Chapter 5: Building Railroads
"Second brother, you're back." Gao Mingwan was talking, obviously a little afraid that Gao Mingcheng would be angry.
Gao Mingcheng glanced at Gao Mingwan's hand hidden behind him, and his face was gloomy.
It's just that before he could speak, the eldest brother Gao Mingpeng had already spoken: "Just take your book and read it for a while, and you can't read it badly!" ”
The third and fourth brothers also nodded violently in agreement.
But Gao Mingcheng's face was still gloomy, he had just been reborn for a day, and the things of his previous life were already a little distant to him.
He probably knew that when he was young, he was a big man, he didn't care much about many things, he was righteous and angry, and he often suffered some small losses.
But now his vision and pattern are different, and he finds that some losses can be eaten, but some losses cannot be eaten.
For example, this book, the book is not a very valuable thing, as long as you take care of it, it will not be damaged, but when he was young, he was indeed very precious to this book, and every time he turned it, he would smooth the pages and put it in the innermost part of the cabinet.
Now the third and fourth brothers have taken out the book without his consent, and if they sincerely apologize, the matter will be over, but this is obviously not the case.
The third brother's first reaction was to hide the book, and the eldest brother relied on the identity of the eldest brother to teach him a lesson before he could speak.
It was a long time, and Gao Mingcheng recalled it for a few seconds before he remembered the situation of this book.
In June this year, he took his family's mat grass to a nearby county to sell, and then saw a copy of "Shaolin Martial Arts Cheats" in the market, he was a person who loved to fight since he was a child, and after watching the movie "Shaolin Temple", he was full of curiosity and yearning for martial arts.
So when he saw the book, he couldn't move.
In the end, I bought the book with the money from the sale of mat grass.
Of course, using the family's money to buy books without authorization also made him lectured by his parents, but he was also a proud person, so he caught fish for several days in a row, took advantage of the market to sell them for money, and then returned the money to the family.
In other words, the book is already completely his personal property.
And the book will be borrowed by the sister-in-law next year, saying that a brother of her mother's family is also curious about martial arts and wants to borrow it to see, but afterwards he was told that the book was burned by a naughty child, and there was no way to return it to him.
He was a little sad at the time, but the book had already been burned, and there was nothing he could do.
Then his eldest brother said that he had read the book for a long time anyway, and he had memorized all the movements in it, and since the book had been burned, forget it.
That is, no money was lost.
At that time, he was upset, but he couldn't pull his face, and after eating a meal of wine invited by his eldest brother, the matter was settled.
These things went through Gao Mingcheng's mind, he walked in front of the third brother with a gloomy face, and didn't say anything, only stretched out his hand.
Gao Mingwan raised his eyes and looked at him carefully, and then returned the book in his hand to Gao Mingcheng.
Gao Mingcheng glanced down at the book in his hand, and felt a kind of happiness that he had been lost.
He was born again, a lot of things that had been lost, he would not lose again!
Putting the book back in the cabinet, Gao Mingcheng found a corner and began to deal with the small trash fish he brought back.
He gave the best and biggest to Grandma Xi, and all he left behind were some wild trash fish that didn't grow big.
After processing the fish, he cleans it and brings it to the kitchen for his mother to cook.
From the moment he entered the door until now, he didn't say a word.
It's not that I'm angry, it's that I don't know what to say.
In his previous life, because he made money and was willing to spend money generously on his brothers and sisters, everyone flattered him and flattered him.
Even if he doesn't make a sound, there will be good topics to talk about.
But now, he is poor and white.
And I don't even plan to ask for the first pot of gold!
In his previous life, he earned his first pot of gold by robbing tombs, and then took the train of reform and opening up, started a business, and made a lot of money.
However, he is personally unlucky.
He lost his best brother, he lost his wife, he lost his son, and in old age, he also lost his health.
After being reborn, he attributed it all to tomb robbing.
That's why he decided to take a different path in this life.
He stayed quietly in the corner, quietly observing his family.
Then I soberly found that before I was not developed, in this family, I had no sense of existence.
After his father Gao Yuanjian finished smoking, he talked to his eldest brother Gao Mingpeng, saying something to do tomorrow, and the third and fourth brothers talked next to each other, and no one paid attention to him.
"It's just time!" A shout rang out from the kitchen, and the people sitting in the courtyard walked towards the kitchen.
The kitchen was very simple, and the table was not large, so there was no room for so many people, so except for his grandmother, his father, and his brother, everyone else was used to eating vegetables in the yard.
The meals are very simple, except for a plate of miscellaneous fish brought back by Gao Mingcheng, the rest are vegetarian dishes, the same pickles, and the same home-grown vegetables.
While they were eating, a man in his forties, dressed in a sweat-stained white shirt with a faded blue trousers underneath it, with his legs pulled up to his knees and a pair of liberation shoes on his feet, the most common dress in their village.
He had dark skin and wrinkles on his face, as if he had suffered a lot.
"Auntie, brother!" As soon as I entered, a loud voice rang out in the courtyard.
Gao Mingcheng followed the prestige and recognized the person.
This is one of his cousins, who lives next to his house, and usually comes to visit the house.
Everyone is an old acquaintance, and when people came, they were not polite, Gao Yuanjian greeted him and asked him if he had eaten and if he wanted to eat something at home.
This is obviously a kind word, in the past few years, every household has tightened their bellies and cannot eat, but now although they can barely eat, but there is not much food, and the vegetables are also lacking in oil and water, under normal circumstances, it is not easy to eat at other people's homes.
"Fanmao is here, Shufang, move a stool for your uncle!" Gao Mingcheng's grandmother is the oldest in the family, and instructed Gao Mingcheng's sister to move a stool out.
Gao Fanmao sat down and began to talk about the news he had newly inquired about.
"The railway at Junling Railway Station is about to start! Some time ago, I saw someone measuring there, and when I passed by there today, I saw that the open space was full of stones, sleepers, and cement, and I knew that the railway was finally about to start! ”
Hearing this, Gao Yuanjian's eyes lit up, he knew what it meant to start the railway, so he hurriedly asked, "Do you want to recruit people to work?" ”
"Move! The strong labor that carries the stones, two pieces and nine days! Gao Fanmao's face was full of folds with a smile, and they had already heard the wind about the construction of the railway in Junling, but they had not started construction for a long time.