1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 228 This World (1)

(An urgent chapter)
Wang Erpang had no idea how much his words, as the object of ridicule, had affected the young and old men on the same bus and the bus drivers at the transfer station. He also had no idea why those uncles and aunts who liked to make fun of him suddenly took the bus back to their respective villages at Lanling Bus Station.

Although this did not stop him from happily delivering the pitiful six half-grown chickens to the Momo Baizha franchise store, what he did not know was that

This fool, and the words he said at the bus station, quietly fanned a humble breeze in this era when information was not well developed and human nature was still pure...

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Lanling, Shanting District, a village under Shuitian Town that has not yet been merged.

A courtyard that didn't look so shabby was surrounded by people watching the fun.

In the middle of the yard, a young man who was less than thirty years old was kneeling.

An old man walked out of the house, glared at the young man with a look of dismay, then stretched out his foot without any courtesy, and kicked the young man to the ground viciously: "Come on, Li Ergouzi, you have become more capable after a year of being out there! Now you have learned to force sales on your family!... Believe it or not, I will beat you half-paralyzed in front of everyone!"

The young man rolled over and continued to kneel without even looking at the embarrassed village party secretary next to him. Instead, he stiffened his neck and said in a muffled voice, "Uncle, I didn't force you to buy or sell! I told Zhao Qiang that I would exchange my two pigs for his chickens!"

Seeing the young man's confident look, the old man almost laughed out of anger: "You want to use your two pigs to replace them? How can your two half-grown piglets be exchanged for the more than 60 chickens that Qiangzi raised with great effort?!"

To be honest, if the village party secretary hadn't been standing next to him, he would have swung at him with his crutch on the spot.

Two piglets weighing only 60 to 70 kilograms were trying to exchange for more than 60 fat and strong fighting cocks...

You are a good abacus boy. With this one in and one out, you can immediately make hundreds of dollars in profit.

We are all from the same village, this is not the way to take advantage of others!!
The young man glared at a man who was about the same age as him, and straightened his neck again: "Why can't I exchange it? If you think my pigs are too small, I will help him raise them until the end of the year! If you still think they are too small, I will help him raise them to 200 kilograms!... Two 200-kilogram fat pigs for his dozens of wilted chickens, who loses and who gains, uncle, please give me some advice!?"

The old man was stunned.

Help to support it until the end of the year?

In this case, Qiangzi actually got the big advantage. Why didn’t I hear about this just now?
Thinking of this, the old man turned his head and looked at Zhao Qiang standing in front of the crowd, with a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

The man saw this and pointed at the bruise on his hand with a wronged look on his face: "Uncle, Er Gouzi did say this when he rushed to the door; but you didn't see the situation at that time, he was almost about to start robbing, how could I dare to believe it!"

"Besides, everyone in the village knows that these two pigs are what Er Gouzi wants to sell to get a wife. He took these two pigs and insisted on exchanging them for the chickens that I raised with great effort... Isn't this a rogue act!?"

What he said made sense. Not to mention that it was wrong to exchange pigs that had not been raised for ready-made chickens, if everyone knew that these two pigs were used as betrothal gifts for wives, then it would be pure cheating... We were all from the same village, and many things could not be measured by simple transactions. If he really did make the exchange, he would probably be criticized by others in the future.

Seeing everyone nodding and looking at him with more disdain, the young man kneeling on the ground suddenly became angry: "Bullshit! I, Li Ergou, may be poor and like to stir up trouble, but I am still a man after all. I keep my word. If I say I will trade with you, I will trade with you. If I say I will help you raise it until the end of the year, I will raise it until the end of the year... The police said that they will give it to you after the good thing, why can't you believe it!?"

As he said this, Li Ergou snorted heavily: "Don't use these two pigs as an excuse for my mother to tell me about getting a wife... I, Li Ergou, have been single for so many years. Now that I have lost the pigs, I can just keep raising them. There's no need to rush for this year!"

Glancing at a certain part of the crowd with a guilty conscience, Li Ergou stared at Zhao Qiang angrily: "Anyway, how I lose is my business, but you have to give me those chickens quickly, otherwise... Mr. Zhao, you will never live in peace for the rest of your fucking life!"

Seeing the young man swearing, the old man frowned, but he didn't care about it. Instead, he looked at him with some confusion: "Why do you have to exchange your pigs with Qiangzi for chickens? And you have to exchange it now?... If you really want to eat chicken, just bear with it for a few months and raise your two big fat pigs. Not to mention these dozens of chickens, you can exchange them for a hundred!"

This matter is a bit strange. It is normal for young people to be greedy and unable to control their mouths, but those two fat pigs are for Ergouzi to use to talk about his wife, which is unusual... People who have not lived in poor mountain villages will not know how attractive talking about a wife is to a rural bachelor.

Facing the most prestigious uncle in the village, Li Ergou didn't dare to act rashly. He could only answer honestly: "Uncle, although I am hot-tempered, I am not someone who can't control my mouth... I have eaten corn porridge mixed with pickles for so many years, I am used to it, and I don't really want to have a bite of chicken... Even if I want to have a bite of chicken, as you said, I can just endure it for a few more months. If it doesn't work, I can kill the two chickens at home and stew them into soup. There is no need to rush to find Zhao Qiang, that bastard."

At this point, Li Ergou was a little frustrated: "But there is no other way. I am in a hurry to get chickens, and they are big roosters that have already been raised... Now in the village, except for this bastard surnamed Zhao who raises dozens of chickens, the rest of the families don't have many more... So there is no other way, I can only find him."

The old man was confused: "You still didn't tell me why you were in such a hurry to exchange so many chickens?"

Looking at the people gathered in the yard, Li Ergou hesitated for a long while before he said dejectedly, "Uncle, I went out to work at the beginning of this year, but was chased back. Do you remember that?"

The old man nodded and said, "Remember, you were lucky to meet a kind person and be sent back. Otherwise, you would have walked over 200 miles with a fever, in the rain and on an empty stomach. When you return to the village, you should have been given a white wedding!"

Hearing his great uncle talking about his embarrassing experience, Li Ergou blushed, then straightened his expression: "I was stubborn and proud at the time. I had no skills, but I insisted on going out to work, so I ended up in such a mess. But no matter what, I was saved by someone out of kindness. Even if I am a beast, I will remember this kindness for the rest of my life!"

At this point, Li Ergou was silent: "Uncle, uncle and aunt, you haven't been outside much, so you don't understand some things... People are looked down upon when they leave their hometowns. When we leave Lanling, we are treated even worse by the peasants;"

"After spending a year on the coast, you have no idea what kind of situation and experience we country folks have in the city.

"So, it's hard for you to understand how I felt when I met someone who was willing to treat me as a human being in that situation."

"Although our Jianshanzi Village is poor, very poor...but we are poor but have backbone, and we know righteousness and justice!"

"Back then, they braved the cold rain, running around to feed me, give me injections and medicine, and took care of me. They even took the trouble to send me back from hundreds of miles away... Now they are in trouble. If I don't come out and help them, am I still a human being!?"

The uncle finally understood what was going on and took a deep breath: "Er Gouzi, are you saying...something happened at Qingfeng Food?"

Although Ergouzi and his companions were sent back by those illegal taxi drivers, it was the staff of Qingfeng Food who sent letters to each village and township to confirm their resettlement. Therefore, he naturally remembered which unit those people who kept calling him "my fellow villagers" were from.

Li Ergou nodded: "When I went to the town yesterday, I heard Aunt Chen from the district chattering about a fool who had no money but was carrying a shoulder pole to Dezhou to deliver chickens to Mo Mo Bai Zha... After asking, I learned that Qingfeng Food was in big trouble and would soon be out of chicken!" At this point, Li Ergou straightened his chest: "I know Qingfeng Food is now a big company. Even if I replace both pigs with chickens and send them over, it won't help them much."

"But the men of Jianshanzi Village may not have anything else, but we still have the bottom line... Even if I, Li Ergou, am a bastard, I still remember the lesson my mother taught me to be grateful. Even if I gave that bastard Zhao Qiang a fat pig for free, even if I remain single for the rest of my life, I will definitely exchange it for these dozens of chickens!"

When everyone heard this, their expressions when they looked at Li Ergou suddenly changed.

The old man's chest rose and fell when he heard these powerful words: "Okay! Although you always like to stir up trouble in the village, based on what you just said... you didn't tarnish the reputation of our Jianshanzi Village!"

As he spoke, the old man, who had traveled around North and South Korea, stood up and stared at Li Ergou with burning eyes: "Ergou, are you going to sell these chickens to Qingfeng Foods, or send them directly?"

Li Ergou didn't dare to look at this uncle who beat up all the villagers with a cane. Hearing this, he just said in a muffled voice: "Even if I am poor, I would never do such a shameful thing... Naturally, I exchanged these dozens of chickens and gave them to others. How could I have the nerve to accept their money?"

The old man nodded with satisfaction after hearing this: "Although you are a jerk, your plan is quite authentic!"

As he spoke, he sighed with some emotion: "You're right. Things are different now. We poor peasants are all inferior and dirty. Our lives are so miserable. If we go out now, people won't even bother to look at us, let alone treat us as human beings!"

He chuckled twice: "Fellow villagers...huh?"

After a moment's hesitation, the old man suddenly turned his head and said, "Qiangzi, I am the one who makes the decision on this matter... Ergou will help you raise a pig for the New Year in exchange for your sixty-odd chickens. Do you agree?"

Zhao Qiang was no longer unhappy about the change from two pigs to one pig. He nodded immediately and said, "Okay, one is fine. Just ask Er Gou to write a note... Or how about this? Don't rush to give me this pig. Remember to wait until next year, when Er Gou gets married, you can help me raise another one!"

Li Ergou was overjoyed: "Okay! Next year I will help you raise your pigs fat. If they don't reach 200 kilograms, you'll kick me!"

The old man laughed and said, "It's settled then... Er Gouzi, remember to treat Qiangzi to a bottle of corn wine after this. After all, Qiangzi lost out on this!"

Li Ergou nodded vigorously again: "After I send the chickens over, I will come back to pick corn and brew a barrel of wine. If I don't make Qiangzi drunk, I will take his last name!"

After taking a look at Zhao Qiang's sad face, the old man smiled and then pondered for a moment: "I am sixty-eight years old this year, my teeth are not very good, and I don't have much appetite for the two New Year pigs raised at home;"

"I remember that there were actually quite a few people raising chickens in the village. Although they were scattered, they would probably add up to about 300 to 400 chickens."

"However, I don't have an appetite for those two pigs, so I might as well learn from Er Gouzi and use these two pigs to exchange for chickens raised by households in the village... I can exchange as many as I want, and when the two pigs are raised and slaughtered at the end of the year, each household can divide the meat among themselves!"

At the end, the old man smiled and said, "These days, there aren't many people who are willing to treat you with respect, and even fewer who are willing to treat you as one of their own... Since we have met one, no matter what, we must not let our Jianshanzi Village be looked down upon, right?"

After hearing what the old man meant, Li Ergou showed an expression of disbelief, while the others became angry: "Uncle, look at what you said, you look down on people, don't you?... Although the people in Jianshanzi Village are not rich, they are not ungrateful and polite..."

"I have three roosters at home. I'll let Er Gouzi take them all away tomorrow... It doesn't matter if it's money or not. If others are nice to me, how can I let them look down on me?"

"All the hens I raise at home are the ones that were ordered. There are four of them, and I don't know if they want them... Never mind, I'll have Er Gou deliver them all tomorrow."

"I have a lot of chickens at home, about ten or so. Let's just do this...except for leaving two old hens for my mother to nourish her body during the winter, let Er Gouzi take all the rest!"

"I have some at home..."

Hearing that these fellow villagers, who either liked him or not, generously credited the chickens they raised to their own names, Li Ergou, who usually had a rather twisted and irritable personality, felt his eyes moisten at this moment.

Just as everyone was reporting the number of roosters and hens in their homes, and finding paper and pens on the spot to clumsily draw crooked numbers on it, a discordant voice suddenly rang out.

"Uncle, although we are doing this to save face for our Jianshanzi Village, and it is a good thing...but there are almost 300 chickens, and we don't have a car. How are we going to deliver them?"

"Besides, the world is not stable nowadays. What if something goes wrong while sending so many chickens?"

Everyone turned their heads and found that the person who spoke was Zhao Qiang, who had a strange expression on his face.

The old man thought about it, then nodded in agreement: "Qiangzi is right. The world is a little unstable right now. If we send so many chickens all the way there, it's hard to say whether they will not be targeted by those ignorant people."

"only……"

"Although we in Jianshanzi Village always abide by our duties, if you think we are easy to bully, you are taking it for granted!"

As he spoke, the old man snorted coldly and showed a confident expression: "When we set out tomorrow, choose a few people from the village to follow Qiangzi... Remember to bring some weapons with you. You don't need to bring even bullets or anything like that. Just bring some three-barreled guns, bird guns, and the like!"

After giving instructions like a veteran on the battlefield, the old man ignored the bitter-looking village party secretary next to him and pondered for a moment: "But our village is poor, and it is indeed a problem that we don't have a car to transport goods;"

"How about this, we can take the half-grown pig from my house with us, stop a good car on the roadside, and when we get to Texas, we can use the pig as our fare and shipping fee!"

When everyone heard that they could take a long trip to Dezhou City to see the world, they cheered and began to compete for a spot on tomorrow's "escort team."

Amid the heated arguments of the villagers in Jianshanzi Village, the village director's face, wrinkled like a chrysanthemum, stood out...

(End of this chapter)