Chapter 51 What are the Four Tongues?
Hua Wen monitored me and washed my hands twice before I passed. After getting on the bus again, we did not continue to Qixi Creek, but turned around and returned to Maigaiti County.
This was Hua Wen's decision. She said she was timid about going to the countryside. After watching the sunrise in the desert, she no longer needed to go to Qixi Creek. She was afraid that she would see the students cry, and she would not want to leave after seeing the sunrise in the desert.
"If you want to go, I will go with you!" Hua Wen said.
"Anyway, I saw the most beautiful sunrise and it was worth it." I said.
We had breakfast in Maigaiti County. Although we had driven for several hours, it was still relatively early for the local area due to the time difference. There were not many places where we could have breakfast in Maigaiti, so we braved the
We ate mutton buns in a steaming restaurant. Actually, we only had mutton buns and tea at the moment.
I didn't know that the buns here are sold by the piece, so I ordered two buns and a pot of milk tea according to Shanghai's custom. There are ten buns in one bun, and they are quite large. The boss served them on two plates.
I ate ten, and Hua Wen also ate five. She hadn't eaten anything since we got up, so she was probably hungry, so I ate the remaining five in her cage.
"Actually, you don't need to finish the food. You can return it if you don't finish it! I don't know how good you are at eating it!" Hua Wen said.
"I didn't sleep or eat all night, and I didn't feel hungry at night. These buns are really delicious, and they're cheap. They're a bit filling!" I said. Because it's on the edge of the county town, the buns here cost one yuan each. Buns of the same size are sold in Kashgar City.
It's two yuan a piece. I can't remember when the meat buns were sold for one yuan.
After eating, I took a walk for half an hour, thinking of returning to Kashgar at noon, so I didn’t contact Ainur and went back directly.
On the way, Hua Wen asked me if I had decided to rent Mire's shop. She asked: "Looking at your appearance last night, you should be tempted. Have you decided what to do?"
I said: "It's basically decided. I'll go check out the surrounding situation today. If there are more than five shops that are still open within 100 meters on both sides, I will rent them. And I want to rent two shops together. In the first year
The rent-free conditions are somewhat tempting.”
"Why are there more than five on both sides?" Hua Wen asked.
"It's just a personal feeling, not a necessary option, or I'm just flipping a coin. The width of this alley is okay, but the disadvantage is that it is not the main road of the tourist route. I just hope that some tourists can divert it.
Come here, so be sure to take a look during the day. If there are no shops on both sides, it can only mean one problem, that is, there is a problem here, and I will not rent the shops of Mire's family. It means that not enough people are attracted now.
Tourists can still accept it, but if there are other problems that prevent shops from being built here, it will be an almost insurmountable difficulty." I said.
"The ancient city is open, what's the problem?" Hua Wen asked me.
"I hope not. What I said has happened in other places. For example, objections from surrounding neighbors, property management restrictions, etc. may cause the shop to fail to operate." I answered.
My community in Shanghai originally had a club built by a developer. The club had a complete range of fitness and entertainment options, and residents were willing to go there. In order to make full use of the advantages of the club, it provided swimming, fitness, chess and card games, KTV, music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, etc. In the evenings and
Weekends are very lively.
Later, several retired old men and women were jealous of the income of the club, so they set up an owners' committee. Together with a group of retired old men and women, they just replaced the original owners' committee, and the new owners' committee voted to decide on the club house.
It is no longer leased to the company that now operates the clubhouse.
"They wanted to take it back and make money themselves. In the end, it took more than a year to drive out the original owner," I told Hua Wen.
"Have they made any money?" Hua Wen asked.
"Are you talking about old men? No, young people in the whole community are scolding them now, and their children and grandchildren are also complaining. Everything is abandoned, except for the swimming pool, and the fitness equipment invested by the original owner is taken away.
After leaving, these old men and women watched helplessly as the community clubhouse turned into a shabby haunted house. For more than three years, the old men have worked hard, but no one is willing to run this community clubhouse anymore. They are scared." I said.
"What do those old men want?" Hua Wen asked.
"Benefits, they thought they could get them easily, but as a result, their grandsons went to other places to swim, and they went to other places to play mahjong. What has not changed is that they still dance square dances in the open space in front of the community club, and often
Complaints of nuisance." I replied.
"I don't understand this. I'm still studying hard and actively exploring how to build a small shop. So I don't want this street to be a mature commercial street. On the one hand, the ancient city should not be too commercial. It is the most attractive
What’s more, it’s the authentic flavor of life, what people call fireworks; in addition, if a raw melon egg like me enters a business environment that is too mature, it may be wiped out by competition in minutes. However, if I am the only one operating nearby,
Shops may not be able to attract enough consumers. If they abandon the main line and wander through the alleys, tourists may take one look at the beginning of the road and then turn around and leave." I went on to explain why I think there should be some shops nearby.
"I don't understand this either. What kind of store do you plan to open?" Hua Wen asked.
"This is what I want to discuss with you. I thought about it. It's suitable for light catering! It's not like a restaurant. It's like a catering stall at a temple fair or a bazaar, but I want to make it a clean and hygienic stall. I plan to
Let’s focus on the small things, and I’ll talk about it in detail after seeing the situation.” I said.
Because I haven’t looked at the tourist situation during the day, I feel that no matter what I say now, it’s just talk on paper. Therefore, I didn’t fully express my thoughts.
It was already noon when I returned to Kashgar. Cars are not allowed to enter the ancient city, so I drove directly to the east gate. There is a parking lot here. There is a large area in front of the high earth platform of the Gaotai residence, and there are cars parked there.
Inside, it's not close to Mire's house, but it's more convenient.
Mire's home is not on any of the three main roads in the ancient city. This shortcoming is what I care about most. Most tourists take the main road. When I first came here, I also took the main road. I think
Most tourists don't stay too much, so the lack of customer flow is the biggest shortcoming of Mirejia's shops.
However, it doesn’t matter if it’s not on the main road, it’s quiet, there’s less competition, the rent is cheap, and there’s not much commercial development, because I still want to explore the humanistic elements in the future, and the fireworks here at Mire’s house are what I need. I think
There should be a way to attract tourists, but I haven't thought of it yet.
Mire went to college to attend classes, but her father had not returned from work. Mire's mother did not speak Mandarin. Hua Wen communicated with Mire's mother for a while in broken Uyghur.
"Apa asked us to wait for a while. Mire said yesterday that he had no classes this afternoon and would be back for lunch. Mire's father was at work at noon and would not come back. He was going to Sitong in the evening. Apa said that we should wait.
Mire." Hua Wen told me.
I know that Apa means ‘mother’ and dada is pronounced as Dada, which I just learned.
"What is Si Tong?" I asked curiously, hearing this word for the first time.
"Civil servants in southern Xinjiang, and possibly all Xinjiang, all have a mission, which is to eat, live together, work together, and study together, which is called the four together. This is mainly an arrangement for targeted poverty alleviation and ideological education.
Civil servants in cities go directly to the homes of poor households in rural areas four to seven days a month to live and study with them. They help poor households get rid of poverty and encourage poor households to love the motherland and their hometown. When we were in school, other teachers had
"We have been there, because we are from other places, so Yaoyao and I have not been there, but we really want to experience the 'Fitong'. The school said that the 'Fitong' is very hard and won't let us female teachers from the mainland endure the hardship." Hua
Wen said.
It turns out that there are so many differences between here and the mainland. Thinking about it, I couldn't help but respect the local dedicated people. Hua Wen and I didn't wait at Mire's house. I heard that if there are only women in the family, men
It was best not to go in alone. Although Hua Wen was with me and Hua Wen repeatedly said that she no longer had this habit, I still went out.
In fact, I mainly want to start walking around the surrounding area. The presence of Mire will not affect it.
I am not a clumsy person, but I found that there are indeed only five shops open within a few hundred meters nearby, a small shop, a tailor shop, an ethnic pastry shop, a vegetable and mutton shop and a naan shop.
They are all shops that serve residents' daily life. There is no commercial form that competes with the shops I am about to do business with tourists. This makes me a little happy but also a little depressed. Except for the naan shop, which may be visited by tourists, the rest are for local residents.
A small service shop, a small shop that tourists don't visit, a small shop where you can clearly see all the goods sold at a glance.
"There are exactly five shops, which meet your requirements. Did you count them last night? But these are shops for residents. What do you think about this?" Hua Wen asked me.
"First of all, the smoke from the fireworks is very strong and very down-to-earth. I just noticed that there are tourists passing by here, although not many. So at least tourists will come in. For tourists with limited time, they must be in a hurry from one of the three main roads.
As soon as we pass through, there are still very few tourists who will take battery sightseeing cars to cross the main road. But I am not worried, because these tourists in a hurry will hardly stop, so it is actually difficult for them to generate consumption. They are just for a look.
Tourists who just left." I analyzed.
"Most of the tourists who have time to experience the ancient city will do some shopping, buy some souvenirs or eat and drink. If they first look at the bustling scene in front of them, then they happen to come to my place and see a restaurant that sells drinks and special light meals.
Chapter completed!