Chapter 61 Second Update: Spring Festival Return
By the time we got out of the train station, it was almost dark. It gets dark earlier and earlier in the cold winter.
Considering Ye Yu's high fighting ability, Han Jing did not suggest sending Ye Yu home. If there is real danger, Ye Yu will definitely not be the one in danger.
He simply inquired about the Ye family's address and found out that the two families did not live in the same area and were quite far away from each other.
But we are in the same city, so it is easy to meet each other.
Han Jing asked if he could visit during the Spring Festival and said positively: "There are gifts! Sugar peanuts? Pig blood cake? White sugar fried buns? Fried dumplings? Rice cakes, rice cakes, and eggs?"
He hesitated, but it was indeed not good for a gay man to go to a lesbian's home. However, there were some things that needed to be discussed regarding the rural construction plan for next year. Meeting outside during the Spring Festival would seem to have a worse impact.
"How about just forget it?"
“Should I prepare red envelopes in advance?”
Ye Yu's focus was completely different, and the two asked completely different questions.
“…”
If Xu Fei and Hua Feifei were here, they might suggest canceling the meeting or choosing a more suitable time. After all, Xu Fei is more thoughtful and Hua Feifei is more knowledgeable about the ways of the world.
But when the two were away, the disadvantages began to show.
The rebellious Ye Yu meets the carefree Han Jing. They decide to wait and see, and let things take their course.
This approach was proposed by Ye Yu, and Han Jing actually thought it made sense.
Xu Fei, Hua Feifei:
...This family is without their premature pills.
After saying goodbye to Ye Yu, Han Jing rushed to the nearby tram station and caught the last tram.
The ding ding car is a tram.
There is a bell hung on the front of the car, which is connected to a pedal. Whenever the driver steps on the pedal to start or brake, the bell will ring, hence the name.
The trams have been running in Yanjing City for three or four decades, and more people ride them than buses. However, there are too few routes and the number of stations they pass through is very limited.
Han Jing's home is not far from one of the platforms, and Han Jing has often taken the train since he was a child.
It was not until last year that the number of people riding the tram decreased. After the Little Red Soldiers in the city of Sijiu were cleared out in late 1977 for theft and robbery, the number of people riding the tram gradually increased, especially in the afternoon and evening when GWH got off work, so the plan to stop the tram operation was shelved.
Ye Yu probably didn't expect that just a "small" punishment for the little Red Soldier who reported her family would bring about so many chain reactions, from the tram mentioned by Han Jing to the teacher mentioned by Xu Fei. It doesn't feel bad.
Those who ride the trams may be grateful that they don't have to bear the cold wind in the cold winter, especially when they walk out of the station carrying large bags.
Han Jing, who got on the bus with a small bag, also met his three childhood friends. They grew up naked in the same compound and were also part of the same group that went to the countryside last year.
When they first met, he almost didn't recognize me.
The two boys, Zhongzi and Kaizi, have changed a lot. They have untidy beards on their faces, are two shades darker, rougher, and thinner. They are a bit like the bamboo-slim physique when they first went to the countryside, but they haven't grown taller.
The name Ma Shengnan has a competitive spirit. She has been like this since she was young. She is stubborn and never gives up. She will compete with her peers no matter what. She doesn't care about the gender of the boy or girl, as boys are more aggressive.
Now she looks much more haggard, not as energetic as before, and the smile on her face has diminished a lot, but fortunately her eyes are still clear and bright.
Unlike Han Jing, Zhong Zi, Kai Zi and Ma Shengnan saw him as soon as they came out of the train station.
The main reason is that Han Jing is tall. He is absolutely conspicuous among the crowd whose average height is about 1.7 meters.
But because there was a young and beautiful lesbian standing next to Han Jing at that time, they didn't want to disturb her. As friends, they just watched for a while.
They originally thought that Han Jing would definitely send the female comrade home first, but who knew that this idiot would let the female comrade walk away in another direction with her big bun in her hand without looking back.
Come on, it’s definitely not a relationship between a man and a woman. Han Jing is not that experienced yet.
What surprised them and made them angry was that Han Jing didn't even recognize them and ran past them with his bags brushing against theirs.
“…”
After they were in the car for a while, the boy stared at them for a few more times before he greeted them happily: "Zhongzi, Kaizi, Shengnan!"
Who cares about him?
Han Jing didn't notice his childhood friend's anger at all, and was still happily exclaiming: "What a coincidence, we set out together and come back together, it's so nice to see you!"
Okay, this guy is sweet-talking, let him go for once.
Zhongzi and Kaizi stepped forward and cooperated to choke Han Jing, and Ma Shengnan kicked him.
The few of them then began to chat about each other's experiences in the countryside.
It was very difficult for educated youth to adapt to the local environment right away. This was especially true for Zhong Zikaizi, who went from the north to the south.
As soon as they arrived in the south, Kaizi collapsed due to severe acclimatization and was given intravenous drips in the hospital for several days before he came back to life. If he hadn't had some connections at home and been able to make contact locally, he might have really died this time.
In fact, thanks to their family relationships, the two of them were able to switch to easier jobs instead of working in the fields, but they still couldn't adapt to the direct sunlight from the south, and the change in food such as pasta and rice. Now the noodles are not white flour, and the rice is not refined rice. The taste is different, and it takes time to adapt.
When talking about these experiences, they couldn't help but envy Han Jing.
He doesn't look like someone who was sent to the countryside to engage in construction. How many educated youth went to the countryside like him and still looked plump and well-fed? If you don't know him, you would think he was the stupid son of a landlord in the old society.
Han Jing couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Go away, who is fat? Stop talking nonsense."
It is true that he had been eating too well recently, especially the pork bone soup and other foods. He had also taken calcium and other nutritional supplements. The acne on his face had diminished a lot thanks to the clam oil, and his cheeks had gained some flesh, so he no longer looked like the skeleton and bamboo pole he used to be.
From this perspective, he has changed a lot, but all of the changes are for the better.
Unlike Zhong Zikaizi, Ma Shengnan went even further north to the Northeast, and they met in the train station.
The Northeast is a famous granary in our country, so naturally there are many and wide granaries. Although the mechanization is stronger than other places, almost every production team she is in has a tractor, but there is still a lot of work. In addition, she has some minor problems getting along with the educated youth in the same team. Doesn't this make her even more haggard?
"Tractor?" Han Jing pricked up his ears. "Unfortunately, our production team is in a mountain ravine. Four-wheeled vehicles can't get in, and tractors can't be used."
Ma Shengnan immediately suggested: "We can use a small four-wheeled hand-held tractor. It is light, compact, flexible, more suitable for small plots of land, and cheap. We used to use this one, but it was a bit difficult to use on large plots of land. We gradually replaced it with a new crawler tractor with high horsepower produced by the first tractor factory."
Han Jing became interested and asked Ma Shengnan about the whereabouts of the batch of second-hand walk-behind tractors.
In fact, Ma Shengnan mentioned this for a purpose. She knew that Han Jing had always been interested in machinery and knew the most among them. She thought that she and Han Jing would learn more about mechanics and then take the exam to become a tractor driver. Who said that a weak woman could not be a tractor driver? She didn't believe it!
"Weak woman?" Han Jing's mouth twitched. After meeting Ye Yu, who would dare to describe a woman as weak? "The most amazing thing about our Wangjiagou Production Team is the female educated youth. They are good at fighting wild boars and at dealing with tangles. They can guide the world without leaving their homes."
Zhong Zi, Kai Zi, Ma Sheng Nan: "Blow it!"
Han Jing immediately became dissatisfied. When had he ever boasted before? He immediately chatted with Zhong Zi, Kai Zi and Ma Shengnan about many interesting stories of the Wangjiagou production team.
Due to Xu Fei's repeated instructions, they didn't talk much about Ye Yu's hunting and their martial arts training in public. The forest ranger and Nanshan only mentioned it briefly.
Didn't Han Jing's article get published? He was just worried that he had no one to show off to, and when three childhood friends came up to him, he had no choice but to show off his article, as it was his first earnings from writing.
Report?
Is this guy's Chinese language better than theirs? How come he was even in the newspaper? "No wonder Wang Jiagou sounded familiar. He is the production team written about in XX Daily", "Your production team is really full of talents", "..."
They were still discussing this until they got off the bus.
The four families lived in a nearby government compound, where many retired military leaders lived, so there were guards on duty 24 hours a day.
Therefore, even when returning home, Han Jing and his friends' luggage had to be checked one by one.
Han Jing didn't bring much with him this time, not even any spare clothes, since he had enough at home. All he brought was food, mainly jars of meat sauce.
The main reason is that this thing is easy to find an excuse, and the meat sauce is made into a dish. Who cares whether it is wild boar or domestic pork? What if their production team has an extra abundance of pigs? Moreover, the proportion of meat sauce can be adjusted, and peppers and vegetables can be added to it.
As soon as the altar was opened, the spicy meaty smell rushed into people's noses.
Even the guards, who lived in the city and had smelled meat many times as the New Year was approaching, could not help but swallow their saliva. Not to mention Zhongzi, Kaizi, and Ma Shengnan, who lived in the countryside and barely saw meat once a month.
Their eyes were red with tears, they were very sure that Han Jing was living better in the countryside than at home, they had never seen any educated youth bring so many things home, plus the previous reports, this kid was returning home in glory.
In another civilian alley in the old city, Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidi were also entangled in this matter.
It was a tangle for several days.
If their children were not living well after leaving home, they would certainly be worried; if they were living too well, they would also be worried, especially if they had a girl like Ye Yu.
Now that we have the wild boar meat, how can we break into the wild boar forest? Next time, won’t we be able to fly into the sky and into the ground?
"This monkey is getting more and more outrageous." Wang Lai Di was both amused and angry at her little daughter.
Ye Yu heard her mother's complaints from a distance, refused the neighbors' help in forecasting, and ran away quickly. As soon as she entered the house, she took the initiative to say, "I'm back! Dad, Mom, I'm so tired, so hungry, I'm almost starving."