Chapter 26: Eight Trigrams

After leaving Zou Zhichang's office and returning to the guesthouse, Zhao Guodong found that the sky was dark and his stomach was roaring. At noon, he had a casual meal with You Mingfu on the way, so he had to enjoy the dinner mentioned by the hospitality quietly that night.

Dinner is still the same rule, three dishes and one soup, two meat and one vegetable, plus one fried egg soup. Zhao Guodong likes the taste of the guesthouse very much, the portion is enough and the rice is full.

"You two haven't eaten yet, right?" Zhao Guodong knew that Ma Bengui was very strict with the waiters in the guesthouse, especially the two waiters had higher requirements for serving him. They could not eat before he ate. "Go and get the bowls and eat together. Wang Ertuan cooked enough dishes every time. It seems that he made the meals of the three of us together."

Xiao Mudan and Chang Guifen both shook their heads repeatedly, "How dare we have dinner with you, County Ma? Director Ma would not peel us when he saw it?"

"Is it so good to peel horses?" Zhao Guodong laughed. Although Ma Bengui bowed his head in front of the leader, he was just talking in front of these waiters. The waiters only dared to say a few words when they had their own insiders, but no one dared to say it in front of outsiders.

Xiao Mudan and Chang Guifen's faces suddenly turned pale. If this title falls into Ma Bengui's ears, the two of them will definitely have to go home with a roll of rolls.

Seeing that the two girls were so scared, Zhao Guodong was a little reluctant: "I said Xiao Xiao, Xiao Chang, you two are so afraid of him? At worst, you just got rid of you. Could it be that he could still eat you?"

"County Magistrate Zhao, you are a big national cadre. How can we compare with you? It is not easy for Sister Guifen and I to come here to work. How many sisters in the village are envious. Do you think it is so easy to find a job in the county?" Xiao Mudan was obviously more courageous than Chang Guifen. She pouted and said, "Besides, it's not tiring to work, not far from home, you can go back to work if you don't work at night, and there is still one day off every week. Like county cadres, they can guarantee income from drought and flood. Who doesn't want to come?"

"Does you have to work in the guesthouse to get the way out? Why don't you go out and try it out?"

Zhao Guodong frowned and asked, "This is what he didn't understand the most. Ningling's economic development lags behind, there are no enterprises, and there are many surplus laborers. However, local township enterprises and private enterprises such as Andu and Jianyang were quite developed and needed labor. Not to mention Guangdong and the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"Go out?" Xiao Mudan and Chang Guifen shook their heads at the same time, "It's too complicated outside, there are too many bad people, and we don't have a high level of education. Have you learned any professional skills? What can you do when you go out? If there is something, we don't know anything and no one takes care of you. If you are sold to Inner Mongolia and in the wilderness of Shanxi, it will be miserable."

"Yes, there is one in our village who was rescued by the police last year. She was sold to Inner Mongolia and suffered torture for several years. She said that she couldn't even drink clean water and couldn't take a shower for several months. She lived in a dirt house. She could freeze your hands and face in winter, and in summer, the sun was so poisonous that it could make people die of life. She had three of them in just five years, and she ran back without asking for anything. She swears that she would never go out again. She just wanted to find a job and was cheated out by others."

Seeing that Zhao Guodong was quite kind, Chang Guifen became bolder and dared to interrupt and say a few words.

Zhao Guodong came out of the public security and naturally knew that the past few years was the peak period for trafficking in women. However, in recent years, as the crackdowns of public security organs continued to increase, coupled with the publicity of newspapers and TV, the vigilance of migrant workers continued to increase, and the phenomenon of trafficking in women has been greatly reduced.

However, some places along the coast are retained, seducing and forcing women to engage in prostitution, and girls like the two girls in front of them who know nothing and know nothing can easily become prey targets of prostitution dens, especially on the coast, they are more likely to be trapped.

"I only take a little farm work at home. Apart from the busy farming season, I have nothing to do. I can only stay at home and I don't dare to go out casually." Xiao Mudan sighed, "I have only been to Ningling once at the farthest, and I have never even been to the provincial capital."

"Well, I haven't even been to Ningling." Chang Guifen also looked envious: "County Magistrate Zhao, I heard that there are dozens of high buildings in the provincial capital, so high that people wouldn't feel dizzy even if they were there?"

Zhao Guodong laughed, "Will you feel dizzy? I don't know. You will know when you go and see it? Okay, let's talk about it for a while, the food is cold. Take your bowls and chopsticks and eat together. Lao Ma has any objection and asks him to bring it to me. This waste is shameful."

Seeing that Zhao Guodong was serious, the two women hesitated for a moment, so they plucked up the courage to bring their own bowls and chopsticks, sat down on the square table and ate in small mouthfuls.

Zhao Guodong actually likes this atmosphere very much. He eats while talking to understand the situation. Both girls are from Hualin Countryside. It is difficult to understand the most real things by just looking at the flowers and surveying in the countryside.

"How many young people in your countryside go out to work?"

"There are more men and few women, and they all think it's not safe and convenient to go out."

"What are you doing if you don't go out and stay at home?" Zhao Guodong asked.

"Men usually do odd jobs and short-term work, or stay at home to play. There are more teahouses in the countryside, and they can drink 50 cents a bowl of tea for a day, or they play poker and mahjong gambling, which has ruined the atmosphere. Now many people lose money and become slanderous and go out to steal things at night." Xiao Mudan said angrily: "The chickens and ducks I raise at home have been stolen twice."

Zhao Guodong felt a sigh again. The development of township enterprises was lagging behind and private enterprises had not yet emerged in these places, which made a large number of local farmers have nothing to do during the slack season. In addition, the lack of cultural and entertainment life made the people only able to enjoy themselves in the oldest and primitive way of gambling, which caused extremely unstable social security.

So the great man said it well, China's problem is ultimately a problem of farmers. The livelihood problem of 80% and 90% of farmers is always the biggest problem of local governments at the first level. Developing industry and promoting urbanization and urbanization construction seem to be the only way to solve this problem at present.

So much surplus labor can only be solved by developing local industry and commerce. The export of surplus labor to developed regions is just a temporary strategy of treating the symptoms but not the root cause. It will eventually bring many difficult sequelae, such as the difficulty of metropolis, left-behind children, the economy of inland areas is more lagging, hollowing out, etc.

While thinking, he heard a rapid footstep at the door. Before the two girls with pale faces stood up, Ma Bengui rushed in with a gust of wind and screamed strangely: "Hey, you two are so brave, why are you having dinner with County Mayor Zhao?"

Xiao Mudan and Chang Guifen quickly stood up, but Zhao Guodong waved his hand to stop Ma Bengui's attack: "Okay, Lao Ma, don't be surprised there. It was me who asked them to eat with me. Do you think there is any problem with me eating with them?"

Ma Bengui choked back by Zhao Guodong's words and said with awkward expression: "County Magistrate Zhao, this will break the rules. They are service staff, how can they eat with the service recipients?"

"The rules are also set by people. I don't eat with them every day. Today I have been delayed by the government for a long time and they haven't eaten yet. I just asked them to eat together. Why? Do you still have to ask for instructions with you first?"

"Where can it be?" Ma Bengui hurriedly accompanied him with a smile. "County Magistrate Zhao has been busy with major issues in the province and has been back for so long. It must be very hard. Secretary Zou and County Magistrate Luo must discuss things with you. It is also the right thing for them to wait."

"Okay, okay, Lao Ma, don't sing praises in front of me. I don't have that great ability to do major things. I'm just a job. Hey, Lao Ma, how do you know that I have discussed things with Secretary Zou and County Mayor Luo?" Zhao Guodong really admired this guy's long ears. In just a while, he could know that he had gone to Luo Dahai and Zou Zhichang.

"Hehe, what else can the Hualin County Party Committee and County Government hide from my old horse's ears?" He glanced at the two girls, and saw that Zhao Guodong did not say anything, Ma Bengui couldn't drive the two away, so he had to say vaguely: "Master Zhao, you got a car in the province a few days after you went to the province. The county party committee and county government were in a stir."

"What's the point of making a fuss about this? Isn't the car already big?" Zhao Guodong said carelessly.

"Hehe, you don't know. Director Sun of the Agricultural Bureau made a long time in the government office that day before leaving. He was cursing all the way and saying that the leader's butt was just bigger." Ma Bengui said with a mysterious expression: "I heard that County Magistrate Liao was also very unhappy. He said that this was originally a car from the county government. Even if it was given to the National People's Congress, the car of the National People's Congress should be returned to the government."

"Okay, okay, Lao Ma, don't spread these little words. I don't like to listen to them. You are a leader at all, right? Can you tell me some enlightenment?" Zhao Guodong waved his hand to stop the other party, and then said to the two helpless girls with a smile: "Take the food out for food, I'm full."

It was not until the second daughter went out that Zhao Guodong said seriously: "Old Ma, pay attention to the occasion when speaking in the future. Although Xiao Xiao and Xiao Chang will not spread messages randomly, the fewer things between these leaders, the better. Don't make the leader unhappy."

"Hehe, County Mayor Zhao, my home has been very lively these days. The Agriculture Bureau, Transportation Bureau, and Government Office, have become more and more energetic. I heard that you have worked on several major projects in the province, and they are all running around in the government office like they have taken stimulants, waiting for you to come back."
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