The mission of Wan Feng hiring this bus was to take him to Team 42, and then he would go home.
The change that Team 42 brought to Wanfeng was that the dirt road connecting to the national highway outside was now repaired and looked decent.
The sand on the road was very thick and looked golden in the sunlight approaching noon.
What surprised Wan Feng was that there was a restaurant at the junction of the 42nd and Dalinzi Brigades, where the carpenter's shop used to be.
But there was no one inside, and it was only ten o'clock, probably not time for dinner yet.
But I guess there won’t be many people eating here even at mealtime.
The bus stopped in front of this hotel.
Wan Feng didn't know the person who ran the restaurant very well. He guessed that he was someone who came to Team 42 from another place after his family moved out of Team 42.
Upon asking, it turned out that the other party had moved from the 49th Company.
"Do you have any food in this restaurant?"
"There are all kinds of vegetables, river fish, pork, beef, mushrooms and fungus."
Wan Feng calculated: "There are ten people at a table. I need to prepare at least twelve dishes for each table based on the amount for four tables. Can I finish it by twelve o'clock? Money is not a problem."
The man named Yu Wenquan nodded: "No problem."
Wan Feng asked for a pen and paper and quickly wrote down some names.
Of course, they were all people and friends who had a good relationship with his family when they lived here before.
He couldn't invite everyone. If he invited the entire team to this small restaurant, the restaurant owner and his wife would be unable to make a living even if they died of exhaustion.
This alone was enough to make the couple vomit blood.
After writing the list, Wan Feng sent Han Guangjia and the others out, and he and his two wives sat in the window seats and chatted nonsense.
Han Guangjia, Yang Jianguo and others were so efficient that less than ten minutes after they left, before someone could finish boasting, Wang Dong and You Mingsheng came in a hurry.
Wang Dong also carried a camera and a video camera on his back.
Is this intended to be a movie?
They are neighbors and the closest people to here, so they arrived the earliest.
"Why are you here alone? Where are your families?"
"What are they doing here?"
"Call everyone here, call everyone here. Didn't I ask your whole family to come?"
Wang Dong and You Mingsheng went back to call their families.
Wan Feng invited five families in total, including You Mingsheng, Wang Dong, Jin Xingbin, Zhong Yixiang, Xu Jinguo and their families.
The person invited from Dalinzi was Li Changhe.
By half past eleven, people had arrived one after another.
These guys are all married and have families.
Now that everyone has arrived and taken their seats, the next step is to serve the food.
Yu Wenquan and his wife are quite capable and they actually managed to prepare twelve dishes.
Wan Feng's table consisted of eight people from his side plus Li Changhe and You Mingsheng.
After the food and wine were served, Wan Feng stood up with his wine glass in one hand.
"Fellow villagers, I'm just passing by and stopped by to see you all. When my family first lived here, everyone here had a good relationship with us and was very caring towards us. I'd like to offer a toast to all of you."
After saying that, Wan Feng raised his glass of beer and drank it in one gulp.
"A simple meal represents my little thought, please feel free to ask."
Next is eating and chatting.
Wan Feng asked everyone in detail about the current situation.
The main source of income here is farming, followed by growing mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms, and then fishing in the river and hunting in the mountains.
Hunting is now a sunset industry. Apart from wild boars, rabbits and wolves, there are not many prey animals that can be hunted. In two years, even wild boars and wolves will not be allowed to be hunted, and this way of hunting will become a dead end.
Apart from that, there isn't much to do here.
Although there is a market here, the population is too small and the area is sparsely populated, so there is only one market every few days, and one can only make enough money to make a living by doing business.
Wan Feng promised that if she could not stay here in the future and had to work elsewhere, she could come to him if she went to work in Beiliao Hongya.
He would help anyone who was 42.
We drank until 1:30 in the afternoon and then broke up.
You Mingsheng, Wang Dong, Jin Xingbin, Zhong Yixiang, and Xu Jinguo all have children, and Wan Feng gave each child a red envelope of 2,000 yuan.
Then it was time for a group photo. Wang Dong, the photographer, was busy taking photos and videos for half an hour.
After the group photo, Wang Dong arranged a truck to take Wan Feng and others to Sijitun.
The two women sat in the driver's seat, while Wan Feng and others sat in the truck bed, all covered in dust.
Naturally, I went to Sijitun to see Li Guangyin.
The first thing Wan Feng did when he arrived in Sijitun was to arrange accommodation.
There are eight or nine of us here, both men and women, and Li Guangyin's house cannot accommodate us.
Sijitun is a port after all, so it's not surprising that there is a hotel there.
After arranging the room, Wan Feng went to Li Guangyin's house.
His door was locked and no one was home. The neighbor told Wan Feng that Li Guangyin was fishing by the river and his wife was washing clothes by the river.
Li Guangyin was fishing in a small boat by the river. There were only a few small fish in the fish tank.
The boats on the Longjiang River are rowed in the reverse riding-donkey style. When Li Guangyin was rowing the boat to the shore, he only paid attention to the shore but did not notice the person squatting on the shore. It was not until he stood up from the boat that he saw Wan Feng looking at him with a smile.
On the bluestone steps on the shore of Sijitun, Wan Feng knew everything about Li Guangyin's current situation.
This guy is now the most useless one among those who used to follow Wan Feng for a living.
After the port was closed, he disbanded the loading and unloading team. Relying on the several million he earned in those two years, he began to live a life of working for three days and drying the net for two days.
In winter, they carry guns and go up the mountain to hunt rabbits. In summer, they row boats in the river to fish. They don't do it to support their families, they just want to be lazy.
Wan Feng asked him to sell the motorcycle but he refused.
It’s not like I didn’t do anything. I got a few game consoles from Heihe and could make ten or twenty yuan a day.
"You are the least ambitious of the group back then. Don't think that I can do nothing now that I have two dollars. Your two dollars are not enough to spend endlessly. What will you do if you spend it all in the future?"
"I'm not thinking about that. I'm just living one day at a time."
It's going to rain, mothers are going to get married, and in the end everyone has to take care of themselves. Li Guangyin insisted on living this free and easy life, and Wan Feng had no objection.
When he has no money in the future, he will have to open his eyes.
"That's fine too. At least you can live a carefree life. You can come find me when you run out of money in the future."
That evening, we had dinner at a restaurant at the port.
After dinner, Wan Feng, accompanied by Li Guangyin, went to visit Li Guangyin's parents.
Li Guangyin's parents are both in good health and still very strong.
After leaving Li Guangyin’s parents’ house, I went back to the hotel to sleep, and took a boat to Xiao Wu’s house at ten o’clock the next morning.
Wan Feng went to Xiao Wu's house naturally to visit his master and senior brothers.
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