Guangdong Province in December of the lunar calendar is still green.

Yes, Chen Geng has returned to China, today is January 12, 1979 in the Gregorian calendar, November 14, 1978 in the lunar calendar, just over 10 days ago, the two countries of China and the United States have just announced that the two countries have officially established diplomatic relations.

Seeing Ding Haijun, who came to greet him, Chen Geng said politely: "Brother, I'm sorry, I asked you to make a special trip." ”

"What's so hard to say, this was originally a task assigned to me by the organization," Ding Haijun waved his hand: "I can take this opportunity to stay with my family for a few more days, and I should thank you for it......"

After a few words of greetings, Comrade Lao Ding turned to the side slightly, pointed to the four young comrades who looked very capable and came with him, three men and one woman, and said: "Brother, let me introduce to you, these four comrades are all elite soldiers of the Ministry of Public Security, this is Comrade Zhang Qiaoqiao, this is Comrade Liu Huanghe, this is Comrade Xie Chunlai, and this is Comrade Lu Xiangdong, and they are responsible for your safety during this time in China." ”

Chen Geng nodded, although these comrades were wearing civilian clothes, but the temperament of military and police personnel on their bodies could not be hidden, and he stretched out his hand to these comrades with a smile: "Hello everyone, I'm Chen Geng, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to cause trouble to everyone." ”

Zhang Qiaoqiao, who was also the only female comrade among the four police officers sent by the Ministry of Public Security to be in charge of security, shook hands with Chen Geng with a smile and a generous face: "Mr. Chen Geng, you are so polite, welcome you back to the motherland, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you on behalf of myself and all the public security officers and police. ”

Obviously, in order to carry out this protection mission, Zhang Qiaoqiao and several of them received strict training in security and etiquette.

Signaling Mirren to bring a few small gifts he had prepared in advance, that is, a leather wallet, Chen Geng said politely: "A little careful, I hope you like it." ”

Looking at Chen Geng, who gave gifts without saying a word, Zhang Qiaoqiao was a little confused, and her other three colleagues were also a little confused: In our previous training, we didn't say how we should deal with this situation?

If it is an enemy element, then it is not said, this is to win over and corrupt our public security police, but this Mr. Chen Geng is different, during the half-month training period, the leader repeatedly ordered and reaffirmed, demanding that the four of them must treat this patriotic Chinese from the United States with the fullest enthusiasm and the attitude of welcoming the closest relatives...... So the question is, should we accept or not accept the greeting gift given by Mr. Chen Geng, a patriotic Chinese? According to the regulations, it seems that it cannot be accepted, but Mr. Chen Geng's situation is different from that of foreigners in the ordinary sense......

However, this wallet is exquisite.

Subconsciously, all four pairs of eyes fell on Comrade Lao Ding. Before leaving the capital, the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security pointed to Ding Haijun and told them: "This is Comrade Ding Haijun of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, you must listen to Comrade Ding's orders on this mission, and if you have any undecided minds, please ask Comrade Ding Haijun." ”

Ding Haijun nodded: "This is a little bit of Mr. Chen Geng's heart, let's accept it." ”

"Leader, this ...... Is it appropriate?" After a moment's hesitation, Zhang Qiaoqiao still asked.

"It doesn't matter, if you don't feel at ease, you can report to the organization when you go back, and just say that you have asked me for instructions, and you accepted it with my consent, which is also a little bit of our compatriots' hearts. ”

With Ding Haijun's instructions, there is nothing to worry about, not to mention that this wallet is really exquisite, and it looks pleasing, Zhang Qiaoqiao no longer hesitated, and generously picked up the top wallet: "Thank you, Mr. Chen Geng, I don't have any gifts to give you, I'll make dumplings for you when I get on the train." ”

Get on the train and make dumplings for yourself?!

Chen Geng suddenly felt that something was not good.

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It turned out that it was really not good, looking at the interior of this carriage that could never be a soft sleeper, Chen Geng looked at Ding Haijun with a smile: "Brother, you are really ...... Don't you tell me it's a sleeper?"

When he was in the United States before, Chen Geng had politely refused the suggestion of adding a special carriage to himself, saying that it would be good to sit in a soft sleeper if he could, and if there was no soft sleeper, a hard sleeper would also be fine.

The carriage in front of you, from the outside is an ordinary green car, to say what is the difference with the hard seat car, the difference is that each window has curtains drawn from the inside, but after getting on the car, I know that it is different, what kind of soft sleeper car is this, this is simply a special train car.

Chen Geng didn't know what the real special train carriage was like, and he didn't have the opportunity to go up to see it in person, but he still did soft sleepers and hard sleepers, each box in the hard sleeper car was 6 beds, and each box in the soft sleeper car was 4 beds, not soft sleeper or hard sleeper, and the width of the bed was only sixty or seventy centimeters.

But what is the situation you are facing?

Entering the carriage, the first thing to enter is a fully enclosed box, there is no upper and lower bed in this box, there is a visual measurement should be one meter wide, covered with white sheets, a comfortable bed that can be slept on, and a bright yellow solid wood desk is placed at the head of the bed against the window, and there is a green lamp on the desk.

If you turn the chair in front of the desk around, it forms a small, intimate meeting room with two other chairs with seat covers and cushions placed in this living room-like place. But that's it, for example, the area of the entire box is the size of a box with 4 berths.

Chen Geng was a little puzzled in his heart: Although my buddy has never seen or touched the special train and the special carriage, he has also seen the photo of Taizu working in the special train on the photo wall of the Taizu Memorial Hall.

"Brother, this is the chief's instruction, saying that since you want to take a good look at the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, you must provide you with the best conditions within the scope of your ability," Ding Haijun said with a smile: "You say, what can I do? In addition, don't think too much, this carriage is not for you to use in vain, you have to pay the fare, 300 US dollars a day." ”

$300 a day?!

Zhang Qiaoqiao and others, who didn't know anything about this at all, stared at the boss all of a sudden.

Now the exchange ratio of RMB to US dollars is 1:1.78, right? That is, Mr. Chen Geng needs 534 yuan a day to use this carriage, and his monthly salary is 21 yuan, which is equivalent to Mr. Chen Geng's expenses on this day are almost equivalent to his entire income for two and a half years?!

She hated to say that, but ...... This is really a money grab!

Chen Geng didn't think there was anything wrong with $300 a day, and said with a smile: "$300 a day can enjoy this kind of treatment? Why do I think I've made a lot of money?

Since the country has arranged such a special train carriage so sincerely, Chen Geng is not polite: it is the first time for my buddy to enjoy this kind of treatment - it is difficult to say whether there will be a chance to take this kind of special train carriage in the future.

Comrade Lao Ding smiled and nodded: "Of course there is no problem." ”

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I believe that many people are very interested in this magical and mysterious existence of the special train, what is the inside of the special train, what is the layout inside, and has there been any particularly meaningful thing that happened on this special train?

Chen Geng is no exception, he has never been qualified to have close contact with the special train, including the additional carriage, he is very curious about the special train and the special train carriage, but the carriage in front of him is somewhat subverted Chen Geng's cognition of the special train, first of all, there is no luxurious interior in the carriage, as for the luxury of nature there is no way to talk about it, in fact, except for Chen Geng's fully equipped box, everything is very simple, except for Chen Geng's large box for the use of leaders, in the middle is 7 groups of hard sleepers that allow up to 42 people to rest at the same time。

At this time, the whole carriage has gone through almost three-quarters, and further on, there is a soft seating area that has the functions of a restaurant and a conference room, and on the side of the soft seating area, there is a small kitchen covering an area of about four or five square meters - no wonder Zhang Qiaoqiao said that he wants to make dumplings for himself, since there is a kitchen, it can really make dumplings.

"Isn't that a surprise?"

"It's quite unexpected," Chen Geng nodded, "I don't feel like this car is not quite like a special train." ”

"It's really not a special train. ”

"Huh?"

"This is the on-site command car used by the railway construction department during the construction of major projects, and it is changed from a hard sleeper car," Ding Haijun finally revealed the mystery: "The one you use is the lounge and office of the on-site commander-in-chief, and the rest of these sleepers are for everyone to rest...... In fact, it is mainly used by comrades who are sick and comrades who really need a good rest, and as for this restaurant, in addition to eating, another very important role is to hold meetings. ”

Chen Geng suddenly realized.

I said how to look at the more I feel that this special train is not like a special train, dare to be a railway construction of the on-site command car, this makes sense, the railway construction in the sixties and seventies is not as comfortable as the China Railway Bureaus thirty or forty years later, you can build a board house on the construction site, the board room is also installed to see the air conditioning, the current railway construction department in the field of work living conditions are extremely bad, not to mention the board house, many times even the tent may not be able to live on, and the tent compared, this simple on-site command car instantly became a five-star hotel.

"It's too grand. Chen Geng said with a wry smile.

In turn, Chen Geng's understanding is that "this person owes a lot of favors", and people even lent you the on-site command car for railway construction, can you still not express it? To put it mildly, Chen Geng's trip to China is embarrassing if he doesn't want to leave some projects.

"What's this, anyway, it's a matter of half a month back and forth, and I'll return it to them when it's used up, and it's not that I won't pay it back," Ding Haijun waved his hand: "Oh, by the way, Comrade Chen Hongjun and Comrade Yuan Jia will also rush to the capital in a few days, and you will be able to meet them then." ”

Can I finally meet my mom and dad......

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PS: I'm sorry brothers, it's still too late to catch up, I'm really sorry.