Stationmaster Luo came to the crowd and shouted loudly with a smile: "Don't worry, don't worry, the tobacco station collects cigarettes, there are rules for collecting cigarettes." We've tried our best to extend the time after work, from 8:00 a.m. to now, the sun is about to set, how can we collect it? When these are finished, the light is not good, and your grade is wrong, and it is not you who suffers? Don't make trouble, if it is not your turn today, pack up, go home or find a place to stay, and make your own arrangements. Come back tomorrow and queue up, and if you want to sell early, come early. ”

"Lao Luo, can you let us put the tobacco leaves in the tobacco station and line up?"

"What do you say? In order to help you collect more tobacco leaves during the day, we have used all the places we can to collect tobacco. You see, the roads are blocked. We couldn't even pull out the cigarette packets, and the cigarette packs were piled up in the warehouse at our cigarette station. After work, the cigarette station will continue to pack and load. Besides, at night, there are people coming and going, and your tobacco leaves are placed outside the warehouse, and if you lose them, who will take them out for safekeeping? ”

Stationmaster Luo came forward, and what he said was the actual situation, and those tobacco farmers also knew the rules, so they had to disperse helplessly. Those who were about to line up could only sigh their luck, pack up the tobacco leaves they had already carried from the cart, load them on the cart and horses, and find their home tonight.

Song Yushi and Qi Jingtao didn't speak, so they stayed quietly by the side and watched Stationmaster Luo deal with things. Seeing that the tobacco farmers who failed to make it to the sale gradually left, the three of them did not return to the office, but walked around the tobacco warehouse.

Watching the workers at the tobacco station classify the purchased tobacco leaves into storage, another batch of acceptance personnel in the management warehouse will accept the tobacco leaves in the warehouse for the second time, and the flue-cured tobacco that has passed the second acceptance will begin to be packed in grades and waiting for shipment.

There are people coming and going in the warehouse, and the workers who have finished eating dinner in batches have begun to work, and obviously some personnel have to work overtime tonight to wait for loading, and deliver the goods to the tobacco warehouse of the group company, and clean up the warehouse as soon as possible.

Stationmaster Luo explained his work to the staff on duty, and said to Song Yushi and Qi Jingtao: "Our work is like this, the closer we get to the stall, the easier it is to make trouble, and we don't dare to walk away casually." ”

Qi Jingtao couldn't help but ask: "Stationmaster Luo, they are also very hard to wait in line every day. For those people who didn't get in line today, we can register in the order of queuing, and let them shout in the order of registration tomorrow and come in in order to sell tobacco leaves, so that is not convenient for everyone? Why do you want them to wait in line again every day?"

Stationmaster Luo didn't answer Qi Jingtao's question directly, but asked with a smile: "Hehe, Qi Gong went to sell tobacco leaves before?"

Qi Jingtao smiled and said, "Hehe, why haven't you handed it over." My hometown is in the fifth district town of Ta District, and we are also a large tobacco planting area, so we have to set up two tobacco purchase points. ”

"That's because you have good conditions there, the Tashan District Company has sufficient manpower, and it is an old tobacco area, so it has the ability to set up multiple tobacco purchasing stations in one township. We can't do it here, the staffing is very limited, there is only one smoke point. We are in a mountainous area, and every household in the mountainous area has a large area of flue-cured tobacco, and the people who come to sell tobacco are all carried by horses, and the distance is different.

In many cases, one of our inspectors is busy all day, and we can accept and sort the tobacco leaves of more than 20 households at most. Now, everyone is used to queuing on the day and buying in the order of queuing. If the purchase is not completed on the same day, before the end of the purchase, we are kind, sympathize with those who are almost in line, and take the order of the next day's tobacco purchase according to the order of the queue on the day, and call for the purchase. Or, as you heard just now, let them line up with tobacco leaves, and the next day they will be issued number plates in line and purchased in order, and guess what will happen?"

Song Yushi smiled and said to Qi Jingtao, who was thinking about this question in a daze: "Qi Gong, let's go, we won't be able to get out of the mountain tonight." Everyone is still hungry, let's go to dinner first, I really don't want to ask Lao Luo on the liquor table. ”

"Do you understand?" Qi Jingtao seemed to have figured it out, dissatisfied with Song Yushi's sneering.

"Of course I understand, I just won't tell you. Song Yushi grinned and followed Lao Luo.

The tobacco station is located near the seat of the township government, which is the central market town of more than 150 square kilometers in the surrounding area. Located in the alpine mountains, the rolling mountain landscape increases the distance between people. During the flue-cured tobacco buying season, a large number of tobacco farmers gathered to sell tobacco leaves, which created a short-term prosperity and liveliness in the market town.

The cultivation of flue-cured tobacco can be vigorously promoted in mountainous areas, because there are not many things that can be easily sold for money in mountainous areas. Flue-cured tobacco can be planted and sold in a large area, which is the main source of economic income in mountainous rural areas. Accumulating flue-cured tobacco leaves to sell tobacco leaves, it takes time to wait, and even need to stay in the market town for a day or two. When these people came, the basic need to eat, drink, and sleep arose.

Besides, the people scattered in the various corners of the mountains finally came to the market town for a while, and the tobacco leaves that they had worked so hard to grow would soon be turned into cash income. Now that you have money in your hand, why don't you take the opportunity to buy some necessities for your family?

Where there is demand, there is a market. The tobacco farmers who came to sell flue-cured tobacco ate and slept in the market town, and naturally the people in the market town were mainly provided and solved by the temporary hotels and temporary carriage and horse shops. More supply of goods, too seasonal, the locals can't get so many goods, this market is the world of itinerant vendors.

The staff of the higher-level unit came to the tobacco station to guide the work, and of course the stationmaster Luo would not arrange for them to eat in the staff canteen of the tobacco station. Stationmaster Luo took them to the market town to solve their dinner problem today. It's getting dark, and everyone is still hungry.

The market town is not big, and they don't bother to drive out, and they walk a few hundred meters from the smoke station to the lively market town.

Qi Jingtao has been to the only mountainous county in central Yunnan City to enjoy subsidies in the alpine mountains, but it is the first time to visit the night market in his subordinate mountain towns.

Looking at the night market stalls scattered along the only street, as well as those stores that are still open, there are still people drinking and eating in twos and threes, talking and laughing, and said curiously: "Stationmaster Luo, there are still a lot of people on the street at night!"

Luo Jiahui, who led the way in front, turned around and said with a smile: "Qi Gong, our market town is located in a large village with relatively convenient transportation and open terrain. Although it is the seat of the township government, it is only the time when the flue-cured tobacco is collected, and it is usually more crowded during the day when you want to be lively only on the market day, and it is deserted at night. ”