Let me first explain that this is an essay. Prose is an article that comes from scratch. This article, like the previous articles, is all about my personal experience. About five years ago, I often went to Shandong on business trips, which left a lot of deep impressions.
I think the impression should be made into something written, so as to avoid being unable to write it down due to blurred memory in the future.
The place I often visit is Zouping County, 80 kilometers northeast of Jinan. Yes, it is the hometown of Fan Zhongyan, and it can also be regarded as the hometown of the great traitor Fan Wencheng. To this day, the local winery still produces Fan Gong Liquor Basket brand low-alcohol liquor as a commemoration.
This county is one of the top 100 counties in the country in terms of economy, especially in industry. The famous Weiqiao Entrepreneurship Group is located here. You may not be very familiar with this private enterprise, so let me tell you that this is the largest cotton textile company in the world.
The company has hundreds of thousands of workers and can control the world's cotton prices at will. There is a local saying: When Weiqiao recruits workers, several nearby counties and cities will have to suspend school, because all young people come to apply for jobs as workers, and cotton textile factories need a lot of workers.
For steam and electricity, it is not cost-effective to purchase commercial power, so the company has built many power plants to be self-sufficient. Please note that there are many power plants, not one or two, but at least ten power plants spread across Shandong, each with a larger installed capacity.
My job is to provide ignition and furnace safety equipment for power plants.
Five years ago, the headquarters of Weiqiao Group was still located in Weiqiao Town. Every time I left home, I took the train to Jinan, then transferred from the train station to the bus station, took a bus to the county seat, and then took a minibus for 30 kilometers.
, to reach the town, the whole trip takes one day, mainly because of the trouble of transferring. After arriving in the town, find a small hotel to stay, because there are many people coming from outside to do business, there are many small hotels in the town, and they are one after another, like
Japanese love hotels are small three-story buildings built by the family, run by a couple, or hiring a younger sister as a waiter. The usual price is 60 yuan per night for a standard room, with air conditioning and TV. If
A hotel with a separate bathroom costs 80 to 100 yuan. Our business trip subsidy is 100 yuan a day. This 100 yuan includes food and accommodation. What I save is my own, so I often choose hotels with poorer conditions.
The cheapest place I've ever stayed in town is a single room for 20 yuan a day. The owner is a poor couple. You can see them hanging noodles every day when eating. This is almost every day. There is no trace of food. The hotel equipment
It's also very poor and poorly managed. Big yellow dogs often run into guests' rooms to beg for food. The public bathroom is located under the stairs, and the sanitary condition is quite worrying, so I stayed there once and never went there again.
I remember that on New Year's Day one year, probably 2003, it was very lively with lanterns and colorful decorations outside. I still lived in the local area because I couldn't get the payment for the goods. I wanted to go home but couldn't leave. On the New Year's Eve, I ran out and bought two cans.
Beer and a roast duck were brought back to the hotel to eat. They had a banquet in a narrow single room and started drinking by themselves. After eating for a while, tears suddenly flowed out. It was quite pitiful to think about it.
When I first started traveling on business, I liked to bring my own meals. Every time I left home, I brought a large bag of instant noodles, a bag of ham sausage, two packages of pickles, two braised eggs, professional equipment for instant noodles, and a stainless steel lunch box.
After many improvements, the specific brands of this field set are Fumanduo Braised Beef Noodles, Shuanghui Wangzhongwang’s ham sausage, which has a starch content of less than or equal to 8%, and the pickles are from a brand called Little Monk, whose place of origin has been forgotten.
The braised eggs are from Zhejiang, a well-known brand. I can’t remember them now. It’s disgusting to eat these things every day. It made me want to vomit when I smelled the smell of instant noodles for a while.
The reason why I always eat instant noodles is to save money. Later I found that the local food is actually cheaper. You can have a full meal for only two yuan. Every time it is lunch time and dinner time, the streets are full of rice sellers in Weiqiao Town.
It's just a street. After walking through a densely populated area of hotels, you'll arrive at a densely populated area of restaurants. Every household has large vats, baskets and basins selling rice at the door. All kinds of stir-fried vegetables, steamed buns, and rice are openly available, and the vegetables are all the cheapest vegetables on the market.
, the method is also very simple, just put it in a big pot and stir-fry until cooked, sprinkle some salt and oil to make it taste delicious and oily. It costs one yuan for a full plastic bag. I bought it once and it was really hard to swallow, but rice and
You can still eat steamed buns, and you can eat a full meal for the same one yuan. There are porridge, soy milk, various fruits and drinks. It is worth mentioning the local cold drinks and drinks. The cold drinks are all random brands, such as cream sorbet, which is very delicious.
It tastes unpalatable and creamy. It’s full of additives. The drink is even more outrageous. The thin plastic bottle has been recycled countless times. The lid is dirty and the logo printing is shoddy. This kind of Apple Fanta-flavored soda costs 50 cents a bottle.
It tastes pretty good, I've been lucky enough to drink it twice.
Every time it’s mealtime, workers from textile factories come out in droves. It’s hard to imagine the scene. Tens of thousands of young workers flood into the streets, sweeping away everything that can be eaten like a swarm of locusts.
, these people are all girls of sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing top hats of female textile workers, wearing cheap clothes, with badges on their chests indicating different branches and workshops, buying food in groups and taking them back to the dormitory.
Eat, there are relatively few male workers. The little boys wear fashionable T-shirts with Meteor Garden and F4 printed on the chest and back. They feel quite good about themselves. Their sense of superiority comes from the unbalanced ratio of men and women. The women here are too
There are many, and they are all young girls in their prime. It is said that in the town, a bowl of rice noodles can buy a big girl to spend the night with you. I think it is a bit exaggerated, but the general meaning is this.
Of course, there are hotels and markets for high-end customers in the town. The hotels are nothing worth mentioning, but the markets are quite unique. First of all, it is difficult to find familiar products. The shelves are full of unknown knockoffs. If you want to buy a bottle of Wahaha
It is difficult to get pure water. What is provided here is a kind of mineral water called Laoshan. There is a straw in the bottle, which is very unappetizing. I still don’t understand why the manufacturer designed it like this. It is also difficult to buy beer and liquor. The local
It can produce beer and liquor. The famous amber beer is a high-end brand produced by the county brewery. The brand for the public is called Antarctica, which smells of alcohol and is quite unpleasant to drink. The liquors are all produced by local no-name manufacturers in Shandong, such as Xiao Cuizhu and Fan.
Public wine basket is a popular drink among local people. Guess how much alcohol it is, 25 degrees. It is not wine at all, it is alcohol mixed with water. I can drink Laobaigan with 60 degrees, but for this kind of liquor with 20 degrees
But he was extremely afraid, and there was no one above him.
Later, the headquarters of the Weiqiao Group moved to the county town. The hotel industry in the town plummeted and there were no more customers. I stopped staying there and moved to the county government guest house. The government guest house is a very good place. It is located in
Located in the center of the county, there are luxurious standard rooms and ordinary public rooms. I always stay on the first floor of the ordinary building because there is a beautiful girl with long legs in charge of the first floor. The standard of the government guest house is high, and the snow-white sheets are used all day long.
Once it is changed, hot water is always available, but it is inconvenient to take a bath. You have to go to the professional bathhouse near the tea stove at the back of the building. This bathhouse seems to be open to the public. Guests can go and enjoy it with the bathing tickets issued every day. Guest House
There is also a restaurant, which is considered very high-end in the local area. I sometimes go there to have a tooth ceremony and order a cucumber sting, two bottles of beer, two bowls of rice, and a pot of boiled pork slices. The Shandong cuisine is very generous and delicious.
I was full, and the waiter looked at me with admiration.
The public transportation in the county and town is the same as a three-wheel covered motorcycle. At first, it was an ordinary three-wheeler, with a straddle in the front and a carriage in the back. The carriage was covered with iron bars and plastic cloth.
A shed that can keep out the rain later evolved into a motorcycle with a steering wheel produced by a professional factory, a left-hand drive vehicle, with a person in the passenger seat, hand-cranked windows, a sunroof, reverse gear, and a radio.
The price is 2 yuan. I often come out of the agency guest house and hire a three-wheeled motorcycle to drive to the power plant site to work. It feels quite cool.
Every time I go on a business trip, my transit stop is Jinan. I always stay in the area around Quancheng Square. When I first started traveling, I always liked to find cheap places to stay. One time I was walking on the road with my bag and saw
I went to a place called Baotuquan Hotel. The price was quite cheap, so I walked in and asked. The boss picked up a bunch of keys and took me underground. It turned out that this was a hotel converted from an air raid shelter. I passed through the heavy door (I guess it can protect against atomic bombs).
It was a hall of more than 100 bungalows, with dozens of beds inside, and flowers and quilts scattered on the beds. I was instantly shocked. This was simply scarier than the migrant worker sheds I had lived in, but the price was worthy of the conditions.
It was only five yuan a night. I didn’t dare to live here, so I asked the boss if there was a better place. The boss took me forward and came to a long and narrow corridor, with dim electric lights flashing overhead and rows of iron bars on both sides.
He opened an iron door and said to me: This is a single room. It costs sixteen yuan a day. There is a bed inside. There are still flowers and quilts that cannot be seen with age, and water can come out of the quilt when you pinch it. I believe you don’t need me.
Everyone can also think of the similarities between this kind of room and a prison, and it is a spooky dungeon.
In the end, I didn't dare to stay here, so I chose another hotel, a certain hotel opposite the Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. When you enter and register, the concierge will give you a red plastic accommodation card, and then use this to get a room upstairs.
The difference is that guests don't have the key and have to have a waiter come to open the door every time. I have stayed in their most popular store, the only smallest single room, which can only accommodate a single bed and not even a chair.
If you can't put it down, there is a folding wooden board on the windowsill with a 12-inch TV that can play snow scenes. If you are a friend born in the 1980s, you may want to call it big brother.
In view of the large number of patients staying in this hotel, I moved to other places and found a community hotel near Chaoshan Street. The rooms were converted from residential buildings and the conditions were relatively good. When I opened the window, I could see the Yuquan Senxin Building of the four-star hotel.
Advertisement, I once got off the train and took a taxi and asked the driver to go straight to Yuquan Senxin. When the waiter at the door came over and opened the door, I walked out in a dignified manner and turned around to go to the community village next to it.
The hotel has the charm of Stephen Chow transferring from Regent Hotel to Regent Hotel.