Following Gao Jiang's roar, the gear was shifted to 1st, the accelerator was tightened, and the three-wheeled motorcycle quickly climbed up the steep slope in front of him.
In the past, what Gao Jiang hated most every time he went home was this steep slope. He had to push it up when riding a bicycle. The key was that the children were still young and immature and unwilling to walk by themselves. He had to sit on the bicycle, and he had to push it up every time he went up the slope.
Gao Jiang was very tired.
After he went up, he had to go down to pick up his wife. Even in the middle of winter, walking up this slope would make you sweat all over.
However, now, the three-wheeled motorcycle just presses the accelerator and goes up easily.
"Haha, so fast!"
Going up the slope, Gao Jiang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. This three-wheeled motorcycle was more powerful than he had imagined. It was effortless to go up such a steep slope and he was able to do it easily.
Look at the people who are climbing uphill on the road. They are all tired and out of breath, especially those riding bicycles. They are even more tired. Even the four-wheeled carriages are now very difficult, and the people on the bicycles have to get off.
, reduce the load on the carriage so that the horse does not have to work so hard.
"Just to Longshou Ridge?"
His wife Zhang looked at everything in front of her and said in shock.
When they used to go home, it would take them a day to reach Longshou Ridge by bicycle. Every time they went home, it would take them two days and one night, and they would have to stay one night in an inn along the way.
But now, in just over 2 hours, they have arrived at Longshou Ridge. According to this speed, they can get home this afternoon.
"Haha, that's right. Don't look at this. It's a three-wheeled motorcycle. It's very fast. Just lie down for a while and we'll be home soon."
Gao Jiang said with a smile.
The feeling of this three-wheeled motorcycle is much more enjoyable than that of a bicycle.
It is fast and has sufficient horsepower. The key is that even in this winter, because there is a windshield in front and a sunshade roof, you will not feel too cold when driving a motorcycle.
The situation of motorcycles is on the spacious cement roads. Thanks to the Ming Dynasty's infrastructure and road construction plans over the years, unknown to other places, at least around the Beijing-Tianjin area, all prefectures and counties have already opened cement roads.
Now that we have three-wheeled motorcycles, traveling is much more convenient.
Apart from taking a short break and finding a tea stall to drink a bowl of hot tea, Gao Jiang didn't stop along the way, so he returned to his hometown of Gaojia Village early in the afternoon.
"Haha, the speed is fast!"
"It took us 5 hours to get home."
Parking the car in front of his home, Gao Jiang looked at his watch. He arrived home smoothly in a little more than five hours. This speed was amazing. It was faster and more comfortable than riding a bicycle.
"Gao Jiang, are you coming back?"
"Yes, yes~"
"What kind of car is this? It looks very different."
"This is the latest Land Rover motorcycle produced by the Mercedes-Benz automobile factory. It is very fast. It took me five hours to get back from Beijing."
"How fast?"
"Well, look at this, this engine. It's the same internal combustion engine as a car. It's very powerful. I climbed up the steep slope of Longshou Ridge in one breath."
"An internal combustion engine is the same as a car. It costs a lot of money, right?"
"No, it cost 150 taels of silver."
"My dear, 150 taels of silver is too expensive, isn't it?"
"No, I've never seen so much silver in my life."
"You get what you pay for. After all, it has the same internal combustion engine and power as a car. You don't have to step on it and you can start it easily. I came all the way back without even taking a break to drink a bowl of hot tea on the way.
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"That's it, that's it. I heard that a car can easily cost several thousand taels of silver. It's a good deal to buy a motorcycle with more than 100 taels of silver."
"Gao Jiang, you are promising and have made a lot of money. You can buy these 150 taels of silver if you want."
"Don't even look at it. Gao Jiang is a supervisor in a factory in Beijing. He earns more than 200 taels of silver a year. He also has a house in Beijing. It is said that the house is worth several thousand taels of silver now."
"No, no, that's all rumors. I'm still paying off my mortgage."
"Come on, come on, everyone, try some raisins. These raisins are from the Western Regions, and so are these red dates. In the past, when I came back by bicycle, I couldn't bring anything with me. This time I came back with a three-wheeled motorcycle, and I brought everything with me.
Much more."
Gao Jiang said modestly, and also opened a large bag of various snacks from the trunk, and kept giving some to the people in the village. When he met children, he would touch each other's heads.
"Did you see it?"
"From now on, you have to study hard in school and get educated. Only then can you be as successful as Gao Jiang and buy a house and a car in the city."
The adults ate raisins and dried red dates, and then told the ignorant children.
As for the children in the village, they were eating snacks and looking at Gao Jiang and his motorcycle curiously. In their minds, they seemed to think that this was awesome and beautiful, and they were thinking about waiting.
When I grow up, I want to be like Gao Jiang, go to the city and come back in glory.
Gao Jiang's family came out soon, and they were very happy to see Gao Jiang's family back. Especially Gao Jiang's younger brother was extremely happy when he learned that his brother had brought his bicycle back to him.
I immediately rode my bicycle to the open space and started studying.
Owning a bicycle is almost a dream of young people, but bicycles are expensive and not every household now has one, let alone children, even adults.
The news that Gao Jiang's younger brother had a bicycle spread instantly, immediately attracting a large number of children about his age who gathered around and clamored about learning to ride a bicycle.
As for the adults, they kept discussing Gao Jiang's three-wheeled motorcycle.
"This three-wheeled motorcycle is really good. The compartment is very big. It can probably hold hundreds of kilograms of stuff, right?"
"I think it should be no problem to load it with a thousand kilograms. As long as it is a flat road, it should be easy to move a thousand kilograms of things."
"It's really good for transporting things. It saves you having to carry it on your shoulders."
“Does this motorcycle burn gasoline like a car?”
"Yeah, so I brought back a big barrel of gasoline."
"People are still able to live their lives today. They have bicycles, cars, motorcycles, and even carriages. It's not like when we were young, we had to walk when we went out, and we had to carry things on our shoulders or carry them. We were so tired that we died.
Speaking of which, it’s also very slow.”
"Well, times have changed. Now there are cultivators for cultivating the land, harvesters for harvesting, and even wheat mills. The flour ground out is white and fine. When we were young, we were on the ground all year round.
It’s so busy inside that we can’t even get a few full meals. How is it like now, where people don’t have to be so tired, but everyone can eat well and wear warm clothes.”
"Yes, times are changing too fast, but the current times are better."
"In the past, let alone silver, there were only a few copper coins. Now every household has a few silver coins, and the houses built by each household are also very beautiful."
“In the past, the houses we lived in were all mud houses, and any brick house was considered a prosperous home. Nowadays, reinforced concrete red brick houses are popular, and they are beautiful, strong and durable.”
"Come, come, everyone, drink tea, drink tea. This is tea from Fujian. It's pretty good."
"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I don't know when my son and the others will come back."
"I guess it will be tomorrow. I didn't meet them on the way, otherwise I would have given them a ride along the way."
"Calculating the time in the past, it will indeed take tomorrow to get home."
"It would be great if my son was as promising as Gao Jiang. He has a house in the city and a car. It would be much more convenient to go home."
"This is indeed much more convenient. If you want to come back in the future, you can come back directly. You can leave in the morning and arrive in the afternoon."
"So Gao Jiang is still promising. I heard that the price of a house here in the capital has risen to more than 2,000 taels of silver. We ordinary people cannot afford it at all."
"House prices in Beijing are indeed rising higher and higher. I also bought it early. It was less than 500 taels of silver when I bought it. After I bought it, my father even scolded me, saying that there was
The money is not as good as building a house at home. It is said that people always have to return to their roots after falling leaves."
"Thankfully, you bought it in the first place, and now it has doubled. Your house costs more than two thousand taels. How much is the house in this house worth?"
"Yes, my son wants to buy a house in the capital, but he doesn't have enough money. A house costs more than 2,000 taels of silver. He only needs to earn a few hundred taels of silver this year."
"It's really expensive. I can't afford it now."
"Why do you think the prices of houses in this capital keep rising?"
“Can we sell all the houses we build every year?”
"Oh, you don't know. There are not enough houses to sell in the capital. Every time there is a real estate project, there are huge crowds of people rushing to buy houses. There are so many rich people in the capital. I don't know how many have them.
Where are the rich people?"
"If you think about it, cars costing several thousand taels of silver can be seen everywhere in the capital. A house costing more than 2,000 taels is nothing to the wealthy people in the capital."
"Poverty is just for ordinary people like us. Fortunately, in this era, even ordinary people like us don't have to worry about food, drink, clothing, and can build our own houses in the countryside. That's enough."
"If we can't afford a house in the capital, we won't buy it. The same goes for building a house at home."
