Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1661 State Capital

From Lianhe Township to Meigu, and then from Meigu to Xichang, the capital of Liangshan Prefecture, the distances are actually almost the same as seen on the map, and the distance from Lianhe Township to Meigu is even shorter.

Because the mountain road was too rugged and difficult to travel on, it twisted and turned all the way down the mountain. Although Wu Renzhong could drive, he didn't dare to drive on such a mountain road.

Zhou Zhi was used to driving on such mountain roads in his hometown. Although the mountain roads here are a little more difficult to drive on, one advantage is that there are not many vehicles passing by. You need to drive all the way to Jiukou Township and meet the county road, and then there will be more and more cars on the road. After passing the county town, the mud and gravel road will be changed into an asphalt provincial road.

So the time spent here was twice as long as that over there. The two people came down from the mountain and drove from eight o'clock to two o'clock before they entered Meigu County.

In 1994, Meigu County was still very backward. In Jiachuan, you could no longer see mud-walled houses in the county, but here, in the center of the county, there are still some.

There are only some four- or five-story buildings on both sides of the short main street. They are the county government, Food Bureau, Finance Bureau, People's Hospital and other units. Overall, the construction level of Jiachuan is at that time in the 1980s.

In 40.25, the State Council listed Meigu County as one of the semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral poverty-stricken counties in the country. There are nearly poor villages in the county, ranking third in the province and first in the prefecture. When the poverty incidence rate was the highest, it accounted for % of the county’s population. It is the county with the deepest poverty, the heaviest poverty alleviation task and the greatest difficulty in getting rid of poverty in the province.

"There's nothing to see here." Wu Renzhong said, "If you're interested in the old county town, I'll take you to Huili someday. The old town there hasn't been demolished at all. It's very beautiful."

"We can go and have some fun when we have time." Zhou Zhi said, "What delicious food does Meigu have?"

"The three traditional dishes of the Yi people: roast suckling pig, meat balls, and vegetables." Seeing Zhou Zhi's lack of interest, Wu Renzhong said, "Forget it. I'll treat you to noodles. I'll treat you to delicious food when we get to the state."

Meigu's noodles are just ordinary rice noodles, a bit similar to the ones used for cross-bridge rice noodles. Compared with the later rice noodles that became soft, chewy and not easy to break after adding potato starch, Zhou Zhi prefers this old-fashioned rice noodles that are easy to break but have a more comfortable taste and a richer rice aroma.

The ingredients are even more special. People in Liangshan Prefecture especially like to eat pig intestines, which are small intestines.

The small intestine has a slightly bitter taste, but not as strong as the large intestine. It is delicious whether it is grilled, braised, served in a clear soup, made with peas and small intestine soup with dried peas, or the simplest stewed radish.

But what is strange is that similar ways of eating are almost never seen outside Liangshan Prefecture. In Shudu, small intestines have almost only one use, which is to scrape out the casings to make sausages.

"How is it? Are you used to eating it?" Wu Renzhong asked.

"It's quite good. How about we come back and eat it again tomorrow?" Zhou Zhi added the store's special chili sauce to the noodles: "It's unexpectedly delicious."

"If you like, we can have a barbecue tonight. We can also have grilled crispy sausages. As much as you want." Wu Renzhong smiled, and then whispered: "Don't just bury your head in eating noodles, take a look at the street outside."

“The girls here are pretty.”

"Hehehe, that's right, our Shama belongs to Meigu."

I don't know if it's because of the name of the county, but the girls in this county are particularly beautiful. Since 1989, the autonomous prefecture has held a beauty pageant at the Torch Festival every year. Four contests have been held so far. The girls from Meigu County have won a total of eight gold flowers, six silver flowers, and four bronze flowers, often winning all the gold, silver, and bronze medals, which is quite impressive.

Most of the girls passing by the store also have a well-proportioned figure, with long legs and thin waists, straight noses, and high brow bones, which makes their eye sockets look a bit deep. They have a rather exotic style.

If the eyes are bigger and the face shape is better, they are basically beauties.

In fact, Jiang Shuyi looked a bit like this. Her skin was whiter than the girls on the edge of the plateau, and her appearance was even more beautiful. She should have arrived in Paris by now, and she didn't know how Xu Hui would evaluate her after knowing it.

"Elbow, you are still a very upright person."

"Ah?" Zhou Zhi came back to his senses and didn't know why Wu Renzhong said that.

"Several beautiful women walked by and you were just staring at that trash can."

"Hahaha..." Zhou Zhi couldn't help laughing: "I was just thinking about other things. Do you dare to drive on this road now?"

"No problem, I also want to touch your high-end car."

"Then I'll just take a break. I've been so bumpy all the way..."

The next step took another three hours before we finally entered the state capital.

Although it is the capital of the autonomous prefecture, in fact its size is about the same as Shangrongshan Town in Jiachuan. Because of its flat terrain, its width is twice that of Jiachuan.

There are two rivers in the urban area. One is called West River, which has almost no water and only a red stone valley. The other one still has a little water flow and is also a red stone valley, called East River.

Both rivers flow from north to south and finally merge into the Haihe River which flows east-west.

The name of Haihe River comes from the fact that it eventually flows into a large lake in the southwest of the city - Qionghai.

The entire urban area is basically composed of the two banks surrounding three rivers.

It was just after five o'clock. Wu Renzhong drove past the roundabout at the Donghe fork, bypassed the famous huge statue of Xiao Yedan and Liu Shuai Yi Hai alliance, passed the autonomous prefecture government, turned onto Hangtian Avenue, and soon arrived at the gate of a middle school.

This is the No. 1 Middle School in the city, the best middle school in the autonomous prefecture. After waiting in the car for a while, they saw a beautiful girl in a light blue woolen coat and carrying a shoulder bag walking out of the school, waving goodbye to the students around her as she walked.

"Beep beep." Wu Renzhong honked the horn twice. The girl looked over here and suddenly found that the driver was her boyfriend whom she had been missing for many days. She ran over in surprise: "Renzhong, why are you back? And you drive a car like this!"

"This is pork elbow. It's from a college student who came to our village to do an investigation. This car belongs to someone else." Wu Renzhong said with a smile, "Sama, get on board quickly. Let's go eat some barbecue and then sing some songs!"

"Elbow, this is my girlfriend, Shama Ricong, she graduated from Southwest Minyuan College and now teaches English at No. 1 Middle School."

"Hello." Shama Ricong got into the car and took the initiative to turn around and extend his hand to shake hands with Zhou Zhi: "Elbow, you are amazing. Are you a graduate student or a doctoral student?"

"Sister, I'm not that old." Zhou Zhi had already slid to the back seat and gave the passenger seat to Shama Ricong. He shook her hand and said, "I'm just a sophomore at Shu University."

"Sophomore?" Shama Ricong's beautiful eyes widened, and he was quite surprised: "You can work on a research project in your sophomore year? The school even gave you a car?"