quagmire now, it's not easy to pull it out!"

"Still nervous?"

"It's okay, it will get better slowly, the court is not enforcing effectively, we owe others money and we are in a hurry to pay it back, and we must have had a hard time in recent years. ”

"Actually, the classmates all had some guesses, and they didn't say anything to anyone else......"

Guan Yalian interrupted: "It's okay to say it, it's already like this, the most important thing is to make money, it will be fine." ”

"How many saplings can you sell this time?"

"Xiaowei said that it depends on the situation, if you need more, you can dig more, you know, our saplings are not well managed, and they can't be sold at a price. ”

"I don't know how big your tree is, can I fit it in my car?"

Guan Yalian didn't expect Xu Tao to still have the intention of pulling the sapling, so she said: "Chen Peng looked at the loading car, I don't understand, I will reach the intersection in a while, you can tell him in person." ”

"Okay, the transportation business hasn't been particularly good lately, and being idle is also idle, you know, I'm not comfortable if I don't touch the car for a day. ”

Soon arrived at the agreed T-junction, Guan Yalian called Chen Peng.

Chen Peng said it would be there in five minutes.

A white JAC pickup truck stopped behind the Buick, Chen Peng ran over, and Guan Yalian asked him to get into the car and talk.

"Brother Xu Tao, it turned out to be you!"

"Chen Peng, I want to ask, how do you calculate the freight for this small truck?"

"That's 300 to 350 yuan for a trip, which is basically one yuan per tree. ”

"And how many trees are there?"

"I heard Xiaowei say that after pulling two trips today, there are 350 seedlings left, originally I pulled a thousand yesterday, you can use your five meters eight, and there is not much left. ”

"Forget it, there will be a lot of calls to me in the future, and I'll be idle anyway. ”

"Okay. ”

Guan Yalian handed the quarantine certificate to Chen Peng, and told her again, if she blocked it, she remembered that it was the first trip.

On the way back to the city with Xu Tao, Xu Tao asked: "In recent years, the seedling business has been okay, why did you manage the trees like that?"

Guan Yalian sighed and said: "What can I do, I can't manage it, even if I don't have the strength, the ground is too far away, and it's inconvenient." ”

Xu Tao said: "If there is really a way, contract some land around the county, plant seedlings, and we do farm work on Sundays, which is also very good. ”

Guan Yalian said with a smile: "The key is that the way of seedlings is not very clear, and it is still a matter of selling in the future, who knows how long it will take to sell it, if it is not their own land, it will be troublesome for the owner to take it back halfway." ”

"So, if you want to run the road well, Xiaowei sells your seedlings, maybe the road will be clear!"

"I'll try to ask, and if he can, we can think about it. ”