Go north to save people

If you don't go to the Northwest, you don't know what it means to be wild and rough.

If you don't go beyond the Great Wall, you won't understand the vastness of heaven and earth and the vastness of the celestial dynasty.

This time Luo Xuan went out to the commune under the pretext of going to Xijing City, the capital of Shaanxi Province, to inspect cosmetics filling equipment, and issued a "Travel Certificate".

Then Luo Xuan took a shuttle bus and rushed to Suimi County.

With his "Proof of Identity" and "Proof of Travel", he registered for a room at the "State-owned Suimi County Passenger Terminal Guest House".

After a while,

Luo Xuan used the excuse that the train was about to depart and checked out the room again.

During this period, there was no such thing as an hourly room.

And people in state-owned guesthouses like this don't care what your reasons are or why you check out.

Anyway, as long as you book a room, you have to calculate the money for the whole day.

The best thing you can do is return the deposit to the passenger in full.

After checking out of the room, Luo Xuan went to the cargo yard of Suimi County Railway Station and found the gang of tough coal truck drivers.

Then he quietly got on one of the coal trucks.

After two days and two nights of turbulence, Luo Xuan finally arrived at Wusheng Banner in the north, a place called Xuejiawan.

The vastness of the Northwest is beyond most people’s understanding.

Xuejiawan is already located north of the Great Wall, a full 400 miles away.

This place is truly outside the Great Wall.

Here, you can appreciate what it means to be frozen for thousands of miles and covered with snow.

Standing in the wilderness and looking around, the sky is really covering the surrounding fields. The sky is vast and the fields are vast.

The snowflakes blown by the north wind were flying all over the sky, making it difficult to distinguish the east, west, north, and south, and there was no sign of human beings or life.

As far as the eye can see, there is only the never-ending cold wind howling on the plateau.

Other than that, the surrounding areas were completely quiet, with not a trace of green within a hundred miles.

There were not even a few dead grasses to be seen.

Where did the cattle and sheep come from?!

Luo Xuan said goodbye to the kind driver who sent him here, and then picked up his heavy luggage.

Along the wasteland, the two faint tracks of axles were staggering towards the direction indicated by the driver.

Soon after, Luo Xuan only heard the roar of motors coming from behind him.

"Woo, woo--"

Before Luo Xuan had gone ten miles away, a shabby "Gaz" passenger car slowly caught up with him.

"Hey, fellow, what do you do?"

The car window was opened a crack, and a man with a cheeky face wearing a cotton hat with ear coverings stuck his head out from the crack of the car window, "Fellow, where are you going?"

Luo Xuan turned around and yelled loudly, "I followed the fellow villagers and came out to prepare to go to the coal mine for a 'wild meal'! Halfway through the road, I got out of the car and peed, and then got separated from the fellow villagers."

The wind was shrill and shrill, and the conversation between the two people continued intermittently in the cold wind inside: "Listen to your accent, fellow fellow, are you from Bashu?"

The man shouted for the bus to stop, then leaned out of the window and asked, "How many people are there with you?"

Luo Xuan yelled back at him, "I'm from QXN! This time, there were more than 20 fellow villagers who came out with me."

The man asked, "So they are from the neighboring province of Bashu. No wonder their accent is similar to ours. Where have your fellow villagers gone?"

Luo Xuan shook his head: "I don't know! Ever since I got separated from them, I have been walking towards the north, but I can't find them."

"How about you just follow us and dig coal together!"

The man opened the car door and then led two people to Luo Xuan, "Anyway, I only want to make money when I travel thousands of miles.

No matter which coal mine you go to work in the wild, you will still get your wages back to support your family. How about that? Come with us."

This man spoke in a tone that was asking for Luo Xuan's opinion.

In fact, while Luo Xuan was talking to the man in front of him, his two companions were already standing quietly behind Luo Xuan.

"Well, it seems like this is the only way it can be done now. Otherwise, what else can I do?"

Luo Xuan asked the man: "Brother, what is the price of the coal mine you are going to? Is it far away?"

The man grinned: "You come from the inland, you don't know how big the northwest is. Since it is a coal mine, how can it not be far away? But don't worry, the coal mine we are going to has enough wages!"

As he spoke, the man stretched out his hand and dragged Luo Xuan to the car: "In the mine we went to, they had food and shelter. Every meal was filled with fat meat as thick as two fingers and as big as a palm!"

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When the man pulled Luo Xuan, he used very strange force: he pulled it forward twice, and then pushed it back once.

——He was testing, wanting to see how strong Luo Xuan was!

If you meet a person who can't eat anything and can't do anything well.

This man, the guardian would not hesitate to kick Luo Xuan out of the car!

As for whether the other party will freeze to death or starve to death in this ice and snow, the man doesn't care.

Fortunately, when Luo Xuan took the coal truck to reach Mengren's territory, he had already packed his bedroll and left it in the dirty truck compartment.

Before getting off the bus,

Luo Xuan did not forget to grab a handful of coal ash from the carriage and throw it on his face, smearing several layers of black ash on his neck.

Now I have a lot of soot on my body.

Then the water vapor melted by the wind and snow along the way, so harmonious

Now Luo Xuan's body was all black and sticky, as if he had just been fished out of the mine.

Wait until you get in the car,

Only then did Luo Xuan realize that the car was already packed with people. Because these farmers who came from Bashu and Nanyun provinces to "do wild food", they all carried a lot of luggage.

So we could only squeeze into a minibus with about 20 people, which seemed extremely crowded.

Fortunately, people are not particular about going out, so Luo Xuan set up camp in a small area in the corridor that was kindly moved by others.

The people in the car seemed to have lost much interest in chatting at this time.

The scenery outside the window was desolate, which was completely different from the hometown where they grew up.

It is said that in this desolate and empty desert, if you travel by car for a long time, many people will gradually experience hallucinations and even lose their self-control.

This leads to a complete breakdown of their will and their madness.

The man who is the leader obviously understands these things.

He stood up, clapped his hands and shouted at everyone: "Folks, don't sit around in silence! Come on, let's talk about how much money you plan to earn when you go back next year."

These are people who are willing to leave their wives, children, and elderly parents behind, and travel thousands of miles to come here.

Which one of them didn't take the huge risk to go out for a wild meal because their family was so poor and they couldn't get enough to eat?

Now when the man said this, someone in the carriage responded: "I want to save 200 yuan and go home!"

The man smiled and said: "Then can you tell me what you plan to do with this money when you go back?"

The man counted on his fingers: "My family has owed the production team a total of 73 yuan and 65 cents over the years. When I go back with the money, we have to settle the collective debt first."

"With the remaining money, I plan to buy 10 pairs of chickens and two little goats, one male and one female."

The man's face was full of longing for a better life: "I still have to take my dad to the big hospital in the county for a good physical check-up.

I want to give my mother-in-law some nice clothes. Ever since she married me, she has never been afraid of being laughed at. I haven’t even bought her a vest!"

Others said, "My family's suffering is probably more severe than yours, Yang San!"

I have to save at least 300 yuan to treat my parents and pay back the famine in the production team."

For a while, everyone in the carriage was talking about their plans and dreaming about their own dreams.

This dilapidated GAZ was leaking air from all directions, and it wasn't actually very warm inside.

But the hard-working people in the carriage were discussing passionately and dreaming warmly.

The man clapped his hands: "It's too small! Your hopes are too small! Let me tell you, the coal mine we are going to is very profitable!

The wages he gives us are so high that they can scare you to death!"

"As long as we work hard for them, it will be easy for you to save 4,500 yuan in one year, not to mention the extra time."

The man smacked his lips and smiled, "This is all the money you saved after you went to other people's mines, ate and drank a lot, and occasionally went to take out the water!"

Listen to what the man said.

The car suddenly became excited: "Wow, isn't it? Can you save so much money?"
To be continued...