Autumn is the busiest season in the countryside, when corn and sweet potatoes are harvested, and then ploughing the fields and sowing wheat begins.

However, the autumn harvest is over, and it is a long and quiet winter.

Originally, before the reform and opening up, everyone's economic awareness was still very weak, and the rural people really had a lot of time to rest after winter.

At that time, every village and alley will have a sunny place, and there will be a person who can tell a story, and in winter, as long as the weather is good, then there will be people around the storyteller to listen to the story.

Wu Lao Er of Taohualing Village is the one who is the best storyteller in Taohualing Village.

Even in the 90s, many people in the countryside had not yet awakened their economic consciousness, and in winter they were still squatting, laughing, and basking in the sun as before.

Slowly, however, after watching the hurried people put on crisp suits, drive brand new cars, and build a small two-story building with bright tiles, all the leisurely people could not sit still.

Sometimes Wang Shaodong really wants to live a day like those people lived before, but he can't, because that era has passed. He wanted to hear the story, but Wu Lao Er still had to go to herd the sheep.

After the awakening of economic consciousness, it is difficult for ordinary people to live a few more days after eating this meal and not wanting to eat.

It's simple, because most people don't have money. If someone is as rich as Wang Sicong, will he frown every day in a hurry about how to make a few more dollars?

Therefore, Wang Shaodong understands a truth, if you want to live comfortably and comfortably in the future, you must first earn money.

After the autumn harvest, the weather gradually became colder, there was nothing to do on the farm, and the market price of live chickens was getting lower and lower day by day, and there was no improvement, and no one in the whole chicken farm had a smiling face. Wang Shaodong decided to go outside for a walk, to relax, and also to inspect the live chicken market everywhere.

On November 11, 2002, Wang Shaodong chose a day of great significance, bid farewell to his parents, and embarked on the road to the surrounding cities to investigate the market.

Because of the last time Wang Shaodong went to Sidian Town to find chicken seedlings, Wang Fumin was still more at ease with his son.

Investigating the live chicken market?

This is simply a joke, does this market still need to be investigated, the current market is colder than this winter, what is the point of investigation. What everyone has to do is actually to raise chickens well, and then wait for three months, as soon as the end of the year comes, the market will be warm, and then the Wang family will quickly dispose of all the chickens, and the money will be earned, and the year will pass, and everything will be fine.

In the new year, the barrage was also built, the reservoir was also built, and the entire Wujiayuzi was also contracted.

Wang Shaodong knew all this and saw it clearly, but he couldn't explain it to his parents.

What he has to do is to go to various places to inspect the market, and then after going back, tell everyone that the surrounding market is neither good nor bad, the situation is not as everyone imagined, insist on persevering, and this winter will pass.

Wang Shaodong asked his family for 1,000 yuan, which was enough for him to live outside for ten days and half a month.

In 2002, the rent around Qilu Normal University on Wenhua East Road in the provincial capital was only about 30 yuan a night, but if you go to other remote places, it is possible to pay 10 yuan a night.

As for the cost of travel and food, if you have time to take the green train, the cheap fares will make you suspicious.

From Doquancheng in Luzhong City, it costs about 22 yuan by car, but if you take a train, it only costs 7 yuan. However, it is the speed of this train that is a bit slow. It takes less than three hours to get to the station by car, but if you take the train, you get on the train at 7 o'clock in the morning and don't get to the Quancheng train station until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. In just 130 kilometers, the green train takes seven hours. It's not that the green train is slow, it's that the train has to stop at every station, and before it has gone two steps, it has to stop again.

People who are in a hurry are not suitable for taking the green train, but Wang Shaodong, this time he is not in a hurry at all, less than half past six in the morning, he came to the Xujiazhuang Railway Station, which is three miles away from Dazhai Village, Dazhai Township.

Because there are so many stops, the arrival time of this green train to Quancheng at Xujiazhuang Railway Station is not certain, but it will arrive at seven o'clock at the latest. If it's early, 6:45 is possible.

After the train arrives at Xujiazhuang Station, it will stop for a few minutes.

Some passengers who are bored on the train, as soon as the station stops, will get off the train to breathe and smoke a cigarette. Then when the train whistle sounded, everyone got on the train again.

At six fifty-five in the morning, the train to Springs arrived.

Today's train is three minutes later than yesterday, but it's also within the normal time frame.

The conductor at the station hurriedly got on the train and docked with the people on the train. Then two off-duty station workers wanted to take this train back to Quancheng and also got on the bus. In addition to them, the only person who got on the train at this station was Wang Shaodong.

After getting on the car, Wang Shaodong walked into the carriage.

There are empty seats everywhere in the carriage, so you don't need to sit in the right seat, you can sit casually.

Moreover, because the station stop time at Xujiazhuang Station is relatively early and there are few people, when you get on the train, there is no one to check the ticket on the train. In fact, sometimes, the villagers of Dazhai Village will take advantage of this loophole, get on the train from Xujiazhuang Station, and then get off at the next station, Lianhuachi Station, without buying tickets, and no one checking tickets, it is very convenient to go to relatives.

In fact, it is not expensive to buy a ticket, from Xujiazhuang Station to Lianhuachi Station, it is only a dozen miles away, and the ticket price is only five cents.

Walking and walking, suddenly Wang Shaodong's eyes lit up, and on the seat at the back of the carriage, the girl sitting was so familiar.

It's Wang Meina!

Wang Meina also saw Wang Shaodong and waved at him with some excitement.

"Why are you here and where did you get in the car from?"

In 2002, the fifth speed increase of railway passenger transport has not yet begun to be implemented, and it will not start until 2004, and many stations of the green train from Luzhong to Quancheng have not been cancelled, and there are three stations in Gangcheng County alone.

"Where are you going to get on the train at Zhangbaqiu Station?"

"Go to Springs." Wang Shaodong sat down.

Wang Meina looked very excited when she saw Wang Shaodong, she nodded vigorously, looked at Wang Shaodong and said, "It's too coincidental, I'm going to Quancheng too." Brother, what are you doing in Quancheng? ”

The two have been chatting on QQ for more than a month, calling each other brother and sister, which is also a very common phenomenon in that era.

"What are you going to do? Let's go play for two days. Wang Shaodong frowned and pondered.

Wang Meina looked at Wang Shaodong, smiled, and nodded vigorously: "Well, I'll also go play for two days, let's go together." ”

Wang Shaodong is happy in his heart, accompanied by beautiful women, that relationship is good.