Chapter Eighty-Three: The Whole People Look to the Money
"How long will it take to get from Yangcheng to our house?"
Several people in the car also got down to walk around at this time, and they felt a little stretched while sitting in the car. Seeing Zhang Chu and Xu Liang smoking, Zhang Yan asked.
Zhang Yong saw that Zhang Chu was smoking, and he also lit a cigarette. He smoked, didn't give a word, just listened to the conversation between Zhang Yan and Zhang Chu with his ears pricked up.
He is the boss, although the boss's responsibilities have not been fulfilled much, but the boss's shelf is full. Let him talk to Zhang Chu softly, he can't pull down that face.
"If the road conditions are as good as here, I should be home in about six hours. If the road conditions are not good, this is not easy to say. ”
Zhang Chu did not walk on National Highway 107, he actually calculated the result of the distance of the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway in later generations, but when they actually walked, it took them a little longer.
Zhang Chu drove alone, and after driving for more than two hours, he had to take a break, counting the time for eating and going to the toilet, and in fact, it took them almost eight hours to get home.
In addition, this is a national highway, not a high speed, so the speed cannot be raised. If you take the highway, you can get from Yangcheng to their home, and if the road conditions are good, you can get there in more than four hours.
After getting off the national highway, it was almost late at night. Zhang Chu gave the car to Xu Liang to drive, there were no cars on their rural roads, and it was not a big problem for Xu Liang to drive slowly.
"It's so late, everyone at home is asleep, right?"
Xu Liang is more familiar with the road to the countryside, and they once ran a tractor on this road. After sleeping for so long, the people in the car were not sleepy at this time, and they began to talk without a word.
"It's not that early, I guess I'm still watching TV, or playing mahjong, it's only ten o'clock now. ”
Xu Liang in front replied after hearing this, when he was at home before, he never had the habit of going to bed at ten o'clock at night. In the evening, I will go to the door to play, or play mahjong or something.
"Most of them should have slept, the house is much colder than in the south, and it rained in freezing rain two days ago. In such a cold weather, who still sits there and watches TV. ”
Zhang Chu said in the co-pilot that the music in the car had been turned off. The windows were full of white fog when I exhaled upwards, which was much colder than the weather in the south.
"Do I have enough clothes?"
Xu Liang's girlfriend in the back looked outside, and asked a little worried at this time. She is from Zhanjiang, and it is the first time for her to go out of the south, so she can't help but be a little worried at the moment.
Xu Liang specially told her to bring more thick clothes back, and after passing Lingnan at this time, the temperature difference between the north and the south is still very obvious.
In the future, the difference between this part is really not big, and Zhang Chu's hometown has not snowed for several years. And when it's cold, it snows here, and it snows in the south!
"That's enough, but when we get married next year, you call your parents and tell them to wear more clothes. The snow on our side is probably only during the Spring Festival, so it must be cold. ”
After Xu Liang quit his job some time ago, he followed his girlfriend to his mother-in-law's house. They were quite satisfied with him, no different from their previous life.
"Watch out for slowdown, there's a ditch ahead!"
While speaking, Xu Liang drove the car a little faster, and Zhang Chu was too late to remind him. The car shook suddenly, startling everyone in the car.
"What's the situation?"
"I didn't know that Wang *Ba* egg dug a ditch, and a good cement road was dug like this. ”
Xu Liang gritted his teeth and replied, this big night, he saw that he couldn't react, so he could only rush over alive, so the car was so shocked.
"You park on the side of the road, and I'll drive the rest of the way. I guess there are a lot of such places ahead, and you can't handle it!"
Zhang Chu asked Xu Liang to stop to the side at this time, and then replaced himself. His van has narrow wheels, a high chassis, and a high body, and he really needs to be technical when he walks this way.
"Wasn't this a good concrete road, how did it become like this?"
After changing his seat again, Xu Liang saw Zhang Chu's reaction and was a little puzzled, could it be that there was such a situation ahead?
"This is the fault of the recent increase in coal trucks, these people dug the road like this, just waiting for the roadside to collect money. ”
After hearing this, Zhang Chu replied that he hadn't been there when he went home after May Day last time. It should be something that came out after the second half of the year, Zhang Chu is more familiar with this, and he knows what is going on at a glance.
In addition to a state-owned coal mine, there are also a number of private coal mines. Recently, the coal business has been relatively easy to do, and many people have bought cars to start the coal business, and they have made a lot of money.
In the era when the whole people are looking for money, people on both sides of this road are racking their brains to make money. After seeing this, my heart was a little unbalanced, and I also wanted to make some quick money, so I came up with such an idea.
The cement road in front of each village near the road was dug out of a trench that was not deep, and the coal trucks had to slow down when they passed through these places, and the others rushed over and demanded money.
It ranges from 20-50 per car per car, depending on the relationship, familiar faces, or someone you know nearby, then 20. People from other places, don't say a word, must be 50.
Zhang Chu and their village are the same, which makes those people nearby who didn't go out all make a small profit, and they are all happy.
You must know that even Zhang Chu's mother, such an honest woman, will follow the people in the village to stop the car on the road in the middle of the night and ask for money, it is said that she asked for a few hundred yuan a month in the first two months.
When she called to talk to Zhang Chu, the excitement in her tone could not be concealed, and Zhang Chu sent 2,000 yuan home without saying a word. This is the money spent for Zhang's mother, not enough to ask Zhang Chu again, but he can't stop the car on the road and ask for money!
Zhang Chu is not a fake Qinggao, he can earn money now, not bad for that money, there is no need to let his mother stop others from asking for money like bandits at night.
It's someone else's business for others to earn that quick money, but this kind of thing more or less makes Zhang Chu feel a little uncomfortable in his heart. When I thought about my previous studies, the people around me were still so good, how long has it been?
In the past, if there was a problem with a tractor or a car passing by on the road, it was easy to call some people from the village on the side of the road to help, whether you knew it or not, just send a cigarette and say hello.
At that time, the dirt road would become muddy when it rained, and people in the neighborhood would take time to repair the road to make it easier for people to pass by.
Don't think about it now, if you need help with something, you have to give money, and no one will take care of it without money. And they will deliberately destroy the good road to make money.
Those coal truck drivers are not stupid, they avoided the toll station at this time and went other ways, and they could still earn money by the villages along the road, so they gave it.
But as the people in these villages become more and more greedy, they will also rebel and spend some money to gather some thugs to sit in their cars.
Then several cars walked together, and they met those big villages, villages with ruthless people, and they didn't dare to move. But in a small village like Zhang Chu and them, people will fight when they fight, who can do anything?
In his previous life, several people in Zhang Chu's village were beaten, and there was nowhere to say about the beating. Although his mother didn't have it in his previous life, who knows if there will be any changes in this life because of his butterfly?
Zhang Chu just wants his family to live a good life, and now that he can do it, why would he let his mother take such a risk?
was said by Zhang Chu, Zhang's mother doesn't follow others to collect any money now, and stays at home and does her own thing with peace of mind.
After Zhang Chu changed it, his speed slowed down a lot, and he didn't go to chat with the people behind him. Instead, he cautiously crossed the small ditches and slowly drove towards his home.
The people in the car, originally because of the joy of arriving home, were in no mood to be messed with by this kind of thing. was silent, and watched Zhang Chu slowly drive towards home.