After dinner, Zhang Yanming closed the doors and windows tightly, put the keys in the small supermarket, and took Smith and Angelina to take the bus.

There didn't seem to be many taxis here, and I couldn't see one for a while. It was better to take a motorcycle and forget it in this weather.

The buses are not crowded either. In winter, there are far fewer people going out than in summer.

The good thing about a small town is that it is stable. Everyone is surrounded by the factory where they work. Apart from going to work, the workers get together to play poker and mahjong. The parents chat with each other and live according to a fixed pattern year after year.

Therefore, people rarely come out when nothing happens, and they all guard their own small world. Especially in winter, even young people come out less.

The bus drove out of the garage yard and stopped at the stop, and everyone lined up to get on the bus.

The temperature inside the car is the same as outside, so there's nothing we can do about it. The bus doesn't have air conditioning at this time.

The flight attendant is closing the windows and closing all the windows tightly.

"If you have a ticket, take it. If you don't have a ticket, have your change ready."

Zhang Yanming took out the tickets and counted three. He asked for them from Brother Mou, and he had a lot of them, in whole stacks.

"Don't you have to pay?" Smith asked Zhang Yanming strangely.

"This is money, paid by the factory, and it is the welfare of the workers. Everything here belongs to the factory, including the buses and the factory's transportation team, so internal workers can work for free."

"Oh, your welfare policy is really good."

There will be no one when the bus is not full. There is no departure time for the buses here. When they are full or no one is around, they will leave. When there are few people, there will be fewer buses. When there are more people, there will be more buses. It is very free.

This section of the road is a factory road. Various large vehicles have made the road bumpy and bumpy. There are two sections of railway crossing the middle. The car is bumpy like a cramp when walking on it, and the car glass makes a rattling noise.

The cold wind filtered in through the loosely closed car door, and everyone huddled in their chairs and stamped their feet.

There are also some car window glass hooks that are broken, and they slowly open by themselves as they vibrate.

Foreigners seem to be more resistant to freezing than us. Neither Smith nor Angelina showed any sign of being cold. They looked at both sides with great interest and kept asking questions.

The flight attendant collected the tickets and money, took the tickets from Zhang Yanming's hand and cursed with a smile: "How can they really control the scene? They are also employees?"

Everyone on the side laughed and secretly looked at the legendary foreigner. Foreign engineers in the factory had special cars to go in and out, so they were rarely seen at all.

"No." Angelina waved to the flight attendant.

"Hello, welcome to China. This girl is so handsome." The flight attendant replied with a smile and complimented her.

As soon as I walked out of Donggou Gate, my field of vision broadened. The dark distant mountains and land were covered with still-thick snow, and the sky and the earth were vast and chilling. The wind also picked up, blowing snowflakes all over the sky.

There were only three stops in the middle, and not many people got on or off. The bus braved the wind and snow to arrive at Dead Man's Gully.

"The Dead Man's Groove has arrived, the Dead Man's Groove. Those who are down there, watch and don't leave your things behind." The flight attendant sat on the machine cover in front and shouted. It is the hottest place in the whole train.

"Dead Man's Trench?" Smith repeated.

"Yes, that's what you understand it to mean, a ravine full of dead people."

"Why?"

“This is the place where the Japanese used to deal with sick and injured workers and shoot people when they were mining. People who were sick, injured, or had violated something were killed and thrown in. In the end, they were all bones.

There are two such places here, and there is another one where I work, called a mass grave, where more people are buried."

"A pit with ten thousand people buried?" Smith was quite shocked.

"Yes, there are more than ten thousand people. In Chinese, more than ten thousand becomes an adjective."

The three of them got out of the car. Zhang Yanming shrank his neck and looked around.

There are residential buildings on both sides of the road, which look very old at first glance. On the left is a row of red brick five-story buildings, and on the right is an eight-story building with cement exterior walls.

There were some trees planted on both sides of the road, with only their branches standing in the wind and snow.

This side is a little more lively and is the main residential area. From time to time, people in coats and cotton-padded jackets walk towards the market with their necks hunched.

"Er Ming is back." As he was watching, a woman's voice came over, and Zhang Yanming turned to look over.

"Well, I'm back to see the kids, where are we going, Aunt Zou?" The NPC mode that I hadn't seen for a long time appeared again and answered automatically.

"I went to the market to buy some vegetables, but you didn't go to your mother's store? I'm afraid your parents are in the store right now."

"Well, let's go. I just got off the car. Aunt Zou, please hurry up and leave first. It's very cold."

"Young man, how can you walk slower than me? I just want to go to your mother's to buy some things." Aunt Zou reached out and slapped Zhang Yanming: "You have grown so old and tall, I feel like you had so many eyes when you were a child. Yes."

I don’t even know, auntie. Zhang Yanming smiled and followed Aunt Zou.

"It's been a long time since you've been back, huh?" Aunt Zou glanced at Smith and Angelina: "Oh my god, are these two foreigners?"

"Well, my friend, come back with me and say hello. It's been a long time since I've been back. There's been a lot going on during this time."

Aunt Zou looked at the two foreigners again: "You're really capable, and I know foreigners. I'll chat with your mother if I have nothing to do. Your mother has told you many times, and I don't know what you are busy with outside. Come back and see if you have nothing to do. ."

"Well, I will come back often in the future. There will be nothing wrong during this period."

"Oh, it's not easy for parents. Are your hands okay? It's quite heavy."

"Okay." Zhang Yanming stretched out his hand and bent it: "I can't see it anymore."

"Don't freeze. The injured area is afraid of freezing. Just heal it and be more careful in the future. You don't even know how to scare your parents. Your mother cried in front of me several times."

Aunt Zou kept talking nonstop, Zhang Yanming responded with a smile, and the four of them turned left along the intersection and walked through the entrance of the shopping mall, which is the vegetable market.

The number of people suddenly increased, and it was lively and lively. It was not crowded, but it was full of people as far as the eye could see.

There are shops on both sides of the road, and various sheds are set up in front of them. The sheds are also colorful and have various uses.

Seafood, aquatic products, vegetables, meat, tofu and barbecue, braised meat, hand-stuffed sausages, steamed buns and buns, condiment shops, and so on. There are also several small restaurants, wonton restaurants, dumpling restaurants, bakeries and Chinese food in between. .

Zhang Yanming responded to Aunt Zou with his mouth, and looked at both sides with his eyes, sorting out some memory fragments.

Halfway through, there were suddenly fewer people and stalls. There were no stalls on the right side of the road here.

There was a child squatting on the side of the road, wearing a brown coat, squatting there and staring at the ground without knowing what he was looking at. His little hands were clenched and held at his sides.

I don't know why, but Zhang Yanming was sure at a glance that this was his child.
Chapter completed!