Duan Yun really couldn't figure out where he got this red wine steak, in the future generations, it would not be a luxury dish, but in this year, it is very difficult to buy such a steak and red wine.

However, it is not that red wine is not unavailable, but it requires some special ways.

New China began in the mid-fifties, with the opening of the first Friendship Store on Donghuamen Street in Beijing.

The goods sold include imported goods such as Hershey's chocolates, Marlboro cigarettes, Swiss watches, etc., which have not yet appeared in the domestic market, as well as domestic luxury goods such as Moutai liquor and silk.

In addition, scarce goods such as color TVs and refrigerators can also be found in the Friendship Store.

At that time, the Friendship Shop was only open to expatriates, and ordinary people could only stop and look at the door.

In fact, the Friendship Store is a special product of the era of material shortage after the founding of New China.

In the 50s of the last century, there were "little birch shops" in the USSR for the privileged and foreigners. In an era when everything was on par with the "big brother of the Soviet Union," New China also learned this "special supply system" back.

Since 1951, a number of high-end state-run consumer goods stores have appeared in several large cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. Some of these shops later developed into friendship shops as a symbol of friendship with foreign guests.

In the era of the planned economy, the state implemented the directive management of foreign exchange receipts and expenditures. Ordinary people do not have access to foreign exchange, so they do not go to the Friendship Store to shop.

Until December 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China established the national policy of reform and opening up, so that the scale of foreign trade continued to expand, the number of visiting foreigners, returned overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan people increased day by day, and the number of friendship shops also increased accordingly.

When Duan Yun came back from his last trip, he also used the foreign exchange coupons issued to him to buy some small gifts and bring them back.

There is also a friendship store in Daxing City, not far from the city government, from where you can buy a lot of imported goods, and it is estimated that red wine and other things here should be bought from the friendship store.

However, Duan Yun didn't ask Bane about the origin of these things, and since Bane was treated, Duan Yun was not polite, and sat on the opposite side of the table.

Although Bain is more old-fashioned at work, he is a very quality-oriented person in life.

After removing the dust cover from the gramophone's head, replacing it with a record, plugging it in and putting down the head, the old-fashioned gramophone suddenly emitted the melodious tune of "Blue Danube".

The next moment, Bain opened the red wine, poured it into two goblets, raised one of the glasses and smiled at Duan Yun and said in English, "Cheers, my Chinese friend!"

"You're welcome. Seeing this, Duan Yun also picked up the wine glass and touched it with Bane, and then took a sip.

The taste of this imported red wine is not very delicious, and it is even a little sour, but after the wine enters the throat, you will feel a rich fruity aroma, which is completely different from the blended red wine that Duan Yun had drunk in his previous life.

In front of Duan Yun was a plate of steak, bubbling with an enticing aroma, and there was a knife and fork next to it.

Bane motioned for Duan Yun to eat, and then began to observe how Duan Yun used the cutlery of knives and forks.

However, to Bane's surprise, Duan Yun was very skilled in using the knife and fork, holding the fork in his left hand and the knife in his right hand, and the movement of cutting the steak was very gentle, and he couldn't hear the slightest sound of the knife rubbing against the plate.

In fact, when he was in college in the previous world, in order to pursue his girlfriend Xiao Luo, Duan Yun often slapped her in the face and led her to some Western restaurants that seemed to have a good environment.

And later, after Duan Yun chased Xiao Luo into his hands, he never went to a Western restaurant again, and the level of the two dating and eating also took a sharp turn, all kinds of fast food restaurants, roadside stalls, big partners, after living together, sometimes too lazy to go to the street, the two also shared a bucket of instant noodles without ham sausage......

It's just that what Duan Yun didn't expect was that after such a long time, it was a foreign old man who ate Western food with him again......

After a bite of steak, the two began to chat.

At this time, Duan Yun realized that Bane was actually a very talkative old man, but he never talked about his personal affairs at work.

Through talking to Bain, Duan Yun learned that he was actually a high-level engineer in this car factory in Germany.

In fact, at the beginning, the company's senior management did not plan to send a high-level engineer like him over, but arranged for a young engineer to come over, but in the end, at Bain's request, the senior management agreed to his request.

The main reason why Bain came to work in China this time is that the production line equipment purchased by Daxing Automobile Factory this time was used by Bain when he first entered the factory when he was young, and it has carried many memories of Bain's life for 30 years.

So this time, Bain came to China to be in charge of the installation, in fact, he hoped to finally see his 'old friend' and its new home.

Hearing Bane say this, Duan Yun was a little touched in his heart, he didn't expect that there would really be people who had feelings for the equipment they had used.

He finally understood why this German equipment was still so well maintained after 30 years, and why Bain would be so demanding on the installation of this production line equipment, and Bain obviously hoped that this equipment would have a longer life in the new owner.

Next, Bane told Duan Yun about his family.

Bain's wife died of illness three years ago, the daughter has been married, and sometimes the father and daughter can only see each other once in six months.

In addition, Bane has a country house on the outskirts of Bavaria, where away from the city, his favorite thing to spend his free time is to set up a barbecue grill in the yard, drink beer and eat sausages, and have a pleasant conversation with a few old friends.

Duan Yun quietly listened to some of Bain's interesting stories about him in Germany, and could clearly feel the joy, nostalgia and some sadness he inadvertently revealed when telling these stories, these memories that belong to him are undoubtedly the most precious things in his life.

In the end, Bain sincerely hoped that if Duan Yun could go to Germany again in the future, he would definitely come to his home as a guest, and he would lead Duan Yun to hunt in the suburban forests together.

Duan Yun readily agreed to Bane's invitation.

Duan Yun also knew that Bain was not polite, and there was no polite word in the German dictionary.

He really regarded Duan Yun as a friend......