Chapter 077: Grabbing Customers

Trains from Beijing West Railway Station to the dry port are a combination of passengers and freight, and the wagons are arranged according to the number of passengers and goods transported to the south. In general, there are fewer travelers.

Traffic volume and electricity consumption are the two most important basic indicators for judging the economic level, and correspondingly, more developed transportation and more adequate power supply are the two basic conditions for promoting rapid economic development.

It took four days and five nights for the train to travel from Beijing west to Lugang South. Such a time would be unimaginable in 30 years, and such transportation efficiency would be enough to cause most commodities and crop products to be lost in transit.

The few passengers from the departure station to the final station felt in a trance when they stepped off the train and stepped on the solid floor, as if they had experienced a crossing across the ocean.

Although Ma Jintao is only forty years old, he has a sore back and a painful backache along the way, so much so that all the large boxes of books need to be carried by his two students. After Jiang Hao turned sideways and let a few passengers go, he took out a flat pole as if he were juggling, and the flat pole was still wrapped with hemp rope.

Liu Guobing struggled to take down a box full of books from the luggage rack, and almost flashed his waist when he put it down. Ma Jintao wanted to help, Jiang Hao hurriedly said, "Teacher, don't move, I'll come." ”

Ma Jintao sighed, put the soft travel bag aside, and looked outside through the blurred window, but he could already feel the high temperature transmitted from outside. At this time, the north is still frozen and snowy, but the dry port area has already entered the stage of rising temperature, with an average temperature of 256 degrees, and occasionally the temperature soars to 30 degrees at noon for a few days.

Liu Guobing dragged out two larger suitcases from under the seat, and he was a little out of breath for a few moments, which shows how heavy the two suitcases were.

"I'll come." Jiang Hao motioned for Liu Guobing to get out of the way, skillfully tied up the two largest boxes with hemp rope, made a slipknot, and then passed through the flat pole, with a leather box at one end.

Liu Guobing was stunned and said, "Jiang Hao, it's okay." When did you prepare the flat burden, I didn't see it. ”

Hehe smiled, Jiang Hao said, "When I stopped to rest yesterday, I bought it with an old farmer at Guigang Station and spent a dollar on a grain stamp. ”

Ma Jintao smiled with satisfaction, "Xiao Jiang, I didn't see that you still have this ability." Have you ever worked on a farm before? ”

"Teacher, you forgot, I've been in the Great Northern Wilderness for more than two years." Jiang Hao said.

Jiang Hao, who wears a pair of eyes, is almost unable to lift his shoulders in the impression of his classmate Liu Guobing, who was born in a family of intellectuals in Jiangnan and is also a graduate student of an engineering university.

"Jiang Hao, you can't do it, let's do it." Liu Guobing is much stronger.

Jiang Hao helped his glasses and said, "You haven't carried a heavy burden, it's easy to flash your waist, I'll come, you pack up the rest, go down with the teacher first, and I'll follow." ”

Ma Jintao pointed at him and said, "You try it first, two big boxes of books, no less than 200 catties, it's not a joke." ”

When they got on the train, it took a lot of effort for the three of them to get the two big boxes.

Jiang Hao said, "Teacher, don't worry, back then, in the Great Northern Wilderness, I was so picky every day." ”

So saying, he turned off his horse and laid his shoulder on his shoulder. The connoisseur can see at a glance that his flat shoulder is resting diagonally on the shoulder, rather than at a perpendicular angle to the shoulder, so that the contact area between the flat shoulder and the shoulder is the largest, the bearing force is the most balanced, and it is easier to balance the weight.

When he stood up, it was a little laborious, and after his waist straightened up, Jiang Hao also weighed it easily, the flat shoulder was bent, and the big leather boxes at both ends swayed gently, but it was very stable.

Jiang Hao smiled, "Teacher, look, it's no problem. ”

Ma Jintao nodded in surprise and snorted, "I didn't expect Xiao Jiang that you are still a good hand at farm work." Let's go, let's get off. ”

The three of them got off the train with a large bag, and Jiang Hao followed behind with a burden, taking figure-eight steps, his body going up and down with inertia, very skillful. Those who can carry the burden know what kind of posture is the most energy-saving and least likely to be injured, and it is difficult to walk an inch if they don't understand.

Liu Guobing admired Jiang Hao very much at this time, compared with the two, Liu Guobing was much stronger than Jiang Hao, but it was difficult for him to provoke such courage to go leisurely.

There were many people around the exit of the station, constantly shouting out various place names. Those people were the drivers and attendants of private buses that only appeared in the past two years, and taking advantage of the first wave of spring breeze, some people who could drive tried to find ways to get buses and began to grab business with state-owned automobile companies.

Passengers come out, they swarm up and pull hard, first control the person, while talking quickly to ask the destination while dragging to their own car, see a lot of luggage, directly grab the luggage, and trot to throw it into the car, you can only follow, unless you don't want the luggage.

As soon as Ma Jintao and the three appeared, they immediately became the target of these people's attention. There is a lot of luggage, well-dressed, and it looks like a big water fish, how can you do it without going under the knife.

At least three groups of people rushed over and spoke in dialect, and found that Ma Jintao had no reaction, and immediately spoke in half-baked Mandarin. Ma Jintao: They couldn't interject at all.

A middle-aged woman came up and grabbed Ma Jintao's arm, and snatched the travel bag he was carrying half after another, and immediately a young man appeared, and the middle-aged woman handed it over, and the young man tacitly took the travel bag and ran to a dilapidated light passenger car over there, Ma Jintao subconsciously caught up, and the middle-aged woman smiled and took advantage of him to block other people who came to rob, and asked Ma Jintao's destination. There were at least two more people around the middle-aged woman who were playing cover, blocking other fellow robbers.

Jiang Hao and Liu Guobing were anxious when they saw this, Liu Guobing hurriedly caught up, and was with the other party's intentions, but unexpectedly they were intercepted by other bus people halfway, and asked in a busy voice, "Comrade comrade, where are you going, our car has arrived in many places, do you want Guangming Factory, our car is fast and comfortable, come and come, take our car." ”

Hearing the words Guangming Factory, Liu Guobing was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "Yes, we are going to Guangming Factory." ”

"That's great, our car passed by the factory gate, come and come." The group snatched their luggage and were about to leave.

And the middle-aged woman took a look, how to do it. It's obvious that these two people are together, how can the meat in their mouths be snatched away by others! The others immediately gave up the other guests, and quickly surrounded this wave of people, and Liu Guobing was surrounded inside, and the two sides began to quarrel, and then pushed and shoved.

Where has Liu Guobing seen such a scene, and he immediately panicked.

Jiang Hao on the other side, there were two people who wanted to come over to pick up his burden, he put it down and held on to the hemp rope tightly, and the two of them had to lift the big leather suitcase and leave, as long as the luggage went, he was not afraid that the passengers would not follow. As a result, they almost didn't get flashed.

"I said brother, your box is heavy enough, what is it?" As soon as the young man in bell-bottoms asked.

Jiang Hao pointed at them, "Let me go!" Is that your guys over there, what are you doing here? How can you pull guests like this! ”

No one listened to him at all, the scene was chaotic, and the two groups of people on Ma Jintao's side were about to start fighting. In order to compete for a guest, it is not unusual to fight with hands or even with knives and sticks. In these years, those who engage in transportation, especially passenger transportation, compete for the source of passengers, that is, by fighting, until one party surrenders softly and withdraws from a certain line.

An open-top 212 jeep rushed over, squeezing the horn to break up the crowd, and the co-pilot stood up and yelled at everyone, "Stop it!" ”