Winner in life

Seeing his siblings chatting with each other, Zhang Dashan stood aside awkwardly, touching his nose and pretending to be invisible. Zhang Ping glanced at him, hating that iron could not become steel. She had already asked the younger brother why the two younger brothers were not in love, and was very angry with the older brother.

How could there be an eldest brother who went to his younger brother's house to steal money?

She sighed and looked away, continuing to tell her little brother what to pay attention to when living outside, and also gave Ruihe the food she brought from home.

Ruihe listened obediently and kept nodding, silently packing everything into his luggage.

"Ride slowly, the flood is heavy, please."

"Be safe on the road!"

"This is the team's bonus, please keep it." Zhang Aiguo and Zhang Tiansheng also came to see him off, encouraging him to study hard and bring honor to his hometown.

"Bon voyage." Zhang Qingnan also hugged her daughter and said goodbye to him, "I will write to Brother Cai Heng to tell him the good news."

Ruihe sat in the back seat, holding his luggage tightly in one hand and waving to his relatives and friends with the other. Those expectant and blessing sights became blurred in tears. Ruihe waved hard and shouted: "Goodbye! Goodbye. !”

The rising sun exudes soft and gentle light, which spreads on the bumpy dirt road and keeps extending forward.

There is no train station in Chengyang City, Nanqin Province. You have to take a train to get to the river name of the provincial capital, and Ruihe needs to get a permit from the provincial government to enter Beijing to buy a train ticket. Therefore, Li Dashui bought Ruihe a train to the river name with a letter of introduction from the commune. Bus tickets.

Li Dashui went to the station yesterday to inquire. He could take a train directly to Kyoto in Heming. It takes eight hours by car from Chengyang to Heming, and the ticket costs two yuan and thirty cents.

But before going to the bus terminal, Ruihe had to go somewhere first.

"Here we go, I'll look at the things and you go get them."

Li Dashui drove Rui He to a stop in front of the rural credit cooperative in the city, and took the large package from Rui He with one hand.

"Then wait for me." After saying that, Ruihe ran into the credit facility.

It was around nine o'clock in the morning. I had been riding from the village to the city for an hour. The credit union happened to be open. Ruihe took the deposit slip to withdraw money. By the way, he asked if there was any handling fee for collecting the slip out of town. .

The teller said: "You can't withdraw it from other places. If you deposit it with me, you can only withdraw it here."

That's troublesome.

His sisters gave him twenty-six yuan and seventy cents, and the brigade rewarded him with five yuan. Keruihe was in awe of the unknown Kyoto and worried that the prices there were high and the money would not be enough. After thinking about it, he simply took out all the money. It would be more convenient to deposit and withdraw again when he arrived in Kyoto, so he took out all the money, took off his clothes in the public toilet outside and hid the money in his underwear pocket. After hiding it, I sewed it up with needle and thread. I only kept ten yuan with me as a spare.

In this way, he really brought all his wealth with him.

Ruihe patted his chest and exhaled slowly.

Li Dashui, who was waiting outside, saw him coming out and greeted him quickly: "Have you peed? Come up quickly. The car leaves at eleven o'clock, so we have to hurry up!"

The two of them continued to the passenger terminal. Fortunately, the roads in the city were much smoother than those in the countryside, so Lu Ruihe's buttocks felt better next time, but even so, it still took him twenty minutes to get to the train station, and his legs were numb when he got off the train.

"Let's take a seat. The bus won't arrive for more than half an hour."

Rui He nodded, found a corner to sit down, opened the food in his backpack and gave it to Li Dashui: "Just a little."

There were quite a lot of people in the passenger terminal. Li Dashui looked around while eating, and said to Ruihe: "This is my second time coming to the passenger terminal. I didn't expect that there are usually quite a lot of people. Where do you think they are going? To see relatives?" "

For a young man who had been living in Heliao commune and rarely went out before entering the bamboo factory, everything outside had an attraction that aroused all the curiosity in his heart.

Ruihe said: "It's also possible that he is going to other places to do business, or perhaps to travel?"

"Doing business? Traveling? Can we still do business? Nowadays, not all stores are state-owned. Doing business secretly is speculation and you will be jailed." Li Dashui lowered his voice.

"I'm just guessing. But I think now that the college entrance examination has resumed, it is very likely that we ordinary people will be able to do business in the future. Our lives will get better and better."

"I also want to take a train, Xiaoshan! When you get to school, remember to write me a letter and tell me what it feels like to take the train and what Kyoto is like, okay?"

"Of course I will write to you. I will definitely miss you. By the way, I was not at home when my sister-in-law gave birth to the baby. You must write to me after the baby is born." He was relieved that the baby was safe and healthy.

The bus came in at ten fifty.

"The ticket has been checked! The ticket has been checked!"

"Hurry up and check in!" Li Dashui hurriedly picked up his luggage and urged Ruihe to check in.

When the announcement sounded, people in the waiting room rushed over to queue up. Ruihe was also crowded in. Li Dashui followed him with his luggage. After Ruihe checked in, he handed his luggage to him, and then hugged Rui across the fence. After a while, he patted him on the shoulder vigorously: "Study hard and make progress every day!"

"Yes." Rui He had just finished speaking when he suddenly found something hanging around his neck. Just as he was about to ask Li Dashui, he stood up straight again and waved to him with a smile: "Goodbye."

"Passengers who have checked their tickets, please go in quickly and don't block it."

Ruihe had no choice but to stuff the small cloth bag hanging around his neck into his clothes, bid farewell to Li Dashui, and walked back with his luggage.

There were buses parked behind. Rui He found the one he wanted to sit on and got on the bus. The ticket inspector on the bus confirmed the ticket again and let him in. "Sit back!"

Ruihe stuffed his luggage hard, and the ticket inspector kept shouting to the passengers: "It's not this bus, get off quickly! Yours is next door, look at the bus number on the ticket..."

Soon the bus was filled with people, and the air in the bus was not very good. Ruihe opened the window and felt better. He lowered his head and fiddled with the small cloth bag around his neck. The small cloth bag was well sewn. It was only as long as his thumb, but there were three buttons sewn at the mouth of the bag. Ruihe opened the buttons one by one, revealing the contents of the bag.

It's money, and a letter.

Ruihe opened the letter, and inside was Li Dashui's handwriting, which was as informal as his character, with blessings for him written on it. His eyes couldn't help but turn red again, and he didn't take out the money to count. He just put the letter back and buttoned it, and stuffed the bag into his neck.

He sniffed and patted his chest gently.

"The car is about to start! Everyone, sit tight and hold on tight!"

The bus swayed as it drove out. Ruihe held his chest and felt a little nauseous. A male passenger next to him saw this and asked quickly: "Are you motion sick? Get a paper bag quickly and don't vomit outside. Comrade flight attendant, please get a paper bag! Someone here wants to vomit!"

The flight attendant was helping to put away the luggage in front of the car. After hearing this, he immediately handed over two paper bags and told Ruihe to vomit inside if he wanted to vomit: "Put it away after vomiting and don't throw it away. Throw it out again when the car is parked. If you vomit outside, you will be fined." Yes, even if the bag is not thrown away, the cleaning fee is 10 cents a time.”

Rui He was so frightened that he felt like vomiting and suddenly shrank back, and nodded hurriedly: "Don't worry, I will be careful."

Strangely enough, Ruihe didn't want to vomit after that, he just felt dizzy. It was the male passenger who said, "Did you bring anything sour? Orange, ginger or plum will do. Just eat some and squeeze it down."

Rui He thanked each other for the reminder and began to pick up the things in the backpack. His thermos contained water, but it was just sugar water. There was still a lot of food, but nothing sour. He turned around and remembered that he had brought home-made orange jam, so he took it out and took a spoonful of it in the enamel jar. He mixed half the jar of sweet and sour orange water with sugar water in the thermos and sipped it slowly. The uncomfortable feeling was relieved a lot.

"Is this your first time riding a bus?" The male passenger said with a smile, "Just get used to it."

Rui He smiled at him: "Thank you for the reminder."

"You're welcome. Let's help each other out."

Ruihe drove to Heming in a daze. It was already six o'clock in the afternoon when he finally arrived at the name of the river. He had to take the letter of introduction to find a guest house to stay for one night. Early the next morning, he rushed to the provincial government to get a letter of introduction. He hurriedly bought the train ticket at 12 noon.

The conductor said that the nearest ticket to Kyoto was at 5:30 pm and asked him if he could buy it.

"purchase!"

"The standing ticket is two yuan, the hard seat ticket is three yuan and eighty cents, the hard sleeper ticket is four yuan and fifty cents, and the soft sleeper ticket is five yuan and two cents."

"Bring me a hard seat."

The conductor looked at him: "It takes eight days and eight nights to get to Kyoto. Are you sure you want a hard seat? We are the departure station and the number of seats is relatively loose. If you need to make up for a hard sleeper on the way, there may be no seats."

Rui He thought for a while and thanked the conductor for the kind reminder: "Then give me a hard sleeper." For eight days and eight nights, if he was tired and sick during the journey, it would be more troublesome to report. After all, he was only one person and the only one he could rely on was himself.

The train started in the evening, and Ruihe waited at the train station in Heming.

The day passed in such a hurry, and Ruihe was extremely tired. Fortunately, everything that needs to be done has been done, all we have to do is wait to take the train.

He really didn't expect that traveling far away in this world would be so troublesome.

While waiting for the train he took the time to have lunch. He brought a total of three luggage, including a large bag of quilts, clothes, shoes and socks. Last night he sewed the sheets together to make a package, stuffed the clothes inside, and finally tied the package tightly with bamboo strips dried and heated by the sun. The other two luggages are the backpacks I packed myself, which contain enamel jars, hot water bottles, food and other odds and ends.

He didn't plan to bring anything else with him. After all, Kyoto was too far away and was inconvenient. He also thought that a place like Kyoto must be very prosperous and it shouldn't be difficult to buy things. He planned to go there to buy daily necessities. Another reason is that the day of departure was too late and it was too late to buy anything.

Lunch was brought to him by his sisters, and he ate it with the hot water in the water room in the waiting hall. Finally, he poured out the cold water in the thermos bottle and made new hot water.

While waiting for the train in the waiting room, there were vendors quietly walking between the seats selling things. He was reluctant to buy anything. The travel expenses cost almost seven yuan, which was really too expensive. Anyway, I brought food with me, so I didn’t need to buy anything else.

The hawkers do business very secretly, but there are many varieties, including tea eggs, sesame cakes, fried dough sticks, soy milk and even hot porridge. The hawkers carefully hide the food in their coats and ask while walking in the waiting room: "Do you want it? Is there any hot porridge?" Hot rice, tea, egg and sausage..."

The aroma overflowed as they got closer. Ruihe silently bit into the sweet potato pancakes in his belly. When a vendor approached him and asked, he waved his hand to say no.

Heming is the capital city of Nanqin Province and a necessary transportation route from the south to the north. Not only can it reach Kyoto directly, but it can also go to the ancient capital Luochuan and Shanghai.

While waiting, Ruihe read the train schedule in the waiting hall and silently memorized the name of Shanghai - this is also the same place name as in the real world. He also went out of the station to walk around. The outside of the station was very lively, with more vendors selling food and daily necessities, which made Ruihe very curious.

Suddenly someone shouted: "The people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau are here again!"

Then, like a flock of frightened pigeons, all the vendors rolled up, wrapped, dragged, and hugged their things quickly, and disappeared into the crowd.

Ruihe was stunned.

While waiting for the train, Ruihe squatted at the door to bask in the sun, watching the vendors and the people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau fighting wits and courage.

In this train station, Ruihe saw a more vibrant side than Shangmei Village and Heliao Commune. Free and individual business is an unstoppable historical trend. People in Heming, the provincial capital, are bolder than those in Heliao Commune. At least he did not see any vendors secretly selling things in Chengyang Bus Station. Maybe there were some that he did not see, but the number was definitely not as large as in Heming.

Thinking about the business, he also thought about himself. He took the first step to change his original life and was admitted to the famous Boyang University in China. Does this count as a preliminary success?

Once he thought about it, he thought far ahead.