Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
Whether Hao Qingshang could be caught was not his concern; that was Zhang Xian's concern.
But Luan Fengshang is his business.
So Wan Feng suppressed the idea of seducing her, although he really wanted to see Luan Feng shake her butt.
A little after five o'clock, Zhang Xian appeared outside Luan Feng's house on time. After get off work, he would come to pick up Hao Qing and then go to his brother-in-law's house.
This set of procedures has been running for more than ten years, but there have been some changes today.
Wan Feng was waiting for him at the gate.
"How long would it take you to knock down an ordinary person of your height and weight?" Wan Feng asked straight to the point.
Zhang Xian was stunned.
"Just ordinary people?"
Wan Feng nodded: "I'm talking about ordinary people who don't know martial arts."
"One minute or less." Zhang Xian answered very quickly.
This speed is not slow, it's at the level of a boxer.
"What if there are two?"
"About two minutes."
"What about three?"
Zhang Xian hesitated for a moment: "This isn't very good. If we fight them one by one, it will take three to five minutes to solve the problem. If they attack together, it will take longer."
"So you're sure to win?"
"Almost." Zhang Xian was very confident.
"Have you ever practiced martial arts?"
Zhang Xian shook his head: "No, it was just beaten out from birth."
"You're such a good fighter, so you shouldn't be Mengzi's subordinate. You should be the boss, right?"
"Mengzi isn't a very good fighter, but he's relatively loyal."
Could it be a character like Song Jiang?
"Okay, you don't have to come to work tomorrow. Come with me to Bohai. I'll pay you as usual, and I'll cover the rest of the expenses."
"Going to Bohai? What are you going to Bohai for?"
"It might be a little dangerous, are you afraid?"
Zhang Xian pondered for a moment: "Who are they?"
"You and me."
"No, there's no such word as 'afraid' in my mind."
"That's all. Tomorrow morning, wait for the tractor at the Waqian team headquarters or here. Wear long-sleeved clothes."
Wan Feng went home to make preparations and made a list of things he needed to do in Bohai.
At 6:30 the next morning, Wan Feng arrived at Luan Feng's house.
There was not much smile on Luan Feng's face, and she seemed really worried that Wan Feng would bring back a city girl.
"Can you smile a little? You look like the wind is whistling and the water is cold."
"Feng'er is worried about you..."
"Shut up! You have lost your conscience. Look at Hao Qing."
Hao Qing was asking Zhang Xian about his well-being, telling him not to get hungry, sleepy or cold when he went out.
Women always talk a lot of nonsense. It's only mid-September and you're freezing cold.
The tractor finally arrived, and Zhang Hai also sat in the truck bed. He mainly went to the police station to get letters of introduction for Wan Feng and Zhang Xian. If Wan Feng and Zhang Xian went to get them themselves, it might take a lot of time.
It didn't take Zhang Hai long to get the letter of introduction. He got it in just a few minutes, and then he stayed in the commune to listen to the instructions of the commune leaders.
Wan Feng and Zhang Xian got off the tractor when it arrived at Xiangyang Bridge. It was only a hundred meters away from the bus station. If they took the bus to the county hospital, it would be farther away from the bus station.
This is the edge of Hongya County. Qianyao is two miles west of the bus station.
Later, the expanded passenger station of Hongya County was moved to Shuguang Village in the southwest, more than five miles away from here.
Wan Feng was empty-handed, and Zhang Xian was carrying a bag, and the two of them wandered into the bus station.
Wan Feng had already found out yesterday that there are four buses leaving Hongya for Bohai Sea, namely the morning bus at 5:30, the second bus at 6:30, the third bus at half past ten, and the fourth bus at half past ten.
Now it is past halfway, the first three buses have already left, and they can only take the fourth one.
It is 280 kilometers from Hongya to Bohai. The ticket price for one person is 2.5 yuan and the bus ride takes nearly five hours.
Wan Feng bought the ticket and got on the bus when the time came.
The bus was one of the oldest window buses, red and white on the outside, with a curved round butt at the back, which was very ugly.
This type of bus can often be seen in many movies before the 1980s.
Being ugly is secondary. The main thing is that this type of car is very slow. Its maximum speed is 60 kilometers per hour, but it can only run at around 50 kilometers per hour. It is not as fast as some of the abnormal electric cars in later generations.
Some electric cars in later generations can run at speeds exceeding 60 kilometers per hour.
There weren't many people on the bus. After all, at that time, ordinary people had no time and money to ride in a bus except those on business.
Wan Feng and Zhang Xian each chose a window seat, and then began a long car ride. At first, they were both enthusiastically looking at the scenery and chatting, but in the end, they both yawned and fell asleep leaning against the backrest.
After a bumpy ride, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Bohai City.
After getting off the car, the two looked confused.
In his previous life, Wan Feng came to Bohai twice, once in 1992 and once in 2015.
Don’t even compare it with 2015, even with 1992, the Bohai Sea in 1980 was also terrible.
At that time, Jinzhou District was still called Jin County, the development zone was still a mudflat, and even most of Shahe District was still at the rural level. The only prosperous place was Zhongshan District, and even Ganjing District was extremely desolate.
The only impression Wan Feng had of Bohai City in his memory couldn't be found to match it at all.
Zhang Xian stared at the tram running on the street in a daze. It was the first time he saw a train running in the city.
"Why isn't this train smoking?"
"Yan Pao, this is electricity for the tram, so don't talk too much and don't let people know we are from the countryside."
"Aren't we from the country?"
"Even then, I can't. Let's find a hotel first and then go eat."
The place where they got off the bus was called Xianglujiao. A few years later, the first overpass in Bohai City was built here, and now it is about the size of a township government seat in later generations.
On the bus, Wan Feng asked the ticket seller, who told him that there was a state-owned hotel nearby.
The two of them walked along the street and finally saw the hotel two hundred meters away from the Xianglujiao Bus Station.
The ticket seller was very conscious. He took Wan Feng and the other two's letter of introduction and read it for a while. It was rare for two young men under the age of twenty to go out alone these days, especially when one of them looked only about thirteen or fourteen years old.
The big bunk bed in a room with twelve people costs one dollar per person.
The waiter brought Wan Feng and the others to a room like this, and with a cold face, he said that the washroom and toilet were at the other end of the corridor, and left without looking back.
Fortunately, this hotel only has one corridor, otherwise I would have to look for a long time to use the restroom.
After arranging accommodation, the two went to eat. They found the restaurant without any difficulty. They had already seen where the restaurant was when they were looking for the hotel just now.
It was past lunch time and there were not many people in the restaurant.
The two of them ordered two bowls of rice and two dishes and ate them.
"What should we do next?" Zhang Hai asked after a burp.
Yes, what should I do next? Wan Feng had no idea, as he was not familiar with this place.