Reborn to Strive

Among the things Shi Zhen bought for the Chinese New Year, there were no fireworks and firecrackers. Most of them were for food, and they ate too much.

This is for fear of accidents.

Driving a tractor, carrying a carload of fireworks and firecrackers to the mountains, what should I do if there is an accident due to bumps and bumps?

All I buy is for food, and there is another advantage, that is, even if you can't sell them all during the Chinese New Year, you can keep them and sell them slowly.

After the summer, he stopped selling popsicles in Guanjian country, but he has been selling soft drinks, and in the future he will also sell candy, which is fine.

As for couplets and so on, it will not be a problem to sell them next year.

Near the end of the year, some people are idle, but some people are busy.

Guan Guangguo and Zhang Xiumei are very busy.

They cleaned the house, and went to the town to sell chickens by themselves, so they had no free time.

But at the end of the year, the price of chickens rose, and they finally did not lose money.

Guan Jianguo is very idle.

After selling the tractor to Shi Zhen, Guan Jianguo planned to partner with someone to buy a ship to drive.

The ship he bought was really not cheap, costing more than 8 yuan. He and his friend used up their savings and borrowed some foreign debts before they took out the money.

But this boat is bought...it can't be sailed right away - other shipyards can't start building until someone buys it!

Guan Jianguo now has nothing to do except occasionally go to see his unfinished boat, so he squats at the door of his house every day, holding pieces of red bricks, teaching his daughter to write and draw.

In the end, he was disgusted by his daughter, saying that his paintings were not as good as those of his mother.

Then Second Grandma Guan will catch Guan Jianguo and give birth to another child, so that Guan Jianguo and his wife will have another one.

The family planning control in Changxi City is very strict here. There are almost no supersessions, and no one does B-scans. However, according to local policies and rural household registration, the first child born to the couple is a daughter, and they can have another one.

Old people generally still want sons, and families with only one daughter will inevitably be born.

Most families will have another child, and those who insist on not having children are generally women who have jobs and have the right to speak.

After all, having a child is hard work, and the second one is not necessarily a boy. Many women are not willing to have another child.

As for men... When there are more and more people around who have no sons but only daughters, most of the men don't care.

Otherwise, what else can I do?Never divorce.

In the end, many people began to think about letting their daughters have children with their own surnames in the future.

When Shi Zhen passed away, young men and women in Changxi City got married and had two children, one with their father's surname and one with their mother's.

Guan Jianguo belongs to the kind who doesn't care if he has a second child or not, but his wife doesn't want to have one. The second grandma Guan talks about it all day, but it's useless, she can only sulk herself.

When Guan Jianguo took his daughter to paint on the drying yard, Shi Zhen split the bamboo and tied it to the sides of the tractor to make arches.

Immediately afterwards, he covered the plastic film on it and tied it up with a rope to ensure that there was no air or rain leakage.

In the tractor's compartment, he had already cleaned and washed it, and then used a small half for loading goods, and the other half was covered with mats and quilts for people to sit on.

For a long time, it is more comfortable to sit on the ground leaning on the goods or the tractor compartment and straighten your legs than sitting on a bench.

If Zhao Meiyun's waist is uncomfortable, she can still lie down.

Shi Zhen and the others didn't set off home until three days before New Year's Eve.

Zhao Dongjuan said long ago that she would not go back, and only Shi Dalin, Zhao Meiyun, Zhao Qiujuan, Shi Ting, Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu were going back.

Shi Zhen prepared a deck of cards and asked others to sit in the car to play cards while he drove in front.

The riding experience of the tractor is actually very bad. It is very bumpy and noisy when driving.

But Shi Dalin, Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan are all obsessed with tractors. Once they get on a tractor, they feel that they are different.

So, when the tractor started to move forward, Zhao Meiyun complained with a red face: "Oh, why do you need to build a shed behind this car, and you can't see clearly from the outside."

"It's too cold without a shed," Guan Baiyu said.

"Isn't it just blowing the wind, what's the matter, now like this, no one can see us." Zhao Meiyun was a little disappointed.

Guan Baiyu: "..." So she wants to be seen?

"Tsk tsk these days, if someone from my hometown sees it, they will definitely talk about it." Zhao Meiyun said again.

They all took off their shoes and sat on an old quilt.

On their feet, they wore thick socks without holes, and even wore more than one pair.

In the past, my hands and feet were always chapped. Sometimes in winter, my hands and feet were so cracked that they would bleed. This year, I only had a few small cracks. Now I have applied oily glycerin and it is slippery.

Their stomachs are also full of oil and water, Zhao Meiyun pinches her own stomach now, and can actually grab a handful of fat.

That's all, there is still a basket in front of them, which also contains a few candies, a pack of walnuts, a pack of peanuts, and a pack of melon seeds, for them to eat when they are bored on the road.

Half a year ago, Zhao Meiyun would not have dared to eat such a good thing.

But it was better now, and she peeled off a candy, put it in her mouth, and started to play cards.

The five of them are not very good at playing poker, they just play very simple solitaire. After dealing out the cards, put the seven in the middle first, and then follow the cards down one by one... they actually played with relish.

Shi Zhen took the national road, and he didn't have a navigation these days, so he didn't dare to take the small road.

Speaking of which, there was a reason why he drove the tractor back - he had driven back like this more than once in his previous life.

At that time, almost all the people working with him on the construction site were people from his village. At the end of the year, everyone would naturally go home together.

It was not cheap to go back by car, so they simply squeezed into a tractor or a van and drove back by themselves—at first, Shi Zhen only had a tractor, and then a van.

This road stone has been opened a few times, although I can't remember it clearly, but it can be opened.

There are few cars these days, and no one checks for overloading and drunk driving. Shi Zhen encountered many strange things along the way.

For example, five or six people are crowded in a small tricycle.

Another example is that five pigs and four people are imprisoned in a tractor.

There are also some tractors or trucks with a lot of goods on them, which look shaky.

Shi Zhen was worried that those cars would fall down.

Compared with those cars... his tractor looks empty, and the weight of his family and goods combined is probably only half the weight of bricks.

On the side of the road, there are broken cars from time to time, and the drivers are repairing them by themselves.

Occasionally, there will be people waving to stop the car, wanting to take a ride.

When encountering the latter, Shi Zhen would not stop.

In the 90s, it was not uncommon for drivers to be robbed and killed while driving.

At the same time, there are countless cases where the driver hit someone outside and did not hesitate to hit and run.

After driving the tractor for three hours, Shi Zhen found a place to rest for a while, and asked the people in the car to go to the toilet and exercise.

Then he continued to drive.

On the way, the car broke down once, but Shi Zhen was well prepared and quickly repaired it.

In the afternoon, Shi Zhen still found time to let the others get out of the car to eat, and slept in the car for half an hour.

He couldn't hold on without a break.

The speed of tractors is far less than that of cars, but before taking long-distance buses, you need to transfer back and forth, and often wait at the station for several hours. They drive the tractors themselves, but there is no such problem, and there is no need to detour to the provincial capital.

In the evening, Shi Zhen stopped in a town along the way, found a hotel, and asked for two rooms.

This kind of hotel has just appeared in the past few years. It is mainly for people who drive long-distance vehicles to sleep. There are big shops and small private rooms. .

But the price is very cheap.

Shi Zhen only needs six yuan to open two rooms, and one yuan per person if he sleeps in Datong bunk.

Of these two rooms, he let Guan Baiyu and Shi Dalin live in one, and Zhao Meiyun, Zhao Qiujuan and Shi Ting lived in one. As for himself, he planned to live on the tractor.

In the previous life, when they went home, no one looked at the car, and when they woke up after falling asleep, the contents of the car were stolen.

It doesn't matter if it is stolen, some people will take all the fuel in the car's fuel tank!

There were a lot of things on the tractor, and it would be troublesome to move them all down, so Shi Zhen planned to sleep in the car and watch over them.

Shi Dalin didn't think there was anything wrong with Shi Zhen's doing this. This car really needs to be watched, but Guan Baiyu was really worried: "Brother, will you freeze if you sleep on the tractor?"

"With a quilt, it won't freeze." Shi Zhen said.

Guan Baiyu said again: "Then I will sleep in the car with you.

"There's only so much space in the car. If you're with me, I can't turn over."

Shi Zhen refused to let Guan Baiyu sleep in the car, and urged Guan Baiyu to sleep in the room, and said: "My father is getting old, and his hygiene habits may not be very good, please bear with it."

The day before returning to his hometown this time, Shi Zhen took Shi Dalin and the others to take a bath in the bathroom in the town, and spent one dollar each to scrub his entire body clean.

At that time, he followed Shi Dalin in and rubbed a layer of mud on Shi Dalin's body.

After Shi Dalin and the others entered winter, they stopped taking a bath, and just wiped it with a hot towel at home... Naturally, a lot of dirt accumulated.

But even if it was cleaned, Shi Dalin was still a middle-aged man, and if he asked Guan Baiyu to sleep with him, he was afraid that Guan Baiyu would not get used to it.

But opening a room for Guan Baiyu alone would also make Shi Dalin and the others uncomfortable.

It's just that the quilts are separated for one night and one night. Guan Baiyu doesn't feel that he needs to bear it.

Really...he felt that the room was much dirtier than Shi Dalin.

However, no matter how the room is, it is definitely better than sleeping in the car.

Shi Zhen waited for Guan Baiyu to leave, then lay down to sleep.

As a result, not long after he lay down, Guan Baiyu came again and brought a hot water bottle: "Brother, you put this hot water bottle under the bed."

"Okay... go back to sleep." Shi Zhen said with a smile.

Guan Baiyu then went back to sleep.

Shi Zhen held the hot water bottle in his arms, and covered his eyes with his hands.

The current Guan Baiyu is much more dazzling than the Guan Baiyu he knew in his previous life.

Guan Baiyu is studying in the best high school in Changxi City. He will definitely be able to go to college. He has already started a business with his friends, and girls like him...

I don't know when, he will leave himself and spread his wings.

Shi Zhen continued to drive the next day.

This day...their tractor broke down again.

Shi Zhen has long been used to this, and repaired it in two or three times, and finally rushed to the county where his hometown is located that night.

They rested overnight in the county seat, and they could go into the mountains tomorrow.

In the past, walking into the mountains was all about walking, but since the 80s, roads have been built, so the tractor can drive to the place where Shi Ting was in junior high school.

Before they came out of the mountains, they all took tractors here.

As for the further road, they have to go by themselves. Their village is a bit remote, and they have to walk for more than two hours on the mountain road.

When walking from the county to their village, Zhao Meiyun and Shi Dalin didn't want to be stuffed in the plastic sheet anymore.

They rolled up the plastic sheet that Shi Zhen used to shield them from the wind, and sat on the iron plate next to the tractor carriage, looking at everything around them happily.

This is where they have lived for many years.

Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan don't like to go out and don't know many people. Shi Dalin is different... He is very dull now, but he was similar to Shi Zhen when he was young. He likes to run around and knows many people.

The road here is not as good as that in City J, the tractor drove very slowly, Shi Dalin stared at the people walking by the roadside, and then called their names.

When they heard someone shouting, these people would all look over, and when they saw Shi Dalin, they were surprised and delighted: "It's Shi Dalin! You came back from outside?"

"You're so brightly dressed!"

"I've never seen this tractor before! Is it yours?"

"The driver is your son, Shi Dalin, your son is promising!"

……

Shi Dalin was very happy when he heard these words, his face was wrinkled and he also showed his dentures.

After Shi Zhen told him about the dentures, he found a place to install some dentures for himself.

He chose the cheapest dentures, which looked very fake. At first they were uncomfortable in his mouth.

But now, he has gotten used to the dentures, and he has noticed how good the dentures are, and now he is deliberately letting people see his dentures.

Among them, few people wear false teeth!

Shi Dalin, who was not good at words, tried his best to say hello to everyone passing by. Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan also felt that they were different as they sat upright.

In Anshan Town, their family was considered poor and could not be compared with the people around them at all, but back here... the clothes they are wearing now are among the best kept here!

When Zhao Qiujuan was in Anshan Town, she always went out to set up a stall in the morning, and she didn't get much sun, so she became paler. Plus, she washed her face with soap every day, her face was much cleaner, and she ate well... Her It looks much better than before.

Before she came back, she bought herself a red woolen coat, and she wore a turtleneck sweater knitted by herself... Although it was a bit cold, she felt very good.

Zhao Meiyun felt even more elated.

In the past, she had always been the object of sympathy, and many people said that her life was miserable.

But now?She was wearing all new clothes!

She was embarrassed to wear a red woolen coat, but she tied a red silk scarf around her neck!

Because of her broken leg and being kept at home, Zhao Meiyun has become whiter and fatter... She looks much younger than before, and many people who saw her were very surprised: "Meiyun, you are younger many."

"Your new clothes are so pretty."

"Mei Yun, I'll go to your house in two days and talk to you!"

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On Zhao Meiyun's face, there was no expression other than a smile.

Not to mention Shi Ting, she dressed up well this time!

It's a pity that she is too young, not many people know her, and no one pays attention to her...

Shi Zhen saw the reactions of his family members, and was a little dumbfounded.

But he can understand them too.

Back then, he also had such a mentality, and he was also very happy because of the envy of others.

At that time, many people who went out to work like him lived frugally outside and were reluctant to spend a penny. When they came back to their hometown, they would be very generous, just to let others know that they were doing well.

People are so vain sometimes.