REALISTIC CULTURE HISTORY Mingyao didn’t know how he ended up as the director of the town’s civil administration bureau, nor how he ended up as the leader of the county’s civil affairs section, or even how he ended up as the director of the city’s development bureau. The day he was appointed bureau director, thousands of Balou residents all wanted to have their peasant household registrations reassigned as urban ones, resulting in a line that stretched from the development bureau downtown all the way to the outskirts of the city. They brought their original household registration booklets, which identified them as peasants, and they also brought a variety of local specialties to serve as gifts, including peanuts, walnuts, and mushrooms and other edible fungi. They were smiling appreciatively as they waited for the office workers to collect their peasant household registration booklets and issue them new urban ones as well as ID cards with their photographs printed on them. “With this, do we now become urbanites?”
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