Chapter 22 The family goes to the city. It was still dark   the next day

When he learned that he was going to the city the next day, he was so excited that he didn't go to bed until midnight. He got up early and saw the rice porridge on the table. He knocked excitedly Shen Zhihuan's door rang.

  "Third sister, the sun is shining on your butt."

  The sleepy Shen Zhihuan turned to look at the sky outside the small wooden frame window and sighed helplessly.

  She only squinted for a long time before it was daybreak.

  "Third sister, third sister." Xiao Weidong, who received no response, directly raised his voice.

  "I heard you! Get up right now." Shen Zhihuan patted his dizzy forehead and got up in one go.

  The family of three had a hasty breakfast, and their genius was bright.

  While Li Qiuhua was carrying some peaches that Shen Zhihuan had taken out from the resort yesterday to Wang Baotian's house to say hello, Xiao Weidong put on his only unpatched cloth gown. Seeing his cautious appearance, Shen Zhihuan felt inexplicably sad. .

  "Third sister, is the county very big? Are there the big buildings in the county that Xiaopang mentioned?" Xiao Weidong looked at Shen Zhihuan happily, excitement and excitement filling his thin face.

  "It's very big, and there are big buildings like the little fat guy said." Shen Zhihuan gently pinched Xiao Weidong's slightly thin face.

  After selling the ginseng, the money came from somewhere. It's time to give this kid a good supplement.

  The five-year-old little guy looks as tall as a three-year-old baby.

  "Third sister, are we going to the county seat in a four-wheel vehicle?" Xiao Weidong asked happily.

  "Yes! We will take a four-wheel bus to the county seat." Shen Zhihuan nodded with a smile.

  "Why can a four-wheel cart run so fast without oxen pulling it in front?" Xiao Weidong scratched his head.

  "The four-wheel cart is not pulled by oxen because it burns gasoline." Shen Zhihuan said with a smile.

  "Can Uncle Wang's bullock cart burn gasoline?" Xiao Weidong blinked and looked at Shen Zhihuan with bright eyes.

  "No."

  "Why not?"

  "Gasline-burning cars are all made of iron. Are Uncle Wang's ox carts made of iron?"

  "Then from now on, Uncle Wang's ox carts will be made of iron. , you can burn gasoline, right?"

  "..." Shen Zhihuan raised his head.

  A bullock cart does not need to be pulled by oxen, but if it burns gasoline, is it still called a bullock cart?

  The production team has a holiday today, and there are a lot of people going to town. Fortunately, the family of three left early, otherwise they would have to walk to town like those who came late.

  Sitting on the rickety bullock cart, Xiao Weidong pulled Shen Zhihuan's arm, grinning from ear to ear with joy.

  Maybe the production team is on holiday, and there are a lot of people waiting for the bus today.

  Fortunately, Shuangsha Town is the terminal station of this bus. Otherwise, just looking at the crowd waiting for the bus, one would know what kind of hard battle they are about to face.

  Just as Shen Zhihuan was thinking about it, the bus came slowly from the direction of the county seat.

  Before the people in the car had finished getting off, people waiting for the bus were swarming up.

  Li Qiuhua carried a backpack on her back and protected Shen Zhihuan and Xiao Weidong in front of her. When Shen Zhihuan and Xiao Weidong both squeezed in, she got on the bus while waiting for the bus passengers to push me.

  When Shen Zhihuan and Xiao Weidong squeezed in, there were only two seats left at the back of the huge bus. When Li Qiuhua came up, the three of them squeezed and sat down reluctantly.

  Little Weidong, who was sitting by the window, sometimes touched the cold iron chair under his buttocks, and sometimes touched the back of the chair in front of him. The corners of his cracked mouth reached to the base of his ears.

  Li Qiuhua, who had been nervous since last night, felt as if her heart was hanging in her throat, making her unable to breathe.

  Shen Zhihuan patted Li Qiuhua's nervous and trembling hands reassuringly, and whispered: "Mom, you have me."

  Li Qiuhua bit her lip and nodded lightly, but her heart was still in a state of trembling.     There were too many people on the bus, and in the end it was almost people sitting next to each other.

  The car was bumpy all the way, and the people in the car were jostling around.

  Little Weidong raised his little head and watched with interest as the people standing on the aisle leaned forward, leaned back, swayed left and right as the car bumped.

  Until the bus arrived and stopped, Xiao Weidong still looked unsatisfied.

  Li Qiuhua has only been to the county twice in total. The most recent time was when she and Shen Jianguo were engaged. In order to buy a decent wedding dress, she and Shen Jianguo took the twenty yuan and cloth coupons given by Butcher Li...

  Twenty dollars flashed by Over the years, the county has experienced more than earth-shaking changes.

  "Third sister, look at the big building." Xiao Weidong pointed to the six-story building not far away and said happily.

  Looking at the six-story buildings rising from the ground, Li Qiuhua's uneasiness became more and more intense.

  Shen Zhihuan smiled and rubbed Xiao Weidong's soft short hair, and put his arms around Li Qiuhua's slightly trembling shoulders.

  She originally wanted to wander around and then go to Baokang Pharmacy on East Street to avoid Li Qiuhua thinking too much, but seeing Li Qiuhua's state, Shen Zhihuan didn't dare to bother anymore and led Li Qiuhua and Xiao Weidong straight to East Street.

  Looking at the drug store with people coming and going, Li Qiuhua's thin body was shaking like chaff.

  Shen Zhihuan pinched the swollen eyebrows, held Li Qiuhua's face with one hand, and held Li Qiuhua with the other hand, looking around. Like a curious baby, little Weidong strode into Baokang Pharmacy.

  At the counter, two or three young men were picking up medicines, weighing them, and packing them quickly.

  A young boy saw the family of three coming in and hurriedly came out to greet them.

  "Comrade, are you here to buy medicine or see a doctor?"

  "We're looking for your shopkeeper." Shen Zhihuan patted the cloth bundle she had been carrying on her wrist.

  Seeing this, the little boy nodded lightly and led the three of them straight to the backyard of the drug store.

  In the open space in the backyard, two boys were squatting there and drying something. A man in his fifties who looked like a shopkeeper was sleeping on a recliner under the tree, his eyes half closed, and the bamboo fan in his hand was shaking constantly. .

  "Master, someone is looking for you." The boy walked over quickly and bowed.

  The man's half-closed eyebrows were raised slightly, and he looked at Shen Zhihuan and the others with a somewhat appraising look.

  Shen Zhihuan untied the cloth bundle made of rotten clothes and revealed a corner.

  The man's eyes lit up, then darkened calmly for a moment.

  The man stood up, glanced at the room, and motioned for Shen Zhihuan and others to come in and talk.

  After the door was closed, the man carefully opened the moss, and a pair of dark eyes suddenly shone with light at the moment when the ginseng was completely exposed.

  "Make a price!" After a while, the man looked at Shen Zhihuan, with a hint of uncontrollable excitement in his voice.

  "Two thousand." Shen Zhihuan's voice was soft and gentle, and there was no wave in his tone.

  Xie Kanglai frowned, and his shrewd eyes swept across the three people opposite him again.

  Shen Zhihuan raised his chin slightly, his eyes not averting an inch.

  One is so panicked, the other is so cute and tight, and the other is...

  a hot-rod meat!

  Xie Kanglai snorted in his heart.