Chapter 514: Homesickness



Wan Feng took out a cigarette and handed it to Jiang Ming.

"Holy crap, this guy is really good. He's even smoking filter cigarettes."

"I don't smoke, I just keep them in my pocket for socializing. Uncle Jiang, do they sell electronic watches in Harbin?"

Jiang Ming nodded: "It seems that there are, they are all sold by a group of people from the south."

"Do you know how much it sold for?"

Jiang Ming shook his head.

"It's selling for seventy or eighty per piece, I know. My sister bought one a few days ago and showed it off to me. I scolded her a bit, saying that if you spend over seventy on this thing, you might as well add fifty more and buy a Shanghai watch."

Longjiang is located in the northernmost part of the country, so it is normal that prices are higher than in the inland and south, but Wan Feng did not expect that the prices here are still so high.

"Uncle Jiang, are you interested in selling clothes, shoes, and electronic watches?"

"Can you still get a digital watch?"

"I have a county electronic meter agency, of course I do."

Jiang Ming looked at Wan Feng carefully. "It seems like you're doing quite well, I never thought. I remember you weren't very successful when you were little."

"Haha, people change."

"Hey! Xiaofeng, your uncle Jiang is good at fishing and hunting, but it seems that selling things is really not his thing."

"Let Aunt Xu go out and sell. Aunt Xu is so beautiful, I guarantee she'll make a lot of money if she goes out to sell the goods."

Maybe you can even earn a hat for yourself, and it’s guaranteed to be green.

With Xu Xueqi's looks, if she is willing, the wild man can come to her in a hurry.

However, Wan Feng could only keep these words to himself and didn't dare to speak them out loud.

"Oh, this kid has become so talkative after not seeing him for a few years!" Xu Xueqi's tone was surprised, but she couldn't hide the joy in her eyes.

Women are born to be deceived. They will be so happy that their noses and mouths will twist with joy when you say they are pretty.

"Clothes and shoes are fine, but digital watches are so expensive, I can't even afford to buy them."

"It's not as expensive as you think. You might be surprised to know its wholesale price."

"So how much is it?"

"you guess?"

Jiang Ming shook his head: "Where can I guess?"

Wan Feng told the wholesale price of the electronic watch.

"How much? Fifteen!"

"If you come to me and get it, I'll give you a two-dollar discount because we're from the same hometown."

This price difference caused a huge wave of emotion in Jiang Ming's heart.

The gap between thirteen and seventy is so obvious that even people who can't count know how big the gap is.

"Shall we get some to sell?" Jiang Ming discussed with Xu Xueqi beside him.

Xu Xueqi did not express her opinion, her face full of hesitation.

Wan Feng guessed that she was a little bit unconvinced in her heart. After all, he was only a fourteen-year-old boy. It was impossible for him to make adults believe it with just a few words.

"Uncle Jiang, don't worry. I'll go home for ten or eight days during the summer vacation. You can discuss it with Aunt Xu during this period. If you are worried, you can follow me to Beiliao Province when I return and make a decision later."

"That's fine too. When you come back I'll go with you and take a look. We'll just treat it as a trip."

"Then when I come back, I'll get off at Harbin and come find you at your house. This time I'm really going to your house to get to know you. Otherwise, where else can I find you?"

Jiang Min took Wan Feng to his home without saying anything.

His house is only more than 500 meters away from the train station. It is the most common small house in the city, and it is obvious that it is allocated by the government.

It was almost eight o'clock, Wan Feng could not delay any longer, so he came out after memorizing the instructions.

"Uncle Jiang, your place is great. Don't move on. In two years, you can make hundreds or even thousands of dollars a day just by selling anything at the train station."

"Haha, hundreds and thousands. Uncle Jiang is satisfied with making a hundred or two hundred a month now."

Wan Feng smiled and said nothing.

Jiang Ming accompanied Wan Feng all the way to the waiting room of the train station until Wan Feng checked his ticket and boarded the train.

The car drove north from Harbin and stopped in Longzhen after eight hours.

Wan Feng came out of Longzhen Railway Station and saw the big water tower built by the Japanese devils at a glance.

Only then did I realize that I was not far from home.

It is still four hundred miles from Long Town to the 42nd Company of Sanfenchang where his family currently lives.

Along the way, it is one hundred miles from Hongya to Pulan, seven hundred miles from Pulan to Shenyang, more than one thousand one hundred miles from Shenyang to Habin, and more than seven hundred miles from Habin to Longzhen. Adding the remaining four hundred miles, the total journey is more than three thousand miles.

There were no buses going to Wu County at this time, so Wan Feng could only stay in Long Town for one night.

After finding a random hotel to spend the night, Wan Feng boarded a bus to Wuxian the next morning.

It takes a bus four hours to travel a distance of three hundred miles.

Fifty miles out of Long Town, you will enter the Lesser Khingan Mountains forest area. There are lush birch forests on both sides of the road, which seem to be rapidly receding outside the car window.

There is a Xiaoxing'an checkpoint about fifteen kilometers away from Chenqing, which checks passing border passes.

Wan Feng didn’t have that thing, he only had an age certificate from the Jiangwei Brigade and the Yongshi Commune Police Station.

People under the age of sixteen do not need a border pass.

The border guard in charge of the inspection looked at Wan Feng several times before finally returning the certificate to Wan Feng.

In Wan Feng's opinion, this checkpoint is a device to prevent gentlemen but not villains. If there really are spies who can run here, they would be crazy if they were stupid enough to go through the checkpoint.

Why don't you go around it from somewhere?

After passing the checkpoint, we arrived in Chenqing. Although nearly two years have passed, there have been no major changes here. The road heading east towards the 31st Company is still there, but there is no sign of a person or car on the road.

After dawn, there were endless mountains and trees. The bus circled among the trees for more than an hour and finally arrived at Wuxian, a small city in the northern border.

Wan Feng got off the bus and ran to the ticket office. The only bus to Sijitun, northeast of here, left at 1:40 PM. He was at the second-to-last stop, Dalinzi. If he couldn't buy a ticket today, he'd have to wait until tomorrow.

In summer, you can still buy a seat ticket for the bus to Sijitun, but in winter, you may not even be able to stand.

Because there is only one bus on this route, it is crowded in winter.

When I come back to study, I will buy a bus to run this route no matter what. It will be no problem to earn 10,000 yuan a year.

Only making 10,000 yuan with 10,000 yuan? It doesn’t seem interesting.

He clearly remembered without recalling that the ticket price was one yuan and forty cents. During his three years in high school, he took this bus three or four times every winter.

It was not until he got the paper ticket in his hand that Wan Feng's heart began to get excited.

Is this homesickness?

After buying the ticket and checking the time, Wan Feng left the bus station and saw that there was still plenty of time. He wanted to buy some things to take home.

Opposite the bus station is Wuxian Xingbei Department Store. He remembers that Zhang Xuan's home is just behind the Xingbei Department Store, but Zhang Xuan certainly doesn't know who he is at this time.

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