Li Mancang asked the old man, "Dad, how do we get there?"
"It's late today, let's find a hotel, buy some things, and get up early tomorrow morning. My nephew, can you come and pick us up early tomorrow morning?" It was already afternoon and it was dark in the village.
"You guys can take my car. It's so far and a bit expensive." The driver said whatever he wanted.
"Brother, how much does it cost to take the bus?" It was not easy to ask for help in such hot weather. Besides, they had to get up early the next morning, and the buses did not leave that early.
The driver pondered for a moment and said, "Three dollars for a round trip, that's a whole day. I can't do any other work."
"Okay, big brother, we'll stay at the guesthouse in front of the station. You can pick us up at four o'clock tomorrow morning. We want to get there early." Three yuan is not expensive for such a long distance. Two people taking a bus will cost more than one yuan with reverse.
The driver laughed. He thought the two would bargain, but he didn't expect them to be so straightforward. "Okay, that's settled then."
The father and son made an appointment with the coachman, went to the guesthouse to take a quick shower, and went out for dinner. They also asked around and made a trip there the next day to confirm that the place had indeed been renamed Yushugou.
"Boss, let's buy some things. We have many cousins in the village, and we can't go back empty-handed."
"Okay," Li Mancang agreed, letting the old man rest while he went out to buy things. The old man didn't rest all the way, and there were dark circles under his eyes.
The department store in the county town is very small and doesn't sell as many things as in Beijing. Li Mancang bought a box of Xifeng liquor, twelve bottles a box, six Daqianmen, more than ten pounds of sugar, and a lot of egg cakes and peach cakes. Money is hard currency, and every family's elderly and children are taken care of.
The store owner saw that Li Mancang bought too much and couldn't carry it all by himself, so he helped him deliver it to the hotel.
The father and son didn't sleep much that night, and early in the morning they got on a carriage and headed for Yushugou.
The mountains here are higher and bigger than those in Beijing. The old man looked at the surrounding scenery and felt both strange and familiar, and was very excited.
"The town is just ahead. We are halfway there," the driver introduced to the two people.
They came out early and hadn't eaten breakfast. At this time, all the breakfast vendors in the town came out. Li Mancang bought some breakfast and saw that the butcher had bought a lot of pork. They had to eat when they returned to the village. The villagers were not well off and couldn't ask others to share their food.
The driver saw that Li Mancang had bought him breakfast, so he said awkwardly, "Thank you, brother. I brought two pancakes with me this morning, but I didn't dare let you eat them because I was afraid you would dislike them."
"Eat it while it's hot. You've worked so hard this morning."
"I earn money without any hardship" The rickshaw driver is a down-to-earth person.
The old man looked around the town and said, "I've been to this place before."
"Dad, can you still remember it?"
“Not much has changed” I couldn’t remember it before I watched it, but after I watched it, the memory came back.
After eating something, the horse also ate some grass and continued on its way.
The road was full of potholes and not at all easy to walk on. Li Mancang used to think that the road back to the village was difficult enough to walk on, but compared to this, it was nothing.
The further he walked, the more excited the old man became. At around eight o'clock in the morning, he could vaguely see a village.
"Boss, it's time!" The old man pointed at the village in front, his fingers trembling.
"Grandpa, you are amazing. You can still recognize him after all these years." The driver also learned along the way that the old man had escaped from famine many years ago.
The old man said, "This is my home, how could I forget it?" Basically, not much has changed.
Under a big tree at the entrance of the village, a few naked children gathered together to poke an ant nest, and an old man sat on a stone with a stick, watching the approaching carriage.
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