Chapter 15

Early Saturday morning, Su Xinghui carried a bulging backpack and got on the bus from Meng Hu Ling to Shangjun County. He didn't bring too many things in his backpack, most of which were bamboo weaving brought back from Yezhugou.

There are very few buses from Meng Hu Ling to the county seat, only two a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Precisely because of this, this bus is always very crowded. Ding Hongxing carried a large backpack, fearing that the bamboo weaving would be squeezed, so he simply didn't carry it, lifted the backpack over his head with one hand, laboriously crossed over the messy items placed there by passengers in the aisle, squeezed to the last row, and sat in the only empty seat there, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Although the climate in Meng Hu Ling is cool, it is already August after all. The carriage is very hot. Many male passengers are still smoking. Some passengers also brought live poultry such as chickens and ducks. Coupled with the body odor of the passengers, the smell in the carriage is not to mention, and it is very noisy. The sound of people talking, the sound of chickens and ducks, and the crying of children, Su Xinghui has not experienced such a scene for a long time, but his adaptability is still very strong, and his physical fitness is also good, so he soon adapted.

After the bus started, a cool wind rushed into the carriage, which suddenly drove away the heat and also drove away the strong smell, making people feel much more comfortable. However, as soon as the car started, it bumped violently. The road from Meng Hu Ling to the county seat is only a two-lane fourth-class highway, which has been in operation for many years, and there are potholes everywhere. The county does not have so much funds to repair the road. Therefore, to take this bus, one can only endure the extremely slow speed and violent bumps. This bus has to go to the county seat, although it is only about thirty kilometers away, it takes at least more than an hour.

Su Xinghui thought that this road is the biggest bottleneck restricting the development of Meng Hu Ling. If the road is not repaired, Meng Hu Ling will be difficult to develop. He must think of a way to repair this road, or repair a new road. However, repairing a road is not easy. Shangjun County's fiscal revenue is not high. Repairing a thirty-kilometer fourth-class highway is not a matter of overnight. According to what he knows, the county repaired a new county-to-Meng Hu Ling highway ten years later in his previous life.

The bus walked for more than ten minutes and arrived at Wangjiapu. People got on and off. There were more people getting on than getting off. Su Xinghui saw a woman holding a child standing there, and no one gave her a seat, so he gave her his seat and stood in the aisle.

In this way, Su Xinghui stood on the bumpy bus for more than an hour before arriving at the county seat.

As soon as he got off the bus, Su Xinghui felt the weather getting hot. The altitude of the county seat is much lower than that of Meng Hu Ling, and it is backed by the Yangtze River, so it is hot and stuffy in summer. He carried his backpack and went straight to his home. His father, Su Wenjun, is an internal medicine doctor at the County People's Hospital, so his home is in the dormitory building of the People's Hospital. The station is only about one kilometer away from his home, and it takes a few minutes to walk fast.

When he was about to reach the hospital, Su Xinghui heard someone calling his name, "Xinghui, Xinghui!"

He looked back and saw that it was his high school classmate Zhang Cheng. He was happy all of a sudden. He wanted to find Zhang Cheng when he came back this time.

Zhang Cheng's father, Zhang Kaishan, is the deputy county head of the county. Zhang Cheng's relationship with Su Xinghui was very good in high school, but his grades were average in the college entrance examination. He only went to the regional tax school, which was a technical secondary school with a three-year system. He entered the Liu Xiancai Bureau to work after graduation last year.

Su Xinghui went directly to report after confirming that he was assigned to Meng Hu Ling. He hadn't come back for so many days, so Zhang Cheng was still very happy to see him back.