"Son, are you going to go back to live for a few days? Mom and Dad are busy in the factory now, and they don't have time to go back these days, you can tell your grandfather!" Li Shuangzhu said to his son Li Liang.

"Okay, I'll stay at my grandfather's house for a day or two and I'll be back!" Li Liang said.

"What?" Wang Xiulan said in surprise, "Won't you stay in the countryside for a few more days?"

"I'll go back tomorrow to find the second uncle for something, today the uncle sent me a telegram, Mr. Yang will come back to us the day after tomorrow, I will go back first and tell the second uncle about this matter."

When the time comes, I will ask Mr. Yang to go to the back mountain contracted by the second uncle to visit the camellia and kiwifruit planted by the second uncle!" Li Liang said the purpose of returning to his hometown this time.

"Mr. Yang came to our Hekang so soon?" Li Shuangzhu asked, "Have they already done the work of starting a new investment company in Hong Kong?"

"Well, it's already done! The funds have been injected into the new company as required, so Mr. Yang will come to our Hekang to inspect so soon!" Li Liang said.

"Then you should go back and talk to your second uncle quickly, your grandfather went to Yangcheng and Pengcheng with us this time, although he knows about Yang's total investment, but he should go back and tell your second uncle clearly. You really have to go back and tell your second uncle about this matter yourself!" Wang Xiulan said.

At this time, Li Meng, who had not spoken, spoke: "Brother, I'll go back with you tomorrow!"

"Sister, do you have any vacation tomorrow?" asked Li Liang.

I have the impression that since I was reborn for more than a year, although I and my sister have each gone back to my grandfather's house a few times, it seems that the two have only gone back together during the Chinese New Year, and the rest of the time they basically went back separately.

After all, Li Meng works in the hospital, and the vacation time is irregular, unlike students like Li Liang, who basically have a fixed day and a half off every weekend.

"Yes, I'll just rest tomorrow! I'll go back with you to take a look! It's the busy farming season, and it is estimated that my grandparents, uncles and aunts are all too busy, so I'll go back tomorrow to help them cook for a day!" Li Meng said.

"Great!" Li Liang was very happy.

It was so boring for him to go back in the car by himself, and it would be nice if he had his sister with him on the road!

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Li Liang's mother Wang Xiulan rode a bicycle from home to the meat union store next to the vegetable market to cut a few strips of pork belly, bought some condiments such as oil, salt, soy sauce, etc., and filled a bamboo basket, ready for her daughter Li Meng and son Li Liang to take back today.

In the hot summer weather, she was worried that the meat she bought would be easy to spoil if it was delayed on the way, so she specially rode to the main store of Wangkelai, and asked for some crushed ice from Chen Chunhua, and packed the crushed ice with things and sealed it with the meat.

Nowadays, the main store of Wangkelai basically does not make its own ice, and the ice used in the store in the summer is purchased from the ice cream factory affiliated with the county food company. The ice cream factory has a very powerful ice machine, and in the summer, they will make a batch of ice cream every day, and by the way, they will also make some ice cubes and sell them to units and individuals in need. Now of the two stores where Wangke comes, only one branch managed by Zhang Xin still uses saltpeter to make ice every day.

When Wang Xiulan came back from shopping, Li Liang and her sister Li Meng got up separately.

Li Meng's room has its own bathroom, and she washes in her own bathroom in the morning. Li Liang's room did not have a bathroom, so he brushed his teeth and washed his face in the public bathroom at home.

Li Liang's new home is very close to the bus station, and when he turns left for a kilometer, he will arrive at the county bus station. Li Liang carried a basket of pork belly and other foods wrapped by his mother, and walked to the door of the bus station with his sister.

He looked at the breakfast stalls outside the bus station with a few tables and breakfast stalls selling breakfast, and said to Li Meng: "Sister, let's eat something here, right?"

"Okay!"

This is a very small breakfast stall, similar to the breakfast stall opened by Sister Zhang at the mouth of the alley of Li Liang's original old courtyard. However, because this stall is located outside the bus station, business is obviously much better.

"Auntie, one for each of the fritters, meat buns and soy milk!" Li Liang put the basket he was carrying in the open space on the side and said to the busy aunt.

"Great!"

The people who dare to come out to set up stalls to do business now are either educated youths who are returning to work and are unemployed, or some people whose families are really difficult. If the average person is thin-skinned and less courageous, he will not dare to come out and set up a stall, either afraid of being laughed at, or afraid of being cut off.

Although it has been a few years since the reform and opening up, the business atmosphere in the mainland is really not very good. Li Liang remembered that the boss who had seen Fuyao Glass in his later life said that Mr. Cao once said that his family was poor when he was a child, and when he was 16 years old, he began to help his father pour tobacco at the risk of being labeled as "speculative (harmonious)" at a young age. Around 1966, the tobacco business was unsustainable, so it switched to a fruit business. Set off at more than 3 o'clock in the morning every day, ride a bicycle from Gaoshan Commune to Fuqing County when the sky is just bright, wait for the fruit farmers to come and start bargaining with them, negotiate the price after loading the fruit is almost noon, cook their own rice on the spot, after eating is 11 or 2 o'clock at noon, the general temperature is about 40 degrees, carry 300 catties of fruit, at that time it feels like walking through the fire, back to the high mountain is about 4 o'clock to 4 o'clock, and so on a cart of fruit all wholesale to the vendors after generally to 6 o'clock. The difference in price that can be earned in such a round is about two yuan.

In order to make a living, he planted white fungus, worked as a cook, repairman, and agricultural technician at a reservoir construction site, and poured fruit tree saplings. Cao Dewang, who struggled to the age of 30 and did all possible business, has become a "human spirit" that no one can calculate. In 1975, he had accumulated more than 50,000 yuan of "huge money" for himself, and he felt financially liberated at that time.

At that time, most of the first people who became wealthy were like Mr. Cao, who were under tremendous pressure and dared to take risks that ordinary people did not dare to take.

After breakfast, the two sisters and brothers got on the bus bound for Zaozhu and Yutian, and after swaying for more than an hour along the way, the bus finally drove into the polder town where the Zaozhu Township Government is located.

"Sister, look, this is the land that my uncle bought last year, you see, it's already built with two floors! Look, the eldest uncle and the second uncle seem to be on it!"

When the car entered the town, Li Liang pointed to a small two-story building on the side of the road at the entrance of the town. On the top of the two-story building, which is being topped out, several workers are pouring concrete. Among them, there are two workers who are very similar to Li Liang's eldest and second uncles.

"Wow, that's fast!"

During the Chinese New Year, when Li Liang's family came to his grandfather's house as a guest, Li Meng knew the location of the piece of land that his uncle bought. However, at that time, it was still an old pigsty, very dilapidated, and I didn't expect that after only about half a year, my uncle built the house just like his own home.

In the parking lot of Weizhen, Li Liang and his sister Li Meng got out of the car, and Li Liang said to his sister: "Sister, let's go to my uncle's new house to have a look, my uncle and second uncle seem to be on the construction site!"

Li Meng stood at the position of getting off the car and looked eastward, faintly able to see the busy figures of the workers, she looked at the basket of food that her brother was carrying, and said: "Liangzi, let's go to grandpa's house and grandma's house first to send things over, and come back to see when we are free in the afternoon!"

"Okay!" Li Liang was also worried that the food that his mother bought would be spoiled if the weather was so hot, so the two sisters and brothers did not linger in the polder town, but walked quickly to the village where his grandfather's house was located.