Chapter 26: Road Blocked
Chapter 26: Road Blocked
"That's great. You can go ask the team leader for leave after work. Tomorrow the team leader will take these beans we picked to the commune.
You can take a bullock cart or something to go to the county or town, which is very convenient."
Gu Wan doesn’t know about this yet. The only bad thing about this rural area is that transportation is not very convenient.
From the entrance of the village, you have to walk a section of mountain road, which is not accessible to cars. Only after you go down the mountain can you reach the main road, which connects several villages.
It takes about an hour to walk to the town from that main road. If you go to the county, you can walk out of the village on the mountain road for about ten to twenty minutes, and then you can take a bus at the fork in the road.
But Gu Wan didn't plan to go to the county. She wanted to go to the town first. If she could buy everything, that would be the best. If that didn't work, she would go to the county.
Although the original owner had a lot of money, he did not have many practical tickets.
Moreover, most of her tickets were for large items, like bicycles, sewing machines, radios, etc., but Gu Wan was not planning to buy these now.
She did want to buy a bicycle, but it seemed that she didn't have many opportunities to go to the town, and she wouldn't feel at ease if she left it at the educated youth center with those people there.
"Really? Thank you, big sister. I wouldn't have known if you hadn't told me. This saves me a lot of trouble."
The village uses ox carts to deliver goods. Nowadays, most people use ox carts or wheelbarrows, but wheelbarrows can only carry a small amount of things.
When delivering things to the commune like this, there are usually a lot of things to deliver, and the wheelbarrow definitely can't hold them all. If there are more people, it will take a lot of time.
It's not as practical as an ox cart.
"What's there to thank me for? Gu Zhiqing, you're too polite. I'm much older than you, and I'm married. If you don't mind, just call me Sister Xiong."
Gu Wan didn't mind at all and immediately followed suit, and the relationship between the two of them suddenly became close.
Xiong Mei taught Gu Wan how to pick beans more easily. Gu Wan was very eager to learn and serious, and she learned quickly. Looking at such a beautiful girl like Gu Wan, everyone looked at her with admiration.
Her heart melted. After completing her own task, she not only helped Gu Wan with a lot of things, but also insisted on taking Gu Wan to her house for dinner.
If Gu Wansuo hadn't said that she wanted to ask for leave, she would have been dragged back anyway.
Gu Wan felt this simple and warm enthusiasm, and her chest felt swelling, and all the fatigue in her body disappeared in an instant.
Gu Wan went to the team leader to ask for leave, using the reasons of picking up packages and buying things, and also going for a physical examination.
The team leader didn't stop him, and even invited him to go with us tomorrow, so that we could ride in a ox cart.
After thanking them, Gu Wan returned to the educated youth center. The people in the center were still the same, but perhaps because time had passed and there were more people around, the girls began to become bolder.
I forgot what happened that night and also forgot the warning from the branch secretary.
A bunch of people gathered together, ready to do something to Gu Wan.
Gu Wan was not afraid, but just felt a little annoyed, and the desire to move out alone became stronger and stronger.
The next day, Gu Wan got up early and went out. To deliver something, one must go out early. Even humans cannot stay under the sun for too long, let alone an animal?
At this time, the cows are very important assets of the team, so they would rather get tired than let the cows get hurt.
So I planned to go early and come back early. Of course, after Gu Wan arrived, I could move freely.
After seeing the people, Gu Wan greeted them and sat obediently at the back of the cart. She was light, so she didn't have to worry about lifting up the people in front of her or overturning the cart.
Lin Jianguo was talking to Old Sun, who was driving the carriage in front. After a while, he stopped talking and soon there was a snoring sound.
It was obvious that the captain had fallen asleep leaning against the bundled beans.
Gu Wan and Lao Sun were not very familiar with each other. Lao Sun had gone to pick up the educated youth before, but Gu Wan had not spoken a word to anyone at that time and fainted after getting on the car.
Later, I never went to town again, and I had no chance to interact with Lao Sun.
At this time, both of them were silent and no one disturbed anyone.
After entering the town, Lao Sun reminded them, and Gu Wan said thank you to them and got off the car first. The captain was sleeping from beginning to end.
Watching the cart going farther and farther away, Gu Wan looked at the gray place in front of her and suddenly fell into self-doubt.
Is this... really a town?
Didn't she come from one village to another?
Except that the roads are wider, there are more people, and the houses are bigger and denser, no, the houses are not as densely packed as those in Muli'ao.
And that two-story building covered with tiles should be the supply and marketing cooperative, right? Why is there a mountain behind the supply and marketing cooperative?
Gu Wan swallowed her saliva and no longer thought about going in to take a look. She turned around to look for the station and prepared to go to the county to take a look.
This is really exaggerated!
The car arrived after a while. Gu Wan looked at the slowly shaking car and frowned, unable to help but worry. The car stopped and there was a smell of rust mixed with gasoline.
It's really uncomfortable in this kind of weather.
Fortunately, there were not many people on the bus. After I found an empty seat and sat down, the ticket seller came over. I gave him two cents and he tore off a two-finger-wide piece of paper for her.
He turned and walked forward, sitting on the box next to the entrance, with the car door at his fingertips.
There was a string on the car door. When someone got off the car, after the car stopped, she would pull the string, and the back door would retract to the side like the sliding doors of later generations.
Although it is the road to the county, the road surface is basically bumpy.
Especially now that it is summer, the mud on the road has been dried up and turned into dust and powder, and the car windows are covered with a layer of fog.
The air inside the car is very bad. Opening the window will easily fill your mouth with dust, and even your hair will be covered with a layer of dust.
It really didn't feel very good.
Gu Wan bit her lips tightly and silently recited multiplication formulas in her mind to divert her attention. Just when she was about to collapse, she finally reached her destination and breathed a sigh of relief.
The people on the bus seemed to have gotten used to it a long time ago. When they got off the bus, they were not only calm and composed, but they were even talking and laughing, looking extremely relaxed.
He swallowed uncomfortably twice, grabbed the strap of his cross-body bag tightly and got out of the car.
The county is indeed much better than the town. The houses are all buildings, and most of them are brick houses. Occasionally, you can see a few buses passing by on the road.
Some were riding bicycles, some were pushing bicycles and some were walking, and some were even pushing wheelbarrows and driving ox carts.
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