"The county can't afford to sell the price, anyway, since you plan to sell it, then go directly to the provincial capital to sell it, where to sell it in the province, trouble, by the way, uncle, how can you contact this friend?"

"I'm busy at this moment, I can't leave, you go to the innermost part of the bus station, there are a few transport trucks parked there, and the last two digits of the license plate number are 16, you go and ask, your name is Xie Qing, you just say that you are my niece." Song Shunli remembered the license plate number because when the car was brought back, Xie Qing also invited a few of them to have a meal together and visited the new car.

"Okay, uncle, then I'll go over first, and then school will start, and I'll come to see you again."

"Okay, you go, I'm done, I'll go to Xie Qing to explain again, I must give a preferential price." Song Shunli's voice fell, and two more customers walked into the snack shop, and he turned around and went to busy.

Mu Xiu rode his bicycle and soon came to the bus station, and sure enough, when he reached the innermost, he saw four transport trucks parked there.

In those days, the people who could drive the transport truck were people with great skills, and the truck drivers traveled from south to north, were well-informed, well-paid, and had rich families. ”

Before the reform and opening up, only large enterprises would have a transportation department, and it was difficult for the children of ordinary people to enter the transportation department, and only people with family connections could come in, so truck drivers were naturally a superior profession.

In the past, there was very little population movement, and the basic rural population had to stay in the fields and grow crops all their lives, while the urban population stayed in the factories all their lives, and the vast majority of people were confined to a specific living environment all their lives, and rarely had the opportunity to see the outside world.

In the imagination of people who are confined to a small living space, train drivers and truck drivers have become an interesting profession that can travel from south to north and see different customs and habits in different places.

After the reform and opening up, there are gradually some people with good family conditions and vision, who simply bought a truck as a driver to run transportation to make money, Xie Qing is like this, he relied on the funding of his 5 sisters and his parents, bought a truck and attached it to a transportation company, and followed it when he had a job, and took on private work when he didn't work.

Xie Qing ran transportation for more than half a year, and earned back more than half of the capital to buy a truck......

It can be regarded as Mu Xiu's luck, Xie Qing just finished a long-distance transportation and rested for two days, and when he just started work today, Mu Xiu came here.

Mu Xiu came to the transport truck with a license plate ending in 16, and saw a person sitting in the cab, she walked over and knocked on the door, and soon, the window rolled down.

"You're Uncle Xie Qing." Mu Xiu raised his head and looked at the middle-aged man with his feet on the steering wheel and a cigarette in his mouth.

"I'm Xie Qing, are you?" Xie Qing saw that a little girl could call his name accurately, and there was a vigilant look on his face.

"Hello Uncle Xie, I am Song Shunli's niece, and he introduced me to you." Mu Xiu explained.

"It turned out to be Shunli's niece, what's wrong? What's the matter? As soon as Xie Qing heard that it was Song Shunli's relative, he quickly pinched his cigarette, moved his leg off the steering wheel, put on his shoes and opened the car door and walked out.

At this time, Xie Qing looked at Mu Xiu, and his voice was much more enthusiastic than just now.

"That's like this, Uncle Xie, I want to take the watermelons that my family planted this year to the provincial capital to sell, I don't know if Uncle Xie's transport truck can go over?"

"Yes, I can go, I only came back from other provinces a few days ago, and in the whole of China, as long as there is a highway, there is no place I can't go." Xie Qing patted his chest proudly and said.

However, after Xie Qing finished speaking, he suddenly reacted to what Mu Xiu had just said, he glanced at Mu Xiu, and said hesitantly: "This trip to the provincial capital, the cost is not cheap, watermelon is so cheap, this trip, I'm afraid I can't take care of the capital." ”

"Uncle Xie, since we dare to go, we must not be afraid of losses, so you can rest assured." Mu Xiu raised his head and said confidently.

"Haha, you little girl is quite tasteful! Okay, since you're not afraid, I'm not afraid. Xie Qing was amused by Mu Xiu.

"Since we can go to the provincial capital, when can we leave Uncle Xie? How much does it cost to make a trip?"

"You can leave at any time, I'm an iron buddy with Shunli, I won't tell you anything, this trip to the provincial capital, four hundred yuan, you can think about it." The price Xie Qing gave was fair.

As soon as Mu Xiu heard it, he knew that Xie Qing had really quoted the lowest price, and even if he made it, he only made a small amount of hard-earned money.

"Okay, four hundred yuan, if there is something in the middle that needs to delay your time, how about giving an extra twenty yuan a day?" Mu Xiu thought that even if he arrived in the provincial capital, there would be no place to put this watermelon, and he might still need to use Xie Qing's truck to pull and sell it, so he negotiated with Xie Qing first.

"Okay." Xie Qing naturally nodded in agreement.

The reason why Mu Xiu is looking for a familiar driver is not for the price to be low, but mainly for safety, because when Mu Xiu was in high school in her previous life, there was a classmate in the class who ran long-distance transportation at home, and she once told her classmates many dangers of long-distance transportation from her father.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were all kinds of things that made money and bad things on the highways, not to mention the seventies and eighties, when there was a shortage of materials, and many of the villages through which the highway passed were poor and remote.

As a result, some truck drivers collude with local residents who often pass by, asking for tolls all over the sky, and unloading the owner's goods if they don't give them, or they must eat and live in designated places, and the price of food and accommodation is dozens of times higher than that outside.

Or it is to delay time, pretend that the truck is broken and needs to be repaired, so that the owner of the cargo who follows will live here for a few more days, and the general owner will consider himself unlucky in order to be in a hurry, and ask for peace with a little more money.

This kind of is quite good, but it just asks for money, and some of the more daring villagers, seeing that they are interested in making money, murder the owners of the goods who come and go, and finally become a headless public case, which makes people panic.

This time, Mu Xiu's family went to the provincial capital, and they were basically women, children and the elderly, and they wanted to be safe when they went out.

"Uncle Xie, can I take a look at the car?" Mu Xiutou looked at the cargo box behind him.

"Absolutely! Come, come up. Xie Qing beckoned to Mu Xiu and beckoned Mu Xiu to get into the truck.

This is a Jiefang brand small truck, the rated load is about 10 tons, the cockpit is relatively high, Mu Xiu's height, pulling the handle to barely go up, and when he entered the cab, Mu Xiu glanced back.

The seats in the back row are very spacious, and it is not a problem to lie down and sleep with two adults, Zhou Shuilian and Li Hu are not going, so Mu Shui and Chen Jianqiang do not have to sit in the cargo compartment at the back, they can sit in the back of the cockpit together.