Chapter 3025 New Problem

Wuliao, Huang Chengzhong helped a girl who was dressed in thick clothes to carry her suitcase onto the bus. "It's really heavy. It seems that she brought a lot of good things home."

"Just some clothes and so on," the girl said a little embarrassedly. "Thank you, mayor."

"You're welcome," Huang Chengzhong waved his hand and grabbed the ring on the bus and stood up. A young man stood up and gave him a seat. He reached out and pushed him back. "No, you sit down."

Although he was retired, he felt that he had not yet entered the ranks of the elderly. Of course, these people gave him seats mainly out of respect for him.

Wuliao, who doesn't know him?

Looking at the girl who was also carrying large and small bags next to the young man, who was obviously with him and should be his girlfriend, Huang Chengzhong instinctively wanted to chat with her, which company he worked for, whether his salary was paid, where his hometown was, whose family he would return to during the Spring Festival, and when he planned to buy a house and settle down here...

Thinking of his little daughter's complaints, he just smiled and glanced at the young couple. It's good to be young!

The bus was packed with people, most of whom were young people with relaxed and happy faces and large and small bags. It was not easy for them. After working for a year, they could finally have a long vacation.

Although it might be harder to go home for the Spring Festival holiday than to go to work, it still could not dispel their enthusiasm and expectations.

Huang Chengzhong looked at these young people who seemed to have gained a lot, and felt very comfortable and envious. When he was young, if the town could look like this, then his life...

His life was good enough!

Around the New Year's Eve, more and more people in Wuli'ao were preparing to go home for the Spring Festival with large and small bags. At first, when the old people in the town saw this scene, they felt a sense of superiority while sighing.

But now, everyone has long lost these unnecessary emotions. They either rest steadily or focus on their business wholeheartedly, embracing this most important peak season of the year.

Although e-commerce is becoming more and more developed, the Spring Festival is still the best time of the year for merchants. The main consumers are young people who have received a lot of wages and are preparing to return to their hometowns for the Spring Festival.

Let alone the real factory stores in the town, all the factories in the town know that during this period after the Spring Festival, the sales of the stores that the factories already have or temporarily opened in the twelfth lunar month, plus the sales at the New Year Goods Festival held in the town, will not be lower than the sales during the Double Eleven.

And with the development of Wuli'ao, many things that were originally liked by locals have been liked or sought after by more and more non-locals.

When Feng Yiping and his friends were young, every household had to prepare for the New Year, such as glutinous rice cakes, sweet rice wine, and various fried foods. These things are not made much at home now, but they sell very well on the street.

The same local characteristics of sausages, bacon, duck and other cured and marinated products are also popular now.

Of course, if Feng Yiping and his friends eat it, they will probably feel that some of them are not the same taste as when they were young. This is inevitable. These industrial products are definitely different from what their parents made back then.

In general, this makes the locals feel that life is getting better and better now, and it is getting easier and easier to make money.

Most of them do not understand that behind these phenomena, there are actually dividends brought by the rapid economic development of a region, and local culture will inevitably be accepted and liked by more people, but when they find that more and more outsiders are communicating with them in a fluent or similar local dialect, they will still feel proud and happy from the bottom of their hearts.

This is something that makes them happier than making a lot of money.

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The bus started from the industrial park slowly, circled the town for a while, drove onto the northernmost of the three bridges leading to the other side of the river, and stopped and went along the wide asphalt road.

This road passes many mountains. More than ten years ago, these mountains were just barren mountains with few trees and no land, and at most some electric poles. Now, they are all covered with various buildings, and even the trees are much more than before.

There is no trace of the sparse houses at the foot of the mountain, and they have long become bustling and prosperous neighborhoods.

The changes in just over ten years make people feel that the world has changed dramatically.

And such changes will not stop for a moment. Even Huang Chengzhong, who can be said to be the most familiar with Wuli'ao, often can't help but take a few more glances when passing by some places. Three months ago, it seemed that this place was not like this?

Oh, it was just a foundation at that time, and now the building is so tall?

After more than 40 minutes, the front gradually became noisy, with more and more cars, more and more people carrying bags and dragging suitcases on the sidewalk, and more and more vendors on the roadside. This is their destination, one of the three long-distance bus stations in the town, the New District Bus Station.

Huang Chengzhong followed everyone out of the car and immediately heard someone in front of him asking, "We are going to the provincial capital, 5 people in a car, are you going?"

Or, "We are going to the city, we only need one person..."

He quickened his pace and walked forward, looking around as he walked. Where were the police who were maintaining order, and where were the transportation officials?

Seeing Huang Chengzhong emerge from the crowd, the black car drivers lowered their heads and scattered. How did they run into him?

Huang Chengzhong didn't bother to argue with them. During such peak periods every year, black cars could not be eliminated. But, how could they be so arrogant?

He followed the flow of people to the station, looked at the bustling crowd inside and outside the station, and couldn't help but frown.

Although capacity is being increased every year, capacity is always so tight at this time of year.

But what is different this year is that there is finally no long, heart-stopping queue winding into the square at the ticket hall.

This is because all long-distance passenger terminals in the town have cooperated with Tongcheng.com in the middle of this year to sell tickets online, and the town has also mobilized various companies to assist employees, especially those with low educational levels, to book tickets in advance. Book your tickets online.

Xiao Zhijie, who came to visit at the time, said that a self-service ticket purchasing system has been developed in the R&D base in Badaling and will be equipped in the town as soon as possible in the future.

Purchasing tickets will no longer be a headache in the future, but the capacity...

Huang Chengzhong walked around the ticket purchasing hall and was very relieved to see that although there were many people queuing up, it was still not too many.

Just as he was about to go to the security check, he heard someone shout, "Old Mayor,"

Looking back, Su Mingfeng, wearing a black mid-length coat, came out of the office with several people.

"Magistrate Su,"

Huang Chengzhong was still a little happy that Su Mingfeng could come here at this time, "The black car outside the station..."

"We need to rectify it immediately, severely rectify it," Su Mingfeng said.

When he said this, Huang Chengzhong was also a little embarrassed. I didn't mean to put pressure on you. Just as he was about to explain, he found that Su Mingfeng's face looked very bad, and the faces of the people following behind him also didn't look good either.

"Just now, a private car soliciting passengers rushed into the river when it was approaching the county seat," Su Mingfeng said.

Huang Chengzhong was startled and asked urgently, "Is anyone hurt?"

"Fortunately, there was little water in the river. They rushed to the river beach. There were 5 people including the driver, and only the two in the back seat were not wearing seat belts. One had a broken hand, and the other hit the front windshield... and was seriously injured," Su Mingfeng explain.

A man in uniform from behind added, "The county hospital said there is no life-threatening danger,"

Huang Chengzhong and Su Mingfeng both glared at him.

"It's time to treat," Huang Chengzhong said, "County magistrate, what do you want me to do?"

Su Mingfeng pulled him aside and said, "Old mayor, I really need your help with something. If you have time, can you make a few more calls to the village below?"

"Last night, we caught 7 gambling gatherings in the mountains surrounding the town. There were also some in the town. At the heliport, we caught more than a dozen guys who had just returned from other places and started gambling without even returning home."

He rubbed his eyebrows and said, "The gambling funds seized at the scene totaled more than 30 million, and there were 11 million at the airport."

"This is just the ones caught, the ones not caught," he shook his head.

"No problem," Huang Chengzhong said immediately, "I'll call the people below and ask their village chief and branch secretary to come to the town in person to pick them up."

A bad learner so quickly? It’s really outrageous! It’s really outrageous!