Chapter 1 Forced into an official career

The summer in Zhongnan Province is notoriously hot in the whole of China. Now it is also the hottest season. Yu Fan also ended his four-year college career and returned to his hometown Lucaotan Town from Donghu City, the capital of Zhongnan Province. A third-rate pheasant university can't change Yu Fan's future. Four years of college life have been spent all night among dogs barking and chickens. Except for knowing more friends from all over China, it is of no use.

Lucaotan Town is not far from Donghu City, the capital of Zhongnan Province. It is adjacent to the outer suburbs of Donghu City, and there is only one river away from the southern Han District in the far suburbs. According to the older generation, when the city boundary was demarcated, Lucaotan Town was almost divided into Donghu City, but somehow it was excluded and transferred to Xinyang City, an old revolutionary area.

In this era, the old revolutionary areas mean poverty and backwardness. Although the country allocates funds to the old areas every year, it is often poorer and poorer. Year after year, it has not changed at all. It has to be said that this is a common problem in the officialdom of China.

Yu Fan has always been resentful of the passenger transport company in Lucaotan Town. Originally, it was only an hour and a half away, and they were forced to collect 30 yuan. Not to mention, the service attitude is not ordinary, which makes Yu Fan not want to go home every year. But it's not all because of this, but because of the bus that could only take 50 people, but it was able to stuff this group of people into the No. 80, which made people have to admire the courage of these guys.

It bumped back like a hamburger all the way, and the bus slowly left the Nanhan District in the outer suburbs of East Lake City. As soon as he got on the car to cross the river, Yu Fan quickly squeezed out of the car. The smell in the carriage was really bad. The smell of diesel, sweat and even the smell of feet made Yu Fan feel unbearable for a long time. Anyway, after crossing the river, I arrived at Lucaotan Town. My home lived in the town. Yu Fan didn't want to suffer from this kind of bird.

Smelling the slightly earthy river breeze on the river, Yu Fan lit a cigarette for himself, and the spicy smell made his chest feel comfortable. Yu Fan is also an old smoker. When he was in high school, he began his career as a smoker. The four years of college were also the life between you and me in the smoke. The five people in the same dormitory were also senior smokers, which made Yu Fan, who had just entered the university, familiar with them.

The river is not very wide, but there are six large trucks on the ferry, and only Yu Fan stood all the way back with a bus. These trucks all go into the village below Lucaotan Town to pull fish. Lucaotan Town is a famous fish farming town in this area. The price of grain is too cheap. Some migrant workers came back, and some knowledgeable farmers also pushed the good land one after another and began to raise fish and get rich.

The steam ferry was also like an old cow pulling a cart on the river, swaying to the other side, and the originally not wide river also walked for more than half an hour. As soon as the ship landed, Yu Fan jumped off the ferry without waiting for the truck to start. The ferry has long been full of all kinds of passenger transport rounds. These days, people are very business-minded. Where there are any business opportunities, they flock to them.

As soon as the ship landed, the sound of the tricycle engine sounded loudly. As soon as Yu Fan took two steps, a middle-aged man in his forties and fifty greeted him in the car: "Young man, where are you going?" Yu Fan took a look and felt that the man was quite honest, so he asked, "How much does it cost to go to town?"

The middle-aged man didn't even want to say, "Ten yuan." It's too expensive. It's too expensive to catch up with the price I took in Donghu City, and it's not far away. Yu Fan turned around and looked at the other three-wheeler owners without thinking about it. The middle-aged man behind him hurriedly said, "Come on, come on, young man, how much money can you give?"

Without looking back, Yu Fan said, "Five yuan." Yu Fan is not soft at all about bargaining. The middle-aged man complained as soon as he heard it, "The young man's bargain is too cruel. It's only eight yuan, how about it? If it doesn't work, you can go to someone else's seat." Yu Fan also looked back at the ferry. At this time, many people came down, and some people crowded in the passenger car also ran out of the car. Seeing that there are so many small tricycles at the ferry terminal, some people can't stand the crowding on the bus.

Looking back, Yu Fan said to the middle-aged man, "Okay, okay, eight yuan is eight yuan. Hurry up and drive." After saying that, he got in from the back of the tricycle. The middle-aged man still shouted loudly, "Come here in the town, come here in the town." It's ten yuan per person. I'm going to drive soon.

Hearing the middle-aged man shout for a while, Yu Fan was a little impatient: "Can you open it or not?" The middle-aged man turned around and said with a smile, "Young man, don't worry, I'll leave right away." He turned around and shouted a few more times: "Go to the town. Come on, you want to go."

A random shout also attracted a few people, which seemed to be a family. A middle-aged couple also got on a tricycle with their two children, and the small space on the tricycle was suddenly a little crowded. Looking at the middle-aged man shouting, Yu Fan hurriedly shouted, "Hey, if you ask someone to come up again, I will go down. Will you leave or not?" The middle-aged man looked at the people in the carriage and said, "Two adults are twenty, and two children are ten yuan. All right, let's go." With that, he started the tricycle and passed through the middle of a pile of tricycles on the dock.

After leaving the tricycle group, the speed was faster. It's not easy to walk all the way, and the tricycles don't talk about shock absorbers, and drive bumpy towards the town. Yu Fan basically hung in the carriage all the way, and his buttocks could not sit on the seats in the carriage at all. The box in front of him was also toss and down in the carriage. Fortunately, there was nothing easy to break inside. The middle-aged couple seemed to be ready. As soon as they got on the car, they hugged the two children tightly in front of them.

Fortunately, the dock is not very far from the street in the town, and it takes about ten minutes to get to the street. The streets in Lucaotan Town are also narrow enough, and it is very difficult for two trucks to pass by. As soon as the tricycle arrived on the street in the town, there was a sudden stop, so that Yu Fan's body suddenly hit the front carriage and almost hit his head. The couple behind him also squeezed to Yu Fan with the sudden stop of the tricycle. The child in his arms was also suddenly scared to tears, which made Yu Fan sulking.

The middle-aged man in the front cab also said at this time: "Okay, okay, the town is here. Come down quickly." The couple jumped off the tricycle with their children in their arms. Yu Fan also held the carriage to take down his box and felt dizzy. It was not like sitting in a car. It was clearly running for his life.

He dragged his suitcase to the cab in front of him. Yu Fan angrily threw the eight yuan he had prepared for a long time to the middle-aged man, turned around and dragged the suitcase and left. After a few steps, I heard the voice of the middle-aged couple behind him: "Hey, he only needs eight yuan. How can you charge ten yuan for each of us?" The middle-aged man seemed to be prepared and said, "That's an acquaintance of my neighbor. Of course, it's cheaper." Yu Fan couldn't help but despise him. The ghost and you are acquaintances. He looks very honest. It turns out that he is also a annihibitr. He is really not good-looking. He also ignored the bargaining of the people behind him and dragged the box to the house.

Yu Fan's home lives in the town, leaning against the flood control levee in the town. A small two-story building in the 1990s is not bad in the town. His father, Yu Xianyi, used to be the business section chief of the chemical factory in the town. Later, when the chemical factory closed down, he started a pork business with several uncles and uncles and occupied a stall in the only market in the town. Although a group of people are not good at management and can't make much money, they are barely getting enough food and clothing.

Yu Fan's mother died when he was very young, and she was also spoiled by her grandparents since she was a child, and she was brought up with an aunt who was 11 years older than him. Later, my aunt also got married, my father also remarried, and my stepmother also added a younger brother to Yu Fan.

The stepmother is a typical rural woman. Her surname is also very simple, and she has no bad intentions. Unlike the kind of fairy tales when she was a child, she is also very good to Yu Fan. It can be seen that there is no absolute thing in the world. Yu Fan had a younger brother, two years younger than him, and now he is doing business with his father. There were two boys in the family. His father, Yu Xianyi, originally wanted a girl, but this kind of thing was beyond his control. The birth of the youngest brother is also absolutely contrary to the family planning policy carried out by the state. The fine is a matter of course. Fortunately, his father Yu Xianyi is not a state official.

The streets of the town are in disrepair all year round, full of unevenness, and some depressions still have accumulated water after rain. Yu Fan also dragged the box into the house. It's only afternoon now. His father and younger brother are not at home, and his stepmother is the only one at home. His youngest brother also went to school. The summer vacation for primary school students is relatively late.

Seeing Yu Fan, the stepmother looked very enthusiastic: "Xiao Fan is back. Have you eaten yet?" Yu Fan also felt warm in his heart: "Mom, I'm not hungry, I just want to sleep." Yu Fan's mother died very early. When she was a child, she was raised by her stepmother and aunt at home. The stepmother was not bad to herself. Everyone had feelings for each other. Yu Fan's two brothers were also in charge of the stepmother.

The stepmother also didn't force Yu Fan, so she arranged for him to have a rest. Yu Fan's own bedroom is upstairs, which is the room left by his aunt after she got married. After going upstairs, Yu Fan also felt that there was no change in his home. Although he did not take the bus for a long time along the way, the congestion of the bus and the bumps of the tricycle also made him feel carsick. In a short time, he fell asleep on his stomach.

This sleep was a little conscious until it was dark. Yu Fan, who didn't want to get up, woke up his little brother. Looking at the little guy in front of him, Yu Fan felt a little funny. The little brother is ten years younger than himself. When he was a child, he was pink and was kneaded by himself, but the little guy seemed to be more and more kissed by himself. I don't want this little guy to be old now. It seems that he is about to go to junior high school.

Follow the little brother downstairs, and the whole family came back. Yu Fan's own brother's name is Yu Ren, but Yu Fan doesn't think he has any kindness. The two brothers have fought a lot since he was a child. For this reason, Yu Fan was also beaten a lot by his father Yu Xianyi. The little brother's name is Yu Bo. Yu Fan has always felt that the name is very rustic, and I don't know who gave it.

Dinner has been prepared by the stepmother for a long time, and the family also had a plain meal together. Father Yu Xianyi did not have any surprises because of Yu Fan's return home. Instead, the two younger brothers and stepmother kept asking questions, and Yu Fan also answered one by one.

After dinner, his father Yu Xianyi called Yu Fan to the bedroom. When Yu Fan went in, his father was sitting on the sofa with a cup of strong tea, which was a habit that his father had developed over the years. Although Yu Fan did not think there was any advantage in drinking strong tea, he himself liked bottled green tea. In recent years, life in the city had already made him used to the sweet taste of green tea.

"What? Do you want me to work in the township axe? Yu Fan couldn't help but feel a little incredible after listening to his father's words?