The countryside is now very different from what it used to be.
Many young people go out to work, and they won't even be back a few days before the end of the year. Even if some do come back, after a busy year, they will sleep in late when they finally have a chance to rest at home.
It's not very busy outside Lin Zhuang at 8am.
Along the way, Lin Yun only saw some elderly people busy from a distance. He didn't meet any familiar people on the way and quickly walked to the front door.
There were buildings all around, and only their home was still an ordinary bungalow.
'Today is Yunzai's birthday...alas...I don't know if he is doing well out there...'
As soon as Lin Yun walked outside the front door, he heard a woman's sigh from the courtyard.
Hearing this, the moisture in Lin Yun's eyes immediately turned into tears that rolled down his face.
A mother worries when her child is thousands of miles away. Who truly understands these words?
'Mom, I'm home!'
Pushing open the door, Lin Yun looked at the much older woman in the courtyard and could no longer hold back, crying out.
'Yunzi, you're back?'
Hearing this voice, the old woman dropped what she was holding and turned to see Lin Yun, looking unbelieving.
'Yunzi! You're finally back!'
The old woman walked quickly up to him, embraced him with both arms, and cried.
She hadn't seen Lin Yun for five years, and how had she not missed him?
More tears fell from Lin Yun's eyes.
At this moment, he could see that there were many white hairs in his mother's hair.
When he left, his mother was fifty years old.
Now, his mother was fifty-five years old.
His mother had aged.
At this moment, Lin Yun felt some remorse.
He regretted that in the past five years, he had never returned home once.
His 55-year-old mother seemed much older than her peers, and he wondered if it had anything to do with the fact that he had left home and had not returned once in those five years.
'Clatter...'
Not far away, a pile of things fell to the ground, and a jumble of sounds came from it.
Lin Yun turned his head and saw an old back, busily gathering the vegetables scattered on the ground next to a frame cart.
Lin Yun's heart trembled.
Although it was just a back view, and this back view was a little older than he remembered, he still recognised it at a glance as his father's.
'Dad!'
Lin Yun let go of his mother's embrace and walked quickly over, grabbing the hand of the old back view and shouting, a little shakily.
At this moment, his emotions were very complex.
He didn't know if his father had forgiven him after five years.
However, as he felt the shaking in his father's hands become more and more intense, and the 'water drops' falling on the back of his hand, he knew that he had been overthinking everything.
His father had long forgiven him, and all that was left was endless worry.
'Yunzai, don't blame your father. Although he never said so, I know that he has longed for you to come back. He didn't let us contact you or spend the money you called with because he wanted you to come back sooner...' Lin's mother wiped away her tears as she spoke.
'Dad, I'm sorry, I was an unfilial son and didn't appreciate your good intentions back then...' Lin Yun said with a slight choke in his voice.
'It's good that you're back...' The old man's back finally turned, his mouth opened slightly, and he sighed in the end.
'Dad, let me help you load the vegetables!' Lin Yun quickly said.
He could see that his father was loading vegetables onto the cart next to him, and because he had suddenly appeared, his father panicked for a moment and let a large amount of vegetables that were being tied fall.
His family grows some vegetables in the fields, and these vegetables should be taken to the market for sale. Before he went out to work, he often helped his father load vegetables onto the cart when he was at home.
While talking, he kept picking up the vegetables on the ground and loading them onto the cart. Although he can now earn hundreds of millions of dollars a day, he doesn't disdain these vegetables as worthless in the least, and doesn't let his parents refuse to take these vegetables.
His parents had worked hard to grow these vegetables, and they were of great significance to them. It was not about the amount of money he was making now.
This was the livelihood of his family since he was young. He had been away for five years, and now he was helping his father load the vegetables. He really enjoyed the process.
'Okay...' Lin's father had already wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes. His eyes were red, and he kept nodding.
'Dad, where are you taking these vegetables? I'll help you!' Soon, all the vegetables were loaded. Lin Yun looked up at his father and asked with a smile.
'These vegetables need to be taken to the county town, it's too far. Shenzhen is so far away from home, you must be very tired after just returning, I'll ask your mother to make up a bed for you, you should go and rest!' Lin Yun's father shook his head.
'These vegetables need to be taken to the county town?' Lin Yun was taken aback.
Although their village was near the county town, it was still more than ten li to the county town, and it would take a long time to pull the cart manually... How tiring would it be with so many vegetables?
'Doesn't our family have an electric tricycle? It's such a long way, why don't you use the tricycle to pull it? Is the tricycle broken?' Lin Yun frowned.
Five years ago, when he left, their family had an electric tricycle. Their family made a living by growing and selling vegetables. With so many vegetable fields and so many vegetables to pull every day, it was impossible to do without a tricycle. Even if the original one broke down, they would definitely have to buy a new one.
In the countryside nowadays, almost every household has a tricycle. First, most young people have gone out to work, so it is mostly the older people at home, some of whom also have grandchildren. It is safer to drive a tricycle, and it is also more convenient for carrying things.
'Nowadays, the county doesn't allow tricycles to drive around. As soon as a tricycle appears in the county, it will be seized. Our family's tricycle was seized. I thought it would be fine to pull the vegetables down at three or four in the morning, alas...' Lin's mother sighed.
'As long as a tricycle appears in the county town, it will be seized?' Lin Yun found this incredible.
Due to the structure of the resident population, tricycles are the mainstream mode of transport in Xianyuan County. Even taxis are not used in Xianyuan County, people take public tricycles instead. The main reason is that they are cheap. Salaries in Xianyuan County are very low, so how many people can afford taxis?
When country people go to the city, there are no buses or taxis, and they can't afford cars. Tricycles are the most convenient mode of transport.
There are many industries that need tricycles.
How can they all be banned?
'As long as it's a tricycle, including those delivering water and express deliveries, as long as they are found running in the county, they will all be arrested...' Lin Yun's father said in a low voice.
'Haha...' Lin Yun laughed a little angrily.
The tricycles delivering water and express deliveries have all been arrested?
This reminded him of a previous incident in Shenzhen City, where there was also a campaign to ban motorcycles and limit electricity. At that time, it also caused a big fuss.
However, how many people live in Shenzhen? It's tens of millions!
And what kind of people make up Shenzhen's permanent population? Most of them have some money, and most of them earn a good salary, and at the very least, they don't care much about public transport costs!
Shenzhen's public transport is very well developed!
What about Xianyuan County?
Does it have a permanent population of 500,000? And that's in addition to the number of people scattered across the various towns and villages!
Many of them are elderly people and children left behind!
Many people don't have a salary! And those who do have a salary, their salaries are very low!
If he didn't misread it when he passed through the county town just now, it seemed that he saw only one taxi and not a single bus. Perhaps it was too early in the morning, or perhaps he just didn't see it... But this also shows that public transport in Xianyuan County is very poor!
Under these circumstances, how can they ban all three-wheeled vehicles?
In other words, how long has Shenzhen been developing? One of the most developed cities in the country! It's only now that restrictions are being imposed!
Xianyuan County is a small, seventh- or eighth-tier city, and they're actually doing this, so he really doesn't know what to say!
'There was really nothing we could do. When they first banned the tricycles from entering the city, our family's vegetables covering several mu of land all rotted in the ground. Your father pulled a cart to sell the vegetables, but he was not allowed to sell them in the same place as before, and he lost all his regular customers. It was still justizi who found customers for your father, but there was not much time. Your father went into the city at three or four in the morning, but he was still caught... They dumped all the vegetables by the roadside...' At this, Lin's mother rubbed her eyes and said.
Lin Yun's face was ugly.
At the moment, his mother's tone revealed a strong sense of grievance.
He could imagine how aggrieved his father must have felt when this happened to him.
The vegetables from the few acres of land he had worked so hard to grow had all rotted in the ground!
He had gone into the city at 3 or 4 in the morning, and his car had been seized... The vegetables had been dumped by the roadside!
A tricycle was an important asset for an ordinary family in a small county like Xianyuan!
Those vegetables were their family's livelihood!
To have their important family asset taken away... their livelihood destroyed... how desperate must that have been?