When Li Jianghai howled, the air in the car suddenly froze.
Even the chickens running around in the aisle stopped fluttering their wings and all tilted their heads to look at him.
In an instant, the only sound in the entire carriage was Li Jianghai's sobbing!
"My disappointing son..."
He drawled out his words, his voice trembling as if he would die at any moment. "He was only eighteen and was arrested! When the news reached the village, everyone was stunned!"
He wiped away his non-existent tears before continuing, "Two months ago, this guy wrote to the village, saying he would take more than 20 young men to Haicheng to work and earn 200 yuan a month!
At that time, the whole village was overjoyed. They all said that my son had made great progress and would lead everyone out of poverty and into prosperity... He was the pride of our village!
At this point, he sobbed again, "But who would have thought that yesterday the police station called the village head's house and said that my son was committing fraud and the entire gang was arrested!
The villagers were getting anxious and insisted that I go and see what was going on..."
The old lady sitting opposite was already slapping her chest, saying "ouch ouch ouch", and kept muttering, "What a sin... What a sin..."
Several parents nearby immediately pulled their children into their arms and started scolding them one after another.
"Did you hear that? This is what happens when you don't learn your lesson! You're already in jail at 18, and maybe you'll even have to eat peanuts! Are you afraid?"
"If you dare to do this, I will break your legs!"
A middle-aged man wearing glasses pushed up his glasses and sternly lectured his son: "See? This is what it means to be greedy for small profits and suffer big losses! Two hundred a month?
Can pie in the sky fall for those rural people who are not well-educated?
No matter how you listen to this, it sounds weird!
The aunt on the other side sighed and stuffed two red-skinned eggs into Li Jianghai's hands: "Brother, children are debts owed from past lives... Don't take it too seriously..."
She walked back, shaking her head, muttering, "What a sin... to have a son like this..."
The middle-aged man who had originally been talking to Li Jianghai had long lost interest in chatting him up!
He turned around and walked into the aisle, next to the young man in bell-bottom pants.
Bragging about how awesome it is to do business in Haicheng!
"Brother, I have connections in Haicheng! Did you see it?"
As he said that, he took out his mobile phone from his waistband and showed it off.
Li Jianghai stole a glance at the greasy-haired man and the young man, who were singing the same tune, and ignored him, feeling extremely happy.
Regardless of anything else, now his bulging crotch pocket is finally safe.
He wiped away his non-existent tears, made an excuse contentedly, and slipped into another carriage.
Who would have thought that as soon as I turned around, I would bump into a train conductor in uniform.
Reflexively, his legs gave way and he nearly fell to his knees. "Comrade, please understand! I truly had no idea what my unfilial son had done!"
The sound was so loud that half of the carriage could hear it.
After the conductor walked away with a puzzled look on his face, the greasy-haired man had disappeared.
Li Jianghai breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went into the bathroom.
As soon as I locked the door, I quickly touched my crotch.
Fortunately, the money is still there!
He took out the deformed tea egg from his pocket, and suddenly remembered the confident look on Li Guifang's face when she stuffed the egg into his pocket before he left.
This trick of self-torture was very clever. It not only scared away the stranger with ill intentions, but also got two red-skinned eggs for free.
I can't help but envy Li Guifang's brain, it's so smart and she has so many clever ideas!
I just wonder if Li Mingyu, who is working in an electronics factory, will sneeze for no reason at this moment.
At daybreak, the train puffed its way into Haicheng Railway Station.
Li Jianghai rubbed his aching waist and stared wide-eyed through the car window!
This is a little different from theirs!
He couldn't think of any words to describe it, he could only say, it's so big!
The huge crowd on the platform surged like a tide, a sweet female voice announced the station on the radio, and red words scrolled back and forth on the electronic display screen.
He looked down at his coal-dust-stained Liberation shoes and suddenly felt like a country bumpkin that had fallen into a phoenix's nest.
He followed the crowd and finally squeezed to the exit. The back of his clothes was already soaked with sweat.
He stood on tiptoe and looked around in the huge crowd, his eyes almost sore!
He still couldn't find Li Mingyu and thought that Li Mingyu didn't come to pick him up. That shouldn't be the case. They had agreed on a time when they called.
Just when I was worried, I heard a familiar cry:
"Dad! Here!"
Following the sound, I saw Li Mingyu jumping and waving next to the big fan on the west side of the exit.
Li Jianghai looked in the direction of the voice and almost didn't dare to recognize it!
Li Mingyu was wearing a brand new navy blue Dacron shirt today, a denim jacket over it, and his hair was combed shiny.
It's like the behavior of a city dweller.
That spirit and energy are completely different from Li Mingyu from Mule Hutong!
"You kid!" Li Jianghai trotted over and reached out to pat him on the back of the head, "I've been wandering around here for a long time..."
"Dad, look at the watch!"
Li Mingyu smiled and dodged, pointing to the electronic watch on his wrist, "We agreed on seven o'clock, I've been waiting since six forty."
Li Jianghai squinted his eyes and looked at his son: "Why are you as black as charcoal?"
Li Mingyu grinned, revealing his exceptionally white teeth: "Dad, look at the sun!"
He pointed to the bright sun in the sky and said, "This is the weather here!
During the Chinese New Year, didn’t you notice that everyone in my uncle’s house was very dark? Besides, it’s summer now, and everyone is tanned like coal balls.
Let's go and try Haicheng's breakfast!
When I got out of the train station, it was already very bright in the morning.
Li Jianghai squinted his eyes and saw a huge propaganda poster on the cement wall of the exit - a female worker with wavy hair, wearing tight bell-bottom pants, pointing her finger at a bright red slogan that read "Time is money, efficiency is life".
Next to it were painted six big characters: "Once you come here, you are a Haicheng person!", tanned to a shine by the sun!
In the front square, a few young people wearing Huili shoes were chatting and laughing around a motorcycle.
There was a dual-cassette recorder hanging on the handlebars, playing a tuneless song, the sound was drawn out as if the tape was twisted.
Li Mingyu led his father across the square with familiarity, his rubber-soled leather shoes squeaking on the concrete floor.
"Dad, follow closely!"
Li Mingyu took Li Jianghai past an intersection filled with small advertisements and stopped at a breakfast stall with a canvas tent on the side of the road.
There were several layers of bamboo steamers stacked on the coal stove, and the white steam mixed with the aroma of beans went straight into people's noses.
The stall owner was an auntie wearing a white apron, who was scooping porridge into a porcelain bowl with a long-handled aluminum spoon.
"Two bowls of porridge! Two servings of rice noodle rolls, four fried dough sticks, and a basket of xiaolongbao!" After saying that, he handed over fifty cents.
Li Jianghai stared at those colorful bills, and his back teeth felt sore. Even breakfast here is so expensive!
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