The next morning, after Ling Ping'an woke up, he saw an unread text message on his phone.
"The grapes are ripe..." He looked at the content of the text message. This text message was sent by Uncle Zhang, the village chief of his hometown in the suburbs.
He only said one thing. The grapes in the village were ripe. He asked if he wanted to leave a few dozen catties for him like in previous years.
Of course, this was necessary.
Ling Ping'an immediately replied with a text message, "Uncle Zhang, please help me leave about 50 catties..."
The grapes in his hometown were A-grade!
Especially when used to make wine, it was first-class!
Although Ling Ping'an didn't drink, his aunt liked it.
Not long after, a text message came again.
Uncle Zhang: Okay!
Ling Ping'an picked up his phone and quickly began to wash up.
He had to rush back today to get the grapes.
Considering that it had just rained yesterday, he had to hurry.
Otherwise, if the grapes were left for a long time, they might go bad and affect the taste of the wine brewed!
When he walked to the stairs, the kitten, Bastet, was already waiting.
"Little Darling..." Ling Ping'an picked it up. "How about we go to my hometown in the suburbs today?"
"There are many grape trees and strawberry fields over there!"
Meow!
The kitten meowed and seemed to be very happy.
Ling Ping'an carried it and walked downstairs. He first turned on the computer and set today's update.
At the same time, he looked at his collection.
32...
When he slept last night, it seemed to be 28?
It increased by four?!
Not bad!
He smiled and turned off the computer happily.
Then, he carried the kitten, walked out of the door, and closed the door.
Then, he got on the bus and set off for the countryside in the eastern suburbs.
The bus went around the city and soon drove out of the city and entered the villa area in the suburbs.
The villas were arranged neatly between the mountain forest and the lake.
Some servants and maids dressed in traditional Xinluo clothes were chatting and laughing beside the villas.
Ling Ping'an looked at them and shook his head.
Recently, the Federal Empire had set off a trend of retro.
Tang Feng Han Tong and so on.
Therefore, Xinluo servants became very popular!
And the Silla Kingdom seemed to have found this business opportunity and launched a customized service.
It was said that the monthly salary of a high-ranking Xinluo maid who had undergone strict training had reached an astonishing tens of thousands!
It was even higher than the salary of many senior engineers!
The bus drove out of the villa area and soon entered a stretch of farmland.
All he could see were vegetable greenhouses and fruit planting bases.
Like most large cities in the Federal Empire, Jiangcheng City had large tracts of rural land in the suburbs.
These places were protected by the law and prohibited from development.
Mainly forests, orchards and vegetable fields.
There was a historical reason for this.
The founding emperors and generals of the Federal Empire had an unforgettable fear of hunger!
According to many historical materials and memoirs, at the beginning, Taizu and his meritorious ministers thought about one question the most — when can we let the people not starve?
Therefore, the national system was designed to prevent the people from starving.
However, Emperor Taizu never expected that in less than 30 years after his death, there would no longer be a famine in the Federation.
Because Beizhou had been liberated.
The vast and fertile land of the Northern Zhou Dynasty could produce several years' worth of grain in one year.
Then came the establishment of the Southern Zhou and the Western Song.
This was great …
Cheap food from overseas swarmed in.
Apart from the northeast region, grain cultivation in all other regions was a death sentence economically.
Thus …
Today's rural areas had completely turned into orchards and vegetable gardens.
Especially in the suburbs around the city, not a single acre of land would be used to grow food.
Every city could proudly declare to the outside world, "We are the land of vegetables and fruits!"
The only problem was that vegetables and fruits were really expensive!
In the market now, cabbage was more expensive than pork and even more expensive than C-grade beef!
As for fruits?
Anyway, Ling Ping'an remembered that when he was in school, if fruits appeared on the menu one day when he ate lunch at school.
That must be a festival.
Usually, most of the lunch was junk food.
Chicken drumsticks, beef, sea fish, prawns, and so on.
He felt like vomiting when he ate it!
It caused the obesity rate among teenagers to rise steadily.
Thinking of this, the bus had already turned into the terminal station.
Ling Ping'an carried his pet and walked out of the bus.
The bus stop happened to be set up next to a distribution center for agricultural products.
As soon as he got off the bus, Ling Ping'an could smell the strong fragrance of fruits and vegetables.
He walked over to take a look. There were boxes and boxes of strawberries, all packed neatly, one after another. Grapes, green grapes, red grapes …
There were also mountains of bananas and pineapples.
They were all fruits of the season!
However, Ling Ping'an looked at the price and shrunk his neck.
The cheapest bananas cost ten yuan a catty here!
As for the expensive ones …
Strawberries were 28 yuan a catty, and they were B grade.
The highest grade A grade was not available here. Those high-grade fruits had long been reserved at a high price in advance.
Fortunately …
Ling Ping'an hugged Bastet and said, "Little darling, fortunately, I still have the identity of a farmer!"
There were many systems in the Federal Empire that were still exactly the same as three hundred years ago.
One of them was the household registration system.
At the beginning of the founding of the country, Emperor Taizu divided the people into 'scholars, farmers, merchants, and merchants' according to tradition.
After Gaozong, the era of constitutional government began. According to the posthumous edict left behind by Emperor Taizu, the steps of political discipline and constitutional government.
In the Council of Ministers at all levels, each profession must have a fixed seat and be selected from the corresponding profession.
For example, now, education and scientists occupied a very large proportion of the Central Council of Ministers.
The Education Committee of the Federal Empire and the Science and Technology Development Committee of the Federal Empire were all superpowers of the entire empire.
Similarly, the seats of farmers had always been reserved.
It was just that it was relatively few.
However, the use of the identity of a farmer was getting greater and greater.
And Ling Ping'an's ancestors had always been farmers.
Although they had already moved to the city as early as his grandfather's time.
However, the profession marked on his ID card and household registration book had never changed!
The place of his household registration had always been Qilipu Village, Dongmei Town, Jiangcheng City, where his ancestors lived.
And the villages of the Federal Empire had always been very united since ancient times.
Especially in Guangnan!
The relationship between the townsfolk was comparable to the iron relationship between classmates and comrades.
Once the people in the same place met, they would automatically form a group.
In many past films and television works, the people of Guangnan often played the role of heroes who saw injustice on the road.
The plot was basically that the protagonist was bullied overseas. Then, a burly man by the roadside heard the protagonist's Guangnan accent and immediately pulled out the revolver hanging from his waist and killed him.
As a result, people once formed a stereotype.
They thought that the people of Guangnan were all the kind of heroes who rode on tall horses and had revolvers hanging from their waists, serving justice in the vast wilderness of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
But that was actually more than two hundred years ago.
And now, the heroes on horseback had disappeared from the wilderness of the Northern Zhou Dynasty with the development of society and technological progress.
However, the feelings of the people of Guangnan were still strong.
As long as they were from the same place, everything could be discussed.
In fact, as long as their ancestral home was from the same place, everything could be discussed.
And the most important thing for Ling Ping'an as a farmer was that he could go to the orchards and vegetable fields and pick the fruits and vegetables he wanted to eat.
And the price was very cheap!
Basically, it was less than 30% of the market price.
In other words, he was lazy!
If he was more diligent, he would have vegetables and fruits to eat every day!
Not only that, every time the villagers came to the city to buy or play.
They would bring him some vegetables and fruits from the village.
Thus, carrying Bastet, Ling Ping'an set foot on the road home.
He was very familiar with this road!
Before he was ten years old, his parents would take him back to the ancestral house in the countryside once a week.
First, they would clean the ancestral house, second, they would pay respects to their ancestors, and third, they would buy some vegetables and fruits.
However, after his parents died, Ling Ping'an rarely came back.
Especially after he graduated from university, every year, other than going back to pay respects to his ancestors during the New Year, he would come back to buy grapes for wine.
As for the ancestral house, he entrusted it to a distant relative in the village and asked him to help take care of and clean it.
For this, Ling Ping'an gave him 500 yuan every month.
Carrying Bastet, Ling Ping'an walked along the road. Then, in front of a bridge, he turned into a left-hand path and entered the village road.
After climbing a few small hills, a small village by the river came into view.
They had arrived at Qilipu!
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