Seventy Little Heads

This is the special economic zone that you see every day in the newspapers. In fact, what you see with your own eyes is different from the "special" you imagined. It is really different.There are construction sites everywhere, and there is only one wide and long road paved with asphalt.It is different from the roads in the county town. They still have dirt roads, but this road is very "clean".There are some plants planted on both sides, and Goudan and Wang Xuan feel that they have the same effect as the windbreak trees on both sides of the county road, except that they are shorter.

Those tall buildings surrounded by iron rods and bamboo poles are said to be buildings under construction. It looks like that, and I don't know how tall the buildings are when they are completed.Surrounded by green net-like things, it looks like a "green mountain" with square rows.

"Isn't it tiring to climb the stairs like this?" The two have never lived in a building, and have never seen such a tall building. They don't know that there is such a miracle as an elevator in the world. Several floors high, basically take the stairs, it is the legendary Tongzilou.

It can be seen from the existing scenery that this place was really a small town.Because the machines are building high-rise buildings, there are still some low-rise houses on the edge of the special zone that have not been demolished. The houses look no different from those of some people in the village.It's not developed there yet.

"The speed is so fast. In just three or four years, the population of the original deserted village has almost moved to the opposite side of the sea. Looking at it now, the buildings that have been built and are being built are rising from the ground, just like inserting high-rise buildings into Xikan Village. The middle is so magical.

Some new buildings have been put into use, and some are digging pits. It is a busy scene and thriving.

The two energetic boys wandered around all day long, and were dumbfounded when they saw the same high-rise buildings. Why are the buildings so tall and dense?

"How many floors and rooms are there? So many buildings can hold a lot of people." I thought that if I let people from the village who are not used to it come over, I would definitely get lost, and I couldn't tell which building belonged to it, because each building The buildings are all built exactly the same, except for the difference in the number of the labels.

There are also wide and long white "houses" and big chimneys emitting black smoke.In front of these "big houses" there is an open space as wide as a grain drying field, on which many bicycles are parked.

Wang Xuan said, "Is this some kind of unit?" Because they were wandering around, no one introduced them.I remember that some units in the county have more workers, so they all live in the same place.

I saw two rows of large characters written on the gate surrounded by barbed wire, and there were trucks and people coming and going. The two tried to go in and see, but no one chased them away.I saw that it really said the words processing with supplied materials and undertaking assembly.

"So this is a factory?" It's just that this factory is very large, and it can be seen from the occupied area, and the surroundings of this building are almost all similar buildings. It should be some kind of processing factory or a factory that produces something.

In short, many large trucks are full of goods, but they don't know where to send them.The two walked for a long time, and even visited the isolation line. This is to distinguish the special zone from the non-special zone. The outside of the zone is still a quiet and desolate fishing village, and a new urban area is being built in the zone.Across the line, the atmosphere is completely different.Of course, only the two of them, who are like headless chickens, would be interested in seeing this circle of boring barbed wire.

The two managed to find the busiest restaurant with the most business and the most popular restaurant for dinner. After following Liu Yuan for two years, now the two of them will not show their timidity on many occasions outside, at least on the surface.This restaurant is not high-end, and the people who dine are not rich or wealthy, but there are so many people, it should be good quality and cheap, and they are used to having dinner here.This is the best place to collect information.

However, "These people all speak the local dialect, which we can't understand." In fact, the two get along in private, basically speaking the dialect of their hometown, and Mandarin at school, but the dialect of their hometown and the Mandarin they read in books The pronunciation is similar, so it is not difficult to learn.

Now they don't understand at all, how can they ask for news?Thinking about a lot of difficulties, I forgot the fact that language cannot communicate.

In the crowded restaurant lobby, the two found a table for two to sit down, and they were not in a hurry to order food. There was buzzing conversation in their ears. It could be seen that the people at each table wanted to be humble at first. It is loud, but there are too many people talking, and they all form an echo, and if you don't speak louder, the other party may not be able to hear you.In this way, the voices in the lobby will be overwhelmed by waves, and the last words are basically yelling.

Not being able to understand other people's words made them extremely uncomfortable, as if their ears were stuffed with cotton, whether they understood or not.

"Hello."

When the two looked up, they saw a teenage black and thin boy, wearing an old blue shirt, looking like a scholar, with the hem tucked into the waistband of his trousers, baggy.Seeing that the two did not answer, he spoke a few more dialects to them.

"......."

"...That, we don't understand." Goudan tried to speak slowly. "Do you speak Mandarin?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I can talk~."

"Cough cough cough" Goudan is really not used to hearing his awkwardly long and soft Mandarin, but God bless, he can finally communicate.

"What do you eat?" Even though it was awkward, this little brother was very conscientious.

"Shall we see the menu?"

"There's no menu, I'll read it and report it to you."

The two ordered two dishes and one soup, and then pulled the little brother to talk, "You see, we can't understand the language here, do you know any tour guides or locals, we..."

"Shake Karma. My ji, there are a lot of eyes (people) here to buy goods, and there are eyes from other places. We (know) where the goods are the most beautiful, and the price is the best. The travel fee is not expensive. I only visit the mall and shop for three yuan a day. Now, I went to the factory to get the goods for five yuan. If you look for a good product to help you bargain, the amount will be fifty dollars a day."

so expensive?Many workers in my hometown don’t have much wages, so the locals can make a lot of money doing this.But "Okay, the tour guide you introduced is here." Goudan took out a dollar and handed it over, and said in the tone of a boy.One yuan is a lot of money, and who would dislike it for nothing.The boy knew that many children in this special zone did this, and if they were snatched away by others, they would miss a good opportunity.

The boy showed his white teeth, "Wait, I'll order food for you first, and I'll be here in a while."

"Really, it is true that a piece of expensive land can support the people on that land. Look at these people, not to mention the income from work, but the extra money is enough." Many good children there don't have this Opportunity, when I grow up, I will continue the life of my parents. Every day, the sun rises and the sun sets.

"It's only been a few years. Their life may not be better than ours before. Look at the land here, it's not fertile enough, it's mostly salty land, and the crops don't grow well. I heard that many people ran to the opposite side. "

"In the future, people may not need to rely on the land to make a living, but as long as the merchants and locals here are not stupid or lazy, they will definitely earn a lot."

There are two full bowls of white rice, a plate of white-cut pork belly, a small bowl of soy sauce and garlic, a piece of sweet and sour fish, and winter melon sea white soup.This soup was recommended by the boy who ordered the dishes. Goudan and Wang Xuan, as inland rural children, have never eaten seafood such as sea white snails.

It was also the first time for the two of them to eat white cut meat. At home, they either ate oily residue or stewed in soy sauce. It was delicious with some Yanba old soy sauce.I didn't expect pork belly to be eaten like this.

"It really feels like eating meat, it's so cool. No wonder the price is not cheap, meat."

"This fish is so sweet and delicious." This fish is quite big. I never knew that it can be made into sour and sweet dishes. The strange taste is surprisingly delicious, very appetizing.In the past, making fish was always soup or stewed in a pot. In fact, the method of making fish is similar to that of making soup.Not to mention the cooking skills of Goudan and his father, it is Wang Xuan. As the actual person in charge of the family, his cooking methods have always been very simple and varied.

The reason is related to the lack of rich ingredients and seasonings. How can poverty produce any chefs.The family has been eating like that without feeling anything, as long as there is meat, the white meat boiled in salt water is still delicious.But now I found that the knowledge of food is probably no simpler than the various prescriptions I have studied.

"In the future, in the future, when we have money, let's eat like this." After Goudan ate something good again, he began to set the menu for the future.In addition to eating delicious braised pork at the new restaurant in the county seat, they also occasionally ate at Liu Yuan's house.But it's all very simple.Liu Yuan's mother seems to have only mediocre cooking skills, and she can handle household chores, but it's really not delicious.

At least compared with the dishes in front of me.

When they said this, the young man who served the dishes proudly said that the head chef of his owner's shop used to be an imperial chef. Although the restaurant is of a medium level, there are many diners who come here because of its reputation, and many repeat customers.The price is fair and the portions are sufficient. Don't look at those high-end western restaurants.

Wang Xuan and Goudan looked at each other, why are they so descendants of the royal chef.When he was in the county, the fat chef also claimed to be a descendant of the royal chef.Anyway, it's good enough, the two nodded while eating, and each added a big bowl of rice.

"Actually, when I see a good dish, I want to serve it with white steamed buns, but it's a blessing to be able to eat a big meal of white rice." The two are still used to eating all kinds of thick steamed buns, but when they eat white rice, they think that dry rice is also very delicious. "It's as delicious as white steamed buns."

"This soup is a bit strange, do you smell it? A bit fishy?"

"Yes." Wang Xuan picked out the sea white snail, "Look, this is it. The seafood tastes a bit fishy. People here like to eat it, um. It seems to drink slowly. The more you drink, the more delicious it will be."

The two of them spent a lot of money on this meal because they had both fish and meat. Although they felt sorry for the money, it was really worth the money. At least the meat was genuine pork, so they were very satisfied.

The young Xiaoer was also willing to talk to them more when he saw the two ordering meat dishes, thinking that the two should be rich and might bring him other business, indeed.The two really want to pay for a tour guide, and his eyes are getting stronger and stronger.The self-satisfied young man actively said to the two of them, "I know where there is delicious food here, not a meal, but a snack."

"Then you tell the tour guide that we will stay here for two more days."

"no problem."