Chapter one hundred and seventy-two bargaining depends on the ninth day
After nearly an hour, the train passed through the dark Qinling Tunnel, and the carriage returned to the brightness of daytime.
"Guo Guo, look! Look! It's snow! It's snow! This is the first time I've seen snow in my life!"
Chujiu pointed to the ravine outside the lathe and shouted excitedly. The young conductor passing by showed an expression of disdain that had never seen the world and reminded Chujiu not to make too much noise.
"What's all this fuss about? Don't you know the dividing line between the north and the south of our country? After passing the Qinling Mountains, of course we are in the north. It's normal to see a lot of snow."
I pretended not to be shocked and stared out the window at the unmelted snow in the ravine. It was early April, and there was still such thick snow. It was green and lush an hour ago, but in the blink of an eye, there was bare loess and white snow.
"Guo Guo, the trees here are bare and you can't see any green at all. If only I had come two months earlier, I could have seen snow."
Chujiu pressed his face against the glass of the lathe, regretting that he did not see the snow falling. The breath he exhaled from his mouth condensed into a layer of white frost on the glass.
"Of course, there are four colors throughout the year, unlike Chongqing which only has winter and summer."
I explained to Chujiu that the four seasons in the north are distinct: spring is gray, summer is green, autumn is yellow, and winter is white.
Chujiu asked me why the spring when everything revives is gray instead of green, but I asked him if he knew what a sandstorm was? Chujiu nodded in understanding, pushed open the window of the carriage, stretched out his hand outside the window, and shouted
It turns out it's not cold at all in the north.
The young conductor who passed by our carriage again looked at us like a fool.
I just remembered that the two of us were only wearing thin sweatshirts and jeans. Fortunately, on the ninth day of the lunar month, we reached out the window and tested the temperature, which was not too cold.
"Guo Guo, look, our train is running on the bridge. Below is the Yellow River Barbarian?"
Chujiu is like a curious baby, shouting in surprise at all the new things, without hiding his excitement at all.
“I smell the smell of my hometown.”
I explained to Chujiu that we were in Sanmenxia, where the three provinces meet. When the train crossed the Yellow River Bridge, we would arrive at the border of Shanxi. When the word Shanxi was mentioned, I looked northwest and guessed the time in my mind.
Mother should be making lunch.
"Where is the smell of hometown? Why do I smell the smell of coal?"
Chujiu sniffed hard for a long time. No wonder Shanxi is a coal-producing province and the air is filled with the smell of coal. So it really feels like home.
After enduring it for a long time, I finally got a chance to slap him on the forehead. What a bullshit coal mine. The coal mines are in the central and northern parts of Shanxi. This is the smell of coal coming from train boilers. Can’t you see the thick smoke coming from the window?
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At Yuncheng Railway Station, Chujiu kept complaining that the scale of the railway station was less than one-tenth that of Chongqing, and that the infrastructure of the northern city was too backward.
"Guo Guo, it's really not cold in the north at all, ah, holy shit!"
Before Chujiu finished speaking, a gust of wind blew by, and I instinctively hid in a corner. Chujiu sneezed, and my little face instantly turned red from the cold.
"It's really not cold when it's not windy. It's windy, hahahaha."
Seeing Chu Jiu's appearance instantly become wilted, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Young men, where are you going? There is a car, and it costs 10 yuan per person."
After leaving the train station, a middle-aged man wearing a cotton-padded jacket walked towards me and pointed to a van not far away.
"The post office next to the clothing factory costs five yuan per person, so you can go as long as you can."
I replied to the black cab driver in dialect. Although the dialect of Lijiacun is somewhat different from that of Yuncheng, you can still tell that I am from Shanxi.
"Fellow fellow, I thought he was an out-of-towner with so few clothes on. Get in the car, get in the car, the car is warm, wait for me for two minutes, call two people who are passing by and then set off."
Ten minutes later, the van was packed with seven people. Chujiu muttered, it turns out that all the illegal van drivers in the country are the same.
After seeing the business hall of the post office, I decided to go to the clothing store first to avoid getting sick from the cold.
The little haggling prince once again used his inhuman bargaining skills. The boss gritted his teeth and resisted the urge to hit someone. A brand-name down jacket that cost 380 yuan was finally sold to us for 80 yuan. On the ninth day of the month, he was shameless.
I asked the boss to get a good deal, and he added eight yuan to get me a pair of long johns.
There is a wine wholesale shop at the entrance of the clothing city. I suddenly remembered that one night during the summer vacation, our family was sitting in the yard enjoying the cool air.
My father looked at the vines in the yard and muttered to himself whether the wine in the TV commercials was really better than his own home-brewed wine. Grandpa smiled and said, I will give it to you in the future when Qin Feng is successful.
You will know after you buy it and try it.
The owner of the store who was reading the newspaper probably looked at me and Chujiu when he was old enough that he didn't look like he was here to buy wine. Also, he saw that our clothes were a bit classy, so he stood up reluctantly and asked what kind of wine we wanted to buy.
“Is there any Lafite of 1982 from Boyle in Bordeaux, France?”
Chujiu patted the counter and casually took out the 2,000 yuan we just took out from the bank. I turned my head, fearing that the boss would see my smile and Chujiu would start his performance again.
Wan Li told us that in order to make it easier for the department to give us subsidies, we were asked to apply for a new bank card. We were going to go to the post office to apply for a new card and deposit the two thousand yuan into it.
"Oh, this young man is a wine connoisseur at first glance. I don't have the 1982 Lafite here, and I guess there won't be any in Yuncheng. Who can afford that? A few thousand yuan is enough to marry a wife.
Margaux Louis XIII does have one, why don’t you take a look?”
The boss dropped the newspaper in his hand, pointed to a bottle of red wine packaged in a gold-rimmed box on the top of the counter, and greeted Chujiu warmly.
"Margaux is Margaux, Louis XIII is Louis XIII, what nonsense Margaux Louis XIII."
Chujiu just glanced sideways at the bottle of wine and snorted dissatisfiedly, "What a rubbish." The boss became anxious and told him that this was a famous wine.
"Margaux, produced in the Bordeaux region of France, is a first-class red wine in the Murdoch region. The winery owner Corina Montesbrello's family combines 85% Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, 8% Merlot grapes, and a small amount of Cabernet Franc.
Grapes and Petite Merdoux grapes, the alcohol content is less than 13%. Deep purple ruby color, thick and powerful, balanced acidity, rich layers, thick and delicate, smooth and pure, the best tasting time is from 2018 to 2050."
Louis
Made from the "Eau of Life" from the "District", it is a brandy that has been aged for more than 50 years."
"I know Margaux, I know Louis XIII. What is this Margaux Louis XIII? Boss, tell me."
Chujiu leaned back on the chair next to him, half-lying down, and talked endlessly about wine. The more the boss listened, the darker his face became. No wonder he couldn't sell it for so long. It turned out that he was deceived by the supplier.