Li Wenjun went up and knocked on the door: "Professor Zuo, are you at home?"
no one responded
He asked three more times, but there was still no response.
Someone beside him muttered: "I doubt he's at home at all."
"It's impossible, it's so early. I've been here since seven o'clock."
Li Wenjun didn't hesitate and turned around and left.
Then Zhong Zhenhua looked confused: Huh??? What happened? You gave up so quickly?
The people behind him snickered: "Hey, I thought he was so capable, but he also got a bad reception?"
"You're so angry now? You're really young and can't stand any setbacks. You didn't know it even after looking at the thatched cottage three times."
"You think that because you are good-looking and rich, everyone will buy into his fault?"
Zhong Zhenhua caught up with Li Wenjun: "Are you just leaving?"
Li Wenjun replied carelessly: "Today is June 28th, which is the 18th day of the fifth lunar month. I should go there directly..."
Zhong Zhenhua didn't understand it at all and looked confused: "Ah? What do you mean?"
Li Wenjun smiled: "It's nothing. I'll come back to you after a while."
He took out one of the two boxes of apples in the trunk and gave it to Zhong Zhenhua: "Keep this for eating."
He was originally going to take the other box to see Zuo Bowen. After all, supplies were scarce in this era, and fruits were not so easy to buy. Zuo Bowen had just returned from abroad, so he might want this one.
Zhong Zhenhua was as happy as a child: "Okay."
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Li Wenjun made a phone call and drove to the provincial bus station.
He walked around the bus station and saw Zuo Bowen standing at the ticket window with a blank look on his face.
His temperament and appearance are really incompatible with the surrounding villagers who are dressed in blue or military green clothes.
Zuo Bowen is worth millions in the beautiful country, but the clothes and leather shoes he wears are bargains from Wal-Mart. The most expensive thing is the briefcase he is carrying, which was also bought at a discount.
The character of a miser really starts from a young age.
Moreover, the old man in front of him was much younger than the skinny old monster he saw later.
It’s great to be young…
Li Wenjun sighed secretly, stopped the car in front of Zuo Bowen, opened the window and asked: "Old man, are you going to Cha County?"
Zuo Bowen turned around and ignored him.
Li Wenjun asked in Cha County dialect: "I happen to be going back to Cha County. How about giving you a ride back for five yuan?"
Zuo Bowen immediately turned back and stared at Li Wenjun and said: "Fifty cents."
Li Wenjun almost died laughing: This old man was really excited when he heard that he could bargain. This is the Chinese nature hidden deep in the blood, and he cannot resist it.
Li Wenjun said: "For one piece, I will take you to wherever you want to go, any village."
Zuo Bowen looked at this handsome young man who looked a bit ruffian, and replied coldly: "Eight cents."
Li Wenjun sighed: "Let's go. Just think of me as doing something good."
This sentence was definitely not made up by him to deceive Zuo Bowen.
Zuo Bowen's hometown is in the mountains of Cha County, and eighty cents is really not even enough to pay for gasoline.
Zuo Bowen refused to come up and said, "If you give me one yuan, you will have to send me back."
Li Wenjun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and waved his hands to leave: "Forget it, I just watched the empty car go back, and took someone to earn some gas money. If I have to send you back one dollar, I will lose a lot."
Zuo Bowen said hurriedly: "If you just send me there, I will give you eight cents. If you are willing to send me back, I will give you another two yuan. You will not lose."
Li Wenjun deliberately frowned and looked hesitant.
Zuo Bowen opened the back door neatly and came up.
Li Wenjun sighed and muttered: "Oh, I also think you are old, so there is nothing you can do."
Zuo Bowen pretended not to hear.
Li Wenjun started the car and took the expressway from the ramp next to the bus station.
The beautiful female toll collector at the entrance toll station saw Li Wenjun and was about to say hello.
Li Wenjun waved secretly to her.
The toll collector was stunned for a moment and asked tentatively: "Where is this comrade going?"
Li Wenjun hurriedly replied: "Thank you, I'm going to Cha County, Zhu City."
The toll collector handed him a sign with the entrance station and license plate written on it: "Give this to the toll collector when you go out."
Li Wenjun quietly gave her a thumbs up and nodded: "Thank you very much."
Then take the sign.
The toll collector opened the electric barrier at the entrance, and Li Wenjun drove onto the expressway.
Zuo Bowen said to himself: "There is a highway, and it is an electric pole. It is not as backward as they said."
Li Wenjun smiled: "This road was just built."
Zuo Bowen still pretended not to hear, with an expression like "I don't want to chat with you."
Li Wenjun touched his nose and continued to drive: It would be easier to just throw money at it. Such a trick is almost too laborious.
When Li Wenjun arrived at the Cha County exit, without waiting for the toll collector to speak, he immediately handed over the sign and fifty cents.
The toll collector also looked confused: What is the boss doing today?
Li Wenjun raised his chin towards him.
The toll collector blinked, took the sign and money, and opened the gate: "That's it."
Li Wenjun waved his hand and drove away in his car.
The toll collector stood up in excitement and said to his colleague at the window next to him: "I actually received 50 cents in tolls from Comrade Li Wenjun. I want to keep these 50 cents."
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Li Wenjun got off the highway, slowed down, and asked Zuo Bowen: "How to go?"
Zuo Bowen turned around and looked around for a while before saying, "I don't remember."
Li Wenjun's eyes were stung by his sad face in the rearview mirror. He parked the car and turned around and asked, "Which village are you from?"
Thirty years have passed, and it is normal for Zuo Bowen not to know the road anymore.
Li Wenjun actually knew how to get there, but he was just afraid that he would become suspicious, so he asked him.
He came here before he was reborn, and he also came here to recruit workers after he was reborn.
Zuo Bowen hesitated and said: "Zuojia Village, Jieshi Town."
Li Wenjun said: "Okay, I'll drive to Jieshi Town, maybe you'll get to know him."
Arriving at the entrance of Jieshi Town, Zuo Bowen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly called out: "This is where I walked to the county town and took the bus to go to school. Turn left and go west."
Coming out of the town, the road becomes rough.
Fortunately, Li Wenjun drove an off-road vehicle. Although there were some bumps, the chassis was not scratched.
Zuo Bowen said: "Did you see the big camphor tree in front? There used to be a shrine for the master next to it, and that was the entrance to Zuojia Village."
Li Wenjun parked his car under a big tree because the road inside was too narrow and he couldn't get in.
Zuo Bowen was about to get off the car, and Li Wenjun said: "Wait a minute."
He took a canvas bag from the back seat and handed it to him: "Use this."
Zuo Bowen glanced at the leather briefcase in his hand, took out the contents, put them in the canvas bag, and got out of the car.
Several barefoot children saw a car entering the village and ran out of curiosity and ran around Zuo Bowen and the car.
"Car! Car. Big car!"
"Wow, what a big car."
"Grandpa, you are not from our village, are you? Why haven't I seen you before? Whose family are you a relative of?"
