The man nodded slightly: "Okay, come with us."
Lu Zhiye parked the car in a yard and followed the young man inside.
This man was good-tempered. Seeing many people watching the excitement at the door, he waved his hand and shouted, "Go do what you need to do."
He poured a glass of water for Lu Zhiye, and perhaps because of his familiar accent, he said to Lu Zhiye in a friendly manner: "Are you from the three northeastern provinces?"
Lu Zhiye was a little surprised, thinking that his Mandarin was quite standard, so how could others understand it so easily.
He put down the bowl hesitantly: "How did you hear that?"
The young man laughed and said, "Don't use honorifics. I'm only 25."
Before Lu Zhiye could answer, he continued, "My name is Liu Qianjin, our ancestral home is in Liao Province, and our languages are similar.
I can hear it a little bit. Even though I look a little haggard, that's all due to wind and sun.
Alas, in a blink of an eye, I have been here for five years. "
Lu Zhiye's eyebrows moved: "Are you an educated youth who went to the countryside?"
Liu Qianjin thought for a moment before saying, "Yes and no, I came here with the educated youths who came to Xinjiang to help.
The higher-ups have assigned me a position, so I am both an educated youth and a cadre. Do you understand what I mean?"
Lu Zhiye's mouth twitched, and he looked at Liu Qianjin with a speechless look: "Do I look like a fool? I don't understand what you are saying."
Liu Qianjin slapped his head and said embarrassedly: "Look at me, I am used to interacting with ethnic minorities. I can't speak the same language, so I always have to explain a sentence many times."
Lu Zhiye understood and asked casually, "I just saw a commotion outside, what's going on?"
Liu Qianjin hesitated for a while before saying, "Oh, haven't a lot of people moved in recently?
It's all in the running-in period, nothing serious."
Seeing that he was trying to cover up the issue, Lu Zhiye didn't ask any more questions.
He drank the water in his hand.
Liu Qianjin finally met a fellow villager. It was a very exciting time when fellow villagers met and his eyes were filled with tears.
Seeing that Lu Zhiye didn't say anything, he also tried to find something to say: "How should I address you, little brother?"
"Lu Ye."
I came here with a mission for the cannery, although there is no need to hide anything.
But I don’t want to reveal too much.
"I came here with a mission. I've been to a lot of places, but the results were never satisfactory."
Liu Qianjin said in confusion: "What kind of mission can I perform here?
You said you wanted to come and take a look. Although I have only been here for a short time, I am familiar with this area of several hundred kilometers."
Lu Zhiye stated his needs, and before he could finish, Liu Qianjin slapped his thigh in excitement.
"Oh, oh, you asked me, you came to the right person.
Although I am a humble person, I have led several nearby villages to plant a lot of vineyards and cantaloupes.
As for red dates, I also know someone who can help me."
As he said this, Liu Qianjin adjusted his collar in a reserved manner.
I just wanted to ask Lu Zhiye.
Lu Zhiye had never expected that this young man had done such a big thing secretly.
He calmed down and said softly, "Hmm."
When Liu Qianjin saw his expression, he immediately became anxious: "What do you mean? Aren't you looking for these things?
Now, after searching for it everywhere, I finally get it without any effort.
What I'm looking for is far away in the sky, yet right before my eyes. Why am I not excited???"
Liu Qianjin used several cultural sentences in a row, and just short of hitting Lu Zhiye on the head with a hammer, he shouted: "Come to me, come to me."
Turning around and seeing Lu Zhiye's calm tone, he immediately became dissatisfied.
Lu Zhiye said slowly: "I have been to many places.
They also grow these, but they don’t meet my requirements.”
Liu Qianjin's heart skipped a beat: "What do you want?"
“This place is nearly 4,000 kilometers away from Heilongjiang Province, and the fruits ripen in summer.
For such a long journey, how to store the food is a big problem.
In the end, I can't bring back a load of rotten fruit, right?"
Liu Qianjin's originally excited heart also calmed down.
"Wait here for a while. I'll go ask the old hands in the village."
Lu Zhiye nodded and said nonchalantly, "Can I take a look around here?"
Liu Qianjin was anxious to discuss the issue, so he waved his hand and said, "Go ahead. There's a vineyard over there, you can go take a look.
But there are a lot of relocated personnel living nearby, so stay away from them."
Lu Zhiye nodded slightly to indicate that he understood.
As soon as he walked out of the door, many people turned their heads and looked at him curiously.
Seeing the wide-eyed looks of several children, Lu Zhiye couldn't help but sigh: These Uyghur people have such beautiful facial features.
Each child is as delicate as a doll, and they look more like Russians.
With a high nose bridge and deep eye sockets, he is very recognizable.
The boys are all quite tall, perhaps because they eat beef and mutton.
Here, Lu Zhiye really got to know the different customs and practices.
A young woman was holding a basin in one hand and digging something into it with the other, then smearing the substance in her hand on the doll's head.
Lu Zhiye frowned as he watched this scene. If he smelled it correctly, this was sheep fat...
Well, every nation has its own characteristics.
Lu Zhiye called a child over, and the child spoke Chinese with fluent pronunciation, which was beyond his expectation.
The child smiled shyly: "It's all thanks to Secretary Liu's good teaching."
Lu Zhiye smiled and reached out to touch his head, suddenly thinking of the young woman's actions.
He silently withdrew his hand, and when no one was paying attention, he quietly touched it and sniffed it: "Fortunately, there is no smell of sheep."
"Our vineyard is very large, covering more than 500 acres of land."
Lu Zhiye was a little surprised: "So many?"
The little boy looked proud and said, "Of course, we will wait until July or August when the grapes are harvested. We will be very busy.
Look, that's our drying room. Most of the grapes are dried into raisins for easy preservation."
The little boy became more and more excited as he spoke, and he danced with his hands and described the harvest scene with Lu Zhiye.
When he was almost at the vineyard, some children behind him called out to him, "Abdullah."
"Hey, here I come."
Abdullah smiled and looked at Lu Zhiye: "Brother, there is a vineyard in front, go and see it yourself. I'm leaving first."
Lu Zhiye smiled back at him and took out a dozen fruit candies from his pocket: "Thank you."
Abdullah was flattered and took it, putting it in his pocket like a treasure.
Lu Zhiye turned around and saw that he had no time to play with the other kids.
He held his pockets tightly and ran home in a hurry.
This place is about one or two hundred kilometers away from the nearest county town. The snacks that children usually eat are raisins and dried red dates.
It is rare to eat authentic fruit candy, let alone White Rabbit milk candy.
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