Riding the wind of rebirth

Basically, you can't stand up once you sit down, and you can't sit down again once you stand up. The entire train is absolutely 100% solid, and there is no place to stand even in the toilet or washbasin.

If someone wants to go to the toilet, they must first ask the person in the toilet to come out, and then return the toilet to the person after they are done. Therefore, many people are reluctant to go to the toilet through the crowds until they can no longer hold it.

The wash basin is a must-have for strategists. Not only can you sit on it, but if you are smaller, you can also lie down on it. It may look a bit ugly, but it is better than standing.

However, it is difficult to get such a prime position if you don't get on the bus at the starting point.

"Can't we take a plane?" Mai Xiaomiao asked while eating the sweet fermented glutinous rice wine egg.

"Yes. Datou has a good income now. He can actually take a plane to Yuzhou and then take a bus back."

"Then your fifth uncle must not agree yet." The second sister-in-law said: "According to his words, the money for a plane ticket is enough to buy three pigs. He can still live for many years, so there is no need to rush for Datou to come back to see him."

"Pfft..." Zhou Zhi laughed so hard that a mouthful of fermented glutinous rice water sprayed back into the bowl. He choked and started coughing. Mai Xiaomiao was so scared that she quickly patted him on the back.

After a long while of fussing, Zhou Zhi finally calmed down and said with a smile, "Ahem... Actually, I have some connections in Guangzhou, so it shouldn't be a problem to get a sleeper ticket. If Datou wants to come back, let him call me and I'll find someone to get him a sleeper ticket. He won't have to suffer a lot less. Should my fifth uncle and aunt accept this?"

"What should we accept?" Uncle Wu had already appeared at the door and asked Zhou Zhi, "Hey, who is this?"

"This is my good friend and colleague, Mai Xiaomiao. Xiao Miao calls me Uncle Five and Aunt Five."

"Hello, fifth uncle, hello, fifth aunt." Mai Xiaomiao now knows to stand up when greeting elders.

"Sit down, sit down..." Uncle Wu quickly asked everyone to sit down: "Our conditions in the countryside are poor, young lady, please bear with it."

"Uncle Wu, don't say that. I think it's pretty good. Dajing Township is at least much better than the former Lianhe Township."

"I heard from your mother that you are working on some project in the countryside of Liangshan Prefecture?" Fifth Uncle asked, "Xiao Miao is a delicate girl who looks like someone from a big city. Are you bringing her along to suffer with you?"

"No, no, the conditions were already much better when I went there." Mai Xiaomiao was afraid that Zhou Zhi would be misunderstood, so she quickly explained.

"There's no other way. I really can't live without her." Zhou Zhi's words made Mai Xiaomiao smile.

"Elbow, what were you talking about just now? It seemed like something about train tickets?" Fifth aunt asked because she was worried about her youngest son.

"Yes, I said that if Datou wants to come back for the Spring Festival, I can get him a sleeper ticket." Zhou Zhi said, "I have a good classmate who is from Yuezhou. His family has many connections. In addition, Yu Sange also has close ties with the railway over there and has been doing business there for a long time. It doesn't matter who you find. The key is to determine which day he will come back and when he will arrive in Yuezhou. Knowing these will help us make arrangements in advance."

"Sleeper tickets aren't cheap either..."

Before the fifth uncle could finish his words, he was interrupted by the fifth aunt: "You don't want to see your son, but I still want to see him! Datou has become successful now, it's fine if you don't allow him to take a plane, but you can't even take a train?!"

"Sleeper tickets aren't that expensive." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "It will be easier if we go back. We can even let him go find Brother Dayong himself."

"I'll call him later." Fifth aunt said happily, "Then let Dachuan's third sister bring Xiaocheng back, and our family will be together this Spring Festival."

The second brother came over with a big bamboo cover: "Elbow, let's go to the fields to catch fish!" "How dare you bring guests with you!" Fifth aunt stopped him immediately: "Why are you working in the fields in such a cold day?!"

"When did Elbow become a guest?" The second brother asked in confusion, "Hasn't he liked to play these tricks since he was a child?"

"Xiao Miao has never seen it." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Let's go catch some fish for him to see. It will be quick and they won't freeze!"

There are two large fields on the way from the new house to this side. The children of my fifth uncle have not moved out, so the land of Su Ziyuan and Su Ziqiao is still there. Now that the second son has divided the family, the land of my fifth uncle has been divided in half. The land on this side of the main road is all given to Su Zifeng for cultivation, and the old couple is guarding the area around the new house. The firewood mountain has not been divided and is still shared by everyone.

However, Chaishan has now been developed into an orchard and bamboo forest. Su Zifeng was quick-witted and opened a teahouse and convenience store on the roadside. He is also responsible for cleaning the trucks, adding water, repairing tires, cooking for the drivers, and other tasks.

There is a lot of coal being pulled out of Guizhou. When drivers carrying coal pass by here, they will sell some to my second brother at a low price. Then my second brother will use the faucet to spray water on the car body to restore the weight of the coal car.

This is a necessary measure, mainly to prevent the coal from spontaneously igniting due to friction in the carriage, but it has also become a tacitly accepted way for coal truck drivers to earn extra money.

In this way, my second brother not only switched to burning coal in his own family and that of his fifth uncle, but he also started a coal retail business.

Sliding down the field from the side of a large coal pile, several turbid water lines appeared in the ditch dug beside the rice stubble in the field, shooting away panickedly into the distance.

"Fish!" Mai Xiaomiao clapped his hands and shouted excitedly.

The second brother took aim at a pool of muddy water, raised the cover and pressed it down suddenly, and a crackling sound came from inside the cover.

"It's covered, grab the elbow quickly!"

Zhou Zhi rolled up his sleeves and reached into the cover to feel around a few times, then he pulled out a rice carp weighing more than a pound: "Hehehe, we're open!"

This field is considered large in Dajing Township, almost one acre in size. My second brother specially put fish fry in the field when he was planting rice. After the rice was harvested, he dug several deep ditches in the field, connected by several deep pits, for the fish to overwinter.

It is naturally very convenient to catch them now.

In a short while, the two caught a big bucket, which included carp, crucian carp, loach and eel.

Lunch was prepared by my fifth aunt and second sister-in-law. The cold dish was a mix of watercress and broccoli slices dug from the edge of the field. The cured pork leg of the newly slaughtered pig was used to stew radish. Carp was made into Tuotuo fish, small crucian carp and loach were made into fried crispy fish, and eel was made into eel with bamboo shoots and garlic. In addition, they made local chicken soup and fried chicken offal, and used the chicken soup to simmer sweet potato vermicelli, chicken blood, and pea tips. The vegetarian dish was a plate of stir-fried cabbage moss.

"Wow, this radish is really delicious!" Mai Xiaomiao praised the big radish from his fifth uncle's house.

"Xiao Miao, eat more meat." Fifth Aunt greeted her warmly, "The pigs are bigger this year, and the bacon is a bit fat. Eat the lean ones."

"All the dishes cooked by my fifth aunt are delicious, but she said she would take this radish elbow to Lianhe Township to be planted. I'm curious about how delicious it will be and how much she would remember it forever." Mai Xiaomiao said with a smile.

"This radish is from one year... I think it was 1982? We bought the seedlings at the market, and the radishes we grew that year were big and sweet, with the big ones weighing three pounds." Fifth Uncle introduced: "We saved the seeds and planted some almost every year. Every time Elbow comes, his favorite food is this radish and the cabbage from the countryside." (End of this chapter)