Riding the wind of rebirth

However, Sun Gong still felt that we should cut it off first and then stop the chaos: "My working experience is a bit long, and due to the autonomous region policy, the salary is a little higher, more than 800 yuan a month. Factory Director Qin can vouch for me."

"Gong Sun's salary is so high!" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but marvel. This salary was almost thirty more than the day he was just promoted to Manzhou. Let's calculate it as 91 days. "

"Factory director, look..." Worker Sun was already excited. In these few days, it is more than half a month's salary!

However, I still instinctively asked Director Qin for instructions first.

"The factory doesn't care if you do some private work during the holidays." Director Qin said with a smile: "But Xiao Zhou is our big customer, and Lao Sun is also a landlord, so we have to take good care of him. People are optimistic, don’t let our distinguished guests be disappointed in our northern Xinjiang.”

"You don't trust me as the factory director?!" Sun Gong said with a smile: "Then when will we set off? I can still take turns driving."

"How about we leave tonight?" Zhou Zhi said, "The three of us will take turns driving. We can get to Hotan tomorrow night."

Northern Xinjiang is really too big. The specific route from Urumqi to Hotan is along the southern foot of Tianshan Mountain, passing many familiar places along the way - Dabancheng, Turpan, Malan, Heshuo, and then crossing the desert along the west bank of Bosten Lake to arrive. Korla, then along the Tarim River to Alar, and finally along the Hotan River to Hotan.

This distance must be less than 217 kilometers. There is no expressway at this time, and it mainly runs on the three national highways 314, 580 and [-].

It takes nearly thirty hours of driving without stopping except for changing drivers.

This is not the most important thing. The key is the issue of money. How to get the money to Hotan is the trouble.

Hotan does not have as good financial conditions as Urumqi, so it cannot afford this overwhelming wealth.

For everyone's safety, it is impossible to take 200 million in cash on the road.

The most ridiculous thing is that even check books are no longer easy to use. Mainland checks take too long to clear in northern Xinjiang and are prone to various loopholes, so no one uses them much.

In the end, Xu's father came up with a way. After Zhou Zhi added 200 million in wire transfer funds, he asked President Zhao to open a personal checkbook for Zhou Zhi from the autonomous region branch.

The approval process alone would have taken several days, but it could be done so quickly because, firstly, the funds remitted by Zhou Zhi were large enough, and secondly, in view of Xu's father's face, it was a special matter.

After handing over the follow-up matters of Urumqi to Factory Director Qin and Director Zhang, Zhou Zhi and Xu's father, Sun Gong set off immediately, with Xia Milili driving first. Except for Xu's father, everyone rotated every four hours.

Zhou Zhi finally understood why there was such a demand for good cars in places like the Northern Xinjiang Snow Region. If this car was no better, he would not suffer the consequences of such a trip.

While Zhou Zhi and Xu's father were doing business at the bank, Sun Gong showed his master's style and ran home to get the food he needed along the way.

Two eight-pound thermos bottles filled with piping hot milk tea.

A large package of braised beef, a large package of white-cut mutton, a large package of skin teeth, and dry mixed lamb tripe made with celery and lamb tripe.

Piyazi are onions, and vegetables are relatively scarce in northern Xinjiang in winter.

Fortunately, there are still a big bag of apples, walnuts and a pile of staple food, including naan that won't go bad for a year.

The Overlord is a good car. Zhou Zhi sat in the passenger seat, wearing the sunglasses prepared for him by Sun Gong, and listened to Xia Mili's popular science on the precautions for driving in Northern Xinjiang.The vast northern Xinjiang is sparsely populated, and since it is the Spring Festival, there are even fewer cars and people on the road.

Although it is not a highway, the road conditions are very good, and most of the places the road passes are very flat. The two sides are either deserts or grasslands. The roads often go straight for dozens of kilometers.

"The reason why we wear sunglasses is because it is winter and there is a lot of snow. We must wear eye protection before the light dims." Xia Mili was a little proud: "Your roads in Sichuan are different from ours in northern Xinjiang, right?"

"That is, the road to Sichuan is difficult to reach the sky. It took three years to build a highway and only half of it was built. It is still on relatively flat ground in the middle of Sichuan." Zhou Zhi was speechless when talking about this.

"It's different here." Xia Milili said: "The Gobi desert here is endless, and the road surface is often gravel, dust, desert, river bed, swamp, and now there is ice and snow, which is better than that in the mainland. complex."

“So we must drive attentively. At this time, there is often heavy fog in the morning. When encountering heavy fog, we must turn on all the lights that can be turned on, because there are often wild animals on both sides of the road, and headlights can keep them away. Get off the road early.”

"When encountering this kind of weather, when we park our cars, we must not park on the side of the road. It is better to drive some distance away from the road, which is safer."

"The sunshine in northern Xinjiang is much stronger than that in the interior, and there is no place to block the sun in the Gobi. Even if there is no snow, even the dust from the vehicles on the opposite side can dazzle you, so if there are cars coming from the opposite side or there is a sharp turn, you will be blinded. Be careful and always wear sunglasses.”

"Another trick is that when encountering ice and snow on the road, we would rather walk on snow than on ice. This will minimize slipping."

Zhou Zhi nodded repeatedly after hearing this and said with a smile: "No wonder my cousin can drive for a big boss and be the number one in the 360 ​​industry. You have to use your brain to be a driver."

"I can't compare to you and Gangzi, a great college student. All I do is to serve the boss. If I don't be more careful, my job will be gone." Xia Mili smiled honestly: "But the season with the best scenery for us is spring. In autumn, the weather is not bad and at least there are lots of fruits.”

"Most people are not willing to come here in winter. The scenery is not beautiful and it is very cold."

"The scenery is also beautiful. The scenery of the North is covered with thousands of miles of ice and thousands of miles of snow." Zhou Zhi looked at the vast snowfield next door and sincerely admired it: "It's vast and vast. If you don't go to the northern border, you won't be able to understand what the creator of the lyrics wants to convey. The artistic conception expressed is really spot on.”

"Hahaha, you are so good at arranging lyrics. If you were from our clan, you would definitely be able to be an Akon who sings "Aria"!"

"What?" Zhou Zhi didn't understand at all.

"Aken is a troubadour." Xu's father explained later: "Aria means lover, but the troubadour's aria means 'song for lover', which is mainly sung at weddings. "

"That's right." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Cousin, give us one!"

"Come on if you want one!" Being able to sing and dance is the basic skill of ethnic minorities in northern Xinjiang: "Let me play "Girl with Black Eyebrows", our Uzbek folk song."

Sure enough, as soon as Xia Milili opened his voice, Zhou Zhi was completely attracted to the tune composed of the special vibrato and melodious glissandi unique to the northern Xinjiang ethnic minorities.

When Xia Mili finished singing, Zhou Zhi clapped wildly: "It sounds so good! My cousin is so amazing, he is on the same level as Kerim!"

"You are talking nonsense!" Xia Mili praised Zhou Zhi very happily, but he still did not dare to compare with Kerim. He was the first person to sing XJ folk songs in Chinese during the Spring Festival Gala.