Chapter 395 Is it so cheap to hire a car in Beijing?
The more he thought about it, the more helpless Zhu Youjian became, so he had to give it up and think about it later. Anyway, it was not an urgent matter that had to be solved now.
People are always dissatisfied. People in Zhu Youjian's position are easy to get into trouble when considering problems. They always want to consider all the problems clearly and design a classic system that can last forever. From this
From a perspective, he looks more and more like Comrade Lao Zhu, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty.
Different from Zhu Youjian's thinking, ordinary people do not have such troubles. This is especially true for people who have just emerged from troubled times. They have no helplessness about the future and the present, but only infinite passion and longing.
Liu Daqiang from Dawangzhuang took his son with him, carrying two pig thighs and some other local specialties, and walked to the capital with the wind at his feet. The Chinese New Year was coming soon, and he came to give his sister some new year's goods produced at home, and took a look around the capital.
, Pick up the good goods in the city, live a good New Year.
"Er baby! You have also entered the school this year, and you are considered a well-educated person. Go find someone and ask where your aunt Meizi lives and how we should get there." When we arrived at the edge of the capital,
Liu Daqiang was a little confused. His sister said that their home was in the military officer family area outside Beicheng, but when he arrived in the capital, he was dumbfounded. Before he reached the base of the city wall, an extremely wide road appeared, closing the capital.
They were surrounded. If there was only one main road, he could roughly tell the direction. But there were buildings and factories on both sides of the road, blocking his sight. How could he tell the direction? There was no way, Liu Daqiang had no choice but to
The son stepped forward and asked him to find someone to ask for directions.
Liu Daqiang's son Liu Erwa was ordered out by his father, so he had no choice but to go to the roadside to ask for directions from a few workers pretending to be curbs.
"You want to go to the officer's family area in the northern suburbs? The best place to find it is right on the edge of the Second Ring Road. So, you go to the opposite side of the road and walk two hundred steps west. There is a carriage pavilion over there.
After you pass by, a No. 21 carriage comes and stops, and you get on. When you arrive at the compound of the officers' families in the northern suburbs, the coachman will shout, "You can get off at that stop." The worker being questioned was quite enthusiastic.
, pointed out the way to Liu Erwa very carefully.
Liu Erwa hurriedly ran back to tell her father about the situation of asking for directions. Liu Daqiang burst into tears after hearing this. "I asked you to ask for directions. You ask people how to take a car! If we take a car, do we still need to ask for directions? Directly from
Isn’t it enough for the village to hire a carriage? With that kind of money, why do we need to ask for directions?”
After scolding his son for a few words, Liu Daqiang took his son carrying things on his back and went to the station pointed by the worker. Since it was a station pavilion there, there were probably more people there who could ask for directions more clearly.
When we arrived at the station, there were indeed about ten people waiting for the bus. Liu Daqiang was going to ask for directions this time. He found an old man who looked relatively kind, and Liu Daqiang walked over and asked: "Old man, we are from the countryside.
I would like to ask how to get to the compound for military officers’ families in the northern suburbs?”
"You're going to the Army Officers' Compound in the northern suburbs, right? Take the No. 21 carriage. When you get to the stop, the driver will shout and you'll be there as soon as you get off." My husband has a bad ear and speaks quite loudly.
These people in the capital really don't know the hardships of the country people. They only point people to the road by car. Liu Daqiang, who cursed, continued to ask: "I want to ask how to get there. We can't afford to hire a car."
"Can't afford to hire a car? I didn't let you hire a car! Just take the 21st carriage. There is a station at the Army Family Compound, which is very convenient."
I'm afraid this man has a brain disease! You said clearly that you wouldn't hire a car, but you said that you would take the 21st carriage. Liu Daqiang was going to find someone with a clearer head to ask for directions. This old man was probably Lao Hutu.
Just when he was about to continue asking for directions, his son pulled him and whispered: "Dad, let's take the No. 21 carriage to Aunt Meizi's house. The sign in the pavilion said that the half way trip is three cents.
The fare is five cents for more than half the journey, and the fare for the journey to Aunt Meizi’s army compound is only five cents for more than half the journey. For the two of us, ten cents is enough."
"Ten cents? It can't be that cheap, right? How can you hire a car with this little money? I'm afraid you don't know much about reading, so you admit it?" Liu Daqiang felt that his son had misread the word and was talking nonsense. Ten cents is enough.
Although it is not very cheap, it is definitely not enough to hire a car. Under normal circumstances, the price of hiring a car, even for just a short trip to the countryside, is more than 50 yuan.
"What your kid said is right. Ten cents is enough for the two of you. Why do you ask how to get there? It turns out you are afraid of not being able to pay for the bus? Our buses and carriages in the capital are cheap, so feel free to take them.
"The old man, even though he had bad ears, heard clearly what Liu Daqiang said, and came over to explain it to him enthusiastically.
Is it really only ten cents to ride a carriage? Liu Daqiang found it a bit unbelievable. After waiting for a while, a two-carriage carriage pulled by four mules came and stopped at the station. The coachman shouted to let him get on the carriage and called for the carriage.
The price is three cents for the half journey and five cents for the full journey. You pay first and then get on the bus.
"What are you still doing? Hurry up and buy a ticket and get on the bus. Here comes the 21st Street." Seeing that Liu Daqiang didn't respond, the old man hurried over and urged him to get on the bus.
In confusion, he took out a ten-cent military ticket from his pocket and handed it to the driver. Liu Daqiang took his son and got into the car carrying his things.
There were two carriages. One carriage had two rows of seats facing each other. Liu Daqiang and his son squeezed into two seats and sat down. Their luggage was placed on the aisle in the middle. Then the carriage started to move forward unsteadily.
No wonder the fare is so cheap. It turns out that everyone is crowded together and sharing a carriage. The two carriages can carry almost twenty people, and one trip can cost fifty or sixty cents. Liu Daqiang got on the carriage,
I figured out why carriage fares are so cheap.
The train traveled for about half an hour and stopped at seven or eight stations before arriving at the Army Compound Station. Liu Daqiang listened to the driver's call to stop, hurriedly dragged his luggage and got off the train with his son.
After leaving the station, Liu Daqiang was able to express his emotions. No wonder people say that the capital is good because of the convenience and cheapness of taking a bus, but cannot enjoy it in other places. He roughly estimated that the journey he took would cost at least as much as
It's a distance of sixteen or seven miles, and if you walk on two legs, you may not get there in an hour. Speaking of which, the train I took was a bit of a disadvantage because I was charged the full fare even though I only took more than half of the journey.
Coming out of the car booth, Liu Daqiang saw a large row of three- and four-story buildings across the road in the woods. It should be the military officer's family compound where his sister lives, right? In such a large courtyard, there are probably thousands of people living in it. After all,
It's a big city, and an average small county town would have such a big courtyard, and it would probably be able to accommodate all the people there.
The military officer's family home was built earlier, earlier than the Second Ring Road. At first, there were many military family members and it was difficult to accommodate them in the city, so Zhu Youjian asked them to build it outside the city. When the second ring road was built, the first phase of the hospital was built.
The family courtyard is surrounded inside, and the second phase of the family courtyard is on the outside of the Second Ring Road. In addition to the family area, there are also some supporting armament factories built to facilitate the employment of military family members nearby, so the scale is quite large!