Chapter 600: Wang Xun's scrap yard
For the first breakfast on the train, everyone ate relatively happily, Gao Mingcheng ate the side dishes and zongzi taken out by Deng's mother, and Gao Mingcheng also took out the food he brought and shared it with them.
Zongzi is a kind of food that is generally eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, but for people who go far away, carrying zongzi is more delicious and convenient than carrying meals.
Because the taste of cold rice and cold dishes is not as good as cold zongzi.
Gao Mingcheng ate a sweet one and a salty one, and thought they were all good.
After breakfast, the smell of food fills the whole carriage, because everyone is eating, mainly the food they brought, and only a few people will go to the dining car to buy food.
Gao Mingcheng wanted to open the window for ventilation, because the windows of the green car can be opened at this time, unlike the trains of later generations, the windows are fully enclosed and cannot be opened at will.
Just opened a gap, and a large amount of cold wind poured in and blew on the faces of the people around him, so someone hurriedly shouted Gao Mingcheng to close the car window.
But in fact, the windows were closed tightly, and it was still cold in the carriage, because the connection between the carriage and the carriage was not fully enclosed, and there was still cold air pouring in from there.
The bus was boring, and the passengers were not able to move around, so some people continued to sleep with their heads bored, others read books in their beds, and others got together to chat.
Gao Mingcheng chatted with Deng Wanwan and them for a while, and praised the rice dumplings made by Deng's mother for their good taste.
Mother Deng smiled and said, "If it's the Dragon Boat Festival, the zongzi I make are even more delicious!" At this time, although there are still dumpling leaves in the mountains, they don't grow very well. ”
Now the zongzi leaves in the mountains are not bright and wide enough, and it is more troublesome to wrap them, so the size of each zongzi is not large.
was chatting, suddenly there was melodious music, everyone followed the voice, but saw a young girl with pigtails sitting on the bed and seriously pulling the erhu.
After hearing the sound of the erhu, the chatter stopped talking, but listened to the song quietly, and when the little girl finished playing a song, someone asked her to play a few more tunes.
The little girl who dared to pull the erhu in public was naturally not a shy person, so she agreed with a smile.
Throughout the morning, the people in this carriage were immersed in the music.
Gao Mingcheng didn't have much research on the tunes, but he felt that the tunes were very smooth, and they were all tunes that he was familiar with and liked, so it was good to pass the time.
At noon, someone pushed a food cart to sell rice, and Gao Mingcheng naturally didn't want to eat bread for three meals a day, so he bought a meal.
The food on the train has two characteristics, one is expensive, and the other is poor taste.
So some people complained that those who were reluctant to spend money would rather nibble on the dry food they brought. Gao Mingcheng, who has traveled from south to north, understands that it is not easy to cook on the train, there are few materials on the train, and the kitchen space is small.
Gao Mingcheng ate an ordinary meal, thinking that it was okay if many beauties were unwilling to go far away, but now going far away is actually a crime, and after the train speed up in 97, it will be much more convenient to go out, and various domestic infrastructure facilities have also begun construction.
In the morning, he was listening to erhu to pass the time, and in the afternoon, Gao Mingcheng saw the young man opposite his bed reading, and there were several books piled up beside him.
So Gao Mingcheng asked someone to borrow a book to pass the time.
The young man wore a pair of eyes, and he first pushed the frame with the back of his fingers upward, revealing a slightly shy smile, and said in a gentle manner: "I can lend it to you, but you may not be able to read it." ”
As soon as these words came out, Gao Mingcheng became even more curious, so he reached out and took a book and flipped through it.
After a minute, he silently put down the book in his hand.
Looking at the young man opposite, his eyes were full of admiration for the top student!
Those books are basically advanced mathematics and physics, and with Gao Mingcheng's academic qualifications, I really can't read them!
Later, it was really boring, Gao Mingcheng could only stare out the car window.
The speed of the train is not fast, and the scenery along the way is in full view. It wasn't until it got dark at night that Gao Mingcheng became happy, and when he woke up, it was time to go to the capital!
On the morning of the third day, Gao Mingcheng woke up early as usual, and after he washed, people got up one after another to wash, Gao Mingcheng ate the rest of the snacks and bread, and planned to wait until he got off the bus to find a restaurant to have a good meal.
Wang Xun and they are the same, they are destroying those zongzi, and Mother Deng is afraid that everyone will not have enough to eat, so she specially wrapped a big bag.
After the dumplings are eliminated, they have less luggage with them, and they can relax when they get off the bus.
At ten o'clock in the morning, a conductor asked them to exchange tickets, so Gao Mingcheng got the train ticket again, and this train ticket needed to be shown to the ticket inspector when leaving the station.
So he put the ticket in his coat pocket so that he could easily take it out.
Although it is almost time to arrive at the station, the people in the carriage are not in a hurry to pack their things, because the terminal station of this train is the capital, and after stopping in the capital, everyone in the carriage will get off.
Therefore, it was not until the train was about to enter the station and the speed began to slow down that everyone took their carry-on luggage and waited at the door, and after a while, there was a long queue.
Seeing this, Gao Mingcheng simply didn't go to the queue, not fighting for a minute or two.
Finally, in anticipation of everyone, the train came to a steady stop on the platform, and then a conductor opened the door to let the passengers on the train get off.
Gao Mingcheng saw that everyone was starting to get out of the car, so he followed behind the crowd, and the moment his feet stepped on the ground, he actually felt top-heavy.
It is said that if you stay on the ship for a long time, you will not be able to adapt to the ground, but in fact, if you stay on the train for a long time, when you get off the ground, your body will not be able to adapt to it in a short time.
When people are on the train, there is a sound all the time, the body is also shaky, and the state of the whole person is not much different from taking a boat.
After getting out of the car, Wang Xun asked Gao Mingcheng to follow him, and let his two children pull their clothes, don't get lost.
As for Deng Wanwan, she has to take care of her parents.
On the station, at a glance, there are all the back of people's heads, everyone is dressed differently, but they are all big bags and small bags, and there are many people like Deng Wanwan who drag their families.
Gao Mingcheng saw that someone was carrying a bed on his back, carrying a bucket full of things and a fertilizer bag in his hand, and even a small pot for cooking on his chest, he knew that this person was going to the capital to work.
In addition to these people, there are also a few people who are well-dressed and have very little luggage, these people are afraid that they live in the capital.
With the flow of people, Gao Mingcheng finally got out of the station.
Standing outside the station, I saw the unfamiliar environment.
After leaving the station, Wang Xun also breathed a sigh of relief, he began to skillfully take Gao Mingcheng and them to take the bus, although there are crowds of people here, but the capital is the capital after all, and the bus looks quite new and big.
Gao Mingcheng followed Wang Xun and them, and took the car and changed trains several times along the way, and finally arrived at the destination.
After getting off the last bus, Wang Xun said happily: "Hungry, right?" I'll take you to a restaurant for dinner first! Wait for what you want to eat, just order it! ”
A few minutes later, the group finally sat down in a restaurant, because it was very close to where Wang Xun lived, so he and the hotel owner were quite familiar, and as soon as they sat down, they started talking.
Wang Xun ordered a lot of dishes, but Deng Wanwan's parents were old, and after some bumps, although they were very hungry, they had no appetite, and the same was true for the two children, who only moved a few chopsticks and didn't want to eat.
However, Gao Mingcheng was in a good state, and seeing that everyone was not eating, he simply opened his belly and ate the rest of the meal.
Wang Xun saw that the elderly and children at home were not in good condition, and he had no choice but to take them back to rest first.
This night, Gao Mingcheng was also stayed.
Standing in the courtyard of Wang Xun's house, he felt that it was quite simple.
This is already a suburb, although the land bought by Wang Xun is relatively large, but the house built is very ordinary, the front is a scrap station, the middle yard is stacked with waste products, and only the back row of rooms is for people to live.
Because I thought in advance that I would bring the elderly and children over, the room was enough, and I could make room for Gao Mingcheng to live temporarily.
Wang Xun was introducing his scrap station to Gao Mingcheng, and said with a smile: "You need a place to put things to collect waste, and there is no way but to buy the land in such a remote place." ”
This place is indeed remote, but Gao Mingcheng knows that when the capital is developed, the price of land here will rise.
Many years later, this piece of land alone can make Wang Xun have a lot of net worth!
So he smiled and said: "This place is very good, although it is a suburb, but the place is spacious, it is comfortable to live in, and there are fields nearby, and it is convenient to buy vegetables or something." ”
Wang Xun originally thought that Gao Mingcheng would dislike this place, but after hearing Gao Mingcheng say this, he immediately became happy: "Yes, that's what I thought!" Although I am a little off here, the scrap price I collect is two cents a pound higher than elsewhere! That's why some people come to me with scrap on their backs to sell! ”
During the conversation, I saw someone come to sell scrap, the man was riding a modified tricycle with a large body, which was full of all kinds of scrap, including a large amount of waste paper, and a broken black and white TV and electric fan.
The shell of the electric fan has been broken, revealing the copper wire in the base, the material of the electric fan at this time is very real, and a large number of copper wires are used in each electric fan, and these copper wires are expensive and can be sold for a lot of money.
The scrap yard in front was open, and although Wang Xun took Deng Wanwan back to his hometown for the New Year, he still hired someone to do things.
Therefore, if someone comes to sell scrap, Wang Xun doesn't have to step forward, just stand by and watch like Gao Mingcheng.
After a while, the scrap seller's tricycle was emptied, and he took the money he had just arrived, and left happily.
After seeing the people leave, Wang Xun stepped forward to look at the waste products he had just received, and then said to Gao Mingcheng: "This electric fan was smashed by someone!" Tsk, the people in the capital are really rich, if the people in our county are the ones who have an electric fan at home, it's a baby! ”
Electric fans are needed in the summer, and when they are not needed, they are covered with a cloth so that no dust falls.
There wasn't much dust on this fan, but the crack was apparently broken by a break.
Wang Xun squatted on the ground for a while, and then said: "The motor should not be broken, after selling it, you can make a lot of money!" ”
Even so, Wang Xun soon stopped paying attention to those bad TVs and electric fans, because although he learned some from his cousin and knew more or less, he was not very good at repairing.
What he's best at is picking up leaks!
"Mingcheng, I'll take you to see my baby!" Wang Xun knew that Gao Mingcheng was also collecting old things in the county, and asked him to buy two horse pictures, so he happily took out the key and opened the warehouse.
Some waste products of little value are piled up in the open space in the yard, such as paper shells, plastic bottles, etc.
And some expensive waste products, naturally, have different treatment, they are all put into the warehouse in a different category, and are locked.
Of course, the most expensive one, Wang Xun naturally will not be placed in the warehouse, but hidden in the room where he sleeps, and will not be easily taken out for others to see.
When the door of the warehouse opened, the first thing that caught my eye was a pile of old mahogany and a pile of Taihu stone.
For these mahogany and Taihu stones, Gao Mingcheng did not look closely, but looked at the things on the shelves around him.
Wang Xun made shelves on three walls of the warehouse, and there were more or less stacks of things on them.
As soon as he entered the door, Wang Xun stretched out his hand and began to introduce: "What is placed here are some things I like." Ming Cheng, look at this - philatelic album! However, most of the stamps in this album are used, and I took them off from the waste envelopes one by one. The value is not that high, it is purely a personal hobby! ”
"There are also a bunch of old newspapers, which I also specially collected, and I plan to collect all the newspapers after the founding of the People's Republic of China by year, month and day, of course, I haven't saved them yet!"
"These are newspapers in the Republic of China, and the paper is yellowed and brittle, but I'll keep it for now, anyway, it's a hobby."
"These are notebooks, and the owners of a few of them are quite famous, but most of them are not famous, and I don't even know who the owner is, but I think the content in them is interesting, so I left them first."
"And these, all kinds of books, I look pretty good, so I'll keep them for now, planning to read them to my children later, or have the opportunity to sell them again."
"These are the old things I collected, all kinds of bottles, jars, small cups, and bowls, as well as some women's makeup boxes."
With Wang Xun's introduction, Gao Mingcheng's eyes looked over one by one.
He opened the stamp album and saw that there were indeed a lot of stamps in it, because this is the capital, so Wang Xun actually collected stamps from all over the country, even foreign stamps.
But because they were pulled out of the waste, these stamps were naturally used, and they were all stamped with a stamp, and even some of them were not uncovered and some were damaged.
So it's not worth much, but it's not bad as a personal collection.
"Brother Wang, can I take a look here?" Gao Mingcheng asked, he didn't want to look at the flowers, he wanted to look through them to see if there were any precious things in them.
For this request, Wang Xun naturally agreed.
(End of chapter)