From Rural Roots to City Lights Chapter 11

Leo Liu came along because Ethan Chen came. Ethan Chen was very curious when she heard that Leo Liu had a girlfriend and was talking about marriage. Leo Liu denied it with a smile. Driving on the bumpy road like a roller coaster was quite a burden for Ethan Chen. Fortunately, this car was a jeep that Adrian Wang specially found and it had a lot of space. If it was a car, Ethan Chen would not be able to survive.

There are several remote locations we need to visit. No matter how formal a company is, it has its own treasury. Those two places are not under tax control and have a lot of output, but they are remote. This time we will go to those two places to pay the overdue payments and check the accounts.

That is a really remote village!

Ethan Chen was surprised. Is there such a poor place in China? Compared with the small houses in his hometown, the living standard here is more like his family's in the 1970s. The coal underground is the source of all their living expenses. Adrian Wang looked out the window and said indifferently: "Don't think too much. No one will invest here in such a geographical environment. There are no roads, no talents, no reform and opening-up ideas. The only thing is coal. If we don't dig coal fields here, they will starve. This is the reality. But I have never owed them a penny of wages. Their annual income has increased."

Yes, Ethan Chen knew that sympathy was not the ultimate solution. This was something that the national and provincial governments had to consider. It was impossible to find an easy job if people from such a remote village went out to work. Without any skills, they could only live at the bottom of the city. Those who were left behind were people in their forties and fifties. Most of them chose to stay in their homes. They were poor and timid. They were afraid to leave their familiar homes and go to a strange city that rejected them to work hard.