Chapter 290: Going Back to the Hotown
Ling Pingan saw an unread text ssage on his phone when he woke up the next morning.
“The grapes are ripe…” he looked at the content of the text ssage. It was from Uncle Zhang, the village chief of his hotown in the suburbs.
It only ntioned one thing, the grapes in the village were ripe. He asked if he should keep a few kilograms for him just like the years before.
Of course, that was a must.
Ling Pingan imdiately replied with a ssage. “Uncle Zhang, please keep about 50 catties for …”
The grapes from his hotown were of A-Grades!
Especially when it was used to make wine. It was top-notch!
Although Ling Pingan wasn’t fond of wine, his aunt liked it.
A reply to his ssage was sent to him not long later.
Uncle Zhang: Okay!
Ling Pingan picked up his phone and hurriedly washed up.
He had to rush back to his hotown to get the grapes today.
He had to hurry, considering that it had just rained yesterday.
Otherwise, the grapes might spoil if they were left out for too long, and it would affect the taste of the wine!
The kitten Bastet was already waiting when he walked to the stairs.
“Little one…” Ling Pingan picked it up. “How about we go to my hotown in the suburbs today?”
“There are a lot of grape trees and strawberry farms over there!”
ow!
The kitten owed and seed to be happy.
Ling Pingan carried it and walked downstairs. He turned on the computer first and uploaded that day’s update.
He looked at the collections at the sa ti.
32…
Wasn’t it 28 before he slept the night before?
Did it increase by four numbers?
Not bad!
He smiled and turned off the computer happily.
Then, he carried the kitten out of the door and closed the shop door.
Then, he got on a bus and headed to the rural area in the eastern suburbs.
The bus went around the city,. Soon, it drove out of the city and entered the villa area in the suburbs.
The villas were one after another between the mountains and lakes.
So maids wearing traditional clothes of Silla were chatting and laughing beside the villas.
Ling Pingan shook his head as he watched.
The Federal Empire had started a trend of retro fashion recently.
The Tang and Han style.
Therefore, Silla maids had beco popular!
And the Silla Kingdom seed to have found this business opportunity and launched a customized service.
It was said that the monthly salary of the highly trained high-class Silla maids had already reached a terrifying number of tens of thousands!
It was even higher than the salary of many professional engineers!
The bus drove out of the villa area and soon entered a stretch of farmland.
All that could be seen were vegetable sheds and fruit-growing bases.
Jiangcheng City had large areas of rural land in the suburbs like most of the large cities in the Federal Empire.
These places were non-developnt areas protected by law.
They were mainly woods, orchards, and vegetable fields.
There were historical reasons for this.
The founding emperors and generals of the Federal Empire had a deep-rooted fear of hunger!
The question that Taizu and his ritorious officials thought about the most at first according to many historical sources and moirs was, when could they stop people from starving?
Therefore, the system of governnt was designed to stop people from starving.
However, Emperor Taizu never imagined that less than 30 years after his death, there would be no famine in the tropolitan territory of the Federation.
That was because the Beizhou was liberated.
The vast and fertile land of the Beizhou could produce the grain of the tropolitan territory for several years in a year.
Then there was the establishnt of the Nanzhou and the Xisong.
Great…
Cheap overseas grain sward over.
All the grain grown in the tropolitan territory was in an economic crisis except for the northeast regions.
Thus…
The tropolitan territory was completely transford into orchards and vegetable gardens.
Not a single acre of land was used to grow grain especially in the rural areas surrounding the cities.
Every city could proudly announce to the outside world, “We are the hotown of vegetables and fruits!”
The only problem was that vegetables and fruits were expensive!
Cabbage was more expensive than pork and even more expensive than C-Grade beef in the market!
As for fruits?
Anyway, Ling Pingan rembered that if there were fruits on the nu on any day when he had lunch at school…
It would be a holiday.
Usually, most of the lunch was junk food.
Chicken drumsticks, beef, sea fish, prawns, and so on.
Eating them made him want to throw up!
It caused the obesity rate of teenagers to rise.
The bus had already turned into the terminal when he was thinking about that.
Ling Pingan held his pet and got off the bus.
The bus stop was set up next to a distribution center for agricultural products.
Ling Pingan could sll the rich aroma of fruits and vegetables as soon as he got off the bus.
He walked over to look. Boxes of strawberries were already packed, one grape after another, green grapes, red grapes…
There were also mountains of bananas and pineapples.
They were all seasonal fruits!
However, Ling Pingan shrunk his neck when he saw the price.
Even the cheapest bananas cost ten yuan per catty here!
As for the expensive ones…
Strawberries cost twenty-eight yuan per catty, and they were the B-Grade ones.
The A-Grade was not available here. Those high-grade fruits had long been pre-ordered at a high price.
Fortunately…
Ling Pingan hugged Bastet and said, “Little Darling, fortunately, I still have the identity of a farr!”
There were many systems in the Federal Empire, and they were still the sa as three hundred years ago.
One of them was the household registration system.
Emperor Taizu divided the people into ‘scholars, farrs, industry, and comrce’ according to tradition at the beginning of building the country.
The era of constitutionalism began after the founding of the emperor, according to the posthumous edict left behind by Taizu, ‘the steps of governance and constitutionalism’.
Each profession must have a fixed number of representatives and be selected from the corresponding professions in the Parliant of ministers and physicians at all levels.
For example, currently, education and scientists occupied a large proportion in the Minister Council of the central governnt.
The Education Committee of the Federal Empire and the Science and Technology Developnt Committee of the Federal Empire were all super forces of the nature of the entire empire.
Similarly, there had always been reservations about the seats for farrs.
It was just that there were relatively few.
However, the identity of a farr was extrely useful.
And Ling Pingan’s ancestors had always been farrs.
Even though he had moved to the city as early as his grandfather’s ti.
However, his identity card and the occupation marked on his household register had never changed!
The location of his household register had always been the Qilipu Village in Dongi Town, Jiangcheng City, where his ancestors had been.
And the villages of the Federal Empire had always been united since ancient tis.
Especially in Guangnan!
The relationship between the townsfolk was as close as that between schoolmates and comrades.
The people of a place would automatically beco close to each other whenever they t.
Guangnan people often acted like chivalrous heroes who saw injustice on the road in many old movies and TV shows.
The plot was basically about the protagonist being bullied overseas. Then, a burly man on the side of the road imdiately pulled out the revolver hanging from his waist and charged out upon hearing the protagonist’s Guangnan accent.
As a result, people had ford a stereotype.
They thought that Guangnan people were all chivalrous heroes who rode tall horses with revolvers hanging from their waists, serving justice in the vast Beizhou plains.
But that was more than 200 years ago.
And now, the chivalrous heroes on horseback had disappeared in the Beizhou plains along with social developnt and technological progress.
However, the local clique of the Guangnan people was still strong.
Everything was negotiable as long as they were from the sa birthplace.
Everything was negotiable, even if their ancestral ho was from the sa place.
The most important thing for Ling Pingan was that he could go to the orchards and vegetable fields to pick the fruits and vegetables he wanted to eat with the identity of a farr.
And the price was cheaper!
It was less than 30% of the market price.
He was lazy!
He would have vegetables and fruits to eat every day if he were more hardworking!
Not only that, but every ti also a villager ca to the city to buy or travel.
They would bring him so of the village’s vegetables and fruits.
Thus, Ling Pingan set out on the road to his ho with Bastet in his arms.
He was familiar with the way!
His parents would bring him back to the ancestral house in the countryside once a week before he was ten years old.
First, they would clean the ancestral house, then pray to the ancestors, and buy so vegetables and fruits.
However, Ling Pingan rarely returned after his parents died.
Especially after he graduated from university, he would co back to buy grapes for the sake of wine every year, apart from paying respects to the ancestors during the new year.
As for the ancestral house, he entrusted it to a distant relative in the village, asking him to help look after and clean it.
Ling Pingan gave him a monthly paynt of 500 yuan for that.
Ling Pingan walked along the road as he held Bastet, then turned into the left-hand path in front of a bridge and entered the village road.
A small village by the river bay ca into view after climbing over a few hills.
That was Qilipu!
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