At around four o'clock, Fang Nian and Li Annan left the Internet cafe together.

In the past few dozen minutes, Fang Nian has seen the fragile hearts of Internet users who have not experienced too many 'shocks'.

Countless Internet users who have been forced to do so have used what they have learned throughout their lives and expressed that they were deeply hurt.

The most direct manifestation is, for example, a forum goes down directly.

For example, the book review section was brutally massacred.

"So crazy?"

"Do you want to be so crazy?!"

Well, Fang Nian felt very sorry for them. In 2008, they were so cute.

... Li Annan, who was carrying a cross-body bag in a single room, left the Internet cafe with doubts written on his face.

"Why are you leaving so early today?"

It's summer now, and it gets dark very late. At times like this, it would be at least five o'clock before leaving Tangli Town by car.

Fang Nian's answer was simple and direct: "No money."

Hearing this, Li Annan sighed a little worriedly: "Whether this vacation is long or short, I don't know what to do."

"Are you rich?" Fang Nian asked casually.

A child of seventeen or eighteen years old has a bunch of dreams buried under his pillow.

Just when I was about to take the first step, reality suddenly shone into my dream - there was no money under the pillow, and all those dreams were shattered.

Li Annan is like this, the good melancholic atmosphere suddenly collapsed into pieces.

Then, Li Annan started mumbling.

"It's annoying to make up classes so early in the senior year of high school. I follow my neighbor and work in an electronics factory. I heard that you can sit at work and get 1.5 times the salary for overtime work. That's more than 2,000 yuan a month, and the basic salary alone is 1,000 yuan!"

"When I come back before school starts, I will have more than three thousand yuan on hand!"

As he spoke, he became envious, and even his eyes became reddish due to congestion.

Because Li Annan's current living expenses are only 500 yuan a month.

Just thinking about the number one thousand dollars is very exciting.

From the beginning to the end of the year, it is only during the Chinese New Year that the lucky money may exceed one thousand.

Fang Nian is a little less than Li Annan, only 400 yuan a month.

In 2008, a basic salary of RMB 1,000 was indeed not low.

Fang Nian remembers that this time next year, his basic salary will be 1,000 yuan when he goes out to work, and he will still be in Pengcheng.

It's also an electronics factory, and my first month's salary after joining the factory was 3,020 yuan.

It was July. I worked every day for 31 days of the month. I often worked overtime until 11 o'clock at night and worked overtime on Saturdays and Sundays. I was paid 1.5 and double overtime pay.

Fang Nian will never forget this matter.

After all, it was the first time I had earned money on my own, and it was also the first time I was so tired. In one month, my weight plummeted from 128 pounds to 105 pounds.

"You don't have any relatives there, and you don't have anyone to take you with you. Aren't you afraid of getting lost on the road?" Fang Nian said jokingly, thinking that this was something deep in his memory.

Li Annan was stunned for a moment and could no longer speak.

The two of them walked through the main street of Tangli from the side street of the Internet cafe, and then turned to the station.

It is said to be a station, but there are no signs such as a parking lot or a stop sign.

Even in 2020, when Fang Nian accidentally returned to his hometown, there was still no parking lot or stop sign.

The so-called station in the town is that all minibuses going in different directions stop on the same two-way road to wait for passengers.

There are cards on the front and rear windows of the minibus to mark the starting area and important places passing in the middle.

It is divided into two types: traveling between different towns and cities and traveling between cities and counties.

It can roughly cover different township-level units along the way.

"Get on the bus and leave for Daping!"

"Get in the car and go to Tian's house!"

"go……"

As soon as I walked into this street, I heard the conductor's voice yelling to get on the bus.

Semi-public and semi-private minibuses are operated in a contracting manner similar to urban taxis. The amount of money they make depends on the number of passengers they attract.

One after another, Li Annan and I boarded the minibus bound for Daping.

The scene inside the car was just as messy as I remembered.

Most of these minibuses are second-hand cars purchased from different places. The doors do not have automatic devices and are opened and closed manually by conductors.

The number of seats is scarce and the capacity is 19 people.

When I go to the market, it is often crowded.

The seats are fabric-filled and foam-filled, but they are far from comfortable to sit on.

The overall experience is not very good, there is no air conditioning, and the windows may not work well.

So it is generally hot in summer and cold in winter.

Due to the road conditions and poor suspension of the car body, the ride was very bumpy.

However, until 2020, minibuses like this are still the only public transportation in Tangli Town, because businesses such as taxis cannot develop.

Fang Nian and Li Annan were lucky, and the vehicle started to leave shortly after getting on.

"Where?"

"Flower House."

"2 yuan 5."

"..."

On rural roads, the speed of vehicles is not very fast, about forty or fifty kilometers per hour.

Even so, Li Annan arrived in less than ten minutes.

"I go first."

A few minutes after Li Annan got off the bus, Fang Nian also arrived at his destination, Huajia Market Street.

It is said to be a market, but it is actually a two-way main road running across it with connected houses on both sides, so it developed into a market.

How it developed like this in the first place, Fang Nian couldn't tell, because no one cared.

Anyway, it has been like this for as long as I can remember.

In the summer, even the market is sparsely populated.

Use a fan indoors to keep cool.

After getting off the bus, Fang looked around and saw that it was empty, there were no stalls, let alone the buns that were attracting customers in his memory.

But Fang Nian was not in a hurry to use Route 11 to go home.

He remembered that he still had a backup of 20 yuan in his pocket.

I also remember that there has always been a motorcycle rental business in Tangli and other places.

Sure enough, I quickly found this business in the market.

I talked to the driver for a few words.

The driver replied: "It costs 10 yuan."

"Okay."

Then the motorcycle roared to life, and Fang Nian climbed on and roared off.

"Fortunately, I have a backup, so I put it to use."

If he hadn't backed up 20 yuan, even if he remembered that there was a motorcycle rental, Fang Nian would still have to take Route 11 back.

Only nine minutes later, Fang Nian arrived at the village group he belonged to: Maoba Village Group.

After climbing uphill again, we saw our home.

From 2008 to 2020, my hometown has not changed much, and most of it looks familiar.

Except for the completion of hardening of a less than two kilometers of road within the village group around 2013, there have been almost no changes.

Fang Nian quickly walked back to his home along the dirt field.

I walked past my neighbor's door, said hello, crossed a small mound of soil with bamboo growing on it, and arrived at the north side of my house.

Fang Nian paused.

Looking at the two-story six-lane house within sight, it was a house built together with his uncle's family when he was three years old.
To be continued...