The Chinese people, especially the common people in the frontiers, have had more contact with Westerners, so some of their customs have gradually become slightly more like the West.
For example, I like to eat steak. Although I am not as particular as in the West, the Western restaurants in Chasu City are full. After entering, I really feel like I am in a foreign country. Of course, the price is also high.
For example, advanced consumption, especially the frontier people who are far away from Han culture, likes advanced consumption very much. With an income of more than 3,000 yuan a month, I dare to go to the bank for a loan to buy a car.
Compared with people in the mainland, the cars of frontier people are really used as tools. On weekends, they take their families or lovers with them, either to barbecue on the grassland or to pick mushrooms and pull wild vegetables in the virgin forest. It is very comfortable.
Fishing and hiking are very popular in the border areas. Chasu City is an old city with a history of hundreds of years, small and ancient. Although they are old, Zhang Fan felt that the city roads were adequate a year ago.
The taxi industry here is not very developed. On the contrary, you can often see fancy carriages for rent on the streets. Because housing prices are cheap and the population is sparse, people are not stressed. The pace of life is also extremely slow, so this kind of horse-drawn carriage is still very popular. The air in the city is fresh, especially after spring, when various flowers bloom one after another, and there is always a faint fragrance in the air.
But after the Spring Festival this year, it seemed that there were more cars overnight, which was a direct change of magnitude. The streets are filled with horns and the commute to and from get off work is super congested. Parking is like a battle, and it’s not surprising that a journey that once took ten minutes can take forty minutes during rush hour.
And Zhang Fan discovered a very strange phenomenon. Although Northwest people are generous and have explosive tempers, they are always reasonable. Bumps and bumps will inevitably occur when walking on the street. Most of the time, there will be no quarrels. Generally, both parties are very angry. Even if there is a queue or something, because of the large collective nature of the farm, they are more disciplined than the mainlanders.
But once you have a car and drive it, regardless of gender, regardless of your level of education, regardless of your occupation, most people seem to have changed, become very unreasonable, and very easy to explode.
The car in front was driving slowly, and the car behind was passing! You can hear the words "You're dead!" from the air. If they meet on a narrow road, it's over, and there might be a fight! We won't give up until the police come to deal with it.
I don’t know whether it’s the cars that have changed the people, or the people that have changed the cars. Anyway, since there have been more cars, it seems that people’s personalities have also begun to change, and they have become restless.
Zhang Fan doesn't drive much anymore. Not to mention the congestion at work, parking in the hospital is a very troublesome thing. Sometimes Zhang Fan wishes he could just carry his car upstairs!
There are too many cars, and the government can't do anything about it. The designers ten or twenty years ago never expected that China could change so drastically. The roads are narrow, and because of the selection of livable cities, many gardens were built in the middle of the originally narrow roads. The city that was originally a two-way four-lane city suddenly became a two-way two-lane city.
Every day you see people fighting in the middle of the road because of cars! The more traffic jams there are, the more quarrels there are, the more irritable people become, and then there are constant accidents.
Even so, it can be tolerated, but once an accident occurs, this congested street will be an indirect criminal or killer.
In a place where the city and the countryside meet, there is a unit that is relatively unfamiliar to city people, the Rural Electricity Research Institute. This is a unit unique to a large agricultural province.
There are not many people in the unit, and because it is far away from the city, the family building is built directly next to the unit. That evening, when I was about to get off work, in this small building, a child let out a sharp cry.
Wang Congcong, a little boy who has just turned four. Very naughty and very curious about everything. Both parents are employees of the Rural Power Plant.
Recently, because of a cold, she was not sent to kindergarten, so Wang Congcong's mother asked Congcong's grandparents to help take care of the child. As the old saying goes, whose child is loved by others.
Wang Congcong's mother goes to work and takes care of her children, and now there are times when she is farming, and she must ensure rural electricity supply, so Wang Congcong's mother is also very tired and a little thin.
No, the old man and the old lady took Wang Congcong to the bazaar and bought a lot of beef ribs, whole grains of wheat, and small peas, preparing to make some beef wheat rice for their daughter and son-in-law.
Bazaar is a kind of market unique to the frontier. Because it is a temporary stall, there is no professional cutting machine. The beef bones sold are roughly cut. After buying it back, you have to process it yourself.
In the evening, the old man threw away his ax and prepared to cut open the bones of the cow stick. As a result, when Wang Congcong's grandma went to the bathroom, the little kid secretly reached out from behind the old man to grab the cow bone.
The ax fell out of luck, "Crack!" The cow bone and Wang Congcong's outstretched hand were chopped off along the wrist!
The donated blood spurted out like a high-pressure water gun. Because of the pain, the little baby held her injured right arm with her left hand and cried sharply. Blood sprayed everywhere in the kitchen!
The chopped off little hand is pale! If you look carefully, your fingers are still twitching.
"Ah!" Pain, severe pain, Wang Congcong's lips turned purple from crying!
"Hand! My hand!" Not to mention a four-year-old baby, even an adult can't stand the pain! The old man turned around and saw that his eyes were starting to turn black!
"Hurry, dead man! What are you doing! Hurry, come here!" The old man called his wife loudly, while grabbing his grandson's wrist with his hand, hoping to pinch the blood loss from the wound! How can I hold it down? The huge blood pressure is still spurting out.
The old lady who had just finished using the bathroom had not packed up her belt when she heard the screams of the children and the shouts of the old man. She ran out of the bathroom in a hurry. In her hurry, she accidentally hit her head on the bathroom door. On top, blood flowed.
It was true that misfortunes never come singly, and the old lady couldn't care less. When I came out of the bathroom, covering my head and holding up my pants, I saw my grandson’s missing little hand and my wife’s face covered in blood! Really, her heart clenched together, her heart ached, it hurt like a knife, and the hand that was originally covering her head had already been put down!
Fortunately, she was a surgical nurse in the former county hospital. I still know a little bit about first aid. Not caring about anything else, he took out the belt from his pants as he walked!
Although the old lady was old, she still had the professionalism to go forward. She threw off her outer trousers as she walked. Wearing long johns, she used a belt to strangle her grandson four centimeters above the elbow joint. This operation is correct. It generally stops bleeding. No matter how anxious you are, never use thin ropes or iron wires to tie them. Such thin objects can stop bleeding, but if they are too thin and cannot be used properly, limb injuries will occur. Necrosis!
"Call, call the child's parents! Let's take a taxi first." As he said, he used a clean bottle to catch the child's fallen little hand!
With her face covered in blood, she and he, whose face was also covered in blood, ran out holding their grandson who was already pale and vomiting!
People after get off work saw two old people with blood on their faces, and then looked at the children, miserable! It's too awful! , people rushed forward to help, they were all from the same unit, and they were all familiar with each other. Then, colleagues who had cars drove right over without saying hello.
In a short while, the child’s mother and father also arrived!
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