474, Hongtan Town
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In the northwest in November, the weather is fine, with blue skies and cloudless skies.
After departing from the airport, the convoy slowly drove along both sides of the provincial highway towards Hongtan Town.
Gu Meng originally planned to go directly to the Northwest Film and Television City, but he didn't expect that the city leaders and Secretary Wang Heng of Hongtan Town would lead a team to greet him outside the airport.
He was warmly invited to visit the town of Red Beach.
In the words of the city leaders, without Gu Meng's help, there would be no Hongtan Town today, Gu Meng has made great contributions to the development of Hongtan Town to Yinzhou, and now Gu Meng has finally come to see the results of the construction of Hongtan Town.
It was difficult to resist the enthusiasm, so Gu Meng had to take the group to change the way.
"Red Beach Town has changed so much!"
The palace girl looked at the buildings on both sides of the highway and the flat highway facilities, and couldn't help but sigh.
"It's pretty big"
In the past, when I came to Hongtan Town from Yinzhou, I had to take a two-hour minibus first, which was rickety, tossing and tossing dead people, and after finishing the minibus, I had to take a donkey cart, and I had to take a donkey cart for three or four hours to get to the corner of Hongtan Town.
Now, coming out of Yinzhou, the provincial highway leads directly to Red Beach, and the speed is very fast.
In the past, there were no roads, the mountains were very desolate, and there were often no villages for more than ten miles, but now there are villages everywhere along the road, and you can see cars, minibuses, donkey carts, and pedestrians with baskets on their backs.
On both sides of the road, in addition to people's houses, there are also pieces of wolfberry planting areas, all of which are more than one meter high wolfberry trees.
However, at the door of the house along the highway, there are many cloth sheets, and the late-harvested wolfberries are dried on the list, which is red.
The oncoming trucks were also loaded with goji berries collected from various places.
This is the main production area of Chinese wolfberry, and hundreds of tons of wolfberry are transported to the outside every year.
Since the No. 1 of Life became popular, the wolfberries in Hongtan Town have doubled in value.
Hongtan Town directly played the slogan of 'Huaxia wolfberry out of Ningxia, Ningxia wolfberry in Hongtan' on the advertisement, and created the brand of 'Hongtan wolfberry'.
Although the Red Beach wolfberry is exactly the same as elsewhere, it is at least twice as expensive as it is elsewhere, and even so, the annual harvest of the goji berries in Red Beach is in short supply.
Because the Red Beach wolfberry was personally recommended by Superman, it is worth the price.
"Gu Meng, thanks to you, if it weren't for you, Red Beach would still be a poor ditch where birds don't."
Wang Heng said with a smile.
"Don't dare to be, I'm just selling lip service, the actual work is still done by you and Lao Kong, in terms of credit, you and Lao Kong are in front"
Gu Meng waved his hand and said, at the beginning, he just came up with an idea, invested some money, and recommended it at the Olympics by the way, the specific things were all done by Kong Changqi, and now Wang Heng has taken over again, and he has done a good job.
Wang Heng smiled, "The main credit is really yours, don't be modest, Lao Kong also has a lot of credit, as for me, I just followed the route formulated by the two of you and took advantage of you, and now the people in the town have been talking about your good, and said that the draught does not forget to dig the well, and is ready to donate money to you and Secretary Kong to erect a statue..."
"Won't it?"
Gu Meng was surprised, now the policy is not allowed to engage in worship, and it is not allowed to erect statues, if this is upright, it will be a mistake.
"Haha, I stopped when I heard about it, don't blame me"
"That's good, I'll make a portrait of me at a young age and look at the diaphragm!"
Gu Meng breathed a sigh of relief.
"Haha, you mean it'll be okay when you're older?"
The palace girl quipped.
"Of course!"
Gu Meng said seriously, "When I live to be a thousand years old or two thousand years old, and become a human being, everyone will set up a statue for me again, I can accept it~"
"Haha, the thousand-year-old king eighty-thousand-year-old turtle, how old do you want to live?"
“... I'm your husband."
"Hehe~"
As he spoke, the car gradually came to the area of Red Beach Town.
On the road at the junction, a tall arch was erected, and the inscription 'Welcome to Red Beach Town' was written.
The current Hongtan town belongs to Yinzhou City, which is three times larger than the previous administrative area and larger than the jurisdiction of two counties in the southern region.
The reason is very simple, one is that the wolfberry in Hongtan Town is expensive, and the villages and towns next to it are assigned to Hongtan Town, so the total output of wolfberry in Hongtan Town every year is not greater? Second, Hongtan Town is too rich, since 88 years later, the total annual income of the town is comparable to the richest county in Ningxia, the town has schools, factories, hospitals, restaurants, etc., and the infrastructure construction is becoming more and more complete.
Originally, Hongtan Town was going to be upgraded to a county in the world, but Kong Changqi was impatient to manage a county, and he kept dragging it out, and now that Wang Heng is here, his qualifications are too shallow, and he plans to wait for five or six years.
Knock knock knock!
Just past the arch of Red Beach Town, the sound of gongs and drums was heard in the distance.
Gu Meng opened the window and looked, only to see a dense crowd of people crowded on the highway, black and oppressive, looking at at least a thousand people.
In the middle of the crowd, there was a group of people beating gongs and drums, and there were people holding red flowers, several large plates of firecrackers, and holding cameras, as if they were celebrating a festival.
In the middle of the road, a banner was pulled: 'Warm welcome to Superman Gu Meng to Hongtan Town'
Gu Meng raised his eyebrows, "Secretary Wang, what do you mean?"
Wang Heng smiled bitterly, he knew that Gu Meng didn't like it, but "This is spontaneous from the villagers, it has nothing to do with me"
"Heh~, only you know when I come to Yinzhou, right?"
Wang Heng scratched his face, "I have to report to the above when you come to Yinzhou, when I heard that Superman Gu Meng is coming, can you say that you are not embarrassed? Now the whole country is doing this, not to mention that you are a big man, even the section-level cadres in the city have to do this."
"Hey, formalism is unacceptable!"
"Huh!"
The palace girl glanced at him and let out an inexplicable smile.
Gu Meng didn't bother to pay attention to her, this crazy woman must be laughing at his inconsistency, but he really didn't mean to be inconsistent, now that it's so cold, it's embarrassing to ask everyone to wait on the side of the road.
"Zhang Lin, stop you!"
Squeak~
The car stopped on the road.
Cracking sound~
10,000 firecrackers exploded on the highway, and in an instant the highway was paved with a layer of red beach.
"Salute!"
The two children stepped forward with two flowers and flowers for him and the palace girl.
The leaders of the town, business representatives, villager representatives, and a group of old acquaintances all gathered around, including Lao Yu, who once asked him to carry a sedan chair, the bride who was carried into the cave house by him, and Yang Laohan, a neighbor of Kong Changqi, etc., all of whom were wearing new clothes and beaming with joy on their faces.
When I saw Gu Meng before, I didn't know that he was a big man at all.
As soon as I learned about it afterwards, I was shocked, the 'second child of the Kong family' who seriously learned to carry a sedan chair turned out to be Superman, and Gu Meng, the pride of Huaxia?
People who know him are honored, especially Lao Yu and the bride who has sat on his peppercorns.
"Uncle Yang is in good health!"
"Master Yu is rich!"
"Brother Li and sister-in-law Li are good, ho~, the children are hugged?"
Gu Meng got out of the car and stepped forward to greet everyone.
The people who were greeted were flattered.
Uncle Yang happily shook his hand and said that it is good for you.
I haven't seen him for a few years, Lao Yu has gained weight, and there are women around him, and when he heard him call Master Yu, Lao Yu's cheeks were red, as if he had drunk a few catties of old wine.
The bride who was carried by him at the beginning also gained weight, holding a small radish head in her arms, and asked him to hug the little one, wanting to be a little happy.
"Okay, I've got the big guy's wishes, it's very cold this day, everyone don't stand outside anymore, let's go back, I'll invite everyone to drink in the cafeteria later, let's not get drunk and don't return!"
"Good!"
The villagers applauded, everyone is a man, who doesn't like to drink two sips, and he has drunk with Gu Meng, what a face.
When they arrived in the town, the banquet was ready, a total of forty or fifty tables, and every family in the town had at least one head of the house.
Everyone wants to come and see the legendary Gu Chaoren, the benefactor who helped Hongtan Town become rich.
After the banquet, everyone came to toast, and Gu Meng did not refuse.
Seeing that he didn't have a shelf at all, everyone was very happy to drink.
Gu Meng stayed in Hongtan Town for three days and drank every day.
Li An urged him to report to the crew every day.
He can't delay any longer,