The Era of Hard Work

At 5:30 in the morning, Lu Dong got up to pack his things, found a black artificial leather hand-wrapped white porcelain plate and a convenience bag from the main room, and planned to go to the Shunshan Cultural Market first, and then to the West Market.

By the way, there is also a cicada monkey, so I want to inquire about it too.

This thing was collected before.

After a quick wash, I changed clothes, and the peasants wore whatever they had, but what I did today was not suitable for No. 1 Middle School uniforms. Lu Dong searched the big closet, and found that summer clothes included two jerseys besides the school uniforms.

I have no choice but to choose the red football jersey, which is of course a pirated version. I bought it for 20 yuan at the spring materials exchange meeting in the county this year.

Under the bed, I found a pair of 50% brand-new double-star rubber-soled sneakers with black soles and green edges, and put them on.

Based on the purchase price, Lu Dong's suit would cost 30 yuan.

Hanging the handbag on the handlebars, he rode out on the 28th pole. He had just turned onto Ji Street when Lu Dong saw Faxiao Li Wenyue sitting on the stone in front of the door with a sad face, as if the sky had fallen.

Lu Dong stopped the car, put his feet on the ground, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Wenyue was so engrossed that he didn't hear it.

Lu Dong glanced at Cheng Lifeng's butcher shop with the door closed: "His family is looking for trouble for you?"

The thin young man is full of justice and is dissatisfied with Cheng Lifeng. Lu Dong is worried that Cheng Lifeng will seek trouble.

"No." Li Wenyue came back to his senses, glanced at Lu Dong's red jersey, and asked, "Didn't you see it?"

Lu Dong was surprised: "What are you looking at?"

Li Wenyue said: "The World Cup final last night! You won't forget it, will you?"

Lu Dong thought about today's 13th, as if the 98 World Cup final was in the early morning?

Li Wenyue was full of grief: "Brazil lost! Lost! Ronaldo sleepwalked the whole game! The French bald man is too insidious! He used to take corner kicks, but in the final he ran in the middle to grab points and scored two!"

"Be careful." Lu Dong didn't care about these things long ago: "Winning or losing is common."

He waved his hand: "I'll go to the city and talk about it when I come back."

The water on Jijie Street has receded, and the hardened road is easy to ride. In Qingzhao County, the basic roads connecting villages are asphalt roads.

At the south entrance of Lujia Village, there is a private minibus leading to Quannan, but Lu Dong still chose to go to the county seat by car.

The county seat is in the south of Lujia Village, and Ningxiu Town is where Qingzhao County is located. It is only five or six miles away, and it takes about ten minutes to ride a bicycle.

The CMB in Tongquannan also goes to the county first, and then to Quannan.

The journey of five or six miles may take more than half an hour, and the minibuses have to go from village to village to pull people. If there are few people, they will wait for more than ten minutes at the main intersection.

Even when there are too few people, the minibus will transfer the passengers to other cars and simply don't run.

Besides, Lu Dong is also going to visit the University City.

When Lu Dong came to the expressway bridge hole, there was no water inside. Yang Liewen lost his temper that day, and the town mobilized water pumps to drain the water overnight.

Looking at the bridge hole, Lu Dong rode his bicycle past without stopping.

It's useless to think too much about the past, look ahead.

After leaving the bridge hole, Lu Dong did not continue south, but turned west. This asphalt road leads to the University City in the southwest.

Country roads haven't changed much.

The university town is close to the east side of Quannan, and is sandwiched between the west side of Qingzhao County and Quannan City. The province and city have very clear plans for this.

Quannan is surrounded by mountainous areas to the south and the Yellow River to the north. There are only two roads: eastward expansion and westward expansion.

As long as the university town develops, it will connect Quannan City and Qingzhao County into one, and the city will expand eastward along the way, and at the same time create a high-tech industrial city.

This is a key step in the development of Quannan.

When he came to the university city, what Lu Dong saw was strange, completely different from the tall buildings, clusters of schools, and prosperous businesses in his memory.

Although the infrastructure is well done, the roads are spacious and straight, the street lamps stand tall and new trees, and the brand-new college buildings can be seen everywhere, but the cars pulling construction materials and the workers wearing hard hats whizzing past seem to be in full swing. construction site.

Wait until September, the university town will really come alive.

Following the unnamed No. 1 road in the University City, Lu Dong saw the most famous colleges and universities in Quannan City. They are not too far apart. They are located on both sides of the road. There is a large space for development from the south to the north. The buildings and buildings have been completed, just waiting for the new students to enroll.

Lu Dong saw a itinerant peddler and went over to buy sesame seed cakes for breakfast.

There are very few sellers here, and the biscuits are as high as 50 cents a piece, and it is generally 1 yuan and 3 yuan in rural areas here.

Lu Dong also exchanged a few pieces of fifty cents, and took this opportunity to chat for a while to understand the situation.

I turned around again and kept the useful things in my heart. There is no place to put bicycles in the university town, and I will definitely lose them if I put them casually.

This is an era that needs to be cracked down!

Lu Dong turned back and rushed to the county seat, and soon arrived at the station on the west side of the county seat.

The county seat is a larger and smaller town, serving as the seat of Ningxiu Town and Qingzhao County at the same time.

In this era, the tallest building has only seven floors.

Lu Dong saved his bicycle and carried a black convenience bag. Instead of entering the station, he waited on the west side of the road. There was a bulletin board with an old and discolored reward notice on it.

The portrait on the wanted warrant was exposed to the sun and rain, and it was a little blurry. The person below was named Qiao Keli, who broke into houses, blocked roads, robbed and murdered successively, and committed crimes in other places after absconding. The most wanted reward was 5,000.

The numbers are enough to show that this person has committed a heinous crime.

Lu Dong met Qiao Keli himself once. He had just entered Ningxiu Middle School in the first year of junior high school. Qiao Keli, who was in the third year of junior high school, stabbed the palm of a classmate. Although he lost money, Qiao Keli was expelled from the school.

This person left countless notorieties when he was in school, and he was bold and cruel. It is said that he ran away from home when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school. Broke the boss lady's head.

Ningxiu Town still retains the legend of Qiao Keli.

After waiting for a few minutes, an old minibus came over, and Lu Dong asked before getting on the bus.

Regardless of the fact that it is only tens of meters away from the station, buying a ticket at the station costs 3 yuan, and getting on the train here only costs 2 yuan and 5 yuan.

Lu Dong's personal assets fell below ten yuan, and his future income was uncertain, so he cherished every dime.

Just find an empty double seat and sit down, the minibus wobbles forward, the window glass shakes loudly and slams, the wind blowing in can't beat the sweltering heat in the car.

Air conditioning is impossible, so Lu Dong tried to get closer to the window to blow more wind.

It is not far from the county seat to the urban area, passing through the university town, and the station in the eastern suburbs of the urban area is the terminus.

The road that CMB took from University Town to Quannan East Outer Ring Road disappeared later and became a residential area.

Luckily, Lu Dong didn't ride a bicycle, otherwise it would be troublesome to find the way.

Get off the bus outside the station, Lu Dong transfers to an unmanned bus, and he has exchanged 50 cents in advance.

Changing trains in the middle, it took more than half an hour before Lu Dong arrived at the Shunshan Cultural Market.

The market is on the edge of the square at the foot of the mountain. It is divided into several areas. The outermost one is the second-hand book and flower and bird market, and then there is a stone road facing the mountain in the south. There are some antique shops on the north side of the road, and all the stalls under the mud wall in the south.

Between the second-hand book market and the stone road, there are antique buildings, most of which are two-story buildings, and there are nameplates of such and such handicraft companies hanging on the entrances of some small buildings.

Among them, the building with a larger area may be engaged in activities, and various people come and go, most of them are holding things like carton packages in their hands.

Most of these people are dressed in ordinary clothes, even shabby, and their family conditions should not be very good.

Looking at it from Lu Dong's eyes, many of them are rural people, and occasionally there are voices coming over, and there are accents from all over the place.

Some well-dressed young people greeted and sent them off very enthusiastically.

Lu Dong passed by the door and saw that a banner had fallen off, and one end of it fell to the ground, and the two young men were about to hang it back up.

He kept walking towards the stone road.

This is the morning market, the sun has risen high, and there are not many people.

Lu Dong was not in a hurry to go in, so he stood outside and observed for a while.

There are many stalls, old scales, old horses, red badges, Yuan Datou, and even Ming coins and burnt paper.

Lu Dong's expectations, which were not considered high, dropped a lot, but when he got here, he always had to go in and have a look.

After all, it’s all here, and it’s good to be able to sell 50.

Walking on the stone road, Lu Dong suddenly realized that he was very conspicuous.

Eighteen years old, born in the countryside, grew up in the countryside, a kind of farmer's temperament is engraved in his bones.

However, Lu Dong has never been a thin-skinned person, and a thin-skinned person can't do so many messy things. He purposely found an old man's booth, and there happened to be no one there.

When he came to the booth, his face was full of simplicity and honesty. Lu Dong looked at the porcelain and bronze wares on it. If it was true, the old man would have paid enough to buy peanuts.

The old man shook his folding fan: "Young man, what do you want?"

Lu Dong squatted down and looked around. It seemed that two people in white shirts were paying attention here. He smiled and asked in a low voice: "Master, do you collect things?"

The old man closed his folding fan and looked at Lu Dong carefully. He was no more than twenty years old, with a swarthy face, calluses and wounds on his hands, and a silly look on his face.

From the country!

"Bring it?" The old man knows that there are many old things in the country, even if they are worthless, they can fool others: "Take a look."

Lu Dong took out a white porcelain plate and handed it over, but the old man glanced at him and refused to take it: "Put it down."

After Lu Dong put it on the booth, the old man took out his reading glasses and examined them carefully before picking them up.

Although Lu Dong didn't hold out hope, he still had some expectations.

He needs money too much, and he needs start-up capital to get rich! And his poor jingle.

The old man looked at the front and back, and put it back in front of Lu Dong. He probably had enough experience in life, and he was quite cautious from the beginning to the end.

"Take it?" Lu Dong was very straightforward.

The old man stretched out two fingers, and Lu Dong's eyes lit up: "Two hundred?"

"Tsk..." The old man shook his head: "Twenty! If you want to sell, I will stay."

Lu Dong's anticipation vanished in an instant: "Too little! Sir, I have inherited this from my ancestors!"

The old man couldn't help laughing, waved his hand at Lu Dong, opened the folding fan and stopped talking.

Although it is worth the money of a few big catfish, there are many stalls and shops here, so Lu Dong always has to look again.

There is no lack of patience in Lu Dong.

From the beginning to the end, I asked seven or eight stalls, and even entered four stores. The highest bid was twenty-five, and the other only gave five yuan.

It's even better than those who go to the countryside to collect antiques!

Outside the stone road, the banner of the two-story antique building with a large area was re-hanged.

"Experts from the Royal Museum are here to identify antique calligraphy and paintings for free, and identify family heirlooms for you!"

On the slate road, Lu Dong left a stall in disappointment and walked into the opposite shop.

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