The earliest history of taxis in Yangcheng can be traced back to 1915, when taxis, mainly tricycles, were completely different from rickshaws in other cities at that time.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, taxis were still waiting in prosperous places such as the Oi Kwan Building, mainly serving foreign guests, high-ranking officials, wealthy families and merchants attending trade fairs, and were once known as the "state guest convoy" of Guangzhou.

In the sixties and seventies of the 20th century, the business mode of Yangcheng taxi developed into a fixed-point waiting for passengers, and passengers went to the waiting station to go through the car rental procedures first, and the driver took orders to carry passengers.

In December 1978, after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was convened to implement the policy of reform and opening up, foreign guests, Hong Kong and Macao guests or Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots who went to Yangcheng for business activities increased day by day, and the demand for public travel also increased rapidly.

Later, under the active advocacy of Liu Ping, general manager of Yangcheng Automobile Company, and some traffic managers who had visited Hong Kong and Macao, it was suggested that Yangcheng's taxis should take advantage of the geographical location to take the lead in learning the operation mode of Hong Kong and break the "aristocratic" fixed-point service regulations.

In August 1979, the Yangcheng Transportation Bureau and Liu Yaozhu's Hong Kong Yangcheng Taxi Service Co., Ltd. established China's first Guangzhou-Hong Kong cooperative taxi company - Yangcheng Baiyun Car Rental Company in September of that year after repeated negotiations.

At that time, the operating cars provided by Hong Kong companies were Nissan Isuzu Steed RVs that were more suitable for the road environment of Yangcheng, with red body paint, roof lights marked with the word "TAXI", air conditioners, odometers, and wireless walkie-talkies installed in the car, etc., with a new service mode through the streets and alleys in Yangcheng, and the implementation of "carrying passengers along the way, stopping when raising hands, taxi-charging, day and night service, telephone reservation", completely referring to the operation mode of Hong Kong taxis.

The taxi starts at 1.5 yuan, and after 3 kilometers, it starts to jump the meter, 0.5 yuan per kilometer, and the crown car in better condition needs 0.6 yuan.

"Taxi" is the transliteration of "TAXI" in Cantonese, and taking a taxi is simplified to "ride" by Yangcheng residents. Due to the pronunciation, after "ride" was introduced to inland northern cities, it was translated as "hit" in the same voice. Gradually, "hitting" became a common word in later Chinese.

Hu Xuefeng waved his hand and called a Nissan Isuzu horse taxi, told the driver the location and price, and then beckoned Hu Zhengguo and others to come over.

The driver looked at the family, carrying large bags and small bags, just like a foreigner who came to Yangcheng to work, and couldn't help but hang in his heart, for fear that Hu Xuefeng and they would not be able to afford the fare when they got out of the car.

Hu Xuefeng ignored the prying eyes of the taxi driver along the way, he sat in the passenger seat, while feeling the cool feeling brought by the air conditioning in the car, while thinking that if he also prepared to build a taxi business company at this time, it might also be a good choice.

But after all, human energy is limited.

Thinking about the affairs of Pearl City, Hu Xuefeng immediately put away his thoughts about opening a taxi company, and next, he had to devote his main energy to the affairs of Pearl City.

From Yangcheng Railway Station to Yangcheng Iron and Steel Plant, a total of 12 kilometers of road, it took nearly half an hour, when getting off, the driver still had doubts, but when Hu Xuefeng pulled out a ticket of ten yuan, the driver immediately smiled, happily found 4 yuan for Hu Xuefeng, and then walked away.

"Obediently, for such a small distance, you have to charge six yuan?" Zheng Xiuli, who has always been thrifty, regretted that six yuan could catch up with the food and clothing of the family for a week.

"Children are also a piece of heart!" Although Hu Zhengguo also felt sorry for the money, but thinking about the enjoyment along the way, as well as the envy of the neighbors when he got off the bus just now, he felt that the six yuan was not unjustly spent, and the important thing was that his son was so capable.

"Lao Hu, are you back?"

"How is my hometown, how are my parents?"

From the door of the family area to the door of their own house, there were people asking along the way, which ones had a good relationship before, some who didn't know much before, and some who didn't treat the Hu family very well before, which made the Hu family feel strange.

"Could it be that in the past few days, something has happened?"

With questions, Hu Xuefeng had just walked to the door of his house when he saw Aunt Man in the next room walking out of the house.

Aunt Man is a cook in the canteen of the steel factory, and she is usually very enthusiastic about the Hu family. ”

Hu Zhengguo was depressed, didn't he do anything?

Aunt Man looked at the family with wide eyes, and then explained, "Lao Hu, in the past few days since you left, the factory has officially issued a notice asking you to serve as the deputy director of the production office of our factory. ”

"Deputy Director?"

Hu Zhengguo thought that Aunt Man was talking nonsense, he was just a small casting workshop chief, and there were also big operators, deputy directors and directors of the workshop, how could it be his turn to be promoted to be the deputy director of the office in charge of production of the whole factory, which sounded too bizarre.

Hu Zhengguo was thinking about asking, but the other residents who heard the movement in the corridor also came out to congratulate him, which made Hu Zhengguo feel more and more puzzled.

"Dad, why don't you go to the factory and have a look!"

Hu Xuefeng could vaguely guess the reason for his father's promotion, but he was not sure, so he thought about letting Hu Zhengguo go to the factory to see what was going on.

Hu Zhengguo thought to himself, so he didn't even enter the door, put down the package, and went straight to the factory.

Although Hu Zhengguo is gone, but Aunt Man's neighbors are still around Zheng Xiuli, although these people, although they don't understand how the factory suddenly arranged for Hu Zhengguo to be the deputy director of the office in charge of production, but after all, Hu Zhengguo will be an official in the future, so those who should be flattered should still be flattered.

This is really poor in the downtown and no one asks, and rich in the mountains with distant relatives.

Hu Xuefeng can't say what the faces of these people are, because this is the national situation, and China's thousands of years of human relations are like this, and they may have been implanted in the bones of the Chinese people.

Finally, after saying all the good things and smiling faces, and sending these "enthusiastic" neighbors away, Hu Xuefeng, Zheng Xiuli, and Hu Xuelan smiled bitterly before dragging their bags home.

When she got home, Zheng Xiuli asked Hu Xuefeng and Hu Xuelan to make up for a while, and she cleaned up the hygiene in the house and sorted out the specialties brought back from her hometown in Zhanjiang.

Hu Xuefeng was indeed a little sleepy, so he went back to his house to rest, and when he woke up, it was already time for dinner, but what he didn't expect was that his uncle-in-law Song Siming and the whole family actually came.