Zhang Xiangbei and Xiaowu drove into Shandong in a car. There were more large trucks carrying vegetables on the expressway. Almost all the farmland on both sides of the road was covered with plastic greenhouses.

Compared with other places, especially in the south, the plastic greenhouses in Shandong are tall and spacious. Unlike the small and stingy greenhouses in the south, there is another thing that is connected to the greenhouses, which are white and can’t see at a glance.

The signs that flash from time to time on both sides of the road read "xxx-China's Carrot Hometown" and "xxx-China's Eggplant Hometown", but after driving a while, what flashed into their eyes was another "xxx-China's Carrot Hometown" and "xxx-China's Eggplant Hometown".

This made Zhang Xiangbei and Xiao Wu wonder, how many carrots and eggplant towns are there in China?

Shandong is the largest vegetable production area in the country. None of them, the vegetable planting area accounts for one-tenth of the country, and the vegetable production accounts for one-seventh of the country. It can be said that Shandong vegetables are basically placed on the dining tables of every household in cities across the country.

This is probably related to the gentle terrain of the Yellow River Delta, with abundant sunshine and abundant rainfall.

Shandong is a province with a very awkward geographical location and is easily misunderstood.

For most southerners like Zhang Xiangbei and Xiaowu, it seems that Shandong is very far away and is the northern region. Many people even confuse it with the Northeast. But in fact, Shandong is not even the North China region. It is the northernmost province in East China, and it belongs to the same region as Zhejiang, Fujian, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Jiangxi.

Yimeng Mountain, Menglianggu, Taishan, etc., these place names that often appear in movies, TV and comics give people the impression that Shandong is also a mountainous province with no three feet flat land. It is easy to forget that it is both the mouth of the Yellow River and the Bohai Rim province.

Even the mountains in Shandong are exaggerated by poems such as "will be as if they are on the top of the mountain and overlooking all the mountains", "How calm the water is, the mountains and islands are soaring" and so on. For people like Xiaowu who come out of the southern mountainous areas, it is really a pediatrician. The mountains in Shandong cannot even use the word "continuous".

If the mountains are not continuous, they will not bring people the kind of imagination and despair that are still mountains outside the mountain, and after passing this mountain, can they still be called a mountain?

When Zhang Xiangbei and Xiaowu arrived in Tai'an, it was already night and it was pitch black all around, but from the billboard at the intersection of the expressway, they told them that this place was at the foot of Mount Tai.

The two of them immediately decided to get up the next day and go to climb Mount Tai first. For two people who have never been to Shandong and have never climbed Mount Tai, how could they pass Mount Tai without climbing?

The next morning, the two of them had breakfast in the hotel, checked in, walked to the open-air parking lot behind the hotel, stood by the car, and looked around curiously. Didn’t it say that Tai'an was at the foot of Mount Tai? Why didn’t the feeling of Mount Tai pressing down on the top of Mount Tai? Only a mountain was standing alone not far away. The mountain looked neither high nor steep.

Zhang Xiangbei asked the security guard in the parking lot, where is Taishan?

The security guard pointed to the mountain and said, that's it.

Zhang Xiangbei and Xiaowu were surprised, and then they were deflated. Zhang Xiangbei raised his thumb, aimed at the mountain and gestured. He and Xiaowu said:

"It's not as high as the Tiandu Peak in Huangshan, nor is it as high as the Lotus Peak."

Xiao Wu laughed: "You can measure it like this?"

"Of course, if you don't believe me, please check it out." Zhang Xiangbei said.

The two of them immediately stood there, checked Mount Tai with their mobile phones, and then checked the Lotus Peak and Tiandu Peak in Huangshan. Sure enough, the main peak of Mount Tai, Jade Emperor Peak, and Tiandu Peak in Huangshan.

Zhang Xiangbei said: "I climbed to the back of the crucian carp on Tiandu Peak in an hour. This is about the time to urinate."

Xiao Wu smiled and said, "Then you are not urinating."

After getting into the car, Zhang Xiangbei started the car and turned around and asked Xiao Wu: "Are you still going to climb?"

"I don't want to go. If I want to climb such a mountain, I might as well go home on holiday." Xiao Wu shook his head and said, "Do you want to go?"

"I'm no longer interested, I have no desire to conquer at all, so why not rush to go?" Zhang Xiangbei said.

Xiaowu said yes, let's go.

Zhang Xiangbei drove his car out of the hotel parking lot and headed towards Shouguang.

The two of them exchanged driving along the way, and it took three hours. At 1:00 pm, they arrived in Shouguang, which is a county-level city under Weifang. It is definitely not wrong to say that it is a vegetable town in China.

There is an employee at Banmutian Jinan Logistics Base, who is from Shouguang. After receiving a call from Xiaowu, he rushed back from Jinan last night and was waiting for them in Shouguang. Before they entered Shouguang city, he sent Xiaowu a WeChat location. The two of them followed this navigation and went to Shouguang Chenming International Hotel.

Shouguang Chenming International Hotel is on the edge of Mi River, which is already the outskirts of Shouguang. Xiaowu drove into the hotel and Zhang Xiangbei looked at the architectural style of the hotel and knew that it should be a garden resort-style hotel.

Xiao Wu turned up a slope and parked his car at the entrance of the hotel. A young man in his twenties stood and chatted with the security guard. When he saw their car, he ran over and waved at Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu rolled down the car window, and the young man quickly grinned. When he smiled, he was a little shy and showed his neat white teeth. He said:

"Mr. Wu, are you here?"

Xiao Wu nodded and told Zhang Xiangbei that this was Liu Dehua, and then told Liu Dehua that this was Mr. Zhang.

"I got it, not that." Liu Dehua quickly explained, and then asked Xiao Wu: "Old Zhang's boss..."

Xiao Wu said it was right, and Liu Dehua quickly said to Zhang Xiangbei: "Hello Mr. Zhang!"

Zhang Xiangbei waved his hand at him and said hello. Zhang Xiangbei said, "You are more powerful than Andy Lau."

Liu Dehua looked at him in confusion, and Zhang Xiangbei said, "Dehua, you have taken the whole of China. Are you still powerful?"

Xiaowu and Liu Dehua both laughed.

Zhang Xiangbei asked Liu Dehua: "Is this far away from the place where vegetables are sold?"

"You mean the agricultural product logistics park? It was in the city and drove for half an hour." Liu Dehua and Zhang Xiangbei said.

Zhang Xiangbei said to him: "Then you get in the car and we will go to the hotel there."

"But Mr. Zhang, the hotel over there is not as good as this one. This is the best hotel in Shouguang." Liu Dehua said.

"It's okay." Zhang Xiangbei smiled, "We are not here to stay in the hotel."

"Okay, then let's go over there and go to Wanhua Hotel." Liu Dehua said, opening the rear door and entering the rear seat.

They left Chenming International Hotel, crossed the Mi River, followed Nongsheng Street through Shouguang City, and turned right at Caidu Road, headed straight six or seven hundred meters, turned left to Shengcheng Street, then turned right into Huanghai Road, and drove to Wanhua Hotel.

When they arrived at the parking lot of Wanhua Hotel, Liu Dehua pointed to the building across the road and told them that the agricultural product logistics park was opposite.

When registering at the front desk, Xiao Wu and the front desk said they wanted three rooms. Liu Dehua hurriedly said, "Mr. Wu, I'll just go home and stay. Take the minibus for half an hour."

Zhang Xiangbei told him that you live here too, everyone can move more easily.

Liu Dehua said yes, thank Mr. Zhang, but his face turned red.

The three of them stayed in the hotel, put their things in the room, and immediately went to the agricultural product logistics park opposite, which was the largest fruit and vegetable trading market in the country. Although it was afternoon, there were still large trucks and agricultural vehicles filled with various vegetables.

Liu Dehua told them that these agricultural vehicles are all local vegetables, and large trucks are all foreign vegetables.

Zhang Xiangbei asked: "Outside? Nearby counties?"

"No, even Guangdong, Yunnan and Hainan have it. When shipped here, it will be sold to Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Hebei and other places. Vegetables say that no matter how difficult it is to sell locally, they can be sold as long as they are brought to Shouguang." Liu Dehua said.

Zhang Xiangbei understood that this place was still a distribution center, an intermediate link, not the source.

Liu Dehua told them: "It's time for fewer people now, and most of the vegetables are sold and sent away."

"When is this place the most lively?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"At two or three o'clock in the morning, many dishes were bought by the whole vehicle when they arrived here. At this time, this is basically the case with many scattered wholesales."

Liu Dehua pointed to a large truck next to him. The truck was loaded with broccoli, and most of the trucks had been sold. The boss squatted on the carriage and watched people carry broccoli boxes to a farm truck. It seemed that they had just sold it.

Liu Dehua explained to them that in the middle of the night, there was a lot of food delivered here, and the car didn't even have to be unloaded. After inspection, the buyer and seller agreed on the price, and the buyer negotiated the shipping fee with the driver, so both parties could deliver it. When the car drove in, the seller was sitting next to the driver, and when the driver drove away, the buyer was sitting next to him.

The cars drove from Yunnan, Anhui, Henan and other places, and then drove to Beijing and Tianjin. At this time, the original buyer became the new seller.

Zhang Xiangbei and Xiao Wu both laughed and found Liu Dehua’s statement interesting.

"However, such dishes will be cheaper. Like this, when you get here, you will be disassembled and sold wholesale, the price will be higher and you will make more money." Liu Dehua said.

Zhang Xiangbei was curious. He walked to the truck, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and handed it to the boss. Zhang Xiangbei did not smoke, but this time he came out, there was also a pack of cigarettes in his pocket. He knew that cigarettes were the most effective tool to open up topics and bring them closer.

The boss looked at him, took the cigarette and said thank you!

Zhang Xiangbei asked the boss: "Where did you get this broccoli?"

"Haining, Zhejiang." said the boss.

Zhang Xiangbei was startled, I'll go! If you don't do it well, you will buy the vegetables transported from Zhejiang back to Zhejiang, just like some people who went abroad and bought "made    in       china" and returned to China happily.

Zhang Xiangbei walked over and said to Xiaowu. Liu Dehua: "Let's go back first and come here again tomorrow morning."

On the way back to the hotel, Zhang Xiangbei told them what he had just thought. Xiao Wu was also surprised. Liu Dehua seemed to be accustomed to this, and he said:

"What's so strange about this? There's also the one that's sold here, it's sold here and then it's sold here."

Zhang Xiangbei and Xiaowu laughed. Zhang Xiangbei thought, it was really, aren’t these people who brought vegetables from other places to Shouguang and sold like coal to Datong, Shanxi? They still sold them.
Chapter completed!