My Siheyuan Shelter

Chapter 293 Arriving at Mindong City

"Don't be polite to me, Xiao Zheng, you are our driver, and you need cigarettes to refresh yourself."

Under everyone's persuasion, Xiao Zheng couldn't refuse even if he wanted to, so he could only bite the bullet and accept it.

It was very boring on the high-speed rail. After leaving the main city, there was basically no signal, and they couldn’t even connect to the Internet. The group could only pass the time by chatting.

"Xiao Zheng, where are you from? When did you join the company?" Lao Fang asked.

"My hometown is in Heizhou, Northeast China. I used to drive a big car in the army. I joined the company at the end of last year. It has not been three months yet!" Xiao Zheng replied.

"Are you here alone to work, or did your whole family move here?" Xu Dongshun asked.

"The whole family moved here."

Xiao Zheng's family is fairly small and powerful, and the family successfully obtained the temporary residence permit in the capital, otherwise he would not be able to get into the power company. Although he is only a contract worker, it is much better than a dispatch worker.

"How's life in Heizhou?" Old Wang asked curiously.

Xiao Zheng shook his head: "Life is very hard, especially in winter, the rations are not enough, not to mention children, even adults can't bear it."

"How much rations do you have a month?"

"Take our family as an example. There are five people in our family, three adults and two children. In at least one month, our family only bought 71 catties of grain, most of which were potatoes and sweet potatoes.

If it weren't for the fact that there was still some food in the house, the family would have barely survived. I remember that the price of a catty of potatoes at that time was sold to more than [-] yuan on the black market. "

"How can you be so short?" Xu Dong frowned.

It stands to reason that rations are distributed uniformly across the country, even if it is less, there must be a limit, and there cannot be too much difference between states.

Xiao Zheng explained with a wry smile: "At that time, there was a super sandstorm, and the roads were buried by sand, and the food could not be transported in at all. Even if there was food on the food card, there was no way to buy ready-made food."

"So that's what happened!" Xu Dong sighed, this is a natural disaster, no one can do anything about it.

"Since this incident, our family has made up their mind to move. If this happens again, it's hard to say whether we can survive."

"So, the population outflow on your side is quite serious?" Lao Fang asked immediately.

"It's very serious. Most of the rich and powerful have left. Even our capital is almost half empty now."

"The house price should be very cheap, right?"

"It's extremely cheap. In general communities, the average price is less than 3000 yuan. The small and medium-sized cities below are even worse. In order to attract the population, the house is almost like giving away for nothing." Xiao Zheng replied.

"Such an exaggeration?" Lao Fang expressed doubts.

"Small and medium-sized cities often have water and electricity cuts, and sometimes even the heating is cut off. The houses there can't be given away, and people are almost running away."

Xu Dong rubbed his chin, and had to sigh: "You suffer a loss because there is no outlet to the sea, and you are directly blocked. It's really disgusting."

"It hits the nail on the head!" Lao Fang immediately gave a thumbs up.

Xiao Zheng hesitated for a moment, and seemed to hesitate to speak.

Xu Dong hurriedly asked: "What? Is there something hidden in this?"

Everyone became interested and hurriedly asked questions.

"Hey, let me just say it, it's probably an open secret." Xiao Zheng sighed, "Actually, I don't know much."

"Stop dawdling, tell me!" Lao Fang urged.

"Our country seems to have carried out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation with the bear people in the east. The access to the sea is not a problem at all, and many desalination plants have been built.

The biggest problem is that the temperature is too low, especially in winter. In the coldest time, minus [-] or [-] degrees is commonplace. No industry can be done under such extreme weather. "

"What you said seems to make sense." Lao Fang echoed.

Xu Dong was very curious about Mao Xiongguo's cooperation, so he couldn't help asking: "Xiao Zheng, do you know what's going on with Mao Xiong?"

"I do know a little bit about this. At present, the bear people in the entire Asian region have either gone to the west or settled in our country.

The climate on their side is even harsher, and because of the lack of big cities and poor infrastructure, there is no way to survive.

The previous fire in Xianbeilia almost burned their coastal border area, and finally we helped to put out the fire. "

"Where do they all live?"

"It's mainly in our capital, Bingcheng, and there are quite a few in other cities. There are more than 30 people in total. The higher authorities have allocated separate settlements for them, and they have also issued food cards."

“So generous?”

Xu Dong suspected that he heard it wrong. He had personally experienced the refugee crisis in the Southern Dynasties.

"Of course there are conditions. The two sides seem to have signed some kind of cooperation agreement. I don't know the specific content. I heard that several domestic mining giants have opened branches there."

Xu Dong probably figured out the context of the matter.

According to the memories of previous lives, Mao Xiongguo is also one of the founding members of the Asian League. It seems that the cooperation between the two parties has been in full swing.

……

Chatting time always flies by quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was time for lunch. Xu Dong didn't prepare any bento, but directly took out a bag of sweet potato pancakes for lunch.

Recently, he was a little overweight, and he wanted to take this opportunity of a business trip to "harden" himself.

Holding the lunch box, Lao Fang teased, "Xiao Xu, did you quarrel with your wife? Why didn't you even prepare a lunch box?"

"I left in a hurry this morning and left home." Xu Dong took a hard bite of the sweet potato pancake.

"Shall we share some food with you?"

"No need." Xu Dong held up the sweet potato pancakes and said, "Eat yours, I have sweet potato pancakes, I won't be hungry."

"Your sweet potato cake looks good, can you let me try it too?" Lao Fang said cheekily.

Xu Dong directly assigned one to the other party.

Homemade sweet potato cakes are different from ordinary sweet potato cakes. They are filled with ingredients such as peanut kernels, sesame seeds and honey. The taste is sweet but not greasy, crispy and delicious.

"Delicious, really delicious!" Lao Fang repeatedly praised.

After the meal, everyone took a nap, and Xiao Zheng volunteered to help everyone guard their luggage. The Chinese New Year was coming soon, and there were more petty thefts.

The chat continued in the afternoon.

At around six o'clock in the evening, the train arrived at Mindong Station on time. As soon as they got out of the station, the five of them chartered a noodle car and rushed to Funing County below.

The transfer location this time is located in a private farm in Funing County.

It was running all the way again.

After an hour and a half, the chartered car finally arrived at the destination. Before the curfew, everyone finally checked into the local hotel.

As the saying goes, do as the Romans do, they don't plan to challenge the curfew system here, it's better to keep a low profile when going out.

ps: Ask for recommended tickets and monthly tickets!

(End of this chapter)