Yang Liufang, who hadn't eaten hot rice for three days, squatted on the ground like many people, first put the bowl on the ground for fear of being hot and picked it up, and then felt that it was not enjoyable, so he held a big bowl in one hand while eating noodles and drinking soup. And seeing that many people are still eating raw garlic while eating noodles, it is a bit of a novelty, so I went to the store and took two cloves of raw garlic and tried it, and it was really extraordinary. In the end, a bowl of delicious beef noodles was eaten, and there was no soup base left, and the sweaty willow side was dripping freely. This is the first time you can eat authentic beef noodles.

After eating beef noodles, Yang Liufang returned to the square in front of the railway station, where he wanted to wait for Li Tongfu, he needed this job, and it was also a kind of reward and gratitude to Brother Afu for buying a ticket for himself and teaching him to do business.

Li Tongfu, who couldn't board the car because of the crowding, was also very anxious, and when the car was crowded in chaos, Li Tongfu lay directly on the goods, covered his head with both hands, and left his back to the crowded people. When the crowding was over, like a village after the flood, it was a mess, he couldn't help but get up, looking at the complete two large bags of goods, a little lucky, but also a little panicked, I thought that I had found a like-minded fellow brother like Yang Liufang to help, and he could do a big job, but now he can only face it alone. With two heavy travel bags, one person couldn't carry them at a time, so he could only take the ticket and ask the staff who had just checked the ticket for help, and tell him that his brother was still in the car. The staff looked at the embarrassed Li Tongfu, promised to help him look at the goods, and helped him check the workbook, and came up with the idea that he would take the train to Zhengzhou that day to catch up, because the stops were different, and it was possible to catch up.

Li Tongfu listened to the advice of the staff, and moved the goods into the station in batches, boarded the train to Zhengzhou, on the car, Yang Tongfu went south and north to do business, did not speak three points of laughter advantage, it was reflected, he used the "missed train lost my brother" complaints and his own business experience, quickly and the surrounding passengers got acquainted, passengers up and down, Li Tongfu tirelessly said, when he arrived in Zhengzhou, he actually sold three pairs of shoes, and used one of the shoes to give customers a discount of one yuan, Ask him to help him move the goods in exchange for getting out of the car. In the 80s, the purchasing power of one yuan was still super strong, and the guests readily agreed. When he got off the train and went to change to the train to Xizhou, although he lost the weight of three pairs of shoes, the two bags were still very heavy, so Li Tongfu decided to sell some of them in Zhengzhou and set off when he could lift them.

Yang Liufang, who was anxiously waiting in the Xizhou Station Square, did not know the reason, the first day two bowls of beef noodles cost half of his money, and at night, like most people in the square, he mixed into the station and found a place to lie down in the hall. The next day, Yang Liufang, who only had two yuan left, stayed up until noon, went to the bathroom at the station to wash his face, and then went to the place where he ate noodles yesterday and asked for a bowl of beef noodles. It's just that his stomach was already rumbling when he slept until midnight, and Yang Liufang could only get up and go to the bathroom at the station to fill his stomach with water to survive until dawn.

Turn on the faucet in the bathroom to wash your hands, hold the water with both hands and drink it full, and then wash your face again, look left and right at the sink, under the dim light, I don't know whose towel fell on it, Liu Fang took it and wiped his hands, he didn't wipe it, he wiped his hands and it was black, Liu Fang was half embarrassed and half happy, fortunately he didn't use it to wipe his face, picked it up and smelled it, a fishy shoe polish smell, and the same smell as the packaging leather shoes sold by Brother Afu when opened, it turned out to be a shoe shine cloth. Liu Fang threw it to the ground. Carefully scrubbing his hands under the faucet, it seemed to be useless, so he could only wipe his hands on his shorts and come out to find an empty space to continue sleeping.

After drinking too much water and being hungry, I couldn't fall asleep over and over, and I finally felt like I wanted to go to the toilet as soon as I wanted to fall asleep. Liu Fang could only run in again, and after solving the problem, he came out to wash his hands, and when he saw that the cloth was still there, Liu Fang thought, since he was waiting here, it was better to take this shoe-shine cloth, and I would go to the square to shine shoes at dawn. Yang Liufang remembered that his master had told him after tea and dinner that the south boss of Yongtai Electric Appliance Factory, who used his own wooden box to transport electrical appliances, originally went back and forth to the streets and alleys to shine shoes. In the process of shining shoes, Boss Nan learned a lot of business experience, discovered the business opportunities of low-voltage electrical appliances, and then opened the Yongtai Electric Appliance Factory. Thinking of this, Yang Liufang couldn't help but feel a little proud.

Shoe shine is a kind of instinct of Wenzhou people to go out to make a living, perhaps in the eyes of outsiders this is a lowly industry, so that a few decades later, Xizhou TV station filmed a propaganda film, interviewed the local old people in Xizhou near the train station, they said disdainfully to the camera: "In the early years, most of the people in Zhejiang were shoe shiners in Xizhou, and now many have become bosses." But in the hearts of Zhejiang people, including Yang Liufang, who go out to make a living, they don't think so, relying on their own labor in exchange for survival capital, which is worthy of pride and pride, which is also the core of the "shoeshine" spirit summed up after the development and growth of Zhejiang businessmen.

Early in the morning, Yang Liufang walked out of the station and went to the noodle restaurant where he ate noodles yesterday to eat a bowl of beef noodles, but he didn't expect that there were more people squatting at the door, and there were more people in line than yesterday, and people joined one after another. Later, Yang Liufang, who lived in Xizhou, learned that beef noodles were the breakfast of the locals. Yang Liufang asked for a big bowl this time. I also lamely learned from the locals to say: "The boss has a big bowl, more soup, more radish, more garlic sprouts, and more spicy seeds." Liu Fang obviously felt that the master below was busy, and looked up at him with a slight smile.

Liu Fang squatted on the ground and ate a large bowl full of beef noodles, but he didn't dare to eat raw garlic, although he wanted to eat it, but he gave up at the thought of going to the square for a while to shine shoes and smoke the guests. Even after drinking the soup, I felt that my stomach was round. I grabbed a few pieces of raw-edged paper from the store, wrapped the shoeshine cloth I had picked up, and walked towards the train station square.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, although he is not afraid of hardships and can put down his body, but Yang Liufang has just started carpentry, and his shoeshine is really a rolling pin blowing fire - he doesn't know anything. The square of the train station was still bustling with people, and Liu Fang walked around the crowd to a master who was shining the shoes of a customer, trying to steal from the master's skillful skills.

The shoe-shiner sits on a low horse with his legs together and a white cloth at his feet, on which are toothpaste, toothbrushes, needles and threads. Guests sitting on high stools put a foot in leather shoes on the master's lap and enjoy the master's service while reading the newspaper.