The next day, early in the morning.

Uncle Yang Chengwen arranged an oxcart for Yan Jiecheng.

I will send him directly to Qingyang later.

This place is now a quagmire, and he doesn't want to stay there for a moment anymore.

At around six o'clock in the morning, we set off with the villagers.

After walking for four or five hours, we finally arrived at Qingyang City.

Yan Jiecheng invited the man from Yangzhuang to have dinner at a state-owned hotel. Don't expect any service when entering a hotel these days.

The waiter pointed to the small blackboard on the wall nonchalantly, and Yan Jiecheng ordered two bowls of noodles.

When it was discovered that Yan Jiecheng had a foreign accent, the hotel even checked his work permit.

When I learned that Yan Jiecheng was from the capital, I became a lot more enthusiastic.

The waiter also asked many questions about Beijing.

Yan Jiechen was always busy with things, so he had no time to chat with her, so he dismissed it with just a few words.

After they finished eating the noodles, they said goodbye.

Yan Jiecheng arrived at the long-distance station alone. Fortunately, the time was just right, otherwise he might have missed the train and had to wait another day.

The shuttle bus goes to Huangyuan, and you have to transfer from Huangyuan to Xijing to take the train.

After waiting on the bus for more than ten minutes, Yan Jiecheng was a little surprised when he saw the shuttle bus slowly leaving the station.

I didn’t expect that I would set off so easily.

He thought those people would stop him.

Yan Jiecheng shook his head, grasped the armrest, and stopped thinking about it.

It’s really hard to ride in a car these days, it’s shaky and full of noise.

I arrived at Huangyuan around four in the afternoon and saw that I couldn’t leave today.

Yan Jiecheng wanted to meet Tian Fujun.

After all, we have to leave now, and I don’t know when we will see you next time.

In the evening, Tian Fujun took Yan Jiecheng to his home.

"Xiao Yan, has something happened to you? A few days ago, your sister-in-law said that she met you and Lao Xie, but she didn't hear you say that you wanted to go back to Beijing? Now that I see you look so bad, is something wrong?

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Seeing this, Yan Jiecheng explained the matter, but none of the three people spoke.

After a while, Tian Fujun said: "Don't take it too seriously, we see this kind of thing a lot.

Sometimes we work like this, with all kinds of difficulties.

As long as we have a clear conscience."

Yan Jiecheng had been depressed for many days and had nowhere to talk. Seeing Tian Fujun like this, he expressed his thoughts and the concept of safe production.

"Brother Tian, ​​production safety should be a long-term basic national policy of the country.

It is the basic guarantee to protect the safety, health and national property of workers and promote the development of social productivity.

Its essence is to take corresponding accident prevention and control measures in order to avoid accidents that cause personal injury and property loss during production and operation activities to ensure the smooth progress of production and operation activities.

Therefore, it is to protect production, not to hinder production and construction as they think.

I am just trying to prevent personal and equipment accidents during the production process.

Form a good labor environment and working order."

Yan Jiecheng took a sip of water and said angrily: "Some people either use this as a weapon or avoid it."

Tian Fujun and his wife looked at each other, and they both saw shock in their eyes. Tian Fujun took a breath and said, "Xiao Yan, I'm very happy. You have found your own way and perseverance.

But you have to know that this is difficult.

Toon said that a person born in the circle where I was born has only three paths to choose from.

The first is to be an official, make money, and make the ugliness we live in even uglier—this is what I hate the most. Maybe I don’t have this ability, but the main thing is that I hate it.

The second is to eliminate this kind of ugliness. This requires a hero, but I am not a hero.

The last way, the third way, is to forget everything, go to a group of dogs, drink, have fun, and sing - that's what I did. This is what I ended up doing.

So this kind of hero is difficult to find anywhere in the world.

You know that scholars have always believed in Confucius and Mencius when they are proud, and they believe in Lao and Zhuang when they are frustrated.

Looking at these two choices according to Tuo Weng's standards, the way to join the world is ugly, and the way out of the world means going to a group of dogs to drink and have fun, wasting time, which is hateful.

I'm thinking, is there no other way for us to go other than becoming an official or going into seclusion?

Later I thought about it, this is not very realistic, because many times we can’t help ourselves.

Therefore, I feel that we should not be too arrogant and only think about how to turn things around and become heroes.

Of course, don’t be too discouraged and give up on yourself when you encounter setbacks, making yourself look like a lost dog.

We only need to immerse ourselves in learning and pursue the path of seeking knowledge and truth beyond fame.

Then maybe it won’t be so painful.”

Yan Jiecheng understood Tian Fujun's words and wanted to let himself be like the light and become blind, but he couldn't do it.

Yan Jiecheng looked up at Tian Fujun, smiled, and said, "Brother Tian, ​​can you do it?"

Yan Jiecheng knew that Tian Fujun could not do it, otherwise he would not offend so many people in the future, just to turn the black buns in the hands of the people into white buns.

We are all people with the same belief, otherwise we would not come together.

Before Tian Fujun could say anything, Xu Aiyun laughed out loud and said: "Brother Tian, ​​you are coaxing you. He can't even do it himself, but he is here to persuade you."

Tian Fujun blushed after hearing this, but because his face was so dark, no one could tell.

A few people talked for a while, Xu Aiyun asked Lao Xie about his injury, and then went to cook.

Tian Fujun then told Yan Jiecheng about the recent lack of food.

"Xiao Yan, you may not know very well, but now people's homes are short of food, and everyone relies on sweet potatoes and wild vegetables to survive.

There are still several months to wait for the new grain to arrive, and it is not the time to stop harvesting.

Everyone is looking for sweet potato roots, radish tops, rotten cabbage sticks, dried radish leaves and other vegetable roots and leaves in the vegetable gardens and farmland of each village to take home to fill their stomachs.

Nowadays, even the dried sweet potato seedlings that are usually used to feed livestock are washed and chopped, ground into powder with a stone mill, and mixed with a small amount of sweet potato flour to make steamed buns to satisfy hunger."

Seeing Yan Jiecheng's expression of disbelief, he continued:

"I have tried the steamed buns made by villagers using sweet potato rice flour. It looks like donkey dung and eggs, smooth on the outside and full of crude fiber on the inside.

Now if you go to the countryside at night, you will see people digging wild vegetables everywhere on the hillsides, in the fields, and along the river beaches.

Shepherd's purse, luxuriant sprouts, seedlings, watercress and other wild herbs have become the food that people rely on to satisfy their hunger.

However, because every family digs and digs every day, the wild vegetables do not grow as fast as they are dug. The wild vegetables are getting smaller and smaller, and there are less and less. Some people who cannot dig the wild vegetables start to eat the leaves.

Toon leaves, acacia leaves, acacia flowers, elm leaves, elm money and even elm bark are all good foods.

There are even families who are in particular difficulty and have eaten these delicious and non-toxic leaves and bark.

They also eat willow leaves, ailanthus leaves, mulberry leaves, etc.

Do you know what to eat?

Some leaves are bitter and poisonous, so they wash these leaves and cook them in boiling water, then soak them in clean water. Change the water every day, soak them for two days to remove the bitterness, and then use them for food."

Just as he was talking, Xu Aiyun came in with two big bowls and said: "Brother Xiao Yan is coming for dinner soon. Today's oil noodles are made. You have to come to Qin to eat the noodles. The noodles are the most authentic."

Tian Fujun also smiled and said: "Have a try, your sister-in-law makes it really good."
Chapter completed!