Chapter 109 County Seat
Chapter 109 County Seat
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At this time, Zhou Xiaozhou was on his way to the county, not the Kuching County where Lu Linlin was, but the Kuching County at the foot of Lai'an Village.
She was originally going to school to attend classes, but Old Wu asked her to help with something.
At this time, she had been walking on the mountain path for quite some time with several villagers.
She felt a little regretful. If she had known it would take such a long journey, she should have ridden a scooter no matter what!
However, riding a scooter so rashly was a bit too high-profile. She didn't even know whether there were any scooters in this place!
And her little motorcycle was currently being studied by a few naughty kids.
The person who took action was Wu Wu, the second uncle of the Wu family.
When Zhou Xiaozhou rode this bike out of his room last night, his eyes widened.
I didn't expect there was such a thing in this world.
A few boys were poking around in Old Wu's yard.
Wu Sanmei was a little anxious. These were Sister Zhou’s things. It would not be good for her second uncle and brothers to take them out secretly like this!
But her second uncle and brother were in high spirits and no one paid any attention to her little complaint.
Even Wu Xiaobao moved to the side and gently touched the motorcycle with his hand.
"I was scared when she rode this thing into the village that day," said Li Dahu, who was also nearby, recounting his first experience of seeing a motorcycle. "This thing makes a buzzing sound when it's turned on."
Then the young man glanced at Wu Sanmei next to him and continued, "I saw it coming towards the Wu family, and I was afraid that my family was in danger, so I ran over here quickly."
Wu Sanmei rolled her eyes and thought to herself, you came here just to see something strange, don't use me as an excuse.
The young boys of the Wu family smiled knowingly.
Li Dahu's intentions were obvious to the old Wu family, and the elders on both sides were happy to see it happen.
In the past, he seemed willing to see the third sister, but now it seems that is not the case.
This is very strange.
Zhang saw it clearly, but she didn't say anything and continued to sew the soles of shoes.
Looking at the children in the yard, who were well fed and warmly clothed and could still shout and laugh, she felt that she was happy.
"Although this guy looks weird, he runs pretty fast. Xiao Hai and I were following him yesterday and we almost couldn't catch up with him."
The one who was speaking was Dahai. He was rubbing the outer shell of the small motorcycle with his hands. The plastic shell felt slippery and a little cool.
He thought it was amazing.
"Hey, what do you think, can we ride it?" Wu Ercheng couldn't wait any longer and started to instigate everyone.
Wu Sanmei strode forward, hands on her hips: "We just agreed that we're just going to take a look, you guys are not allowed to do anything rash. Sister Zhou knows everything. Don't think she doesn't care about anything, but I can see that she knows everything!"
Wu Sanmei's words dealt a heavy blow to those who were eager to try.
Yes, it's okay to take it out and have a look at it like this. But if there really is some mechanism, and they act rashly and are discovered by Zhou Xiaozhou, they will be embarrassed.
"Then we can't just take it apart and have a look, right?" Wu Ercheng still refused to give up.
"After taking it apart, can you guarantee that it can be put back together again?" Wu Sanmei thought to herself, this is not the carpentry work done by Uncle Chen, anything can be taken apart and then put back together.
"Then just watch?" Wu Ercheng touched his head. Obviously he wanted to experience it further. He didn't want to give up just like that.
"Why don't you go up and sit down." Wu Dafa suggested.
Dahai sat on it first and put his feet on the pedals. It was really stable.
Wu Ercheng drove Dahai down again and sat on it himself. It felt just like that!
"Third sister, how do you think she started this thing?" Wu Ercheng felt that he still had to sit in it before he could move it.
"It seemed like there was a key. Sister Zhou inserted it and turned it, and the car started moving on its own."
"What about the key?"
The key was in Zhou Xiaozhou's trouser pocket at this moment, swinging with his body as he walked.
After more than three hours of trekking, Zhou Xiaozhou finally reached the Kuching county seat below Lai'an Village.
But this place is not called a county town, it is called 'Kuching County'.
Looking at the dilapidated small county town, Zhou Xiaozhou couldn't believe it.
This is it. It’s not even a good village outside, so how can it be called a county town?
Are they bullying her because she comes from the countryside and has never seen the world, or what?
The scene before him shocked Zhou Xiaozhou. How could it be called a county town when there were only thirty or forty earthen-walled houses?
Just because it is a square shape surrounded by a low earthen wall, it can be considered a city!
I really didn't expect it.
The people on the street are the same as those in Lai'an Village, with buns on their heads and clothes that look like linen bags.
The difference is that the sackcloth bags of people in the county seem to be more delicate.
This means that the cloth used for the sacks in the county is better than that of people in Lai'an Village, but the styles are similar.
It seems that this is the most popular style of clothing here.
Zhou Xiaozhou followed Chen Dashan and his group from Lai'an Village and entered Kuching County through the city gate.
Along the way, I didn’t see many decent shops. What does this mean? It means that the business in this place is not very developed.
Wouldn't that just give Zhou Xiaozhou a lot of room to display her abilities?
Zhou Xiaozhou thought secretly, maybe he could come down the mountain, rent a store and do a small business or something?
But I don’t know if there are any specialties here that can be exchanged with my hometown.
It would be nice to think that Zhou could achieve a trade surplus at that time.
After walking along a long dirt road, everyone arrived at their destination for the day - Kuching Government Office.
What the gentlemen discussed last night has undergone new changes today.
The main reason was that Zhou Xiaozhou asked an unnecessary question this morning.
"Those in uniform are using tablets, so can our village have electricity?"
She was mainly worried that she would stay here for too long and her phone would run out of battery, so she asked one more question.
This sentence didn't sound like anything to Old Wu, but when it reached other people's ears, it had a different interpretation.
Chen Dashan had just rushed back from the mountains at that time. He did not meet the tax collection team, nor did he know that the tax collection team had conducted a population census in the village.
Zhou Xiaozhou's question reminded Old Wu of this and he quickly asked Wu Wen to tell Chen Dahe.
This led to Zhou Xiaozhou's trip.
Chen Dahe was just guessing that Zhou Xiaozhou and Ge Meili's population data might have been reported to the county database.
He decided to take Zhou Xiaozhou to settle down in the county first and also to find out more about the situation.
Such a large group of officers did not go home last night, and I don’t know if there will be a commotion in the county office.
When they arrived at the place, Zhou Xiaozhou was the first to show dislike.
Looking at the low houses in front of him, Zhou Xiaozhou was a little unwilling to believe. Is this the government office of Kuching County?
The old, dilapidated building next to her house, which is over 180 years old, doesn't look like this!
But it is a government office after all, and like all government offices in the world, it has the word "official" in its name, so if you don't have money, don't come in.
When entering the county office, Zhou Xiaozhou saw Chen Dashan giving money.
The money he touched out was very similar to the copper coins in movies and TV dramas, both of which were round on the outside and square on the inside. The difference was that the copper coin given by Chen Dashan was purple.
This is really strange, Zhou Xiaozhou has never seen purple coins before.
What's added here?
Zhou Xiaozhou was extremely curious.
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