#Homecoming Notes Witness a Better Life#
My hometown is Yibin, Sichuan, a city surrounded by mountains and rivers. As the first city of the Yangtze River, Yibin has developed water transport, and the old riverside wharf revitalized the city's economy and also gave the people of the city an opportunity to live by labor. The "pier" is the birthplace of countless classic Sichuan dishes, and burning noodles are no exception.
As a Yibin person, no matter where you are, eating a bowl of hot noodles will feel like home. When we were children, we all ate noodles at the Liuchen Street store, and every morning at seven o'clock, there was a long line in front of the dilapidated hut, and because the street was short and narrow, the queue often swung its tail and lined up to the next street. How can a fully colored and fragrant noodle not be mouth-watering? Steaming water leaf noodles, drizzled with secret red oil, sprinkled with crushed sprouts, peanuts, and then added some spring onions to stir, the entrance is spicy and salty, the oil is not greasy. Although the noodles on Liuchen Street have good taste and popularity, they can only be eaten in the store, and the shop is small, and there are few customers at the same time.
With the development of society, people's demand has increased, some people in small towns have chosen to go out to work, and some people have chosen to nibble bread or eat buns on buses, drink soy milk, and rush to the unit, and are no longer willing to wait in long lines to eat burning noodles. In addition, most of the customers who arrive at the store can only sit at the door, with red stools as tables and green stools as chairs, and in winter, the cold wind will blow the noodles cold for a while, and people will also shiver with cold. Gradually, the business of liuchen street noodle shop became more and more deserted, once crowded, and now the door is full of birds.
In the small city, large and small noodle shops are facing similar difficulties, and the development of the fast food industry in recent years has brought them a new turnaround, and most merchants choose to make them into bagged products for mass production. At the same time, the good momentum of e-commerce development has created new opportunities for it, they began to live stream goods on Taobao and other platforms, selling Yibin noodles to all parts of the country, and slowly the food industry in small cities has formed an online and offline dual-profit model, which has greatly improved economic benefits, and also let many foreigners feel the taste and warmth of home again.
Internet technology and digital economic operation mode are like blood, slowly flowing in the body of the small city, making it full of new vitality, so that the fireworks in the hometown can continue to be transmitted. I strolled along the Yangtze River, the rolling water is the same as when I was a child, running endlessly, I look around, high-rise buildings have surrounded me, watching the rapid changes in my hometown, I can't help but sigh the strength of the digital economy, so that this small city has a new hope.
