Originally, you could save money in their hometown. There was an Agricultural Bank of China and a credit union there.
But they don't have river sand or cement to sell, nor do they have cobblestones or steel bars to sell. These can only be bought in the town.
In order to understand the market price of these things, Xiang Jin and her mother got up early the next morning.
After making breakfast, they set off. When they left, Aunt Liao and Xiang Nan hadn't gotten up yet. Xiang Jin and his daughter didn't call them, but just left the rice in the pot for them.
It was almost a dozen or twenty miles for them to go to the town. In the past, transportation was inconvenient and all were small roads. It would take more than two hours to get there just by walking two hams.
It's still faster to walk. If there is no load on the body, it will take longer if you carry something on your back to go to town.
But there is no need for it now. A road has been built directly to the town from Zaoerya at the junction of the Tenth Brigade and the Twelfth Brigade. It is a road connecting another town to their town.
If they want to go to town every time, they can catch a bus from Zaoerya, and they only need to pay one dollar each.
But there are generally only five trains a day there, one is the earliest one at around six o'clock in the morning, one is around eight o'clock in the morning, one is around eleven o'clock at noon, and then three and five o'clock in the afternoon.
There is one trip every several minutes, and the return trip is delayed by about half an hour at each time.
If you miss these time points, you will have no choice but to walk.
Or see if you can meet someone riding a motorcycle passing by, give him a dollar or two and ask him to give you a ride.
But people are generally not willing to do this, because in this era, those who can afford to ride a motorcycle generally have relatively well-off families, and they won't care about your one or two yuan.
Unless you are someone you are very familiar with, no matter how much you wave, they will just wave and drive past you from afar.
Xiang Jin and his production team are still quite far away from Zaoerya. They are all in the fields, and it takes about half an hour to walk.
If they catch the earliest bus, all the way from home to Zaoerya, their legs and feet will either be wet with dew or stained with some mud.
They were no exception today. Their legs and feet were stained with a lot of grass clippings and dirt. Because they were wearing sandals, after their feet were wet with dew, they walked funny, sometimes half
All the soles of their feet ran outside.
Xiang Jin was not used to it. In her previous life, she was very clean, and there was no reason for her to be sloppy in this life. So when she arrived at Zaoerya, she saw that the car hadn't come yet, so she asked her mother, "Where can I wash my feet here?"
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"Where can I wash my feet here? There is no one who can wash my feet here," her mother kept looking at the direction of the minibus, looking a little anxious, fearing that it had already passed the time and missed the earliest one.
Yes, asking is in vain!
Xiang Jin looked around and found no small puddles or ditches except for a man-made canal above their heads for pumping water during droughts.
So she climbed up the small slope to see if there was any water left there. In fact, she probably knew that with this weather and this small ditch, there should be no hope, but she just couldn't stand it.
He looks sloppy.
When Yang Juyun saw her like this, he immediately became anxious. He followed her back and shouted, "Little ancestor, what are you doing? Come back quickly, the car will be here soon."
"Find water and wash your feet!" Xiang Jin kept climbing without looking back.
Yang Juyun wanted to drag her back, but she was afraid that there would be no one to help her when she got out of the car, so she turned to her back and said, "Can't you bear it? We'll do it later."
It just fell off naturally.”
"No!" Xiang Jin turned his back and waved to her.
"Oh," Yang Juyun sighed and stamped her feet, "then hurry up!"
"knew!"
Finally climbed up, Xiang Jin shot towards the ditch with his eyes like a shuttlecock. Hey, not to mention, although the entire ditch is dry, there are some holes where the ditch connects with the hillside.
A puddle.
There is a piece as big as a sieve, fifty or sixty centimeters deep. The water looks quite cool and clear, and there is a small stream of water as thick as chopsticks flowing slowly on the hillside, Xiang Jin thought to himself.
, this should be mountain spring water!
So she shouted down, "Mom, do you want to come up and wash yourself too?"
"I won't wash it, please hurry up," Yang Juyun frowned, still staring in the direction of the car.
Xiang Jin curled her lips and looked at her mother who was nervous about catching a car. How big of a deal was it? If she didn't want to wash it, she wouldn't wash it. Then she would wash it by herself, so she walked over and started washing it seriously.
"Wow, it feels so comfortable?" The water was cool and icy, just right for someone like her who was in a hurry.
Xiang Jin was enjoying it with a sigh on her face, but she couldn't forget that her mother was still waiting anxiously below, so she speeded up after carefully feeling the coolness of the mountain spring water soaking into her skin for a few seconds.
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After she got off, the car hadn't come yet, so she asked her mother again, "Would you like to take a shower too? It will be cool and comfortable?"
Yang Juyun anxiously refused again, "Oh, why are you washing? We are all from rural areas, who cares so much about you?"
Seeing her nonchalant look, Xiang Jin shrugged and walked to the side to wait under the shade of a tree. Forget it, don't wash it if you don't want to wash it!
"Hey, Xiang Jin, you said this car has already left, right? It hasn't been here for so long?" Suddenly, Yang Juyun said anxiously.
Xiang Jin naturally knew that when she said leaving, she meant the earliest bus at six o'clock in the morning, so she said, "Let's just leave. Then let's wait for the next one."
They didn't have time, so how could they know what time it was now? It was already bright early in the first day of summer, and when she opened her eyes, she saw that the Sun Mother had already shown her face.
Yang Juyun said angrily, "We have to wait here for more than two hours. Rather than waiting here in vain, we might as well go on our own."
They can walk directly to the town in two hours.
Xiang Jin nodded as if he was serious, "This method works! Otherwise, let's wait a little longer. If they haven't come yet, then we can walk there?"
Yang Juyun frowned and thought for a moment, "Okay, let's wait a little longer." They couldn't waste time here forever, they still had a lot of things to do.
The mother and daughter waited for about ten minutes, but still no car came. They knew that it was already past six o'clock, and there was no car coming, only the one at eight o'clock.
So the mother and daughter decided to ditch the ham and walk!
But they had only walked ten meters away when someone honked at them from behind, so the mother and daughter stepped to the side of the road to make way for others.
"Ju Yun, are you going to the event with your children?" Suddenly, a familiar face poked out of the car window, and the car stopped in front of them.
In fact, this familiarity is only for Yang Juyun, but it is still unfamiliar to Xiang Jin, because she is a newbie and has never met a few people from Fengchi Temple, let alone knows them.
Therefore, when the other person said hello to her mother, she just stood aside silently and watched her mother say hello to others.
"Hey, Uncle Mingyao, is it you? Are you going to the show too?" Yang Juyun had a smile on her face, and then pulled Xiang Jin to signal her to call someone, "Hey, call someone quickly, that's Grandpa Zeng who was next door to us.
, why don’t you call?”
Looking at the old man with white hair and childlike face, who smiled like a Maitreya Buddha, he was very friendly. Xiang Jin responded to her mother's instructions and respectfully called him "Hello, Grandpa Zeng!"
"Oh, okay, okay," the old man responded with a smile on his face, and then asked, "Are you going to the show with your mother?"
"Yeah," Xiang Jin responded softly.
Then, the old man said, "Get in the car!"
Immediately, a middle-aged man in his thirties stepped out of the driver's seat, then walked around the front of the car and opened the rear door for them.
Then they saw a very good-looking fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy sitting in the back seat by the left door.
The young man was wearing a regular light blue cotton short-sleeved shirt, a pair of off-white trousers, and a pair of white sneakers on his feet. He looked extremely refreshing and comfortable.