Doomsday Super Merchant

Chapter 198 Returning Home

Zhou Yuanqiang remembered that he had not returned to his hometown for two years and eight months.

In the first two years, I had no shame to go back, so I could only choose to escape. I spent two years alone in the dormitory of the factory. In the next eight months, I was in a state of dissociation in the first two months, and only in the second half of the year,

It's definitely because I'm too busy.

He had thought about taking some time to go back, but the rapid development of the wasteland settlement forced him to postpone his trip.

Now in the wasteland settlement, there is no need to worry about supplies for the time being, so Zhou Yuanqiang no longer has to continue to be a hard worker and has more free time. So he wants to take advantage of the time now to go home and visit his friend who has been away for nearly three years.

Parents and them.

Zhou Yuanqiang's hometown is actually not very far from City S, only about 800 kilometers away. If you take a plane, it only takes one and a half hours, and then take an express bus for two hours to reach the county seat and then transfer to the town.

In town, he asked a motorcycle driver to pay 5 yuan to take him to his brigade, and finally he returned home.

Well, after saying so much and going around so many times, I just want to say that my hometown is a small village in a big mountain. Well, to describe it in poetic words, it is surrounded by mountains, rivers, and peaks.

Layers upon layers, green forests like the sea... there are many words of praise. But no matter how much praise is given, it is of no use. For the affordable country people, it is called a poor place, and there will never be a golden doll dug out of the ground.

The long-distance ride would take more than ten hours, which was far from what Zhou Yuanqiang was willing to do, so he chose to take a plane and then take an express bus to the county seat.

The country is indeed undergoing great development. Look at a county where the per capita annual income is less than 3,000 yuan. How come the lowest house price is 2,800 yuan per square meter? And it is shameful that there are almost no houses under 100 square meters in the county.

, all between 100-220 square meters.

Can this not be called great development? But what makes people crazy is that the price rises by three to five hundred yuan per square meter every year. The money earned after a year of hard work is not as fast as the house price.

In the past, Zhou Yuanqiang also had the idea of ​​​​earning as much money as possible to provide a house in the county. However, faced with the rising housing prices, which surged from 600 yuan per square meter to 2,800 yuan per square meter in just four years, he was disappointed and disappointed.

, more of a feeling of powerlessness. This house is not affordable for a working class like me.

Although there are many complaints about the real estate, other places are still good. Taxis have been opened from the county town to the small town. Chartering a taxi only costs 60 yuan, allowing you to enjoy this short trip to yourself.

.When you are lucky, the other party will agree to give you 50 yuan.

I haven't been back for two years. The county town has indeed changed a lot, but the town is still the same. All the rich people have flocked to the county town. It is strange that the town can develop.

Zhou Yuanqiang used to be a very taciturn person. When he arrived in the town, some strange and familiar figures appeared. Zhou Yuanqiang couldn't remember the names of the other people. When he met someone familiar, whether he recognized him or not, he always smiled.

, nodded as a way of saying hello.

Most of the young people in the town have gone out to work, and not many stay. There are indeed very few people like Zhou Yuanqiang who return to their hometown in August. Unlike the Chinese New Year, the whole town is crowded with people, and everyone

They got off the car in large and small packages. The whole town was so lively that people were asking and saying hello to each other.

I found a deserted corner and took out the large and small bags I bought in City S from the storage space. Then I ordered two motorcycles, one to carry me, and the other to help me transport the things like this.

A mountain of various snack gifts.

Originally, after not returning to his hometown for several years, there would always be a sense of excitement, the feeling of a wanderer returning, but Zhou Yuanqiang seemed... somewhat incapable of feeling it.

"Have you become accustomed to city life?"

Zhou Yuanqiang said sarcastically to himself, and turned to look at the crops on both sides of the dirt road. It was not long after the second plowing in August, and all he saw were green rice seedlings. But what Zhou Yuanqiang was thinking about was that he was in elementary school and junior high school.

At that time, I participated in the busy farming. At that time, I had already begun to share the housework for the family.

In fact, you will feel that this place is very remote due to the seemingly overlapping mountains. But when you really get into this place, you will find that there are always places between the faults, valleys, and connections between the peaks.

There are patches of paddy fields and small villages built on the mountains. A dirt road connects countless small and large villages under the mountains. Some of the villages are close to each other, and some are not far apart, at most one or two hundred years apart.

rice.

The small village where Zhou Yuanqiang lives is not far from the town, and it only takes 11 or 2 minutes by motorcycle.

The motorcycle stopped in front of Zhou Yuanqiang's house, because Zhou Yuanqiang's home was right next to a dirt road. For this reason, the whole family suffered a lot from the mud and dust.

After paying the fare, Zhou Yuanqiang looked at his very familiar but strange home with some sadness. Familiar because there were almost no changes, but strange because there were four earthen houses, now there are three, and the kitchen used to be like this.

One room has collapsed, and judging from the traces, it must have been there for a long time.

When Zhou Yuanqiang was in junior high school, he had a room for himself, his sister had a room, his parents had a room, and the other room was the kitchen and utility room. His grandfather and grandmother died very early, and when Zhou Yuanqiang was in elementary school, they lived in one after another.

gone.

Zhou Anpu came out after hearing the sound of motorcycles. Time has left him with too many hardships. His half-white hair made him look older. The old-fashioned Chinese tunic suit was very old, but when worn on Zhou Anpu, it looked familiar to Zhou Yuanqiang.

's father.

When the two met, they did not burst into tears or hug each other as shown on TV. Instead, they looked at each other and said calmly: "Dad!" and Zhou Anpu said: "Back?" This is father and son.

The family love between us is very plain and ordinary, but everyone can understand the deep surprise inside.

As if it was the Chinese New Year, Zhou Yuanqiang's sister Zhou Xiaojing was so happy that she almost couldn't leave her feet off the ground.

Zhou Xiaojing's name came from when Zhou Yuanqiang was still in elementary school. Her parents were really not free at that time, so she took her to the school to register. At that time, the teacher asked the little sister's name, and Zhou Yuanqiang remembered that his parents had not given the name to the little sister.

It has a scientific name. In a hurry, Xiaojing's name blurted out, and the name of my younger sister Zhou Xiaojing was determined.

The mother Su Lan in his memory was a very hard-working rural woman. Zhou Yuanqiang did not forget her as strongly as his father because her behavior, like thousands of rural women, was too ordinary.

Zhou Yuanqiang brought a lot of things with him. When he entered the house where his parents lived, his parents' simple bed was piled high.

Zhou Anpu was a little scolded and said: "It's not easy for you to make money. Why do you spend so much and buy so many useless things?" In his eyes, the really useful things are farm tools, fertilizers, and things that can be used at home.

Something that works.

Thinking that his family had never enjoyed such a good material life, Zhou Yuanqiang suddenly wanted to slap himself, for no reason, just for being unfilial. He was obviously rich now, but his parents still lived there

In such a simple mud house, but I didn't think about them the first time, isn't it an unfilial fault?

Zhou Yuanqiang smiled and said: "Dad, you can eat it with confidence. Look, these are shark fins and bird's nests. They are all very good things. There are also these health products, which are most suitable for you old people. Xiaojing, look

What do you think this is? Ha... Didn't you envy your classmates that some of them had mobile phones? This is an Apple 3G smartphone, which is very useful. There are also these dolls that I will take back to your room in a while. They will make you better.

Then I won’t be scared at night.”

Zhou Xiaojing happily took the iPhone and started playing with it happily, saying, "Brother, this must be expensive, right?"

"What's it expensive? It's a parallel import worth two to three hundred yuan, just for show." Zhou Yuanqiang smiled. Of course he couldn't tell his little sister that the official price of this phone is 8,800 yuan. If she knew it was this price, she wouldn't dare to act like it.

Now he is playing around like this casually. For Zhou Yuanqiang, money is nothing. The most important thing is that his family is happy.

Only Su Lan frowned a little and said: "You kid, what kind of mobile phone do you want to buy? With this money, you might as well save it and find a way to repair this house. You can also save some money and get married as soon as possible. People in their twenties.

I don’t know what to do yet. Our Zhou family is the sixth generation of a single family, so your dad and I still want to have more children for you."

Zhou Yuanqiang also looked unnatural on his face. After all, his ancestors, including his own generation, were indeed single men of the sixth generation and only had one stick of incense.

In the countryside, you can never avoid the fact that there are more brothers and fewer brothers. If you have more brothers, you will be stronger. If you have fewer brothers, you will be bullied by others. Zhou Yuanqiang still remembers clearly that his family has always been bullied.

There were several families with many brothers who bullied them.

There were even a few times when six or seven brothers pointed at their father with knives and shovels, shouting that he should be killed. Wasn't it because they wanted to take a share of the orchard share of the production team at home? Wasn't it just to bully the six or seven brothers in his family?

Dai Danding, is this generation only composed of his father and himself?

The weakness of a man alone is always vividly displayed in the countryside.

Zhou Yuanqiang could only smile bitterly and lied: "Mom, don't worry. I have a date in S city. She is from the city. I will bring it back to you next time. If it suits you, we will get married and have a baby."

We have a new member of the Zhou family."

After hearing the news, Su Lan was also happy, but worried: "Can people in the city like our family?" Zhou Yuanqiang gave her a comforting look and said confidently: "What can they like?

Don’t you like him? Your son is promising now. The person he likes is not a house, so what are you worried about?"

After Zhou Yuanqiang's words, Su Lan felt relieved and said: "You have to treat people well. People can like you, a country boy, but you have been wronged." Only Zhou Anpu interrupted and said: "Okay.

Okay, of course he will take care of my son's affairs. Go get some noodles. It will take you a long time to get here from S city, so I'm afraid I'll be starved."

After hearing her husband's words, Su Lan remembered and went to help Zhou Yuanqiang with a smile.