Chapter 20: Waiting for the Rain
"Bang!" The sound of a door closing echoed through the cold, silent room, interrupting Poplar's fantasies. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
He was standing up to take a look, when he heard a middle-aged man's voice: "There is no one at home, Xiao'er and his brother have returned to Wuyang, let's talk about something directly." "The message in the words should be the father of the mouse.
"Brother Yuan, will the batch of goods after the year be transported by land or river?" Listening to the sound is somewhat familiar, not very old. Poplar thought about it, but he couldn't remember hearing it there.
"River transport. Recently, the public security investigation of land transportation has been too strict, and all the goods that came over last time have been confiscated. Lao Zi is still squatting in prison now, ten years is not long, but it is enough for him. "Daddy's voice is not cold.
"Good. Before and after the Chinese New Year, the checks were relatively loose, so I just did it! The young man replied.
"In short, we are only responsible for deliveries from southern Myanmar. As for how you get to the interior, that's your business. Mouse Dad laughed.
The young man looked like he obviously knew the rules of this act, and laughed lightly: "That's nature." Then he said tentatively: "I'm afraid that you will take the goods, and the delivery will not be easier than ours." β
The treacherous and cunning mouse father couldn't hear the meaning of the words, but just smiled faintly and didn't answer.
The young man knew that he had broken his promise, smiled awkwardly, and then turned to the topic. "This is the river, there are three criminal investigation points here, there are police guards here, and there will be an unlimited number of plainclothes shuttling around the river and boats every day," the two began to discuss the details on ......the spot.
All the processes reached the ears of the poplar one by one, and the heart was shocked: smuggling!
For nearly an hour, after the two exchanged details, there was no extra nonsense and greetings, and they were about to part ways.
"Wait a minute, I'll send you down after urinating." Mouse dad said.
When the mouse father finished urinating and was about to wash his hands, he saw the toothbrush that Yang Shu had just brushed his teeth, and there were still droplets of water on the cup that had not yet dried, and he reached out and touched the somewhat moist facekerchief hanging on the wall. Secret Passage: Someone at home?
The mouse father was silent, and after coming out of the toilet, he responded: "Let's go." β
"Bang" The two of them left quietly, just as quietly came.
Poplar chuckled in his heart, and quickly got up and went to the toilet to see if the cup and facekerchief had been moved. I thought that if the old mouse came back in a while, I was afraid that he would react.
Sure enough, in less than 5 minutes, the old mouse returned. Quietly pushed open the door of the poplar room, suddenly pressed the lighter, through the dim firelight, the old mouse saw an eleven or twelve-year-old boy lying on the bed and falling asleep, the young man's nose and mouth still had sweet sticky secretions, and he slept very sweetly.
The mouse father muttered to himself: "I think I just slept to death, and I didn't hear anything." That's it, a child can't make any big waves, let him go. After about ten minutes, the old mouse went out again, and never came back.
Hearing the sound of the old mouse going out and closing the door, Yang Shu suddenly opened his eyes, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said to himself: "Fortunately, I went to eat something and drank a little wine tonight, otherwise it would be difficult to retch even with my fingers, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape this catastrophe." β
"Agate, jade, antiques, shipping, Wuyang River, customs, plainclothes ......" Yang Shu lay on the bed but couldn't sleep anymore, his mind sorted out the conversation between the two just now, and the more he pondered, the more frightened he became. Subconsciously rubbed the bridge of his nose, turned his heart sideways, and muttered to himself: I can only go off the rails!!
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A week has passed. At noon on the second day, the mouse and his brother returned.
After greeting each other, the mouse asked, "Poplar, do you see the key?" My dad said it was on the coffee table. β
"When I cleaned up in the morning, I put the keys in a drawer. I said how could there be a bunch of keys on the coffee table, wondering if you had been here in the morning. Poplar replied naturally. Knowing that the mouse and his brother were back today, he swept away the decadence of the previous week, forcibly cheered up, and cleaned the room unusually clean and tidy.
Brother Mouse glanced at the poplar tree strangely, put away the key from the drawer and played with it in his hand, without speaking.
"This year's Spring Festival is earlier than usual. Today we're going to pack up and tomorrow we'll be home. What are you going to do? The mouse asked at the poplar tree.
"Then I'll go home tomorrow too." Poplar replied. After a pause, he discussed: "Otherwise, let's call the crown prince, the crown princess and Ma Shu out for dinner this afternoon, and we will celebrate the New Year together this year." β
"Okay, you'll contact them later. My brother and I are going to run some errands soon, and we'll see you at the old place in the afternoon. The mouse laughed.
Yang Shu called the prince and Ma Shu's house respectively, and everyone arrived as scheduled in the afternoon. It is not surprising that the prince is followed by a tall girl with delicate facial features and a small face that is white and red. The crown princess is an ordinary class girl who has been stalking since the prince's love first opened, and the prince said that it had been done every time, but the princess kept laughing and not saying anything, didn't say yes, and didn't say no.
During the banquet, Yang Shu asked the mouse about his hometown these days. Let the teenagers who grew up in these three urban areas are full of infinite reverie and curiosity about the border counties. Feeling the excitement of the three of them, Yang Shu proposed: "Since everyone is so curious, after the Lantern Festival, there are still 15 days before school starts, so it is better for us to go to Wuyang to play for a few days." β
When he heard that he was going to Wuyang, the prince was very excited, and glanced at the princess with expectant eyes to agree. The crown princess smiled happily: "Go and go, who is afraid of whom." Thinking of the scene where he could be alone with the crown princess, the passion in the prince's heart was born leisurely.
Only the corners of Ma Shu's mouth twitched, and there was a look of pity: "My parents probably won't let me go, so let's see the situation when the time comes, and call us." β
The mouse just excitedly introduced his hometown, so naturally he will not have any opinions. said very heartily: "When I get to Wuyang, all the expenses are mine." Since the appointment is made, you must come, and whoever doesn't come at that time will be the turtle bastard. β
During the dinner, everyone also asked about the situation of the poplar shooting machine, and he only said that everything was normal and did not mention it.
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It wasn't until a year ago that the poplar finally came home. Walking on the familiar field path, smelling the fragrance of the long-lost soil, I feel like I am back to my childhood self. The parents are still the same, and not much has changed. The land is still the same land, the people are still the same group of people, but they haven't been together for two years, their lifestyles are different, and they feel that what they say with their childhood friends and neighbors in the township is gradually not on the same channel. What happened to their homework or today's Zhangjiadi? What will happen to Aunt Li's field tomorrow? The day after tomorrow, the baby got married again? For the little tyrant who has already found 100,000 yuan in cash, the vision pattern is naturally not comparable to the people in his hometown. Still, there is always a warm feeling when I return home.
The strong countryside has withstood the test of midwinter, and after a few snowfalls, a warm spring is not far away......
Yang Shu stayed at home during this time, studying the common sense of agate jade, and even found some cultural relics and old books to compare and compare carefully. Later, I flipped through the newspaper that my father ordered last year, focusing on some news and major events at home and abroad, and the headlines I saw were all bloody and eye-catching mega explosions, extraordinarily large murder incidents, and wars in the West and the United States attacking various countries, with sharp eyes and thoughtful eyes......
Parents have long been accustomed to the habit of poplar reading, and they didn't think much about it. Only at each meal, they add meat that they rarely eat. After the Lantern Festival, my mother wanted to keep the poplar tree for two more days, but my father said solemnly: "The kindness of a woman." Men should go out for a walk more. Go ahead, when you get to someone else's house, you have to follow the local customs and be more enlightened. β
Yang Shu promised and traveled lightly, but before he knew it, he didn't bring the dried tofu made by his mother!!
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As soon as Yang Shu got out of the car, he saw the mouse and the prince talking and laughing, and the princess was listening beside her, and she also let out a crisp laugh from time to time. The two of them, with their hair a little messy and a tired look on their faces, must have been waiting here for a long time. After looking around, she didn't see Ma Shu, and her parents still didn't let her come.
The scenery of Wuyang is really beautiful, the ancient charm in the city is long, and the mountains and rivers outside the city are beautiful. The clear Wuyang River, flowing slowly through the city, can see the bottom of the fish even in winter, clear and translucent. The bazaar is full of stalls selling agate jade, almost all of which have the annotation of fake one to ten, and the setting sun sprinkles golden light on the earth, and the whole ancient city is draped in a golden veil like cicada wings, and the earth is covered with mystery.
The days of travel are the fastest, and they pass in a flash. The crown prince and the princess lived their own two-person world, and the mouse and poplar only occasionally ate and sang with them, so as not to disturb the sweetness of the two. Before leaving, after lunch, the crown princess first took out her camera to take a group photo for everyone, and then took out a new miniature voice recorder to make a gesture, so as to record a piece of everyone's New Year's wishes. Obviously, like the mouse, the crown princess is also an electronic product mystery.
Holding on to the girl's sensational feelings, several people each said a New Year's wish, all of which are blessings, but the polite words within the wish, how can they sincerely record their inner New Year's wishes.
Yang Shu and the mouse waved at the bus from time to time, and watched the prince and the two return to Dakai's car and leave slowly.
Yang Shu did not go back to Dakai with the prince, because the mouse said: "There is still a week to start, and the prince and the two will have a home in Dakai after they go back." Wouldn't it be boring for you to go back alone, so let's both go back together when school starts. β
The poplar naturally responded.
It's just that I didn't expect that as soon as the prince and the two of them left on the front foot, Ma Shu came on the back foot. Ma Shu thinks that everyone will play until the beginning of school before going back, and they have been grinding hard at home, and their parents thought that with the prince here, there should be no big incident, so they actually promised to let her come out and relax.
This week, Brother Mouse and Mouse also started to get busy, and he didn't have time to take care of Yang Shu and Ma Shu, and let them go around Wuyang on their own. Yang Shu was so happy that he took Ma Shu to walk along the embankment of the Wuyang River, poking into the river water with a bamboo pole from time to time, trying to get deeper.
Seeing that Yang Shu was carrying a few bamboo poles, Ma Shu was a little puzzled: "Wood, what are you doing with bamboo poles?" β
Yang Shu said: "It's not what to do, try the depth of the water." In the summer, it's good to come and sail the boat. β
Ma Shu asked in surprise, "Sail the boat?" Can you also row a boat? β
Poplar replied, "No." Let's see how high the ship can be if the water rises. β
Ma Shu's face was full of disdain: "Cut, boring." β
Yang Shu smiled: "What is boring, in case the boat capsizes, I will know where the depth is, so as to save people." β
Ma Shujiaojie smiled: "Speaking of saving people." Hehe, if I fall into the water at the same time as the prince, who do you save first? β
"You!" Poplar replied categorically.
Ma Shu's face was happy. He asked curiously, "Why?" β
The poplar tree looked like a dead face, and he wanted to speak again.
Ma Shu suddenly felt that Yang Shu had a ghost in his heart, and shouted: "Say it quickly? Why save me first. β
Yang Shu said solemnly: "Because the prince is taller than you!" After saving you, there is still time to save the prince. With that, he trotted away.
Ma Shu was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "Mu, head, you stop for me." β
Then came the screams of poplar trees.
"Don't pinch, don't pinch, let you fight, can't you fight?"
"No, I can't. Is it that if you don't pinch it for a long time, you will forget the power of this palace. β
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A week is fleeting. On the bank of the Wuyang River, the two of them were left fighting all day long......
In the early spring of March, the fishermen gradually returned late on the river. Looking at the slowly flowing lake, Poplar sat on the stone bench of the embankment, closed his eyes and recuperated, unintentionally watching the setting sun, his right index finger supporting his chin, and rubbing his index finger back and forth on the bridge of his nose.
At the beginning of the new semester, Yang Shu made two actions to repay the money: one was to call the classmates who borrowed money last year together, take out the contracts signed with the owners of various entertainment venues, point to the practice plan, share the future income, and use the money owed as a basketball machine to buy shares. At the end of the semester, it is distributed according to the single point of income, while the guaranteed income is promised to be doubled. The second is that those who are unwilling to buy shares will immediately repay the money. In fact, the balance of the poplar card has long been insufficient, and another round of borrowing money has started.
I don't know where the news came out of nowhere that the operation of the poplar shooting machine failed, and as a result, almost all the students chose to let him pay back the money immediately. What made Yang Shu even more dumbfounded was that after the news came out, when he wanted to lend money to other classmates, he didn't lend him anything.
Just when Yang Shu was at a loss and at a loss, a rickety figure about sixty years old appeared in front of him, took out a wad of 20,000 yuan in cash, and said to him: "To be a man, you can't lose your credit." β
Yang Shu raised his eyes and looked at it, his pupils were slightly dilated, and it turned out to be an old man surnamed Li who accepted him as a student when he first entered the school, but he had never received guidance. The corners of Yang Shu's eyes were a little red, and he said in surprise: "Li, Teacher Li." β
"Surprised? Hmph, since I promised to accept you as a student, I will be a student for the rest of my life. Old man Li said with his hands behind his back and staring at the poplar tree with sharp eyes.
The corners of the poplar's eyes were even redder, and he stuttered a little, I, I, ......
"What am I, what am I." Old man Li didn't seem to be used to seeing the poplar tree like this, and said loudly: "The biggest failure of a person is to give up. In the past ten years, I have only taken in two protΓ©gΓ©s, one of whom is lost in mind and gone astray, and the other, I don't want the other to follow his old path. With that, he turned and left.
The poplar wanted to speak and stopped.
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The shooting machine is really used as collateral for liquidated damages. After learning about the poplar tree's situation, the mouse offered to let him resell the agate jade with him. He couldn't ask for it for a long time, and readily agreed.
Poplar is responsible for the transportation from southern Myanmar to Wuyang to Dakai, and the rat is responsible for finding channels to sell goods. The mouse is no longer the mouse who didn't care about everything and was very arrogant, and under his brother's teaching this year, he gradually became more and more spicy in his words and deeds. Yang Shu found out that although Wuyang people don't like to read, they are born with a three-point business acumen.
The mouse introduced a big brother surnamed Zhou to Yang Shu and asked him to learn from the boat. After one or two simple boat transportations, Poplar found that he didn't make much money. I am anxious, and I will definitely not pass the final exam if I go on like this.
The mouse looked at the poplar tree on the hot pot and said curtly: "If you want to make quick money and make a lot of money, there is only one way: smuggling!" β
Seeing that the poplar tree was very hesitant and hesitated.
The mouse added: "It's okay, if it is seized, the worst case is that the goods will be confiscated." As long as it is not a cultural relic, it is not within the scope of drugs prohibited by the state. Haven't I done this a few times, and I'm okay now? Just take care of the border defense relationship. β
Yang Shu showed a resolute look and slapped his thigh: "Okay, that's it." β
In addition to the goods ordered by the buyer here, Yang Shu also asked Brother Zhou to secretly hide a batch of prohibited cultural relics in southern Myanmar. As a result, more than 20 ships were prepared on the river transport for transportation and delivery.
But a week passed, and the poplar action was delayed. The mouse asked with some doubts: "Don't be too greedy, preparing so many ships will be exposed." And if it hasn't been shipped for such a long time, people can rush it. What the hell are you waiting for? β
Yang Shu smiled lightly and said lightly: "Wait for the rain!" β¦β¦β