Return to 2001 to pursue dreams

With the chatting company of uncle and aunt, it was not so boring, but the two brothers had already fallen asleep with their heads tilted as soon as the excitement wore off.

Until he saw the sign for Xuzhou on the highway, my uncle immediately became silent. Perhaps this was because he felt more timid about being close to his hometown after being away from home for a long time. Looking at Xuzhou City in the distance from the highway, it is all gray. At this moment, this city is still a coal resource-based and heavy industry-based city. It is also doomed that the air pollution in this city will be very serious. Until the implementation of environmental protection policies many years later, coupled with the local economy After the successful transformation, the environment began to become beautiful again.

Finally, the uncle couldn't help complaining: "Think about it when we were children, we could catch a pot of fish in any small river ditch. When there was a heavy rain, the yard was full of fish. Now, look, everything is smoky. Then The river water is like soy sauce."

Gao Hongda agreed: "High school textbooks say that economic development and the environment are contradictory."

The aunt expressed her dissatisfaction again: "Are these things something you and I can handle? Looking at your compassion for others, I don't know, you really think of yourselves as high officials of the country!"

The two men looked at each other, smiled awkwardly, and quickly shut up. The closer I got to home, the more excited I became. When I arrived at the entrance of the village, my uncle rubbed his hands in excitement. He saw a few old men at the head of the village holding dry tobacco pipes and leaning against the wall to bask in the sun. The uncle quickly asked Gao Hongda to stop the car, opened the door and got out of the car, and took out the Soft China, we walked around one by one. The uncles and uncles called us "Rehu", and the old men also greeted us very enthusiastically: "The second brother is finally back, and this is the first college student in our village!"

Gao Hongda also opened the window and stuck his head out to greet the people outside. The old men began to exclaim again: Ouch, the second college student in our village is back! This is all in a small car! The old Gao family is in trouble this time!

Gao Laoer stopped taking the car and walked all the way to the main intersection in the middle of the village, greeting everyone he met. Gao Hongda followed slowly in the car. At this moment, he felt happy in his heart. A group of children followed the car curiously. While running, a group of fellow villagers commented on his car: What kind of car is this? Why is it longer than an ordinary car? There are also people who are more knowledgeable and recognize that this car is a Lincoln, and they start actively introducing it to the people around them: Imported cars are very expensive! It was as if he was familiar with this kind of car. This made Gao's vanity extremely inflated.

On the other hand, the aunt and two energetic brothers sitting in the back were so shy at the moment that they didn't even dare to show their faces.

After a long time, I finally got home, and it was getting late. Gao Hongda's parents had cleared out the old house a long time ago. It was the place where his father and uncle were born and grew up when they were young. Later, his father moved out and built three red-brick bungalows. His uncle went to school and left home. Only my grandparents lived in the old house. Later, the two old people passed away one after another, and the old house became completely empty. The old furniture in the old house was in tatters and was no longer usable, and the house had a musty smell.

The family walked into the old house and saw the portrait of the old man hanging on the wall in the main hall. The uncle couldn't hold it any longer and fell on the ground and cried bitterly, complaining that he had not been able to fulfill his filial piety in front of the two elders and did not even have the chance to see the last face. Yeah, that's really unfilial. The aunt also quickly pulled her two sons, pushed them to the ground, and asked them to kowtow to their grandma. These two naughty children had never seen their grandparents, but they obediently obeyed the instructions and kowtowed.

The uncle touched every piece of furniture in the house, but nothing had changed. Even the bed he slept on when he was a child was still there, but the four bed legs had rotted into disgrace.

Gao Hongda secretly pulled his father over and asked softly: "My biological father, you are planning to let your second uncle and his family live in this broken house? Are they not allowed to fight with mice tonight?"

Dad rolled his eyes at him and said, "It seems like you can do it, right? Let their family live in our house these days, and your mother has already tidied up the house! You don't have to worry about it!"

The dinner was very sumptuous, and my father specially arranged for Gao Hongda's younger brother Gao Hongwen to order it from a restaurant on the street. To say that the names of these two brothers are also relatively literate. When my father was in school, he read the Master's List, so he chose two words from the sentence "Don't seek to learn and reach the princes" to name the two sons.

The family gathered around the living room and had a good time, but the meal was not going well. From time to time, people from the village came in to say hello. Most of them were uncle's childhood playmates, as well as village cadres. As long as someone comes, the uncle will put down his chopsticks and stand up to greet him, and he will continue to smoke. After saying hello, these people are still unwilling to leave. They simply sit or stand in the yard and wait for the family to finish their meal. This makes the original plan My father, who had had a good drink, was very unhappy, but there was nothing he could do about it. He couldn't drive him away.

Gao Hongda was also a little jealous of his uncle at this time. After all, he was a cadre in the capital, and his popularity was obviously much higher than that of the new generation tycoon himself!

My limousine is parked in the yard, why doesn't anyone pay attention to me?

How can he show off when no one is paying attention?

Fortunately, several children came to play with him and excitedly commented on his car. Finally, Gao Hongda's vanity was greatly satisfied and he happily opened the car door and let everyone in to experience it. Several young buddies were envious of him and asked him what kind of business he was doing. How could he drive such a beautiful car after going to school for half a year? Could it be that he is hooked up with the daughter of a wealthy family?

When they learned that he had made a fortune from the rice noodle business in school, everyone including other people in the yard were surprised and started talking: Is this rice noodle made of gold or silver? How did he make so much money? The best rice noodle seller in our town makes less than [-] yuan a month!

The uncle quickly explained to him: If you just sell rice noodles in a single store, you will definitely not earn much. He runs a chain store. The more stores he opens, the more he will earn.

Finally, the focus of everyone's attention was brought to him, and Gao Hongda felt happy. Thinking about his past life, he was a negative example in the village. Those little-footed detectives would pick on him whenever they had trouble: look at that worthless thing, a loser who accomplished nothing, a loser who was destined to be a bachelor, and his college experience was in vain.

Now I can finally feel proud. Who wouldn't feel happy to have changed him? Now, he is the idol of the children in the village, and they all have to learn from him!

Most of the young people who grew up with Gao Hongda went to school early to work, and then, like their parents, they would honestly serve the few acres of land at home, and go out to work with the construction team to earn some money during the slack period. Hard earned money. There will also be a group of people who are smart enough to become foremen or even big bosses, but they are destined to be very few. Most people do not have the opportunity to contact the higher society. This is the tragedy of rural children.

Just like when they were children, a few friends took a stroll under the moonlight. When they encountered a place with lush weeds, they lit a fire to keep warm and chatted all over the place. Gao Hongda proudly promised everyone: As long as you are interested, he can take you out of the countryside together, and we can become city dwellers.

This group of friends' hearts were tickled, and they all asked: What can they do?

Gao Hongda clapped his fingers and said: "Those who want to open a store, I will build a store for each of you. Those who want to work in construction, our school also has a construction company, and I am very familiar with the leaders of the company. It only takes one sentence." He He didn't tell the truth because he was afraid that people would say he was bragging.

This night, he finally experienced the joy of being the king of children. A bunch of kids surrounded him, almost treating him as the God of Wealth. Not to mention the pride in his heart, he felt like "I, Hu Hansan, am back again."

The house was also very lively. Dad simply pulled a few pieces of wood and lit a bonfire in the yard with low walls. The fathers and villagers, old and young, chatted until midnight.