Early in the morning, while the girl was still sleeping, Guo went up the mountain to take down the clamps and yesterday's dishes and chopsticks.

When I returned home, the girl just woke up, and the old man was burning the fire on two stoves at the same time, cooking pig rice and human rice. After preparing to eat, he went to the city with Guo, he was not worried that Guo would go alone.

Both of them went, so naturally they had to take the girl, and as for the car, they could only go to the street to find a tractor and hitchhike.

Don't worry about not having a tractor to go to the city, as long as you pay a dollar or two, many people are willing to pull.

And the town is sandwiched in the middle of the three counties, that is to say, there are buses passing by every day, but a person's fare costs a dollar, and children also have to charge, in order to save money, they are naturally reluctant to take the bus.

Of course, since the bus only passes through here, even if you get on the bus, there are no seats. The buses of this era are not overloaded by 250 percent, which is a loss in the driver's heart.

As a result, not even a single child could be squeezed into the car.

In this way, it is better to sit directly on the tractor, no matter what, there is still room for five or six people to sit in the tractor's trailer.

Guo went to wait on the crooked dirt road with the girl on his back, while the old man went to his uncle's house and asked his aunt to help feed the pigs during lunch.

As a result, when his eldest aunt heard that she was going to the city, she hurriedly packed some things and handed them to the old man, so that he could take them to the county seat and hand them over to her son, Xiaoqing.

Xiaoqing, whose full name is Guo Xiaoqing, is a girl's name, because he is an only child, Guo Qu's uncle was afraid that his child would die young.

Now Guo Xiaoqing is in middle school in the county, and except for firewood, rice, oil and salt, everything else has to be taken from home.

So the three grandchildren had an extra back pocket, which contained rice, oil, salt, and chili sauce.

When they arrived at the street in the township, the three of them stood on the side of the road and waited for the bus, and the time passed slowly, but the tractor never came.

The sun had slowly risen, and it had reached the three of them. However, it is not hot at this time, there is a lot of water in the south, and if you want the temperature to rise to the point that people can't stand it, you have to wait until about one o'clock in the afternoon, and then because of the water, it is often not until seven or eight o'clock in the evening that the heat will dissipate.

The car finally emerged from the mountain, looking like an ant from a distance, but after three or five minutes, the car hid in another mountain, and it was another five or six minutes before it appeared in the eyes of the three of them.

The car finally came to the three of them, but the dust behind them, like a huge monster, slowly swallowed the three of them.

In the dust, the sound of the tractor "bar" was transmitted far away, and it took more than a minute before the figure of the tractor was revealed.

The car moved slowly, and behind the tractor was a huge "monster", as soon as the car stopped, it would soon be swallowed up by the "monster" again. The "monster" and the car were like a race, and they went together in the direction of the county seat.

The girl was half scared, half excited and pulled Guo Qu's sleeve, and opened her mouth from time to time, as if she was talking, but her voice was muffled by the sound of the tractor engine.

Guo went to sit in the car, holding the railing of the car tow bucket with one hand, holding one hand of Xiaojing, and the old man was also holding her other hand.

With two hands to protect, she is safe, even when passing by the uneven road, when the car is undulating, the girl's two feet are hanging in the air, but she is pulled by Guo Go and the old man, but it is a safe "landing", and the girl is particularly excited, this feeling of flying, children like it very much.

But the old man and Guo went to be uncomfortable.

It is more than 40 kilometers to go to the county seat, and the road conditions are not good, so it takes two and a half hours, and these two hours are hell time for Guo Qu and the old man.

Fortunately, halfway through the road, the road conditions finally improved, and the "monster" behind the car slowly became smaller and lighter.

The tractor drove to the city, and the grandfather and grandson got off the tractor, and after an appointment or two hours, they got on the car here again, and then walked to the city.

This is not for anything else, just to find a market for the scrap products that are about to be acquired, because the road in the township is too difficult to walk, there is no scrap collection station, all of them are private acquisitions, this matter has been mentioned before, so I will not repeat it.

The so-called county seat, in fact, is also very small, after walking five or six hundred meters, the most prosperous area has passed, and there are cattle and sheep on the road, and someone is cleaning at this time.

According to the geographical location in his memory, Guo went to lead the way, walked about 100 meters, and arrived at a scrap yard, a house made of adobe bricks, and all kinds of metals were placed outside the house, most of them were rusty scrap iron, and there were a few wires such as aluminum and copper, pots, and pots.

Walking to the door, a middle-aged woman just opened the door and walked out, she glanced at the three of them defensively, and saw that there were children, so she asked, "What do you want to do?"

Guo was stunned for a moment, then reacted, stood in front of the old man, faced the woman, and said, "Well, we are from Sanyuan Township, we want to collect waste products in the township, and then pull them to you to sell." ”

"Sanyuan Township?" the woman looked at the two of them with a scrutinizing gaze, and then said, "Okay." ”

"And what do you think of the ......price?"

"I charge five cents a pound for old books, scrap iron is one dollar a pound, aluminum is one for a pound, and copper is two for a pound. ”

"Excuse me, if it's a large quantity, can the price be a little higher?" asked Guo Quan patiently.

"A large amount?" The woman looked at Guo Qu again, and said impatiently, "The price of one hundred catties has risen by two cents, two hundred catties and five cents, three hundred catties and seven cents, and a maximum of seven cents!"

"Uh, thank you, Auntie. Guo went to uphold the mentality that politeness can open the way.

The woman glanced at Guo Qu again, there are really few children who are so polite in this era, perhaps because of Guo Qu's sentence "Thank you, Auntie", the impatience on her face is much less. Then he patiently talked to Guo for about ten minutes.

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To say that this politeness can open the way, but also the experience of the previous life, in the previous life in the CQ North Station South Square subway station, due to the unfamiliar place, in the small store bought a lighter, asked the boss where to live in a cheap hotel, but the boss did not raise his head and pointed randomly, Guo went to say "thank you" and prepared to leave.

After the boss heard the "thank you", he stopped Guo Qu, and then pointed out the direction to him in detail, and told him how to walk there.

This is the power of the phrase "thank you" (this is true, the author himself has experienced it).

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After talking, Guo went back to the downtown area with the old man and the girl, carefully looked at the goods placed on the stalls, mainly paid attention to the clothes, pants and shoes, and asked about the price, and then left the downtown area and walked to Qixing Middle School.

The only son of his uncle's family, who is in the first year of high school in Qixing Middle School, is eighteen years old this year, and is the second person in the village to go to middle school.

As for the first one, he is now in the third year of secondary school and is about to be assigned to work.