What a strange thing!

The bus to Cloud Lake was neither at the long-distance bus station in Shengzhou nor at the East Station in Shengzhou in the northeast of Xinjiang Province. Instead, it was in a car parking lot named Xingsheng.

It's really hard to find!

"How much is it to buy one from Cloud Lake?" In front of Xu Yuanzhou was a man in his 60s. He looked like a farmer who came to work in Saint City. With a smile on his face, he asked the buyer carefully.

"160." The buyer was a young woman in her 30s. She was quite good-looking. She drew her eyebrows, lipstick, and said coldly with no expression on her face.

Xu Yuanzhou couldn't help gasping.

From the holy province to the Cloud Lake, 210 kilometers, it's really expensive!

"It's so expensive! The train only costs 28," the old man muttered.

"You think it's expensive to take a train! If you can't afford it, then don't!" The voice of the buyer was eight degrees higher, and his face was full of contempt.

"I haven't bought the train tickets yet. Why don't I spend a high price to get this broken and slow car..." The old man whispered and said reluctantly, "I want to buy one."

"160 yuan, cash, WeChat, or Zhi Fubao?" The buyer pretended not to hear his uncle's muttering and asked impatiently.

"Here, in cash..." The old man took out a wrinkled plastic bag from his trouser pocket, trembling, and opened it. Xu Yuanzhou saw that the old man took out some notes of 10 yuan and 5 yuan, and counted them one by one. While counting, he read, "90, 100, 105, 110,115......" Then he suddenly stopped.

Xu Yuanzhou looked at the old man who was counting money without blinking. He found that the old man had used up all the money in his plastic bag. He took out a few coins from his bag and looked at the ticket holder with a red face. "Only 150 yuan... can you take it?"

The buyer was impatient and patiently waited for him to count. When he heard the words "you can ridicule me", his mood suddenly erupted like a volcanic eruption. "I'm not a living farmer! You have 10 less and he has 10 less. I don't have to work either. The whole family can drink! If you can afford it, you can buy it. If you can't afford it, you can die! Next!"

Xu Yuanzhou was in a bad mood. He rushed to the ticket holder and said, "The second one is from Cloud Lake, WeChat."

Then he said to the old man who had retreated to the side, "Sir, I'll buy your tickets together."

"Yes." The buyer's tone was still cold.

After getting the ticket, the old man gave the wrinkled 150 yuan to Xu Yuanzhou with gratitude. "Thank you, young man!"

"Sir, no need to thank me." Xu Yuanzhou waved his hand and refused to accept his money.

The old man refused and stubbornly gave him the money. "Young man, it's not easy for you to make money. If you don't accept it, I don't want the tickets."

"Sir, you must have to take a car and eat from the Cloud Lake to your home. How about this, I'll charge you a hundred." Xu Yuanzhou came up with a compromise. After that, he stuffed the rest of the money into the old man's bag without saying anything.

The old man hesitated and no longer refused. He thanked Xu Yuanzhou for his kindness.

Xu Yuanzhou felt a little sad. He asked the old man to sit down on the broken bench without a back, and then went out to buy a large bottle of coke and some bread, and handed it to the old man.

"You are really a good person!" The old man sobbed with tears in his eyes.

The bus to Cloud Lake cost two hours. Xu Yuanzhou bought tickets at 10 o'clock in the morning. There were more than 40 minutes before the train arrived. The two of them were chatting on a broken chair.

The old man's name was Liu Bao roots. He was from Dongshantang Village, Golden Bridge Village of Yunhu County. He was 65 years old this year and was a small worker in a factory in Shengzhou. His wife, Ding Qinglian, accidentally fell down this morning. Her spine was broken and she was lying in the Golden Bridge County Health Institute. So she rushed back to Cloud Lake in a hurry. It was not yet time to get back to the construction site. She originally wanted to take a train back to Cloud Lake, but there was no car. It took her a lot of effort to find this bus stop at Cloud Lake.

"Master Liu, why are you still working in Shengzhou at your age?" Xu Yuanzhou asked tentatively.

"Alas..." Liu Bao roots sighed, and the thick wrinkles on his face were twisted into wrinkles. He said coyly, "Young man, you don't know the poor place of our Cloud Lake. The land is thin and the land is thin. A year's work is only enough for food. It can't make money at all! There are no factories in the county. Young people are now running to foreign countries and Shanghai. I am old and have no culture or skills. I can only be a small worker to make some money."

The situation was almost the same as what Xu Yuanzhou had learned about the materials in the labor department in the past two days. However, he did not expect that there were more people who went out to work in Yunhu County than the 100,000 people described in the materials. Even Liu Bao roots, who was in his sixties, also went out to work. This was not mentioned in the materials at all.

"Well..." Xu Yuanzhou thought for a moment and asked, "Master Liu, what about your children? Have they also gone out to work?"

Liu Bao roots's face suddenly darkened, and tears fell from his wrinkled face like broken pearls. He said painfully, "My child's name is Liu Guohua. That year, the child's army went to fight against the flood. He sacrificed himself to save people."

"Ah?" Xu Yuanzhou was surprised!