Chapter 082: Countryside
Early in the morning, Lu Xiancheng got up lazily, brushed his teeth in a daze, and then finished his hot breakfast with the loving nagging of his mother, and then picked up the key and walked towards the car in the courtyard.
Li Caixia watched her son take the key, and immediately opened the gate of the yard with a trot, as if she was afraid that her son would be tired when he opened the gate.
Lu Xiancheng saw this and gave his mother a flying kiss: "Mom! What kind of daughter-in-law do you say I need to have such an awareness as you? ”。
Zhang Caixia couldn't help but feel sweet in her heart when her son said it, and smiled as if she had eaten honey.
Aunt Li Fangbing stood at the door of the kitchen and said with a smile: "How can a girl think of this now, I said Xiaocheng, there are good girls in the school to step up, and the bad ones are picked up by others!" ”。
As soon as she heard her brother-in-law say this, Zhang Caixia's eyes suddenly lit up! For her, her daughter-in-law is about her big fat grandson, and now she has this piece of heart disease left, her son has gone to college and has a career, it seems that there is nothing to worry about in her career, and now the only thing that can make the old man think of it is the little grandson.
Seeing his mother's eyes emitting a strange brilliance, Lu Xiancheng shouted in his heart: Not good! Quickly diverted the topic.
I have been married for more than ten years in my last life, and the quarrel is estimated to account for a small half of the time, and I am only so old in this life, Lu Xiancheng still wants to live in peace for so many years, not to mention that at least let myself live until I graduate from college, if I can't enjoy this little leisure, Lao Lu feels that it is too much.
"Mom, I'm not in a hurry here!" After speaking, Lu Xiancheng stepped into the car and drilled into the car.
"Be careful when driving!" Seeing her son's hurried appearance, Zhang Caixia suddenly forgot about her grandson and told her son to pay attention to safety.
"Brother, brother! Wait a minute! ”
Lu Xiancheng had just started the car when he heard the girl on the second floor shouting at the top of her voice.
"Hurry up if you want to go!" Lu Xiancheng stuck his head out of the window and shouted to his sister.
Lu Muzhi stepped on the small leather boots bought by Lu Xiancheng, and came down from the second floor happily like a deer.
"Honestly ate the meal and rode there. Your brother has a car, but you don't want to ride a bicycle when you go to school now" Li Fangbing didn't have a good tone for his daughter.
Lu Muzhi rushed into the kitchen, reached out and picked up the hot buns from the table, opened her mouth wide and bit one, and then rushed out and ran towards the car in the courtyard.
“GO! GO!” Before I even got to the car, I was already yelling away.
Lu Xiancheng waited for his sister to bypass the front of the car and enter the passenger seat, when he heard the snapping sound of the back door of the car, he stretched out his head and saw that Erha was also coming to join in the fun, holding a big cow bone in his mouth, and then knocking on the back door with the bone ball to get into the car.
"You!" Lu Xiancheng stretched out his hand and pointed at Erha: "Stay at home honestly, you have nothing to do today!" ”。
was scolded by Lu Xiancheng, Erha was a little bit of a dog's face, squatted back to Grandma Lu's feet with a big bone in his mouth, threw the bones, lay on the ground, and pillowed the dog's head to the two front legs, the eyes of the two puppies were full of melancholy, and then whispered aggrieved.
In the past, this didn't work in front of Lao Lu, but when it was put here by Grandma Lu and Aunt Lu, Erha was still quite lethal.
Soon Grandma Lu's hand touched Erha's back and comforted her in a whisper.
Lu Xiancheng waited for his sister to sit down and didn't even watch Erha's Bo sympathy performance, so he drove out of the car directly.
When he got to school and put his sister in the car, Lu Xiancheng looked at the little girl who was still at the age of love and show off and jumped up and walked in with her classmates, and couldn't help but think of the time when he used to, when he had a rich city head, a Nike or an off-white suit pants with a jacket embroidered with English or patterns, and even when he was in junior high school, he still wore black cloth shoes with white socks that were popular for a while, and he didn't know what he thought at the time, he just thought it was so handsome!
Ay! What a wonderful youth!
Lu Xiancheng sighed, completely unaware that he was only eighteen years old now.
When he arrived downstairs at Zhou Guangyong's house, Lu Xiancheng learned that the goods were still squatting in the quilt and cooking a big pig's head, so he had to get out of the car and go directly to his house to pick him up.
When it was more than eight o'clock in the small county town for the Chinese New Year, just like Zhou Guangyong, it seemed that he had not yet gotten up from the winter bed, not only the streets, but also the sun overhead.
Lu Xiancheng drove out of the city, and Zhou Guangyong, who had already woken up, took over the messenger who was driving.
Lu Xiancheng, who was sitting in the passenger seat, leaned his elbows against the window and gently rubbed his fingers on the short beard under his chin, while looking at the scene outside the car through the window.
There are very few people in the city, and there are more people on the road to the countryside, and you can see such a large group of people from time to time, but these people are in the opposite direction to Lao Lu, these farmers have smiles on their faces one by one, they are all people who go to the county town to catch up with the market to make New Year's goods, and many of them are large and small families.
"Hey! My hometown is still too poor, and the countryside on our side is too far worse than the one near Shicheng," Zhou Guangyong turned his head to look at both sides of the road from time to time while driving the car.
As the car drove out of the city, the separation between the villages on the side of the road became larger and larger, and the houses became more and more dilapidated, from the big tiled houses near the county town to the current earthen walls with tiles, and now almost all of them are earthen wall houses, and the roofs are all wheat poles, and the more you go to the countryside, the more you feel poor.
The small hills that kept appearing around were as if they had been practiced by an unskilled shaver, and large patches of earthy yellow hung in sight, and the woods above these hills had long since been cut down, and even the roots of the trees had been dug out and made into cutting boards of different sizes for more or less money.
Occasionally, you can see one or two half-dug up hills, which were originally quarries, and the stone is not good here, and gradually no one cares about it, and only when people build new houses in the countryside will be used because of their preference, and the market is not good, it is gradually abandoned.
Lu Xiancheng didn't turn his head, and asked Zhou Guangyong: "Have you ever thought about it" Speaking of this, he stretched out his hand and pointed out the window: "From the beginning of the county, the endless grassland is dotted with small buildings dotted with stars, and then on the grassland is a group of cattle and sheep strolling comfortably. It feels like you're in the vast Inner Mongolia prairie! ”。
Zhou Guangyong listened and said: "I think you should take medicine, although we are biased here, but we still belong to the south of the Yangtze River, who will have nothing to do to plant grass on their own land, return the prairie, and return the herds of cattle and sheep, I advise you not to think nonsense."
"I'll be back as soon as I graduate!" Lu Xiancheng said: "Rent a piece of land here, plant grass, and trees, and then raise a group of horses or something, ride horses to drive cattle and sheep in the morning, and eat roast whole sheep with your friends on a bonfire at night, how happy you say you want to live this little day!" ”。
Zhou Guangyong listened to it and said: "I really don't know what I think about you, except for you, there is no one in my hometown who doesn't want to live in a big city, do you know how much a town hukou sells for now?" I'll tell you 10,000 yuan! That's it, there are still people who can do it. You will graduate from a good university and return to the countryside! ”。
"What's good in town!" Lu Xiancheng smiled and said a word, and then did not continue, but kept observing the surrounding terrain, and estimated in his heart which part of his ranch should be opened.
"Needless to say? Not to mention the medical conditions, school district resources, let's just talk about the simple life, you have the money to buy a famous brand, there is a specialty store on the street in a big city, here you can't find it if you break your leg! Besides, at night, the big city is full of colors, what about here? After nine o'clock there are hardly any good people to be seen, except for the little rascals hanging out outside......".
Listening to what Zhou Guangyong said was interesting, Lu Xiancheng couldn't help but smile, although what this kid said was a little exaggerated, but in fact it was almost the same. Except for the half-grown boy, most of the people in the small town were either watching TV at home or had already gone to bed and were ready to go to bed after nine o'clock.
"Everything can be changed" Lu Xiancheng is full of confidence, if it weren't for the fact that the money in his pocket is too shy now, he is ready to show his strength now.
The car drove for more than 40 minutes, and then came to the agreed town, that is, the location of the township government. It is said that the town is actually a small village where three or four hundred families gather together, but this small village has a main street, and only about ten meters on the main street about 20 meters wide are paved with stone roads, and the remaining five or six meters are now all occupied by all kinds of small stalls, except for those who sell New Year's goods. The whole road is full of all kinds of fragrances.
Zhou Guangyong drove very slowly in the car, crowding people in the crowd for more than ten kilometers in gear, and he had to honk the horn from time to time to drive away the crowd. It's not that Zhou Guangyong doesn't know how to be polite, but at this time of year, you probably won't be able to go out today.
"Fellow, where is the bamboo shop of Lao Liu's family going?" Lu Xiancheng rolled down the window and asked a man in his thirties next to him. This person knew at a glance that he was a public official, and the spirit on his body was obviously different from the people around him.
It looks like a big kid with a face, but this one doesn't despise it, a big kid who drives a car is not easy to provoke in the eyes of the little clerk in the countryside, and he stretched out his finger and pointed: "You guys are going the other way, walking back on the other side of the road, do you see the flagpole?" It was the township primary school, and their shop was a little further across the street from the township primary school."
"Thank you!" When Lu Xiancheng heard this, he said to Zhou Guangyong: "Turn around!" ”。
"Here?" Zhou Guangyong pointed to the crowd.
Lu Xiancheng said: "You are stupid! I won't fall back a little first, isn't there no one at the door of the township government just passed."
Under the guidance of Lu Xiancheng, he turned the car around and continued to move slowly in the correct direction, the town is like this, even at this speed, it didn't take long for the two of them to find a place.
The bamboo shop has reached the edge of the town, or the end of the gravel road, and is less than a hundred meters away from the road leading to the countryside.
The whole road suddenly became smaller, and there was no trace of flatness on the side of the road, potholes, and even the pedestrians walking on it were walking along the traces of their predecessors.
In the distance is a group of small hills, although they do not seem to be very high, but one after another is very rhythmic, although it is also bare, but it is still intact and has not been dug up by anyone.
"Boss Lu!"
Lu Xiancheng was looking up at the hill when he heard a loud voice. When I turned my head, yesterday's old gentleman walked over with a short but strong middle-aged man in his forties. It was this middle-aged man who spoke out.
"Hello! Boss Shi! Lu Xiancheng and Zhou Guangyong glanced at each other, and at the same time stepped forward to meet them.
The four of them said a few polite words, and started to talk about business directly at a table of eight immortals in the bamboo shop.
Things went very smoothly, Lao Lu's side is for his own use, so he is naturally more careful, and the old man's craftsmanship is also satisfactory, and Lu Xiancheng, who has so much money, will not mind too much.
The Shi family's father and son also want to take this list, although they want to leave home and go to Shicheng, but although they live in a small building that has not been installed, but in the eyes of the two of them, it is not enjoyable to go out to make money, even if it is to build a shed, everyone will not say much for the sake of money.
The business was finished in less than ten minutes, and it was agreed to start work in early March.
After the matter was discussed, the Shi family father and son sent Lu Xiancheng and Zhou Guangyong out.
Lu Xiancheng was about to get into the car, when he suddenly stopped and asked the Shi family father and son, "If we want to go and see the hill over there, how should we go?" ”。
As he spoke, Lu Xiancheng stretched out his hand and pointed to the small hill.