My 1979

"The second son from a second-rate family is the one who is going to college."

"Li Hekun? I bought rat poison from him when I was a kid."

"Li Zhaokun, I don't know what kind of luck this guy has had in his life." The strong old woman said disdainfully.

When Li and his brothers arrived, Chen Yongqiang enthusiastically pulled the brothers to sit down and drink. Seeing that the brothers refused to drink, he said, "Then let's go to the riverside to enjoy the breeze and show you my pigsty by the way. Me and the big brother Zhuang is almost drunk and can’t drink anymore.”

Go to Chen Yongqiang's pig pen on Huangdi Slope. There are seventeen or eight pig pens with at least more than 80 pigs.

Li He discovered that the door of the pigsty was actually welded with iron pillars, so he asked, "Where did you get so much iron?"

Chen Yongqiang pointed to the other side of the river, "The one sold to me on the opposite side was pulled from a passing truck. It almost drove the passing driver crazy."

Da Zhuang said, "You don't know, many drivers passing by, as long as they dare to stop, they will have the goods in the car cleaned. Good guy, hundreds of kilograms of large iron blocks have been moved, let alone the ones on their bodies. What kind of money is that?"

Li He said, "It's okay if we don't stop."

"Don't stop? The road is also blocked with tree trunks, so cars can't pass. To be more cruel, just find an old woman to lie down on the road and see if the driver dares to run over her."

Chen Yongqiang answered, "There are really ruthless drivers who carry machetes directly on their backs, otherwise they really can't scare people."

Li He said, "Do you know who did it?"

Chen Yongqiang chuckled, "I can't tell you specifically. Anyway, there are them on the other side of the river, as well as on our side. If something is done over there, the goods will be sold here. Didn't you see that there are several stores opened in the town?" A scrap collection station?”

Li He had never thought that there were many rag collections in the local area, and there was another reason. The locals later went out to work. The most common industry they were engaged in was logistics and driving trucks, which was rag collection. Of course, there were also other jobs, such as hair and braiding. , the one who rubs the back in the bath, the one who tells fortunes, the one who focuses on leaks in the building.

Thinking back to the manhole cover joke, it has some basis in fact, but it has been amplified by unscrupulous media and formed regional prejudices, such as a certain place is bold, a certain place is righteous, and a certain place is mean.

But the fact is that no matter where you are born, there will always be a small number of people who behave badly. The idea that people born in a certain place will definitely behave in a certain way is a test of your own observation ability and ability. Judgment is biased.

Of course, Li He was helpless. Generally speaking, there would be no peace at the junction of two provinces. It was not just the local junction of two provinces. Xiangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, Mongolia and Shaanxi, it was difficult to be alone.

The legendary no-no-no zone is almost the same in every province. If the regional black mode is turned on, no one can escape.

Even twins are not identical, and some people can actually summarize their personality traits on a provincial basis.

If you read "The Dutch all steal manhole covers", then the Netherlands will look like this: lawyers, civil servants and doctors meet at night to steal manhole covers, students attend classes during the day, and team up in the dark to steal manhole covers at night. Billionaires drive their Ferraris to hit manhole covers at night.

The place is dark, which vaguely makes people feel that there is a kind of divine logic.

Moreover, geographical blackness can rise to the level of metaphysics, such as "I can tell who is from where at a glance."

Like "Yes, yes, my ex is also an Aquarius, very emotional", "I am a gentle Pisces", "I am a Scorpio, we are the same".

Li He took another look at the iron pillar at the door of the pig pen, and couldn't help but feel a little sad for the driver.

At this time of winter, both sides of the Huaihe River were desolate. Two once hostile armies were fighting on both sides of the Huaihe River. They were all brothers and sisters, and their blood was equally red.

There are fewer and fewer young people who survived then, and now there are fewer and fewer old people.

The Huaihe River bears too many things, not only the reality itself, but also history, philosophy, and some kind of symbolic meaning...

Li He suddenly felt that "Huai" was excellent. The word "Huai" means "from the water, the sound of quails", which means that many water birds are singing and flying on the water.

I have completed the task given to me by my eldest sister Li Mei. I don’t need to pick up the dictionary anymore, just call me Yang Huai.

After walking a few steps, I saw many large and small sand piles in the distance.

Along the path, after a few turns, Li He's eyes suddenly opened up. Next to the river, the sound of the diesel engine's motor was loud, and the outlet of the sand suction pump continued to discharge turbid yellow water. There is also a tractor loading sand next to it.

Stepping on the muddy sand and walking a few steps forward, Chen Yongqiang said to the side: "They started mining sand last year, working day and night, pumping in shifts!"

The third child said enviously, "It's very profitable, brother, how about we do it too?"

"What are you doing?" Li He looked at Lao San with a smile.

"It sucks sand." Li Long said.

Li He saw Lao San's chest rising and rising, and his face full of longing. It was obvious that he had been attracted by the huge profits from sucking sand.

Thinking of the sand suction boats that are densely packed on both sides of the Huaihe River, my scalp goes numb. The Huaihe River is rich in sand and gravel resources, with large reserves and high quality, but basically all of them are illegal sand mining boats.

There was a saying at that time that "drinking the water from the Huaihe River and absorbing the sand from the Huaihe River will make both sides of the Huaihe River rich, and blowing the wind from the Qinling Mountains and watching the trees from the Qinling Mountains will benefit thousands of mountains in the Qinling Mountains."

With the subsequent economic development, the sand and gravel market demand was huge and profits were huge, which gave rise to the predatory mining of sand and gravel in the Huaihe River channel. Crazy mining activities also pose a huge threat to local water supply and shipping.

These ship owners started washing sand to make a living, but later as the sand and gravel market grew, they all made a fortune, and they all gambled on their own money. The measuring ruler is used to "count money". Once measured with the ruler, a pile of money can be estimated to be hundreds of thousands.

Later, as I started gambling, money became just a number and I no longer had much of a concept.

"First cultivate your few acres of land with peace of mind. There is no need to do this kind of business." Li He did not talk about the ungrounded topic of destroying the ecological environment, and no one understood him if he did.

If he can't stop others, he should take care of himself first.

"Brother!" Li Long was anxious.

Chen Yongqiang rubbed his hands and was also very puzzled: "Erhe, look, this is such a profitable thing, it's quite good to do it, do it early and make money early."

The weather was very cold. Li He turned around and saw Li Long and Chen Yongqiang with their hands in their sleeves, their faces full of anxiety and confusion.

Li He glanced at his third brother and Chen Yongqiang and said to them, "You are still young."

"It's quite delicious." Li Long answered confusedly as he didn't know what medicine Li He was selling in the gourd.

"Sand mining is such a lucrative business, do you think you are the only ones keeping an eye on it? You guys can't get enough of it. Sand mining is easy, but who do you sell it to, how do you transport it, and which ship owner do you know?" Li He said.