Wang Shuning smiled and nodded, "I went to the town to pick up the mail today. My mother mailed me a bicycle ticket, so I went to the county to buy a bicycle. Does it look good?"
Wang Shuning didn't wear the watch on his hand. The car was conspicuous enough. When he wanted to check the time, he could just take out the watch from the space and take a look.
He Zhuzhu, Goudan, and Mingming all nodded and replied, "It looks good."
Goudan ran to the bicycle and reached out to touch the seat, "Sister Shuning, can you ride with me?"
Wang Shuning readily agreed: "Of course, you can sit in the back."
Mingming immediately shouted: "What about me?"
Nowadays, bicycles have a pole in front, so children can sit on it. But Wang Shuning was worried that he didn't have the skills to carry two people, so he said, "You can take turns sitting in the back."
He Zhuzhu quickly scolded: "This is a new car, what if it gets scratched? There are only a few roads in the village, you two can just walk."
Wang Shuning put up the kickstand and held the handlebars to let Goudan get on. "You buy a bike to ride it. Scratches and repairs are common. If it breaks down so easily, I'll have to go to the county to find a shopping mall. Come on, Goudan. I'll take you for a ride and come back to pick up Mingming."
Goudan climbed onto the back seat and hugged Wang Shuning's waist tightly. The cold wind at the beginning of winter was already a bit biting.
Goudan sat in the back seat of the bike and waved to his playmates who came running over, "Erliang, look, I'm on the bike." There was a hint of showing off in his tone, but more of it was excitement.
After walking around once, Wang Shuning went back to pick up He Guoyue. After two rounds, the news that the new educated youth Wang Shuning bought a bicycle had spread throughout the Dafeng Village.
While eating dinner in the room, I could still hear people talking outside. There were a lot of people coming to He Zhuzhu's house to talk today.
He Zhuzhu's mouth was dry after she finished spitting out three cups of boiled water in a row.
He Zhuzhu reminded: "Ning Zhiqing, remember to lock your bicycle in your room. It's too expensive. Don't let others ride it away and damage it."
This bicycle is more valuable than her house. The house cannot be moved by others, but the bicycle can be lifted by one person. No matter how simple the villagers are, there are always some shabby people who slack off all day long. It's just a few bad apples that spoil the whole barrel.
"I understand. I will lock myself in my room when I'm not home."
When Zhang Meili heard that Wang Shuning had bought a car, she exclaimed, "I think Shuning's family is richer than Lu Beichu's family."
Guo Jingyi, who was sitting at the table and marking the time on the calendar on the newspaper, said: "She may not be as rich as Beichu's family, but she is favored at home. When I talked to Beichu, I felt that his family favored girls over boys."
Zhang Meili was shocked. "I've only heard of favoring boys over girls. My mom is a little bit like that. Favoring girls over boys? Then Lu Beichu is really unlucky."
Guo Jingyi raised her eyebrows, she felt that this was good, she could not stand the preference for boys over girls, she was a great cook and was not afraid of not making money, if she and Lu Beichu really got together, she would not need any subsidy from her family, as long as Lu Beichu was not a mermaid.
Zhang Meili put the washed dishes under the stove. "There is not a single bicycle in the village. The only means of transportation to the town is a bullock cart, or we have to walk. It's good that Shu Ning bought a bicycle. If we have an emergency, we can borrow one from her."
Guo Jingyi thought so too. Even if their relationship was not very good, she believed that Wang Shuning would lend it to her if there was an emergency.
Zhang Meili looked down at the circled date on the table and asked, "You're taking on two more banquets? How are the dishes?"
Guo Jingyi replied: "The food is good, but I'm afraid you can't go. They are all in Zhongzhou Village."
It took Guo Jingyi almost an hour to walk through the path in the fields to get to Zhongzhou Village. The most important thing was that Zhang Meili had never met her before and they were not from the same village. Even if she gave a gift money, she would feel embarrassed to invite her to the banquet.
Zhang Meili sighed, "Forget it, it's so far, I'd better go to the mountain to dig winter bamboo shoots."
The next morning, Wang Shuning, who was lying under a quilt in the yard basking in the sun and eating melon seeds, heard someone calling him. He sat up and saw the village chief He Haiming coming in from outside.
Wang Shuning lifted the quilt and moved the high stool in front of him to the side. "Hello, Village Chief. Aunt Zhu took Goudan and Mingming to the mountain."
He Haiming came over and said, "I'm not here to see He Zhuzhu, I'm here to see you."
Wang Shuning raised his eyebrows, stood up and took out the small stool behind the kitchen stove for He Haiming to sit on. "Is there anything the village chief wants to talk to me about?"
He Haiming looked at her lovingly, "Nothing, it's just that it's the off-season now. You've been in the village for a while, have you adapted?"
The rear wheel of the new bicycle can be seen through the open door. I didn't expect that the educated youth who came in the second half of the year were all extraordinary. Lu Beichu's family was rich, and I heard that his father was the factory director. Guo Jingyi cooked delicious food. These days, many families have been invited to wedding banquets, and now people from other villages have come to invite her to their homes.
The most low-key one is the one in front of you. He rode the bicycle back without saying a word. Even if his family wanted to buy one, he didn't have a way to get a bicycle ticket. Who would have thought that the first bicycle in Dafeng Village was ridden back by an outsider? It's so weird.
Wang Shuning grabbed two handfuls of melon seeds and peanuts and gave them to He Haiming. "I have adapted well. The villagers are very nice, especially Aunt Zhu and her family. They take special care of me."
He Haiming said with satisfaction: "You all came from the city. This is the first year that you cannot go home for the New Year. You can go back for the New Year at this time next year. If you feel that the New Year's Eve dinner is lonely, you can go to your uncle Haiming's house."
Wang Shuning politely declined, "It's not quiet, Goudan and Mingming talk a lot, it's lively."
Then He Haiming went to Guo Jingyi's house and stayed there for a while, and finally went to Lu Beichu's house. Zhao Heping couldn't get out of bed yet. The room of the two grown men was the messiest. The wooden barrel in the corner was full of dirty clothes. Fortunately, the clothes wouldn't go bad in winter, but they would definitely smell in summer.
When Lu Beichu came back with the fish, he happened to meet the village chief. The idea of giving the fish to Jingyi went through his mind twice but he didn't say it. He ate one of the two fish himself and gave the other to Jingyi, so there were no extra ones.
He Haiming saw that the fish's tail was still moving. "Did you catch it in the river?"
Lu Beichu nodded. Several villagers were there when he was fishing, so he was not afraid of being known. "I used a fishing rod."
"The fish in the river are very clever. Many people have used fishing nets but have not been able to catch one this big. You have good fishing skills." He Haiming also went fishing when he was young. He sat by the river for a whole day but did not catch a single fish. It took him half a day to make a fishing rod.
After He Haiming left, Lu Beichu asked, "What is the village chief doing here?" If there was nothing important, the village cadres generally would not come to visit, and they rarely even went to the educated youth sites.
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