Chapter 324 Is the world outside already so advanced?

It is still cold in the northwest in early spring. The snow has just melted, and green spots are gradually appearing on the gray-yellow ground.

Ma Biao drove a tractor from the county town back to the sheepfold on the mountain, with the back of the vehicle full of fodder.

He estimated that this cartload of fodder, plus the hay he had stored at home, would be enough to last until the new crop of spring grass grew.

For a shepherd, the most difficult time of the year is over.

Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

As a 26-year-old young man, my choice to herd sheep in the mountains has never been understood.

But Ma Biao likes this kind of life. Although it is a bit hard, he can still make money.

Last year, the price of meat was not high, and I made nearly 200,000 yuan from raising more than 200 goats.

Even if the price of meat does not go up this year, the profit from lambs will go up in the second year. Besides, raising sheep will become easier, and the cost of fodder and maintenance will go down.

After returning home, Ma Biao used a branch to scratch some simple multiplication and division numbers on the yellow soil, and finally got the same profit as last year.

“Isn’t this better than working the damn day?”

If I earn another year’s worth of money this year, the savings will be just enough to renovate the old house, and it will be completed by the end of the year at the latest.

I will come to propose marriage next year and I have already found a wife.

The first half of your life is fine, so you can avoid taking several years of detours.

Thinking of this, Ma Biao smiled with satisfaction in the sunset: “Life is still very good.”

In fact, neither friends nor relatives around me approve of me going up the mountain to herd sheep.

There are only a few reasons.

Shepherding is something old men do; if young people do it they will become alienated from society.

The conditions in the mountains are harsh and it is difficult to make money.

This job is not dignified.

Balabalabalaba…

Ma Biao thought to himself, you know nothing. It is better to raise livestock yourself than to let others treat you as livestock.

After dropping out of technical secondary school, he worked in a factory. He got up earlier than the chickens, went to bed later than the chickens, earned less than the chickens, and was ordered around. He was completely unhappy.

People always say that conditions in the mountains are poor, but in fact they have never lived in the mountains.

It was a little worse before, with no electricity, no water, and no signal.

It’s much better now, but the most important thing is that people still have to learn how to struggle.

He bought a few photovoltaic panels and a few energy storage batteries, and the stored electricity was more than enough for daily life.

As for the signal, there was indeed none before.

But Ma Biao knows how to shop online. He bought a signal enhancement device online for just over 300 yuan.

In the past, I had to run to the highest nearby hill to receive the signal. Now with an amplifier, even if my sheep pen is in a valley, I can still receive three or four bars of signal. It’s not particularly stable, but it’s enough for daily life.

After a day’s work, I put the sheep in the pen, eat my meal, wash the pot, lie on the bed and watch a few videos. Life is beautiful and fulfilling.

After dark, Ma Biao, as usual, lay on the bed and turned on Miaoyin. Several consecutive videos were live broadcasts of selling wine.

Ma Biao didn’t know the power of big data, so he found it a little strange.

It felt like Miaoyin had installed a surveillance camera in his head.

He had talked to someone before and wanted to buy some wine for his future father-in-law.

The friend told him that it was not respectful to give him white wine as a gift and that he should give him foreign wine instead.

Ma Biao had never drunk foreign liquor, so he asked a friend which liquor was good. His friend suggested Royal Salute, which cost hundreds or thousands of dollars a bottle.

As soon as he heard the price, Ma Biao stopped.

The wine sent from the local area costs only one or two hundred yuan at most, and he really can’t bear to spend hundreds of yuan. After all, he is his father-in-law, not his biological father.

But since that conversation, his phone seemed to be infected with a virus.

When you open any software, the first thing pushed is wine.

Even if it is not a shopping app, the splash screen ads will be of various types of alcohol.

Just like today.

The sisters who usually dance are all off work, and no matter how they row, they can’t escape the rule of “three, two, one, link”.

Just as he was about to turn off the lights and go to sleep, the host’s words suddenly made him linger.

“Brothers, here comes the Royal Salute, the biggest benefit of this event!”

“Yes!”

“Twenty years old, specially supplied to the army, drinking it at a gathering with comrades is very impressive.”

“The cards are full!”

“Pure national standard premium wine, five-grain aroma, place an order today and get a full set of gift box packaging.”

“Only today!”

“If you want it, please deduct 10% and ask the backstage to sort out the inventory. You can buy as many as you want. The price will return to the original price immediately after the auction.”

“time is limited!”

“Come on, hurry up, the Royal Salute is on the top link, today’s live broadcast room discount price is 69.9! Two shots!”

“boarding!”

The concerted response in the live broadcast room made Ma Biao feel a sense of urgency, and he followed the instructions, clicked on the shopping cart and placed an order.

Who said the Royal Salute costs hundreds?
This wine looks authentic.

The shape of a mortar, with a big five-pointed star painted on it.

You can tell it’s genuine just by looking at it with your toenails.

but.

After placing the order, Ma Biao became a little worried and took the opportunity to type and ask questions in the live broadcast room while the host was still on.

“Anchor, can you reach remote areas?”

“Brother, this benefit is free shipping nationwide. As long as the post office can reach us, we can send it.”

“That’s fine.”

“Okay, brother, I’ll arrange for delivery immediately after you place the order.”

Ma Biao was satisfied after listening to it.

Now I have finally solved the problem that has been bothering me. I will have a plan for the gift from my father-in-law next month.

When the express delivery arrives, I will go to the town to buy some tea and snacks. This is already polite enough and they can’t complain anymore.

However, Ma Biao had no hope as to when the wine would arrive.

The place where he is located is considered the most remote area in the northwest.

There is a courier station.

The speed is hard to describe.

Four or five days is considered fast, one week is basic training, and sometimes ten days or half a month has happened.

So after Ma Biao placed the order, he didn’t worry about it anymore. After all, his father-in-law’s birthday was still a long way off, so he would receive it no matter what.

One morning three days later.

Ma Biao let the sheep out of the pen and spent the whole morning rushing to the top of the mountain. Just as he was about to eat some dry food, he found a police car parked on the county road.

He subconsciously looked around. There was nothing in the wilderness except a police car and two policemen. He thought that their car might have broken down.

So he packed up his dry food and ran down the mountain in small steps.

“What happened to you? Did your car break down? This place is about thirty miles away from where the car can be repaired.”

“It’s okay, we’re here to find you.”

A policeman waved his hands, as if he had gone through a lot of hardships.

It didn’t matter what he said, Ma Biao was a little panicked, and in just a few seconds he went over all the bad things he had done in his life.

“What are you looking for me for?”

“Don’t be nervous. My name is Hong Xiang. I’m from the town police station. I have a mission.”

After Hong Xiang introduced himself, he took out a flyer from the car.

“There have been a lot of scams lately.”

“Last month, a farmer in a nearby village was defrauded of more than 100,000 yuan for buying livestock insurance.”

“There are a lot of people who are targeting cattle and sheep farmers and trying to defraud them.” “Some say they are selling livestock insurance, some say it is illegal to graze in the mountains and some say it is illegal to do so, and some people try to defraud bank cards.”

“You haven’t encountered it before?”

Hearing this, Ma Biao heaved a sigh of relief: “None of these, I am very smart, ordinary people can’t fool me.”

“People who have been cheated always say they are smart.” Hong Xiang checked the questionnaire on the flyer while carefully reminding him, “You haven’t received any strange phone calls or text messages recently, have you?”

“No phone call, but there was a text message… a text message.”

Ma Biao took out his cell phone and flipped through the text messages he had received in the morning.

[Shipping Notice: Dear Mr. Ma, to celebrate the 4833rd anniversary of the establishment of the Miaoyin platform, we are honored to inform you that you have become a lucky customer. We will upgrade the logistics service for your order (4025115623). The product will be shipped by SF Express and delivered by space express. Please check it. In addition, due to the needs of the platform anniversary, a reporter will visit you. Our company will prepare additional gifts. I hope you will receive them. I wish you a happy life! ]

Hong Xiang’s cerebellum atrophied a little as he looked at the text messages on his phone.

The focus of the institute this year is anti-fraud and anti-explosion, so they have come into contact with many criminals.

Fraudulent text messages are also commonly seen.

I’ve seen outrageous things.

I’ve never seen anything so outrageous.

4833 days, are there any anniversary days with integers or decimals?
The most outrageous thing is space express.

That’s it. It’s unfair that you can deceive people!

Ma Biao kept confirming: “Is this considered a scam?”

“Yeah, it’s a standard scam.” Hong Xiang was speechless. “Have you shopped online recently?”

“I bought some wine.”

“It’s probably that your order information has been leaked. Don’t believe it. Anyway, if there are any problems with online shopping, the official platform will contact you.”

Ma Xiaogua looked at the number on the text message: “This one says Miaoyin.”

Hong Xiang frowned and took a closer look, and it turned out to be the case. The number was authenticated.

“It could be a scam using a fake number. Don’t worry about it. Here, this is the anti-fraud commitment letter. Please sign it for us.”

Ma Biao nodded and wrote his name on the list.

Afterwards, Hong Xiang and his colleagues got in the car and drove to the next village.

The work at the grassroots level is very complicated, and young people like Ma Biao are relatively reasonable.

This kind of fraud was easy to understand, and finally I got his signed anti-fraud commitment letter, which meant I had completed my job.

But there are not many young people like Ma Biao in the countryside, most of them are left-behind elderly people.

They really don’t understand.

You tell them not to believe in scams, and they ask why the hell?
Occasionally there are a few people who are not hard of hearing and are fearless.

People always say that at such an old age, you have seen everything and it is impossible for you to be cheated.

Then you can turn around and buy a cosmic energy stove for 398.

So Hong Xiang has been having a lot of trouble recently. He has been collecting signatures in each village, and he is almost getting thinner due to exhaustion from collecting so many people.

After finally collecting all the signatures in my area, I thought I could take a break, but the director called me to his office again.

“Xiao Hong, Majiayangpo is your district, right?”

When Hong Xiang heard the director’s question, he felt nervous: “It’s mine, what? Someone got cheated?”

“No, these two are reporters from E-Commerce Times.”

Only then did Hong Xiang notice that there were two handsome young men in the director’s office.

“Hello!”

After the director introduced them to each other, he winked at Hong Xiang and said, “They want to go to Majiayangpo for an interview. The road there is not easy to get to. You take them there and make sure you cooperate with their work.”

Hong Xiang immediately perked up and saluted: “Yes!”

He knew that this job must have been assigned by the township.

Maybe the villagers felt that the environment in Majiayangpo was harsh and most of it was uninhabited, so the police station needed to protect it.

The work of township police stations is very simple, basically dealing with household registration, and there is very little reception work.

Therefore, the director attached great importance to it and gave Hong Xiang various signals, asking him to keep an eye on it. The implication was that the new look of the countryside must be reflected.

Hong Xiang also wanted to join the ministry. While driving, he was introducing the achievements of new rural construction in Majiayangpo to reporters.

But the reporter didn’t seem to be interested. After a while, he interrupted politely and asked, “Can our village receive the express delivery?”

“Sure.” Hong Xiang held the steering wheel. “There are some in town with convenient transportation.”

“Huh? Can it cover the door?”

“That won’t work, because our area is very large and the villages are relatively scattered. Postal services can only deliver to the town, and residents have to pick it up there. The postal service can go down to the village.”

The reporter wrote down on his notebook: “Can you receive it?”

“No, Shunfeng only has outlets in the county town, and we are too remote here.”

“So how long does it usually take for villagers to get their items delivered from the time they buy them?”

Hong Xiang vaguely felt that there was a pit here, and after careful consideration, he embellished it and said, “Three or four days.”

“Officer Hong, do you think three or four days is too slow?”

“It’s OK. Mainly because our place is too far away. Except for within the province, three or four days for express delivery is already very good.”

“Would you be surprised if I told you there was a package that would arrive within an hour?”

Hong Xiang glanced at the co-pilot: “From our village?”

“Correct.”

“I don’t believe it.” Hong Xiang shook his head firmly. “You’ve been asking about express delivery for a long time. Are you here specifically to interview express delivery this time?”

“Yes?”

“Then you should go to the countryside. There is no express delivery outlet in Majiayangpo.”

The reporter smiled and said, “We can deliver express even if there are no express delivery outlets.”

“How to send it?”

“Use rockets.”

When Hong Xiang saw that the camera was not turned on, he thought the reporter was joking with him: “Hahaha, the reporter is really humorous.”

“I’m not kidding. The person we are going to interview this time, Mr. Ma Biao, is the first user of air express in China. In two hours, his express will be shipped from thousands of miles away…”

He had not finished speaking.

Hong Xiang stepped on the brakes and slowed the car down to 40 miles per hour.

“Air express?”

“Yes, the products are shipped by Miaoyin and transported by Shunfeng, which is a milestone in the field of e-commerce. So we came here specifically to interview them and broadcast live the users’ harvesting situation.”

For a while.

Countless memories began to attack Hong Xiang’s brain.

A huge number of brain cells died instantly.

The CPU started smoking right away.

Although he had no impression of others, Ma Biao knew it very clearly.

shepherd!
He also remembered Space Express.

He even saved the hilarious scam text message, intending to use it as a negative example in publicity.

But now.

Are you telling me it’s true?
“Air express? Is that a lie?” Hong Xiang’s voice almost broke.

The reporter replied seriously: “Of course, we have come all the way here, how could we lie? At this moment, Miaoyin and Shunfeng are probably live broadcasting at the launch site.”

“No… Rockets delivering packages? How do you do it?”

“Have you ever seen a space rocket launch? Something like that.”

Hong Xiang nodded with lifeless eyes. He had seen space rocket launches before, but the key point was that this thing was used to deliver express…

Too abstract!

He couldn’t understand.

“I should go out for a walk. Working in a remote town makes me feel like a caveman. Is the world outside your country so developed?”

(End of this chapter)