Chapter 119: The Journey to Fulou (1)
The night is deep, and the moon is in the sky.
Jiang Yang lay on the soft and warm big bed, looking at the translucent window pasted with newspaper in a daze.
The supply of fruit sources was cut off, and the cold drink factory ushered in an unprecedented crisis.
It is important to know that the amount of apples consumed per day by sparkling drinks is enormous.
Without a source of fruit, it is equivalent to cutting off the productivity of new products.
At present, when Tang people's sparkling drinks are thriving, although Lu Zhenghua's move is despicable, it hits Jiang Yang's vital point.
Overnight, the fruit farmers took the initiative to cut off cooperation with the cold drink factory, how did Lu Zhenghua do it?
Jiang Yang was puzzled.
I began to wonder that tomorrow I would first inquire at the fruit growers to find out where the reason for their repentance came from.
Next door, the laughter of Jiang Ergou's family came out.
The mother and daughter laughed very happily, mostly because the second dog came back.
Vaguely, Jiang Yang could hear Jiang Ergou showing off what he had seen in the city, as well as the yearning of the two twin sisters for the city.
In a daze, Jiang Yang entered the dream.
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The next day, the sky was just hazy.
The crowing of the rooster woke Jiang Yang from his sleep.
Subconsciously took out his mobile phone and looked at the time: half past five in the morning.
No wonder there has been no phone call or text message since yesterday afternoon, it turns out that there is no mobile phone signal here at all.
Jiang Yang's room has no door, only a door frame.
You can see the hall from here.
Jiang Ying and Jiang Ling each carried half a steamed bun in their mouths, and went out with a crossbody bag on their backs.
Jiang Yang got out of bed and found that he was the only one left in the family.
I guess I went to work in the fields.
Jiang Yang, who has no experience in rural life, really can't think of any other farm work to do this season.
I suddenly remembered that today was Saturday, the day of Chen Lan's school performance.
She made a point of telling herself about it the other day.
Jiang Yang didn't bother to brush his teeth and wash his face, so he took his mobile phone and began to look for signals all over the yard.
From the kitchen to the pigsty, and from the chicken coop to the door of the yard.
The antenna in the black and white screen of the mobile phone does not have a single signal.
The hard work paid off, and finally when I walked under the big locust tree in the yard, the mobile phone showed a signal.
Jiang Yang dialed Chen Lan's phone as soon as possible.
An intermittent "beep" sounded, but no one answered.
Maybe it's too early and you haven't gotten up yet, right?
Just as Jiang Yang was about to send a text message, Chen Lan's call came back.
Press to answer, and a familiar and gentle voice sounds.
"I was washing up just now, but I didn't hear it."
Jiang Yang said with some guilt: "I went to the countryside to deal with some urgent matters temporarily, I'm afraid I can't accompany you to the performance today." ”
"It's okay, career is the priority, you are busy with yours first."
Chen Lan's voice was as gentle as ever, like a breeze.
Although it was plain, Jiang Yang could feel a trace of loss from it.
"When I'm done with these few days, I'll come to you."
Jiang Yang said.
On the other end of the phone, Chen Lan sat in front of the dresser, holding PHS in her right hand.
I only heard one waiting for me, and after that, I couldn't hear anything intermittently.
"Hello?"
"Hello?"
"Doodoo ......"
Looking at the busy sound in PHS, Chen Lan pouted.
What, I hung up before I finished speaking.
Jiang Yang stood under the big locust tree, stared at the phone helplessly, and said, "Move, move, I can understand why you have such a name." Moving together is to let me look for signals all over the world? ”
Just when Jiang Yang was trying to change the location again, Chen Suzhen and Jiang Ergou came back with a cart.
"Big brother, what are you doing?"
Jiang Ergou looked at Jiang Yang, who was running around with his mobile phone, and asked suspiciously.
Jiang Yang embarrassedly put the phone back from mid-air: "Look for a signal." ”
Jiang Ergou smiled: "Don't look for it, except for the east of the village, we don't have any signal at all." ”
With that, he pushed the cart to the pigsty, dragged a bundle of weed-like plants out of it and threw it in.
"Okay."
Jiang Yang shrugged his shoulders and looked at the "no signal" that had resumed again in his mobile phone and said helplessly.
Chen Suzhen said while washing her hands: "I'm hungry, I'll cook." ”
After that, he went into the kitchen and began to live and cook.
Jiang Ergou walked up to Jiang Yang and said, "Big brother, what are we doing today?" ”
Jiang Yang thought for a while and said, "Go and inquire about who doesn't let the fruit farmers sell fruits to us." ”
Jiang Ergou nodded after hearing this: "Understood." ”
Chen Suzhen's movements were very quick, and she cooked in less than half an hour.
Corn and sweet potatoes boiled a pot of porridge, last night's chicken pot cake steamed buns again, scooped half a bowl of pickled watermelon beans from a pickle jar, cut some green onions, put them in and stirred, and dripped some sesame oil into it.
At six o'clock in the morning, a faint red rose in the distant sky.
The sun finally showed its head, and the white of the fish belly flooded the sky.
The three of them sat in the courtyard drinking porridge and eating leftovers.
Birds chirp, and the air was slightly bright and refreshing.
Jiang Yang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this kind of breakfast is really special, even more pleasant than the breakfast in those super-star hotels.
It's all coarse tea and light rice, but it makes him have an endless aftertaste.
When the meal was finished, the masons came.
Chen Suzhen asked him to make up for the window again, and the kitchen chimney was also rotten, and it was repaired by the way.
The mason looked at it and asked for twenty dollars to repair it.
Chen Suzhen was too expensive and offered to give a maximum of fifteen yuan.
When the mason heard this, he turned around and left.
Jiang Yang wanted to speak, but was stopped by Chen Suzhen.
The mason walked to the door, and then reluctantly turned back: "Fifteen is fifteen." ”
Chen Suzhen smiled and said, "There is also a bed with a broken leg inside, so I bother you to nail it." ”
The mason sighed and said, "Su Zhen, people say that you will live, but I have seen it today." Fifteen yuan for you to repair windows and chimneys, not to mention the construction of materials, you have to build two foreign nails? ”
Chen Suzhen smiled and took out an embroidered purse from her pocket, and carefully took out a crumpled banknote from it.
Ten dollars a piece, five dollars a piece.
Then he handed it over and said, "A few foreign nails and mud, you can earn more than a dozen yuan in half an hour, what do you want?" ”
The mason took the money, his eyes swept around Chen Suzhen's buttocks, and then put the money in his pocket: "You really know how to settle accounts, okay, go to work." ”
With that, he picked up the toolbox and walked towards the hall.
Chen Suzhen stripped her hair and began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks on the table.
"Let's go, let's go around the village."
Jiang Yang glanced at the mason, got up and said.
Jiang Ergou nodded, touched his mouth and stood up.
"Mom, I'll accompany my eldest brother to the village for a walk!"
"Got it."
In the kitchen, Chen Suzhen responded while busy.
Out of the courtyard gate, I could vaguely see many villagers pushing carts on the road.
Upon inquiry, I found out that most of them went to the fields to cut grass.
There were also groups of people who gathered together and played poker early in the morning.
The shouting was loud, and there were one or two cents of loose money scattered on the table.
"Ergou, I haven't seen you for a while, I heard that I went to work in the city?"
A shirtless man saw Jiang Ergou shouting, causing everyone around him to look over to this side.
In contrast, Jiang Yang's denim suit looks very eye-catching.
Many people looked at this outsider curiously.
Jiang Ergou said: "Beat your dou landlord, there are a lot of." ”
The shirtless man laughed disapprovingly and continued to play cards.
Jiang Ergou turned his head and said: "These are all second-rate sons in our village, who let their daughters-in-law work in the fields every day, and they are nothing but playing cards or drinking." ”
After hearing this, Jiang Yang looked at the men not far away, and felt some emotion in his heart.
It was also the good times that saved them.
If it were put in 20 years, it would be a miracle that a guy like this could marry a wife.