Rebirth in 1998 is also a kind of life

"Hey, hey, Yang Zhu, didn't you say that today you will be divided into groups and attend the first meeting with the local staff and company representatives of Shuangqing? What are you doing wandering around early in the morning?" Yu Xiaohua said a little Looking at Yang Zhu worriedly, he has no idea what this guy is doing.

"It's okay, it's okay! I've already greeted Secretary Chen in advance. The team going to various places for investigation will start in the afternoon at the earliest. We just need to rush back before the call... As for that troublesome son It doesn't matter if you attend the first meeting or not!" Yang Zhu turned his head and explained with a nonchalant face, then took out a thick wad of money from the ATM machine, and stuffed it casually into his liberation bag.

There is nothing wrong with this statement. Different from the b2b-based assistance model of other Qilu enterprises, Zhutou Trading needs to face the task of revitalizing the regional economy. Therefore, compared with other things, whether to meet those Shuangqing enterprises in advance Not that important.

Yu Xiaohua, however, looked with jealousy at the large amount of money that this guy took out... If my mother had a few hundred dollars in her small coffers, she already wanted to celebrate with firecrackers. Without checking the balance, I withdrew the full amount of 2000 oceans, and even withdrew twice in a row! ? (At this time, the maximum single cash withdrawal amount of ATM is [-])

Huahua, who had a new understanding of the wealth of his old classmate, puffed up his cheeks indignantly, while thinking about how to fight the local tyrants;

But his hands were not idle, and hurried forward like a dog's leg, helping to smooth Yang Zhu's release bag, as if afraid that others would see the huge sum of money inside,

After finishing all this, Huahua took two steps back, looked at the old-fashioned liberation bag, and found that there was no sign outside, then nodded, with a flattering smile on his face: "Yang Zhu, let's Where are you going now?"

Seeing that this guy's eyes were almost like Brother Kong Fang's, Yang Zhu rolled his eyes: "Just wander around, find a place to eat, and then go back!"

After finishing speaking, he smiled maliciously: "Also, I have business to do today, and I don't have so much time in London, so... you old man, don't even think about sweeping the streets!"

The word "street sweeping" has different meanings in different scenarios, but when you and a girl appear in the city of Shuangqing, then "street sweeping" has only one understanding - along a street , Eat it one by one!

Thinking of the glorious record of this guy in the night market for two consecutive hours after the meeting ended last night, Yang Zhu was puzzled, looking at his old classmate who was slender and ate so much food, where did he go? went?

He obviously didn't have a bulging stomach and said, could it be that there is a different dimension connected to this guy's stomach?

Seeing Yang Zhu's eyes sweeping back and forth on his lower abdomen, Yu Xiaohua blushed, but turned into anger and gave Yang Zhu a heavy slap on the shoulder: "Since there is business, why don't you hurry up!?"

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More than two hours later, Yu Xiaohua, who was already sticking out his tongue, noticed a very strange thing.

Although my old classmate looked like he was wandering aimlessly, he went to various urban villages or large vegetable markets. For this reason, he even took three taxis, and finally came from Jiefangbei to the place in front of him. The place in "Xinqiao Industrial Park"—Student Huahua suspects that if it is not because of lack of time, Yang Zhu may even travel all over the main city, instead of confining his activities to the spb area.

If it was just that, she could understand that Yang Zhu was observing the grassroots situation or the price level in Shuangqing City...but soon she found out that was not the case at all.

This guy never goes into the vegetable market to see the types and prices of vegetables inside. Even the villages in the city only go in for a few laps and then come out. "Bangbang" seemed to be more interested in the accents and conversations of these bangbangs, and even asked her to help identify or memorize the accents of these people.

God is pitiful, although classmate Huahua is from Bashu, and she studied politics and law in Southwest China, but she grew up in Qilu since she was a child, how can she tell where his accent is?

But the good thing is that Xiaohua is a lot lazier than before after graduation, but since he can be admitted to Southwest Political Science and Law, he is not an idiot. , and was willing to run over to chatter without hesitation, so after two hours, I initially remembered the slight differences in the accents of several places.

At the end, Huahua finally confirmed one thing...Yang Zhu, this bastard, came for the "stick stick army".

It's just that what she didn't understand was that, although because of the TV series "Mountain City Bang Bang Army" a few years ago, the Bang Bang group has gradually become known to some Chinese people, and they have gained a wave of goodwill;

But the entire Double Celebration has a total of tens of 10 people!

Along the way, Yu Xiaohua has seen more than a hundred stick-stick soldiers holding a thick bamboo pole in their hands and looking around at the roadside. A stick for an impromptu nap on a snakeskin bag spread by the side of the road;

If Yang Zhu really came for the stick army, why didn't he make any moves all the way here?

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Ok……

In the Shuangqing area, there is a profession that is not found in other cities... that is "Bang Bang".

If you have to find an occupation with the same nature as it, then Taishan's "mountain picker" will bear the brunt of it - but with the development of society, the work of picker has completely disappeared in the long river of history, and has since become A text in a primary school textbook.

But Shuangqing’s sticks are different. They are still active in the city, squatting at stations, docks, streets and alleys, holding a thick bamboo stick, and moving everything; from home appliances and furniture, to vegetables and tofu, As long as someone yells, they will be there at any time—because of their large number, they also have the title of "Bang Bang Army".

These laborers from surrounding impoverished counties and districts are the most convinced group of people in China who believe that "hard work can get rich". Most of them are honest and trustworthy, and have their own professional ethics. The local people's trust in this group even exceeds that of many neighbors. ——Even in 2014, Prime Minister Keqin commented on them as "remarkable", "every penny is earned by sweat", and "a symbol of the hard work of the Chinese people".

Although due to the rapid economic development and the ever-changing means of transportation, the Shuangqing of later generations has gradually bid farewell to the history of shoulder-to-shoulder carrying, and the once mighty army of sticks has gradually been submerged in the trend of history. Although the size of the stick-stick soldiers has shrunk a little, they are still approaching the peak level.

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And Hua Hua guessed rightly, Yang Zhu's goal today is indeed these sticks—or in other words, he hopes to find someone who has a certain influence in the sticks group.

It's just two hours of observing flowers on horseback...

These sticks are really simple—after all, 1 yuan is willing to help you pick two large snakeskin bags and 8 to [-] kilograms of potatoes step by step to a shop as high as an [-]-story building. If you go, people from other places will definitely not be happy (Shuangqing is a mountain city, and many shops are on steep street slopes)

And they are really willing to endure hardships——Yang Zhu learned along the way that many of these sticklers spent more than 16 hours looking for work every day for the business of one yuan or fifty cents, and lay down in bed when tired. Even if you are squatting on the street corner eating steamed buns with cold water, as long as someone shouts at the top of your lungs, you will immediately put the steamed buns back into the plastic bag and say "Hey, here you go!"

only……

Maybe it's because of the hard life. Although these sticks have silly smiles on their faces, they are very silent in language. It is rare to see large-scale chats together, even if there are two fellow villagers in their spare time. From time to time, we chatted about family matters, but we couldn't see the respect for each other at all.

Although Yang Zhu had known for a long time that the people on Shuangqing's side had a sense of arrogance in their bones, and he would not easily be convinced by anyone; but after a whole morning, he didn't meet a candidate who met his standards, but it also made him frustrated tight.

Could it be...it really has to rely on the power of the local government to get this done?

Yang Zhu sighed inwardly.

If possible, he really didn't want his plan to rely on the power of the government to set up a framework from the very beginning; this involves not only a matter of face, but also the difficulty of subsequent operations and management.

"Forget it, let's find a place to eat first, let's go back first after eating... I guess we can't do things today!" Yang Zhu looked at the time, it was already 11:30, so he turned his head and said to Xiaohua.

"Okay, okay! What shall we eat?" Huahua, who has always been heartless, looked excited, not at all disheartened because of the fruitless morning; It's not going well, so in her cognition, failure is the norm. It would be weird if everything can come true!

"Um... Shall we go out to eat, or just eat here?" Huahua scanned the dusty narrow road and the unsightly self-built houses in front of him, and carefully consulted the benefactor. Opinion.

"Just eat here. It looks like there is a fast food restaurant in front of me. Let's deal with it casually!" After shopping for a whole morning, Yang Zhu's legs were already sore and numb, so he didn't bother to run around for a bite, Randomly ordered a restaurant closest to them.

what?

Fast food restaurant!

Yu Xiaohua murmured sullenly. It's not that she dislikes the bad environment in urban villages—as we all know, half of the street food in a city is in these dirty-looking urban villages. , how could she not even know this?

What really annoys her is... It's all here, why don't you find a restaurant that looks special to eat, but choose this fast food restaurant that is obviously only for filling your stomach! ?

You Qilu people simply have no pursuit of quality of life at all! !

Huahua snorted indignantly. If she hadn't run out of her small treasury now, and she could faintly sense that Yang Zhu was not in a very high spirits, she would have wished to pay for it herself, and take this guy for a walk for a good time. Food!

But...huh?

2荤2素只需要四块钱？3荤3素也只要5块钱？

In addition, this fly restaurant actually has 1 meat and 1 vegetarian for only two yuan?

This is the first time we met. You know, other fast food restaurants started with 2 meat and 2 vegetarian dishes.

Looks like a good deal!

The most important thing is... As long as there is no waste, the rice in this restaurant can be refilled at will!

Seeing the big characters on the signboard, Yu Xiaohua was shocked!

You know, at this time, if you search the whole country, you will never find this kind of fast food restaurant that allows you to eat all you want. At this price, if you meet a big-bellied man and order one meat and one vegetable, you can eat only rice. You can get the cost back!

There shouldn't be a problem with the food in this store! ?Student Huahua was filled with endless doubts.

But Yang Zhu seemed to be used to this, dragged his lazy body, walked to the door of the store, and casually ordered 3 meat and 3 vegetables.

Seeing this, Huahua had no choice but to walk over and looked at the 2 rows of 12 dishes that looked good. I don't know whether it was out of caution or curiosity, and finally ordered a mapo tofu and a twice-cooked pork. It became 1 meat and 1 vegetarian.

"I'm sorry, little girl, at least you have to order 2 meat and 2 vegetables in the store!" The fat proprietress looked at her with a half-smile.

"Huh? Don't you have 1 meat and 1 vegetarian on your menu?" Yu Xiaohua suddenly became unhappy.

"Hehe, that was in the past, it's gone now, and now you have to order at least 2 meat and 2 vegetables... Do you still want it?" The proprietress smiled, but her tone was faintly impatient.

Feeling that she was being tricked, classmate Huahua was furious, looked at the side as if she didn't notice anything, and Yang Zhu who was trying to pick up pickles, Yu Xiaohua snorted bitterly, and immediately ordered again. A roasted potato ribs and a stinky tofu made up 2 meat and 2 vegetables, and then he walked to the low table angrily with the plate.

Half a minute later, classmate Huahua squeezed a big bowl of rice in revenge, stuffed some stinky tofu into his mouth and tasted it with an extremely disgusted expression.

Huh?

It tastes good!

Immediately, I took another piece of tenderloin with not much meat on it and tasted it.

Well, except for the lack of meat, the taste is really good, at least not worse than that of ordinary Chinese restaurants, and it seems that the ingredients are still fresh;

As for saying that there is no meat on the bones... come on, what bike do you want for four dollars?If I can give you two small bones to gnaw on, I am considered Amitabha, okay?

Classmate Huahua, who couldn't find any faults in terms of taste and cost performance, angrily threw the gnawed bones on the table—everything else in this store is good, except for the shitty proprietress, who is so worthless!

On the other hand, Yang Zhu put down his chopsticks expressionlessly, searched around, and found that the store did not provide free napkins, so he picked up his sleeve helplessly and splashed the soup that Huahua had splashed on his face wipe.

Looking at the stains on the sleeves, the speechless Yang Zhu was about to complain about his old classmates;

The proprietress, who was a bit indifferent to the two, seemed to be a different person, and let go of her voice and shouted: "Brother Qian! Why are you here today?"

Yang Zhu turned his head to look, but there were seven or eight men walking over from far to near, and then they lined up at the door of the store consciously, with bowls for bowls, rice soup for rice soup;

And this group of people, whether it's their naked upper body, the rubber shoes on the soles of their feet, or the thick bamboo poles wrapped with nylon ropes in the corner of the store door, all clearly show their identity-stick stick soldiers!

The 40-year-old man in the lead laughed when he heard the proprietress calling him: "Today, I brought a group of brothers to the Shibati on the Jiefangbei side, picked coal for more than 20 small restaurants along the street, and finally delivered the coal truck. It's late, I didn't arrive until 5:10 in the morning, so I didn't finish the work until [-]:[-], so it was a bit late!"

Hearing this, Yang Zhu looked at the man's rather strong upper body, and found that apart from a dark bruise on the back of his neck, there were still a lot of black powder left on his callused shoulders, together with sweat. , forming a luster similar to ink.

The lady proprietress heard the words, and quickly picked up the plate: "Then eat quickly, I know you guys have to go to Zili Lane, and together with the brothers there, move goods to the department store!"

The man called Brother Qian sighed with emotion: "Miss Boss, you don't know, life here in Shuangqing is very good now, those refrigerators and air conditioners are being pulled into the shopping mall by car, and the bags are expensive. Things, my eyes are straightened!"

The proprietress rolled her eyes: "It has nothing to do with you because the refrigerator and air conditioner sell well! You worked so hard in the afternoon and moved to the evening, isn't it just to make a little money? You seem to be able to afford those foreign goods Like!"

Brother Qian waved his hand: "Don't tell me, you only need to move for one afternoon and one night, and you can earn more than 60 yuan. Where can you find a good job?"

"If such good things happen every day, it only takes two years to pay for my baby's college tuition!"

Seeing brother Qian's shy look, the other guys cried out;

A man with a slack stomach yelled: "Brother Qian, don't show off your child's achievements all day long, my ears are getting calluses!"

A thin man with a slightly stooped figure said with a smile, "That's right! Brother Qian, your son has just entered junior high school, so why do you need to prepare college tuition for him so early!"

Another man who was about the same age as Brother Qian smiled furtively: "That's right! Instead of preparing tuition fees for your child, you might as well save some money for yourself and find another wife!"

The proprietress seemed to be in a hurry. Seeing this group of people still chattering non-stop, she picked up a spoon and slammed the stainless steel dish bowl heavily: "Okay, okay! Don't gossip all day long, eat quickly Hurry up and take a break, you have to go to work in the afternoon!"

After speaking, he picked up a plate, and without asking what kind of food the group wanted to eat, he scooped up two spoonfuls and put it in: "Today is still the old rule, one meat and one vegetable!"

Yu Xiaohua, who was watching from the side, turned his head and looked over in disbelief when he heard the words. His eyes turned green when he saw the two spoonfuls of dishes that the proprietress's portion was far exceeding his own.

Didn't it mean that there is no one meat and one vegetarian?

What is the situation now?

And...why does someone else have more 1 meat and 1 vegetable than my own 2 meat and 2 vegetables! ?

You are discriminating against foreigners! ?

With classmate Huahua who was about to run away, Yang Zhu watched the tone and demeanor of this group of people when they talked to that "Brother Qian";

Finally, I moved my eyes to the corner where the sticks put the bamboo poles,

Looking at the bag buried in the pile of bamboo poles, which vaguely contained the outline of some fruits, he became thoughtful...