Chapter 829 The changes in my hometown are quite big
The shuttle bus slowly drove into Rongwei County Long-distance Bus Station at noon.
In the past, there was only one bus station in the entire Rongwei County, and buses all departed from the same place regardless of long or short distances.
In recent years, with the rapid economic development of Rongwei County, and the cadres of Rongwei County are relatively open-minded, they have not put too many restrictions or requirements on ordinary people's daily travel.
Therefore, the passenger transportation demand in the entire county is growing extremely rapidly.
Only then did the original "Rongwei County Passenger Bus Transport Service Co., Ltd." be divided into two, into a long-distance bus station and a short-distance bus station.
Not only that.
The hardware facilities of the entire bus station are also quite complete. They were built in advance according to the standards of later long-distance bus stations.
In the parking area of the shuttle bus, there are not only steps for passengers to get on and off the bus conveniently.
Moreover, on the top of the car, there is a second-floor platform for loading and unloading goods. This architectural style was very common in later generations, but it was much more user-friendly than bus stations in other counties and cities during the same period.
Not only that.
The retail kiosks selling cigarettes, drinks, and melon seeds in the spacious and bright waiting hall now belong to more than just supply and marketing cooperatives.
Instead, several collective stores have been introduced.
These retail stores established by each brigade can not only sell agricultural and sideline products, fruits and snacks produced by the brigade, but also sell cigarettes, drinks and other things.
It’s good to have competition!
If the supply and marketing cooperative is still the only one, the faces of those waiters will be really ugly.
In order to experience the great changes in Rongwei County over the years, Luo Xuan went to the kiosk in the waiting hall and bought a bag of fried peanuts.
The products sold in the store are of generous portions, and the peanuts are fried with oil sand, so they are heated evenly and the heat is well controlled.
What's even more valuable is that Luo Xuan only spent 1.3 cents and bought 2 taels of fried peanuts.
Although the transaction is small,
However, the service attitude of the waiters in the sales group is extremely enthusiastic.
As soon as the two waitresses heard that Luo Xuan was speaking Mandarin, the two little girls immediately switched from Bashu dialect to Trump.
Although what they said about Trump made people laugh a little, and those who listened couldn't help but want to laugh.
But after all, through this detail, we can know: the people here are very friendly, and at least they are not xenophobic.
It’s not easy to do this!
You must know that during this period, many people had no business ideas at all, let alone economic acumen.
Most of them will have a kind of ridiculous idea: I am poor and I am glorious! I would rather not earn your bad money than do this ridiculous idea of making a living.
And once they meet guests from out of town, those who are a little nervous and prone to overreaction, they will not think about how to warmly receive them.
Instead, he kept asking: "Where is your travel certificate? Where is your work permit? Where did it come from? What are you planning to do here? How long do you plan to stay?"
After repeated questioning,
To be honest, those out-of-town guests who have just gotten off the bus will suddenly feel disgusted in their hearts: Why do you think that everyone is not a good person, right?
Why is it that no matter where we go, everyone is guarding us like thieves?
Isn't this equivalent to inexplicably deciding that the other party is not a good person, and then starting to collect evidence from this perspective to prove the initial inference?
As a result, many customers who originally wanted to come to Rongwei County to discuss business or find some cooperation projects will suddenly give up.
I bought a few more early-ripening tangerines.
Luo Xuan slowly peeled peanuts and ate oranges as he slowly walked out of the bus station gate.
It depends on the quality of the cultural environment of a place. Places such as bus stations, train stations, and docks are good display windows.
There is a mixture of good and bad here, and there are many urban foxes and rats who make a living by cheating and kidnapping, and petty thieves also like to visit these places.
Just walked out of the station gate.
Luo Xuan stood on the high steps and looked around.
Two buses have just arrived. It is a busy moment when the passengers who got off the bus are rushing to get out of the station, while those who have bought tickets and are ready to take the bus are rushing to check in and carry their luggage to the bus.
During this gap period, it is when those three-handed fraudsters are most active.
It is actually not difficult to see if there are thieves in the station square: normal passengers are in a hurry and look at the door of the waiting hall.
As for those bad guys who are pickpocketing, their eyes are wandering and unfocused, especially they like to stare at other people's pockets and bags.
Whenever you see this kind of person, you have to be careful.
As a result, after standing on the steps for several minutes, Luo Xuan never saw anyone suspicious moving in the square.
Instead, I saw a few people in plain clothes patrolling there.
Wait until Luo Xuan came down the steps.
Immediately, a middle-aged woman approached and asked in a low voice, "Comrade, do you want to stay in a guest house? Come on, it's very comfortable, the price is not expensive, it's clean and affordable."
Behind this middle-aged woman, there were 2 or 3 other people dressed similarly to her. It looked like they were running a small hotel business in the name of a collective, but in fact it was privately run.
Luo Xuan didn't have any bad feelings towards these little treats.
Existence is reasonable.
There are some production team members who are away from home, production team cadres on business trips, and clerks in small factories. They are reluctant to spend 2 yuan and 70 cents to stay in a better state-owned guest house.
Even if they pay 1.5 yuan to live in the guest house of the Grain Bureau or the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, they are reluctant to do so.
These small guesthouses, which only cost 60 to 70 cents for a night's stay and provide hot water, have become the first choice for people who are short of money.
Living in such a small guest house, the environment may not be very good.
However, there are some couples who come from towns and villages to the county central hospital for treatment. Sometimes their treatment time will be very long.
This kind of people often like to book a room in a small guest house for a long time.
Not only are the prices here cheap, but the person in charge of the guest house often allows them to borrow the pots and stoves in the guest house to cook and other things.
This kind of service is not available in big guest houses.
Out of curiosity, Luo Xuan asked, "Is your guest house clean?"
“Clean, absolutely clean!”
When a middle-aged woman saw a business coming to her door, she couldn't help but look happy, "Our quilts are changed every three days, and then they are put out in the sun for disinfection. Then they are washed every seven days, and we don't even have to put soap and disinfectant in when washing! Keep it safe!"
You can live comfortably."
The Bashu area has a lot of rainy weather, and it is not easy to encounter sunny days during many periods of time.
Therefore, this guest house said that its bedding should be dried every three days and washed every seven days, which is very good. After all, many times they cannot be dried even after being washed.
"I don't like it to be too clean."
Luo Xuan smiled mysteriously, "I have to wait for someone here, and I may have to stay for several days. I wonder if your guest house takes care of three meals a day?"
When the middle-aged woman heard that Luo Xuan was staying for several days, she looked happy at first.
But after hearing the next words, her face gradually turned gloomy, "Comrade, I see that you are dressed appropriately and you are in good spirits. You should be a public servant, right?"
Luo Xuan shook his head, "Not really. I'm just a livestock herder at an out-of-town livestock station. My job is to go out every day to breed chickens in the breeding room of the production team and replace the capons for the members."
"Three meals can be taken care of, it just depends on what kind of food standards you eat. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all included in the meal. There are standards of 1 yuan and 50 cents, 2 yuan and 50 cents, and 3 yuan and 50 cents. The only difference is the size of the meat."
The middle-aged woman looked a little serious, "We only provide three meals a day without us. Rongwei County is a civilized place without all those messy things."
Looking carefully at the middle-aged woman's reaction, Luo Xuan couldn't tell the difference between what the other party said was true and false for a while.
What if the other party suspects that he is a member of the public, a sixth-former, or a spy who comes to investigate?
In this case, the other party will certainly not admit it!
"forget about it."
Luo Xuan gestured to leave, "I'll ask a few more people to try."
The middle-aged woman snorted coldly, "I advise you to give up on this idea. If you don't have it, you won't find it if you ask 10 more companies."
The other two women following the middle-aged woman also came up and said, "Comrade, put away your evil thoughts!
The level of economic development in our Rongwei County is quite high. Everyone is busy going to work and making money every day, and they can't even make it through their own small lives, so there are no such people in the local area."
Another woman said, "Speaking of some nearby counties and cities, there are some people who come here to fish for those who are from outside. But as long as they are caught by us in Rongwei County, these people will have to repair the road for at least half a month.
, so that they can make some social contributions."
Luo Xuan was stunned, "Why build roads instead of imposing fines?"
"What's the use of fines? Who would do this if they have money?"
The middle-aged woman from before seemed quite disappointed with the handsome young man in front of her.
She replied coldly, "They have no money in the first place, and if they are fined, they still have to resort to crooked ways to earn it back? Didn't you see the slogan across the road, "If you want to be rich, build roads first"?"
"Oh I got it."
Luo Xuan quickly apologized, "It seems that my thoughts are too dirty and I need to purify my soul. Thanks to the elder sisters for reminding me, I will go to the work unit to handle the matter. When the matter is finished, I have to go back as soon as possible.
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He hurriedly fled the bus station.
Luo Xuan couldn't help but sigh: It seems that Rongwei County is indeed well-organized and very humane.
Rongwei County is only 26 miles away from Hongxing Commune.
Moreover, the highway has been renovated several times, and the traffic situation is much better than before.
It's around 2 o'clock at noon now, it's still early, and the sun isn't too hot today, so the weather is a bit overcast.
So Luo Xuan decided to walk all the way back and see the changes in the production team along the way.
When we left the county town, the rice fields on both sides of the road were seeing green seedlings, and there were many members of the production team working on their backs and busy weeding in the rice fields.
There was an agency store of a supply and marketing cooperative on the roadside. Luo Xuan went in and bought 2 packs of "Hongmei Brand" cigarettes, plus a box of matches in his bag.
During this period, prices did not change much for many years.
This kind of "Hongmei Brand" cigarettes were sold for 3.6 cents a pack when I left Bashu.
Fire retails for 3 cents per box. If you buy it in a pack, it is 2 cents. There are 10 boxes of matches inside.
I don’t smoke, but carrying 2 packs of cigarettes with me will be very useful.
If you want to strike up a conversation with the members of the production team later, handing over a cigarette will basically start the conversation.
We walked along the road for 4 or 5 miles.
On the right side of the road, a relatively wide mechanized farming road appeared. Luo Xuan turned along the way, and then came to the edge of a jute field.
The reason why I didn't choose to chat with those members as soon as I left the county.
That's because the economic conditions of production teams near the county are generally better.
After all, it's close to the county seat.
The members planted some fruits and vegetables in front of and behind their houses, and fished some fish and shrimp, etc., and it was much more convenient to bring them to the county town for cash.
Therefore, generally the production teams near the city gate will have better economic conditions.
When Luo Xuan arrived at the jute field, a group of men and women from the production team were actually hoeing the fields with hoes.
"Fellow, can you take a rest?"
Luo Xuan smiled and waved, "Come here, smoke a cigarette to relieve your fatigue."
In the production team, most of the men who can be left to work with a bunch of women by the captain are not strong laborers.
But after surviving a day, these men, like those women, can only earn 8 work points.
Several men put down their hoes, fanned themselves with straw hats, and walked over.
When they took the cigarettes from Luo Xuan's hand, they all looked down, then looked up and smiled, "Oh, such a good cigarette, I'm smoking your fortune cigarette again today, comrade."
"How can you make a fortune by smoking and not making a fortune? There is no separation between tobacco and alcohol."
Luo Xuan sat down on the edge of the field, "Fellow folks, I would like to ask, can your production team have enough to eat now?"
The men put their straw hats on their buttocks and sat down, "How old are you now? Why don't you have enough to eat?
I don’t dare to eat dry white rice except during Chinese New Year. Sweet potato rice and corn mash rice can still fill your belly.”
"What about rapeseed oil? What's the current quantitative standard? And what about pork?"
Luo Xuan asked, "How many times a month can you eat meat?"
"Currently, the standard monthly supply of rapeseed oil for adults is 3 taels and 8, but not necessarily for children, ranging from 2 taels and 6 to 3 taels and 3."
"As for eating meat, just 2 or 3 times a month."
One man replied, "Our production team is not economically sound enough. I heard that Red Star Commune has a revitalization brigade, but that's ridiculous!"
"My wife has a relative over there."
"I heard that the members of the revitalization brigade really eat a lot of chicken, duck and goose a month. Their pork supply is about the same as ours at 8 taels and 2 a month.
It’s just that their production team has a meat factory, a cannery, and they have their own slaughterhouse. Just the pigs in the water every day are enough for them to eat!”
"It's thiophene."
Another member said, "There's nothing we can do about it. Even the drainage ditches of Zhengxing Production Brigade are full of lard."
"Many families in our county sell their meat supply tickets in advance when there are weddings, funerals, weddings, or weddings."
"When it's time to host a banquet, I'll ask someone to go to the Zhengxing Brigade to get some pig offal, pork head meat, deboned meat, etc. Can't we rely on such mutual adjustments to host the banquet?"
Hearing this, Luo Xuan couldn't help but feel nervous: Rongwei County's economic level is considered to be pretty good in the entire Bashu region.
Among them, Zhengxing Brigade, which is my hometown, has many breeding farms and deep processing enterprises of agricultural products.
Therefore, the living standard of Zhengxing Brigade members has far exceeded that of other production teams.
But even so, everyone's life is actually not that rich.
It can only be said that I don’t have to worry about food and clothing. I don’t eat much meat, but I eat more or less every month.
It seems that we have to find ways to improve the economic level of our hometown and make the fellow villagers live a richer life.
However, relying solely on agricultural breeding and deep processing of agricultural products is obviously not enough.
As for industrial enterprises such as the textile machinery factory, agricultural machinery factory, and foundry in Hongxing Commune, no matter how much wealth they create, they still need to hand over all of it.
The wealth that can be retained locally is not as much as imagined.
Then we have to think of a way and then see how to open source it.
