"No, no, that's not right, Lingzi, why are you like this now?"

Han Chuang suddenly cried and shouted with a sad face.

"A fierce brother and you, I used to wish I could live in an arcade room, but now I just stop playing..."

"It's a good thing that you're still willing to show up. Brother Meng, I haven't seen him since the New Year. No one found him when I went to his house. The door is locked every day. The neighbors also said that they haven't seen him for a long time and don't know what he is doing."

"If you don't show up after a while, I will have to run to your house."

Brother Meng's full name is Shi Meng. He is seven or eight years older than Chen Ling and Han Chuang. He is from the county. He has worked in the joint defense team for several years and worked as a secretary for the leaders of the Power Supply Bureau for two years.

Later, he didn't know whether he offended someone or committed something. Not only did he lose his job, but his parents were also affected.

He retired from the county middle school early.

Anyway, Shi Meng has since then changed from a good young man to a street gangster. He spends all day in arcade rooms and billiard halls, hanging out with Chen Ling and Han Chuang, and never leaves home until dark.

However, according to Chen Ling's memory, he was indeed never seen again after the New Year.

Now when he heard Han Chuang mention this, Chen Ling shook his head and said, "Brother Meng and I are different. Brother Meng probably has something to do at home. I'm just tired of playing and don't want to play anymore."

Then, he patted the bullock cart and said, "Come on, get in the cart, and I'll take you to the Cultural Palace."

"No, no need. I came on a motorcycle. If you want to go to the south of the city, we just happen to be together."

Han Chuang pointed towards the noodle stall and saw a brand new motorcycle parked at the base of the wall.

With an orange body and yellow fenders, it is a small motorcycle with an extremely simple structure.

"Oh, the star is 50..."

Chen Ling couldn't help but exclaimed.

The Star 50 motorcycle is a classic motorcycle produced by Shimen Hongxing Machinery Factory.

When this thing was first put on the market in the 1980s, it sold for 1,200 yuan. In that era when the average salary of the public was only a dozen yuan, it could be said to be a standard equipment for households with 10,000 yuan.

Even in 1995, there were very few families with such a motorcycle.

"This guy, doesn't your father think you spend all day in the arcade room, so I won't buy it for you?"

Han Chuang scratched his head and grinned: "Hey, home, my family just announced a daughter-in-law, so my father bought a car for me to drive my daughter-in-law."

"Hey, you're talking about a daughter-in-law? When will you get married?"

Chen Ling laughed after hearing this.

"Just, just, just end the year."

When asked this, Han Chuang's dark face turned purple. He was a little embarrassed, but the smile on his face became brighter.

"When the time comes, you and Brother Meng must come."

"I have wanted to tell you this for a long time, but I have been unable to reach you these days."

"Don't worry, I will definitely go."

"How can Brother Meng and I be absent from such a big event like your wedding?"

When Chen Ling said this, he couldn't help but look him up and down: "Chongzi, you are about to get married, why do you come to the county town to play arcade games? Don't you have nothing to do at home?"

"Why not? I came here under the guise of picking up my wife. Otherwise, if my father finds out, I won't get whipped."

Han Chuang chuckled, with a naive look on his face.

"So, your wife is also in the county?"

Chen Ling heard what he meant and asked.

"Yes, speaking of which, you must know who she is. She was the fat girl from Director Liu's family in our high school. But now she is thinner and looks better."

Han Chuang smiled all over his face when talking about his future wife, grinning from ear to ear, "She took the college entrance examination after graduating from high school and now works as a technician at the Bureau of Agriculture."

"Good guy, you quietly got a college student to be your wife, you can do it too..."

Chen Ling smiled and punched him.

But in my heart, I have no impression of Director Liu's daughter.

He did go to the same high school as Han Chuang, but this kid was too stupid and failed two grades. When he was in his third year of high school, this kid was only in his first grade.

"Hey, I'm going to push the motorcycle over..."

Han Chuang scratched his big head and laughed twice, then pushed the Red Star 50 forward.

Waved to Chen Ling: "Come on, Ling Zi, come up and ride around!"

"It's so exciting to ride on this thing. You can circle around the county town in twenty minutes. It's very fast. Come on, come up and give it a try."

Chen Ling wanted to say he couldn't say it, but he was still willing to let him ride a new motorcycle, so it wouldn't be a good idea to refuse.

I rode a short circle around the street.

"It's amazing, Lingzi. It's your first time riding a motorcycle and you actually ride it so well. You're much better than me before..."

Seeing Chen Ling's familiar attitude, Han Chuang opened his mouth in surprise.

"I rode my brother's motorcycle and went straight into the ditch. I almost knocked out my front teeth."

Chen Ling laughed and said, "You know I'm a novice, but you still dare to let me ride. You're not afraid that I'll damage your new motorcycle."

"Hey, I haven't seen you for two months. Are you happy? You don't want to play arcade games with me. I won't let you try my new guy..."

Han Chuang winked and then got on the motorcycle.

"The road here is narrow, I'll go ahead and clear the way."

"good!"

So one person drove an ox cart and the other rode a motorcycle, heading south of the city.

Not long after, we arrived at the Workers' Cultural Palace.

When the two separated, Han Chuang stopped him again and said something.

"Lingzi, if you really can't enter the sand quarry, you might as well come to my cannery."

"Although there is not as much oil and water as the sand mining field, it is still better than farming at home. What do you think?"

Chen Ling smiled when he heard this, and first thanked the big black man, and then said that he would not go anywhere from now on, and would just settle down and farm at home.

Seeing Han Chuang walk into the Cultural Palace with an obviously disbelieving expression, Chen Ling was a little surprised.

Chen Ling used to be such a bastard, but he actually had a friend who was not a bad friend.

Not easy!

…

At 1:30 in the afternoon, Chen Ling returned to the newly rented courtyard in the south of the city.

First, I cleaned up the yard and the house. When I saw that there was no tree in the yard, I took a fig sapling from the cave and planted it next to the pressure well.

Then I saw that the square pond on the east side of the yard was filled with soil. It was used by the old landlord and his wife as a place to grow vegetables. I couldn't help but shook my head, took a stone hoe, and dug out all the soil filled in it.

The square pool was restored to its original appearance.

Later, they planted lotus flowers in the pond, filled half of the pond with water, and threw in many cave-like fish fry.

As Chen Ling poured several buckets of Dongtian Stream water into the pond, the surface of the pond was quickly filled with lotus leaves, and the small courtyard suddenly became full of life.

"Hey, it looks much more comfortable now, otherwise it wouldn't be alive at all. It's deserted, like a ghost house that hasn't been inhabited for many years."

Chen Ling clapped his hands and showed a satisfied look.

Afterwards, he took the stone hoe into the cave to prepare to move the vegetables out and set up a vegetable stall in front of the store.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked into the thatched hut, there was a crisp "click" under his feet, which startled Chen Ling.
Chapter completed!