The two brothers came out of the warehouse and did not take the car. According to Guo Shouyun’s guess, the classic and nostalgic place mentioned by the younger brother should be on Honghe Street, at least not far from this place, but what he did not expect was that Shoucheng did not. Take him to the main street of Honghe River, but go directly south, and set foot on the Yunxian road leading to the customs exit.
“Shoucheng, this is you.” Guo Shouyun finally couldn’t bear it anymore, looking at the border checkpoint that was getting closer and closer, he pulled his brother’s sleeve and said in confusion, “Where are you going? Go ahead, We’re almost at the border, you don’t plan to go south, do you?”
“What’s the matter?” Shoucheng kept walking, turning his head and smiling, “What we’re looking for is a place where we can sit down and have a good chat, and at the same time, bring joy. As for this place in Where, big brother, what do you care about? You’re right, the place I’m looking for is in Fuyuan, hehe, a restaurant that just opened two months ago. During this time, I almost always Every four or five days, we have to go there.”
“Oh?” Guo Shouyun asked suspiciously, “A restaurant? I thought it was a bar or something. Since it’s a restaurant, it’s nothing more than a place to eat. What’s so special about it?”
“Hey, you’ll know when you get there,” Shoucheng smiled but didn’t answer. He led his elder brother all the way to the border checkpoint. He didn’t say hello to the soldiers who were in charge of customs and border checks. Pass the level.
At the border checkpoint from Fuyuan to Khabarovsk, the Chinese and Russian soldiers in charge of customs defense are all elderly. For some specific reason, the Far East has not done any personnel work for the garrison on the checkpoint in the past three years. The same is true for the Chinese checkpoint on the opposite side. Therefore, although the Guo brothers came all the way, although they did not show any documents, no one went up to stop them, no doubt. They are considered “acquaintances” on both sides of the checkpoint.
To be honest, since the rise of the Guo family, Guo Shouyun has not set foot on the land of Fuyuan for a long time, except for a limited number of opportunities to return to China, in his eyes. This small town on the Sino-Russian border has obviously been doing well since this period of time. The row upon row of white buildings, spacious and well-connected roads are all in front of us. From this point alone, we can see the huge impact brought about by domestic reform and opening up. Variety.
Walking out of the highway line area of the border checkpoint, the brothers declined the special car arranged for them by the Chinese border checkpoint. They found a red Santana by the roadside, and strolled leisurely into Fuyuan County.
Guo Shouyun never imagined the good place that Shoucheng said. It turned out to be an unremarkable wild vegetable restaurant called “Jiaojia Flavor Museum”, according to the introduction of my brother. The things that can be eaten here are basically all wild vegetables, such as qumaicai sauce, steamed dumplings with purses, bitter cabbage zygotes, yuqian cabbage balls, and so on. As a reincarnated fraudster, Guo Shouyun had never eaten these things. After all, when he was reincarnated, the living conditions of the Guo brothers and sisters had improved. But as an extremely poor peasant born in the 1960s, he ate a lot of these things when he was on a small land. Although he said he had never experienced the years of “low indicators, melons and vegetables”, things like wild vegetable dumplings came to him. It is a bitter and sweet life memory.
“I said Shoucheng, this is what you mean by classic nostalgia?” Sitting in the corner of the hall of the wild vegetable restaurant, Guo Shouyun looked around at this small restaurant whose interior decoration had not yet reached the level of “poverty alleviation”, after a long while. Only then did he laugh and cry, “Well, this nostalgia seems to be a bit too much. Are you planning to invite Big Brother to eat a meal of wild vegetables, and come to remember bittersweet sweets through and through?”
Shoucheng smiled and didn’t say anything directly. He recruited a waiter from a restaurant, asked for a menu, and simply opened a few pages. Put it in front of the big brother. Then he said with a smile: “Brother, don’t think that this wild vegetable is so easy to eat. If you don’t see it, it’s just the steamed dumplings in the purse, a small plate is 15 yuan, and the dishes in elm money. Dumplings, a serving of two, the asking price is 30 yuan”
“This isn’t murder, is it?” Guo Shouyun was startled. According to the current market price. A pound of lean pork is only about one or two cents. The price of a pound of eggs is less than six cents. And here it is. A bunch of wild vegetables put together something. Even at every turn, the price is more than ten. Even dozens. This place really shouldn’t be considered a slaughter. But blatantly murder.
“Hey. This gentleman.” After listening to Guo Shouyun’s words. The waiter next to it was not happy. The boy slapped his face. said angrily. “You don’t say it so nicely. It’s true. The price of vegetables here may be a little bit higher. But you have to know. Now the emphasis is on reform and opening up. It’s a market economy. What is a market economy? The so-called market economy. It means that everything is based on the market as the pricing standard. As the saying goes, there is only supply when there is demand. Our pricing is also determined according to market demand.”
“You are truly a genius.” Guo Shouyun was stunned. He looked at the unassuming little waiter in front of him. I was completely speechless. From this small restaurant. People seem to be able to feel the impact of a reform. A market economy pressure. One of the most obvious and deepest wave of money worship thinking. As a person with past life experience. at the same time. In the process of destroying the Soviet Union, he had a deep understanding of the Far East decision-making. Guo Shouyun could feel something called profit-seeking. It is taking root and sprout in this vast land in the south. and grow rapidly.
“Okay, okay. It’s just a complaint. I didn’t say anything else. Look at your nonsense.” He glanced at the big brother on the opposite side. Shoucheng take back the menu. Just ordered a few things. Only then did the aggrieved waiter beside him kicked away.
“Brother.” Watching the waiter disappear into the back hall. Shoucheng turned his head. Said to my brother. “See it. In just one or two years. The changes in the mainland are really great. I feel it. Compared with our Far East, the Chinese people seem to be more open-minded now. That kind of makes people feel a bit difficult. Receptive economic savvy. It should be more. Hehe. Compared with the original, I don’t know whether this is a national development. It has to be grasped with both hands. Both hands must be hard. But from the current situation. She said that these things seem to be inconsistent with the current local domestic environment. “
“Haha. You believe everything Sister Hong said?” He glanced at his brother. Guo Shouyun fiddled with the menu in front of him. laughed. “You don’t even look at it. What kind of background does Sister Hong herself come from. To a certain extent. She is the same kind of person as us. Put it in the small. She is a good player who is speculative. Put it in the big. She It can also be a strong player who focuses on the economy. But then again. You want someone like her to talk about ideological work. Haha. Then she won’t take you into the sea? What about now? Domestic aspects The use of such a person as her. This decision to appoint an appointment itself shows a big problem. That is, the development of the country is just a little bit. The issue of economic development has become the top priority. As for another application The problem of ideological work. Hehe. At some specific moment, you have to move your position. Besides, there is a contradiction between the introduction of the market economy and the education of national ideology. The genius just said to you I also heard it. The market economy. Then everything is based on the market. As for the moral standard. The world is sophistication. This itself has been placed in the second or even third place. In this case. Isn’t it a self-contradictory joke?”
“Then according to what you said, eldest brother, is it impossible to solve such conflicting problems at all?” After a moment of silence, Shoucheng raised his head and said softly, “Could it be that in the future, the Far East will also follow the domestic path?”
“Hehe, Shoucheng, I didn’t expect you to start thinking about this.” A simple question from his brother’s mouth made Guo Shouyun feel a lot at the moment. He could see that with the formation of the Far Eastern Republic, Guo’s The group has completed a transformation process from quantitative change to qualitative change, and under the impact of this process, Shoucheng’s perspective of thinking about problems is also changing subtly. problem.
“Well, how should I answer the question you mentioned?” Anyway, Guo Shouyun felt very relieved that his younger brother was able to change his mind. After hesitating for a while, he said, “In my opinion, Well, to be precise, it should be based on my own experience for so long, I have realized a little problem, that is, the problem of the economy and the way of thinking of people.”
“Oh?” A hint of doubt appeared on Shoucheng’s face. Obviously, he was very interested in this knowledge of the elder brother.
“Actually, for the Far East, the people’s thinking there is much more complicated than the domestic situation,” Guo Shouyun said, “For today’s domestic people, the place where their thinking is impacted is just a matter of money worship. , To put it bluntly, that is the question of how much money can play on a person’s outlook on life and values. Now, they obviously haven’t considered this issue clearly, so there is still a certain contradiction in the way of thinking. The two contradictory concepts of the supremacy of conscience and the supremacy of money appeared alternately in their minds, and they clashed violently, which eventually led to a conflict of public opinion in this country and society. But what about in the Far East today? Such problems do not exist. After learning about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the continuous economic downturn, the Far Easterners have become extremely practical. In their minds, there is no conflict between conscience and money worship. The only thing they consider is how to save more money. , because only then can they live better and more comfortably.”