It was 2 p. m. in April 1980 in Guan City, Lingnan Province, China. In the mountains more than 50 kilometers away from Guan City, an old truck was driving on a winding mountain road. It was pulling a load of labor insurance materials for mining. The driver was Wang Aiguo, 32 years old, a driver of the state-owned 203 Mine Transportation Division. The sun was shining brightly outside the window, and the shadows of the trees on both sides of the road kept passing by. Although the road was not steep, it was not easy to drive because it was a muddy road. Aiguo Wang looked ahead with a cigarette in his left hand and the steering wheel in his right hand. He drove the car at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour and climbed the mountain road. He thought that as long as he drove past the mountain road in front, it would be easier.
All of a sudden, he seemed to see something falling from the mouth of the mountain in the distance. He wondered if it was something dropped by a plane from Taiwan Island. If you pick it up, you have to hand it in. He sped up a little, and soon the car arrived at the mouth of the col. He saw a young man wearing a green wide-sleeved robe standing on the side of the road. He had long black hair draped over his back and a cloth bag on his right shoulder. He looked at the car with a calm expression. This man was Dai Xuan, who had just landed.
Driver Wang Aiguo stopped the car on the right. He looked at Dai Xuan and thought," It was really strange that people still wore such ancient clothes in this era.
He stuck his head out of the car window and shouted at Dai Xuan,"Who are you? Why are you here?" Dai Xuan saw a person coming out of a green iron box and asking him a question. He thought that the words he said were similar to his own, so he cupped his hands and bowed."This elder brother, I'm here to travel and have nowhere to go. I wonder if it's convenient for elder brother to give me a ride?”
Wang Aili was a warm-hearted person. When she saw that Dai Xuan was handsome and did not look like a bad person, she said," Then you can get in." He opened the right door for Dai Xuan. Dai Xuan walked over and opened the right door. He stepped on the pedal and closed the door. He said to Wang Aiguo,""Thank you, elder brother!"
Wang Aiguo nodded and didn't rush to drive. He took out a box of cigarettes, put one in his mouth, and handed another to Dai Xuan. Dai Xuan took the cigarette and took a look. He smelled it again and felt a burnt fragrance enter his nose. It was a fragrance that he had never smelled before.
Wang took out a match and lit the cigarette in his mouth, then handed the lighter to Dai Xuan. Dai Xuan took it and imitated him, lighting the cigarette in his mouth. After taking two puffs, he felt good and asked,"What is this?"
" Cigarette," Aiguo Wang replied.
Then, the two of them chatted while smoking. "My name is Wang Aiguo. What's yours?" asked Wang Aiguo. Where are you from?"
"My name is Dai Xuan. I've been living in the mountains with my master since a long time ago. My parents have passed away, and I can't find a place to stay in my hometown for the time being.”Dai Xuan replied.
The two chatted for a cigarette before Wang Aiguo started the car and drove off. They were still more than 30 kilometers away from their destination, Mine 203. It would take nearly an hour to go back.
Wang Aiguo continued to drive. Dai Xuan looked at the hills on both sides of the road. He now knew that the thing he was sitting on was called a car. Dai Xuan thought that he should thank Wang Aiguo for giving him a ride.
Dai Xuan spread out his divine sense and found a wild boar wandering in the ravine hundreds of meters behind the mountain. He decided to catch it and give it to Wang Aiguo. "Brother Wang, please stop the car. I saw a wild animal on the mountain in front of us. I'm going to catch it."
Wang Aiguo stopped the car and looked at the mountain in front of him.""Really? What wild creature? Can you catch it with your bare hands?"
Dai Xuan nodded." No problem. Wait for me here. I'll be right back. I'll be quick."”With that, he got out of the car and went up the hill on the right into the woods.
Wang Aiguo also got out of the car and shook his head speechlessly as he watched Dai Xuan disappear. He took out another cigarette and lit it. As he smoked, he almost finished his cigarette. He heard a noise on the mountain and vaguely saw Dai Xuan dragging a black wild boar down the mountain with his right hand. Aiguo Wang stood by the roadside and watched with his mouth agape. He didn't even realize that the cigarette butt was burning his mouth. How was that possible? Such a huge wild boar weighed 200 pounds. How did he hit it without a hunting rifle? Wang Aiguo was thinking about it when his mouth was scalded. He quickly spat out the cigarette butt and ran up. This was a good thing. It was worth about 200 to 300 yuan per catty. It was equivalent to him working for more than two months.
Wang Aiguo watched as Dai Xuan dragged the wild boar to the roadside. The wild boar had black fur, a small head and a big butt. It had a fierce face and fangs, and a fat body. It was obvious that it was not a good thing to provoke.
"Brother, you're really a fierce person. You caught such a big wild boar by yourself.”Aiguo Wang said to Dai Xuan with his thumb up.
Dai Xuan smiled and said,"It's alright. This beast doesn't have much strength. It can't withstand my kick." It's all thanks to Brother Wang for giving me a ride today. What's the big deal about catching a wild animal and giving it to Brother Wang?"
Wang Aiguo was very happy to hear that. Although he was embarrassed to take the wild boar, Dai Xuan insisted that he keep it, saying that it would be difficult to deal with it alone. In the end, Wang Aiguo had no choice but to put it away first. He cleared an empty space in the trunk, and Dai Xuan put the wild boar in the trunk. The two of them got into the car and continued on their way.
Along the way, Wang Aiguo was very excited. A big wild boar, this time he really showed his face. Tonight, he had to find a few comrades and fellow countrymen to have a good drink. Then, he invited Dai Xuan to stay at his place if he had nowhere else to go, and Dai Xuan agreed.
After driving for about 40 minutes, they arrived at a fork in the road. Aiguo Wang turned the car to the left road. On the right side of the road was a small mountain and on the left side was a small river that was more than ten meters wide. The river was clear and gentle, flowing quietly to the east. The road was paved with cement. The two-lane wide road was hard and flat, making it very easy to walk on. Dai Xuan was secretly amazed. Could it be that there were still immortal cultivators in Shen Prefecture? Placing such a large stone slab on this road was probably not something a mortal could do, right?
After walking along the river for more than a kilometer, they turned a corner and saw two mountains on the other side of the river. The mountains were flat and there were many rows of yellow houses on the mountains. Wang Aiguo said that this was their goal. 203 Mining Department.
Aiguo Wang drove the car across a bridge that was more than 50 meters long and 10 meters wide and entered Mine 203. It was already four o'clock in the afternoon. It was not time to get off work yet, so there were not many pedestrians on the road.
Wang Aiguo first drove Dai Xuan back to his home. He wanted to change Dai Xuan's clothes. He lived in a two-story house halfway up the mountain. The house was about 60 meters long, and the stairs were built in the middle, dividing the house into four parts. There were four families living on the upper and lower floors, so it was relatively comfortable. Aiguo Wang lived in the three rooms on the left downstairs. He arranged for a single room by the stairs for Dai Xuan to live in. The room was simple and crude. The floor was paved with cement and painted with white wall dust. There were two long orange strips in the corner of the room with a bed board. Together with a mat, mosquito net, pillow and quilt, it became a complete bed. Beside the bed was a one-meter-long and half-meter-wide desk and a wooden chair. Dai Xuan put down the cloth bag he had brought with him. Wang Aiguo came in with a set of grass green clothes and said,"This is the military uniform I used to wear. You can make do with it first. After changing, we'll go out immediately.”Dai Xuan replied,"Alright."
Soon, Dai Xuan changed his clothes. He was still wearing his black cloth shoes. He could only keep his long hair for now. There was no time to cut his hair. It still made him look a little strange. Then, Wang Aiguo took him out again.
Mine 203 was mainly divided into two parts. On the mountainside of the mountain was a residential area and a school. It was divided into three areas by two climbing stairs and a mountain road. Halfway up the mountain was a large flat area which was almost 700 m in length and 300 m in width. In the middle of the area was a huge square which covered almost 10,000 square meters. Several four-storey office buildings were distributed around the square. Beside the office buildings was a cafeteria. Beside the square was a auditorium, a small park which covered 500 - 600 square meters and dozens of two-storey residential buildings. This area was surrounded by a cement road. On both sides of the road were supply and marketing agencies, grain stations, guest houses, vegetable markets, small restaurants, and other places. There was a small residential area on another lower mountain.
Aiguo Wang drove Dai Xuan to the guest house next to the supply and marketing cooperative. The guest house was a four-story building with a large courtyard covering an area of more than 1,000 square meters. On the left side of the courtyard is the dining hall of the guest house.
Wang Aiguo's fellow villager, Lao Wan, was the chef and director of the guest house here. Because it was located in a remote mountainous area, the guest house was relatively idle. Usually, it would serve the higher-ups who came to inspect and the people from the brother units who came to exchange. Other guests rarely stayed here.
Old Wan was a fat man in his forties with a round face and short hair.
Aiguo Wang parked the car in the courtyard and found him in the office on the first floor of the dormitory building. It was a relatively free day today, and he was drinking tea in the office waiting for work to end. When Lao Wan saw a big fat wild boar lying in the truck, he was overjoyed. He had two hobbies. One was to eat delicious food, and the other was to cook delicious food. He quickly returned to the kitchen in the dining hall to boil water and prepare to kill the pig.
Wang Aiguo and Dai Xuan carried the wild boar to a cement floor at the back door of the kitchen. There was a faucet there, which was specially used to deal with living things and wash vegetables.
The wild boar was still alive, but it had fainted. Old Wan took a sharp knife and quickly bled it.
Wang Aiguo introduced them to each other, saying that Dai Xuan was his cousin. After a few words, he drove away. He still had to drive the car to the warehouse to unload the goods.
About ten minutes later, a man called Zhao Dong came. He was called by Aiguo Wang to help and drink. He was also his hometown.
At this time, the water had also boiled. Dai Xuan watched as the two of them were busy cleaning up the wild boars.
Dai Xuan watched as the two of them scalded the pig's hair with buckets of boiling water. As they scalded it, they scraped it with a knife. After shaving the pig's hair, they cleaned the internal organs and decomposed the pork and bones.
Lao Wan took some pork bones and internal organs back to the kitchen to work. Some dishes took a long time to prepare, so he had to prepare them in advance. Zhao Dong was left alone outside to work.
Dai Xuan ran to the kitchen to watch Old Wan cook. He was also a foodie. He usually ate good things on the Divine Planet, but the cooking method was too monotonous. It was not as simple as Old Wan's frying, steaming, and other operations. In addition, there were all kinds of ingredients in bottles and jars. Smelling the fragrance of meat that gradually came, Dai Xuan could not help but feel his appetite stir. His eyes were filled with anticipation.
After about an hour, it was almost six o'clock. Zhao Dong had finished processing the pork, and seven or eight more people came in one after another. There were more than 3,000 people living in Mine 203. They were all from all over the country. There were more than a dozen people from the same county as Wang Aiguo.
Aiguo Wang also arrived with a woman in her thirties and two children, a boy and a girl. The older boy was ten years old, and the younger girl was six years old. They were Aiguo Wang's wife and children. Aiguo Wang introduced them to Dai Xuan.
Following that, Wang Aiguo was surrounded by a few fellow villagers who asked him how he got that wild boar. Wang Aiguo pulled Dai Xuan over and introduced him to them."This is my cousin. He caught him on the mountain.”Everyone raised their thumbs in praise. Although there were many wild animals on the mountain, usually only people caught wild rabbits and pheasants. Very few people could catch big guys.
Suddenly, the loudspeaker in the square outside sounded. It was a broadcast at six o'clock. It was a radio program. Dai Xuan found something strange.
The dining hall of the guest house was a large bungalow with a floor area of more than 100 square meters. There was a hall and four private rooms. All of them had cement floors and white walls. There were no guests staying for dinner today, so they sat down at two round tables in the hall.
At 6:30, everyone was present. Old Wan's family and two young couples came. The woman and child sat at the same table as the two young couples. Wang Aiguo and the other 12 men sat at the same table. Dai Xuan sat next to Wang Aiguo.
At this time, the dishes had not been served yet, and Chef Wan was still busy. Everyone at the table was drinking tea and chatting. At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties with a square face wearing a white shirt, who Wang Aiguo called Chen Fukuang, asked Wang Aiguo,"Old Wang, your cousin's hair is too long. Why don't you bring him to get a haircut?”Aiguo Wang said,"He just arrived today, so I don't have time to take him to cut it. Let's talk about it tomorrow.""Such long hair can probably be sold for a few dollars."
Dai Xuan sat at the side without making a sound. He was only paying attention to the movements in the kitchen. He was eager to taste the delicious dishes of China.
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