Chapter 34: The City and the Country

After a few rains, the summer heat disappeared without a trace, and even the air had a moist smell, Liu Junhao has been nested in the house for the past few days and is quite depressed. On the contrary, Professor Zhao is more accustomed to such weather, and has a leisurely life, sometimes taking advantage of the gap when the rain stops to pick up half a bowl of chrysanthemum chrysanthemum and chrysanthemum lotus in the backyard and fry it, and then go to the tree to break fungus.

These two things grow very fast on rainy days, especially the fungus, which grows everywhere on the hairy wolf tree in the yard that has been dead for a year or two.

Then again, Professor Zhao's cooking skills are growing day by day, and he has no serious business to do when he retires, except for some research recently, he has spent the rest of his time eating, and he specially asked Wang Shengli to bring him a few recipes, and he is now half a chef.

On the fourth day, the weather completely cleared, and the hot sun reappeared in the sky to show off its might, and at this moment Liu Junhao had already arrived at the county joint venture station with Er Mazi, and many drivers who were numb looked at their big bags and thought they had just gotten off the train, and they stepped forward to solicit business.

They took Dr. Wang's private car to the county seat early in the morning, and at the beginning the dirt road on the mountain was particularly difficult to walk, and the bumps and bumps almost made Liu Junhao, who had been pampered recently, fall apart. But fortunately, this state only lasted for half an hour before we reached the newly built highway, and the car was speeding up in smoke.

The eyes of him and Er Mazi both revealed joy, after the road was repaired, it would take an hour and a half from Daqingshan to the county seat, and it used to take nearly two hours just to travel that section of the mountain road.

Compared with Daqingshan, the county is simply a heaven and an underground, bustling everywhere, indescribably prosperous, Er Mazi was praised again and again at first, but after eating a lot of car exhaust, he coughed again and again and said: "Or we have good air there, I am afraid that living in this kind of place will be short-lived." ”

Now there are luxury buses leading to major cities in the province every day in the county, and after the two bought tickets, they sat on the bus early when they waited for the departure time, because they did not sit in front of them because they had money, but both sat in the last row of the car.

Originally, Liu Junhao persuaded him to deposit the money on the card and withdraw it at the place, which was much safer, but after Er Mazi asked him clearly, he didn't agree to take it with him, so Liu Junhao had no choice but to follow his wishes. However, when he sat in the car, he deliberately sat on the side of the window.

When the seats on the car were less than halfway sitting, the driver had already started the car, and someone stopped the car from getting on the train less than 50 meters out of the station, and the conductor actually charged ten yuan less, which made many people who got on the bus first began to cry out dissatisfied.

"What's it called, who told you to take the train in the station, that's to pay the invoice, of course it's expensive" The conductor explained nonchalantly, which made Er Mazi feel distressed, saying that he knew that he was also taking the train outside the station.

Along the way, I met a lot of people who stopped the car halfway, and the collection was cheaper than in the station, and Er Mazi muttered for a long time.

Although the car is air-conditioned, it is still a little hot, and the windows are closed and the air circulation is not smooth, most of the passengers in the car will be drowsy after a while, and Liu Junhao can't help but plant his head in the seat after holding on for a while.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly the conductor shouted: "I'm up from sleep, there are often thieves in front of me, everyone be careful." ”

When Er Mazi heard this, he immediately touched his pocket a little nervously, and felt a little relieved to find that the money was still there.

Seeing that some people were still sleeping on their seats, the conductor woke them up one by one, asking them to lift their spirits and not doze off on this journey, and from this point Liu Junhao found that this sturdy conductor was still very good.

Sure enough, after a while, many people stopped the car, and the driver reluctantly stopped the car, and this time seven or eight people came up to Huhula, and the carriage was full at once, and there were three or four people who didn't even have seats.

With the reminder of the conductor just now, the passengers on the bus were very alarmed, no one slept anymore, and after about half an hour, there were four people on the bus just now, and the conductor breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It's okay now, everyone touches their pockets to see if the money is lost?" ”

After half a minute of no answer, he explained: "That place just now is the waiting point, there are often thieves waiting there for the bus, because there are other people who take the bus, we can't help but pull, I hope you forgive me" This explanation made most of the passengers' opinions about them change a lot, and no one cared about the extra ten yuan at the station. After all, it's not easy to do anything these days, and drivers are also trying to earn a little more money.

At more than two o'clock in the afternoon, the bus finally drove into the station, although it had seen the prosperity of the county, but Er Mazi was deeply shocked again. Liu Junhao is a little better, he went to the county seat a few times when he was in school. Er Mazi is different, don't look at him in the village is more shrewd, but the farthest place in this life is to dig saplings in other towns and towns for a few days, this kind of busy scene makes him like Grandma Liu who has entered the Grand View Garden, and he can't stop sighing.

"Xiao Hao, do you know where the south is, isn't it in this direction?" Ermazi stood outside the station, pointing in the direction of the east and asked loudly, which immediately caused a few people waiting for the taxi to look sideways.

"Uncle Guangxi, this is Dong." Liu Junhao hurriedly pulled him away.

In fact, many rural people will be confused when they first go to the city, and their sense of direction will become very poor. This is mainly due to the fact that the general buildings in the countryside are built according to the pattern of sitting north and facing south, while in the city it is different, coupled with the obstruction of high-rise buildings, it is difficult to see the sun, so it is easy for people who are not familiar with it to get lost.

Different from Er Mazi's behavior of entering the Grand View Garden, he felt an indescribable tension and depression, the crowded vehicles on the road kept making screeching noises, and all the people here were in a hurry, with no smile on their faces at all, but they looked indifferent.

No wonder people in the city keep running to Liujiagou, and Professor Zhao even wants to retire there.

The environment of Daqingshan is beautiful, and the life of the countrymen is leisurely, working in the fields during the day, and chatting with a large group of people at night, not making hearty laughter, this kind of life you can't find in the city at all. There were no deafening frogs or flashing fireflies in the city.

For a while, Liu Junhao actually missed those things at home, I don't know if Xiaopi will be uncomfortable when he leaves him for a few days, and those half-sized rabbits don't eat dew grass and then diarrhea......

They didn't go far, they just found a small restaurant not far outside the station and had a meal, Liu Junhao was hungry for most of the day, and soon ate a big bowl of noodles, after eating, he asked Er Mazi to wait there, and went to the newsstand to buy a map.

The business of the newsstand was quite prosperous, he waited a few minutes to buy a map for five yuan, but when he walked back, he saw a few people talking about something around Er Mazi on the side of the road, and another person wanted to pull him away.

What's going on again? Liu Junhao was startled, hurriedly rushed up and grabbed Er Mazi and asked, "Uncle Guangxi, what's wrong?" ”

"Who are you, with him?" Several people looked at Liu Junhao vigilantly.

"He's my uncle, what are you pulling him for, let him go quickly"

"That's right, little brother," explained the man in black, "I just lost my wallet, and your uncle and this gentleman picked ......it up."

I didn't expect so many things to happen in the blink of an eye, it turned out that after Er Mazi finished eating and settled the bill, there were a lot of people dining, so he was embarrassed to stay in someone's restaurant anymore, so he left the hotel with a big bag. Who knew that he hadn't walked a few steps before he saw the man in black drop a wallet, and just as he was about to open his mouth to call, the wallet was picked up by a man with glasses, and the man in black left in a taxi.

After the man picked up the money, he walked straight to Er Mazi to divide it with him, and inadvertently opened his wallet, revealing a stack of 100 yuan bills inside.

Although Er Mazi was a little moved, he also knew that such ill-gotten gains could not be taken, and this thing was hot. So he sternly refused, saying that the money should be returned to the owner, but the man with glasses said that he did not agree to anything, and when the two were arguing, the owner took a taxi back, and saw the leather bag in the hand of the glasses at a glance, and asked him for it.

The man with glasses had to return the purse, but after checking the cash in the bag, the man in black said that there was a shortage of 3,000 yuan and a bank card, which must have been taken by one of the two of them, so he clamored not to let them go, to determine who really took his money, and said that he would go to the bank, and at this time, a helper on the side of the road also said that they should go to the bank to prove their innocence.

Although it was the first time for Liu Junhao to encounter such a thing, he also heard the strangeness here, he thought about it and said: "It's too troublesome to go to the bank, let's go to the station police station, it's less than five hundred meters ahead, let's go now, wouldn't it be better to let the police search you......" As he spoke, he was about to pull the man with glasses and go to the police station.

Several people were stunned for a while, and the man in black suddenly patted his head and said: "I remember, the bank card and three thousand money were put in another wallet, I took the wrong bag when I went out, I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry......"

And the man with glasses also broke free from Liu Junhao's pull, and said: "Since it's okay, then you don't have to go to the police station, I still have something to do, let's go first" Then the man in black also left in a hurry, and several onlookers also dispersed, but there was a fifty or sixty-year-old man patted Liu Junhao's shoulder and said: "You young man is excited, otherwise you will definitely be deceived by these people again, hey, this group of people is simply the stinky shit of the city, specializing in deceiving outsiders." ”