Yang Liufang will wake up naturally at 5:30 in the morning because of his biological clock, and the stone village chief has formed a habit of working with him here these days, so the two of them get up early in the morning and continue to work. Li Tongfu slept for a while, got up early to cook, and waited until Li Tongfu made breakfast at 7:00, and the four of them finished eating. After the meal, Yang Liufang re-boiled the hot water to wash his whole body, changed into another set of clean work clothes, put on the military coat and big-toed shoes that Zhang Feng bought, and after changing into new clothes, he took a picture of the water in the basin, except that his hair was very long because he had not been cut for two months, he was simply too handsome.

When the basin was used as a mirror, Yang Liufang thought that the mirror to be inlaid on the dresser should also be bought, and this time he went to the city to buy it back. Li Tongfu was also dressed in the same attire, and after he stopped dressing, he went to check the goods again to see what was missing, and took advantage of this time to enter the city to make up for it together. The two brothers saw that nothing was missing, and then went to the village under the leadership of Wang Shan. After listening to this, the village chief arranged for someone to immediately contact the tractor, and after a while, the tractor went directly to the entrance of the village department, and the two took the tractor and went straight to Xizhou.

Carefully calculated that since entering the city on October 26, Yang Liufang has not entered the city for almost a month because he is busy with furniture making work, and the river beach road in Zhaomagou is full of winter atmosphere. The tractor moved forward abruptly, and the two of them unconsciously stood up the fur collar of the general's coat in the carriage, and craned their necks to avoid the wind, and the exhaled water vapor soon formed a damp patch where it touched the cheeks. Occasionally, a few willow trees were bare on the side of the road, and the wind shook the branches with a whining sound. Because walking along the river, there was occasionally white frost on the dry grass, and Yang Liufang wrapped his coat tightly.

As we approached the outskirts of Xizhou, there were more and more vehicles and pedestrians, and occasionally buses joined in, and in the distance, you could see a large chimney similar to a factory in my hometown, rising high and emitting thick white smoke. Later, Yang Liufang learned that this was the heating company that began to send warmth to thousands of households living in the city.

This time they planned to go to the wholesale market first, Yang Liufang let him get off the train four stops in advance as usual, what did Li Tongfu want to say, Yang Liufang patted him on the shoulder, and he instantly understood that businessmen can always have a heart at a critical moment. After the driver left, the two changed to the bus, and after the bus arrived at the station, they did not go to the wholesale market first, Yang Liufang took Li Tongfu to the railway station square.

Only the pagoda-like pine trees on the side of the square are still green, and the weeping willow branches that once shaded the willows are all bare and dancing in the wind, and occasionally the face hurts. When I got to the willow tree where I had polished my shoes, the bricks were still there.

"Brother, I'm waiting for you here to shine my shoes."

"Oh, I was still in Zhengzhou at that time, and I was worried all day that you wouldn't be able to hold it and would be hungry. Hahaha..... Now it seems that I am overthinking. ”

They walked to the square again, and the patrolling policemen were still there, but they didn't see Officer Chen, or maybe they had all changed their clothes, and no one recognized anyone. Yang Liufang took Li Tongfu to the exit of the station to see the fellow who repaired shoes and shined shoes, and found that he had already changed to other vendors.

The two walked east along the wall of the station, crossed the sidewalk, and came to a row of bottom merchants, Yang Liufang took Brother A Fu straight to the shop where he often ate beef noodles, and still lined up. He asked Brother Afu and himself for a cow each, and it was a meat and egg double fly. Seeing Yang Liufang skillfully pouting with a Xizhou accent, Li Tongfu sincerely admired it in his heart, he didn't expect his brother to be so casual, and quickly integrated into the local area.

The two took off their coats and ate a large bowl of beef noodles with meat and eggs, and there were fine beads of sweat on their foreheads. I went to the barber shop next door and cut my hair before walking to the market, because it was colder and there were obviously fewer pedestrians on the street. When they arrived at the market, Boss Zhou and Boss Chen saw Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu, the two little "God of Wealth", coming, and invited them in for tea.

"It's not time for the next batch of goods yet, what's the matter, there's something going on in the city?"

"Well, my brother, buy some goods, I'll come and buy a machine that can spray paint."

"Oh, we don't allow machines to be sold here, I guess you have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative."

"Yes, we also came to ask you two first, where is it. By the way, make up for some goods that need to be bought here. ”

"Let's go to the place where the supply and marketing cooperatives sell industrial products." Lao Zhou also agreed.

"Brother, what do you need, let the two bosses prepare the goods for us." Li Tongfu put forward the goods he needed according to his own list, and the two bosses wrote them down and went separately to prepare. And divided into two large bags, the shrewd Li Tongfu asked for 100 pairs of cotton socks in one size, and wanted to try to sell them.

Boss Zhou and Boss Chen divided the goods into two snakeskin bags, and sent them to the station with a yellow croaker car, where they took the bus to Yantan, and then transferred to No. 31 to reach the Chengbei Supply and Marketing Cooperative. After getting off the bus, I went to the industrial products store department of the supply and marketing cooperative, and asked one counter after another, but no one understood what they needed. Li Tongfu simply took Yang Liufang to the hardware store to find Yanhua, she happened to be on duty, once she was born and twice ripe, she was also very happy to see Yang Liufang.

Yang Liufang described the equipment he needed, Yanhua took them directly into the office of the director of the industrial products store department of the supply and marketing cooperative, and the director didn't understand too much after listening, but he knew that the air pump and various types of snakeskin tubes were available, and the snakeskin pipes had to go to the building materials store to buy, the watering can spray gun or something but I didn't know where to sell it, and there were watering cans for watering flowers and cleaning glass. And gave them the counter number of the gas pump sold, and asked Yanhua to take them to buy.

After listening to this, Yang Liufang thought of the pump, is the so-called spray gun like a clamp at the end of the pump and the trachea? Since you have bought these yourself, can you buy a pump and a watering can for watering flowers? Forget it, at this point, you can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor. You can't go to Haining again for this air pump and spray gun.

When they arrived at the counter designated by the director of the sales department, they saw air pumps, both electric and human, because there was no electricity in the village, and they couldn't count on the electric ones. I bought a manpower one, and the manpower air pump is much cheaper than the electric one. This manpower air pump is like a large pump, a large trapezoidal metal frame, the middle of the shelf is a gas tank, one end of the gas tank is connected to a pressure gauge with an air valve, and the other end is a support rod. After learning how to use it and paying the money, the two carried the air pump and followed Yanhua to the building materials store to buy a gas pipe.

Yanhua took them to the building materials store and found the counter selling pipes, and only through the introduction of the salesperson did they know that the so-called snakeskin pipe is a nylon thread added to the plastic hose, so that it can withstand more pressure. There are various types of tubes, and Yang Liufang chose a trachea with a smaller diameter than the air pump nozzle and bought 20 meters, so that it can be pulled farther when spraying. The salesman saw that his colleague Yanhua brought it over, and cut them an extra meter. According to his own thoughts, Yang Liufang bought two watering cans for watering flowers and cleaning glass in the building materials store, and a pump, and cut two glass mirrors by the way.

In the end, I went to Yanhua's counter and bought the clips needed to fix the trachea. After all the things were ready, Yang Liufang asked Li Tongfu to watch and went to the Yellow River labor market to hire a car. When he arrived at the labor market, he spent 15 yuan to choose a walk-behind tractor, although he is no longer the shoe-shiner he was when he first came to Xizhou, but he knows that it is not easy to make money, so he is still very frugal.

With the help of the driver, the two loaded all the purchased goods, said goodbye to Yanhua, and set off on a tractor. In order to save fuel money, the tractor master took a shortcut to Yantan, crossed the oil field, and then took the three-way intersection where Yangliu Fang often got off, so that all the way down, it was nearly 10 miles more than 10 miles than the road of Zhaomagou River Beach, but the road was not very easy to walk, and the bumps were uncomfortable. When crossing Yantan, Yang Liufang wanted to go down to see the vegetable farmer's uncle, but he saw that there was no one in the large vegetable field, and the weather was cold, so he didn't want to move, so he didn't go down.

Along the way, Yang Liufang told Li Tongfu about his embarrassment on this road, and his experience of almost fainting from hunger at the three-way intersection. Yang Liufang sat in the bumpy carriage wrapped in a military coat, recalling the painful scenes of the past few months, and he found that all the past was prologue. If you don't have the hardships of the past, how can you be where you are today?