The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Xiangbei and Xiao Wu drove into Shandong. There were more large trucks transporting vegetables on the highway. Almost all the farmland on both sides of the road was covered with plastic greenhouses.

Compared with other places, especially compared with the South, one of the characteristics of the plastic greenhouses in Shandong is that they are tall and spacious, unlike the greenhouses in the South that are small and stingy. Another feature is that the greenhouses are connected to each other, and they are all covered with white flowers. To the edge.

Signs that flashed across the road from time to time read "XXX - Hometown of Carrots in China" and "XXX - Hometown of Eggplants in China", but after driving for a while, what flashed into their eyes was another "XXX - Hometown of Carrots in China". XXX——Hometown of Carrots in China” and “XXX——Hometown of Eggplants in China”.

This made Zhang Xiangbei and Xiao Wu wonder, how many countries of carrots and eggplants are there in China?

Shandong is the largest vegetable producing area in the country. The planting area of ​​vegetables accounts for one-tenth of the country's total, and the vegetable output accounts for one-seventh of the country's. It can be said that every household in cities across the country has basically one vegetable on their dining table every day. There will be vegetables from Shandong on display.

This is probably related to the fact that the terrain in the east, west, south, west, and northwest of Shandong and the Yellow River Delta is gentle, with abundant sunshine and abundant rainfall.

Shandong is a province with an awkward geographical location and is easily misunderstood.

For most southerners like Zhang Xiangbei and Xiaowu, it feels like Shandong is very far away and is a northern region. Many people even confuse it with Northeast China, but in fact, Shandong is not even North China. , it is the northernmost province in East China and belongs to the same region as Zhejiang, Fujian, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Jiangxi provinces and one city.

Yimeng Mountain, Menglianggu, Taishan, etc., these place names often appear in movies, television and comic books, and give people the impression that Shandong is also a mountainous province with an area of ​​​​3 feet flat. It is easy to forget that it is the mouth of the Yellow River. , is also a province around the Bohai Sea.

Even the mountains in Shandong, hehe, are also exaggerated by those poems such as "You will be at the top of the mountain, you can see all the small mountains", "The water is so calm, the mountains and islands are standing", etc., for people like Xiao Wu who come from the southern mountainous area From the perspective of people who come out of it, this is really childish. The mountains in Shandong can’t even be described as “continuous”.

If a mountain is not continuous and does not give people a sense of reverie and despair that there is still a mountain outside the mountain, and there is another mountain beyond this mountain, can it still be called a mountain?

When Zhang Xiangbei and Xiao Wu arrived in Tai'an, it was already night and the surroundings were dark. However, the billboard at the intersection of the expressway told them that this place was at the foot of Mount Tai.

The two people immediately decided to get up the next day and climb Mount Tai before leaving. For two people who had never been to Shandong and never climbed Mount Tai, how could they climb Mount Tai without climbing.

The next morning, the two of them had breakfast in the hotel, checked out, walked to the open-air parking lot behind the hotel, stood next to the car, and looked around curiously. Didn't they say that Tai'an is at the foot of Mount Tai? There is no feeling of Mount Tai pressing down on the top. I can only see a mountain standing alone not far away. This mountain does not look high or steep.

Zhang Xiangbei asked the security guard in the parking lot, where is Taishan?

The security guard pointed to the mountain and said, that's it.

Zhang Xiangbei and Xiao Wu were startled, and then became discouraged. Zhang Xiangbei raised his thumb and pointed at the mountain. He said to Xiao Wu:

"It's not as high as Tiandu Peak in Huangshan Mountain, and it's not as high as Lotus Peak."

Xiao Wu laughed loudly: "You can measure it like this?"

"Of course, if you don't believe me, check it out," Zhang Xiangbei said.

The two people immediately stood there and checked Mount Tai on their mobile phones, and then checked the Lotus Peak and Tiandu Peak in Huangshan Mountain. Sure enough, the main peak of Mount Tai, Yuhuangding, was quite different from the Lotus Peak and Tiandu Peak in Huangshan Mountain.

Zhang Xiangbei said: "It took me an hour to climb Tiandu Peak to the top of the crucian carp. For this, it only takes about one hour to pee."

Xiao Wu smiled and said, "Then you have dirty urine."

After getting into the car, Zhang Xiangbei started the car and turned to ask Xiao Wu: "Are you still going to climb?"

"I don't want to go. If I want to climb such a mountain, I might as well go home during the holidays and climb it." Xiao Wu shook his head and said, "Do you want to go?"

"I'm not interested anymore. I have no desire to conquer at all. Why don't we hurry up?" Zhang Xiangbei said.

Xiao Wu said okay, let’s go.

Zhang Xiangbei drove out of the hotel parking lot and drove toward Shouguang.

The two of them drove alternately along the way and drove for three hours. At one o'clock in the afternoon, they arrived in Shouguang. Shouguang is a county-level city below Weifang. It is certainly correct to say that it is the hometown of vegetables in China.

There is an employee at Banmutian Jinan Logistics Base. He is from Shouguang. After receiving a call from Xiaowu, he rushed back from Jinan last night and waited for them in Shouguang. Before they entered Shouguang city, he gave Xiaowu The WeChat location was sent, and the two of them followed the navigation until they arrived at Shouguang Chenming International Hotel.

Shouguang Chenming International Hotel is on the edge of the Mi River, already on the outskirts of Shouguang. Xiao Wu drove into the hotel and Zhang Xiangbei looked at the architectural style of the hotel and knew that it should be a garden resort hotel.

Xiao Wu turned up a slope and parked the car at the entrance of the hotel. A young man in his twenties stood chatting with the security guard. When he saw their car, he ran over and kept waving to Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu rolled down the car window, and the young man quickly grinned. When he smiled, he was a little shy, showing a set of neat white teeth. He said:

"Mr. Wu, are you here?"

Xiao Wu nodded and told Zhang Xiangbei that this was Liu Dehua, and then told Liu Dehua that this was Mr. Zhang.

"I got the de, not the virtue." Liu Dehua quickly explained, and then asked Xiao Wu: "Mr. Zhang belongs to the big boss..."

Xiao Wu said that he was right, and Liu Dehua quickly said to Zhang Xiangbei: "Hello, Mr. Zhang!"

Zhang Xiangbei waved his hand and said hello to him. Zhang Xiangbei said: "You are more powerful than Andy Lau."

Liu Dehua looked at him puzzled, and Zhang Xiangbei said: "Dehua, you have taken the whole of China, are you still not powerful?"

Xiao Wu and Liu Dehua both laughed.

Zhang Xiangbei asked Liu Dehua: "Is this far from the place where vegetables are sold?"

"You mean the agricultural products logistics park? It's over there in the city, half an hour's drive away." Liu Dehua and Zhang Xiangbei said.

Zhang Xiangbei said to him: "Then you get in the car, and we'll go to the hotel over there to stay."

"But Mr. Zhang, the hotel over there is not as good as here. This is the best hotel in Shouguang." Liu Dehua said.

"It doesn't matter." Zhang Xiangbei smiled, "We're not here to stay in a hotel."

"Okay, let's go over there and go to the Wanhua Hotel." Liu Dehua said, opening the rear door and getting into the back seat.

They left the Chenming International Hotel, crossed the Mihe River, passed through Shouguang City along Nongsheng Street, turned right at Caidu Road, went straight for six or seven hundred meters, turned left onto Shengcheng Street, and then turned right into the Yellow Sea Road, all the way to Wanhua Hotel.

When they arrived at the parking lot of Wanhua Hotel, Liu Dehua pointed to the building across the road and told them that the agricultural product logistics park was opposite.

When registering at the front desk, Xiao Wu told the front desk that he wanted three rooms. Liu Dehua quickly said: "Mr. Wu, I can just go home and live there. It takes half an hour by minibus."

Zhang Xiangbei told him that you also live here, and it will be easier for everyone to move together.

Liu Dehua said yes and thanked Mr. Zhang, but his face turned red.

The three of them stayed at the hotel, put their things in the room, and immediately went to the agricultural product logistics park opposite. This is the largest fruit and vegetable market in the country. Although it was afternoon, there were still trucks filled with various vegetables parked inside. large trucks and agricultural vehicles.

Liu Dehua told them that these agricultural vehicles are all local vegetables, and the large trucks are all vegetables from other places.

Zhang Xiangbei asked: "Out of town? From a neighboring county?"

"No, there are even vegetables from Guangdong, Yunnan and Hainan. They are shipped here and then sold to Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Hebei and other places. Vegetable sellers say that no matter how difficult it is to sell vegetables locally, they can be sold in Shouguang. They can all be sold," Liu Dehua said.

Zhang Xiangbei understood that this was still a distribution center, an intermediate link, not the source.

Liu Dehua told them: "At this time, there are few people, and most of the vegetables have been sold and given away."

"When is the busiest time here?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"At two or three o'clock in the morning, a lot of vegetables arrived here and were bought by the truckload. Now at this time, most of them are wholesaled in this way."

Liu Dehua pointed to a large truck next to him. The truck was loaded with broccoli. Most of the truck had been sold. The boss was squatting on the truck, watching people move boxes of broccoli to a farm truck. The blue flower looks like it was just sold.

Liu Dehua explained to them that a lot of vegetables were transported here in the middle of the night without even unloading the truck. After the goods were inspected and weighed, the buyer and seller negotiated the price, and the buyer negotiated the freight with the driver, and then the two parties could deliver. When the car drives in, the person sitting next to the driver is the seller, and when it drives away, the person sitting next to it is the buyer.

Cars driving from Yunnan, Anhui, Henan and other places then drive to Beijing, Tianjin and other places. At this time, the original buyer becomes a new seller.

Zhang Xiangbei and Xiao Wu both laughed, finding Liu Dehua's statement interesting.

"However, the price of such dishes will be cheaper. If we dismantle and wholesale them here, the price will be higher and the profit will be more." Liu Dehua said.

Zhang Xiangbei was curious. He walked to the truck, took out cigarettes from his pocket, smoked one and handed it to the boss. Zhang Xiangbei didn't smoke, but this time he came out with a pack of cigarettes in his pocket. , he knows that cigarettes are the most effective tool to open up topics and shorten the distance.

The boss looked at him, took the cigarette, and said thank you!

Zhang Xiangbei asked the boss: "Where did you get this broccoli?"

"Haining, Zhejiang," the boss said.

Zhang Xiangbei was shocked, I'm going! If you don't do it well when buying food here, you will buy the food shipped from Zhejiang back to Zhejiang, just like some people who go abroad, buy "Made in China" and return home happily.

Zhang Xiangbei walked over and said to Xiao Wu and Liu Dehua, "Let's go back first and come back early tomorrow morning."

On the way back to the hotel, Zhang Xiangbei told the two of them what he had just thought. Xiao Wu was also surprised. Liu Dehua seemed not surprised by this. He said:

"What's so strange about this? It's sold here, then sold back here, and then sold again."

Zhang Xiangbei and Xiao Wu laughed. Zhang Xiangbei thought to himself, is it really true that these vegetables brought from other places to be sold in Shouguang are just like bringing coal to Datong, Shanxi to be sold? They still sold it.

No one can say clearly about many things in this world.

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