"Big sister, let me know about accommodation and food."
Su Qing and the other two were stopped as soon as they left the train station in Beining City.
Su Qing was stunned again.
Why are some people openly soliciting customers in a crowded place like a train station?
Isn’t this cutting off the tail of capitalism?
Has the spring breeze of reform already blown across the land of our country? Wasn't the meeting held in December this year?
A series of question marks floated in Su Qing's mind.
Cheng Fangyi directly refused on Su Qing's behalf, "No need."
Unexpectedly, the man didn't give up and kept following the three of them, muttering, "Brother, don't worry, I don't mean any harm, I'm just asking. Don't worry, my accommodation is clearly marked, three dollars a night. I'm not like them, I just want to earn some money for my mother's medical expenses."
"them?"
Cheng Fangyi looked around. "I haven't seen anyone else soliciting customers at the train station like you do."
"This is their meal time, so I can only attract customers when they are not here." The man's tone was full of sadness.
"What's your name?" Cheng Fangyi continued to ask.
For some reason, he felt uneasy since he set foot in Bac Ninh City.
He now urgently needs to find someone to inquire about the information, and this person must be an inconspicuous one.
"My name is Mao Yong."
He wanted to attract customers so badly, and Cheng Fangyi and the others didn't seem easy to talk to, so he kept rubbing his hands anxiously during the conversation.
"Mao Yong, right? Does your family run a guesthouse? Which one is yours?" Cheng Fangyi asked, pointing to a row of houses in the distance.
Mao Yong touched the back of his head awkwardly and said, "Neither."
Then he added, "But my home is behind that row of houses, just past that little dirt slope. It's very close."
"Okay, then you lead the way."
Cheng Fangyi thought for a while and then agreed.
Mao Yong sighed excitedly twice, "Okay, okay, I'll lead the way."
Su Qing and Wen Li had no idea what Cheng Fangyi was up to. They looked at each other and followed him.
On the way, Cheng Fangyi chatted with Mao Yong.
"Your city has so many guesthouses, they're lined up everywhere. Is your government's finances so sufficient?"
Unlike Yuanshan Town, there is only one guesthouse with about ten rooms, which are very small and cannot accommodate more people.
In Bac Ninh City, there are seven or eight guesthouses near the train station alone. You can imagine how many there are in the city!!!
Mao Yong shook his head. "How could that be possible? A few years ago, Beining was the poorest city in the province. There were only two guesthouses in the entire city. These are newly built buildings in recent years. They are privately owned, but they have a public sign."
Mao Yong felt annoyed when he thought of this.
Before these guesthouses were built, he and several young men in the village would often go to the train station to solicit customers.
The staff at the train station also turned a blind eye and tolerated everything.
Because Bac Ninh City is too poor, there are not many opportunities to make money.
As they are still in a remote place like the train station, they basically rely on attracting some guests and charging overnight fees.
At that time, let’s not talk about getting rich, but it was enough to cover his mother’s medical expenses.
Since Bac Ninh City attracted foreign investment two years ago, everything has changed dramatically, and people are coming to Bac Ninh City in an endless stream.
Some people took a fancy to the land outside the train station and spent huge sums of money to build houses and open guesthouses.
His business has since plummeted.
If you go to the train station to solicit customers, you will be put in a sack and beaten.
His companions were frightened and retreated one after another, leaving him alone to hold on.
Seeing that Mao Yong was not afraid of being beaten or scolded, those people tacitly agreed that Mao Yong could go and solicit customers when they were not around.
"Private? And it has a sign saying it's a public guesthouse? I said I'd stay in Bac Ninh for a few more days before leaving. Now that you say that, I don't dare to wander around. The officials and businessmen are in such a blatant conflict with each other. If we suffer any loss, we can only swallow it. How frustrating, don't you think?" Cheng Fangyi said pretending to be afraid.
Mao Yong was also straightforward. He started to persuade him directly, "Brother, if it's not necessary, you'd better not hang out in Beining City. It's too chaotic, especially since you're with two girls. You're bound to be targeted."
In fact, what Mao Yong wanted to say was that Cheng Fangyi was bringing two good-looking women with him, so it would be difficult for him to escape from Beining City unscathed.
"Is it really that chaotic? Don't the women here go out on the streets or go shopping in the city?"
chaos!!!
Why is it so chaotic?
Cheng Fangyi felt that there must be something Guizi was doing in it.
After all, it has only been these two or three years since he started to have other ideas.
"I used to go, but now my family won't let me go. My sister used to dig herbs and sell them in the city, but now she can only make clothes and shoes at home."
He still remembers that a girl from the same village was spotted by a foreign businessman and was taken away and raped in public.
The girl was stubborn and died by hitting her head.
The girl's family was so angry that they sued the foreign businessmen.
As a result, those government officials ignored them and did not allow the police station to take their cases, otherwise they would be dismissed.
What is even more unscrupulous is that those foreign businessmen turned around and said that the girl died in front of them and frightened them, and demanded that the girl's family compensate them for their mental damages.
Those officials actually sided with the foreign businessmen, coming to the girl's house every few days to demand money, and forced the girl's entire family to death.
So from then on he stopped letting his sister go to the city and just let her wander around the village.
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