Chapter 2: Serendipity

Monstrous absurdity!

The shuttle bus to Yun Hu is neither at the Seongju long-distance bus station nor at the Seongju East station, which is dedicated to the northeast of Tan Gianang province, but in the parking lot of a car transport company called Xingsheng.

It's hard to find!

"Buy one to go to Cloud Lake. How much does it cost? In front of Xu Yuanzhou was an uncle in his sixties, dressed as if he had come to Shengzhou City from the countryside to work, with a smile on his face, and asked the conductor cautiously.

“160。” The conductor was a young woman in her thirties, who was quite standard, with eyebrows and lipstick, and threw out a sentence coldly with an expressionless face.

Xu Yuanzhou couldn't help but gasp.

Shengzhou to Yunhu, two hundred and ten kilometers, one hundred and sixty, really expensive!

"So expensive! Train tickets cost only 28 grins. The uncle muttered.

"It's too expensive to take the train! If you can't sit down, don't sit! The conductor's voice was an octave higher, with a look of disdain.

"I didn't get a train ticket, or who would pay a high price to take this broken and slow car......." The uncle muttered in a low voice, and said reluctantly, "Buy one." ”

"160 yuan, cash, WeChat or Alipay?" The conductor pretended not to hear the uncle's muttering and asked impatiently.

"Cash, cash ......" The uncle trembled and took out a crumpled plastic bag from his trouser pocket, opened it, Xu Yuanzhou caught a glimpse of the uncle took out some tickets of ten yuan and five yuan, and counted them to the conductor, reading while counting: "90, 100, 105, 110, 115....... 145........" Then it suddenly stopped.

Xu Yuanzhou looked at the uncle counting the money without blinking, he found that the money in the uncle's plastic bag had been counted, he took out his pocket, took out a few coins, and looked at the conductor with a red face: "It's only 150 miles....... Can you do it? ”

The conductor was already impatient, patiently watching him count, and when he heard the three words "can be poo", his emotions suddenly erupted like a volcano, "I'm not a live Lei Feng!" You have ten yuan less, he has ten yuan less, and I don't have to do it, the whole family drinks the northwest wind! If you can afford it, you can buy it, and if you can't afford it, you will die! Next! ”

Xu Yuanzhou was in a heavy mood, and hurriedly squeezed up and said to the conductor: "Erzhang Yunhu's, WeChat." ”

He said to the uncle who retreated to the side: "Uncle, I bought your ticket together." ”

“320。” The conductor's tone was still cold.

After getting the ticket, the uncle was full of gratitude and stuffed the crumpled one hundred and fifty yuan change to Xu Yuanzhou, "Young man, thank you, thank you!" ”

"Uncle, no thanks." Xu Yuanzhou waved his hand and refused to accept the uncle's money.

The uncle refused, and was very stubborn and insisted on giving him the money: "Young man, it's not easy for you to make money, if you don't accept it, I don't want to pay for the ticket." ”

"Uncle, you must take a car and eat from Yunhu to your home. So be it, I'll take a hundred. Xu Yuanzhou thought of a compromise. After speaking, he couldn't help but say that he stuffed the rest of the money into the old man's bag.

The uncle finally hesitated and stopped refusing anymore, and thanked Xu Yuanzhou for his kindness.

Xu Yuanzhou was a little sad, beckoned the uncle to sit down on the bench that was broken without a backrest, and ran outside to buy a large bottle of Coke and some bread, and gave them to the uncle.

"You're such a nice guy!" The uncle whimpered, tears glistening in his eyes.

The shuttle bus to Yunhu runs every two hours. Xu Yuanzhou bought the ticket at 10 o'clock in the morning, and there were still more than 40 minutes before the departure, and the two were chatting on the broken chairs.

Uncle name Liu Baogen, is Yunhu County Jinqiao Township Dongshantang Village people, this year 65 years old, in Shengzhou a construction site to do a small worker, the wife Ding Lotus this morning accidentally fell on the ground, spine comminuted fracture, is lying in Jinqiao Township Health Center, this is anxious to rush back to Yunhu, the construction site has not yet arrived to pay wages, originally wanted to take the train back to Yunhu, and there is no car, finally found the shuttle bus departure point to Yunhu.

"Uncle Liu, you are so old, why do you still come to Shengzhou to work?" Xu Yuanzhou asked tentatively.

"Alas......" Liu Baogen sighed, the thick wrinkles on his face were twisted into folds, and he said wistfully: "Young man, don't you know that we are in the poor place of Yunhu, the fields are thin and thin, and there is only enough food for a year, and there is no money at all!" There are no factories in the county, and now the young ones are running to Guangdong and Shanghai, and I am old, and I have no education, no craftsmanship, so I can only earn some money as a small worker. ”

This situation is similar to what Xu Yuanzhou learned from the materials of the labor department in the past two days, but what he didn't expect was that it seems that there are more people in Yunhu County who go out to work than the 100,000 people mentioned in the materials, and even Liu Baogen, who is in his sixties, has gone out to work, which is not mentioned in the materials at all.

"Then ......." Xu Yuanzhou pondered for a moment and asked, "Uncle Liu, what about your children?" Have you all gone out to work? ”

Liu Baogen's face darkened suddenly, tears slipped down his wrinkled face like broken pearls, and he said in great pain: "My child's name is Liu Guohua, and the child's troops went to fight the flood that year, and he died honorably to save people. ”

"Huh?" Xu Yuanzhou was surprised!