Taunggyi City District.

Hundreds of laborers braved the sun and worked hard to build a highway under the scorching sun.

Fang Xinwu, who drove an off-road vehicle from the road, and two local younger brothers, looked curiously at the construction site not far away.

Along the way, they saw so many roads being built that the whole of Shan State seemed to be turned into a big construction site.

Fang Xinwu had a feeling of time and space disorder, as if he had returned to that haunting hometown again.

After the Mekong incident, he did not return to the country, but continued to stay in the Golden Triangle.

Although Naukan and the bastard who killed his girlfriend were both judged, Fang Xinwu did not feel relieved, but instead felt a sense of emptiness and confusion, so he chose to continue to do tasks in the Golden Triangle.

And this time, he has his eye on the Tarantula Gang, which replaces the Leech Gang.

It's just that what makes him puzzled is that although the Tarantula Gang smuggles things, they have never touched the flour business, and now they have actually started the business of a labor agency and organized local farmers to come out to work.

But Fang Xinwu didn't trust this kind of gang, he didn't think that the other party had washed his hands, but hid the flour business in a more hidden place.

Fang Xinwu, who did not investigate anything in the Golden Triangle, shifted his target to the Taunggyi Basin.

As the largest city in the Shan State Plateau, it is actually worse than the small county town of Huaguo, which is Fang Xinwu's first impression after entering the city.

But soon he ran into a situation.

A group of soldiers wearing body armor and helmets stopped his car, and he glanced at the other party's uniform and found that it was somewhat unfamiliar, unlike the Burmese soldiers he had met before.

The soldier who looked like a squad leader saluted him: "Hello, our Taunggyi internal guard, please show your ID and cooperate with the inspection work." ”

"OK......" Fang Xinwu raised his hands and said that he didn't make any small moves, after all, the opponent's assault rifle was aimed at the inside of the carriage, and once he moved and was mistaken for resisting, he really wanted to eat peanuts.

The team leader directly opened the car door and hooked his hand to Fang Xinwu and the three of them, and the three of them quickly got out of the car.

"Search and see if there is any contraband."

"Okay, Captain." Several of the internal guards replied weakly.

The squad leader stiffly scolded his subordinates: "Didn't you eat? Don't disgrace Your Excellency. ”

The main reason why these soldiers are weak is that now everything is regularized.

Those of them who were eliminated from the regular army, after turning into local internal guards, thought they could let themselves go, but they were disappointed, because the people in charge of managing them were a bunch of people who didn't eat oil and salt.

In fact, they didn't know that a large part of these guys who didn't eat oil and salt were soldiers, of course, in order to prevent some soldiers from being recognized by acquaintances, the Internal Service Department uniformly fine-tuned the appearance of these soldiers.

In the face of such a chief, these old fritters naturally feel less motivated, because there is no oil and water to fish.

Fang Xinwu took out his ID card and passport from his pocket, and handed 50,000 kyats to the team leader, who just glanced at his ID card and passport, and instantly confirmed the identity of the other party through the database in the biochip.

The squad leader drew 1,500 kyats, three temporary passes and a guarantee: "Signature and fingerprint." ”

Fang Xinwu hurriedly signed and pressed his handprint.

Putting away the letter of guarantee, the squad leader stuffed the remaining money and documents to Fang Xinwu: "Come in, just keep to yourself, don't make trouble, put away the pistol yourself, if you encounter something, go to the nearby internal guard for help, go over!" ”

"Uh......" The first time he met the soldier who returned the money here, Fang Xinwu was still a little confused.

But soon he came to his senses, drove an off-road vehicle, and took his two younger brothers into the city.

If the first impression here is that it is old and shabby.

The second impression of Fang Xinwu was that it was orderly.

From time to time, you can encounter heavily armed internal security soldiers patrolling the streets, and the shops on both sides of the street are all indoors, and there is no chaos like other cities occupying the road.

After driving for more than ten minutes, I finally saw a relatively passable hotel, with the sign saying "Emerald Hotel" in Chinese and Burmese, obviously this is a Chinese-run hotel.

As soon as the car stopped, a waiter ran over and knocked on the window: "Sir, do you want to stay in the hotel?" ”

"Yes." Fang Xinwu nodded.

The waiter quickly explained: "Then please park your car in the hotel parking lot, long-term parking on the side of the road is not allowed here, and you will be fined for more than half an hour." ”

Fang Xinwu has been in Hongshawady for so many years, and it is really the first time he has encountered this kind of thing, and he said in his heart that strange things happen every year, especially this year.

He could only follow the waiter and drive the off-road vehicle to the parking lot behind the hotel, in fact, there was a parking lot, Fang Xinwu was more assured, after all, the theft here was very serious.

Stopped the car.

As Fang Xinwu walked, he jokingly asked the waiter, "Dongzhi has changed a lot!" I almost don't even recognize it. ”

The waiter smiled: "Haha, it's General Maung Gu who takes care of everyone, I heard that the general went to Binmana to be a minister, what kind of modernization is going to be done." ”

Modernization? What a familiar and unfamiliar word! Fang Xinwu thought with mixed feelings.

"Brother Fang, what is modernization?" The younger brother Maung Heshui asked.

"It's ......" Fang Xinwu thought for a while, and said that a city that a younger brother is more familiar with is an example: "It is to become a city like Bangkok." ”

"Bangkok like that? Is it possible? Maung Heshui didn't believe it.

The waiter was full of hope: "Our manager said that as long as you persevere, you may succeed." ”

Maung Heshui shrugged his shoulders and was noncommittal.

But Fang Xinwu saw something different.

It wasn't a material change, it was spiritual.

It was as if there was a light called hope, flickering in the waiter's gaze.

He didn't laugh at the other party, at least the other party was a man with a dream, not a walking corpse.

After checking in to the guest room, he took his two younger brothers to the restaurant on the second floor of the hotel and chose a window position to see the street where people came and went.

Soon the waiter came with the food.

A large pot of Yangzhou fried rice, plus Kung Pao chicken and three bottles of free green leaf Coke.

Although the chef learned from the chef of Station B, the taste is okay, at least better than Zuo Zongtang chicken and Li Hongzhang's chops.

Anyway, Fang Xinwu has never eaten authentic Yangzhou fried rice and kung pao chicken.

Just took a sip of Aoba Cola.

And Maung Heshui on the side took two or three sips to show off a bottle of Coke: "Hiccup...... Waiter, come here again, ......" and looked at Fang Xinwu and the others: "Three more bottles of Coke." ”

"Okay, please wait." A waiter not far away walked over and wrote on the slip that he had added three bottles of Coke.

At first, Fang Xinwu thought that there were not many people coming to the hotel to eat, but with the arrival of lunch, many people wearing construction workers' uniforms appeared in groups in the restaurant.

This surprised him.

Although the restaurant at this hotel does not have a high price, the income of local construction workers is also quite low.

It didn't take long for him to find out that many construction workers had coupons in their hands.

In addition to the construction workers, there were many people who also came to dine with coupons.

Fang Xinwu slowed down his eating speed and pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the conversation of these workers.

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